The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1857, Page 4

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The steamship Europa, which left Liverpool on the 28th ult., is now fully due at this port. She will bring three days later news. Nothing of general interest occurred in either branch of Congress yesterday, and both houses ad- | journed till Monday, in order to afford time for the | presiding officers to make up the standing commit- tees. The Senate, in executive session yesterday, took | up the nomination of Gen. Denver as Secretary of \ Kansas, in place of Mr. Stanton, removed by the | President. The debate, which occupied some two | hours and a half, was characterized by much warmth, | and covered the Kansas question in all its aspects. | In fact the discussion may be regarded as a continu- | ation of the debate in open Senate upon this all- absorbing topic; and the result—the confirmation of Gen. Denver by a yote of twenty-nine to nineteen— is looked upon asa test of the strength of parties with reference tothe Kansas Lecompton constitution and the position of the President thereupon. The vote was a strict party one, all the democrats voting for confirming except Douglas, who dodged by leav- fing the hall. A caucus of Southern Senators has Deen held to consider what should be done with re- gard to Judge Donglas,and it is understood that they agreed unanimously to read him out of the Gemocratic party. We bave already published an abstract of the an- nual report of the Secretagy of the Navy, butin order that our readers may be fully informed of the past and prospective operations of the maritime arm of the public defence, we give this important docu- ment complete in our columns this morning. Josiah Sutherland has declined the office of District Attorney of New York. It is said that either Mr. Sedgwick or Mr. Hoffman will be tender- ed the office. Since the adjournment of the Kansas Lecompton Convention the free State men of the Territory have held several mectings at various points to express their opposition to the constitution framed by that body. The last of these gatherings that we hear of was held at Lawrence on the 24 inst. It was largely at- Jodge tended. A brief report of its proceedings is given under the telegraphic head. Among other resolu- tions adopted was one calling on the Legislature at the extra session called by Secretary Stanton to sub- mit both the Lecompton and Topeka constitutions irect vote, the one receiving the efdorsement he people to be declared the fundamental law. The unu y mild weather that has prevailed for fome days past has induced the Canal Commission- ers to extend the period fixed upon for closing the canals to the 15th instant. Official notice to that effect has been promulgated by the Board. The last of the boats which had been detained on the Western Givision by the ice reached Utica yesterday. ‘The greater portion of the seasion of the Board of Councilmen last evening was occupied in transacting rovline business. An ordinance far the better re- gulstion of the Fire Department, so far as prevent ing disbanded firemen and street rowdies from con- grecating round engine houses, and restricting the 6 o from cleaning their apparatus on the side- ‘walks on Sunday, gave rise to a long debate, after wh it was laid on the table. All the bills for fit 1 polls at the recent elections were np election referred to the Comptroller, with power. A motion Lo increase the salaries of the first and second clerks fo the Corporation Attorney was lost. The Young Men's Republioan Committee, Charles ©. Nott, Chairman, held their regular monthly meet. Ang at Stuyvesant Institote last evening. The com- mittee paid the bill of their Sergeant-at-Arms, and adopted a series of resolutions laudatory of the re- publican party in the late municipal election, and Ahen adjourned sine die. Col, Wm. Tarnball, of the Topographical Engineers died suddenly, of disease of the heart, at Wilming- Lon, yexterday. Our correapondent at Barbadoes, writing on the 22d nlt., says:—Major General Bell, Commander-in. Chief of her Majesty's forces in Jamaica, has received twrders from the Horse Gaards to forward with all Possible despatch to Calcutta the Second West In- @ia regiment of foot, under command of Col. Whit- Geld. The regiment is 1,200 strong, and ten such egiments are now ready and wait orders to embark Mor the East. The weather continues favorable, rain ®t! falling at intervals, which causes a cooler at- Baosphere. The prospects far the next crop are most ‘Chee: ing throughout the island, and it is expected to Pe an early one. The public health continaes good Drendetams and provisions from the United States re in good eupply, and command good prices, From Rio Janeiro we have trade reports to the 234 W October. Coffee selected for the United States ‘ie at 511400, and lower prices were not expected. Wer ae cxtrewely low, with 20,000 barrels on NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Ul, 18657. hand. American ranged from 18)j500 to 23)/500, ac- cording to quality. There was nothing doing in freights. Surrogate Bradford yesterday rendered a decision in the long litigated Parish will case. It contains several points interesting to the public at large as well as the parties pecuniarily affected. By the de- cision the will and first codicil are admitted to pro- bate, which gives Mrs. Parish two valuable pieces of real estate—one in Wall strect, worth $100,000, and the other in Union square, where Mrs. P. now resides, also worth $100,000. The other codicils are rejected, which make Messrs. George and Henry Parish, brothers of the deceased, the residuary le- gatees, and give them proper.y to the amount of $750,000. The deaision of the Surrogate with re- gard to personal property is final, but with respect to the real estate an appeal can be taken. In the event of a further contestation of the case, with re- ference to the real property, cross suits of ejectment must be brought by the occupants of the premises. Mr. Mackellar yesterday afternoon argued before a committee of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners the demurrer of Deputy Superintendent Carpenter to the complaint charging him with using abusive and profane language in speaking of the Mayor, and discourteously treating several old policemen who reported themselves for duty. The Commission will decide whether the demurrer is well taken; if nega- tively, the trial of the Deputy Superintendent will then proceed. The trial of James Shepherd for arson in the first degree was commenced yesterday in the General Sessions. He is charged with having set fire to his dwelling house, in Fifty-third street,on the 9th of June, when his wife was consumed in the flames. The case will be resumed this morning. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 350 bales, chiefly in jots to spinners, based upon middling uplands at 1c., good middling at 111zc., and middling fair to fair at 114sc,a11%c. The receipts at all the Southern ports since the first September last, compared with those for the game time last year, exhibit a decrease of 331,000 bales. The exports for the same time, compared with last year, show an increase to Great Britain of 50,000 bales, and a decrease to France of 33,000 bales, and to other foreign ports a falling off of 5,000 bales—showing a total increase to all ports of about 12,000 bales. The flour market was heavy, and sales to the domestic trade as well as for export light. Wheat was in better demand, with sales of about 30,000 bushels, at prices given eleewhere. Corn was steady, with moderate sales Pork was heavy, with sales of new mess, Albany in- spection, at $16, and old, city inspected, at $16 50 a $16 75, and new prime sold at $14. Beef was plenty and dull Sugars were sold to the extent of about 700 a 800 hhds., closing firm at prices given in another column. The sales of coffee embraced the cargo ot the Sunny South, consist- ing of 6,000 bags Rio, om private terms, and about 600 do. to the trade, with 800 mats Java, on terms given in another column. Freights to English ports exhibited rather more activity, while engagements in all directions were light. The Kansas Coup @’Etat of Walker and of the War. Within the last two days the Kansas difficulty has assumed a most ominous and revolutionary shape in Kansas and at Washington. First—It appears that in the absence of Gov. Walker, Secretary Stanton, acting Governor of Kansas, yielding to the pressure of the free State party, has called an extra session of the regular Territorial Legislature, (free State— elected in October,) for the purpose of arresting | the execution of the Lecompton (pro-slavery) constitutional programme, In its regular course the Legislature would not meet till January, and in the interval the Lecompton Convention had provided for the completion of the proceed- ings neceseary to make Kansas a State. With- out an extra session, therefore, it was very like- ly that the Legislature by the first of January would find “its occupation gone.’” Hence the pressure upon Secretary Stanton, and under which he has succumbed. According to his re- ported proclamation, the Kansas Legislature assembled on the very day of the meeting of Congress; and by this time, doubtless, the free State lawmakers are under full headway in the business of repealing the work of the Lecomp- ton Convention. Secondly—It appears that Secretary Stanton, in thus convening the Legis- lature, violated his instructions, and that forthwith, upon the receipt of the news at Washington, the President decapitated the disobedient Secretary, and appointed Mr. Denver, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to take his place. Mr. Denver may, perhaps, be on hand in time to veto (as acting Governor) any proceeding of the Legislature levelled at the Lecompton Convention; but as it is possible that a two-thirds vote may be raised by the free State party, it is also possible that by the 21st of this month this extra session of the Legisla- ture may have declared the Lecompton Con- vention and all its acts illegal, fraudulent, “‘in- operative and void.” This is certainly “a beautiful kettle of fish,” and it makes the ratification of the Lecompton constitution, in any shape, a doubtful, difficult and revolutionary problem. In fact, from the temper of the Kansas free State party, as mani- fested in their late popular meetings and con- ventions, it would appear that they are deter- mined, by fair means or by foul, and at all ha- zards, to get rid of this Lecompton constitu- tion. Considering these facts and probabilities in connection with the coup d’éat of Governor Walker and Senator Douglas, and the nume- rous deserters that have followed, or will fol- low these gentlemen from the Northern demo- cratic camp, we have before us the inevitable contingency of a Northern anti-slavery coali- tion in 1860, which will sweep everything be- fore it as with the force of a whirlwind. There is something positively awful in the rise, pro- wress and growth of this Northern anti-slavery movement. Look at it. In 1844 it was actively set on foot as a de- tached Presidential element—James G. Birney being the nominee of the little faction. He se- cured a few thousand scattering votes here and there, including some fifteen thousand votes in this State, withdrawn from Henry Clay. But this little diversion gave the State to Mr. Polk, and secured biselection. Mr. Clay, during the canvass, ina letter of a few lines to some poli- ticians in Alabama, said that “so far from being opposed to the annexation of Texas, he should be glad to see it;” and that unfortunate experi- ment cost him those fifteen thousand anti- slavery votes of this State, which lost him the Presidency. In 1848, in revenge against his cavalier treat- ment by the Southern politicians at Baltimore, Martin Van Buren rebelled and took the anti- slavery shute, The result was the division of the New York democratic party into two sepa- rate parties, of nearly equal strength, between which General Taylor walked over the course in this State, and walked into the Presidency. ‘The Van Buren vote, added to that af General Casa, would have elected the latter by a hand- some majority. But the great point is the in- creasefrom °44 to ‘48 of the separate anti- slavery vote. In the first instance it was 64,000—in the batter it was within a fraction of 300,000 votes. ‘The compromise measures of 1850, accepted by the people of all sections as “a finality” of the slavery agitation, resulted in the election of poor Pierce, almost by acclamation, over the greatest living eoldier of the age, and wholly on account of the popular belief that Gen. Scott, if elected, would be subordinate to the anti-slavery designs of Seward and his faction. Poor Pierce, however, soon rekindled the slumbering volcano which Henry Clay and his peacemakers of 1850 foolishly believed they had reduced to an extinct crater. The Kansas- Nebraska bill was tried by Mr. Pierce and Mr. Douglas as a Southern trump card—the ace of spades—for the succession; but the fearful reaction which this experiment roused up in the North compelled the Southern politicians to drop both Pierce and Donglas “like hot potatoes,” and to fall back upon the only democrat who could carry Pennsylvania, aud a man, withal, who could prove a clear alibi upon the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The treatment which Mr. Douglas thus received at Cincinnati, has, doubtless, been rankling in his mind ever since, till, at length, with the first plausible excuse, he ,has resolved upon a course which, if it secures him nothing else, will at least secure him the eweet revenge of Martin Van Buren. Governor Walker, repudiated by the Southern fire-eaters as a traitor and a knave, has, also, a plausible excuse for this Kansas coup d'éat, which throws the whole North, and all the power which the united North commands, into the hands of an anti-slavery holy alliance. Can any one doubt the result? If, in spite of the great personal popularity of Mr. Buchanan, his Nebraska bill alibi, the desperate exertions of the democracy, and the divided and unorgan- ized forces of the opposition, it can be shown that in every Northern State (Pennsylvania not excepted) the democracy in 1856 were in a mi- nority, and in many States almost annihilated, what can be expected but the absolute annibi- lation of the party in the North in 1860, con- sidering the forces with which Walker and Douglas will swell the heavy legions of the al- lied army? Thus much in a Presidential view of this Kansas coup d'état ef Walker and Douglas. The black republicans are in ecstacies. Mr. Douglas, heretofore accounted by them as nothing but a little trickster, is suddenly exalted into a giant among the pigmies. Even Greeley thinks him a great man. Yet we fear that Mr. Douglas in his new syna- gogue will not be very soon exalted to a posi- tion like that which he has abandoned. He must wait awhile, till Mr. Seward or Mr. Banks has had a chance. But the next Presidency, in a comprehensive view, is a secondary thing among the tremendous contingencies involved inthis Kansas squabble. The destruction or reconstruction of all our existing political, so- cial, financial and commercial relations with the South, the continuance or the dissolution of this great confederacy, the restoration of har- mony among the States, or the exasperation of our sectional animosities into open rebellion and civil war, are the paramount issues depen- dent upon the solution of the Kansas question. For the next week or two the news from Kan- sas will be of greater importance to the Ame- rican people than all the intelligence from all the rest of the world. Ovr Reations with Paracuay.—The Presi- dent in his Message states that the outrages which were committed some two years since on the American vessel Water Witch and on seve- ral United States citizens residing in the State of Paraguay, by the authority of the Dictator Lopez, have never yet been atoned for; and re- commends that Congress empower him to take vigorous measures forthwith to have the injury redressed. ‘The ruler of Paraguay, Lopez, has cursed the country over which he exercises his despotism about long enough. Had the policy recom- mended by the most intelligent of the Paraguay- ans been carried out at the death of Dr. Francia, Paraguay would now have been one of the most flourishing and populous States of South Ame- rica. It is the finest State of that continent in respect of climate, soil and natural resources ; but the policy of its rulers, by excluding fo- reigners as rigidly as the Chinese and Japanese do, and by forbidding, under frightful penalties, any foreign trade in the productions of the country, has made it very nearly a wilderness, Though it is the oldest settled country of South America, and the most blessed in everything save government, its territory is but little more improved and more developed than the wilder- ness of the Chaco, which lies opposite. The Dictator Lopez, like Francia, seems to have grown bold by the impunity which has been granted him. Outrage after outrage has been forgiven him; he has been allowed to exile and rob men of almost every nation, and has never once been called to account. It seems a providential thing that the work of bringing him to his senses should have been left to us, and that the pretext on which we shall inter- fere is of a character to justify strenuous and thorough measures. It may be confidently assumed that the Presi- dent will be authorized to deal with Paraguay in as vigorous a manner as he proposes to deal with Utah. Our character in South America, the safety of our trade on the La Plata, and the security of our people require that ample re- paration should be demanded for the firing on the Water Witch, and satisfactory indemnity ob- tained for the losses of those United States citi- zens who were robbed by Lopez and his emissa- ries. At the same time, a new treaty should be made with Paraguay in lieu of the one which was concluded a couple of years ago and was rejected by Lopez; no nation has a right to re fuse to conclude reasonable treaties with its neighbors; the arguments used in the Japan af- fair may be brought to bear with equal effect against Paraguay. A small but efficient squadron, under the com- mand of an able officer, not over seventy, would arrange all these little matters in the course of a few weeks. No doubt the Paraguayans would afford additional reasons for prompt adjustment of the panding questions by firing on the ships as they sailed up the river. In this case, the course porsued by our navy this fall in China would furnish a just precedent. But at any rate the case of Paraguay ought to be attended to without delay. ‘Tue Great Loopy ty Wasniweroy.—We have already recorded the arrival in Washington of O. B. Matteson, M.C., and others, who were expelled by the last Congress on account of their lobby operations, We perceive that a number of other distinguished members of the lobby have ar- rived on the ground, and that preparations may be expected for vast movements in both houses of Congress, Will some friendly hand at Wash- ington send us on a list of the members that hate got there, and the operations that will occupy their attention during this exciting ses- sion? ‘The Report of the Secretary of the Navy— More Steam Vessels Wanted. Though the report of the Secretary of the Navy may not attract so much attention at the present time as that of the Secretary of the Treasury—affecting as does the latter document our financial affairs—it is none the less impor- tant, inasmuch as the commercial interests of the nation abroad and the defence of our extensive seaboard at home depend upon the efficiency or non-efficiency of our navy. Mr. Toucey’s report embodies some admirable recommendations in the improvement of his de- partment which we hope will not be overlooked by the present Congress. The most vital of these we may say is the recommendation to con- struct several small steamers of light draught for the purpose of running into small rivers and creeks, not only on our own coast, but in China, South America and elsewhere. “At this mo- ment,” says the Secretary, “we have no vessels that can penetrate the rivers of China, and we have few that can enter most of the harbors south of Norfolk.” Under these circumstances our Southern coast is wanting in a most impor- tant arm of defence. And, very properly argues Mr. Toucey, though it is inexpedient to endeavor to rival other great commercial Powers in the magnitude of their naval preparations, “it is the true policy of our government to take care that its navy should be unsurpassed in its effi- ciency and completeness, and that our prepara- tory arrangements should be such that no event shall take us altogether by surprise.” Mr. Toucey recommends that one or more of these light draught steamers, carrying heavy guns, should be stationed at every point where we maintain a squadron. The experiment of maintaining the ordnance ship Plymouth under command of Commander Dahlgren, with a view to improvement in practice of ordnance and gunnery, meets with Mr. Tou- cey’s entire approbation; and he earnestly recom- mends a renewal of the appropriation of $49,000 made by Congress for this purpose in March, 1857, and the permanent employment of a ship on this duty. The application of the heavy shell guns on board the Plymouth to the steam frigates re- cently constructed, and the further extension of this kind of armament to other vessels in the ser- vice, is also deemed by the Secretary highly expedient. In addition to the increase in the number of vessels of war, the employment of landsmen and boys has been considerably enlarged, in conse- quence of the difficulty found in procuring sea- men for the naval service. This is an admira- ble policy, and will not only give efficiency and strength to the navy, but will afford occupation to numbers of the unemployed of our great cities, who in course of time, by proper training, will become effective sailors and gunners, and may thus render their country good service. In connection with the Naval Court of In- quiry, Mr. Toucey states that when he came into office he found one Court in existence, and that, in order to facilitate business, he established two more, and gave such directions to the Judges thereof as he found on examination of the law he was entitled to give, with a view to taking such testimony as would put the cases of the aggrieved officers fairly before the Courts. With reference to the course of Commander Davis, of the St. Marys, in Nicaragua at the time of the surrender of General Walker, we are informed that the conduct of that officer in seizing and delivering up Walker’s schooner, the Granada, to the Nicaraguans was not ap- proved of by the department, though his hu- manity in sending home the afflicted soldiers of Walker's army was commended. This view, we think, is quite in accordance with the popular sentiment on that sulfect. The erection of new marine barracks at Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Norfolk, in place of the present buildings, reperted entirely unfit for use, is recommended. By all means let them be commenced at once. Now is the time to put all useful public works into operation. Con- gress appropriated ninety-six thousand dollars for the construction of marine barracks at Brooklyn and New York more than a year ago. No proposals for the work at Brooklyn have yet been invited, because the site selected requires piling and filling in. For that at Pensacola a contract has been made for fifty-three thousand eight hundred dollars, Congress having appro- priated $60,000 for that purpose. What has been done with reference to the barracks at New York the report does not state. We trust Mr. Toucey will look after it. We have several thousand operatives here in want of work. On the whole, the Secretary of the Navy makes some wholesome suggestions and valua- ble recommendations. Our navy is and has been incomplete, and entirely unequal to the protection of our vast seaboard, or our foreign commerce in case of war. We want more ships, and of better construction than those now in the service. Axorner Sicy or THe Times.—We received yesterday the announcement of the unanimous election by the Virginia Legislature of Robert M. T. Hunter as a Senator of the United States for six years from the 4th of March, 1859. Mr. Hunter will be his own successor. As may have been seen by our extracts from the Vir- ginia journals, there was, a short time since, a prospect of a violent contest for the Senator- ship between the friends of Gov. Wise and Mr. Hunter. The main issue was the course of the administration upon Kansas affairs. Since that time the attitude of the administration has be- come more definite—a regular crusade has been commenced against the President in the Senate, and the whole South is uniting to the support of Mr. Buchanan. The necessity of union being so apparent, Gov. Wise withdraws and leaves the field to Senator Hunter, who is thus unanimously elected. With the South united and determined, we shall have warm work during this session of Congress, Tue Removars From Orrick—From what we hear from Washington we should not be at all surprised if the following public officers were removed before being presented to the Senate:—George N. Sanders, Navy Agent ; Emanuel B. Hart, Surveyor of the Port; Isaiah Rynders, United States Marshal, and Isaac V. Fowler, Postmaster. These comprise the principal heads that may be taken off by the political guillotine ina few days, and be trundled into the same basket with that of John McKeon. The subordinates in these offices will also feel the Igaments abowt their necks, A number of these gentle- men are very clever fellows, and we are sorry that they have bronght themselves to the block, and really hope that some means may be de- vieod by the chemists to mend their official heads after they have been taken off. Their fate is melancholy; but it is the fate of all po- liticians, Guxenat, Watxun’s Prosrecrs.—Speculations as to the whereabouts of General Walker con- tinue to be a theme of general interest and com- ment. Some of the journals think he has been drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, as the steamer Fashion is notoriously an old craft, and was greatly overloaded ; while others feel confident that he bas been picked up by some of the gov- ernment cruisers, and will be sent back here to stand his trial before Judge McCaleb, in New Orleans. We do not see anything in the facta yet de- veloped, however, to lead us to change the views we have recently expressed. That he has gone to Nicaragua there is no doubt of ; and that he was invited there by the government of that re- public, which our own has just recognized and made a treaty with, is openly asserted in diplo- matic circles at Washington. Undgr these cir- cumstances his advent in Nicaragua becomes anything but a hostile invasion, and should he attempt to land openly at San Juan del Norte, provided he does so as an emigrant,we do not see how the United States officers will have any power to arrest him. If he has made no military organi- zation within our territery for the hostile inva- sion of another country, he is not amenable to our neutrality laws; and for what he has done be- yond our borders he iscertainly not amenable to them. As for the possession of arms by the emigrants invited by President Martinez, this is no misdemeanor, for every American citizen has the right of emigration, with or without arms, as he chooses; and, in fact, few go anywhere beyond the western borders of civilization, or through the disorganized countries south of us, without a rifle and a revolver for self-protec- tion. Under his invitation from the recognized government of Nicaragua, the only thing he might be accused of would be an intent to en- list men here for a hostile expedition against Costa Rica, with which country we are at peace, though Nicaragua is at war. This it would doubtless be difficult to. convict him of, and would be an abandonment of the old accusation against him of intending to invade Nicaragua. In such a case, however, we might have a new Crampton difficulty on our hands in the person of Mr. Yrisarri, the present Minister from Nica- ragua. Tue Murper Sentences.—We have now two men under sentence of death in this city, Rodgers and Cancemi. With regard to the latter it seems that a blunder on the part of the prose- cution has given the culprit a possible chance for his life; though it is to be hoped that the blunder may not prove fatal. Assuming that it is not, these two men will be hanged in the course of the next few weeks, unless Governor King should interpose his pardon, and commute their sentence. We most sincerely hope he will do nothing of the kind. Things have reached that pass in New York, what with the inefficiency of govern- ment, the laxity of courts, the growing immo- rality of our youth, and the vast increase in the importation of foreign criminals, that unless some examples are made, this will soon be no fit place to live in. We say it boldly—no city in Asia or Central America, under the worst form of despotism or anarchy, will be more unsafe as a residence for a quiet person than the metropo- lis of North America. Many days this fall we reported an average of one murder per day; and robberies, rapes and abductions have in- creased at the same frightful ratio. This terrible outburst of crime is the fruit of long impunity, a general moral degra- dation among a certain class of the young men of our city, and the universal impres- sion among that class that, come what may, the courts dare not sentence, the Governor dare not bang them. The multitude of noto- rious criminals who walk the streets in ab- solute impunity justify the sanguine belief. None of Cancemi’s or Rodgers’ friends believe they will be executed. They never believed that they would be convicted. Now, they feel satisfied that they will be pardoned. It Governor King has any wish to render New York still more of a Sodom than it is, he will verify these apprehensions. He could not find two more appropriate cases for the exercise of a fatal clemency. Rodgens, in the most brutal and fiendish manner, attacked a gentle- man and his wife, whom he bad never seen be- fore, in the open street, and stabbed the former to death—without provocation of any kind, and moved solely by the devilish ferocity of the New York rowdy. Cancemi, a burglar, shot a policeman who tried to stop him from robbing a house. Two such thorough hanging cases never occurred before at the same time, Governor King has only to save these men from the gallows, and murders in Broadway will be- come as common as courage among policemen will become rare. Mr. Beimont’s Pictvres—Mr. Belmont, our late Charge at the Hague, is understood to have spent a good deal of money in Burope in the purchase of pictures, wherewith to adorn the palatial mansion he intended to buy on bis re- turn. We notice in the papers a correspon- dence between him and several of his friends, they requesting him to consent to exhibit his gallery to the public, and he graciously agree- ing todo so. A very similar resolution has been made, we are told, by Mr. Aspinwall, who is now in Europe, but who, on his return, pro- poses to fill a gallery in University place with fine pictures, and to give the public a free day once a week. One cannot but sympathize with Mr. Belmont on the notoriety which this little affair will give him, and which, as every one knows, will bo very distasteful to a man of his retiring and re- markably modest character. But after all, some of us must be sacrificed, now and then, for the public good; an@ Mr. Belmont will have the satisfaction of suffering in honorable com- ie is a man of good taste, it is said, and his gallery will be well worth seeing: it will in fact be a public treat. So will Mr. Aspinwall’s. Good pictures cannot be exhibited without doing good, both in an artistic and morai point of view. If our rich men would agree to con- tribute all the works of art they severally pos- sess to one grand exhibition, we should have a show which possibly might not rival the Man- choster exbibition, but which would be far grander than anything we ever bad hore in the way of art exhibitions, The proceeds of euch a show, given to the poor, would keep thousands through the eoming winter. Tne Trovpies or Tammany Hatt..—Poor Tam- many is again in great distress, and in deeper afffiction than at any period for the last ten years. During the past few days she has passed resolutions in one direction and swallowed and passed them in another. We feel that there will be an internal separation of the different branches of the party, never to meet again. ey Tux Moraury or Tue Mowicirat Exxecrion. —Several of the country journals, taking their cue from the violent articles in some of the papers here, are congratulating their county, congratulating the State, congratulating the continemt, congratulating the universe, that at last all tle moral and respectable people of the great metropolis of New York have united to- gether, defeated that monster, Mayor Wood, and elected that saint in putty and paint, Mr. Tiemann. One fact will tell a truth in this matter. All the gambling hells and houses of ill fame in New York were the most excited and busiest electioneerers in favor of Mr. Tiemana and against Mr. Wood. We believe there was not a single exception to the case of any house of #1 fame or gambling hell in this matter. We will not deny that Mr. Wood got the votes of many of the lower classes, but we be- lieve, without exception, that there never was such a complete combination between the higher members of the church and the lower members of the gambling houses and kindred places than there was in the recent municipal election in favor of Mr. Tiemann. The most demoralized portion of the city voted against Wood and in favor of Tiemann, and no mistake. That’s true. Tax Conoress Printinc.—The House of Representatives have temporarily disposed of the printing question by the election of Mr. Steed- man, of Ohio, as their printer, subject to any regulation of the printing which this Congress may think fit to adopt. We also perceive that a searching investigation into all the profits, acts, tricks and combinations which have con- trolled this Congress printing heretofore is to be made; and we hope it wiN not be delayed till the end of the present session. Reform and retrenchment in this business are wanted. The election of Mr. Steedman, as it stands, per- petuates the old system of spoils and plunder lobby corruptions. We trust, however, that the promise of the House and the initiatory move- ment of a member of the Senate will be fol- lowed up until the great reform is achieved of turning these heavy printing profits into the treasury, where, they are 50 badly wanted. Turned over as a reward, or asa bribe toa party editor or a party firm, these spoils will continue to be nothing better than a corruption fund of the lobby. Mr. Houston, we shall watch you. AytrStavery Fam.—We see that an anti- slavery fair has just been held somewhere ia town. It was for the benefit of the underground railroad, but turned out to be a very small con- cern. They should have invited Senator Doug- las and Governor Walker to assist them, as both these gentlemen sympathize with these matters now. Their attendance would have made some excitement and increased their receipts, which it appears were very poor. THE LATEST NEWS. Important trom Kansas 5 PROCERDINGS OF THR MASS CONVENTION AT LAW- RENCE—A LOUD CALL ON THE TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE. Sr. Lovis, Dec. 10, 1857. The Democrat has received letters from Kansas to-night, containing the proceedings of the delegates to the Couven- tion held at Lawrence on the 2d inst. The entire Terri tory was represented. Charles Robinson was the Pre- sident. Resolutions were unanimously adopted, repudiating tho Lecompton constitution; pledging ceaseless hostility to it; denouncing the elections to be held on the 21st inst. and 4th proximo ; declaring that the Legislature elected impartial vote be had; endorsing the Topeka constite- tion, and requesting the Territorial Legislature, in their extra session, to frame an election law, and submit the ‘Topeka and Lecompton constitutions to the people—the one receiving & majority of the legal votes to beeome the fun- damental law of the State of Kansas. A resolution was also passed returning thanks to Secre- tary Stanton for calling « special session of the Legisla- ture Speeches were made by Governor Robinson, Gen. Lane, snd Mesers. Tucker, Redpath and others. Lee case eee ‘The Philadelphia Board of Health. Pintapenrma, Dec. 10, 1857. Our Common Council this evening ordered the District Attorney to commence proceedings against the nembers of the Board of Health for forgeries and for cbtaining moneys fraudulently from the city treasury, The Ciw Solicitor was also directed to commence a civil suit against Mewsre, Kane and Sehaffer, the contractors for Slling Prime street lot, for an alleged overcharge. An ordinance abolishing the present Board of Health was consitered, but its legality was questioned. A very exciting debate took place upon it. ‘The Bethany College tn Virginia Destroyed by Fire. Wirmuwe, Va., Deo. 10, 1867. At one o'clock this morning the College buildings a Rethany , Brook county; this State, were entirely destroyet ‘by fire, All the furniture, three valuable libraries, the extensive laboratories, the chemical apparatus, and « number of very important papers, were also consemed ‘The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incen- diary. —_—____ Re-Election of Senator Hunter. Ricuwowp, Va., Dec. 10, 1897. Hon. R. M. T. Hunter was to-day re-elected tothe United ‘States Senate for six years from the 4th of March, 1869, by a nearly unanimous vote. —____. Resignation of N. P. Banks as Member of Congress. Boston, Dec, 10, 1857 Hon. N. P. Ranks, Governor elect of Massachusetts, has given notice that he will resign hia seat in Congress about January 1. Death of Col, Turnbull, United States Army. Witsrxaton, Dec, 10, 1867. Col. William Turnbull, of the United States Topographi- cal Engineors, was found dead Mm his bed ata hotel this morning. He had died of disease of the heart ————_ Death of Col. Paige, of Schenectady. Sommwncrapy, Deo. 10, 1867. Col. John Kries Paige, an officer of the United States army in the year 1812, Clerk of the Supreme Court of thi State in the year 1823, and a former Mayor of Albany, died ‘at noon to-day at his residence in this city. Sommeaer iy, Dee. 10, 1867. The weather here is mild, and boats are moving freely in the canal. United States Supreme Court. Wasmmoron, Deo. 10, 1867. No, 1.—Levi Morrell vs. John @. Myers.—In error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. The writ of error was dismissed at the cost of plaintiff, No, 6.—Before reported.—Argument continued for the appelices and concluded for the appellant. No. 8.—Wm. Wynn's Becoutor vs. B. Morris, et al.— Submitted without argument. No. 12.—Josiah Garland vs. Wn. Wynn's Breoutor Also submited. ‘The Weather tn Cincinnati, Civqnen ati, Doo. 10, 1867. The weather is dear—thermometer 35. There are 21 feet water in the channel, and the river is rising _——— Robbery of a Castom House. Oswnao, Deo. 10, 1867. The Custom House in this city was entorod Iast night by burglars, the safe blown open, and its contents, consisting of anly about $500, taken. No clue to the barglare bas been obtained. Fatal Ratiroad Casuaity Taxmaviien, Ohio, Dec, 10, 1867. Last night the mail train going Rast, on the Contral Toad, ram into 4 rock neat Glencoe, smaghing tbe eugine