The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1857, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON ee OPFLOK N. &. CORNEH OF FULOON AND NASSAT STS. TERMS. coh Gm advance FERNS PEERALD, two conte per copy, Si per annum. Tub WS RLY HERALD. every nig, al i cons par - $8; rannem: the Buropem edition, ann pa ph "Briain, or $9 to any spart of the Continca, both (ALLL HERALD, every Wainecday al four conta per anal # Vee! sae OF Krquesten 10 AMUSEMENTS THIS DAY AND EVENING FROADWAY THEATRE BROADWAY—Afernoon and QT TOTBLAN, Zoowouwat axp Hirropkamic Ex- NIBIO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Evening, Tout Rorx Wrats—Acatsta—GOLnEn Fug. BOWERY THEATBK, Bowery—Afternoon aad Evening, Kgceerkian, Grusaetic amp ELerwayting Feats—Musa BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond streot— Frening, Ae Wovin be as Acron—Tuk GReat Gow TaicK— You'ne Anotuxe—SiamEs Twins. WALLACK'S THEATRE,, Brosdway—Aficrncon and Ry ouing, Tak Poow or New Tore. LAURA KERNR'S THEATRE, Broadway—Afternoon, Hagiseuix Dive Beanp, Evening, Comsicat brotazas— Manuagen Bure Barn. ACADEMT OF MUSIC, Fourteenth sireei—Orr na Matinee AT ONE O'CLOCK NORMA) Kvening, SAchD OuaToutO~H ay eeeramt. RNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway —Morning, sv Boys atteraoon afTwo and Four o'Clock, THE PRawor New York. Ryeuing, VALaN tine aNd Oxs08. DINGS, Broadway—Grorex con, ROUGURRIE® OF Grose reom Waite 861 and 568 8 Minerrers—Aftor S OPERA MOUSE, No. 93 2 aN MELantES—DOwn Im Mish oy ATORE way—After \. Rvening, BURLESQUE MEROHANTIC'S HALL, 472 Beoadway—Bryant’s MINSTRELS Aflornoca and Evening, Eraiorias SoxGs—MotLer BRoraans NATIONAL CIRCUS, 84 Bowe: Aonowaric Feats, Aflernown « —e RSTRLAN, G MN ASTIC New Vork, Friday, December 25, 1857. The steamship Persia, which left Liverpool on the 12th inst. is now fully due at this port, with three days later Buropean news. We published a day or two since, among our news from Kansas, @ paragraph stating that a military force had been sent to Fort Scott to suppress an out- Dbresk there. Brief particulars of what purports to be the facts of the affair have reached ua from St. Louis. It appears that a fight occurred between the tree State and pro-slavery men at Fort Scott, on the 1€th inst., in consequence of the seizure of the property of the former in default of the payment of taxes. It is reported that in the melee five pro- slavery men were killed, that several of both sides were wounded, and that twenty of the free State party were taken oners and confined in the fort. We are not disposed to credit this story of whole- sale slaughter, though it is not unlikely that violence of some degree has occurred from the cause as- signed. We give an luteresting letter from Washington in another column, giving abstracts of bills presented in the Senate by Mr. Gwin, for Northern, Central, and Southern Pacific Railroads, and for the organi- vation of Arizona Territory; by Mr. Pugh, for sur- | veys of the Ohio river; by Mr. Foot, to grant public | nds to actual settlers; by Mr. Bright, to divide the liana into two judicial districts. Ina : contested election case for the Nebras- ing documents will be found, original grits of Iuud to Brigham Young, Tervitory. the Board of Aldermen last evening the report n favor of locati new Post Office at the south end of the Park was taken up and a motion made its adoption. Aldermen Tucker, McSpedon, Owens, Wilson and Adams strenuously opposed the | report, and it was witimately referred back to the | special committee having the subject in charge. Alderman MeSpedon ¢€ ates the land which it is proposed to sell to the general government for a quar- of « million of dollar as worth more than a mil- noverthat sam. The Board, by a vote of fifteen to five, adopted the resolution appropriating $10,000 Wood to defray the expenses incurred in the suits growing out of the late enactments of the ture affecting the municipal rights of the city. to take up the report on the location of the new City Hall was, after some discussion, nega- tived by one majority. Our telegraphic despatch from Washington con- tams the announcement that the President will make no more appointments for the present. ‘This is certainly very discouraging news for the office seckers. ‘Mhe fountain of patronage is dried bot, fortunately, at this genial season of the year, the fountains of whiskey are in full flow, and to theae the disappointed will doubtless betake them belves The new Treasury notes will be issued in about a fortnight. Contracts for engraving the plates have already been made. The denominations of the notes wilhec hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollars up where we publish « tolerably full report of the proceedings of the meeting recently held in Mobile, o aid of Gen. Walker, They demonstrate emphati cally the truth of the views we have so often ex pressed with regard to the progress of the filibuster at the South. Nuval Courts of Inquiry have restored Capt. Commander Chauncey, both of whom ped by the Retiring Board, to the active Nat of the navy. Bat two cases remain to be dis weutin The poseé of, thore of Capt. Ramsay and Commander ts ompte Board of Supervisors, . were sworn into droinistered by ‘ eetigution, by the Special Committee of ord of Aidermen, of the alle «uf cor. roption with reference to stands for le of conn Ince in Washingion Market, :orminated yos- We give a report of the testimony elaewlere. vositive evidence wide elicited to sustain the alle. fations contained in the «etement of the com- plainant. ge Ingersoll, im the Uifted states Cirenit Court, yesterday denied the epplicetion of William Hine for an injanction to restrain Messrs. Appleton & Go. from neing certain drawings and sketches in the blications of the Japan expedition. As this derision involves sever] points of importance to both Srtiate od poblishers, and contains also an impor- tant exposition with regard to the law of copyright, we give it entire in our columns this morning. We have additional files from the Cape of Good Hope, dated at Cape Town on the 22d October. The United States frigate Mississippi arrived at Table Hoy on the Let of October, from Saint Helena, on her way to China, The British steamer Geyser was o's Bay, after chasing a slaver, showing Ame on the Mommbique coast. A ear and copper ore, valued at $182,690, had 1 shipped from Table Bay for London. The ahip Storm Cloud was at the Cape of Good ve Hope on the 224 of October, with Calcutta ad vices dated on the 15th of September. She re: ported that the telegraph wires communicating be tween the city of Calcutta and the inland provinces had b cot by the revolutionists, and that imme- efore that event the 12th regiment of na- and murdered all their including Major Holmes, son-in-law of Gene ral Bir Robert Sale. It was said that this mutiny took place within three hundred miles of Calcutta bot the news from that city réccived here by way of England, dated to 23d of October, does not muke mention of the affair The December term of the Genera! Seestons waa brought to a Close yesterday Qfeoners were sentenced when a number of among whom way Stewart i NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1867. Shepherd, a brother of James Shepherd, now under sentence of death. He pleaded guilty to forgery in the second degree, and was sent to the State prison for five years and four months. Henry Newell, in- Qieted for an attempt at arson in the first degree, was sentenced to four years and ten months incarce- ration in the same institution, General Superintendent Tallmadge was yesterday presented by the acting Inspectors of the Depart- ment with a beautiful gold shield, which has been already described in the Henan. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 4 300 bales, in lots, chiefly to spinners, included iu which were reported some good middling uplands at 10c., though prices in a general way were unsettled and irrogu lar, as dealers were disposed to await tne receipt of the Por #la’s news, now fully due, Flour was steady, with fair saies ft the previous day's quotations. Wheat was in moderate demand, with sales of Southern red at $117; white do. at $1 25, and prime to choice Michigan at $1 25, Wisconsin (Rio Grande) red at @6c., and Chicago spring a1 900, Corn was sold to # moderate extent at 56c. a 58c. for Jersey and Southern, and at 60¢ a 62c. tor yellow Southern, with « lot of eld do, at 62c, Mess pork sold at $15 50. $15 75 for uninspected and inspected. Sugars were in moderate request und prices steady, with sales of 100 hhds. New Orleans, and 100 a 200 do. Cuba muscovado, at rates given in another column, Coffee was unchanged and sales light. Freight engagements were moderate. To Liverpool flour was tuken at 2., and corn, in bulk and bags, at 54¢d.a Gd. To London flour was engaged al 2a. 3d,, and to Glas- Bow at 25, 6d. The Degradation of Congress—What have they Done? So far as all legislative proceedings are con- cerned, the first month of the Thirty-fifth Con- gress has expircd, and what are the net results? What have our national law makers been about in this interval, and what have they done’ They have divided the enormous spoils of the government printing among a parcel of hungry country cditors, who, from the lack of the neces- sary materials, will be compelled to share and share about the profits with the Wendell com- pany. Thus, upon the lobby doctrine of help- ing one another, the various interests and par- ties concerned have accomplished in this busi- ness the next thing to the compromising of a public robbery. In this way the recipients of this government printing have secured from one to two hundred thousand clear profits per annum, which otherwise might have been saved to the Treasury; and in this way the sub- stantial nucleus of thes: ting spoils has been secured as the cas for various other lobby jobs of public p! vod public spolia- tion. So much for thai vatiful specimen of party dovetailing and lobby jobbing. Secondly, the two Houses have passed an act authorizing an iseue of twenty millions of Treasury notes, but from all that has appeared of the debates upon the bill in the Senate, and in the House, there is scarcely a man in this Congress who understands the necessities for this measure, the causes which have compelled the Secretary of the Treasury to ask for it, or the practical operation of the act. One mem- ber called it an issue of shinplasters; another a United States Bank dodge in the disguise of a bill for the relief of the Sub-Treasury system; another says it is a mere trick to evade the re- sponsibility of a loan or increased taxes; but not a man of cither House appears to have comprehended the practical benefits, in the way of a uniform and active circulating me- dium which these Treasury notes will confer upon the country. In fact, the causes and world-wide consequences of this terrible revul- sion, and the paramount duty of the govern- ment, as far as practicable, to come to the aid of the people, are among those practical sub- jects for legislation which seem to have been wholly ignored by the members of all parties and all sections and factions of Congress. Why is this? How is it that the conflicting spoils and plunder interests in the matter of the government printing have been so readily accommodated, while concerning the great measures of retrenchment and reform sug- gested by the President, all parties in Con- gress have exhibited such a lamentable degree of ignorance, indifference and contempt? The answer is very simple. The two Houses of Congress have degenerated into tro bodies of intriguing politicians and lobby jobbers for the Presidential succession, and everything else qpust give way to the latest shuffle and cut of the cards of this man or that man, as a party or sectional leader, The latest shue and cut is that of Mr. Senator Douglas in this Presidential gambling business of “popular sovereignty” in@Xansas; and forth- with the eyes and ears and heads of the mem- bers of all parties and factions are absorbed in this Presidential dodge of Douglas. and closed against everything else. Mr. Senator Bigler reads the “Little Giant” out of the party two or three times a week—but he won't go out; the black republicans pat him on the back and ery “bravo!” and the “Little Giant” fires away again among the Biglers, Greens and Browns. A Douglas man from Ohio inaugurates the new hall of the Representatives with a speech against the Lecompton constitution; and in the House, from that bour, the squabbling raga- muffins in Kansas have superseded the legisla- tive interests of the whole Union and its twen- ty-five millions of people. And all thie time there has been no Lecomp- ton constitution before Congress; and “ popu- lar sovereignty” has been awaiting the action of the Kansas squatters. We dare say that the results in Kansas will shortly present the ques tion in a shape very easy of a practical solu- tion, and entirely consistent with the ends of justice and the desires of the administration; but it is for this very reason that Mr. Douglas and all the other Presidential tinkers have been striking while the iron is hot. Among these strikers, the new Senator from California, Mr. Broderick, bas lately distinguished himself. He declared in the Senate the other day, among other things, that if the people of Kansas had flogged the delegates of the Lecompton Conven- tion, and cut their ears off, and sent them out of the country, he for one would have applaud- ed the act. But we would admonish the gen- tleman, that while language of this sort might answer well enough before a court of Judge Lynch on the Sacrgnento, it is not exactly the thing for the United States Senate chamber. Mr. Broderick, however, may be like the emart boy who, when reminded that he had fallen back in his lessons, pleaded that he had not as yet got the hang of the new school house. Try to do better, Mr. Broderick, than cutting other men's ears off. Finally, as the country has become sick and disgusted with this Kansas tomfoolery, and as it has degraded Congress to the level of Tain many Hall, we congratulate the American peo- ple upon the fret that business is rapidly coming to a definite tsuc in Kaneas. Within a few weeks there he an end of it, and then we may po eed in diverting the law makers of Congress from the nigger ia the fence corner to their legislative duties, We are a little anxious to soe where Mr, Douglas will next turn op will bly st Htallan Opera at Home and Abroad—A Few Statistics. a From time to t'me, ever since the establish- ment of tie italian Opera in this city, we have advocated the adoption of such a scale of prices as would bring the entertainment within the reach of all. It haa been our aim to popularize the Opera, for two reasons:—First, because it is an elegant and agreeable amusement, affording one of the highest forms of artistic enjoyment; second, because the frequent performance of the great works of (he Italian and German mas- ters tends to the advance of musical education among our own people, who lave good voices and quick artistic perception—the one some- times spoiled by want of good masters, the other frequently blunted and viliated by the examples of bad models, We have claimed, and do still insist, that the design of the Legislature in the incorporation of the Academy of Music was mainly the ad- vancement of the art of music, and that that advancement cannot be attained without the adoption of a etiding scele-of-prices-which shall bring the performances within the means of all who desire to hear them. The Academy itself is a fine theatre, with more seats in the auditorium than any Opera house in London or Paris, and the receipts have frequently risen to a figure above those of the Continegyl theatres, with all their subsidies, subventions and ariste- cratic patronage. Under the present manage- ment a step has been taken in the right direc- tion, The Academy has been thrown open to the whole pu'lic for morning performances of full operas, at a uniform admission fee of fifty cents. For the evening performances seats may be secured at one dollar each. But this is only a beginning; and the manager makes the first step to his own cost. His company is large; the salaries excessive. Ina time of great financial distress, the artisis— with one or two honorable exceptions—refuse to accept any reduction, and the inevitable result ensues. The manager can only save himself from ruin by extra performances, concerts and oratorios. The point of the whole matter is in this:—The manager cannot aiford to give an opera which costs twelve huadred dollars per night for fifty cents; but if he could procure sa- tisfactory artists, and give the opera for five hundred, he might do so. Now, the public here is not willing to judge for itself. [t must have one or two great namesin the company. Per- haps the owners of those names belong to the “has been” order—that's no matter. Our public seems to prefer them to the young, fresh voices of artists who have their own way to make. This is not the case ia Europe. In London and Paris, it is true the managers go to great expense, and, stimulated by competition, they pay some- times extravagant salaries. But look at the Italian, German and Spanish cities, You find there the Opera admirably given at low prices. As an example, we append the official an- nouncement of the Opera at Lisbon. The season commenced on the l6th of Sep- tember, with the opera “Belisarius” and a new ballet. It will end on the Ist of April. The personnel of the Opera house is as follows:— Maestros composers—Pedro Antonio Coppolla, Vicente Schira. Primas donnas—Sig'ras Arsenia’ Charton De- muere, Thereza Schwarz, contralto; Margarida Bernardi, contralto. Comprimaria supplementary—sign'ra Rita Ge- ordani, Segundi donpas—Sig'ras E. Sr. Martin, R. Cas- sano, Tenors assoluto—Signors Nery Beraldi, Settimo Malvezzi, Antonio Brunio. Baritones—Siguors J.T. Be- neventano, J. Arnaud, A.M. Celestine, Bassos—Signors Luciano Bouché, Luigi Silingardi. Protpter—Siguor Gae- tano Fontano. ' Chorus —$ J. Ang. C. de Santos. Choristers—Forty individuals of both sexes. Or- chestra—Fifty-three performers: twelve more to be en- gaged. Martial band—Tweanty dive instrumentalists, with & compiete corps of comparsi and figurantes. Ballet com- pany: com) rT, or Carios Blasi. First mitnico assolul |. Hypoiito t. First dancers (French sohool)—Sig'ras Emilia Bellini, Gio Pittori. First dancers (italian schol)—Sir'ras Luigia Vicinelli, Amalia Pitteri, Giovanina Casatti, Cosma Casatti. First dancers: (French style) —Signors ‘Ettore Pogiolessi, Carlo Conto, and forty timics, dancers, corephes and fgurantes Painters—Mons, Achille Rambois, Signor Giuseppe Cin- nati; with the usua! number of scene shifters, gas light- ers and domestics. And yet the admission prices are as follows:— Lowor or rez-de chaussie boxes. 50, First order, or tier of boxes. Bess £38E Gallery, entrance anil It is true that this theatre has a government subsidy of ten thousand dollars, but Lisbon is a fourth rate city in wealth and population, while New York is only second to London and Paris. The musical taste among Spanish or Por- tuguese communities is superior to that here, and the evidence of that fact will be found in the admirable organization of the personnel of the theatre, by which all the small parts are in good hands. Here we can rarely have good ensem- ble, because no one is willing to sing second parts. We are coolly told that a third rate artist has “surrendered his amour-propre” to sing what is really the best part in a certain opera— a role which has been interpreted by the first tenors on the French and English stage. A great part of all the blunders and fail- ures and stupidities apparent in Opera manage. ment here have arisen from competiton among rival managers There is a bone which has hardly meat enough for one meal, and yet half a dozen managerial mastiffs are always tearing themselves to pieces for it. The public gains nothing by the rivalry, and the managers always lose. We hope, there- fore, that the experience of the past season will bring us better things for the future. Now we have a good Opera company at moderate prices. One of these days we hope they will be still lower; but that is not to be hoped for at present. In the meantime, we have no doubt that the manager of the Academy will do his best to gratify the whole public. He hae strug- gied manfully through the financial revulsion, and deserves some reward at the hands of the public. —_—_——__—. Tue Grapine or tHe Urrer Part or Tan City.—The measures which are being taken for the laying out of the upper part of the city are in the highest degree disgraceful to the citizens. In the first place, all the contracts for grading and laying out new streets are corrupt jobs en- gineered through the department by the grossest corruption; the contractors think of nothing but making money for themselves and robbing the city. We had an instance of that in the late caclandre in Forty-second street. It seems impossible either to hold a contractor to his bar- gain, or to get out of bis hands « contract which he is using to the fnjury and disfigurement of the city. But the pginciple on which the new strects are laid out is as faulty as the practice of the contractors, The scheme is that all streets muet be straight, and as nearly as possible rec- tangular to each other; also that all inequalities in the surface of the ground murt be made to disappear, the hills shaved down, and the hol- lowe filled up. The consequence is that, in the first place, that part of the city which has been laid out in this way has a monotonous, stupid and unintereding appearance; nothing to break the never-ending, dull, straight lines and level surfaces. Inthe second place, the filling up of hollows in which nature had placed water has led to the customary vindication of nature's laws. Fever and ague has broken out in some of the most fashionable up town streets; if the truth were known, it is as familiar to some of the residents round Madison square as to the Jerseymen. If there be any decency, any common sense, among the citizens of the upper part of New York, for heaven's sake let this barbarous way of outraging nature be abandoned. Let the land not yet laid out in streets be left as nature made it, and let the streets follow the lines marked out by nature. If this is done, New York will be some day a fine city; if the present smoothing plane system be carried over the rest of the island, it will become as stupidly dull as Philadelphia, and as unhealthy as Brooklyn. Opmions ON THE RevuLsion.—An obscure and ignorant journal has lately republished two extracts from speeches lately delivered in the Senate, on the commercial and financial prospects of the country. One was from a speech delivered by Senator Seward, and ran as follows:— © In my judgment, the acceleration of business is going to be rapid just in proportion to the rapidity with whtcn ‘business has declined; and I exoect to see every day; and every hour of every day, marked by a rise in the pros- perity of the country, graduated just exactiy by the denness of the depression. The causes of the disaste1 gone. I think there is nothing before ua but a great revi- val of business and plethora of mouey to revive it in all departments. I may be mistaken in ihis, but I am will- ing to stand by it. The other was from a speech of Senator Dix- on’s, and was as follows:— T wish I conld believe, with the distinguished Senator from New York, that this evil was.entirely teraporary and that the recovery would be a3 rapid as the fall. “i hope it is true of the State of New York, which he repre- sents here; but in that part of New Eugland from which I come, in the State of Conzecticut, the troubles of the day are by no means over. Indeed, sir, if not at thew height and titensity, there is at this time no symptom of reco- very. The only wantof money is for liquidation for the payment of debts. The banks have money. They can joan money to-day; but the difficulty with them is to find paper ot & business character on which they think it safe to make their loans. There is no apparent relief thus far from whut we have already suffered. Iam in hopes that the brilliant prospect pointed out by the Senator from New York will prove to be true; but [think that when we stand here one year heace we shall find that then the recovery bas only commenced. It is pretended, in the columns of the journal in question, that these two extracts contradict each other. This assumption is based upon an ignorance of the facts. The two Senators may be and to some extent are both right. Each is right from his point of view. Mr. Sqwvard—the representative of a State whose banks pay spe- cie, and which possesses a sound banking sys- tem, immense internal wealth, and unparalleled recuperative energies—may be not far from wrong when he assumes that the revulsion has spent its force, and that the tendency of every- thing is toward recovery; while, on the other hand, it is natural for Senator Dixon, of Con- necticut—who represents a State where the banks do uot all pay specie andare not in a sound state, and whore manufacturing industry has not yet and will not soon recover the blow inflieted by the revulsion—to assume that that revulsion is still in full play, and that further evils are yet to come. Every revulsion gives birth to two parties: the party of new men, or new construction party, and the party of old men, or the liqui- dation party. Every financial crisis breaks a given number of houses, and shakes others. Thus, after the first burst of the storm has passed over, the field is occupied partly by young men, new comers, who offer to take the place of the broken houses, and buy old houses which have not broken, but which are struggling through a process of liquidation For three or four years there is usually a strug- gle between these two parties; sometimes the new construction party having the preponde- rance, and sometimes the liquidation party looming up so large as to appear to cover the whole ground. Whenever the latter prevail, the commercial horizon looks black and gloomy ; when the new constructionists are in the ascendancy, the horizon appears fair and promising. Senators Seward and Dixon represent these two parties. The one sees the hopeful exer- tions of the new men who are struggling to take the place of the houses that are gone; the other the desperate throes of the houses which are endeavoring to liquidate, This explains at once the difference of opinion between thom. Joun Vay Bore: nu AT Tammany Haws. —We presume that nearly every one has read the speech of Mr. Van Buren, delivered at Tam- many Hall on Wednesday, and published verda- tim in the Heraxy of yesterday. It is the ablest defence of the administration of Mr. Buchanan in or out of Congress, and, to our judgment, a much clearer exposition of the views of the Pre- sident upen the Kansas question than has been given in any of the Senate debates since the dirt- eaters’ war commenced. Mr. Van Buren treai the matter in a calm, philosophic point of view, and makes out his case, as far as the details ace concerned, with the precision of an advocate, while his argument is founded upon broad, con- stitutional, statesman-like views, such os will eommend themselves to every man of common sence. Mr. Van Buren joins issue with Mr. Douglas upon the question raised by the latter in the Senate as to the true meaning of the Cin- cinnati platform; and Van Buren shows quite clearly that the President has been as- sailed simply for adhering rigidly to the doc- trine of non-intervention as laid down in that platform. Mr. Van Buren’s argument upon this point, which is the most impor- tant so far as the position of the’ Senator from Illinois is concerned, is clear, able, perspicuous. In fact it does not leave Mr. Douglas a leg to stand on, and carries him over virtually to the opposition. Tt is quite clear, as Mr. Van Buren says, that if Mr. Douglas has not joined the op- position the opposition has joined him. Judging by the past, it seems a strange state of things when John Van Buren reads Stephen A. Doug- las a lecture upon political orthodoxy; but so it is, and Mr. Van Buren has done it #0 well as to use up the “ Little Giant” altogether. We re- commend Mr. Van Buren’s speech to attention as universal as its circulation will be general It is by euch speeches as this of Mr. Van Bu- ren’s, and the discussions fn the free presse of the country, disseminating intelligence far and wide among the people, that the great political questions of the day will be settled, while Con- gresy sits month after month frittering away the time in windy harangues and idle generali- ties, without end, aim or purpose, except it be to multiply public documents, put money in the pockets of the printing lobby, and load down the mail bags with trash which no one will ever read. Canapran Eveerrons.—Mr. Isaac Bachanan, the entary emtudidate, who raised ® hornet’s nest cara by the expression of his belief that the form of government is best, guited to the lati ada, bas distanced his compct'tore, and ts re Hamilton by @ majoriiy of over turee bua THE LATEST NEWS. from Kansas. BLOODY BATTLE AT FORT SCOTT—FIVE PRO-BLAVERY ‘MEN KILLED--TWENTY PREK STATE MEN TAKEN PRISONERS—MORE VIOi ENCE BXPECTKD—A CALL FOR ANOTHER FREE STATE CONVENTION, ETC. St. Lovis, Doc. 24, 1857. A Kansas letter to the Democrat says that on the oveu- ing of the 16th a battle occurred at Fort Scott between the pro-slavery and free State men. Five of the former were kiled, among them Blake Litile, a racmber of the Le, compton Convention. Sevcral were wounded on both sides,and twenty free State men were takeu prisoners and confined itt the fort. “The Missourians were assembled in strong force on the border, and more fighting was appreheaded, The difficulties grow out of the fact that Clark, (notorious ag the murderer of Barber, two years since,) went about accompanied by a Deputy Sheriff, collecting taxes of tho frve State men, and seizing their property in default of payment, making prosecution under the rebellion iaw. ‘The Territorial Executive Committee had tssued a call for the reassembling of the delegate convention held at Tawreace on the 2d instant, to take into consideration the best course to pursue in consequence of the Legislature having failed to submit tho Topeka constitution to the peo- Je with the Lecompton instrument. Interesting from W: 4 KANSAS AFFAIRS—WHERE 18 GEN. DENVER?—BAD NEWS FOR OFFICE SEEKERS—CAYT. LEVY AND COM. CHAUNCEY RESTORED TO THE ACTIVE LIST OY THE NAVY—STAMPEDE OF CONGRESSMEN—THE NEW 198UH OF TREASCRY NOTES, BTC. ‘Wasutarox, Dec. 24, 1857. ‘The administration is still without »my official information from Kansas. Tt was understoed that Gen. Denver would communicate constantly with the government and keep them thoroughly posted. They think it strange tey have not heard from him. Mr. Blair, of Missouri, receivéda des- patch last evening and another this morning, from Gratz Brown, dated St. Louis, stating that the Logislature had passed, by a two-thirds vote, all the laws vetoed by Acting Governor Stanton. ‘Tho President has determined to make no more appaint- ments or dispense any more patronage for the present. Two more cases have just been completed before the Naval Courts, Captain Uriah P. Levy, who entered the service in 1812, and who was dropped by the Retiring Board, has been put on the active list. Commander J. S. Chauncey, who also entered the navy in 1812, and who was furloughed, bas likewise been restored to the active list. But two more cases remain to be tried, viz:—Com- mander §. W. Lecompte, and Captain Wm. Ramsay. ‘The State Department has been officially informed by Mr. McKeon that the brig Alnab, lately seized by Marshal Rynders, had been released, the government officers boing fully satisfied she was not engaged in tilibustering, but in legitimate commerce. We hear murmurs of dis- satisfaction with regard to Capt. Rynders. Charles T. Anderson, Faq., who designed the enlarge- ment of the Capitol extension, has been employed by Postmaster General Brown to prepare a design for the New York Post Office, The War Department has aacertained the actual cash value of the property destroyed by the Mormons to be nearly fifty thousand dollars, covering other items than army supplies. Commodore Paulding writes to the Navy Department, urging that some distinguishing and permanent marks be placed on mez discnarged from the naval service for vicious conduct. This is actualy necessary, he says, to pro. tect the service from villainous characters who disregard bavy discipane. Lieut. Craven, commending the Atrato expedition, writes from Carthagena, uncer dato of November 24, that his officers and men are well. He encloses a copy of an address delivered ata banquet given at Carthagena in honor of the expedition, when a banner was presented to him by Don Renediti. The address is in admirable taste. [The address referred to and tho reply of Lieut. Craven bave already appeared in the Hera. ] The Treasury notes recently authorized by Congress will be issued in about two weeks. The Secrotary of the Treasury has determined that the denomination of these promises to pay shall be one hundred;tive hundred, and one thousand dollars. The contract for engraving plates has been given to Rawdon, Hatch &Co., of New York, and to Topping, Carpenter & Co., of Philadelphia, tho former firm having the execution of the notes of one hundred and five hundred dollars, and the latter the notes of one thousand dollars. The Secretary i very anxious that these notes shall be executed in the best style of American art. ‘The city is almost entirely deserted. Upwards of one hundred membera of Congress left for the North this evening. Postmaster Geveral Brown's cards are oul for the 20th inst. It is to be # brilliant affair, ‘TUE GENERAL NEWRPAPER DRAPATCH. Wasisctox, Dec. 24, 1857. A requisition was made on the Treasury today for $530,000 for the pay of members of Congress from the 4th of March last, under the joint resolution recently passed, Of this amount over $120,000 has already been disbursed tn gold. In addition to the Pawnee delegation of Indians, a dele. gation of the Poncahs, from Nebraska, have arrived here, both on business with the government. The President has issued a proclamation setting apart the 15th of February for taking the sense @ the voters of the District of Columbia on a new code of laws. The President, in reply to a resolution of the Senate, transmitted to that body yesterday tho correspondence which took place nearly a year ago in referonce to tho bombardment of Greytown, Count Sartiges, it appears, asked indemnity for actual losses susteiued by the French subjects, who, he says, found it plhysteally impossible to remove their goods from the couflagration caused by the movetnenta of the commander of the sloop-of war Cyane. Governor Marcy, in reply, informs him that the President has not been able to fad upon what principles of right or even of equity, the reclamation can be sustained, and in a long despatch expounds to him the international law. Count Sartiges acknowledges its receipt, and says be will not fail to send Goveruor Marcy's communication to the French government. No response to the latter is em braced in the documents. Although the resolution calling for the information included any correspondence with Grent Britain, none was transmitted to the Senate n a wa hort for copying Secretary Cass? totter accepting th nation of Gov. Walker, that several errors wero w tably made ia conse. qionee. One cnterge shou! over entertaine! nor expressed the vention wore bound Wo «ubmit an tution to the poople oreo pt the que fess that the other portion. of “ike invalid without such a 6 bi The Sandy Hook Teterraph, Tue Hi ame, Dee, 8 FM The wire which crosses Shrowabury rivor, betroon here and Sandy Hook, broke this afternoon, aud thonah efforts have been made to repair the damage, the wire could not be got up to-night. The line will probably be in working order to the Hook by 9 A. M., to-morrow. ‘The Steamship Anglo Sazon for Liverpool. Portianp, Me., Deo. 24, 1867. ‘The steamship Anglo Saxon, one of the fast screw boats of the Quebec linc, will leave this port for Liverpool di rect at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Merchants wish- ing to communicate with their correspondents in Europe ‘ean do 50 a late a8 12 o'clock on Saturday by leaving thoir despatches at No. 21 Wall street, Now York. The Anglo Saxon is expected to make tho passage to Liverpool in about cleven or twelve days. Indictment for Murder—Congresstonal Elec don. Bostox, Dec. 24, 1857. ‘The Grand Jory, i te reported, have found @ bill of indictment against John Joyce for tho murder of policeman Hodson. Joyce is in custody. ‘The Governor has ordered an election in the Seventh district for a member of Congress in piace of Hon. N. P. Banks, on the 7th day of January. United States Supreme Court. « Wasmvaron, Deo. 24, 1857. No. 46 of the December term of 1856.—Augustus Hem menway, claimant of ship Independence, vs. W. ft Fisher.—Chicf Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court, overruling the motion for damages, No. 1.—White, Stevens & Co. ve. Paschal Rose's Ad- Minietratore.—The judgment of the Cirenit Court of the Fastern district of Louisiana was affirmed, with costs, No, 222.—The United States ve. James Noe.—On motion the caso was docketed and distuissed, Adjourned till Tuesday next, Locomotive Explosion. Sanprany, Deo. 24, 1967. A locomotive attached to a freight train on the andar ky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad, which left here this morning, exploded near Monroeville station, injuring only the c. gineer and firgmen, the latter serivts!) ‘Miiavcrviis, Dec. %3, 1867. On Tuesday night the Governor vetoed the bil! for the logalization of the suspension of speci® payment by the banks, The Leeizinture has since passed the bit! over the veto by @ two-thirds vote. Wlection Riot in Canada. Toronto, Dec. 24, 1861. A eerious affray occurred at the election in Fergus te- day, ix which a man named Jarrell was shot and instantly’ killed, and another named O'Callaghan stabbed. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. 24, 185: Puuapeirma, Dec. 24, 1857. Sts du. penne aun State 4's, bases Penns rod, i i a} 43; Loug Island Railroad, on pant BY RAYS Nkw Onimans, Duc. 23, 1861. Cotton—Sales 15,000 bales at irregular prices, closing with a declining tentency and oli] the market. We we middling at 9X0. a 9c. uot buoyact; fair to fully fair 48¢c, $4 004 60, with a declining tendency; sales articles: Corn closed athée. Mess pork $14. Keg lard 9c. Other unchanged. i: Now Onixans, Dec, 24, y 4, Wb ¥C. & 944, ‘ Prices irregular; fair to fully tair 45c. a Se. Flour de clined Se, Yellow corn 6ho, on London 10436 106. Exchange cn New York 4; — % per cent discoumt. Dec. 2 ‘The sales of cotton to-day were 500 baica, sion aices Savanwau, Dec. 23, 1867. Sales of cotton to-day 1,200 bales, at 9246, @ L0Kc. Our Kansas Correspondence: Lxaverworta Crrr, K. T., Dec. 14, 1867. Movements of the New York Navy Agent. George N. Sanders leaves in a day or two for New York. During his stay in this city he bas been quietly at- tending to bis own business, keoping entirely aloof from the political agitation in the Territory. With a keon com- prehension for business beyond most men, ho has seee the: rapid and to be continued growth of this city, and myout- ed accordingly. bia own judgment and that of hie chief engineer, both, some material new |. Ast peer es ag yale, bare siseeds infused thetr vi- ty in varioug ways. contem| ‘3 making Leavea- worth his future residence. He is well ‘nesured. ‘There is a tide in the affairs of Kansas Which if taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Commas ENTERTALNMYNTS.—At the Academy of Music to-day there will be an opera matinée. ‘Norma,’ with Madame de la Grange, will be given, commoncing at one o'clock. In the evening Handel's grand oratario, “The Messiah,” with Mme. Caradori (first appearance), Mme. D’Angri, Formos and the chorus of the Harmonic Society. At the Broadway theatre Van Amburgh’s equestrian troupe will give performances in the afternoon and evea- ing. The new Christmas pantomime, “ Harlequin Blae- beard,’ will be played at Laura Keene’s theatre ta the afternoon and evening. Nibio brings out a new Christmas piece, “The Golden Fgg,"’ at his ever popular Garden. Mr. Charles Mathews plays ina new piece at Burton's theatre. At Wallack’s theatre ‘The Poor of New York’? will be played afternoon and evening. Tho Bowory, Bar- num's Museum, Bryant’s and Wood's Minstrols give extra day performances, which are duly announced elsowhere. SwRaRinG IN or THE SurERvIsORS.—The Board of Super- visors for the ensuing year will be composed of twelve members—six elected and six “appointed” by the Mayor. This is one of the anomalies and inconsistencies of the re- cent act, which says that six Supervisors shal! be elect- ed, and that the Mayor shall appoint six of the candidates having the next highest number of votes. The six mena- bers elected are democrats, and their opponents who were republicans, received, of course, the next highest number of votes, and were accordingly the party intended by the Legisiature for-the office. It was rumored that Mayor Wood's weil known hostility to the black republi. can legislation would induce him to refuse te swear in the claimants. Rumor, however, was wrong, and not for the first time; for on yesterday morning the six gentlemen who obtained the *‘next highest number of votes,” after the successful candidates, entered the Mayor's Office, and were received with courtesy by Mayor ‘Wood, who administered to them the oath of office. Mayor conversed freely and blandiy with some of mombers, but there were others amongst them who unknown to him. The foliowing are the names of the gentlemen who compose the Board. The republicans wore sworn in by the Mayor cans. June k Renuets, Democrats. William M. ‘Tweed, William R. Stewart, Tsaac Bell, Jr., Augustus Wiseman, ‘Hiyjah F. Purdy, Orison Blunt, — « Waiter Roche, Thomas B. Stillman, William C. Connor, Peter P. Voorhies. Joba K. Briggs. This Board may,be called “half and half’"—six demo- crats and six republicans. By the act of April 16, 1867, the Board of Supervisors will not henceforward be compored of the Aldermen. The Mayor and Recorder of the city ease to be members of the Board. They hold office for one yoar from the first of January ney The vote Of a majority of all the members elected shall be necessary to pass any act, ordinance or resolution ap- iuting money, which must be subsequently cortilied tr the Mayor. if the Mayor shall not retarn any act, re- solution or ordinance so limited (ten days) it shall take effect in the same manner vs if be had signeddt. No money shall be drawn from the \reaaury except the same shall have beon previousiy ap- propriated for the p for which it is drawa. All moueys drawn from the treasury by authority of the Supervisers, shall be upon rs exemined. and al lowed by the Auditor. ited to him within the dme City Intelligence New Yors Prison Associawion.—The regular monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the above associa- tion was held last evening, at seven o'clock, at the reai- dence of Stephen Cutter, Esq., No. 228 Twelfth ctreet. After the transaction of the ordinary business, the agent of Discharged Convict and Detontion Committees submit- ted his diaries, from which It appeared the following have been their operations during the month. A large propor- tion of the inmates of our prisons bad beon visited, and many of the most hopeful cases appropriately aided:— Complaints made, immediately seen to, 87; of this number were discontinned, 39; wt discharged from custody om their recommendation, 41; discharged convicts and others assisted with money for food, and to enable them to Jeave the city, 27; discharged persons furnished with suitable clothing, more or lew, 17; sent into the country, 12. The association much need a supply of clothing, shoes, hate, caps, &sc. It is earnestly hoped, during this festive season, these poor erring creatures, who crave pecuniary help, will be remembered. Donations and contributions to this usetulf institution are earnestly so- Heited, and will be gratefully acknowledged by Henry A. Onkley, Keq., Treasurer, No. 66 Wall street, or by the agent, Abraham Beal, at the office of the asgociation, No. 15 Centre street. ‘Tue Brnix Socrery axp Tre Reviee> Binur —The con- troversy respecting the revised edition of the ible which is being gotten ap under the auspices of tho American Bible Society, has at length reached the American Bible Society, and the trustees of that organization had a long and anxious controversy respecting the matter at its Iam mecting. The whole subject was finally referred to 2 committee, with instrnctions t) give kis important sabjcet their earnest attention, and to report at @ future meeting. The namesof the persona compris- ing this committee are as follows:—Rev. Dr. Storrs, } ot Kew Yor: Rev’ Rey. Dr. McLeod, of New York; Adame of Now Yeu York; Charles Tracy, Fxq., weult of their deliberations will be vest anxiety by ths religious com- Tay Nowrrmreny Nrmwaany —The fifth annual report » this institution hes been published, and present a very ‘flour shing vite of affaira, The number of patients treat- ed at (be dispensary and at their houses during the yoar, we { erhem 6,999 were males And 7,668 wore fe- males. Of thee 6.42% wore born in the United 6,712 in Ireland, 254 \o Mogland, 371 in Germany and in Scotian! aud other conntries, The total number vacol- — during ap Ag dE the number of pro- scriptions up 21,796, at number of deaths patients or the five yours of the oxistence of tte ie stitution persons have been ireated—an wits uae year. The receipts for the year were $3,1' disbursements 82.774 95, leaving a balance #305 a an 36 in the treasury. tof a proper severely felt by this (eethations oad. bor? Sree ane eetrteat oa eeiecte Fiverally. "The oftcers. for the tomuing, year aren-trest sn ire ene hn, ae Newby ; Secretary, Charles H. Rusher. wire ACCIORNT AT Tie BROADWAY TitkaTRE.—On Wednesday evening, during the performance of the corps of ¢ymnasta attached to the Van Amburgh troupe, Mr. Crosby at- ‘empted the daring feat of turning a somersault over the backs of five horses. Mr. Crosby was unablo to vo fealeaecer of his body, and fell at an ) which brought ove of his legs underneath. Ho sustained a com- ound fracture of both the tilia and filula bones of the log low the knee, Mr. Crosby was attended by Dr. Gar- hochan, and was casier yesterday. Williamaburg City News, Fru iv A Leamen Yann.—Last evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, 4 fire was discovered in the steam planing mill of John A. Cross & Co., in First street, near Kent avenue, The flames spread rapidly, and in @ short time the entire building, together with a Inrge pile of lumber near by, were on fire. Tho firemen worked faithfully up to 11 o'clock, but were ouly able to prevent ite spread. Te that and thé adjoining yard, belonging to Massy & Co, there was probably not less than $200,000 worth of tum? ber, whieh must have been destroyed bad tho wind beow fs high as on the previous hight. ‘The logs on the building and machinery fs about $2,500; on lumber, $1 sired In the \Williamneburg CMy and St Marky of New York, for $600 ench. The fire occurred some farty foot from ‘the fire r ind Was undoubtedly the work of aa incenMary , af Do PAB was used ip the vicinity of the build - ing where it was Bret discovered, er ee) a me are "{ ie