The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOB, ets. CORNER FULTON AND NASSAT AMUSEMENTS TILIS DAY AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Afternoon and Eveoing—Fauesteian AND ZOOLOGICAL PRRFORMANCES—CIN- DERELLA, OF THe LivTix Gass SLIPPER. WIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway —Kquasrstanrse AND Gra. 8 /ar0s—Purroxeing Reisoornos, Motes, Kuaeaant, AND Honszs, &c, —— TRE, Rowery—Heans, tus Hovte— BOWER Pavt Pur—Kine or Cums BURTON'S THRATRE. Hrosdway, opposite Bond atreet— ‘Twaurta Nigas—Couvuays. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Waxarirp—A Deoipen C .3* KRENE'S THEATRE, Sroadway—Muteteea or ono hun hisnt HocseSrectne Baiprcnoox Broadway—Tus Vicar or | MUSE! Broadway—Afternoon ‘ie Tait HavMakes, Evening ‘WOOD'S BUIDINGS, 561 and 563 Broadway—Grorcs GSucurr 4 Wooo's Minetacis—Tus Tooviss, wita CavpLe Lecronss. SERENADERS, No. 444 Broadwav—Neceo Buriasques—Ti BUCKLEY'S Maxcoptes ann ‘nk Gerat Onx Horse Snow. MECHANIC'S HALL, (72 Sroadway—Bavant's Minsrneis —Ermoriax Sones—Daw Bryant's Great Show. Whe New York Herald—Edition for Zurope. ‘The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Wickman, will leave Boston ou Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at noon to- morrow, to go by railroad, aud at hat-past two o'clock P. M. te go by stesmboat. The Buropean edition of the Hxrat, printed in French and English, wil! be published at ten o’cleck in the morn- ing. Bingle copies, in wrappers, six coats. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Hanave wil! be received at the following places ia Burope— Lowsos.. ..Samson Low, Son & Oo, 47 Att. An. Lodge : Expreaa Co.,51 King William st Paaw .....Am.-Furopean Express Co. 8 Place ds ia Bourse, Lrvemroot. Am.- Express Co., 9 Chapel street, R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, Fast. Haver ..,.Am. European Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘The contents of the Buropean edition of the Haratp wil Sombine tre news received by mail snd telegraph at the pice during the previous week and up to the hour of pub- eation. The News, We have seven days later news from Europe, brought by the steamship Europa, which left Liver- pool on the afternoon of the 9th inst., and arrived at this port yesterday morning. There was nothing heard of the Vanderbilt steamship Ariel, which sailed from Southampton for New York on the 3lat of December, at the time of the departure of the Europa. The London money market was easy, and the bank directors bad again reduced the rate of ingerest from eight to six per cent. About 83,500,000 in gold; on its way from Australia to England. , The last,‘re- turn of the Bank‘of England, shows an increase in bullion of £1,188,232, the total amount held being £12.643,195—an increase of over five and a quarter millions of pounds sterling in the"apace of five weeks. Consols closed in London on the 8th inst. at 95 a 95}. Notwithstanding this favorable state of the money market we have to report the following failures:— Glasgow—J. & W. Wallace, sewed muslin manufac+ turers, £250,000; Mitchell, Miller & Ogilvie, ware- housemen, £30,000; and Clapperton, Findlay & Co., merchants; John Ewan, of Dundee, jufacturer, £50,000, and R. H. Whitfield & Co., of Dondon, West India merchants, £45,000. Cotton advanced one-fourth of a penny in the Liverpool market on the Sth inst., but it was not maintained to the close. There was a good demand, and the sales (four days) amounted to 49,890 bales. Flour declined from sixpence to one shilling per barrel on Friday, the Sth inst. Sugar had advanced, with an active demand in London. Later advices from India had been telegraphed from Suez to London, but the exact dates are not given. General Havelock died at Lucknow on the 25th of December, of dysentery, induced by mental anxiety and exposure. General Wyndham, with his division, consisting of a little over two thousand men, attacked a force of the Gwalior muti- neers, numbering eight thousand, on the 27th of November. The rebels were marching from Calpee towards Cawnpore, and fought desperately, causing the English troops to retreat, with the loss of nearly the whole of the Sixty-fourth regiment. Sir Colin Campbell, however, completely routed this body of mutineers on the 7th of Decem- ber, destroying all their ammunition, bullocks and NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1858. of the proceedings, and carried the case to the Court of Appeals at Albany, where, upon a hearing of the points raised and the exceptions taken by counsel, the verdict of the Court below was reversed and a new trial granted. This case is certainly an extra- ordinary one, and presented difficulties that required great perseverance and ingenuity to overcome; counsel had to centend against a weighty tide of circumstantial evidence and the great force of popu- lar prejudice. The prisoner has already had two lengthy trials; on the first the jury failed to agree, but on the second trial he was found guilty. It was upon exceptions taken at the last trial that the Court of Appeals pass, and we shall witness, what is happily a very rare oceurrence here, a man being tried a third time on a capital charge. The opinion of the Court of Appeals is important as affecting the qualification of jurors and the weight to be given to the previeus good character of an accused party. The Police Commissioners on Saturday did nothing in public session but dispose of a few charges against policemen. What took place in secret session was not disclosed. It is rumored, though with what foundation we cannot state, that the Board will not press their recommendation to the Legislature to enact a law preventing discharges from station houses between sunset and sunrise. John McDade, of 67 James street, was yesterday committed to prison to await the result of an inves- tigation into the causea which led to the fire on his premises on Saturday night last, a full account of which will be found elsewhere. The value of foreign goods entered at the port of Boston for the week ending the 22d imstant was $700,201, showing an increase over the same week in 1857 of $317,229. The principal importations were dry goods, sugar and molasses, iron and steel, groceries and linseed. The annexed 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. :— ? F 04.u | 3PM 7 ea TL ET FF BE 5 : 3 3 Sat... 1629 95148) |29.98)49) |38)0.60 Sun. |17|30.30{38| NW |§0.39(38) 0 Sefon.”|1*/30.44)31] W. |80.48}35 | 30} Pues. |19130.51{36] WwW. (30.51/36 at Wed. |20)30.51]35) N. |30.51|37 | Thur. |21|30'70135) 8. W. [30.482 | Fri... |22]80.49 34) N.F. [80.95 31] | oats. |2s131 00/24] Nie [| } REMARKS. Saturday—Morning, fog and heavy rain; afternoon, clear- ed off; night, clear. Sunday—Mornirg, cloudy; afternoon, clear and cool; night, clear. ‘Monday—Overcast all cay. wee afternoon, c'oudy, with very ight snow. Wednesday—Morning, cloudy; afternoon, clear and pleasant. Thursday—Ciear and pleasant all day; night, bright moonlight. Friday—Morniug, clear; afternoon and night, clear and col Saturday—Morning, ciear and cold. ‘The cotton market was less buoyant on Saturday, while the sales embraced about 600 bales, closing at about ic. decline, and some brokers quoted the depression equal to about ‘ic. from the current rates in the fore part of the week. Not much change can be expected in the present aspect of the market until further news is received from Europe. The giving way in prices, at the South, has tended to weaken the market bere. The flour market was inactive and prices were some less buoyant, while they closed without quotable change. The sales were mode- rate. Wheat was firm for prime lots, which was scarce. A sma sale of choice North Carolina white was ro- ported at $1 40. Corn was less active, with sates of new yellow and white at 65c. a 67c.a 68c. Prime dry white was held at 70c. There was a speculative move- ment in pork, and including sales yesterday and the pre- vious afternoon, they amounted to about 1,800 bbis., in- cluding some purchases for export to Californis, closing at $15 for mees and at $12 for prime. About 500 boxes ba- con, Cumberland cut, were soldat about 7ijc. Lard was firmer. Sales of sugars were limited to 200 a 800 hhds. New Orleans, and sales of 2,800 bags were made from Hong Kong, the latter at 5c. a6%c. Freight engage- ments were moderate. Liverpool, about 3,000 bbis, flour were taken at 2s., whoat at 64,4. im bulk. Rates for other goods were unchanged. Arrival of the Europa—The News from India. ‘The news from India, and in relation to In- dian affairs in England, which we publish in another column, is important in several points of view. A pang will be felt by many a heart that has no ties of blood with Britain, on learning that the gallant old chief who so nobly rolled back the tide of rebellion in its course toward Cal- cutta, and gathered countless laurels with a handful of men, has fallen @ victim to disease, General Havelock expired at Lucknow, the grain, and capturing sixteen of their guns. These quillity of Central India. We have to record the deaths of a number of cele- brated personages. General Havelock, Madame Ra- chel, Field Marshal Radetzky. and Redschid Pasha, have been removed from life, and our obituary no tices of each will be found very interesting. The Madrid journals state that no redress will be given to ¢ government for the outrage on the Dorado, and that the mention of a national insult. «t dates from China were not telegraphed, ations for a combined attack on Canton continued to be made ot Hong Kong. Some reports were to the effect that the French would not take part in the operations. The United States frigate Minnesota attracted much attention at Hong Kong. From Australia we have news dated at Sydney on the 11th, and Melbourne on the 17th of November. Trade at Melbourne continued depressed. Bills for the construction of railways from Melbourne to Mount Alexander, Bendigo, and the Marray, and from Geelong to Ballarat, passed the Legislature, Estimated expense, £8,000,000 sterling. Flour had declined from £6 to £5 per ton. Superior wool rated at from Is. 11d. to 2s. 2d. At Singapore, E.1., on the 21st of November, gold dust rated—Malayan, $29 25 a $29 50, and Austra- lian, $30 a $30 50 per bunkal. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope are dated at Table Bay on the 6th of November. In October and November three or four vessels left the Cape for the Kooria Mooria Guano Islands. The general pro- duce market exhibited an upward tendency. Wools again advanced, and in the Eastern Province ruled, unwashed, Is. 2d.; washed, 1s. 6d. to le. 9d. Kaffir- land remained very unsettied. The natives were in a deplorable condition, and $0,000 had been drafted into the colony as servants. The subject of railways engaged a great deal of attention in the colony. ‘The first batch of Trish female emigrants had ar- rived at East London. A adit Bahia on t declining in from South America, dated at Yovember, say that sugars were d the previous rate of 2 ||590 could not be obtained. Cotton was quoted at 8 (700 to 9 700. advices f he deme patter of the tor Schell’s confirme ngton seem to indicate nd by the President in mpton constitution. Col ion by the Sqnate is said to la le be beyond doubt. The Senate Committee on French Spoliat decided to recommend that Congress appr five millions of doilare,in five per cent stock, for have riate mid the claims exceed the mittee, they recommend a their liquidation. & sum specified by the C pro rata distribution. The Court of Appeals hae granted a new trial to Michael Cancemi, who was convicted of the murder of policeman nat the November term of the Baprewe ¢ Olron re Jodge Davies. Mesars. Aale ow \ mnsel assigned to de feou ee eccured, olleumed a Wi we Guru aud stay | scene of his crowning glory. In other respects the news from India was not considered favor- able in England. The contingent force that had been kept up by a subordinate native prince at Gwalior, and which had mutinied, marched on Cawnpore and succeeded in defeat- ing General Windham, cutting up one English regiment entirely. They were subsequently cat to pieces by Sir Colin Campbell, who seems now about to enter upon his work of pacifying Oude by destroying all the small bodies of Sepoys that are scattered through it. Troops were ar- riving in large numbers at Calcutta, and the de- struction of the Gwalior contingent left no body of insurgents in the field, west or south of Oude. Sir Colin Campbell’s operations will, therefore, be limited to that kingdom, and only depend for their rapidity upon the means which he may possess for bringing up his reinforce- } ments from Calcutta. The question of the re-organization of the government of India was about to be brought forward in Parliament. Lord Palmerston would bring in a bill proposing to veet the direction of the affairs of the three Presidencies in one Cabinet minister, and institute other reforms in the administration of government in the Last. What position the East India Company will occupy under the new order of things is not an- nounced, but it is evident that it is not to be abrogated. The future policy of the govern- ment in India is a subject of repeated comment by the London journals, and occupies a large share of public attention. A meeting had been held at Exeter Hall on the subject of Chris- tianity in India, but the attendance was small and the tone of the resolutions remarkably mode- rate for that locality. The chief resolution gives up the policy of proselytising the Hindoos by government patronage or authority, and claims that all classes, whether Christian, heathen or Hindoo, shall have equal religious freedom. It is evident from the tenor of theee advices that Sir Colin Campbell has yet an a task to perform in the East, being not than the entire conquest of the ki Onde, which he will undoubtedly thorough manner, and that in respect t organization of the Indian empire, lord Pal merston is far behind the requirem of the age. In fact, the same ignorance, folly and ob stinate deference to the wishes of a few inte rested parties, are to prevail in Ind!an affairs that have ever prevailed in the whol history of England's colonial policy. The company system, which hitherto has operated as « direet exclusion of individual enterprise In. is doubt, ta be continged. and te oi kuglauds rue from dia uw ne retuite they will be developed when her commercial ecience and mechanical akill shall have the avenues of industry opened to them in the East, are to be deferred until men of a less exclusive policy than Palmerston are at the helm. One might have supposed that the brilliant contrast which is afforded by the disgrace of England’s arms under her aristocratic leaders in the Crimea, and the glory that has accrued to them under her yeoman chiefs in India, would have given her statesmen some hint of the new policy in civil affairs that should be inaugurated there. But such it seems is not the case. Abuses are to be preserved because they have grown hoary with time, and reforms are not to be inaugurated because they are not of apiece with the errors of old. Palmerston’s India bill, so far as we are informed of its pro- visions by the late advices, is nothing more than the same old mule with a new halter. The appointments for India are merely to be taken out of the hands of a selfish set of directors, and vested in a peer of the realm. Our Relations with Spain--The Last News from Madrid. It will be seen by the extracts which we to- day publish from the Madrid Aepana and other Spanish journals that Spain is already proclaim- ing her determination not to make any repara- tion to this country in the case of the steamship E) Dorado, and above all, that on no terms or conditions will she enter into any negotiation with regard to Cuba. This pre-announcement of adetermination not to assent to what may upon examination be found to be a simple act of justice, and declama- tory refusal to treat for Cuba before any one has asked her to do so, looks more like a piece of supererogation on the part of the punctilious Dons—very like what we might call hallooing before one is out of the woods. We think Spain would do well to wait to see how Mr. Bu- chanan may bring the question of the steam- ship and other claims of our citizens to her no- tice. before she announces a denial of justice; and as for refusing to sell Cuba, it would be wise to wait till she gets an offer for it. Events are taking a shape that may bring Cuba into the American Union as a sovereign State with- out any regard to the acquiescence or refusal of Spain. Should President Comonfort prove himself to be the man for the occasion that is before him, it is not improbable that the question may be sub- mitted to the people of Cuba to decide, whether they will prefer to remain as an independent State, to enter the Mexican confederacy, or the American Union. As for the denial of justice In the claims of our citizens against the Spanish government for injuries committed by the authorities of Cuba, such a course would probably bring the whole of them to a settlement much sooner than the tardy process of diplomacy. There is a way open to our government that has not been hitherto adopted, because of an ill advised leniency toward Spain; a leniency which she has evidently misinterpreted. It is well known that the Captain General of Cuba holds from the crown a double commission—one as a regu- larly appointed Captain General of the king- dom, limited in its authority, and bound to submit everytHing to the powers at home; and the other a royal decree, conferring upon him all the authority which devolves upon the com- mander of a besieged city. Ie can and does assume to act under each of these commissions as his judgment may determine, and no com- plaint of any of his illegal acts, committed in virtue of the extraordinary powers in him vested, can go bebind his plea that such acts were by him considered necessary for the pre- servation of the rights of the crown. The case of the firing into the steamship El Dorado—as, in fact, nearly all the other claims held by our citizens—arose from orders given by the Captain General, under the royal order conferring upon him the extraordinary powers. In these orders he committed an act of war against a friendly nation, under one commis- sion; and when complaint was made, he brought forward his other commission, which precludes his holding any communication with foreign Powers, and refers the whole matter to the distant Court of Madrid. Now, as ever since the year 1825, the Captain General of Cuba has held the extraordinary powers of a commander of a place in a state of stege, and has acted under them at pleasure, Mr. Buchanan would be perfectly justified in considering him as hold- ing these powers at all times. Shotf@ he, there- fore, direct the Commodore of our Home Squadron to call at Havana, and, holding the Captain General to the same position as that under which he gave the orders to fire into a United States mail ship, demand of him the reparation, with an intimation that the port would be blockaded until he entered upon the consideration of the claims, we have no doubt that his Excellency would very soon remember that he had an authority which would enable him to act in the premises. We merely throw out this hint for the better advisement of the Spanish government. ® Peusiic Orixion 1x tue Rena. Distrrers— Tur Ropentson Consrmacy Cs “ Compari- sons are odoriferous,” as Mrs. Malaprop says; but as our country contemporaries are fond of indulging in them, we are once in a while in- duced to follow their example. People whose business takes them into the rural districts, where the patriarchal virtues are supposed to flourish, and where church going three times a day is considered an eseential condition of one’s worldly respectability, must have been shocked at the view which is there taken of New York morals. According to the shining lights of the pulpit and prese in those favored parts, our city is a Gomorrah and its inhabitants fit sub- jects for the Divine vengeance. A New Yorker thrown into such society cannot help feeling like a reprobate excluded from all chances of salvation, and be usually returns home with a considerably diminished sense of his metropoli- tan superiority. If he be craven-hearted, he takes to Dr. Chrever’s and the missionary societies: if, on the contrary, be lacks the seeds of repentance, he endeavors to recover his equanimity and the tone of his sto- mach on sherry and bitters. interspersed by oc- casional visite to a theatre or gambling saloon. New York, we candidly admit, is a very im- moral place, and its people general, harden- ed sinners; but there is one thing to be said in their favor: They are consistent in their wick- edness, ard do not add to their moral offences that of hypocrisy. Ina world made up of so many contradictions this should count for some- thing, and we arennwilling to lose the benefit of the smallest saving virtue that we pos Ad oe contomporarion “ when aur roral were, as bdrew comparcous untaveravie to yur more t reputation, itis not surprising that we should occasionally be induced to remind them of their Own backslidings, and to ask them, in all humility, if we possess no quality that is de- serving o° their imitation. For example: Although crime and depravity may occasionally flourish amongst us, it must, we think, be conceded that the public opinion of New York rarely or never sides actively with criminals or with persons subjected to criminal accusations. When our clergy are charged with debauching other men’s wives, we do not throng the church of the delinquent to express our sympathy with his outraged feelings at be- ing made amenable to the law for so vulgar An offence. Neither are we in the habit of in- vading the sanctity of a judicial decision by of- fering at once to the accuser and to the accused the tribute of a public demonstration. The ac- count published in our colammes to-day of the serenades given to Mr. Robertson and Dr. Bieg- ler, after the conclusion of the trial of the for- mer at Rochester, presents a singular example of these inconsistencies, and offers a new, and, tous, incomprehensible phase of the condi- tion of the public morals in the gountry districts. It seems as if the Rochester people, taking the lead in @ revolution of all the old and orthodox ideas, were determined not only to transcend New York in the refinements of wickedness, but to set the example of a whole community re- joicing in sin. To this point, thank Heaven, we Gothamites have not as yet arrived; and our country contemporaries are at liberty to abuse us as much as they please, so long as they do not lay to our charge an active public sentiment of so startling a character. Deatus or Distmauisuep Pxrsons.—Our columns to-day present an unusual number of obituaries—all of them of pérsons who have left the impress of their talents upon the age. Amongst them the diplomatic and military pro- fessions and the tragic art have each a repre- sentative. It is seldom that it falls to the lot of the journalist to record in a single page the deaths of so many eminent persons, all of whom are destined to cut a prominent figure in histo- ry. First amongst them, for the recent glory which attaches to his exploits, we have to men- tion that of the gallant Sir Henry Havelock, the saviour of the British empire in India, and next, by a singular coincidence, that of Marshal Radetsky, the saviour of the Austrian empirein Italy. No military leader ever achieved so much in eo short a time asSir Henry Havelock; and certainly no man ever did more for the honor and glory of the British arms. His reputation has been acquired without the stain of a single weak- ness or cruelty—his being one of those evenly balanced minds which seems never to have been carried away by excess of zeal. Not so his military compeer, Radetsky. Although he rendered important services to his sovereign, he was betrayed by his devotion tohim into the commission of barbarities which must ever de- tract from his reputation as a gallant soldier. The death of Redschid Pacha, one of the ablest and most enlightened men in Turkey, and who was instrumental in carrying through the reforms originated in the reign of the late Sultan Mabmond, and confirmed and extended by the Hatti Sherif of Gulhané, will create general regret. TheChristian population of that empire, and the cause of religious toleration in general, loses in him a sincere and active friend. In the long expected demise of Rachel, the greatest of living tragedians, the arts lose a genius that we may never hope to behold again. To her speciality of gifts may be applied the well known observation of Lord Dudley:—“She has rendered past glory doubtful and future glory impossible.” Whilst most of these great minds and bril- liant talents lived long enough to enjoy the rewards to which their merits and the gratitude of their compatriots entitled them, it is painful to reflect that poor Havelock was cut off just as the fruits of a long and painful career were placed within his grasp. It is to be hoped that the niggardly spirit in which these honors were dealt out to the dead hero by his sovereign will relax into a more generous appreciation of his services by the bestowal of a peerage upon his son. Corronation Fravos—Tuk Liout Breaxino Ix Uroy Us.—When the committee of the Com- mon Council, appointed some time since to in- vestigate the frauds of eight millions alleged to have been committed in the city expenditure, made their report, doubt was thrown not only on the correctness of their conclusions, but also on the motives by which they were actuated. It will be recollected that the late Board of Alder- men, influenced by these or other considerations less disinterested, refused an additional appro- priation to enable the committee to pursue their inquiries. Thus all further action in this im- portant matter appeared to be quashed. The facts brought to light by the evidence of Mr. Flagg, in his examination before the com- mittee appointed to investigate the frauds charged to have been committed in the Comp- troller’s department, show that the statements made in the report of the first committee had a substantial foundation. Under the very nose of the Comptroller, the officer charged to check and overhaul the Corporation accounts, it appears that a commit defaleations to the extent, it is asserted, of upwards of t#o hundred thousand dollars. The Comptroller's books were kept by this per- ron, and there is no knowing as yet to what extent they will afford proofs of his operations, They are in process of being ex- amined, and when the committee meet again next Friday it is expected that we shall have come fresh facts of the same agreeable character to add to the mass of evidence that is daily accumulating against the present system of cor- porate administration. It is certain that if frauds of such extent can be perpetrated with impunity in the Comptrol- ler’s office, there must be similar pickings and stealings going on in all the other departments. Where there is no efficient system of account- ability such things will always happen; and it is not to be supposed that where the depart- ments are independent of cach othor and subject to no one reeponsible head, there can be much cantion or ecrupulousness on the part of individuals as to the manner in which they help themeelve e believe that if the whole of the city expenditure for the last dozen years conld be overhanled, the statements of the original committee would be found to fall short of the facts. The appointment of a standing committee on frauds will not help us in this matter. That commiltee has none of the elements of an im- partial or vigilant body, and its only purpose is, we believe, to defeat any attempt at a more seuivhing wages y. clerk was enabled to | ‘The Necessity of a Bureau of Statistics-Con- Action Wonted, gremional One of the most urgent necessities in the or- ganization of the government at Washington is a Bureau of Statistica, which should be the great centre of all the statistical information that is now diffused in complete disorder through the several departments—the census returns, the ta- bles of commerce and trade, immigration, and many of the branches of industry—in fact, a bureau that ¢hall perform for the great indus- trial interests the same services that the Patent Office is rendering to the agricultural. This bureau should be created and organized during the present session of Congress, In two years more we have to take another general cen- sus of the country, and the officers should have some experience before entering upon that duty. The manner in which the census has hitherto been taken is a reproach to a country claiming to possess the lights of civilization. No two of them are capable of comparison with each other. Not only are they not compiled and tabulated alike, but they areentirely wanting in uniformi- ty of information. For instance, the statistics of the various branches of commerce were en- tirely omitted in the last census, though they bed been obtained in that of 1840; and during the late crisis in financial affairs we have endeavored in vain to gather some idea of the extent of our domestic trade from that pompous work, published at so great a cost to the country and profit to the printer, called the Census of the United ‘States. Be- yond a mere enumeration of our exports and imports for a series of years, it gives us no in- formation on this point. It istime that this evil were remedied, and that a comprehensive, general and useful plan were combined, upon which the census of the nation can be taken systematically, and enable us to compare our industrial developement, one decade with another, in something more than the simple enumeration of white folks and nig- gers. A few judiciously compiled and promptly published statistics will often be of eminent ser- vice to trade and industry, by showing us where over trading and over production are going on. Great changesare constantly occur- ring in the pursuits of industry, and a general knowledge of what these are would be a valua- ble guide to capital seeking employment. For example, the South and Southwest are begin- ning to enter into the business of making cot- ton fabrics; if the country possessed the proper information in regard to this fact, we should not be in the danger of ever manufacture of domestics and coarse goods to the extent we now are, when the facts are in the possession of a few individuals only, and new enterprises learn them only from a deadly competition. This necessity is well understood in Europe, and there is hardly a petty German Principality but has its bureau of statistics, the publications of which are an important guide in the safe em- ployment of capital. We therefore call upon the representatives of this city in Congress to move at once in this matter. New York, as the great metropolis of the industry and commerce of the country, is more interested than any other one Congres- sional district. In order to assist them in the work we will point out some of the sources of information which are within their immediate reach. Two reports were made to Congress on this subject in 1845, and a bill was introduced at that time. The compendium of the British census will give them the details of the organi- zation of the office of Registrar General ; and Porter’s “ Progress of the Nation,” published in London, will suggest many valuable ideas. Let them go to work at once and prepare a bill for the creation of the Bureau of Statistics. The man that does this will do much more towards securing his re-election from the first commer- cial city of the Union than all the intriguing about Custom House appointments, and other petty favors to office beggars, can ever attain for him. Who is the man that will make his mark on the great commercial and industrial interests of the country ¢ Tae Ponrrica. Triwwers ov tHe Day.— We have now before the nation three great political trimmers, to wit: Governor Walker, of Kansas; Governor Wise, of Vir- ginia, and Senator Douglas, of Illinois, We find them on the Kansas question trimming, dodging and turning half way between the ad- ministration and half way between the opposi- tion. Governor Walker takes the pains to go beyond his instructions, and assumes to act in a legislative capacity, in order to tickle the anti-slavery sentiment at the North. Governor Wise goes further, and uses his official position asa medium through which he assumes to speak for the State of Virginia. Senator Douglas deserts the cause for which he has already suf- fered political martyrdom, and attempts to make a little political capital by the meanest trimming and coquetting with the black repub- licans. If these gentlemen examine the records they will find that no trimming, vacillating, waver- ing politician ever achieved success. The whig party in England was a gerty of trim- mers. Where is it now? The party of the same name in the United States was broken down by aseries of concessions made for availability, and its leaders ascertained, too late, that the political trimmer is despised alike by the party which he deserts and the organization to which he lends a Teeble and uncertain assistance. From Halifax down to Douglas there has never been a trimmer who aided in the least degree either the party which he pretended to support, or who ever gained any lasting benefit for himself, Let us look for a moment at the position oc- cupied by theee trimmers while the last Presi- dential contest was going on. Governor Wise colemnly declared that if the opposition candi- date, Colonel Fremont, was elected and ever attempted to take his seat, the Old Dominion would rise in rebellion—ite valiant mi. litia, with Keitt, of South Carolina, would march to the capital and overthrow the federal government. According to Wise, the opposition candidate was 4 traitor to his coun. try, and those who supported him were equally guilty. Governor Welker and Senator Douglas held and promulgated the same opinions, Mr. Douglas sent his friends to Cincinnati to claim for him the Presidential nomination from the South, the Senator from Mlinois claiming to be the firmest advocate of the border rufians. Mr. Douglas received the Southern votes simply upon that ground, but was beaten by Mr. Bu- chanan because he united the vote of the dele- gates from the whole Union. The election over, and Mr. Buchanan quietly seated in the Presidential chair, Governor Walker is sent to Kansas to make peace. In- stead of that he trims between both parties bidding for the Politica! pext Preaidency aon at alias io the Lerritory became bopelessly in- i] mon, and I — volved. A State constitution goes to the peo- ple, and so far as it is submitted it is endorsed by the popular vote. By that vote the institu- tion of slavery is recognized; the republicam opposition immediately declare against any such recognition, and that opposition is at once joined by Wise, Walker and Douglas— each of whom expects to be the Northern candi- date for the succession. Quite well aware that the balance of power, at present, lies in the hands of the Northern voters, they hope to trims between both sections so as to be ready to turm to either side when the occasion demands it. We believe that the good sense of the American people will be found sufficiently strong to de- feat the aspirations of all these demagogues; and that they are now, like a great many of their illustrious predecessors, digging their political graves. EEeEEQures== THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Washington. FRENCH SPOLIATIONS—THE DEMOCRAGY AND THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION—-NEW YORK POLITE CIANS, BTC. Wasmaron, Jan. 24, 1868. The Senate special committee on French spoliation claima decided at their laat meeting in favor of reporting a bill, which Mr. Crittenden is preparing. It will include all the reports heretofore made, together with the vetoes, &c. The mode by which the committee propose to pay said claims is to issue United States five por cent stock. ‘They limit the amount to five millions, to be paid pro rate, provided thoy exceed five million dollars. The newspaper reports as to how delegations in Cen- greas stand, especially those of New York and Pennsyf- vania, relative to the Lecompton constitution, is more idle speculation and guess work. You may rely upon it thet all real Simon Pure democrats in both houses will tana by the administration upon this question. Mark that. The New York politicians—and their name is legioa— who bave and still continue to swarm about the Capitol, will return home shorn. They have ascertained that Ool- lector Schell will be confirmed two to one. The District Attorney and Marshal for Western New York will not be appointed for some time yet. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ‘Wasmnaron, Jan. 24, 1869. The Union, in an article on Southern colonization, la- bors to show that the late John C. Calhoun entirely op- posed the acquisition of territory by force, and says believes that the popular voice of the South is now im unison with these sentiments regarding Central Amerioa and Cuba. Arrest of Counterfeiters. Weorrrmup, Mass., Jan. 24, 1868. Two men, named Chapin and Watkins, were arrested here yesterday by United States Marshal Warren, for counterfeiting United States coin. He found some of the bogus coin on Watkins, and a galvanic battery and some compocition metal at Chapin’s house. The wives of Cha- pin and Watkins were arrested in Worcester on Friday, for pasaing the coin made. The two men were committed to Springfield jail to await examination. Capture of a Murderer. ALBaxy, Jan. 24, 1858. We learn from the Fraaklin, Vt., Fisitor, that Stroub, who murdered his wife and two children in Westfield, Mass., a few weeks ago, was, it is bolieved, arrested and brought into Roxbury, Delaware county, Vt., on Saturday, Fire in Waterbury. Warerucer, Jan. 24, 1968. A fire broke out last night in the Brakeslee Building, im this city, destroying property to the amount of about $2,000. The loss is fully covered by insurance in Hart- ford. ‘The Methodist church, adjoining, caugbt fire, and atjone time was in imminent danger, but the fire was subdued. The church was considerably damaged by water. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary, —<$<—$$<$—$_—___. Death of a Boston Merchant. Bostow, Jan. 24, 1958. Mr. F. A. Jones, @ well known dry goods dealer in Tre- mont row, in this city, died this morning, ‘The Southern Mall. Wasmmcton, Jan. 24, 1868. The Southern mail from all points, ag late as dus, has en but the papers contain no news of impor- ‘Weather Reports. Eastern, Western and Southera Tele- the Northern, ,_ We val graph {ines.—Cfice 21 Wali ntreot. ‘arm and cloudy. Mild looks like rain. a = cloudy. ‘arm and cloudy. Cloudy. Caim, heavy mist. Finest this season. .M. Moderating. [Ewes News from Yucatan, Captain Merritt, of the schooner Tallahassee, from Sisal the 6th ipstant, informs the New Orleans 2rue Delfa that Popes of Bisai was under a blockade, and on his arrival off the barbor they would not allow him to enter at first, but on his insisting to de so he was permitted to pass. ‘On the 34 instant hee mane wer beg erties of the harbor, when the fleet made sail and went out to her, firing shots across her bow for her to heave to. She did not notice them, but immediately set her ensign, and when the feet saw it they ran to the harbor. She remained off the barbor until the 6th, when she lef. A change of governnfent bad taken place in Yucatan, and D. ‘tin Franaser bad beon elected Governor. Peace negotiations were progressing, and hopes were boo that the revolution would be atan end in « fortnight. The Amin Bey Fraud. {From the Albany Journal, Jan. 23.) Under this title a stor, been going the rounds, to the effect that the ‘ish Envoy, Amin Rey, whe re- ceived much attention from Mr. Webster and other officers of the government at Washington, in 1851, was an im- poster, and not an accredited representative. A geatle- man in this city, formerly connected with the American Legation at Constantinople, has furnished us with an ex- tract of a letter from the Secretary of State, which effect- nally disposes of the story — DxPARTMENT OF StATR, Wasiorow, Jan. 15, 1868. Sin—In angwer to that of your letter of the 4th instant, which relates to the mission of ‘Amin Bey to the United States aa the authorized of the Turkiab government, I bave to say that the correspondence of the American Legation at tantioople sufficiently deter- mines the character of that offeial, which, indeed, haw never for & moment been doubted by'the department’ He was receiv by government in his official ' honored as a guest during a long sojourn ek ing various portions of the country, and on his retarm home a lettor was transmitted from his Highness Red- schid Pasha, the Grand Vizier, expressing the Sultan's tification at the friendly manner in which ~b teceived by the government of the United States. “ His Imperial Majesty the Sultan,” says the Grand Vizier, “* sees in the brilliant r ion which bas been given te Amin Bey, anew proof of the friendship of the American government for the Sublime Porte, and he has directed me to express the great pleasure it has given him.” LEWIS CASS. —__. Rrooklyn City News. Carrere of 4 BORGLAR.—An attempt was made about one o'clock on Saturday night to enter the lace and em- broidery store of Belfour & Muller, on the corner of Fal- ton and Clinton streets. Mr. Belfour detected a mas opening a third story rear window and immediately cried out for the police, Sergeant Smith and ofcer Lewis Brokaw, of ‘the First precinct police, being 0. the vicinity, repaired to the house and saw the robber on the top of the arbor in the rear of the house. Offloer soon reached the place whore the fellow was, and taking him through the window, brought him down into the treet. Sergeant Smith went round in front to prevent others, if any there were, from eecaping. The name of the man arrested is John Mason. When taken to the sta- jon house # young man named Patrick O'Shea came in ta inquire after te, ‘and being identified as having been im Mason's company the night previous, he was also taken into custody on svepiciou, and both were locked up to answer Surcrme ay TaKinG Anernic.—Coroner Snell held an in- quert on Saturday pon the body of John W. Thackeray, at No, 86 Orarge street, who ded about two o'clock om that day from the effects of arsenic and laudanum. He loft Init home about four o'clock the afternoon previous, and procuring some arsenic at a drug store in Court street, near Dean, and a vial of laudanum at another place, pro~ ocvoded to a new Lege | in De Kath avenue, and swal- lowed both, fearing, as he said afterwards, that one hot have the effect he dorired. On returning home he told his wife, who immediately sent for two physicians, They applied remedies, but without producing any effect, and he lingered until the afternoon of the next day, when he expired. Tt appears that some three years since he sustained an injury about the head which haa at times since had the effect of making him fhghty in imagination, There ts no doubt that he was laboring under one of these fits when he committed the deed. The verdict of the jary was that he died trom the effects of arsenic administered by bis own hand Baroownyy Crry Morratery —The total n f TOOK! yn Last week wae 9, of whict Ha Gl Uawey Ae were gw 25 girla