The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1857, Page 4

4 t NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. 4,.BN ES GORDON BESNETT DITOR AND PROPRIETOR. BPPIOR ¥. W. CORNED OF FULTON AND MASSAU OT8. RMS, ash to DAILY copy, 8 ver NO NOTICE ten, of cnonymons comoer ining We ~) renewed evey day. OVER THB Agena FES THIS BYENING. BR ‘road ‘Tus Usonran or Beeeraay tens THEATRE, ae ee ‘Monn: 0. ’, Morning 08 RDF xe Dancino kis 1s Te Dasa ‘POWERY THEATRE. Bewery—Hiuier—Rousnes in Moon » rl INGING, Dancine, &c. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond st. Somove Fauity—Tus Toopixs. ‘ Broad Lo! a OM THEATRE, jway—LEonOns, OR THE — BAURA KEENF'S THEATER 6 Seen—Txx ELv xs, on ena Seuaye | Srarom AN THEATRE Cnamt Onambers street - Fare Heart ek mon = Fy Lapy—Domn Bate—Sons oF rue Rarva- —@anxes Hitis or THR West. AGADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth t.—Iv4u4N Orama— Bow Giovanni. AMERICAN MUSEUM. ‘Broadway—After- Pook Paticoppy Lixenick Box, Sveuing—Rore Y—PECKET. GRO. 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Taylor has been appoint ee despatch agent of New York. Nothing of interest happened in the State Senate yesterday. The Supply bill for 1856 passed the As- sembly. The New Jersey House of Assexnbly yesterday Jaid on the table a resolution providing for the ap- pointment of Cot enissioners on the Quarantine question. The vote sf&& 17 to 16. The Supreme Court room and the passages lead ing to 1t were crowded yesterday with spectators eurious to see the principals in the John Dean and Miss Boker matrimonial affair. The lady, however, did not make ber appearance, mach to the di pointment of the audience, and the hearing we postponed until next Monday afternoon. Tae papers in the case, together with some other iateresting particulars, are given in another colomn. ie case of the mutimeers of the Teneral Piérce, who arrived at this port from 3t. Toomas in the ship Centurion on Wednesday, was brought up in the District Attorney's office yesterday. Acvord ing to the deposition of the mate ot the brig—which we give in another colamn—the captain strack one ef the men, wherezpon four of the crew attacked him, and the affray resulted in the killing of the captain, Lawson, and Charles L. Groves, the cook The mate tock the brig into St. Tuomas, where th: mutineers were arrested by the United States Con sul, who sent them home for trial. The Gen. Pierce was bound from New Ycrk for Monrovia. A new crew was obtained at St. Tuomas, and she pro-ecded en her voyage. The Board ot Aldermen last evening adopted a resolution directiag inquiry as to the expedieacy of requiring the North river and Sound steamboats respectively to make their landings above Cana) and Grand streets, on the North and East rivers. The Special Conmnittee of the Board of Alder men on the Mayor's Message met yesterday, whea the question of the location of the proposed new Gity Hal! was considered. After a {ree interchang: ef opinion op the subject, the commit ee decided in favor of baflding on Chambers street, if the Park should be selected as a site. The Board of Supervisors met last evening, but apsact apy business portance Taey nae of come , and the bill ef the 1) for expenses incurred in the tlal o Lewis Baker. The journeymen carpeaters held an adjourved meeting last eve to bear repo:ts as to tae rat ©! wages paid in the ¢iff-rent shops. The majority of shops r re paying frou #1 87} to #1 75 per diem, an cab procure were taking toward tive Society. The bi were opened ye Twreifth ward. the curpeaters fee! confident that they 2 demanded. Preliminary steps forming a Carpen‘ers’ Protez contracts for cleaning the s reets There was no bid for the pg the remaining twenty day: For clea one wads, the lowest bids foot up an aggregate of $ The Society of Inquiry of Union Theologica’ Seminary held its nineteenth anniversary last eve uing. N thstanding the rain and mud there wae quite a large audience of ladies aud gentlemen present. Addresses were delivercd by T. L. Bying: he President of the Society, H. N. Cobb, N auby, C. D. Helmer and E. N. White, on va us interesting religious subjects. They were te to the occasion, and were listened t tion by the andience. A Metical Board, to consist of Surgeons Finley, Baiterlee and McDongall, will assemble in this city on of about the Ist of vext mouth, for the examina- tion of Arsistant Surgeons for promotion, and of candidates for admission ints the medical staff of the army. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Peter Dawson, a dance house keeper in Cherry street, wax tried and acquitied of the charge of assaulting Charles Dodd with a slang shot on the 4th of Sop- tember. The negro Join Dorsay, whom the present Grand Jury bas indicted for the marder of Ann Me Girr, alias Ann Hopkins, in Worth street, a few days #g0, by cutting her throat with a razor, was placed at the bar. On being asked to plead, he replied, ‘1 don't know nothing about it.” He will be tried to- day. His organization is evidently of a very low grade. William Smith was tried for burglary in tho first degree, in bieak'ng into the house of Wm. Mil ler, No, 219 Sixth street, on the 28th of February. ‘The jury rendered a verdict of vargiary in the second degree, and Judge Russell sent him to the State prison for nine years and three months. “ Thank you, sir, I'm much obliged to you,” said the prisoner as be left the bar. Our report of Sir Wm. Boyd's secon the Distingvished Men of England of it Ag@Which was delivered last evening at Clinton Hall, Astor place, has been unavoidally crowded out through the « helming press of matter ‘The sales Of ection yesterday embraces soout bal inclnded ta which were about 9.900 sold to ‘The mar d wiinoul change te prices, Four for te lower gem while the enlet were to ® ‘ei extent, \oola ro for export, The advance in freighis to tendency to check evone ta prices were somewhat @uil ant lower, wih exies Of Western mixed 1 lect the Pre tran Pork Waa beary, with fair enies of new mons at 920 o | 4 8,290 bage Rio, at p, t., and 600 do. to the trade at 100. & 11M0., and 160 mats Java at 16}0. Freights to Liverpo@ were firmer, with more doing. Graio ia bulk and bage was taken at 69d. a6d, fur at Is. 434d. a ls. @d., with bacon and lard at 173. 6d., and cotton at 3/4. It ie not much to our credit as a nation that one of the two houses of Congress had of late ‘become go steeped in corruption and infamy that it became necessary to have an investigating committee appointed; that that committee recom- mended the expulsion of four honorable members, and that three of these four virtually placed on the record a plea of guilty, and resigned their position as representatives to avoid being igaomi- niously expelled. The fact is far from compli- mentary to the honor and self-respect of the people; and yet we regard the action of this Corruption Committee as one of the most fortu- pate events that have ever taken place in our Congressional history, for we confidently believe and hope that, under the influence of the new President and bis Cabinet, all pure men, from it will commence to date an era of honest, upright and proper legislation with which we have been hitherto too long unacquainted. The land-jobbing, treasury-plundering aud fraud-encouraging system of legislation which commenced under Mr. Fillmore’s administration reached its culminating point and attained its highest developement in the first session of the Con- gress that bas just expired. Never before, perhaps in the history of legislative assemblies, here or elsewhere, did eorruption present such an un- blushing face. The social and political revolu- tion that followed the passage of the Nebraska bill, bad brought up to the surface of things a erowd of contemptible politicians. The repre sentatives whom the New England and Westero States sent to Congress were about as smal( specimens of stateemen as could well hive been pawned upon the couatry; and for tae most part their honesty was on a par with their ability—so, during the first session of the Chirty-fourth Congress, al! sorts of pluoderias schemes were got up. and many of them passed, the injury of the people of the United 5+. beir peace and dignity, and to the aggraniize- nent ef thoze degraded wretches in Congress who had votes to sell, and whose sole and vsly object seemed to be to sell them to the best ad vantage. The lobbies of Congress were cou- stantly beset with swarms of vote brokers, who ed with corrupt members as to the price of their votes. There was little or no attempt at iment. ‘Little regard had these Congressioa- ieves for the appearance of thiags. They did re fo assume a virtue while they had it not. sof what their fellows or the world might k of them, they openly bargained for vote. the very hal! and b- fore the very eyes of the Speaker, while the vote was being taken on this or the other railroad lax ndle In this way the people of the United States were at that oae ession alone defrauded out of twelve millions f acres of the public domain, aud cams wit wn ace of being cheated out of ten or tweaty rimes that amount, in the shape of the grand Pacific Railroad scheme. Had it not been for the upewervivg honesty and the never-al-fault par- tiamentary kaowledge of the Sonthern represen. tatives that stupendous frand woald have beea by this time fastened on the Amurican people and not one, but scores, of black repnblican mem bers would have realized their seven square miles of land as the price of theic vote. It was in view of these evidences of corruption in and around Congress-—evidenses which there vas no attempt to diszuise, conceal, or keep from the cyce of the world—that the Heranp at th: commencement of the last session felt it itsduty ts denounce and expose to the world the faithless nes of the public servants, Again and again we returned to the charge, natil we had atti our point and succeed atten. one! a) thi ir in 2d in riveting publi tion on the corrupt influences which govern d the national legislature. Alarm and gan to penetrate the ranke of lismay be renal representatives, Jand shal and lobbs gents around the Capitol. The letter writers and correspondents of the various presses through- out the country, for the sake of throwing dast iu the eyes of the publie and of covering up their own iniquities, took up the cry, and from one end of the Union to the other there was an unanimous lemand for the expurgation of Congress. The matter could be no longer blinked, and oae member of Congress, actuated, it has been charged, by a similar feeling to that wh in. spired the letter writers, moved resolutions for the sppointment of a committee of investigation. If Mr. Kelsey nurved the idea that he could have got up a whitewashing committee, and declared Congress immaculate, he must have been tercibly undeceived when he found himself associated with Orr and Warner, Davis, of Maryland, and Ritchie —four of the ablest, sharpest and most iacorrupti- ble mumbere of the House. The results of the labors of that committee are known to the country and the world. They re- ported evidence showing that three members from New York and one member from Connecticut were guilty of corrupt practices, and ure worthy of retaining seats in the House. fa vain black repablican members resorted to paltry quibbles of parliamentary law to stave off action; but when all these failed, and when there was no longer a doubt as to what the action of the House would be, the three New Yor kers~ Matteson, Gillert and Edwards—severally noti- fied the Speaker that their resignations were in the hands of the Governor of the State, and that hey were no longer mombers of the Thirty- fourth Congress, Virtaally, these were pleas of guilty, and in all but in the case of Matteson they were deemed satisfactory to the injured honor of the House. In bis case, however, the House insisted on placing on the record, not alone the plea of guilty—in the shape of his re- gcation-—but also the verdict of the House that be was guilly of the counts charged in the indict- ment. This was done, as well because his case was deemed the worst, as because he had been re elected to the next Congress, and it was desired © bave on the files of the body the record of his # to hold a seat in the Houve of R As to the Connecticut gentl thim was ned insaffici benefit c doubt. Je feature in the history ¢ f this Cor. ittee pi man of a comm report ogatost the fea * probably unparalleled. But » a minority othe: upanimous report | Bot only that, his reports were never read in the House—never referred to in the course of the debate—ner was a word said by him or any one else either in support of the views which he had taken, or in opposition to the views of the majority, He was probably content and satisfied that his report should be passed over unexamined and uncommented on. Whether that course was the one best calculated to serve his reputation he was andoubtedly the best judge. During the pendency of this examination, and after the report had been presented, the effegt on legislation was most remarkable. The powerfel lobby was utterly paralyzed. The grand land jobbing bills that-had been prepared and were ready to be sprung upon the House were heid back. Two only of the sheaf—a Minnesota bill and an AJubama bill—were let in, and there ppearing to be no great objection to them, they were passed. The Pacific Railroad swindle sank into the modest insignificance of a military wagon road, and as such received the sanction of Cen- +ress, The book printing schemes, the patent +xtension swindles, and all the other frauds that are usually perpetrated on the country by means of Congressional villanies, were kept out of sight. The pickings and stealings of corrupt members could hardly have been worth mentioning, and lobby members must have been reduced to the starvation point. Mr. Buchanan in his inaugural did not overlook the terrible evil of Congressional corruption. He referred to the “extravagant legislation” and to “the wild schemes of expen ditures,” which he says “beget a race of specn- lators and jobbers, whose ingenuity is exerted ia contriving and promoting expedien's to obtain the public money.”’ And further on he says:—‘But: the squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance as a temptation to corruption when compared with the squandering of the public lands.” We thiok that under the administration of a President who appears to have such @ proper appreciation of the cnise of » corrupt Congress—with the eyes of the people opened as they have been te the unfaithfulness of their agente, and with the benefit ef the lus tration performed on the House of Represeats- tives, we may hope for the inauguration of such + pure and proper system of national legislation a+ may wipe away from Congress the odium and disgrace impressed upon it during the last two administrations, by the venal and corrupt actioe of its members. Such, we confidently exoect will be the fruits of the Investigating Commitee. If so, they will compensate the nation for th» exposure of the infamy which bas prevailed ia Congress. No more land swindies. No more patent extension frauds. No more lobby agents. No more brokerage of votes. No more Congres- sional villanies. Impudent Matteson, unhappy Edwards, unfortunate Gilbert, brazen-faced Si- monton, and “poor Greeley,” are names that have been hung up as sign boards to the nationa— a warning to jobbery and corruption for all the nex’ session of Congrese--but to be forgotton after that time. GrexeraL Wepp’s ProxuxciaMIeNTO ON THE Drep Scorr Casr.—After nearly a month's cozi- tation upon the subject, the Chevalier Webb has issued from Washington his pronunciamiento on the Dred Scott case, in the form of a letter to the Courier and Enquirer, longer, if not stronger, than Mr. Buchanan's inaugural address. The Chevalier spreads himself, and works himself, as usual on all great subjects, into a towering pas- sion. He was scarcely more excited when, in bis younger days, be hurried off post haste from New York to Washington to chastise General Duff Green, “ but didn’t doit.” He can’t abide the decision of the Supreme Court that niggers are not citizens. His indignation at this outra- geons decree overskadows everything else. But the Chevalier does not come up to the mark. Let him prove his faith by his works. It be believes in the doctrine of equality upon the «question of citizenship as applied to whites and viggers, why does he not get up one of his grand Jinners, and invite thereto a lot of his colored bretbien, and in a common manifesto make com: non cause with them against the Supreme Court. over a love feast of * Potomac sha It was but the other day that the Chevalier gave aroya! cipner to certain “ white gemmen,” with Geavra) Cass at one end of the table, and Marey at the viber, Those guests were citizens; but as long xs the Chevalier confines bis dining and wining tovitations to white men, his profe pathy and eqnality fer free nigg rothing. The Chevalier’s plan for repealing the nigger ‘ecisiou of the Supreme Coart would be more meritorious if it were only original. Unforta nately, however, he has picked it up in the news papers, and wonld have us believe that he is eo- tithd to the patent right. The Governor o Coney Island, therefore, is far ahead of the Chevalier as an original genius. Toe Governor. sleo, is resolved to bring this isene of negro citi zeasbip te a practical solution, And mark he propores—mark the contrast between the practical statesman and the pretender. Go veror Gil Davis, of Coney Island, believes the bis vast domains, avd the inhabitants thereot. have as good a right to a delegate in Congress a« tbe Morm.s or the Kansas border raffians, He proposes to send on one, any how; and his can- oWate will be one of the stontest and blackest niggers in all his sandy, weather beaten and windy dominions. Upon the question of the ad- mission of this Coney Island clam chowder ger asa delegate to Congress thie whole issue, in all its length and breadth of nigger citizenship. will come before the House; aud let the dough- faces dodge it if they dare. There, you see, is the man of business, Now, it the Chevalier Webb is as anxious t) do some- thing for the poor niggets, let him snap bis fingers at Chief Justice Taney, and give his free colored fellow citizens at Washington a constitu- tional love feast while the “Potomas shad” are yet in season. Perhaps Gen. Cars would tarn up bis nose at it; bat Lord Clarendon would ap- prove it, Call in the niggers, then, and barry up the shad, Brudder W. A Conaerrion Cask ty tHe Boarp or Epv- cation—At the last meeting of this body Mr. Shine, one of the Commiesioners from the Fourth ward, stated that he bad been approached with offers of money by a property holder who was endeavoring to procure the purchase of some lots | by the Board o Education. The condition oa which Mr. Shine was to bave the money was the employment of his official influcnce in the passage of a resolution directing the purchase of the lots. The matter, it appears, is under gation | before the officers of the Foutth ward Board, and for that reaeon the general Board did not take any action upon if, This case, however, is ouly one of a large number that never reach the ears of the pablic, and by whish a large proportion of the school moneys, as we have repeatedly stated ’ finds ite way into the pockets of speculators aud dichonest officials. In this instance, through the honesty of a member of the Board, the fraud was prevented before i: c: uld be consummated. The expenditures of the Board of Education for this year will amount to about 4 million and a quar- ter, and of this at least one-fourth will fall into ‘the possession of speculators, officials and con- tractors, if the honest members do not adopt some means of preventing the peeple from being de- frauded. Curtosities of the Administration of Justice. ‘There are certain respects in which the admin- istration of justice is the same in all civilized countries, Wherever civilization has made its mark, there is sure to be a regular court, with fixed judges, a prosecuting officer attached to the court, and prisoner’s counsel licensed to practice before it; accused persons are sure to be allowed © cross question the witnesses against them, and they are sentenced or acquitted according to the evidence. Such is the theory, at least, of the administration of criminal justice in all countries which make pretence te enlightenment ; and, as uming that the theory is everywhere equally well carried out in practice, a Chinese specta- tor would hardly notice any difference between the system as applied in the United States and England, and the system as used in Franee, Ger- many, Spain or Mexico. But when we go beyond the elementary parts of that system—that is to say, the court, the prosecuting officer, the prisoner’s counsel, the plan on which evidence is heard, and the basis on which the verdict must rest—wide and impor- tant variances meet the eye. In England, a mau is a witness in his own case. In France, when a witness testifies to a new and important fact, the Judge stops him, turns to the prisoner, aud ac- costs him—*Prisoner, what do you say to that?”— which is very shocking to our ideas of fairness and justice. In Austria, when a prisoner desires to see the indictment against him he is asked with a sneer “if he thinks the Court is there to give him information?” Io Italy, the heart of prisoners is softened before their trial by application of torture; it being a principle of law, in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, that truth cannot be elicited without a free uee of the dungeon, the whip, and the secew. Here are eeveral discrepancies in the modes ut administering justice, all of which deserve care ful attention. But perbaps our own peculiarities are mor: striking than any. We have the same institu- tions as other countries, in respect of the court. &e.; but what distinguishes our administration of justice from all others is the part taken by the press and the public. This is the only couv- try in the world, we believe, where the right o/ reporting pending cases is secured to the pres, in spite of the will of Judges aad courts. I may be enid, indeed, that, with us, cases are trie? before a jury of reporters, who do the labo which the law imposes on a regularly empin- nelled petty jury. Nor does the peculiarity sto, bere. The vivacity of our people, the un Faralleled publicity in which we live, aud the ia tenee interest taken in important trials, make us one and all, parties in leading cases, and more than spectators of the result. We take sides, an’ discuss them with the earnestness of intere-ted par ties, We raise all kinds of side issues in the prose and in society, and fight them out before we come to the real issue. A great law case in Nev York at the present day appears to be a matier of life aud death to half the population. Look for instance at the Burdell murder case. Mr Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham are going to be tried on a charge of murdering Dr. Burdell. Nothing more simple, at the outset, than the main issue- did they kill him or no? But before we can ger to that, a thousand minor issues mast apparen ly be adjusted. We must know whether Coroner Connery is a fit man for his post; and this will b: tried at length. We must know whetier he strip ped Mrs Cunningham; this is a subject for a nev and separate inquiry. Then, if he dida’t, w must find out how the reporter for the rag-bax Express came to say he did, aod we must se whether the Brothers Brooks were pid to say he did, or whether they invented the story gra*ut tously, to make taeir paper sell. We must try the witness Farrell; and this is one of the mo-! importavt side issues. We must try the Zim newspoper for allusions to De. Biaisdell; anv have justice dove bere too. Al! these ned many other side issues grow out of the original marde case, and almost cover up the guilt or innocence of Eckel and Mra Canningbam. If we go on at this rate, our trials will come t be more popular elections than judicial p od ings. When the press isdiscussivg the principal and collateral iseues of a leading case, every morning in the week, and every newspaper takes a side, it is utterly ridiculous to expect that the public can remain a dispassionate spoctator of the scene The people will take sides, too; will cling to them with the force of prejudice and passion; 110 will feel a personal concern in the result. Ta jnry will be partieane before they enter and whil- they occupy the jury box. A trial like that of be persone accused of murdering Dr. Bardell wilt be far more like our fali elections than an event in the administration of justice. Tue Gas Comranies.—The investiga‘ioa that has been made into the affairs of the Manhattan Gas Company does not seem to have prodaced any exact results, We suspect it is very easy for aby company, by means of pressure aad forms of metres and other scientific appliances, to cheat its customers 30 or 40 per cent bayoad hope of detection. I+ is generally supposed that some mystery in the construction of the gas metres gives an advantage to the Manha‘tan Company of 20 or 25 per cent; but how is the discovery to be fully and completely developed to the public? Tes Orena To Nicet —Monart's greatert work, ‘Doo nowncod for this evening at the Academy preeentation being the last of the soasow, efit of Mr, Strakosoh. All the prime donne— Parod!, De Wilhorst anf Patt Strakosc1—are (a the cast, wih Morelli, Tiberini and Morino =M Dubreul makes bis ditbut bere e@ Leperelio, In addition to the opera Mr. Thal will play bit fantasia upon ‘1’ iteir d’ Amore.” ocd @ prograr.me should draw the groates; house of the eagon. Mr. That rerc, aseleied by Mme. D' Avgri, gave s nati. née wt Dedwersh’s yesterday, to @ very largo nadienco, oblefly indies, He goes to B uton next ween. Nino @ Gaspan—Ma, Mooas’s Bi —Pieeaure sock. ort this evening must not forget tho benodt of Mr. Moore, the at manager a! Niblo’s Garden, The programme lam very tempting ove, THaLnme ty KL inst concert at (he Brookiyo A'henwam yesterday evening was a mort vriliast and profitable affair, Ia eddiiion to the uenal attraction of (he great planivt’s porlormancor, Roreini’s Stabat Mator was given, with the aif of » portion ot tne sire of the Academy of Music, s0% et efectivuly ret Too tesond Pregremine orxsistod, of esicowons from the ‘Child of the Regiment,” “Sem renide,” Dontzoutt, and *halberg’s own somporitions. Nothiog doult nave ‘bean more eauafactcry, both to (be audience and artiew, than the marper la which the affair wento™, The re ceipts were umprecedentedly large, THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the Alps. Boston, March 19-10 P. M. Nothing has yet been heard of the overdue steamship Alps. The weather is very thick, and tf below she would ‘undoubtedly wait for daylight before coming up. From W: SPEOLAL DERPATCHES 10 THE WEW YORK HERALD. THE OFFIO“ SEBKERS STRIFZ iN WASHINGTON—THE NEW YORKRBES AND THE SPOILS. Wasaumnctom, March 19, 1857, ‘The belligerents are at close quarters. 1 doubt not less than a half-dozen differeat combinations have been formed among the New York politicians upon the Colleo: torahip within the last twenty-four hours, from each of which its parties have as often been driven by their fears, enticed by their cupidity, or departed for more practicable plans. The Pennsylvania politiciaus are boll, ing im the cauldron of the Philadelphia appointments. ‘This 1 believe is the third sun that has risen on their strife. Perhaps they will be completed te day, when the first sum will set upon the red wrath of the dismal faced Petriote whose mames are rejected trom immortality and office. Colonel Forney’s steps bave been often bent to- wards the White House during the Pennsylvania crisis, and as often been as decidedly bent back again. The “ghell”’ fight of New York was pastime to what will be the “muscle” movement among the Quaker brethren of the Keystone. But I think that it cannot yet safely be hazarded that the ;0od old grudge that formerly inflamed New York Politicians has lost its material edge. There seems to be acme sharpness still between the leaders of the factions of “the brave days of old.” Croswell sti!l laughs “bard,” and Corning still smiles “soft; Richmond shells out—Sohell is inshelied, Sickles half-shelled, and Cochrane unshelled. Maycr Wood evidently is tired of soelr g the party in the shells; he perhaps would uot be sorry to seo it im the Woods. All these, and many more to help them, are jast now struggling for the New York Col lectorship. Schell was long considered the mighty man. Butterworth, however, one bright morning limped out into eunabine and grew apace. Conjecture then became busy with the expected course of Maclay, Ward, Coch- vane and Kelly of the New York olty delegation, They ‘Were thought to be against Schell. Would they unite on Butterworth? Conjecture was baffled. Rumor spoke of division among them; and Phelps and Townsend and Bat- terworth each it was thought bad his partisans. Then comes the astounding news that Wood has united bimself t¢ Sobell’s fortunes. Unquestionably a careful chaerver could ses that this movement, if streagth. ening Schell, was also throwing many hitherto uncom- mitted or doubtfal into Butterworth’s camp. fhe issue began to be between Butterworth and Schell, when again the currert changes, with the report that Wood!and Schell bave broken, and the quid nuncs are again at sea, Now when again these recurring combinations will, from thir pative darknezs, peer into the light, so that each can be caguerreotyped before the hour of ite dis- ‘appearance, is more than can be told. You see that the New York Sght is indeed a mcleé. There is ro fixed prin- cip'e at issue—no field struggled for by two contendiog hosts. Inpumerable guerrilie bands make their forays for cfHoial plunder, independently of each other, and re. esrdiers cf consequences to all elee tran thomsecives. Twelve hours hence and another change will have visit- ed tbe scene, Toe political athletes will have more ac urstely agcertained each other's strength, akill and pe- caller trick of war, Now they stand glaring on each o:ber, after tbe firs; hupgry rush; then they will join tn he flerce struggieof the last assault, Walt, and you wil! bear their howl, DREADFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN UTAH—BRIGHAM YOUNG TO BE SUPEKSHDED, AND A MILITARY FORCE ‘¥NT INTO TBE TERRITORY—TBE PHILADELPHIA APPOINTMENTS ~ HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT—H(2 FINST DINNER PARIY, ETC. Wasmmetos, March 19, 1857. A letter wes received here to-day froa W. W. Dram mond, United States Supreme Judge in Utah Territory, by the administration. It gives a ead and deplorable picture of matiers tn that Territory. Tho following is taken from the lotter:— The leacing men of (he church are more traitorous than ever. Only & few days eince all the papers, records. dockels, snd nine hundred volumes of the laws, were taken ous of the Supreme Court Clerk's office and burped Acd th: ot the Instance of the kind. | say to ‘mons under direction of Brigham . and vot by Indians §=Murder is a common thing here; and Mormons cantol be punished with a Mormon re, aud Governor to pardon. ‘be endured. A the penitent who are wholly pf ered ht ber country whore this abuse @ "s Let all, theo, take bold an: cru b out oue of Le most treasonable ergaatuettons ti io America. The administration bare bad the ma'ter under seriour copsideraticn, and will soon appoin: a Governor, | vader stand, who will take sufficient military force {nto tha: Territory to carry out the laws to the ful'es: extent. ‘The fo\lowing Pennsylvania appointments were made o-day:—Joseph D Baker, of Lancaster, Collector; Gi feo Wencott. Postmaster; Wm. Badger, Navy Agent; Cham- bers McKibben, Naval Officer; John Hamiltoo, Surveyor of the Port; Jacob 8, Yout, of Montgomery county, Mar bal, loaw the ’residentto day, and he {+ quite wall, exorpt i @ good deal iatigued and roy down by oilioo He gives bis frst dinuer party to-day, at which sll bis Cabinet will be present, except General Case, who docs not attend dinner parties of any kind. Gon. Pierce, Mercy, Jef. Davis ard Casting will also be present, to aciber with « few Senators and members who arc now bere. p NEW YORK, BOSTON, CALIFORNIA AND ILLINOIS APPOINTMEDTS—f HP KANSAS GOVERNORSHIP. Wasninctos, March . Daniel 8. Taylor was to-day appointed commis stoned ae United Stetes Despatch Agont at New York ‘Thia te the first appointmen: for 5 our city. Meters, Hallrtt and Peasice bave left here for Boston 19 medes March bares, Peasies, on loarping that Wat- von Frecman, the Marsnal, was retained, while he was superseded, cxola'med—* Yee, Freeman caught a nigger’ wl, Greene, the present Nawal Officer at Boston, has bese telegraphed to appear here in person, when his case wil he considered and disposed of. Hs may be retained Mr, Austiv, the now Collector of Byston, nas grown ln populerity sisce bis appolniment. A crowd [ullows » him Deels, The New Yorkers are becomivg excited as the hou craws near for them to learn their fate, Sickles is per. feetly wild to-night. Maclay ls nervous and Gdgetty. Kelly slone maintains his self possceion. Mooday will releve their anxiety. ‘The Philadelphia appointments having been ¢lepored of to day, the Californians are promised # benefit fo-mor row. The oontest with them is hotter, if possible, than with the New Yorkers, there being no harmony between the new Sova‘ors nad Represatatives elect. Wiillam Price wae to-day appointet Postmastor at Obi cago, vice Cook, removed. There 16 9g Oa cloan swoep of the officials tm Iliinols; rotetion wil plied vo ell. Colonel James Riley, of Texas, ti applicant fore foreign mission, end is backed by Senator l\usk, ‘The Preaident’s dinner party tais afternoon ts givon ex olusively to married persone, with a few exceptions. Deapatohes were reseived from Kansas to day, g ving® detailed statement of compinints agsinst Joy Goary, wh» is charged with having become an unscrapulous partizin of the tree Stale party, The Southern mombers of the Usb! net have egreod to lorist on a Southern Govornor to #10. coed Geary, Gen. MoMallen, of Virgiols, is spoken of ay the man. The Scorctary of War urges bim The Goners is applying for the Marabalsbip of this Dustrics. THR GUNRRAL DEEPATOR THE NEW NAVAL DAPOT—COL. LEE INDICTED, FTC. Wasmmcrox, Maroh 19, 1867. ‘The commissienors ap sointed to select a site for a now naval depot in Geor have reperted In favor of 81, a+ ‘men's isisod, @ fow miles below Bronewick, io tat State, af © baa been appointed l'vstmastor of Cat oe Cook, whose commission ie about to expire Minatt A, Osbora, Keq , if reappointed Collector at Now Haven. Tho Grand Jury bave found « true BAI of iadixtmont epainst Ool. Loe tor murder in tho first degres, for killing fr. Home, Col. Lee t¢ now tn jail The Board of feallh have arrived at the ronclusion thatthe sickness ab the Natlonal Hotel was ennved by Von0we minema, generated In the sewers, conepoote About ibe establiahment, The Southern Marl. Bainvone, Marcd “9, 1867, Friday & >on recsired, New Orleans papers © From re CANAL TOLLS AND =<, ag Anant, Marek 19, 1667, ‘The republicans again met in cauous last night, and 18@ Subject of the canal policy was fully discussed, bat ao final dccision was reached. A joint commitiee was: ap- Pointed to submit the course of policy to the caucus, which adjourned, subject to the oall of the committes. A large number of our citizens serenaded Mr. Fillmere last evening, who appeared and made # speech, thanking his friends for the attention paid him, The band after- wards serenaded the State officers. The Canal Board held a meoting to day, and postponed the distribution of the canal tolls until deposite had bees made for one week. aEW YORK LEGISLATURE, Senate. Anany, March 19, 1857, ‘The annual report of the New York Prison Association. was reviewed. Mr. Brooks presented the memorial of Gouverneur M.. Ogden, on bebalf of the rector, wardens and vestry of Trinity church, charging that the evidence before the se- lect committee had been procured inoorreotly and gricg. ous wrong done, ‘Mr. Spancur stigmatized the memorial ag a piece with» the whole proceeding of the Corporation. Mr. Brooxs said that in presenting the petition be did ‘Bot desire to commi; himself in any way for or againsd: (0 mateon os tense. diner a culay, dehete Mr. Erancm geve ® history of the The memorie] was thes routes Ws seleot commit: tee and ordered to be prin’ for selling any prod in casks copes a with a false tare or short of weight, ‘BILLS REPORTED FAVORABLY. ie ‘an International br! ‘sppropriation to the Biackwell’s Island Lunatid id¢m Broadway between Fifty-first and Fifty mini = tmeorporate the New York Towing and Wreoking providta for the yo J poord.ny of Mr Wapswoura introduced a bill ment of jurors attencing New York. ihe he meipo on tas gl awry a bill 1e ment expenses ja contesting je and on the bench. BILLS PAPBED. be inoorperate the Harmonic Society of New York. ‘To incorporate the Harlem River and New York Suspen- sion Bridge Ocmpany. Assembly. A.bany, March 19, 1857, The Supply bill for 1856 was passed. Pi morning was cocupied in considering private claim esien ae Geen interest in the either house, and au early training baer to allow the members an opportunity to attead Mr. Eve. teary oration, an invitation having been extended to thens- jo 80. Work of the Legislature. TITLES OF ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OP: THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1857. 1, To emend an act entitled an aot for the expenses under the act for the preservation of = — from encroach bo. it of the harbor torn of Pelliam. 5, To amend an act entitled an act to p: To cer Ean ee Albany, and therefor; passed Ay 1880. 6 To authorize 7. Aathorisip tion of taxes ip the several towns and cities of this State, 8. For the rel'ef of 8 Lawrence academy, 9, To ebi the name of the Crouse Bank. 10. To legel'ze the Greenwood Comeateny, Association of g dg of Wilson, im the county of To conarm the proceedings of the Wyoming ‘Count agiesiun Bocteiy. rize the Commissioner of Highways of the town of Catekilt to rebulld bridges. 13. In relaiion to the ministers, elders and descons of’ ibe Reformed Proiestant Dutch Oburca of Alvasy. 14 For the relief of James Ley & Son, 1. To cba Phage) Seen Riabets Ben, of Sy- racure, to E. 16. \d an act entitled an act to Incorporate the - New ‘State Agriouliural Coliege, passed April 15, 17. To authorize the Oswego Gas Light Company to in- Grease their capita! siock, 18. To amend an actentitied an aot to make @ road< the Uniled Stetes of certain propert 20. To sei! the burial ground A the Wallabost, tc. Broobly Proviae places of burial. 21 To avthorize the collection of taxes fa the town of Schoduck, Rensselaer couaty, for 1864, 22. ¥o provide for the suppiy of » of water for Brooklyn. 23, To amend an act entit wo tecorporate Lef- fer\’s Park Angooiation, passed Say 18, #4. To amend an epttled an act to acchorize the; 6) or, aldermen commopalty of the city o Nee York borrow Gre hundred thousand doilere, for the purpose cf building resorviir, purchasiog isad, extending the Croton water works, passed April 11, 4 to enable the sald corporatiun to borrew for tac Purfore, the further sum of one millioo four hun- ‘ard ei bt thousand dollars. 25. Toanend an act entitied an act lo alier the may of ibe city of Now York, by laying out thereia a pablis phee, and to aulborize the taking of the same, passed July 31, 1863. 48. To provide for the purchase and completion of « boure in the town of - \ncionetus, Cortiand county. To pmend the charter of the Bak of Salina. warioe muiuel insurance companies» special acte, charters or gencra! laws. ect eatitied an actto authorize they log. ry Lad charter of the Orange County Mutual Insurance Compan Si. To evable Peter Cooper to ound a@ccieniiCc instita- tian ta tte city of New York. Toamen¢ an act entitled an act to Im 3 S. incorporated vn 49 Te amene Bb. Avihorizing en Gregory to maleiota the dem erccted by Thomas Shack'acd across the cusquebenne- river, pear Cocpersiown. 86. For the relief of the Mercbants’ Baildiog Assooin- ten of ine city of Albany. y 7. In relation to the, Croton Aqueduet Board of New ork. 28 To smend ap act to provide for incorporation insar- apce com, ‘April 10, 1849, ving conser t of the State of New York to the pur- yy ibe United States, of certain property at Og- 7 40 To exlend ard amend the obarter of the Gien Cove: Movoal lnavrance Comenn?. passed March 9, 1837. 41. To avtnorize the Commissioners of Highwaye of the town of Herkimer to borrow for retvai o 42 Tosmend the chertor of jome of * * Preteens Looe leharch tn the at x w York. Por thy a peaishmen? - 4 japge the name of the teriap chereh in = clty of New York, y wage teint wm geal hegeey ane 7 one Commrengee fener 40. fo anne Bel powcrs ol eo Lasosioes ad Fe Foreign Bible Seoiety, 1d rea! estate, 4%, To provide for the ps; ment ani expenses incurred formed by tbe commtrsions ap »0inted to ine boiwoen this State and Connec- ny To sothorize the Common Council of Poughkespsio Sour money for building and repairing roads and c iy Tn relation to the ofloe of Segue the Pabko Burial Grounds of tho 0 Tox f the oy 3 zi Utica. $1, Te piste the proceeds of Nat yay Dad the sy ppert of pebools, and for the eate koep- a of roborl meneye. 2. To iroorporate the Fisbatli Savings Ir situation, 69. To aniborine the Canal Appraisers to bear, examine, and asteme the damages of Harvey Baldwin for repaire of dam et Baldwinsville To suiborize the Treasurer to pay Harvey Bald- ard the heirs of Siephen Baldwin, the baiance oF pe,se4 by the anal Roard. the me for the collection of taxes extht y in Apri: next. 16 To suthorize the Ooart of Sessions of Yates county to bold terme longer than two weeks 57. To restrain cattle, borses, sheop, swine and gecte trem ol g at iarge io the town of Mexico, Orange county. 8, No fapediva the apd votes for Senator in the Filtcenth een 60, Te perde te ‘or 7 additiona! justices of the peace im che (own of Seboduck, Rer sselser county, 0 Jon to sherit’s certificates upon the sale oF Po 61 Io reletion to orpben and destitute obildren. olalipg to Rechesier, and amending charter. revise the charter of Syracuse. rg appropriations for certain Indio Insiiiution La an To provide for bui'ding bridges in Greene, Chenange- ee. 0. to enable Supervisors of New York to raise money by tax. / To authorize the olty by dy to provide: Money to defray expenres and 8 F ° the removal of the Qrarantine station, 19 To charge the name of the Saokett’s Har vor Dan! 70. To amend the obarter of the Norsery of the C: Poor Women, and to enable the iaatitotion to iy ® ak To ‘euthor ino Sapervisora of Kiogs county to croato fs lotn to complete the ereotion of ® peniteniary, 72 To condrm the conveyance am by ths Trasteen of the White Pisins Academy of ip OF plan of city of Now ale aquare, 2 of Incorporation oi their aosdemy aa’. 44. To give efeot to the Cemetery of tho Rverg ‘corded In Queens covnty Clerk's cffide, Rud to obango the corporate title oF fnid apecore ton 16. To amend nn act entitled am act to incorporate the: Builaio Savings Pank, pasced May 9, 1946, 76, To extend snd amend an act entitied an act to in corporate the tobeaicr Mutual Insurance Oompany, Peis ‘Civing (© the purchaser of th Crving to pur e and fran chise oj she Hanaibal, Sverling aud Wolo