The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. ! ———— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPPIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON "AND NASSAU 6T3. WANAED, tio conte per |, BT per annum axl HE nye every = ay we ie inn ‘annum, the Buiropean annem to ones Spar Br Britain, ES as satan Gaia both Tne maki -BERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per SM TONFARY. CORRESPONDENCE, containing important nreire, sliced from any quarter of the world, if used will be Whe Pally pat for. B@™ OCR FORVIGN CORRKSPNDENTS ARE PAR Ticvuany Requesten ro Skat ALL LATTEKS AND Tackaces Bee nae NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We donot sen thowe re! “r08 Pi RINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des pouch MENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TIE GOAL AND Hurropmal oadway—Kaesraiax, Zoouo TiC KNTERTALNMENTS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Four Lovers—La ABrULLES—CREEN MONSTER. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe rio FraTs—JOCKO, OK ESTRIAN AND GYMNAS- APE. 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A bill has been prepared, and will be presented in the Senate to-day, authorizing the issue of treasury notes for the relief of the government. We are not apprised of the exact amount which it is proposed to issue, but it will probably be 20,000,000 of dollars. Neither are we informed as to the amount of in- terest which the notes will bear. Gov. Walker yesterday sent to the President his resignation of the Governorship of Kansas, accom- panied by a written defence or explanation of his conduct while in office. This document will be made public in a day or two. The Kansas question was discussed in both houses of Congress yesterday. In the Senate Mr. Green, of Missouri, defended the President's position on the subject in a set speech. Mr. Douglas replied, He contended that the Lecompton constitution was not be regarded as an administration measure, and that any one was at liberty to vote for or against it without sundering his party ties. He was in favor of ignoring both the Lecompton and @peka constitutions, and taking a new departure on this troublesome question. In the House, Mr. Cox, a democratic member from Ohio, supported generally the views of Mr. Douglas. He } was replied to by Mr. Hughes, of Indiana, who de- | precated the agitation of the subject in the House | as premature and dangerous to the harmony of the | democratic party. The Senate Standing Committees | were announced, when the republicans complained bitterly of the unfairness with which they had been | treated, and entered a protest against the action of | the majority. Mr. Pugh, democrat, of Ohio, admit- ted the justness of the complaint, but, nevertheless, voted for the committees. A joint resolution was proposed that when Congress adjourns on the 23d inst., it adjourn to the 4th of January. A meeting of the Council of Sachems was held yesterday afternoon, at which it was determined that the use of Tammany Hall should not be given to the administration democrats who wish to hold a meet- ing to-night to sustain the President in the course he bas taken on the Kansas and other public questions. Postmaster Fowler, Surveyor Hart and Supervisor Purdy were among the portion who declined to give the use of the hall for this purpose. The meeting, therefor: will be held in the Park instead. This is a very ct movement, and shows there are some fiucnces at work among the federal office: of this city. It will, however, add to the in- meeting to be held to-night. © received the annual report of Lieutenant iSeott on the condition and wants of the army. It is brief and to the point, as a commuuica- tiva from a soldier should he. He refers to the in cessant Indian wars, the harrassing duty thereby im posed upon the army, the inadequate fOrce employ: ed, and recommends an increase of the army by the addition of one regiment of horse and three regi- ments of foot; also the enlistment of men for particu- lar corps of the service, as tending to promote mili- tary efficiency. A revision of the army regulations and the infantry tactics in use are also recommend- ed, and suggestions regarding the physical comfort and moral elevation of the troops are made. The necessity of shortening the terms of com- mercial credits is beginning to be acknowledged in all parte of the country. The Boston Advertiser says a meeting of importers, wholesale dealers and jobbers of millinery, fancy goods, &c., was held at the rotunda of the store of Messrs. Allen, Case & Babcock, in that aity on Tuesday last, to consider the propriety of shortening credits, and to confer upon the general interests of the trade. Most of the dealers present expressed themselves favorable to shortening the term of credit to four months wher- ever practicable, as, for example, in the opening of new accounts. The propriety of forming an associa- tion which should pledge its members to the allow- ance of only four months’ credit was discussed, but as many traders «aid they could not consistently sign such an obligation the proposition was abandoned. The departure of the steamship Philadelphia, for Havaua and New Orleans, is postponed until Friday next We publish elsewhere the official canvass of the recent municipal election. Parties having differences to settle with reference to the number of votes cast tor the respective candidates can now have an op- portunity of clearing up their doubts and adjusting balances The proposals for building the new arsenal were opened yesterday by the Commissioners appointed to superintend the erection of the proposed edifice. A list of the bids is given elsewhere. The awards will not be made until all the sureties of the bidders bave been examined. The cost of the arsenal is limited to $100,000. It is to be erected at the corner of Seventh avenue and Thirty-fifth street. The Police Commissioners yesterday appointed clerks for the police courts held at the Tombs, Jef- ferson Mawket, Essex Market and at Yorkville. ‘Their names are given in another column. The Ieard of Aldermen, which formerly appointed these offici will, it is understood, contest the power of mners to appoint. ioners of Emigration met yesterday da large quantity of routine business. ration port up to the 16th inst. was on increase of 42,748 as compared with last ners have $43,704 13 in the The Board of Education held their usual monthly 4 report of their re unusually interesting, and m relative to the schod sent in by the Finance Commission prrocee embraced a nica’ funds for is in another column In the Board of Aldermen last jimeaes ha motion mat a for pedi ting upsolee, Mears, W evening ring @ | appropriation | ter stated that the Aldermen elected for two years intended to take their seats in the new Board after hab atl agama and maintain their rightsto them if necessary. ‘The Board of Supervisors last evening adopted preamble and resolutions highly complimentary of Surrogate Bradford, and donating to him the feea accruing from the famous Parish will case, amount- ing to #3,000, as a mark of their appreciation of the very satisfactory manner in which he has performed the duties of his office. The Board also authorized an additional clerk for the Recorder, at a salary of #1,000 per annum, and the appointment of eighteen attendants of the Court of General Sessions, at $8008 year each, In the Board of Councilmen last evening the re- port of the Special Committee recommending the establishment and liberal endowment of a Woman's Hospital in New York for the treatment of diseases incidental to females, was presented last evening and referred to the Committee of the Whole. Several reports of committees, pertaining to routine matters, were adopted. The subject of removing the steam- boat landings was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Messrs. Blankman and Ashmead, the counsel as- signed to defend Cancemi, charged with the murder of policeman Anderson, have succeeded in obtain- ing a writ of error and a stay of proceedings. The case will go to the Court of Appeals next month. There was considerable business transacted in the General Sessions yesterday. James McCoy was con- victed of grand larceny, in stealing a watch and chain and other jewelry, worth $180, on the 23d of October, from Mortimer Rogers, who was followed from New York to Brooklyn by the prisoner and robbed as he was ascending the steps of his resi- dence. He was sent to the State prison for three years and six months. Wm. Nugent and James Moran, jointly indicted with Thomas Gentil, (who escaped,) for burglary, in breaking into the premises of Thomas Clark, corner of Amity and Greene streets, on the night of the 3d November, and stealing $100 in money, pleaded guilty, and were remanded till Saturday for sentence. “Robert Mathews (colored) was convicted of a felonious ussault upon Wm. Mar- shall, by stabbing him witha dirk ina house in West Broadway. The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that Mathews was a notorious character, was well known to the authorities, was frequently arrested for dangerous assaults, but for some cause or other always escaped punishment, and it was almost miraculous that he was not on his trial for murder, adding, that had Mr. Marshall died from the effects of the wounds the prisoner would have been sen- tenced to death. His Honor imposed the severest sentence the law allowed, namely, nine years and six months in the State prison. Peter Sisco and John Jackson (colored), who were accused of steal- ing a quantity of indigo from Sackett, Belcher & Co., were acquitted. The Recorder observed that the rules of evidence did not warrant their convic? tion, but they were known to the police, and had committed depredations upon our citizens for a length of time, and he advised them to leave the city immediately. Bernard Carr was convicted of stealing a cloak and Masonic regalia, worth $60, from Elias Coombs, on the day of the Worth monu- ment procession, and was sent to the State prison for three years and six months. John Maroney was arraigned, charged with the murder of H. F. Hamil- ton, in Canal street, by shooting him, and pleaded not guilty. His trial was set down for next Tues- day. In the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday morning was commenced the trial of James Gallagher, upon a charge of murder. The prisoner was jointly indicted with Patrick Kelly for the murder of Hugh Kelly on the morning of the 30th of August last. Gallagher and a party of friends were in the saloon No. 12 Fulton street on the morn- ing in question, and Kelly and @ party of his | friends were there also. After some time the Kelly party went out aud were followed by the Gallagher party. When on the sidewalk a disturbance took place, in which Kelly was stabbed in the abdomen and Owen McKinney was stabbed in the side by Gallagher. Gallagher was arrested and taken to the station house, where Kelly was conveyed, wounded. Kelly was taken to the City Hospital, where he lingered until the 3d of September, when he died. Gallagher was indicted for the murder, and Patrick Kelly as an accessory. The evidence was concluded last evening, and the case was submitted to the jury at nine o'clock, who, at twenty minutes to twelve, returned a verdict of guilty of murder against Galla- gher, but recommended him to mercy. Gallagher received the verdict with stoic indifference, and was promptly removed by the officers. He will probably be sentenced to-day. The receipts of beef cattle during the past week amounted to 2,682 head, an increase of 383 head on the receipts of the week previous. The stock offered for sale was mostly of ordinary quality, and, with a light demand, prices declined about a quarter of a cent per pound, the rates ranging from 7}c. to 10c., while in some instances 10}c. was paid for the best description. Cows and calves were in limited re- quest at $25 a $65. The average price of veal calves was about 5}c., though extra quality brought 64.a 7c. There is no change to notice in sheep and lambs. The receipts of hogs continue to be large; but the number offered for sale was only 3,706, against 7,269 the week previous. Prices ranged from 4c. to 5jc., about the rates previously quoted, with a tendency towards an advance. The sales of cotton yesterday embraved about 400 bales, in lots, chiefly to spinners, with some small lots for ex port, based upon middling uplands at 104¢c., and good middling to middling fair at 10,0. 2 10%. The decrease in the receipts at all the ports, since the Ist of September Inst, amounts to about 348,060 bales, the increase in ex ports to Great Britain amounts to 64,000, and the exports to France for the same period, compared with last year amount to about 35,000 bales, and to other ports 14,000; | making @ total increase of exports this year over last about 15,000 bales, Flour continued heavy, with derate sales, while the market closed at about 5 barre! decline on common and me grades. W was irregular, without important change in prices, wh the sales embraced about 30,000 bushels, at prices given in anothér column. Corn was dull, ‘without material change. New of all kinds ranged from 56e. to 66c., and Western mixed sold at 70c. Pork was steady, with sales of new and old inspected moss at $15 750816. Sugare were steady and i fair demand, with sales of 300 hhds. Quba and Porto Rico, 300 do. mo: lado and 6,000 bags Siam, at rates given elsewhere. Cof. fee was steady, with aales of 500 bags Rio to the trade ‘and 3,000 do. by auction, at rates given in another place. The tea sale went off very well. The company was good, and the catalogue sold through, fully sustaining previous quotations. The engagements in freights were moderate, ‘but the late advance to British ports was sustained. The Mormons—The Designs of their Pro- phet—What Should the Government Do! Weare entirely of the opinon that the object of the present resistance of the Mormons to the United States troops is to hold them at bay till | the return of spring, and that then the Saints will organize themselv' © ‘Hiya tiv camp, | and take up their Liveof march, atterth ti. ion ‘of the ancient Israelites, for th boly land «in gled out for their permanent aud oxclusive ox cupation. We regret to hear, however, that the government at Wash » like Pharaoh, are resolved that thia “ peculiar people’ hot escape from the country. We had at first supposed (from the Northera exploring expedition of the Prophet Let sum mer) that his land of promico was somewhure in the British dominions, nortl of Oregon: but we have since become f afore said northern tour of Father Brigham was but a feint, and that bis real destination is the mo accessible and more inviting country of Seaora, in Mey » But had the Prophet resolved apon “h foray into th vident Hadeou Bay Com s territories within a month or two his miad will haye aadergone a complete revolution upon the subject, from the information which he will have received touch- ing the hostile prejudices of the British govern- ment. Settled, however, that the Mormons wi:! have no other alternative than the absolute evacua- tion of Utah in the spring, they have no avail- able outlet but one, and that lies southward into the province of Sonora. For a general movement in this direction—men, women and children, live stock and baggage—they have already secured the necessary resting places from the Great Salt Lake down to the tribu- taries of the Gila river. They have their little colonies at every oasis of the desert waste of six or seven hundred miles they will have to traverse to the Gila, and they are thoroughly posted concerning every intervening’ point which will afford water, fuel, or a night's grazing for their horses and cattle. Thus, southward into Sonora, the whole Mormon tribe may pass, with but a trifling loss from the pri- vations of the journey, while their movement in a body over the horrible deserts and moun- tains, westward, northward or eastward, would possibly result in the losg of more than half their numbers from hunger, thirst and ex- haustion. Stern necessity points their way to Sonora, and the beautiful climate and wonderful mine- ral resources of that region invite them on. It is, moreover, @ sparsely populated region, wasted from the frequent raids of the Apsches, and consequently open to the Mormons, and subject to their occupation without even a show of resistance. A moving nation, as it were, and a nation, too, of *per- haps the most industrious, indcfatiga- ble, enterprising, hardy and fanatical people on the face of the earth, comprehending a body of ten thousand fighting Anglo-Saxon men, inured to hardships of all kinds, may not only laugh to scorn the pronunciamientos of Mexico, but may prosecute their line of march, at their plea- sure, to the Mexican capital, and hold it and the whole republic against all the resources which she can muster. The Mormons regard themselves as God's chosen people of the nineteenth century, and, really, their origin, persecutions and wonderful increase in numbers, in spite of the severest im- pediments, are things without a parallel, except inthe miraculous history of the Jews. They look upon Brigham Young as a second Moses, upon Brother Kimball as a second Aaron, and upon their luxurious system of polygamy as the restoration of the beautiful family institution of good old Jacob and David and Solomon. As perfectly fanatical upon these points as ever were the Turks in their faith inthe Koran, the Mormons will march down upon the Gulf of California as jubilant as did the children of Israel across the Red Sea; and should the Mexi- cans resist them, the poor greasers will be lite- rally exterminated, as were the heathen nations who opposed the march of the camp of Irael. We know that between the intense Catholicity of the Mexicans, clergy and laity, (especially of the clergy, with whom celibacy is the crowning virtue,) and the ¢eligious system of Brigham Young, which allows to priests and people any number of wives, upon the shortest notice, there can be no compromise ; and hence we fear that the Mexicans are a doomed people with the in- vasion of the Mormons. In her present shat- tered and helpless condition we verily believe that five thousand disciplined Anglo-Saxons, of such stern stuff as these Mormon men are made of, could overrun and overturn the whole of Mexico. What resistance, then, can the Mexican government make against the intrusion of a hundred thousand Mormons in « mase, includ- ing ten thousand soldiers, combining the physi- cal qualities of the Roundhead and the fanati- cism of the Turk? With these views, we think that the est thing which Gen. Comonfort can do is to take time by the forelock, send a special messenger to Brigham Young with a treaty of perpetual peace, comprehending the cession to the Salt Lake Prophet of the province of Sonora, with a condition binding the Mormons to the protection of the adjoining provinces against the Indians and the California _ filibusters, Otherwise, after halting a while in Sonora, Brigham, the Prophet, will be very apt to re- ceive a revelation ordering him to pack up and move on to the occupation of the “Halls of the Montezumas.”” Next, with regard to the policy of our own government. We think it is not the policy of extermination ; but that the adminis tration should encourage the Mormons to eva- cnate the country in a body, and assist, rather than hinder them in their departure. To dis- perse them and disorganize them, would be to destroy thousands of their helpless women and children. We understand, however, that in view of the early annexation of another slice of Mexico to the Union, the fear is entertained that | we should annex the Mormons (should they be permitted to settle in Sonora), and that we | should, therefore, have all our late troubles with them to go over again. But we think there is no fear of that; for the Mormons, once safely over in Sonora, will act rather as our pioneers to the City of Mexico, than as an impediment to our “ manifest destiny.” We hope the adminis- tration will remember the Israelites and not re- peat the policy of Pharaoh; but let them go. Tye Meetine in tae Park To-Niewt.—There is to be a momentous party gathering in the Perk to-night, upon the important issue of en- dorsing the administration upon the Kansas question; and from all that we can hear, there will be a boisterous time of it among the maseee, Gov. Walker and Senator Douglas are not without some partizans in the camp, and the same defections among the party leaders which operated to the defeat of Mayor Wood may possibly operate to-night, as they did last night, to the prejudice of the federal adminis- tration. It is very droll to see these disorgan- izers of the Old Wigwam, although only eight in number, strong enough to read Presideat hanan out of the church. But we have not begun to see the curious and puzzling developements that are destined to follow this Walker and Douglas coup d'état on the Kansas | squabble. Perhaps the salvation of the country may depend upon the proceedings of this night's pow-wow in the Pork not in Tammany Hall appears that half a dozen Sachems got | topether last night and refused the nue of that ‘nilding to the democrat Who knows? Let ota man b from his post. Yur Deneoate row Uran av Wasuiweros ie at Washington @ gentleman named “el, who is delegate m the Territory of Utah, and an intimate friend and counsellor of Brigham Young— the rebel who has just at e8 troop, at There Bern) vlen th the movements in Utah, and declines to unbosom himeelf to any one. We should rather think he would. It atrikes us that if the law officers of the government were as alert as they ought to be, they should already have gratified Mr. Bernhisel’s discre- tion by placing him under arrest as a conspira- tor of Brigham Young’s and a spy. To let such a man go at large when the Mormons are mur- dering our people, and perhaps starving our troops to death, seems odd enough. ‘True View of the Centrél American Move- ment—The Moral it Involves. Our advices from Washington to-day show that there isa curious imbroglio there in re- gard to Central American affairs, and that the return of Walker to Nicaragua has not only checkmated the schemes of half a dozen diplo- matists, but has set them all by the cars. Such a result is a very natural consequence where different schemes are being pursued with vigor, and some one of the parties suddenly makes a break and gets a start of the whole quarry. The administration, contemplating the whole Central American question from a national stand point, was steadily taking its ineasures in view of the coming future, and preparing to remove such obstacles as the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and sundry others that stood in the path of our progress; Lord Napier and Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley were striving to prevent this; the Count de Sartiges was work- ing to give France a hand in the establishing of a balance of pewer on this continent ; the Costa Rican Ministers were endeavoring to secure their new line of boundary on the San Juan; Senor Yrisarri was laboring to secure the position of Nicaragua by a treaty with our government; and Walker and Henningsen were looked upon merely as brave fellows who had been utterly defeated, and upon whom a little personal sympathy might therefore be safely expended. It is these conflicting positions that are leading to such wide and varied comment on the part of the journals, and to the suspicions that are mutually entertained of each ‘other by the varied interests. In their ire at Walker for getting the start of them, they pour upon his head all kinds of accusations of bad faith and deceit, and enlarge particularly upon the ab- sence of all moral right in his proceedings. All this is mere fudge. Without entering upon the evident right of Castillon to invite him to un- dertake his first, or Martinez his second expedi- tion to Nicaragua—just as Gandara invited him, and Pesqueira invited Crabbe to Sonora, the Cubans Lopez to Cuba, and Carvajal the Texas filibusters to Tamaulipas, which may be de- fended on high moral grounds, and all of which expeditions would have been pronounced morally right had they succeeded—we take a more enlarged view of the whole subject, and look upon it as an indication of a great move- Yhent on the part of the people of this conti- nent, entirely similar in character to many that mark the periods of European history, and others that are now going on in the Old World. Walker is simply a forerunner in the march of races that is going on here, and this march involves all the moral right that exists in the present march of France in Northern Africa, England in India, and Russia in Central and Northern Asia. It stands upon precisely the same ground with the advent of the Normans, and before them of the Saxons, into England; of the Romans into Gaul and Spain; and of all the millions of men that have descended from the high plateau of Asia, and extended themselves throughout the East. Between the Asiatic and the modern Europes and American march of races there is one great difference. The latter are carrying with them the lights of a superior civilization, and a more perfect political, social and industrial decelopement. England is sub- stituting « civilized for a barbarous rule in Lo dia; France is restoring Northern Africa to the domain of civilization; Russia ix giving to Northern Asia an organization far superior to the former nomadic habits of its population, and we in America are carrying moral and material well being to the disintegrating communities and decaying races of Spanish America. This is the greater movement, before which all minor moral rights disappear. Who in England talks of the moral rights of the Se- poye? What Frenchman defends the moral rights of the Kabyles? Where in Europe are the defenders of the moral rights of the Tar- tare? Not that we would compare the hetero- geneous races of Central America to either Se- poys, Kabyles or Tartars. They are above them in many things; and in nothing do they show this superiority more than in the fact that they invite the advent among them of the race that is exhibiting such wonderful progress in this country. This is the movement that throbs in the mind of the people, and which nothing can root out or destroy. We have almost found our western limit. The shores of the Pacific and the great central desert of North America already bound our developement westward, and it must turn southward, where decaying nations and races invite our coming. Small philoso- phers may harp upon moral righte here, as they do in Europe, but it will produce no more effect upon the march of races in America, Europe, Africa or Asia than whistling has upon the wind. Svusrenston or tHe Bank or Frayce.—It seems that after all the flourishes we have read in the French papers about the recovery in the financial world, and the ability of the bank to reduce the rate of discount, the Bank of France has been for some time in a state of suspen- sion. They have paid gold in small quantities; just as our banks did during their suspension, when merchants wanted gold for duties, or the holder of a few hundred dollars in notes wished the specie for them. But when a man went to the Bank of France for any large amount of specie, he has been told that he could not be ac- commodated that day. The fact has been kept @ secret, of course. The policy of the government and Bank of France in relation to finance has been for years in diametrical antagonism to the laws of trade. Whenever a pinch comes in such countries as the United States or England, the financial in- stitutions of the day take in sail, contract, and protect themselves in the the course pursued in Freee has been precisely the reverse. Whenever a panic or © abarrass- ment arose, the bank has received orders to counteract it by unvsual extensions, and ex- pansions of credit. The expedient has answer- ed thus far. The bank lies, whenever bard times came, bought specie at a lore, ana lent freely to all who wanted; thus piling inflation upon ination, and — protrasting ening a fearful cost. Thi mi ienne of the sbifte to whieh and the deor © brick to hide i wh at woll as the Bag tdviven: vase ia best way they ean; , lish are by this time eatisfied that their old theory about the revulsion—that it was a Wall street affair got up by a few bears with the aid of the Heratp—is not precisely adequate to ac- count for the financial events of the year. We hope they appreciate the value of the journals, published in and out of this country, which so perseveringly thrust this theory under their notice. If the Heratp cannot only convulse the entire trade of the country, but overthrow the commerce. of the entire commercial world, and cause the banks of England, France and the United States to forfeit their charters and their standing, it must be a wonderful institution. Tax First Sin or tHe Tuurty-Firtu Con- oress.—The Congress which organized at Wash- ington a few days ago has not commenced its session with any very violent demonstration of its purity, sagacity or economy. The master spirit and originator of all the disgraceful schemes of the former lobby—Mr. Matteson, of Oneida— who was driven from the House for his corrupt practices, has taken his seat quietly and peace- ably among the virtuous statesmen who have come fresh from the people to regulate the af- fairs of the nation. Another member of the lobby, Mr. A. S. S. Simonton, who is connected with a corrupt and obscure journal in this city, who was kicked out of Washington by the last Congress, has also taken his seat among the elect of the third house, and commenced his mevements afresh. The first step of Congress and the lobby combined was to give out the printing job, which has become worse than ever. It is the most unblushing piece of corruption ever perpetrated by any body of men calling themselves a Congress and representatives of an intelligent constituency. According to all accounts the outside pres- sure upon Congress for the printing job was greater this year than ever before. Whole regi- ments of starving editors from the North and the South, and the East and the West, and from all points of the compass, came down upon Washington, and hovered over the House of Representatives like vultures over a dead buffalo, fighting with each other for a grab at the corrupt carcass; for the printing job has grown to be of magnificent dimensions, and the pickings are better than ever. Not less than two millions of dollars will be spent upon printing and binding by the present Congress. The struggle has been so warm between the hungry applicants that the work will be somewhat extended—perhaps to the amount of half a million more. And for what is all this money paid? We have already given in the columns of this journal some speci- mens of the folly, the gross mismanagement and criminal extravagance which characterize this branch of the public service. We find the most miserable trash, in the shape of public documents, accounts of exploring expeditions, &c., &e., put into type by the House printer. We find some member of Congress moving for the printing of an immense edition of a docu- ment which may be valuable for record, but which is utterly useless for general circulation; and all for no aim or purpose except to put money in the pockets of the printer and the lobby. For several years the Capitol has been lumbered with this Stuff, while hundreds of thousands of public documents have found their way to the grocers or bakers of the city to be used for wrapping paper. A more impudent, wicked and attrocious piece of corruption than this same printing job was never perpetrated by any legislative body in the world. The Post Office Department suffers from it. The mails are overloaded with public documents which nobody reads, and which lie dead in the sub- offices ; and the chief cause of the deficit in the receipts of the department, compared with the expenses, may be found in the cost of carrying thousands of pounds of this trash over thinly settled parts of the couniry, where the offices are few and the travel expensive, * The printing job isthe parent spring and sonree from which the lobby draws its supplies, and is enabled to flourish in such exuberance. Vrom it arise all the extravagant jobs which ave lobbied through Congress. We do not now allude to those unhappy indi- viduals—those pure and innocent cowatry priat- ers who have been so unfortunate as to have obtained the work from the hands of the pre- sent Congress. We regard Messrs, Steedman and Banks as babes in the woods; and we have no doubt that they are innocent, pure, pious, holy, harmless, honest, upright, gene- rous, liberal, and, in fact, fit to enter into the kingdom of heaven without further exami- nation. They are as white as the little lambs that have just come from the washing, being seven times cleansed. It is for these innocent babes, who, by their election as printers to the House of Representatives, have been thrown into the jaws of a remorseless lobby that we plead. How shall they terminate their career at Washington without being thrown into the pit of corruption? How shall they resist the seductions that surround them!—how close their ears to the song of the syrens of the lob- by? It is in order to save these innocents from the gulf which is yawning to swallow them up that we beg, entreat and pray Congress to raise & committee to thoroughly investigate the whole subject of the public printing, and es- pecially to consider and report upon the pro- priety of abolishing the present system alto- gether, and creating a bureau in one of the departments which shall have exclusive control of the public ‘printing, as the other bureaus manage the affairs of the government in other depariments, ‘Tur News rrom Mexico.—We publish in an- other column some interesting details of the news from Mexico, the points of which were re- ceived lately by telegraph from New Orleans. On the Ist instant Gen. Comonfort entered upon the discharge of his duties as President élect under the new constitution, for the term of four years from that date, and delivered his first ad- dress to Congress as Constitutional President. This document is stated to be somewhat con- servative, but with liberal tendencies. He inti- mates the necessity of some changes in the con stitution, and looks to the church property as a sonvee of revenue. Mr. Moran, the editor of the Meriean Extraordinary, & paper published in English in the city of Mexico, was still in pri- son, under a charge of having published an ar- ticle reflecting upon the Governor of one of the ist K is said thet the publication was ma some time before the enactment of the present law regulating the presa, under which he has been imprisoned. Such a course on the part of the government of President Comonfort towards the press, subjeota it to strong suspi- ‘one relative both to its acts and its intentions. No houest government is injured by publicity of its acte, or by atiaeks that do pot tell the frath As won as a government fears the truth it is time for it to fall. Lt ia to be hoped that further particulars in regard to Mr. Mo- ran’s case may relieve President Comonfort from the suspicions its present aspect casts upom him. Mr. Senator Dovoias anv His Kansas Con- FepErates.—Every day we are becoming more and more satisfied that the late rebellion of Mr. Douglas against the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan is the result of a foregone conclusion. It was doubtless a sore mortification to Mr. Douglas, after all that he had done and hazarded for the South upon the Kansas-Nebraska bill, te be au- pereeded at Cincinnati as the champion of the South by Mr. Buchanan, and because of the fact that, having a pair of hands perfectly clean of any contact with this Kansas-Nebraska job, “Old Buck’’ was more available in the North than Mr. Douglas. That was a cruel piece of thern ingratitude, to be sure; and we can hardly wonder at it that Mr. Douglas should have made up his mind from that day to give his Southern fire-eating friends a Roland for an Oliver on the very first opportunity, We can now perceive that from that day to this Mr. Douglas has been anything but an en- thusiastic supporter of Mr. Buchanan—that he has been gradually preparing himself for a bolt, and that he has seized upon the Kansas Le- compton Convention as a perfect Godsend. Some of our simple-minded democratic readers have doubtless been surprised to learn that the other day Mr. Douglas had a free and full Kan- sas consultation with the republican leaders at Washington, and that the results were satisfac- tory to all sides. But we were admonished of this some six weeks ago in the flattering com- pliments interchanged between Mr. Seward and Mr. Douglas at a railroad meeting at Chicago. The game, we think, is transparent. Mr. Douglas having failed with the Southern fire- eaters, has resolved to try the Northern dirt- eaters for the Presidency. As for W. H. Se- ward, if he can successfully use Mr. Douglas in the work of shelving Colonel Fremont and ‘x-Speaker Banks, our man Seward will be satis- fied with the services of “the Little Giant,” and will have no further use for him, except as a camp follower. But neither politician nor ma- gician can tell the upshot of this Douglas and Walker meeting, while the solution of “squat- ter sovereignty” remains undetermined in Kan- sas. The 21st instant is the day appointed for the vote upon the Lecompton constitution. It is possible that the election may be broken up by amob—possible that the mob may be dis- persed by the United States dragoons; and it is probable that there may be, at the same time, a popular vote taken on the Topeka constitution, and that both the Lecompton and the Topeka constitution may be sent in the same mail bag to Washington, as having been ratified by the people of Kansas. The administration can wait, but the result may prove that Mr. Douglas bas gone off at half cock. After Christmas we shall know which way the cat is jumping. Tue Removat or Joun M’Keox.—We pub- lished the other day an account of a conference between certain New York gentlemen and the President, concerning the case of John M’Keon. It seems that these gentlemen went up to the White House to remonstrate, in a friendly way, against M’Keon’sremoval, and that Mr. Horace F. Clark was the spokesman of the committee. But they very soon discovered that in “Old Buck” they had met with the wrong customer— hat he was thoroughly posted up in the case, and had made up his mind that a high federal officer, in going out of his way to play a leading part in the opposition camp for the overthrow of the demooratic party in this city, had ceased to become a proper object of sympathy for a democratic administration. This was something after the fashion of Old Hickory; and let the more quiet, but equally zealous official confede- rates of Mr. M'Keon in the late election, look to it well, or their heads may be dropped in the same basket. They must submit to the doctrine that we can’tall be captains, or go by the board. That's all. THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival or the Canada. Hauivax, Doo, 16—11 P.M. There are no signs of the steamship Canada, from Liver- pool 6th inst, The weather is clear and calm. Departure of the America, Bostow, Dec. 16, 1867. The Cunard steamship America sailed at noon, with fifty-cight passengers for Liverpool, and 21 for Halifax, fund about $1,024,400 in mpecie, Condition of the Providence Banks. Provinexer, Dec. 16, 1867. The following is a statement of the condition of the banks of this city on the 14th inst. :-— Wasniorow, Dec. 16, 1867. Nos. 4 and 9.—Arguments for plaintiffs in the first case concluded. No. 10.—George Law, representing the Mail Steamship Campany, vs. Charles Hill, et al., owners of the ship Ocean Queen. The appeal was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, there being no final decree in the case. No. 13.—The rector, wardens and vestrymen of Chriat’s church, Philadelphia, in trust for the Hospital, vs. The county of Philadelphia. Cause submitted on the record and printed argument No. 15.—James R. Jones, et al., vs. Catherine MoMas- tors, by her next friend, Manuel Ybarbo. Argument for Plaintiff commenced. The Newfoundland Telegraph Line. Sackvitun, N. B., Dec. 16, 1867. The land line of the Newfoundiand telegraph has been interrupted since Monday, the 7th inst., and is still out of order, in consequence of a recent flood in one or two rivers, where the posts and wires wore swept off, and aa yet no means have been devised to stretch a new wire across the swollen streams. Arrangements however are in progress to prevent a recurrence of the present trouble, The Weather at the East. Boston, Dec. 16, 1867. The weather is mild, and much snow is falling. Sr. Joun, N. B., Dec. 16, 1867. ‘The weathor is mild, and snow is falling. Mowrwsat, Can., Dec. 16, 1867, Tt is snowing hard bere thie morning. Porrayp, Me., Dec. 16, 1857, Snow is falling fast here this morning. Exeter ap Keewe, N. H., Dec. 16, 1957. It in snowing here to-day. Markets. PHILADELTHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 16, 1857. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania fives, 85; Pennsylvania Rail- Fond, 8% Reading Railroad, 26% | Morris Canal, 47; Lang Island Railroad, 93% Cicado, Deo, 16—6 P. Mt. flour, dull. | Whent firm at B6c. | Corn steady. Oats doll, Receipt to day—1,800 bbls. flow hela wheat, 1,500 bushels corn ae _—_—_ Tur Crration Postroren.—Josoph Haydn's grand ore torio, “The Creation,”’ which was announced for this even- ing, at the Academy of Music, under the direction of the Harmonic Society, with a grand orchestra, chorus of twe hundred, and the solos sung by Pormes. » Maw. Dela Grange, Miss Milner and Mr. Perring, ix postponed to Sa tnrday evening, owing to the continued flues of Former cr given here whi pras