The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1651. NEW YORK HERALD. —— JAMES GORDON BENNETS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFigu X. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS, Fin pater winzip, HERALD, mre rey, beg gt Yaar Great rain, oF 83 Se ots SH TAMItT HERALD, ccory Wednesday, at four conta per 4 a ina nr a ARB Pan- 0 Seat ai. Lavraas snp Fagcscns AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. KIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway—Afternoon, Nwwonaxvs— ‘Trouy Rore Feats—Jocko. Rvening, Feats om tus Ticet Kore—F iesko—Mapina. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Afternoon and Evening, — AND GreNasrio Faars—JooKo, o# THE BRazi- BURTON'S THEA‘ , oppoatte Boud street— Joun Buui—AxcEs TRE, Bron —Siamase Twins. weaeaons THEATRES, Brosdway—Tas Poor ix New — LAURA KEENE'S RERRATRS, Broadway—Tus Sas oF Tox, on A Morass’s OLYMPIC, 585 Broadway—Afternoon, Marp oF Crowst— Narogk axp Purosoray. Eve Toopuxs—Au tun Woutn's 4 Stage—Day Arran tax EDDING. oa OF MUSIC, Fourteenth, street—Geaman Orena BARNUMS ANTI Ay MUSEUM, Broadway—After- noon and Evening, Onoss or ov GOLD—LAUGH ANP Grow Fat, WOOD'S BUILDINGS, “Wa end and 56S penta —G208GR Cususrr & Woon's Munwraes—Harry Man, MECHANICS HALL, 472 Brosdway—Baramv’s Miwsreeis —Ermiorian SONG8—CHINESE ACRO! NATIONAL CIRCUS, 8 Bowery—Afternoon and Even- tng, R@uusraian Fiate—GrMNastig RXEKCISES, AC. a. York, ‘Saturday, Decemeber 12, 1897. (he New York Herald—Eaition for Europe. ‘Tho mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Southampton and Havre. The Furopean mails will close in this city at half past ten o'clock this morning. The Furopean edition of the Henan, printed in French ‘and English, will be published at half-past nine o’clock in Ube morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six cants. Subscriptions #1’ advertisements for any edition of the New Yore Hurap with be received at the following places in Europe:-— Ludgate hill. Livexe00L.Am.-Buropean Express Co, , 9 ae street. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East Bavng..... Am. European Express Co. , at Rae’ ‘Corneille. ‘The contents of the Buropean edition of the Herat wil! feombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the ‘fice during the previous week and up to the hour of pub- ication. ‘The Newa. The steamship Europa, due at this port from Liverpool, had not been telegraphed up to 1 o'clock this morning, at which hour the weather was per- fectly clear. The banks of the city of New York have resumed specie payments. Ata meeting of bank managers last evening, at the Clearing House, it was resolved to resume specie payments in full at once, and all | claims upon. them are now paid in coin. On the | night of October 13 the banks resolved to suspend, and on the night of December 11 they resolved to resume. The suspension has therefore continued fiftynine days. The banks at Albany and most others throughout the State, and those of Bostor and most of the New England States, will without | doubt resume at once. The movement will gradually extend, and we expect to see, with perhaps a few | exceptions, before many weeks elapse, all the banks of the United States ranked again as specie paying institutions. We have a fortnight’s later news from Mexico. | ‘The dates are from the City of Mexico to the 4th in- stant, and from Vera Cruz to the 7th. The govern: | ment troops had defeated the revolutionists at Puebla and other points, and affairs generally had assumed a more encouraging aspect. The position of the hostile factions in Yucatan exhibited no change. Comonfort and the Supreme Court were | formally installed in office on the Ist inst. A decree | bad been issued regulating the Tehuantepec isthmus by the Louisiana company. A rumor prevailed in Washington last evening that Gov. Walker had precipitately fled to Kansas, with the view of provoking his removal by the Presi- deat. Our correspondent states that beyond all doubt Gov. Walker will be relieved of his official burthens before the lapse of a fortnight, unless he should anticipate such a contingency by tendering his resignation. We publish this morning an official despatch from Col. Johnston, commanding the army of Utah, which has just been received by the War Department. As ‘tofore stated, the troops are to winter at Henry's Fork, on Green river, until spring, when the entire force will advance on Salt Lake City by the most direct route. Col. Johnston is of opinion that, from the natare of the country, a protracted guerrilla war with the Mormons i+ inevitable, unless a large force is sent againstthem. ‘The force at present employed is entirely inadeqnate to meet the requirements of the contemplated campaign. It appears that Gen. Scott does not favor the design of ordering troops from the Pacific to Utah, but will send all the rein forcements and supplies from this side. The motion for an injunction to restrain the grant made by the Common Council to the Catholic Or phan Asylum attracted a great deal of interest yes- terday in the Supreme Court. Judge Davies denied the motion. The report of the proceedings will be fonnd under the appropriate head. We publish in another colamn an interesting state- ment made by Dr. Wynne Wefore the Special Com- mittee of the Board of Councilmen appointed to con- sider the propriety of establishing @ foundling hospi tal in this city. The doctor evinced considerable research on the subject in giving the history of foundling hospitals from the eighth century to the present time, and presenting numerous statistics in regard to them, illegitimate offxpring and still births. He did not express any opinion as to the establish- ment of a foundling hospital here; but his statement tends to show that it would be advantageous to e-tablish one, The Metropolitan Police Commissioners met yes ‘Yerday, bot transacted no business of great impor- tance. A communication was received from Thad deus Hyatt, Esq., offering free of charge the use of the building No. 120 West Broadway for the accom- modation of lodgers during the winter. Mayor Wood ‘was not present. The Board went into secret session at3 P.M. The trial of James Shepherd, charged with arson inthe first degree, was continued in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. A number of witnesses were examined for the prosecution, whose evidence although entirely gircumstantial, points strongly against the accused. In the afternoon counsel for the prisoner opened the case for the defence, and after the examination of one witness the Court ad journed its further hearing till this morning. In the case of Donnelly, convicted of the murder ©f Moses at the Sea View House last summer, the New Jersey Court of Appeals have affirmed the judg ment of the Sapreme Court. An application is to be made to the Court of Pardons for a commutation of yrnishment; and, if that fails, the culprit will suffer ile extreme sentence of the law on the 8th proximo. The United States steamer Powhatan sailed from Norfolk yesterday for Madeira and China, with ex- President Pieree and family as passengers to the first nemed port. The brig Georgia, Capt. Carlisle, from Philadel- phia, with a cargo of coal, ran ashore at 6 o'clock yesterday morning on the bar of Jones’ Inlet, oppo: hte Freeport, N.J. If the weather becomes stormy sie will prove a total lom. Her captain and crew wore saved. The foard of Aldermen met lest evening and adopted a report giving the receiver of the Crystal Palace to the lst of May noxt to remove that edifice. A resolution appropriating $3,000 for the purchase of broken stone for the and other roads in the northerly part of the city was also adopted. ‘The steamship Kangaroo, which left this port on Thuraday for Liverpool, took out three hundred pas- songers and $266,000 in specie. The amount and value of American produce re- tained in the interior at the close of 1857 will be larger than has probably ever occurred before in the his- tory of the country, the cause of which has been attributed in part to the sudden and serious con- traction of the banks, and the setting in of a severe panic soon after the commencement of the forward- ing season of the present year’s crops. This panic bore with such pressure on the banks in the interior as to disable them from affording the usual facilities to commission houses for them to ship pro- duce to the seaboard, as had been customary in otber years. Some part of the detention must also be ascribed to the apathy of farmers either to pay debts or to sell their produce at fair market prices. These causes, or whatever else, have had the effect of keeping back produce to a most extraordinary extent. If we assume, which no one doubts, that the crops of all kinds have been Areater this year than they were in 1856, and con- sider the falling off in receipts at tidewater, or in the seaports this year, compared with last up to this period, an estimate of the amount of the deficiency can be formed, and its value ascertained by cyrrent average prices, Thus, hy comparing the jency of receipts of produce at Albany -this with those of last year, and fixing the average prices cur- rent for each, we shall find, from a careful pxamina- tion of the official tables, that the total! value of the deficiency or of the produce retained in the country, below the receipts of last year, amounts fo about $17,729,986. The cotton crop of 1m one imagines to be below that of last year, and no doubt exceeds it. Yet the deficiency of “receipts at the Southern ports amounts to 331,000 bales, which, estimating the bales at 400 pounds each, and the average price at ten cents per th., or $40 per bale, gives a total value for the whole retained in the country of 315,250,000. This, added to the value of the deficiencies in the receipts at tidewater, Albany, gives the following results:— Value of byeadstufts and provisions in the inte. rior not forthcoming at Albany Value of cottow not forthoom: ‘Total. As the crops have exceeded in amount those of last year, and taking the deficiencies at ether points, we may safely estimate the probable total value of produce retained in the interior at about 35,600,000. This amount of agricultural produce must come forward, and be superadded to the busi- ness of next spring, after allowing it to be equal to what it was during the past spring, and thus greatly augment the trade of the season, giving increased activity to transportation lines, and renewed life to all branches of trade. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 300 bales, chiefly in small lots to spinners, without change in prices. Dealers were disposed to await the receipt of the Europa's news. Flour was without change of moment in prices, while sales were to, a moderate extent to the home trade, with some parcels for export. Wheat was steady, with a fair amount of sales at prices given in another column. Prime to choice white parcels continued to be scarce. Corn sold moderately at T7c. a 79. for Western mixed and at 60c. a 6%. for new Southern and Jersey. Rye sold . for Northern. Pork was dull, with limited sales at 15 75 for uninspected country mess, and $16 50 for city new, inspected. Prime was at $lda $14 25. A sale of 100 bhds. new crop New Orteans sugar, fair to prime qualities, was made by auction yesterday, which drew a good aad spirited company, and the prices obtained ranged from a 8c., which were considered to be very full rates; anc wut 700 a 800 hhds. Cuba muscovado, with small lot Porto Rico, and 200 bhds. moiado were sold to the trade at rates given elsewhere. Coffee was quiet. Freights for grain were firmer, with more offering, out 30,000 bushels were taken for Liverpool at 4}¢4. aSd.,and about 2,500 3,000 bbls. four at Is. 6d., with olleake to London at 2s. Central American Affairs in England—New Mode of Diplomacy. The novelty of a British Minister ostensibly appointed to Central America taking a house at Washington and calmly settling down there for the winter, at a time when thatqovernment is so ably represented near our own, has caused a good deal of remark and not a little of conjec- ture as to what euch a singular course might mean. It seems, however, that M is a new mode of diplomacy with this country which my Lord Palmerston has adopted. Not that it is a new mode with him, for his past history in the con- duct of British foreign affairs gives abundant proof of his readinem to resort to what may be called the commerce of diplomacy in order to carry out his purposes, It was in something of this way that the famous Greek claim was | managed a few years since; and the same prac- tice took Chevalier Wikoff into the shader of Broadlands, and fitted him out for a visit to Louis Napoleon. Palmerston always has work | to be done that cannot be ao well entrusted to the regular Minister, and so he resorts to a little polite and good natured by-play, consults the shrewd men on ‘Change for the selection of a proper person, and then sends him off with a true mission and a feigned one. The fact is that Palmerston is well aware that Mr. Buchanan had little love for the great Clayton-Bulwer mistake; that he considered it not only an unwise step in our policy, but really a clog upon us, and an obstacle in our path: and that he would not hesitate to say so to Congress, and probably recommend its enti abrogation. This did not at all suit the pur. poses of my Lord Palmerston, for it would over- | turn all his nice little schemes about the domi- nions of his pet, King George of Mosquitia, the English negro filibusters of Ruatan, and the whole system of “spontaneous settlement” of Central America, as Lord Clarendon softly terme it. Perhaps something might be done by a little soft talk with “old Buck,” and a great deal more by a system of good dinners and pleasant parties 'n Washington, after the man ner of Clarendon’s friend, the Chevalier Webb. Immense grants of land to railroad speculators, job work with Santa Anna, and the Mexican in- demnity, and many other such things, had been got through Congress by « judicious system of honeyfuggling; and why should not a thing be stopped from going through the same means? But Lord Napier could not very well under- take this sort of business. He could not compro- mise his position by elbowing railrond specula- tore, book jobbers, land eharpers and others in the lobby of Congress; nor could he have a plate or two extra on his table daily for a friendly mem- | ber of either house, Such a course would be open to suepicion, and might be talked about Somebody. therefore, must be found who could dine and wine the influential members of the lobby, chat in a pleasant gentlemanly way with a Congressman, and do the genteel «mall talk with the ladies, from other reasons than that of having @ particularly dull axe to grind. Pal- merston was puzzled to find one whe could do all this, and at the same time give « plausible reason for it; and eo he consulted the Yankee bankers in London, who have a particularly sharp eye for the main chance. They knew just the man; married in America, wife has plenty of relations, and a circle of friends large enovgh to take in Congress, lobby and all; be. | each year, sides, he wrote a book about somethfig there, and knows everybody himself, from tho Presi- dent down, Palmerston did notcare much for the book, but the wide cirele of relations aad friends was just the thing. The lobby, perhaps, could save the Cla; treaty, and Pal- merston would like to try his hand at lobbying in Washington, just as he has lobbied in every court in Europe. It suited his level of diplo- macy exactly, and so we have a double-headed mission in Washington, with an eye to Central America, and a sharp lookout for the Clayton- Bulwer treaty in the lobby. ‘The Railways During the Revulston, As it is pretty well. known that the railwsys were the first,occasion of the financial panic of last fall, some curiosity isfelt to inquire how they have gone through it, and how they stand at the present time. It is regarded as some- what surprising that none of them have failed, and none been sold out. And as, judging from the stock board, the value of most of them mast have considerably increased since last Octoler, a pretty general desire is felt to know how that increase took place, and to what it must be as- cribed. At the time the pantc began, any at the date of the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Com- pany, very many of the railways of the United Statee were actually insolvent. Many, such as the Michigan Southern, Erie, New York Cen- tral. Michigan Central, Cleveland and Toledo, &c., were at the same time paying copious divi- dends and carrying crushing debts. With one hand they borrowed money; with theother they paid it out, in the guise of profits. This system had been practised for years and was well nigh universal. There were of course som railways, such as the New Jersey roads, the Hertford and New Haven, the Chicago and Rock Island, and perhaps a few others, which did not cheat the public and their stockholders in this sys- tematic half yearly method. But they were the exceptions; of our railroad financiering in general, the corner stone and foundation were the practice of paying divi- dends out of borrowed money aad the art of falsifying accounts. And this was what brought first the railways and next the merchants to the brink of universal bankruptcy. It need hardly be said that in a community where money is worth on the average nine per cent all the year round, the rotten railways could not borrow the money for their dividends at a low rate of interest, or get it easily at any rate at all. They paid usually from eighteen to thirty-six per cent for money in easy times ; when the bank contraction of August came, they could get none at all, and the leading borrowers broke or suspended. One or two, we believe, made assignments: a great many obtained extensions. A movement wos then made to try a flash of honesty as a novel experiment in railroad financiering. A number of excellent men, mer- chants of integrity and character, volunteered to take hold of two of the worst and most rot- ten concerns, the Michigan Southern and the Cleveland and Toledo. They were elected to the direction accordingly. They adopted the astoundingly original idea of telling their stockholders the truth about the road and its finances; and followed this with the still more amazing innovation of stopping all divi- dends till the floating debt of the road was paid. This startling departure from time- honored customs caused no little consternation in well bred railway circles, and led to much denunciation of the graceless innovators, We are indulged to the hope, however, that the lat- ter have been enabled to survive it. And we believe that their system, daring as it was, has proved so far successful that the Cleveland and Toledo is already out of danger, and the Michi- gan Southern not irretrievably gone. There is a hope left for the latter; the former is actually saved. Deeds less wonderful than these have been accounted miracles. In contrast with these cases we have several in which the effort to infuse new blood into old concerns, and to resort to honesty as a last re- source, has proved unsuccessful. Prominent among these is the Erie Railroad, which is going at last, and will in all probability be brought to the hammer early next year, Still mom con- spicuous and valuable as a lesson is the famous New York Central Railroad, which aspires to govern the State. A number of stockholders in this concern tried to introduce new men and a new system; they were indignantly resisted by the direction, and outvoted by the rural stockholders. Instead of doing any good, the effort has only riveted still closer on the con- cern the clasp of the President—who, as is known, receives no salary, but sells the con- cern all the iron it wants—and of the directors who do his bidding. The first» fruits of the victory are seen in the report just pub- lished, which certainly, fgg bold impudence and unblushing deception, casts even the former reports of the same concern into the shade. While it is known that, for three or four years, the debt of the company has increased, by the exact amount paid in divi- dends, we are told that over ten per cent has been earned; while it is known that no such road as the Central can be operated under six- ty-five to seventy per cent, we are told that the cost of operating wae only fifty-five; and, in keeping with these, our old acquaintance, the famous item $8,559,976 for “future income” (being the estimated future profits of the road for many years, bundled together), is again made to do duty to balance the account. It is easy to tell what will become of a road managed like this. The bulk of the roads of the North may be classed under one of these two heads. Either they have gone into new hands, and under honest management, are preparing, at the cost of present dividends, to become good property; or else, like the Erie and Central, they remain in the old hands, are managed as corruptly and badly as ever, and are slowly butsurely sinking into ruin. The winter will test them, and will divide the sheep from the goats; there are many, we fear, which will not live to take advantage of the revival of business in the spring. Loxe Jons Wextwhrtn Comme Over vo THe Apsunisrration.— We have before us the Chicago Demoerat (Long John Wentworth’s paper), a leading Fremont organ in the last Presidential campaign; and we find in this paper a conspicu- ons editorial sustaining the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan as the policy of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and pitching into Mr. Douglas with a will against his present factious oppgsition to the administration. Thus it seeme that this Kansas dodge of Mr. Douglas is a sword which cute both ways. Really, it is possible that Mr. Doug- las, Mr. Forney, and the various democratic organs on their side, have been following Gov- ernor Walker a little too far. Failure of the New French Slave Trade. Louis Napoleon's nigger speculation between Wydah and Martinique does not seam to turn out very well, if we msy credit an article from the London News, which we publish in another column. When we first denounced this operation to the world, it was roundly asserted, both in’ France and England, that it was a great bu- manitarian project, which was to bring over to the West Indies a few hundred thousand Africans, who, after serving six or ten years on a sugar plantation, at the handsome wages of eleven franes (about $2) a month, were to re- turn to their own country with a pocket full of savings, and so firmly grounded in Christian doctrine as to be able to preach salvation to their benighted brethren. Besides this, the high and humane governments of Europe, un- dertaking and consenting to this humanitarian enterprise, were to see that every Krooman or Congo negro was not imposed upon, but that he could read, understand, and sign his con- tract in his own proper person. The prosecution of this French nigger speculation has developed the fact that there are very few if any free negroes in Africa to apprentice themselves to labor. “In the Euro- -pean settlements and factories, scattered, so use- fully along the coast,” says the London News, “as also in the American republic of Liberia, and the Kroo country, native labor” is dot ab- solutely free, so the French traders went to the old slave mart of Wydah. Here, however, they offered only fifty dollars a head for able bodied men, while the regular slave dealers of- fered one hundred. Thus driven from the mar- ket there, the French ship had gone on to the river Gaboon to fill up. One of the effects of this new French trade was to set not only the King of Dahomey on a slave hunt, but the chiefs of the great missionary town of Absokuta, re- cently set up by a special act of Palmerston, had also gone into the same business. Another curious thing is exhibited in the News’ de- nouncement of the French scheme. That jour- nal sneeringly alludes to “the boasted advan- tages of a six years’ compulsory service on the sugar plantations of Martinique and Guada- lupe,” conveniently forgetting the five years’ compulsory service of the coolies on the sugar plantations of Mauritius and Demerara, and of the Chinese in Cuba. - These European philosophers, in their anxiety to obtain all the advantages of slave labor without the name of slavery, are perfectly willing to secure at nominal wages the forced services of ne- groes, coolies and Chinese during their prime; but are not willing to come under obligations to support the worn out laborer after he has been used up on a sugar plantation, as is incur- red by the master under the obnoxious syatem of slavery. We have painted this new French scheme in its true lights, from its very first inception; and the results which it isexhibiting in Africa are rapidly bearing out our assertions. In the colo- nies its ultimate effect will be equally, if not far more pernicious. When the term of service of these apprentices shall have expired they will not desire to return to Africa, to become again the slaves of ignorant and barbarous chiefs. This is abundantly demonstrated in Cuba, where hundreds of Africans annually liberate them- selves, under the benign provisions of the Spanish laws, but whence they never desire to return totheir native country. Those of the French apprentices who are still able bodied may obtain a renewed term of service, but those who are not able to labor will become paupers; and'Within the present generation both the French and the English colonies will be weighed down with an immense pauper popula- tion, steeped in ignorance and vice. This re- sult is already beginning to be attained in the English colonies of Jamaica, Demerara and others, and every statesman having the true in- terests of those colonies and of humanity at heart will oppose a policy which must produce such untoward results. Harp Times ror THe Fiopiers.—We see by the accounts of our city reporters that the dancing business isin a bad way, both in the upper and lower strata of society. Someof the fashionable dancing schools up town are almost without pupils, while business is equally bad with our fellow-citizens who attend to the heels of the people of the Bowery. Old Tammany, which was wont to re-echo nightly with the shake-downs of the unterrified, is now almost deserted. The Apollo, which was devoted alike to the worship of the god of Music and the fair and free Terpsichore, has been obliged to re- duce its prices; the City Assembly Rooms, Niblo’s Saloon, and other popular resorts for the saltatorial youth of the city, have followed in the same track. There is evidently some discord among the fiddlers, and the dancers’ heel: are not so light as usual. The fact of the matter is that the chief sup- porters of the public balls are merchante’ clerks and smart young mechanics. Many of the for mer have bean obliged to take reduced salaries, or have been thrown out of employment alto- gether, while the latter are worse off, if possi- ble, many works having stopped in the autumn and nothing new to be commenced dur- ing the winter. Up town things are not much better. We hear of no balls at the Academy except Booby Brooks’ charity affair, which, though he is much in need of assistance, will be very likely to fall through. The Light Guard, which usually gives a ball in aid of the Monumental fund of the corps, has not yet de- cided whether or not one shall be given this season, There Will be very few balls in private houses. A great many fashionable people will go to Washington, which is expected to be as way this winter as New York will be dall. We notice that the calico movement is «pread- ing among some of the best families. A party of this kind is provocative of a great deal of fun. The ladies are obliged to dress in calico or some cheap stuff, and the gentlemen are at- tired in a similar manner. The music is fur- nished by amateur pianists, who relieve each other at the instrument after every dance. The refreshments are confined to cold water, bread and butter. Parties in this way are more se- lect and freed from the annoyance of snobs, who go only to guzzle champagne and stuff them- selves with oysters. Ifthe Booby Brooks chari- ty ball is to come offat all, we recommend that it be made a charity ball in fact—that the la- dies and gentlemen be required to give what they would pay for gewgaws and flummery to the poor, and that the Brookses lead off the sub- scription with something handsome. There is no great danger that our suggestion will be ac cepted. They get up this ball for their own purposes; they are the poor people to be re- lieved. They are attempting now the same game they played two years ago, and ja which they had the assistance of some good people who never can see beyond the ends of their noves. But it won't work twice. There is exch a thing as running charity into the ground. JR. "Port of the Secretary of the Intextor. The facts and statements set forth in this documem are particularly deserving of attention from the great interests of which it treats. The report commentces with a reference to the vast extent of the put'lic domain, which, we are in- formed, covers a surface, exclusive of water, of one thousand four hundred and fifty million of acres, stretching across the continent, embracing evory variety of climate and soil, abounding in agricultural, mineral and timber wealth, every- where inviting to enterprise, and capable of yielding support to man. Of this, something over four hundred millions have been surveyed and prepared for market. The Secretary urges with ‘muoh force the ex- tension of pre-emption privileges to alternate reserved railroad sections in cases where settle- ments have been made after the final allotment —preference in every case to be given to actual settlers over all others. .The lands are put up at $1 25 per acre, and their sale to this class of owners should be supported, as the best means of not only increasing their value, but of check- ing that system of land speculation which Congress should use all the means in its power to break up. A just and commendable regard is mani- fested for the improvement of the condition of the Indians; and as the most efficient plan to secure this desirable object, the Secretary re- commends that they be collected on smaller reservations and in denser settlements—a re- commendation which is strengthened by the fact that such a course would tend to do away with those nomadic habits which extensive reservations only keep alive, and which must prove unfavorable to their civilization and progress. It is pleasing to hear that the Choc- taws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Crecks are in such a prosperous condition, and that they are steadily improving in education and the industrial arts. Upon the subject of pensions the Secretary is very emphatic, and very just in his strictures. He is decidedly opposed to granting the claims of the children, the grandchildren and great- grandchildren of Revolutionary soldiers, and says that “they should be contented in the rich inheritance derived from a glorious ancestry, in the liberties they enjoy, and in the institu- tions which give them protection.” Besides, he adds, Congress has not been unmindful of Revolutionary heroes—over sixty-one millions of dollars having been paid to them since 1818, in addition to large donations of land and dis- bursements of money under other laws. The frauds that have been attempted to pro- cure land warrants meet with proper attention, and an extension of the limit now made by the law for the prosecution of offences of this cha- racter urged as the best remedy for their pre- vention. The recommendation made in the President's Message that the inhabitants of the District of Columbia be allowed a representa- tive in Congress is also urged in this report, and their claims to a’voice in the national legis- lature presented with much force. Dhis is a proposition which should receive the concur- rence of every member of Congress. The repeated applications of United States District Attorneys for compensation for extra services is alluded to as a serious abuse, which it is proposed to remedy by increasing the sala- ties of those officials—the increase to cover all their obligations for services rendered to the government. Asa means of meeting the difficulties grow- ing out of the law in regard to patents, the Secretary recommends, as the most feasible plan, the creation of a permanent Board of Re- view, to consist of members selected from the examiners of the office, and who shall be known as the Examiners in Chief. This Board is to determine on all appeals from the judg- ment of the primary examiners, except in case of appeal where any of them may have formed and expressed an opinion. The recommendations are worthy of consideration, and with the many admirable suggestions and propositions contain- edin the report, will, it is to be hoped, meet with that attention and prompt action to which their importance entitles them at the hands of Congress. Tue Prosrect tx Kawnsas.—The affairs of Kansas, in Kansas, are in a state of “ confurion worse confounded” than ever before. The election, upon the Lecompton , constitutional issue of “slavery” or “no slavery,” is ap- | pointed for the 21st inst.; but in the meantime, under the call of Secretary Stanton, the free State party Legislature has assembled, and will probably have the requisite free State majority to carry through their measures of repeal, over the veto of the new acting Governor, Denver. But the acts of thie Legislature can have no bind- ing authority, inasmuch as it does not come le- gally into existence till the Ist of January. The only danger is that its proceedings, in the mean- time, may be accepted as authoritative by the free State party, and thus lead them into acts of violence; but, notwithstanding all this, should the election of the 2ist inst. result in a popular verdict in behalf of the Lecompton constitu- tion, and “no slavery,” this constitution, thus adopted, will be acceptable to Congress, and | upon the faith of it Kansas will be admitted into the Union as a State; and, that done, there will be an end of this senseless agitation. Meantime, everything depends upon the issue of the ptesent complications between the con- flicting authorities and parties and political cliques and spoilsmen of Kansas. War or rae Frisvsters?—A private des patch has been received in this city from New Orleans, dated on the 10th inst., stating that the steamer Fashion had not yet returned, and that fears were entertained there that she had gone down in the Gulf of Mexico, with all on board, during a gale of wind that occurred shortly af- ter she left Mobile bay. This steamer, over- laden as she was, would probably not be able to stand a severe gale of wind at sea; but it does not seem that the simple fact of the delay in her return is sufficient foundation for the belief that she has perished with her living freight. She left Mobile on the 14th ult., and, from what we can learn, would not only pursue a round- about course to her destination, but had to make a rendeavous with a eailing vessel loaded with arms and equipments which was despatch- ed from here. If, as we suppose, Walker has directed his course to the Colorado mouth of the San Juan, he may be detained several days in getting over the shifting sand and mud bars in ite channel. Time will also be required for her to ascend the San Juan river, in which de- lays may again take place. We may learn something about her when the Aspinwall steam- Gt arrives mest week. Tus Mormon Rusx.tiow —Bridusk Youne DeveRMNED TO Seow Ficut.—From the tener of private letters which we have received fromm the Utah military expedition it seems now cer- tain that the Mormons will make a fight of it, They are stated to have a much larger force inthe field than the United States can possibly bring against them at the present season, and they are @etermined not to lose the advantage which their numerical superiority affords them. Brigham Young feels that he is now so compromised that he cannot recede from the position he has ag- sumed as a rebel against the federal authority. Indeed, if le could do 20, there is a question € | he would. The arrangements that have been 60 lorg in preperation for a removal from the United States jurisdiction, the prohibition issued to the faithful in Great Britain not te send apy more emigrants to this country, and the arming and drilling which have been carried on for so many months past amongst the popu- lation of Salt Lake Valley, are all evi- dences of a long formed resolution to aban- don the political protection of the United States. No stepfather was ever relieved of @ more troublesome legacy than Uncle Sam will be by the rebellion and flight of these fanatics, Their existence within our ter- ritories was a standing reproach to our instita- tions, although, philosophically viewed, it only served to show the uncompromising extent te which the principle of religious toleration is pushed amongst us. It is better, as a rule, that we should suffer some inconvenience from the excesses of this principle than that the liberty of conscience should be infringed in the alight- est degree. Fortunately the outrageous pride and stubbornness of Brigham Young and hisfol- lowers are aout to relieve us from the em+ barrassments occasioned by their depravity. Not contented with the toleration of their dis gusting heresies, they have dared to set the federal authority at open defiance, and they must now either emigrate en masse from our territories, or make an unconditional submis- sion to the government. As the latter alterna- tive would involve the annihilation of Brigham Young's influence over the sect, and probably lead to its total dissolution, his policy is obvi- ously to compromise his people to the utmost against the authority of the United States, so as to compel them to follow him to another and more isolated region, where he can rivet still closer the fetters of his despotic and sensual rule, In order to do this he will court instead of avoid a collision with the United States troops; and the official despatches expected im Washington last night will in all probability bring us the details of the first actual conflict between them. Tuk New Kansas Excrremest a Faruore at Wasuinoron.—According to our advices from Washington the Kansas coup d’éat of Governor Walker and Senator Douglas is nothing but a flash in the pan, after all. It appears that upon the question of confirming Mr. Denver, the new Secretary of State for Kansas, Senator Douglas led off with a speech in opposition to the con- firmation ; but that when the vote was called, the democrats in a body stood firm by the ad- ministration, excepting Mr. Broderick, of Cali- fornia, who left the chamber in the wake of Mr. Douglas. This is a sorry show for the rebel- lious Senator, and pretty forcibly indicates his weukness in this new movement. In the House of Representatives his defection does not appear to have made the slightest impression. From these significant evidences of the temper of the democracy of both branches of Congress, we begin to think that this Walker and Douglas coup d’#at against the administration will proba- bly prove as contemptible a fizzle as the terrible uproar of the Sonthern fire-eaters last summer against Mr. Buchanan, for his audacious refusal, upon their demand, to remove Gov, Walker. Let the Lecompton constitution be brought be- fore Congress, without slavery, and let Congress adopt it, and leave Kansas to take care of her- self, and the political capital of Northern dirt- eaters and Southern fire-eaters will be scattered tothe winds, , Gove To Wasuiveton.—It appears that Gov. Walker has gone to Washington; but we fear that he goes on an unprofitable mission, While here in this city, we understand, he was very free and very indiscreet in his denunciations of the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan, in refe- rence to the Lecompton constitution. On the other hand, the President will perhaps find it convenient to dispense with the official services of Gov. Walker, in view of the early admission of Kansas as a State. THE LATEST | NEWS. Non-Arvdival or ‘the | Callfornia Steamer at New Orleans, New Oniaans, Dec 11-9 P. M. The steamship Empire City, from New York via He vana, has not yet arrived at this port. She was tocon- nect at Havana with the Star of the West, from Aspinwall, with the California mails of November 20. WHT OF MOV. WALKER TO KANSAS —HIS REMOVAL REGARDED AS CERTAIN—DEFECTION OF THE INDIANA DELEGATION—THE DEMOCRATIC SR- NATORIAL CAUCUS—THE TEMUANTRPRC AND SOUTH: ERN PACIFIC RAILROAD ROUTES—GEN. CA! DIPLOMATIC DINNER OF THE SEASON, RTO. Wasmvoros, Deo, 11, 1867. It is rumored here that Gov. Waiker has left post haste for Kansar, with a view to being removed by the Prea- dent, Another ram r is current this evening to the effet that Gov. Walker bas been removed from the governor ship of Kansas. If he has not already been he will bein less than a fortnight. Kt ia stated in confidential circles that the democratic delegation from Indiana bave had a long interview with Presider Buchanan, in the course of which they sald that, on fall consultation, they could not support the Le compton Constitution after the export of Senator Doug- lass. There can be no doubt that euch a consultation wae hold. The caucus of democratic <enators met to-day at cleren o'clock. They took no final action relative to the printing question. There is a strong disposition to throw the Union establishment, with all its various ramifications, over- board. They appointed a committee of five to arrange the Senate committees. ‘The new Tebuantepec Company, headed by Mr. La Sere, the President, arrived here today. The road, they state, ie rapidly progressing, and will shortly be ready for the transportation of the United States mail Hon. Vernon K. Stevenson, President of the Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, is here, and had an interview today with Senator Gwin on the subject of Congressional aid to this great enterprise, a8 recommend. ed by Mr. Buchanan, A grand diplomatic dinner was given this evening by Secretary Cass. The Prosident and all the Cabinet were Present, including a large number of distingué individuals, This is the first of a series which will be kept up during: the winter. In Naval Court No. 1 today, Mr. Berrien, clerk in the Fourth Auditor's office, was examined in behalf of Liew. Porter. Documentary evidence wae submitted by the applicant. In Court No. 2, in the case of Commander dobnaon, Lieut. Nichole and Dr. Addison were examined for the government. Before Court No. 3, in the case of Commaader Glynn, docamentary evidence was submitted ‘and the testimony was closed. The defence will be read on Monday by Hon. James Cooper, of Pennsylvania. THR ORSERAL NEWHPAPRR DESPATOR, Wasawatoy, Deo, 11, 1867. Honaior Bigies, ia order Ww Correct misapprobensien .