The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1857, Page 4

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The Empire City has arrived at New Orleans from Havana, where she connected with the Star of the West, from Aspinwall, with the Pacific mails and the semi-monthly shipment of gold from California. ‘The Star of the West has on board $2,250,000, the largest sum ever shipped for this port in any one veesel, There is no news of importance from Cali- fornia. We have, however, by this arrival, the important intelligence of the successful landing of Gen. Walker at Punta Arenas, opposite Greytown, in Nicaragua, on the 25th ult., with one hundred ‘and fifty of his followers. He had previously landed fifty men at the @olorado mouth of the river San Juan. On en- tering the harbor, Walker's steamer—the Fashion— passed boldly under the stern of the sloop-of-war Saratoga, and disembarked her enterprising freight of filibusters without molestation. She then pro- ceeded to Aspinwall, where she was searched by the frigate Wabash; but her papers were found to be all perfectly regular, and she was not detained. The United States and British naval vessels at Aspinwall, however, immediately got under way for Greytown. A despatch from New Orleans states that there were four hundred men on board the Fashion, and that one thousand men are shortly to leave Mobile to re- inforce Walker. The steamship Europa, now in her fifteenth day out from Liverpool, had not been signalized off Sandy Hook at midnight last night. The steamship Pulton sailed from this port yester- day for Havre with fifty-nine passengers and $630, 000 in specie. Following the lead of the New York banks, the banks of Albany, Boston and New Haven have re- solved to resume specie payments. The Queen of Spain has conferred upon Captain José Bosch, of the Spanish brig Jacinto, the first class cross of the “Order of Beneficencia,” for his bumanity in picking up at sea and restoring to their ship the three whale boats containing the captain and most of the crew of the American bark Alto, of New Bedford, on the 22d and 23d of July last. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, Judge Ingraham delivered a decision in the case of Jonas Phillips vs. the Corporation, for salary as Coun- cilman, adverse to the claim. ‘The trial of James Shepherd for arson in the first degree, which has occupied the attention of the Court of Sessions since Thursday, will be continued on Monday, when counsel will make the closing speeches and the case will be submitted to the jury. Theodore Sedgwick has been appointed United States District Attorney for New York in place of John McKeon, removed. We give elsewhere a resumé of the number of per- sons under confinement either on sentence of death or charged with murder. The list will be found to be larger than at any time within a number of years. From the report of the City Inspector it appears there were 354 deaths in the city last week, a de- crease of 59 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. Of the whole number, 200 were under ten years of age and 43 inmates of the public institutions. Some alarm has been felt in certain sections of the city during the past fortnight at the unusual number of cases of smallpox that have occurred. Upon investigation, however, satisfactorily ascertained that the disease had NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 186. given in besa place. Corn was steady, with sales of new Bouthern white at 65c. a 68c., and Jersey new, mixed and yellow, at 60c. a 65¢.; old Western mixed, was nomi- nalat 75c.@ 76¢. Pork continued dull, with sales of country uninspected mees at $15 25, and old city inspected mess | at $16. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 200 8300 it was | manifested itself in « mild form only, and readily | yielded to medical treatment. But few deaths have resulted from the disease—only eight being report- ed for the past week and fourteen the week pre- | ceding. We recommend onr readers to peruse the notice ixsved by the City Inspector respecting vac cination, which we publish in another column. The following table exhibits the number of deaths during the last two wecks among adults aud children, dis- tinguishing the sexes: Men. Women. Boye. Girls. Total Week ending Dec. 5 8 vo m4 le 48 Week endag Leo, 12, 7 76 iz 8o Oo Among the principal causes of death were the fol- fowing:— Consumption oo Convulsions (\ulantile). “ 29 Seperation of the lungs u Inflammation of brain Q 10 Bearlet fever. “ Marasmur (infantile) ai Dropsy in the bead 13 Measles... 4 There were also 7 deaths of apoplexy. 5 of typhus fever, 5 of inflammation of the bowels, 3 of teething © prematare births, 21 stillborn, and 16 from violent ‘Causes, including 4 suicides, 1 murder, and 5 gered or acalded. ‘The following is @ classification of the diseases and the number of deaths in each class of disease during Dee. 6. Dee. 12 Bones, joints, &« 1 rn Brain and nerves “ 4 Geverative organs 4 4 Heart and blood vessels 16 ae rr 7 8 2 Bain a eruptive fevers t 20. ttl!born and premature births 6 6 Ftomach bowels and other digestive organs 4 0 Uncertain seat and general fevers 6 Unknown * i Lrimary organs wo 8 Total The umber of deaths, compared with the corr | Week ending Te Week ending Dec Week ending Dec 5, 1867 Week ending rx 987 The nativity table gives 230 natives of the U: nited Btates, 68 of Ireland, 35 of Germany, 10 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. The salee of cotton yesterday were confined to about 100 f 200 bales, without change in prices. Flour was dull, and @he market closed at n decline of about 5 cents per barrel ehietiy the lower grades of State and Western, while ’ to a moderate extrr@, chiefly to the home trade w for capOrk There wae a Bale dymaaud fog hhds. Cuba muscovado, 190 boxes and 175 hhds. molado at steady prices. Coffee was steady, with sales of 1,000 mats of Java, 300 bags Rio and 60 Maracaibo at steady rates. Freights were without change of momeat in rates. ‘To Liverpool about 25,000 bushels of wheat, in bolk and bags, were engaged at 4;d. a Sd., with flour at 1s. 64. To Glasgow about 26,000 bushels of grain were taken, per packet bark Jane Daggett, at 64. to 84d, in bulk and bags. Some fiour was engaged to London at 2%., and oil cake at 2s, per barrrel. Mr. Senator Douglas and his New Position on the Kansas Question. Some of our Seward cotemporaries who have heretofore regarded Mr.Senator Douglas as no- thing more than a tricky politician, carrying more sail than ballast, have suddenly discover- ed that he is really possessed of the highest at- tributes of a great statesman. On the contrary, we fear that in this Kansas coup d'état against the administration Mr. Douglas has sunk the policy ofthe statesman in the selfish calcula- tions of the scheming pettifogger. He has be- come a special pleader upon technicalities and nice abstractions in a matter concerning which the practical statesman would be guided by the more pressing exigencies of the case. Among the sagacious framers of our govern- ment there were many and various opinions, prejudices and conflicting theories in relation to slavery, but fow the sake of union and harmony in their counsels and in the confederacy they agreed upon those mutual concessions which resulted in that beautiful fabric of sectional compromises—the federal constitution. They never could have agreed. and there would have been no union among these States, had the North or the South made the extinction of sla- very or the extension of slavery the paramount question. So in regard to the great Missouri compro- mise. There was a fearful sectional division in Congress upon the question of admitting Mis- souri as a slave State; and but for the mutual concessions, as between the North and the South, brought forward in that compromise line of 36 30, the sectional excitement of the time would probably have ended only with the dissolution of the Union. The emergency called for prac- tical statesmanship, and in Henry Clay, Mr. Calhoun and their co-laborers of that day, the call was answered, and the country wasrestored to peace, and along peace, upon this ticklish question of niggers, by the simple remedy of the Missouri compromise. Had abstractions and technicalities prevailed, that compromise could not have passed; for, tried by the touch- stone of the constitution, it was clearly a Con- gressional usurpation of power. In 1882-33, upon the tariff question, Mr. Cal- houn ceased to be a great national states- man, consulting the exigencies of the times, and became, upon nice abstractions, and hair- splitting coastructions of State rights, a sec- tional politician. From that false step he never recovered the position he had lost. But here, again, Mr. Clay, as the great pacificator, inter- posed a plan of compromise which secured the cheerful acquiescence even of South Carly: and saved Old Hickory the trouble of redu her fire-eaters to submission by a more compul- sory process. In 1850, when the Union was again threaten- ed with a violent disruption upon this everlast- ing slavery trouble, Mr. Clay again promptly threw himself into the breach and brought for- ward his schedule of compromises, which again gave peace to the country. In this good work he was bravely and aetively supported through- out by Mr. Douglas. In fact, the conspicuous part played by Mr. Douglas in the compromise acts of 1850 established him upon an exalted and enviable national reputation. We fear, however, that from this point the ambition of Mr. Douglas has outstripped his discretion, and that his visions of the White House have too much controlled his movements, both as a states- man and a politician. He has been a little too quick with his Kansas coup d'@at in the Senate. The Lecompton constitution is not before that body, and no man can tell the precise shape in which it will be presented to Congress, Wecan only account for the haste of Mr. Douglas, in defining his new position, upon the presumption | that he desired more the honor of the first blow against the administration, as political capital, than the peaceable settlement of this Kansas difficulty. We suspect that some shortcomings of the Cincinnati Convention, and some misgiv- ings in regard to the next National Democratic Convention at Charleston, intermingled with some unsettled balances against Mr. Buchanan, underlie this Kansas coup d'état of the bold and daring Ilinois Senator. That correspondence of his last summer with the President, touching a certain executive appointment at Washington, is now explained. We can now perceive that even at that time, when there was no Lecompton constitution, Mr. Douglas was charging the hombehell which he has since exploded in the Senate. In this view. thie Lecompton Convention and constitution became the convenient pretexte for the bolt long before pkemeditated and resolved upon; and it thus appears that Mr. Douglas is taking a new departure for the succession, under the disguise of a consistent vindication of “popular sovereign- ty.”” But it is the end that crowns all; and we shall probably see in the end that Mr. Douglas, in his present defence of “popular sovereignty,” is as far from the White House as in his dashing experiment of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He has discovered that there is no faith with the fire-eaters of the South, and he will in due time discover the equally unreliable charaeter of the dirt-eaters of the North. Coxermacy or tHe Der Eaters Agatnst ome Apsrnistration.—The leaders in this con- spiracy are Senator Douglas, Governor Walker, John W. Forney—in a general crusade about Kansas. The appointment of Steedman as printer to the House of Representatives, as the chief of a troupe, is a local leader in the same game. The recent municipal election in Now | York, in which the Navy Agency, the Post of- fice, the Marshal's office, the Surveyor's office, | the Assay office, the Sub-treaeury, all conenr- red, was another link in the chain of this curidus | conspiracy. The leading journals in the con *piracy are the Philadelphia Press, the Al) Argus, the Chicago Times, the Boston ost others, These are the agents in the eonspiracy of the dirt eaters of the North. The fire eaters of the South tried for six months to break down the | administration, but failed boils Ob AS RN Se and will ¢ art ‘The Landing of the Filtbusters—Walker the First in ‘The news ofthe Innding of Walker in Nicara- gua, which we publish thés morning, will take by surprise those who have insisted on sending him to the bettom of the Gulf of Mexico, and it confirms, in every point, the judgment we have on several occasions expressed recently, after a full examination of the attending circumstances. The bold filibuster landed on Scott's wharf, at Punta Arenas, opposite Greytown, on the 25th ult., with 150 men, according to the telegraphic despatch, having landed 60 at the Colorado mouth of the river, which he tried, as we sup- posed he would, but corld not enter. This is a smaller number of men than he was reported to have taken away from New Orleans and Mobile, and there will be much curiosity to know what has become of the rest of his forces. The land- ing operation, it seems, was boldly and success- fully effected, under full view of the United States sloop-of-war Saratoga, the Fashion pass- ing close under her stern, with only ten men on deck, to lull suspicion. The whole thing has been managed with great skill, and doubtless some good fortune; and a little more of the same tact and luck in the future will settle the whole batch of questions, from the Clayton- Bulwer treaty down to J¢e White's Canal Com- pany grant, and save to/Molina, Escalante and Sir William Gore Ouselyy an immense amount of sharp diplomatic negptiation. The history of Gen. Walker for the thirty days previous to his fanding in Nicaragua is more prolific in graphi¢ situations and thrilling incidents than the best romance of the century. On the 25th of October he was looked upon asa broken down adventurer, begging a few dollars on the pretext of returning to his Presidency in Nicaragua. A week later and the United States Marshal was after him. On the 11th of Novem- ber he was a prisoner before the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans. The whole fili- buster plan seemed to be upset. Giving bail to appear and answer, he started for Mobile with his men, having cleared his steamer for Grey- town, Transferred to the Fashion on the 12th, he remained aground in the bay two days, do- ing his utmost to got away. At this time the last puffs of a gale were blowing which would probably have swamped him had he got to sea. On the 14th he got off, and the filibuster plan was all right again. Then the cutters were sent after him, and the ships of the navy were watching at every point to catch him. He would surely be caught. He tries the Colorado, and fate was against him; his steamer could not enter. What can be done? The San Juan is the only avenue to enter Nicaragua, and a man-of-war lies there to catch him. Doubt now is defeat. Crouching beneath the deck of his crowded craft, he runs boldly in, and on the 25th of November once more hoists his flag on Nicara- guan soil, and prepares to defend his claim as President of the Republic. _ The question now is, who will touch him? We are told that the American and British ves- sels of war at Aspinwall hastened up to Grey- town, on learning that the filibusters had run through their well spread nets; but they can do nothing. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty pro- tects him. Neither the United States nor Eng- land can land any forces in Central America, nor exercise acts of jurisdiction there, except by mutual agreement. So reads the treaty. We must first hear from London, and then my Lord Palmerston must arrange with Gen. Cass how to arrest the filibusters. By the time these two op- posite poles of diplomacy can come to a mutual understanding, Walker the First may be past all catching, and a new page opened in the world’s history. Tur Nationa, Matt Service.—The annual re- port of the Secretary of the Navy, which we publish this morning, contains a large amount of interesting information, in addition to the usual businees and statistics of the Post Office Department. Prominent among the subjects pre- sented for the consideration of Congress are the propositfhs in regard to our foreign mail ser- vice, the regulation of the money order system, and the establishment of an ovenand mail route to our possessions on the Pacific. It should be one of the principal objects of Congress, in the consideration of our foreign mail service, to make such liberal arrangements with American steamship companies as will enable them to compete with those of England and other countries. As speed is essential in promoting and facilitating mail communi- catious between Europe and the United States, the preference should be given to the fastest vessels in the awarding of contracts, A libe- ral policy on the part of our government in this matter will prove one of the most effective means of procuring both safety and speed, and at the same time of converting the balance of postal receipts, which is at present against us, in our favor. We are pleased to perceive that the report recommends a change in the money order sys- tem, which, under the present arrangement, is entirely inadequate to the purpose it was in- tended to subserve. Those who have had occa- sion to remit money by mail know how utterly useless it is in this respect. At the same time that you are obliged to pay for the mere privi- lege of having your letters registered, there is no security whatever for their safe delivery, and if they are lost, as not unfrequently hap- pens, the department is not responsible for the contents. It is proposed, in lieu of the pre- sent system, to adopt that pursued by the Bri- tish Post Office Department, which remits sums of money not exceeding twenty-five dollars by means of orders drawn upon one postmaster ly another. This plag has been in operation in England since 1839, and has been attended with the most encouraging success. We trust that some system will be devised by our govern- ment, by which the citizen, aw well ae the Post Office Department, may be the gainer. The establishment of an overland mail route to our possessions on the Pacific coast is dis cussed with much interest, and its necessity urged with much force in this report. The most available and best route proposed—be- cause open at all seasons of the year—is said to be that hy El Paso to Tacson, Fort Yuma and San Diego, California. The great advantage of an overland route consists at present not in the rapidity of communication so much as in the developement and population of that portion of the country through which it may pass. The points selected as pest stations will form the nuclens of towns and villages; and as they will doubtless be chosen in the best and most advantageous localities, they will, necessarily, be the first localities to attract the settler in the wreat West. It is to be hoped that every rea- sonable encourage’ ment will be given to those contract to carry the who may ‘epply for a woils gyerlaad, for the seasons prospatgd. "The Wealth of the Country. ‘The resumption of epecie payments by the banks of New York will take no one by sur- prise. For weeks the suspension has been no- minal rather than real, and while the banks have been prudently hushanding the resources they had, they have ween daily gaining coin from foreign ports and from every portion of this country. It is a fact which the weekly bank reports confirm, that of the specie shipped to England by the semi-weekly steamers, only a portion comes out of our banks; the rest, and perhaps the bulk of the shipment, comes out of the pockets of private individuals and the safes of money brokers. The revulsion of 1857 demonstrates no one thing so much or 60 forcibly as the intrinsic wealth of the American people. Though, when this revulsion broke out, the men and the eor- porations who were most conspicuously arrayed before the public eye were either stricken down or only sustained at a ruinous cost; though the number of failures was almost unprecedented, and the difficulty of obtaining money on the best securities far greater than was experienced in 1837; though, at one time, the nation asa whole seemed positively prostrate, without hope of recovery; still it isa fact that the American people at large—the rank and file of the army— have hardly suffered by the events of the fall, and are still at the head of ample means to sa- tisfy their wants. Despite all the noise and cla- mor which have been made by politicians about the sufferings of the working classes, we are not inclined to think that they are much greater than they were in the winter of 1854. In such cities as New York there always is a vast amount of destitution and poverty. No doubt many persons who derived a livehood from the extravagance of our rotten rich men, and many who were in the service of the inflated corporations or individuals who have burst, have found themselves, at an unfavorable period of the year, in want of employment. Several manufacturing establishments have been forced by the hard times to close their works and discharge their hands. But when the ag- gregate of the individuals who have been real sufferers by the revulsion—the discharged work- men, the mechanics whose trade is idle, the men and women in the cities who cannot get paid by their insolvent employers—when all these are added together, and the amount compared with the total amount of people in the same class or avocation throughout the country, it will cer- tainly be found that the revulsion has only grazed society, that it has not really hurt it. It has taken off the heads of the financial world; it has wounded a few soldiers in the lowest ranks; but the great body of the nation—what the Eng- lish would call our middle classes—remain whole and unharmed. Were it otherwise, how could one account for the steady sale of articles of convenience? We have reason to believe that people are spending as much money as ever in living (we mean the middle ranks of society—not the Fifth avenue nabobs), and that the great purveyors of the public in matters of dry goods, provisions, books, and the like, are doing as good a busi- ness as usual. Articles of pure luxury are not in demand; twenty and thirty thousand dollar houses are not saleable; French silks and valen- ciennes lace are lower; but we do not believe that—outside the large cities—any considerable | portion of our people feed, or dress, or are lodged worse this winter than they were last; and we are satisfied that the increase of misery even in such cities as New York is vastly exag- gerated. The fact is, we are a rich people—in all pro- bability the richest inthe world. Wecan afford a revulsion which throws us back upon eur savings once every few years. Every profes- sion and trade in this country is, one year with another, highly remunerative; and it is the crowning characteristic of the race to which we belong to combine frugality with industry. We make money, and we save it. Every few years some of us go ahead too fast and break down. But the eorpses are quickly carried to the rear, and another battalion of available men springs up to take their place. And while the change is taking place, the great bulk of the nation, the farmer, the miller, the boatbuilder, the me- chanic, the storekeeper, fall back on their own resources, and are able to stand the siege. ‘The resumption of the New York banks, with twenty-six millions of specie in vault, typifies the whole country. The revulsion bas left us as a people richer than before. Our National Defences. An abstract of the report of the Secretary of War, has already been presented to our — j and to-day we present the report in full. addition to the usual statistical and other - | officers under the government, while by selec- tion the chances »:« in favor that the very best may be chosen. By promoting to commission from the ranks of really meritorious men, he is also of the opinion that the rank and file would be greatly elevated and improved. In these views he is supported by facts and experience, which prove that when the common soldier is raised by promotion to the rank of an officer, men of merit and talent will enter the army, and its character and standing must be improved. The other points of the report are well and forcibly presented, and the document altogether is one of the best which has issued from this department. Tue Conoress Printing anv THE Lossy Jos- BERS.—We publish to-day from Washington a letter disclosing a pretty familiar insight into the complications of the lobby game there for the Congress printing. From these disclosures it is evident that this printing, with the elec- tion of Mr. Steadman as printer for the House, has or is likely to become a more extended corruption fund than ever before. Nor can the evil be reformed short of the establishment of a public printing bureau, under the official super- vision of the Department of the Interior. Let who will be elected as the party favorite of either house, itis morally certain that the sys- tem of bonuses, shares, dividends, fees and what not to Tom, Dick and Harry has made this par- ty organ practice a regular gambling business for the spoils, including a large and ravenous pack of confederate lobby jobbers. And why not? Look at the tremendous amount of this printing plunder! It has run up within ten years from $275,000 to nearly $2,000,000. In consideration of this monstrous increase, Hon. John Kelly, one of our representatives in Congress, addressed a letter to Mr. Seaman, the Superintendent of Public Printing, pro- pounding certain queries in regard to this in- crease, In reply, Mr. Seaman gives the follow- ing figures. During the last Congress, the amount paid, or to be paid— For printing is. For binding ‘or paper... For engraving 1359 For works not For printing of Execu' 350,668 32 For expenses of Superintendent's offic 30,000 00 TOA... ..sccccerccccccnsesescesscsseoes’ $1,916,777 16 Thus it will be seen that the expenses of this | branch of our government have increased in ten years from $275,000 to $1,916,777 16, or over seven hundred per cent. Two millions of dollars, in round numbers, for a single Congress! Why, this sum will en- rich a whole legion of lobby harpies; but what an addition would these printing profits be to an empty treasury. Can't we persuade Mr. Kelly to make a move in this matter, for the disper- sion of the lovby birds, and the relief of Mr. Cobb? Try it, Mr. Kelly. It is a fine opening for a good hit. Tue THEATRES DURING THE RevuLston.—One of the most striking evidences of the wealth of the people of this city is the steady patronage which has been extended to the theatres through- out the revulsion. Naturally, tickets for the opera and the theatres are among the first arti- cles of luxury which a judicious person would cut off, if he found it necessary to economise. In hard times theatres are naturally expected to suffer. Yet throughout the whole of this re- vulsion our theatres have done an excellent business, our opera has had a successful season, as many new plays as usual have been pro- duced, and the theatres are as crowded on gala nights as they have ever been. It would seem hard to conciliate this fact with the supposed impoverishment of the people of New York in consequence of the hard times. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Ws CALL UPON CONGRESS FOR FINANCIAL AID—THE NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF NEW YORK—NEW YORK OF- FICIALS IN BAD ODOR—THE RELATIONS BETWEEN COL. RICHARDSON AND SENATOR DOUGLAS—THE PUBLIC PRINTING CONTROVERSY —THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE AFRICAN COAST, ETC. Wasutwoton, Dec. 12, 1857. ‘The government is much. for money. So urgent, indeed, is the necessity for {in immediate supply, that, the Secretary of the Treasury sent for Mr. Hunter, the Chair- man of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, to-day, urging Congressional action immediately authorizing the the issue of treasury notes, The Secretary wants Con- gress to take action on the matter as carly as Monday next, but in consequence of the arrangement already made to announce the death of the late Senator Butler, of South Carolina, on that day, the Senate will not act till Tuesday, when it i# understood the Finance Committee will report bill for the relief of the Treasury. Theodore Sedgwick has been appointed Distriet Attor- ney for New York, vice McKeon, removed. J. Glancey Jones, of Pennsylvania, will be Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means; Thomas 1. Clingman, of North Carolina, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations; Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, (if he will formation which it gives, it shows the condi- | #cePt it,) Chairman of the Committee on Territories. tion of the War Department, and urges with much force the necessity of an increase of our standing army. This increase, he tells us, is called for by the great extent of our frontiers, the distances at which our military posts are placed apart, the hostility of Indian tribes, and by the position of open and actual warfare as- sumed by the Mormons. These are powerful reasons for an augmentation of our forces; and as the necessity for it is urgent, particularly in view of our relations towards Brigham Young and his people, the sooner it takes place the better. The additional force asked for is cer- tainly not so large as to excite the dislike with which our people regard a large standing army—five new regiments only being required to protect our frontiers and the emigration of our citizens. This increase, besides the strength which it must give to our present inadequate force, would have a good moral effect in intimidating and keeping in check those hostile Indians who are emboldened by the apparent weakness of the rmtion in this important arm of its defence. The menacing position of affairs in Utah jus- tMes the Secretary in recommending an ad- ditional reinforcement of five regiments to the force already sent against the Mormons. The attitude of defiance which they have assumed only shows how necessary such a reinforcement is, and that it would be unwise and impolitic to act on the impression—no matter how well founded—that they did not intend to come into actual conflict with our troops. The fact that they are now in a state of rebellion against the authority of the government, is enough to warrant the administration in taking the most strenuous measures for its suppression, and the punishment of those by whom it has been promoted and sustained. On the subject of promotions the report con- tains a number of suggestions that commend themeelves by their good common sense and judgment. The Secretary believes that, by the law establishing promotion by seniority, the worst officer of any arm must, if he lives, come ' to eg que of the most important and respopailvle Judge A. D. Russel, of New York, arrived here this morning. He had a long interview with the President to- day. The President is thoroughly posted relative to the New York Hoteljelique. There will be more heads lopped off before another moon wanes. Colonel Richardson, the newly appointed Governor of Nebraska, leaves for that Territory on Monday. Although heretofore the fast friend of Senator Douglas, and one of his strongest supporters—which caused him to hesitate— he has accepted his appoinntment, and ie now with the administration. Colonel Steedman, the Printer to the House of Represen. tatives, will publish a card in the Union to-morrow morn- ing, stating that he alone is Printer. This is to silence oth- ers of the combination who are clamorous for their share of the spoils at the earliest moment. The combination consisted of Forney, Pryor of Richmond, Banks, Walker and Robinson, both Iate of the Cincinnati Jnquirer, and Hon. Mr. Churchwell, ex-M. C. from Tennessee. Kobinson and Walker appear to be furious. The war threatens to be quite interesting. It is believed Steedman will throw all or most of them overboard. The Navy Department to day received despatches from Commander Conover, of the African squadron, dated St. Paul de Loando, Octobee 13. He arrived at the above porton the 10th. Commander McBiair bad left the day before, baving received information with regard to Ame rican vessels lying in the Congo river, supposed to be en gaged in the slave trade, which induced him to leave im mediately forftnat place. The Commander also sends a list of American vessels that had been captared by her Britannic Majesty's cruisers during the last three months. The Commander had addressed a note to the British Com- missioner Resident at Loando, asking for information of the circumstances under which vessels purporting to be American bad been boarded and seized by British cruisers. He saya the slave trade appears to be carried ‘on at present to an unvenal extent, and seems principally centered at or near the month of Congo river. He had ordered the sloop-of-war Dale, with four months’ provi- sions, to cruise along the southern coast. He also informs the department of the absolute inefficiency of the squadron, composed as it is entirely of sailing vessels, for any effectual suppression of the slave trade. He also calls the attention of the Department to the legalized traf: fic in native Africans which is at present being carried on in the name of the French government. ‘ In Naval Court No. 1 to-day, Commodore Anlick testified in bebaif of Lieutenant Porter. In Court No. 2 Governor Price testified for government in the case of Commander Johneon, Commander Ritehie and Captain Frazer testified in his favor. No business was done in Court No. 3 Captain Meigs, of the Capitol extension, is urging the members of Congress to ovcupy the new hall on Monday next, Which conrao on the part of Meigs is disapproved of Wy President Buchanan. ‘Phe committees appointed by tay Howse of Representa. tives to inquire into the propriety of occupying the new pation, nothing in their judgment appearing to p sucha move. The report will doubtless be concurred Next Wednesday is the day fixed by the committee to into the new hall. It is stated that a new minister from Nicaragua soon arrive here, to replace Senor Yrisarri, who will instructed to carry out all the provisions of the tre lately made by that gentlemaa with our government, to arrange the details of the manner in which the gus tee of this government shall be exercised for the pro tion of the Transit route. ‘The information which I sent you a few days ago, the understanding been Walker and Martinez, has c; a good deal of commotion among the Central Am diplomatists here, and the present state of feeling lead to the developemont of further facts. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ‘Wasmvaton, Dec. 12, 1867. ‘The House committee appointed to inquire when new ball would be ready for occupancy have agreed recommend a removal on Wednesday, although premises are banked with rubbish and are in av unfinishe condition. Capt. Meigs, the Superintendent, has made n provision for the newspaper press, an omission for whit he is justly censured. ‘The Senate caucus yesterday postponed the propositi for the election of new officers, excepting the pu printer, until December next. They were driven to course by the importunities of office seekers. Speaker Orr was all day closeted at the Capitol with h political friends, forming the standing committees, whi probably will be announced on Monday. of Specie Payments by the B 7 RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS IN BOSTON. Boston, Dec. 12, 1857. Consequent upon the announcement of the resumptia of specie payment by the New York banks, the banks this city will’also resume specie payment on Mond next. RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS IN NEW HAVEN. New Haven, Dec. 12, 1867. ‘The banks in this city have to-day resumed specie p ments. RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS IN ALBANY. * Ausany, Dec. 12, 1867. At a meeting of bank directors this day, it was resolve that the banks of Albany would resume specie to-day. ‘The Case of Donnelly. ‘TRENTON, Dec. 12, 1857. Gov. Newell has calied an extra session of the Court Pardons for Tuesday, the 22d inst., at which time the of Donnelly, convicted of the murder of Moses at Highlands, and sentenced to be bung, will be fi disposed of. Funeral of Col. John K. Paige. Scmmxctapy, Dec. 12, 1867, The funeral of Col. John K. Paige took place this afer. noon. Mayors Perry and Quackenbush, with the Com Council and many gentlemen from Albany, St. Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and the membors the bar of this city, were in attendance. Rev. Dr. Ken. nedy, of Troy, was the officiating clergyman. The Newfoundland Telegraph Line. Sackvitix, N. B., Dec. 12, 1857. The Nowfoundiand telegraph line has been down of Port au Basque since Monday last, andis ed. This isthe fret time the line has working order for an hour. The cable remains perfect. Vice President Breckinridge. Moytaomeny, Dec. 11, 1857. Vice President Breckinridgé passed through this city te} day, on his way to Washington. ‘The Canal and the Weather. Scuesectapy, Dec. 12, 1857. No boats are passing either way on the canal. The weather is clear and not very cold. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Piiapeiema, Dec. 12, 1857. Stocks dull, Pennsylvania 5’s, 85; Reading Railroad, | 2585; Morris Canal, 47; Loug Island Railroad, 034; Penn’ sylvania Railroad, '383;. Monrtx, Dec. 11, 1867. Cotton—Sales of the week, 10,000 bales. ‘Middling| firm at 10c. Receipts of the week, 17,500. Stock ,80,000. —— Academy of Music—‘Martha.” The first German opera of the season—Flotow's “Mar. tha"’—was given at the Academy last evening to a spier- did house. The crowd was quite as dense as on the first| night of “Robert le Diable,’’ and proved fully that Mr. Formes has made a thorough success, under all the cir- cumstances, crises and other impediments—perhape tho| greatest triumph of his career, Which has been a series of| successes. The opera is quite familiar to the publis| here, having been given in a slip shod way several times at the Academy and elsewhere. It was done| last night better than ever before. The pleasant melo. dies received full justice at the hands of the principal artists. The merits of Mme. de la Grange’s performance of Martha are patent. She was in good voice and exoel- lent spirits last night; her acting and singing were admi- rable. Mme. Von Berkel also looked provokingly piquant and sang well. The great attraction of the night, Mr. Formes in Plunkett, fulfilled the highest expectations that had been raised. He gave the highest proof of his artistic ability and great versatility, passing at once from the heavy melo-dramatic music of Bertrand to this light comic réle. He sings in German with more facility than in Italian, and gave the most thorough dramatic identification with the character. ‘The duett in the first act with the tenor, Piekancser, wha is much improved, was eo admirably sung as to com ‘an encore from an audience which knew perfectly wetl where to applaud and where to condemn; and so ow throughout the performance, was a perfect triumph—a grand success. The choruses were very good and the or- chestra admirable. Mr. Anschutz had the advantage of the composer's full score prepared for the Theatre des Italiens, where the opera is to be produced for the first time during the present month. ‘Martha’? will be re- peated on Monday. Personal Intelligence. General Henningsen arrived in Washington on Friday evening from the South. The General's course seems to be towards the North, instead of in the other direction ag ‘was supposed. Has he given up the idea of joining Walk- er in his new expedition ? The Hon. Sidney Breese, formerly the Senator from Tlil- nois, has recently been elected, by a large majority, Sa preme Judge of that State, and has entered upon his duties. ARRIVALS. At the Everett House—8. J PRA Tell and vite, Cinetd- natl: Mr. and Mrs, Pettibone, K. ik, W. Peck, Burlington, Vi,G.L. Ward, Em, ae sion, New York; Vallance, immina, Boston; Mr. and’ Sirs. W. Reed,.F. Cobb, Boston: J. M Kat Kieller, DeMier, ¥7 New York’ 5.6 Gray and. wife, Boston land; Rev. Fir ¥; Taylor, w. Hrnen, New York. From Savannah, in steamship Augusta—W W Gordon, Jno Ryan, P Caliaher, and po in oe rein Heo *Re O. Ni; Jaan ©. For Havre, in in steamatip ee # Conter, Col Arm. ens ca re, bearer of E Boil ler, Mr Hater, DR Alen H Newman, Mra J A Rope, MreG Anis in Goedeche, Mra / Morrison, Capt Katee, August They Mra ‘August Reauche. Mri. Ghee Rub urn Heckman, Mr and Mrs Mertine, Mra N Netter, Mrs it Bu mel, Mrs F Fenter, Mins Garner, Mra j Gureat, MreD. Mrs Caganora, Mrs 8 Boag and two sone: Mrs WW Banks, Mise Behmuck and matd, John Crook —Total—09 $690,709 ip spect For Savannah, in the steamship Mrs J AS Tuttle, Mr and Mra Hy Bedlow, child and servant, Mrs and two Misses Crosby Mrs Harriet} Allen and three children, Mr and say 16 nderaan and danght ma Lawrence, JE Anderson, Mra Owens ant sister, Moasey, JW Ow Mrs JR Bartlett, Mra E foes aud in fant, Mies Roas, Mre Lauren, Mise Lanren, Joo Nichols, H Sa. loshineky, J H Hind, W H Bliss, Mr and FI A Donsed, a Gwynne, A Hawking, Beekman LaF. H Bradtury, Rew ‘Smith avd P A Shel. ter, Mr and ino F iss Anna Angusta—A W Longfellow, © Kerr and servant, areca end 46 tn the sreorage. For Charleston, in the steamship Columbia—Mre Hibben, nafse ang child, Mrs Geo Hyde, 8 B Remson, J Roeart, WB Fairchild, Capt TS Budd, @ Reaves and Indy, J Thomann, Mis Davis, Mfa Mears and two ebildren, Misa Mears, Mes Wilco Misses PM and ED Robertson, Jno B Roberwon, JJ Xdama FS Perkins, W Tillosson, 4. Duclos. Mre Crocker, Misses f Simmons and BB Lovderback, Dr Gil), teans Bronson, Mes TA Olli wna servant, Mr Fish. § Nonio. W.tonn gon, Thomas Ronald, Mra Williams, I) Golisiein, T Wyokoll, Woit Foxmand ®) ia the steerage, Also, 2) Uniged states troops. For Norfolk, Ae, inthe steamship Jamestown! Swain. & F] G McKean, J J Abraham, J Leonard, W Seott, © & W Barnes, Misses Taylor and Randolpa GW Davisand ™ irs R'A Austin, Mrs 8 Bransford, Mra Cope, Dr Ham, Mre Taimadee, E Waterhouse aad Inty, Phew teortiscn aod Iedy, Dr Henry Rastey, Mre and Miss Heokew-and 1 1m the stecrnge. Obtenary, Sergeant Josern 1. Parken, well kaown a the Pres of the Scott Legion, died at hit residences, in Philadeby on the 7th inst. The deceased accompanied eylvania Volunteers to Mexico. and etven ths war with distinetion. He wae thirty-eight you and died of a disease contracted in Mexico, Information has been reesived at the State at Washington, from High Keenay, Her comet! at Kong Kong, at the death’ © big byepital ay thy ub Pag 4 May last of age, Department “nited States x W. Amey, fa ;