The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1858, Page 4

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By the arrival of the Canada at Halifax yesterday we have three days later intelligence from Europe. ‘The Canada left Liverpool on the 16th inst., and on the 17th took in the mails and 66 passengers of the steamer Ariel, which having had the misfortune to break her shaft was compelled to put into Cork. The Fulton, which left Southampton on the 13th, arrived at this port early yesterday morning. The advices by the Canada are important and interest- ing Fair and middling qualities of cotton had ex- periented a decline of a halfpenny per pound. Lower grades were less affected, and the market closed without animation. There was but little in- quiry for goods at Manchester, and prices were barely sustained. The market for breadstuffs was dull and declining at Liverpool. Wheat had fallen off two pence in value, and the price of fiour was with difficulty maintsined. Beef was steady with an improved demand. The Bank of England had reduced its rate of discount fo five per cent. Dates from Bombay to the 24th of December had reached Alexandria, but no further intelligence from Oude or Cawnpore was received. The garrison at | Putehpore had been #o bard pressed by the insur- | & that they were compelled to take up a more | } secure position. Colonel Seaton had defeated a body of the mutineers and captured several pieces of ord- nance. Other engagements had taken place without } Cecistve results. Tranquillity prevailed generally | throuchout the Panjab, Scinde, and Bengal. } The Queen of Spain at the opening of the Cortes | had announced the imtention of the government to accept the mediation of France and England in the difficulty betweep Spain and Mexico, An atrocious attempt to take the life of Lonis Na- poleon was made by several an conspirators as he was entering the Opera House in Paris, by the explo- zion of projectiles, one of which pierced his hat. The explosion was so lerrific that five persons were kill- | ed and sixty wounded, eleven of whom are in a dan- gerous condition. The Emperor and Empress drove out in an open carriage on the following day, and were enthusiastically cheered by the people. Many arrests had been made, including two Italian Counts, Orsini and Pierre. The police of Paris had been forewarned of the attempt on the life of the Emperor. The news by the Canada for the New Orleans press, waa received there by the National Telegraph line at ten minutes past 12 o'clock yesterday. It was placed in the New York office at half past 12 o'clock. The steamboat Fanny Fern, while on her way from Pittsburg to St. Louis, burst her boilers yester- day afternoon, about eighteen miles below Cincin- nati, After the boilers burst, the steamboat took fire and finally «unk. Fifteen persons are reported to have been killed and many wounded. By the Isabel at Charleston we have dates from Havana to the 25th inst, Sugar was unchanged, ‘but molasses had a downward tendency. Colonel Anderson, #ix of his officers, and thirty-nine men had arrived at Key West. In default of bail they were held in custody by the authorities at Key West for trial in the District Court of 1 The Wabach is at Key West. All well Nineteen of her crew, whose time had ex; on the Isabel. The steamship Philadelphia, which left this port on the 19th instant for Havana and New Orleans arrived at the former place m New Granada lead as to suppose m hax yet been token by that govern ment he convention negotiated between General Case end General Herran the Minister of that re- public, in relation to the settlement of American claims, We publish in anothe from El Tiempo, of Be t government the oc clumn an article al in opposition ds against ation by the United of the article in question we should not be surprised to learn that New Gr declines to ratify that portion of the convention Ip another column a report of the ravages of the yellow fever at Port an Prince appears. According to our informants, American seamen are dying there at the rate of five per day, and those of other na- tions in proportion to theirnumbers. The treatment received by the invalids is of the most miserable order. There are no hospitals, and the sick are crowded into miserable huts, where they are not cared for or attended by any one except negresws, A doctor calls to see them once every day, but never does anything except order medicine. The télls charged for their trouble by the natives are exorbi- tant, and it is useless for American captains to ob- ject to them, for they are invariably compelled to pay whatever is specified. There are always a large number of our vessels there, and therefore the ex istence of anch a state of things is to be deplored the more BesMes, it appears that Americans are in sulted continually by the natives, and they can neither prevent it in one way or the other; for if ota king land From the ates they bring them to law they are sare to be defeat- ed, and if the sent an insult they are severely puniabed The Territorial Legislature of Kansas has ex preased its determination not to give way to the Topeka government, and will proceed to enact a code of laws superseding those pased prior to the special session. Mr. Clarkson left St. Louis yestor day for Washington, with the Lecompton constity tion, which will be immediately submitted to Con gress. General Calhoun and other leading Kansas politicians are on their way to Washington. in the Senate yesterday Mr. Slidell, froma the Com on Currency, reported a bill prohibiting the lation of bank notes under $50 in the t of Columbia, by corporations within or with. t imita. A was also reported by the same feutieman against authorizing the establishment of banks of issue within the District. A resolution was ate to inquire into the expediency NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY JANUARY 22. z of abolishing the Lighthouse Board. The*remainder of the session was cousumed in discussing the bill for increasing the army. The time of the House was occupied in discussing Kansas affairs. The republican organization for the defeat of the Lecompton censtitution in Congress is now com- plete. Mr. Blair, of Missouri, and Mr. Grow, of Penn ylvania, have been selected as the leading spi. rits. A caucus of democrata, supposed to entertain the same sentiments as the republicans with regard to the Lecompton constitut‘on, held a meeting in Washington last evening for the purpose of expres- sing their views on the subject. The democratic members generally will stand by the administration, as they regard it as a question of party orthodoxy. The Corruption Committee were engaged yester- day with an examination of Mr. Stone, which will be continued this morning. Mr. Wolcott was ab- sent. The names of several gentlemen appointed to office by the President were sent into the Senate yesterday for confirmation. The alleged defalcations and frauds in the Comp- troller’s office are in « fair way of being developed. Mr. Flagg, last Saturday, testified to a deficit in one of the accounts of his office of $4,000, and promises more information to-day. Now, it appears by a let- ter published in another column from Mr. Fitz- patrick, a contractor, that he received for a job the sam of $2,800, and that the charge for the same on the books in the Comptroller's office was $12,800—a difference of $1000. It is impossible to tell to what extent these frauds have been,committed. in the Board of Aldermen last evening another communication was received from Mr. Conover on alleged frauds in the Street Department. The Board, after debate, decided on ‘theig having the power to appoint dockmasters for the harbor of New York. The Aldermanic Committee on Streets held another meeting yesterday to consider plans and hear pro- posals for altering or improving the Ruas pavement in Broadway. Severa) plans were submitted, but the committee adjourned without reporting in favor of apy. Rev. C. W. Denison, formerly Uuited States Con- sul in British Guiana, delivered an interesting lec- ture on the Working of the British Emancipation Act in the West Indies, at Shiloh church, corner of Prince and Marion streets, last évening. He denied the prevalent assertions of the social degradation and commercial insignificance of the emancipated people, and made most startling allegations of the successful working of the act. The trial of Maurice O'Connell, charged with the murder of Teresa Spitzlen, in a lager bier saloon in Greenwich street, was resumed yesterday in the Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Ingraham. Three witnesses were examined for the prosecution, after which the Court adjourned till this morning, when the case will be resumed. The news received by the Kangaroo at this port, and by the Canada at Halifax, proved lees unfavorable for cot ton than many had anticipated. It exercised no materiai influence upen the market, which was firm. The salcs yesterday embraced about 700.0800 bales, based upon middling uplands, at 10°c., while some sales wore re- ported at 1040. Flour was dull, and common and medium grades about 5 cents per Dbl. lower, while sales were moderate. Wheat was firm, and the chief trans- action was confined to about 4,000 a 5,000 bushels Illinois red at $1 05. Corn waa steady. The chief sale embraced about 9,000 bushels Southern dry white, at 703;c. Pork Wae Leavy aud opened with small sules of mess at about $15 25; afterwards, 500 bbls. were sold, for May and Jone delivery, at $14 50; prime was at $11 908 $12. Sugars were less active but roaintuined the advance pre viously noticed, while the sales embraced 232 hh¢s. New Orleans, 40 do. prime Cuba muscovado, and 4 do dark and inferior molado, at rates given in another column. Cotfee was quiet. There was rather more freight offering for British ports. Corn was taken to Liverpool, in bulk, at 43;d.a5¢.—at tho latter figure in the clipper ship Dreadnovebt. Flour was engaged at 1s. 11d., and dead weight at 208. Cheese, to London, was at 308. a 35s., and heavy goods at 25s. The Washirgton Lobby ana its Corruptions, Combinations and Prospects, “Where the carcass is there will the vultures be gathered together,” and the present gather- ing of the lobby vultures at Washington, from all accounts, is upon a more formidable scale than at any time since the inauguration of poor Pierce. Should the unsuspecting reader answer that these lobby vultures cannot do much in the way of spoiiations upon an empty treasury, we have only to say that to the lobby treasury notes fat contracts, land warrants, public land granta, patent monopolies, tariff amendments, French and Indian spoliations, and such things, answer all the purposes of gold and silver. Mr. Sim- plicity may retort with the consoling sugges- tion that Congress, during this session at least, will have its hands too full of the Kansas ques- tion, the Mormons, and the pressing necessities of Mr. Secretary Cobb, to admit of any serious spoliations by the lobby in any shape or form. But we are not so sure of that, We are rather inclined to suspect that, under the smoke and dust of the Kansas excitement, the Mormon trouble and the filibustering question, the lobby gangs will be able to perfect their schemes much more readily than under a schedule of smooth and quiet legislation. Nor are we disposed to place much reliance in the efficacy of the several committees of in- vestigation appointed and projected in the two houses. The Committee on Printing might have been of some service bad it been appointed be- fore the election of the printers, and had their election been made subject to the report of the committee. But it was not until those printing spoils had been compounded for and divided by the lobby that the committee of inquiry into this business was set to work. Singularly enough, too, the first report upon the sabject is a demand for a million of dollars or 0, to make up the deficiencies for the work of the last Con- gress, And all that we shall probably get from this Printing Committee will be the discovery of the fact that the government printing has been swelled to the enormous proportions of two millions of dollrs or more per annum. The committee on the tariff corruptions of the last session are pursuing their inquiries, doubt- less, very industriously; but the upshot of their labors, we apprehend, will be that the rogues have slipped through their fingers, Ae for the Fort Snelling investigation, we should not be surprised if it were to be conveniently smothered up. All such jobs, however, are bat the small chips of the lobby. Their bi y pieces of timber are land grants, fat contracts, indemnity bills, Indian annuities and dam: ond land sales and patent monopolice. Apropos of patent monopolies. We wnder stand that in the House of Representatives, the other day, Mr. Chaffee, of Maseaehusetts, intro duced a bill to amend the patent laws « and for other purposes.” As, however, no account of the provisions and purposes of the bill has given to the public by any of the many viyil Washington newspaper correspondents, w: alittle anxious to know what this bill Is Mr. Chaffee a believer in the elastic propostics of India rubber, or a devotee to the scientific applications of gutta percha’ Docs ho hold that the patentee of a Inorative invention, like 4 Judge of the Supreme Court, should hold his office for life, or does he think that the net profits of a million. or two or three millions of dollars, from a robber, a planing, a reaping, or pistol monopoly, is to the inventor a compensa tion that will do? Can we beg or buy anybody at Washington to give usa copy of Mr. Chaf- fee's bill! Give us the bill, and we will under- take the explanation. The difficulty of getting correct and sesson- able news from Washington increases every year. The Washington newspapers have al- ways been, in this respect, about as worthless as the newspapers of Montreal or Quebec, But of late years the Washington newspaper corres- pondente have become remarkably costive upon almost every subject where the lobby has a fin- ger in the pie. Can it be that they are bought up not to give, but to suppress all information that would conflict with the ends and aims of the lobby? They can get rumors, reports, in- trigues and disclosures by the column concern- ing Kansas, the Walker filibusters, Utah, dc., but from the general silence of the newspaper men at Washington in reference to the bills, schemes, agents, plots and current movements of the lobby, one would suppose that such things had almost ceased to exist. But we know better; and we now promise the lobby that for the future its business operations shall not be neglected. Another thing, by the way. Mr. Keitt, the very pink of South Carolina chivalry, has lately | secured the postponement of the resolution con- templating the second expulsion from the House of that great lobby man “within the bar,” the famous O. B. Matteson. Was not this very kind for Mr. Keitt? Really, we think so. But why stop here? Why not follow up this act of chari- ty with a resolution for a gold medal to Mr. Matteson, and with the revocation of the judg- ment of the iast House against all his lobby colleagues and the press gang implicated? Why not bring in a bill for the relief of Simonton, onaccount of the damages he incurred from his examination ‘at the last session? and an- other bill to refund that draft of a thousand dollars to Greeley? We despair of any check to the lobby spoils- men froin the present Congress. We fear that between democrats, republicans and Know Nothings there has recently sprung up a sort of brotherly sympatby in reference to the lobby which will bear watching, including the several existing committees of investigation. There are too many brieflees lawyers in this Congress, and too many needy adventurers among their camp followers at Washington, to expect any- thing bettcr from them than a deliberate sys- tem of operations for spoils and plunder. Our only hope in the President and is his Cabinet. Mr. Buchanan is a man of the old-fashioned pattern of hones- ty and integrity. He has never had, and never can have, any collusion or sym- pathy with the plundering schemes of the lobby. We rely upon him, therefore, carefully to sern- tinize every bill that comes before him, and to give it the bowstring if he discovers a lobby traud or a lobby scheme for spoliation covered up inthe doubtful phraseology of some little appropriation or some apparently innocent proviso, We call upon the Chairman of the House Committee of Ways and Means to se- cond the recommendation of the President's Meeteage, in « joint resolution which will defeat the lobby of that golden opportunity for plun- der which it has so long enjoyed in the nu- merous bills and amendments which are hurried through amidst the dissipations of the last night of the session. Give the President his two days grace,and the mischief here to the extent of millions will be stopped. The reso- lution may be defeated by the lobby, but let it be tried. We rely upon the President in any event, and we bave faith in his Cabinet.‘ They are men of independent means, beyond temptation, and ean have no other inducements than the ends of public justice. It is, indeed, a fortunate cir- cumstance that, with a Congress evidently open to the lobby on every sid@, we have an adminis- tration closed against it atevery point. And this is our only hope. No. We have one other —the hope of exposing some of these lobby ras- calities before they are fully ripe. So now, gentlemen, proceed to business. Tar Kxow Noruive Banasce or Power ar Arsasy—A Sresrercayt Movement.—Now that the “long agony is over,” and a Speaker elected, many of our readers have doubtless been puzzled to account for the obstinacy with which the eight Know Nothings. of our Assembly at Albany stuck to the stump of their party and blocked the orgonization of the House. From what we have learned upon the subject, however, there was something more in this tenacity to their pur- pose than any consideration in the way of a share of the spoils of the Legislature. We un- derstand that the leaders of the Know Nothing organization throughout the country have been watching the drift of events at Washing- ton and elsewhere, and have discovered from the symptoms of disintegration in the republican and democratic parties a fine opening for the reconstruction of the American party upon a new platform. Ac- cordifigly, the leading men of the party in the different sections of the Union, have been taking soundings and comparing notes, and have al- ready agreed upon a deliberate movement for the contemplated re-organization of their scat- tered materials of the rank and file, and upon such practical principles as cannot fail to se- eure numerous reinforcements North and South. Hence, we understand the obstinate adhesion of the corporal’s guard of Know Nothings in our Assembly at Albany to their own cause as a separate party. They stand forth, in this view, as the nucleus of the proposed resuscitation of their party throughout the Union. We must say, too, that this is a very plausible solution of the mystery. and that the indicated movement has every encouragement from the sigus of the times. Kansas once out of the way, the nigger agitation will he dead for some time; and in the interval thore practical questions relating to the financial and commercial interests of the country, tariffe, treasury notes, banks, loans, &e., will come to the surface. Upon such im sues, and with the expurgation of the dark lan- tern rubbish of the late Know Nothing camp, the party may «peedily assume the proportions of a great national organization, open and above board, conservative and practical, liberal | and camprehe eand popular. Thus, by the year 1860 it is quite possible that this new party, against the dismantled democracy nnd the demoralized republicans, may be able to make a stout contest, if not to carry off the vie tory. The more the merrier. Jet the move- ment progress. A Pam ov Noopies Skewnnnn.—Mr. Booby Brooks, of New York, and Mr. Pea Green, of the Boston Poe, have just discovered that we published Huswell’s report a day or two since. “Why so late? We had that paper in type for ten days, but the pressure of advertisements and more important news caused the delay Messrs, Booby and Pea Green, are you satisfied ? Frvancuat Arvamrs i Evnorx.—There ap- Pears to be somewhat of a lutt! in the inflation of the English funds; instead of reaching 96 as ‘was expected, they have receded to the neigh- borhood of 943. Still, the Bank of England has reduced the rate of digcount to five, and on many continental markets, as at Hamburg, it is as low as three. Money continues to accumu- late at the great financial centres, This just lustrates what we havé said so often; that we are on the eve of a period of in- flation which will be as sudden and spasmodic as it must be short lived. The tendency of all articles of prime necessi- ty—staple commercial commodities—is down- ward. Breadstuffs, cotton, tea, sugar, coffee, hides, and raw materials of every description are more likely to recede than to advance in price: because, in the first place, consumers are everywhere curtailing their expenses, and the demand is sensibly diminishing; while, second- ly, merchants are everywhere liquidating and turning their goods into money at any sacrifice to meet their engagements. It will not be safe to consider the decline in values complete until there has been a thorough liquidation of the commercial indebtedness of 1857. By parity ofreasoning, the tendency of stocks, both at home and abroad, must be upward for some time to come. Capitalists will find no other safe or pri investment for their money but the stock market, and hence the funds abroad and State stocks here are likely to improve. Of course it does not follow from this that the public are going to be euch fools as to embark, after the lesson of last year, in new railway share speculations; the movement in railway securities will evidently continue as it has begun, a mere hole and cor- ner operation among the bulls and bears of Wall street, aseisted perhaps by a few noodles from outside who have a little money to lose and cannot be happy till they have lost it. Our State stocks and good sound bonds are calculated to improve, as the only safe invest- ment for inoney in the present period of stag- nation. This will no doubt be the course of things for some monibs to come. By midsummer or next autumn, however, there will be a change: merchandise will be ruling at such rates that purchasers will be tempted into the market, and the commercial arena will be cleared of the moribund houses which now encumber it and fill the street with doubtful paper. When this takes place, trade will revive with a sudden im- petus. The banks will be eager to find employ- ment for their surplus millions, and everyfa- cility will be afforded to new and strong houses to extend their operations. Money will be withdrawn from the stock market and invested in the safer channels of trade; and thus the pew inflation will proceed. How long it may continue cannot yet be foreseen. But if it sterts on a bank basis of thirty millions in specie and after a period of stagnation, it may be presumed that it will be more rapid than any former period of inflation, and, consequently, that the collapse will be equal ly unprecedented in suddenness and severity. Tue Enxouisn ty Inpia.—At length we have authentic information of the evacuation of Luck- now by Sir Colin Campbell. There has been a seeming effort te conceal the fact, which was inferentially apparent some time since. That Sir Colin did right, in a military point of view, to get out of a hornet’s nest like Lucknow, where under cover of thick walls every Sepoy was as good as a Highlander, is too clear to need demonstration ; and it is a little singular that any mystery should have been made about the matter. It is quite clear to every one that, though the Indian rebels can no longer contend for dominion with their English masters, the rebel- lion is very far from being crushed out yet. Oude alone contains a quarter of a million of fighting men, and an abundance of impenetrable jungle: further south, there are numerous float- ing bodies of troops in arms against the Eng- lish ; the remains of the army which was driven out of Delhi are yet to be hunted down. It will take a great deal of time, and cost an enormous sum of money to root out these pestilent fel- lows; it may cost more than all India is worth to Great Britain. Simultaneously with this war, England i« carrying on another war with China, which likewise, from all accounts, will be no light pastime. “The Chinese have learnt to fight by this time, as they showed at the recent opera- tions against Canton ; it may take a couple of years to settle matters with them. Two such ware carried on at several thousand miles distance from England will make a pretty hole in the national purse, and lay an addition- al load of no light weight on the shoulders of the British public. No wonder that people should begin already—as some eminent publi cists of London are doing—to agitate the ques- tion whether India is worth keeping at the price? Mancvs Tunsavs Cicrro Staxtey on Mayor Tremasy’s Revorm.—We give elsewhere a let- ter from Marcus Tullius Cicero Stanley, and endorsed by Mayor Tiemann and Corporation Counsel Busteed, correcting some unimportant statements made in our police report the other day. We have got the three wise men of Gotham now engaged in the same great work of social, moral, financial, religious, and every other kind of reform. It seems that Marcus Tullios Cicero, from the compunctions visitings of hia own conscience, or from the movement of a higher power, volunteered to make an affida- vit of his present want of all connection with lottery policy dealing; and he also had the honor of being introduced to the Mayor as a fellow reformer hg our eloquent and persever- ing Corporation Counsel. Marcus Tallins Olcero is not ot present, it appears, engaged in any roguery, neither has he joined the church; and he considers the report that he has become a pious Christian as a most atrocious libel on his character. We give him the full benefit of the correction made in his supposed pious cha- racter, as represented by himeelf, and guaran- teed by the Mayor and Corporation Counsel under their own signatures. We begin, however, to have some hopes of reform now. Marcus Tallius Cleero, pretend- ing to no piety, but having the good of man- kind at heart, has offered his advice and infor- mation to the Mayor, backed by Corporation Counsel Busteed; and the Mayor—good, easy man—is willing to get information from any quarter, be it from saint or sinner. We understand that one half of the lottery policy dealers have already shut up, and that the other half are trembling in their boots. We advise all the other delinquents around town to by'men for the besom of reform wielded now t men who will sweep them into the peniten- ary, we Saher better style than the streets of New York have byqu swept. Tux Removan or Quakanvine—We published the other day a report of a committee appointed some time since to agitate the question of the removal of Quarantine. The committee con- sider the reasons for removing the Quarantine buildings te Sandy Hook to be cogent, and the opposition of the New Jersey Legislature to be based upon erroneous views. They argue, and with obvious truth, that New Jersey is quite as much interested in the removal of the Quarantine to a place where it chall be innocuous, as New York or Brooklyn. Jersey City and the vicinity are rapidly becom- ing @ part of New York. Much of the business of the port is done there already; and as time rolls on, other important enterprises will follow the example of the Cunard Company, and make their headquarters there. + Nothing appears more certain than that Jersey City must parti- cipate alike in the prosperity and in the mis- haps of New York. The greater and healthier this city becomes, the greater and healthier will Jersey City be; and, in the same way, if New York were attacked by yellow fever, and the trade of the port checked, no part of this city would suffer more than the adjacent portions of New Jersey. The wholeState of New Jersey is equally knitted to us. If anything should happen whereby the present intercourse between New Jersey and this city were stopped, it would be a death blow to the industry, agriculture, and commerce of our sister State. It must be abundantly apparent to every Jer- seyman that the scheme which was carried into effeet last year by which s second Quarantine establishment was planted on the lower end of Staten Island was as great a mistake in view of the public health as it has proved as a private speculation. We are not inclined to think that the enterprising operators who carried that little affair through in the hope of making money on the lots they had for sale, will be likely to operate again in a hurry; and the “Fever Depot” is just as gross a mistake. Sandy Hook, and no other place but Sandy Hook, isthe place for Quarantine, and if the Jerseymen have any wit they will come to their senses and consent to the establishment of hos- pitals there under the joint supervision of the two States. It is to be hoped that the Gov- ernor’s opposition—like the hostility of the Le- gislature—may be overcome by fresh argument; though, of course, an application for the cession of the spot should be accompanied with an offer of a round sum of money. Tu Pusuic Pruxtixg.—The public are aware that a special committee of Congress has been appointed to inquire into the subject ¢f the public printing. ‘the revelations which bave been made in this journal with regard to the frightful waste of. money in this department have rendered inquiry, if not a thorough change, quite indispensable. It seems that though over three millions of dollars were spent in printing for the last two Congresses, there yet remains a balance unpaid of something leesthan a million. To doubt that a great portion of this money was positively thrown away and expended in maintaining corrupt men would be simply pre- posterous. The committee therefore will be naturally predisposed to condemn the present mode of managing the business. There are two other modes by whieh the pub- lic printing could be done. The first is by ad- vertising for tenders, and by adjudging the printing, in lots, to the lowest contractor with adequate security. The second is by establish- ing a government printing office, and doing all the printing that is required, just as any private printer does his, There are crushing objections to the former scheme. Our experience of the contract system in this city shows us how little such a system is calenlated to promote honest and equal dealing. If the public printing st Wash- ington were adjudged by contract, we should have a repetition of the frauds we have seen here (in our street cleaning business, for instance), only ona far larger scale. Dis- honesty would pervade the whole arrangement; fat contracts would be awarded to political par- tizans, or lean contracts would be repudiated by the contractors after the award, and the se- curity would turn out worthless, The printing would neither be done properly, nor cheaply; and we should be dined from year’s end to year’s end with the clamor of disputes about the printing. The coutract system will never do. If it he the object of the government to do the public printing in the most economical and Lest manucr, it should establish a national print- d print everything there. [tshould od and reliable man at the head of . and let him engage as many printers, at the current rates, as there is business to em- ploy. Jn this manner, the public printing need not cost more than it is worth; it might be well don d it would cease to be a source of cor- ruption and profligacy. We know of no other plan by which the same end could be attained. Ka..ocu axp Davis:.—We see some newspa- pers couple the names of these two men to- gether as joint and similar defamers of the press. There never were two men more unlike, nor do their respective positions bear any analogy. Mr. Kalloch was censured by the press on the strength of evidence given in a court of justice, and reported in all the papers; and for him to turn round and abuse the newspapers as he is doing, is like the schoolboy biting the rod with which he is whipped. Winter Davis on the con- trary only expreseed his contempt for the parti- zan press: and therein he entitled himself to the public respect. Nothing too severe or contemp- tuous can be said of the party press of this country; and what Mr. Davis said entirely coin- cides with the opinion of every independent and intelligent man. TuLeGat Anwertisine.—Several of the papers of this city publish lottery advertisements, au- thorized by Maryland and Georgia. All such notices are illegal, and subject to a fine each time. Bours Trrecnarinc Desr.rcmes.—Our fast cotemparary, the Tribune, had ® startling sensation despatch from Now Orleans yesterday, ansouncing the bombardment of the city of Moxico by the antagonist: of Comonfort, and a desperate conflict, which resulted in the loss of over so many lives, the infliction of variour ghastly wounds, and so forth. The only vessol which has arrived at New Or- leans for a week past has been the Tennessee, by which this astounding news is eaid to have come, But it se hap: pons that she brought not one word of any such news. Comonfort, it appears, bombarded two convents which wore held by his opponenta,as published inthe Hrrann of Wednesday, but so far aa any intelligence which has Teached this country goes to the contrary, the city of the Montezumas is otherwise intact. ‘The story probably originated in thie way: Some smart young man in the telegraphic business a few days ago sent a despatch to various cities in the North —and which appeared in the Boston paperr—to the effect that Vora Craz had been bombarded by the Spaniards; and now, to give some coloring to that absurdity, has #e- lected the city of Mexico as the scone of the bombard. ment. We have good reagon to know that (ho Tennessee provght po such acwe, THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Washington. ‘THE CORRUPTION COMMITTXES—THE LECOMPTON CON- STITUTIGN—THURLOW WRED—OFFICIAL NOMINA: NATIONS—BANKING IN THR DISTRICT, EEC., ETC. Wamencron, Jan, 28, 1668, ‘Mr. Stone was before the investigating cowmittce far ‘opwards of two hours this morning, and he undorwemte most rigid examination, They will probably get througis with him to morrow. There are certain mattors that cam not be explained away. The committee dave just beew informed that Mr. Wolcot is non est invents Quite a sum- ber of gentlemen aro here from Boston and Lowell, eup- posed to be directly or indirectly interested in doing everything in their power to stifle and whitewash the im. vestigation. ‘The Presicevt and Cabinet have been much occupied with the question of the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. The politicians are on the gut vive, and nothing will be done in regard to Kansas tilt is arrives. It is not expected here ti to-morrow or ness day. On its arrival the President will sond It at omce to Congress with @ special message. The democratic members of Congress generally will act firmly with the administration, and make of that question a party or- thodoxy. A caucus of the democrats supposed to be opposed te the Lecompton constitution, have a meeting this evening for the purpose of comparing notes. They expect to mus ter eighteen votes in all. ‘The republicans have completed their organization and arranged the programme to cefeat the Locompton consti- tution. Mr. Blair, of Missouri, and Mr. Grow, cf Pennagt- vania, are to do the heavy work. ‘The President to-day sent to the Senate the name of Simeon-B. Jewett as Marebal for the Northern District of New York, vice Mott. Also Mr. A. Birdsall as Nava! Off cer for New York, vice Mr. Brodhead; and Wilmot Luce as Collector of New Beaford, Massachusetts. Mr. Siidell’s report to-day of a-bil! from the select com- mittee of the Senate on currency, to prohibit the issue of bapk notes by corporations, associations or individuals within the District of Columbia, and to prevent the ciros- lation within the District of notes issued beyond its limite, bas caused @ terrible sensation among the bankers amd shinplaster establishments here. A paper bas been circulating for some days among the republican members to prosure their signatures, recom- mending and urging Thurlow Weed again to assume bie former position with the Albany Evening Journal. Mang of the republicans refuse tosign it. A novel scene was witnessed atthe White House to.dag with the ‘Old’ Foiks Concert Professionals” and the Pre- eident. During their call they proposed to sing, an4 re- quested Mr. Buchanan to name the song. He named “Sweet Home,” which they sung with effect, making the Presidential mansion echo with their voicos. The reception at Mr. Secretary Thomson's last night was crowded with the fashionable people now at Wasb- ington. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. THE GOVERNMENT REVENUE FOR THE PAST SUX YEARS. Wasmnctoy, Jan. 28, 1866, The Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the rese- lution of Senator Wilson, has communicated to the Senate 4 statement showing the amounts of revenue collected during the six years to June last, together with the ex- penses and number of employ/s. The total amount is three hundred and fifty-five and a balf millions of dollars, and the expense of collection was twenty-one‘ millions seven hundred and fifty-two thousand. In 1852, the number of employés were twenty-five hundred and thir- ty, and in 1863, three thousand and eighty eight. Governor Wise has postponed for the present bis com- templated letter on Kansas, for the perusal of which much anxiety is manifested. Mr. Davis, of Indiana, who occupied the chair in the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union in the House to-day, gave the floor to three ef the opponents of the Lecompton constitution. A member who desired te be heard on thé other side of the question conteaded that he was entitled to the floor in preference to Mr. Sherman, but did not persevere in his point after Mr. Davis announced that he acted honestly in assigning the Hloor to Mr. Sherman. Much confusion prevailed during the proceedings. Mr. Dougias in vain tried in the Senate to-day to bave the bit) for the admission of Minnesota considered, and at that period the Senate adjourned till Mouday by a two- thirds majority. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasanworoy, Jan. 28, 1858, ‘THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, Mr. Foor, (opp.) of Vt., introduced a proposition as aa amendment to Mr. Davis’ Pacific Railroad bill, in case that of the majority of tho Select Committee shall fail. The latter Lill had his concurrence in the committes, but if it was defeated he wished to add a clause for « northern route, to the bill of Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Miss., said thet his bill did not specify any route, Mr. Foor, (opp) of Vt., remarked that he did not im- tend it as antagonistic to Mr. Davis’ bill, but as additional, ‘80 a8 to have two routes, northern and southern. BANKING IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMMA. Mr, Suan, (adm.) af La., from the Select Committee appointed to consider the banking system of the District of Columbia, reported a DILL to prohibit the issue of bank notes by corporation agsociations or individuals, and to prevent bank notes of a less denomination than $60 from being issued within the District of Columbia by corpora- tions located beyond ite fimits. The bill was made the spectal order for the second Tuesday in February. Mr. Surpatt. also r ted @ resolution that the commit- teo deem it inexpedient to authorize the eetablishment, either by general or special laws, of banke of issue withia the District of Columbia, ‘THK LIGHTHOUSE BOARD, On the motion of Mr. Hamu, (20P.) of Mo. 8 resoha- tion was adopted, instructing the Com mittee on Commerce to inquire {nto the expediency of repealing the law creating the Light House Board. A PERSONAL REPLANATION. Mr. Hare, (orp) of N. H., rose to make a statement of facts saying in his remarks the other day on the Army Dill, he called attention to the expenses of the army, which were annually increasing, and he noticed bis stare- ment had been mado .he subject of editorial comment io a pewrpaper cailed the Washington Union, which he be- lieved was the organ of the administration, the Su Court and the Lecompton constitution (laugbter.) He read an extract from that paper in substance, cherging inexeneable ignorance ry the subject in hand, or a wanton slisregard of truth, and said that the editor went on in a column of twaddie, which he supposed was intended for wit, but which would bave ‘to be explained before anybody could see where the jok ewas, and bad concluded by saying that the “Senator made @ slight mistake of dve millions.” Mr. Hale then read extracts from documents In support of hi# former statement to show expenses for the army. fortifcavions and mili academy wore put down at near- ly nineteen aad a half millions, and the deficiency asked for by Quartermaster General Jessup was six millions sevem hundred thourand dollars, and Id operations be car- ried on from the Pacific, an increase would be required over that sum. Having the figures on his side, he would leave the wit to the editor of the Union. Mr. yoy of aoe said that havin god he into error in char everything to expenses bd ‘Amounts expended for fortiieations formed bo part of tbe expenses of the army, any more than the Capitol extem- sion or Washington aqueduct. Mr. Hate simply wanted to vindicate himself before the ‘country for the use of those tigures, which he had obtaim- ed entirely from the official documenta. Mr. Davis only wished te put the army in its true tion, and not to enter into a‘controversy between the tor and the editor of the Unan. ‘The Senate thsn took up THE WILL TO INCRRASE THR ARMY. Mr. Toomns, (adm.) of Ga , maid there was no Lag f for the passage of the bHI on account of the Indian = We tere bad not been = emborliment of —~{ within fe coun for twenty five yoare capable of ting (wo thousand men. Fin rogard to the Mofmon troubles he deemed it ridiculous to sui that Brigham Young was able to compete with three sant! United States troops—hence there was no nocessity for an increase on that score. In alluding to the remarks of Mr. Iverson yesterday, who said that If it had not boom for the troops fi Kansas the abolionists would have been exterminated, and to thove of Mr. Chandler, who thought if such had berm the case a fearful retaliation would have deen visited on the settioments of Migeourt, Mr. Toombs remarked that he would not enter into any com- troveray on these points, but he would not vote to give a single man for the purpose of maintaining the ace of Kansas, whoever might there hold f -- ¥ ence and history for forty centnriea had demoe- ‘trated that order maintained by regular soldiers waa despotiam, and that peace only thus maintained was the cemetery of liberty. He would pot maintain peace in Kansas on such terms, nor have order there at such ® cost. If freemen could not maintain peace among them- selves they were unworthy of tho exercise of self goverm- ment—they were unfit to be freemen. A regular army has always been the instrument of despotism. Thore waa not a despotic government in Rw to-day which could stand ninety days without it. When Joba C. Cathoun waa Seeretary of War the expenses of the army were reduced ty two bundred and oa three dollars per man, but how, estimating only th#iegitimate oxpenses of the army, they amount to more than a thousand for each man per amnam. Ho earnestly expreseod his opposition to regular seldiery, except so far as was actually necessary for the common defence. The last soldiers seen iy Georgia were sent thither to ny! the Indians against the whites, and he expressed the hope that the tole of the foot of another federal soldier would never agai press the coil of thag State, AL TO CAODORE PACLDING. ‘Bas hous bang Tye Sor Mp gopsldcradion Gf Wha