The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1858, Page 4

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BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, oppose Bond street— Ov Heaps anv Youre Heants—coiumacs. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Poor or Naw \URA KEENF’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tax Sea oF ani 4 Motasn's Paaree. BARNUWS AMERICAN MUSEUM, ad Evening: fus Pionxze Patriot. INGS, 661 and 663 Kroadwav—Gronce deaee £ Woor's Minerania—Tun Toovces, wita CavDus Lactonns. Brosdway— Afternoon BUCKLEY'S SKERENADERS, No 444 Broadway—Necro Meconins any Buxizsques—Tue Get Ore lone Snow. MECEVA NTC’S HALL, 472 Broadway—Brviwr's Mixeeneya —¥rmortax Sowas—Dan Bryant's Great Suow. By the arrival of the Tennessee at New Orleans we have fifteen days later advices from Mexico. Great confusion existed in the capital, which had been placed under martial law, and the brigade of Zuloaga, which pronounced at Tacubaya, had di- vided, part of them pronouncing against that move- ment and part proclaiming Santa Anna. The movement of the States against the destruction of the constitution was spreading, and Vidaurri, at Monterey, and Garza, at Tampico, had united with it. A rumor was in the city yesterday afternoon that a despatch had been received from New Or- leans stating that Vera Cruz had been bombarded by the Spanish fleet, but it is without foundation. ‘The first portion of that fleet sailed trom Havana on the 12th inst., and had the news of the bombard- ment been true, it must have occurred previous to the sailing of the Tennessee from Vera Cruz on the 22d inst. This would leave but ten days for a Squadron composed mostly of sailing vessels to go from Havana to Vera Cruz and bombard it—a rapid- ity of operation that no Spanish fleet has ever been guilty of. We have also later advices from Yucatan, which show that matters were going from bad to worse very rapidly, and that the savages had again commenced their operations against the civilized settlements. The friends of General Walker held a meeting at Mobile on Monday, at whieh the General was pre- sent. He gives as a reason for the opposition to his schemes, that he had rejected overtures from the | government to go to Mexico and incite rebellion ; there, with a view of Mexico falling into the hands | of the United States. The Grand Jury at New Or- | Jeans have refused to find a bill against Walker. The Assembly yesterday succeeded in effecting an organization. After considerable ballotting the plu- rality rule was adopted, and under it Mr. Thomas G. Alvord (democrat) was elected Speaker, and Mr. David L. Wilson (American) Clerk. The minor offi- cers were also elected. | Our advices from Washington state that the | Treasury Department has no difficulty in meeting all demands upon it, and that the isene of treasury notes was progreasing rapidly. The House Commit- tee on Military Affairs are preparing a bill confering the benefits of the Revolutionary pension laws on | the officers and soldiers of the war of 1812 and sub- sequent Indian wars. It also extends the benefit to their wives and children. The investigating com- mittees meet to-day for the examination of wit- nesses. But little business was transacted in either branch of Congress yesterday, the time of the Senate being principally occupied with a debate on the pro- posed increase of the army. The House passed the bill for the relief of invalid pensioners. Mr. Cling- | man made an unsuccessful effort to offer a resolu- tion referring the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, with a view to its abroga- tion; and declaring that Central America now stands in the same relation to us as did Louisiana, and should not be controlled by any foreign Power. The report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the special message of the President in relation to the capture of General Walker and his followers on the coast of Nicaragua, by Commodore Paulding, was presented and read by Mr. Mason, of Virginia, chairman, in the Senate on Monday. The report will be found elsewhere. Our correspondent at Port au Prince, writing on 26th of December, makes an earnest appeal to the government at Washington on behalf of all Ameri- can sailors «tricken with fever in that harbor. The Haytien officers insist that the men must, immediate- ly after the attack, be sent on shore; but no hospitals are provided for their reception, and they are placed in “sick houses,” kept by ignorant natives, who have a direct interest in the men’s continued Ulness, and even in their death afterwards, as a sum of $21 (American) is allowed for every burial. Ame- rican seamen furnish the great bulk of the patients; and the sad scenes which occur at the side of their sick beds and at the funerals of those who die, pre- veut, it is presumed, very strong points forthe inter ference of our Cabinet. Captain Hines, of the schooner Cori Port au Prince on the 6th instant, rey low fever as raging violently at that port wien left. r A meeting of the citizens of Staten Island favor- able to the removal of Quarantine was held yester. day in the Court House at Richmond. The Quaran- tine Committee, appointed a month ago, submitted their report, recommending Sandy Hook as the most favorable location for that establishment. A report of the proceedings will be found in another column. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, bat ne thing of special importance was transacted. Mayor Tiemann sent in a commanication relative to print- ing and some other expenses incurred by the various city departments, which, after being read, was refer- red to the Committee on County Offices. The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park met yesterday, and authorized the withdrawal of $15,000 from the Bank of Commerce. A resolution was passed that gates be placed at both ends of Reventy-first street, and a wall be built immediately to the south of the mew reservoir, connecting with the present reservoir, and thence to the Fighth ave- nue; and also one to the north of the new reservoir across the Park, reserving so much as is covered by Harlem lane, and that said road be closed as soon as the Fifth avenue is in fair travelling condition. It ‘was also resolved that a committee be appointed to ascertain the ownership of all land lying between the south aide of 106th street and the south side of 110th street, the west side of the Fifth avenne and the east aide of the Fighth avenue, ‘and the price at which these lands can be purchased. The committee are also directed to prepare a memorial to the Legis. lature relative to the expediency of including this land within the limite of the Park. BRAt the meeting of the Board of Ten Governors yesterday a resolution was passed to prosecute their t the © igration for he | claim ag mumissioners the support of « lunatics agd ors as were chargeable to the Emigrant Commission. Both bodies bave had conferences on the subject of these . NEW YORK BERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1868. claims, but as they have been unable to agree, the matter must now be decided by the legal tribunals. The number of persons remaining in the various city institutions under the control of the Governors, yesterday, was 8,153, which is an increase of 1,664 over the same period in 1857. The Board autho- rized the publication of Dr. Sanger’s work on syphi- lis, and agreed to take a thousand copies of it. The Court of Oyer and Terminer was crowded yesterday morning, as it was expected ‘hat the al- leged perpetrators of the Greenwich street tragedy would be placed on trial. Forty jurors were fined $25 each for non-attendance on Monday. Counsel for John Moroney, charged with the murder of Henry in Canal street, moved a postponement of the trial till next term] in consequence of the absence of material witnesses. The District Attorney said that the counsel came within the rule, and Judge Ingraham accordingly granted the motion. Mr. Spencer, counsel for Daniel Tenbroke, one of the boys accused of the murder of Teresa Spitzlen, also desired a postponement of the cause, expecting that his client would plead guilty to manslaughter. He positively declined to do 80 yesterday, and the Court deemed it proper to give the counsel one day to pre- pare the defence. Counsel for Toole, jointly indicted with Tenbroke, made a similar motion, which was granted. Ii the prisoners do not plead guilty their trial will proceed this morning. Judge Sutheriand yesterday dissolved the writ of habeas corpus in the case of the “bride of an hour,” on the ground that the answer of the mother of the lady showed her to have no control over the move- ments of Mrs. Taylor. The case will again come up this morning, on motion of counsel that it be sent to the general term. J.B. Smith, the alleged defaulter in the Comp- troller’s office, was arrested yesterday afternoon by officer McDonald, of the detective force. Another person is said to be implicated with him in the affair, for whom a warrant has also been issued. We give in another column an interesting state- ment made by James Shepherd, the prisoner in the Tombs condemned to die on the 8th of February for arson. ‘Tac sale of cotton yesterday embraced about 600 bales, closing at abcut 1024¢., while some brokers quote as low as l0\Ke. per Ib, for middling uplands. There was a dis- position among dealers to await the receipt of later foreign news due by the Cunard eteamer at Halifax, before doing much. The receipts at the Southern ports since the Lat of September last, compared with the same period of the previous year, show a decrease at all the ports of 551,000 bales. The increase of exports to Great Britain for the same period amounts to 20,000 bales; the decrease in ex- ports to France to about 25,000 bales, amd the de- crease to other forcign ports to about 19,000 bales— showing total decrease to all foreign ports of 24,000 bales. ur market in a general way was del! and sales moderate. Round hoop Ohio was wanted for export te the West Indies, and prices were firm. Wheat was firm, but sales were limited to small lot of white Michigan at $125. Corn was firm, with sales of Southern yellow at T0e.; prices, however, ranged from 68c. a 70c. Pork Was firmer and in good request, with sales of 500 a 600 barrels, chiesy at $15 50 for mess and at $120 $12 123, for rime Sugars were without change of moment. The sales embraced about 360 tierces and hogsheads Cuba muscovado and abent 100 do. New Orleans, at prices given io avotber place. Coffee was quiet. Freight eugagements were moderate and rates unchanged. The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy. We have had our apprehensions that the Kansas drama might possibly terminate in a fearful tragedy, involving pro-slavery and no slavery border ruffians, inside and outside of Kansas, ina general row. But all such fears we now fling to the winds. As the Washington Union declared some three moriths ago, we may now confidently as- sert that “the dead point of danger is paseed.” The infantry, artillery and dragoons which have been required for three long years in Kan- sas to enforce the doctrine of “popular sove- reignty,” may now be started off in pursuit of Brigham Young and the “popular sovereignty” saints of Utah, as soon as there is grass on the plains for the howses and cattle. In spite of all the border ruffians, all the Presidential disor- ganizere, all the sectional tinkers of the nigger question, from Lecompton to Chicago, and from New York to New Orleans, this Kansas imbroglio has substantially worked out its own solution. The result has exceeded our happiest anticipations, for it comes before us in the shape of a compromise the most beautiful inthe world. Look at it. The Southern fire-eaters have threatened to break down the administration, to break up the democratic party, and to blow up the Union, it Kansas should not be ad- mitted as ao slave State. The Northern free dirt agitators have threatened the same terrible evils unless Kansas shall be admitted asa free State. And such was the drift of the Kansas-Nebraska bill that both sections had a right to Kansas. So, then, the case has worked itself out to a charm; for, under the Lecompton constitution Kansas will be admitted as a slave State and asa free State, “with slavery” and “without slavery.” The Lecompton constitu- tion makes it a slave State, and the Lecompton schedule makes ita free State; for the Legisla- tnre, State officers and Congressmen elected under the schedule are all of the free State party. Hutnan wisdom could never have in- vented a better compromise than this, the Pro- vidential result of a budget of blunders and cross purposes of border ruffians and dema- gogues. We regard it as an idle rumor that Mr. John Calhoun will have made up a new book of elec- returns on his way to Wachington; for t ssare the resources of Kickapoo, Oxford aud the Delaware Crossing, we suppose they were fairly exhausted Wefore he left Lecompton. We presume, therefore, that Congress will ac- cept the vote of the 21st December as the le- gitimate ratification of the constitution “with slavery,” and the free State Legislature as the regular organization of the State “without tlavery.”” Could anything be fairer than this to the North or the South? We think not. All that the South have contended for is the im- portant “abstraction” of slavery. Southern abstractions are all that the South have ever demanded. And here they have their abstrac- tion in its fall South Carolina proportions in the Kaneas constitution “with slavery.” On the other hand, the North has never cared for abstractions, so that it has secured the sub- stance. And here the substance is secured to the North in the complete organization of Kau- sas, under the auspices of John Calhoun him- self, as @ free State. Let General Jim Lane hang up his fiddle, and let Greeley wipe his eyes, blow his nose, and smile upon the world once more. Why should the republican leaders hesitate to clinch the bargain. Will not the mere abstrac- tion of slavery in the Lecompton constitution give them a little capital to work upon to prove the iniquity of Douglas, and the perfidy of the democracy in the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise? To he sure it will. On the contrary, will not the rejection of the Leeompton consti- tution lead to the ade of a free State con- stitution under the auspices of the administra tion? Undoubtedly. Where, then, will be the anti-slavery clamor against the administration? Gor are rather inclined to think that the republicans will let the Lecomp: In this view we ton document clip through both Houses es quiet- ly as possible. As for the Northern democracy, having found out the quality of Mr. Buchanan, they will fully comprehend the expediency of sticking to him and to the text of the law. He has no favors to ask and no treacheries to fear ; and the consequences of this or that de- fection cannot react upon him; for he is done with all euch things as Cincinnati Conven- tions and Baltimore platforms, Best of all, the tenacity and sagacity of the President in this matter are at length fully vin- dicated. It isthe end that crowns all. Mr. Walker, Mr. Douglas and Governor Wise may now, perhaps, be able to discover that they abandoned the ship too soon; and that while they are floundering among the breakers, the vessel which they supposed to be sinking, has passed over them, and is rounding to in the harbor, with the steady old pilot at the wheel. The graveyard of Governors Reeder; Shannon, Geary, Stanton and Walker is likcly to prove, aleo, the cemetery of over hasty Kansas Presi- dential candidates, such as Douglas and Wise. We say nothing of the “Lord Protector” Cal- hour; for he seems to be equal to all emergen- cies, and as difficult to keep under the hatches as Walker of Nicaragua or Billy Bowlegs. As for Atchison and Stringfellow, Col. Titus and Judge Cato, their qualifications as Southern Territorial leaders are utterly eclipsed by the great achievements of John Calhoun. Whobut he could have made Kansas a slave State and a free State by the same procets? Let us rejoice—North and South, East and West, let us rejoice. The Kansas drama ap- proaches its denouement; and it is not a dark and dismal tragedy, but a comedy as light and sparkling as‘‘The School for Scandal,’ Master Joseph Surface and all. A free State with a slave State constitution may be a new thing under the sun, but it is just the thing for Kan- sas, as the legal solution of “popular sove- reignty.” Let the law take its course, and let Mr. Douglas and Governor Wise prepare for the philosophical retirement of Captain Tyler. Wnat Cavsep tHe Revutsion?—The agonized and much vexed inquiry—who struck Billy Patterson?—bids fair to be superseded by the newer and more interesting query—what caused the late revulsion? It must be very consolatory to the people who are interested in the solution of this problem to perceive the ardor and sin- cerity with which the Courier and Enquirer buckles to it, and, true to its nature, keeps in- quiring steadily—by what and how the late revulsion was caused ? When the trouble first began, the Courier dis- covered that it was all caused by the wicked and mischievous arts and wiles of the New York Hexaxp, and that all the wrath and indig- nation of the community should be directed against it. This discovery was duly communi- cated to the public, was re-echoed in many quarters, and became for atime a cardinal point of faith with many persons. After a time, as the revulsion wore on, the banks and the mer- chants began to quarrel, and the ever watchfal Courier and Enquirer, set on the scent by some one of the few score of merchants who consti- tute its subscribers, instantly fell to inquiring once more, and discovered that it was not the Hexratp, after all, which had done the mischief, but the banks. Thereupon there arose thaough- out the length and breadth of the land an out- ery against the banks so wild and fierce that for a time it seemed it would be impossible to calm the tumalt without sacrificing a bank President or a couple of cashiers. The Courier and Enquirer led the onslaught; and had some morning dawned on the dangling corpse of the chief officer of a lealing bank—hanging from the lamp post nearest to his house—no one could have been surprised. After a time, however, the banks suspended, and the trouble was not cared. Then every- body, and the Courier, too, perceived that the fault could not lie with them; and for a time our ¢otemporary ceased to inquire into the cause of the revulsion and te ratiocinate for the public benefit. The spell of torpor, however, was brief; returning calm restored animation, and revived the propensity to inquire in our venerable cotemporary, Tho result of ita latest inquiries and the very last discovery that it has made on the subject of the cause of the revul- sion was given in its yesterday's issue, in which it states that the whole affair was caused by the tariff and by the domination of the democratic party. This settles the matter at last. If the President and Cabinet had been whigs, and General Webb had had a foreign mission, there would have been no revuision at all, and the commerce and even the railroads would have been still prorpering like the green bay tree. | Ah! if people had only known! Wonder if it’s too late now! Corroration Conrvrrioy—Seir-Deve.ore- MeNts.—Mr. Conover's last communication to the Common Council is an instructive docu- ment. It is intended as a reply to Mr. Devlin’s statement, which was itself an answer to Mr. Conover’s first expos of the frauds in the Street Commissioner's Department. We trust that these gentlemen will persevere in their purpose of laying bare the whole system of plunder in that bureau—the more especially as the example has already become contagious. Comptroller Flagg, influenced, no doubt, by the examples thus set him, has come forward to make a clean breast of the frauds and defalcations in his own department. Who knows but that the party implfeated in his statement will, in his turn, be induced to disclose other facts of an equally compromising character in reference to some of his late associates? After that we shall, in all probability, have a host of minor delin- quents in the other bureaus, crying peceavi, and equally ready to enter the confessional. What a novel and edifying epectacle in the history of the New York Corporation! Let no one, however, make the mistake of regarding it as an evidence that human nature is improving. or that the men who now hold office under the city government are one whit better or purer than their predecessors. It is. to be looked upon rather as an indication of the final breaking up of one of the most corrupt and rotten systems by which the affairs of a community have ever been administered. Like rats who desert a falling dwelling, our present office holders, foresecing that the existing state of things cannot last mach longer, are bent upon cutting clear of it whilst they can do so with safety. As inquiry after inquiry lays bare the huge frauds that are being perpetrated upon the public in the different departments, they are becoming terrified at the prospect of the ruin which further investigation must bring upon their reputations, They are, there- fore, peaching upon each other with an cager- nese Which shows not only the extent of their apprebensions but the universal character of the delinguencioe thus partially revealed to us. As the last refuge of scoundrelism is to turn States evidence, it is to be hoped that the facts brought to light by the voluntary confessions of the spoilemen in the city departments, will lead to a complete revolution in the system under which our corporate affairs are adminis- tered. Tur Cuarmy Catico Dress Batt.—We un- derstand that the preparations for this chari- table affair are now going on with great éclat, and there is every prospect that it will bea perfect success, notwithstanding the opposition of Mr. Booby Brooks to it. It will be remem- bered that the ball takes place at the Academy of Music on Thursday week. In the meantime, in order to show that we have not maligned Mr. Booby Brooks in this matter of the Charity Ball, we append an ex- tract which has been sent us by a correspond- ent, and which extract appeared in Brooks’ paper a short time since, with his approval:— Next to the sawing of wood pie ere ty See men,’ or the wheeling of barrels of apples by fussy indi- thomsel: ne a viduals, who are always tarning ives kinds of popular mussea, the most intensely anobbiah vulgar affairs in existence must be the ‘‘ dress balls’ tga New York, at which ladies actually condescend to wear Greases of @ matorial such as wi become them for ‘wear, no matter how rich they aro, ‘‘for the benefit of a upstart folly, we would stato ir owners calico dresses geverally contrive to make extremely orua- ‘of them, not wishing to discount from their charme, and that they are generally about as unfit for transfer to the poor ag anything could well be. While far Pg Cites tani gg verighil cowie wo are right moc! er. ne RENE, rod, 1 19 6 SACRO CE jencending from & stooping to leap up—a mat- tor which i rowcilions couuary Lbs ine, hare io remk ts recognized, is to the real wearers of calico, and anything but creditable to those who don it for the nonce. And, in addition to this, in order to show the public that the managers of the Calico Ball are quite as respectable as those of the Brooks’ ball, we append lists of both:— MANAGERS OF BROOKS’ BALL. Mrs. 8. J. Bacon, Mrs. August Belmont, Mre. James Brooks, Mrs. U | Mrs. D. Colden Murray, Mrs. Clarence Pell, Mrs. Walden Pell, Mrs. Wright E. Post, Mrs. 8. H. Remsen, Mrs. Renwii Mra. Mrs. Mrs. = = 5 These are all very respectable people, and we have nothing to say against them. We do not caH them snobs, wood sawyers or wheel- barrow tumblers, after the fashion of Mr. Booby Brooks. Now for the managers of the Calico Dress Ball:— COMMITTER OF THE CALICO PRESS BALL. Mra. Daniel F. Tiemann, Mrs. ©. B. Allen, Miss Annie M. Mrs. Wm. C. Gregg, Marv. Isaac Beil, Jr. Mrs. James M. Cross, . C. Godfrey , . Thaddeus Hyatt, Mrs. Col. Vorburgh, Mrs. Theodore Hyatt, Mrs. Motta Victoria Victor, Mrs. De Lysle Mortimar, Mrs. Wm. C. Conner, Mrs. D. F. Dunning, Mrs. Beary 1. Fart, Mrs, Wm. H. Robson, ia Mauiide Livingston, Mra. Dr. A. L. Fowler, Mra, Fliaa P. Wi » Mrs, H.C. Seward, Mrs. Henry Morrison, Mr. Dr. H. Albert, Miss Louisa C. Stuyvesant, Mrs. Gen. I. Hobart Ward, Miss Fila M. Vao Rensaclaor, Mrs. C. ¥. Deforest, Mrs. Heory a yo oan De Ruyter Mont igue, Fion. Daniel F. Temann, Hon. U. D. French, Fur Greene Halleck Ghraree sits itz Greene les 5 General Sandford, = Wi 5 Hon. John McKeon, M. B. Wynkoop, Gen. Wm. Hall, J. G, Lightbody, Dr. Silas Condit, John R. 4 Jobn T. Hoffman, Thaddeus Hyats, ye James: ¥ Geo. W. Morton, Gon, Jas. Watson Webb, ‘Wm. ©. Conner, R. ©. Root, Samuel Coleman, Dr. Ht. Albert, W. H. Leonard, Edwin Merideth, John Van Huren, Major ©. B. Allen, Hion. Samuel Butterworth, Gen. Ward B. Burnett, Henry I. Bart, 8. R. Comstock, Seymour A. Bunce, Hon. Thos, R. Whitaey, Col. C. Schwarzwaelder, ‘Washington Smith, Simeon Draper, Dexter B. Britton, Hon. Emanuel B. Hart, Liout. Albert H. Nicolay, Gon, C. A. Seward, Jobn Raymond, J. M. Roed, J. W. Nye, Dr. Jaa. Recftel’, r, bit Dr. Silas Lounsberry, Geo. F.D it Hon. John. J. deco, Augustus L. Brewn, Tanne Bell, J Gol. A. & Vosburgb, Geo. T. Maxwell, Lieut. Col. D. Botterfeld, Joa, C. Hulse, Major D. D. Blauvelt, C. V. Deforest, Goo. M. Snow, Henry Morrison, Hon. Gilbert Dean, Blias P. Winans, Fmanuel Knight, Hon. A. P. Thompson, Ieanc 0. Rarke 0. J. Viewor, Capt. A. Miller, Capt. G. W. B. Tompkins, Capt. K. Wells Kenyon, Capt. Goo. W. Wheeler, Capt. Wm. J. Coles, Capt. Mesehutt, — Wee STL sI0mO~ WM. b Executive CYRUS RAMSAY, M. D., [ Committos. WM. 8. TISD, ABM. M. BININGER, Chairman C. Gon rey Costar, Treasurer. 8. Len Panxine, Secretary, Such are the names of the managers of the Calico Dress Ball, and in the list we recognise some of the wealthiest and most respectable of our citizens, in all professions and callings. They certainly do not deserve the odium, ridi- cule and calumny thrown upon them by Mr. Booby Brooks, whose ambition seems to consist in being recorded as the manager of a ball, to call the other managers the créme de la créme, and todeny even respectability to all persons who do not happen to be of his set. One of the most ridiculous fancies of Brooks was, that because we were not included in the list of managers of the first ball we objected to the mode of ite arrangement. As we have already stated, we exhausted all our dancing and managing energies thirty years ago. During the epoch of the famous bachelor balls at the old City Hotel we acted as one of the managers during several years in succession. Since then we have given up all dancing in our proper person, and con- fine our exercises in that way to making the people dance—particularly the politicians, stock gamblers and boobies of the press. For twenty years we have been making these chaps dance. Some have taken our lessons kindly ; but there are others—refractory fellows like Mr. Booby Brooks—whoee legs and intellects are equally crooked, unmanageable and useless either for dancing or anything else. Americas Honors 10 GunkRAL BAVELOCK.— We notice that, in accordance with a notice previously given in some of the city journals, the flags of the principal hotels and the vessels in ‘port were yesterday displayed at half-mast, in honor of the memory of the late General Havelock. The evengwarrants a few remarks. That General Havelock was a soldier of ex- traordinary skill, coolness, fortitude and cour- age; that he served his country well avd man- fully at a most critical time; that he earned a title by his exploits to the gratitude of the Bri- tish nation, and to an everlasting remembrance among their military heroes, is admitted by every one throughout the civilized world. More than this, every individual in that world felt a personal fegret on _hear- ing of his death, so strongly had his ex- ploits and his chivalrous qualities endeared him to generous hearts, If the British govern- ment had made hima Duke instead of a Baro- net, and given him ten instead of one thousand pounds a year, no one would have thought the reward too great. And if the English residents here had gone bodily into mourning when the last mail arrived, no one would have wondered eteuch a markof respect for the illustrious dead. ” ? But these are very different matters from the suspending at halfmast of the flags of all the leading hotels and the entire shipping in an American port. What has New York to do with General Havelock? What was he to us? It strikes us that this travelling out of our way to pay such a mark of respect to this deceased English general was an act of very questionable propriety. If he had been the leader of the Indian army the com- pliment might have been explained; but he was merely a subordinate officer, who had done his duty, as, it is to be hoped, every officer in the British army would have done in the like emer- gency. If, again, he had been engaged in any cause which appealed in a marked manner to the sympathies of the American people, then, again, the public honor might have been appro- priate; but, after all, leaving the barbarities of the Sepoys out of the question, General Have- lock was only engaged in a work of foreign conquest—as the champion of power, not of liberty—as the instrument of aggrandizement and filibusterism. He died in the act of doing —in India—the very thing for contemplating which—with regard to Cuba and Mexico—we have been so soundly abused by the people of England and Franee. It certainly looks as though the city of New York, with all its intel- ligence, and all its associations and all its pres- tige, has played the noodle and the toady in this matter. If General Scott were to die, does anybody suppore that the cities of Liverpool or London would hang flags half-mast out of respect for his memory? By no means: the English have too much common sense for any such ridicu- lous exhibition. They honor their own people, and leave other nations to honor theirs. They are not in the habit of toadying to foreign nations.” It would have been well for our people here to have reflected a little before tliey suffered their individual admiration for General Have- lock—which is quite right and proper—to be- tray them into an act which is absolutely ridicu- lous and preposterous, and which will sct half Europe laughing at us in their sleeves. Siaxs or Trovere.—The broken down stock gamblers and “little villains” of the Times newspaper must be in fresh trouble again. About these days they are very savage and personal on us and our good looks. When they were breaking down in their speculations in Walt street, or when they burst up in the Brick Church job, last year, they were similarly savage Are they breaking down again in some new shape—in, perhaps, the newspaper line— when the revulsion is nearly over? Ob! don’t! Their stale and stupid slander about our looks, age and position, won't help them much—it passes by us like the idle wind. We flourish in never fading youth and prosperity. Since we began our editorial career we have outlived three generations of slanderers, and will outlive all their silly imitators. Mark that! Br Bexevo.ent.—The last number of Harper’ Weekly is very hard on Greeley & Co., of the Trilune, for republishing Thackeray's last story from their edition, contrary to honor and good faith among publishers. Be considerate a little and benevolent much. Greeley & Co. had to sustain their weekly among the sentimental anti-slavery people; and, as “bleeding Kan- sas” is nearly played out, they think it very convenient to bleed Thackeray and Harper. Die or steal was the word. Mayor TieMaxN axv Tix Poucy Dsaens.—About @ week ago Mayor Tiemann issved an order to Superinten- dent Tallmadge to remove the lottery advertisements from the city omuibuses; and for the purpose of more effectually carrying out bis design of suppressing the whele system of policy gambling in the city, he also in strocted the police to arrest all parties who were known to be engaged in the business. Mefore taking this step he informed the City Judge and the Recorder of his deter. mination, both of whom gpproved of it, and promised him their active support. As soon as the movement of the Mayor became known to the policy dealers, of whom there are about ten hundred in New York, it created quite an excitement among them. A few days after the order was trewed he received a visit from a gentieman named Stan- ley —Marcus Tullius Cicero Stanley—who is well known to our criminal lawyers, He figure: in the notorious case of One -Fyed Thompson, and also in that of Drury, several yenrs ago. Mr. Stanley informed him, with a look of contrition and repentanes, that he was one of the offending par ties, but that having seen the error of his ways, hoaas desirous of becoming @ pious Christian and a faithful member of the church. In order to make amends for the mindeeds of which ho had been guilty ho had now pro- sented himself before his Honor, with the view of assist- ing him in the reform he had commenced. He was, he eaid, mequainted with the principal dealers, and offered to turn State’s evidence against them. Tho Mayor, pleased With the success of his efforta thus far, readily believed the sincerity of Marcns, and willingly accepted the offer of his serviecs, Thereupon Mr. Stanley furnished him with the names of some of the dealers, who, he said, were Principals in the business, and who were arrested by the police three or four days ago. Seven altogether were taken into custody and committed to the Tombs in default of bail to the amount of five hundred dollars exch. The Mayor of course believes that the parties arrested on the information furnished by Stanley are the leating policy dealers; but he is greatly mistaken. The principals in tho business are still at large, and ato likely to remain 60 for all the disclosures that Stanley has made, He will probably find out that he has been imposed upon, and that instead of the principala he has only a few ot the smalior fry in custody. He may discover that Stanley bas Jed him natray, and that be has given him the names of a few of the smaller dealers for the purpose of divort- ing his attention from the principals. —_—_—_——_—_—_—_ Court Calendar—This Day, Usrren Aras Drerrior Court. —Adjourned Sorsear Corer—Cireuit—Nos. 1203, 16, 271, 2837, 1925, 1026, 288, 82, 83, 84, 86, 86, 88, #9, 105, 106, 349, 109, 110, ‘Scpuawe Covrt—Special Termn.—Nos. 855, 856, 360, 139, 19, 331, 360. . Count or Oven axp Termuver.—Caso of Pembroke and Svrsaton Cocet—Trial Term —Opens at 11 o'clock A.M. Now. 248, 2A, 27, 28, 90, 1, 279, 414, 418, 487, 440, 207, 876, 442, 447, 464, 181, 468, 470, 472; 46, 411, 116, 416; 460, 481, 184, 486, 492, 493, 406, 226 THE LATEST NEWS signed, and readily taken. The Departueut Lis uo culty in mecting promptly all demanés upon is. ‘The House Committee on Military Affairs are props 8 bill which will be shortly reported, conierriay the nefits of the Revolutionary Pension laws wnon the off and soldiers, snd the widows ané children of these served in the war of 18)2 and subsequent Inv ‘This bill, if passed, will tako miliions of do!lars o ‘The Foft Snelling investigating committee wi!! mee morrow and commence the examination of witre ‘They have subpoenaed already upwards of twenty nesses. ‘The investigating committee on the eighty-seven ( sand dollar transaction will meet to-morrow, wher examination of Stone and Walcot will take place, having arrived here «lay. The general impression is that nothing will come of this latter investigation parties implicated having carefully and thorozgh!y ¢ ed their tracks, It is understood that revelations wil! econ be 1 which will establish the connection of another Fxer of the Patent Office with the free negro Institution o district. This is the third in that Department. The ball given by Lord Napior last night in honor « marriage of the Princess Royal wasn grandaffvir were about four hundred guests. It was probabi most select and rechercht entertainment that bas given in Washington for n tong tims past. Ax addy ball room was-built for the oocasion, Sixteen bin cards from residents and visiters living in Washingt: the time, and seventy-cight from stranger, bat bor at or sent to the British legation, to obtain the honor invitation—such was the anxiety to be invited. ‘The Union this morning formally maivtains the ri the people of the State to alter their constitutions w any regard to the provisions thereof touching th: and manner of their modification. This coudties been determined upon in connection with the poles administration in reference to affairs in Kacaae. Kansas question is being hedged in on «! determination of the demoerstic party pr GENERAL WALKER AND THE ADMINISTRATION — OF THE INDIAN WAR IN ORRGON AND WasmTy * TERRITORIES, BTC. Wasuineron, Jan 26, 1 Geners! Walker's speech at Montgomery au! %': tures on the government, are raid tobave beon i taste. At Selma he eaid the secret of the op D cause and the reasonof the bigh hanced mitted against bim and his men, were that Am Nicaragua favored the establishment of siny According to the official documents the necos perses incurred for the suppression of the In ties in Washington Territory were nearly a m balf of dollars, and the total expenses unpaid In ( for similar purposes’ are four millions Oye b. thousand dollars, Forthe maintainance of the vo force in the former—not including the pay of the teers—the expense was nine bundred and rix thousand dollars, and in the latter over three m!linr The bill reported by Mr. Douglas to-day fr Senate Committee on Territories, declares that Mic shall be admitted into the Trion of an equal footin the original States in all respects whatever. It ; that the State shall bo entitled to one representa Congress, and evch additional representatives population may show they are entitled to accordin: present rath of representation, leaving the Meur> certain the number when the full returns of the shall be received, presuming that the residue of turns will be received by the time the bil! shal! be law. So far, the ascertained population is 1: seven counties and part of another to hear from ‘The United States brig Perry is fitting out a! Nor’ fhe const of Brazil. The following named cffic ordered to ber:--Lieutenant commanding, Tighimar tenants Truxton, Cornwell, Hawley, and I’assod A: Surgeon Greenhow. Movements of General Watker. MEETING AT MOBILE—SECRET OF THR OPPO OF THE ADMINISTRATION. Montz, Jan. 26, An enthusiastic mecting was held here ov Moacay at which speeches were made by Wm. Walkor, Brownlow and others. Walker disclosed the secret of the government tion to his Nicaragua scheme, which was a reje their proposition that he should go to Mexico an war there, with a view of their acquiring Uhat terri Resolutions were passed denouncing the govt and demanding a trial for Commodore Paulding GENERAL WALKER AND THE GRAND JURY 0 ORLEANS. New Ontxans, Jan. 26, ‘The Grand Jury have refased to flad a bill of iat against Genoral Walker. THIRTY-FIFTH COSURKSS. FIRST SBSSION. Benate. Wasiixaton, Jan. 26, Mr. Doveras, (opp.) of Ti, from the Committee TYlories, reported # bill for the admiss\on of thet Minnesota into the Union. Tt was read and placed caleadar. A message wns received from the House ane death of Messrs. Brenton and Tockhart, elected former Congress from Indiana, Messrs. Brigut and Frren delivered oulogics, « usual revolutions of rerpect were adopted The Seuate then proceeded to the cousileratior HILL TO INCREASE THE EYPICTENCY OF THR ARMY. Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Miss., in reply to Mr. Toom that the first section ot the bili would add thirty ts panies to thearmy, or 2,220 men; and if the secr tion is adopted the number of men will dope manner in wh'ch the army ie posted. now, with the thirty companies to be rection. the total increase will be nearly Mr. Toomne, (adm.) of Ga, would st As provided inthe second section, and t While he show the Dill, be deemed it his duty to make it as goor could before the float vote is taken upon it. Accot the present constitution of the army it wae cap being enlarged to nearly 18.000 men, and with the p increase it would nearly reach 25,000. This nim! altogettcr too large. le presumed the eee insrease asked for is the anticipated Mormon was not yet a fact. Congress, wh war, bad net yet declared war agai the country hed undergone a silent revolution, dent could not make war. ft would be exceedingly brief and but tempor: these troops were to be raised for Utah, he sboul: in amendment that they should go ont of the ser soon as the war was over. This policy was pur the case of the enlistment of troops for the Meticr The force of Brigham Young was nified. Th story bad been told three er fou Of more troops to Agbt the Indians on the frontier soon as the additional regiments were granted peace. The reg'ments, however, were not to be of, and were permanently fastened upon the count Mr. Davis agreed to show the necessity passage of the bill. The army would amount t thousand nine hundred and fifty-six men if th: companirs be added. He preferred the plan of ¢ to that of the present Secretary—namely, to have ton in time of peace, capable of sudden expansion of war. This was the most esonomics! plan. crease ie not asked by the Secretary on the grou Mormon war. It was, however, notorions that i* sections of the country it was diMeult to enforce ¢ . He regretted as much av any one aid of for the exeentions of the laws. ir rs exists, it ie the daty of the President to put it do Cony should furnish the means to enable him form that duty. It would be very for for th try if there be ne necessity for the employment troops if they were raised, : Mr. Huwren, (adm.) of Va., favored the plan oft mittee rather than that of the Secretary of War, tb But if there ehou!* be thought that it ought to be accompat! & proviso that when the present difficult settled the extra force shall be dis! Unlessfthat was done it would be manifest that an was desired in the standing army. ‘To that he wa°” ing to agree. The subject was discussed in 1856, 1 new regiments were atthat time added to the army. Jt was supposed that they would be ables Cessary to guard and protect the country in time 6 Lie bad eeen nothing since to show any necessity increase, unless it be the Mormon war. He st in granting Iande on the frontier, the donatiot companied with the condition that the govr command the services of the frontiermen in ne : erpency H Mr. Tare, (opp.) of N. F., remarked that dav last year the government expended abont ninet lions for military purpores, and there was a detic Upwards of seven milliofis more, making twenty |, lions of dollars spent in twelve months for | Purposes in time of profound peace. Duriy Most expensive year of the isst war Britain the military ex; of the never reached ax high as twenty.one mill he first took a seat in Congress, fourteen or years ago, the army cost a thousand dollars for every year. This bili propoeed to raiso 7,000 ©