The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1858, Page 4

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MEOH NIC'S BALI. €72 Broadwas —Eravortay Sowas—G amus or THE New York, Saturday, February 6, 1858, @he New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Southampton and Havre. ‘Tes European mails will close in this city at half past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The Buropean edition of the Hexa, printed in French nad English, will be pablished at ten o’clocig@ the morn- tng. Singie copies, in wrappers, six cents. Sabecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Your Hrs will be received at the following Places ta Rarope:— . 5 ni. peat eerie be ke toe Wika ot . -Am.-European Co. ,8 Piace de la Bourse, anaes 8 aie etree, Haver... Kxprees Co., 21 Rue Corneille, The contents of the European edition of tho Harty will @ombine the news received by mai and telegraph at the Mice during the previous week and up to the hour of pub tration. woop's aD ‘Ounoers & ODL Ruvane’s Minsreeis COLUM. The News. The conflict on the Kansas question commenced in earnest in the House of Representatives yester- day. The administration party desire to refer the Lecompton constitution and the President's mes- sage on that subject to the Committee on Territo- ries—the usual course of procedure in such cases. ‘The Douglas men and the republicans wish the mat- ter referred to a select committee, which shall be instructed to inquire into and report all the facts concerning the formation of the constitution, and all the subsequent proceedings in relation thereto, with power to send for persons and papers, and all that sort of thing. And upon the question of the adoption of this last mentioned proposition the fight began, and was continued perhaps till sunrise this morning; at least, at the hour of going to press the contending parties were still in the midst of the melée. The battle, however, was simply one of par- liamentary tactics and physical endurance. We refer to our reports and despatches under the telegraphic head for the latest news from Albany and the details of yesterday's proceedings in the Le- gislature. Our legislators seein to be cutting out a vast amount of work for themselves, but little of which, however, is of any public importance. We publish in another column an abstract of the report of the committee appointed to investigate | the affairs of the Bay State Mills Corporation, the concern of which Lawrence, Stoue & Co. were the agents. These agents are the nervone wno aisoursed | 287 ,0vu, as is alleged, for the purpose of securing the passage of the tariff act now in operation. From the report it appears that Lawrence, Stone & Co. | are defanlters to the amount of $327,000. The cor- poration is bankrupt, and the company is dissolved. ‘The report hints that some one connected with ‘Lawrence, Stone & Co. can tell all about the dis- Dursement of the $87,000 fund. Joint resolutions have been introduced in the Senate of Louisiana denouncing the acts of Com- modore Paulding, and instructing Senators and re- questing the representatives in Congress to cause ihe views expressed to be carried into effect. By way of Chicago we have a report of the rising of the negroes near Fayetteville, Arkansas, said to have been incited by white men. It is represented that the blacks attacked the settlements, killing be- tween twenty and thirty persona, and pillaging and burning dwellings, &c., and that the revolt was finally subdued by the citizens, after slaying seven and making prisoners of eighteen of the negroes. ‘The story is undoubtedly an imposture. The steamer Col. Crossman, on Thursday evening, ‘while on the passage from New Orleans to St. Louis, and when « mile above New Madrid, burst her boiler and subsequently took fire and burnt to the water's edge. She had two hundred passengers on board, and wenty-five to fifty of them are reported lost. The captain, mate and five ladies are known to have been saved. No otber particulars of the Cisaster have reached us. Judge Sutherland yesterday dissolved the tempo- 3 ‘aining members of the Board of Education from purchasing certain property in the Fourth ward for the purposes of a schoolhouse. The injunction had been issued on the alleged ground that the purchase posed to pay for it some eleven thousand dollars more than it was worth, which sum would eventually find ite way into the pockets of the members of the Board We have news from Rio Janeiro to the 24th of December. The financial crisis was beginning to seriously affect business there, and a panic had broken out similar to that in Europe. The Bank of Brazil was discounting to the extent of its ability and there were loud calle daily on the government for assietance, from which it would appear that a Suspension of the bank charter was contemplated Basiness of all kinds was at a standstill, especially in coffee, for which the principal export buyers were demanding reduction of four to five hundred reis, but holders were firm. Freights were dull, and there were one hundred and forty-six vessels in port, including forty American—most of the vessels were idle. The Western Continent, from New York for California, had arrived at Rio, leaking. The sleop- of-war Falmouth was at Rio. The markets, both at Rio Jaseiro and Bahia, were much depressed. The Special Committee of the Common Council appointed to adopt measures for the reception of Year Admiral Mohamed Pasha, of the Turkish navy, who is expected to arrive bere shortly, met t It was proposed to appropriate fre 1 dollars to defray the expenses of enter the distinguished visiter; but before taking any definite action on the subject, Mayor Tiemann ‘Was invited to express his views with reference to ay the affair. The Mayor accordingly appeared before the committee, and very frankly expressed his dis sent to the contemplated proceedings. He regarded Admiral’s visit as purely one of a business cha ter, and that his time would be occupied in look ing after bie business, instead of receiving mpi ments. Finally it was agreed to confer with Mr. on the mith, the Turkish Ambassador at thie port eat 5 ited for 1 visit him this morni: 1 d Pasha is ex aining in the city. the Board of Councilmen met * that on Streets, on the subject ntemplated improvements in the Fifth and Sixth wards; and the other was and a sub-committee w rpose, which wi and M nds how long he i Two cominit yesterday be m the of poetpor der the t removals. Before sume facts, showing | rN NEW YORK ..HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1858. how the taxpayers are fleeced, were developed, | gully consummated, and that the January free ‘San Cuneiet at Ge Seaaes ent the People and some enlivening acenes and much hot contro- versy occurred before both committoes. The only case tried yesterday in the Court of General Sessions was an indictment for receiving stolen , which resulted in the conviction of the defendant, James Bingham, who kept a second hand goods store in Baxter street. It was proven that a package of knives and forks, which was stolen from Kin-ley & Co.'s wagon, in Nassau street, on the 5th of January, was left at his store, and that he re- ceived other property, knowing it t> have been feloniously obtained. cutlery was identified by a clerk of Lamson, Goodnow & Co., who delivered it to the expresaman. Bingham will be sentenced this morning. He has served a term in the peniten- tiary for a similar offence. George Williams and Charles Coakley, charged with stealing the wagon and its contents, will be tried next week. Augusta Nerges, a fashionably dressed and yery respectable looking female, pleaded guilty to forgery, and was remanded for sentence. ‘The cotton market was quite active yesterday, and closed at firmer rates. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, and, including those made the previous day which were pot reported, the transactions for the two days em- braced about 5,000 bales, The prices obtained were on the basis of 10%. a Llc, for middling uplands, closing at the latter figure. Flour was without change of moment in prices, and the sales were some less active, tho de- mand for export being light, and the chief ealee being made tw the local trade and for the eastward. Wheat was rm and rather more active, with sales of prime Southern red at $1 22 and common Western white at $1 18. Corn eras lower, and active at 66c. a 66c. for all grades. Pork was easier, and sales footed up about 1,000 bbis. mess at $15 50a $16 62 Sugars were firm, with eales of about 1,000 bhds. New Orleans at prices given in another column. There was an improvement in coffee of about 4c. per Ib., with sales of about 5,000 bags Rio at 9c a lic. There was an upward and more active move. ment in naval stores, with free sales of spirits turpentine at 46c. a 47c., chiefly at 46c. a 463/c., and the sales of rosin embraced about 1,800 bbls. at rates given in another place. Freights to Liverpool were more active, and in flour and dead weight firmer. To London and Glasgow they were quiet and uncbanged. The heaviest engagement to Liverpool consisted of 10,000 bbls. flour at 1s. 10d. a 2s. There was but little doing for the Continent, and rates were unchanged. ‘The President's Kansas Poticy—The Topeka Rebels and Alleged Frauds of the Lecomp- ton Party, Our Northern anti-slavery journals are very much horrified at the declaration in the Presi- dent’s late message that the Topeka party of Kansas are and have been for some time in a state of rebellion against the regularly consti- tuted authorities of the Territory. To prove the falsity of this declaration the old hue and ery of Missouri invasions, border ruffian frauds, border ruffian ballot stuffing, and pro-slavery swindling in every shape and form, is revived in a sort of general chorus from the Northern opposition presses, and is lustily re-echoed by the black republican leaders and disaffected democrats in Congress. Reduced, however, to its exact merits, all this opposition outery of frauds and false pretences against the Lecomp- ton party amounts to little or nothing. With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854 @ tremendous agitation was raised in the North, and among its first fruits were those anti-slavery emigrant aid societies, whose avow- ed object was “the rescue of the new Territory from the gripe of slavery.”’ These movements excited a counter-irritation in the South, and especially in Missouri. The Missourians lived | next neighbors to Kansas, and this impor- tant local advantage to their emigration movements gave to the pro-slavery party, for the first year or two, the undoubted possession of the Territory, secerding tu Ue Ransas- Nebraska bill; and we say this, making all due allowances for the armed Mis- rouri invasions of 1854". No doubt, also, a large proportion of those “border rufians’’ went over to Kansas just for the express purpose of locating their little land claims, with the view of soon returning to lo- cate themselves; and it cannot be denied that a large number of the New England and other anti-slavery emigrants pursued the same course. After the first Missouri movement of Novem- ber, 1854, the free State party of Kansas fell back upon the policy of “ masterly inactivity ” in the regular elections. Thus the Territorial Legislature of 1855, and that of 1856, by the pro-slavery party, were carried by default, making the most liberal allowances for fraudu- lent votes. Thus the Legislature of 1456 was unanimously pro-slavery, from the refusal of the free State party to vote in ite election. But in other respects the anti-slavery men were not idle. They were carried off by leading abo- lition demagogues into the organization of a State constitution and a State government out- side of the forms of law; and being in the face of the law, and in defiance of the regularly con- stituted authorities, these movements were nothing else than rebellious and revolutionary The Topeka legislative assemblage was thus dispersed by the government troops, and the Topeka free State constitution having been re- jected by the United States Senate, on the ground of its irregularity and illegality, com- mon sense should have dictated to the Kansas free State party the policy of returning to the requirements of the law and the regular elec- tions of their Territorial organization. They had no longer any rational excuse for refusing to participate In the regular elections, after the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan, by which time, from constant emigration, they had increased in the ratio of at least three to one of the pro- tlavery voters of the Territory. ‘The regular Legislature of the Territory had provided for a constitutional election—the President had recognized the validity of the law, and bad admonished all parties in Kansas that he should hold them to the consequences. To encourege the free State party to assist in the election of this Convention, every indace- ment was held out, and every assurance that could be reasonably demanded was given by the President, and every provision made that the election should be fairly conducted, and that the rights of every voter should be sustain- ed. Bot the free State party, en masse, refused these offers, and permitted the Lecompton Con- vention to be elected unanimously pro-slavery, by default. There can be no doubt had the Topeka party participated in the election that, even with a mivority in the Convention, they could have secured the submission of the constitution to the people. Butin the absence of any opposition, the pro-elavery leaders of the Convention exercised their lawful discretion of withholding the constitution from the popu- lar vote, But again, the Convention did submit the only important constitutional issue—slavery or no rlavery— to the popular vote; and had the free State party taken a hand in the December election, they could have easily secured the constitution without slavery. But they still ad hered to their “ masterly inactivity,” and the constitution “ with slavery,” was carried, as the Convention had been, by default. Hare the President insists that the work ofthe people of Kansas in forming « State constitution, was le- | side fe: er of 10,000 majority against the Le- conmpten constitution came too late. He also declares Q'4t the rebellious policy of the Topeka porty from Whe firet, still continues their policy, in defiance of '#W and order, Are not theee things so? What if there be a majority of ten th ousand, or fifteen thousand, in Kaneas against th’ Lecompton constitution? They have no right to complain, it they refused to go to phe polls on the ap: pointed day. We hawe now at Albany a State Legislature and @ board of State of- ficers elected by a mime ty vote of 150,000, if we count the electors not w ‘ting last Novem. ber. But as our popular cle#tkons are decided by those who vote, and not by thy who stay at home, these 150,000 voters who ,tevlined voting gofor nothing, and all parties an? content Admit that three thousand of the fixve Chousand majority for the Lecomption coustituiion’ “With elavery,” in the December election, were ,fcti- tious votes, there wil still be @ majority’ °F some two thousand good and legal votes {? stand upon. But all these opposition outcries of frauds and ballot etuffing, and election ewindles of all sorts, levelled at the Lecomption constitution to prove its illegality, are completely neu- tralized by the factious and rebellious conduct of the Topeka party, over and over again. Thus the assaults of Senator Wilson and other anti-slavery leaders in Congress upon the ad- ministration and the Lecompton party in Kan sas,a8a party of frauds and fraudulent prac- tices, react against the Topeka disorganizers and their partizans at Washington. The plain truth is, thata few scheming anti-slavery dema- gogues in Kansas, affiliated with a large num- ber of more culpable demagogues outside of Kansas, have involved the free State party of the Territory in the meshes of a slave State constitutiou; and the Northern abolition leaders concerned ia this business never have desired and do not now desire, the quiet and speedy set- tlement of this controversy. It becomes the duty of Congress, however, at this crisis, to dispose of this apple of discord by the shortest process; and that is the acceptance of the Lecompton constitution. It will leave the people of Kansas perfectly free to do with it what they may please. It will not make Kansas a slave State; and yet it will be satiafac- tory to the South, in conceding the mere shadow of slavery. On the other hand, Northern and Southern disorganizers and disunionists alone are anxious to keep open this dangerous Kansas excitement, and the rejection of the Lecompton constitution would instantly bring them into the foreground. A sectional agitation, sec- tional parties, and sectional discords would fol- low, which, by the year 1860, would probably reduce the Presidency to the same disorderly and revolutionary squabbles of sections and factious leaders as the border ruffian feuds and fights ef the last four years in Kansas, Let Congress pass the Lecompton constitu- tion, and the fuss and fury of our sectional de- magogues and agitators in Kansas and at Wash- ington will soon be silenced, and the country will have peace. Tue Iwpicrment or Genera WaLken.—We are to have aaother of those humbugs called fili- buster trials in New Orleans, where General Walker, Colonel Anderson and several others have been indicted by the Grand Jury for in- tringing the Neutrality laws, It requires no skill to foresee how this farce will end. We have had filibusters on trial in the North and in the South, and always with the same result. No prosecu- tor has ever succeeded in convicting one of them, and we doubt if any one ever will. The truth is the Neutrality law, as the act of 1818 is called, is so framed as to be serviceable only to the Executive power, when it wishes to stretch a point for purposes of policy; but its provi- sions, wide and loose as they are In some things, are very exact when it comes to the judicial ap- plication of the penalty. The legal doubts that hang around its interpretation are so great that no great skill as an expounder is required to covfound a jury sitting in judgment under its provisions. Its phraseology gives sufficient room for several stage coaches to drive through it. * As a matter of policy we very much doubt the wisdom of indicting Walker and his follow- ers. The result will only add another proof to those already recorded of the impossibility to punish under ¥, and thus help to deprive it of moral influence. But beyond this isthe fact that the Nicaragua enterprise is broken up; and bad Walker not been given an apparent impor- tance by this trial, he would have had nothing to do now, and would have sunk down into the quiet insignificance of a Tennessee farmer, along- of Jobn Mitchell, the Irish filibuster. Walker himself foresaw this, and made strenu- ous efforts to procure an order of arrest from Judge McCaleb as soon as he got to New Or- leans, He had failed in this, when fortunately for him the last batch of his expedition arrived at New Orleans to be indicted, and he rung in. His name will thus live six months more; and who knows what may turn up in that time? Walker iz a lucky fellow to get indicted. Senators Sewarp any Hate.—We see that several of the papers are making some fuss about a difference of opinion between Senators Seward and Hale upon the Army bill, but it does not amount to much. Seward, who seems to havé some inklings of the duty of a states. man, stated that he should support an increase of the army, for ceftain public reasons, even though the proposition had come from the ad- ministration. Tale, with all the narrowness of a mere partizan, came out in opposition to Seward for daring to have an opinion outside of the party camp. Seward made an appropriate reply; but we suppose there is a good deal of fire under all thie smoke. Hale once ran asthe anti-slavery candidate for President, receiving about one hundred thousand votes. He is pro- bably now a candidate in expectancy, and finds Seward rather ahead of him. There can be no rivalry between there men hereafter. Seward begins to show a disposition to close his politi- cal career with the reputation of a dignified statesman, while Hale persists in being still the buffoon of the Senate. He entered the chamber as Touchstone, and as Touchstone he will leave it. Mr. Panrorr i Wasnisctos Getrine uP A Reresion iv Kansas.—According to the cor- reepondence of some of the Western journals, Mr. Parrott, who is now in Washington as a delegate from Kansas, is busy writing letters to bis friends in that Territory, advising them to organize a new State government under the Topeka constitutionthus getting up another rebellion. If this be true, Mr. Parrott has evi- denfly made up his mind not to be surpassed by Brigham Young in the same line of business, The manifesto of Santa Anna in reply to Gen. Pillow, which we published yesterday, is undoubtedly intended more as an address to the people of Mexico than as a defence of himself before the world. He contents himeelf with a general reference to the stat it of Gen. Pil- low, and then launches out into a magnificent landation of his own exploits during the war, a ferocious attack upon the present rulers of the republic, and a call upon all good patriots to assist him in tearing them. down. Santa Anna is a shrewd intriguer, and never loses a chance to blow his own trumpet. When he gives 0 loud a blast as the present one, he is generally pretty sure that his party is strong and ready to give back the echo. It will be in- teresting, therefore, to watch the effect of his prevent upon Mexico, which is undergoing a great crisis, The struggle is really between the church and the people, who wiah to carry out the principles of political independence, which they supposed they had at‘ained when they drove the old Spanish government out. But e work was not halfdone then, and from the a.m tare of the Spaniards the intrigues the clergy, who obstinately refuse to the political ideas of the fiberal ve kept all Spanish-America in ferment and chronic revolution. e in Mexico that this contest has . ie aged _in all the other republics the t. It was only in 1853 that pe — “nated herself from the church; Pern formed ber . “ottecclesiastioal con- stitation only last year; ad the clergy still refuse to obey it; in Chile the «harch is at open conflict with the government; an‘l all the other countries are more or less affec 4 by the strug- gle of principles. ‘The Pope came’ into the fight about a year ago with a bull a, wainst the liberals ; but it has had little or no effe “> It is evident, both from the labors of aut Apna’s agents and his own Jate manifesto, tu * be wishes to put himself at the head of the church party, and to reduce the Mexican people again to the position of fiefs of the church. All his bigh sounding phrases about patriotism are bosh. If he were truly a patriot he would long since have endeavored to destroy that vicious theocracy that has so long been the bane of Mexico, and have broken up the corrupt and corrupting temporal organization of the clergy. While these lazy drones have been sucking the life blood of the people, and rolling in wealth, they have debased themselves, stimulated superstitution, and destroyed the political life of the nation. Assuming to place the ecclesiastical tribunals above those of the civil power, and to try none of their own body ex- cept by the laws of the church, they have suo- ceeded in perpetuating many of the old colonial theories and practices of government, and have formed the great barrier to a true political re- volution and reform. If the liberal party in Mexico succeed in over- throwing the brigands who have been enrolled by the priests, and are now calling for Santa Anna, they are determined to accomplish the final work of independence by overthrowing the tem- poral forms of the church and depriving the priesthood of its ill-gotten pretensions. We had not this contest with an organised church to go through, because the fight had been made for us, lony before our time, in England; but France had it to perform, and she did perform it before the last century expired. Spain has taken some half way measures ‘towards it within the last few years, but she is already receding in the work, and at every step she is evidently get- ting away from the establishment of true con- stitutional liberty. Mexico’s only hope is to break down completely the power of the priest- hood, hang Santa Anna and a few birds of his feather, and establish a stronger executive government than the last constitution provides for. of accept . school, ta astate of . Tur Presipent’s Kaysas Message in Vin- Gixla—Hear THe Orcan or Gov, Wise, Ac- cording to the article which we transfer to this paper from the Richmond Anguirer—the central organ of Governor Wise—we are at liberty to conelnde that the Governor, if not fully con- verted, is in « glorious transition state upon the Lecompton constitution. We should not be surprised if the democracy were shortly to be electrified with a second manifesto from the Governor on Kansas affairs, endorsing, this time, out-and-out, and in the most splendid style, the whole argument of the President in behalf of the Lecompton programme. We have been led to anticipate something of this sort from a little fact bearing upon the case, which has lately come into our possession. It is this: A day or two after the publication of the fa- mous Tammany Hall letter of Governor Wise, Mr. Senator Douglas addressed him a note of thanks and congratulation; but, much to the astonishmem of the “Little Giant,” the response of the Governor was anything but satisfactory. The Governor, in fact, informed the Senator that the “Little Giant's” peculiar views upon Kansas affairs were not those of Henry A. Wise by a common sense, abuse each other less, and make themselves somewhat loss ridloulous to their educated hearers before it can be said decidedly that the public ought to epend their Sunday in listening to them—before, for instance, their sermons will do a man a6 mach good as a smart walk of four or five miles on a level country. Agnin, presuming that these alterations are THE LATEST. NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTO®, The First in the House on the Lecompton- Constitution. made, and that our clergy write sermons really | A Trial of Physical Endurance between the to interest and benefit their hearers, and not solely and altogether to carn their salary, the question arises, how can the public be made to got? quently, in New as well as Old England, » man was flned for not going to church. Many @ poor fellow paid the fine when his health really did not justify his endurance of a two hours’ service in church. We suppose Dr. Williams and his friends propose to borrow this idea Parties, &o., from We &., a. ’ rashington, In the days of Queen Elizabeth, and subse- | TH FIGHT ON THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION IN THE HOUSE—TREASURY NOTES RECBIVED AT THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE—HSALTH OF TH# PRESIDENT. Wass ivcron, Feb. 6, 1868, ‘The Housé is now enguged, and has been for five hours, with fair prospeot of ite being kept up ail night, in @ ri- diculous farce, motions to adjourn, &c., and upon which the ayes and nays have already been called at late dozen times. The republicans, with a few democrats, are from the old Puritans, Otherwise, they will | desirous of getting @ vote on Mr. Harris's proposition of find their idea of general church attendance | appointing select committee to whom shall be referred neutralized by the simple fact of the abundance | the Lecompton constitution, instead of the Committee om of foreigners in the city. The French and Ger- mans—whatever their faith—do not believe in Torritories. The democrats are equally determined te stave off the vote. It is not known how the vote wilt stand should it be taken, Thore are many democrats making Sunday a day of gloom; they will have absent from the city. I will state, however, that the vary their Sunday gala, whatever their neighbors do. | pest feeling exists on all sides, and that very many funsy The Irish Roman Catholics, when they have | and exccedingly witty remarks are indulged in, to the gone to mass, are ready for aay jollification o: the Sunday. How then with these persons, who n. | &teat amusement of people in the galleries. The action of the Pennsylvania Legislature in post- poning the resolutions instructing members of Cen- compoee near a third of our people, can these | gress to vote againet the admitiion of Kansas under te Protestant ministers hope to render church | Lecomptof constitution, and also of the Philadelphis Com- going universal or compulsory ? ‘vention in sustaining tho President's policy on this ques- tion, fell like a wet blanket on the hopes of the anti-Lecomp- Txvesti@ations rvto Municiran Fravps.—The | tonites. It is thought now that not more than three Jeme- Standing Committee on Frauds inquired on | F#ts from Pennsylvania will vote with the black republ- Thureday into the alleged frauds in the Fifty- cans. Immediately that the Secretary of the Treasury was fourth street flagging and filling case, and had | informed of Collector Schell’s position in refusing to take Mr. Francis P. Vidal before them, with as little Rovernment treasury notes ie payment for duties, he nema profit to the city as pleasure to that gentleman. | yesterday instructions to the Collector to recede from tie Mr. Vidal confessed that “a mistake of hie” had | Position and take the notes. cost the city some money; the only witness however who could confirm his statements in regard to “the mistake” bappens to be dead. The whole evidence was of the same character. Se sbuffling and unsatisfactory an investigation we have seldom read. The Navy Department bas received intelligence that the United States steamer Saranac, Capt. Kelly, bound from the Pacific, arrived off Pernambuco, Jan. 4, insixteon days from Barbados, and would leave there by tho 10th of January for Rio Janeiro. The select Committee on Printing are bus'ly engaged te collecting information relative to their forthcoming resort. Mr. Taylor,a member of the committee, has just returned, \Why, by the way, has the investigation into | naving visited your city for tho purpose of getting infor- the Cv Is it in,’ the’ D6 will be fo. “gots °F the stories ot the the other alle, order to screen .WT- retain his office? looks very like it. The public may rest . come of these municipal gation. They are got up being vastly useful and gran Ss rate purpoze of their organize is—not to disturb, but—to thro the municipal corruptions among w ‘hich we live, and to smooth the way for more Fogueries. They are a bold sham and delusion. ten thousand dollar fraud, Tue Pouricar, Taenwomprer Ristva.- ~The’ political thermometer at Washington seem:* to be rising to an extraordinary height, and it ® singular to see that the generally cool men of the North are exploding in the most rabid fire- eating way. In the Senate debate on Thursday, Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, referred to “Jack” Calhoun, of Kansas, in terms not at all complimentary. It was the strongest kind of denunciation, as follows:— Mr. Whey, (opp.) of Masx.—As to John Calhoun, God never eufered to waik his grétn earth a man more richl; deserving to die a traitor’s death aud to leave @ traitor bame. Mr. Toomne, (adm. of Ga.—Tell him so to his face. Mr. Wnson I would ou any proper occasion, would rather say £0 to his face than behind his back. I am pot afraid of border rufflanism. I cag take care of myself; I'll try it, at any rate, The immortal Calhoun referred to by Mr. Wilson is now on his way from Kansas to Wash- ington, and may be in Pennsylvania avenue to- day. He is represented to be a cool, calm, but determined man; and it is not probable that he will allow Mr. Wilson to hold him ap to the contempt of the Americanpeople without call- ing him to account for it. Mr. Calhoun. is from Puritan stock, and has all the fire and Plutk of the Eastern Senator, Wilson was originally a shoemaker, but eventually left the shop and set up as a politician; he i» likewise a military man and a General. He is all fire, fury and anti-slavery, from top to toe. We are not informed as to Cal- houn’s original occupation, but have no doubt that he was brought up in a pious, religious, God-fearing way, in one of those quiet little cottages that dot the valleys of Massachneetts, in which State he was born. He is also a mili- tary man and a General, with as much pluck and pugnacity as Wilson, So they are well matched, being both Eastern men—both deter- mined men—both architects of their own for- tunes—both Generals and adepts in the fighting business. It is very evident that the language applied to Calhoun by Wilson was anything but gentlemanly or proper, to say nothing of the infringement of the courtesy of debate. If the speech of Sumner, two years ago, kicked up such a great rumpus in Washington, this of Wilson’s ought to make half a dozen. secricur.—The Baxk Drracations wy Co long shot. So we may look out for another | qefulcation of Mr. Seymour, Secretary and Kansas manifesto from the Governor very shorts ly, for he is not the man to play possum upon apy question. But now is the time, Governor, Speak out, aod strike while the iron is hot. Tus Poriran Sashern—Meetings have lato- ly been held among the Protestant clergy of this city with a view to devise measures to put a stop to what is called “Sabbath breaking,” and a manifesto, a series of resolutions, which are nscribed to the pen of the eminent Baptist, Dr. Williams, has been circulated, calling upon all ministers and goldly persons to interest themselves in enforcing # greater regularity of attendance among the public upon places of Divine worship, and in checking those secular practices which are considered by certain sects ae violating the sanctity of the Lord’s day. ‘The facts-of the ease are very few and clear. Very many persons in this city, professing Christianity, rarely if ever go to church. They prefer staying at home, reading, dining, talk- ing, attending to busines’ Very many others who work hard al? the week, not unnaturally regarding the Sunday as their “day of rest,” take that rest in the way that is likely to profit them most, namely, by riding, walking or sail- ing in the country. The question is whether | these persons ought to be debarred from their Sunday idleness, or Sunday enjoyment, and driven to hear Dr. Williams or some other preacher twice in the day; and further, whether Dr. Williams and his friends can make them go, if it be settled that they ought? Of course, in a country where the clergy pos ress as much power as they do here, it is very difficult to say what they may not achieve if they set to work resolutely. But to an outside observer it would really seem that the clergy must alter their style of preaching, telk more Treqeurer of the Hartford County Savings So- elety, of Hartford Conn., and his flight from the country, rem us that we are not yet quite thrggh with the fraits of the late revalsion. There ate yet several bank managers all over the count."¥ Who sre likely to feel uneasy for some time té Pome, Seymour, it seems, had been induced to ¢mburk in several bubble com- panies, mining and others, and bad finally taken the money of his company to fecd these swind ling concerna, In times of inflation, bubbles are concocted by knaves, and it is precisely men of Seymour's character aad in his position who are the most sought after, and very often the easiest entrapped. The owners of stock in such institutions as the one Seymour managed, and in banks generally should expect defaleations when they find their executives dabbling in such concerns. Be. 1 Pree 3 Intelligence, on. Hi. 5. Dawes, of Mase., and ex Gov. Saymour, of N. Y., are in Washington, “roe Married at Albemarle, 8. C., on the 27th alt., Wade Hampton, Jr. to Mary Singleton, daughter of the late Gen. George McDuffie. Ex-Gov. Morton bors of the Lagialat Convention of 1866. Arms — The Clerk was calling the roll Mareus Morton.” “Yes ' responded the ex Governor, clearly but rather the chair, “Marcus Morton, Jr.,'* called the .” wns the vigorous reepones of the momber from Andover, from the ceatre of the ball. ARKIV A) At the Clarendon Motel—Mr, Mra. Wagner, Waah, Butoher, Mr Warden, New Haven; P. 1B. hom vant, California; TM. Gatier, Charle Poy in; Mr S.J. Hutterw: terworth, mr ia G. Morris, Mies L. Morris, Westchester; Mr. and Mra. Beil, Phiintelphin From Vera Cruz, in hark Rapid—Mr John Avaterson,? Mr Albert and lad h noe. Srarietrcs or Provivence, R. L—The number of births and deathe in the city of Providenc ining the year 1867, wore ae follows:—Rirths 1,683; deaths 925— kxoves of births 763, The population of the clty is proba. bly about 49,000 zed frauds, to die out? Is it in yYlagg, and enable him to It must be confessed that it assured tat nothing will “committeds of investi- + under pretense of but the delibe- ‘vs and managers | bodies the policy of the Douglas men. Shoul1 a resolution wacloak over | for that purpose be adopted, and the Speaker appoint a ‘amp troller’s office frauds been postponed? | mation relstive to frauds which bave beou practiced im ‘hope that the troublesome inquiry | the privting and engraving of Patevt Office reports Tae and that the public will allow | Commitke will show up some rich transactions im the and | Printing affairs as conducted during the Inst four years. ‘The President's general health bas not been better fer Moany months than it is at the present ime, THE CRNKRAL NEWSPAPER DISPATCH. ‘Wasmvarom, Feb. 6, 1868. ‘The Douglas democrats and the republicaas have had no formal conference as to their course on the Kamaas question, nor, according to tho present indications, is aug conference probable. The movement of Mr. Harris, of Ilinots, in the House, to refer the President's Message tow Special Committee to be appointed by the Speaker, om- committee unacceptable to tho anti-Lecompton constite. tion men, an effort, it is said, will be made to sot it aside, and elect one by ballot. The repudlicans privately say that they will support such 8 movement, with a view te secure the best attainable end, while their votes will be given in fayor of a proposition to re-refer the question of the formation of a constitution to the people of Kansas. ‘The entire number of land warrants issued under the bon Dty land act of March, 1855, was 219,786, to satisty bic.” twenty-seven millions and a half acres pearly are rvquire 4 The T laxat. ‘on be. tration © PR we have Sone at its comm Und » for swelling @nd , preparations ot the m ever responsibilty for shall attach to the g@vera door of Congross. a * CONGRESS, THIRTY-FIFTR VIRST BR_ Senate. Wastixtn, ‘The Senate is not in session. House of Represertatss &€ Wasninotew, Feb) ®, On notion of Gen. Qrrmuan, (adm ) of Milas, @ Am tion wat adopted calling on the President to somite, the number of soldiers engaged ia the Ite war wit Great Brita (n, and In the Indian ware at the same’ pariod! also, a statament showing a proximate estimate ¥ tho expenditure of extending thom the beneits of the luewe- lutionary pension laws, This information is desired preliminary to action on the Dill pending for Uat purpose. ‘THE O10 CONTENTED «mar. The House then entered npon the consideration of the resolution as to whether Mr. Campbel? «hall have further time to take testimony in the Ohio contested clection case. After a cail of the House, in order to procure a fall at tendance, the question was taken on the amendment pro posed by the minority of the Election Committee, that Mr, Campbell tho sitting member, and Mr. Vallandigham the contestant, be allowed forty days to take supplementary testimony, ard it was rejected by thirwen majority. ‘The rdolution of the majority of the comaittee—that Js inexpedient to allow further time to take testimony aa neked by the siting member, was alopted by thirteen majority. ion of this morning says:—So far from any re- ing likely to occur in the efforts of the admimis- sas on reinforcements for the army in Utah, iy, ‘sive reason to believe that every resouree ill be exhausted by the War Department expediting those reiaforcoments. The ‘ministration will be such that whas mischances to our gallant army went they shall fall alone at Cae ow, Feb. 6, 1866. 1866. wila- “ THE CASE OF WITWER Wits The Sresnen laid before the Hous od auswer of Williomson, that being unsat) at h the ated yesterday s addressed to the Speaker of al iy Was served upon me sum inc ‘hat eity vmmones to onde whould d that if 1 left ae myself in readiness to answer all such proper questions a@ the committee ayy put 'o me Mr. Srastox, (APb.) Of Ubio, remarked that the witpeas had appeared’ before the committee, and answered very prom) iy and without equivocation every question pro- “ As to whether he anawered correctly it was for the country (0 judge; aod on Mr. Stanton’s motion | Williamson was ¢ Crom cuswrty. DERATE ON Tm KaNaad QUESTION. ! The b/*2}4en!'s Kant moseage was “aed considered. Mr. Grow, (opp) of Pa., called attention §, the, fet, that while thé Frogident tranamitted a copy of w* Minne sota constitution and dhe oMctal returns of the gle SM | making no recomn. mdations concerning ita admiasion aa & Mtate, be sentin a Coty of the Lecompton constitution, , with no returns, but wit: @recommendation that Kansas =. be admitted under that instrument The President's mea- Frage, instead of communicating any desirable information, abounds in epithets wad slandors against the poopie of | Kansas Mr. Grow then gave way ‘ Mr Hanis, (adm) of Ti, who withdrew the resoln- —( , ‘ tion be had previously submited, and introduced another with the view of obtaining information. If thoy were to cod by gentlomen on all aides of the most momentous questions over Nderation of Congress. Iniimations — had been thrown ont yd = at the other ond of the =; capitol that the decision of this question might, perhaps, setan in previpt Sveats. deemtrou ned Males * degree to the character aud woMare of the country, If 4 this expression of opinion rested on any well-founded exist ng state of facts it was fnecessary that the country jy hoult know whatthey are. When a navigator was aboas , © embark ob 8 Voyage it wae important for him to ascer- 4; tain bis ceparture re about to enter on a new oy order of things let the world, the country and history know the fact in which this order of Uhings is to be initia- ' ted. Thore is a wide diversity of opinion relative to ox inting alfkire in Kaneas, Allegations have been mado of ruption, outrage and infamy, which, iftrue— fy their action endorse what has been =, —they become accewsories after the fact in perpetua- | ting those frauds. Tt wns due to themselves and to those '¢ whom they represent, and due to those who are to come — alter them and to the world that the facta should be 4 obtained in an athoritative — foam, a a ble objection could there be to inquire into 9, the The woth bas never harmed anybody on m® |, great vetion of this chy r, There should b» j, al on from all obtained ted no gent: cipitate @ vote on a question whieh lies at the the subject of the admiesion of Kansas, until they shall ob- t he facts connected with the origin of the Lecomp- te whieh no. Tt had been et of euch a call would be to delay action aad add to the prevailing exitement