The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1857, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1857. 2 ~ a Sianeli = a .s Wobster, has lost a! caste with enterprise, then the governments of the United $e peeitien of meeretere Se Bee caprerree ee ae Pcs Bles ta aa thle soe the government and people of Costa Ries. The President is imbigh wrath with the Anderson intrigues and betrayals, | and it 1 probabie be will be expelied the State. Anderson | has always been aschemer and unsuccessful operator in these matters. As soon as he learned-of Webster's ar- rival be left the couatry for Nicaragua, and the govern. | ment eomnnenen, the Cronica of lm ad November, bits | him in ove of its leaders very severely | * New York Uiree weeks | ‘ago, bearing propositions touching the Transit for C.K. | Garrison and Charles Morgan, has met with mo success. Garrison and Morgan offere 1 to lease the river boats for a term of twelve months, giving assurances that eo soon as the money market was easier they would carry oat the Webster Harris grant. Their object was to achicve pas- seasion of the route. Webster warned Presiuent Mora of the object of the proposal, and Measra. Morgan and Garri- fon's proposition was bluffed off There is no doubt Capt. Cauty was wonecent of the filibustering design of Garrison & Co., ag and bis gallant son have served Costa Rica faithfully and with merit Messrs Garrisoa and Morgan had better throw away no further good money after what they bave lost, in hopes of getting the Transit. Centrai America i unanimously opposed to them, aud in their rupture with Webster their chances became at once nuga- — They, like old Anderson, are fairly noasuited \¢ coffee’ crop this year will be smaller than ever; ae sro unusually high. A French house is buying iy. ‘Avery valuable gold mine has recently been disoo- vered some thirty miles from this city, and General Mora bas Inid aside the sword and has gone down to the dis- covery, having purchased a large share in the claim Genera! Canas is now in Nicaragca, endeavoring to ad- just matters there, but we look to no happy result till Webster has shown his face to Martinez Mora’s administration remains very popular. Liberal reforms are going on in every direction, and it is higtty prebable be wil! be clected President for life. So able and sound a statesman we have not in Costa Rica; in fact, all foreigners agree in ackno tledging that President Mora’s equal is not to be found from Mexico to Cape Horn. NEWSPAPER TRANBLATIONS. We have received our files from San Joze to the 2d in- stant A commission had heen named to proceed to Nicaragua for the parposeof endeavoring to settle the pending ques- Lions between the two States, and President Mora had in vited the amicable interference of the other Central American States. It is hopod that if the offers of Vani Dill’s agenta for the Transit route grant should not prove {oo tempiing to Nicaragua, the peading questions may be arranged. The Gaccta Oficial, of Costa Rica, is very violent against Senor Yrisarri, and the new treaty said to have been ne- gotiated between him and the United States government, aad arserts that his recognition as Minister for Nicar ‘was brought about by an intrigue, he getting all the New York Commodores and Transit route pletters to back him and obtain his recognition, by promising to each of them to support bis views and ciatms. In expectation of an invasion by Walker, the same jour- na} says that Costa Rica has 5,009 men, well disciplined and armed with Minie rifles, and that ils other prepara- tions for war are on an equivalent footing. ‘A privilege to erect an iron foundry at San Jose had Deen granted to Messrs. Mason and Bradway, and another for a line of stage coaches from that city to the port to Herr Gottel. THE CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMBRI- CA AND HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY FOR FACILITATING AND PROTECTING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SHIP CANAL BRTW THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. CONCLUDED 19TH arin, 1850; RATIVIED DY THE UNITRD STATRS 29p May, 1850; BXCHANGED 4TH JCLY, 1850; AND a BY THE UNITED STATES 5TH JULY, BY THR PRESIDENT OF THR UNITED STATES OF PROCLAMATION Whereas, a convention between the Toited States of America and her Britannic Majesty, for facilitatiag and protecting the construction of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and for other purposes, was concluded and signed at Washngton on the 19th day of April last, which convention is, word for word, as fol- lows : CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER BRITANNIC MASESTY. The United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity which % happily subsist between them, by settin, and fixing 2 a convention their views and intention reference to avy means of communication by ship canal which may be Constructed between the Atlantic and Pa Cific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nica ther or both of the iakes of Nicaragua or ua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean, the President of the United States has conferred fuil powers on John M. Clayton, Secrctary of State of the United St and her Britannic Majesty on the Right Hop. Sir Henry Lytwon Bulwer, a member of her Majesty’s most honorable Privy Counci!, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, and Enroy Extraordinary and Minister Plemipotentiary of her Aritannic Majesty to the United States, for the aforesait purpose; and the said plenipoten aries hsving ¢xchanged their fuli powers, which were found to be in proper form, have agreed to the following articles :-— Article 1. The governments of the United States and Great Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the amEnica—a | Britain having not only desired, in entering into this con other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal, agresing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereo!, or occupy, or fortity, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion ever, Nica Tagua, Costa Rica, the Mo-quite coast, or any part of Cen. tral America; nor will oither make use of any protection which either affords, or may afford, or any alliance which either has, or may have, to or with any State or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fort fications, or of occupying, fortifying or colonozing Nica. ragua, Costa Rica, the Mo-quite coast, or any part of Cen tral America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same; nor will the United states or Great Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connexion or influence that either may possess with auy State or government through whose territory the said canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directiy or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said cana! which shall not be offered on the same termes to the citizens or subsects of the other. Art. 2. Ves: of the United States or Great Britain tra versing the eaid canal shali, in case of war between the contracting parties, be exempted {rom blockade, detentior or capture by either of the belligerents; and this provision shall extend to such & distance from the two ends of the ould cana! as may hereafter be found expedient to estab is Art. 3. In order to secure the constrnetion of the said canal, the contracting parties engage that if any such canal shall be undertaken upon fair and equitable terms by aay parties hav ing the authority of the local government or governments through whose territory the Fane may pass then the persons employed in mine the Fant can their property used, or to be used, for that ob % be protected from the commencement of the «ait canal to its completion, by the governments of the United States azd Great Britain, from unjust detention, confiscation eeizure, of any violence whatsoever. Art. 4. The contracting parties will use whatever infla ence they reapectively exerciae with any State, States or governments possessing, or daiming to possess, any juris diction or right over the territory which the said canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters appli cable thereto, in order to induce such States or govern ments to facilitate the construction of the said canal by every means in their power. And furthermore, the United Sates and Great Britain agree to use their good 5 wherever or bowever it mi most expedient, in order (© procure the establishment of two free ports, one at each end of the said canal. Art. 6, The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they wil! protect it from interruption, seigure or unjust confiscation, tection to any other persons or company thst shall be pre- pared to commence kad proceed with the construction of Art. 8. The governments of the United States and Great | the canal in question, vention, to accomplish a particular object, but cstablish a general principle they bereby agree to their protection, by treaty stipntations, to any other pr ticable communications. whether by canal or railway across the isthmus which gonnects North and South Ame- rica, and especiaily to the inter oceanic communications. should the rame prove to be practioabie, whether by eau or railway, which are not proposed to be eatab! by the ‘of Tel or Panama. In granting, how. ever. their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain thet. the parties con- the same shall impose no other thereupon than the afo: its shall approve of as just and equitable; and the same canals or raitways being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Bri- tain on equal terms shall also be open on like terms to the Citizensand subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford. Art. 9. The r: 3. of this convention shall be cx- changed at Washington within :ix months from this day, or sooner if possible. In faith ‘whereof, we, the roa) ve plonipotentiarios have signed this convention, and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done at Washington the nineteenth of April, one thou- eand eight hundred and fitt; y. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, [t. 8. JOHN M CLAYTON, 8. And whereas, the said convention has been duly ratifl d ‘on both parts, and the respactive ratifcations of the same wereexchanged at Washington, on the 4th inst., by John M Clayton, Secretary of State of the United States, and the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, invoy Extraor. dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Ma- Jesty, ou the part of their respective governments : ow, therefore, be it known, that I, Zachary Taylor, President of the United States of America, have cause the suid convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause aud artisle thereof, may be ob- served and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereo!. In witness whereof, !have hereurito «et my hand, and cauzod the seal of the United States to de affixed. ‘L. 8.) Done at the city of Washington, this fifth day of Joly, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and of the independence of the United States the seventy -fif Z. TAYLOR. By the President—J..M. Carros, Secretary of State. THE NEUTRALITY ACT. APPROVED APRIL 20, 1818. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO THK “ACT FOR THE PCMISHMENT OF CER- ‘TAIN CRIMES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES," AND TO RKPEAL ‘TIE ACTS THEREIN MENTIONED. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou e of Representa. tives of the United States of america, in as sembled, That if any citizen of the United States shall, within the territory or jurisdiction thered?, accept and ex- ercise a commission to serve a foreign prince, stata, colo- ny, district, or people, in war, by land or by Sea, against any prince, state, colony, district or people, with whom the United States are at peace, the person so offending aball be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than two #housand dollars, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years. Skc 2. And be # further enacted, That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United State:, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the jimits or jurisdiction of the United Statas with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, atate, colovy, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a ma. rine Or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of @ high misdemeanor, and shaW be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three years : Provided, That this act shall not be construed toextend to any subject or citizen of any foreign prince, state, colony, district or people, who shalt transiently be within the United States, and shall on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, which at the time of its arrival within the United States, was {lt- ted and equipped as such, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another subject or citizen of the same foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, who is transiently within the United States, to enlist or enter himself toserve such foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, on board such vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, if the United States shail then be at peace with such foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people. Sxc. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, within the limits of the United States fit out and arm, or attempt to fit ont and arm, or procure to be fitted out and armed, or ghall knowingly be concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming, of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the“subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, of of any.cciony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, or shalt tesue or deliver a com- mission within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, for any ship or vessel, to the intent that she ma; be cmployed as aforesaid, every perscn ao oftending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined pot more than ten thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than threo years; and every such sbipor vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunitien, and stores, which may have been red for the building and equipment thereof, ehall A the otber baif to the use of the United States, ‘Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen or citizens of the United States shall, without the limits there- of, fit ont and arm, or attempt to fit oat and arm, or pro- cure to be fitted out ani armed, or shall knowingly aid or be concerned tn the furnishing, Sitting out, or arming, any private ship or vessel of war, or privateer, with intent that such ship or vessel shall ‘be employed to cruise, or commit hostilities, upon the citizens of or their property, or shall take the command of, or enter on board of any such ship or vessel, for the intent afore. said, or shall purcbase any interest in any auch ship or vessel, with @ view to share in the profits thereof, such person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high ean or, and fined not more than ten thousgnd dol- lars, and imprisoned not more than ten years; and the trial for such offence, if committed without the limits of hall be in the district in which the of: fender shall be apprehended or first brought Sec. 5. And be it farther enacted, That if an; shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of States, increase or augment, or augmented, or shall knowingly e United 0 Be concerned in increasing or augmenting, the force of any ship of war cruiser or | other armed vessel, which, atthe time of her arrival | within the United States, was a ship of war, or craiser, or armed vessel, in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any coldny, district, or people, or belonging to the subjects or citizens of any such prince or state, colony, | district, or people, the same being at war with any foreign prince Or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at pence, by adding to the number of the guns of such veseel, or by changing those ‘on board of her for guns of a larger calibre, or by the ad dition thereto of any equipment solely applicable to war, every person, 80 offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high toisdemeanor, shall be fined net more than one thou- sand dollers, and be an hot more than one year. See. 6. And be it fu r enacted, That if any person sball, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of avy foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are (at) peace, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceedang three thousand doliars, and imprisoned not more than three years 7 hoc 7 And be it further enacted, That the district and thatthey will guaranty the neutrality thereof, #e that the said canal may for ever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure. Severtheless, the gov eraments of the United States and Great Britain, in accord - ing their protection to the construction of the said canal, 4 ing it# neutrality and eecurity when com ye understand that this protection and gu Fanty are granted conditionally, and may be withdr by both governments, or either government, if both persons or company undertaking or managing the samo Mdopt or establish such reguiations concerning the traffic thereupon as are contrary to the spirit and imtention of this cou vention, either rs unfair discriminations in favor of the commerce of one the contracting partics over the commerce of the other, or dy imporing oppres ne of upreasonabie tolls upon passengers wares, merchandise, or other articles. Ne: however, shal! withdraw the aforeeaid protec tion and guaranty without first giving #ix monshs’ notice to the other Art.6 The contracting parties in this convention e gage to invite every State with which both or either ha friendly intercourse ty enter into stipulations with them Similar to those which “hey bave entered inte with each other, to the end that ali other States may ahare fn the | honor aud advautage of having contributed to a work such genera! interest and importance as the canal he contemp And the contracting parties likewtse agr that each aball enter into treaty stipulations with # ua the Centra! American States as they may deem advisable, | for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the great | design of this convention—namely, that of coustructing and maintainitg the said canal asa ship communication between the twooceane for the benefit of mankind, on | equal terms to all, and of protecting the eame: avd they also agree, that the good offices of either shall be employed when requested by the other, in aiding and assisting negotiation of such treaty stipulations; and should at differences arise as to right or property over the territu through which the said canal shall pass between the Slates or governments of Centra! America, and ench aif ferences should in any Way impede or obstruct the execu tion of the said canal, the goverument: of the Caite fand Great Britain will use their good offices to settle differences in the manner best suited vo promote the inte rests of the said caval, and to gtrenuthen the bonds of friendship and aliance which exist between the contract img part Art. 7. It being desirable that no time should be unne cessarily lost in commencing and constructing the «aid canal, the governments of the United States and Great fir) tain det eto give their support and encouragement & such persons or company as may first offer to commen x {he same, with the necessary capital, the consent of the focal authoritics, and om such principles as accord with the Spirit and intention of this convention: and if any persons Of company shail alrenty have, with any State through | which the proposed ship canal may pass, a contract tor | las that sperifies in this eonventian, to the stipulations o| # hich contract neither of the contracting parties in vention have any just cCaure to object, and the said porsona oF ny shall Moreover, lave made preparations, and ex 4 tims, money and trouble on the faith of such contract, itis here. | by agreed that such perscne of company #hail have a pri | ority of claim over every other terson. persone of com. | PAK Fae wm of the governments of the United | and Great Britain, and be allowed a year from the | chang > of the ratifieations of this convention | ling their arrangemerts, and presenting ey dence of aufficient capital subscribed to accomplish the con! undertaking: it being understood that if, at the expiration of the aforesaid period, euch persons or ompany be oot alfle © commence and carry out the pro | punishment of certain orimes against the United states, courts shall take cognizance of complainta, by whomaoever instituted, in cases of captures made within the watera af the United states, or within marine league of the coasts or shores thereof Snc. $ And be & further enacted, That in every case in which « vessel #hall be fitted out and armed, or at tempted t be fitted out and armed, or in which the force of any veasel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, aball be increased or augmented, or in which any military expe- dition or enterprise shall be begun or set on foot, contrary to the provisions and prohibitions of this act; and ia every case of the captare of a ship or vessel within the jurisdic tion or protection 3 ~ a States coure eo and iu every case in which an} as out of an; court of the Tuited States hall abobeyed or reatstod Ly aby person of persons having the cpstody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any foreign prince or state, or of my colony, district, ar people, or of any subjects or citizens of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, in every such case it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such other person ashe shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ auch part of the land or naval forces of United States, oF of the militia thereof, for the pur. pose of taking possession of and detaining any such ehip or veese!, with hor prize or prizes, if any, in order to the execution of the prohibitions and penaities of this act, and to the restoring the prize or prizes in the eases in which restoration ehail hare been ‘edjadged and also for tho pur pose of preventing the carrying on of any such expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories of dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or peo. ple, with whom the United States are at peace, Ske @ And be it farther enacted, That it shail be law ful for the President of the United States, or such person ae be shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the laud or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as shall be nece: foreign ebip or vessel to depart the € cases in which, by the laws of nations tr the treaties of the United States, they ought not to remain within the United States: Heo. 10. And be it further enacted, That the owners or consignece of every armed ship of vessel sailing out of the ports of the United States, belonging wholly or in part to citizens thereof, shall enter inte bond t the United amtes, with suffieient sureties, prior to clearing out the same, in double the amount of the value of the vessel and cargo on board, including Ler armatapnt, that the said ship or ves: sel elmll not be employed by such owners to eraise of commit bostilitics against the subjects, cRzens, or pro perty, of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, aiefHiet, or people, with whom the United States are at peace See, 11, And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the custome be. and they are hereby, respectively, authorized and required to detain any vessel manifeatiy built for warlike purposes, and about to depart the Unitet States, of which the cargo shali principally cousist of arme and munitions of war, when the number of mon shipped on ‘dor other circumstances, shall render it probable tha! sich vessel is iatended to be employed by the owner of owners to cruise or commit hostilities upoa of property, of any foreign primes of state, or of any colony, district, ponte ait whom the United States are at peace, e decision of th President be had thereon, or until the owner of owner shall give such bond and security as is required of Yio owners of armed ships by the preceding ecction of act Sac. 12. And be it further enacted, That the act passed on the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety foar, entitled “ Am act in addition to the act for t e United States, | eto be increased or | continued in force, for @ limited time, by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven red and ninety- Feven, and perpetuated by the act ‘on the tweaty- fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred, and the act patred on the fourteenth day ‘of June, one thousand seven undred and ninety-seven, “ Ap act to preveut citizens of the United States from privateering neues na- tions in amity with, or against the citizens of, United States; and’ the act passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act more sieotunity to preserve the neutral relations of the United States,”” be, and the same are hereby, severally, repealed : Provided, nevertheless, having bareneene oily | of the yyy bm prosec convicted, pea, as e san were not A no forte! heretofore incurred by a violation of any of the acts aforesaid shall be atfocted by such repeal. ‘Sxc 13, And be it further enacted, That nothing in the foregoing act shall be comnases to prevent ne oy or punishment of treason, or any piracy defined the laws of the United States. THE NEW TREATY WITH NICARAGUA. On the 17th of November Mr. Yrisarri, who had not been previously recognized ts 8 represeniative of Nica- ragua, waa formally presented to President and re- ecived as Minister Nicaragua, after which a traty negotiated was signed hy himself and Secrotary (ass. The treaty proviies— Firstly—For the maintenance of two free ports, 026 at each end of the Transibline. Secondly—The United States guarantees the protection and neutrality of the Transit, but names no partcular company Trdly—The Transit is to be open to all natons on equal terms, Fourthly—The United States reserve the right } trans- port the mails in their own vessels when they fini it con- venient so to do. Fitthly—Provides, in the usual terms, for frendship, commerce and navigation between the two counrics. INDEX TO THE YEAR 17, ANNUAL CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS. THE POLITICIAN’S MANUAL, The Kansas Imbroglie—The Financial Revul- sion—The Mormon War. Deaths of Revolutionary Patriots and Cente- narlans—Fires and Loss of Life—Rall- road and Steamboat Accidents— Rulers of the World— Herald Almanac, &e., de. de. SPECIALLY PREPARED FROM THE FILES OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. JANUARY. 1.—The day was celebrated in accordance with the usual custom. Weather fine... .Two hundred and twenty Mormons arrived in New York from Europe, on their way to Salt Lake City. 2.—Charles B. Huntington, the convicted forger, was removed from the New York city prison to the State pri- son at Sing Sing. 8.—The wife of Judge Daniels, of the Supremo Court of the United States, was burned ia a shocking mannor at Washington, and died after eigh: hours of suffering. 5.—The new city government of New York was inau- gurated, and the anaual message of Mayor Wood was de- livered in both Beards of the Common Council. The Board of Aldermer elected Joha Clancy President, and the Board of Councilmen chose Jonas B. Phillips as their chairman..,.The new city government of Brooklyn was also inaugurated. 6.—The Legislature of the State of New York met and organized in Albany. The House of Representatives chose Dewitt C. Littlejohn for Speaker. The Governor's mes- sage was received and read in both houses....The State Capitol at Montpelier, Vermont, was lestroyed by fire. The bullding was finished in 1837, and cost $132,000. 8.—The thermometer in New York sank as low as one degree above zero. Ice in the East and North rivers greatly obstructed navigation and readered the passage of the ferry boats very difficult and aazardous. A num- ber of vessels in New York harbor vere driven asha®e. 9.—Se vere shock of an earthquake was felt throughout the State of California. In some portions buildings were thrown down, which occasioned loss of life. In San Fran- cisco the shock lasted several seconds and caused great alarm. Boxes and bales were thrown down in the stores, tin ware rattled, clocks were stopped, and a frame was thrown from its foundation aad moved several feet. 15.—A new Coinage bill, authorizing the issue of a new ‘one cent piece, and reducing the value of the ol¢ Spanish coin twenty per cent, passed \ ‘The in the Kast river, opposite Now York, , and for five hours rendered crossing fr foot passengers perfectly safe. Scnpay, 18.—The mercury in the thermometer in New York sunk to two degrees below zero. 19.—Great snow storm in New York, the wind bloving ‘a hurricane and drifting the snow in immense banks. All the railroads blocked up. | 23.—The thermometer in New York ranged at fou de- grees below zero. The weather throughout the neon | as cold as ever before known....A new law to pnisl witnesses who refuse to testify before committees or be- fore either House, was passed by Congress. 24.-The mercury in the thermometer in New fork sunk to ten degrees below zero—the coldest ever _kown. 26.—The old Spanish coins—sixpences, shillings and quarters—were refused by nearly ail the railroad and ferry companies in New York, except at a reductia of Ww | | | } * | twenty per cent. persons | a North river was crossed on the ice at Prty- second street, New York....Long Island Sound wa en- tirely frozen over, and persons crossed from the Comec- ticut snore to Long Island. 24.—Captain Farnum, of the Nicaraguan army, Coonel Fabens, and a number of others, were arrested by order of the United States authorities just as they were abut to sail on board the steamship Tennessee, for Nicaraga, on suspicion of being engaged ip a filibustering expeditin, .—News reovived that two seamen belonging u the French steamer Lyonnais, which was run into and unk, had been taken off a raft by a vessel bound from Baton to Rio Janeiro. $1,—Dr. Harvey Burdell was murdered in bis owt of- fice, in Bond street, New York, in a very mysterious nan- ner. FEBRUARY. 3.—Henry H. Howard was elected Chief Engineer o the Fire Department of the city of New York by a maprity of 188 over Alfred Carson, who had held the office tr a number of years. 5.—The ice in the Ohio river, at Cincinnati, broki up, and in its course wrecked six steamers and done a vast deal of damage to the ferry boats and barges. 7.—The new O:ld Fellows’ Hall at Dubuque, Iowa, ell in in consequence of the accumulation of ice and snow upon top of it. &. 8. Foss and wife, who were ia the building, were instantly killed. 9.—Great fresheta in nearly all the rivers at the forth. The Hudson river at Albany and Troy rose 'T tan it was ever before known, and the property at Albany waa estimated at upwards of two millions ¢ dol- lars. A number of lives were also lost. The waer in the taco agai also reached a point above an: pre- ‘vious mark, and « great amount of property was desroyed along its banks. y 10,—A fire occurred in a cabinet factory in New York which destroyed property to the value of sixty thusand dollars, and burned to death Mr. and Mrs. Bods, who Jeeping on the premises, and injured sever! other persons before t! ‘could be rescued. ...The shoct of an earthquake was felt in Trenton, N. J., and throygt Phila bee county 11. —A steam boiler connected with the machimry for pei'g bP hy a section of the canal enlargement near Biack dam, N. Y., exploded, killing seven men and dangeronsly wounding @ number of others. 14.—The Coroner's investigation into the cause of the death of Dr. Harvey Burdell, in New York, after fourmen days’ sitting, was concluded, and the jury returned a rer- dict that, in their opinion, Dr. Bardell was murdered by Mrs. Emma Angusta Cunn! and John J. Ecks), as principals, and George Vail grass, as accessory, The greatest excitement prevailed in the city during the whole course of the examination... Long Istand Sound, which had been closed against navigation for « month, was od by the steam kim ORy getting through from ew Haven to New York. if Sevpay, 15.—The daily circulation of the New Yora Hieraty reached eighty five thousand six hundred and forty impressions, which is by far the largest number ever printed of one edition by any daily journal i the world... A serious riot cecurred about one mile back of Jerscy City, in which some six hundred Irishmen were engaged, who were arrayed against each other under the irty names of Fardowners and Corkonians. They were laborers on the Borgen tunnel. 21.—Jobn J. Keke! and Emma Augusta Cunningham were indicted by the Grand Jury of New York for the murder of Dr. vey Burdell 26. —The ice barrier in the Hudson river, below Albany, gave way and left navigation unobstructed, MARCH. PAY, 1.—The shock of an earthquake was felt in Mil- ledgeville, @a. —The Thirty-foarth Congress of the United States ceased to exist. 6.—Obief Justice Taney read the decision of the United Stathe Supreme Court in the Ded Scott oase, which wae— First. That negroes have no rights as citizons-under the constintith Second. That the ordinance of 1787 was binding, inso- much as it was the act of the several States as sovereigns, in their sovereign capacity as States, prior to the forma tion of the constitution; and Third. That the Missouri Compromise is unconstitetional, insomuch aa it was the act of the general government, ex orotaing a power not delegated by the sovercigns (States), of whowe it #. 6.—lord Napier ad new British Minister, arrived in ‘ork from Fnglan: —The remains of Dr. Piisha K. Kano, having be brought from Havana, where he died, to Philadeiph were honored with a public funeral worthy of the illus trious deceased. 12.— An accideat baapeees on the Great Wostern Rail- road, in Canada, by which from sity to seventy lives wore lost, among whom were some distinguehed indivi duals. ‘The train was going from Toronto to Hamilton, ‘and op passing over a caual bridge the whole train was wer precipitated about sixty feet into the water, and those of The sufferers who were uot instantly ‘killed by the fall were drowned. iy persons were saved, and even those few were more or less injure1. 18.—The Hudson river opened for the second time dur- ing the season, and navigation was resumed. APRIL. 1.—A sub-marine telegraphic cable wag laid across the Mississippi river at St. Louis, 8.—The jury inthe case of the Rev. Isaac S. Kalloch, who was tried in Boston on a charge of adultery, failed to agree upon a verdict, eight being for acquittal and four for conviction. 14.—A destructive fire odcurred at Baltimore, during which the walls of a warehouse fell in and buried beneath the ruins some twenty-six persons, eighteen of whom were killed and the others severely injured. The des- truction of property amounted to thousand dollars. P. Hardenbrook, of New York, hile in the dis- charge of his duty, and died of the wound. 11.—A new Police bill for the city of New York was signed by the Governor and became a law....An Excise or License bill for the State of New York became a .aw by the signature of the Governor. 18.—The Legislature of the Stato of New York adjourned sine die. aor, Cen ae three acts were passed dur- ing the ti 21.—The night express train from Boston to New York got stuck in a snow drift between Springfield and Worces- ter. The snow fell to the depth of a foot or more. 22.—The United States steam frigate Niagara sailed mm New York on a trial Fe ou AP injunction was rved, at the instance of Mayor Wood, upon the Commis. sioners appointed under the new Police law, them from taking any of the property bel to the Police Department, or interfering in any tay Bes the po- lice organizs#tion and arrangements in rk. ork. 23.—The New Yorx Hexatp of this date contained thir- ty-six columne of closely printed advertisements... The target companies of New York = had a grand parade, and numbered about ten thousand in the procession. 24 —The United States steamship Niagara returned to Sandy Hook from a trial trip, and immediatoly sailed again for England, for the puypose of receiving on board one-half of the great English and American submarine cable. ‘29.—The injunction against the new Police Commission- ers, forbidding them to exercise any authority in the city of New York, was dissolved by Judge Davies. ‘30.—Eight hundred Mermons arrived in Boston from Furope, on their way to Utah Territory. MAY. 1.—The Common Council of New York having passed a resolution appropriating ten thousand dollars to pay the expenses of contesting the constitutionality of the new city charter, an injunction was granted by Judge Birds- eye, of Brooklyn, to restrain the city authorities from pay- ing out that sum.....The new city charter of New York went into operation in a legal point of view, but the Com- mon Council and the heade of departments being mostly opposed to it, its practical operation was virtually sus- nuded. Pe Serious riots occurred on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, A number of the employés of the freight trains did not like certain orders of the company and left their employment. They afterwards congregated and beerey pot ¢ progress of the trains. The Governor of Maryland called out the military, who encountered the unlawiul assemblages on various parts of the road, and a number of the rioters were shot. 6.—James R. Whiting was appointed by the Commis- sioners, under the new Police law, Superintendent of Po- lice in New York, but declined to accept the office....The mansion and outbuildings belonging to Mr. Wolf, at Se- guine’s Point, on Staten Island, were destroyed by fire. The State had recently purchased the property for the rpose of establishing the Quarantine station at the Point. The inhabitants in the vicinity became incensed at the project of building the Quarantine hospitals in their im- mediate neighborhood, and a large party of them collect- ed together and set fire to the buildings. 7.—The canals of the State of New York opened for na- vigation. 5 ee brown stone statue of Washington was placed in the Park, in front ot the New York City Hall. 9.—The trial of Mrs. Cunningham, for the murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell, which had been going on in the New York Court of Oyer and Terminer for a weck, was closed. dnd the jury, after about an hour’s deliberation, return a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Eckel, who was also indicted for the murder, was taken from prison and allowed to go on his own recognizance. 11.—Three inches of snow fell in the neighborhood of Igdensburg, N. Y. 12.—A large public meeting of the citizens of New York was beid im the Park to denounce the various acts ed by the Legislature in relation to the city, perticalar ly the new City Charter and the Metropolitan Poliee law. 13.—Fredertck A. Tull ‘was appointed Superin- tendent of the New York Police the Commissioners, under the new Metropolitan Police law. 14.—Three negroes, who bad been and acquitted in Louisville, Ky., on a charge of murder, were forcibly taken from the jail and hung by @ mob. 'A fourth, who would have been similarly treated, committed suicide by cutting his throat before the mob caught him. 15.—The Quarantine Convention, ®hich assembled in Philadelphia, adjourned. ‘19.—Great excitement in parts of New Jersey in conse. quence of a number of valuable pearls having been found tenanted inside of mussels which abound in great quanti- ties in some of the brooks of that State. A namber of the pearls were valued as high as three thousand dollars. 25.—A new coin of the value of “one cent,” made from 4 composition of nickel and copper, was issued from the United States Mint at Philadelphia. 26.—The Supreme Court of New York declared the new Metropolitan Police law constitutional—two of the Judges Mitchell and Peabody, deciding in favor of the law, an one, Judge Roosevelt, dissenting. The latter delivered very able opinion against its constitutionality....Dred Scott, whose case before the United States Supreme Court involved such an important question, together with his family were emancipated in St. Louis. 28.—A United States Marshal and several assistants, having in charge four men who were accused of barbor’ ing a fugitive siave, were arrested in Jamestown, Greene county, Obie, by the Sheriff and a large posse. The United States officers resisted and fired upon the Sheriff y, but Were overcome by superior numbers, officers acted up- c and his and finally lodged in prison. The State ‘on the authority of a writ of habeas corpas. A moment- ‘ous question was involved as to whether the State had any power to enforce such a writ it the officers of the United States while in the discharge of their duty, acting under the law of the general remnant 29.—The boilers of the propeller Inkermann exploded at Toronto, Canada, killing six persons and wounding twelve or fourteen others. Stcwpay, 31.—The steamship Louisiana, of the New Or- Jeans and Texas line, was burned near Galveston, and thirty-one persons lost their lives, among whom was Col. Bainbridge, of the United States army,...Two hundred ‘and fifty-two Mormons arrived in Philadelphia from Eu rope, on their way to Utah, JUNE. 1.—Election riots occurred in Washington city, botween the Know Nothings and democrats, during which six per- sone were killed and about twenty wounded. The ring- leaders of the rioters were sald to be from Baltimore. 13.—Considerable excitement was created among the lower order of people in this country, as well as in Eu- rope, in consequence of a statement that a comet was to destroy the earth on this bay eo was hee oe eel tiea, N. Jestruction of li property. formation of nebulous or cloud: the heavens nearly to the earth, nish almost to a it, bat expanding gradually as it as- cended, until ‘ded ponder torte was text in the clouded pky. It'pnssed over the city of Utica at about four o'clock, [phd Saga adn ei Le pee bat also a rushing, noise as L Bveryth fa ite courte, was estroyes--hounes, bares, eee and fences were levelled. Two or three wero killed fda poh mines 9 bey ¢ et town of Pana, Iil., was nearly destroyed by a hurricane. Thirty-three build- be were entirely demoliehed. 6. —The office of Street Commissioner of the city of New York having become vacant by the death of Joseph 8. Taylor, the Governor of the State, contrary to the con- on oaee “inte at remain ty tae nover to ti 4 eppotntenes wae t municipal authorities, Charles Devlin was recom- mended to fill the vacancy by the Mayor, and waa ap- proved by the Common Council. A writ was issued by the Recorder against the Mayor, for obstructing the oa- laws of the State, and an attempt was: made to serve the writ by the policemen under the sew Metropolitan Police law. In making the attempt a colli- new policemen, and and the tropolitans were severely wounded. The writ was finally served upon the Mayor... Gen. William Walker, the great Nicaraguan filibuster, arrived in New York, and was honored with a public soorenee 17.—The excitement in New York, in relation to the ar. rest of Mayor Wood, continued, and fears were enter- tained thai an outbreak would occur, About eight ban. dred of the military were kept under arms during the day, but there was no breach of the peace....The anni versary of the battle of Bunker's Hill was cevebrated in Boston in grand style. An aoe of the New York military, togethor with the New York fire. ipated in the celebration, A marble statue of n was inaugurated. 26, teamer Moutreal was destroyed by fire at Cape Rouge. Canada, about twelve miles from Quebee. She bad on board about fiw hundred passengers at the time, who were mostly Scotch emigrants, upwards of three hundred of whom perished. JULY. 1.—The new tariff, passed by the Thirty fourth Con grees, went into operation. 2.—The Court of Appeals of the State of New York de- clared—aix Judges affirming and two dissonting—the Me- tropolitan Police law for the counties of New York, Kings, Richmond and Westchester, a conetitotional act of the Le gislature. The Judges stool m follows:— FOR THR LAW. Hiram Denio (Chief Justice), Utica. Alex. & Jobneon, Albany. Samnel L. Selden, Rochester Alonso C. Paige, Schenectady... William H, Shankland, Syracuse. Levi F. Bowen, Lockport. , forge ¥. Comstock, syractise G A 8 muse... Joba W. Brown, Newlury... . 3.—Five hundred and thirt Mor: Philade! from Furope, on their way to Salt Lake city... The old mi = police force ‘of the city of New York was formally disbanded by Mayor Wood. 4.—A riot occurred in the Sixth ward of New York, be tween a party of Five Point thieves and e ‘kote, called the Dead Rabbit Club, and of the wery . The M litan police intMered to preserve the peace, and the fight between the three ies inated for about three hours. Eight men were killed and thirty wounded. Other riots occurred in the Seventh and Thir- veenth wards. The military were ordered out and sue. «ceded in quelling the disturbance.,,..A mortar gxploded -Demoerat arrived at in Boston, killing four men and wounding a number of others....'The corner stoe of the monument to Henry Clay was Inid at Lexington, Ky., with imposing ceremo- pies. Sunpay, 5.—The riots in the Sixth ward were renewed, and a number of individuals were seriously injured. The military were again called cut, who drove the rioters from the ground. 6.—The chesitalion py New Fons, Menaup reached cighty-nine thousand forty copies of the daily, and ieaien hundred copies of the California ed: . 8.—The funeral of William L. Marcy, who died at Balis- ton on the 4th July, took plsse st Albapy and was attend- ed with great pomp. Ex! jents Van Buren and Pierce took part in the ceremonies. 11.—Ah attack was made by about one hundred oyster. men and other citizens on the new Quarantine buildings at Seguine’s Point, and the Metropolitan police stationed — there. A great number of shots were fired and some of ‘the attacking party were seriously injured. ‘Me rioters were forced to retire. Sunpay, 12.—A viet occurred in the Seventeenth ward of New York, between the German citizens and the new pce pe police, which grew out of some arrests for lerly conduct and an alten io rescue the prisoners. During the riot one German was killed and some twelve or fourteen policemen and Germans seriously injured. 13.—The riots in the Seventeenth ward of New York were continued, and the ground’ was maintained by from eight to ten thousand Germans during the day. 10 po- lice did not attempt to disperse the mob, and. very little oy 2 was done, The military were ordered undor arms, but they were not called into the street. About twelve o'clock at night the rioters retired. * ‘21.—Policeman iene Anderson, of the Fourteenth ward of New York, was murdered by an Italian named Michael Cancemi. The Italian was ia the act of commit- ting a burglary and Anderson had arrested him, when he shot the officer with a revolver, killing bim instantly. | throughout the country was never so great Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Buak of Williamsburg suspend- ed, anh seeeal bankers went dowu. Clark, Dodge & Co. suspended. 5 —Three wore of the persons who were on board the steamship Ceatral America arrived in New York, having becn picked up at sea nearly six hundred miles from the scene of the disaster, and after having floated about, Without food, for nine days....A goverpment train twenty-six wagons, on ils way to Salt Lake city, was cap- tured’ by Mormons on the Plains. Other government wa- GOUS Were also taken, amounting in all to Beventy-eight, 6.—All the baaks in Hartford, Conn., suspended. 8.—Two distinct shocks of an wake were felt im St. Louis and other parts of Missouri and Ilinois. 18.—Kighteen of the New York city banks suspended Operations. The panic and pressure in me altura e Legis lature of Pennsylvania, in extra session called for the urpore, legalized the suspension of the banks of the State, adjou: ned, having paseed a law iu accordance with | the object for whieh they were assembled. 14.—All the banks in the city of New York, beer the he | Chemical Bank, suspended specie payments... banks in the State of New York, and throu; ern and Western States, as well as thove and most of the Southern States, also suspended... . Thoa- sands of men were thrown out of cinployinent by the stoppage of manufacturing establishments in all parts ef the country,...Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massaoba- | setts, deli @ speech in Boston on the financial revul- | gion. ‘The murderer was arrested, and so great was the feeling | exhibited on the of the friends of the murdered man, that it was with the greatest difficulty the officers could | save Cancemi from being hung to a lamp post. Svwypay, 26.—Policeman Eugene Anderson, who was murdered by an Italian burglar, was buried, and his ri mains were followed to the grave by nearly’ as large a procession as ever turned out in New York. 29.—A Southern Convention was held at Old Point, Va., for the purpose of adopting some scheme for establishing a Southern Transatlantic Steamship Company. AvGuST. 1.—A murder occurred at the Highlands, N. J., which caused considerable excitement in New York. Albert E. Moses, the barkeeper of the Sea View House, was stabbed in the neck by James P. Donnelly, the bookkeeper, and died in about two hours after receiving the wound. The two men had been gambling the night previous, and Moses won about fifty dollars from Douuelly, which the latter took from the safe of the hotel, aud he was making an attempt to recover the amount from the barkeeper, when the fatal blow was given. 4.—Mrs. Cu sham, or Burdell, who was tried and wuitted on the charge of murdering Dr. Harvey Burdell, at No. 31 Bond street, New York, was detected in the act of procuring a child with the intention of passing it off as her own and the natural heir of Dr. Burdell, for the pur- pose bok seming Dee control of the whole of the murdered man’s estate. had reported herself as being enciente by Dr. Burdell, to whom she maintained she was married, and played the principal character in the farce of a mock accouchement, but the authorities were cognizant of the whole epee and she was promptly arrested. 10.—The great Southern Commercial Convention assem- bled at Knoxville, Tenn. ‘15.—The steamer Metropolis ran into the propeller J. N. on Island Sound, and the propeller sank in five minutes. Fifteen persons went down with the vessel and were lost. ‘18.—The steamship Tennessee arrived at New York with 260 deserters from Walker’s Nicaraguan army. They were sent home by the Costa Rican government. Tyeton ander ‘and evening meetings were held for the mp ro of precuring aid for the filibusters, to send them to their homes. 24.—The Surrogate of the city and county of New York cectind Sanians the application of Mrs. Augusta Cunning ham to administer to the estate of Harvey Burdeil, de ceased; and also decided that Mrs. Cunningham was not the widow of said Dr. Burdell....The Ohio Life and Trust Company in the city of New York failed, and carried with | ita number of Wall strect brokers. The liabilities of the ‘Trust Company were estimated at eight millions of dol- iars. This was the beginning of the great financial revul sion of 1857, which has since spread throughout the world. 25 —A National Emancipation Convention convened in Cleveland for a three days’ sitting. Considerable talk was indulgea in, but nothing practical was offered,...Ja- cob Little & Co.; John Thompson, Beebe & Co., and other heavy brokers in Wall street, New York, wore obliged to suspend. 26.—News was received in New York of the breaking of the Atlantic telegraph cable on the 11th of August, which created a feeling of regret among al! classes... The banks commenced to contract their loans. SEPTEMBER. 1.—Hon. Benjamin Robbins Curtis, an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, resigned his seat. He was one of the minority on the bench protesting against the decision of the Court in the Dred Scott case... The Mechanics’ Banking Association of the city of New York failed in consequence of the discovery of large de- 2.—The Southern Presbyterian Convention, which met at Richmond, Va., ned. The resolutions adopted during the session decide upon a withdrawal from the New School General Assembly ; an affirmation of the prin- ciple that the subject of slavery cannot be discussed in the highest judicatory of the churches; the calling of a convention to meet at Knoxville, Tenn., on the first Thurs day in April, to form a New School Synod of the United States, and the appointment by that synod of a committee to confer with the Old School upon & union with that body....A severe shock of an earthquake was felt in dif- ferent parts of California... Tho people of California, by a large majority of votes, decided to pay the unconstitu- tonal of the State debt. 3. veral mercantile failures. out the country continued to increase, and the depression in financial affairs fast becoming genet m. accident occurred on the Camden and Atlantic peteous were instantly killed and eightoen others serious- ly injured. 7.—The centennial anniversary of the birthday of La- fayette, which occurred on the 6th, was celebrated in va- rious parts of the country, 8 —The stock market, which had previously felt the financial pressure, received a stunning blow, and all kinds of stocks went down to an extent which tended greatly to increase the 4 12.—The steamship Central America, formerly named the George | w, commanded by Lieut. Wm. Lewis Hern. don, U. §. N., belonging to the California mail line, while on her passage from Havana, four days out, bound to New York, with the California mails, passengers and specie, which left San Francisco on the 26th of August, after en countering a storm of three days’ duration, foundered and sunk. After the ship became disabled, she was fallen in with by the brig Marine, of Boston, Captain Hiram Burt, on board of which vessel were placed one hundred of the passengers, including all the women and children. After the steamer sunk the Norwegian bark Ellen, Captain A. Johnsen, passed in the vicinity, and succeeded in rescuing from the water some sixty more of the passengers, some of them baving been floating about for more than twelve hours. The Central America had $1,600,000 in treasure on freight, and about the same amount in the bands of the }, making an aggregate total lose of over three millions of dollars in specie. She had on board five hun dred and seventy two eye 423 of whom, including the Captain, were lost. The following is the number which was on board when the Central America left ’anama:— Officers and crew. 85 Total lost... yrenee ~ Officers and crew. ‘Total om board. eae ae Ae - Upwards of ahy veareis were lost, or more or tone damaged, by « tremendone gale which extended along ‘Atlantic ph , from Norfolk to the West India islands. Suxpay, 13 —The steamehip Norfolk, bound from Mhila- delphia to Norfolk, sprung a leak and was lost in a tre mendous gale, which for three days had swept the Atlan. tic const south of Baltimore. The passengers and crew of the Norfolk, forty in number, took to the and were afterwards picked up and safely Ianded....A white man and a female slave put arsenic in the food of Mr. Thomas Frarell, in Pike county, Alabama, by which thirty-seven persons were ed, six of whom died. The guilty persons were burned by the inhabitants, 15.—A proclamation was issued by Brigham Young, Governor of Utah, ordering all the militia under his com- troupe, an declaring the Territory under martial law.*> t , and declarit ler Wea Weeley 1% Oo., steak brokere, and principal proprietors of the New York Times wea suspended. Sexpar, 20.—The steamship Empire City, which had been disabled in the storm of the previous week and com- pelled to put into Norfolk, arrived in New York with nine- ty-two of the bop ye of the steamship Cen- tral America, which had taken from the brig ine and the Norwegian bark Ellen. The passengers were in the most destitute condition. ‘21. —News of the failure of several heavy manufactur- ing houses at the Fast, including Milla & Co., of Boston, and Philip Allen & Co., of Provi . The factories were obliged to suepend. .—The depression in the money market, in all parts of the country, continued to be more severely felt, and the number of failures increased. 25.—In the Western States the greatest excitement be- gan to be manifested in consequence of the financial de- pression, and banks, banking and mercantile firms fell, one after another, in quick succession. Sexpay, 27 —The financial excitement increased in all the Northern and Western cities, in consequence of the snepension of a great number of banks in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and other laces oe —The Governor of Pennsylvania issued a proclama- tion calling an ext@ session of the Legislature, to mect on the 6th of October, for the purpose of passing’ law to le- galtze the suspension of the bauke of the State. 20.—Governor Brigham Young, of Utah, by prociama- tion to the commanding officers of the United forces, ordered all the government troops to quit the Territory: «++. Sone of the banks of Virginia and North Carolina sus. pended specie payments... The Presidents of the princi pal New York city banks publish a statement that they ‘will not suspend. 20.—The steam boiler attached to the plaster works in ‘Weat street, New York, exploded and nearly demolished throe buildings, two of which were tenement houses. One pereon wae killed and fifteen seriously injared,... ‘The bank presidente of Boston held a meeting and re solved to extend their discounts to the amount of ten per cent on their capital. OCTOBER. 1.—The United States government, as a relief measare, redeemed large amounts of the public debt. 2.—The merchants of Boston held a m and recom mended that the banks come immediately to the aid of the business community, and resolved also to austain the banks in any emergency.,,.A gloowy day in Wall street. ‘ilures of mercantile and banking houses through. — by the collision of two trains, by which three | 15.—The Judges of the Supreme Court in city dissolved a number of injunctions against the banks, and declared that, although those institutions had eus- pended specie Ly bengmd they were, nevertheless, solvent and able to pay their debts. By this decision the banks were saved from i into liquidation....A meeting of the merchants of New York was held to take into conai- deration the financial affairs of the city, but nothing prac- tical was done, 16.—The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco revoked the pena'ties against the expatriated individuals. The penalty was death in case of return....The ran om the New York savings banks, which had been on for some days, partially ceased....The suspension of the banks causes gold and silver to command a premium of | from 1 to 8 per cent. Several of the leading wholesale dry goods houses are compelled to retail their stocks at trade prices. 17.—A bank of earth caved in upon some stone masons, who were at work in a vault, in Williamsburg, Brookiya, and three of them were instantly killed. Scnpay, 18.—Sermons were proached in 8 number of the churches of New York on the subject of tho financial crisis. 12.—A very destructive conflagration occurred in Chi- cago, Ill. Nearly seven hundred thousand doliars’ worth ¢ pe aad Act Lcrpacapes and by the falling in of some e burning bu' gs twent reoms were buried ta the ruins and instantly Aten 20 —The merchants of St. Louis held # m¢ and re- solved to receive the notes of all the solvent b: in the country at par. 22.—A convention of delegates from the country banks of New York was held at Syracuse, and resolutions were passed recommending an early resumption of specie pay- ments, an increase in the line of discounts, and naming = committee to effect an association of the country banka for their mutual protection 23.—The shock of an earthquake was felt in Buffalo, 24.—The number of failures published as having oc- curred in the United States since the first of August, amounted to nine bundred and fifty-two, with liabilides estimated at $100,000,000. 27.—Great storm of wind and rain which prevailed for four days caused all the rivers and streams in New York to rise to an unusual height Large quantities of various kinds of property were destroyed in diferent parts of the fe. 28.—Gold begins to come back from Europe. The Persia brings a million and a quarter, and as much more guaranteed bills, which latter go South to pay for cot- mn. NOVEMBER. Svnpay, 1 —During the progress of the panic thousands of mechanics were thrown out of employment in New York and ail the Eastern cities—the number in New York ity «timated at ten thousand. Latest date received from the United States army in Utah Territory. The troops were at Harris’ Fork, but a few days march from Salt Lake City. Co!. Johnston had joined the main body, and it was expected that they would push forward immediately for the city of the ints. 6.—The twenty-ninth annual fair of the American Inatl- tute closed at the Crystal Palace in New York. 9.—Processiovs of unemployed workingmen the streets of New York, under considerable excitement. Meetings were also held in various parts of the city, and inflammatory speeches were delivered. Although an eut- = hi lpn ‘pated, none took place. = excitement among the unemployed working- men of New York continued to increase; and fears having been entertained that an attack would be made y the Custom House and the Sub-Treasury vaults, for the pur- pose of robbery, about one hundred United States troops were stationed in the buildings for their protection.... Gen. Wm. Walker, with two handred men, jeft New leans for gua. mship Adriatic, belonging to the Collings 13.—The #1 line, went on a trial trip and proved very saccessful. Senpay, 15.—The steamships Opelousas and Galveston came in collision in the Gulf of Mexico, by which accident ‘the former vessel was sunk. Twenty-five | erm inclu- ding General James Hamilton, of South ins, were drowned. iA was recognized by the government of from 16.—Nicaragu: the United States, and Senor Yrivarri as a Minister that bears byte =A received. a ster yard New indecey resumed specie pay: -. As an wi Fon ten earthquake was experi “* 19.—A terrific storm occurred on the Ohio and Missis- sippi rivers, and in the neighborhood of Cairo; @ great namber of coal boats were sunk, involving the loss of nearly one bundred re cata —The schooners Fly’ jou Anais were wrecked on Lake Mich: and twelve persons ther lives, eight of whom either to death. Sunpay, 22.—Ground covered with snow in New York her first trip to Liverpool. 25.—The remaius of Geueral William Jenkins Wort, who died in Texas in 1849, were taken from Greenwood Cemetery and deposited beneath a monument to his me- ry ded wits 26 Thank iving Day febrated in) New ¥ —Thanksgivi was celebrate jew York and a number of r States a DECEMBER. 1.—The New York canals re-opened. 7.—A quorum of both Heuses of the fifth Con- gress met and organized in the Capitol at Was In the Senate, in tce-Pre- — of the absence of the Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, was cho- The House of Representatives lowing officers: — James L. Orr, 8. 0. james ©. Allen, Til. J. Glossbrenner, Pa. Hacl ve sident, Hon. Benjami sen Pres dent pro tem 5 elected the folk te the preme Court of New York affirmed the given, and deciared the slaves free. 4 convicted of the murder of Policeman Anderson, in New York, sentenced to be hung on the 1th January. 8.—President Buchanan transmitted bis first message to Congress, and advance having been sent to the gov- = Nero in tne ‘ork, the Henaty published the jocnment +imultancously with its being read in Congress. 12 —All the banks in the city of New York resumed ‘specie payments. 14 —Newe of depredations committed by the Saints emi trains....The banks in Boston, Albany ad’ sone Ser places resumed apecie payments 15 —The canals of the State of New-York closed by or- der of the Commissioners....A man named Albert Stoubs murdered bis wife and two children by cutting thee throats, in Westfield, Mase. been commit- ted a week before the fact was discovered. 16.—A battle took place between the free State and pro- slavery parties at Fort Scott, Kansas, in which five of the former were killed and a number wounded on both sides. Twenty free State men were taken le 17 —A man was arrested in New Haven charged,on the evidence of a sailor, with the murder of a yous @ named Sage, who had been for some time missing. evidence of the sailor was conclusive, he having sworn — to having ag ay gl pr in making away with , subsequentig turned up alive and well, and the autor chabted he swore ly for the purpoee of securing the reward thas was offered for the conviction of the murderer of the young man, as he was si to have been foully dea with, from the fact that a body was found in the rivor thas ith that of the missing 19 —James Shepherd, convicted in New York of arsaa, in burning his re his wife being consumed in the flames, was ren to be hung on the 8th of February. The asserted his innocence throughout. .... A preity severe shock of an earthquake was felt ia Charleston, 8 ©....A very sensible shock of an earth- augge was felt in Savabnah. ¥ exception of two or three pretty days November. ‘22. —The Senate bill authorizing the government to issue treasury notes to the amount of twenty miiliens of dollars, pasred the Honse of Representatives. %3.—The Court of Pardons of New Jersey refused to commute the sentence of James P. Donnelly, convicted of the murder of Albert 8. Moses, at the Sea View House, in Shrewabut the 8th of January....The aet authoriziny treasury notes passed ‘oon a became a + Congress adjout i january. 24.—From a statement made of the condition of the dif- ferent manufactories of Rhode Island, it appears that dur- ing the financial troubles of the present year one hundred and fifteen mills entirely suspended operations, throwing out of employ upwards of thirteen thousand operatives; and forty-three worked half and three quarter time. Senpay, 27.—Gen. William Walker arrived in New York. ‘After meeting with a series of sycoesees on the San Juan river, he was threatened , a) United States naval forces, Commodore Iding, stationed at Punta Arenas, and finally surrendered himeelf and forces, consisting of about one hundred and fifiy men, into the bande of the Americans. The news caused great excite- ‘ment throughout the country. THE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN 1857. JANUARY. 1.—Jotn A. King was daly installed, in Albany, into the office of Governor of the State of New York, in piace of Governor Clark, whose term expired. 6.—Hon. James M. Mason, of Virginia, was chosen Pre- sident of the United States Senate, 8.—The anniversary of the battle of Now Orleans was celebrated, with a ball and supper, by the Tammany Se- ciety iu New York..,. The Republican State Convention of