The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. eee ed OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF ¥ULTON AND NASSAU STS. me omah in advance. DAILY HERALD. two conts per copy, $1 per annum. SNE WEEKLY HERALD, evory Saturday, al six cents per wor, oF $3 per annum; the European edition. rr annwin (0 any pars of Great Britain. or $5 wo any part athe Continent, Lath FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per eo or #2 per annem EUNTARY CORRFSPONDENCE, containing important wrevee, sodiovied from any quarter of the world, ¢f sed will be Hides valiy' paid for. BQPOUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE PAR- by -pd RaQuestzp TO Sear ati Lerrens ayy Packaces Tus ¥O NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondenc. We do no return hone rgjeded. JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and der ADVERTISEMENTS veneicad evory day: advertisements in tn the Weexty Henan, Fawity Henaiv, andi the taand mean Eslition -No. 1 AMUSEMENTS THIS DAY AND FYE! BROADWAY THEATRE, BROADWAY—Afternoon and Rvenming, Kovastaian, Zoolocwal «xD Hirropkamio Ex WARTAIDMEDTS. BYBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway Bork Koi vTi0ss—Goiven Foe. BOWKRY THEATRE, Bowery—Afternoon and Fvening, Equesrtias, Grunastre a#0 Miewnawning Feats—Jocko. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Boad sireet— —Comoas CousTms—NIck Finw—Cotuungs, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broudway—Evening, Tae Poor or Naw Tous. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Afternoon, Hasteqo Bice Beakp—Evening, Living 10 Fast—Taxe ‘Case oy Dows—HaRiagurn Bure BRanp, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Iratian Orrna —Cbeap Night—Locuszis Borots. Y MUSEUM, Broadwa: ANKER Monesty, After fvening, VALENTINE AND O1 evening, Jocxo——Tieur BARNUM® AMERICAN IR= ASSURANCE AND ‘Tus lower Moon, EB jorning, , twiee, WOOD'S BUIDINGS, Si and 563 Broadway—Gronce Cuntstr & Woon's Mixsraxis—Evening, New Yaar Cais. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 563 Broadway—Eveu. ing, Eratortay MnLovres—Down iN Missrssirrt. * MECTIANTIC’S HALL, 472 Broadwar—Bry —Frarorian SoNGs—Lv saue Cimevs, Evening T's MINSTRELS: Afternoon aud ‘Diorama or De. Kane's New York, Friday, January 1, 1858. ‘The News. ‘The excitement at New Orleans in regard to the capture of Gen. Walker found vent last evening in an immense mass meeting, at which speeches de- mounting the conduct of Commodore Paulding and expressing the liveliest aympathy with the cause of the filibusters, were delivered. Our despatches from Washington state that Southern members of Con- gress are still warm in support of Gen. Walker, and that offers of material aid pour in upon him hourly. It is stated that the administration, acting upon the clause of the treaty with Nicaragua which guarantees yy of the Isthmus, will probably justify tion of Commodore Paulding; and moreover that it is not unlil that orders will be sent to the Home Sqnadron to carry out the clause referred to, not only as inst the filibusters, but all others. This ix precisely the point which it is desirable to gain ‘The Transit route once under the authorized the United States, and the American- follows as a matter of course. eston Mercury of the 29th ult. states mship Isabel brings intelligence from the steamer l'ashion, which conveyed General Wal force to Nicaragua put into Havana previons to the 22d ult. pinwali, in lack of provisions, and that the Ameri- ean Consul at Havana had seized the steamer for alleged irregularity in her papers. A report was prevalent at Key West on Christmas day that a | bark had passed that point with 600 men on board, who were proceeding to Gen. Walker's aid. We publish elsewhere details of the news from Mexico to the 2ist ult., of which a meagre tele- graphic report has heretofore been given. Comon- fort executed » grond and completely snecessful coup d'état on the 17th, overturning the constitution recently adopted, dispersing tl National Congress, and aiming himeelf Dictator. The affair ap- pe have been as skilfully managed as that of poleon in Paris. Several arrests were made, m the chief of the Supreme Court and resident of Congress. At Puebla and Vera Cruz the partisans of Comoufort successfully carried oat the designs of their leaders, and it was supposed that at other points the revolution had been com- plete. The new order of things pleased the popu- lace greatly, and the public approval was manifest- ed by the usual demonstrations. Comonfort, in the new “plan” put forth, promises in three months to convoke a Congress which shall frame a new consti- tation and provide for the election of a ruler by the people. We have advices from Havana to the 25th ult. On the preceding day the birth of the Prince of Astu- rine was celebrated by 7¢ Deum at the Cathedral, a lqgee at the Palace, and iluminations. The United States sloop-of-war Cyane arrived there on the 24th- “ Negro stealing” has become quite a frequent of. fence in the country. Twenty-four negroes were stolen tly in one night, from an estate within four le es of the city, and from one estate in the terior of the island one hundred and ten bozales were run of in a single night. Three men are in son at Sagua la Grande, charged with “ negro stealing. We have news from Hayti, dated at Port au Prince 6m 10th of December. Our correspondent aoys: Coffee is coming in freely, and the stock on hand amounts to 23,000 bags, besides some 4,000 bags in the government stores. It remains firm at $9 per 100 pounds. Logwood is plenty, at former quote tions. Provisions are active. The doubloon is now worth $290, Haytien money, and is expected to rise The money crisis in Europe has affected our trade seriously. Several bills have come back protested. Captain Mayo takes passage in the United States sloop-of war Cyane for Norfolk, and will return home by the way of Washington, when be will lay the case of his imprisonment before the Secretary of State Onur files from Bermuda are dated on 16th of De cember. Admiral Sir Houston Stewart and Lady Stewart arrived on the 12th of December, in her Britannic Majesty's ship Indus, from Halifax. Up wards of $500 had been collected on the island for missionary purposes during 1857. The members of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club bad given an clegant ball in their new house. The Board of Aldermen, at their last session for the , yesterday afternoon and evening, transacted 4 Gece amount of routine business. A report was adopted in favor of purchasing the proposed property on Ward's Island, after a fair arbitration as to the price. An effort was made to settle the qnestion of the location of the new City Hall. No Gecision was arrived at,as the Board stood 11 in favor of the Park and 10 in favor of Madison square After a lengthy debate a resolution was adopted re pealing the tay of proceedings in the matter of th opening of Albany street. The extension will there fore proceed. The tax levy was amended so as to strike out the appropriation of $10,000 for a new ‘Tenth ward station house, inserting $19,000 for the building and working of a steam fire engine, und increasing the appropriation on the Street Depart ment $15,000. The Board refused to confer with thy Counciimen as to the appointment of Commissioners of Deeds. A communication was received from Charles Devlin, in relation to the charges made by Richard Busteed, Esq., Corporation Counsel, against Mr. Deviia, as Street Commissioner, and his deputy, barging them with having overdrawn their selarie Mr. Devlin stated that he had believed hie salary was fixed by the Common Council at the rate w be bad charged. He and hie deputy had paid the money under protest, and with the understanding that they should sue for its recovery. The cn-tomery complimentary resolutions to the President wer passed, apd Alderman Clancy responded in # went address, and the Board adjourned, after a seasion of nearly seven hours. The Board eubsequently met the Mayor in convention, and appointed Edwin Bonton'as Police Clerk, in place of James Steers, resigned, and assigned those permancatly appointed to their eeve- ral districts. The Board of Councilmen had an exciting session last evening. The project of erecting the new Post Office in the Park was discussed, but passed over without taking the question on the adoption of the report from the Board of Aldermen. The resolution to indemnify the Mayor for expenses in contesting the Police and Street Commissioner suits was lost by a vote of. thirty-one to fifteen. The ordinance re- organizing the Finance Department was adopted, the minority entering a protest against the action of the majority a8 unparliamentary. Several other im- portant matters were acted on, for the details of which we refer to a full report of the proceedings. Resolutions complimenting the presiding officer were passed and responded to, and the Board adjourned amidst uproarious confusion. Our readers will remember no doubt, that upon the retirement of the late William L. Marcy from the State Department, at the expiration of the ad- ministration of President Pierce,a number of the citizens of this city proposed to present him with a service of plate, asa token of the appreciation of his services to the country whilst Secretary of State. ‘The sudden death of Mr. Marcy, at Saratoga, on the Fourth of July last, prevented the committee who had the matter in charge from offering to him in per- son this well deserved mark of respect. They have, however, presented the service of plate to Mrs. Marey, expressing the hope that it will long remain in the possession of the family of the illustrious statesman for whom it was originally designed. Mrs. Marcy, on Wednesday last, in an appropriately written letter, acknowledged the receipt of the tes- timonial, at the same time assuring the committee that their wishes will not be disregarded. The new city governmeut, as remodeled by the charter passed by the last Legislature, commences to-d The names of the persons composing it, to- gether with some interesting particulars relative to its organization, are given elsewhere. A despatch from Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Co. to Messrs. EF. K. Collins & Co., of this city, dated Liv- erpool, Dec. 16, and received per Arago, announces the arrival off Holyhead, at 9:15 A. M. of that day, of the steamship Atlantic, from New York 5th inst. We continue to-day the publication of our indexes for the year 1857. Onur necrological index contains the names of a number of distinguished personages who during life either adorned the highest places in almost every country of the world, or have advanced the interests of mankind in the paths of science, Siterature, the fine arts, war, diplomacy, or the preaching and practice of Christianity. The United States have to mourn the loss of some of their most eminent sons. William L. Marcy, who served his country as an advocate, asoldier, a Judge, State Governor, legislator and Cabinet Minister, laid down and yielded up his spirit in peace, on the an- niversary of her independence, last Fourth of July. Mr. Dobbin, ex-Secretary of the Navy, Senators Batler, Bell, and Rusk, Honorables Preston S. Brooks, John Barney, Andrew Stevenson, Franklin Dexter, Louis MeLane, H. 1. Turney, and other prominent } lawyers and statesmen have died, as did George | Washington Parke Custis, who long formed a living | link between our people and their liberator. Com- | modores Newton, Parker, and Smoot, valiant of- \ ficers of our navy, were taken away. Doctors Kane s- | and Scoresby, Arctic explorers; Gliddon and Legh, | Eastern travellers; Lieut. Strain, explorer of the | Darian isthmus: Anderssen, the Swedish traveller; Crawford and Ranch, the sculptors; West and Ran- ney, the painters; Brunshoff, the botanist, and Play- | fair, the architect, have all ceased to exist. England lost during the twelve months John Britton, the antiquarian; Joseph Brotherton, | 4 most zealous popular reformeft the Earl | of Ellesmere, an accomplished writer and libe- ‘ ral patron of art; the Earl of Harewood, one of her keenest sportsmen: Lord Fitzwilliam, an aristo- | cratic corn law repealer; the Duchess of Gloucester, | last surviving daughter or George the Third; Lord | Amherst, her famous Envoy to China; Douglas Jer- rold, Doctor Marshall Hall, Bishop Bloom- field, and otbers of great note and worth. The ranks of her naval officers were thinned by the deaths of Admirals Rodgers, Rowley, O’Brien, Gos- selin and Dillon, whilst ber wars in Persia and India cost her the lives of Commodore Ethersey, Generals Anson, Wheeler, Lawrence, Barnard, Neill, Nichol- son, Stalker and Jack, with that of Lieutenant Sal- keld, the hero of Delhi, all of whoin fell in the gal- lant endeavor to uphold her flag in the East, Generals Sir James Macdonnell, who held Hougoumont on the field of Waterloo; Egerton, Balneavis and Hutchesson died nearer home, full of years and honors. France was horrified on the 3d of January by the s#ssassina tion of the Archbishop of Part, who fell by the hands of a priest, and the execution of Verger, the mur- derer, followed soon after. Many favorites of the great Napoleon were removed, including the Prince of Canino, Joseph Napoleon Ney, Prince of Moskowa, V idocy, the famous thief cateher, and the last Adjutant General of the “Old Guard.” General Cavaignac, one of the most disinterested of her moderu patriots, died suddenly, and Beranger, Engene Suc, De Mueset and the Duchess of Nemours, danghter-in law of King Louis Philippe, have also passed away. M. Demorest, an executioner in Paris during the “Reign of Terror,” also died in 1867. Russiy lost Prince Chernishoff, General Dwervicki and some other talented officers attached to her military, tinan- cial and executive departinents, as well as the cele brated Princess of Lieven, the confidential corres pondent of three Czars and three Expresses, and the most active female politician Faustin the First,of Hayti, has to lament his Mix the Duke of Band da 1. The Nizom of Dee and Goolab Singh, ruler of Cashmere, died in Ind whilst four of the sons with a gi eon of the old King of Delhi were executed by the British troops | in and around that city. The names of maay other remarkable personages will be found recorded in the obituary index prepared from the files of the Hemap. A chronological record of the events of the yeur in this city is also given. It includes all the move- ments and incidents of life in the metropolis as pnb lished in detail from dey to day in the colamns of the Hena.d, aud will be found interesting and useful to the general reader as well as to those who may desire to refreshea recollection. A list of the various steamship lines which have been plying to snd from this port and Boston to Europe, during the year just cloved, i# given, toge- ther with the duration of the passage of evch, and the number of passepgers transported. During the year 20,171 persons went to Burope, and 34,575 came to this country, making a total of 54,746 pas- sengers who crossed the Atlantic in the various écean steamers, showing an increase of 44,5 sengers transported, as compared with the year 38. Statistics of the commerce of the port of New York are also published. Daring the past year 5,908 vessels have arrived from foreign ports, an increase f 99 vessels ax compared with the year previous. ‘he number of passengers brought was 100, an increase of 44,216 over 1856. The California steam ers brought 11,265 passengers, showing a f 660 compared with 1854. | The statistics of the business transacted in the ral Sessions during the year 1 tovether with | the names of the officers of the Court for the enew ing year, will be found in another column. The sates of cotton yesterdey embraced about 600 bales, rartof which was said to have been good middling up jands, and sold on the wharf at %. The remainder wae told from store at 9c. a9), ¢. for middling to good mid ding uplands. Flour was rather more activo, without change ia prices. Wheat wae quiet, and the chicf sale comsiste’ ¢ Corn wae from tc. t higher, With sales of about 40,000 | boshels yellow sad white at 48¢. « 60c. and 62. Pork Olt at $16 S8 for Old mers, and at $16 &7 a $16 for vow NEW YORK HERALD, Wore quiet and prices unchanged ; 400 boxes for reféaing ‘Were ecid atte. Coffee was quiet and For iocks of various loading articies of produce we refer to without change of moment in rates, Probable Settlement of the Kansas Question, According to our latest authentic informa- tion from Washington upon Kansas affairs, the administration will, most probably, adhere to the Lecompton constitution, even with the adoption of the slavery clause, and upon that basis recommend the admission of Kansas into the Union as a sovereign State. And, in view of the removal of this bone of contention from Congress, and the transfer of the entire autho- rity and responsibility in the matter to the peo- ple directly concerned, the prompt admission of Kansas, even as a slave State, is, after all, perhaps the best thing that can be done. The Lecompton Convention was a legitimate and authoritative body. It submitted the only constitutional issue of any moment to a vote of the people. Granted that the Kansas free State party then are as five to one, or even ag ten to one, of the pro-siavery party, the respon- sibility lies with the former for allowing the latter to carry the fate election by default. But, again, no serious outrage will be commit- ted upon the free State party by admitting Kansas as a slave State, possessing, as that par- ty does, a numerical ascendancy sufficient to change their organic law within six months into a free State constitution. Next, so far as a Congressional balance of power is concerned, the admission of Kansas as a slave State, and its temporary existence as a slave Staie, will amount to nothing as a South- ern acquisition. Minnesota, with her free State constitution, and with her Congressional delega- tion as a State, already elected, must be admit- ted within s few weeks. Close behind her will come Oregon, a3 another free State, and with a case so clearly and indisputably in favor of the acceptance of her constitution that she cannot be rejected. Here, then, supposing Kan- sas to be admitted as a slave State, she will be more than counterbalanced by two additional free States admitted during (ue same session of Congress. i There was a very great agitation in 1820 against the admission of Missouri as a slave State; but the equivalent to the North in the admission of Maine as a new free State, formed an essential element Of the Missouri compro- mise. And surely at this day, with their pre- ponderance in the Unfon firmly established, the Northern States may consent to the admission of Kansas as a temporary slave State, ia con- sideration of the paramount object of giving to the people of Kansas the absolute right and the entire responsibility of managing their owa affairs in their own way. We anticipate a tremendous row in Congress should the administration recommend the ad- mission of Kansas as a slave State upon the basi< of the late Lecompton constitutional elec- tion; but let the act be consummated, and with- in six months all the existing agitation, and all the terrible uproar which is threatened, will have died away. The Southern fire-eaters threat- ened to tear the Union all to pieces, in conse- quence of the great outrage of giving the whole of California to the North—all of it on the north side and all on the south side of the Mis- souri compretuise line. They got up their Nash- ville Conventions, their military encampments, armories and arsenals, and their secession elee- tions; but they were reduced to submission by the sensible masses of the South within a very short time. So it will be shonld any revolutionary at- tempts be made in the North on account of the admission of Kansas as a slave State. They will soon be put down at the polls by the sensible masses of our conservative people. Asfor the integrity of the democratic party, that is an affair which belongs to the party. I is the duty of the administration to execute the lows, re gardless of parties, or factions or sections, So far as all the solid, practical interests of Kansas and the country at large are concerned, the sooner that Kansas is admitted as a sovereign State the better. Tae Goverment Apverrisine.—The prin- ciple on which the government ought to ad- | vertise is the same as that which guides every pradent and common sense business man in advertising his business: the principle on | Which the government does advertise is that which none but the veriest fools and greenborns pursue. By law the several departments of the gov- ernment, including the Post Office and Custom House, are bound not to give over so much per line for advertising. This rate is suited io the tarif* of small country papers, which, proba- bly, were the only journals known to the ma- | jority of the members of Congress who made the w. The rate is very far below the usual rates large metropolitan newspapers; about one- rice which we obtain for the cheap- ing we have. Yet, as it cannot be est adver "| altered seve by an alteration in the law, either | the proprietors of metropolitan newspapers mast | print government advertisements at one-fourth | the price every one else pays them. or the gov- crmment advertisements must appeur in small, obscure journals which nobody ees, and which can afford to be thankful for advertising at any price. The latter has generally been the course pursued. We have seldom been willing to take ' the government advertisements; but we have seen them afterward in newepapers which per- haps meet the eye of a few score of people. If the government departments are authorized to advertize at all, they should be permitted to do it in a sensible, useful manner. Noman would propose « law that the War Department should be bound uot to poy over # certain price | for flour, or the Navy Department over a ocr- | tain price yet advertising is quite as much a mercantile commodity as these, For our part, we are quite determined not to sacri- five our space to the government. The Unii States are not yet reduced to such « condition that they need eleemosynary assistance: till , they are, they eball not advertise with us any | cheaper than the chambermaids and the board- | ing houses. If it answers their purpose to print their advertisemente where no one seve them, so | much the worse for the public. | Tur Rear. Coanity Bais. ov tun Sitason.~ We anderstand that the committee of gentle | men, military and civil, who have come together with the object of getting apa calico bell for charitable purposes, are making considerable progress in the arrangements for the celobra- tion of the occasion in the best manner. It was at first contemplated to give the ball at Niblo’« Saloon, bat that programme has been changed. They have now made arrangements with Mr. Ullman, the manager of the Halian Opera, and they intend to give the ball at the keoping in view, however, the ‘and chari- table basis upon which it was proj Anum- ber of the most respectable persons in the city, civil and military, are now engaged in perfect ing thearrangementa. They are only awaiting the passing by of the holidays in order to pre- sent the matter to the public in a tangible form. We advise the ladies to begin their preparations for the ball, keeping in mind, however, that it is to be a cheap and charitable affair. rate Profligacy. When Le Notre laid out the grounds of Ver- sailles his plans were thought the perfection of landscape gardening. When the charming miniature park of the Trianon, created by the more correct taste of Marie Antoinette, was placed in juxtaposition with them, the absurdity of applying geometrical rules to the develepe- men! of scenery was at once made evident. Nature is a sly coquette, whose capricious tastes cannot be wooed by regular advances. To bring out her attractions we have to consider care-, fully hex penchants, not only in regard to atmos- phere, distance and color, but also a3 to form. As Hogarth’s line of beauty fixed the chief canon of artin painting, 50 the gardens of the Trianon gave the comp de grace to the straight alleys, rustic shrines and yew tree monstrosities of Le Notre. Since the true principles of land- soape gardening have become generally recog- nized, we hear no more of the umbrageous vistas, classic temples and artificial bowers which formed such convenient themes for the medivval muse. Nature now reigns paramount in her own domain, and the eye and the under- standing ave immensely benefitted by the change: It would be well for the general appearance and salubrity of our large cities if the painci- ples éstablished in the distribution of space in modern landscape gardening were applied to the laying out of their streets. That which im- parts to European towns and villages their greatest charmin the eyes of the American visiter is the quaintness and variety produced by the irregularity of the sites on which they are built. Instead of grading and levelling everything down to a uniform flatness of sur- face, advantage is taken of the diversities of the soil to enhance the beauty and seoure the thorough ventilation and drainage of the edi- fice reared upon it. A cultivated taste and sanitary experience teach people that every ir- regularity of this kind has its natural as well as its artistic uses, and that in all these respects it may be made conducive to their comfort. Hence it is that in European cities we find the spade and the axe but rarely brought into play in the clearance of a site. The architect adapts his plans to the soil as he finds it, and the public health and taste gain largely from this judi- cious abstinence on his part. It is humiliating to refleot that, whilst we borrow from foreign ideas and habits much that 18 reany undestretie-ca have nat the in. clination to adopt the customs which are found- ed upon experience and good teste. Thus, in the distribution of our cities, there is a preju- dice in favor of flat surfaces and straight lines of streets, which gives them all a uniform and monotonous appearance and destroys the charms of local associations. When the site is naturally flat, as is the case with Philadel- phia and New Orleans, the first of these de- fects cannot of course be avoided; but in New York, where we possess such a picturesque diversity of surface, it is difficult to appreciate the advantage of wiping out all the original features of the soil, and substituting for them miles of dreary streets, traversing each other at right angles, and unrelieved by asingle natu- ral object. But this is not the worst evil result- ing from the vile taste which is rapidly reduc- ing New York to the level of a teaboard. It will soon be found that with natural facilities for drainage such as no other city possesses, we have sacrificed them all to a mistaken preju- dice. To carry off moisture a certain momen- tum, derived from the force of the water itself, is required. This is gradually being lost by the level and uniform surface to which the whole site of the city is being reduced; and althongh it is true that the mischief may be in a degree remedied by giving to the drains, themselves a slight incline, it can never be wholly repaired. The consequence will be that, notwithstanding the large sams which efforts of this sort will cost the city, the public health will exhibit no corresponding improvement. Ag it is, the localities in which this system of levelling and fling up hollows has been carried out have already been marked by a decided tendency to fever and ague and other malarious diseases, Were it not for the profits made directly or indirectly by the members of the city boards under the present contract system of grading and levelling, we feel satisfied that the good taste and common sense of our citizens would long since have put anend to it. The parti- zans of corruption in those quarters are, how- ever, so strong that it will require « vigorous effort on the part of the public to impose a check upon their proceedings. That effort should be made at once, or it will be too late to apply a remedy. Tun Avastic Scsmanine Teneersarn.—We announced yesterday that our government had detailed the United States steam frigate Niaga- ra to co-operate with the vessels again appoint- ed by the British Admiralty to assist in laying the Atlantic sabmarine telegraph next summer. The following is the official letter of the Secre- tary of the Navy on the subject tothe President and Vice President of the New York, Newfound- Jand and London Telegraph Company:— Navy DeparrMent, Doe. 30, 1857. Oren eexr—Y our communication of the 23d inet. bas been received, I have to inform you in reply that, by di- reetion of the President of the U1 States, the steam frigate Niagara will be again detailed for the purpose of asriating tu ‘ing the telegraphic cable next summer. The Tepes will give Chief Engineor Everett leave of ‘absonce, with iseion to leave the United States, that the Telegraph ¥ may avail iteclf of his services in comnection with their work. T ae dient servaat, ISAAC TOUCEY. Penn Coorun, Feq., President, and Crnes W. Fixio, Kieq., Vice President of the Now York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, New York. We are glad that our government, having once entered upon this, the greatest undertaking of the age, has determined to give all the aid in ite power for its accomplishment. The British Admiralty have already, as we have said, de tached two vessels for the service, and there is no doubt whatever in the minds of all who were on the last expedition that the next will s successful as the most sanguine could de- § The experience which the officeyg of the telegraph squadron and the scientific members of the enterprise acquired by the first attempt is invaluable, and now that the practicability of the work has been satisfactorily proved, we’ may look forward to its successful completion this summer. {tis es*ential, however, that all the officers who were appointed last year should be again detached for the same service, ae the practical knowledge which they hove had cannot (FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, ‘1958. Clear mesa Gold ot $17 60 and extra do. at $19, Sugars 1 Academy of Music, in the most apleadid style, safely be dispensed with. We presume, there THE LATEST NEWS. fore, that the Secretary, of tho Navy haa al- ready given orders that they ehall not be de- tailed on any other work. We understand that in addition to the two vessels which have been detailed by the British Admiralty, the whole of the channel fleet, .con-' sisting of some ninety or a hundred vessels, will accompany the telegraph squadron to mid | ocean, from which the work of lazing the cable will be commenced. Next June has been de- cided upon as the most favorable for the pur- pose, so it is not improbable that the cable wil! be laid before the 4th of July next. The Niagara will not leave for England be- fore March next, to assist in the undertaking. In the mean time, the manufacture of the neces- eary eurplus telegraph cable is under way and will be finished long before the required time. ‘Weekly Journalism in New York. We made some allusion the other day to the state and prospects of weekly journalism in New York. The subject is susceptible of very considerable elaboration. There are, properly speaking, three clasaes of weekly journals in this city: the illustrated papers, the pious papers, and the impious or Sunday papers... For some years the three have been contending for the supremacy. The reli- gious papers started first in the race, and attained some position in the absence of competition ; the Sunday papers have only arisen within the past fifteen or twenty years; last of all, the illustrated papers, which combine the work of the artist with that of the writer, appeared in the field and strove for the palm. It is very easy to see how the chances lie, as things are shaped at present. The Sunday pa- pers, finding themselves the object of periodical denunciation by the clergy, and likewise per- ceiving that, in respect of innocent attractions, they were outstripped by their illustrated co- temporaries, have betaken themselves to scan- dal, scurrility and smut as their best claim to public favor. Of course there are exceptions to the general rule. Some of the Sunday papers are conducted, for a couple of weeks at a time, with commendable decency and propriety ; but the general average of these sheets makes one blush for the city where such periodicals appear and circulate freely. Stories of which the point is whether the young woman who has been found alone in her night dress by the ruthless seducer can possibly escape without injury; or stories which purport to describe the infernal wiles and arts by which the Muscovite Count prevailed over the virtuous sewing girl of the Five Points; jokes of which it would be weak to say they were broad; and abusive paragraphs of any and every one who is not aa advertiser: this consti- tutes the ordinary bill offare of « Sunday news- paper. The pious papers are a different variely. Once or twice we have seen and read a pious paper which comtaiucd ucithor meanness nor maligni- ty, nor scurrility, nor false calumny. We we. ther think, on reflection, that the phenomenon has occurred thrice. It doubtless injured the reputation of the paper; for, latterly, it has not been repeated. A dead level of sectarian bigot- ry andlow mean prejudice is the uniform cha- racteristic of our pious journals. There are de- grees of eminence, of course. For dnstance, the two extremes—the Puritan and the Papist— the Freeman's Journal and the Independent—are fine instances of the different forms of craziness into which religious enthusiasm beguiles the human mind. If the Freeman's Jovrnal had its way, Protestants would be daily roasted before the City Hall: if the Zndependent were listened to, our clergymen would carry pistols to the pul- pit, and possess a veto over the legislation of Congress. Other varieties again are the Observer and the Churchman, the one the organ of the snuffiers among the Presbyterians, the other that of the Puseyites. If there be anything grander than the Pecksnifinn sir with which the Churchman denies the popular rumor that there are other Protestant sects besides the High Church Episcopalians, it is the pathetic groan with which the canting Oberver denounces a fresh symptom of infidelity. The one is the peacock and the other the owl of newspapers. Tinch in his happiest moments never wrote anything more amusing than the articles in which the Churchman remarks thai “a sect of dis- senters, who, we believe, are called Methodists, have a new chapel, &c., &c.,” or the articles in which the Observer “feels bound by a solemn sense of duty to warn its readers against the perni- cious works of a new and probably young play writer, named William Shakepers, who, in two places, makes his hero exelaim ‘ye Gods!’ thus obviously, by implication, denying the uaity of the Godhead.” It is natural that these sheets should be gra dually making way for others better suited to the perusal of an intelligent people. Bonner’s Ledger, for instance, which has risen into note within the past year or two, is a marvellons in- | stance of what advertising will do. It contains nothing but stories and brief moral essays: yet it is probably a. suceessful paper in the world. Frank TLzelie’'s Paper was started & couple of years ago, just after Barnum’s broke down, on the model of the London Fittusetrated News: it has published a large collection of pictures of various merit, and ap- peared at one time to have secured the field to itself. Harpers’ Weekly, which is the youngest of the three wecklies, has endeavored tocombine the features of an illustrated newspaper with the best light reading matter that could be pro- cured, and has accordingly obtained a large patronage; but the price at which those weeklies are sold must require an enormous sale to remu- nerate the publishers, The Home Journal, also, thongh not illustrated, is an excellent paper, well worthy of the favor it obtains at the public hands. All these popers are conducted with good sense and © regard for decency. They are real acynisitions for litera- ture, and will do good to the public which reads them. {t will be well for the rising generation when these papers supersed@ altogether the immoral Sunday sheets and the still more injurious sec. tarian papers published under the auspices of the churches. Masomie Pestiyim.—8t. John’s Mar, Tih, wee cele brated on tho evening of the 28th by a oumber of the lodges in this city and vicinity. Several of the forcign lodes gaye dinners. J,/Union Francaise No 17 met at No. 60 White stroct, and after being opened in form by W. M. A. Massabo, sat down to a fine banquet, Daring the evening the Ledge received with grand honors the BR. W. Deputy Gravd Master Robert Macuy, Peq., and the 2, W. Grand Secretary James W. Austin, 0. both of whom addressed the Lodge. Commitices were received frbm and sent to La Stucerite (French) and Pythagoras (German) Lodges, both of which bodies celebrated the day ia & manner eimilar to that adopted by 1'Union Francaise, which is distingsiched for ite strict observance ofthe ancieut landmarks of the fraternity, a9 We as ite Liberality towards ita bretaren io distress. Non-Arrtval of the Niagara, dc. * Haurax, Dec. 31-10 P. Mt. Tt is now blowing a soutawesterly gaic here, and * & atill very wet, but there ae prospects of its clearing up. ‘The telegraph lines are working horribly. It is bardig probable that either the Canada from Boston or the Nia gare from Liverpool will arrive before noon to-morrow. Sr. Joun, N. B., Jan 11,30 A. M. The line has been interrupted between here and Sack- ville since about eleven o'clock. The trouble appears like @ cross with some branch wire. Woe have been trying ia- cessaatly for nearly three hours to raise Sackville, and are now compelled to abazdcn the attempt as useless. ‘The Filibuster Movement. PROBABLE ENDORSEMENT OF COM. PAULDING’S CON- DUCT BY THE ADMINISTRATION—REVORTED RATI- FICATION OF THE TREATY WITH NICARAGUA—GEN. WALKER'S FRIENDS ENTHUSIASTIC IN HIS CAUBE— OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE FROM THE SOUTH, ETC. ‘Wasarvcron, Dec. 31, 1867. ‘The Cabinet had a long session today. Tho principal subject before them was, I enderstand, the conduct of Commodore Paulding. Iam led to believe, from the lights . before me, that the administration will, under the ciream- Btances, ondorse the course pursued by Paulding; for, wa- der the recent treaty, the government pledged itsolf to pre- tect and secure the neutrality of the Nocaragua Transit route; and upon this viewof the subject the Commodore’s course will be fully justified, and if Iam not greatly mis- taken instructions will be sent 10 Com. Paulding to keep: that route open, whether* blockaded by filibusters or what not, It iz believed by the Cabin-t that Nicaragua has ratified the cew treaty, though ne official communication has been received on the subject. It is charged that Pauldng’s letter to the department contains several positive falsehoods. He says Walker “captured goods of mershants in transit to the interior, killed ‘men, and madeprisoners of peaceful inhabitants,’* &e, General Walker says there is not one word of trutie in either of these greve charges. The river having beem blockaded by Costa Rica, no goods were in transit to the interior; nor was there le man killed in the capture of Fort Castillo, vhile the women on the steamer Morgam were camp follewers—the other prisoners being Costa Rican soldiers, snd not ‘peaceful inhabitants.’’ In 1855 Commodore Paulding addressed a letter to Col. Wheeler, then United States Minister to Central America, in which be expressed a sympathy for General Watkor’s cause, ané eulogized his efforts to regenerate Nicaragua, His ideas seem to have undergone a radical change. General Walker bas had no intimation yet, as to the intentons of the goverument towards himself and hia mep Southern members still crowd his rooms, and pro- mise to see him fully indemnified. Despatches and letters pour in upon hit from all sections of the South, extending sympathy and offering mat rial aid. Various reports are inc. \lation.as to what Gen. Watker intends to do, none of which are true. He will wait un. til Congress meets, when, I am satisfied, propositions wilt be submitted by Southern members which will meet hig approbation. But they will all fail, for they have not the strength to carry their ilibustering schemes through Com- grees. Mark that. It has been ascertained that before General Walker left Central America he sent orders to Colonel Anderson to re- main in possession of Fort Castillo as long as posible; if obliged to abandgn it, to then retain the boats; but if com- pelled to destroy any of them oefore their falling into the hands of the enemy, to destroy first the river boats, and hold on to the steamer La Virgin. This order was re- peated from Aspinwall. Arrangements were also mado to send up a number of men in bungoes, under competent: leaders, with the view to convey the order to Colonel An- derson, and advise any United States vessels approaching the coast of the state of affairs at Punta Arenas and Sam Juan del Norte, It is asserted that General Walker has confidence that Colonel Anderson will obey the order. TNE WALKER EXCITEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS. New Onizans, Dec. 30, 1867. The steamship Voradetphia, from New York via Ha- ¥ana, arrived today. She brings the California mails of the Sth inst. John Tabor, Faq., Editor of El Nicara- guense, was & passenger, He has consented to open the Meeting to-morrow evening with a history of the capture of General Walker and the following events. The feeling of indigoation ts increasing, and some favor the reinforc- ing of Anderson in spite of the government. Over a thou- sand stand of arms are in readiness, and it js thought Uaat men are at baad who are wil ing to uudertake to use then in the Nicaraguan cause, . ENTHUSIASTIC MEBTING IN FAVOR OF WALKER aT NEW ORLBANS, New Onieane, Deo. 31, 1867. ‘The Nicaraguan meetin, here dis evening, waa very large and enthusiastic. Aspeech made by Mr. Joba Tabor created an iutevse feeling of excitement. Strong Tesolutions, denuncisory of the arrest of Gen. Walker, wote pagsed. News from Kansas, Sr. Loum, Dec. 31, 1857. ‘The Republican learns from a gentleman who left Kansas on Saturday last that the Lawrence Convention adjourned without making any nominations for State officers. The matter is not regarded as disposed of, however, and the Presentation of a ticket before thegelection is deomed provable. From Wi THE WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES | TREASURER, ETC. Wasmixorox, Dec. 31, 1857. The resignation of Captain Albert L. Magilton, Fourth Artillery, has been accepted by the President. ‘The Treasurer's weekly statement furnishes the fol- lowing important figures for the week ending Monday, December 28 — Amount deposited... Drafts drawn but not} Amount subject to draft —— from last we rece | see The Indian delegations, representing the Pawnees, Poncas aud Pottowatamier, paid their respects to the President to-day, at 12 o'clock. The President received them cordially, and was very happy in his remarks, THE GENERAL NEWSVAYER Drsratct. Wasurvetow, Doc. 31, 1867. Delegations from the Pawners, Poncas and Pottowate- ‘mics, numbering about thirty, had a formal interview with the President to-day at the White House. fhe auditory ‘was large, including ladics, and Secretaries Cobb, Floyd and Thompson. The most interesting feature was the ap- parent reconciliation between the Chiefs of the Pawnoes and Poneas, which tribes have long been hostile to cach other, The President, or “Great fathor,”’ as they call him, having persuasively dwelt upon the blessings of peace, Joined their hands in token of friendship. The Pottowa-- tomies wero in citizen's dress, while their less civilixed colleagues wero im their grandest attire, and more thas usually profuse of paint and feathers. Affairs in Albany, Asay, Deo. 21, 1867. ‘The Old Canal Board met to-day, but adjourned sine die without transacting any business of public interest. ‘The employée in the Comptroller's office have prosonted Comptrotier Barrows with a valuable gold enaff bor, ac. companied by a letter of farewell signed by overy clerk in the office. Navigation on the Hudson, Aimer, Dee. 31, 1867. ‘The steamboat Horo arrived here at daybreak this morn- ing, with an immense freight, and leaves this afternoon on her retarn trip. She had a good passage up, and re- porta the ice much broken. New Year's Eve in Philadelphia, Parcansirnis, Neo. 31, 1867. Tho moon is shining brightly here vo nigh ',and troops of masqueraders are promenading the atreets. None of our papers suspend publication tommorrow after- oon or Saturday morning. ———$—————— United States Supreme Court. Wasmixaron, Deo. 31, 1867. Nos, 61 and 62. Rdwin M. Chaffee, trustes, &c., vs, Na haniet Hayward, and BH. H. Day vs. Nothanicl Hay-~ ward.—Chiof Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court, overruling the motion to «dismiss the cases, No number. United States ve. Sancher de Pache- ¢o.—-Motion to docket and dismiss the case argued. No, 24. L. Benham vs. Felise Conces, adminia- trator, et al.—Dooketed and dismissed with costs, No. 106, Horace ©. Silsby et al. vs. Blisha Foote—Me- Supposed Sulcide at Detroit. Drtaow, Doc. 31, 1857. Guy Foote, Fsq., Preatdent of the Farmers’ aid Me- chanics’ Bank, of this city, was found deat in bed this corning. ‘The Trial of Thomas Mend, Boson, Doo, 31, 1867. ‘Tue trial of Thomas Mead was commenced to day ia the