The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ENITAR AND PROPRIETOR. SPFIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. see Woe 16 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWA! THEATRE, Broadway—Eansraiam ive Zoos PSRFORMANGES—CINDERELLA, OR THE Litty Giass Surrea. NIRLO'K GARDEN, Broadway —Rauestarani @asres—Kvvostey Rainoosnos Kirrnant, ©, AnD Houses, BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Rooxwoon—Acnosatic amp Gymnastic Feats—Frercn Bry. BURTON'S THRATRE. Broadway, opposite Bond street— ‘Twerren Nioet—CoLumays. AMALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Tuu Poon or Now ORK. LAURA KKENE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Muuerzer or ‘Toisp0— AN Uneguat Marcu. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenthstreet—ITaiian Orena —Dox Giovarmt. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Queen's Pack. Evening: WOOD'S BUIDINGS, 561 end 663 Brosdway—Guonoe Gunisrr & Woon's Mixstagis—New Year Cais. AND Gre. ek, Monee, Broadway—Afternoon Parnior. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, No. 444 Rrosdway—Necro RS ABD BURLESQUES—SHAKSPEREAN Reavivi MEOHANIC’S BALI, 472 Rrona —Ermiortan Rowas—Down 16 A ‘The News. The steamship America arrived at Halifax yester- day with Liverpool dates to the 2d inst., three days later than those brought by the North American. ‘The financial news is decidedly favorable. The amoney market was perceptibly easier, and consols ‘had advanced to 944 a 94j for account. No failures are announced. At Liverpool cotton was firm, ata further advance of half a cent per pound, while breadstufl> were steady. There is no po'itical news of importance by this arrival,excepting the appointment of Mr. Blondell as the Belgian Minister to the United States, and a re- port that Spain will consider the mediation of Eng- fand and France in the Spanish-Mexican quarrel at an end if Mexico does not accept all the conditions propoved by the mediators. Spain, meantime, was actively preparing fora hostile demonstration aguinst Mexico. There is nothing new from India We give, how- ever, full details of the sanguinary battles between the British forces, under Sir Colin Campbell, and ‘the Sepoys, at Lucknow, which will be found highly interesting. The American steam frigates Minnesota and San Jacinto, and the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, were at Hong Kong at last accounts. The attack of the English and French upon Canton would, it was ex- pected, take place about the Ist of December. It was announced yesterday, by telegraph from Washington, that Com. Paulding intendgg to return to the United States, and that the Presid¥nt viewed this movement with displeasure. There is evidently an error in this information, for it appears that the Commodore intended merely to visit Key West, and there await further instructions from Washington. It occurs to us that Key West comes within the bdailiwick of the Home Squadron, Paulding is therefore within his cruising ground-in dropping in at Key West for further orders. The Assembly yesterday, after two ineffectual at- tempts to elect a Speaker, adjourned ll Tuesday afternoon. By way of New Orleans we have dates from Sisal, Yucatan, to the 6th inst. A change in the govern- ment had taken place, and the place was blockaded. | Peace negotiations were, however, on foot, and hopes were entertained that the revolution would s00n be brought to an end. A violent storm passed over New Orleans on the | 15th inst. A number of ships and steamboats were damaged, houses were unroofed, fences prostrated, | and several lives lost. The lake end of the Pontchar- train railroad was partially destroyed. In another part of to-day’s Heratp may be found ‘an outline narrative of Lieut. Beale’s exploration for | a Southern wagon road to the Pacific. The journey began at San Antonio, Texas, but the survey com menced at or near Santa Fé, New Mexico, and ended at the Colorado river, in California. The expedition was successful in every respect. The route travelled | is the shortest from our Western frontier to Cali- | fornia by three hundred miles. It pages through & nearly level region, which is well watered, and an abundance of grass and timber was found along the entire line, Not the least interesting ciroumstance connected with the expedition is the result of the experiment with the camels imported by the government. The adaptation and usefulness of these animals imthe exploration of the wilderness was completely and successfully tested. At the end of their journey, which occupied forty-eight days, they were in as good condition a at the start. We learn from the weekly report of the City In- spector that there were 425 deaths in the city during the past week, showing an increase of 38 as com- pared with the mortality of the week previous. The increase appears to be mainly attributable to fatal cases of diseases of the digestive organs and smallpox. Of the latter there were 23 deaths—an increase of & over the week previons. Of the whole number 272 were under ten years of age, and 68 inmates of the public institutions. Tables, giving the statisties of mortality in this city for the year 1857, together with the causes of death, and the number of mar- riages registered do the «me period, are given elsewhere in oar columns 7» following table ex- hibits the number of death turing the past two weoks among adults and chile. oo, distfiguishing the sexes: — Men Women Boys Total Week ending Jan. 9....68 oS Ia 100 gsi ‘Week ending Jan. 16..... 68 % 16a 122 45 Among the principal causes of death were the following :— — Week ending— Jan @ Tent ‘ if Consumption... Con ruisions (infantile) dnfiammation of the lunge Inflammation of the brawn Searlet fever... ce... Marasmu, (infant Drops) ia the bead Menries.... Group...... . Bronchitis. eeeee 7 * There were also 6 deaths of congestion of the brain, 5 of congestion of the lungs, 8 of debility (in- fanticide), 9 of diarrhea, 4 of disease of the heart, 7 of iofiammation of the bowels, 9 of old age, 5 of teething. 8 premature births, 30 stillborn, and 8 from violent causes. The following ia a classification of the diseases, sind the number of deaths in cach class of disease, of the Amoor river. He thinks there i» a prospect of a lively trade with that country. We also extract from the San Francisco Herald a valuable paper on the exploration of the Amoor. Judge Norton had decided, in the case of a alave and his wife, who had been Lronght into California, and who sued for services, that no recovery could be obtained, because there was no special agreement between the parties for wages, Fremont’s land claim was advertised for sale to pay taxes, The lerter also contains informa: tion concerning the pop: latin of Cali‘ornia, the probable extent of the year’s crops, and other mat- ters. There is another curious fease of habeas corpus pending before the Supreme Court, in which a young lady is “the bone of contention.” It appears that a Miss Emma Wright accompanied her mother and some young friends to one of the theatres, but on stepping out of the omnibus slipped off with a gal- lant, gay Lothario named Taylor, and got marr:ed to him. She returned to the theatre, and subsequently went home with her mother. Her husband claims her; but she is non est, The case came up yes- terday afernoon ut 3 o'clock. The return to the writ was made,and the matter adjourned over to Tuesday morning. The young husband is a mer- chant’s clerk. The young lady is said to have pecu- pdary expectations, A few unimportant cases were disposed of in the Court of General Sessions yesterday by Judge Rus- sell. Sentence was suspended on Michac! Weaver, convicted of an attempt at burglary in the third degree, as also on Rosina Harris, who pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree. Wm. Martin, found guilty of petit larceny, was sent to the penitentiary for six months; and Thomas Wade, guilty of stealing property from James R. Whiting, was sentenced to two vears confinement in the State prison. ‘The Special Committee of the Board of Council- men appointed to inquire into the alleged defalcation in the Finance Department met yesterday afternoon in the City Hall, but adjourned withont transacting any business. They will meet next Saturday, when the Comptroller and other parties will be examined. The steamship Baltic sailed from this port yeater- day, for Liverpool, with forty-six passemkers and $924,014 in specie. ‘The favorable news regarding the Liverpool cotton market. received by the America yesterday, led to greater firmness on the part of holders hore. The sales embraced about 1,000 bales, closing firm at 93jc. a 9340. for mil dlivg upland. The dour market was heavy and sales mo- derate, without, however, any change of moment in quo- tations. Wheat sold toa limited extent; prime to choice lots were scarce and wanted for city milling; Iowa spring sold at $1 04 # $105; prime Kentucky at $135, and South- ern do. at $1.30. Corn was quiet and nominal for white and yellow,at 70c. a730. Pork sold to a moderate éxtent at $14 75 a $14 Sf for new moss, and prime at $11 500 $12 60. Sugars, within a day or two, bave declined about 1g¢ per Ib., and with the close of the week at about ic. below the highest prices of last week. The sales yester- Cay, ow'ng in part to the inclemency of the weather, were confined to about 300 hhdr., at quotations given in another column, Coffee was quiet and prices unchanged. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were without change of moment. The Official Correspondence on Kansas Af- falra—The Coup d’Etat of Walker and Douglas. We have before usa public document em- bracing the-official correspondence between the Executive authorities at Washington-and_the federal authorities of Kensas, from the ap- pointment of Governor Walker in March last down to his resignation in December; and from this document we think it can be shown that the late coup d'etat of Messrs. Walker and Doug- las may be charged not so much to their con- sistency to “popular sovereignty” as to their estimates of the anti-slavery sentiment of the North. In the letter of instructions to Governor | Walker, of March 30, touching a State constitu- | tion for Kansas, he is informed that “when | such a constitution shall be submitted to the people of the Territory, they must be protected in the exercise of the right of voting for or against that instrament,” and that “the fair expression of the popular will must not be in- terrupted by fraud or vielence.” From this it appears that the President expected the coasti- tution to be bodily submitted to the popular vote; but it does not appear that he made, or contemplated making, such submission a sine qua non. The same instructions were given to Mr. Stanton. On his arrival in the Territory, in ad- vance of Governor Walker, Mr. Stanton was charged, pro tem, with the duties a Acting Governor. In this capacity he issued from Lecompton, April 17, what may be called his inaugural to the people of Kangas; and the most remarkable point in it is the expression of his hope that, touching sla the Conven- tion itself will, in some form, provide for sub- mitting the great distracting question regarding their social institution, which has so long agi- tated the people of Kansas, to a fair vote of all the actual bona fide residents of the Territory.” This suggestion was met by the Convention in the submission of the subject of slavery to the popular vote. On the second of June Governor Walker writes to Gen. Cass from Lecompton, “enclosing several copies” of the Governor's inaugural ad- dress, delivered at Lecompton on the 27th May. An the course of this letter he says:—“You may rest satisfied, however, that unless the people had been assured that the constitution should be submitted, as far as our power extended, for ratification or rejection by all the actual bona fide settlers, a most disastrous civil war here would have becn inevitable.” In his inaugural, how- ever, the Governor pleads the legality of the elec- tion ordered for the Constitutional Convention, and urges the people to participate in it, aad arke them, “why incur the hazard of the preli- minary formation of @ constitution by a mi- nority,” “ wheo a majority, by their own votes, could control the forming of that instrument !” In thie proclamation, also, Governor Walker talk’ of “the treason and fanaticism of aboli- “Shall the destiny of the African in Kansas exclude all considerations connected with our happiness and prosperity? And is it for the bandful of that race now in Kansas, or that may be hereafter introduced, that we should subvert the Union, and the great principles of self government and State sovereignty, and im- during the week : Jan. 9. Jan. V6. ‘ ” © 4 Heart ané blood veseels ” Lang? throat, &e 120 Oid age ° 9 Skin, ke er Buu a8 Br 1), bowels anc other dig ative organs. 43 67 no seat and general ferrre oe B aA 5 Teal... 387 45 The number of deaths, compared with the corres ponding weeks in 1866 and 1857, was as follows : Week ending January 19, 1866 . Week ending January 17, 1867. oa Week ending January 9, 1858 seen eres BOT Week ending Janusry 16, 1858....... . 426 The nativity table gives 306 natives of the United tates, 71 of Ireland, 23 of Germany, 12 of Zngland, 3 of Scotland, 2 of France, 3 of British America, and i each of Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the ‘West Indies. We poblish today an interesting letter from San Francisco, containing an account of Mr. McI). Collins fourney through Siberia, with a description of the Country and ite +s. evitauts, especially iu the pegiog “ 2 brue our hands in the blood of our countrymen?” True, he also says that “ Kansas never can be brought into the Union, with or without slavery except by a previous eolemn decision, fully, freely and fairly made by a majority of her people, in voting for or against the adoption of her State constitution.” But this was a mere assumption of the Governor, for which he alone is re- eponsible. Warming up with his subject, Governor Walker denounces the Topeka party, and flatly says that those who oppove slavery in Kansas do not bare their opposition upon any philanthropic principles, or any sympathy for the African race; for, in their eo-called constitution, framed at Topeka, they deem that entire race so inferior and degraded as to exclude them all for ever from Kansas, whether they be bond or free.” Tn a letter to Gen. Cass, of July 15, Governor Walker is particularly severe upon the anti slavery party, and says that “Lawrence i« the hot-bed of all the abolition movements in this Terpitors e198) BAVA SG § - abolition societies of the East; ‘aud, whilat there are retpectable people there, it is filled by a considerable number of mercenaries, who are paid by abolition societies to perpetuate and diffuse agitation throughout Kansas, and prevent a peaceable eettlement of this question.” Pretty strong language this, Governor, and very likely it may have had @ considerable influence in de- termining the policy of the President in favor of the shortest practical method of getting rid of these disorderly Kansas ragamuffing. During the whole month of July Gover- nor Walker and General Harney, with the United States army as @ posse comitatus, ap- pear to bave had their hands full in the suppression of the revolutionary municipal movements of the people of Lawrence; and the correepondefice upon this subject, to a stranger unacquainted with our political border excite- ments, would justify the presumption of an actual civil war, and upon a very formidable scale, including “abolition mercenaries” and “Osage Indians.” The Governor himself, in his letter to Gen. Case, of August 18, after summing up his troubles, saye:—“I repeat the opinion ex- pressed in a former communication, that toorder out the local militia at this time would precipi- tate and render certain a most sanguinary and disastrous civil war.” The next difficulty with the Governor wasthe right of suffrage; -but that matter being satis- factorily arranged by the President, the Governor, Sept. 10, issued a long proclamation to the people of Kansas in reference to the October election for the Territorial Legislature. On the 3d November the Governor sends in his report of the Johnson and M'Gee county election frauds, and his reasons for rejecting them; and from this point he appears to have shifted his political course so as to cateh the anti-slavery breezes of the North. He has ceased to talk of “abolition mercenaries,” and grows eloquent over the enormities of false election returns and ballot stuffing. Passing over the intermediate events, to December 15, Gov. Walker on that day addressed his letter of resignation to Gen. Casa; submitting, as his reason for the step, the failure of the President to sustain the Governor in his pledges to the people that the Lecompton constitution should be submitted fairly and fully for their ratification or rejection. From this review of the Kansas correapond- ence, it will be seen that Gov. Walker, not- withstanding the abuse of the Southern fire- eaters, not only supported with remarkable energy the policy of the administration down to October last, but that on all occasions, great and small, he freely employed the United States troops to coerce the “ abolition merce- naries” into submission. But.¢he Kansas Octo- ber election disclosed the fact, beyond all doubt, that a very d@cided majority of the people there belonged to the free State party. Upon this hint the Chicago Times, the home organ of Senator Douglas, took pretty decided ground in favor of that policy which would secure most speedily the admission of Kansas as a free State. And from that timé, we doubt not, there was a full understanding and a “ happy aceérd’”” between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Walker as to the course they should pursue. The Octo- ber vote of Kansas was the very thing that Mr. Douglas had been hoping for; and the Oxford precinct and M’Gee county frauds afforded the pretext to Gov. Walker for the first deliberate step towards a rupture with the administration, and a bold push for the anti-slavery sympathies of the North. Very well. We apprehend that Governor Walker is already a “dead cock in the pit ;” and that Mr. Douglas will find himself in a mi- nority in Congress before this business is over is by no means #n impossible event. The Presi- dent adheres to the policy, which only in the eleventh hour bas been abandoned by Walker and Douglas; and in this view the simple ques- tion is the approval or the condemnation by Congress of the President's fidelity to the law. Not a word of reproof was ever said by Senator Douglas, that. remember, againgt thase Mis- souri frauds and bogus laws of Kansas of 1855. ‘66, which Senator Cass denounced as “a dis- grace to the civilization of the age.’ Where was the “ popular sovereignty” of Mr. Douglas then? During the whole of the last summer Governor Walker, with something of the ener- gy of an absolute despot, employed the United States troops to reduce the “ abolition mereena- ries” of Kansas to law and order and the Le- compton programme; bat he now pleads that the whole thing has been nothing but a chapter of frauds, forgeries, and outrages upon “ popu- lar rights.” Such stultifications can have but little weight among sensible men desirous rather of promoting the harmony of the Union than any of the schemes of any of our little pettifog- gem for the Presidency. Tur New Conoressionat Investigatine Com- mittee.—At length there is a prospect that the mystery in relation to the disbursement of the eighty-seven thousand dollars to secure the pas- sage of the new tariff bill through Congress, with the eight thousand for editorial services, will be developed through the new investigation authorized by the House of Representatives. The first subject of investigation will doubtless be directed to the point as to whether or not any members of the last or present Congress got any of that amount, and how much, ifany. Among the witnesees to be summoned before the com- mittee will be the principal partners in the house of Lawrence, Stone & Co. It would also be well to summon Mr. Walcott, of Boston. He was at the time of the free wool movement a clerk in the house of F, Skinner & Co., Boston and New York, and is now a partner in the banking house established in Boston by ex-Go- vernor Gardner, since he lost his election as Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Walcott, it is believed, can throw a good deal of light upon the matter, and the committee should by all means send for him. It is stated in various quarters that the editorial services referred to in the ledger of Lawrence, Stone & Co, were performed by persons connected with the New York Journal of Commerce and the New York Zimes, Skilled in tariffs and statistics, these persons prepared pamphlets and* copied articles which appeared in the columns of both the above named journals, In order to ascertain the truth about this matter, the committee ehould subpoena all the editors and attachés of both journals to appear in Wash- ington and give testimomy—Congress paying the expenses, of course, It has also been stated that the Middlesex company is not the only concern that has eon- tributed money to bring about an alteration of the tariff. Several other manufacturing compa- nies interested in free wool have disbursed funds for the same benevolent purpose. While Congress has its hands in this business, they may as well summon one of the compat- iote whe was gonTpMcyly aberat Gow thy lash investigation. We refer to our amiable cotem- porary, Massa Philosopher Grecley. He has never clearly explained what became of that thousand dollars which passed through his breeches pocket and which had something to do with the action of Congress in relation to the Fort des Moines Improvement Company. While we are about it, we may as well have a general overhauling of all the matters connected with the lobby, editorial services, tariffs, improve- ments, grants, robbery and dishonesty of all sorts. Now is the time for it, ‘The New Movements tn the World in Regard to Slave Labor, The question of a supply of labor for the dilapidated West Indian colonies of England and France is renewing in Great Britain, at least, the discussion of the old subject of slavery and the slave trade. In France, under the im- perial sway, no discussion of the question is al- lowed; but the Emperor has set to work ina practical way to retrieve the disasters that have resulted from the prevalence of the crazy opinions of the Exeter Hall enthusiasts. His traders are to be found on every favorable spot of the coast of Africa, purchasing negroes for Guadaloupe and Martinique. In England, however, the battle of opinion waxes strong, and the London Times takes up the subject in a practical, way, while the oppo- nents of ite views can only bring forward the old arguments of the philanthropists, which are already refuted and weighed down by their falsified predictions and blasted hopes. But the Times bax uot yet gome to a comprehensive view of the ground it assumes, und the changed cir- cumstances which bear upon the question. Recognizing the facts that the white man, with his active and fever inclined brain, can- not Jabor by the side of the negro in the tropical fields, and that the negro “will not be stimulated to greater industry by any increase of wages,” it applies itself at once to the ques- tion of bow the agricultural industry of the Britieh West Ludia colonies is to be recuscitated. It thinks it finds the solution in the fact that the coolies which have been brought to Trini- dad and other British islands “are ambitious and work for wages,’’ while the negroes “go off and squat in remote districts, content to support lite on a little.” Iu order, therefore, to prevent a complete triumph for slavery, it holds that a plan of free labor must be carried out. “Our colonies in the West,” it says, “are the field for such a scheme, our Empire in the East may furnish the laborers, and the new hold we shall have on Asia will give facilities for doing what we wish.” The leading London journal is right in its acknowledgment of the utter failure of the phi- lanthropic schemes of Exeter Mall, but it mis- takes the remedy. Besides a great social error of omission in itsscheme, it does not read aright the signs of the times. The agriculture of the British West Indies cannot be successfully resuscitated by a large importation of coolie labor from India. Such experiments may succeed on a small scale, because they are not of sufficient magnitude to bring into operation the natural laws that govern all society. Weadmit that the 600,000 negroes now inbabiting the British West Indies will not work tor es, except to gain the very little that they to live upon. But suppose that they are diéplaced by 600,000 coolies, who, working continuously, will produce quadraple the amount now produced by the indolent blacks, what is to become of the 600,000 negroes? Are they to become complete paupers and squatters upon the land? That they will be deprived of labor wherever coolies can be obtained, is not for a moment to be doubted. They must become either a burthen upon s0- ciety, or a caste of pariahs at war with it, and liv- ing upon a few plantains which will grow spon- taneously, and the pigs and chickens they may be able to steal. We do not infer that they will commit the greater crimes, for we know very well that the negro nature is unequal to great crime, as it is also unequal to great good. But the society that will have to restrain and provide for such a mass of ignorant and lazy paupers can never compete on alarge ecale with other centres of active industry working under a different social organization. But the London journal errs in its reading of the signs of the times and the great duty that is before it. We admit its premises, that the civilized world must have sugar, coffee, cotton and tobacco; that the East will furnish laborers in countless abundance; and that the new hold which England has on Asia will give her facilities for doing what she wishes—that is, for meeting this great want of tropical pro- ducts. But it will not be done by bringing hundreds of thousands of Indians to new homes, across twenty thousand miles of ocean. It is to be done by carrying the steam engine to the East, together with the mechanical and scien- tific skill to direct ite labors there. It must re- organize government and the tenure of land in its Asiatic possessions; it must put steamers upon its rivers and locomotives upon its roads. When it does this, the countless laborers of the East who are “ambitious to work for wages’? will have their productive power increased a thousand fold, and the British colonies in the East will pour into the marts of commerce a mighty flood of tropical products, That is what the events of every day are pro- claiming to England and to the world. Her West Indian colonies are annitilated. Their death blow was struck in 1836, and no empiri- cism can resuscitate them. When compared with her East Indian colonies, their value is that of a pebble compared with the Koh-i-noor diamond, England will revoiutionige the com- merce of the world by reorganizing India, and carrying her gigantic mechanical and industrial skill there to direct its abundant labors. The ‘West India problem is an American problem; and at no distant day England will leave it as a legacy to us to settle, as ehe will all her other American troubles, in the mighty fatare which is looming up for ber in the East. How we may settle it, is another question. But our pre sent imp rative duty i« to rave Caba from the wave of black barbariem that is rolling upon its shore. This the present new discussion in Europe may help us io do; but it never wil! resuscitate the British West Indies by the futile plans it now contemplates, Tom Sxir’s Oriions or Srateswen,_The Chevalier Simonton, who was expelled from the House of Representatives of the Thirty-fourth Congress, writes letters from Washington to an obscure and ignorant journal in this city, in which he makes some amusing disclosures with regard to rome of the statesmen in the Senate of the United States. Simonton states that Senator Hunter, of Virgi is preparing to take the same direction in favor of that myth called squatter sovereignty that has already hevg taken by Syoator Douglas aug would-be NEW YORK BEaLD SUNDAY. JANUARY 17, 1858. Senator Forney of Penneylvania. It will be news to the people of Virginia to hear that Senator Hunter wil) take hf cue from such chocolate colored anti-slavery sources. But this isnot all, The Chevalier Simonton has found out that the new Senator from South Carolina, the Hon. Mr. Hammond, is about to take the seme direction, aud to oppose the ad mission of Kansas with the slavery constitution. Senator Hammond’s political opinions we bap pen to know, without ever having seen that distinguished man. Since the days when the great Calhoun sat in the Senate for South Caro- lina, no one has represented that chivalrous State whose talents, purity, sound political pria- ciples and rigid adherence to State rights have been so clearly marked as those of Mr. Ham- mond. These pretended revelations about Sena- tors Hunter and Hammond, instead of being the deductions of a man of tact and sagacity, seem more like the blunderings of a taitor turned literati, and with the original goose stil predominating. ‘Tua Carico Dress Somer.—No wonder that our amiable cotemporary, the Hon. Booby Brooke, became very fidgety about the Calico Dress Ball at the Academy, and denounced its managers as snobs, woodsawyers, wheelbarrow trundlers and so on. The preparations are go- ing on rapidly and vigorously, and with every prospect of a great-success. The list of mana- gers is headed by twenty-nine ladies in the best circles, headed by the wife of the new Mayor, that functionary himeelf leading off the list of gentlemen managers, which includes many official personages in civil and military circles, prominent professional men, and the officers of the Seventy-First Regiment, who will have charge of the floor. There will be an ori- ginal poem, a promenade concert and grand ball. Mr. Ullman, the lessee of the Academy, has provided the decorations, which it is said are superb. The Executive Committee hold sessions daily at their office, No. 333 Broadway, and all the arrangements have already been nearly com- pleted. The soiréeisin aid of the Hunter Woodis Benevolent Society and other charitable socie- ties. The ladies’ dresses donated are to be distri- buted among the following female benevolent societies:—Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children ; New York Ladies’ Home Missionary Society ; Woman’s Protective Emi- gration Society ; New York Asylum for Lying- in Women; American Female Guardian Society; the Ladies’ Union Aid Society ; New York Wo- man’s Hospital; and the Colored Home. The proceeds of the soirée are to be appropriated to the distribution of loaves of bread, by tickets, through the agency of the society, in aid of which the soir ¢ was first designed. So all the ladies will please to get ready their best looks for the fourth of February. The suc- cess of the ball is beyond peradventure. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington. THE TIME WHEN INTEREST ON TREASURY NOTES BEGINS—COM. PAULDING'S MOVEMENTS—CAPTAIX RAMSAY, OF THE NAVY, RESTORED TO THE KR- TIRED LIST—THE NEW MINISTER TO SW! MORE CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS—THE FORTHCOM- ING REPORTS ON THE PRESUDENT'S ANTI-FILIBUS- TER MBSSAGE—TROUBLE ABOUT THE ADMISSION OF MINNESOTA, ETC. Wasstinaron, Jan, 16, 1858. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has issued acircular to collectors, receivers of public money, dopositaries and other officers authoriged to reeeive duties, debte and sales of public lands, payable to the United States, directing at- tention to the fotlowing:—“Should treasury notes bearing interest be sent to disbursing officers or agents of the United States for payment of public oreditors, such oflcers ‘or agents wil! be directed to date their endorsements. “The date so endorsed by an officer or ageut of the United States is legally regarded as the true date of the issue of such notes, from which the interest thereon is to be com- puted.” Advices from Com. Paniding contain nothing outside of what bas alréady been published, except that he is now on his way home. Capt. Ramsay has been restored to the retired list by the Naval Court, with a salary of twenty five hundred dollars per annum. ‘The Naval Court of Inqujgy eritl be continued in session until the cases before tt are disposed of, although the law expires to day, . ‘The Navy Department bas advices of the arrival of the United States frigate Morrimac at Rio Janeiro, in forty three days from Reston—all well on board. The Merrimac would leave as soon as the ship could be propared for the paseage around Cape Horn. New York, was confirmed yesterday as ‘way and Sweden. A large batch of consular appointments was made to- day. They will pot be made public until next week. Owing to the large number of apptications—some nine hundred in ali—the I'resident found bimself mach embar- rassed in making the selections. New York, 1 understand, gets two, Mr. Clingman, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Honse, will report in favor of sustaining the views and policy of the President's Message upon Glibustoring. Mr. Mason, from the Senate Committee, will do the samo thing. The Sevate Territorial Committee bat a long meeting to- day. The Minnesota constitution was the subject of con- sideration. It is doubtful whether they will réport it to the Senate, as the Governor and authorities in Minnesots have not complied with the enabling act or the law News from Kansas. PROBABLE RESULT OF THE RURCTION. Sr. Lovie, Jan, 16, 1868, The Republican learn that General Calboun had re turned to Lecompton under an escort of United States troops, and that be would leave Leavenworth on Wednes- day last for Washington, with the Lecompton constitution. ‘Tho vote upon it ts expected here to-night. The Leavenworth Times of the Oth says, that reports in- dicate the success of the tree State ticket, while the votes against the constitution probably exceed fifteen thousand. The Leavenworth correspondent of the Democrat says that so far as heard from the free State party bas secured thirty.one out of forty-four represeotatives, and fourteen out of nineteen Senators. Tho vote against the constitu. tion is about equal to that polled at the October election, Gentlemen who left the Territory on-the Lith inst. report the democratic State ticket elected. ‘Tremendous Storm at New Orieane—Loss of Life and Destruction of Property. New Onimans, Jan, 15, 1968, A sudden storm of wind came np this afternoon, aceom- panied by rain, which amounted to iy & hurricane, Fifteen ships broke from their moor, \d Were consid- erably damaged. The C. 8. Pennell, of Rath, and the Hllea Stewart were badly injured. Several houses were un- roofed and otherwise moro or less injured. The lake end of the Pootchartrain Railroad is about half destroyed. The damage to steamboats, which the wind broke loose from their fastenings, is itnmense. Chimaoys wore blown down and several lives were joet, Many tow boats were also injured. Tt is impossible to get the full particulars or the names Of the boats injured and destroy ed to-night. ‘The storm lasted only half an hour. ‘The storm blew down fences and injured many veran- dabs of Houses in thie city. Tt is not known whether it extended to the Gulf, hat many fears are expressed in re gard to ite effects in that region, and that the damage is muob greator _yet heen reported. News from Varatan, New Omumana, Jan. 16, 1868, The schooner Telianarser from Aisal, Yoestan, on the 6th inet, arrived wt this port today. The plioe was blsekaded, and a cbange ia the government had taken place. Peace negotiations were progresstog, and hopes were entertaine! that the revolution would soon end, Denth of Captain Brent, of the Army. Se. Loom, Jain 16, 1868. The Republican learns that Capt, Rreut, Arsistant Quar. termecter of the Army, died at Leavenworth on Weds poaday mt the State Cayptrar. DISORGANIZATION KUNG RAM? ART— ROUSE OP| BLY IN STATU QUO—TWO MOWE PATLERES & SPBAKEK- GENSKAL STAMVKDK OF M BOMK FOR FRESH INSTRUCTIONS. Atmayy, Jan. 16, One-sinth of the hundred days hax been wast forta to organize the Assembly ; and during all Ido not believe that batf a dozes members wel anxious te aceomplish that indispeneanie resnit. there hag net been @ emgle member veno:poss independeree of manfully endeavoring ©: wot th. agoing, unless @ political edject coula be gainer This morning the House met as usual, about ons the members being absent,.though they earefull] off with each ether, 80 that pe advantage could Jn each other's abmence. ‘ Mr. Case (rep:) of Madison county, opened th; moving that the House proceed! to vote, viva Speaker, in the usual manner. Tue vote stood Kepburgh 45, Alvord 40, Horton-7, Law 1. Nocl Mr. Law, (K.N.) then offered & joint resolu the Legislature wijourn syne die. Nu. No; by tion. second vote ftood the same as the i Mr. Lawren’, (dem.) of Queeus county, me the Houre adjouro until naif past seven o'clock day evening. Mr. Barnes, (rep.) of Steuben, amend by substituting Tuesday morning eleven| An adjournment until Monaay morning was then ‘and lost, Mr. Chatteld, (aem.) wished to ajo three and a@ half o’clocw Tuesday P.M. Sever rural membors opposed this latter proposition qu: mently, declaring their constituents woud heid sponsible for such ® lavish expenditure of the! ume. On Tuesday afternoon, then, we shali have anoti bition of political strength. ’ The trial may rem | amg sull, though the return of bir. Reyaulds| rom Saratoga,.may have the effect of tually wi ue of the caudicates trom the tlelid ul context. ‘The Senate not ia session to day, having adjour} to Monday muddy tues Kere. Westher Warm, rainy, April than midwinter. Aunany, Jan. 16 Only ninety three members present, most of tees having paired off. On a motion made by Mr. Cas, (rop.) a vote for Speak: r—Van Vaikenburgn (rep.) 45, Alvor 40, Horton (Am:) 7, Law (am ) 1 Mr. Law, (Am.) then.moved conourrent re adjourn the House sine die. Lost. Another vote was taken, which resulted withoy Mr. Lawrence, (dem.) then moved to adjou: past seven o’cluck on Monday evening. Mr. Sacx (rep.) moved to amend by proce: apother vote—that a plurality elect. Ruled out of order Mr Haws (rep.) ghen moved that Mr. Law's adjourn over be laid on the table, Lost—ayes 2] ‘4 long debate theu eneued ou adjournment, tually the House adjourned over until Tuesday} past 3 P.M. & NEW SANITARY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY YORK. The bill introduced in the State Senate by “to improve the public health and estabiish police in the eity of New York’? proposes to ¢ tite of the City Inspector's Department to thi ment of Public Health,” and give the officer wir a6 the City Inspector the title of Superintencd lic Hewith.”” If the bill passes, the act is not to until the Ist of January, 1*59, unless a vacaucy curs in the office of City Inspector, aad in th act is W take effect immediately on the vcy the vacancy. Under the amended charter, « departments except the Comptrolier and the the Corporation are to be appoiuted by the the advice aad consent of the Bear: of aicermme| Schell’s bili proposes to limit the Mayor's pow tion of a Superintendent of Public Heaith to py have graduated from a regularly charterea 5] lege ‘The Superintendent is to divide the city ir districts, the number of which may be varied al best, provided it shal! never exceed the numbe and he is to nominate to the Board of Alderme Superintendent for each district, who sball t only for cause. In case of pestilence, the Deputy Superintendents may be increased. Tt tendent is to perform all the duties now perfor!) City Iuspector, and the Deputy Superintend perform all the duties now required of the Healt bas ba addition Loco ned ich eens ey shall inspect and report all nuisances © public health, keep themselves supplied wit cive virus, perform vaccinations as hereinaftc report sickuessez, keep meteorological recc themselves well informed of the sanitary con: tenements, houses, courts, cellars, and other a Owelliugs, amd of the streets, docks, slips pubtic builaings of their respecttve districts tmeans employed to remove filth and promote ‘ascertain what injuries to health are attr various maoufacturies, to the location” o rouses, tanneries and ‘burying grounds; anc form all such other sani duties and inver may be directed by the on Council, t Health, or the Superintendent of Pubiic He bal memoranda of all their observation: and the game in such manner and aa: Superthvendent may require. All the duties, p juments and privileges now by the law requ conferred upcn the City Inspector ait Hes are hereby transferred to the said Superinten: Duty Superintendents of Health respectively Dill requires all dispensaries, hospita prisons, &c., to make sanitary reports to thi dent. He and bis deputies are to constitut council, whose duty it sball be to advise Health and Common Council in sanitary mat “medical council” is to be what its name | Deput¥ Superintendents must be doctors »: Superintendent, but the Will does not require medical graduates. All the premises in the ¢ aubject to inspection by the deputies, and if found in a condition dangerous to publis healt! agent or lessee is to be notifled to purity the A reasonable time. 0 to do, the Superintontent mu wing to be done, and ail the atte to the owner, agent or | im addition thereto the flue of premises, am imposed 'ypon and collected from said ow lessee. Persons aggrieved by the order or Superintendent may appeal to.the Mayor ort Health. When smallpox occure in any hous: the family or the attendant physiciaa shail re within twenty-four hours, under penalty « ‘ Superintendent or one of his depnties must the premises and must vaccinate all the ina not deemed sufficiently protected by vace adult who refases or neglects either to be va have his children vaccinated, when required intendent, is to be fined $104 oF be impris than ten or more than thirty daye, bat the va be performed by any person whom the pa On every house where smail-pox occurs, th dent may at bis discretion affix the placar tine from Small Pox,” until he is sativtic inmate te sufficiently or othere against the disease: aod the penalty for thy removing of such placard is to be a fine of sonment for not less than five or more than The Superintendent may appoint three ¢ chemists as “inspectors @ Adulterations,”’ cles of food or medicine whieh they exam: to be unfit for use shall, if the Superinten tho report, be forfeited and destroyed, anc the articles destroyed shall be charged with examination All the fines and penalties incurred und be enforced by summary proceedings bef trate in the city, and every flue di the dispensary in whose district Bincuamrey, Hon. Daniol S. Dickinson was thrown last night, avd badly, though not dange ‘The horse wok fright at the care at ther ‘Dear bis residence, and ran away, apse and forcibly throwing Mr. Dickinson to t wae taken home bieeding profusely from head He received other severe iajurie bones were broken. The Trial of Thds. W. Smith ft der of Carter, the Bank Pr Pmiuapenrna, an District Attorney Mann addressed the the case of Smith, charged with killing Pt) Prosi ient of the Tamaqua Pank,atthost “t He said he deeply sympathized with the a he had never been engaged in ® case whe his sympathy #0 conflicted. Ho then proc the plea of insanity, and was followed hy very able speech for the prisoner. The be given to the jury on Monday. The s: is very great The Robertson Potsoning Case + Roorrermn The Roberteon case was galled at nine o ing. The mother of the defendant was t ‘She swore that she had dived with bers since he had been marsed. She had i the past two years, and nothing bes hart between him and bis wife. The surgeon who attended Mrs. Rot called. Ho testified to the uniform kine defendant to his wife, and dorerbed ther ons thedicines whiek the pros ontion clat of Biegler ty the defendams to poison which, he anid, were simpke and harmle Ove witness testified that young Bie Mr. Roberteon, had pressed hitn for th: his father, but that he had cords ao tie #on's neck that the money would cor way; alec, that Qogler had sald that if own wag be would be the only witnee feadans, We. Dovkteo, the cashier of the Zim» Seer. He said that the de rave money and take the P ond that the ninety, eighty @ Peed ia ig eyingneg of Ha