The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIFTOR. OPFIOR N. W. CORNER OF ¥ULTON AND NASSAU STB. TRE DALLY HERALD. (0 cents TUR Wi NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1858, 30 stillborn cases. seventy-five deaths in the public institutions and ten deaths from violent causes. The following is a classification of the diseases, and the number of deaths in each class of disease, during the week:— Dec. %, Jan. 2. per copy, ST por 6 3 REKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at riz cents per | prain and perves 65 8 1. OF BS per annum: the European edition. $4 omm 10 7 fy bart of Great Bratxim or 850 amy par ie Continent, bth | eBerative Organs. 8 i‘ THE PAMILT HERALD, every Wednowday, ai four cents per | Lungs, throat, &e 14 188 renter CORRESPONDENCE, containing émportant Sein te and eruptive fevers H 4 terws, solicited from any Drthe warid tf used wil be the. Stillborn and premature births. & a rally pod fer, Ba-OuR opened Connassounanes 15a Fa , bowels and other digestive 66 53 ancy Buouserap ro Saat als Lurreus ax> P'4cksGes | Vcortain seat and general fevers ty 33 0 aken of anonymous correspendenc. We dono | VTDATY OFGADB.......,.., 6 9 “ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day; advertisemen x. | ‘The number of deaths, compared with the corres- ores to the Wanatr Heese, Faure Henats, and | ponding weeks in 1856 and 1867, was as follows:— AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. The nativity table informs us that of the number A’ FQustaisx, ZOow0- Baoany Y THEATR Brostway—) 299 were natives of the United States, 84 of Ireland, NIBLO'S GARDEN. Brosdway—Sosent 4xD Bertaano— Trout Kors Frats—Goupex Kav. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Pornam—Equrstaxisy —Scoves or tux Ocean. TRE, Broadway, BURTON'S THRA ‘Tax Great Gon Trick—Couumnes ec Piniavsteso—You'ne Anorsan, gwsaacns THEATRE, Broadway—Tux Poor ix New x. URA KKENE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Ax U: Pe revit ty rt nal AGADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Mariwes at 1, Bvening, GRAND PHILnaRwonic CONCERT—THALBERG’S FARE wer: Concert—Kequiem or Morant, dc. BARNUM’S® AMERICAN . noon Tamrration OR THR Inism EwiGRANT. ‘FLNE AND Omson, WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 661 and 563 Broadway—Gi Oxuurs & Woon's Muxsrisis—New Year Cans — BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 685 Broadway—Eruio Pian Mesopigs—Gorpen Kixcpom. Broadway ~Afier Evening, VALEN Soncs—BuRiesque EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Inonaw. 5 , Aorastvams tx tu Anco Reaions ns OF DB: Kare MECHANIC'S HALL, —Baranr’s Mu a 432 Reagdway- - TART’ (NSTRELS =r ——— ee = Bew York, Sunday, January 3, 1858, ———_—————— ‘The News. 29 of Germany, 6 of England, 3 of France, 2 of Prussia, 2 of Spain, 1 each of Scotland and Switzer- land, and 3 unknown. ‘There was more doing in cotton yesterday, the eales having reached about 1,000 bales, chiefly before the;pub- ie Bond atreet— | lication of the Niagara’s news. Though holders mani- fested some more spirit in the forenoon, the market closed with the turn in favor of the buyer, whilo prices were not fully established under the news. The market for flour was rather stiffer for common N#QDAT | crades, while extras were dull; yet prices wore without change of moment. Among the sales were about 3,000 bbis. common State, purchased for export, at $4 25 per bbl. Wheat was quiet, and quotations, in the absence of sales of importance, were nominal. Corn was in fair de- mand, with sales of new yellow and white at 57c. a 60c. and 62c. Pork was steady, with sales of old mess at $15 50, and new do. at $15 75 a $16. Sugars were quiet; 150 bhds. New Orleans, and 119 do..molado were sold at stoady prices. Coffee was quict. Freights were un- changed and engagements light. The Kansas Trouble in Congress—WIll the South be Driven to the Wall? It appears, from our latest Washington ad- vices, that Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, proposes to-mor- row, in the Senate, to give notice of a bill for the admission of Kansas into the Union asa slave By the Niagara, which arrived at Halifax yester- | State, upon the basis of the Lecompton consti- day, we bave three days latter news from Europe. The news, except in a commercial way, is of little importance. There bad been # decline of one cent per pound in cotton. Consols for account were quotelf st 92) 4924. There is nething later from India. The Bank of Vrance bad reduced its rates of interest to six perceni. The failures of Edward Smith, wool stapler; Sualfield Brothers, of Leeds, tution, and the result of the recent Territorial elections upon the question of “slavery” or “no slavery.” But in this bill Mr. Pugh proposes to embrace a section or two providing at an early day for such modifications of the said Lecompton constitution as the people of Kan- sas, under the sovereign authority of a State and Powell A Son, of London and Manchester, all | may think fit to make. with large liabilities, were annowieed = The Dart- ford and Gravesend Bank; Messrs. Cheesebrough & Sons, one of the largest woollen manufacturing firms in Yorkshire; Schute & Schemman, of Ham- burg, and James Holmes, of Kidderminster, had suspended. The English money market was said to be gradually getting easier. At Hamburg affairs bad begun to improve, but the commercial crisis continued very severe in the north of Europe. The government of Sweden had proposed to borrow 12,000,000 of thalers to assist the merchants. It was stated that a general amnesty for newspaper offences would be proclaimed in France on New Year's day. Further unsuccessful attempts had | been made to launch the Leviathan, and it had been | postponed sine die. H Our despatch from Washington this morning will | be found of an interesting character. Early in the \ week, it is said, the President wil! communicate to | Congress el! the information in the posession of go- vernment relative to Gen. Walker's movements, in- | cluding the correspondence and instractions to Com- | modore Paniding, accompanied by a message setting | forth the views of the administration. Commodore | Paniding, it is stated will not be recalled at present. | Never in the course of time has a brighter day | shone epon the world than that which honored us | to New Year's day, and never in the course of | oar life have we seen the day observed with more | honor and respect. Calls appeared to be universal, | everybody appeared to be on the moye and in a good | humor, and, despite the crisis, New York surren- | dered itself to one day of genial good humor. In accordance with its custom the Hexatp this morning contains, in tabular form, an epitome of the | business transected in our law courts during the past year, among which will be found matters of im- portance to all classes of the community. Our chronological account of the murders, homi- | cides and suicides committed in New York during the past year presents a fearful and melancholy pic ture. From the recapitulatory table it will be seen that no less than thirteen murders, fifty homicides and sixty cight suicides have taken place within the Inst twelve months. A full list of the names of the members of the Board of Education, with their term of office powers, doties, authority, Ac., will be found in our journal this morning. in advance of the official publication we furnish our readers this morning with complete statistics of the emigration for the year 1857, together with ta bles showing the emigration for each month for the last eleven years. Yesterday afternoon an unsnecessful attempt was made te procure a quorum of the Board of Coancil- men whose official existence terminated on Thars- day night, for the purpose of obtaining the passage of 6 resolution appropriating $10,000 for Mayor | Wood's expenses in testing the constitutionality of | the acts of the Legislature, which was adopted by the Aldermen, but lost in the other Board for want of the necessary vote. Some of the members were of the opinion that a clause in the charter gave them power to meet on Saturday, as it states that the members elect will enter upon their daties on ‘the first Monday in January. ‘The Metropolitan Police Commissioners yesterday | passed a resolution providing for the notification of the force that the rules of the department would | hereafter be enforced. From the wording of the | resolution and the remarks of several members, it might be construed that the complaints of our c iti vens at the inefficiency of the police are not entire- This proposition, in the way of acompromise, may be fair enoagh; but it strikes us that it does not cover the whole ground. There are two other new States awaiting their admission into the Union, and they are both free States of the most decided character, viz.: Minnesota and Oregon. They should not be overlooked as a Northern balance of power, tn view of the ad- mission of Kansas asa slave State. From the adoption of the slavery compromises of the federal constitution down to the present day, every adjustment of the slavery question has been made upon the basis of mutual conces- sions, North and South. Take, for example, the Missouri compro:ise | of 1820. The great difficulty there was upoa the question of admitting Missouri as 4 slave State; but at the same time the new free State of Maine was knocking for admission at the doors of Congress, and the Southern men made good use of ber as a Northern equivalent for the surrender of Missouri to the South. Thus Maine and Missouri were put together in the same bill ia the Senate; and although they were separated in the House, the two States were admitted simultaneously; and this was the real substance of the Missouri compromise. The interdict excluding slavery north of 36 deg. 30 min. from all the Territories west of Missouri, was nothing more than a tub to the whale. It amounted practically to nothing, although it answered its purpose very well so long as the Territories concerned remained uninhabited ex- cept by wild Indians, The adjustment of 1850 was upon the same principle of mutual concessions of a practical character, as between the North and South, As an equivalent for the admission of Califor- nia as a free State, the South was given the Fugitive Slave law, and an equal chance of making a slave State of New Mexico, by leaving the whole subject of slavery to the people of that Territory. Ten millions of dollars were also given to Texas as an equiva- lent for the curtailment of the boundaries which she claimed; and as a Northern offset to this the slave barracoons and the buying and welling of niggers in the District of Columbia were abolished. Everybody knows, however, that the South, in this adjustment of 1850, got the worst of the bargain. They can never make anything of New Mexico. Atlave nigger there would eat his head off in five years, and a free nigger is worse off at Santa Fe than in Canada. The ten millions to Texas were but asa drop in the bucket; and as for the Fugitive Slave law, it has only operated to systematize the business of the Northern underground railroads. Prac- nothing but the husks of that compromise. The golden fruits of it were all secured to the North, in the admission of all California a# & free State, including her territories on both sides of the Missouri Compromise line. And yet thie famous line, which was practically abolished by the North in 1850, has given rise ly without foundation. Mayor Tiemann will meet with the Board on Tuesday next. Mr. Morrison, the candidate for Receiver General, wars defeated in Canada on the Ist inst. This makes the third Cabinet Minister aefeatead in Upper Canada It will be remembered that some time since the G ury found an indictment against Lippincott and rts for an alleged fraudulent issue of coal stock. The Recorder permitted the District Attor ney to enter a nolle prosequi on Wednesday, he (Mr Hall) being satinfied that the prosecution was started or pecuniary gain. From the report of the City Inepector we learn that there were 450 deaths in our city last week—an increase of 37 over the mortality of the week pre- vious. Deaths from diseases of the lungs, throat, 4c. ave somewhat increased. The following table ex: bibite thc p aths during the week among adults and children. distinguishing the sexes Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Week ending Dec, 26 a ee a) Week ending Jan. 9, 9 80 146168 0 Among the principal causes of death were the fol lowing mber of = Weel: andinges De® San. 2 pox; 6 of dysentery; 4 of congestion of the lungs; of erysipelas; 5 of typhns fever; 8 of heart disease; ‘of hooping cough; 11 of inflammation of the bowels; 2 of pleuriay; 5 of old age; 11 prematore births, and Goasumption.... i 6 Conte isions (infantile) a a Inflammation of the lungs a oa) Poflammmatior of the brain 4 » Boariet fever is at Maraemos (infantic) 5 Dropay in he bead : ~ 12 Measles... ny 9 | Ee nu 16 Bronchitia.... 6.0.66 « & § There were also 4 deaths of apoplexy; 21 of small. 1 to all this Kansas fuss and fury in the North, from the repealing act of 1854, as a Southern | measure | Now, then, what are the claims of the men of | the South in reference to Kansas? ‘They claim | that ander the Kansas Nebraska bil, and through, the regularly constituted local authorities, re- | cognized by the last and by the present federal administration, a slave State constitution has been adopted for Kansas, and that nothing has been done by Congress to vitiate thie result. The men of the South demand, therefore, the ad- miseion of Kansas as a slave State, upon the basis of her Lecompton constiution. If Kansas has thus been made a slave State, through the refusal of the free State party to participate in State party, and with them should rest the re should any evil consequences be apprehended, when, directly after her admiseion as a State, with or without the authority from Congress, the people of Kansas may proceed, under the full and absolute powers of popular sovereignty to change their constitution? No act of Con gress, and no Lecompton Convention restric tions, can impair the sovereign powers which rest with the people of a State. But between the Executive authority of the President and the legislative powers of Congress what is popular sovereignty in a Territory but an un mitigated hambug * To give Kansas, then, the ful! benefits of popa- lar eovereignty, she should, he admitted at oace tically, therefore, the South, in 1850, received | the late election, that is the fanlt of the free | sponsibilties and the consequences. But why | During the week there were | as 6 State; while so far as ber admission with a slave State constitution may be concerned, the gain to the North will be as two to one with the admission of Minne- sota and Oregon. And this ia the point upon which Mr. Pugh should rest his bill for the ad- mission of Kansas. All sensible Northern men, under the circumstances, and for the sale of peace, will be satisfied with the temporary re- cognition of Kansas as regular slave State, with two new free States coming in at the same time. With this understanding, too, that Kan- sas, Minnesota and Oregon shall all be admitted together upon the faith of the official constitu- tion of each, we think that the Northern agita- tors and disorganizers of both houses may be silenced. It is upon this broad principle of sec- tional equivalents that Mr. should present and urge his bill in reference Kansas. On the other hand, after the recognition by the administration of the validity of aH the proceedings resulting in the Lecompton con- stitution, and in the popular ratification of the slavery clause, it is folly to suppose that the South will consent to be overslaughed in the great result. Let the experiment be tried. Let the Senate or the House reject the Lecompton constitution as ratified by the late Kansas election, and the next proceeding will probably be the abrupt dissolution of Congress in the secession from both houses of the members from the Southern States. We should not be surprised if, with the event indicated, they were to withdraw in a body from Congress, and issue a manifesto to the Southern people and to the ceveral Southern State Legislatures sub- mitting to them such steps in the vindication of Southern rights, and for the redress of North- ern aggressions, as may be deemed expedient. ‘This Kansns squabble, as it comes to a focus, is thus assuming its largest proportions as a sectional issue; and let our Northern Presiden- tial tinkers in Congress beware lest their paltry and selfish schemes should result in the most serious disasters to fhé country. Let Mr. Pugh take bis sonndings in the manner we have in- dicated, aud try his bill. Tum Apsaytstration oF Jusrick.—Two of the most important magistrates of the city—the Re- corder and the District Attorney—went out of office with the old year, and were duly succeeded by the persons lately elected to fill these posts. The change naturally directs attention to the administration of criminal justice in this city. Erery one has made the remark that crime is fast gaining upon us. Every species of crime is on the increase, and especially those more hein- ous varieties of crime which involve violence and imperil life. Arson has been for years s common offence; though, latterly, the exertions of the Fire Marshal have rather operated to keep it in check. Robbery with violence never was more frequent than at present; not a day passes but we have to record some case of suc- cessful or frustrated burglary, very frequently attended by homicide. Offences against the person end purity of females have become figo\huly common; so much so thet, except in Broadway, no prudent yorug women would now venture out after dark without an «<cort. Finally, murder has so enormously developed that at the present time we have no les than three murderers under sentence of death, and several more in prison waiting their trial. A comparison between the criminal records of last year and that of any twelvemonthy prior to 1847, would show ia all probability double the amount of crime now that there was then. Of couree many causes may be ao signed for this exceedingly unfortunate symp- tom. Many persons are inclined to lay stress on the increase of immigration. Others ascribe much crime to the influence of certain illjudged laws. Others discover more singular causes still. But none deny that the prevailing laxity with which the laws are administered has largely contributed to foster crime. Every one sees that murderers, robbers, and rowdies increade because they enjoy such invariable impunity; that when the courts do not con- demn, when juries do not find verdicts, when prosecuting officers do not use energy to cateh criminals and bring them to trial, it is natural and inevitable that crime must increase, and with astounding strides. For this prevailing laxity and maladministra- tion of the criminal laws, the individuals who have just gone out of the offices of District At- torney and Recorder are in a sensible degree responsible. However efficient they may have been as politicians, there is no question but they have been grossly inefficient aa magis- trates; it is hard to say how much of the pre- vailing villany and appetite for crime, e« pecially among the young of city, may not be traced to the fruits of their inefficiency and their unfortunate example to their colleagues. It is to be hoped that the new men who now fill these offices will pursue a different course, The Recorder is a young man, and has a name to make; Mr. Sweeny, the District Attorney, will be able to devote ample time and leisure to the duties of bis office. There is a fine field before them. Until Sudge Russell took his seat on the bench, with his thorough knowledge of law and his resolute determina- tion to execute it any cost, there may be said to have been no breakwater at all against the swelling tide of crime; we shall now see whether the new officials will imitate him, and try to keep the city criminals in check by a display of vigilance and wholesome prity, or whether they will be content to walk in the path trodden by their predecessors. At the same time, while much will rest in their power for the repression of crime, we fvel abundantly satisfied that the real key to the maladministration of justice in this metropolis lies deeper than in the inefficieney of any man, or set of men. The sudden and large develope ment of crime from which we now suffer was cotemporaneous with that change in the consti- tution which made the Judges elective. From the time that the office of Judge was made a | political one, and that Judges were elected hy a siderations began to sway their judgments, and the most infamous scoundrels escaped punish- ment through their political influence. T evil increased as it went on, until at present we cannot count upon the conviction of even the most palpably guilty culprit. Our Judges-- many of whom are well-meaning and conacion- tious men--ceased to do their duty in many in- stances; they ceased to administer the law This, we are satisfied, hae more to do with the prevailing growth of crime than even the in- efficiency of the most important magistrates, Until the laws and the constitution are altered so that the Judges shall either be appointed by the Governor or elected for a long term of years, twelve or fifteen, for instance, it will be quite futile to anticipate any radical recovery in the administration of crimina! justice in New York popular vote and for a brief term, political con- | Tie New and Important Foreign Questions Before the Administration, It will be seen from our Washington de-jatclies, published elsewhere, that many important points are being suddenly developed there in American questions. First, we have the assurance that England and France are de- lighted with the new Nicaraguan treaty; then, that the President will send in a special mes- sage on Monday, in which he will condemn the conduct of Commodore Paulding; that he will reiterate the sentiments of his late message in regard to filibustering in general; and finally, we are told that Mexico is rapidly breaking up, and that the government must look out and save the pieces. In regard to the first of these items, the gobe mouches who believe in the honesty of Eng’ land and France in their course on Central American questions may swallow it whole if they choose to do 80; but we shall do no such thing. We have long since published the comments of Palmerston’s organ—the Lon- don Post—and also of the French press upon this treaty, and they gave expression to the true spirit that animates those governments in regard to it. That diplomatic assurances may be given that its provisions are satisfactory, is all very well and in proper order; but they are nothing more than diplo- matic assurances, for the facts of the case are quite the reverse. The London Post saw at once the true tendency of the new Nicaraguan treaty, and denounced it as being the initiatory step of American influence over all Central America. But England and France have dis- covered that there is a “cat in the meal tub” of larger dimensions than they had dreamed of, and 80 we have the happiest of diplomatic as- surances, The course the administration has determined to pursue toward Commmodore Paulding, in the face of recent despatches, is another proof, to our mind, of the great size of the “cat in the meal tab.” The energy and decision displayed by the government in treating this exciting question shows that there is something more behind it than mere determination to censure an officer in the navy, or to arrest a single filibuster. The Cabinet are well aware of the immense popu- lar favor that the idea of Americanising Cen- tral America receives, North as well as South. lis members know full well that the stopping of General Walker would have little effect upon the extension of our influence southward; for if he were taken away there would be ten Richmonds in the field to lead the movement. They know, also, that the support of Commodore Paulding in his seizure of Walker, and thus securing fora while longer the duration of the Martinez govern- ment in Nicaragua, would involve the establish- ment of a new precedent, under which our army and navy would be led into sustaining every ricketty government south of us. Im this view Harney would have to be sent into Sonora after Brigham Young; some active Commodore would be obliged to catch Carbajal in Tamaulipas, Cuba, Yucatan or Tehuantepec. Anda hundred other places are filled with the germs of filibus- terism, that would sooner or later blow into the fall grown filibuster. Then there is Mexico. The coup d'état of Co- monfert may save her for a time, if he can raise the money to save himself. But Earopean intervention is already proflered, and we stand ready to pick up the fragments of ber dissolu- tion. The simple fact announced by Washington correspondent, that a scheme is on foot among the European diplomatists in Mexico to establish a monarchy, and a general alliance to save Cuba from its inevitable destiny of admission into the American Union, shows how active are the operations of the diplo- matists in endeavoring fo weave another en- tangled web in the path of our progress. ‘There, too, there is a “cat in the meal tub” of our Mexican policy, which will show itself sooner or later. We have, fortunately, an able representative there in Mr, Forsyth, who is not blind to the events that are passing around him. All of these things indicate to us that the ad- ministration has matured its policy in the Ame- rican questions, and that it will soon be ready to act. This energy and decision are indicative of a confidence that when its policy shall be- come known it will command the popular sanc- tion. We await the developements of the com- ing week in Washington. our Hexry C. Carney on Powrricat, Ecovour.— Mr. Henry ©. Carey, of Philadelphia, is pub- lishing a series of letters addressed to the President of the United States, upon those points of the Message which refer to the com- mercial and finaneial affairs of the country. Mr. Henry C. Carey claims to be the only man in the country who rightly understands these intrieate subjects. Since the year 1420 we have made banking, the currency, commerce, | crives, revulsions, panics and expansions one of the most important subjects of our investiga- tions; and we must be permitted to say that of all the specimens of blundering verbiage aod ignorant assumption we have ever seen, these Carey letters are the worst. Mr. Henry C Carey is one of those persons who takes his stand upon the narrowest point that a narrow mind can occupy, and then expects the whole world to square itself down to his small com pase. He inflicts upon the public long-winded diatribes, with here and there a few discon nected facts, thrown in always in the wrong | places, and sandwiched with some meagre and badly arranged statisiios—the whole set off with a drowsy, muddy, turgid style. He proves just enough to show that be is not suffi ciently acquainted with the history of finance and banking to trace either the principles which govern them, the causes which bring about their disarrangements, or the conse- quences which result therefrom The present crisis or revulsion in the com- mercial world has been produced not so much by the extension of bauk credits as by the ex- tension of commercial credits, manufacturing credits, and all kinds of mercantile and genera! credits. In Europe and America there have been too many persons employed in manufac- tures—too many manufacturing cloths and silke, and railwaye, and ships, and banks, and all sorts of things, and too few engaged in cul tivating the soil, The sudden influx of gold from Australia and California, amounting to nearly nine hundred millions in ten years, has atimulated commerce, manufactures and (he mechanic arts (ggith the facilities given by steam power and other important inventions) to such an extent that the superstructure of credit has been found too heavy even for that solid specie basis, » Our banking system—any banking system is good enough if it is properly maneged. The fact is, we have all been uy ing and selling and spending too much, Thore have been too many manufacturers and too fow agriouituriste, and that is the whole secret of it. We advise Mr. Henry C. Carey to go back to the grammar of political economy; he is sadly in want of some elementary knowledge before he can even understand the portions of the Pre- sident’s Message which he attempts to criticise. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The New Nicaraguan Action of Congress—Spectal of the Vernments and the New Treaty—Important from Mexico—The Admission of Kansas. Wasmmnarow, Jan. 2, 1858. ‘The flibustering spirit still continues to rage, and cer- tain senators and members are busy collecting and col- lating all the facts relative to Walker's first foray to Con- tral America and his movements since tnen, all of which will be laid before both Honses next week in flaming speeches. ‘The Committecs on Foreign Relations in the Senate and House will, on Monday, offer resolutions calling upon the President for all the information in the pos- session of government touching Walker's move- ments in Central America, including the cor- Feepondence and instructions te Commodore Paul- ding. Accompanying this correspondence, which will be immediately sent, the President will communicate a short message to Congress, in which the views of the adminis- tration will be set forth. While the President will reite- rate in strong terms his objections to the filibustering movement, referring Gongress to his recent message upon that subject, he will at the same time disavow and con- demn the act of Commodore Paulding. In reference to recalling Paulding, the administration will not attempt that at present. Gen. Lamar, Minister to Nicaragua, left hore this morn- ing for New York, and will sailon the 6th. Besides car- rying out his own instructions, which are of a peculiar nature, owing to the present complicated state of affairs in Central America, he will take instructions to Commo- dore Paulding. ¥ It is believed here that the next arrival will bring intel. ligence of thecapture of the remnant of Walker's army, by Pauiding Despatches received from England represent that the British Cabinet have badtho new Nicaraguan treaty under convideration, and do not disapprove of ita prov’sions. The French government heartily approves of every arti cle. Voluminous despatches (rom Mexico have been received mt the State Department. Tho coup d’éai of President Comonfort has been successfully carried out in the capial im Puebla and in Vera Cruz. It remains to be seon whe- ther the extr@mities of the republic will recognize the new order of things. The treasury is empty, and the govern- ment is in the hands of the money lenders, who are re. ceiving enormous discounts for advances on the incoming revenue. The idea that foreign inter- vention or sasistance must be rendered to ena- ble the government to continue is becoming daily more prevalent. A proposition from a European dipio- matic agent in Mexico has been made to that government to establish a monarchy, with European support, and an alliance for the safety of Cuba. The case of Zerman, who went from San Francisco some eighteen months ago, in the ship Archibald Gracie, with a sthall expedition to La Paz, in Lower Calafornia, under an arrangement with the leaders of the Plan of Ayutin, but who arrived afer the evolutionists bad succeeded in driving out Santa Anna, bas been decided, and the accused acquit ted of the charge of filibusterism. This favorabie result thas been mainly owing to the firm and energetic course cf Mr. Forsyth, our Minister, who was made fully acquainted with the terms of the original contract between ‘Zerman and parties now in power in Mexico. The state of oar commerce on the west coast is very much do pressed, owing to frequent seizure by the local authorities of Ameriean vessels in order to replenish their empty coffers. The federal government bas litt!» or n0 power to restrain them, and some immediate action « avcessary on the part of our government to protect our tv there, as now our vessels do not dare to face tho imminent dauger. of groundiess confiscation by the officers of the ports. Mr. Vorsyth had not succeeded in obtaining any «e!dement of the case of our Consul at Acapulco, The condition of affairs in Mexico is such as to demand immediate attention trom the Cabinet. On Tuesday or Wednesday next Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, will jatroduce into the Senate a bill for the immediate admis- sion of Kaneas ax a State, under the Lecompton conrtitu- tion. The bit! wil! provide that the first Legislature of the State shall submit to the people whether or not the slavery clause sbat! be added to the constitution; also that the first or any subsequent Legislature may submit te the people whether they will calla convention to amend or alter the whole eonstitution. It is believed this proposition will meet the approval of every democratic Senator. Brevet Col. Harvey Rrown, of the 2d Artillery, has beon ordered, with the companies aud officers in his command, to immediately proceed to the organization of @ school for artillery practice at Fort Monroe, Virginia, of which he ws appointed commandant A weekly mail having been establiehed by the Postmas- ter General from Leavenworth to Fort Kearney, the mail between that point and Fort Laramie will be transmitted by the commandant at Fort Kearney, and betwoor Fort Lamorie and the nearest station to the troops for Utah, by the commandant of Laramie as near a possible, These mails are to be sem!-monthly, leaving on the Ist and 15th of gach month. Ten of the most reliable and experi enced of the Delaware and Shawnee or civilized Indians, with Qty mules and four light wagous, will perform the service Col. Rice, of Pesnsytrauia, bas beea appointed by the Postmaster General, Printer for the Post Office Depaflmont, This is avery lucrative position—worth forty thousand a year. Tt ts said that Hon. Alex. C. Morton, of New York, is to be appointed Judge of the Supreme Court for the Territory of New Mexico, in piace of Judge Brocebus, resigned ‘THK CENTRAL NEWSPAPER DERPATCH, | , Wasser, January 2, 1858. Lieut. General Scott arrived here this morning, and shortly afterwards paid bis respectato the President. He will remain several days, arranging matters in reference to the campa yn against the Mormons te ensuing spring Arrival of Filibusters at Norfolk. Wasusetoy, Jan. 1, 1954. ‘The United States sloop of war Saratoga, with General Walker's men,arrived in Hampton Roads today. All were well Noxvors, Jan, 2, 1868. ¢ up to the Naval anchorage this ‘The Sarstogs Ns of Walker's men, in regard to morning. The ¢ | their arrest, t Aion ot known The Canada Elections Weather, &. Torowto, Jan. 1, 1968. ‘The greater portion of the elections are over. Mr. Mor- rison, andidate for Receiver General, was defeated yesterday. This mekee the third cabinet minister de. feat a Upper Canada. The opposition are gaining ground There is but little snow as yet. The great bulk of wheat | here ws betng held back on account of the bad state of the roads. Partial relief to (he present hard times is expected when it moves forward. | Congressional Nomination. Bosrow, Jan, 1, 1858. Daniel W. Gooeh, of Melrose, was nominated by the re. publicans to-day, to represent the Seventh district, in place of Mr. Banks Rosrox, January 2, 1869 nated by the democrats in Geo. Osborn has beer n the Seventh district for Cong Deaths. New Haven, Jan, 1, 1868. Theodore Starr, only son of George Start, Jr., of Dan vary, aged eightoon sears, while Skating on a pond in this town, thie morning broke through the weeand was drows ed, He waa a worthy and weil ecneated young man. James Benjamin, son of Deacon Everard Bonja- min, Was Killed thia afternoon by being crushed by An engine turning the corner of George street. He was a promising young man. ‘The Boston Free City Academy. Bosros, Jin. 2, 1858. ‘The apacions and elegant bailding erected on Boylston street, for the Roston Free City Library, was dedicated yea. terday aftornoon with interesting ceremonies. Hon. award Kyverett, Hon, Robert C. Winthrop and Mayor Rice were faa 0g Lhe speakers Accident News from the State Capital. ALpany, January 2, 1968 ‘Tho new State officers wore sworn in yesterday, by Secretary Headley, in the office of Secretary of State. Ths Principals im each department visited their respectiy offices this morning for an hour, The former subordiaates, who bavé been dismissed, retired yesterday, and ther Successors made their appearance this morning; but as& was New Year's day none of the desks were occupied Some will take their stations to-morrow, and others The new State officers took possession of their offices t+ day. The Secretary of State appoints Samuel _W. Morton, @ Oneida, Deputy; A. N. Wakefield, of Otsego, Chief Cert, Charles W. Ward, of New{York; Diederick Millers, Jr., af Seneca; George A. Harrison, of New York, and Jota Linskey, of Kings, Clerks. Gov. King has mado no appointment for Auditor, amt will not at present. Members of the Legislature begin to come in. Mr. Vau Valkenburgh, of Steuben, the only republican candidate for Speaker of the House, arrived at Congress Hall yeates- day. He will be the caucus nominee, and placed in the Speaker's chair, if four votes from the American party can be obtained in the House for him, which seems quite likely, as things now lean. Richardson bas no formidable competitor for clerk on the republican side; but all their votes cannot elect him. Should Cushman beat Rielly ia the democratic caucus, then the Know Nothings, who hate Richardson, will join in his election, thus giving the Speaker to the republicans, and the Clerk to the demoorata, But the opinion now is that Rielly will carry the caucus. © Mr. Allen, late Clerk of the Senate, has been over- slaughed. His strength will be light in caucus. The com teat will be between Terwilliger, of Syracuse, and A. N, Cole, of Allegany county. The former feels confident of success, as he has hosts of friends at work for him. The Americans have a candidate, and if the democrats find that their man, Barnes, has no sight, there may bea fu- sion which will prevent the election of a iblioan Clerk. ‘There are hosts of applicants, as there are, for Sergeant at-Arms and the other inferior offices of botle houses. His Excellency Governor King threw open the doors of the executive chamber this morning at eleven o’clock, inviting the people to walk in and wish him a Happy New Year. Very few, however, availed themselves of the and in less than two hours the hall of the Capi- entirely deserted. The ancient and recently closely followed custom of making New Year calla was generally neglected to-day. Business mostly suspended throughout the city, the streets crowded with people wearing pleasant some singly, others in small parties, celebrating this hol day, each in their own most befitting manner. Very differ- ent this from the days of the Knickerbockers, the Vas Schuyleing and the generations of Myncers past and gona, ‘Thea New Year's day wag a time for general hilarity au@ chariteble deeds—wben the poor were fod, the urfor- tunate assisted and the sick and enfeebled comforted. But is all these things a general panic prevailed to day We bave spring weather, and the ice is now fast disap- pearing from the river, making navigation easy. ‘The Cana! Comm ssioners organized today by appoint. ing 8. S. Whallon as I'resident, and Charles H. Shoeril! ea Secretary. J. M. Jaycox was assigned the charge of the middlo division of the canal. ‘The Case of Mr. Tuckerman. New Haves, Jan. 1, 1864. It is stated that there will be no preliminary examina- tion of Mr. Tuckerman, charged with robbing the maiia, to-morrow, and that probably there will not be any at all. Death of Miss Leslie, the Authoreas. Pwaparruia, Jan. 2, 1866. Miss Leslio, the well known authoress, died yesterday, at Gloucester, from the effects of injuries received inst summer. Conviction of a Murderer, Prrnwvne, Dec. 31, 1867. Latz, who Killed O'Leary, in the month of June, last year, inastreet fight, was this evening found guilty of murder in the first degree. ‘The Weather. Mowrtaxat, Jan. 2, 1854. It wmowed hero nearly all day yesterday. To-day tha weotper is fine, mild and clear, The thermometer stards at 20 degrees above zero. Qucnmo, Jan. 2, 1868. The weather is cloudy here, and the wind west. As Lower Town the thermometer at 8 o’clock this moruing stood 17 degrees above zero ; at Upper Town at the same ime 11 degrees above. ‘The Canada Outward Bound. Haurax, Jan. 1, 1868, ‘The royal mail steamer Canada arrived here at on@ o'clock this afternoon, and sailed again at three. She wag detained on the passage here from Boston by heavy gales. ‘The weather here is clear aad the wind westerly. The Steamship Magnolia. Bartimona, Jan. 2, 1868. ‘The steamship Magnolia, from New York for New Or- Jeans, has put in bere in distress. ‘The Ship Juniper. New Ontrans, January 2, 1868, ‘The ship Juniper, of Philadolphia, from Rio do Janciro, for New York, went ashore one hundred miles south of Pernambuco, and she, with her cargu, consisting of aig thousand bags of coffee, became @ total loas. The crow were saved. Markets, THILADELPHIA BTOCK MARKET. Parapeurma, Jan. 2, 195%. Stocks dull, Pennsylvania State fives 81%; Reed: Railroad 28; Canal 43; Long Isiand Railroad 9%; Pennsylvania Railroad 38 \¢ Acapeny oF Mcuic. Taarmxna = Faerrvat.—The ““farewell demonstration” to Mr. Thalberg came oT at tha Academy yesterday afternoon and evening. The entire ‘vocal and instrumental forces of the house were brough® into requisition for this grand occasion, and the result wag equally gratifying to the public and flattering to the great Pianist. The programme of the affair was as follows: — 1—OVERA MATINEE. LUCIA DI LAMMKRMOOR, — de ta Graage, : T.—GRAND PHILHARMONIC CONCERT, 2. Feetoverture TAL Meha's FaneWe ConceRT. 3. The Wanderer. Cari Formes The accompaniment by &. Thalberg 4. Scena, « Der Freyschute, Mad 6, Fantasia, “ Lilly Dale,” Expressiy composed for’ thi & Thalberg Vieuxtemps and Thatberg. 4.—GRAND ORATORIO MOZART'S RRQUIEM Ry Caradori, D’Angr', Milnor, Rignardi, abocetta, Porting Say-om and Carl Formes. This magnificent programme was duly hovored by the greatest concourse of people that ever assembled withim the walls of the Academy. The hopes held out by the announcementa were fully gratified by the performance. Tn the concert, Mr. Thalberg and Mr, Formos carried off the honors. The latter has never made so great # sensa- tion here as in his ballad. The other artists were all tm good volee, and the festival was a great triumph in every Tespect. It is announced for repetition on Monday, witht seme changes in the proggamme. ———_——_—_—— Personal Intelligence, ARRIVALS. Al the Everett House—Lient, and Mrs. Johasten, United States Army. Misa Van Renaselner, Albany, Jeut, abd M. k. C. Stockton, United States Navy; Mra N. A. hate | Miss Smith, Kenwood: 1.8. Grifing, Long Tsland, Me. Mow. T. Heurkaworth, Philadelphia; J. B. Cope, do.; Fred. Lander, Washington: Hi. G, Bronson. New + dno. Ta Chandler, Mobile, Willis &. A Philadelphia; N. ¥rasiee, Jun fc, A and Mrs a LA all, Uncle: Lp amet . " ; B. J. Wenberg, et PES Wood, Boston’ Mrs: Khuwhvon, do. . DRPARTORRS, ib, tn the atom: Florida—P M Harnett, J Newman, 0) p, eying W Coles, Mise Kate Hunter, Mise Emiline. Mrs ciagk’ and ebild, Mae Clark, Frederie Deming LJ Wyeth, © Powers, Jno. T. Noye, Chas. MePalls, J Drinker, J Ht Larue, @ § Neyle and in the steerage. Charleston, In the steam: Nashville—R A Morrisson, LN bowie SR Welle tH MNche iow mem tee Jno A Hitebkook and ‘Anderson, Mr Thon Gremory, Mice Kate Wood, 4 viaon amd Indy, RF Smith, AM Warne ted Lester, Mra C Goldatein and ‘A Dower, B Doyle, Mis J M Cannon, Mrs M Lyons and ehild. Leonie Behar, Jas Gray, Thos Cornell, 8 Woll, NG Agging— and 90 in the ateerage. For Richmond Ac, in the steamship Tamestown— Meare Hemingway, D Ford, James Tiina, W Black, MJ 1 Hooker, W Davis, Mone, Mr Beare api isn ¢ Mary T Mayer, W Yor Bara a Jno fall, Mes Wright Fendieton, 4 inllagher, Mies nphia Gough, B Morrison and lady, Mrs Jones, RG Hunter, John HW Shook Da ry Roy farnily and aoe yap); * oPeers and! seamen | 5 P—-004 6 ih Whe peorNge