The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1857, Page 2

; NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1857 AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Our Washington Corrf-ondence. WasarwarcbyNov. 27, 1857. The Naval Courts—The Cases now Be ve Them, dc., dc, Next month Washington will be as, erful as an ap- pointment; now, il is as dullas a ‘The whole town propped upon subpenas, Every, man you meet is a subpaona. with a subpoens; if you go to churqb, your pew is blocked ‘up with subpoenas; and should yo be rash enough to ask for ice cream twice at the table, it}will be in vaia, for the last saucer full has molted in throat of a subpoena, For once, patronage is drowned in Qerification before three rectifying Courts of Inquiry, convelped by the act of Feb- ruary, 1867, to inquire into and cmfirm or annul the ac- tion of the reformatory board of ‘fifteen,’ who were ex- jootes to purge, not paralyze, the savy The evidence brought before these courts upor which aggrieved officers demand their restoration, for a3 the most detailed and faithful internal history of the naval Service. The examination of witnesses goes back forty years, and the rank and character which the board of fifteen’? tore up had sbot their roots deep down to tho very basis of the marine annals of the country, Captain Brownell, dropped by the “fifteen,”’ has just concluded his trial. In his defer e pot the war of 1812 upon the stand—called Lak. erie inio court, aud swore the battles: of Fort George and Little York—all which testified as to his valor, his services and bis wounds. Gen Dix, who noted as his friend and adviser, read @ most able and elo- qmont defence of him. It was a tremendous broadside of mental canister into the “fifteen.” The case of Capt. Levy, Wh is still progressing, excites the most interest, from. tho long and unmitizated series of oppressions and preju- dices to which he has been subjected since his entering the navy to the final x of his dismissal, An‘! for If you call a back, the begt one has rolled away | incidents, not on the programme, and not generally noted. ‘The affair was brilliant and successful, and the Burgundy was ‘\ God save at ‘The week has been flowing house, both in numbers and enthusiasm. The ‘applause was the most frantic I ever beard, and the eries of “ bravo” were “ stupning.”’ Strakesch was the same shambling Yankee schoolmaster as ever; Patti sang with more than ber usual grace and archness; Kletzer proved the capacities of the violoncello as an instrument more robust and hardly less flexibie than tho violin, apon which Vieuxtemps drew that ‘ long bow” with which you are familiar, (no reflection is intended,) and Frezzolini, the sumptuous and the velyet-eyed, (‘‘ yeux de velours’) was: exquisite. {Correspondence of the Boston Traveller.) Wasuinetor, Nov. 25, 1857. Arrival of Manbenenn’. ee William G@. Ouse- ley, fe. Although some two weeks yet must pass before the comipg session of Congress will commence, the members of tff House and the Senators are beginning to gather here. Their attendants, the lobby members, are also making their appearance. The obvious purpose of their early arrival is to secure good quarters for the coming long session. More of them will take houses than usual. Already tho cligible buildings have, been taken. The struggle now among the early comers is to secure the most comfortable rooms at the various hotels, The British Minister, Lord Napier, is already ag popular here as he is in—well, in Boston; and from the same good reason, his good humor and good sense, together with his thorough adaptation to republican manners and customs. Me resides in the large bouse occupied last session by Senator Fiske, of New York, and his entertainments are more numerous, and even more elegant than were those of that gontieman, who it is said never gave a poor dinner during his stay. Gis musica! matinées are considered as pleasant us they are nevel. By the way, those ies are called by the English breakfasts; why shouldn't we call tho | . filled with music. Frezzolini’s what? use he isa Jew! His ancestors happened to cross the Red Sea without wetting their feet, and his ene- miys vere svaked. odore Shubrick testified that when in his fleet Tevy bad performed his duty entirely satisfactory, but like’ heavily laden ship, his reputation was low on the water. Commodore Stringham objected to him, because like Cicero and Goldsmith, he was a vain mai, and p, wen @ subordinate officer told him something was “a oamned lie,’ instead of resenting it, ke acted like Appr, Claw dius’ lictors:— He Jooked among his followers— wg. his Wied and stood st Then Commodore Lavalette stooped down and picked ‘up Levy's courage from where his brother officer and witaess had thrown it, and proved that he bad killed a dnan ip a duel after facing his fire seven times. Commodere Perry thought Levy unpopular, like Ste. phen when he was stoned, but knew nothing d 4 After this discharge, the government took its seat. Then t tain of the court aud th: history and the navy, the modore Stewart, auil pc ato the opne those raking, old fashioned volleys dau Cyane and Levant, He declared to the y his fag captain to-mnor. squadron, and that there was n0 better man or aatior in the service, Voorhees and Mayo backed up their chief in much the same spirit, and Ap Catesby Jones just as warmly, and the record wit! goto the Department. The presump- ll do all parties justice. I never saw gold lace so judicial, or killed and wounded so erect for another engagement 1 called on the President for the first time this morning. ‘The While House domes gracefully over his white hairs In youth he dreamed of it, at maturity he toiled for it,and in Old age and a new era he has sunk into a chair which To sprung up the great tag cap- ¢ country, the venerable hero of Com- ymitable Old Trons ides poorer men have filled. Mr. Buchanan represents that kind of success which never astonishes or disappoints, but receives office more for its ser- vices than its powers—the kind (hat is always elected and never remembered, waich enrages the hero who is defeated and yet immortai—the kind that slips in Detween Scott's sword and Webster's tongue, and takes he chair while they take the niche. Yet it is such men as Buchanan who are the hopa of politics and the safety of parties. Lucky was it for the shaking democracy that they had a man both sensible and available. Poor Pierce cured copy ps of little men, and the home giants were all vulnerable, So Buchanan was torn from his English exile like an outlawed Bourbon, to take his bome chances for 4 thrashing or a throne. His just and conciliatory policy dances like sunshine on the fast melting away those awful major! him like spirits that come to instruct and vanish, Wasurworow, Nov. 28, 1857. Ihe Next Speaker for Congress—Colonel Orr the Best Chance—Candidates for the Clerkehip—Intriguers for the Printing—A Wire-Puller from New York. It is already manifest that there will be a vast deal of plotting and counter plotting, to say nothing of intrigues and deceptions, whieh will be practised toa very large extent in the organization of the new Congress. It is now & fixed fact that Col. Orr will be the next Speaker. There will be quite a number of candidates presented in the caucus, Besides Col. Orr, who will have a majority over al! on first ballot, Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, who will have 12 or 15 votes, J. Glancy Jones, of Peansylvania, will have afew votes. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, will also have some strength. Geo, W. Jones, of Tennes. see, who is one of the oldest members of the Hous out of compiiment to Lim, ve presented by his colleagues. But all the strength of these geutiemen comb.ned will not and Colonel Orr will doubtiess i jot. As to the Clerksbip, there will be a s Both the gentlemen named—Mr. lke and Mr. Allen, of I nave Wal come from the Wert val States Douglas, the other the frien of Bright. Allen has a li the advantage; as he commenced the canvass early last session, he succe in getting & good many of the old members who had already been returned to this Congress, pledged to go for bim. Bot m politics, as in other matters, ‘the race is not th swiftorthe battle with the strong; and one cannot tell who is elect ed until the hich there jaa pile uestion. This is a i d intriguing, bay: ations of all sorts and kind composed mostly of bi jans, are as busy as beavers, Nor ATTIVES these misorablo nv ¢ worth strugg! nd selling, com how coing on. The le down and bankrupt ao, when in fact and did not particular from No eTy session, wh ¥ to ninety mem they never them. Th who comes to Washi he can carry from sev rs on almost any important me mtaud he is to be here this winter, and if be comes I shall let the country kuow who he is, that they may secure his services Correspondence of other Papers. (Correspondence of the Boston Port.) Wasunetox, Nov. 24,1857. The Mormons—Their Crope—Inerease inthe Army, &c Ip a recent comm n to the Post | am made to say that itis certain mons wiil leave for Sonora in the g utention express myself with “o not kuow, that such will be their action. Gentiomen from Sait Ls ¥ say that their crops for the Inst three years have bi r ly deficient. And to their dis by the determi. ent to divest Young of ag’ urgent endeavor, in of Indian Affairs, and’ in his jetter to the Commiss his more recent action to keep the troops out of the Ter ritory, is explained ou the suppos that he fears their entry would give vecasion t¢ aa flected ert. He ok totus e teres all away in a body ’ Dut, as 3 said, I do not know on what evidence it rests Mit ntiemen are urging upon the administration the propriety of asking an immediate increase of the army. Aside from recent developements, there cortainly exists a necessity for this. The existing force is quite in- alequate to the suitable defence af our froutier. And even tn an economical point of view, itis desirable to avoid the immepse expenditures at present necessary for the trans portation of troops from point to point. It is believed that Congress will refuse seats to Messrs Davis and Harris, of Baltimore, who claim under the riot ous election of somne weeks since. It is provable that Bal timore will remain unrepresented until its belligerent citizens can suffer an cleetion without violence and | murder ‘orrespondence of the Bon Ton.) Wastuseton, Nov. 26, 1857. Lord Napver’s Soirve— Preseotint. The weather bassuddenly changed, and the air is de Jightfully cool and crisp. Kapecially is this so in the Morning, when, long before this sifepy city is up, and while here and there only can one see the sluggish smoke crawling out of the chimneys, Harry and | take the qaddie. There are delightful oppartunities for rides and drives about the suburbs. The streets and avenues are Jnid Out with prodigal disregard to economy of territory and there are the Soldier's Home and Columbian College and Douglas’ new house, and the navy yard, and twenty other agreeable termini to the canter Washington aristocracy is the most \ucongrnous in the world. Neither family, a in Philadelptia, nor wealth, as | n New York, nor brains, as in Boston, is tnade the test of cial position. And yet neither of these is entirely ignored | here And as they aregeldom if ever combined in the | same person, and as politica station has to be resogiaaed the result is that a grand party bere is @ hotch poten bu udicious reflections are the result of my pres ence at Lord Napier’s soirée musicale, given to Sir Willian Gore 0 last Priday. “Tommy dearly loves a lord { Hyron of his brother poet. And Tommy was not the only tuft hunter. Ido not blame the disposi altogether, for lam a little given to it, I confess, and have & large fakh in blooded anitnale, biped or quatruped. The diplomatic body was the attraction. Napier is one of the | most waobtrusive, unpretentios hosts in the world o y is bluil, hearty and portly, every inch an English oman. But of all the “stars and garters,” Baron Btoeckel, | the Pusien, i@ the bandsomest man. [own that I thought oe” me Bod teo, née. pine bite «lee- Georgetown. ngry at the autocrat for not eonvinuing to send married ministers. The Frees which was followed by a supper for conversation, som @. A tomboyish y troupe did the There were in of whioh was rare and en mg lady from the rural dis. mw terva , Who eplit her 0 places ap. temps, confidingly asked me # If genteel” not to have dancing man, who was really a fioe looking | for an incautious expectoration, and weed" by iaforming me that be was | been imperilied; while by eosumning | grees, and Governor Young's them thus, instead of giving them a Freuch term? Sir Wm.’ Gore Quseley has already engaged a house on Fifteenth street, near the British Legation, where he will reside this winter with his suite. By the yay, it appears ‘that am Englishman never stays in Washi@ten a month ‘but he rents and furnishes a house and gives dinners. Sir William is a very tall, portly, well built man, the perfoct picture of good hature and frankness, with a loud yoice and big fect, and is in every way calculated to be @ good dinner giver. [Cerrespondence of the States. Wasuixtox, Nov. 27, 1857. Thirty fifth Congréss—President’s Me Constitutional Currency— Kansas Affairs—Governor Water's Position Right of Self Ggvernment Claimed by the People of Kansas. The President's message to the thirty-fifth Congress will be looked for with unusual interest, as it will necessarily touch upon a variety of subjects of high national impori- ance, both foreign and domestic, ‘The number of subjects to be treated in relation to in- ternal coucerny is increased by the occurrence of the re- markable financin! panic which has swept over the whole commercial world, prostrating trade anc all industrial en- terprise, paralysing the currency and scattering over the country the wrecks of broken banks and bankrupt bro- kers and speculators, and everfof the ablest and best blished commercial Louses. The President will neces- sarily comment on this state of things and its causes, aud the means of preventing ity recurrence. Ibis confident! lieved that the President will take oc- casion to express upon this subject the views which he bas heretoipre so ably maintained in his capacity asa ‘Senator and Representative iu Congress. It is more than probable that he will suggest, as a remedy for such calamitous revulsions, measures for widening the basis of the metallic currency. This is to be done by the direct interference of federal legislation. Congreas may not only impose a stamp tax upon all bank notes of a denomination less than twenty dollars, but they may enact a compulsory bank- rupt act for the purpose of compelling every bank which iasaes paper to go into liquidation as soon as it shall re- fuse or neglect to redeem its notes with specie. ‘The peo- ple of the country are evidently prepared for these radi- cal measures. The President will necessarily refer to the Kansas quos- tion, and instructions whych he had given to Governor Walker in relation to the principles upon which’ the Ter- Titorial government was to be administered. Upon the course of Governor Walker he may or may not comment. It would appear that he is as yet uncommitted upon this subject; and it is not to be taken for granted that any hewspaper bas been yet authorized by & or by any member of the Cabinet, to commit the administration in favor of (ye action of the Constitutional Convention, and of the adoption of the constitution which may be presented to Congress. It is known that Governor Walker, who arrived here on the 25th instant, has had long interviews with the Pre- sident in_ relation to the affairs of Kansas as they now Upon his statement of facts, as well as upon a ro- currence to the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska act, the President will make up his mind upon the questions which are soon to agitate Congress and the country in relation to that Territory. It is now known that Governor Walker himself, and nine out of ten of the Kansas people, are utterly hostile to the action of the Constituiloual Convention, und that the question is no longer one of slavery, but of the right of the Kansas people to self-government. [Correspondence of the Press.} Washinton, Nov. 27, 1857. Governor Walker against the Schedule of the Lecompton Gonmentin Dols in like Orpenition—No Buth in the Statement that a French Special Minister is about to be an * Central America-—Treasurer’s Weekly State- ment, dc. Reports bave been circulating in this city and elsewhero tbat Governor Walker sustains the schedule adopted by she pion Constitational Convention- 1 am now able to deny the truth of these reports. Governor Walk- DO more favors the withhoiding of the constitution framed by that Convention from a negative vote of the people of Kansas than does the J’reas, or the independent democratic | Fass generally ‘The principle of self-government, as always maintained by him, and as clearly enunciated and enforced by the President in his inangural, and in his instractiong to Gov- tnor Walker, authorizes the people to vote for or against 1 State constitution entire, and is not confined to the ques- tion of slavery, even if that bad been fairly submitted. Conventions are the servants and delegates of the people, and not covereigns by representation or otherwise. This is true, as a general rule, but surely must prevail, where, as in Kansas, half ite counties were disfranchised, and would not and did not cast a single vote for delegates to the Convention These are not only the sentiments of Governor Walker, but they are also the sentiments of Senator Douglas. Both of these gentlemen are indignant at the unfair proceeding of this Lecompton Convention. Mr. Douglas censures it and will censure it from his place in the Senate, as being altogether in opposition to that great principle of phpalar sovereignty for which he contented in the of the Kaneas Nebraska bill, and which was afterward endorsed by the Oincinnat! Convention. Our govermment has not been advised that France do- signs sending a special minister to Central America, as was stated ina New York paper afew days ago, M. the Count de Sartiges has informed General Cass (hat his government have pot intimated to him any such intention on its part, and that he does not place any faith in the statement. The weekly report of he Treasurer of the United States, for the week ending the 234 November, 1867, is as fol- jows — Balance in the that date..... Amount of receipts... Drafts returned paid Drafts issue Reduction Special Correspondence of the Daily Pennsylvanian. slat Wastrxatox, Nov Piast treasury subject to draft at the | “, ofron—Pott Office Agents—Adantic Tele- graph, de. Tt «, perhaps, well known in your city that the one war Jamestown is being fitted up for the Home Sq It will be seen from the above that the Secretary of the Navy has wisely determined to have a sufficient force con- nected with the Home Squadron to fully protect American interesta. At last advices the Wabash was at Aspinwall, the Fulton at — and the Saratoga at San Juan. The Susquehanna, which hag been ordered from the Mediter- ranean to Key West, is expected to arrive at that place shortly, where orders are awaiting her which will take her to San Juan. The Cyane has also been attached to the Home Squadron, and has gone to Hayti to protect Captain Mayo, who bae been imprisoned on the charge of passing counterfeit money. is charge, however, has been — to be groundless; the counterfeit money Raving oa eo by one of Captain Mayo's passengers, and not 'y bimsel ‘There has been a further accession of members of Con. gress since Wednesday, | have had the pleasure of shak- ing bands with Senator Bigler, of your State, and Hon. Charles James Faulkner, of Virginia. These gentlemen are looking remarkably well, and seem fully able to com. mence their arduous duties as faithful representatives of the people, ‘The Postmaster General has determined not to appoint the epectal mail agents on the route from New York to Cincinnati, until after a farther tost of the system, as put in practical operation betweon the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The cause of this action is said to be the unfavorableness of the report of the Second Assistant Postmaster, Dundas. It is generally believed that the new war steam_-fri Niagara will be permitted to return to England, next epring, im time to render assistance in laying the subma- rine telegraph cable. If this had not been agreed to by the Department, the Niagara would not have been allow- ed to retain on her foremost deck the Oxings of the Sub- marine Telegraph Company. [Correspondence of the Boston Port.] Wastnxatow, Nov. 28, 1857 The Kaneas Motter—The Precedents of the Provisional Government, be , fe. It is admitted by the more candid of the republicans that the objection so truculently arged to the action of the recent Kansas Constitutional Convention, that the whole constitution, in place of the slavery clause merely, should have been submitted to the popular decision, is mainly @ technical one, Certainly this shriek never would have eon raised were it not that the republicans were desirous, for the purpose of protracting many from a mere punctiho of conaistency—of adi to the Topeka document. Had the constitution as a‘whole been submit ted, the organization of Kansas intoa State would have as matisfactory those opinion could bardly Portions upg which a difference exist, this trouble te avoided A good deal of bad language might have been spared these same ferce republicans if they bad frst ascertained that the execrated meneuro of conferring on the Prosident of the Convention the authority to appoint commissioners and jodgee wae prec the course pursued by Ohio, Louisiana, Missieeippi, Ll nom . Indiana and Mis foer! and one atferding no exit -y canse for alarm unless, indeed which will hardly be the case, they choose te impeach the hone«y of Jadge Cathoun. It is expected thot the Prosident will in bie mossage sug- fost that the organic law of Uush be repealed, By 80 do: ing the Territory will be re red to the condition of our unoccupied public lands. «ubjeet to the legisiation of Con. xt for rebellion will be withdrawn. Shoeld farther developements then demand hostilities, it ia supposed that large and efficient volunteer forces can be relied ou, particularly from Tiligolg and Mis. | the souri There are unsettled a¢ores between the saints and our Western fellow citizens. —_—— ¢ Miscellaneous Items. THE CLERKABIP. ‘The Star says :—The following are the candidates for the Cleikehip of the House of esentatives, 60 far known te po ay of Was a jon. J. C. Gen, —— Narr, of New Jersey. A. D. Banks, Esq., of Virginia, Richard Connolly, of New York. * As it is understood that the democratic members from New York have determined to su Mr. Allen, we presume that Mr. Connolly's will hardly be pressed, THE POSTMASTERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE- SENRATIVES. The following is a list of the, so far, avowed candidates oi denmstoa, Bag. of Vi . M. Johnston, Ksq. of Virginia. Michael Cluskey, Esq., District of Columbia. — Hunter, baq., of Kentucky. — Johnson, Kaq., New Jersey. ——- Hancock, kaq., Pennsylvania. Win. H. Topping, Esq, Disirict of Columbia. THE DOOKKERPERSHIY. ‘We mentioned a day or two since, says the Washington Star, that the contest for the Doorkeepership of the House ‘of Representativar was likely to be'a very “Derby” in its way. Since then we have had a sight of such of the nags (competitors) as are under penile bere or within strik- ing distance of Washington City. y are as follows :— Geo. B. Wooldridge, New York. te icKnew, District of Columbia. Peter Gorman, He Sod T. H. orsey, Maryland, Col. Wilson, Toxas. — Robinson, District of Columbia. Wm. F. Phillips, ex-Sixth Auditor, Virginia. Jas. F, Devine, Virginia. B. B. Hackney’, Virginia. Merritt Jordan, Virginia. J. P. Suntameyer, Ohio. Samuel J. Jolinson, Indiana, Byron Gordon Danicls. Joseph Berrett, Massachusetts. — Carroll, Mississippi. C. B. Whitney, California. —— lawler, New Jereey. There are others not yet named tothe public. For in- stance, the honorable member from the Brooklyn district of New York is said to have an unnamed candidate, who is to start off backed by the votes of the New York demo- cratic members; Wisconsin is expected to send us at least one, if not two competitors, and Michigan and Iowa at least one a piece. In such a handicap contest, it is of course impossible to predict who may win. Our judge- ment at this stage of the game is, thatin betting upon the race it will be safe to take “the tleld”” against any named “nag.” THE CHAIRS FOR THE NEW UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The chairs, which are all precisely alike, are of a mas- sive oak, elaborately and appropriately carved, and while ponderous in respect to strength they are perfect- ly symmetrical and graceful in appearance. The tops are ornamented with the American shield, about which Dranches of oak and jaurel are entwined. About the sides, legs and arms, are branches of oak, acorns, and other ornaments exquisitely carved and standing out in Dold relief. The cushions upon the backs, seats and arms are covered with red morocco, and the entire chair is @ rich and luxurious article of furniture. Havana, Nov. 23, 1857. The Anti-Mezican Expedition—Inauguration of the Queen's Stalue—Scenes, Ceremonials and Popular Remarks—True Nobility of the Artist—Grand Ball and Supper—Absence of American Ladies Remarked—The Weather—Maretzek’s Suc ess. The letters from this city published in the Herau, re- ceived here by the Cabawba on the 18th inst., respectinir the preparations for, and equipment of an expedi( against Mexico, occasioned very general amazement. ‘The 19th inst. was the day fixed for the inauguration of the statue of Queen Isabel. The Diario de la Marina commenced the flummery by the publication of some verses, the writer of which peceived the thanks of his Excellency the Captain General, in a letter written on the morning of the publication of the verses, with a promise that her Majesty should see them; but which verseshardly correspond with her Majesty’s image on her coin, or her Madrid reputation. Here is a specimen:— Ta noble image, ct si frére et si bello, La voila bien : elle est la, sous nos yeux; Bénj soit Dieu, que te fit belle et bonne, &o. A stand gaily decorated with flags had been erected op- posite the Teatro Tacon, and herein gathered the Ayunta- miento and a fair sprinkling of fashionables. Then appeared the Captain General on an An‘alu- sian steed, with numerous Etat Major, and, after doing a litle bit of “Franconi,” dis” mounted and took his place before the statue. Then a member of the Ayuntamiento came forward and made a spetch, but I could not cateh a syllable of what be said, and at a signal the covering was withdrawn from the statue and Isabel stood exposed to her living subjects. The troops presented arms and the cannon were fired. General Concha peat end a loud “Viva la Reina,” and the chorus of well paid officials repeated the words, but I did not hear one single cheer frora any one else, nor did any of my numerous acquaintances. Infact, | only heard some very unrepeatable criticiam. ‘The statue itself is simple, but the marble is very bad, a large black streak going up the neck and nearly oblite- rating one eye; a rich balustrade, in gothic letters, form- ing the Queen's name, surrounds the base, the inserip- tions upon which | have omitted to te ‘The absence of any of the British vals was particu- larly noticed, but it was understood their invitations had one astray. Among the gossip of the morning I heard the following :—Whilst the statue was still in the studio of the sculptor Garbeille, he was visited daily by throngs of creoles, who went to view it as a work of art. One morn it was stated that one of the inscriptions on the pedes- tal was to be to the effect “that the statue was erected by people of Cuba, as a proof of their love for Queen Isabel and of their loyalty to the Spanish throne.” “That ig not the truth,” was instantly exclaimed by the crowd; ‘and this circumstance reaching the ears of the Captain: General, be sent for Garbeille, the sculptor, (who ix an Malian or Frenchman, and who’ has passed many years in the United States,) to know if it were trae. “Tt is 80,” responded Garbeille. “ Who was it said so?” demanded the Captain-General. “That | cannot tell your Excellency,’ replied Garbeiile; “my studio was crowded, and ali present seemed to utter the words, but I know not the name of a single individual then present; all were strangers to me."’ Some throats were used towards Garbeille to induce him to disclose the name of acme One person present at the time, but he nobly adhered to his previous statement—‘he knew no- body then at his studio,” and was at length diamissed. In the evening there was a ball at the palace—not equal by a great deal to the one of last, year, from the nearly total dearth of American ladies. Has the monetary crisis prevented the usual migration? There were, however, costly toilettes and sparkling diamonds, and many prety Habanese, Conspicuous, were two brides—sisters-in-law— Dona Serafina Moutalvo, wife of the Conde de Fernandino’s only son, and Doua ‘Incarnita Chacon. The Senorita Conchita Rodriguez is rea'ly a brilliant specimen of Cu- ban beauty, and General Concha’s eldes: daughter, the Visconde de Cuba, is also very pleasing, whilst the charms of the past generation were vindicated by the more ma: trouly charins of Dowa Marie Sebarienburg and the Con- desa de Romero. Rothechild's agent was very conspicuous in a scarlet uni- form, that of a Knight of Jerusalem and Malta, T believe There were, besides, @ host of clerical, military and’ Raval dignitaries, and the beloved contre-daime and Les were danced until a late honr. Mrs. Crawford, the pretty wife of the British Consul General, as well as that gentleman, is in the United States. The Judge Arbitrator of the Mixed Commission, who is the acting British Consul General, was, | hear, un- well, and the Secretary to the Commission was nearly the only lishman present, there not beingany British ships of war here, which generally supply their quota of Her Britan) y's b ‘A sumptuous supper wound up the proceedings of this probably last display ‘of the Concha dynasty. = city is at perfectly healthy. The weather is Maretzek and his artistes are gaining golden opinions, crowded houses cach night they perfogm. MARKETS. Havana, Nov. 21.—Svean (clayed.)—During the pro- sent week holders generally have shown more decision to realtze on the best possible terms, in consequence of which several large parcels, estimated together at about 4,000 to 9,000 boxes, have changed bands, althongh amongst a limited namber of buyers. Tho exact prices of these transactions have not been ascertained, but they are reported to be ata further decline, and without any rogularity, and it is also said that of the above quantity one lot of 2,000 boxes, composed of 600 boxes common whites, 1,500 boxes 1. & Ne. 13, and 800 do, No. § to 9, (these latter molasses sugar,) was closed all round at 7\5 Teale per arrobe. It is impossible to give accurate quota tions, but taking for basis the last sales, they may be con. sidered as fol 71010 6 AT PhemlOe. dd. adie, OF Dutch [ll to 12 7 & TH rs wRds. 4d. a Dae, 6d, 13 to 14 8 @ Bby rads. Ad. a 258. Bd No. |16 to 17 9 910 Pama: 5d. a 288. 10d 18 to 20 105, a 11 remnd08. Od. a Bl8. 3d Was cent ality 11 ald rs. SS3ls. 84. 0 399. 3d “ . De wD Poca F 14K @15 rem BOs, Od. 408, TA ne oy owt. f. 0. b. at 11 per cont premium of exchange. ie stock here is about 142 mille boxes and at Matanzas poh mille boxes and 3 mille bhds. in Orst and second Mcacovapors.—A small sale of 150 hhds. fair refining is reported having been closed at Matanzas, at 6¢ rials. —This article remains in statu quo. Dealers who still e remnants on band do not offer them in the market, nar is there any demand. We hear of a sale on the coast of a small cargo sour clayed at 2 r t 3 rinls is the general asking price of dealers. tracte of new takers. ‘The Academy of Muste Meeting. TO THE RVITOR OF THE HERALD. No. 6 Wait Sreem, Nov. 28, 1967. My name appears in your paper of today as one of the Vieo Presidents at the meeting held at the Academy of Music last evening. Will you be kind enough to stato that |t wag used entirely without authorit; RICHARD W. BLEECKER, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HARALD. Naw York, Nov, 20, 1857. My name hawing been published as one of the offloors of the meeting held at the Academy of Music on Friday evening Inst, [ deem it proper to state that it was done knowledge or approbation. 1 shall support ‘Tremnann for Mayor of this city JACOB A. WESTERVELT. For con- ed 4 rials are asked, but so far find no ~ HDGULY IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON On the City Election of New York. THE ADMINISTRATION IN FAVOR OF FERNANDO ‘woop. (From the Washington Union. } ‘THE ELECTION IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ‘When the black republican ¢ of New York last winter passed laws to crush out Mayor Wood and the do- ‘mocracy of the commercial metropolis, the democratic press throughout the Union denounced them as atrocious efforts to control the freedom of election. There was but one opinion upon the subject among the friends of demo- cratic principles in and out of the . The laws were condemned by all friends of political freedom evory where. Even some of those who had contributed to the election of the Legislature which passed them took (Fert against their binding obligation and the constitutional authority which their validity and force depended. Mayor ‘00d 0) ed them, and exerted himself to prove their want of binding force, ag well as their impolicy. He man- fully contested them inch ly inch, carrying some points, and split in others. The democracy far and near ap- plauded him for his manly and open course, alike de- manded by principle and policy ane the constitu: tionality of the laws was sustained, their principles icy met with condemnation by all democrats and thousands of others. In a great measure, the tyran- ny of these laws led to the overthrew of black republi- canis in the State. The emphatic condemnation of these atrocious enactments by the people of the State created the confident expectation that the Legislature soon to as- semble would speedily repeal them. The democracy everywhere had fully expected this result. Lorie eet nominated basis Wood for re-election, and claimed his support among other grounds, because of’ his manfii pant laws in question, and the effort of black republicanism to annihilate him and the democracy of the city by legislation, and on ac- count of bis qualifications for the mayoralty, all expected that every democrat in the city would sustain and support him, and that he would receive the sympathies of the de- mocracy throughout the Union This was the universal expectation. It was duc to him and to the cause in which he was engaged. The people of the State had distinctly and broadly condemned the laws in question, and approved of ‘the course of the Mayor and his friends in their endeavors tosecure their repeal by thenext Legislature. This wasone of the turning points of the November election. The lar vote, it was thought, had secured the repeal. wery thing tended to that result. Mayor Wood was re- nominated and became the democratic standard-bearer for the campaign. Through him the battle with the ene- mies of the democracy was to be fought. Every thing looked well and promising for the repeal of the obioxious Statutes, as well as his re-election, when lo! a few demo- crats, the Know Nothings and black republicans, combine in bringing forward a candidate selected because his namo gave satisfaction to both, and gave hope of his clection over the democratic candidate. He is a good enough Know Nothing to satisfy that party, and is quite acceptable to the biack repubiicans and the disaffected democracy. He pleases all those who hate democratic principles. His election will be a verdict condemning the democracy, and must tend to perpetuate the odious laws passed to punish the city for being democratic. The election of Tiemann by this new coalition must tend to defeat all hope of repéal which the State has so empuatically called for. This is the object of the enemies of democracy. They already boast of the expected result. The condemnation of Mayor Wood, they say, would be an approval of the doings; at Albany last winter, and will revive and build up the condemned sectional party. ‘they claim that they bave drawn off democrats enongh to secure that end. They chuckle in the sleeve that they have cheated democrats enough into their service to secure the desired result. They point to democratic names that they display in the proceedings of their public meetings as proof of what they allege, al- though they kuow that they have deceived and misled them in relation to the real motive actuating the move- ment. We regret to see democrats, and some of considera- Ule standing, associated with black republicans and other enemies of ihe administration in public ings and making speeches in meetings called to secure the defeat of the Nearly ‘all such democrats have been grossly deceived, and will return to their frieuds when they understand the game. Few of them dream of the real object of their new associates, and fewer still desire to promote them. A few, perhaps, have joined the enemy, knowing Meir designs, and intend to throw aside their pretensions to democracy, having made up their minds to go hand in hand with their former enemies, of whatever stripe, in the effort to prostrate the cy, not only in the city, but throughout the Union. If they have no such objectat heart, they can prove it by leaving thejenemy and ceasing to give them aid and comfort in their war upon the democratic party as well as upon the national administration. Those who wish to defeat both can mote their object by overruling the vote of the democrac; ut the late State election, in which they and their new al- lies were emphatically ‘condemned. "No true democrat, who has the capacity to appreciate the effect 7 ec ae, will be i —— — tn the of = sole fo crush out the democracy everywhere, a: r- Howdy in the city of New York, and in the end to ae threaw resent national administration, and duit up a Black jican one upon its rwins. Supreme Court. Before Hon. Judge Roosevelt. THE USURY LAWS. Nov. 28.—David Banks vs. Peter Van Antwerp and Wife.—This was a motion for a foreclosure of a mortgage, to which a plea of usury was put in. This morning Judge Roosevelt rendered the following decision: — Roosevatt, J.—Usury as a defence, standing upon the same in principle as an action for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture, the party setting it up must aver ly every particular necessary to such are- covery, and must ‘distinctly negative every supposable fact which, if true, would render the transaction Innocent the mortgage sought to be foreclosed: aiough ‘dated on song! foreclosed, ted on the first of the month, was uot in fact executed untii the ‘24th of August, 1846; that it was made to secure the prin- cipal sum of $3,000 loaned to the defendant, Van Antwerp, ‘on the 26th of August, 1546; that it was so dated on the first of the month for the purpose of reserving a groator rate of interest than seven per cent, aud that the mga did thereby reserve to himacif ‘for the fourteen dollars above the lawful =r ‘There is no averment, it will be observed, that the four- teen dollars which constitute ae greivance of the offence charged, were ever exacted or paid, and no interest is ‘now claimed as due for the nine years prior to 1855. The defendants in effect admit that the cightecn instalments of interest, whatever they were accruing to thatday, were torily arranged and paid. The idea of re: covery, therefore, is clearly an after thought. It savors strongly of the nature of what tho law denominates “stale demand,’ and which the Courts, especially when sitting in equity, invariably discharge. Besides, the defendants’ answer, #0 far as it alleges facts and not inferences, may be perfectly true, and yet the loan may have been, as it idly was, © ;and the money actually set apart tn bank, in the first days of the month, tho intermediato three weeks being devoted to the preparation of the pa- pere and the examination of the title, The question then is, does such a transaction--one of every day ovceur- rence not on Wall #treet, but among legal conveyancers— constitute in law a misdermeaor!—for the wane statute the one passed in 1937, which is invoked to make it void aw a contract, if applicable, equally makes it punishable with fine and imprisonment as a criminal offence. other words, the act done, if void, is for the same reason criminal, apd if not egmival ia for the same reason not void. Can any one, then, I repeat, it ¢ that the Legis. lature intended that dating a bond on the day of the loan was to be punished with imprisonment, if the money, although actually ‘and actually in, and kept id bank, wag not actual’ fg over till the expiration of the ‘usual time allowed and required for the examination on the borrower's title? and that the offence then was to be deemed of such a heinous character that unlike other cases of penalty and forfeiture which are re- quired to be presented (if at all within throe years) this may in effect be prosecuted within hine or even ninety years after alleged commission? Ihis Sow) 1 am aware, to underrate the intelli- has, however, been consider neither the good senze nor the intelli the good taste—of those who indulge in it. Courts, at all events, may be excused for not pursuing it. I shall as sume, therefore, until otherwise inttructed, that the Le. gislature of 1837, whatever may ha¥e been their views of public policy, did not intend to enact an absurdity, not to atrocity, such as the present defence implica. Judgment for the plaintiff, with costs. Philip Mc Dermot we. The Board of Police Commissioners. —This case came up on application of the plaintiff as a tax payer and a member of the old poll for an injunction to restrain the defendants from rey any persons on the police other than members of the old force. Desi sion reserved. In the Mi of Garin Parnes ve, Henry J. Ra In the Matter of Garliner ve, ymond. —This was a suit for libel instituted dgainst the defendant for the publication of a document in the Woodman case, and which retiected rather severely on the moral charac ter of Mr. Furniss for the part he had acted in the New ‘York Hote! scandal affair. By consent of counsel the ac Von was withdrawn. THE CONVICT JOHN R. HOLMES. An application was made on the part of one of the ore ditors of Holmes to have a trustee appointed, for the pur- jn of paying his debts and providing for the support of i@ wife ami family. The Court was of opinion that the application could pot be as the party who makes the application offers no stipulation for security, aud does not ask any reference to ascertain whether he is @ proper person to ere. Being akogether an ex- ple appleation, it cannot be granted. Common Pleas, Before Hon Judge Ingraham. . ‘THE STREBT COMMISSIONER'S CASE AGAIN. Nov. 28— Patrick Tracey we. the Mayor of New York.— ‘This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the Mayor and Commonalty from opening any bids made in ance of public notices, signed by D. D. Conover, ag Stroet Commissioner. Judge Ingrabam granted temporary injunction — Jpon complaint in this action, and the affidavits thereunto annexed, lot the defendantain this action show cause before me, the Judge of this Court, at a special term thereof, to be hel at the City Hall, in ‘the city of New York, on the first Munday in December next, at 18 o'clock A - why Uy ae Y —_ mater! y on to the prayer ‘sald complaint, pam to me Va the wey fy b= aml a ont ere therefor exist, I do hereby order Meantime and until a decision « had said motion, such officer or to act as such, do absolutely desist or re: frain from opening any bide or proposals made or offered in pursuance of « public notice purporting, to have boon signed by Daniet D. Conover, as Street Honer of said city, to do any work in the following advertisement referred to, or from opening any bids or Lid part of s work, or from attending apon the opening Ipereot on from awarding of ©: or confirming any contracts for doing any of the work referred to in the enid sulvertisement, bids or propoanis to any person, ander or in pursuagice of any ie ue" proposals 4 = Pay aa reuant to any notice issued, or purporti Ye Keuea, by the said Daniel D. Conover a8 such Street Com ‘Wisgiouer. WHOLESALS CREATION OF BARONS OF TIE LEGION OF HONOR AND KNIGHTS OF THE LMPERIAL AND MILI- TARY ORDER OF 8T. YAUSTIN ~THE HBRALDIO BEAR INGS OF A PRINCESS OF THE DAPERIAL HOUSE OF FAUSTIN, It is not alone in his court fetes, and his titled nobility, and his brilliant reviews, that his Imperial Majesty Faustin ‘Soulouque imitates aud rivals bis royal and imperial cou- sins of the Old World. Like Santa Anna in his last dicta- torship Soulouque hae cats )lished the order of the Legion of Honor and the imperie! and ‘military order of St, Faus- tin; and many of his sooty colored subjects alreapy flaunt the decorations of those orders. We find in one of the latest numbers of the government organ, the Moniteur Haytien, tbe following imperial ORDONNANGE. Faustin the Ist, by the grace of God aud the constitu. tion of the Empire, Emperor of Hayti, to al! ;reseatjand to come, greeting: rye ra giving to the functionaries hereinafter named a public acknowledgment of our good will, and to recompense in & manner worthy of us the zeal and fideli- ty that they have always shown in the exercise of their functions, we Yave conferred upon them the following dig- nities and titles -— Article 1, The Chevaliers J. E. de Colestin, President of the Imperial Court of the Capital; Joseph de Tatin, Presi- dent of the Imperial Court ot Jacmel,—— de Massien, Jr., Public Prosecutor of the Imperial Court of Jacmel; P. A. de Floraut, President of the Imperial Courtof Gonaives. | ‘Leon de Germain, Public Prosecutor of the Imperial Court | of Gonaives; Venance de Richiez, Secretary General to the ; Minister of Finance, are named’ Barous of the Imperial | Civil Order of the Legion of Honor. i Art. 2. Messrs. C. do Louis-Charlog, Public Prosccu- | tor to the Imperial Court of the Capital; Saint mont de Blotte, Deputy Public Prosecutor to the ‘Imperial Court of Cape Haytien; Vital de Donyon, Director of the Custom House of the Cayes; Lazaro de Bastien, Deputy Public | Prosecutor of the Imperial Court of Port de Paix, are cre- ated Knights of the Imperial Civil Order of the Legion of Honor; and Marcelin de Pierre-Jacques, Secretary Gene- al to the Minister of Justice, Education and Worship is any Knight of the Imperial and Military Order of St. Art. 3. The nocessary letters patent will be issued by our High Chancellor. ‘Art. 4. The present ordonnance will be printed and pub- lished under the direction of our Min‘sters, who are charged with that duty, Given in our imperial palace of our good city of Port au Prince, the 23d Sept. , 1857—the 54th year of en: hd and the 9th year of our rei FAUSTIN. By the Emperor.—Lovis Durmeys, Ministersof War. Count px Texuxx Rovar, Minister of the Interior aud of Agriculture. P Satomon, Jr., Duke of St. Louis du Sud, Minister ef Finance and Commerce, and Acting Minister of Justice. In the following issue of the Moniteur, four columns were filled with the names of miditary officers created Lier and knights of the Imperial Military Order of St. ‘austin. THE HERALDIC BEARINGS OF THE PRINCESS MARIE FRANCOISE. The Moniteur Haytien, in which the above appears, also contains the following ORDONNANCE. Faustin the Ist, by the grace of God and the constitution of the empire, Emperor of Hayti, to all present and to come—Greeting : In view of the necessity of fixing the coat of arms of the house of our dear and well beloved daughter, the Princess Imperial Marie Francoise Faustin, we havo ordained and do ordain as follows:— Art. 1. The bearings of her Imperial Highness, the Princess Marie Francoise Faustin, are:—Azure, an embla- zoned cross or, accompanied in ‘chief by a dove argent moving in a cloud or; and in front by a lyre also or; the shield surrounded by a mantl: of gules and furred ermine and fringedior, surmounted by the princely coro- net; supporters, two angels. Motto, “Gentleness, cour- Art. 2. The present ordonnance will eo ajoreage and published, and our Ministers are charged with its execu- tion. Given in our imperial palace of our good city of Port au Prince, the 10th October, 1857; the fifty-fourth year of independence and the u.uth of our reign. FAUSTIN. Countersigned by the Ministers as above. ‘The Loss of the Steamship Central America. IMPORTANT REPORT OF THE COMMITTEK APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSES OF THE LOSS OF THE STEAMSHDP CENTRAL AMERICA. From the testimony, oral and written, voluntarily commu- nicated to the committee by several of the surviving officers and passengers of the late United States mail steamship Central America, belonging to a company having acontract from government at an annual pay of $290,000, it would appear that that vessel had not, at the time of ber depar ture from Havana for New York, about 10 A. M. on Tues- day, the 8th day of September last, any material defect, cither in hull or machinery; but it is generally questiona- ble whether the pum)» and other appliances of the don- key engine were im good working order, and it is quite certain (he ordinary deck pumps were not 80. 4 shout sixty hours after leaving Havana she encour red a severe adverse gale, which increased in violence, producing a heavy head sea; that so long as there was a sufficient quantity of to keep the vessel under steady headway, she mathtained her course and weathered the storm; that on the morning of the 11th, at about half-past seven, the ship labored heavily—in fact, to such an extent as to alarm the passengers and arouse the captain and chief engineer, who were at that time in their berths or state rooms; that about noon, the gale still increasing, she feil off from the wind, and {t then appeared that the fires in the engine room had, by some unexplained carelessness, been allowed to fo down, and had become 20 low that the engines bad gradually slowed, and Snally stopped working, and the headway of the ship being consequently checked, she fell of into what is termed the “trough of the sea,” and partly on Ler side. An attempt was then made, and the oblect partially effected, again to get steam im the boilers, but hot more than half # dozen revolutions were accomplished by the engine before they stopped entirely and forever. It may be inferred from these statements that the original fault, and that which led to the catastrophe, was in the neglect, above stated, to keep up @ sufficient and continu. ous head of steam, and, when it was found to have fallen so dangerously low, in there not being er and more timely «forts exerted to replenish it by supplyiug the fur- naces with fuel, of which there was ab at hand. Up to the stopping of the exgines, we do not find that any water of consequence had reached the © room, nor _ _ | age © app: : = such & result so long es were proper! q and. the duties ef the offosrs end’ mee. ie the engineer's department faithfully performed. It Goes not appear, from the testimony, that there was any serious lewk in the bottom of the vessel, or fracture or broak of any part of the machinery; but that the engines, as alrea- dy remarked, were prevented from working, ouly by want of steam, and that the water insidiously and slowiy entered the vessel (ae abe was lying upon her side or very much a by some of the air ports which were cidier inadvertantly left open or imperfectly closed, as also by the opening at the paddlewhee! shaft, and through the probable open seams about the guards and other ofthe upper works, thus accidentally immersed. ¥e water gradually increasing, was washed by the mo- ion of the vessel agamst and into the ash and furnaces, extinguishing entirely the fires and rendering it im] ble finally to raise steam in the main boilers. All hopes being exhausted of further using the mein engines, and the pumps covnected with them becoming of no avail, ort was had tothe donkey pumps, and after raising im in the boiler by using the cabin doors, &c., for fuel, these also proved to be defective, and notwithstand- ing the efforts made by the under engineers and others to remove the difficulty, they could not get the pumps to work to any ad , and subsequently the further use of them was altogether abaud § The regular deck pumps also proted to be out of order, rendering them ef little or no avail, and in the atterapt t construct temporary box — gers, neither the requisite matet could be found. . Whilst the ship was lying in this helpless condition attempts were made to bring her more to the wind by setting the mizen; but this failing, by the blowing to pieces of the sail, fruitl efforts were next made to get her be- fore the wind by setting the refed foresail and one or more of the sailx, but bese also were destroyed by the wind, and, as a last resort, the foremast was cut away, and a drag prepared and put overboard in the hope of pe 9 Ia ships’ head nearer to the wind, and thus re- Mi q Meanwhile, parties were organized for baling and passing buckets, and other means of removing the water were resorted to; blankets were used for cl the leaks whenever observable, especially about the and air ports, so that notwithstanding the defective working of the pumps, the water gained but slowly, ax wae proved by the length of time the vessel floated after the commence- ment of the leake—a period of about thirty hours. There being now ybut little chance of saving the vessel, means were adopted for the safety of aa many of the pas- sengers as the boats would accommodate, and some pro- gress was made in the construction of a raft. The com- mittee have thus stated all the essential facts and ciroum- stances which have been brought tg their notice. The in- vestigation bas been conducted with the sole desire to clicit truth, and not to criminate any one, but rather that their inquiries should lead to the adoption of such mea- sures as may tend to the improvement of the existing navigation laws, and the establiahment of a nore efficient system in pT gn management of ocean sand expecially with reference to the groater afoty of ‘pas. rs. ej cannot and should not be concealed that the testimony before the committee goes to show that the Contral America was not found and equipped os she ought t have been, that her crew was not sufficiently namerous ; that she was ‘without a carpenter or suitable carpenters’ tools ; and, what seems to the {committee a most serious defect, being common , it is lee , in many oS exolen te toque 10 (0 there was a want organ! 8 Feiative authority and duties of the wleers aul crew of the vessel; each department appearing to be independent of the others, instead of being strictly subordinate aud re. msible to the captain, as timate superior and ef ; and thie independence of act was the more ob- servable in the department of the engineer. Bot the committee have no desire to dwell upon the melancholy incidents of the past, and in tarnmg from the foregoing recital of facts, as explained to them, they enter will i, free upon the discussion of a more congenial branch of their investigation, the neces- sity and means of improvemont in the donstruction, equip. ment and internal organization of ocean steamers, consideration of whieh will forts Bea of another re- port ‘M.C. PERRY. CHA! H. MARSHALL. EB. NYB. J.D. JONES, F. 8. LATHROP. ALFRED SETON, A A. LOW, ANDER V. FRASER. New York, Nov. 2%, 1867. ———__—— A Poonnovsr Brunt Down—Two Lives Lost, =A despatch dated Winthrop, Me., Nov. 20, stator that the town poorhouse at Leeds was burned down the night previous, at about 9 o'clock. Two girls were burned to death. e reat of the Hmates escaped in their night clothes, Nothing was saved excopt some grain in the baru add some cattle ‘Trouble in the New York Central Rattroad Company. ‘THE NEW YORK STOOKHOLUERS WANT A LARGER REPRESENTATION IN THK BOARD OF DIRKCTORS—4. STOCKHOLDER CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY Tuy STOCK DEPRECIATES—NO FAULT FOUND WIT THE DIRECTORS—HOW THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 19 BLEOTED—COMMITTEE APPOINTED IN VIEW OF THE APPROACHING ANNUAL ELECTION. A large and influcntial meeting of tho stockholdors of the Central Railroad, resident in this city, was held a the office of the Continental Insurance Company on Satur- day afternoon, pursuant'to the following oall:— New Yorx Cuwrrat Ranoap.—A mooting of stook- holders in New York will bo hold at 2 P. M. on Saturday, 28th instant, at the office of the Continental Insurance Company, No. 18 Wall street, to confer on the subject of the next annual olection of directors, and agree upon & ticket to be supported by personal attendance at Albany, or by proxy. Promptly at the hour named, the room was filled with well known merchants and capitalists; and on motion, Mr. ‘Trimble was chosen president and Mr. Gallatin secretary. ‘The originators of the meeting wero, from some unox- plained cause, not present, and none of those presont peer srncnr Se: know ites ree i toes the object of the ment of the road ; another auggeeted. Sod tie mampesns ‘was intended’ to secure a representation in the Board of Directors proportionate to the amount of stock held in this city, of the whole suggested that Mr. Faile had not been properly sustained in the Board of Directors, and that some action should be taken to endorse his course. The originators of the move- ment, however, either were not prosent or did not make | themselves known, or thought that the objects of tho’ | meeting were very well understood, as no one scemed te knew who the; Mr. DAHONE: were, called upon as a stockholder largety interested and wel sted, to give his views, suggested the propriety of rring the matter to a committee. He supposed that it would be well to inquire of the Presi- dent and directors what ticket was to be supported at the approaching election, as he supposed they had the thing all cut and dried. He proposed the following resolution, which passed unanimously :-— Kesolved, That a committee of five be appointed to take into consideration the election of a Board of Directors for the New York Contral Railroad, on the 9th of December ensuing, and that eaid committee report at an adjourned meeting, on Thursday the 3d of December, al 2 P. M., at the Continental Bank. After some discussion the committee was unanimously: roquerted to wait upon Mr. Faile and desire bim, on be- half of the New York stockholders, not to resign; and tho chair, with the consent of the meeting, appointed’ Messrs. Dahoue, Moore, Livingston, Joseph, Batelle and Delano aa the committee provided for. The President and Secretary, ‘were, upon motion, added to the committee. In the course of a conversational debate which ensued, it was urged thatthe New York stockholders while holding a large portion of the stock, we overruled and 6ut- voted by the Albany men; that The Prosident and dires- tors were in the habit of having a ticket cut and dried for the election, and it was uow high time for the stockhotd ers to look after their interests. Several of the directors were present at the mecting and denied that there was any logrolling or set ticket at any election; they were pertectly satisfied with the ma- nagement of the road and much astonished that the meot- should be called, jt was ripened understood that the committee should take ail these complaints into account and make them the subject of their report. Mr. Danone being called upon to make some remaaks stated that he could not understand why the stock sheuld be 80 depreciated. He could not comprehend why a legi- timate eight _ cent paying dividend railroad, with ro- venue enough to keep the road up to the standard, should, in the last few months, have so depreciated. One infe- rence was, that if there was a larger representation from this city, where one-half of the stock is held, the work would be better done. They could be cognizant of the receipts and payments of its cash. True, the company had been in a different situation before the amal i» and the local directors who then managed it might’ now, with propriety, to some extent, buy them; but now that one-half of the stock was owned in New York, it was no moré than proper that one-half of the directors should be. from this city. He bad been a stockholder for many ears,and could not understand why the road was not etter paying property than it really was. He thought it would be no great breach of propriety for the stockhold- ers to endeavor at least to find out who the officials in- tended to ring im atthe coming election. If they were satisfactory, very well; if they were not, why then their committee might take steps to remedy the evil. Mr. Gai.atin suggested that all these matters had been: referred to @ committee, and it would be well fer the committee to investigate them. Mr. TownseyD, one of the directors, was perfectly satie- fied that, upon investigation, it would be found that the system of local directors was necessary. They were at present represented at Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Unea, Schenectady, ge New York. Those diree- tors were constantly riding over the road, and directing internal matters, and the duty was too much to ask a New Yorkerto perform. The present trip to Albany every month was hard cnough, and he feared that when they got a larger representation the New Yorkers would get tired of the work. Mr. Dation® remarked that the New York and Erio — did not find avy necessity for so many local di- rectors. Mr. TowNskxp made some remarks endorsing the efi- ciency of a purchasing committee and comumittee on wc- counts, which had been established at the suggestion of Mr. Faile. He also favored the proper compensation of those directors whose time was much occupied with tho aifuirs of the road. After some desultory conversation the meeting ad- en the report of the committee Journed to Thursday, wi Will be presented. may be expected, as the stockholders were earuestly request- edto for the eleetion, either being present por- sonally or by prox: Before Hon. Judge Thompson. ASSAULT AND BATTERY AND FALSE (x- PRISONMENT. William B. Phillips vs. Henry Maillard.—The defon- SLANDER, ant is Proprictor of tho Maillard House, in Broadway. In June last the plaintiff was one of his guests. On leav- ing he paid his ill to the cashier, who, upon examining the money, discovered amongst ita ten dollar bill on the Punters’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Dalton, Georgia. The bill would not pass in this city, and the bank was not re- ported in any note detector. ‘The plaintiff afterwards took ‘k the bill and agreed to give another in its stead. Some time subsequently ,as the plaintiff was eding up Broadway, accompanied by a lady, the jer saw him and tapped him on the shoulder and asked him for his piace of residence, The plaintiff became quite indignant, and refused to give the information sought for. He thea proceeded up Broadway to near Bleecker street aud sepa: rated from his lady companion—retnrning down Broad- way the cashier followed after him, stating that he would find out where he lived if he bad to go to Bagdad. When the pair reached the City Hali Park, Phil- lips called a policeman and had the cashier arrested and locked up in a station house on a charge of assault and ving this exploit, the performed plaintiff went up to the defendant's hotel and informed him that he had had the cashier of his establishment arrested and confined in a station house. The defendant became angry, and demanded to know where his cashier was im- prisoned. The plaintiff refused to tell him. The defendant then charged the plaintiff with passing a ten dollar coun- terfeit bill upon hit A clerk of the defendant went out ‘and brought in a policeman, who requested Mr. Phillips to go with him and show him where he would find the cashier. The plaintiff, the officer and several o*)>> per sous went in pursuit of the prisoner. Who wat (y= 4 Soe ilie from custody. Upon these faote tue Oourt gave judgment for the Plaintic for nominal dang Superior Court—General Refore a Full Bench. Seth C. Keys va. William Moultrie, et al.—All of the order appealed from, subsequent to that part of it which directs “that the said recital in the amended judgment be stricken out,’ is hereby reversed. James L. Porter vs. William Lolachetal.—Jadgment for inti for $042, with interest from the Sist of March, 1851, with costs, Septemus i vt. New York and Harlem Railroad ny.—Judgment affirmed. wn ohn Schermethorn ve. William Nido, et al. Judgment George B. Sherwood ws. James ¥. Seaman —Judgment adfirmed a ae Edward Cook ve. Elieha @. Litchfield.—Judgment for plaintiff on the the verdict, ? Peter Cromia va. Henry H. Lyon.—Judgment affirme! Honore Goulet vs. Caspar J. Asseler.—Judgment for plain- Ui on the verdict. Jenny vs. Tarbell.—Judgment reversed. Borwtxe oF a Mernopist Cuvnen tn Bostox.— ‘The most disastrous conflagration that has occurred in this city for a Jong tine broke out about a quarter before twelve o'clock last night, in the basement of the Harvard street Methodist church, nearly. the foot of Essex street, Cam that the fire was discovered in edifice remote from the farnaces and in close imity to a bin filled with kindlings, lief that it was the work of an incendiary. flames had, however, obtained, pe wey = nel Se ee eee that the e i the men their progres proved una , and the entire. edifice See burned to The rear of the church formed @ closure to the ce: ,and the timbers fell upon the A fine for $1,000, was consumed, L Ipit and ion of a was hnilt about twelve exclusive of the organ, is ,009.—Boston Journal, Nov. 27. Tne Canara—Although the weather haa slightly moderated, the ice in the canal stil interposes a barrier to. vavigation. A considerable amount of property aftont be tween Buffalo and Albany is thus locked. ‘The Buffalo pa- Pers ostimate the grain shipped from thence, which haa not had time to reach tide water, at over $1,600,000, he- The Ro- sides large quantities of flour and othor produce. chester Union thittks there are three or four thousand tona of merchandise on upward bound boate that are froren in—the of the Rochester Transportation Company: alone having over seven handred tons. All thie will hare to be tranmerred to the railroad, in order to be sent for- ward, At ; And other points, boats are continu ally unloading for that purpose—a re-opening of naviga- tion despaired of. The Uticn Observer says that thir- ty-nine loaded with wheat, corn, barley, and a ee. headed eastward, now lio froxeh up between’ Geeoene street and the guard lock, in that city a of it a mile; and that above Syracuse, in the oat ot the Montezuma marsh, the boate ‘are cro HlemeAly to gether, for the space of ning gailos.—Alamy Journal,