The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1857, Page 4

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The steamship Canada arrived at Halifax yester- day with European news to the morning of the 5th inst., one week later than previous advices. In a financial point of view the intelligence is important. Ja Great Britain and France monetary affairs ap- peared to beeasier; but at Hamburg, Stockholm and other remote ports of the Continent the crisis was felt with unexampled severity. The British Parlia- ment had assembled, and a bill of indemnity for the Bank of England, in issning its bills beyoud the amount allowed by its charter, had been proposed. Consols for money and account closed on the 4th | inst, at 91, a 914. The following additional failures are reported subsequent to the 28th ult.:- Tandon and Liverpool. . London and 1 Hersch, Moses & Co. H. HoTman & Co. P. Magee ..... Mendes, Dacosta & Co. Herse Cc Frieder Hartlepool Callard....... . Genoa, ¥.& B Bovet.. Londen. C. 4. Jones -London. The Erie Railroad bondholders proposed to receive Subscriptions in aid of the road, and to communicate with the New York directors with the view toa general protection of interests, The transactions in | American securities were to an average extent, | without any materia! change in rates. The cotton market had fluctuated considerably, but cloved at an advance on favorite descriptions, | although with a heavy market. The breadstuffs | market was dull, but without change in rates. There was no political news of special importance: | In France the action of the republican members | clect to the Legislature, with respect to taking the j oath of office, had created much discussion. The Queer «f Spain had given birth to ason. The Span. ish government had refused to receive the envoy of Mexico as a necc “ary preliminary to an adjustment of the difficulty pending between the two countries. ‘The Cuban officials had sent home glowing accounts of the condition of the army and navy, and of their } resdificss for a hostile demonstration against Mexico- The Collins steamship Adriatic arrived at Liver months. He accosted Mrs, Eleanor Spaulding in Grand street, on the 18th of November, at noon, and snatched her reticule, which contained a £50 check. Charles Bernard pleaded guilty to an indictment for obtaining goods under false pretences. He was re- manded till Thursday for sentence. W. Dulone, charged with grand larceny, pleaded guilty to the minor grade of that offence: Penitentiary six months. Charles Noil,a youth, indicted on @ similar charge, followed Dulone’s example, and judgment was suspended. There was an exciting time in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen last evening. The report of the committee in favor of a one cent ferry to Brooklyn was brought up, and laid over until Monday. The report of the Committee on the Central Park, in favor of rescinding the $250,000 appropriation for that project, and censuring Mr. Hogg for his partizan conduct, was accepted. Mayor Wood occupied a seat beside President Clancy, and, by a coup d'état of Alderman McSpedon, the resolution of the Board inviting the Mayor to attend on Monday next, for the purpose of nominating police and district clerks, under the charter, was rescinded, and the Mayor was invited impromptu to meet the Board in convention at half-past six o’clock—it then wanted but three minutes of that time. This was carried, and the Board went into convention, calling the Mayor to the chair—Alderman Tucker protesting against the whole proceedings. The nominations, which will be found in the report, were then made. When the convention adjourned some harmless confusion en- sued, Alderman Tucker still protesting that the whole proceedings were outrageous. The Police Commissioners have also appointed glerks of the above-mentioned Courts, and we may therefore look for a lively litigious squabble between the disputants all round. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening and adopted a large number of bills, the majority of which were devoid of public interest. Donations were made to the following institutions: $500 each to the New York Institution for the Blind, New York Opthalmic Hospital, and the Corlear's Hook Mission; $1,500 each to the Children’s Aid So- iety, and the Women’s Protective Emigration So- , and $2,000 to the New York Fire Department Fund. Vive hundred dollars were appropriated to purchase @ portrait of Mayor Wood. Reports in fa- vor of presenting a new banner to the Fire Depart- ment, and of giving a stand of colors to the Veteran Corps, were also adopted. A large bateh of reports of the Committee on Lamps and Gas, in favor of lighting up town streets, were also read for the last time, after which the Board adjourned until Monday. A violent storm of wind and rain set in on Thursday morning about 2 o'clock, and lasted until near day- light. This was doubtless a continuation of the sume storm which the telegraph reports as having prevailed to the north and east of this city. It did some damage, but nothing of a very serious nature. Trees were blown down, and signs torn off their pnings, while the ships in the docks fouled con- siderably. The only marine accident it caused, so far as we can learn, occurred to the schooner J. Vail, which was run into by the brigs Abby and Elizabeth, the latter vessels having dragged their anchors. Some of the quarter rail and tackling was torn away from the sc ooner, but the damage is of a character that con easily be repaired. Serious ap- prehensions are entertained with regard to vessels on the coast,as the wind was from a quarter that would do them much damage if caught near the shore. The heavy rain did the city very little good. It was, if possible, more dirty yesterday than it was the day before. Dirty streets seem to be a chronic complaint in New York. Iranistan, the home of Barnum, at Bridgeport, Conn., was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night. This was probably one of the most unique establishments in the country. It was here that the great showman cultivated his fancies, not the least of which, by any means, was the domestication of a herd of elephants. During the palmy days of Iran- istan its proprietor tock good care to make the public, through the mediwn of the newspapers, aware of its characteristics and surroundings, and it is unnecessary to again force the subject upon their attention. It had been vacant since Mr. Bar- num’s pecuniary difficulties, but he had made ar- rangements to occupy the premises. The building originally, it is said, cost $100,000, and the furniture $20,000. The following is the insurance on lranis- tan, viz.: Building — Harmony........-..+ Washington Ins. Co.. $5,000 William-barg City Heekman, ..-- $000 St. Nicholas... Nithwstrn, of Osweg @n Forniture— pool onthe 4th inst.—the hour is not stated. She left New York on the 23d ult. was expected that the monster steamer Leviathan would be launched on the Sth or 9th inst. We have received our files frorf the city of Mexico to the Sd instant, containing additional details of the news already published. The vessels of war at Vera Crur were to be armed again, Senor Payno, Minis- ter of inance, had resigned, but had again accepted office. Mr, Smith, United States Consul at Mazatlan, had resigned. The Indians in Durango and many other northern States were committing great ravages. Duranco, New Leon and Coahuila were about to wn reese aguinst the Indians. An official report of the circumstances attending the Zerman expedition is published, the investigation suspended accused freed from all imputation of bustero intentions. The waste land essions consequent thereon were or d approved by government. We have news from Yucatan to the 27th ult. Cam- peachy was still held by the revolutionists, whilst the be jegers held the urb, San Franciseo. Very severe fighting took place daily. The capture of Si- and the entertain’ de sal by the Campeachy troops is confirmed. Ai impossible to predict how the struggle would end. “In both houses of Congress yesterday bills autho rizing the issue of $20,000,000 of treasury notes were discussed. Messrs. Seward and Banks led the opposi tion attack upon the details of the measure. r ies in the Senate and Mr. Banks in the Honse introduccd bills authorizing the people of Kansas to form a State government. A synopsis of Mr. Doug. igs’ bil! is given elsewhere. Mr. Banks’ proposition milar to the Minnesota bill. The House ap ed avclect committee to investigate the ac counts of Mr. Cullom, the late Clerk of the House. It is anticipated that astounding acts of rascality will be brought to light by this investigation. We published some time since a letter detailing the circumstances of the seizure and detention of the sehoooer Cortes, on the coast of Africa, by the fri- gate Combertand. The Cortes arrived at this port yesterday, and her captain has given his verson of the affair, which may be found in another colamn‘’ Af the condact of the officers and crew of the Camber land was such as represented in this statement, it is high time the Navy Department should take cogni- vance of the facts and deal with the delinquents in such a manner as to prove a wholesome warning to others We give elsewhere a report of the proceedings Sesterday in the suit ona policy of insurance effected on @ cargo of munitions of war alleged to have been Shipped on account of the Cuban filibusters in 1854. Apart from the main question at issne hetween the Litigants, this trial, on investigation, is unusually in tereming, aa developing the plans, mode of opera ting and tactics generally of those who have in times past devoted themselves to extending the area Of freedom In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Emels Donglas alins Miller, a canning sable gentleman, war convicted of barglary, he having broke into the store of Samuel Livingston, in Prince street, on the night of the 27th of November, and stolen #50 worth Of casimeres and pantaloons. An officer met him fn the street with the property tied up in a handle, find arrested him on the spot. He wae sent to the State prison for two years and six months. Robert Joyton was convieted of a bold larceny, and seut to Py State prisop, at bard labor, for fooy years aud ten Mr’ | of iy Columbia Co........ 2,500 Mechanics, Brooklyn On Onthouses— Re-insured im Han Excelsior Co, 6,000 over Ins. Co...... 2,000 Beekman... 1,500 Lafayette, Brooklyn. 3,000 Fuiton.. 1,100 Relief...... 2,500 Total... .. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners met yes- terday afternoon. A communication was received from the Comptroller stating that there is now no fund from which he could pay for the erection of temporary lodging houses, and that probably the only method would be to have an estimate inserted in the tax levy. A large amount of routine business was transacted, which is detailed in our report. Judge Edmonds, as counsel for Mrs. Martha Sher- man and Ann Parish, entered a forma! appeal be- fore the Surrogate yesterday, from his decision upon the Parish will cave. The Messrs. Parish and Mra. Henry Parish will, it is understood, abide by the Surrogate’s decision, and not contest the case fur ther. The case of the application of Daniel Berrien, Jr., to restrain the Corporation from paying Charles Devlin for work in opening the Bowery, was to have been continued yesterday, but as Judge Roosevelt was engaged in the Reservoir bid case, the hearing ‘was adjourned to Monday, at 11 o'clock A. M. No sales of cotton of moment were made yesterday, cither before or after the receipt of the European news by the Canada, je prices were nominal. The flour market opened heavy, with a moderate domestic and peculative demand, and with some small purchases for export at about the previous day's quotations, except for grades of superfine State and Western, which closed in some cases a trifie higher. Prime wheat was scarce, and wanted for milling. Sales of Tengessee choice white were made at $1 45; Kentucky prime do., at $1 423¢; and Wisconsin red, at $109. Corn was unchanged. The chief eale embraced new white at 601fc. Mess pork sold in asmall way at $15 75a $16. Becf and other provisions were dull. Sugars were firm, and in good demand. Tho sales embraced about 400 hhds. Cuba muscovado, 59 do. Porto Rico, 100 do. molado, and 1,600 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Freight: to Britieh porta were firm, with engagements of grain to Liverpool, in bags, at Td., and flour at 2s. To London flour was taken at 2s., and oll cake at 208, ‘The Kansas Agitators and the Administra- ton. An apprehension, or a hope, prevails in dif- ferent quarters that the administration of Mr. Buchanan, like that of poor Pierce, is destined to be wrecked and shattered to pieces among the rocks and quickeands of Kansas and the slavery question. We do not, however, enter- tain any fear or any hope of this sort, because of the wide distinctions between the administra- tion and the aspirations of poor Pierce on the one houd, and the position and policy of Mr. Buchanan on the other. No administration since “the era of good feeling” of Mr. Monroe, was inaugurated under more favorable auspices than that of “poor Pierce.” Upon the platform of the great slavery adjustment of 1850 he was elected almost by acclamation. His inaugural of “glittering gener: was received by all parties as the ha of a political mii- lenium; but he was rcarcely warm in his seat when, through his peculiar policy of dividing the public plunder, the democracy of New York were eplit into fragments as with a blast ‘binger of gunpowder, This trouble, how-er, might have beeu accommodated but for an unfor- tunate circumstance which attracted the aspira- tions and sympathies of poor Pierce in an op- posite direction. Mr. Senator Douglas had discovered that the weak point in his case at Baltimore in 1852 was his weakness ia the South. He wanted strength- ening in that quarter, and an accidental motion of Mr, Senator Dixon, of Keatucky, gave to Mr. Douglas his cue. The result was that apple of democratic discord, the Kansas-Nebraska bill obliterating that Missouri line of demarcation beyond which Congress had decreed, in 1820, that slavery should never pass, This bold and daring movement for Southern political capital, however, attracted at the outset the keen eye of an ambitious member of poor Pierce’s Cabi- net, whose personal schemes were not exactly identical with those of Mr. Douglas, We allude to Jefferson Davis, His plan, at once, was to “head off” Mr. Douglas, as Mr. Botts attempted to head off Captain Tyler. Accordingly, Mr. Davis made the repeal of the Missouri compro- urise & sine qua non with poor Pierce, unless he had concluded to give Mr. Douglas the inside track for the succession. Poor Pierce snapped at the glittering bait, as a foolish trout snaps al an artificial fly ; and from that unlucky hour, with the hook in his gills, he floundered and flapped about upon the waves of the Kansas agitation, until, utterly exhausted, he was drawn ashore and putin the same basket with Mr. Douglas, for the feast of the fire-eaters at the Cincinnati Convention. Thus, beiween the conflicting aspirations of Jefferson Davis az a Southern fire-cater, and of Mr. Senator Douglas as the “Little Giant” of the North he administration of poor Pierce, and the great democratic party of that day, were demoralized and broken to pieces. And now we find that the same two arch-agitators have been busy at their work again. With the announcement of the conservative and consis- tent Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, Jefterson Davis and his fire-eating confederates and organs from Richmond to New Orleans, commenced their war upon the administration. The pro- ceedings of Governor Walker in Kansas afforded them a pretext for a special point of attack, and for nine months they have been pouring their broadsides and cross-fires at the President and his Kansas Governor, regardless of decorum, decency and truth. But the fire-eaters have at length discovered that Mr. Buchanan is not so easily to be cajoled or cuffed into submission as poor Pierce: that Mr. Buchanan, in fact, is not the man to be frightened or bullied from the course which he has resolved upon; but that, firmly and calmly. he pursues “the even tenor of his way,” regardless alike of the clamor of secession conspirators and abolition disorgan- izers. Hence the capitulation of the fire-eaters, or the humiliating armistice to which they have been reduced by the folly of Davis and his aids and organs of the secessionist camp. They have suspended their useless hostilities, because the administration has proved too strong for them. No sooner, however, is the Kansas growling and howling among the Southern fire-eaters slackened into a comparative calm than a for- midable rebellion breaks out in the Northern camp of the democracy, under the lead of Mr. Douglas. We has had enough of the fine pro- mises and slippery performances of the fire- eaters—he has no particular object to gain in strengthening the popularity of aa administra- tion which may stand in his way in 1860—he remembers that it was Fillmore, and not the democratic party, that secured the election of Mr. Buchanan iv 1856—he knows that a few small additions here and there to the republican forces would give them every Northern State, and he believes that he can bring these rein- forcements to their camp, and put himself at their head, and thus wipe out at a single biow all his old scores against the fire-eaters and against Mr. Buchanan. We apprehend, however, that in this hazard- ous movement Mr. Douglas is running ahead of the hounds, and that before the chase is over be will be reduced to the same level as Jefferson Davis and his fire-eating clique—the dead level of a defeated conspirator. The silencing of Davis, the tyrant master of poor Pierce, is an ominous indication, for it indicates that the cool and temperate, but firm and decisive policy of Mr. Buchanan, which has reduced the most belligerent wing of the party camp to submission, will be sufficient to cope with all other rebellious conspirators against his admin- istration. If it is not too late, we would ad- monish Mr. Douglas and his confederate North- ern democretic dirt-eaters to be warned by the humiliation of Jefferson Davis and his blustering but impotent fire-eaters, A just and honestly ai 1 administration will weather the storm against Southern or Northern conspirators, Goverrnon Warxer’s Kansas Prontnciamrmey- v0.—We have laid this document before our readers, according to our long established poli- cy of giving all sides upon a great public ques tion a full and impartial hearing. It is the only way to reach satisfactorily and compre- hensively the exact merits of thecase, We can- not find anything. however, in this elaborate letter of Gov. Walker, which essentially da- mages the Kausas policy of the President. It is one thing to illustrate by fine-spun theories the nice distinctions and beautiful abstractions of “popular sovereignty ;’ bat it is another thing to deal practically with two fight- ing factions of disorganizers in a distant Territory, with a view to the practical estab- lishment of law and order. We dare say that very few of the pro-slavery border ruffians or no-+lavery militia mem of Kansas care a button about these nice abstractions of “ popular sove- reignty,” “delegated powers,” &c., as expound- ed in the special pleading of Gov. Walker. Our own opinion is that the leaders and agita- tors of both factions in Kansas—fire-caters and dirt-eaters—are the scrapings of the North and South; such jail-birds, vaga- bonds and desperadees as were drifted down into Texas with the expulsion of the Mexicans, and out into California with the discovery of the gold mines there. Such fellows know very little, and don't care to know much of the legal bounda- ries between reserved and delegated powers. They have other fish to fry. Their game is for the sp nd with them the ead justifies the means. The administration, desirous of turn ing over such customers to the full benefits of ‘popular sovercignty” at the first opening, eup- posed that they would jump at this Lecompton constitution; but it appears that the chiefs of each faction are resolved upon their own con struction of “popular sovereignty,” and are equally resolved to have the spoils and plunder of the new State, if they have to fight for them. Among such materiale the special pleadings of esers, Walker, Stanton and Douglas age “Gast qua like pearls before swine.” In fact, the fighting men among the sovereigns of Kanaas are very much like the London bruaier, who said that— As for sentiment, aad alch like stuff, Pd a Coy ee abide, “i give me a jolly butcher, with on, And he Dull Biteh by bis aide, vail We apprehend, however, that this letter of Governor Walker, like the late speech of Mr. Douglas, is intended not for Kansas consump- tion, but for consumption among the politicians east of the Mississippi, In this view, however, the value of these documents will depend upon the upshot of the row in Kansas; and it is quite possible that the honest and sensible people among the Kansas squatters may bring about a solution of “popular sovereignty” which will make waste paper of all these fine speeches and promunciamientoes. Let us wait and see. The Downfall of Exeter Hall--The Slavery Question Touched Bottom. A fierce war is beginning in the English jour- nals in relation to the labor question in the West Indies, which forbodes much discussion, und in the enda complete abandoment of the wild and impracticable theorics of Exeter Hall. Tho humanitarians have ruled the policy of the English Cabinet toward the English colo- nies in tropical America, and that of other Eu- ropoan governments in the same direction, long enough to stamp their schemes for turning the West Indian negro into a free and independent laborer, with utter fuilure; and in view of the practical results they have attained there is now a great upheaving of the public mind in Europe, as wel! as in America, which is destined to produce vast results throughout the civilized world. The question of the abolition of negro slavery has touched bottom, and the rebound must now come. The leading journal of Eng- land, and of Europe, has come out in opposition to the crack-brained ideas of the Exeter Hall enthusiasts, and taken the ground that the world expects of the negro race that it will produce cotton and sugar, and has thrown open its columns to the claims of the declining planting interest of the West India colonies. A correspondent of the London Zines thus paints the condition of these islands, and who- ever has visited them musi acknowledge the truth of his picture:— “Does the earth own possessions fairer to the view and more grateful for the labor of man’? Yet, what are they now? Wrecks, ruins, de- eerts; with the faint impression of former wealth and a fading civilization, which become fainter and fainter every year; with towns at once filthy, noisome and pathless; with man- sions, once grand and stately, tottering to de- cay; with Jew tradesmen occupying the houses and mimicking the display of princely mer- chants; and with a race of negro squatters parading their insolent idleness on lands which they have occupied without purchase, and ex- hausted without cultivation. Do not tell me of this or that week's price of sugar—of its in- creased production on some 2,000 or 3,000 acres in Trinidad and Demerara—of 1,000 coolies sent here and 500 landed there, or of some puerile scheme of ‘protection’ in Jamaica. All this is as @ gnat toa megatherium. Lam speaking of a grand empire—a bright constellation of colo- nial dependencigs plunged into sudden eclipse —of a great bulwark in war cast down and dismantled—of a material element of peaceful prosperity wantonly flung away—of a moral blight brooding over islands which in other hands than ours, and under other counsels than ours, might have been the suns and centres of widespread happiness and civilization.” For all this desolation the remedy admitted by the Times is to make the West India Islands “as full of inhabitants as a queen ant is of eggs,” by importing negroes apprenticed to la- bor trom Africa. But this remedy is as impracticable as the grand theories of the Exeter Hall philanthro- pists. Louis Napoleon has failed in endeavor- ing to establish a trade in free niggers; and he went into it with all the advantages that can possibly be brought to bear in its favor. We want no more barbarian colonization on this continent, as the Committee of the South Carolina Legislature has declartd the slave trade to be; and the scheme of free negro im- portation is worse in many respects than the slave trade. Yet England owes a debt, not only to the languiehing and decaying planters, but also to herself, in that portion of her national strength which #he #0 ruthlesely destroyed. The opportuvity is now afforded her to do jus tice to them and to herself. India is the field for the restoration of the English planting in- terest. India is crowded with laborers who need employment, and skill, and organization, which the ruined planter of the West Indies can give them. It will be far more economical to transport to India the few hundreds of intelli- gent agriculturists who are now dying out in Jamaica, than to bring there the millions of laborers necessary to revive the dead prosperity of the West India colonies. Their knowledge and effort in India would produce results far beyond those which are exhibited in the island of Mauritius. Let the government of England grant them lands in India in exchange for those they now possess in Jamaica, with a small loan to establish the necessary machinery and plant—as she did to the Irish landholders a few years since—and she will do two things emi- nently in accordance with the wants of the age. She will save a generation of skilled men, whose exertions in the Bast would be priceless, from the annihilation that now menaces them; and she would open a new era to the over- crowded East. As for Jamaica, it must follow the course of the other Africanized islands of the West In- dies. First comes the utter barbarism that is already culminating in Mayti; and then they will follow the course of manifest destiny, and be brought on to our Southern platform. Throughout the tropical regions of Mexico, Central America, Hayti, Jamaica, and the other West Indies, the United States has to re- store the domestic relation between the white and black races, and re-establish the institution ofslavery. Wherever it exists now, the condi- tion of the negro is superior, in a moral, social, religious and intellectual point of view, to the degraded free negroes who “eat his yams and sniggers at Buckra,” as the London 7ime has it, in the once prosperous colonies of England. ‘This is what will come, whether it be in this century or the next; but the idea of bringing over millions of negroes from Africa is a thing of the past. Tue New Ternrrony or Arwoxa.—We fear that the President has been deceived by some designing office and plunder seekers in regard to the new Territory of Arizona, for which he has recommended a separate Territorial govern- ment. Ase Senator Gwin, of California, doubt- less knows all about it, he will oblige the igno- rant members of both Louse by giving, at aa HERALD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1857. early day, the statistics of Arizona—auch as the pumber of the people, including Indians, there, who live in houses; the number of white men who actually live there ; the extent of the deserts of the Territory and their products. From the reports of Col. Cooke, Maj. Bartlett, and other explorers, our opinion is that Arizona is nearly all desert, and that to fill the offices of a Territorial government there with white men, they would have to be imported. We call upon Dr. Gwin for his facts and his authorities upon the subject. Is California to supply the members of the Territorial Legislature, &.? We should like to know. The Printing of Congress—Wasteful Ex- travagance. We give elsewhere in our news columns a portion of the debate in the House of Represen- tatives upon the subject of the election of its Printer, and, as a proper pendant, a card from the successful candidates—Messrs. Steedman & Banks—both of which official documents ex- hibit, in the strongest light, the very question- able and improper means which are taken to secure the printing of Congress. The debate in the House discloses the fact that persons az- sociated with particular candidates for the office of Printer have approached members of Congress with improper and corrupt proposi- tions—the Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, making a distinét statement that such a propo- sition was made to him by a friend of Cornelius Wendell, the Printer to the preceding House. Mr. Clemens withholds the name of the person who made the proposition, out of misplaced consideration for the feelings of his family and friends. Mr. Wendell denies any knowledge of the particular case referred to by the member from Virginia, bat admits the existence of “hungry leeches who infest the lobbies of the House, too lazy to work, too proud to beg, and too cowardly to steal openly.” The card of the new Printers is nvive in its admissions and its confessions. Of these two office-seeking adven- turers, one is from some small village in Virginia and the other from a similar place in Ohio. They were contending candidates with Wendell for the printing job, and the votes of the majority of the House were divided among the three candidates. By their own con- fession Mesers. Steedman and Banks entered into an “open and honorable” partnership, which necessitated a similar combination on the part of their respective friends in the House. Yet, with indignant virtue, they deny that any per- son has any claim upon them for services ren- dered during the contest which resulted in their election. Here, then, we see three individuals all seck- ing from the same House a job worth half a million of dollars, the profit on which amounts to not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Two of the steeds, finding that they can accomplish nothing separately, combine their forces and carry off the prize. Neither of the successful candidates hag the capital, the types, or any or the means required to execute the work of Congress. They are poor, penni- less printers from the rural districts, who were able to command a sufficient amount of personal and political influence to secure the votes of a majority of the members. It is more than pro- bable that Wendell, the old Printer, will be employed by them to do the work for the House as wellas for the Senate, while the nominal Printers will confine themselves to pocketing the plunder. Now, from an examination of the official de- bates, and from the card of Messrs, Steedman & Banks, we pronounce the system of electing the House Printer, as practised at present, the most infamous, the most outrageous, and the most disgraceful piece of corruption that has ever taken place under any free governmeat on the face of the earth. In printing alone, we find half a million of dollars expended, while for binding and incidentals connected therewith over a quarter of a million more is appropriated. Here, by a most impudent and arrogant combi- nation, over two aundred thousand dollars (for such are the profits of the jobs) are taken from the people’s pockets and thrown away to enrich two or three adventurers from the rural dis- tricts. As to the wasteful extravagance of the job in its details, we shall refer more fully at some future time, It is a piece of gross rob- bery, from which has sprung all the disgraceful lobby schemes which have degraded Congress for the past five or six years. We do not go further than the official record for the proof of what we have said. That is enough to condemn Wendell, and to condemn the House of Representatives for the most wasteful extravagance and atrocious squan- dering of the public money. Tux Oratorio To-muut.—It is announced that Me Formes has quite recovercd, and will sing atRhe Academy this evening in the grand oratorio “The Creation.” The other solos will be sung by Mme. "de LaGrange and pther excellent artists, and the performance altogether is ou a grand scale. Ovens Matixex at Tim Acapemy.—The managers of the Academy of Music bad another ‘evidence of the value of throwing open the house at a cheap and uniform price, 4a the large attendance at the Opera Matinée yesterday. The entire opera of “Norma” was given in excellent style, with LaGrange, Mad. Siedenberg, Biguardi and Gaesier. All the artiste were in good voice, and altogether the ren- dering of this ever popular opera was uncxceptionadie on that occasion. “Robert le Diable” ie announced for Monday night, for the benefit of Madam LaGrange, when she will appear (as ‘on her benefit uight in Vienna) as Alice and Isabella, and Formes ae Bertram. It is unnecessary to say that thie aunouncement will fil the Academy to ita utmost capacity. —_—_— Prommxape Covexet.—The promenade concert of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will take place this evening. The fair closes to-@ay. Much good is accom- plished by this society. The charitable will think of this. ey The Seizure of the Cortes on the African Const, SINGULAR CONDUCT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CUMBERLAND. Captain Townsend, of the echooner Cortes, which ar- rived at this port from Gaboon, Africa, makee the follow ing report with reference to the seizure of that vesvel on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade:— Oct. 3, at 2P. M., was boarded (from three boats) by about 75 armed men from a frigate, said to be the United States ship Cumberland. After getting on board they broke ont all the cargo and broke open the captain’s writing desk, and finding the papers, sent them to the frigate; the officer left in charge of the Cortes then commenced breaking open all the stores in the store room, and appa rently doing all the harm he was able todo. The papers were returned in about 15 of 20 minutes, they having been shown to the commanding officer of the frigate, During the eearch no discretion was used, for the stove, the water casks, provision barrel, &c., were thrown about; and they left the vessel in a most outrageous mau- ner, The ehip displayed the Britieh flag during al! the proceeding, nor was any other fiag seen until the boats were alongeide, and some of the men on board, with drawn sabres. Movewest or Troors—-The steamer Ohio Belle, arrived Inet night from Cincinnati, bre pri down Captain W. Ff Prince, U8 A., in command of 400 reoruite for the department of Texas and New Moxico. Tho officers at- tached are Lieuts. Whipple, Crag aud Lac. dVer Griewns Picayune, Deo. THE LATEST NEWS. from Washington. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS—REMOVAL OF THE COM- MANDER OF THE SLOOP-OF-WAR BARATOGA—WHar THR CENTRAL AMERICAN MINI@TERS THINK oF WALKER'S EXPEDITION TO NICARAGUA, ETC Wasiineron, Dec. 18, 1857. Mr. Douglas introduced his vill to-day to authorize the people of Kansas to form a constitution and State govern- ment, preparatory to their admission into the Union on aa equal footing with the origina! States. Mr. Fessenden presented joint resolutions of the Lagis- lature of Maine in reference to bounties to vessels engaget in cod fisheries. Also joint resolutions in reference to the a Scott decision, and in refereace to French spotia- Aresolution was adopted calling on the President ef the United States for copies of ali correspondence, not hereto- fore communicated, betwoen himself and the Governor or other officer or person in the etnployment ot the govern- ment in Kansas. Aresolution was adopted authorizing various commit- tees of the Senate to employ clerks. ‘The Senate then resumed the consideration of the Trea- sury note bill, and Mr. Hunter explained its provisions. He id not bolicve that there would be a revival of trade bd- fore the last of April or the first of May next, amt before that tine the money proposed to be raised would be needed in the Treasury. Mr. Seward thought there was a necessity for the issue of Trea- sury notes, but the bill was pot sufliciently guarded. ‘The amount required was too nvich—ten millions would be sufficient. Mr. Simmons, of Rhode Island, took the floor, and mage a set speech of two hours anda half oa the President's Message, Kansas, the Dred Scott docision, &e., after which the Senate adjourned over until to- morrow. In the House to-day Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, introduced a resolution asking for an inquiry into the par- chase of stationery and other alleged abuses by Mr. Cui- Jom, late Clerk of the House. The resolution caused con- siderable excitement, and it was finally adopted that the official conduct and accounts of the late Clerk be referred toaselect conunittee of five, with power to send for per- sous and papers. It is alleged that immense frauds way ‘be shown. Mr. Phelps moved a resolution that go much of tho Pre- sidens’s Message as refers to the Pacific Railroad be re- ferred to a select committee of thirteen. Mr. Banks introduced a bill to authorize the poople of Kansas to form a constitution and State government, pre- Parutory to their admission into the Union upon equal footing with original States. The bill is similar to oma passed for Minnesota. The compensation bill was amended, s0 as to allow members to draw their back pay from the 4th of Marci Isst. Dr. Chaffeo, of Maasachusetts, introduced resolutions asking the general government to establish commercial reiations wilh Hayti and Liberia. ‘The Secretary of War has determined upon his Uta policy, but the want of money in the treasury delays @ commencement of operations. A large force will be organized in California, and tho retreat of the Mormons te Sonora.will be cut off. The Navy Department forwarded despatches today to Commander Chatard, of the Saratoga, ordering him te deliver his vessel to the senior Lieutenant, and return or board of ker a passenger to the United States. The Sara- toga had been previously ordered home, her cruise boing ended >and this new order is to express the government's disappfobation of Chatard’s conduct in letting General Walker pass him, and land at San Juan, Senors Molina and Fscalunte are perfectly satisfied that Cee ep will never leaye Punta Arenas. They say five id men could not take San Jose, and if they did, the'capture would be profitiess, as the public arms are by law distributed among the people, who would rally at sdiife other point in defence of their goverament Mr$Yriscarri received atari reply to a note addressed to Senor Molina, asking if that gentleman had furnished cer- tain informatien to the Hrraiy's correspondent. Mr. Mo- lina referred him tothe editor for information, hinting that perhaps Mr. Y. knew more of the manner in which those facte became known than any one else It is rumored that Gen. Cass will reply to Gov. Walker, but I don't believe it. The nominations of those naval officers recommended by the Courts of Inquiry to be reinstated, have been'made out, and are now in the possession of the President, ready to be commucicated to the Senate. This will be douo early next week, Tn Naval Court No. 1 the case of Lieut. Porter was coa- cluded to-day, and the court organized in the case of ex. Commander Lecompt dropped. In Court No. 2 the case of Lieut. Rolando was gent back for review. In Court No. 8, in the case of Commander Chauncey, Surgeon Green was examined for the government. Commander Stringham has been ordered to Court No. 1, and Capt. Golasborougt relieved. THY GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Mr. Douglas’ Bill for the Admission of Kansas. Wasmixoton, Dec. 18, 1867. ‘The bill mtroduced into the Senate today by Mr. Dou- glae, provides for @ board of five persons, to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to make an enumeration of the inhabitants of Kansas and a fair ap- portionment of members to the Convention; also provides for an election to be held on a day designated by the board, not less than ninety nor more than one hundred aud twezty days from the passage of this act; also pro- vides that the board shall bo entrusted with the appointment of judges and places of voting, which is to be confined to every free white male citizen of the United States over twenty one years, who may be a bona fide inhabitant of the Torritory on the 21st of December, and who shall have resided three months prior to the eaid election in the county im which he offers to vote; also provides that the Convention shall assemble at not lees than thirty nor more than sixty days after the election of delegates; also provides that the constitation shall be submitted to the legal voters for their free acceptance or rejection, and uniees adopted by the majority of all the legal votes cat, shall be null and void. The bill secures the personal and political rights of the people, including those of speech and the press. —____-—- ‘The Utah Expedition. Sr. Lots, Dee, 18, 1957. The Teavenworth Herald of the 10th inst., speaking of the express messenger from Utah, says that he passad Col. Johnston's command near Fort Bridger, and that the baggage ond provision trains wore all safe. Tho troops were in good spirits. This was the only nows that had transpired relative to the Utah expedition. Burning of Irantstan, the Residence of P. T, Barnum. Burpexrort, Dec. 18, 1857. Iranistan, the country seat of P. T. Barnum in tua place, was discovered to be ou fire last night, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, aud was soon burnt to the ground. Mr. 1B. had just begun to refurnich tie house, and already had most of the rooms on the first floor fitted up. The amount of Ides has not yet been ascertained. The cause of the fire is unknown, but undoubtedly it was the work of an incendiary. Astounding Developements. CURIOUS CASK OF ALLEGED MURDER—APPRARANCR OF THE MISSING PERSON. Naw Haven, Dec. 18, 1957. Tt will bo remembered that last winter a boy oamed Charles E. Sage, about nineteen years of age, was missing from his home in Cromwell, near Middleton, in this State, aod that an Irishman named Patrich Nugent wr. arrested on a charge of murdering the tad, and putting his body under the ice in the Connecticut river. In a few months afterwards a body was found in the river without a head, This body was believed to be that of the missing boy, from several marks upon it, ae well as from a portion of the clothing. Soon afterwards the lining of an overcoat was found answering to the description of that worn by the missing person. Some montha elapsed, when a@ sailor, named Benson, came to Cromwell and direct) charged Nugent, the Irishman, with the murder. He said he saw the deed done, and assisted Nugent in putting the ona under a haymow. He de. scribed accurately the lad's appoarance—his drove, the color of his hair, &c.—and declared that ho had not had any peace of mind since the murder, and that he had come to Cromwell expressly to divulge all he knew about it, He confronted Nugent and charged the deed upon him, The accused denied it, but trembled from head to foot A Grand Jury found a true bill against Nugent, whoso time of trial was fixed for the present month. This mat ters have rested until within a few weeks, when the cousin of the missing boy, living in Ithaca, New an anonymets letter from the interior of I which he showed to his father, a Mr. Willia tor wae answered, when another letter was rogeived from Pennsylvania, signed William Raseell, which Mr. Williams himself anewered. He atthe same time addressed the Postmaster, requesting him to watch for the person who called for the leer, and describe him. The Postmaster did so, when Mr. Williame im- mediately left Ithaes for Pennsylvania, found Rusacll, whom he discovered to be his nephew, Charles F. Sage, tho fdeutien! missing boy. A special court is held at Hi dam today, when Nugent will be liberated. The e 4 igyolyed ia deep mystery beyoud what was beea related ‘