The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1858. NEW YORK HERALD. eee JaMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Pere OFFICE K. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. peters alo TERMS, sath in advance. DAILY HERALD, too conte w annem THE WAERLY HARALD, soy, Barn a ts cote tee Sina or reat Britain. or 88 W any part ef the Continent, both ine HERALD, every Wednesday, at four conte per cbende “UE ELET Conn saron PRIOR erecta torrie Zi a Larrea AnD AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ADWAY THEATER, . Gre Wannid, Mensounial amp Ecarnarrine NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Rossat axe Beareaxn— ‘Tax OonrrasanDuT—GoLpEs . — BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mazarra—Somusony Mise —Wanvoor of ras Gian. A Buoascoa's Wirn, ob tux Vows ob Messen Cowrasen WALLACK’S THRATRE, Brosdway—Tuz Poos or New Bona. ‘Texrrstrom, ba THE EutGuare. Eveuing: Vassar axp Onson. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 663 Broadway—Guonas Ounurs & Woon’s Minsramia—New Yaur Caus. EN, No. 444 ‘Necro MECHANIC'S HALL, 673 Broadway—Burant’s MinstRais —Bruorix Boncs—faainen Meies. EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Dronama or De. Kane's Aprenrunes ix THR Axctic Rucions. MOZART FALL, 663 Rroadway—Mosiat ExtsRtaueMant BY Mess Wiis, tae Weiem Nigurimoace. New York, ‘Thursday, January 14, 1858. ‘The News. The steamship Star of the West arrived at this port last evening from Aspinwall, with $1,607,000 in treasure, the semi-monthly Pacific mails, and news from Utah Territory, California, Central America, New Granada, the Sandwich Islands, the South Pa- cific, and Jamaica. ‘The general intelligence from California is unin- teresting. The yield of the mines was about equal to the average of corresponding seasons in previous years. The semi-monthly shipment of gold amount- , ed to $2,034,000 Business at San Francisco was completely stagnant, but the money market was com- paratively easy. 2 The letters of our correspondents, published in another part of to-day’s paper, give full details of the movements of Col. Frank Anderson and his party of filibusters, from the date of their landing at the mouth of the Colorado river to their arrest by Capt. Sands, of the frigate Susquehanna. The fili- busters will be taken in the Wabash, and probably Yanded at Pensacola. It would appear by the ac- counts from Nicaragua that the quarrel between that republic and Costa Rica had been satisfactorily adjusted. Gen. Jerez had taken poasession of Fort San Carlos and the river steamers, and the Costa Ricans had withdrawn their pretensions to territory Fox, Keq., has been officially recognized by the gov- ernment of New Granada as United States Consul at Aspinwall (Colon), the usual exequatur having been received by Mr. Fox from Bogota. to take possession of the Chincha Islands, and the guano speculators were all wide awake for the event. ‘The authorities at Callao had committed a gross out- rage upon a seaman of the ship T. B. Wales, the of which are given in our compilation of the news. Bolivia was quiet. The financial crisis still continued at Valparaiso, though few failures had occurred. Business at Honolulu was quite active. * There were in port fifty-eight whale ships, twelve mer- chantmen and two men of war. By way of Charleston we have Havana dates to the 10th inst. Sugar was firm at unchanged rates. It is believed that the reports recently put in circu- lation to the effect that the yellow fever prevailed virulently at Havana, are devoid of truth. We have news from the West Indies dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 28th ult. The Legisla- tare was in active session, and had passed a new labor immigration bill, and repealed the old heredita- ments tax on landholders. In lieu of the revenue derived from this source the tariff had been altered, and the scale of duties on many articles of import and export—including mahogany, tobacco, soap and pbrandy—was slightly advanced. The mining news is good. A tight money market and stagnant pro- duce trade are reported. Another dull day in Congress yesterday. The Se- nate reconsidered the vote adopting the amend- ment to the joint resolution extending and defining the power of the President in regard to the nomina- tion of officers who are affected by the action of the ‘Naval Retiring Board, which amendment prescribed that there shall be no such construction as will allow fan increase of the number of officers on active service list, as now authorized by law. After a long debate the amendment was rejected, and a joint resolution passed, with another amendment, limiting the power of the President to nomi- nate to months after the passage of this act. Mr. introduced a joint resolution direct- ing the presentation of a medal to Com. Paulding. Mr. Brown announced his intention of offering an amendment, when the proper time arrived, condem- natory of the action of the Commodore in invading Nicaragua and seizing General Walker. The House was engaged fh discussing the topics embraced in the Presiden@® annual message, particularly the fili- buster and Kansaa questions. The reports of the Canal Commissioners, the Auditor of the Canals, and of the Commission to examine the accounts of the Superintendent of the Banking Department, were presented to the Legisla- ture yesterday. A number of bills of local import- ance was introduced in the Senate, to which we have not space to allude further in this place. The office seekers are busily engaged prosecuting their claims. The Senate held an executive session yes- terday, but we do not learn that anything of import- ance transpired. The Assembly’ contrary to general expectation, did not organize. The politicians were actively caucussing last night, and there is a possi- bility of an arrangement having been brought about fo that a Bpeaker may be chosen to-day. We are informed that Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is sbout to address a letter to the people of that State dn vindication of his position on the Kansas ques dion, as defined in the celebrated letter to the Tam- many Hall Bachems. The Governor believes that the recent action of the politicians in the Virginia Gene- ral Amembly, condemnatory of the sentiments con- ‘tained in the letter alluded to, will be overruled by popular opinion; hence his appeal. The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday. Jt is the intention of the Board to erect an asylum at ‘Ward's Isiand, for the care of the lunatics charge- able to the commission, of which there are about two handred, most of whom are now on Blackwell's Island ander the care of the Ten Governors. We have received the annual report of the Metro. politan Police Commissioners to fhe Governor to be transmitted to the Legislature. It con gieta of a concise statement of the labors and difficulties of the Commiayon, and recommen- dations for forbidding the Macharge of any prisoner between suprise and sumset; for providing for the payment of the legal expenses of the Com- | Kansas and Our Presidential mission, and for allowing the re-appointment of allthe |. old police dismissed prior to the Ist of July last. The intention to organize a mounted and river police is announced. A shocking murder was perpetrated about nine o'clock last evening in this city. James Roberts, a negro, was fatally stabbed while in the immediate vicinity of the Astor House, by some person at pre- sent unknown. The deceased came running up Vesey street with blood streaming from a wound in his side, and when he got opposite the front en- trance of the Astor House, in Broadway, he fell to the pavement and expired in the course of a few seconds, The deceased did not speak a word after receiving the wound, so that it was impossible to ascertain the perpetrator of the murder. The pre- sumption is that Roberts was engaged in a fight in Vesey street when his antagonist drew a sword cane and stabbed him. The deceased was twenty-five years of age, and resided at No. 40 White street. He was a seafaring man, and formerly resided in Philadelphia, of which city he was a native. + The Court of Appeals yesterday ordered a new trial in the case of Cancemi, the Italian, condemed to be executed for the murder of policeman Ander- son. We give in another columa an interesting ex- position of the effect of the writs of error and stay of proceedings in the cases of Cancemi and Rodgers. ‘The important and carious will case of Madam De Lax was recently argued before Jastices Mitchell, Clerke and» Peabody, in the Genéml Term ot the Supreme Court, by Messrs. Jay and Whitehead en behalf of the French heirs, and Mr. Ball on behalf of the son, and @ decision was made by the Court confirming the de- cision of Surrogate Bradford, and giving this large estate to John P. Ferrie, a barber, of Cincinnati. The decision, however, was not a unanimous ora final one, as Justice Mitohell, the presiding Justice, dissented from she opinions of his associates, and it is understood that the French heirs will carry the case to the Court of Appeals. The new Board of Education organized last eve- ning by the election of Mr. William H. Neilson, of the Eighteenth ward, as President, and Mr. Thomas Boese as clerk. The Finance Committee for the ensuing year is Messrs. Clarke, Warren, Auld, Le compte and Cushing. To these gentlemen is en- trusted the disbursement of about twelve hundred thousand dollars. The Committee on Normal Schools, which has the distribution of most of the patronage of the Board, is composed of Messrs. Eager, Tweed, Lydecker, Davenport, Rollins, Scofield and Grady. One hundred thousand dollars were ordered to be placed at the disposal of the Board. The Republican General Committee met at their headquarters, Stuyvesant Institute, last evening, and completed their organization. John A. Kennedy, the chairman of last year's committee, was Te- elected to the position of presiding officer. The friends of Patrick Vaugha, who was shot by the police while engaged in creating a disturb- ance at the Eighth district polling place of the Eleventh ward on the morning of the 2d ult., have commenced a criminal suit against the policemen, charging them with the homicide of the deceased. A coroner's jury justified the fatal assault,on the ground that the police were performing their duty, and acting in defence of their own lives when they fired upon deceased. The verdict being very dis- tasteful to the friends of Vaughan they have em- ployed counsel, and express a dermination to have the matter thoroughly investigated before a magi trate. A number of affidavits were made before Justice Connolly, at the Lower Police Court, yester- day, upon the strength of which warrants were issued for the arrest of policemen Mier, Duffy and ‘Van Tassell. The accused were taken into custody and placed in charge of Inspector Squires, at the Eleventh precinct station house, until the close of the investigation. In the Court of Sessions yesterday a very respect- able looking, fashionably dressed person, named Ro- sina Harris, indicted for forgery in the second de- gree, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that crime, and was remanded for sentence. Matthew Bowen was convicted of highway robbery, he having forced Joseph Dauber into an alleyway while passing through Washington street, on the night of the 30th of December. Officer Scott, on hearing the cries of murder ran to the spot and arrested the accused. As that was his first offence, Judge Russell sent him to the State Prison for ten years. William Martin and Edward Brannigan, indicted for breaking into the store of Robert Murray, Jr., Cherry street, and stealing $40 worth of clothing, pleaded guilty to petit larceny and were remanded for sentence. John Hartley, indicted for forgery in the second degree, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that offence, and was sent to the State Prison for two years. William Pagan pleaded guilty to grand larceny, in stealing two hundred and ninety-one Spanish doubloons, valued at $4,400, the property of Anthony Z. Valle, from the bark Pawtucket, on the 28th of November. He having given informa- tion which led to the restoration of a por- tion of the money, his Honor modified the sentence, which was three years and nine months. confinement in the State prison. Lewis Derenberg was tried and convicted of stealing a suit of clothes from Andrew Foss. He offered a fraudulent check in payment, and while Mr. Foss was examining it the prisoner effected his escape. His Honor sent him to Sing Sing for three years and nine months he being an old offender. Charles Thorn pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and waa sent to the penitentiary for two years. John Griffin, a notorious Ninth ward thief, pleaded guilty to bur- glary in the third degree, and was sent to Sing Sing for three years and three months. Michael Farrell and John Brady were acquitted of a charge of break- ing into Mr. Palmenio’s stable and stealing a number of portraits of animals. Michael Sullivan was con victed of breaking into the store of W. R. Hall, of Broad street, on Christmas day, and stealing five turkeys. Sullivan is a notorious character, and the City Judge said he Sonex of him for as long 4 period as the law hich was four years and nine months confinement in Sing Sing prison. The receipts of beef cattle during the past week amounted to 2,802 head against 3,196 for the week previous. Notwithstanding the comparative short supply the demand was quite moderate, and prices declined fully one-quarter to half a cent per pound, the range being 7c. a 10}c., while a few premium cattle brought only 2c. A very large proportion of the stock offered for sale was, however, of an in- ferior quality. There was no change of importance in either cows and calves, veal calves or sheep and lambs. The receipts of swine amounted to 2,598 against 3,168 the week previous, and with a mode- rate demand prices declined jc.on the best corn fed, while other descriptions were without change. The quotations are 4jc. a 5)c. The cotton market was excited yesterday, and the sales embraced about 1,500 a 1,600 bales, based upon mid- dling uplands at 103¢0.—giving a further advance of \c. per Ib., or 1%%0. over the lowest figures previous to the arrival of the Atiantic last week. The last returns show a deficiency of receipts at the ports since the Let of Septem ber last, compared with the same period the previous year, of 469,000 bales. The excess of exports to Great Britain have been reduced to 15,000 bales. The failing off in ox porte to all parte of Europe amounts to about 24,000 bales, The exports to France are still deficient about 25,000 bales, and to the rest of Europe about 12,000 bales. Flour was more active, with s good demand for,export. The saline embraced about 8,000 a 10,000 bbis., included in which were 4,000 0 6,000 bbis. for export, at current rates Wheat was quiet. Small lots were sold, embracing red Tennessee at $1 12, and white Michigan at $1 18, Corn continued firm, with sales of new st 720. a 740. from store ‘and in the slip, and old Western mixed at T4e., with some old white Southern reported at 5¢. Rye and barley were quiet. Pork sold moderately at $14 76 for new mess, and in emall lots at $16; prime was quiet at $12. Sugars were somewhat less buoyant and active. The aales em braced about 400 8500 hhda., at rates given in another column. Coffee wae quiet. Freighta were taken to a modegate extent for Liverpool, ine@ting corn in bulk at 44d, 4,000.6 5,000 bbls. flour at 1s. 10d. & 2., and about 800 Lales of cotton at @- 16d. ‘The Rights and the Daty of the South, We submit to our readers this morning an- other interesting chapter of newspaper extracts upon the Kansas Lecompton constitution ; and it will be perceived that they indicate pretty forcibly a vigorous battle in Congress for the said constitution, notwithstanding the coup @4at of Mr. Douglas and the Tammany Hall black republican manifesto of Governor Wise. First, it will be remarked that the Richmond Enquirer, heretofore the devoted organ of Gov- ernor Wise, deliberately abandons him upon this Kansas issue, and earnestly advocates the admission of the new State under the Lecomp- ton constitution. From this, we think i¢ may be safely assumed that Governor Wise, in pan- dering to the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, has ceased to be the lion of the Virginia democracy. Next, we think the pressure of the public opinion of the South may be conjectured from the fact that euch decided anti-administra- tion journals as the Richmond Whig and the Sa- vannah Republican are among the most zealous supporters of the Lecompton policy of the Pre- sident. But the most significant intelligence we have received for many days # the report we give this morning (by way of an appendix to the. newspaper extracts in question) of the pro- ceedings and resolutions of the late Indiana Democratic State Convention. From these it will be seen that, by nearly a two-thirds vote, the Convention endorses the Kansas policy of the administratien, and declares the voice of the Indiana democracy to be in favor of the ad- mission of Kansas with her pro-slavery Le- compton constitution. With these encouraging manifestations of public opinion, South and West, we are not dis- posed to believe that this Lecompton constitu- tion is dead anddone for. On the contrary, it appears to be full of vitality; and with anything like union among Southern men in Congress, they may still use it successfully in behalf of Kansas as a slave State, in consideration of the two new free States of Minnesota and Oregon. And why not? The position assumed by Walker, Douglas and Wise will only protract the controversy and the sectional agitation over this troublesome Territory; whereas, the immediate admission of Kansas as a sovereign State will at once transfer all the authority over the matter, and all the responsibility, and all the agitation, to the people of Kansas. No doubt ex-Governor Walker, Senator Douglas and Governor Wise, in view of their own ambitious schemes, would prefer to keep up this agitation; and of all things in the world it is the policy and the desire of the black republicans to keep this Kansas discord burning at white heat till the campaign of 1860. It is evident, too, that the rejection of the Lecompton constitution will serve their purpose admirably; because, if this constitution be rejected, it will most likely de- lay thé admission of Kansas till the next session of Congress, on account of the formalities re- quired in the adoption of a new constitution. And as the next session is limited to the 4th of March, 1859, the admission of Kansas, if de- ferred till next December, may go over by de- fault to the ensuing Congress, and thus become the most active element in a sectional recon- struction of parties for 1860. All seotional calculations of this sort, how- ever, would be defeated by the prompt admis sion of Kansas asa slave State, in accordance with her Lecompton constitution, and upon the broad and good old principle of a Southern equivalent for a Northern free State or two. And what ground of complaint would there be to the people of Kansas from the adoption of this policy? We understand that in the recent elections touching the organiza- tion of Kansas as a State, the free State party have secured the member to the House of Representatives at Washington, and have also gained the State Legislature. With these essen- tial points secured, and with four-fifths of the voters of the State to back them, what have the local free State party to fear should Kansas be admitted as a slave State? What is to hin- der their Legislature from immediately provid- ing for a new constitution?—and what is to prevent them from making it as intensely anti-slavery as that of Vermont or Massaehu- setts? Whether the democratic members from the free States in the two houses of Congress will or will not afford the required assistance to the South to secure the passage of the Lecompton constitution, we are not prepared to say; but there can be no doubt of the real issue with the South, nor any misapprehension of the policy devolving upon the men of the South. Their true course, and their only course, is to de- mand the admission of Kansas under her Le- compton constitution—first, as a right which they cannot surrender; and, secondly, as a seo- tional compromise, in view of the admission of the new free States of Minnesota and Oregon. And let it be understood that with the rejection of the Lecompton constitu- tion the Southern members of both houses will in a body withdraw from Congress, and await outside the action, upon the subject, of their several State Legisla- tures; and we dare say that their Northern brethren will soon be brought to a full under- standing of the exact merits of the case; but should this warning fail to secure the recogni- tion of the Lecompton constitution, the crisis will have arrived for the alternative indicated ; and if Southern men shrink from it, they will cease to be entitled to confidence, respect or commisse- ration. They must be prepared to demand the admission of Kansas according to the pro- gramme of the President's message, and at all hazards, or prepared henceforth to surrender their “ peculiar institutions,’ at discretion, to the tender mercies of the North. The crisis comprehends not only the abstract question of a political balance of power, but the question whether all the Southern movements, measures, principles and agitations of the last fifty yedms have been genuine or mere noisy claptrap and moonshine. We anxiously await some developemente of the strength or weak- ness of the Southern cause among our Southern men at Washington. If they are united now, they may maintain at least their honor and their chivalry; but if they are divided, they are subdued and disgraced. A Berroon 1x Coxonrss.—If they have no statesmen in Congress, they seem at all events to have a buffoor—in th” person of the Hon. El Thayer, of Maseaci **, who has made his dBut with the with remarkable success, Hi sal successor of that Mr. ©) ow ) \oala, who did and said all the #)!) cad lndicro.s things in Con- grese thirty years age the general entertain- ment of the House and the spectators; and who savage about the eight thousand dollars, pro- bably because he received no alice of the Joaf. The little villains of the stock gambling journal—those who broke down in their stock jobbing and stock gam- Bling contracts and Brick Church specula- tions—have also exhibited a great nervousness about the eight thousand dollars, probably be- cause they had no nibble at the bait. For the same reason Mr. Booby Brooks has called, day after day, for some revelations about the mys- tery of the eight thousand dollars, and is shocked to find that out of the whole amount not even fifty dollars to buy a new pair of breeches was partitioned out to him. We trust and hope that the nerves of all these parties will be soon quieted by a full develope- ment of the facts; that an exact account of the whole matter will be given to the public, in- cluding the amount paid, the purposes for which it was paid, the name of the person or persons to whom paid, and all the factsin the gave place at last to Davy Crockett, a brave and good enough man, but naturally endowed for the post of jester or buffoon. Mr. Thayer delivered a speech, which, we perceive, excites the admiration of some of the petty journals of this part of the world; it is on filibusteriam, and is generally funny. It ought to earn for Mr. Thayer the soubriqued of the Cor Solomon Swops, or Sam Slickin Congress, We suggest that these names be bestowed on him without delay. ‘Violation ef the Law by Postmaster Fowler— Appeal to the Postmaster General. We perceive by some of our contemporaries that Mr. Fowler, the Postmaster of this city, has decided to give the Post Office advertise- ments to another journal. We have appealed from the decision of the Postmaster, and the question has been referred to Washington, for the ultimate decision of the Postmaster General. .. On examining the Jaw of Congress, and giving it a fair and-common sense construction, we do not tiesitate to cheracterise-thia decision of, Mr. |: Fowler’s as & ivlation of the spirit and inten | tion of the act, in the face of sufficient state- ments miade on affidavit and warranting s con- trary award. The average daily circulation of the New Yorx Hxrap, on the strength of three solemn affidavits, was stated to be 62,495 for the last year. According to the showing, on affidavit, of the other journal to which the award has been made, its circulation was nearly 13,000 less than that of the Herarp. The disparity in the average circulation of the two papers was a small part of the merits of the controversy. The New Yorx Heratp circulates principally amongst all the intelligent and respectable classes of society which use the Post Office for their correspondence and letter writing. The other journal in question is a mean, dirty, dis- reputable penny sheet, which circulates at Cor- lear’s Hook, the Five Points and amongst the negro cellars of Church street, and the houses of ill-fame in Mercer street. It is filled with filthy, obscene stories from day to day, and is not read by any class using the Post Office asa medium of correspondence. Why is it, there- fore, that Mr, Fowler—otherwise a sensible man, and having correct information before him on affidavit—has made a decision so palpa- bly violating the law? The reason is obvious. Mr. Fowler is so much of a politician, and is so busily engaged in attending to his functions as a member of the Council of Sachems of Tammany Hall, Mayor making and Mayor breaking, President making and President breaking, that he allows his subor- dinates to manage the more important of his duties as Postmaster. During the administra- tion of “poor Pierce,” some menials in the Post Office, anxions to vent their spite against the New York Heratp and to conciliate the then President, got the Postmaster General of that period to frame a echedule ef rules, which are contrary to the spirit of the law of Con- gress, and which, in fact, give the Post Office advertising to any other journal than that hay- ing the highest circulation. We do not care a straw for the advertisement of the letters, for the amount paid for them is insufficient to cover their actual cost to us; but, asa point of honor, we shall insist that the Postmaster General and the administration at Washington shall correct this illegal and nar- row minded act of Postmaster Fowler and his subordinates. Tar Cuarrrance Carico Dress Bans. at tHe Acavemy.—We understand that the arrango- ments for thischaritable affair are progressing in the most satisfactory manner. It will not take place until the fourth of February; so that there is ample time for the ladies to prepare their pretty dresses, their crinoline, their sweet- est smiles and their charitable feelings. The list of the Committee of Managers has already been published, and seems to have been proper- ly fitted for the occasion, The proceeds of the ball are to be applied to strengthen the funds of some six or eight of the most praiseworthy charitable institutions, male and female, in the city. With proper manage- ment and a general awakening of the public, the receipts of this ball should amount to six or seven thousand dollars; but we presume that four or five thousand will be considered quite satisfactory in these hard times. To this will be added the dresses of the ladies, which are to be given to the poor. While this affair is thus prosperously pro- gressing, there seems to be one troubled spirit our worthy and afflicted cotemporary, Mr. Booby Brooks, the unmitigated ass of New York journalism. We suppose that his vanity is wounded because he was not placed upon the list of managers, and was thus deprived of an opportunity to strut about the Academy witha rosette in his button-hole on the night of the ball. Accordingly, he throws out in his dirty sheet slurs upon the managers and the pro- posed company of the Charity Ball, calling them snobs, and comparing them to wood- sawyers and wheelbarrow men. For the honor of the female heart we are glad to say that Miss Flora McFlimsey, who has been wrongly implicated as an ally of Mr. Booby Brooks, has separated herself altogether from him in this matter, and will give her aid and support to the ball in every possible way. There is no danger, then, to be apprehended from the oppo- sition of Mr. Booby Brooks—his influence will be without effect; and the charitable, benevo- lent and praiseworthy festival will be patronized by all the beauty, gallantry, elegance, blood and fashion of the city. Tuat Awrvt Erout Tuovsann Dottars.—The mystery which has wrapped up that eight thou- sand dollar,appropriation made, by the Marsa- chneetts tariff people to pay for services ren- dered by some persons connected with the New York press, to secure the passage of the bill, is gradually beginning to unfold iteelf. Most of the newspapers in this metropolis indicate in their objurgations that some one belonging to the Journal of Commerce received that amount, or the larger portion of it. The Chevalier of the Courier and Pnquirer, who once received fifty-two thousand dollars from the United States Bank, under comewhat similar circumstances, is very the spring. Doubt is threwn upon the story and it is possible that the wish on the part of their assailants may have been father to the thought. But there are reasons why the rumor may be true. It is known that for some time past Brigham Young has been having a very thorough survey made of the country lying to the north of Utah, especially the banks of the River Columbia. We hear that latterly he has despatched orders to his scattered disciples in California and in the southern parts of the Ter- ritory of Utah to join him at Salt Lake City without delay; and that, accordingly, notwith- standing the season, trains were en roule for the Mormon headquarters from the South and the Southwest. The country along the Columbia is admirably adapted for settlement and cultiva- tion; much more so than any other which is open to the Mormons on the Pacific. There is another reason why Brigham Young may have turned his attention to the British possessions as a new resting place. No South- ern hegira would place the Mormons out of readh of the American eagle. If they emigrated to Mexico, they would find the United States troops there before ten years elapse, asserting dominion over the country; if they went to Central America, the same objection would hold good there. Indeed, the settled expansion of the United States in a southern and south- westerly direction must necessarily close this continent, or the southern and central portions of it, to any category of people, race, tribe or community which is known to,be obnoxious to or to have rebelled against fhe laws of the United States. There is no home for them there. But in the North the case is different. We are not expanding northward. There is no desire on any one’s part to seize any portion of Canada or the Hudson’s Bay Territory. Nor, in all human probability is any such desire likely to arise. It is too cold up there for filibusterism ; and till all our own territory is fully occupied we shall not pay much attention to what is north of us. Furthermore, it must not be forgotten that the bulk of the Mormons are Englishmen, whose attachment to their native flag is strong, and whose ancient patriotists this last affront by the government of the United States is likely to have aroused in full force. The English Mormons no doubt hanker after a return to an English country; and as they constitute a large proportion of the counsellors and soldiers of Brigham Young, they may be expected to exercise a very potent influence in opposition to further endurance in the United States, and in favor of peaceable migration to @ country where they probably flatter them- selves they could prosecute their religion unamolested. It might be supposed that the English, who express so much horror of Mormonism, would be as ready to oppose their arrival in their territory as we should be glad to see them leave ours, But it is to be remembered that the British territory along the Columbia, where the Mormons would settle if they went north, forms part of the dominion of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the British and Canadian gov- ernments have very little right to meddle with it. Of course, the domestic arrangements of steady industrious settlers would be of no con- sequence to the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company. So long as their land was tilled, large crops grown, and good rents paid, they would never ask whether their farmers kept one or twenty wives. In point of fact, as is very well known, polygamy is already an institution so well recognized in that region that a factor or commander of a post who has but two wives is regarded as unusually moderate in his desires, and not altogether mindful of the responsibili- ties of his station. The Indian traders would be of one mind with the Mormons on that point. On the whole, though ultimately Great Britain would be likely to make a strenuous effort to rid herself of the unwelcome intruders, the chances at present eeem very much in fa- vor of the supposed northern hegira. It seems not at‘all improbable that Brigham Young may contemplate, as is said, a movement upon the Columbia with all his troops, wives, chil- dren, cattle, elders, donkeys, sheep and world- ly and spiritual possessions, Whether he start on this hegira before the troops attack him in the spring or only afterward cannot be fore- seen; though his common sense and prudence may well justify the apprehension that he will adopt the safer and discreeter course.. The Utah Expedition—The French in the Crimea and the Americans on the Plains, We published several months since a letter written by Major General Jesup, containing some remarks upon Marshal Vaillant’s report of the operations of the French army in the Crimea, in which General J. stated that he could never understand why th paign of the allies against Sebastopol was car- ried on in direct violation of the fundamental rules of war ne French marshal. the forces were compelled to aif down before a for- tified and paMially besieged city, while there was still @ large army, in the field, which was constantlY pouripg into ity enccors and re- inforcements, for the simple reason that they possessed no means of locomotion; that in fact the number of animals, for all purposes, which the French commiseariat had assigned todts army of 300,000 men in the Crimea did not equal the number he sent from New Orleans for draught purposes alone to our army dn Mexico, which never exceeded 45,000 men. From these facte General Jeeup drew certain ‘amous cam- used the Tgport of the found that’the allied natural but not very complimentary deductions in regard to the French military, and partiou- larly the commissariat system. Tt seems these truths have not set very well upon the French stomach, and occasion has been sought to throw them back at the United States, This the organ of Loule Napoleon—Le Constitutionnel—thinks it has found in the condition of the small force sent to Utah Inst summer. Taking the flying re- ports brought back from the Plains by a few travellers and disappointed contractors, wke always think they could have done any and everything better than Uncle Sam’s “bfficers de it, and who perhaps had failed in obtaining some contract, the Constitutionnel points triumphantly to the burning of a few wagons belonging to one of the contractors, and to the intervals of space that were reported to lie be- tween several of the corps composing the expe- dition in its march over the Plains, and ex- claims that the expedition sent against Utah ia that.of a caravan on the road, where every one goes when he chooses. It thinks thet sffer this Gen, Jesup-and the Heratp should net ask .| Burope to admire the American aysters of: mili- “Bisbal voy , is all very fine en the part of the Frenok gentleman; but besides the fact that hia pre- mises are proved to be all wrong by the official reports from the expedition, he forgets another and the chief of the attendant circumstances. Themarch of the expedition across the Plains bears the same relation to its military operations that the voyage of the French army through the Mediterranean to its point of concentration in the East did to the siege of Sebastopol. The several corps in their voyage from Marseillesor Toulon to Turkey were never together or un- der convoy, because there was no enemy to at- tack them. So with the march across the Plains, where there was not only no enemy to attack, but no grass to feed the animals, unleas they went in small and separate parties. The official reports show that the expedition has turned up at the appointed place of union not only in good order and with abundant supplies, but even with materials for building huts and with stoves and fuel to warm them. In a march of a thousand miles not a single mis- chance has occurred for want of provision in the commissariat, and only one private con- tractor bas lost his train, because he wished to be too smart and get te the appointed place long before the time. We eommend to the French journal a perusal of the official reports from the Utah expedition, and not to go off at half cock in his military criticisms. But we have no wish to pursue this sore sub- ject for the Constitutionnel any farther. We have no desire to pick a quarrel with the French. From Cressy and Poitiers down to Waterloo and the occupation of Paris, the British have always whipped them, as also have the British filibueters whipped the French filibusters out of Canada, the West India Islands and the East Indies. Now we have had two trials with the British—one in 1776 and the other in 1812—in both of which we whipped them. With these facts before us, and remembering that they took a hand toward the close of our first fight with Great Britain, in order to get some of the glery, it would not be magnanimous on our part to do so. ew THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival of the North American. Pormanp, Jan. 13—11 P. M The steamer North Amorican, which left Liverpool for this port on December 30, bas not been signalled up to the present hour. _—_—_ Affairs at Washington. DESPATCHES FROM KANSAS—MERTING OF THE UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, ETC. Wasmtrotom, Jan. 13, 1868. Lord and Lady Napier, both of whom have been quite ill, are again convalescent. Despatches announce the marriage of the Princess Royal of England on the 26th instant. The alliance meets the hearty approval of the British ‘ Advices from New Granada state that Santa Anna is ex- Pecting to be recalled. He is anxious to resume the reins of government in Mexico. General Robles, the Mexican Minister, received nothing definite by telegraph. Mr. Yrisarri, the Nicaraguan Minister, returns to Wash- ington early next week on matters connected with the late treaty. The sixth anhual meeting of the United States ‘Agricul- tural Society commenced its session to-day at the Smith- sonian Institution. The opening address by President Wilder, was very able. I learn that one of the principal subjects ef examination by the Society will be Rhodes’ super phosphate of lime, which is rapidly superseding Peruvian guano. The session will continue during the week, and is numerously attended by scientific gentiomen from all parte of the Union. ‘The President's levee last evening was crowded, Mr. Buchanan says be was not in the slightest fatigued by the monotonous shaking of hands with the sovereign people. The Secretary of the Interior received a telegraphic des- patch this evening, dated Boonville, Jan. 13, from an official high in authority, to tho effect that the pro-slavery party in Kansas bad triumphed, electingjtheir entire ticket— Legisiature, Governor, State officers, &c, No disturb- ances or difficulties occurred at election, or interference on the part of the Missourians. This is the only reliable information that has been received. ‘The Senate: $o-day confirmed Thomas W. Fleming aa Surveyor of Customs at Augusta, Georgia. News from Kansas, RETURNS OF THR ELECTION—OOVERNOR DENVER’S MESSAGE TO THE LEGISLATURR. St. Lovis, Jan. 13, 1858, 1 The Westport correspondent of the Republican gives the following as the official vote in Shawnee and Oxford pre: cincts:—Shawnee, 831; Oxford, 738. In both there was a slight democratic majority. There was very little voting n Lawrence and Topeka. A letter from Fort Scott, in the same paper, sates that all was quiet in that section, and also that Bourbon county gives 300 democratic majority. Governor Denver's measage to the Kansas Logisiatare ascribes the bitter feeling and animosity existing in the Territory more to personal hostility than political consi- erations; refers to the harmonious action of the citizens of Nebraska as worthy of imitation by the people of Kan- sas; draws attention to the second section of the schedule of the Lecompton constitution, advising the avoidance of legislation until the action of Congress is ascer- tained—for should Kansas be admitted under that constitution, all their acta will be nullified; recom- mends early attention to the collection of revenue and the building of a prison; alludes to the rumor of the existence of an organization similar to the Danites of Utab, and advises action in reference thereto, Other sug- gestions are also made relative to amending the election laws and protecting the achool lands. The Demoorat has just received advices from Kansas stating that the State Legisiature met at Topeka on the 4th inst., and after receiving Governor Robinson's message, adjourned to Lawrence. General Calhoun was at Weston, Missouri, where he had made a speech discouraging the entrance into the Terri- tory of large bodies of men, but countenancing the pro- priety of single individuals rendering assistance to their A letter from Fort Smith, Arkansas, brings intelliganoe nn Ce nh pn reente Ul ‘ ‘The Ohio Legislature Sustains the Adminis tration. Craverary, Jan. 13, 1868. The resolutions introduced in the Ohio Senate on Satar- day by Mr. Phelps, democrat, were put through yester- day afternoon, under the gag rule, by a vote of 24 to 14 The resolutions express confidence in the administration of Mr. Buchanan, re affirm the Cincinnati platform, look upon the refusal of the Lecompton Convention to submit te constitution to the vote of the people as unwise sad 22 OQ. ———————————oorororrrrererSSt™t