The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1858, Page 2

2 . NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1858. NEWS FROM KANSAS. Special Correspondence of the Herald. Lawnenes, K.T, Jan, 30, 1858, The Proceedings of the Legisiature—New Constitutional | Convention—Liquor Law in Kansas—Militia Organiza tion, de. t ‘The Torritorial Legis!ature is diligently engaged on | pectal legislation. Two-thirds of the acts passed are for | Peostablishmont of roads from one locality to another, | xthe incorporation of town companies, Towns are laid | 1iCrland where there is not a building of any kind, and owners of that land are incorporated as town com- | panies. Such places are called town sites, or paper towns, | but when three buildings of any kind whatever are erected, then the place becomes de facto and legally a | town. It is nothing unusual here to meet 4 man who owns three or four whole towns, and has an interest in half a | dozen more. Speculators purchase land, get it incorporat- ei as a town site, and the shares are thereafter sold ata very great tcrense of price. Lobbying is being carriea on With great activity; ail kinds of projects are on foot, and special bills are rapicly passed. Smaliconsiderations go & great way to influence votes. Very little hard money is paid out by the lobdy, but shares in new towas sold cheap or generally given away, as well as an interest or interests given in any proposed undertaking, never hinder the authorization of the project or projects. The lobby ing in regard to county seats is particularly active. Men are here laboring hard to get the county seats of their counties Changed to the town at or near which they hold landed property, while others, who possess in- tereste in the present county seats, are laboring equally hard to prevent the proposed changes. The value of land in our mushroom towns is increased from fifty to one hundred per cert by the location of the county seats in them; hence the great efforts of persons who have pro- perty to be thus affected. Tue contest is a very sharp one alreacy, though it has rot vet really began in the House, and will not be settled till the close 0 the session. Indeed, the Legislature may be compelled, merely in self. defence against the lobby, to stay all their proposed changes in county seats and lines. Some of the Lawrence abolitionists have represented through the Territory that they bad great inflaence in the Legisiature, and could secure the passage of any projects desired by them, and by promise of their inflaence have obtained shares in towu sites and interests ia new towns aspiring to be county seats. Some of these meu have se- cured a large amount of property in this way. One man, who is Wo.sbioped as a hero by some of the abolition is in the Fast, has promised to at least six towns in county, to ure all his influence to obtain the county scat for thetn The sct providing for a new Constitntional Convention was amended in some of its details by the Council, and returned to the Houre. The House have sent it back to the Council, after a g to the amendments, except one worc—that the Convention should meet at Topeka in Stead of st Lawrence—so the act may be considered as | Passed both hauses. It provides for the el of tbe | delegate s—: ne hundred in number—to the Convention, on | the second Tuesday in March, 1858; the Convention to micet on the fourth Tucsday in March, at Topeka; and the | Constitution thus fr be submitted to # fair vote of | the peopie on the th in May. AS soon as ra the people { vt to the Presideut an. 'ss, with @ petition tor admission iuto the Union | jt | nder this constitution is r the ratification of | Some difficulty was ex pont for the delegates th members of the Legish sus, upon which the at, but the majority Within sixty days by the pe f prebib.tor law baz pas it provides that before a license to seli intoxicating alt liquors Can be granted, the party making app! for itsbal) 1 bonds. aad be subjected tos that no man who believes the law w: st bum would be wiling to take 2 the lower ae of Representatives for the { @ person is found toa tine of $500, There are as yetno Buch bow: Ab act bas patced both houses, eptitied ‘an act to incor the Cherokee Mining Co The company is rchase. to take by grant, gift, dovation or mber mineral land, not to ex- to exceed t a Kansas Territory, viz:—Com here the 38 nu the Territory of Kansas and the | State of Missouri, thence cue west to the 20th degree of | longituce, thence due south to the 37th parail i thence dve east to the poimt where the crosses the line between Kansas Territory and the State of Missouri, thence due north to the place of beginning; and to hold, convey and morteage the same at pleasure, ‘with the same powers and authority in respect to auch property as a pate person Tae act provides that the capital “of the company shal! consist of $ amount havitg already cressed to $50,000. In the southern sec tory there are said to be very good coal mines; also some lead and iron mines. The Company inten’ to commence operations very quickly. If they succeed in finding or ‘opening @ good coal wine of mines it will be of incalcula ble advantage to Kansas. for it will be very difficult to ob- tain firewood In afew years. We have but little good Wooded land, nineteen-twenticths of it being open prarie. The following RRPORT OF THE MILITLA COMMITTRE OF KANSAS Has just been made to the Legislatute:-— ‘To rar Prmpest oy THE CovNciL AND THR SPRAKER OF TUR House OF RaPRESENTATIVES OF THE LNGIMLATIVE ASSEMELT cr m8 Trenton) OF Kansas— mm instructed by the military board orgabized under the act entitled “An act to organize aud regulate the mili tla of Kansas Territory,’’ to report to your honorable bo- dies thet said board bas taken the following action, trast- ing that it may meet with your approbation — At the first meeting, convened in Lawrence on the Ist day of January, 1858, the subjowwed resointion w ed:— Resolved fr calling 0 militia, for g boui at point crowses the line betw orga y ‘he mil tia of Kaneas shall be divided inte eight brigade divisions, as follows, viz 1, The Firet Brigade Division shall comprise all that it of the Territory of Kansas inciulled within the fol- | wing boundaries, viz —Commencipg at the mouth of tho | © Kansas river and rupning thence west, wing the menuderings of said river to the point where the dividing Line between ranges uinteen and twenty crotses said river thence north to th nehip #ix, range twenty. thence ce soutl following the meanderings of said Missouri river to the place of beginning 2 The Second Brigade Division shall comprise all that territory bounded as follows, viz-—Commencing on the Missouri river, on the south line of township six; thence running west on the line of said township to the ¢ mericien line; thence orth on said meridian line ime to the M! following the moauderings thereof, to the place of vegia: hin The Third PF territory bow follows, viz:—Commencing at that Point vo the Kansas river where the west lice of range Bineteen crores said river; thence running west, follow. | ing the meanderings of said river, to the line of the guide Merion; ence north on said line to the south line of towuslip six; thence east on said township line to the east | line of range cineteen, thence south on said last men. tioned Line to the place of begint ing 4. The Fourth Brigade division shal! comprise all that | territory bounded as follows, viz —Commenecing at that | one where township thirteen crosses the gaide merifian | ine ané running thence west ou said lice to the weet line of range one, thence north on said live to the Nebraska | Line; thence cast on said Nebraska line to the guite me- | Tidian line, thence south op said guide meridian ine to the place of beginning. 6. The Fifth Brigade div +tion shail co territory bounded as foliows, viz mmrocing on the Kansas river at that point where the east line of range seventeen crosses said river: thence runving south on | paid Line to the of the fourth standard parailel, thence west on faid parallel line to the west line of range ono thence north on said line of range one to the south line of range thirteen, (hence east on said line to the line of the guide meridian, thence north on said meridian line to that post where the line of said guide meridian crosses the aid Kansas river, thence east, followiag the moanderings Of said river, to the p puing 6. The Sixth Brigade om shall comprise all th territory bounded as follows, viz —Commencing at the mouth of the Kansas river and following the meanderings Of said river west to that point where the east line of range seventeen crosses fad river, thence oath on said line to the south line of township nincteen; thence east on said jine to the Missour! State liue. thence north on sail Missouri line to the place of beginoing 7. The Seventh Brigade divi #lall comprise all that tere: me’ bounded se fullows —Ce wherokbe east line of range sixteru ¢ fourth standard paraliel, abd embracing al! that section of try lying went of gald line and south of the fourth | Btandard ere & The Righth Brigade division shal! comprice all that territory bo 1 ‘ed as follows, viz.—Ly ing east of the weet line of fauge rev enteeu, aud south of the south line of | township twenty The Brigadier Generale are acsigned to the weveral bri- | eeice as flows —Firet Brigade, Gen. 1. G. Lonee; Se- « Gen. 8. V. Jamison Third, ¢ orge S. Ailiver Asa Hall, F fb, LG. Cleveland: Sixth, » Samuel Walker Seventh, John H. Whistler; Fighth, Ger Calvin Mebanié | The said Brigadier Generals are authorized and direct 4 to proceed forthwith te organize the militia within ther Severe! brigadee into companies and regiments, as pi Vided for in the act entitled “An act to organize and regu | Ta militia of Kansas Territory,” passed December 16, ‘The Inspector General !9 authorized and directed to pra- ceed fortnith to collect al agiog to this Tor ritory , Recording to the 1 militia act, and he is empowered to call upou the Brigadier Generals to | id him within the bounds of their eeveral br gades To: next regular meeting of the Military Board stall he bel’ Lawrence, on the second Tnesday of February e « 12 o'clock M., and there shall be a regular meet t enid Boar’ at the same piace en tne second Tor sy of every month thereafter, «meetings may be beld price all that n. it any time or place, | tye ‘ten call sighed rity of ald Board Th ranking ‘eens preasht tall preaide ot the. meet oy vd Board a «tate by the Board shall be signed by the | Pres me tested by che Adjutant General, or in his Bde on: © by the Recrotary | Au) momber of the Hoard falling to attend ite regular | f Nebraska Territory; thence east on said Ne- | vuri river; thence along said river, | | je division shall comorise all that | Stalee oractice eh.p Piymoath, OF apecal tensions, after writien motice of the same fer ved | Merald, 1) 10 uy bim, shal! be fined $10, to be paid into the Terrie seitreasury, unless such delinquent member is excused by the Board, but nothing im this article is intended to ap- ply to the Commander in Chief. ‘A. D Richardson was elected Secretary of the Board, | and directed to procure such blank books ns may be neceseary to keep a full record of its proceedings @w motion, the Board adjourned, to mee) at the Com mercial builtlings, in Lawrence, on the second Tuesday 1% ret ot whe is tfally submitted w subm' . Forpoosiuny 5. B. LANE, President, A. D. Ricuarnson, Secretary, Meeting of the Stock and Bondholders of the Mad River and Lake Erle Reltrond, About twenty of the stock and bondholders of this road mct yesterday afternoon at the Astor House, for the pur pose of taking some action on the propositions adopted ata recent meeting of stock and bondholders residing in Bos ton. Mr. James H. Titus preside}, and Mr, Remsen oiliciated as Secretary. As the meeting was wholly preliminary, and a8 many present were not informed in regard to the ac- tion or propositiens of the Boston stock and bondholders, it was decided to appoint a commit‘ee who should report at the next meeting, which is to be beld at 1 o'clock on Monday, the 15th instant, in the Astor House, The follow- ing gentlemen were appointed on the committee:—Messrs. Hall, Chadwick and Alley. The following is the statement and proposition adopted at the Boston meoting, which took place at the Revere House on the 4th inatant:— To adjust the conflicting claims of the different classes of bondholders and other creditors of the Max River and Lake Erie Railroad Company, without the necessity of having recourse to litigation and the appointment of a re- ceiver, the committee unanimously propose the following arrangement:— The holders of the following named securities, in con- sideration of the premises to surrender two coupons, for which — they shall receive stock of the company at par; said surrender to commence with those dus in December, 1857. That for the coupons failing due in the next three years succeed: said surrender, the holders cf the same securities shall receive three and one half per cent per annum on the coupons falling due in those years, by passing one coupon each year, and the payment of the sec°nd in full on the surrender of the two. The securities indicated are as follows, to wit:— 1,000,000 bonds, due 1586. 700,000 bonds, due 1875 224,000 dividend bonds. (000 S. C. & Indiana R- < : x 8. C. & Ind. 8 per cent stock ..1 “« 10,000 160,000 Spring. & Col. guaranteed bd.“ 6,000 MOORS: ig, Ue a aise oe oe He ae nage = $91,000 Multiplied by two, the number of coupons to be BUFTENGOTCA.. 0 oese seco eee - $182,000 Amount surrendered on half’ payment of interest for thre BIB ec es ceee teens Total amount surrendered by bondholders... $455,000 By enabling the company to control its pledged securi ties, this process will place at the dispozal of the com- pany the following means, viz.:— Amount of coupons surrendered, as above. Bonds of 1875, held as collateral, at par. rity’and Ind Railroad bonds, at p Total, Lites st due Ist mortg. bonds, ting debt Boat debt... to th not including intere Tota The d to be extirguished is expected to be realized by a reduc- tion to be made by the holders of the floating debt, hav- security held by each creditor n ital of the company for which certificates of stock ¢ been issued, now amounts to. +$2,097 090 To which, if the foregoing arrangement be con- summated, will be added stock to be issued to the bondholders for the firet twe coupons sur- rendered... aa Total stock vee 5-82. It is further proposed by the commitice to cut down the whole stock 60 per cent. The stock would thea represent The bonds of 1866, ‘The bonds ef 1875 . Div ond: 1869 and 1862 Ind. Railroad bonds..... +s Ind. § per cent guarauteed stock Springticid and Col. guarauteed bonds. . den >. and ‘Thus making the reduced cost of the road. ... 84,463,645 The permanent charge upon the income of the road will be as fo.lows, to wit — luterest on 2,000 000 mortgage bonds. Interest on dividend bonds.......... Interest on Indiana 7 per cents, Dividend on Indiana 8 per cent stock. Interest on S. and Col. guaranteed bonds. thal! become binding upen the bondholders and stock- holders it is understood and required that a compromise and settlement, to be made satisfactory to a committee copstituted for that purpose, shall be assented to by the holders of the different classes of float! debt; and that the holders of dividend bonds falling due in 1860-62, thal! «xchange them for new bonds having along time to ran, and that no interest whatever be paid upon any of said bonds until tbey are so exchanged; and it is recom- mended that the committee} to which the adjustment of said floating debi and dividend bonds be referred, shall be pamed with powers to act finally. The above plan, or some modification of it, it is believed | by your committee, will be promotive of the future mter- | ests of all partics concerned to a greater extent than any plan which shall look to a resort either to the courts or to the Legislature for relief. The prominent and controlling reasons which have operated on the minds ef the commit- tee, are briefly these —It disturbs none of the ultimate le- gal rights of the parties to the arrangement, it is more cer- tain in its operation, aud is cheaper and siapler than any privileges that might not be left undisturbed should the charter be submitted to the lagalnse amendment. M. SPELMAN, WM. B. HOWES. The report was also accepted by the Boston meeting, and the fo,lowing supplementar d in the report, mittee making the peiman, and adopted by the meeting. In addition to the condition of the report, to wit—that that the holders of the floating debt shall make such abatements from their demancs as shal! appear in the aggregate to @ committee appointed by the bondholders themselves, in reasonable and just proportion to the com cessions made by the bondbolers—the following condi ticos — Mad River and Lake Frie Rail- 1. The directors of t road Company shall ev ataenent of ‘eport, were moved by Mr. the ailairs of the company, which i embrace the treasurer's mouthly trial-balance; a list of bills payable and receivable: the gross income, eu imerating from what sources, the opereting expenses, in cetail, the amoant of the pay rolls and number of men’ empl: yed; and such oth- ef schedules ae shall be necessary w the full understand. ing of the operations of the motith, and shall cause this monthly statement to be sent to Boston, and to be deo. sited in some place where it stockbolders for inspection an 2. The directors shall aleo the doings of the past year, agreeably to the u of such railroad reports, giving fall s‘atements of all mat ters of interest t¢the bond snd stockholders, and shail cause this —_ to be printed and circulated in the usual | manner, at least one week previous to the calliog of a meeting preparatory to the annual meeting 8 A preparatory meeting of bon? and stockholders shall be called by the directors of the Mad River and Lake Frie Railroad Compaay, in the city Of Boston, at least twenty days previous to the annual meeting in Angust of each Year, at which meeting the annual report shail be presented, and the President of the company, or some person cr persons duly authorized by the Board of 1 reclors, shall be present to give «uch information as may be required, to ihe end that stock and bootholiers may be instructed aa to the exact pori don and prospects of the company, and that stockholders may be 7 proxy or otherwise, to vote intelligently at the al meeting On motion of Mr. gels pea bee that the report an’ sopplement be printed. On motion of Mr. D. A. Neal, it was voted that the com- Mittee provided for consist of three persons—Merera. Fol- lett. Spe'man ant Howes—being the committee who drew up the report On motion of Mr. Saltonstall, it was voted that the com- mit'ee now appointed have full power to perfect the ar Tangements with all classes of the creditors of the road, which are embodied in the report. Annual Report of the Superintendent of the State Lanatic Asylum, presented to ‘The annual report of this institution w the Senate on the 10th inst. The number of patients in the institution at the com Mencement of the year was 231 males, 230 females— total 461. Number received during the year, 120 males, 106 fe- males—total 236 der treatment, 369 males, 336 females Whole number wu Lota! 646 Jratly average under treatm Ordinary capacity of the ho There have been discharyed recovered, 41 males, 54 females—total 9%, There have been discharged improved, 13 males, 12 fe males— iota) 25 a There have been discharged unimproved, 96 mal females—totai 83 Twenty four inales ani eight females have died during the year. Whole number remaining at the institution on the 30th of November, 107, 461—268 males, 213 females. There Lave tera admitted into the institution since ite orgenization in 1*1:, 6,065 patients. ere have been ‘discharged 4,614—discharged reoov- ered, 2.112; discharged Improved, 768; discharged nnit. proved, 1,096, died, 605; discharged not insane, 34. Naval Intelligence, The battery of the United States steamer Colorado was pot on board that vessel atthe Navy Yard, Norfolk, Mon- day and Tuesday Iast. Workmen are actively engaged in getting this ship ready for gea, which Will require now a few werkes, It haw alfeady been annonnced that the Colo rade is lo be the flag slip of the home squadron. ‘The work om the new steam sloop ef war Richimont, at | the Goaport ar Oe rapidly: her frames are being rain Ordera have been ved *) got the floops of war Saratoga, Cyane and Preb!s in readiness for sea. On yeeterday commenced the coal ing of the United Stator steamer Colorado. Carpenter George W. Eiliout has bern or fered to rewrt for duty on hots te United Wash ington. Norfolk ¥ this meeting of bondholders, by resdlution, | instructions to the com: | such mesented to by | | THE RECENT ROW IN CONGRESS, |The Northern and Southern View of the Affair, THE SOUTHERN Viiw. THE FRAGAS AT WASUINOTOY, | om the Charleston sfercory.) ; Reference is made in our teleg aphic ‘despatches ton | coilisicr between Col. Keitt and Mr. row of Penosyivania in the House of Representatives. A friend, who was au | eye witvers, sends ua an account’ the affair, which we apcex. From this, it aj rs tha Grow, whe !s one of ihe most pestilent abolit in Congress, was not oaly out of his place, but out of order, for the rules of the House are imperative that a membor must be at his seat when he acdresses the Speaker or th: Rouse. Tae follow- { ing ts the statement: — | Wasmixctor, Feb. 6, 1858. At about two o’clock A.M. Gen. Quitman offered a pro- position to disentangle the proceedings in ine tlouse. afr. Grow, who was in one of the aisles on the dmovratic sido of the House, objected @ little tarily. Mr. Keitt said to him, “Go on the other side the House, to which you belong, if you want to object.’ Mr Grow answered, ‘I'll object where I please.’ Mr. Keitt then said, Wait til I can come round, and I'!! tako care of you’ Mr. Keitt went round and said to him, “ You abolitionist para, nowe to your side of the House, and don’t stay here.” Mr. Grow said, *1’ll stay as long asi please.’’ Mr. Keitt then choked bim for an instant. He thea started off, when Mr. Grow said, “You can’t come from your plantation and crack the whip over me.” Mr. Keitt turned back and said, “ 1’ll choke you again for toat insolence,’’ and he grasped his throat a second time. Davis, of Miss, then interfering, wronched Mr. Keitt round to keep them apart, and pressivg him against the corner of a table, Mr. Keitt partially fell. Mr. Grow, hon Mr. Keitt was wrenched roand to separate them, struck at Mr. Keitt, we think, but did not reach him. Those by say he did ‘pot reach him. Mr. Barksdale, ia interfering to separate them, was struck, and dealta few heavy blows in return. The whole thing’ waz sudden, and over io a moment, There was not much excitement pre- vailing before, or afterwards. This is a succinct state ment of the whole attair, which will, doubtless, be greatly exaggerated by blacx republican prints, The whole thing was extemporancous. THE } VIEW. THE NIGHT SESSION IN THE HOUSE—DESCRIPTION OF THE AFFRAY. {Correspondence of the Evening Journal. } Wastincton, Fob, 6, 1858. You have received the details of the great Lesompton figbt in the House last night, and the episodical collision between Grow, of Pa., and Keitt, of 8. C. To preveut a vote on Hacris’ motion to refer the Le- compton mesage to a gelect comtaittee, the pro slavery side of the chamber commenced “filibustering,’’ as it is called ¢.¢, calling the yeas and nays on all sorts of ques- tions; chiefly on adjournment. The House kept its temper pretty well under the wearisome process till past mid- night. Did you ever see Lawrence M. Keitt? Did you ever watch bim when parading the hall, bis head thrown back with the conecited air of a London cockney, his lascivious eye staring brazenly at the ladies’ gailery, his thrust-out wa seesawing like dancing Jack's under a vigorous ng of the string, and daintily treading the floor much peacock with tail-feathers wide spread would do if suécenly stricken with the spring hati? Keittrust bave been a “nigger driver” ere he came to Congres®. His vulgar swagger, authoritative shake of the head, and whip I'ke jerk of the arm, as he marcaes up and down the aisles on the democratic side of the cham- ber, crying out to his party colleagues in sharp toaes, “Stand up!” “Go through the tellers!’ “sit down!’ ‘Don't vote!’ “Vote no!” all indicate that he has offi- inted as a whipper-in of a gang of glayes on & cotton or ice plantation. Last night, during the tiresom upurually ostentatious and n area in front of the cbair, proceedings, Keitt was «strutting around the talkiog and taughing loudty, blackguarcing mi rs, and regulating things generally, Ul be made himself go offensive that the Speaker, with marked emphasis, repeatediy pronounced his trivial mo- tons out of order. while rot afew gentlemen in the gal- leries longed for the privilege of leaping on the floor and jilaking the conceit’? out of the gabbling popinjay be low, About half-past one Grow sed over to the eemocratic side of the chamber, to confer with Hickman, Dougles democrat, of Pennsylyauia. Having finisbed bis conference, Grow was passing down the side aisle to the area, on his wuy back to ois soat. Jost then Gen. Quitman asked unanimous consent to sub mit s motion out of order. Grow, according to his usual custom, objected, saying, “ Lobject, Mr. Speaker; let us goon in the regular order.” Keitt, who was sitting two or three desks from the aisle where Grow was passing, said to Grow, in the most insolent manner, “ Damn you, go over to ycur ownfpide if you want to object. You have iness Dere any Way.” “Grow replied in an off hand tone, “ This is afree ball, anda mau has a right to be where be pleases fh it" —etill continuing to walk slowly down the aisie. Keitt rushed to the area, and turning round faced up the aisle just as Grow reached the bottom of it, With a swagger, Keitt said to Grow, ‘What do you tmean by the anewer you gave me!’ Grow coolly’ re: plied,“ Tmean just what I said, that «this te a froe hall, and aman hasa@ right to be where he pleases in it.’” Keitt retorted, “1 teach you,” and seized Grow by the throat. Grow knoecke —_ his hand, stepped back foot or so, and steadily eyed hi Keitt addressed bim in intense anger, saying, "nM let you know, you damn’d binek republican puppy.” Grow how retortet, with emphasis, “I bave a right to be what T please, and to be where I please in this hal!, and no nigger driver can come from his plantation and crack his hip over me either, You are not the regulator of this 11.” Instantly Keitt again seized Grow by the throat, d Grow as quickiy knocked off his baad wth his left ‘mM—Wwhich slewed Kett partly rounc—and at the same time dealt him @ heavy blow with bis right fist, which hit Keitt just behind the left ear. Keitt fell as enddenly as if struck with anaxe. As he was going down Grow gave | bim an emphatic shove between the shoulders, which | caused bim to strike bead foremost with his heels up- | wards, presenting to the galleries the appearance of aman trying to plunge through the floor of the House iato the vaults benesth. A bundres ‘accounts of thir aifair bave gone out. The | above I give ou the very best authority The slavehold- ing version of Keitt’s fall is, that he tripped and fell. He was knocked down by Grow. And now the melee becam* genoral. As Keitt fell, Grow was seized by half a dozen Southerners, among whom was Barksdaie, of Mississippi. They assert that their sole | object was to stop the fight. Some believe them Bat, | a the twinkling of an eye, from forty to fifty republicans | came dashing acrors the ball to the ecene of the encoun- | ter, beaded by John F. Potter, of Wisconsin, who leapt | tuto the midst of the fight, by the side of Grow, with the bound of a tiger, and commenced hitting right and jeft among the patriarchs with great vigor. Not exactly ap: preciating the pacific nature of Barksdale's demonstration, Potter gave him two or three “sottlers,’’ whieh Barks. in the pell- mel going on around him, supposed were dealt by Elibu Washburne, who just then happoved to be hovering in that vieinity, whereupon patriarch Barksdale set himeel! in hostile array against puritan Khu. Just at | thie juncture the mazes ef beligerents and peace makers | were crowding between Barksdale and Potter, the latter in the meantime having seized the former by the hair—which, by the by, proved not to be the lna fide bair of the said Barksdale, bat a wig, which the said Potter had torn cif, and for the time being converted to his own ase. Catwallador C. Wasi burne, of Wisconsin, (these Wasbbarves are all blo: seeing the bald Barksdale in conflict with bis brother El ha, felt His paternal epirit and rushing upon Barksdale brought down one or two biows “on the top of bis head where the wool ought to grow What became of Koit afver W set the iaw of gravity in mction upoa bim, nobody see it Keitt bimself—and he won't Th he.was sitting on a sofa, in ner of the hail, pale and hageard, looking like a whipt rooster who feels no disposition to “go in" aud re bew the fight At this time the Speaker wae calling lond)y to “order,” rapping incessantly with his gavel, aud shouting for the Sergeant at-Arms.§ This colloral functiouary seized the mace (which looks like av Indian war club, with a emall metailic eagle perched thereon) aod rushed among the stroggiing, surging, tossing members. Pot fer, seeing a big fellow with a bludgeon join- ing in the melée, was about w wrench it out of his bands, when the Megs | voice of the Speaker (Col. Orr has oice like asteam whistle), urging on the Sergeant, sug- gested that the individual might be Glosabrenner, where upon he atruck out in agother direction. Potter is an athle Uo, withy man, at home in a ‘muss.’ He got one or two hard hits himself, which he promptly repaid on the wt; and itis believed that the chivairy will give him a berth during the romainer of the session In the thickest of the fight was seen Parson Lovejoy, and Quaker Mott, strogg) » keep the peace; though there was a lurking glance in Lovejoy s eye, which teu ted to prove, that on due eeation, he “would, like him i" his hand at bewing Agag in picces before the ord. As evidence of the epirit wh in the hall, I will relate a scene which ix said to have oc curred between Mongomery, of Ma, and Bosock, of Va Their seats adjoin, and are near the spot ef the encoun fer. Montgomery i¢ a Douglas democrat, an able lawyer, and @ quiet gentlemanly porson. Booock is a hearted but ue” feels the blood of ia F. F's coursing his veins. As Barkedale seized Grow “JMontgomery started towards the aisle. Bo cock seized him by thearm. Turnn flercely upon bia —M. is @ very large man—he said w B., (you may fill the blank with & most intense phrase.) “Lat go my arm, , or Til knock you down!’ Bocock abstained. Some hands were laid on knives and pistols. But none were drawn. One reputiican member, with a Colt in hia pocket, anticipating a blooly issne, ed a chair, #0 that he could see to do rood service without hitting his friends. A republican reporter in the gailory, who hap pened to find along knife in his pocket, tried to climty down upon the floor: but finding this in vain, he proposed to drop his knife down, when a friend suggested that it might fall into the hands of bis enemies, whereupon he laid down his knife anu took up his pen To detail all this takes worn aud yet, the whole ryaded the free men affair occupied only three or tour minutes. Af ter it waa over, a fooling that @ great daa ger had been’ chy and barely = #hutn ned, gave a sombre hur tw thoughtful faces, When ui! had passed, the Speak, who bad borne bimsetf firmly through the wild scene, was pale aad nervous. The lips of many anti lecomptonit-s wore compressed aad the responst ve yea Or nay, curing the renwaining hours of the night, was hissed through some tooth rather than wwered from the mouth. If the mortal siraggle, which, at oue moment was anticipated, bad commenced, and blow! been shed, the anti-iecomptonites would have me c ean sweep of the hall All concerued may know that vemen are in ne frame of mind to subepit quietly to insult. The South is cowed. I know what I eay—cowed. The Promptnees with which Grow knocked Keitt down in the ‘very midat of the Southern side of the chamber, and the alecrity and fire with which somo fifty republic ms boand ed across the hall to join the strugg e, Nod the slave. boiders. Father G\ddin id to-day, Thave sat ja this Bouse twenty years and | never saw the slave power 0 completely bailed and cowed as during tnis Afteeu hour> contest.” This if the first time the new republican members have becu under a steay fire this session. They stood to gens without flinching. All the re present enor Meears. Morray an Devers. Kelsey and atteson ympson were very Bick, and were | © obliged to leave the Hall early in the evening, bu! they paired off. Lecomptonites admit that the proc wings of last PR rg er them seriously, The hypocr val ol Peck- sniff at the other end of the avenue, with .. whi cravat and white liver, his head a-crook and .s heart awry, is very much disturbed about the perv rity uf the demo cratic malcontents in the House. So stands freedom’s battle at thi lar encounter with the slave power. tose ot the first regu- Chember of Comme PROPOSE }) AMENDMANTS 10 THE SANKING LAW. [9 A especial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce w held yesterday—Mr. Tczit in the chair—for the purpose of bearing the report o! the committee appointed to take into consideration the suggestions of the Governor and Bank Superintendent in relation to amendments of our banking system. Mr. Mavry, the Chairmar of tho Committee, submitted the report, stating that ali the members had sigaed it, and that they had had a great deal of previous discussion con- corning it, both in and out of the committee. The follow- ing is the report:— . The committee appointed by the Chamber of Commerce on the 4th inet. to examize the alterations in the Byuking laws of this State, recommended by the Governor and Bank Superintendent, beg leave to report as follows:. The Governor recommends tbat every bank in this State be required, under adequate peunities, to keep on hand in coin not lees than 25 per cent of all its cash liabilities, ox- clusive of its notes, ‘The Bank Superintendent ¢iffers from the Governor by recommending 20 per cent instead of 25 per cont, and in suggesting that the banks out of this city be allowed to hold specie funds instead of specie itself, AltLough the deposits in the country banks may be so small as to make it unimportant whether specie funds or specie are held, we prefer the re ynirementof actual specie in al] banks, as & matter of privciple; and certainty, if the deposits in country banks are so euall, the condition can be no hardship to them. ‘We wich the principle to be recognized, by law, that rot less than a certain proportion of cash liabilities shall be held in coin, and that this proportion shall not be diminished at the discretion of any managers of banks. It is unreasovable and unfair that the banks shall be allowed to expand imprudently as they have done, aud thereby given large dividends to their stockholders while bavaraing th pension of specie payments and para- lyzing the business of the country. ‘The desirable propertion of specie is 20 per cent ac- cording to the Bank Superintendent, 25 per cent according to the Governor, 20 per cent in the opinion of many of our experienced bavkers and morchants, and 884; by the Lou isinalaw. The Superintendent appears to have fixed upon 20 per cent because the propertionactualiy held by the banks in this city in two years, ending with the summer of 1865, was between 19 and 20 per cent. The advocates of 30 per cent think it will more completely insure safety, vhile its opponents allege that so large a holding of idle pital will disqualify our banke for earning fair uividends, and that the New Orieans banks are only enabled to bear 233( per cent by the opportunities which that city pre- sents for making profits in exchanges. ‘The Governor recommencs adequate penalties. The Louisiana law provides the best possible; for those are h undo the datoage while punishing the offence. ‘The pepalties that we recommend are that no loan or «i count sbal! be made by any bank which has been below its required line of specie for twosuccessive weeks by its weekly statements, until it is restored to line; and in case of violating this provision, the bank shall be wound up as insolvent. It will be necessary, however, that country banks shall give the Superintendent average monthly re- ports of their coudition, (for weekly are scarcely nece ) and that the same penalties shall apply to them after enih of offence as to ours after two weeks. to fix upon the largest metallic proportion wud interests of our banks will admit of, and view we recommend not less than 2 and not more than 80 per cent, believing thar either rate wil! not cebar well managed banks from earning fair dividends, such as 8 per cent, when the value of current paper in Wall street is not below 7 por cert. We must remark, prudent and steuty Danking will practically require the specie holdings in this city to be 3 percent, and perbaps occasionally 5 per cent greater than the legal rate: aay, 28 or 20 actual for 25 per cent legal, and 88 or £6 for 30 per cent; whereas our covntry banks will need a less margin, and’ the busi- tees of New Crieavs admits of working their banks with. ‘out one of 3 per cent. Such a law will possess the merit of being self-acting, intelligible and simple in itself, requiring no new macbi- nery for its suvervision, and yet of meeting and checking all those defects of organization and administration in which ruinous contractions and general bank suspensions have theirorigin. If by any accident the line of specte should be too low for a single week, the proper proportion could be recover -d in the aecond week, and the compul- sory stonpage of discounts be avoided. The offending bar: will be detected and identified, and the punishment ‘all upen it alone, without excluding it from Cieariug House or endargering the money of the ¢epositors; more- over, without causing any unwholesome alarm in the commoanity, because tae puvishgpeat will begin before the offender can have incurred risk@of actual insolvency by means of over issues of credit. Competition for deposits by offers of bigh interest will be checked: for deposits will brirg with them the duty of holding more specie, the expenre of which duty and the penalty for neglecting it b | reduce the question of rate of interest to very narrow limite. Under the existing laws there is no panishmont until the extreme offence of insolvency has been committed; and then, the innocent and guilty suiler alike. The confd ing stockholder and the innocent depositor may be utterly ruined without the least warning of any danger; butunder the proposed law there will be ample warning for thom end for the community, if the bank, as we must always suppose, is managed with common honesty. Penasties often aefeat their objects: aud it ts now clearly demonstrable that the very severity of the existing law contributed to produce the bank suspension, which it had Leen framed to prevent; for the intense alarm, almost ne- ce 'y existing when the danger of enfor:iog such a penalty approached, terrified the depositors and drove the hanks into an otherwise unnecessary suspension. Tn fact, the propered law will ina great degree be to comercial ana fivancial offences the desi¢eratam of crimt: pal jurisprudence, viz: the prevention of those first steps of raiseonduct which are ultimately productive of extreme crimes. We approve highly of the Superinteadent’s recommen- dations that no more mortgages be received as seourity for bavk notes, aud that the old banks be gradually brough! ur the law requiring security for notes; but we do not approve of his proposition to allow the business of banking to be commenced upon securities for $60,000 instead of $100,000, Varcus projects bave been s ed for preventing a recurrence of the recent difficultics, Among them are:— Prevention of banks paying interest on deposits. That coposits sbould pot be payable in geld. bibition of bank notes below $5, $10 or $20, Limitation of the rate of bank dividends, An evermously large ban! 4 Board of Currency to supervise and regulate the ka, ke, ke. We think we have already shown that the simple plan of holding gold against deposite will accomplish all the sound and practical objects at whic these projects aim. The legal prevention of interest on deposite is not recom mended by the Gcvernor or Superintendent, and probably. beeange it would adimit of so many evasions as to be use- \ese in practice: but, even if practicavle, we think all it 2000 Objects will be attained by the Governor's plan, an we are unwilling to countenance any restrictions of ques tiomable necessity, ‘The payment in gold of deporits in chocks cannot be re- fused. Tt would amount to hank suspension. Without Cenying that some benefit may arise froma Prehidition of stall notes under certain circumstances, we must admit that this measure bas not avswered expec tatien to Penusylvania ; and undoubtedly it is much more important that notes should be secared by the pled, of good convertible va me - — 7 of bank toe be checked by an enforced ding © aitat eite, then that smal! notes should be Srobioned We think euch prohibition can be of Mttle or no use in practice, un less enforced throughout the United States, and therefore we cannot recommend it. A limitation of bank dividends would be practically un- Sugg ond is not desirable large bank would be useless if the other bunks are to be continued, and therefore impracticable for any preaent benefic'al ¢ fects. No Board of Currency is required. As the plan of specie Apainet Coposits would boself actieg, the present machinery of officers need pot be increased. Much more mbt be said, but it is probably unneces eary,as we canvet dowbt that the Chamber will agree with ug in the tollowing conc!usious:— The reven' commercial and financial derangements re- quire measures calculated to prevent a recurrence of such evil. The present is a most favorable bs gow ; for our banks ‘are full of fold, merebants an traders bave not yet embarked in large new operatiocs, and none of the other States have resolved upoo avy new banking laws. Plan we recommend requires no combination of lawe with the rick of their uncertain effects, for it has stood the test of trinl in Louisiana. Tt will net disturb any sound existing interests. It ie self acting, aud therefore rations; for nothing that cab endanger our is left to the “iseretion of any taan or any boty of men; and uncor ite principles of action the 'amentabie bank expansion of July Ist could net have occurred ‘We submit a memorini to the Legstature for the approv- al of the Charaber. MATTHEW MAURY, ROYAL PHELPS JAMES BROWN, HENRY W. T. MALI, A ALLOW * PERIT. New Vouk, Fob. 10, 1859, Upen motion, the report was accepted. Mr. Rarstow objected to its immediate asoption. on the ground that i was too important a paper to be hastily coo fidered. Tr, however, yielded afier a brief debate. Mr. Moses H. Griswere objected to adopting the report 1 eo ermal! a moetiny Chamber, and moved to «trike Fat a clause provi every director of manager of a bank who cboll partiMipate in or assent toa violation of io provision of the proposed law should be bold in. a for ai] debts and obligations. carried. Br. Banerow rcvowed his objections to adopting the re port at preeent Mr. Crivneis also renewed hia objections, stating that the report might not ne acceptable to the couatry banks, wivich he knew posseesed more power in the Legislatare they the Chateber of Commerce and ali the New York barks put together, Mr. Peery suggested some amendments, apd thought it would be hardly (air to adopt so important a report at so femal! a meeting. A motion to print and circulate the document was then carried, and the Charoher adjourned, with the understand ing that the report showid be considered at the special meeting on Wednesday evening next A Crry Raut ror Janany Orty.—The Board of Aldermen of Jersey City have appointed a committee, coneisting of Aldermen Hankins, Sinclair, McComb and Tilden, for the purpose of visiting Trenton and obtaining from the Legis lature ouch supplement to the charter as will enable the tw borrow money for the purchase of @ site and tho ticu of a Clly tall nal olor pwdlic buildings. | accommodated by the formation in severa! of our station | seven eighths were foreigners. mM Police Matters. THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S QUARTERLY RX- PORT—APPOINTMENTS IN SECRET SESSION. ‘The following is the report of General Superintendent | ‘Tallmadge, submitted to the Board on Thursday :— Orricg GuNKRAL SUPERINTENDEWT POLICE, } or THE New York, Feb. 10, 1858. To Tax PResipxnt OF THE BoaRp oF ComaussonKns NICK Sm-—In conformity with the directions of the law con- ati “The Metropolitan Police District,” I have the report to the Commissioners, that although crime suffering have prevailed in this community during the quarter ending on the lat of February instant, to an ext ve dl , Yotthat our fearfal anticipations on the approach of winter—by the iaterposition of a kind Providence—bave not yet been realized, and great and constant rel'ef bas been ‘afforded by public and private | band ores acity comprising 0 great a lation as New York, with ite rapid increase by is natural growth, and forming } aleo a concentrating point for foreign emigration, it is not pr lags 4 that the demands upon the benevolent of crime should correspondingly be A With this report, 1 submit the quarterly reports of the Deputy Superintendents of Ne’ York rf Brooklyn, pre- senting, in & condensed form, the efficient action of the po- lice of the respective cities, during the Bist of January last, presenting a most with apy preceding quarter. The following sy will present, in a brief form, the present condition of the force placed under my command, and the result of their labors duriog the past quarter. The whole force in the city of New York consists of 941 men, officers and patro'men, of which 18 are captains and 18 are sergeants, showing a deficiency yet to be aupplied of 14 captains and 70 sergeants. The efficiency of a police must, ina great measure, de- pend upon the completeness of its organization as well as ‘te numerical strength, and I may be loned for iati- | mating that with so large a margin a judicious selection of officers as weil as patrolmen, uninfluenced and unbiassed by the prejudices of the day, would tend greatly to re- move any hostility that may exist against the department, end form, what the police of New York should be, a safs uard and protection to our feliow citizens, and pot o | htica’ weapon to be wielded for the promotion of political aspirants ¢ rules governing this d ‘tmont forbid members | from participating actively in the poiitical conflicts of the | day, ard I do not doubt that your honorable body will im- press by your example, ia the selection of the force, the importance end correctness of the rule. pe whole number of arrests during the past quarter punts to 12,693, of which 2673 were natives and 10,020 were fore gners; 41,094 destitute persons bave ‘been accommodated with lodgings, of whom a very large portion were foreigners; 752 lost children have beer re- storcd to their purents; ‘and 300 stores or dwellings found ‘open in the night, and proper protection afforded. The anoint of property stolen from citizens and re- nariee ending the vorable contrast ported to ihe department was $67,106 50, of which | $96,833 42 was recovered. The vast benetits of the telegraph have been roalized in the recovery of property, the restoration of persons to their families, and in the speedy transmission of orders to the several precincts. 1 have examired with care the eeveral station houses within the Metropolitan district, and, with a few excep- tions, have found them in good condition and properly cleansed Iu the First ward the security of the inhabitants, and the comfort and convenience of the force there stationed, would, I am persuaded, be greatty promoted hy abolish: ing the station houses ‘at Ola slip and Trinity place, and establishing # gingle one in a central position ip the ward, Such a position can be obtained in Beaver street, near Brond if the city government would appropriate that builoing (now used for a bose carriage) to this par- | pose ‘The station bouse in the Fourth precinct is dis. graceful to the city authorities, and the uutsanco—for such i) is—+bould be immediately abated. Those of the Twenty first and Twenty-second precincts | are unfit for occupancy by the force, and I trust that ibe | most specdy mongures will be adopted to adapt them to the purposés for which they are occupied. I take leave to suggest that the public could be greatly houses of convenient but secure rooms or safes in which may deposited, for sake of keeping, many valuables be: longing to tamilies Who leave the city during the warm season. Thus placed, they would be more secvre than ¢ven in the vaults of & bank, because they are constantly guarded; more convenient, because they are in the vicinity Of the residents, and can at all times, by day or night, be placed there or removed at the will of the owner. Ip the examination of the statior houses [have discover. | ed that in some of them wardrobes for the protection of the clothes of the patrolmen are provided, while in a great | proportion of them uo protection is afforded against injary® to their clothing from dust and otherwise, and from actaal Joss by theit. [submit for your sideration the propri- ety of supply ing each station house with this indispensable piece of furniture. 1 would also ask your attention to the propriety of providing the officers and peirolmen with storm caps, as a substitute, when required, for the dress caps now used by the police. Some of the station houses are already supplied with them, but in most instances the old imitation leather caps are useless, and the men refuse to wear them. In some cf the station heuses the dormitory accommo dations are too contracted, thereby endangering the health and destroying the comfort of the men. In one room I counted twenty two beds, and in soveral I found | tha! more than a dozen persons occupied a single apart- ment. This is javly source of serious complaint. By the report of the Deputy Superintendent of lyn it ppears that the number of arrests made during the past quarter smounts to two thousand seven hundred and firty- five, and that during the same period three thousand one hundred and ninety-cight persons were accommodated with lodgings. Additional statietics are detailed in the re- | ports of the Deputy Superintendent of an interesting | aracter, to which | ask leave to refer this honorable | Board. Bin hey ty bed the rules and regulations for the govern: ment of the harbor police, I perceive that the proposed force is to consist of twenty-five men and two sergeante, who shall Lave the immediate command of the men. It is also propesed to employ the force in five boate, three of which are to be in service on the Fast river from supset to sunrise, and one on the North river during the same period, and one boat on each river during the Whew you take into consideration the great extent of water which they are to traverre, the bumber of slips auc the vast amount of property they are to guard, together with the numerous thieves, that infest our waters, whom they are to watch and encounter, I respectfully submit whether the public service will not require an increased river police to be at all effectual. Mesides, it can hardly be expected that the same men should be upon duty consecutive nights, especially ax they are required to be on duty from ‘sunset to runrise’’ without any relief, Six hours duty is gencrally regarded ag a suflicient tour for land police before reliet; the rules and regulations gov- ernivg the river police contemplate twelve hours consecu- tive duty without relief. This regard os @ most important branch of this de. partment, and I feel confident that the public look with confidence for a sufficiently numerous and most efficient force. I take pleasure in communicating to the Commissioners that | have received from varicus cities the reports of the executive officers of their police, aud that the general plan which forms the basis of the Metropolitan Police in this district, is being recommended and adopted by them. ¥. A. TALLMADGE, General Superintendent. ‘The report of the Deputy Superintendent states tI whole number of arrests amounts to 12,778, of whic! cluding colored persons, 2,274 were natives, aad 10, foreigners, classifies as foliowe:— Trish. Swedes... Germans, West Indies , Sparich i: 11. Colored persons. Forty one thousand aud ninety four poor and destitute persons have been accommodated with lod; of whom been taken from lodges Sod prtogaete, ed c tee iroper en taken from re lime restored to them. 752 lost children have been found their parents. and either the owners notified of the fact or property *e cured, 61 firee been extingnished aid of the lice. The amount of property, ar to thie office, ving been atolen from citizens jaye, amounte in to $67,196 80, of which 56, 42 bave been recovered, leaving a balance of $30! 4 The actoal nomber of imen required for a proper division of the posts be 1,024; but a margin should be Jeft for sicknest and otber contingencies of an addi. bm umber of 50, which would make the aggrogate With this patrol force I foe! very confident that bur- ary, highway robbery, and many other depredations on je property of our fel citizens, would be reduced at jonst fifty per cent, the necessity of merchants and others employ ing private watchmen would be entirely done. away w in @ word, we would be a preventive police. The following table shows the nomber of posts in each precinct, aad the number seeded — Precinet. Night, ShU'A have, 8 a 2s 20 a Total ss oe -- sees eee 178 512 Ta secret session on reday the Board made about one bundred and twenty five appointments on the New York force. The names have been by ex ees direction of the Board, for w! reason is beat nown to themselves. The list has boen fan | & lished aa applicants. The following have recelv ir ehielda, and have been placed en duty — © Wort Mars Ferra D Chas. W. Lewis }. py ag . jogeph Keefe. allt ese, ‘except Woplom and Dodgo, wore on the old force. Keefe was one of the old detectives. Wogtom has ‘an acting captaincy, and is (he man recently objected to by Ma Powell, because be could not road or write well ge in waid to rival In persousl appearance Lindsey, tag fauncus tnodet policeman. | gress for the | issues turn them from their plain line of duty. Indictment of Filibusters. a ict morn- Pg Frank Anderson his gthcers, Ones. Dudley McMichael, Capt. John West, Licut. Flavel Belcher, Lieut. Francis P. Powers, and Surgeon John Henloy, who were released on parole yesterday, appeared to answer what- ever might be preferred against them. The four seamen of the steamer Fasbion— J , Charles Soore, Charles Brady, and Philip Thompsoun—who were rem: yesterday, aud whose evidence is supposed will be of Bome account to the government in their endeayor to muke out a case against the filibusters, were also brought into court, ‘The following grand jurors were in attendance :—Chas. Hin, L. C. Grosjean, . A. Bartlett, J. M. Gould, Edmond Granucheap, ©. C. Bier, R. A. bg ra J. Vioasat, Ne Barrois, Heary Hopkins, Johu M. Hall, I. A. Gonzales, ands. 8. Green Judge McCaleb, in charging the grand jurors, seid that they woulda pardon him if, in view of recent oocar- rences, he should read the laws that were passed by Con- rotection of our neutral relations with other Sates. d e Judge then read the neutrality lawa.g Heo desired to direct their particular and serious atteation to the latter portion of the statute prohibiting the begim- ning or setting on foot of military expeditions against any foreign State with which this country was at peace. That section (6tk section, act Apri), 1818) was copied from the act of June, 1794, which received the sanction of the illustrious name of Wosbiagion and came before them vererable from the manner which it emanated. It was the!r duty to inquire whether, within the Eastern district of Louisiana, means had been devised and pate on gn expedition against a ony 4 with wl we were at peace. Al! so offending were guilty of high mie- demeanor. They should remember tbat none were se humble nor so exalted as to claim immunity from the consequence of violating those laws The public journals of the country contained long ae counts of the'tn!liiary expedition against Nicaragua and Costa Ka. It is believed that it was set on foot within the United States, New Orleans may have been one ef the chic! points. If such was the fact, it was not flatter- ing to our law abidi sonably be expected t citizens. Of course it might rea- it such plans would be carried om | secretly, and that enceavors would be made to lull the should let no false Tt was for them to say whether parties went as emigrants or im & military expedition tocommit war. Their intent shou! be judged from their acts; it was for them to inquir « such an expedition had set out and where it begua. ‘There were two classes of offenders—those who prepared oe means and those who actually engage’ . the expe- ition. The Court then read an extract from a charge delivered by Judge Story, and having informed the jory that they could make a presentment if their investigation demanded it, without a formal indictment, they retired to their room to deliberate. Jackson and the other three men wore taken before the Grand Jury, and baying testified that their evidence taken before Commodore Paulding, at Key West, wae true, and after considerable time spent in consultation, the jurors found an incictment for violation of the neutrality laws against Col. Anderson and the other officers. The Jury, we believe, were not at all unanimous. suspicions of public justice. The; Important Points of Practices NO NEW EXECUTION NECESSAKY TO AUTHORIZE SUP- PLEMENTAL PROCPEDINGS WHEN THE JUDGMENT HAS BEEN AMENDED—AN APPEAL FROM AN ORDER NOT A STAY. SUPERIOR COURT. Feb. 12.—James S. Sluyter vs. Joseph Brice Smith.— ‘The defendant, Joseph Brice Smith, was brought up oa ap order supplemental toexecution to answer covcerning bis property. It appeared that a judgment bad been enterod against him in August last for $613 46, aud execu- tion issued thereon and returned wholly unsatisfied. Im October he moved to set aside or modify the judgmont, and the judgment was reduced by the Court to $572 46, and an order made amending the Judgment roli, docket and execution by striking out the original amount of $615 46 and inserting $572 46. The defendant objected to proceeding with the examinaticn on the ground that no new execution had been issned and returned unsatistied on the amended judgment. Judge Hoifman beld that this was unnecessary, and directed the examination to proceed, Subsequently the cefendant appealed from the supplemental order and from the ruling of Judge Hoff- man, giving security for damages in $269. When brought up by the Sheriff on an attachment for contempt for not appearing pursvant to an adjoarument of the original or- der he objected to proceeding, on tue gronnd that bis ap- peal was astay of proceedings. Held, by Judge Bos- worth, thatan appeal from au order, even accompanied by security, ts not per se a stay which cau only be ootain- ed by @ special order of the Court. The Adriatic and Arctic. New Yor, Fed. 10, 1358. James Gorpon Bennett, Esq.— Drax Sir—I bope you will pardon the liberty | sow take in addressing you, but knowing your journal ig al- ways open to correspondents, however feeble, I would merely call your attention to the circumstances connected with the detention of the Adriatic at Marseilles, her ea- and final capture, and return to that port. ‘ou are aware of the Collins’ steamer Arctic having been run down and sunk by a French steamer, and noth- ing more taid or done about it, considering it merely a casual and unfortunate circumstance; and | would ask you, in case the affair of the Adriatic should eventual- ly assume @ diplomatic form between the two govern- ments, whether the Lyonnaise and Arctic ought not to balance each other? If you think it worth while to notice this communication in your journal, and thus keep the two circumstances be- fore the people, I, tor ove, will feel mach obliged, as 1 like to see fair play’ ail arou: HILD FOR ADOPTION. —A YOUNG WIDOWRR BE Ing about to leave the city for the South, would be to meet with & kind couple who would adopt his child, » ez boy, nearly two weeks old. Please address R. H. H., box 19% Herald office, stating place of interview. i. —YOUR NOTE OF THE 8TH [8 KRCEIVED—WHAT + does it mesn! You are amystery. Send me word how Tecan communicate with y me at the old rooms, ns safely, oF when you will moet iH. ©. P..R—CALL AT THE POST OFFICE FOR A + _letter from Foe MISSED YOU ON THURSDAY NIGHT, APTER LRAV. Laura Keene's theatre, in Ninth street. lease your address to L. Leon, Broadway Post oiliee. NFORMATION WANTRD—OF SAMURL MOHANRY, who left Brooklyn on Saturday, February 6. Any iafor- thanktully received by bis mation respecting him will be wl wife, at 71 Bridge street, Brooklyn F THIS SHOULD MEET THE FYE OF FREDERIOK Halla, who left London for New York in the year If he ix requested to communlente with bis parents tinmediately, nee of the death of his cenndmotber, he is em: of money. He ean hear further particulars by applying for throe days at 124 Macdorgal street, corner of ¥e IF THAT WAS ALI oJ crecived Your letter CO., Augusta, Georgia. M* OYNTHIA A. W.—1_ WOULD LIKE TO SRE YOU on important business. Shall Leall! If not, when and Where shall I see you on Monday, Please nddress @ aot te Madison aquare Post office, 10 day, for 6—K AURA KFENPF'S THFAT: AND You Na SATISFACTORY, time, send again to 8. SWAI —T SHOOK HANDS WIT 4 youon Thureday night. Please address Carlos, Broad, way omice, ne PERSON WHO GAVE THE CHINA PICTURE TO ‘person to be delivered to a that bail the night of the Sth at Ty P. ney A Corey. Tn the evening the fou to Young Men will be 4elive OUN STRERT FIRST M. E. CHUROH.—PREACHING te Morrow morning by the Rev, KR. Robinson, of First lace MK. Church, Krookfyn: inthe evening by the pastor, ev Charien K. Harris, at 7 o'e Iso on Wednesday by. Rev. Jecture of the Friday at 1 o'clock. MRMORIAL CHURCH —REV, EDWARD 0. FLAGG, rector of All Sainte chureb, will presch to-morrow (@unday) evening, io the church, corner of Ht and Waverley place. Services 103, A. M., 3 Beate free. way Pe enday evenings Me recherd ot ‘elturens are ® Biayer meeting dath Sehoo! at 9 A. Me cordinily invited fo attend. . B—A daily prayer meeting w= o'clock in rear of the church, RV oO. . n yh gh [RBACH On saneage 110% o'eloek, and 74 venin| “in the ‘Northwest. Presbyterian church; wad Rev. Ur. oO clocy afiernoon a d2P Seats furnished by the sexton, held betweq 12 aod L E oumn TOH CHURCH, FIFTH AVENUE AND F9 Twenty few we habbaih croning dissourseg 10 the A ly Mev. Hie. Macauley, Rutject for Feb. 14, “ Happ oP y ices lo Comme nee tT o'clock. K MoMANAMY AND MISKIONARY 1. V ) the public conference on The Character of Romaniam,”” in Spring atrent pring street to morrow evening, at 7's 0 elagt. ‘ordiaily invited to attend. 11% HEV ERENT Abu Herigtur well No Ie v WT OF FICK NOTTC! per steamer EDINBURG, will clo of Februn ISAA Pp wrdlay, Une 13d “ NEW PLACE,” 167 WILLIAM ATRERT, THRER doore below Heekman atre: otras ments: ales, fine old #took; rare old w bier on dravght, oysters and gore FUR itere waren SUFFICIENT TO PURNTOT two rooms, worth from $75 to $100, for which payments ba be made in monthly instalments, Addrom a. 1), A HOTKLS, ALT HOUSE, LOUISVTILR, KY, FRR. 10, 188 Tin consequence of the death of the late provristor, Major THROCKMORTON bas resumed control of tht, ha numerous frienda may, therefore, feel assured of Tinuanee of that vention to: comfort which hve given ‘nt character to the