The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1858, Page 10

ADDRESS. See Coren us Deownber, 186 who are Mecuvity and in favor of action for ow you. "We fear that the administration bas power to force us Mate the Union under the uusubmitted constitution lately framed at i scompton. With all the Doth within and without the ranks es ~ ‘@racy, it may be fastened upon us. execut: q = not yet Lvigg og hyh d , with ibe spotis, the will ‘made the law of The opponents of ‘Sution are writing to us from all parte of our country, that ‘® w yet doubtful whether it will be rej ‘amd they advise us to trust to none bot ‘Ggbt the veurpers at the baliot box. Y we let the election for officers under the constitution en the 4th of January next go by default, and Kansas be ‘dmx d under it, wo tend aid and comfort to those who ‘Beek to trample on our rights, and become the insuu- ments of our own subjugation. We lic down imactive, ‘while our witains are forged and fastened. a ere ‘Vigorous or violent eur resistance may then be, It will be Vain. We love two United States Senaters, one for and the other for six years, a representative in Osegress, oe eaenens ead se es ee apd more than , We lose the meane of governing oursel 80 long as Soe onpen fame entr coeet celeeee anel ™. And if we rive up in resistanes to such a government ‘we may be crushed by the arm of federal suthority. What can we jose by voting? Nothing. it is sar if we ® mio the election we Wil) be @efeated Wy invasion or offl- @al fraud. loosibly we may. But if we do not go into it shall we not be defeated, wiWhout invasion with wut fraud) |t 1s said that by voting for officers under it we ' ey from'the polis. But, teat —_ uch twine stair, ie no 8 Son of consent or inétiference to that constitutien can Inenestty be drawn from action or inaction at this election. For, rae oe Bl most Cine it a ey everwhelming yy, representing every shade of po- Basea! sentiment, would regard’an act admitting us under ot nesubdnritied constitution es an act of oppression and ‘Wyranny. tis sad, finally, that the supportof officers eade™ this constitetion ‘be ap abandonment of prin- @iptes and past policy. Policy must change with changing events—principtes never, Abd every man: ed to the wubyagation of the peopla, ty a faction eo feeble in num- bers as rot to rise to the éégnity of a y, should unite w'tine erfort to destroy the power of the usurpers and to ena rie be people to frame and adopt a constitution such ‘ae the major#ty sball approve. Sach effort involves no @ncriice of principle. ‘We Delieve that everything may be lost and nothing @an be vained by @ policy of inaction; and therefore call Bo the people of Kanes to vote at the coming eiection. “dhe Copyeition to nominate candidates for State officers Tave nominated men sho are hostile to the Lecomptop vesurpatior, and appeal to the sober thoughtor the poople “tosustainbem, And we call upon them in their several districts (9 nominate candidates for the Sate [mgisiatare, *%o pot choir sbouldors to the work, and w overthrow the wearers cre they be fastened ‘upc a we. By order of the Convention. N.S Woxi, Chairman; A. Danfora, ©. W. Brown, “samos Davis, ¥. S. Lowman, ©. ¥. Currier Rebdt. Morrow, rick, . kekridge, James Rodgere, ore, S. D. Houston. Secretary PLATFORM. Whereas, the late Constitational Convention, assembled @& Lecompton, framed a constitution and attempted to feree si on the people, unsutinitted, in violation of the nigbts and known wi-hes of anoverwhelming majority of the mbabitants of Kansas; and Whereas, an election for State officers and members of the Irgirlainre, as provided for in the schedule of said “Sonstitution takes place om the 4th of January next; and Whereas, it is possible Congress may admit Kansas as a Sta’e under that constttution, so unsubmitted for accept ‘fanee oF rejection by the people; therefore, Resolved, That we, the people of Kansas in favor of voting for State ollicers and members of the Legislature, -om the 4th of January next, in convention assembled at Jawrence on this 24th of December, 1857, conceive it to Be the duty of the residents of the Territory who are ‘Opposed to this attempted usurpation to throw aside for the present all party affiliations, and morge all pagty inte- Fests in We one absorbing ,and to unite with us ip ‘the support of a State ticket to be+ nominated by this Con veoton. Resolved, That we call on the people of the several dis. riots, ns designated by that constitution,to nominate and ‘vets for Senators and Representatives under it. Resolved, That the candidates nominated by this Con. vention, on accepting such nomination, will be considered tw plxiged, should the constitation be’ approved by Con- gress, & adopt and execute immediate measures for epabhng the people, through a new constitutional Conven- Mion, to obtain such aconstitution as the majority shall ap- prove. Resolved, That ehould Congress admit Kansas State ‘ender that unsubmitted constitution, it will commit a ross Mfractou of the organic law, and of the rights of the poopie PROCLAMATION TO THE PROPLE OF KANSAS TERILI- TORY Asformation having reached me from various quarters ‘at serious difficulties were to be apprehended on the ‘Bret Monday of January next, the day fixed for electing tate officers under the constitution submitted to the peo ple en the Zist inst., and which constitution is also sub- mitted to vote of the people on the 4th prox., by an act of the Legislature, approved December 17, 1857, I have @eemed it my duty to distribute the United States “over the Territory in such a-way as to preserve order and emmure every one entitied a fair opportunity of voting. ry corely to be hoped that these precautionary mea- sure ') be found unnecessary, and that the good sense and moderation of the great mass of the people will re- ‘Straun the molence and beat of the few whose passions are Mkely to carry them to extremes. ‘The constitution referred to provides that the questions ‘thorein ondmitted are left to the decision of “ all whiie male inhabitants of the Territory of Kansas, in the said “Serrtory wy ‘that day, and «ver the of twenty one ee ne terra inhabitant is thas det adweller one who dwells or resides permanently ins piace, or who bas a fixed residence, as distinguished from ‘an occasional lodger or visiter; as the inhabitant of « ouse oF cottage; the inhabtant of adown, city, county or Rut wh tae a legal aettioment ina town, ely or ” ) nhabit ie to live or dweil ln; tw oecupy @ place of wetted residewme,” From these definitions it will be seem that it requires ‘Dg more than a mere presence in the Territory to e0thie » person to vote ut the coming elections, and I trust ‘that no auempt will be made to do so by any person from another State or Territory, who may be here on that day, merely as a transient or “occasional lodger or visiter.” Ap act parsed at the late scerion of the Legislature of this Territory makes it felony for any one to do so, and in every ach case I shall feel it to be my duty under the Vawe to demand such offender (should he jeave this Terri tory.) from the Execative of the State ar Territory in which be may be found, that he may be brought back for Pasiabment TN ie the anxious desire of the President that the ap- Proaching elections shall be fairly held, and that every one shal! bave free access & the polls, without being sub Jetted to violence of intimidation. » troope placed by hu under my direction have been so dieposed of as to in aure this result, and every civil office @tiren m the Territory ie ‘ it in maintaining the peace of the communit Gbeir axsstance tere can be Ho serious disturbance. J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor Lasvewworm, K. T., Dec, 26, 1867 v Theatrical, Musien!, & Rey soway Tmatne —Several new feature: have lately een aided tothe entertainments given by Van Ambargh & © '* hippodramatic troupe. See the lit of perform ences announced for this evening Kono'e Garou —M'lic Zanfrotts will thie evening execute a var of difficult feave on the tight rope, and the Ravels are to appear in the ‘‘Secret Marriage’ and “Golden Fag.” Howxmy Torkatne —The patriotic equestrian drama on ded “Putnam” is again the chief feature of attraction Hwill be preceded by # number of aetonivhing gymaatic fend equestrian fonts Bevros's —Mesere Mathews and Burton aro to gent Young an! Uid Repid in the comedy called ‘A Care for the Heartache,’ this evening. Brougham’s burlesque, Columbus,” follows. Watssck’s—The popular piece entitled “The Poor of ew York” ett] has exelusive powortion of the stage here. The cast includes several of the most popular ar iets in the covntry Savas Kunwe’s —Tom Taylor's new comedy, “An Une qari Match,” appears to have become ¢% ® favorite with the patrons «@ this house, it will followed by “Harlequia Live beerd” to-night Acapeet on Mome.—W le Cajrolt, Mme. D'Angri, and Biguor) Labocetia Gaasier and Rocco, are to perform this evening in Boseini's famous opere called “L'Ttaliana in Alger: Amma Moore be Rpectacular version of “Valen tine and Orwm potinues 10 nightly attract large auti ences. The pleasing drama called ‘Temptation’ te to be played in the anernoon Brows Christy per form © the at George Christy and Wood's, The Bryaute’ promixe & regalar old fashioned Pibiopian eutertainment. Mn. Conntna, the Irieh comedian, lately completed a mort Fucceseful engagemont at the St. Louie theatre. ertice epenk of him in the highest terms. One of them — he of the Leader—saye —“His delineations of Irish pecu rity are, without exception, the most amnsing wr ever finessed, and yet, while they are murth provoking in tho highcet degree, they have pot the slightest tant of indel) y shout them. a very objectiouabic feature representations of this cines of charac were ne ie in excellaat voice at the present time sod singe kuporbly.” Pterewine roe Stave Trav. By a private let tor seceived in this city from Inango, Coast of Africe, dates September 23, 1857, we are advised that the French ve practically engaged ip the slave trade, under the cumedt apprenios, and that @ ship, the " Clara,” of Rordestt. war at Uoango at dare mentioned above, foading With negrow for Martinique. A French war qasnener U maid 8 tect her from the English | ervierrs, id have eeived ber but that she had a neh tera! officer on Woard_with ordors to the Frencn Sxesmotere 10 proteet her. The Engieh are aleo using wegroes ax daves at Sierra (cone he French and Eng fish gowerninents are parte ipat Og in the trade whic h they fffvet to deo so hideous, A bar tao00n has been ballt by the French ai Loango to be used Wor the sate. of they are remdy for -h‘oment by Webster, | Se , with a touch at Kansas 3 stated tothe State from the United relating to the our limita, 1 a Jaw, applicable only to banks and railroad com: Snch a iaw would draw within federal ction Gispogition interasts of vast ex- tions in her own Legislature and General Aseombly concurs with me in this opinion, ’, trust its sentinents will be made known in some appr opriate A disposition has been manifested, within the last few Dy some of the officials of the Sedecs): >” ernment, their functions within the limits of 0 ajo, to dis- He id the antbority and to encroach upon Wane rights of the Ptare, to an extentand ina manner which Vemands your notice. In February, 1856, several colored perso is were seized in Hamilton county as fugitive slave. Ore of these per- sons, Margaret Garner, in the Senay of (ie moment, im- eed, as it seems, by the dread of seaing her children zged, with herself, back to slavery, /attompted to ela ‘them on the and actually succeed ed one. For this act amd her companions w ere indicted by the ‘Grand Jury for the crime of murder, and were taken into custody upon a writ regularly issued from the Court of Common Pleas. While thus smprisoned under the €egal process Of a State court, for the’highest crime known ¥o our code, a writ of babese corpus was issued by the Judge of the District Court of the'United States, requiring their production be- fore Lim, ‘The writ was obeyed by the Sheriff, and contra- ry to all cxpoctaticns, and iar disregard, as I must think, of principle and authority, the prisoners were taken trom his custody ‘by order of the Judge, aad witheut allowing any opportunny for ihe interposftion of the State aathorities, detivered over to the Marsha! of the United States, by whom ‘they were immediacely transported beyond our Timits ‘The alleged ground for this action and order was that the mdicted parties had been seized as fi Ve slaves up on a federal Commiesioner’s warrant before the indict- ment and arrest, and that the rigbt w their custody, thas acquired, was superior to thatof the Sberif’, under the of the State, This doctrine must necessarily give practical impunity "© marder whenever the murderer may epee] by a federal official as 2 fugitive from service before arrest for the crime under State authority. Im puting no wrong intention to the Judge, Tam coasirained to add that bis proceeding seems to me an abuse, rather than an exercise, of judicial power. A similar caee oecirred more recently in the county of Champaign. Several deputies of the federal Marshal hav. ing arrested Certain citizens of this State for some alleged offence against the Fugitive Slave act, a writ of baboas corpus was issued by the Probate Judge of that county, resuiring the arrested partics to be brought betore him for inquiry into the grounds of detention. Me Sheriff of Clark county , while attempting to execute this writ, was assault ed by these petty officials and seriously injured, while his deputy was fired npon, though happily without effect, A Warrant was issued by a Justice of the Peace for the ap prehension of the perpetratars of these offences. This ‘warrant wes duly exvcuted and the prisoners commilted to jai) under the custody of the Sheriff of Clark county. A writ of habeas corpus was then issued by the same District Judge who had interposed in the case of Marga ret Garner, requiring the Sheriff of Ciark county to pro dvee his prisoners before him at the city of C) This writ was also ag wy and the prisoners were cis charged (rom custody by the order of the JuJge, on the ground that, being federa! officers, and charged with the execution of a federal writ, they had a rigtt to overcome, by any necessary violence, ai! attempts mad@under the process of a State court, to detain them or their prisoners, even tor inquiry into the legality of the custody in which those prisoners were held. ‘This principle cannot be sound. It subverts effectually the sovereignty of the State. It asserts the right of any District Judge of the Cu.ted States to arrest the execution of State procoss, and to mullify the functions of Stato courts aud juries, whenever, in bis opinion, a person charged with crime under State authority, has acted in the matter forming the basis of the charge, in pursuance of any federal law or warrant. No act of Congress, in my judgment, sanctions this principle. Such an act, in. deed, would be clearly unconstitutional, because in plain violation of the exprees provision which requires that the tria} of all crime: i be by jury. Tt ig deeply to be regretted that collisions of the kind should cecur. The authorities of Ohio have never failed in due considerations for the constitutional rights of fede- ral courte, nor will they thes fail. Bat they cannot admit, | without dishonor, that State process is entitled to less re. spect than federal, nor can they ever concede to federal writs or federal officials, a deference which is not conceded to those of the State, The true course is one of mutual respect and mutual de- ference, Whenever, in any inquiry upon habeas corpus, by any Court, State or federal, it may be ascertained that the applicant for the writ is detained under valid process in porsuance of @ consututional law, ho should be remand- ed at once to the custody from which he may have been taken, for trial in due course. No investigation should take place into the guilt or in- Rocence of the party charged, or, what is substantially the same thing, whether the were justified by the authority under which the applicant was acting af the { time. Inquiries of this character are for juries upon a regular trial and in open court; not for a judge at chambers. If made upon one side upon habeas corpus, they may algo be made upon the other. If fede ral courte are to protect federal officials from prosecution y e | Dy State courte, for vielation of State law, State courts, in | | their turn, must protect State officers from prosecution in , federal courts, unter similar circumstances. Hence dap- | gerous confiicts must rise, and imminent peril to beth | liberty and union. | If euch conflicts must come, to the extent of the power vested ip me, I shall maintain the bouor of the State and support the authority of her courts. | prefer to hope that | they may be averted by the abandonment, on the part of tho federal authorities, of the indefensible positions which | they bave assumed. ‘The game disposition to extend the range of federal power, in dixparagement of State sovereignty and popular rights, has been conspicuously manifest in the action of the federal government jn by my to the Territory of Kan. sas. From the day when that Territory was deprived of the sufeguariof the Missouri prohibition, by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act, the whole action of the fode. ra) goverument seems to have been directed ty the estab Nebment of slavery within ie limite. Instead of committing, in good faith, to tho people of the Territory the formavon and regulation of their own in- stitutions, all the influence of the national administration bas been exerted for the subjugation of the people to the will of the propayandiate of slavery. The whole practical effect of the Kansas-Ne>ravka act bas been the substitu tion of Presidential intervention for slavery, instes! of Congressional intervent t slavery stance or rebuke from the national adminis tu Kansas we: ven from the polls at the firet Territorial election, and a pretended Tegwinture was it willing ie, by the fraud and foree of 0 Aljeining Stat The people, harassed and outr beyond endurane> by the tyranny uweurping Legisiatare and its iastra ntenanced and aided by federal of fice holders, sought relief in @ State organization. Through aconvention assetnbled at Topeka they framed a State constitution, and, after its ratitication by the popular rate, ought admission under it iow the Union. Their prayer for such admisswn, though granted by the Honse of Rep. resentatives reficting the will of the poople, was denied | by the Senate reflecting in this the will of the slave in | terest | _ Every federal oiicer in the Torritory who manifested any sympathy with the people, waa, from time to time, removed, and bodies of treopa Were sent to compel sub: | mission t) usurping power. A few months since, vnder an att which practically dis- franchived a vast majority of the citizens, pretendod election was heli for members of a convention to frame snother constitution Thia convention was constituted, ae was intended, exclusively of the partizans of slavery.” It framed, of course, a slave State constitution and provided for ts tranemisrion to Coneroas without previous submis sion to the people for ratification, It proposed indeed to submit to popular judgment the question of slavery or no slavery, bot so framed the terms of submission Ubat no matter how the people might vote, slavery would in any evertexist inthe pew State, if admitted into the Union under that const tution. . Happily subsequent to the clection of the Constitu- onal Convention, the period for the second election of & Territorial Legislature arrived, and at the clection then held, the actual residents of the Territory susceeded ip electing # majority of ite members in b branches. The people, mocked and insulted by the proceeding just barrated, now invoked from the Secretary of the ferrt tory, acting as Governor, the convocation of thie bely. For compliance with this just demand the Seeretary was | removed fram office er expressing himself in opposi tion to the admission of the State into the Union, under tution of the convention, and without previous jon to the people, the Governor of the Territory fell under such displeasure of dhe administration that be ‘Was constrained to resign his position. If the power and patronage of the federal government ean secure the ad. fiesion of Kanear into the Union under this alave state constitution, that power and age will, without doubt, be actively employed to In all this the people of Uhio ha deep and vital in. It & beyond question that @ vast majority of her electors are opposed to that interposition of the federal government in bebalf of slavery, 1 trust that the Gone: ral Assembly will give emphatic expression to the venti mente of the people. | Tt coumet fail to arrest attention thet all these en croachments of the federal government upon State cove. reignty and upon the freedom of the Territorias, arirce from & determined purpose on the part of those who | control ite action to extend the domain, and enlarge the power of slavery, Under thie infueate the ancient | and Original policy flavery prohibition was overthrown | and reversed by the Kansas Nebraskaact. Under this in | fluence the whoie power of the national ernment hae been exerted to force siavery upon the reluctant people of | Kansas Under thie uatlnence, also, persistent attempts are made to subjugate the people of the free tates to | federal domination, through the edurinistration of the | fugitive slave ect. Under thie infleence, final |, the fede. ral Judiciary bas promulgated the revolting doctrine tat | the constitution of the Union establishes and guarantees | slavery ip al) national territory, and consequently that there B® no foot of our widely extended domain, outside o States whoer conetitntions prohibit slavery, where th free laborer con find a home exempt from the intrusion of } u TY peculiar institution | S rapid progress of despotiem | and Ox the attention of a reflecting p—A—pay A Spun, aot be @ eguie’ js attempted. | upon the country momentons iaenes hetween two oppo | Washington Chien, Jan. € 4 pie ystems CoveromENt—two Opposite thoprics of Ee mm AY, JANUARY | 8, 1858. «and Vital, 9ity om, traneferred into 4 2d within her borders the free laborers ofsomany lands , who bave so iargely contributed to that wonderful deve of energies amd resources which toapiren, sb tude and honest exultation, poo- action, charge the foun- 26 of the true x ciples of popular government, ner contribute by a suffrages to the extension or continuance of an evil ‘wrong from which they have been so happily deliv« by the wise forocast of the fathers of the republic. &n Important Suit in the United States Cir (From the Cincimpati Gazette, Jan. 5.) ‘We yesterday referred to an isn) suit commenced in Chancery im the United States Cireuit Court by J. R. Jaftray & Sens, of New York, against Claffiin, Mellen & Co., of the same city, and Wm. Lee & Co., of The argument was to have been heard ‘by Indge Tea yerterday, but on applisation of the respondents it was Postponed until this morning at 10 o'clock, when it will be taken up. The case is one of considerable importance to the mercentile community, as well as to the parties direct- ly interested, and the on which the action is basod may be gathered from the following synopsis of te dill of the complainants J.B. Jaffray & Sons, the complainants, set forth that they bave commenced an action at law against Wm. Lee & Co., for $1,199 89, due for goods sold to them; that in October last Tee & Co. became ombarrassed and unable to pay their debts, and were in fact insolvent; that they hao a stock of goods and book accounts to the amount of $130,000; that their indebtedness was about $190,000, While in this condition, the plainutls charge that the drm of Lee & Co. made a secret and private sale, or ded sale, of the goods and entire property for $117,000, to Clatiiin, Meilen & Co., undor the pretence that they wero indedted to said firm in the sum of $85,000, and that the everplus of that erm was to be paid to three other credi- tors of Lee & Co., viz.:—Bowen, McNamee & Co., Bliss, Briggs, Wheelock & Co., and Clapp, Kent & Beckley; that the legal and intended cifect of said transaction or sale, was an assignment, in contemplation of insolvency, with the design to prefer said C., M. & Co,, and the other namod creditors, to the exelusion of o:her creditors of said firm. The compla nante further charge that the balance, after the payment of €,M. &Co., was divided amongst tpe three other nagved creditors, and that such proceeds com: price all the property, of which complainants haye any knowledge, belonging to said Lae & Co. The complainants also chargo that there was no snch indebtedness of Lee & Co. to Clattin, Mellen & Co, hat thas they ure informed and believe-—and such was the genera) understanding among the creditors of Ie & Co. — that Clatiin, Mellen & Co. were silent partners df Loe & Co.; and thar C.,M &Co., finding the business a losing one, endeavored too abape it as to make it appear as & debt, and thata great portion of the $85,000 wis for losses in the business. The complainants ask that the books of accounts between said C., M. & Co. and Lee & from the time of their fipst business convection, may be pro- duced before a master commissioner of the United States Court, and thas the parties may be examined in regard to them, The complainants fa er esk that the pretended sale the creditors of said Leo & Co, in oroportion to their de- mands, end that said C.,M. & Co. shall be enjowed from remaving or diaposing of auy portion of the goods. Should the tain points in'this bill of complaint be es tablished, Clatiim, Mellen & Co. will be made liable, as partners, for the debts of Tae & Co., or compelled to pay over ‘be proceeds of the goods and book accounts, for the Ddeneft of all the creditors of the frm. A Half Breed Revolutionary Patrtot. The Albany Express alludes to tho sad caso of an old Present residing on the southeast corner of Knox and amber streets, in Albany. ‘The man’s name ® John O'Brien Ske-nas-dogh, and his age is 106 years. The fol- lowing facts, which we find in the Azprest, we are assured are reliable:-— With him lives a grand-daughter and her child. Ske- pan -dogh is aman of superior intelligence, having been educated in Paris, He came tothis country with Lafayette, and fought in the revolution under General Washington. Although so far advanced ip years, his voice is strong and powerful, ant when conversing about Washington he seems inspired with new life He is to all appearance ale and hearty, save that he is considerably weakened by the deprivation of food and the loss of sleep. Now this old revolutionary hero is in great want, and had it not been for the fortubate visit of some neighbors, might have died from starvation. Bhe room he occupies t+ un- furnished, save by a few remnants of what was once far- niture. He hee nothing but a smail furnace to keep a fire in, and until within a day or two has had nothing to make a fire with. He has no bed nor bedding, and in ie almost destitute of slothing. Last week a hier of his crand-child actually died from starvation cold | A neighbor furnished a coffin, and on Sunday last, the mother having placed the child in it, cook it herself in a lumber wagon to @ burying grouna, and deposited its remaine in mother ¢artb. The grand daughter bas man- aged to beg just sufficient to keep life in the family, while ‘the old man bas become so enfeebled from the’ lack of food that he has scarcely been able to move about. He says if he only bad sufficient to eat, and could sleep nights, he feels confident he would last several years yet ‘we find in the Delaware Democrat, where this old vete ran formerly resided, the following notise of bis ca- reer— Ske-nan-dogh, it eppeara, is a half broed Indian, bis fayber being an Irishman named O'Brien, and bis mother on Indan woman Dameu Ske-nan-dogb, of the Oneida tribe, Mis father. as he says, being a man in good cireumstagces, sent him, in his twelfth year, to Paris, where for a period of twelve years be pursued the study of medicine. While | in Paris he became acquainted wth Lafayette, through whose persuasion and with whom he returned to America ‘Some time after his arrival here he again met Lafayette in Warhington, through whose influence be received the ap- pointment of surgeon’s mate to Dr. Comstock’s staff, which Pporition he held during the Revolutionary war, At the time of his appointment he was abort twenty: four years of age, He says he was in the battles of Bran dywine, Yorktown and Trenton. Several wounds which Lafayette received in the feid he aesisted in dressing, and speaks of the occurrences of these times aa it they had pened bat yesterday. Before the close of the war, stil) acting ms aveistant surgeon, he was sent with General Sallivan's army into the State of New York to ponieh the Indians, who bad been committing the most marderous | pon oy the peaceful inbabitante of the Wyoming valley. The foree, howover, arrived too late for the ac | Complebment of their ends, as the Indians, haying been informed of their approach, had retired from the seenes of their atrocities. At the eanginsion of peace t between the belligerent countries, he sailed from New York for Liverpool, to Moroceo, where | be selected @ wife from one of the first in the pation—a yoang lady, as he passing loveliness, whom he had previousty met in Paris, ‘whither she was sent for an education. tarking with bia wife, in a short time, to the United States, he A in Schenectady, N. Y , where, unfortanately, hie house was dextrayed by fire, and ail his credentials consomed Living with tis Moorieh wife thirt; families ite her, of eur- ix years, and having by her four sone and four daughters, she died. and he conveyed her reminins to Morocco for burial. Ile was ac companied by bis children, all of whom, he says, are yet living in the Harbary Stales. For the laet twenty-five years be has lived in Western New York, where he sap ported himself by the practice of medicine. He has a twin brother. whom be last saw about one year Fines, and who dnring the Revolution espoused the caase of Britain, And participated in rey cral batles against the Americane That he is an edueated man there is not the least shadow of doubt. though bie clouded by Ta the absence of documentary confirmation of bis tav ents. several well known men, to whom he re ferred, bave been written to by our citizens, and all agree a# to his honor, integrity and high social standing where he is best known. The old man is yet among us. ip great poverty, and independent of his other claims to our ehari ty, his creat age alone certainly entitles him tothe kind Consideration of our citizens. A National Bankrupt Law. The following resolutions in relation to this «ubjr~t have been introtnced in the Kentucky Legislature: — The General Aseembly has reon with concern that an Attenspt is about to be made under the recommendation of the President of the United States and of the Secretary of the Treseury,to bring all the baskiog institutions and railroad corporations of the country under the operation of a paeanl bankrupt law, and regards euch proposed legisintion a* & dangerous assumption of power by Con- gree over subjects properly within the control of the ge- veral Stal Te it therefore resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of K oky, That the people of Ken. tueky prefer keeping the control of their banks and rail roads to themselves, and earpestly protest against the tranefer of that control to the federal government. Resolved, That the States have the power to enforee or not to enforce the forfeitures at any time incurred by their several banking institutions, by a suspension of specie paymerts,and this power should be so exercived as to Promote the welfare of their citizens, and ought not to be invaded by Congress. Tesolved, That the passage by Congress of o national bankrupt act, applicable to the banks and ratlroads of the States, would an odioas and unwarrantabie interfo. ence by Congress with the domestic institutions of ,the States. Wr or Tar Late Joux Jouns.—This gentle- man, who was well known in the city and as one of great excellence and benevolence—who contributed during his somg Ife large sums to the various benevolent institations—died at hie farm, op Long Green, a few dayr ince at an advanced age. Yesterday his will wae loft at the Register’s office, at Towsontown, and we have been favored ite, Showing, extracts pm) be. queathed to y ) $1,000: to the Protestant Fy 1 Theo’ and High School of Virginia, $15,000; to the Semi of the Pro: ant Fiscapal Chute ; diocese of Ohio, $15,000, to the American Bible Society, 10,000; to the American Tract Becicty, $10,080. to the Protestant Evangelical Bociety for the Promotion of pa Knowledge in New York, $10,000. To the Rev. H. V. D. Johne, of thie city, his | Fp'endid farm, stock, and everything’ just as when he ied Also, all the remainder of bis , after during their d oe he Manumits at once. Dr. ae and his sqp.ace the executors of the will. Babinor: J’a- a, Jon @ toe Co, may fecreed and helt to be an ¢ ment in trust, in contemplation of insu 'y, with the de- ‘ign to prefer one of more creditors to the exclusion of | others, and that the same shal! enure to the benefit of all Tevolutionsry warrior, an Ludian, or half breed, who is at | WHE CHAIDEAN'S EPRECH MESEAGE YROM TID MAYOR. The Board met last evening—Super visor Voorbies in the chetr. Mr. Busan F. Prnpy, who had been closted at the last meeting as Chairman of the Board, was escorted to the chair, and made the following address to the members:— Gentlemen—I thank you kindly for the honor conferred tm selecting me as your presiding officer. I assure you I appreciate the honor and feel the compliment. To be selected as the presiding officer of the immediate repre- sentatives of over eighty thousand of the free and intel- ligent voters of the great city of New York is an honor of which any citizen may well be proud, and I assure you, gentlemen, this evidence of your good opinion will evrip live in my remembrance, Tho respons'e positieia to which you have elected me—the resected seurce from which it comes—the unanimity an, kindmees attending the selection—enhance the compliment and makes it ono ‘of the proudest moments of my life. But, gentlemen, I fear I shall not be able without a continuance of your kind- joar al oy mg order and facilitating the public business. me, gentlemen, to ask your at- tention to the it duties we are called upon to dis- charge. ‘The public expect and demand of us, so far as ‘ee Date Sas newer 90 aiies to tircaae toe bertneee set C88 £0 vily upon ers erty; they = : retrenchment aise poiplan A moneys; the: ors and demand nae a i be Ou, to use my humble m car- it beoy feat eps of the T agais out t ex] 8 people. in ta nk you, gentlemen, toe thls evidence of your kindness apd am pow ready to commenee the di eo of the duties assigned to me. MPSRAGE YROM THR MAYOR. Mavor’s Orvicn, Jan. 7, 1858. ‘To THR Honornte Boakp oF Strerwisors or TI Crry oF Yor Grxriawes—By one of the provisions of the act of the Legislature passed at its last seseion, in relation to the Board of Supervisors of the county of New York, and un- der which you have been orgaifized as such Board, the Mayor ceases to be a membert His relation there- to, although changed, ie, however, till continued By ano- ther provision of the same act, which requires, before it shall take effect, the presentation to him, for his approval, of every act, ordinan-e or resolution, except such as levy any tax or taxes, which may pass your bouorable body: the Mayor being, by the operation of this change, placed in the same relative position to your honorable i as with the Common Counctl. Ihave deemed it to be my duty to communicate to you at this time my views respecting the general duties of your Board, apd to make, in addition to those duties yon yave, the appointment of several important officers as 1) as suboro inate ones, the raising and reduction, under certain provisions of law, of the salaries of the several Judges of the Courts and other county pflizers which are paid from the county treasury, and gio others: { certam tees forthe performa req them dy law, such sv jong in rel thereto, and of the oiticers over which you haye the “direction, as I deem ex- pedient. Your duties, gentlemen, are highly responsible; you are not only empowered annually, under acts of the Logis ture, with the raising by tax on the estate, real and per sonal, subject to taxation, such sum as may be authorized for tho support of the city government and for other spe cia) trosts avd county charges, but you are directed to exomine, settle and audit all aécounts chargeable against the connty, In the performance of these duties, a8 well as all others which are now or may be impored upon you, Ihave no doubt you will scrutinize closely all such bills or charges which may be presented to yon for any work or sarvices performed, or fees claimed, in relation to the sovoral of- fices above mentioned. Jam of the opinion.from information which T have ob- tained, that many bills apd tees have heretofore been al- lowed and audited for which no jast claim could be had according to law, and that many’ others have been paid under the authority of former Board: Supervisors, at an extravagant sum far beyond what the work done’ or services perlormed were worth. Several of the county officers are now paid by fees, re- ceived by thom in the discharge of their duttes from per. fons having business with their respective offices. These fees amount annually to large syms, greatly beyond the most liberal salaries that have been before allowed to these afticers, and of others now paid by the county of equal position and duties; and yet the county has paid, and continues to pay, all the charges of these offices for all purposes except salaries, thus making thom anuually heavy charges npon the treasury, application be made to necessary laws re- T would suggest. therefore, that the Logisiatnre for the Tamage of quiring theve feps to paid into the treasury of the county, and giving to the officers salaries instead thereof. There are several other matters connected with your honorable body in relation to which I shall communicate with you hereafter, as soon as I shall have such full infor. mation as I desire relative thergso. Ishall be happy to receive your support in such re- commendations as] may deem it my duty wo make to you; and I wnder You my hearty co operation in all such mea- sores as shall have for their object the promotion of the public interest. DANIEL F, TIEMANN. Afvor receiving some few papers, the Board adjourned to Tuesday next at 3 o'clock. Chamber of Commerce. THE USURY LAWS—THRIR REPRAL URGED—A SPLBN- DID BUILDING FOR THE CHAMBER IN PROSTECT. ‘The regularly quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held last evening at Clinton Mall. There was but a thin attendance of members. P. Perit, Presi- dent, oceupied the chair. NEW wrens, Mesere. Samuel U.S. Odell and F. F. Randolph were elected members of the Chamber Mr. F. M. French ‘was choren a member of the Committee on Arbitration. (HR CSURY Laws, Mr. Carn Barstow, from the Committee appointed to memorialize the State [Legislature on the subject of the usury laws, reported a memorial, of whieh the following i the substance :— ‘The memorial sets forth that the great body of the mer- chants still desire the abolition of the usury lawe. Although this change hax been strongly urged for several years past, yet the events of the last few months show | more strongly than ever the necessity of this action on the part of the State authorities. The law of 1837, now on the statute book, was enacted for the purpose of aiding bor: rowers a diminishing the rates of interest and increasing the stability of the movements of money. however, can be shown that the influence of the law hae menite the reverse. Instances can be given going to show that under the same roof money has been lent at ve per cent a month and five per cent a year. Toshow that the abo- lition of the usury law would do no harm, England was instanced, where money during the recent revulsion did hot go beyond ten per cent per annom. The nataral laws of supply and demand regulates the price of money Without the tervention of statutes. The memorialisis refer to thelr fermer petitions for more detailed state ments of the bad effects of the present laws. Tho formof 8 law ir alsg to accompany the memorial to Albany. The report of the committee was accepted Mr. Raksvow, in introducing the memorial, stated that the law they doeired could not be carriod through the Legislature in consequence of the prejudice of certain parties. There were now twenty four States that had partially abolished the nsury lawe—three entirely. Mr Guveseny said the usury laws wero a relic of bar- Darism. Tt was inoxplicablo that the statute was not abolished long ago. He hoped the mittee would act energetiontly. 1oeanion, Mr. Barstow, from the Committee en Location, in favor of the Chamber having rooms in the More aay, which would cost about $1,500 per year. Mr. Mavenarr wished to know where the means would come from to pay for the room, The Chatkwan stated that the present ineome of the Chamber was about $1,000 per annum. The fees coul4 be rained ¢o that the income would be $2,000. Mr, Hniwwure thought it anything but creditable to the merchants that they 80 poot a room to mert in. Tn Boeton they bad a splendid room for the Chamber to ineet ‘tod te? | in, and the New Yorkore should not be behind hand. Gen. Prom M. Weronr strongly urged upen the merchants to i ahall of their own. The Cham! had ninety years, and during that time they never had a place of their own te inoet in. ie Peert said it would be advieable for the Chamber to bare not only a room but an actuary, who would make apna! reports, got up stativtice, &e , on commercial mat. tere of creat iniportanes to the community. It was finally decided to add Mecers. Moves H. Grinnel! and J. Davis to the committee, with instruction to report a plan of bailding, how the funds should be raised, &o. Commupi¢ations were received, one from Iran Roth- heck, the Proraian Coneu!.General, reepecting certain new: lighthonses in the Raltic; another’ from Mons. Mallifert, reepertigg & new diving bell of his own invention. Tho former wa: refe to an fy inte committer, and the latter wae laid upon the table. The Chamber then adjourned. Supertor Court. Before Hon. Judge Woodrutt. A KING SURING FOR A DERT. JAN. 7.—Maxmilian, King of Bavaria, vs. Jacob New- stadter. —This suit wae brought to recover 20,000 florins alleged » have been advanced by bis Majesty, the King of Bayaria, to the Gefendam, who was formerly a silk manufacturer @d one of his subjects in Baride, the Kingtom ot Bavaria. money was lent in (october, 1845, in State stocks, the defendant giving a Lamy Ze, agreeing to pay the money back in fopr anm l. ments, There was no defence, and an inquest was taken in favor of the royal plaintiff! for the sum of 815,788 81. Supreme Court—In Chambers, + Before Hon. Jadge Ingraham. an. TJolin ©. Brown ve. Henry W. Hevett.—Motion granted on payment of conte of present motion within ten daye—otherwise denied, with $10 costs. Dennis McMahon, Jr., 0. Thot. B. Allen.—No order of confirmation is necessary in the present case. The plain- tif rust proceed upon the reference vs the decision of the Court. As a farther reference is necoseary to take the account between the parties, the case ie referred to the fame referee for that purpose, ine M. Ferris re. Matilda Parthal. Report of ro. «ntrieed, and paymont of money ordered, feyee Our Washington Corresy agence. WAsting cow, Jan. 6, 1858. The Position of ew Governor Gear y oy the Kansas Ques- tion, Tee tbat one of your PLY sdetphia correspondenta, in hie published letter of Me” siay iast, charges me with mis- idea of writine 2 Such a better as I alluded to in my corres- pondence J “with the Hunan. Now I believe that your “ phia correspondent has either been mystified by the ©” car-beaded Governor Geary, or that the lator has a Yery short memory. Let me soe whether I cannot re- fresh his recollections a little. Let me propound a few questions to the lion hearted far-sighted ex-Governor of Kansas. Does Governor Geary mean to say that he, while in Washington a short time since, never had the intention of writing such a lettcr, approving the Kansas policy of Pre- sident Buchanan, as I alluded to in my letter to the Herat? Is Governor Geary quite sure that he never commun cated this project of his to any living soul? Did he not prepare such a letter, and did it not fill just mant he was here, the Lecompton clause voted in, had not yet reached Washington, Buchapan’s policy, therefore, after the dé of Gov. while at of the Union. ‘The filibuster movement in the House is not very threat- ening, and need not alarm, as I fear it has done, the minis- ters of foreign powers here in Washington. The neutrality Jaws will pot be repealed, and our seaports will not be made the rendezvous of the vagabonds uid jail birds of all the world. Our large Atlantic cities can already boast of aconsiderable mob, which calls for additional means to protect life and property. What if we were to pass a general invitation to all lawlees men throughout the world to meet there for the purpose of organized plundor? The proposition in Congress will not obtain more than thirty or forty votes, if Lebel ‘© shall now see whether Judge Douglas will take the filibuster side in the Senate. [f go, he will stand the representative of the two extremes—a novel position, cer. tainly, but oxtremely dangerous except to a professioaal ¢questrian artist. The further the extremes are apart the greater the danger of coming to the ground. The longest legs are often too chort for such a performance. Expe diency and the momentary popularity resulung from it seldom lead to ultimate success. Letters of Other Journals, {Correspondence of the States,] Wasinnegow, Jaa. 5, 1858, Minister from Venezucla—The Birds Island Claim—Vene- cuclan Views of it— Gen, Lamar’s Mission to Nicaragua. Dr. Briceno, Minister Plenipotentiary from Venesucla, has arrived here, and it is said that his missioa relates es pecially to the Birds Island claim. This claim our govern- ment has instructed Mr. Kames, our Ninister at Caraccas, to urge upon the Venezuelan government in the most pe. remplory avd decided manver. Av agont of the party in whcse behalf the reclamation is made, Mr. Sandford, left for Caraccas a few weeks ago, with additional instructions for our Minister in relation to the subject. The argument of Mr. Eames in support of the claim is said to be able ond conclusive. Messrs Shelton & Co., merchants of Peston, fitted out an expedition in June, 1965, for Birds Island, with a view to take from it cargees of guano, with which fertilizer it was reported to abound. A vessel of war was despatched by the Venezuelan goverurment to expel them from the island, and their expedition was broken up, at great oes. The claimants for redress contend that Venezuela had no right to the island, and nyu right to expel them from it. They lay their damages at a high, i e hundreds of thousands of dollars, Our — govern. ment, so far, had endorsed the cleimgand has even threatened to enforce the demand. The government of Venezuela bad, at the last dates, simply refused to make any answer to the demand, but had signified to Mr. Hames that tbey would send a Sinister to settle it here. ‘The minister has arrived, in the person of a leading member of the press of Caraccas«-Dr. M. de Bricono. From an article in the Charleston Courier, announcing this gentleman's arrival at that port, wo learn for the first Ume the views of the Venezuelan government in to the case. The following is the statement of it, as de- rived, no doubt, from br. Briceno himself:—[Dr. B.'s Statement Was published in the Hearn of Jan, 4.] The position taken by our government in the matter is that Venezuela has no rignt at all to sovereiguty over the Bifds Islands, and that she is liable to damages for the — of our citizens from the same. It is quite cortain that the Venezuelan government has determined to persist, at length, to refuse to admit uny American claim in the premises, and to transfer the nego- tiation respecting it to Washington. Ger ‘abeau N, Lamar goes out to-day upon his miy- tron te Nicaragua. His chief duty will no doubt be to #ttend to the practical execution of the terms of the treaty ‘between the United States and Nicaragua, which It is be- lieved has ere this been ratified by the latter government. Should the treaty unexpectedly fail of ratification by the Penate, there will be the greater necessity for the presence ‘f a discreet and vigilant diplomatic representative of this government in that quarter. [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.) Wasmvarow, Jan. 5, 1858, General Walker and the Administration—General Cass’ Views on Filibustering anid the Regeneration of Central Angrica—Treatics as a Meantof Accomplishing the Latter — nyt A California Mail Service, de. General Walker is about to make an appeal to the pub. lic in vindication of his late expedition, and hia claims for redress on account of the injuries he bas sustained the shape of a letter to the President. The article which | appeared in the (nin of Sunday bf ay en asan an. thentic exposition of the views of the ‘ident on the subject, and though it does not justify the act of Commo. dore Paulding, yet it certainly shows no indulgence on | account of that act to General Walker and his associstes, | Tho intorest felt in this eubject alroady seems to draw at. tention from tho old story of the straggie in Kansas, | Some of she newspapers notice what they deem an in. | consistency Between General Caas’s present views on the | subject of filibnsteriem and those which he expressed in a letter to Captain Rynders a year or two ago. But there is really no antagoniem between the principles then express ed and those now maiptained. He then encouraged the movement for the regeneration of Cevtral Atnerica, and declared that {t could be opposed by no friend of the progress of civilization. Now, nsamember of the ad- ministration, and that object, he favors, or the President does, a more eff. cient conree for attaining it. nds to the ob. ject of colontring and Americanizing Central America by means of treaties with the States composing it. He has inted two trenties looking to this great design, and | rs are ib contemplation. ‘Tho Case and Yriearri treaty, If it be Gnally concluded, | will protect the persons and property of American citizens im Nicaragua, and on the Transit route Mr age a | invite coiopization enter; to the Ports estab. | lehed by the treaty, and will ineure tho Americanization | ot of the whole Isthmus. It will be observed that this treaty gives to the United states the right ot the Nica raguan trams: by snilitary force. Military ocenpation will be followed by oo emigration, and consequent Ameri- canization. Belive is very proeperous, and wonld be mach extended in territory but for the stipulation of the Clayton. Bulwer treaty. Where the Americans setile they will soon obtain dominion. If expansion in the direction of Central America be an object desirable to ( South, or any part of the country it Is to be promoted by the treaty with New Granada, and especially the treaty intely negotinted na, advertiaement just eued from the Post. De. ent shows the rapidity with which mail facilities ve in a few years been extended to the land of guld— steamship service on the Pacis coast to San Francieco, California, twice a month. From San Francisco weekly Maile to Astoria, Oregon, and Bellingham Bay, in the Tor. ritory of Washington. The has then connect. Sie ee ne Oe Secramento and on the din river, Oregon. More than n score of coach lines in California connect with all thee steamboat routes, and their transportation is performed with great rogularity and efficiency. On the Pacific sonst there are altogether about reronty five routes in operation, diepensing intelligence to han dreds of villages, towne and cities which, Wata few years since, were the haunts of the uncivilized Spaniard or the red man of the forest. All this service is now to be re-let, except that acrons the seean, from the acts of the government and its officers. It will be in | schr | ney, Demarars; Br bri | Sullivan, | Danie! Boone, and Geo Lohse. MARITIOR INPELLIGENG Cee ver reece ree tener ere eee reeeees Port of New York, January 7, 1858, CLEARED, Bp Ocean Express, Hotchkiss, San Francisco—Jobn J hip Henry Clay, Caulking, Laverpool—Spofford, Tiieston & Ship Haldeo, Whitney, Gibraltar. Bark Meta (Olden). Paasch, Bremen—H Koop. Bark O J Hayes, Shiverick, Buenos A yres—W W DeForest. Co, Bark “has Brewer, & Thomas and a market—Met~ calf & Dui — ean. Bark Carniola, Hopkins, Norfoik—Brett, Son & Co. IGoare, flemeee aM M Yrdeman & Co. ni Brown, Porto Canello—Hamiliqn & Co. Brig Lucretia, Wallace, Havana—W W Rasaell/! fir), MeLeod, St Johns, NP—J 8 Deatey. Brig Union (Br), Smith, Windsor, NS—D_R DeWoit, Brig Mariner (Br), Atkinson, St John, NS—P I Novius & 8, Brig Ti Means, Herrick, New Haven—Nesmith & Sons, se Pollux, Leehusen, Arroyo, PR—F 8 Schlessinger & Schr Gen Scott, Smatie: ina. , Havana—Jos Perk Beit Burdet! Hart, Thoth, Charionton--Dolluer, Potter & os Schr Ned, McCready, Wilmington—E § Powell, neh ase W Huchos, Howard, Newborn, NC—Davis & omes, Behr Alliance, Pennins . Newberh, NC—J 0 Slaght. Scbr Francis H Ab! mith. Baltimore—Merrill 4 Abbott. Schr Brandywine, Wheeler, Philadelphia—Jas Hand. Schr W A Bowen, Hallock, Fall River~Master. Sloop Rina Briges, Newport—Master. ‘este Steamer ternport, , Savannah. Steamer Bristol, Allen, Philadetphia. ARRIVED, Steamship New York (Br). Cra’ and 118 passengers, to 7 Ra t had a auccession of most ‘Steamship Jamestown, Parrish, Richmos and passengers, ta Ludiam & Plexsants Bark J A Lee (of Roston), Sutton, Leghorn Nor 19, Gibraitar Dec §_with marble. raga, &e, to J Fah 30, Jat 81 80, lon 68 10, spoke sehr Orieatal, of and from chins for Newvitas, Bark Tangier (of Boston), Prescott, Boston, 8 days, with: mp, dc, to WW Bartlett,’ Is bound to Valparaiso; came to gs part to files loading. chr Rrotbers, Chamberlain. Norfolk, 2 days. Sehr Ocenn Wave. Zoelnif, Virginia, 28 hours. Rehr Charles Parker, Compton. Boston, 24 hours, Sebr GL, Lovell, Boston, 3 days Rieamer Potomekia, Cushman, New Bedford, Steamer Oxpray, Kinney, Providence, BELOW : rd, of steaming Wm H Weblf'came in from Fire Capt Haz Tsland this a, and reports sight. Capt Parrieh, of steamshty passe ing two ships bound Northward, when off Barnegat, at 11 AM. SAILED. Ships Joreminh Thompson, Mobite Jas Foster, Jr, Liver- nal; n of Fame, San Fran brigs FP Sweet, Mo- Bie Ge Aekerty, Monrovia: Ann Ml Weeks Pajardo “a Jessina: Siruekbavsen Widen), Cowes and market: Tallulah ¥ eksonville; and oilers. From Quarantine, ship Emily, for Havana. Wind at sunrise W; sunset NW, and strong. Te. |. Rogers, hence for Pensacola, before re Ported put into Norfolk in distress, w loss of — wae Also leaking, having been in the gale of the 2th ult, Senn Apeiia (not Adeline, Kelley), of Essex, was the vea- sel which w at Lyme #6 built at F: and was bou '¥ Whom she was own. first trip, and was de- nt alongside her with ‘0 New ¥ signed f frnit trade, Mr Rock fighters, and had taken her eargo ai yet been able to get alongside ber at high water. alast ont, hut has not is but 344 feet of water ‘The Marine Station at North Cohaesct reports that five cabin doors, berth: boards, curtain stuff belonging to buikbes forecastlo suf, Was picked up afiernoon of 6 on Nani Beach, pr from some,vesse! Which had gone w pieces on Coliasset Rocks, Snort Passagr—Bark Cora, of New York, built at Baltle more, Capt . has maile the quickest ran'on record on the Const of Brazil, She sailed from Pernambuco Nov 13, and arrived at Kio Jonotro 17th, having been four days and iwen- ty hours from port to port. Ship Splendid, at Mobile from London, was becalmed off Neuvitas Nov 17, and Capt Amebury senta baat in to learn how business wae i The Spanish reporter thereupon in Cu announced her arrival, her destination. Schr Independence, before reporietd ashore at Wellfleet, Was sold Gib, together with sails, rigging, and spars, for $75. ‘The keeper of the Monomoy Lighthouse gives the follows st of vessels which have passed that light during the anariee ending the 31 Decem| Ships, 4; barks, ay brige, 388; echrs, 2181; sloops, 307; stewmers, 52—total, 282. ‘Quarterly return of ressels which have passed by or in the vieinity of the hght sbip at "Pollock Rip arog ‘the quarter: ending the Sist day of December. 1857:—Shipa, 4; barks. 69; brigs, O91; sehrs, 4586; sloop meammers, Sé—toal, $480, ‘Whalemen, pt John S Dennis, inte of ship Pocahontas, eriford od re her departure, giving Havana ag Cay lost, arrived at bout Oct the Vera Itanda, ope, uifiord, NB leaving Fayal, which stowed down New Bi al to Cape lesaince Ports. Deas, Dec 19—Arr Fairy, London for Si (and rence dn Ras fad ar atten "Gi w, Loni and proeerded), Nimrod, Rearae, Taindon for Caleatia (and vel ‘ Fatwovra, Dec tl—Arr Glenburn, Tebenham, Akyab via Manritiue. k ——, of Portland (sui argo, and prow 0 4 Queenstown, Dec 18-Sid Volant, Whitt Boston), Tandon (hes been incorrectly reported 13th)s 19s, Barah Put inton, Ballard (from Darien), it Volant, Ellis, NYork. te St Jomx, NB, Dec 2. ALT APALACTIICOLA. Dec Arr schra New York, Stevens, Pal Ja: 50th, Sarah Mille, Rowley, NYork. ” Ski 24ib+ I Bi among ctbier skip Fi lan, Post, for Liverpool, bh ATONE re ‘inlan. We; schrs Dani Brown, Heald, for Fall River do; Jas ler. Miner, for N York, do: and othora as before. BOSTON, Jan G—Are harks R Hazeliing, Coombs, New Orleans, Selah 4, Raltimore, sobre Eureka, Corson, Jncksonville; Herbert Manton, Crosby, Norfolk: Juniata, Har: Tington, Mbilad«iphia: Loulea, Chase, N¥o bark Ann, from NOrleans, Old sehr Princess, Bearse, New and N, fresh, with Nothing auligd; wind NE to BN fren, snow a and began agi towards ¢ iy The ouiwhed bound versels winek sid yesterday are believed to have gone to sea except bark Biward Everett, which site ade, PITAL (Uy te) bark American, Munroe, NOrieans BALTIMORE. Jan 6—arr steamers ‘Wm Jeukion, Hallett, Boston; Fieumbnt, Willeta, NYork, Ur bark Anna, Mokin- Atlantic, Ri Turks Islands sebrs rovidence: F Ls Returned, steamer Parkersbar fg, Ramsey, back’ yesterday, iebt accident to her machinery. Clt bark ling, Rio Janeiro & mkt; brig H Raich Mat thews, Rarbadors: schrs Kelipar, Hutchings, N Yor! Merrill, Wieks, Bid ship Plora MeDomald; {ow (new. TAI fons), and Maria; brige.Joba Marston, York. River Queen, Lyneb, Me. which aaiied hener on Tosday for NYork. pat on Bre t © ba 3 Josephus, Cape Henry, Jan f—The following vessels from Ralttmo: went to #e8 Br brig Jos Hume, Cann, for Maleea: 5 thip Da werpoe!; Hre bark Anna, Raschen, Kremen, Hooper, Bimson, Liverpool; bart Cavalier, Ferrall, Rio Janeiro; Ls ey (Br), Rorke, New- fonndiand. Shi reer, from € ha Islands for Hamp. ton Roads, came in on ihe Mh, All other weasels that sailed from Baltimorfahout the aame tine as those reported above, probably went to een on the Mand 4th, viz-—Brige Wontrose “new), 4 for es ~q vee at tok Trinidad ketch Mar: | Atkin, Monrovi } bark fon: s-hr Chief, Prater, Havana. 5 _ spy anchor off Kristol err GLOUCES' Rueeell. Bost 4 BUC RT, Dec 2—Sid brig Ree Rarnard (new), Come Bi iors. BATH, Jan 5—Cild brig Sheet Anchor, Dunham, Cardenas. Sid brig iearian, Chadbourne, Weet Indies: scbrs ton, Willtame Raltiny Faliacin ), Amith, Portiand. ee jan 3—Sid ship Arizona (new), Scott, on PAUL RIVER, Jon S—Arr schre Lady Adama, Davis, New York. Sloop Mount Hope, from Taunton for NYork, was at y, morning of Ath, n Arr b Perry, Boston , NOreans luntington, Paisieh ite for do. AOE, Jan 4, PM—Art sche DC Hulse, Brown, (, for Boston, Smyrna, Del, for- ore for do; William. bie for do; Lonis Walsh, Pai Alhambra, Golden Fleece, D DI + y Calais for B York. "S10 schee Hise, Wr mond. fil 10 AM—Wind NR, blowing a gale. Tn schre BR Banton'einineC tata” Wile Coed Ateol Benes, Fas ston Emin © Latham, ¥ J W Ma vernal schra arr last during the torn, hot tee houraed. IGHLAND LIGHT, Jan 6, Munset—Nothing in right 1, Jan 6 ® AM—The vessels y ft the Breakwater, «till remain, with « fy ty 4 brig, which come in last evening No vessels in the bay, out- Wari bound. Wind NNW: weniber rainy. MOBILE, Dec 3t—Arr bark Onward, Emery, Roston: {Correspondence of the Proes. Altavela, Gilkey, N York; echrs Matron, jor, H * si ar Warescrox, ‘bes, $, 1968, | eabeth Sexes. Pat Horio, te ot cash ei e New State of Minnescta—New Appointments 2.) Dee rr stoamahip Phil Mesers. Rice, Mhillips and Berker, members and eanlor Ree on Ta AAT al, Radaer. from the now State of Minnesota, arrived here last even: fy he. Cit bark B Checks’ Reman wow ing, and this morning, wi Ir Shields, also a Senator sm a é id from that State, who bike been in town for’ several days, | Sist, AM—\rr_ceamehip Teves, Lawions, Indianola ya. formally presented to the President of the United States, | Galveston, ships Ferriere, Reichard, Havre Rereyas (mh for transmission to Congress, the constitution lately adopt’ | Sheridan. wis, Hoyt. and ow Ti ed in pursuance of the enabling act of the last Congroas. Rarger, Tartion, and LR Mr. Kavanang), the remaining member of the delogn rat Hasenan wee aioe, Waves, Taree tion, is expected in a day or two. The Preshient, it is up Helow ship Ligzie Hapw ra, Romiieon, from derstood , will communicate the constitution at once, with over, from Rio Janetro: Han A Chapman: the recommendation that Minnesota be admitted a} la od M A Stevens, Butler fayana; A) State into the Union. from Apatachieal: 1d shige Fi ort, Bryant CB. It is romored that the President hae sent to the Senate | Jun Haste Kehoe) inion, t: bark Mor. the following appointments: sere, Wark @ Titeomb, Manning, Provi- Beverly L. Clarke, of Kentucky, as Ministor to Guate. | Seicire#ors: NYorks sehr WM Titec bs mala. Towed to.eea 2d «hip Realm; hark eT wits Arrogaate:: K. B. J. Tw: in, of Kentucky, as Consul to Vora Craz, | 27th A al Avondale; barks 1 G Wilson, lens Thomas B. Stevenson, of Kentucky, as Judge for Now | ME trie AawnA. | a. ue atmna. Gnollgrove, NY. Mexcico Cid sake Show Pandtl, Hurk, Porcamouth, MH. ore ee Wittamsburg City News, IT¥ OF Tite Poon.-For the month ending Deo, 26 the Association for the Relief of the Poor of the Bastern IMs. trict have afforded temporary ald to 696 families, com- rising 2,516 individuals. The entire amount paid out is 31 696 49, of which #99 16 was the enlary of the Secretary from all rources $2,373 98: out $1,592 19, Balance Jermuning on bond, $970 86, distreen: sehr Join Olver, Clark, New Redford, oy Fliznveth : Filtenby Shon, Old &e vin t Phiiade!phia: Enterprise, Pendleton. from N Bedford for New Shaw, Bhaw, Cardenas dth—Arr brig, ers, NYork for Pensacola, ins an tee Provid a re wrer, Pierson, fis, Raster, and Pdith, Bears ‘Pewter WC Lindsey. Crowell, Fall River. 814 schr Orinoco, Snow Jan & & A Mato port by Xenophon, Rena- . echrs Abbie Foster, ny P orfolk; Starlight, York, from Portion « lowe and office expenses. The number of persons receiving | York. dane Pb fee, Davie. from Pall River for do; Mua relief and the amount pid i as follows — ser Baia, WO Alora Fee Flak ne, Chloe, No. of persoms. Am't "aes 4 others, ns hetore reporied, Wind NNW, wits us ton oe trvine, Chweaptin deter oe tae’ fe, | Heroine, 10 for do; Fee SS | te. Appleby Norerich for Nock: Franklins ‘kvorh” Aico 117 | Oeihpert for Prouidence: Printer, Provide for N York. Gz PORTLAND, Jan 6—Art hark La Ciguens, Sargent, Ma- 147 00 ORTEMOUTH Jon 4—Arr eehen Delaware, Bridges, New = York: ih. Silver Sloud, Wileon, do. ‘16 $1,607 93 ™ ae Wee Cy } ‘4 bo oon ia Aldrich, New ‘ork. Si sehr Lydia Ann, Voorhees, NYOrk. reports that he has received | Pita DELPHIA, J Mbatk Cordelia, Shaer, King. ton, dns ahr © rant Newburyport