The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1857, Page 4

£ NEW YORK HERALD. sa wee GORDON SE EDITOR PROPRIETOR, eer e , +. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS ‘ egpnatienetnatnnrece’ RIE seh dor BERAIAY 2 conte $1 per annum, “ kz Hike Dime rd aN con a Si parte XGs cut aan or 88'S wy ‘part of the Continents, acle p ” te SPONDENCE, conta ning & eS ae the cork if used, will bo ‘H COMREEPO. DENTS ARE ‘al, LEMERS AND Pace- myrous communications, Wede 1d with weainess, Peapness and dee- “2D? BRTISEN.BNTS renewud evory day . No. 43 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROASWAT THEATRE, Broadway luncinian Rex- eevovs—Biguita A SoLpimm ren Love. SHBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway-Ficino—Ticut Rors ‘Pests—Poxco- Maprxa. BOWERY THE: TRE, Bewery—Birax Hus or Bauw— hes Fueer—Wasce BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Froadway, ovpostic Bonds) Bevesc rc —Wanten, 1.000 Mitinces -Love AND MURDER ‘WALLAOE'S THEATR®, Broadway—O4uuas—'Twas I. “AURA KXENW’A THEATRE, 6% Srondway-Minsr Wanr—sonoot Por Tigkxs. 40ADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteeath s'—Trsusan Orma— ‘PRov atone. ABAVM'S ANRKICAN MUSKUM, Brosdway—afer- 3. Rosen's Wire Qciteaniiwe. Fvening— Rr an’s oan. #@BO. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S KINETRELG, 444 Broad ey Rruortasy Pexrowmsrces Tue O.p CLocK. FYCKLAY'S SENENADERS, 585 Brondway-Eraioriar swewnmtes — Locarzid 3oR6I4 MBOMANTCS’ HALL, «72 Brosdway--Nrono Mrvopme 0. BY Mewouns oF rum Onigiva: Ceaisty’s MivsTaxia, MO. 82% BROADWAY, opposite the Broadway Theatre— @amwon cur Branprp Is Hew York, Friday, February 13, 1857. Dmerease of Business for 1657—Advertising and Cizculation of the Herald. I ie ap acknowl cged general fact that the business 0° ‘this motropoils for 18t7, opens under the most flourishing exuspwes. Noibing indicates this view more than the growth and developement of the rewspaper press. Tae following is the daily circulation of Tus Naw York He. ‘mar for 16t6, '66 amd ‘67 during cotemporary dates in ‘bis month — nee haan Do. do 1867... ‘The following \e the movement in our advertising busi of the Hemain 1855... do. 1886 Tota). $9608.39 —Total..$1/,81203 Total. .$15,889 34 By those statemerte it will be seen that the movement n circulation and advertisements is pro greasive with that of this metropolis and the whole Union. This jour ne! bas now the largest circulation of any daily journs! in Evrope or America. It exceeds by several thousands the sggregate circulation of ail the other daily papers of a like ravk aud price in thecity. ladeed, if we Bad macbinery capavie of printing fast enough, we might Wine to one hundred and sheets per day as eaty as t> eighty howand, Our pew presses and steam maobinery, ‘which we expect to have in working order in less than a month, will enable ue to print pearly double the number tm the came time, We sbail then be able to meet ihe public demand The News. The steamship City of Baltimore, from Liverpool, arrived at this port about twelve o'clock last night. Bhe brings four days later news. The intelligence is important ina financial point of view. The Eng- Mish funds had declined ; to j, with a dull marke’. ©otton continued firm, bat breadstaffs exhidited a declining tendency. There were reports current that the war with Persia was at an end, but they were not generally credited. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which the news care to hand we are unable to give mere than a mere epitome of it. See eighth By way of New Orleans we have a fortuight’s later news from California. The only important in- teltigence is the election of David C. Broderick and Dr. Gwin to the United States Senate. Trade was doll. The mining news, however, was favorable. ‘The Monitor, of Mexico, states that it has received a wultiiude of letters from Monterey, urging it to sek the Supreme government not to grant an quatur to Mr. Walsh, the newly appointed United States Consul at that port. It states that the grounds alleged by the letter wri'ers for this cone fe thas Mr, Walsh is” yatchimas, and has not been Daturallzed In the United States; that he has been an agent of Walker in Nicaragaa, and still professes marked filibuster opinions. Under these circum: stances the Monitor thinks it would be pradent to decline giving Mr. Walsh his exequatur. How is this? Has Marcy turned filibu-ter’ Both houses of Congress bave adopted a resolation appointing a committee to infurm the President aud Vice President elect of their election, and a com mitiee to moke the necessary arrangements for the imanguration bas been selected on the part of the Senate. The repeated failure of the mail between Yhis‘city and Washington induced the Senate yester- @ay to direct Inquiry as to the cause thereof, with a view to an acatement of the evil, if possible. A joint resolution éeclaring the vote of Wisconsia in the late Presidential election null, and that it ought not to bave been admitted and ineleded in the count of electora’ votes, was dis- cnssed and finally laid on the table. A memoria! from citizens of New York askiug government to compensate Mr. Allaire for bis inveution of the steam chimney, ‘aid to be one of the most im- portant of modern discoveries, was presented. Tue Howe by two majority refused to lay on the table the resolution from the Commitee on Elections ousting the sitting delegote from Kansas, and the subject was postponed till Saturday. The discus- sion on the tariff was continued in Committee of the Whole. The debate will close on Monday next. Afier an investigation of thirteen days daration, marked by circumstances of an extraordinary cha- racter, and attended with an unparalleled publi: ex- citement, the testimony in the Bond strect tragedy was brought toa conclusion yesterday. The inquest @tande sdjourned till Satarday, when the Coroner will sum up, and submit the case to the jary. The proceedings of yesterday were confined to the evi @ence of medical gentlemen, who examined and fmalyzed the blood and stains found @pon articles of clothing ond apon various parts of the house. This teetimony is very interesting. It is moreover perfectly clear to the unprofessional geader, and free from tho absurd technicalities which the faculyy usually employ on similar occa gione. During the discussion of the murder of Dr. Burdell, a number of theories, more or less ridica- jous, have been advanced. One of the morning papers the other dsy endeavored to demou- strate that the deceased had been kiked by « person who had previously been sent to Sing Sing through the instrumentality of the Doctor. The police were gravely called upon to look up this malicious and blood thirsty individual. But neither the police nor the journal alluded to gave themselves any further trouble, so far as the public are aware. The whereabouts of this calumai ated culprit have, however, been discovered. He is folfilling bis destiny in the penitentiary at Rich mond, Virginia. Crime is contagious has its “ran,” like shad or @ new melo-drama. mes it is larceny, or arson, or burglary. Tecentiy it was the garrote—now it fe murder, Scarcely has the shock of the midnight assassination in Bond street passed sway, when we are stagtled hy the commission of a crime hardly NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1857. Jess \orrible at the town of Hingham, Mana- chusetts, The particulars are fully set forth else- where in our columna. The facta are, briefty, that ‘Hecees G. Gardner, Postmaster of the tows, recently died under circumstances that ted to the belief that he trad been poisoned by hie wife. He was an in- vakd. She had, he told ‘his physician, previous to | bia death, repeatedly said to him that “he wase nasty, worthless masse of corruption, and nothing could cure him but a ground sweat, and that ifshe ‘could ‘have ber way he shoula soom have'it.” The ‘investigation lasted two days—they do those things ‘More expeditiously at Hingham than in New York— ‘the evidence was fall and convinoing, and the wife was cemmitted to prison to answer the charge of wilfdl nurdeér. The Tammany Hell Sachems progress very slowly in their efforts to reorganize the democratic party of this city. The committee having the subject in charge met at the Old Wigwam y: sterday and held a‘‘talk” upon the subject, but adjourned without developing their plans, and with the under#anding thas their action should be kept a profound secret. The groundwork of the proposed reform has, how- ever, become known, and is briefly sketched in enother column. We have Turks Islands advices to the 17th ult. The Royal Standard of that date says:—We regret to say that not a bushel of corn or a barrel of flour can be purchased here; indeed, provisions of every description, it might be said, are scarce. Our regu- lar importers, from some cause or other, have not come up to the mark in supplying the market. We have on hand about one hundred and twenty-five thousand bushels of salt; the last sold, we understand, brought fourteen cents. Many of the hollers are anxious to sell before the new crop comesin. The weather is very fine at present, and the pans through- out the colony, at East Harbor and Salt Cay in par ticular, are in a forward condition for this season of the year. Ta the case of the alleged filibusters, the evidence for the prosecution closed yesterday. Our report of the proceedings is given in another column, Our readers are referred to the de-patches under the telegraphic head for the latest news from Al- bany. The departure of the steamer Baltic has been postponed, in order to complete some necessary re- pairs. The cotton market was more activ, yesterday, with sales of about 5,500 bales, closing frm = about tae qu> tations given in another column. Fiour was in steady demand, with « fair smoupt of sa'er,| cluding somo parcels of Siate and Western branda for export. Wheat wen in falr reqnest, with light stock. Holders wero firm, with sales of common to good Westorn and Southern white at $1 70 a $1 75, and red Southern at $1 649$1 €0, Cornwas inas'ive, with Mmited sales al 70}¢c. ® 730. for Westerm mixed from store avd de livered; small lote old Southern white, from store, at 82c. Pork was beavy, with fair sales; pew mess at $21 40m $21 60, and old do. at $30 308 $20 40. Sugars were steady, with sales of 860. 400 bkde. Cubs mas covado, 1(0 do. Demerara and 960 boxes Havaza, on fei ms given in snothcr columu. Coffee was steady, with sales of about 5,600 bags Rio at 10s. 0100. Freights were withont charge of moment. To Liverpool, 1,000 bales of cotton were engaged at 7-3id. 81 44., aud bacon at 268, Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet—The Secretary of State. The Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan still remains a mystery, and continues to be vigorously discussed by the newspapers and politicians throughoat the country, and eepecially the question who is to be Secretary of State, It is acknowledged on every hand that the Pre- mier is the only point of difficulty, and his posi- tion the only one which will be invested with an independent responsibility of any serious im- portance tothe new administration. All the other Cabinet offices may be readily filled, as they are simply offices of a well defined routine of duties, from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Attorney General. But the cool eagacity and com- prebensive mind demanded from, and the broad margin of discretion which must necessarily be given to, the Secretary of State, in his personal conversations and official correspondence with the reprerentatives of foreign Powers, upon all the delicate living issues copnected with our foreign relations, are considerations which make the se- lection of the Premier a step of the highest im- portance. Pcrhaps, too, the question of the suc- cession may be taken into the estimate of the po- litical bearings of this office; but at all events, it is the initial point upon which Mr. Buchanan still dcitherates, and opon which the gaxietiey or Presa aspirants and the public curiosity are just now concentrated, Immediately after the November election the hopeful cliques and coteries of the democracy wo began their plote ond intrigues for the Among the first in the field were the * movements for Cass and Marcy, re- spectively, as Secretary of State. The pressure of Westera politicians and Western letter wri- ters in behalf of Gen. Cass threatened in the outset to carry him in by storm. A little cool reflection, however, on the part of Mr. Buchanan, with a survey of the political horizon, soon con- vinced him that Gen. Cass was entirely ont of the question, and his case was weighed, adjudged and settled accordingly some time ago. Gen. Cass is the father of “squatter sovercignty”—a doctrine in which Mr. Buchanan ix not a be liever. He believes in the power of Congres over the Territories. Again: The first idea of a foreign policy with Gen, Cass is a war with Eng land, while Mr. Buchanan seriously thinks that peace with Jobn Bull may be made to answer our purposes even better than wor. Upon Geo Cass there exists a wide spread disagreement in the democratic party, which Mr. Buchanan does not care to take upon bis back. Finally, Gen. Cass is too old for the active duties of the State De- partment, and hence he is not the man for the place. The Marcy movement, started by a few de- crepid officeholders and the old women's foreign organs in Wall street, has never amounted to anything, the tergiversations and double dealings of the Pierce administration having rendered Mr. Marcy, we suspect, an “ obsolete idea” with Mr. Bucbanan. Thus Cass and Marcy, each upoa the most satisfactory objections, we uadertake to say, have been decisively set eside. At preeent. we find the cliques and factions of the party divided principally upon the merits, prospects, services and fitness of Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, and Mr. Robert J. Walker, of the Paci- fic Railroad, for the post of Premier. We locate Mr. Walker upon the Pacific Railroad because ince bis tetirement from the Treasury Depart- ment he appears to have been a drifting specu- lator and stockjobber, with no fixed habitation except it be the Paso del Norte and Gadsden route for the Pacific Railroad. Daring the last six or cight months he bas engrafted himself upon a little New York clique of speculating politi- cians, who look upon the new admivistration ax 4 job, and whose entire policy is to make money out of it as a financial experiment, If this were the only objection. we should pronounce it fatal to the aspirations of Mr. Walker; but there is another, and of a more serious and compreben- sive character, concerning which we incline to believe the President elect will have taken care to be duly enlightened. ‘Phe New York clique in the servigg of Mr. ‘Walker is a railroad stock and fat coatract ging ‘of speculators, but the Walker. clique at Wash- ‘ington is a political clique, which is actuated by ‘acy other motives than thoee of friendship for Mr. Buchanan. This clique, for example, is at the very head of thgmovement in the Senate to defeat the Dallas-Clarendon treaty. In the State elections of the last year General Cass was-over- thrown in Michigan, and Mr. Douglas was se- verely rebuked by the people of Ilinois, Add these stinging misfortunes to the records of the Cincinnati Convention, and we discever at once the ruspicious party elements of this Walker movement at Washington, It is but litile if anything better than a disaffected and treache- ous comspiracy to manage the administration of Mr. Buchanan, or to distract, divide and des- troy it. What is to be the end of these Cabinet plots and counterplots we cannot yet determine. Our confidence remains unshaken, however, in the coolness, sagacity and discretion of Mr. Bucha- nan, We still believe that in any event he will first secure himself as the master of his situa- tion, and will be particularly careful against the introduction of over-ambitious or treacherous elements into bis ministry. He isnow at Wheat- Jand, removed from the sinister inflaences of a debauched capital, and in a position calmly to take his ground and to select his principal official adviser without regard to the warniogs or threats of aspiring demagogues, or scheming ene- miesin the party camp. In this view, the appointment of Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, as Secretary of State, would be eminently judicious. It is urged against him, in some quarters, that he bas had no experience in diplomacy, and is there- fore unqualified to grapple with the high responsibilities of the State Department. But the same objection might have been urged against Marcy in 1853; and yet, if we have passed through this Pierce administration without a war against the great naval Powers of Europe it is due to the diplomacy of Marcy. Why may not Mr. Cobb equally distinguish himself in this new depart ment of official duty? His antecedents are those of a safe, consistent, conservative statesman. He is a young, vigorous man—a man of talents, ability, industry, energy, character, and distin- guished particularly for his practical common sense views upon all the great political issues of the day. This was illustrated, to a considerable extent, in his stump speeches of the late cam- paign, notwithstaoding the prevailing democratic bue and cry of niggere, disuaion, and civil war. Ina word, with a Southern conservative on fo- reign and domestic affairs, like Mr. Cobb, as Pre- mier, Mr. Buchanan would secure the initial ap- pointment of a Cabinet which might safely chal- lenge the respect and confidence of the couutry. We understand that the President eleot will not again leave Wheatland for Washington til! perhaps the very last day of February, from the admonitions concerning his health, revulting from his late visit. In the meantime we are further advised that his inau- gural is substantially completed, and that the only material question to be solved is his Secre- tary of State, upon which we may look for ¢ de- cision within a very few days. Mr. Buchanan has doubtless diacovered that he will not be per- mittcd to sleep upon a bed of roses, but that dis- sensions are already creeping into the camp. He will have seen from the defeat of poor Forney at Harrisburg—from the proceedings in the Senate upon the Dallas treaty—from the Cass move- ment, the Walker movement, and other Cabinet intrigues, that he must be the master of his posi- tion, like Jackson, or the victim of fatal conces- sions to cliques and factions, like Pierce. Mr. Buchanan will also have observed the remarka- ble fact that while the opposition journals of the country are disposed to treat him with fairaess,and even with generosity, the strongest symptoms of distrust and hostility have been leaking out from this or that factions quarter of the demo- cratic camp. The solution of all these developements is sim ple enough. It is this: that @ broad, conserva tive, independent national and honert adminis. tration will be sustained by the masses of the American people, whatever may be the small revenges of bafled democratic spoilsmen or poli- ticians in the trailor’s policy of rule or ruin, Tun SynaKoscn Opera Srason—Svccess or THE System or Apvertistne.—The opera- tic season, commenced at the Academy of Music four weeks since under the direction of Mr. Stra kosch, expires by limitation, with the perform- ance of this evening. Compared with the expe- timents in the same line which have preceded Mr. Strakosch’s initiatory attempt at manage- ment, it has been crowned with the most brilliant success. Fry was ruined; Maretzek has been ruined a greater number of times than the Irish heiress who bad been abducted so frequently that she could not remember the exact number of times, and began to like it; Paine was ruined, and Phalen was ruined, and Coit was ruined, and Ole Bull was ruined, and the Opera has always wound up with a solemn dirge over the mangled remains of the unfortavate manager. Mr. Stra- korch, however, pays all his artists full ealaries in advance, planks down cash on the nail for everything, and comes out with a balance on the right side of his books. All this has been accomplished in the face of bad weather, balls and parties to divert the at- tention of the wealthier patrons of the Opera, and the most malignant abuse from some dozen or so of small hungry daily and weekly newspa- pers, For Mr. Strakoech, when he commenced his season, put in practice a new plan of adver- tising. Formerly all the newspapers in the city had the Opera advertisements, trusting to benign Providence for their pay. Mr. Strakosch intending to pay.in advance, and not intending to throw away any money, selected tho three or four journals acknowledged to have the largest cireulation and the widest influence. He has steadily pureued this course, (except in one or two oases, where he threw in an advertisement, with a dollar or two, probably as a matter of charity.) and the grossest personal abuse has been showered upon him and his artista The papers of the least consequence have been the most violent in their denun- ciations of the manager, He has been assaulted personally end professionally, and no term of | reproach has been found too eevere to be used in | connection with his name, What is the result? The widest publicity has been given to the Opera by the principal jour- nals, while sympathy has been created for the manager by the groundless attacks that have been inade wpon bim by the bashi bacouks of the | small daify and Sunday papers. That these at- tacks have swelled his receipts there can be no reasonable doubt, The motive in making the as- sault wae too apparent. The small fry journals said distinctly, “Give ug a few dollars worth of eiiverticing per week, and we will puff your opera; omit to give ue the few dollars per week, and we will exhaust the vocabulary of abuse ia assailing you.” No-sech contemptible exhibition of mean- nese and venality on the part of a portion of the press has ever been given sinco newspapers have existed; and it is well to know that the efforts of such corrupt journalists have in no wise injured the object of their wrath, but have reacted upon themselves, and called down upon them thescorn of the reading public. Well, then, Mr. Strakosch’s plan has succeeded. He is the: first manager that has paid his way, kept all his promises to the public, and finished his season with cash in band. We have no doubt that his course will be imitated by all managers of respectable places of amusement, who will now see that there is no necessity of throwing away money on the emall papers, through fear that if they do not receive their sop they may burt some one in their hungry ravings. The ad- vertising public generally owe much to Mr. Strakoech, and his success will stimulate others to follow his example. Of the fact that he has been successful the best proof is that he intends to continue in operatic management, and that his system of advertising and conducting his business affairs will remain substantially the same as before. Resume of the Burdell Inquest. The last of the evidence before the Coroner’s inquest was taken yesterday; to-morrow Coroner Connery will charge his jury, and possibly Sun- day morning’s edition of this paper may contain their verdict. What that verdict will be, a thoughtful review of the evidence may perhaps enable us to foresee. Thirteen days’ investigation—an amount of testimony unparalleled for a Coroner's inquest— adegree of activity and pressure for evidence rarely witnessed on apy former occasion—have, it must be confessed, left us in possession of very little pertinent testimony on the subject of the murder. Over two-thirds of the evidence that has been adduced will not be required by the public prosecutor. And we are bound to add, with the most poignant regret, that the most im- portant evidence, which we mighthave had, and can never have now, is wanting through the igno- rance and carelessness of the Coroner. We refer of course to the testimony of Mrs. Cun- nifgham and Eckel—whose brief examination only shows how much might have been learned had they been thoroughly questioned. To sum up the facts: We are certain that Dr. Harvey Burdell was murdered in his room on Friday, 30th January, atan hour between 10 and 11 P. M., by various stabs made with a sharp in- strument in vital parts of his body; that the mur- der was committed immediately on Dr. Burdell entering his room from outside, on bis return home; that the deed was so skilfully done that the victim cried murder in a choked voice, and made no terrible scuffle, though a robust man; that the assassin, in going out, left marks of blood on the wall of the passage and on the door. This may be said to be all the evidence we have bearing directly on the deed. As to the persons who may have committed it, we find that there were in the house at the time of the murder, Mra. Cunningham, her two daugh- ters, her young sons, John J. Eckel, George V. Snodgrass, and the cook. Of these all testify that they heard nothing. According to the testi- mony, all, except perhaps the boys and the cook, appear to bave been, according to their own evidence, awake at the time of the murder. But Snodgrass, the cook and the boys Cunningham were seemingly in the attic, which a sound from Dr. Burdell’s room, especially with the window open as it was, might not reach. Mrs, Cunning- ham, her two daughters and Eckel had been left together in Mrs. C.’s room. Mrs. Cunningham swears that Eckel left her room between ten and eleven to go to bed, and that she handed him a note after he was in his room. But the witness Farrell, whose testimony has been as- sailed without much effect hitherto, testifies that, at the same hour, as he sat on the steps of the house where the murder took place, listening to the sound of the scuffle and the cry of murder, this same Eckel, in his stocking feet, suddenly opened the door, and thrusting his head and shoulder out, called to him roughly and asked what he did there? If the witness Farrell is to be believed, Eckel is not. Eckel, unfortunately was not re- examined as to what he did with himself that evening. But as the time of the murder coin- cides so remarkably with that of his appearance at the door, if we believe Farrell, we cannot be- lieve Eckel when he swears he knows nothing of the murder. At the very best construction of the evidence for him, he mast bave been in the paseage when the dying Burdell cried murder, and rolled over “as heavily as a flour barrel.” Passing finally to the motives for the murder, we have no evidence that any person was on very bad terms with Dr. Burdell except Mrs. Canning- ham asd her friends. We have heard stories about people who had vowed vengeance against him; but the authors of these tales do not seem very proud of them, at the present writing; and they are not in evidence. But it is in evidence that with Mrs, Cunningham Dr. Burdell had had long and angry intercourse. She had been his mistress, They had parted on such unfriendly terms that she sued and abused him, while he de- clared he stood in fear of his life from her. She wanted to make him marry her; he wanted to get her ont of bis house. On her examination she swore that she was his wife, and produced a certificate of marriage with one Berdell; but, the fetter opinion seems to be that the man whom she married was not Dr. Burdell, and this opinion is strikingly confirmed by evidence that one month after the marriage she gave instructions to her attorneys to sue bim—(her busband ?)—- for breach of promise of marriage. On the day following the murder, the lease of Dr. Burdell’s house to another party was to be signed: this accomplished, she would have been seemingly thrown into the street. If Dr. Burdell lived, then, she had in prospect nothing but destita- ‘fon and poverty, perhaps with Eckel, with whom the seems to have had relations: by Dr. Bardell’s death, aesuming that her marriage held good, she obtained at least her dower, no mean thing; and very possibly other testamentary advantages of which the peculiar turn which affairs have taken bas prevented our hearing anything. Whether this state of things constitutes an adequate motive for the murder, the public and the juries can judge. Such appear to be the leading points of the evidence as they bear on the crime. The memo- ry of the reader will supply a few which have necessarily been omitted. On these facts two theories have been con- structed. One is that Mrs, Cunningham and John J. Eckel were the murderers; that they diugged Snodgrass and the Cunningham girls with opium or other roporifigs iq the oranges apd figs which Mra Cunningham swears that Eckel brought home that night; concealed them- selves in the Doctor's voom till he appeared, then fe)l upon him and yaitedly assassinated him; that Eckel went to the door to sce if any one was watching or listening, and was seen by Farrell; that the clothes used by the murderers, the cord and the knife were made away with; that these two pereone—Eckel and Mrs, Cunningham—are s0 steeled to crime that they were enabled to purcue their ueual avocations next morning with- out betraying by the least agitation the awfal deed they had done overnight. The other theory is that Harvey Burdell re- turned home and found in the room some per- son who bore him a grudge, that this person mur- dered him, and escaped, not only without alarm- ing Mr. Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham who were close at hand and awake, but without meeting any one, at eleven at night in Broadway or the Bowery, who remarked the blood that must have smeared his clothes, This theory is purely con- jectural, and no evidence has been adduced in its support. The Coroner's Jury will doubtless express @ Preference between these two theories; we have no desire to anticipate its verdict. The case has however, by this time drifted on the tide uf pub- lic excitement fairly out of the hands of the tem- porary body over which Mr. Connery presides; it is not in the power of the jury to add anything to our knowledge, or to intensify or weaken any of our impressions, The wisest thing which that body can do will be to render a short and honest verdict, as quickly as possible, and surrender the case into the stronger hands of the District At- torney and a Grand Jury. Tne GamBiine Inpictents—RecorvEr SMT on a Law Pornt.—We recently complained of the District Attorney for his apparent neglect of duty in the matter of some two hundred in- dictments against the gamblers—said indict- ments having been found some time ago, then hung up to dry, while the dice box rattled as merrily as ever. We poiated out the inconsis- tency of Mr, Hall’s conduct in endeavoring to carry out his poMtical sohemes disguised under the name of city reform, while the duties of his own office were neglected. We have now re- ceived a copy of the decision of the Recorder in theee cases,and we give it elsewhere. He ar- rests judgment after the defendants have pleaded guilty, on the ground that they being guilty only of a misdemeanor, were entitled to a preliminary examination before a magistrate. So the Recor der, on a purely technical point, discharges the gamblers and whitewashes their characters; for although Blackstone defines the words crime and misdemeanor as synonymous terms, yet the im- pression conveyed to the unprofessional reader by the Recorder’s decision is that the keeping a common gaming house is improper, but not cri- minal. We do not think that the Recorder's law will stand asa precedent, and the District Attorney should get a decision on the matter from the Court of Appeals. Wecannot have the Recorder's decision accepted as a precedent. Disvxton Convention tv New Yors.—We ree by an advertisement in some of the papers that Garrison and some of his compatriots intend to hold a Dieunion Convention—the first of the kind in this State—at Utica, on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The feeling which pro- duces these disunion conventions, which started at Worcester, has, from opposite causes, many supporters in the States of the South. The re- cent Commercial Convention at Savannah was almost as hostile to the constitution, without being nominally so, as the Disunion Convention at Worcester. The efforts of the anti-slavery patriots of the Zrilune newspaper, and ether supporters of Senator Seward, all lead to the same result and tend to the same end as this Dis- union Convention. So we find turbulence, trea- eon, disunion all at work to culminate in some grand crash in 1860. CLEAN THe Srrerrs.—Broadway is passable at last, after nearly a month of blockade; but this result is owing more to the exertion of the abutters than any action on the part of the an- thorities, Meantime, all the side streets are in a horrible condition, and a sudden thaw would make them impassable for weeks to come. Let the Common Council wake up, and if there is no money in the hands of the proper officer, let a special appropriation be made. The small town of Boston lately appropriated thirteen thousand dollars for the special purpose of removing the snow from the principal streets. The metropolis should not be behind the villages in attention to cleanliness. One or THe Leaks Storrep.—Governor King has vetoed the Supply bill of 1856, because it included large sums to be paid to travelling legislative committees of investigation. The constitution is clear on this point, and the Gover- nor’s veto will be sustained by every honest man in the State. These travelling committees are constituted merely to provide for hungry poli- ticians during the summer months. All they do is to interfere with the executive officers of the State andcities. ————— THE LATEST NEWS SY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPRS, News from California. ELECTION OF DAVID C. BRODERICK AND DR. GWINN TO BE UNITED STATES SENATE. Naw Onieans, Feb, 19, 1967. ‘The steamship Black Warrior, from Havana, is coming up the river, Sbe brings California dates to the 20th Peceived at Havana by the mail steamer from As- wall, David ©. Broderick bas been elected Uaited Sintes Senator from California for the long term, and Dr. Gwinn for the short term. Beth gentlemen were on their way to Hew York by the George law. Ateverc earthquake had been felt in the southern part of Californis. ‘Trade in San Francisco was dull. ‘The miming accounts were generally fayorab'e. ‘We have nothing lator of s definite sature trom Nice agua, News from Washington. THE NEW DRITIFN MINISTER AND AIS FAMILY— CABINET STECULATIONS—A GLIMPSE AT BU: CHANAN’S INAUGURAL—THE STRAM OBIMNEY IN- VENTION—THE CORRUPTION OCOMMITTER'S RE- PORTA NEW TARIFF SCHEME, ETO. Wasminotow, Feb. 12, 1857, I bave just learned from wndoubted authority that Lord Napier, the new English Minister accredited to this country, will be accompanied to Washington by bis wire and four sone, It seems that Lord Napier himeslf de sired to receive this appointment, and thet It was giver to bim by the government of Lord Palmerston at his own solicitation, From the same high quarter | bave ascertained that Lord Napier is ominently qualified for his new post, Hie is an exosedingly amiable and talented man, and has al! the requiremente to render him popular here, He entered the diplomatic ranks in 1840, and since then has been employed on several very important missions, Some of the london journals speak Of hia lordehip an being very quick tempore’ and Irrite. bie, This te entirely « mistake, and springs from the misrepresentations 0 tho opposition It te true thet dar Ing the time be wes attached to the Constantinepio The Cabinet is not yet settled upon, The a Olpal point of the difficulty ts the Secretary ipa The contest, however, is narrowed down to Robt. J. Walker and Howell Cobb. Clarendon treaty for the purpose of making difficulties im. advance for the incoming administration, have been try- ig to force Walker into the office of Secretary of States ‘With the same object; but I think that in spite of their ef- forts Cobb will yet succeed, Tunderatand that tho inaugural address is entirely ‘Written out. 1 is @ most comprehensive and luminous decument, and is simply an ampiliication of Mr. Buy chanan’s letter of acceptance of the nomination of the Cincipnati Convention. 1s opposes aquatter sovereignty, and thiows overboard tat vagary which was origivall, started by General Cass. Mr. Buchapan is not in Washington before the end of the-mionth, In meantime we are all in confusion to know who will Secretary of Siate. Tne myatery on this point is atm as great aa that which surrounds the murder of Doctor| Burdell, The Corruption Committee are ready to report, and on)y waiting the arrival of witnesses summoned on the’ part of Mr Gilbert, of New York, who is one of the mem- bers implicated. He says he oan disprove the charges made againat bim if the committee will wait for his wit- ‘Resses, who are detaine: on the road. The report of the committee bears strongly against certain members, and | Mf they do not lose their seats I am greatly mistaken, Both houses of Congress have agreed to a Joint Com- miitee to notify the President and vice President eleq of their election. Several excoutive communications were received, but none of general importance. The memorial of George Law and others was presented to the Senate, sos aeer=8 ‘the steam chimney, The memorialists pronounce itthe grcateat lwprovement of the age. Messrs. Pearce, Bigler And Foot were appointed a committee to make arrange. ments for the reception and inauguration of the Presiex! ' elect Great indignation is manifested by both house of * Congress agsinst the Post Office Department for the!r n- efficiency in not getting the mails through from Nw York which bave been op the road for four days. Ir. Wilson submitted a resolution directing the Post Ofbe Committee to ipqnire into and report the cause of no - constant failure ef the mails. This was well timed, as « {his mail fails onan average of two days out of thre, ‘Whore fault is it? Mr. Clay reported a bill,repealing a0 ; fishing bounties. The Sonate copsumed the day in discussing the bill authorizing the Sooretary of the Nay to purchase additional ground for the navy yardsit . Wasbington and Philadelphia. The House transacted no business of importance. M. De Witt, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Kustace deliverd speeches on tho tariff, which attracted the attentiomi * the House. The latter defended the sugar interests x the South. P In the event of the failure of Copgress to pass a bill 1 reduce the revenue, Mr. Campbell, of Obio, will press 9 e Spancial measure, (now under consideratioa in fe Committee of Ways and Means,) the depositing of te surplus revenue, 1 eserving two million: of doilars, wb the several States, in proportion to the federal ratiot Fepresentation, or abeut $75,000 for each member, he States to pledge their faith for the enfe keeping of be » money, and refund it when required for the purpoge of * the general government. It is proposed to pay onealf of the surplus on the Ist of July and the romaindeon the Ist of Ociober. Upwards of sixty pasecngers arrived this morng, the first who have crosecd the Suaquchanna eince an- day for Washington, Instructions were forwarded to-day by telegraphic New Orleans concerning the delivery of parcois of sugr cane brought by the bark Release, which arrived the on the Oth inst, Applications at the Patent Office fort are consequently useless. The Expected Eastern Steamers, Bosrom, Fe. 12, 1867. ‘The fire at Kast Cambridge this evening, prostra'ed th Eastern telegraph lines, and our latest dispatches tron Portland and Halifax are to 9 o'clock, at which hour pothing had been heard of the expected steamers from Liyerpool. SHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS- BBCOND SESSION. Senate. Wasmcto, Feb. 12, 1857. ‘MATL PAILURES. Mr. Wiis0x, of Mase., offered a resolution, which wag: adopted, instructing the Committee on the Post ioe te: % Present session, and report what regulation, if any, ie neceseary to remidy the evil. Mr. Puancs, of Mau, ellered @ resolution, which was Pmrp pony ted ope tm to appoint a ccm. m Gf three to make the necessary Abe reception and inavguratio: 5 g| i | ixf i if £ i i i if Hi H ie i ii Fl : f i HA i : | 1 i i i ii i | ? if il i s & i 2 5 [ House of Representatives. ‘Wasmotom, Feb. 12, 1867. PREPARATIONS POR THE INAGURATION = THE VOTR OF WISCONSIN, Mr. Jone, of Tenn., offered @ resolution that @ com- mitiee of two be appointed by the House, and one by the Benate, to walt upon Mesers. Bochanan and Breokin- ridge, and Inform them that they wore duly elected Pre- i if ! f I 7 [ ! Hi iff EF h ii "5 i fi i j Ht a 53 i ji Ni BH aE ‘it Est 28 - 5 i 3 i : = ais B H 5 g Z Hi % 5 Ls f Fey 3 #2 Pri Z : E i H i i ; j i e asking compensation to Mr. Allatre for his lavention of * ¢ | eres sb-Fene a eee oe 1 1 Kir ac