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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETE, ners ave yecrersran, oO” CEN. ©. CORNER OF NASAL AND FULTON STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY ERATE, Broadway—Game or Srecvia rion —Tas Crati NIBLO’S GARDEN, CONTR ABANDIST—Macic BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Equesraiax ann Gre mastic Faats—Visit to tax Bowery. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, ‘Vasrry Fain—You'ns Scax 10 Bs Suet ‘WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Mr Fatexp raow een Two to One—Kiguts anv Wronas or Brosdway—Trowt Rorg Frars—Tue Boad street— ‘Travestiz. LAUBA KEENE'S THEATRE, Beondeng—aaue ‘Sree: ‘Ts0Le OF Tus BR OF .OF, OF 4 MOTHER'S ACADEMY OF i MaeiO, Fourteenth street—Itauian Ore- ma—Ropant ix BARNOUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Brosdway—After- noon, Wansening Boys. Evening, Tine This ALL —Lavem axp Guow Far. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 661 and 563 Broadway.—dsonos Onnisty & Woon's Munsrxeis—Horsi p’ Arrive. MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Rrvany's Minsteeis —Ersrorian SOnGs—SHAKSPEREAN Reapings. NATIONAL oracun. 94 Bowery—Meesernax Feats— Gruwastic ExeRcises, &c. one HALL, 596 ip -aldammaaaiaae havsrratrvs Ov tus Kane Kareprtion, &c. New York, Friday, December 4, 1857. MAILS FOR EUROPE. ©The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Collins mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. Eldridge, for Liverpool, and the Vanderbilt steamship Vanderbilt, Capt. Higgins, for Southampton and Havre, will leave this port to-morrow, at noon. ‘The European mails by the Atlantic will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock, and those by the Vanderbilt at No. 5 Bowling Green, at half-past eleven o'clock, to- morrow morning. The European edition of the Hrratn, printed in French ‘and English, will be published at half-past nine o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youx Haxatp will be received at the following piaces in Furope:— Lennon... & Co., 47 Ludgate hill i Nia A Paris... .Am.-Furopean Express Co. , $1 Tavanroot.. Am.) ropoan Expres 9 Rost office daring the previous week and up to the hour of pub- Lication. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. | New York Herald—Ca€fornia Edition. The United States mail steamship Northern Light, Capt. Tinkiepaugh, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacitic ‘will close at one o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The New York Weekty Heratpo—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, iu wrappers, ready fo, mailing, six cents. Agents wil! please send in their orders as early as possible. ‘The News. We received last night a copy of the Lecompton Kansas Constitution. It is a docament that will | make }crbap* five columns of the Hexap. The j principal features of this instrament, abont which | 60 much as already been said, and which is likely to create a vast deal of discussion during the com- ing session of Congress, have already appeared, but we shall publish the entire document to-morrow. The committee of the New York stockholders of the New York Central Railroad Company made a partial report at an adjourned meeting held yester- day. They had not come to any conclasion as to a ticket for directors, but recommended that an ex- amination of accounts and a publication of candi- dates’ names should be made previous to every elec- tion. They asked time to make a further report of a ticket to be supported at the coming election, which was granted. The stockholders of this com- pany are thoroughly waked up to the necessity of some action with reference to their depreciating stock, and are vigorously preparing for the com- ing election of a Board of Directors. It will be perceived by our report of their proceedings yesterday that one of the committee promises to make some startling developements concerning the management of the company; another plainly hints at directors being interested in real estate along the road, and even contracts for supplies, while another alludes to the practice of depositing proxies with the President, giving him virtual control of every election. Yet some of these astute gentlemen have wondered why the stock has depreciated! Gentle- men stockholders, we have always told you that you must look out for your own interests. The Lord's prayer says, “lead us not into temptation;” and if you tempt your employés by leaving them un- watched, you cannot complain at the legitimate con- sequence of the depreciation of the stock. Take our advice, gentlemen—watch the directors; keep post- ed; look out for the developements, and “when found, make @ note on't.” A meeting of the importers and jobbers of drugs, &c., in this city, wae held at 106 Wall street yester- day, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of reducing their credit system from six to four months. After a long discussion, during which the question was pretty thoroughly canvassed, a reso- lution was adopted simply recommending that all engaged in the business adopt the four, instead of the six months’ credit system, as best calculated to prevent losses and inconveniences in the trade. The democrats in the respective wards are busily employed in electing delegates to the General Com mittee, whe will represent the party at Tammany Hal ring the ecming year. By a previous ar- ment between the factions the Cooper organi each ward elect two delegates, the Small and the members of the le nm in organization two deleg: present General Committee from each ward o1 gate. From this plan it will be seen that primary clections have been entirely discountenanced, and the present committee, sn effect, re-elect themselves. The steamship Adriatic, hence for Liverpool, was seen again on the 26th inst. by Capt. York, of the | ship Syiv which arrived here yester day fro Adriatic was in latitude 41 54, and lor iT 40. The date given, 26th. wa. probably sea tiie, but in reality was Weduesday afternoon, 25th. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday | Judge Ingersoll delivered the usual charge te the Grand Jary. The list of cases to be submitted to them was, he said, a long one, showing a great in- crease of crimes cognizable by the federal courts. There was one charge of murder on the high seas, and a variety for assaults, revolts, opening letters, counterfeiting, participation in the slave trade tc. The Judge cautioned the jury against find ing indictments upon a suspicion of guilt merely, as beyond their authority. A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen was called for yesterday afternoon, but a quomm not being present the Board adjourned till Monday. The annus! meeting of the Geographical and Sta tistical Society for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, was held last evening. The society now numbers 644 members, and its aMairs generally are in a sound and flourishing con. ition, as will be seen by our report of the pro ceedings A very interesting meeting of the American and Foreign Christian Union was held last evening to re © Dr. Kirk, who has recently returned from ad. and to promote his plan for the establish (ec at of aa evangelical chape! in Paris for the heneft | 90 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1857. of American citizens residing at that gay capital. We give a report in another column. The Police Commissioners were in session yester- day, and had an exciting time. Mayor Wood gave notice that at the next meeting of the Board he would offer a resolution, based upon the recent de- cision of Judge Davies, to reinstate the old force: General Nye offered a preamble and resolutions for the porpose of correcting an opinion expressed by Judge Davies when deciding upon the injunction re- lative to the legality of the action of the Commis- sioners in refusing to recognise the old police force, to secure a speedy determination of the question by a judicial tribunal, which were adopted. The presentation of the resolutions gave rise to an ex- citing debate, in which Mayor Wood and General Nye took a leading part. His Honor stated that he would produce evidence to show that a number of the Metropolitan officers were busily engaged in canvassing for their favorite candidate at the re- cent election, thus proving that it was a partizan body. We have news from the Bahamas, dated at Nassau, N. P., on 12th of November. Fever was still preva- lent, but its violence had abated. A very heavy gale swept over the island and harbor on the 10th ult., doing considerable damage to the shipping and or- chards. The second West India regiment (colored) had been ordered to India by the English govern- ment, and it was expected that the men would par- ticularly distinguish thémselves. The City Council of Philadelphia have for some time past been engaged in investigating the transac- tions of the Board of Health of that city, and have ascertained that fraud and forgery in every variety have been successfully practised to draw money from the treasury. The amount thus obtained is not known as yet, but it is believed it will reach a large sum. The committee having the matter in charge were to report last evening, when all the facts would be made public. The Surrogate is despatching the business of his office as fast as possible, so as to leave a clean record at the end of the year. He is preparing several im- portant decisions, which will shortly appear. Yes- terday he heard the final argument of the Irving will case; the cases of the Bloodgood, Patchin and Nel- son estates were also before him. ‘The cotton market was heavy yesterday, and the sales confined to straggling lots, at irregular prices. Dealers to await the receipt of the America’s mail much. Flour was again very hew rate, confined chiet; to the Tocal ‘The market closed at a decline of al aud in some cases as much as 2d aed on the lower and common gra rh, Wheat was also heavy, and rade per b ean confined io ubout 20,000 b at s given in ano. | ther column. Corn was jower, and sales of Western mixed were made from store and delivered at 80c. a 81c new Sovthern at 70c. a 75e., and Jersey new at 66c Rye cold at Thc. a 76c. Pork was dull, with limite at prices given in wnotber column. Sugars were in fair request, with sales of 600 a 700 hhds. and 900 boxes, at rates given elsewhere. Refined sugars were better, and no crushed, it was said, was in first hands. Coffee was in fair request, with limited sales, at rates given in another place. The freight market continued dull, and engage. ments limited. ‘The Kansas Squabble Among the Democracy —The Administration. It is now abundantly manifest that the first and the most exciting subject before the new Congress will comprehend Kansas, the Lecomp- ton Convention, the policy of the administra- tion, the adverse policy of Governor Walker, the position of Senator Douglas upon “popular sovereignty,” the demands of the Southern fire- caters, and the critical position of the Northern democracy. As at present advised, the purpose of Senator Douglas is to become the great pacificator be- tween the policy of the administration and the uncompromising attitude of hostility assumed by Governor Walker. We dare say, however, that Mr. Buchanan, in bis message, will not un- dertake to make the Lecomp'on programme a positive ultimatum. The election which is to decide, according to this programme, the ques- tion of “slavery” or “no slavery,” is appointed for the 2ist of this month, and the administra- tion must await the result. There may be no election—the free State party appear to be ex- cited to the necessary pitch of wrath to break up the election by force, if required. They had appointed a general Convention on the 2d inst.; and, judging from the temper of a late fire and brimstone speech of “Jim Lane,” which we published yesterday, we may next ex- pect to hear that the said Convention have resolved upon a very summary process with the Lecompton constitution and the parties concerned in it, At all events, neither the administration nor Congress can accept this Lecompton constitu- tion till it is officially before them, and it can- not so come before them until after the 21st instant, and after the issue of the election w “slavery” or “no slavery,” appointed for that day. In the meantime, as intimated, it is quite possible that Mr. Douglas may break ground upon an intermediate policy between that of Mr. Buchanan and Governor Walker, and try the experiment of pacification and compro- mise upon some such “enabling act’ as that which was passed in the case of Minnesota, and which has resulted so smoothly in bringing that Territory into the Union asa State. On the part of Governor Walker, as be has no voice in Congress, itis probable that he will issue an early manifesto to the American people, em- bracing the history of his experience and troubles in Kansas, his constitutional and legal interpretation of “popular sovereignty,” and his peculiar views of the alleged “infamous juggles” and “scandalous which have made up the materials and the transac- tions of this aforesaid Lecompton Convention. But the administration holds the inside track. Mr. Buchanan is compelled to accept the legal developements of “popular sovereignty” as he finds them. This Lecompton Convention was « octed by less than one-tenth of the voters of vet, having been elected according vnisitions of the reguler Territorial aathoritees, the President was compelied to ac- eptthe Convention as a valid Convention. ‘Popular sovereignty,” strictly applied, re- d that the whole constitution, bodily, ehould be submitted to the popular vote; but as the only question involved, of any practical consequence, was the question of “slavery” or “no slavery,” and as that question is to be sub- mitted to the people on the 2ist instant, the President hae had no alternative but to accept what has been done, and to await the result of that which remains to be done. This is the strong position. The free State party—that is, the legitimate voters of Kansas in favor of making her a free State—are, at least in numbers, as four to one of the pro- slavery party. With anything, therefore, ap- proximating an honest election, the result will inevitably be “no slavery,” and Kaneas will be admitted as a free State. But should there be 4 fraudulent election, or should the whole Le- compton programme and the leaders in it be expelled from Kansas through violent means, the administration will be perfectly free to shape its course as the occasion may require. But should law and order prévoil in Kansas and should she be admitted into the Union apon the basie of the Lecompton constitution, and outrages” por barrel | upon a fair election and a popular verdict of “no slavery,” the country will be satisfied, and the demagogues and agitators will be defeated. ‘The only real danger—and this is “the dead point of danger”—hinges upon the approach- ing “slavery” or “no slavery” election; but in regard to this the President must await the movements of the people of Kansas, That is all. Financial Affairs in Engiand. The British Parliament met yesterday, being summoned at this unusual season to take coun- sel with the government on the financial crisis, and especially to pass an act of indemnity re- lieving the Bank of England from the forfeit- ure incurred by the late overissue of notes. It is obvious that the session will be an arduous one, and that Ministers will not obtain the legislation they require without some stormy debates, There isa party already which de- mands that the bank charter be repealed and a new one enacted; one may judge from the tone of the 7imes’ money article, which we gave the other day, how bitterly the policy of the bank is likely to be criticised by the friends of the houses which have gone down. Whether any- thing practical in the way of bank reform can be effected seems, however, very doubtful indeed. The position of the bank and of the chiefs of British finance is, in truth, very irregular and unprecedented. The policy which the bank ‘would have pursued in former times—which it did pursue, for instance, in 1837, when it broke the three American houses—was, when the panic came, to discount to the verge of its le- gal capacity, then, to refuse to forfeit its charter, and let the insolvents break. This was the course to be pursued ac- cording to the old principles of bank- ing; it was the course attempted by our banks here, and really pursued till they were broken by their depositors. Instead @ pursuing it, in England, the bank, wrought upon by private menaces, consented to forfeit its charter rather than accelerate the downfall of embarrassed firms by refusing them discounts. ft discounted when by law it had no right to discount, and no means of redeeming the paper it put forth. Nor was this privilege seemingly exercised wilh niggard hand. The house of | George Peabody, we perceive, is understood to have obtained from the bank aid to the amount other houses, also known to have given credits on this side the water, bave been as freely accommodated. Of course the public have no means of know- ing what security the bank obtained for these advances, and as the newspapers affirm that the security was ample, there is no prima facie cause for apprehension. But it cannot be disguised that the bulk of the assets which these Anglo- American houses had to pledge must have been of American origin. either promises to pay in the United States, or railroad or other corpo- rate stocks; and that the one must have been made to pay for produce, cotton, sugar, corn, or shipping at a time when these articles were much higher than they are, while the other— the railway stocks—are going through a similar process of decline in value. To feel assured therefore of being reimbursed, the bank must have something very unusual in the way of margin; else, when, six months hence, the goods which the American paper represents and the railroad properties represented by the stocks have still further de- preciated, where would the bank be * There are not wanting persons who, judging this very singular state of things with the light of common sense and by contrast with the parallel case of 1837, boldly conclude that the Bank of England has been acting under coer- cion; that the Anglo-American bankers first forced the bank to suspend—that is to say, to break its charter; and next that George Peabody forced it to carry him through. They say that the financial condition of England is such that neither the government nor the country could afford to let a house like that of Peabody's go down; and that at any cost that, and other simi- lar houses in the same position, are to be car- ried through at all events till the spring. Time will shed light on this novel theory, of which we will only say that it seems not intrin- sically improbable. Times are changed cer- tainly from the days when the bank could quietly choke off the Anglo-American houses without seriously disturbing trade; now, we are asked to believe that one single American banker has practically forced the Bank of Eng- land to break in order to save him! Wuo Ane to Have Him!—We fear that the several cliques interested in Mr. Tiemaan’s elec- tion are already in trouble upon the important question—“ Who are to have him?” The Joho McKeon democratic clique say that he is their man, head, shoulders, body, breeches and boots, for that they with their two thousand demo- cratic deserters turned the scale of the election. The black republicans say that to Oakey Mall belongs the honor of laying Mayor Wood low in the dust, and that it was Oakey’s Wall street movement and money that did the busi- nest. But, again, Booby Brooks and the rump of the Know Nothing party are making « loud noise, and are not going to be put off any more with cold victuals and oldclo’. In thisdilemma we should not wonder atell if Mr. Tiemann were at last to fall inte our hands, And why not, we should like to know? Have we not a good claim !—For has not Booby Brooks himself ad- mitted that it was the Heraro that defeated Mayor Wood? Let justice take its course. Let the honor fall where it belongs. What's the price of putty? Dr. Cnartes Maceay.—This distinguished gentleman, who ix known to fame as the author of several famous English songs, such as “Cheer, boys, cheer,” and known tothe newspaper guild as the principal editor of the [//uetrated London News, is now lecturing in this city on Bri tish minstrelsy. We have no doubt his lectures are very interesting and successful. Dr. Mac- kay occupies a position in English society some- what analogous to that of our General Morris, who is also a song writer and a newspaper man. We notice that Dr. Mackay is writing letters to the [Uuetrated News about this country, and that he is vastly pleased with what he sees. He considers Broadway the finest street in the world, and doesn’t think Regent street or Rue Rivoli can compare with it? This news the re- sidents on Broadway and the Knickerboekers generally will bear with fortitude; we can stand a good deal of that sort of thing, as a people. But Dr. Mackay makes some funny blunders about out banks, If he will take our advice, he will write more about musical notes than abont bank notes: which latter are pleasant to own, under any circumstances, but tough material for a poet's digestion of a million pounds sterling at a time; and | The French Press and American Fillbux tertsm—Is It n Joke? We published a day or two since an article from the Paris organ of Louis Napoleon, Le Constitutionnel, in which the writer took the United States in general and the New York Heravp in particular to task for their pro- gressive and filibuster tendencies. It seems that a journalist in Paris, who has resided some time in this country, undertook to correct the views of the Constitutionnel and to set the whole matter right, on the ground that the Heratp, though the paper most read, is the journal of least influence in America. The result was a very pretty bit of sharp writing between the two French gentlemen, which will be found elsewhere in our paper this morning. The Constitutionnel very justly and properly scouts at the old and hackneyed idea that although the Heratp is the journal most read, it is the one of least influence in this country; and truthfully eays that such an iden is not only illogical, but carries a contradiction within itself. The truth is that it is merely an old and favorite phrase of the petty cliques that are to be found in every community, and which, finding in the comprehensive and inde- pendent utterances of the Hraxp views entire- ly beyond their own short sighted vision, seek consolation in a piece of sophistry that falls of itself to the ground, The Heraty in all things pursues an unbiassed course, treating the topics of the day as they come up, by the light of sound, practical common sense, and contem- plates from a high stand-point the great march of the increasing millions that hive under the wings of the American Union. We-have no need to go far back, nor to point to many instances, to show that we view things here as they are, and that we do not fear to speak of them as an independeat journalist should speak. - Without touching upon recent financial events here, we will only recur to the views which we have expressed in regard to coming popular movements in this country, and which have so alarmed the French press. From the first we saw the effect which a waat of em- ployment would produce upon the young, ac- tive, enterprising. energetic and ambitious population here; and we said they would turn filibusters, and that they were only waiting for an opening and a leader. Events are already demonstrating the truth of our views. Walker has departed for Nicaragua,and the govern- ment, as we have before explained, was power- less to stop him. At this moment thousands of men are watching his course, hoping that he has learned something from the past, and ready to join him the moment he has got a foot- hold. Then there is Mexico, crumbling to pieces and clamoring for a leader. The northern part of her territory a prey to the savage, while the inhabitants are praying even for the filibusters to save them—the south (Yucatan) sending pressing letters to Walker to abandon Nica- ragua and to come and restore order there— the west, Sonora, inviting them from Califor- nia, and its Governor making a solemn contract with Crabbe, whom he afterwards shot—Cuba, hating Spain with a hatred most cordial, still keeps up La Verdad in this city, and is watch- ing for a favorable chance to bring the filibus- ters to ber shores—Dominica longing to conquer Hayti, and seeking here the means of doing it everywhere a:ound us the same elements and the same spirit rife. In our midst a filibuster cannot be convicted by any jury that can be empannelled. O'Sullivan is tried in New York, acquitted, and sent Minister to Portugal; Lo- pez is tried in New Orleans, acquitted, and departs on a second expedition; Quit- man is arrested by a federal Judge, but a Grand Jury refuses to find against him, and he is sent to Congress, narrowly escaping the nomination at Cincinnati for the Vice Presidency; Walker, acquitted in California, slips through the wide meshes of the law at New Orleans, and goes off on a third expedition. Not a man running for office, from Maine to the furthest confines of California, dare announce that he is not a filibuster, and hope to be elected. The Ostend manifesto is a strong card for the Presidency, and “hurrah for Cuba,” or Nicaragua, or wherever else the filibuster’s aim happens to be, is the winning shout at every popular election. It requires only a little common sense to put this and that together to show what the people of the United States will do when the times be- gin to squeeze them a little. And there is a deep philosophy in it all. Itis the march of a free people, where man is individualized, intel. lect is free, energy unencumbered, enterprise unrestrained and hope strong. The people of every country unite in it. It is not alone the Americans that are filibusters; but the men of the Old World, too, become filibusters as soon as they get here and find that their old chains are broken—that willing mind, stout heart and wrawny erm are free to develope their energies. Trish, English, Scotch, French, Germans, Ttaliane, Spaniards—it is all the same; and the Constitutional hes only to look to the list of killed and wound @ to be convinced of this. In a word, it is the path of the free developement of man in his highest condition, and carrying with him the forums of @ free representative | dieciples of the great master of the piscatory government; rulers of the ponder over it. — Movements ov Govervon Warxer.—We un derstand thaf a great political dinner move- ment ts going on in this city in behalf of Gov. etnor Walker, with the view of bringing him hie present position upon Kansas affai with something of ¢clat before the ¢ Some of our Custom House and other covern- ment officials are at the bead of the enterprise, and it is said that certain managers of the re- publican and American parties are also actively and we advise the journalist and Old World ta look to it and implicated, and that the great ultimatum in view is the next Presidential! election. Our re- cent municipal contest has broken the ice of a new and grand Northern combination move- ment for the sucecesion. The late Moly Alliance in this city of republicans, Know Nothings and renegade democrats, has worked so successfully in this late stronghold of democracy as to sug- gest very forcibly the po of extending this combination over. all the? To such a move- ment, also, some such man as Governor Walker, possessing his democratic antecedents (like Mr Tiemann), comes up into bold relief as the “man for the hour,” to use one of the graphic expressions of George Sanders, And the esti- mate is that Governor Walker, thus trotted out upon the course, would supersede Buchanan, Douglas, Fremont, Seward and any, man in the North, of any party, from Maine to Kansas, The dinner is soon to come off. Sub seribers are signing the call rapidly. Some eomprehensive negotintions are involved in the general plan, or will be, concerning our leading republican and American editors, and their prospective perquisites and pickings, but these may be temporarily delayed. The dinner party itself, we presume, will not be levelled point blank at thé administration, but it will follow up the sapping and mining policy initiated by Governor Walker, and which already threatens so imminently the dissolution of the Northern democracy. Let us have the dinner. ‘Wid Sports of the West—Foreign Nimrods on Our American Hunting Grounds. We published recently, in a letter from the Platte river, an account of the exploits of Sir George Gore, the well known Irish sportsman, who has spent the last three years out West in the pursuit of game. The amount which he has “bagged” during that time must have been enormous, seeing that the returns of one season alone reached the almost incredible aggregate of 3,600 animals, none of which were smaller than the antelope. It is to be presumed, how- ever, that, great a shot as he is, Sir George’ ‘3 sin- gle arm did not accomplish this wholesale work of destruction, as he was aceompanied by a suite of about fifty persons, whose various occupa- tions were intended to minister to his comforts, but who probably all bore their share in their master’s amusements and dangers. The Irish and Scotch have always been hardy and enterprising sportsmen, and have not, like the English, contented themselves with such ignoble game as the hare or the ordinary field birds. Deer stalking, fox hunting and steeple chasing attest their love for the more perilous descriptions of sport. It is true that stag hunt- ing was, in the course of the last half cen- tury, partially revived in England through the patronage of George III. and the Prince Regent, and even now we believe a pack of buck hounds is kept in the neighbor- hood of Windsor. The English nobility, how- ever, do not seem in modern times to have “cot- toned” to the sport, and with the exception of the Earl of Derby, grandfather to the present Earl, Earl Berkeley, Earl Fitzhardinge, and one or two others, we do not recoliect any other English proprietors of staghounds in our day. Most of these packs have been broken up, and now, we believe, with the exception of one kept by Baron Rothschild in the neighborhowt of Aylesbury, there is no regularly constituted private kennel of these hounds in any part of England. Deer stalking in the Highlands of Scotland and in the Killarney mountains is still, and al- ways will be, the favorite amusement of the Scotch and Irish gentry. Fox hunting and the steeple chase are also as much in vogue as ever amongst them. With the Gaelic and Celtic races, indeed, the passion for wild sports is a taste impossible to overcome. This ardent love of the chase even leads them to other and distant lands in quest of game more formidable and adventures more exciting than those which they are accustomed to in their own country. Africa, India, and our own western regions have each in turn fur- nished hunting trophies and themes for books to these bold sportsmen. It is‘now about thirty years since the glowing pictures of backwoods and prairie scenery fa- miliarized to them bythe works of our novel- ists, and the more technical but reliable descrip- tions of Wilson, Audubon, Bonaparte, and other naturalists—first attracted to our shores the titled Nimrods of the Old Country. The part borne by Sir William Drummond Stewart in the perils and hairbreadth escapes of Fremont in his explorations in the Rocky Mountains, must still be fresh in the recollection of our readers, Since his time we have had numerous other scions of nobility amongst us, attracted by the same inducements. Seven years ago a son of Earl Fitzwilliam, who recently, we be- lieve, succeeded to his father’s title, came over with a large party of English sportsmen to en- joy the pleasures of the chase amongst the wild deer and buffalo herds of the West. We are occasionally favored, too, with the visits of sportsmen of another kind—genuine cockneys— who are betrayed into sad mistakes by their ignorance of the country, its distances and its local peculiarities in respect to game, It is not long since a Londoner landed here with the idea of hunting the buffalo in the neighborhood of New York. His look of blank dismay may be imagined when he was informed that if he ambitioned game of this sort he would have to go a thousand miles further for it. There is no doubt that if the experiment of which the Leviathan steamer—the Great East- ern—is the first essay, should prove successful, we shall be inundated with visiters of the Gor- don Cumming and Sir George Gore school. The more the better say we, for these men have large incomes, bring numergus suites with them, and scatter money profusely wherever they go. In gratifying their own tastes they will help to carry out the work of civiliza- tion on our frontiers by the destruction of beasts of prey, and by the refining influence of their manners. But there is also another and more numerous class of sportsmen, like our green friend above referred to, who will be induced by these inereased facilities of communication to pay us periodical visits. We allude to the art, er a# Lord Byron describes him— old coxeomb, who in his gullet » hook ant a small trout to ult To the and Jakes will furnish nexhan amusergen'. ‘They will find in them varicties of tish that are novel to them, and which will try thei: skill with the line and the hook. Those who are expert with the gun, and who do not care to encounter the perils of the backwoods or prairies, will find | within a short distance of New York full op- portunities for gratifying their more moderate tastes. Thus, at Pennegrove or Denuisville, New Jersey, they will find snipe in abundance, not the kind familiar to them, but the genuine American bird, known as the Wilson snipe, Partridge they will meet with everywhere in the Kastern and Middle States. For the wood- cock, the rice bunting or reed bird, the grase plover, the ball headed or golden do., the rail or American water hen, the canvass back duck, the seaup duck, the American widgeon and the Canada goose they will only have to go to the Chesapeake or Delaware, within an easy day's ride of New York. Add to these inducemeuts the attractions of a new country, splendid ecenery, cheap and luxurious living, and a so- ciety facile and indulgent in its treatment of strangers, and we have a reasonable chance of aheorbing a large proportion of the money spent on pleasure tours by European idlers. A charge de revenche, a8 the French say. —_—_— Tie Morwon Wan.—The Mormon war closes for years the great thoroughfare ta California via the South Pass, leaving open only the Southern route along the 32d parallel, Thit $$$ route has been traversed by thousands of emi- grants sinee 1847. Six hundred miles of it lies in the new Territory of Arizona, along the line @ the overlund mail to the Pacific. This fact gives a strong argument in favor of the imme- diate organization of Arizona by Congress, and it is urged as a matter of absolute necessity by the California press, Probably no Territory has ever presented itself to Congress with such strong claims to immediate attention as does Arizona, and the opening of the Mormon war only adds another argument to those already presented. a Come, Pony Ur, Mr. Tusmann.—Neither Mr. Tiemann, the Mayor elect, nor his partners im the paint making business, have as yet settled that small bill which they acknowledge to be due the Henan for its volunteer advertising of their factory during the late canvass. Are all those splendid puffs and acknowledgments to go for nothing? Look around us. A cruel winter is upon us, and thousands of unfortunates in our midst are.already suffering from hunger, thirst and cold. They will soon need all that can be raised in their behalf; and in this view we appeal to Messrs, Tiemann & Co. to settle that little bill. Even ina political sense, Mr. Tiemann is largely indebted to the Hxraup, for Booby Brooks confesses the corn that we did, perhaps, more to defeat Mayor Wood than anybody else. Make up your bill, Mr. Tiemann, for that adver- tising, send us a check for the amount, and thus contribute something for the poor. THE LATEST NEWS. ‘The Next European News. Haurax, Dec. 3, 1867. The Collins steamship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, from Liverpool on Wednesday, the 85th uit., four days subse- quent to the departure of the America, is now due off Cape Race, but the line is interrupted beyond Pictou. Wohave, consequently, no intelligence from St. Johns, Newfound- land, to-day. Arrival of the America at Boston. Boston, Dec. 3, 1867. ‘The stoamship America, from Liverpool oa the 2ist “, via Halifax, arrived below at about five o’clock this evening, but owing to the unfavorable stato of the tide did not reach her dock until balf past nine, Her mails for the south will be despatched by the land train to-morrow morning, and will be due in New York at five ?. M. There is nothing of importance in the papers to hand in addition to the Halifax despatch. ‘The steamer Persia and the ship Dreadnought were seen going into Liverpool on the 2ist ult. News from the National Capital. ARRIVAL OF SENATOKS AMD MEMBERS—ACTIVE PRE- PARATIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN— JUDGE DOUGLAS AND THE PRESIDENT ON THE KAN- SAS QUESTION, ETC. ‘Wasuatow, Dec. 3, 1857. ‘Tho city is rapidly filling up with Senators, members of Congress and strangers. The cars came in to-night crowded with Congressmen, and there is no doubt of an organization on Monday. The Hxnatn’s leader yesterday on the Kansas difficulty is the theme of great praise among the democracy here. Senator Douglas had a friendly interview with the Pre- sident to-day, when the Kansas question was discussed at some length. Whilst it isknown that the Judge takes strong exception to eertain features of the Lecompton Kansaa Convention proceedings, it is not known that he intends to maintain that, if the vote in December shouki be a fair one, Kansas should be kept out of the Union because the entire constitution was not submitted. He intends to suspend judgment until be sees what porition the Presi dent takes in his message, and all the facts upou the i ject are laid before the Senate, when he will take an eariy occasion to define his position. The contest for Clerk and Printer is waxing hot. Both Robinson and Allen are sanguine of success. Robiason's friends are making capital with Southern members, alleg- ing that Douglas—who is the friend of Allen—is unsound on the Kansas question. The fight is getting interesting. Wendell is moving heaven and earth, aud says that he is bound to carry off the prize. Banks will go into the caucus with forty votes. Steadman will have about thirty. The President has appointed Reuben P. Boise, of Oregoa, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon, vice Cyrus Olney, declining re-appointment. The President refuses to let copies of bis Message be sent to California by the next steamer. Naval Court No. 1 transacted no business to-day. [a Court No. 2, the case of Lieut. J. A. Doyle was continued, and Captains 8. Barron and L. M. Powell testified in behalf of government, and F. A. Roe for appellant. Before Court No. 3 the case of ex-Captain Levy was continued, and de- cumentary evidence submitted. Carusi’s saloon has been leased by the proprietor of Wallack's theatre, mae teen ep immediately aa a ret class playhouse. THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. THE POSITION OF JUDGE DOUGLAS ON THR KANSAS QUESTION. Wasminoron, Deo, 3, 1867, Judge Douglas and the President bad to-day a full and free interchange of opinion on the Kansas question, with out, as it is understood, being able to arrive at the same conclusion in regard to the line of policy which justice aud duty require each to pursue. The interview, it is fur ther stated, was courteous, and they parted as they met, friends, regretting they could not view the Lecomptoa movement in the same light. Senator Douglas in conversation with his friends freely defines his position, He stands, he says, on the prin- ciple of the Nebraska-Kansas Dill, which guarantess to exch State and Territory the right to regulate their domestic institations to suit themselves, and he will follow that principle wherever its logical consequences carry him, defending it against all assaults from whatever quarter they may come. In its application to Kansas he insista upon ignoring both the Lecompton and Topeka movements, and securing to the people the right to form a constitution for themselves. Hie considers the Lecompton movement directly violative of the principles of the Kansas Nebraska bill and the Cin cinnat! platform, and he will, probably, at an early period of the sossion, introduce a bill authorizing the people of Kansas to call a Constitutional Convention. The Magnetic Telegraph Company have established an office in the Capitol. The wire connects with the North without delay in the Washington office. This will much facilitate Congressional reports, aud will admit of sending despatches to a later hour. News trom Kansans, St. Loum, Deo, 2, 1867. Ava meeting at Leavenworth, Kansas, on the aist ult., resolutions were adopted similar to those passed at Law rence on the 19th, and speeches were made by Mosars. Vaughan, Phillips, Hutchina, More and others. Mr. Phil lips advised rallying around the Topeka constitution, call- ing it the Magna Charta of Kansas liberty. A Vigilance Committee is being formed throughout the Territory. A letter to the Democrat, dated Lawrence, November 17, states that Governor Walker #aid he would call a special session of the Legislature, providing the members would sign a pledge guaranty ing that they would aot go into gen. eral legislation. ‘The Hartford Banks. Hantrorp, Conn., Dee. 3, 1857. ‘The injunction against the Mercantile, Charter Oak and Exchange Banks of this city was this morning removed, and they are now prepared to do business as formorly Altot dhe banks rein fret rate condition. The Schooner Northern Light Water-logged, Cranumerow, Deo, 3, 1957 ‘Tho schooner Northern Light, of Buckport, Me., wag water logged on tho 9th of November The British ship ‘Star took from the wreck her captain and four men, who have arrived here. a News from the South. Wasmiverow, Deo. 3, 1857, ‘The sugar cano in Rapides parish, La., was soriously in jured by the frost Inst week, ‘Tho steamship Texas reports secing the wreck of tha Opelousas, bottom upwards. Ice was formed at Houston, Teas, on the 20th. At Galveston cotton was inactive. Receipta of the week, 2,200 bales. Exports, 1,300 bales. The stock of cotton im Houston and Galveston is estimated at 15,000 bales. The incoming crop is estimated at 95,000 bales, Middling, 9340. a 10%. pus Vintetan Ven tue ne Wore unimportant, Py Ape me roan repens en General Henderson, of Texas, is evayadeooysh Bo pro-