The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1858, Page 4

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ILDINGS, 56t and 563 Bro’ a Wood's ¥ Comsty & W Lreru nes BUCKLEY'S SFRENADERS. No. 444 Broadway—Nxaro Maionies anp Boutasqurs—Down in ALanawa. ANICS HALL Broadway—Bryant’s Minsteris FAN SONGS v's FESTIVAL. MECH CTRIGe New York, Thursdsy, February 1, 18: ‘The steamship Indian has arrived at Portland, with Liverpool dates to the morning of the 27th uit, fonr cays later than the advices received by the Arabia. The financial and commercial intelli- genec is satisfacto Money continued abun and consols maintained the advance previously no- ticed, the quotations being 95} a 954 for money and account. Cotton was firm at hal! ent per pound above the rates current at the sailing of the Arabia onthe 28d. At Manchester the holders of goods had rdvanced prices. Breadstuffs and provisions were dull, and a further decline in flour and wheat was anticipated. The marriage of the Prince of Prussia and the Prin ene Royal of England took place on the 25tn, as per programme. Noting occurred to mar the joyous festivities of the occasion, but a riotous de monstration at Belfast. The disturbance was, how- ever, promptly suppressed. The American bark Adriatic, the vessel which came in collision with the steamer Lionnais, and which escaped from Marseilles recently, was cap- tured by # French war steamer, and taken back to port. The Continental news is unimportant. The army of Paris hed sent a grandiloquent address to the Ewperer, congratulating him upon his recent escape from a sassination, We have important news from Mexico. monfort, having been abandoned by his troops, left the capital or the 21st ult., embarked on board the ce at Vera Cruz,and, in company with Gen. T mediately on the departure of Comonfort from the city the opposing party took possession of the palace, called a convention of notables who elected Zaloaga President o/ Puebla and other points in the vicinity ef the city. Meantime the Chicf of the Supreme as President under the constitution, had sto meet Guanojuata, the focus of , while General Parrodi and others were preparing at other points to rash against the capital, and Alvarez was marshalling his forces in Goerrers In the Senate yesterday Mr. Douglas made an other attempt to have his Kaaaes resolutions consi- dered, wher Douglas, Ma spirited scene ensued between Messrs and Davis, Mr. Douglas persisted pon the merits of the Kansas question his opponents as persistenily objected to his doing so, and he was finally compelled to yield. The Lill previdiug for «a inerease of the army was then debated until the adjournment. In executive session suber of appointments was confirmed, none of them, however, of any public importance. ‘The session of the House yesterday waa occupied in a discussion of the bill providing for the safety of passengers on board vessels propelied by steam. The requirements of the proposed law are briefly stated in our report of the Congressional proceed. ings. The proceedings of the Legwlatare yesterday were entirely devoid of general interest. The Republicon General Committee met last night and debated a proposition to petition the Le gislature to change the Police law #0 a8 to have the Cotamissione ected by the people in the same manner that the Ten Governors are, thus giving each party au even representation. The Commis sioners have become unpopular with the magnates of the city republicans, ond this is the first blow at the Board as at present constructed. General Walker buster steamer Fashion was sold at auction, at Mobile, by order of the govern. ment, co the 8th inst. The sale wa» probably a mere ae she was sold fortwo hundred dollars f the New York State Ar at Albany yesterday report of the tr i meetin ciety wa 1 attended and er Buffalo air A commit? at © Wa 915,07: location for the next State fair. hand for Binghamton, Elmira, Osw appoi vi Ciuimantsewere on barn and Syracuse. The committ Syracuse, which will be coniirmed by lo the Conrt of Oyer and Tern Jomes Toole and Danie! Teubrook, al who were charged with the murd Spitzien, in Greenwich street, withdy of not guilty, and pleaded guilty to mar hter | the first degree: whereupon Judge Ingraham forth with sentenced Toole to twelve yeara and ten s, and Tenbrook to ten years and two months Hagan, another of ler, will be tried on iter a plea of man Aw at in the State prison. y implicated in th Friday, unless he also she slaughter in the first c. O'Connell, other of the participators in the erim our readers will recollect, under sentence of having been convicted of the offence charged. In the Court of General § y. Pran- ces Moore pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and was sent to the State prison for two years and two months. Chas. 8. Cleaver was convicted of stealing a qnan! of skins from Levi Cowan, he (the priso ner) alleging that the complainant owed him money ‘The Recorder, in sentencing him to the State prison for two years, said that he would join the District Attorney in applying to the Governor for a pardon. Peter Whittaker and John Curran were convicted of an attempt to break into the long Island pottery depot in Nassnu street on the 25d of January. The former was sent to the State prison for two years and six months the latter for two years and two months. Nicholas Cowan, indicted for an asult with intent to rob, pleaded guilty to an aseault, and was remanded for <n tence. George Siebert, charged with burglary in the first degree, pleaded guilty to on attempt to commit that high crime. His Honor, in tence said that Siebert was an old offen torions character, and sent him to the for seven years and four months. Wm. Devlin and Miche! Roach, youths, were tri pad convicted of mi eamions yeater and sing sen nda breaking iuto the premisesof Wm. 8. Doan and steal ing $50 worth of poultry. Devlin beiag the Jeade we er t Sing for three years and Mouths, # hile his lerate was sent vy we ! Gen. Co- | Garcia Conde arrived at New Orleans yesterday. Im am: | i State prison yearsand six months, The Recorder observed that it was @ remarkable tact that nearly all the offenders charged with burglary were youths, and expressed hiv determination to do all in his power to stop the increase of crime in our city. Judge Hetts yesterday rendered a decision in the case of the bark Panghita, which was seized on the coast of Aftion by « British man-of-war and brought to this port by a British prize crow, and subsequently libelled as having been engaged in the slave trade. The Judge ordered that the libel be dismisved and the vessel discharged from custody, on the ground government failed to prodace sufficient proof to sustain the charge, The Committee on Ferries of the Board of Alder- men met yesterday, and took up the subject of en- croachments on the Battery by the Staten Idand Ferry Company. This company, it is alleged, ocenpy piers and grounds at the Battery for which the city receives no compeusation whatever. George Law and Jacob Smith, the President and lessee of the ferry company, were put on the stand, but neither of them had any recollection of any circumstances tending to throw light upon the subject under con- Bid tion. The committee meet again this forenoon, Commissioners of Emigration, at a meeting adopted a petition to Congress on the abuses practiced by the captains and oflicera of passenger vessels on the young females cuntided to their care. Tt seems to have become a custom with many 03 these officers to pick out the best looking girls ond keep them for mistresses until the arrival of the vessel in port, when they are sent adrift, ruin- ed in ¢ iter and only fit to become prostitutes, The (+ joners call upon Congress to pass strin- gent laws for the abatement or this abuse. The en stion fur this year up to the 10th instant was only against,7,967 for the same period last year. There are a large number of passenger vessels due at this port, which have been kept back by tue westerly winds which have prevailed so constantly for some (ime back. The Committee on Lands and Places of the Board of Aldermen met yesterday, apd considered the propriety of rescinding the resolution for the pur- chase of that portion of Ward’s Island which is not already in ‘he possession of the city. Alexander MeCotter, who owns a considerable portion of the island, was present and exhibited a map showing the position of everything on the island and gave reasous urging the city to buy the entire of the re- mainder of the island, or at all events his portion. Mayor Tiemann was sent for by the Committee, and said a good deal about the purchase of the island ; but did not believe that it was absolutely necessary, or that more than $1,500 an acre should be paid for it, which is $1,000 under the price asked for it by the present owners. After some deliberation the Committee adjourned withont taking any action. The receipt= of beef cattle during the past week amounted to 2,100 head, a decrease of 278 head as compared with the receipts of the week previous. The short supply caused an active demand, at an advance of 4c. a jc. per pound, the range beiag 74c. a 1lc., while a few of superior quality sold at 12c. a 13e. The advance in beef caused a brisk demand for all other descriptions of stock, at somewhat higher rates, Veal calves are quoted at 5c. a Te. und 7}c. for best quality: sheep and lambs, $3 a $4 each; and swine, J$c. a 5jc.—an advaace of jc. op last week's prices. The European news by the steamer Indian, at Portland, had the effect yesterday of imparting greater frinness and activity tothe cotton market. The sales embracui | about 2,000 bales, closing at 12c. per 1b., showing an ad | ¥ance of about °,¢. per Ib. from the highest rates of the } previous day. Flour wes dull and the gales moderate, | ebieffy to the local aud Eastern trace, while prices were | without change of moment. Wheat was firm, but inac | tive, the sales being confined mostly to smail lots oi prime Southern for milling; some lots of Milwau ie club | wore reported at $1 02 8 $1 03, and Chicago spring at 9c | a$i. Corn was rather more active, without chaage ot moment in prices. Pork was firmer, with sales of mess \ at $16, and of prime at $12 40.0 $12.50, Bacon, beef and lard were also firm, with # fa'r amount of sale: Sugars were in fair demand, and the sales embrared about &€0 a 900 bhds., included in which were 206 bhis. new crop Cuba muscovado, and 110 hbds, New Urleans by uetion, at rates stated in another column The public ea sale yesterday drew a good company aud passed off with spirit, felly sustaining previous prices fer the new, with a slight advance in some cases, Some of the old was withdrawn. Freights were steady, but eagagoments were moderate, Grain, in shi bags, to Liverpool was taken at S3;d.,and flour at Is, 10d a Iv. 104;d Provisions were taken moderately both to Liverpool and Londos at nohanged rater. Governor Whse's Second Kansas Manifesto— Prospects of a Separate Nerthern Demoura- te Party. The plot thickens. We spread before our readers this morning the letters of Governor Wise, of Virginia, and of Senator Douglas, aad the Hon, Mr. Harris, of Minois, to the late as semblage of the anti-Lecompton, anti-adminis- tration democracy of the city of Philadelphia We give them, because we know that at this crisis they will be read with interest by men of all parties, and especially the letter of Governor Wise. The party of Governor Wise in his State Legislature, and the Virginia delegation in Con- gress, are unanimously against him; and yet the boldest, the fiercest and the most indiguant pro- nunciamiento that has emanated. perhaps, from any quarter against this Lecompton constitu- tion, as a fraud, a trick, a cheat, a swindle, and an infamous and insufferable outrage upon po- pular rights, is this same Philadelphia letter of Governor Wise. What can it mean? Is not this the same llenry A. Wise who did so much to secure the nomination of Mr. Bachanan, and who labored, with such halfof his clection in 18 into the hearts of his enemies’ The very same. fe ty the Governor Wise who heaped upon Col, the most scandalons personal abuse, deoounced him asa traitor whose election and ought to be, the signal epless ener for the see: it the same Gov. Wise who, in the campaign of 1856, threatened the vengeance of a Southera pro-slavery nob against even John Minor Bot for daring, as a citi of Virginia, to hint. in a mild way, that the ection of Mremopt would be no sufficient cause to the South for a dissol tion of the Union’ Yes, the same Gov, Wise. The only difference is that he has lately put ou another sectional uniform, and is now ridiag the Northern hobby horse for the Presidency. Having tukon a birdseye view of the pro pects, here ond there, for t covsston, Go’ Wise has resolved to tal pot luck” with Gov. Walker, Senator Douglas, Seeretary Stan- ton and company, and to leave the administra- tion, the Virginia democracy and the South to look out fur themselves, The Virginia Governot, in fact, has concluded that the South will be utterly powerless in 1860 against the tremendous pressure of the North; and he is therefore spreading his sails to cateh the favor- ing breezes the Northern anti-slavery, anti-Lecomptou, anti-administration seatiment, What then? What will be the consequences of this bold front of Gov. Wise st the ad- ministration and! the integrity of the democratic | party’ We shall endeavor to answer t, 80 far ae the Lecompton constitution is of } cone rned, thie «cond, like the first Kansu manile-to of Governor Wise, will prove a dead letter. In connection with the Minnesota bill, | « plan will be perfected in the Senate which will hrongh both houses, Gov red © Bul, in the next Lecompton Wise may rest e sion of the Southern States from the | Union? Yes, this is the identical man. But is | ! place, however admitted, Kansas must be a free | tute. Nor is this all, Before the expiration | of this session of Congress, including Kansas, | Minnesota and Oregon, there will be three new | free States added to the heavy politics! balance of power which the North already commands ia the general government. And it is here that we shall find the meaning of this anti-Lecomp- fon movement of Walker, Donglaa, Stanton, Wise, and their democratic confederates, As the hitherto commanding influence of the South is eanishiug, Seuthera chivaley is also fading a” ay, aud Presidential schemers of both sectious 2 parties are turning their faces to the North. » The tendencies of this Kansas defection of Walker, Douglas, Wire and compapy are to the orgahization of n separate Northern democratic party; acd if must be admitted that thei is an opening for this movement which is somewhat inviting. To this end all the late procecdtngs of the Douglas democracy of the Northwest, the Harris-Douglas resolu- tion in Congress, the Philadelphia aati-Lecomp- ton democratic meeting, and the meeting to be held in this city to-morrow night, will all work together harmoviously, adwinittration Kansas policy will prevail. We have chown that Mr. Buchauau bad no alterna tive but the acceptance of the legal solution of the Kanras-Nebracka bill as rendered into bis hands. Bat the secret of this Dongias, Waiker and Wise movemvat lies beyond the preseut ad- ministration, Jt is aimed at the succession, re- gardless of the success or failure of Mr. Bu- chapan’s Kansas policy; aud the first object is the reconstruction of the Northern democracy upon a Northern platform, and witvout any particular reference io the South. Very weil. The more the merricr, Governor Wise bax indicated a platform upon which all the Northern democrats who voted for Fremont in 1656 may come back to the party of Mr. Wire and Mr. Douglas. With these reinforce- ments udded to the late secessions from the Northern democratic camp, and with ovber re- eruits which will yet come in, this new North- ern democratic party in 1860 may be strong enough at least to carry the election into Cou- gress. There will be three parties in the field, at oli cvents—the Northern demucracy, the Southern democracy, and the Northern republicans; aod there may be a foucth in the shape ofan Americaa party. With all these partics in the field it wil! be nothing wonderful should the Douglas Wise movement result in carrying up the election to Washing- ton upon the three highest eaudidates; nor will it be surprising should the result there be a complete overthrow of the present “imperial” calculations of W. H. Seward. If Gov. Wise is not done for ia Virginia, the democracy Chere will toon be brokeu to pieces, We doubt not they will adhere to tue adininis- tration; but as the reconstruction of parties for 1860 is the game of Mr. Wise and all con- cerned with him, it will be well to watch the processes of the dissolation and recoastruction of the broken up democracy of the North. This Lecompton courtitution is but the pretext for a perty revolution, and the first steps toward this revolution foreshadow pretty broadly the full developement of the game. Douglas, Walker, Wire, Stanton, may all be dead cocks in the pit, but the revolution which they have set on foot must work itself out—Lecompton or no Lecomptou. The aduministration cau take care of itself, but, Lecompton or Topeka, the end of the Kansas question will be the last of the national democrac Parent Ricus asp tae Lousy av Wasutya- Ton. We have cvery reason to believe that the We have said that the | pa nce ae SSE ES 5 CE ee aOR eRe NR ISI “intention of the movements made in the House | of Representatives by Messrs. Chaffee and Tay- lor, for the avowed purpore of amending the pa- tent Jaws, iereally to renew, extend, revive or enlarge several of the old patents, the proprie- tors ot which have separately failed in obtain- ing legislation in their behalf during the pust four or five years. Durivg that time applica- tions have been made in behalf of the following pamed patents: — Colt's pistol paient, worth ., MeCor taick's reaping pater: Chatiee's iudis rubber Tay ward's sulphuric Day's several Gotdyene’a revere) " Bruce's typetuucdiog —* Bick lew’ cut of ” Ail other patents, Total eee sone $13,009) Meny of these patents have long since ex- pied, and the patentees have no shadow of right to ask for their revival, because, after a patent right bae lapsed in duc comrse of law, the privilege of the invention belongs to the whole community, without restriction, nud any attempt on the part gf Congress to enforce such restric- | tion is to legalize an impudent monopoly, with- out the slightest regard for the public benefit. Several other patentecs ask for renewals or ex | tensions of the time for which their rights were | granted. They have all had time enough to | realize eflormoas sums, aud there is no reason , Why the petition of any one of them should be | granted. Not one of the patents above named | thould be renewed, or revived or extended. The proposed laws or amendments are, as we | have every reason to believe, introduced for the purpose of facili@ating the renewal or extension of those patents, The fact is that the patent laws are good enough as they stand. They worked well for forty years. An attempt simi- lar to those now made in the House, with ao small proviso for the benefit of some of the | above named patents, was defeated in the ' Senate during the ression of the las Congress, | The present movement is an attempt to cheat | ance with the subject. | the country and to impose npen Congress, | | through the tricks of the lobby snd the igno- | | rance ot roguery of the newspaper correspon- | dents who humbng the journals with which they | are connected, and through them the commu- | nity at large. Js there no honest man at Washington who is | able to send to usa full, complete and perfect | copy of all the amendments to the patent Inws | now before Congrese? ‘rNANCIAL News prow Eenore.—The ews from Europe by the Indian contains the announcement of a further rise in cotton and in the funds. The latvr, which seemed to have closed at 95!, were welling at the same price for cash and for theaccount ; money was +o plentiful thet the usual fifteen days were not considered worth paying for. Every mail confirms the statement which we have frequently reiteratd of late: that we are on the eve of an inflation without parallel in our financial history. Mmey, it may now be said boldly, will be cheayer thie year than it has | been during any yeu of this vontury ; and | that, not only in thiscountry but in Barope and throughout the worl. Trade cannot yet avail iteelf of the happy accident, beeause the instru- | mente with which Wusiness is done are wanting, ! commercial relations raptured, many merchants } ruined and gong, many others weakened and frightened, all with obligations to settle at very ead loses. So the effect is only seen upon the stock market, which seems to go up at the rate of two or three per cent a day, and promises as yet, nothing like a halt, It is high time that the few survivors of the revulsion among the merchants should bestir themselves ¢o provide proper channels for the immense ‘amounta of money which are stag- nating at the great financial centres, The old borrowers have broken down, for the most part, and have been sweptaway ; it is time that their placee were taken by new hands, As it is, peo- pie seem to be doing nothing but speculate in etecks, George Peabody's Account of his Troubles. An obscure cotemporary has published the following circular aad appeal to the public from George Peabody, of London:— Losvos, Thureday, Jan. 21, 1968. Ino New York paper dated’ in Deseaber, read as fol- lows:— We sre informed on authority, whose accuracy we have every reason *o credit, that the smount of bills which the & Co, was under pocupianoe. for when aa. pained from the Ravk of Ragland exceeded + sum of six millions sterling. With ‘ow exceptions I baye observed, with much plea- eure, that We course my bouve pursued under the pyen- ressure brought upon them by the pacic ia ths te=, ai) the inability of American friends ty ful fi! engager *, has heen much commended vy the Ara. rican press, aud toere sympathy than blame hat been awarced to'tmyrclf and partuers for promptly adopting & course which not only protected cur own credit, but saved Davy of our co nts in the United States from consequer ces that would have been considered a calamity threngbout the whole country. The stoic ment above quoted is calculated to do grent im Jwy to my house and to America’ eredit gonerally, for if ihe accepiances of my firm bac amounted to six millions sterling, it would have been bat juat to plac itin the rate rack wiih the Borough Bank of Liverpool and Great Wertern of SerUand, and inyself and partners pronounced as unworthy of confidence tor the future. Tho facts aro as fcrlows:. About the 20th of November, whea the money panic in Siatee and Europe was ragtng, and an:icipatod I oifficulties were still mere appailiag, my id-red it wise and prudent to adopt a course would effectually protect its own credit and eave MALY Correspor Cetts, Who were unable \ moet ongago meLts by remittuccs, from inconvenieuco and loss The acceptances of my house at that time wore £2.200,000 (not £6,000,000), and our application to the bank was for a los, 06 E004 Fecurities, for £800,600, should go much be required The application was acceded to, and within afew weeks after We took £390,000, depositiog cocurities of our own for he game. Up to thw time we have taken ro more ban the £800,000, although the securities depo site amount to 9 much larger sum, and since that time my bose bas paid more than £1,500,000 of the £2,500 000 ROCE PaNces OUt, as Staten at the time of rts application to the bank We will further remark that the strength of our prize)pal correspencents 1s such that our losses on the acceptances above stated, given oa their account, will comparatively be but trifling. In justice to my house and to American credit general- Ip, Fthink the facts stated ehould be known to the Ameri- can public. Very respectfully and truly, Ke. , GEORGE PEABODY. It is not usual, we believe, for banking houses to issue appeals of this character to the public, with statements of their private transactions. Such modes of soliciting public notice are not unknown to the venders of patent pills aud ver- mifuges; they have received the sanction of the well known P, T. Barnum. But it is something new for bankers to resort to them. It must be remembered, however, in justifica- tion of Mr. Peabody's departure from the dig- nified reserve which has usually been considered necessury for respectable financial houses, that he had # good deal to explain, and some rather awkward suspicions to rebut. Perhaps very few men, under the pressure of severe recent losses, would have resisted the opportunity of advertising, gratuitously and prominently, their readiness and their capacity to go on with their business as before. Mr. Peabody's appea! will ben real surprise to many who supposed him utterly overwhelmed by his loses. For our part, we give it, in order that he may have a chance of setting himself straight with the pub- lic where he can; though we wish to be dis- tinetly understood as not endorsing the state- ments of fact which it contains, They may be correct, of couree; but unfortunately even bankers are not proof against the depra- vity of buman nature; and we must disclaim any appesrance of faith either in Mr. Peabody's statement of hi means or in his figures in rela- tion to his losses. There was another point which, when Mr. Peabody was about it, might as well have been explained in bis appcal to the public. Mr. George Peabody spent several months during the early part of iast year in this coun- try, making a most thorough and searching ex- amination of the resources of the country, the solidity of ite leading enterprises, and the basis upon which its credit rested. He travelled end examined with his own eyes all the leading rail- w nd canals, He placed himself in commu- nication with all the principal bankers and financiers of the country. Nothing—at least so | bis newspaper organs told us—eseaped his no- tice ; he placed himselfin a position to thorough- ly unéerstand everything in relation to the financial and commercial business of thix coun- try; and with the opportunities he had, and the information which was poured upon him, he must have been worse than an idiot not to have acquired a very general and profound acquaint- Thus crammed with facts, figures and principles, Mr. George Pea- body returned to this city toward midsummer, and was not chary of teMing what he knew and what he thought. He told everybody indecd who would listen to him that the prosperity of the country was unbounded; that credit, so far from being unduly inflated, was not as much expanded as it ought to be ; that _ NEW YORK: HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 1868. American securities were the best investments | in the world; that the railways were all excellent property, and could not decline in value ; that the world at large and this country | in particular were on the eve of an era of un- | paralleled expansion and general progress, To | this he added, freely enough, that the only per- sons who differed from him in opinion w few Wall street speculators and a venal press. This was the last song which Mr. Peabody kang, on quitting our shores in the month of which he was once smbitious’ of winniag and preserving. We have’ no doubt the thing can be done; we only venture to hint that the soon- er it is done the better; for as the case stands, it tells rather severely, not only against Mr. Peabody's judgment, but also against his com- mon sense. People are already beginning to say that the only difference between George Peabody and Nick Biddle is that the Bunk of England, when applied to by the latter, refused ‘to help him, while for its own sake it thought best to carry Mr. Peabody through. Imrortanr Pounica, Movemunt—Tut New York AntrLecomrton Democracy TO THE Rescvr.—The following proclamation has been for several days past conspicuously posted ia most of the public journals of this city, to wit :-— PURLIC MEETING. The citizens of New York who opposed to forcing of government upon the people of Kansas a constit which they bave rejected, and who desire to save the ua tlonal democratic party from complicity in the frauds by which the Lecompton constitution is sustained, are in- vited to attend a public meeting to be Feld at the, le. my of Music on Friday eveuirg next, at § o’'c10cK, @ pro- test against the acceptence of that ‘oonstitution by Con- TOBE. : GEORGE BANCROFT, OLIVER DeFOREST GRANT, WM. F. HAVEMEYER, JAMES E. COOLEY, GEORGE DOUGLASS, — GEO. B. BUTLER, and othere. We call this an important movement, because it is another deliberate step in behalf of the re- construction of the Northern democracy upon a Northern platform. The ball” was regularly opened on Monday night last at Philadelphia in thedemocratic anti-Lecompton meeting, at which Secretary Stanton, of Kansas, was the principal speaker, and to which Governor Wise, Senator Douglas, and his right-hand man in the House, Mr. Harris, were the principal letter writers. Let this movement go on and it will rapidly ab- torb all the anti-Kansas-Nebraska bill democracy of 1856, who contributed so much to swell the heavy Northern majorities of Fremont. Thus there is a prospect that this new Northern de- mocratic party will soon swamp the Seward re- publicans entirely, and reduce them back again to something like the little faction that voted for John P. Hale in 1852. With some suspicions of this sori, it is very likely that the Seward republicans will pack this anti-Lecompton democratic meeting to- morrow night with an overwhelming majority, so as to keep it within its proper limits. Hon. George Bancroft will doubtless be made the chairman, and the other officers of the meet- ing will probably be of democratic antecedents; but the republicans, we suspect, will take good care to etand guard over the proceedings of the occasion. We are sorry to learn that, under the idea that the “roughs” of Old Tammany would again occupy the Academy, it has been refused for this auti-Lecompton Gemocratic de- monstration. Perhaps the “underwriters” of the Academy may have acted wisely in this conclusion, for there is some dasger of dam- aged furniture from this Kansas excitement, if we may take the late affair in Congress as an example. When the meeting is located, however, we hall inform our readers, inasmuch as Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton are to be among the speakers; and perhaps the occasion, too, may bring out another letter from Gov. Wise. A Lirriy Comvorr ror rim Rarnoaps.—The railroads of this country are proving the truth of the adage that “it isa long lane which has no turn in it;” after, getting into every conceiv- able trouble, and receiving and deserving hearty censure on almost every head for two or three years, they seem at last to be ina fair way of regaining public favor. Many circum- stances conspire to their advantage jast at pre- sent. The mildness of the winter is actually worth millions to them. This time last year the great roads of this State—the New York Central and Erie—were spending their whole earnings or more than their earnings in keeping their track clear of snow. and in repairing the da- mage done by the severe frosts and the ice. In the spring, they were again ont of pocket by the freshets which proceeded from the great ac- cumulation of snow. This year, there is, com- paratively epeakiug, neither snow nor ice, and the consequence is that the railways save all that they epent last last year in combatting King Vrost, They will save in the spring, in all pro- bability, as much more, from the probable ab- sence of freehete, Again, several concerns which were in a very bad way last year have fallen into new hands, and are in a fair way of being resuscitated. We have already alluded to the excellent changes which were made some time since in the Cleve- land and Toledo Company; similar changes are being made in the Michigan Southern: and who can tell whether even that may not be re- deemed?! The plentifulness of money greatly helps the railways by enabling them to procure loans at cheap rates, A few months ago, it seemed out of the question for the old Harlem to expect to procure the loan it needed; yet it has got it, and the Erie loan is now regarded as so much a matter of certainty that the stock of the con- cern begins again to he regarded as property. Is there anybody who doubts that the world moves? Tie Last Daina Srencn axp Coxerssion oF Nest. Dow.—The cclebrated Neal Dow, of Maine, the author of the Maine Liquor law, and the originator of that curious delusion which at one time induced sundry Northern Legisla- tures to make laws against the selling of epiritu- ous liquors, delivered his last dying speech and confession at the Academy of Music on Tuesday evening last. It had been intended to give Mr. Dow a grand reception on the oc- casion of his recent return from Europe; but August or September last. He did not stop | there were only two or three hundred persons | singing it on his return to England. On the present, and many of these scemed 60 ashamed contrary, he persuaded all his friends to buy | of themselves for being there, that they slunk more freely than ever into American fancy | into the boxes and other corners, to be out of stocks, and he contrived to delude the financial writers of the London press (who naturally went to him for information upon American topics) so thoroughly that with one accord they derided the first drops of the financial storm, which just then was begianing to burst. For the opinion—so prevalent in England ia October last—that no revulsion was impending in this country, and that the trouble was a mere stock gambling affair of Wall eireet, distorted the papers, and for the immense losses which individual foreigners suffered at that time by injudicious purchases of worthless secu- rities fabricated in this country, one man was mainly responsible, and that man is George Peabody. We vertare to suggest, should Mr. Peabody design to issue any more appeals to the publi that he should devote « small portion of hiv space, if only a mere postscript, to an explana tion of the theory upon which this part of his conduct was based. We hope he may be able to réeoncile the wonderful blindness with re gard to the future which he exhibited Just swomer with the fiuaucial reputation sight. So the triumphant reception turned out to be merely the political obsequies of Neal Dow, and the jubilant ovation he was to have made is not unfairly denominated his last dying speech and confession. We don’t think it likely that Neal Dow will ever speak again on teetotalism. He must be pretty thoroughly crashed out by this time. Tle has just come back from England, where the only people who noticed him threw cold water on bim, or laughed at him. His prestige is gone there. He returns here and findgsome States with, some without prohibitory laws; but the only difference between the two, in respect of drinking, is that where the prohibitory law is in force, the liquor dronk is usually bad of its kind. The law is fount to deteriorate the quality of the liquor drank wader it in the pre- cise proportion that it inercases the quantity. In Maine, Dow’s countrymen now drink more bad rum, and gin, and other poisons than they ever did before. The cause of temperance—as a basis for po litical or fegielative action—‘is thoroughly dead. Nor will it ever gome up agtia, Therg is this eee satisfaction in mankind's ways, that « people seldom blunder twice in precisely the same dl- rection. The next legislative folly that we commit may be as absurd as the prohibitory Jaw ; but it will be something new. In the couree of # few years the Maine law will have disappeared from the statute books of all the States ; and the cause of temperance, unham- pered by the injudicions efforts of fanatics like Neal Dow, will be entrusted to the care of in- creasing civilization aleve, and will progress as mankind become more refined, better man- nered, and better hearted. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Arrival of Ex: President Comonfort and Gen. Garcia Conde at New Orleans-Muvements of the Revolutionary Factions, &e, New Orurans, Feb. 16, 1858, ‘Tho steamer Tonneseee, from Vera Cruz, is coming up the river, and Generals Comonfort and Garcin Conds are paesengers. The Texneseee left Vera Cruz on the 7th inst, On the morning of tho 21st ult. Comonfort, having heen abandoned .by his troops, left the city of Mexico, whem the Pronuneciados entered the falaco acd named & Congress of Notables as the heal of government, and the Notables elected Zuloaga as Provisional Prog- dent of Puebla, Toluca and other points within the radius of the city. He acknowledged the government which hadgbeenforganized, and nominated its ministers. They, however, up to the 7th inst., had not a ingle port, and were dependent upon the clergy for support Juaraz, as President of the Supreme Court, is Presi- dent of the republic under the constitution, and has called Congress together at Guansjoato, the great po'nt of union of the liberals, while Tarodi de Ciato aud Artenja Dege- ledo, at several points, arefpreparing to uxite and march against Mexico. Lazare bolds Orizaba, and the Castle of Porote ia in the hands of the liberals. Don Juan Alvarez is said to bave his forces uador arma i the State of Guerarero. Non-Arrival of the Niagara. Haurax, Feb 10, 1968. There are as yet Do signs of the steamship Nigara, now due at this port from Liverpool with three days’ later dates. The weather calm and extremely foggy. Affairs in Washington. THE DEMOCRATIC CAVOUS—THE KANSAS COMMITTEE ——APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED—-NAMES OF THK NEW SLOOPS-OF-WAR, RTC. Wasmixaton, Feb. 10, 1858. The democratic caucus called for this evenirg has beon poseponed until Saturday evening. The object of this caucus is to confer together and arrange the programme for the future action of the democrats relative to the busi- ness before Congress. ‘The most intense anxicty prevails among the black re- publicans in reference to the select committoe of fifteca. ‘The Speaker will announce it to-morrow. The administration is confident that, notwithstanding the vole on Monday, Kansas will be admitted with the Lecompton constitution by @ majority in the House. Such have been the developements within the last forty-eight hours. ‘The Senate had a short executive session to day, and confirmed a large batch of unimportant nominations. They also confirmed A. 8. Gallup, Postmaster at Provi- dence, Rhode Island, vice Sales, The President has ap- pointed Warren Bryant Collector at Buffalo. ‘The five steam sloops-of war now being built have been named by the President as follows :—The one building at Peneacola, ‘ Pensacola; the one at Norfolk, “Rich- mond ;"’ the one at Philadelphia, “ Lancaster ;"' the ona at New York, “ Rrooklyn ;” and the one at Boston, “Hart- ford.”” THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DRSPATON. Wasnxeroy, Feb. 10, 1858. The Senate's Committee on Territories had under cons!- deration this morning the President's Kansas message and the Lecompton constitution, but arriged at no conclusion ‘as to their action. The Senate's Committee on Foreizn Relations will short- ly report in favor of extending national courtesies to the Agent of the Turkish government, and affording him every facility to consummate bis visit to this country. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasiuscton, Feb, 10, 1868. Mr. Hantax, (opp.) of Iowa, presented the credentials of Hon. J. W. Grimes, the new Senator from Iowa. MK, DOUGLAS’ KANSAS RESOLCTIONS, Mr. Dovotas, (opp.) of Ill, attempted to brmg up his Kansas resolutions. Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Mit, objected, and called for the yous and nayn. Mr. Dovatas was proceeding to give the reasons why his resolutions should take precedence of the army bill, and was frequently interrupted bz Messrs. Davis and Mason, who objected to his going into the merits of the question. Mr. Douglas finally turned upon Mr. Davis with considerable force. He claimed nothing more, he said, than the same privilege and courtesy that bad always been granted to other senators on similar occasions. Mr. Davis replied that it was never the custom to allow sepators on @ motion to postpone special business to dia- cuss the merita ef a question not bofore the Senate. Ho objected in toto to Mr. Douglas’ course. Mr. Dovotss rejoined with some acrimony, when Mr. Macon interfered, stating that if the gentleman persisted he should claim the privilege of replying. Messrs. Mason, (adm. ) of Va., and Davis called him to order several times. Tho Cas permitted Mr. Douglas to proceed. He pledg- ed himeeif, if the Senator from Mississipp would guaraa- toe, that hereafter Kansas question, unul he got the re- quired fact.—— Mr. Masow, inte’ ing—The resolations shall » vor pass by any aid of mine. Mr. Dover as—That’s frank. Mr. Masoy again objected. Mr. Doveras called for the yeas and nays. ‘The motion was defeated—yeas 23, nays 24. Absentecs—Mesars. Allen, Rates, Brown, Clark, Ciay, Fitch, Green, Hunter, Johneon of Arkansas, Pearce, Reit, Thompeon of Kentucky, Thomson of New Jersey, Wright. Tam ARMY tt ‘Was then debated by Messrs. Masow and Davia. ACOOWMOPATIONS FOR REPORTRRS, Mr. Foor, (opp.) of Vt., submitted an order for the Commitice on the Library to report a plan for tho accom. modation of reporters, other than those for the reporters of the Congressional Globe in the oastern gallery. Mr. Toowns objected, He did not think there ought to be any such persons in the gallery at all. ‘The subject was laid over. THR ARMY RIDE AGAIN. The debate on the Army bill waa then resumed. Mr. Mason confessed to but little knowledge in the mat- ter, but relied on the estimates of the War Department. He would vote to increase the army, without consider ing that ho was merely blindly registering tho edicts of the Executive, ‘ Mr. Crrvrexnes, (opp.) of Ky., advocated the bill, eulo~ gizing the army as having performed greater fonts tham ‘any in the world of similar nambers. Mr. face, (opp.) of N. Hi, would state, in behalf of the fulministration, though not by request, that the govern- ment does not desire the bill to pare. He fortified his po- sition by reading an article in today's fnion, Although he (Hale) would not endorse the admivistration in all things, yet he woutd vote, in accordence with its desire, to He then proceeded, when , Copp.) of Texas, opposed the dill, saying ho would never again yote to increase the army. Ho (Houston) bad been read out of the demoeratic party, but had never cared enovgh about it to ask the reason. General Jackson had privciples without a platform, but the present administration had a platform without prin - ciples. Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Mise., ainewered the objections to the bill Without concluding the subject, the Senate adjourned. Howse of Representatives. Wasitiserox, Feb, 10, 1868. THe Hie TAM Vote RRVATION OF LPR ON A Wea) Inte egasiderstion of the DI amgada-