The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1858, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERALD. SaMES GORDON EDITOR AND PROP! ‘OPTION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BFS. FLEW, exes advance ESE DAILY HERALD tor cow per copy, $1 por onmrem. PRE WARELY HERALD. every 1, 08 wisn come per h Eucopean edition. FA ea tener ore ir HERALD, every Weinesiay, at four conte per a mc BE anman RY CORRESPONDENCE, ony, hes pape bey (rom Of the workd, ‘be libe- mews, eon veeint oy Ds pally paid or. Bagr-Our Por: RESPONDENTS ARE PAR Seer “Regtar-ae 0 hae ass Levens axp Psonsens yO NOTICE taken 0° anonymous correspondence. We donot weburn those ryected os PRINTING executed with neatnes, cheapness ami dear pees ‘ TERTISEMENTS rencioad ev ertisementa in ott eke Wanett Hegacm, Panic fiza:b, ond tn the Bigornia and Proropenn Belitions, AMUSKMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Magri, Mamacneial amp BicewaNtine BIBLO’S GARDEN, Broaaway—M. Decaarcwzav—Tae —Gacnuy Kes—CrcLors. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery— Marerra — Acrostic Paats—Wascu Asaoza. 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Singic copies, in wrappers, six cents, Bubscriptions and atvertiaements for any edition of the New Yous Hesse will be received at the following Piaces tz Br>ope:— Lesvos ....Basnsen Low, Soa & Oo., 47 Ladgate hilt. An upean Express Co. 61 King William at Psa ..... Am.-Forepeas Express Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. Livmacods. Am -Duropean lxpraas Uo., 9 Caapoi street. & Stuart, 10 Exchango stroet, Kast. Haves.....Am. Laropean Express Co., 2] Rue Corneille, The contents of the Furopear edition of the Heratp wil @oradin® Las mews recewoed by mai and telegraph at the ‘@iice durag the previous week and up to the hour of pub- The steamship Africa, which left Liverpool‘on the afternoon of the 26tb ult., arrived st this port yes- terday morning, with three days later advices from Europe cod highly important news from India. Owing to the celebration of the Christmas festival, mo business bad been transacted for a day or two preceding the departure of the steamer, and our commercial intelligence, therefore, is very brief. ‘The London money market was much easier, and the Bank of Englund had reduced its rate of in- terest from ten to eight per cent. Consols closed on } the 24th at 05) a 934—a slight advance on previous quotations. American securities had varied very Little either in price or demand. The failures of M.C. Haige, woollen trader, of Bradford; Hands, Marsher & Co.. Dutch merchants, of Hull; and Stevenson, ‘Vermebren & Scott, of Newcastle, are reported. ‘The financiai pressure was much lighter in Ham- burg, and had abated in Austria, Sweden and Nor- way, while Warsaw was still suffering from its in- fivesice. The improved condition in monetary af- fairs bad exerted a favorable influence on the cotton market, which was buoyant on the 24th at an ad- vance of a quarterto half a penny per pound on | some descriptions. Eight thousand bales changed bands during the day. There was but little move- ment is fouraad provisions. Sugar had advanced. ! The British Board of Trade returns for the month, aad eleven months of the year ending on the 30th of November, show a falling offin the value of the ex- ports of domestic produce and manufactures to the extent of $10,000,000. Mr. Buchanan's message. the war in Utah and the m, engaged a large share of the atten- lish and French press. Their views aie reproduced in today's topics Haar. The news from India is dated at Bombay on the Ath of December. The English garrison in Lacknow was relieved by the troops under command of Sir Colin Campbell on the 19th of November, and the sick and wounded and womenand children sent in safety to Cawnpore. The British commander-m- chief reached the Alumbagh on the 12th of Novem ber, and engaged the Sepoy army next morning. The re) forces fought with such energy and determi- natiou that the conflict, or series of fights, endured for six days when the mutincers were routed, and Havelock, with his command, saved. engagements Sir Colin Campbell slightly, and had four of his officers vty others wounded. It was said that two thousand men under his command. with which force he would march to the Oude. English reinforcements were ‘The Sepoys had been dispersed at Genera: During conquest of pe Momerabed, Mehidpore, Malwa and Rohileand. ‘Twonty four member of the royal family of Delhi, with 2 powerful rebel chief, had been executed near Deilbi. The Punjab was quiet, bat there ‘was light rising in the southern Muratha coun- try. ‘The rebellion, however, was regarded as ended. We have full details of the effects produced by the earthquake at Naples, from which it appears that, though the firnt accounts were greatly exagge rated, a large amount of property and some lives ‘were lost The political intelligence from the continent of Earope by this arrival is unimportant. We give in another colamn a fall report of the ‘proceedings of the Police Commiasioners on Satur- day. It contains Mayor Tiemann’s reply to an ad- dress from Gen. Nye. welcoming him to a seat in the Board. The Mayor took an active interest in all the proceedings of the session. There is also an inter- esting report of the committee appointed to ex- amine ‘he claims of the old police to reinstatement, adverse y to their re-appointment. The sonexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind currents, and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M Saturday—Morping clear and pleasant afternoon over Oxet, aight elear. Su Jay —Clear and pleasant all day. night clear. ¥ -.day —Morming clear and pleasant, afternoon over can ‘Tueeday—Morning clear and pleasant, afternoon over. o st Wedoreday—Merning, snow; afternoon overcast night eiear , Tharday—Olear and cold all day and ight \ viday—Olear and cold all day and night Satur day—Overcaat, with snow. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1858, vestigation of the Twenty-eighth street arson case on Saturday, and the accused parties, consisting of Pamaya Cox and her three children, were committed to prison by Justice Kelly, to answer the charge. Gen. Walker is off for the South, leaving, it is said, his affairs with the government in the keeping of his supporters at Washington, who will vigorously press his claims. There are a large number of men at Mo- bile and New Orleans ready to proceed to Nicaragua to reinforce Col. Anderson, and Walker will proceed thither, probably to perfect firrangements for their departure. An interesting letter from Washington, containing important despatches from Com. Conover, of the African squadron, is given in to-day’s paper. It appears that the British forces at that station, under pretence of arresting slaves, have been pro- miscously boarding and seizing American vessels to an extent which ought, if it does not, arouse the ire of the general government. The slave trade is re- ported to be very brisk. The bark Mary C. Dyer, Capt. Fickett, bound from Sette, France, with a cargo of wine and salt, for New York, went ashore at Barnegat on Sunday morning. Beyond the report that her crew were landed in safety, we have uo particulars of the dis- aster. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending 8th inst. amounted to $343,096, showing a decrease of $718,484 as com- pared with the corresponding period last year. The advance in cotton obtained since the receipt of the Atlantic's nows was fully sustained on Saturday, while the sales embraced about 600 bales of Texas amd, 100 do. up- lands, at full prices. The flour market was heavy and prices inclined to droop, and common grades closed at rather easter rater, while sales were moderate and chiefly to the local and eastern trade. Wheat was inactive, and sales confined to small lots of Southern and Kentucky white, with Chicago spring at prices given in another place. Sales of corn were checked by the enhanced views of holders, who demanded 68c. @ 70c. for shipping grades of while aod yellow. Pork was less buoyant, with sales of new mess at $15 a $15 26 and old $14 85a $14 90. Sugars were moderately dealt in, with snles of 200 a 300 bhds. sad 300 boxes, at steady prices. Coffee was quiet, and sales light. Freights wore without change of moment, while engagements were.light. The News from India-—Its Teachings to American and English Filibusters. The mos important item of the news from Europe by the Africa is undoubtedly the fact of the relief of Lucknow, and therein the virtual ending of the rebellion in India. When it was first known that the rebellion was general throughout the Bengal army, the best authori- ties upon Indian affairs estimated that it would require 80,000 European troops, and at least two years of active operations, to re-establish British supremacy throughout the Indian peninsula. Yet this result has been achieved in six months, and not more than 10,000 men of the reinforcements sent from England have participated even in the later conflicts there. In fact, the backbone of the rebellion had been broken by the glorious achievements of Have- lock in Oude and Wilson at Delhi before a single man from Europe had joined them. Well may the London Times exclaim, in view of these facts, that the lesson they teach will hardly be forgotten by England or by the nations aroand her. ‘The struggle around Lucknow was doubtless the last fight that the Indian Sepoys will ever make against the British troops. They were gathered there in immense numbers, by some estimated as high as 80,000 men, and they fought with the desperation not only of men fighting for their lives, but of a caste that had strutted through India for many generations as the ruling braves, who were now to be utterly degraded in the eyes of all those of their countrymen over whom they had so long lorded it. How thoroughly the task of conquest taxed the small band that achieved it is evident in the necessary exposure of the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Colin Campbell, and his being wounded, together with his military secretary and two of his aids. The series of daily assaults upon the positions of the enemy around Lucknow, as detailed in another column, exhibits, notwithstanding the desperate resistance, a steady and unchecked march to victory. = There is one point in the history of this war in India that will have an effect upon England herself, as well as upon the nations around her. The yeomen of England have redeemed in India that prestige of the British arms which its aristocratic leaders lost in the Crimea. The dukes, earls and elder sons of noble families, who, upon their return from the East two years since, required a whitewashing committee’ at the hands of the House of Commons, have taken no part in the Indian struggle, and can claim none of its glories; while the noble band of yeomen stock who have borne the burthen of the fray will need no whitewashing by Parliament when they re- turn home from their well fought fields. This truth must have its effect upon the English mind, and lead it to rely upon the sons of the people in any future emergencies that may arise. The contrast is too fresh not to operate strongly to the disadvantage of the British aristocracy. The moral effect of this triumph upon the minds of the people of Asia cannot well be estimated. That it will operate to widely ex tend British power there, we may well suppose. Whether the filibustering operations of the East India Company will be continued, or | whether that concera will be broken up, and the crown take upon itself the direction of future filibuster movements in that quarter, iv not yet evident. One thing, however, is evi- dent; and that is that the filibuster directors who sit at the India Board in London will not be permitted to exclude any longer the en- terprise of individual Englishmen from that immense field for their labors. Had this system been abolished before, the country would not have to lament, as now, the want of steamers on the Ganges, and the necessity of sending forward Sir Colin Compbell’s rein forcements in bullock carte, England must open that India which hae been preserved to her by her yeomen, to her mechanics, her mer- chants and farmers. Give them now a fair field there, and they will produce an effect upon the people of Asia that will eqaal, if not surpass, that which will doubiless follow the triumph of English arme. Such is the result of one hundred years of Englich filibustering since the battle of Plae- sey. It has been rather slow in coming, and doubtless American filibuetering would bave done it in much less time. But then we area younger, & more spry and a faster people. Our filibusters may take a leson, however, from the affairs of India, in the advantage which accrues to filibusteriem from being car- ried on under the sanction of the government. Had i not been for the bickering and recent jealous strife between our New York filibuster Commodores, they might have ostablished some time since o similar system, which ere this would have been on a rapid march toward Cape Horn. We hope they will read the lesson and Five Marshal Baker, it seems, concladed the in-} profit by it Organization of the Assembly—Squabbie for the Division of the After a dead lock and adjournment, occa- sioned by the impossibility of an agreement on the election of Speaker and others of its officers, the Ascembly are to meet again this evening to make further efforte at an organization of the House. During the brief interval that has elapsed since their last sitting it is probable that some arrangement has been arrived at. The articles quoted elsewhere, from the organs of the three political parties of which the House is composed, all ten@ to show that a compro- mise of some kind was in contemplation. Should this expectation not be realized, the legislation of the State will probably have to stand still another week or two, whilst the fac- tions in the Assembly are.squabbling over the division of the spoils. This miserable contest results from the fact that of these three parties—republican, demo- crat and American—the latter, being a compact body, holds the balance of power. The republi- cans are in a minority in both houses; but having, by a lucky chance, secured the organization of the Senate, they demand that the Americans should yield to them the Speaker of the Assembly and the principal offices under his control, without giv- ing them im return any share in the minor offices, or making any pledge as to the retention of the present Anditor by the Governor. How- ever selfish and grasping this may appear, it will be admitted that it is consistent with the course pursued by the republicans during their ascendency fn the last Legislature. Whether in the excess of their indignation at such unfair treatment the Americans will cast the weight of their influence on the democratic side and help to place Mx. Alvord in the Speaker’s chair, it is of course impossible to say; but the little affinity that exists between the two parties of course mnilitates against such a supposition. It is lamentable in this conflict of party in- terests to see how completely all principle is lost sight of. The question with all these fac- tions is not whether the State or the House will be benefitted by the election of such or such in- dividuals to the offices in its gift, but whether they are to enjoy as partizans the pecuniary benefits and patronage arising from them. In their eagerness to secure these offices they show themselves regardless not only of the policy of the State and of the necessities of legislation, but of their own honor and position. So lost to shame are they that they do not hesitate to proclaim openly, through their organs, the corrupt motives that actuate their proceedings. As the profits arising out of the State printing con- stitute the more important portion of the spoils to be secured by a partizan organization of the House, there is no difficulty in accounting for the total absence of decency which pervades the columns of these journals in connection with the present contest. The Albany Journal, the organ of the republicans, the Albany States- man, the organ of the Americans, and the Alba- ny Argus, the organ of the democrats, exhibite, each in its way, the ferocity and truculency of the bull dog fighting for the possession of a bone. They do not seem to be aware that all this time they are washing their dirty linen in view of the public. Asin the present peculiar state of parties in the Assembly it will be impossible to effect an organization of the House without an accommodation of some kind, we shall no doubt have a sort of coalition arrangement, in which the public interests will be the last thing considered. We shall have the legislative offices truckled one against the other, and the State printing probably parcel- led out after the fashion of that of Congress. By all this of course the public will be largely the losers, for where there are so many to di- vide, additional plunder must be levied to pre- vide handsomely for the new recipients. The lobby will, ¢a va sane dire, derive its usual pro- portion of benefit from these arrangements. Next to a clean sweep, there is nothing which its members love so well as a party compro- mise, However amusing to some may be the spec- tackle of such complications amongst politicians and office seekers, the public in general are get- ting impatient of them. They are beginning to ask whether the machinery of goverment is intended to work for the profit of individuals or for that of the State. Judging from the legislation of the last dozen years, the public offices and revenues seem to be regarded as the patrimony of the factions by which we are ulti- mately governed, to be used by them for their exclusive advantage and benefit. If this is the theory which is to regulate in future our poli- tical relations, we may regard our case as a hopelese one. No people can resist long the corrupting influence of such doctrines, and from the general demoralization to which it must lead we must soon pass into decay and dissolution. Prixtive ror Coneness.—The official records published in the Herain yesterday go to show that fer the printing of the last Congress two hundred and fifty-eix thousand dollars were paid to A. O. P. Nicholson; two hundred and fifty-one thousand to Cornelius Wendell, and | sixty thousand to Beverly Tucker—making in all the pretty sum of nearly six hundred thou- | sand dollars. This is exclusive of the printing for the Post Office and the binding for Con- gress, which are “fat” little jobs by them- selves, Thiet amount was distributed among three printers; and it represents the prize for which there has recently been such a scanda- lous struggle in Washington. The profits are enormous, and the corruption used to obtain them correspondingly horrible. Were not the award of the printing for Congress made a strictly partizan matter, it is probable that the expense of doing the work of both houses would not be over three handred thoa- sand dollars; and we believe that it could be well done for even less. The great majority of publications authorized hy Congress serve no useful purpose, while thousands of them are conveyed in wheelbarrows to the bookstores in Washington, and eold for a song. Our readers will understeud that the Printer | Congress makes his profite out of this surplusage. He does no! ‘wrnish the paper, but contracts for the press work and the setting ot the types. After so many copies are printed, the cost of reprinting is merely nominal, and the members who are friends of the printer therefore order twenty, thirty or fifty thousand copies of a document, when five or ten thousand would be an ample supply. Now, if this work cost the last Congress six hundred thousand dollars, there is no probabili- ty that the present body will get off for less. In fact the sum will be increased. The former job was divided between three men; now it is nominally given to two. Stecdman and Harris; but, as we Dave shown, they arc hargaesgd by 9 dowen or twenty hungry, ravenous, broken down country editors from Virginia, Ohio, Ten- neesee and other States, all of whom election- eered and lobbied against Wendell, who was the only opposition candidate. Wendell was the only practical printer in the batch who had an office and the facilities for doing the work. He was nominally defeated; but the successful men have to go tohim to get the work done. He must Lave a profit, they must have a profit, aud the country editors must have a profit, so that the job will have to be multiplied almost indefi- nitely, The whole thing is a piece of the most outrageous corruption that ever was permitted on the face of the earth—a nuisance which can only be abated by the enactment of a law for the creation of a printing bureau, to be attached to one of the departments. Tsar $87,000 I'usp—A Catt, vPon ConGress. —It is due to the respectability of the present Congress that a full investigation should be had as to the distribution of the $87,000 fund which the books of Lawrence, Stone & Co. re- cord as having been paid to bribe members to vote for the abolition of the duty on wool. ‘The charge is a grave one; but in view of the developements of the investigating committee last year, presided over by Mr. Orr, the pre- sent Speaker, it is idle to shut our eyes to the fact that the most scandaloue corruption did exist in the last Congress, and that one of the convicted members now sits in the present Congress, in the yndisturbed possession of his seat. The Tariff bill, with its free wool clause, was engineered through the House by Mr. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, at that time chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. We fiad that it was pressed through on the 3d of March, under the operation of the “previous ques- tion,” against the urgent remonstrance of several members who desired that it should be printed, so that they might know what they were voting for. Mr. Campbell is a member of the present Congress. He must purge himself of the odor which clings to the skirts of all the prominent actors in this scheme. A committee of investigation should at once be raised, and if Mr. Campbell does not see fit to call for it, let Mr. Letcher, or some other honest man, do so without delay. We have confidence in Mr. Speaker Orr's integ- rity, and the appointment of such 4 commitice will not, therefore, be asham. Yesterday we did an injustice to Messrs. Mat- teson, Gilbert and Fdwards in suggesting that it was curious their names did not appear as having voted as required by Messrs. Lawrence, Stone & Co. This worthy trio, at the time the vote in question was taken, had been kicked out of Congress, and therefore had no opportu- nity of voting. Mr. Stone, of the frm of Lawrence, Stone & Co., was in Washington last winter, pending the passage of themeasure. He will be a valuable witness. We have the names of others who doubtless are also well posted. There is a Mr. Wolcott, of Boston, who, perhaps, would like to tell what he knows. The lobby, headed by Thurlow Weed, Chase, &c., might also be placed on the stand. As the press of this city is credit- ed for $8,000, said to have been paid them, they should also have a judicial hearing. Unless the present Congress desire to be con- sidered as corrupt 2s the last, they will net suf- fer the matter to resi, but demand at once a thorough, searching examination into all the facta, and the prompt and pablic disgrace of those members (if any there be) who have used their position to betray the interests confided to their charge and black mail the community. Cuarirame Daxctwe.—Mr. Booby Brooks and Miss Flora M'Flimsey have frequently acknowledged that they were much indebted to us for the success of their late charity bail at the Academy, and that our efforts tended to increase the receipts, Our remarks upon the exponsion of crinoline had the effect of arous- ing and expanding it still more, operating upon a certain section of the fashionable world as the Irishman operated upon his pigs—persuad- ing them that he really intended driving them from Cork to Dublin, when in fact he desired them to go from Dublin to Cork. We have, therefore, some claim upon Mr. Booby Brooks and Miss Flora MVlimsey, and call upon them to help the calico ball which is shortly to be given at the Academy. As they are fond of dancing, they cannot do better than to aid and assist the committee that has this affair in charge. Perbaps they will be put on the list of managers, when Mr. Booby Brooks can luxu- riate in a rosette, and Miss Flora M’Flimscy in @ bouquet and a splendid bust. The calico ball, we hear, promises to enlist all classes of reciety, and to be in every way successful, but it still wants the aid of Mr. Beoby Brooks and Mise Flora M’Flimeey. Farm rue Savino Gnace.— We see that Pro- fessor Brownson is about to give a lecture on the Immaculate Conception, under the auspices of Archbishop Hughes. We can promise be- forehand that it will be an interesting one. Dr. Brownson is a remarkable man amongst the faithful, having passed through all the phases of incredulity and belief. He was brought up as 4 Puritan, then lapsed into infi- delity, and, passing from extreme to extreme, finally became a Catholic. He is now @ firm | believer in transubstantiation, and in all the ancient and modern miracles, It is hie inten- tion, we understand, to prove by mathemati metaphysics and cosmogeny the truth of the doctrine of the Imme ulate Conception. A worthy son of the church and a true believer is Dr. Brownson. Like the Irishman who was reproached for the extent of his religious vene- ration, he is probably of the opinion that “no man was ever damned for believing too much.” Riermive ro Receerr——We understand that ex-Governor Walker, of Kansas, is rnsticating at the palatial mansion in Westchester owned by Mr. Butterworth, the Superintendent of the Assay Office. Here the Governor is preparing his programme for the campaign of 1860 with due care and circumspection. His recent letters, proclamations and pronmneiamientos in the news- papers have been almost entirely overshadowed by the grand coup d'dat of Senator Douglas; while the Little Giant himself has been placed in the background by the magnificent ontburst of Governor Wise, who doesn’t intend to be behind any one in the race. It seems to us that all the politicians have their hands full just about this time, and that none of them have exactly made up their minds what todo. We find Senator Seward, the great anti-slavery leader of the North, quietly spending his Christmas holiday upon « nigger plantation in Virginia (own- ed by Mr. Pendleton), and aseertaining from personal inspection that negro slavery, whigh is believed ja Massaghusetts to be the most horrible thing in the world, is, svout Christmas time, one of the bappicst and m'ost amusing syetems that he has ever seen, Wr’ should not be at all surprised if Senator Se ward, during the impending convulsion on the Kansas question, should appear as a moderator and compromiser in Congress, and submit a plan for the settlement of the question upon some interesting basis which would be accept- able to the radicals on both sides, If Senator Seward should have the magnanimity during the approaching crisis, upon the issue of which depends the question of the admission of three States into the Union—we say if the Senator would only have the magnanimity to throw aside for the time being his narrow sectional ideas, and come out for the whole Union, disre- garding all parties, cliques and factions, whether fire eaters, nigger drivers, dirt-eaters or nigger worshippers, he might be able to al- lay the present excitement, be entitled to be called the Saviour of his Country and receive the support of all independent men in 1860. THE LATEST NEWS. Affaire in Wi 5 MOVEMMTS OF THE FILIBUSTERS—THE CASE OF COMMODORE CHATARD—THE BOSTON $30,000 Ar- FaIR—OUR NEW MINISTER TO TCKKEY—WHAT ARE THE TEHUANTEPEO COMPANY ABOUT—THE BIRD'S ISLAND QUESTION, BTC. 5 Wasaryoron, Jan. 10, 1858. * General Walker leaves for the South. He goes first to Modile end then to New Orleans. A lurge force has already concentrated at the above places, aud will leave aa early as possible to join Colonel Anderson. Quite a number of fili susters, /discnarged at Norfolk, bave been here, received their orders, and gone South. The Geae- ral bas left his matters with his friends in Congress, who will press his claims with great vigor. Captain Chatard arrived here yesterday, and had a long interviow with the Scoretary of the Navy. it is yet undecided what course they will pursue with reference to his case--whetber they will try him before a Court of in- quiry or Coust Martial. An effort will be made, { understand, to investigate the Boston eighty thousand dotiar transaction, and to ascer- tain if possible where the money went. Col. Williams, of Tennessee, who was appointed Minis- ter to Constantinople, has refused to accept the position and withdrawn his application. Mr, Poindexter, of Ten- nessee, who was recently appointed chief clerk in the Post Office Department, will, 1 understand, get the posi- tion. The new Tehauntepec company, all of whom are now here, had an audience with the President yesterday, rela- tive to their matters, There appears tobe some trouble ahead. Whore’s Souli and Sloo? Tlearn that while the application of the Atlantic Teie- gragh Company was before the President and bis Cabinet, desperate efforta wore made by some seven or eight mom- bers of Congrees and several newspaper correspondonts to extort money from the company, under the threat that @ non-compliance with their demands would lead to the most strenucus oppor ition on their part to the sending of the United States frigate Niagara on the nextexpedition. The lobby were unueually active and expected to make alarge amount by the operation; but the promptness with which the Cabinet granted the application of the company put ab extinguisher on their prospects and brought their ope. rations to a sudden stop. These gentlemen tbreatenod to Present a resolation in the House calling for the repeal of the law authorizing the President to send two of our ua- tional vessels to co-operate with the English in laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. One momber of Congress, it is eaid, mede the modest proposal that the company should lend him ten thousand dollars for four ycars, in considera- tion of withdrawing bis opposition. The presentation of Ir. Mariano de Briceno to the Presi- dent, as epecial Minister from Venezuela, was attended with the usual formalities. Dr. Briceno thus @ddressed his Excellency: — The letters of credence which I have the honor to pre- sent to the President of the United States, clearly evince the earnest desire of my government for tho preservation of the friendly intercourse and the mutual interests bay pily established between Venezuela nnd this great repub- hie, and newér interrupted since both nations were bound by democratic institutions. 1 feel myself highly honored” with the especial mission devolved upan me on the préseut occasion, fixing on ¢his capiiml the pending negotiations in regard to ‘Isla de Avea,” which my government docs not doubt shall be ad according to the principles of justice that ail nations the most powerful, are obliged to observe as an condition for their jong existence and true glory. As ro garda iny personal share in this, I can assure the Presi- dent I thal always feel proud of bringing, | hope toa happy softtion, the difficulty under disenesion, aud fasten. ing atill more the links of friendship which unite the two nations—depositories of the two greatest glories of the American world—Washington and Bolivar. This very pointed and appropriate speech was delivered in the Spahieh tongue, (the above being our own tranala. tion,) and was replied to by Mr. Buchanan ip a manner equally pointed and laconic. He assured Dr. Briceno that if be came resolved upon a solution of the questions at issue on principles of justice there would be no difficulty between the two governments—as the United States would refer the matter to the same principles—and that a spirit of liberality should characterize the negotiation. The new Minister was much pleased with his interview, and the impression is the Bird Islands’ diffleulty will be ppeedily settled. The difficulty seems to be one very simple in its cha. ractor, and not requiring any deep skill in diplomacy w arrange it. The Venezuelan government in June, 1854, by an exhibition of naval force, induced certain firms in Boston to withdraw their vessels from the Bird Ivlands without loading with guano, This withdrawal was wader protést, and damages were laid at one miliion of dollars. In December following a contract was made with « diff. rent party, giving them the exctusive right to ox- port the guano on this and all other islands within the jurisdiction of Venezuela, Some dim. culty afterwards arose as to the fulfilment of this con tract, and Our government interposed and required ite observance. This wae a full recognition of the juris diction of Venezuela by our government, or else the con- tract was void. The present claim the govern ment is preferred by the Boston firms, and rests entirely upon the question of jurisdiction. If Venezuela had juris diction over the island in question, then the claim is in valid. In enforcing the contract of December, 1364, did not the United States admit this jurisdiction, and are they not estopped from controverting it now’ Mr. Rames, onr Minister at Caraccas, saye not. In negotiating for a fulfilment of that contrag: he intended reserve (perhaps mentally) the rights which may have accrued to the Ho-tom claimants. And thus is presented the question now to be settled here be- tween Dr. Briceno and our government. Tt may be wor thy of remark in this couneetion, that if Venezuela had not the jariediction over the “Isia de Aves’? then dolland or Spain had. and one of these powers and not tho ('nited States would have the right to complain. The contloting claitos of Holland and Venezuela to this jurisdiction are now pending be “appointed under the pro: visions of a convention entered inte betwoon these two governments. THE GENERA) NEWSPAPRR DRAPATOW Wasurse Jan, 10 1855, ‘The Uvion's leador discusses the acquisition of Central America. It repudiates the means adopted by Welker, but evidently favors the project by another process, It says‘ To acquire the privilege of constructing railways, canals and roads across the Isthmus, to settle regions of country traversed by these routes with peaceful trades. men, farmers, mechanics, &c., would seom the only eure and infallible mode of planting our institutions perma. nently in those regiens. if, however. we must plant our institutions in regions south of us, by the strong arm, let it be by open and honorable hostility, conducted under the auspices and authority of the government. Nothing can be easior than to find a cause of national quarrel with the Central American States and the Spanish government, if we set about seeking it. If, contrary to our national policy, we must needs extend our institutions southward by force, let it be done by honorable warfare, and not by piratical foray Condemnation of the Scheoner Susser. Basrrwone, Jan, 10, 1468 The schooner St , Capt. Martin, from Nassau Island, for Baltimore, with a cargo of guano, arrived at Magua o® the 224 December, in a sinking condition. Her cargo was then discharged and the vessel condemned, Tho Bisset was insured in Philadelphia, A Wreek on the Flortda Const. Wars con, Jan, 10, 1868. The echooner seen bottom up on the Fleride const, about a month ago, is believed to have smiled from Tampa for New Orleans. Hor name is partial! from the wreck, but “——<!le Day" roraains. A body. which has floated ashore from her, has the name “W. Palmer’ on jhe orm ‘The Bork Mary Dyer Ashore at te Saxpy Hoox, Jan’ 20, 1858 She Squan telegraph Vac we learn that back Dyer, from France bouad to New York, wont ashore Barucgat yesterday, 4 Nixs o'Cock P.M ‘Wer have been anabie to earn any further particy conconniig the bark ashore at Barnegat, except tat | crew ts betieved to have been landed ix gafety. Sh: owned at the’ East. ——_ Pedestrian Feat at Hartford. Haarroxp, Coun., Jaa. 10, 1864 Alfred Elson, ax Englishman, twenty-five years of a accompliabed, in @his cily, at twelve o'clock on Saturc night, the great feat of walking durimg cne hundred ¢ eight consecutive hours, without aleep or rest. ‘The Southern Mati, Wasstncrow, Jan. 10, 196 The Southern mail a9 late as due has beea recei: from points this side of Mobile. Ne Our Washington Correspondence, Wasuiwaron, Jan. 8, 1864 Despatches from Commander Conover, of the Afri. + Squadron—Briskness of the Slave Trade—The Engi Squadron Interfering with American Merchantme Capture of the Brigantine Bremin, Wearing Amen Colors, by the British Steamer Vesuvius—Protest of Commander and Reply of the British Com'nodore—/ the American Squadron is Dreaded, and how the Bri: Commodore Evades Seizing a Vessel with Ameri Colors—Leitcr from the British Commissioner, Shou @hat American Vessels have deen Caplured by Bri Cruisers. Despatches have just been received at the Navy partment from Commander Conover, of the African squ ron, who is in command of the United States flag ¢ Cumberland, dated St. Paul do Loando, 19th October, 1s Tt appears from his letters that the slave trado is ex: sively carried on inthose waters, Italso appears f ‘his communications to the department that the Eng / squadron stationed in those waters have been interfe and meddiing with matters that did not concern them, that for some time back they have been in the babi ‘boardingand seiziog American vessels, under the pret that they were engaged in the African giave trade. He porte a case to the ment, showing a flagrant vi tion on the of Britannic ’s governa Ofall right end justice. > adil Comman: dor says :—Commandor McBlair the U1 States ship Dale to me the cap’ on the instant, of the brigantine Bremix, wea 5 ‘Wise, commanding Britannic Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, the circumstas of which are minutely detailed in the reports of Lie Pelot, attached to the ship Dale. Wise in this seizare appears tc izes American slavers, and may serve to explain + fore seemed very strange—that #0 many vessels sh bepeeue ty h commanders as having boon u without flag or papers. ‘The commander accordingly felt it to be his duty, w the circumstances, to enter his solemn protest against action of Commodore Wise in this capture, which he in a letter addressed to the Commander-in-Chief of het josty’s squadron on thh coast. some tallow’ made by Commodore | ing is the rej to Commander McBlair, ugh Lieutenant Pelot, of seizure off the Congo river of the brigantine Bremin — Com. Wise says,—The Vesuvius was, on the 10th ( in chase of one of two strange sails that were at the in sight; the other, a briguntine, had been standing « vy. wind; but 4s soon as she saw the steamer in @t she quietly put her helm up and bore off before the « under the impression she was being chased; but this not the case, until the Commodore observing her str manner, changed his course and stood for her, adau ing the other sail. When tho Vesuvius reached ber hoisted American colors and hove to, Commodore boarded her in person, and having reason to suppose the vessel was engaged in the slave trade, informed commander—who ed to be @ Portuguese—th was his intention to the veasel, and that he did wish to see ber rs, atthe same time giving hin eboice whether to be taken under the American fe otherwise. The captain made some unintelligible ex, sion about being twken as a » and mate hauled down the colors immediately. The i SOheseae overboard, gs the v was then seized ag @ without colors or papers. Commodore said thal ‘the @nd supercargo © drunk, and be was informedjby the captain, who gas name as Smith, that another veasel was in the Congo acargo of slaves on board, her commander, I t named Sam Forrest. The officers and crew, with the exception of the « were landed on the nearest port of the coast, and sh¢ sent to Sierra Leone. The following is a statement of Lieutenant Davids: & conversation with Commodore Wise:—That he, Cor dore Wise, boarded the Bremin in person, and info the captain of her that he (Wise) bad undoubted infc tion that the said Bremin was a slaver, and her p: not correct, which was & violation of the American sbe was then under, After some hesitation on the of the cajtain of the Bremin ho determined to throv flag and papers overboard, which he did, with we attached to them, remarking, at the same time, the would rather be taken by the English than to fall int hands of the Dale, in which Jatter case he would be as @ pirate. | then stated to Coramodore Wise that the in question, and upon which Commander McHlair de to be fully satisfied, was whether he (Wise) used guage or other means to intimidate the Captain of the min and to inftuence him in hauling down the « against his wish. Tp this Wise replied, “ Ob, no, sit sir.’ Finally T asked Commodore Wise, iu the ev his meeting with an American slaver under America lors, and bearing genuine papers, if he would use n to induce the to throw his colors and papers board’ He replied, “ Well, I might stretch a poin tell the captain that the ‘Dale’ was just near us b His reply satisfied me regarding the method whic Majesty's officers on this coast adopted to seize Ame slavers, as the latter would never choose the altert to be taken by an American man-of war, sent to the U States and tried for their lives. The following is the letter of Commander Conor the Commander-in-Chief of ber Britannic Majesty's forces on the coast of Africa:— 1 beg leave to call your particular attention to Re. of Lieutenants vidson and Pelot to Comm: jeBiair in relation to the capture of the American bi tine Brewin by Commodore Wise, commander of he jesty’s steamer Vesuvius, on the 10th inst. While extremely anxious to preserve the most friendly goo ing in the intercourse between the squadrons o respective governments on this coast,! feel itto | rative duty, utder the circumstances, orem Protest most sti ly in*t the action on Wie inthe pe sure the Bremia, es bemg aa inter with the rights of Americans to take and bring to m punishment those who, while they wear the fi the United States, offend against ite laws; a¢ further a violation of the express treaty stipn/ of the two ate “to enforce separatels respectively the laws, rights and obligations of en the two countries, for the suppression of the slave in direct oppesition to the ofte my government, that the Am y interference on the of foreign cruisers, whethe by threats or any undue indaence whatever. Commodore Conover also sends a letter, which ceived from her Britannic Majesty's Commix«ioner ando, in answer to a request for detailed informa’ the circumstances onder which certain American + have been captured by her Britannic Majesty's eruls Toaxpa, Oot. 13,1 Sm—I have had the honor to receive your letter « terday’s date, informing me that you have been ¢: understand that several vessels said to be wearit flag of the United States, including the Onward, and William Clarke, have lasely been boarded and by her Majesty's cruisers on this coast, and request to furnish you with ang information in my power rv to the circumstances under which these or any American vessel have been captured In reply, 1 beg to inform you that for many years bave never known an instance of any vessel und American flag having been searched or detained officers of her Majesty's squadron on this coast, that of « bark sent to New York for adjndication, Majesty's sloop . in May last, of the part of which you will bly be better informed thar With regard to the vessels mentioned in your tako leave to add that the case of the Ooward, whi recently detained by her Majesty's steamer Alecto ont any papers of nationality whatever on boar formed the subject of an official correspondence > Commander Haunt , A United jes Comet to furgiah you authentically with ail the particulars vessel's capture, and to that gentleman | would t# "Ot Boston, referred to im your le bly the vessel which, having been twice met y's cruisers, waiting an unity to ship professing to bear an American c! 368 slaves were from thie vessel, a greatt having. unhappily, perished in their atternpt to re whore. Of the circumstances attending the capture of # cailed the William Clarke, Iam entirely ignorant ‘The latest capture made by her Majesty's squac this eoast, of which I have received any informa ‘that of a brig, Without colors or papers, taken on inet., by her y’s steamer Myrmidon, off Ca Cobra, the master of which declared that he had # at New York. with all the necessary appurtenanc’ slave voyage, and that although closely watch to the United States | succeeded in getting all his ¥ board, and sailing direct for this coast, On the ‘s coming up with this vessel, an Americad astern, and it is presumed th thrown overboard, as aont her Majesty’s steamer. 1 cake sPporgua of asquainting you, sir, t! sels protected by lag of America, in great continue the slave trade on this part of the co = recently received information of rent Strongly suspected of in s tame, having been met in or about the river Cot and Clara B. Williams, schooners ( , Windward, and brigs Bremen an! town. Thad the |, a few days since, of comm* porscualty vite Gontcon MoPiair, of the United %