The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1858, Page 4

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Bingie copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six conts Agents will ploaso send in their orders as early as pos- aibie. ‘The News. The steamship Baltic arrived in the bay last even- ing. She left Liverpool on the afternoon of the 3d inst., and ber advices are, therefore, four days later than thore previously received. The news is inter- esting, but not important. The London money market was easy, and consols on the 2d were quoted at95j.a95}. Thetone of publicsentiment in France consequent upon the attempt upon the life of the Emperor continued to somewhat depress financial affairs. American securities were quiet. At Liverpool cotton was quiet at the prices reported by the steamer of the 30th. Breadstuffs wore still very dull. The directors of the Atlantic ‘Telegraph Company had made a report proposing an issue of new stock to raise funds to pay for the seven hundred miles of cable now in course of manu- facture. The report speaks in terms of high commendation of the services of Mr. Ficld. A number of honorary directors from the United States and the British Provinces were chosen. The launch of the monster steamship Leviathan was sue- cessfully completed on the 31st ult. The Americans residing in Paris had held a meeting and passed a series of resolutions congratulating the Emperor on his escape from assassination. Napoleon, in order to provide against contingencies, had created the Empress regent during the minority of his heir, and ‘instituted a privy council. Two of the persons en- gaged in the attempt upon the Emperor's life had confessed that it was the design of the assassins not only to kill Napoleon, but also the Pope and the Kings of Naples and Sardinia. There is nothing later from India. ‘We publish in today's paper copious details of news from the city of Mexico to the 5th and from Vera Cruz to the 7th inst. They comprise particu. lars of the fights at the capital, and proclamations decrees, plans and statements of the three Presi dents, Comonfart, Juarez and Zuloaga. The fight at the city of Mexico continued throughout eleven days, and during that time only fifty men were slain and some two hundred and twenty wounded. In the Senate yesterday three reports on the ad- mission of Kansas were made by the Territorial Com- mittee. First came the report and bill of the majority, admitting Kansas under the Lecompton constitution; next Senator Douglas’ report; and lastly the republi- can view of the question by Senators Collamer and Wade. We give brief abstracts of these reports in the Congressional proceedings, but we do not perceive that they contain anything with which the public is not already familiar. The Kansas question has been pretty thoroughly discussed, and it would be rather difficult to advance any new idea on the subject. ‘The Army bill was again taken up, and an amend- meat limiting the time of service of the force pro. posed to be raised to two years was adopted. The House, after a couple of windy harangues on Kansas, and some explanations of a private nature between Messrs. Davis and Bowie of Maryland, and Mr. Zoliicoffer, adjourned, no business whatever having been transacted. The statement of General Calhoun, of Kansas, relative to the election in that Territory, is publish- ed in anothercolamn. Gen. Calhoun says that he has written to Governor Denver to procure ‘sworn statements of the Judges of the controverted Dela ware Crossing precinct, and to have them taken under such circumstances as will secure a free and unbiassed exhibition of the facts. By the sworn statements 80 procured he shali be governed in giving certificates of the election of members of the Legislatare from Delaware county. If it shall—as probably it will—place the government of Kansas in the hands of his enemies, no one will regret it more than he, yet he sha’! honestly discharge his official duties. Nothing of importance occurred in the Legisla tare yesterday. It is said that a republican Senator intends to report a bill in a day or two proposing important amendments to the Metropolitan Police, law but the nature of the proposed change has not transpired. The democrats oppose amendment and contend for unconditional repeal. The annual report of Harry Howard, the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, was received in the Board of Aldermen last evening. It treats of various matters of importance to every citizen, and shows a prosperous and efficient management of the department. Jt states that rowdyiam among fire companies has become entirely unknown ; that the total number of the companies is three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine men, being an increase of four bundred and seventy-four over the number wtated in the last report of the Chief Engineer; there are in use 33,400 feet of hose in good order, and $7,460 feet in ordinary condition, and 10,400 feet in bad condition; there is a great decrease in the losses by fire during the administration of the duties of the present Chief Engineer—the loss in 1866 being $632,030, and that of 1857 being $428,- 266, showing @ decrease of $203,764. Several other important matters are referred to in the report, and the Chief shows that the decrease in the numberof fires is owing to the active exertions of Alfred E. Baker, Esq., the Fire Marshal, who has succeeded daring the past year in arresting numerous persons charged with the crime of arson, and causing the conviction of some of their number. A communication was received from the City Hall Commissioners notifying the Board that they “still live’ and are at all times ready for a conference. ‘The Committee on Salaries and Offices was directed to inquire into the propriety of equalizing the sala- aries of the city officials, lopping sinecures, &c., with # view toa more economical administration of the poblic expenditures. The amount paid for salaries ‘has increased in the past seven years from $200,000 to $600,000. The Aldermen's Committee on Frauds met again yesterday, when a new ‘pase of alleged fraud came before them in. @ commiuhication from Mr.‘Conover, Hating that Mr. Edward Boyle, the original surveyor of work done on Third avenue, from Sixty-first to Kigbty-sixth street, under contract by Chas. Deviin, informed him that an important alteration had been made in his retura by changing the figures, the re- sult of which was that an over assessment, to the amount of $5,390, had been made bn the property. The investigation of this case was adjourned to ‘Tuesday next, in consequence of Mr. Boyle not hav- ing been notified to be present yesterday. This looks like the most serious and deliberate fraud yet developed. ‘The Market Committee of the Board of Council- men met yesterday and heard the arguments of several parties in favor of and against the removal of sheds and stands from the ground west of West street at Washington market, but adjourned without taking any action, promising to the many interested parties who were present that they would soon hold another mecting to hear more on the same subject. The Committee on Railroads of the Board of Councilmen met yesterday to hear arguments upon the subject of removing steam cars from the Eleventh avenue. One gentleman, representing property owners in the street where the cars run, spoke in favor of removing them; but no person was present on behalf of the Hudson River Railroad Company, by whom the cars are kept running, and the committee adjourned to hold another meeting, of which public notice will be given. The Police Commissioners did not meet yesterday: ‘They will mect on Tuesday next. A fund of $1,540 has been raised through the exertions of Mr. Perit, Mr. Marshall and others for the payment of the special police force that served on election day. This fund has been paid into the hands of Mr. Geo. W. Embree, chief clerk of the Commissioners, who will pay it over at the rate of about $1 50 for each man. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday John Niles pleaded guilty to an unprovoked assault upon his wife, and was remanded for sentence. Jacques Monnais pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods, and will be sentenced on Saturday. The case of Oscar M. Mason, charged with kidnapping the negro Anderson, was called up for trial, but on motion of his counsel it was postponed till next term. A full report of @ case in which Lola Montez figures somewhat conspicuously as a witness will be found in another part of this morning’s Hera.p. Her evidence was made up of incidents in her own life, and of statements regarding one of the parties to the suit named Jobson. The whole affair took place before @ referee's court, and terminated in a fight between Jobson and one of the opposing coun- sel. The case has been finally dismissed, the re- feree refusing to hear it further. John Brouwer, a merchant doing business in Wall street, and a resident of Brooklyn, was found dead in his office yesterday morning, he having hanged himself with his pocket handkerchief attached to the door knob of an iron safe. Deceased had for some time been laboring under great depressionof spirits in consequence of ill health. ‘The vesse! reported in festerday’s paper as sunk off Long Branch is believed, by those competent to judge, to be the wrecking schooner B. Drummond. She had been engaged in recovering the cargo of the ship Clara Brockman, ashore at Squan. Her crew, whose names are given elsewhere, doubtless perished. A daring and partially successful burglary was perpetrated at the house of Mr. Gray, 32 Macdougal street,on Wednesday night. A couple of police- men discovered the thieves at their work, and in attempting to effect an arrest were fired upon by them, but without any damage resulting. Another policeman, who attempted to intercept the rogues in their flight, was shot at and severely burned in the face by the powder. The burglars succeeded in making their escape. The sales of cotton yesterday embraved about 2,020 bales, closing at about yc. easier. We quote middling up lands at 113i¢. 11%. Flour exhibited more buoyancy and activity, while prices were without change of importance. There was a fair demand both from the local and Eastern trade, with some sales for export. Wheat was in fair de mand, with sales of Canadian white at$1 15, red Southern ‘at $1 12; and emall lots prime to choice Southern whits at $140 @ $146. Corn was steady and scarce, with light sales at 660. & 680. for yellow, and at 68c. a 690. for whito: with a small lot prime ditto at 70c. Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $16 904 $17; and of prime at $14 T5c. Sugars were quiet, with eales of about 9000 550 bhds. New Orleans at rates given elsewhere. Coffee was firm, with sales of about 1,000 bags of Rio to the trade, and 3,862 bags ditto, by auction, at rates given in another colomn. Freights were unchanged, and engagoments made to 4 fair extent to Liverpool and London, while to other ports they were light and without alteration. The Administration—John Calhoun—Soath. ern Fire-Eaters and Northern Dirt-Eaters, Strange as it may appear to many of our Northern readers, while the black republicans and the Douglasdemocracy are vainly laboring to kindle all the North into a general blaze of indignation against “the Lecompton infamy,’, asa scandalous outrage upon popular rights and “a base capitulation to the slave powor,” the more rabid of the Southern fire-caters ar still accusing the administration of t ery, and talking of “secret affiliations of Southern members with the Douglas mulatto clan of democrats,” to cheat the South out of her right ful possession of Kansas, A vigilant fire-eating correspondent of the Richmond South, in a letter from Washington to that paper, bearing date Feb. 15, discloses what | he calls “certain monstrous and infamous de- pends in Congress;” and says that he cannot | divulge “the nefarious scheme to sell the South without indignation tingling at the point of his pen.” And now for the horrible plot. Our vigilant and indignant fire-eater says:— For some time past two & the course which Gen Gy would had been circulated as | io relation | tothe returns of the Legislature elect of Kansas—one | stating that he was firm in refusing to rule out any of the ls yg and pag Ag F had acceded in Werbingwn wo give free State men, 80 as troversy about Karmas in ministration from ite critical position in reports were contradictory, and ina cal. But now I have obtained positi formation that Geu. Calhoum Ln ae | the Laguiasdre «Tree sol one and thas’ iowa in Congress to the admiewion of Kansas with the 1s compton constitution, of with any constitution, as the State could be abolitionized on the instant. This is certainly a very startling contrivance, but the reason for it is still more astounding, for, aswe are told, “the secret of this move- ment is not that Calhoun has been bought over by the Black-Douglas men, but that he has yielded to the advice and appeals of the adminis. tration, in adopting a course to rescue it from the crisis in Congress, and harmonize the demo- cratic party.” Worse yet, as we are assured by this Richmond fire-eater, “the fact is also ascer- tained, in the disclosure of this bargain and sale, that it has been promoted by self styled leaders’ and presumptuous misrepresentatives of the South, who are anxious, mainly for rea cone of personal ambition, to consolidate the democratic party by compromises of Southern rights and Southern honor.” But why all this clamor? What is the pith of this alleged “bar- gain and sale?’ Hear, hear! “If Kansas should be admitted with the Lecompton consti- tution, with pro-slavery Legislature in power, ® very reasonable prospect would be secured of the permanent establishment there of Southern institutions; “but if the power in the State is to be at once placed in the hands of the free jeasure equiro authentic in- ‘eoilere, 0 a8 to abolitionine dt, the battle is ended, and the South is sold agaia ia the chains which traitore have fastened upon her.” Such is ‘the dreadful indictment, and such are the epecifications of a Southern fire- eating disorganizer against the administra- tion. John Calboun has been persuaded by the President of the United States to give the returns of the Kansas State Legislature, elected under the Lecompton programme, in favor of the free State party, eo as to save the President and the democracy of the North. Could anything be more absurd? Undoubtedly, if Jobn Calboun has resolved to decide that the free State party have the Kaneas State Legisla- ture, it is because he could do nothing else. The administration has accepted and urges the Lecompton constitation upon Congress as the legitimate offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. It was framed by a Convention legally elected ; it was ratified “with slavery” by the popular vote of Kansas of the 21st December ; and the work being thus consummated, the administra- tion, in this connection, has had nothing to do with any subsequent elections—constitutional or legislative. They are out of the question, and do not affect at all the legality or finality of the Lecompton constitution. : And thus this horrible conspiracy to “sell the South again in the chains which traitors have fastened upon her,” dwindles away into the mere fancy sketch of a rabid fire-eater. The assertion that Calhoun has decided the com- plexion of the Kansas State Legislature, upon an appeal from the administration, is, however, not only a preposterous invention, but an infamous calumny, and could have emanated only from a factionist wholly given up to the desperate scheme of party discord, sectional confusion and disunion, let this Kansas imbroglio be settled in any way whatever. The idea, too, that Calhoun, without regarg to the election returns, could give the Kaneas State Legislature to the pro slavery party is a piece ot shameless effrontery; while the conclusion that a decision from him, true or false, decreeing a pro-slavery Legislature would secure the permanent establishment of slavery in Kansas is too ridiculous for a moment’s con- sideration. The Lecompton constitution, as a whole, is a very good republican constitution. Its sla- very clause, over which there is such an up- roar, is a mere abstraction; nothing else. Pass it, and the destiny of Kansas will soon be solved as that of a free State. The President knows this, and every sensible man must be aware of it. It is not because slavery is recog- nized by this constitution that the President sustains it, but because it is the legal solution of the organic law of the Territory. That is all—but that is enough. Excepting the subject of slavery, the Lecompton constitution does not differ materially from the Topeka constitution; and as the slavery clause of the former is prac- tically a dead letter, is it not fair to presume that upon the “sober second thought” it will be accepted hy the people of Kansas until they can amend it to suit themsclves? This is the policy of the administration; ard it is the height of impudence in any political nigger agitator, North or South, to suppose that the President could stoop to “a bargain and sale” with Calhoun, either to appease Southern fire- eaters or Northern dirt-eaters. It is very remarkable in this connection that both these sectional factions—Northera dirt- eaters and Southern fire-eaters—have been driven to these allegations of buying and sell* ing, against the administration and John Cal- houn, as the last desperate expedient to keep alive this Kansas agitation. The Northern dirt- | eater cries aloud that members of Congress are being bought up like cattle to vote for fasten- ing slavery upon Kansas, and that Calhoun is the master epirit of the conspiracy. The South- ern fire-eater howls with rage that a “ bargain and sale” has been effected between the adminis- tration and Calhoun, whereby the South is to be diehonored, despoiled and betrayed in the surrender of the Kansas State Legislature to the free soilers. But do not these assaults of Northern and Southern disorganizers go very far to prove with every dispassionate mind that the Kansas policy of the administration is that intermediate course of even-handed justice which will meet the approval of the conserva- tive masses of the people, North and South, and put anend to this senseless but mischievous nigger agitation? We eubmit to the candid reader that no more satisfactory evidence can be produced of the soundness and justice of the President's policy than these charges of “ bribery and corraplion” from Northern nigger worshippers, simulta- neously with these charges of “bargain and | sale” from Southe Tue Cuarcr Acai Cuemenc Ssrrn au. Bosu.—From the cha of the evidence elicited so far in the examination of Shemung | Smith, it is very unlikely that any criminal | = ; =“ | charge, at least to the extent of aten thousand velopements in the Kansas complication, as it | = dollar fraud, will be sustained It is well known that ¢ not a man of the He is | old, cross, and rather ill To the con- | tractors he has been especially unamiable, con- tinually refusing to sign warrants for the work alleged to be done, and biufling them off with the stereotyped answer, “I have no money.” Now, it appears that Mr. Smith was the “confi- | dential clerk” of Mr. Flagg; his father was the Comptroller’# friend, and the son enjoyed his entire confidence. He was always at the Comp- troller’s ear, and no doubt exercised an emol- lient influence over him. In short, Flagg was the bear, and Chemung the Barnum who +moothed him down when his fur was ruffled. His seevices in this regard were invaluable to the poor contractore, and doubtless they came down handsomely to the mediator. If Che- mung had not been a fool and addicted to fast living, he might in this way have enjoyed for some years to © & respectable competence—let us say $50,000 a year or eo. But, not content with a snug house in town, he aspired to the aristocratic luxury of a box in the country. He paid five thousand dollars for a pretty yacht, on board which he entertained his friends with sumptuous hospi- tality. Last summer he took a large party of ladies and gentlemen on a cruise to Glen Cove, where “all the luxuries of the season” and wines of the finest vintage gratified the fastidi- ous palates of his guests. Mr. Flagg is not re- markable for his acuteness, but he was not quite so stupid as to think that all this style could be maintained on twelve hundred dollars a year; and hence the exposure of his protegé. It is quite probable that but a small portion, if any, of the money eo laviehly applied was obtained by actual robbery of the city treasury; | but it is quite certain that Smith raised conside- | rable sume on his own notes, and that the notes sgainst him. mptroller Flagg is most 0 eagely remarked would not be done unless: the -| contractors got a remuneration. "No doubt they" did, and most probably ia the very way we have indicated. The best practical conclusion to these inves- tigations is the immediate resignation or re- moval of Mr. Flagg, and the appointment of Chemung Smith to be cashier of come fat bank, and his elevation to the membership of some fashionable church up town. Then the right men will be in the right places—Flagg no- where, Chemung somewhere, Morz Desecration—More Spous.—An ex- traordinary project is now on foot in the vici- nity of Carmansville, Fort Washington and the High Bridge, with a view to desecrate. that fair and picturesque region by cutting it up into streets and otherwise destroying its beauty and healtbfulnees, We publish to-day some docu- ments setting forth this plan, in the shape of ‘wo petitions to the Legislature praying for the appointment of commissioners to carry out this ‘piece of barbarism, and a remonstrance against the prayer of the petitioners. The second pe- tition states, without mincing the matter, the true 1 and purpcee of the petitioners, which is cimply to make money out of commissioners’ salaries, fat contracts, and so forth. Every project to divide this district of the city into streets should be put down at once. The most beautiful portion of the country is that which lies between Carmansville and the Harlem river on the one side and Spuyten Duyvel creek on the other. It is not equalled as a lo- cation for handsome villas by the environs of London, Paris, Vienna or Florence. In the suburbs of no other city in the world can there be found a locality combining so many natural charms, whether of surrounding scenery, picturesqueness of out- line or salubrity of atmosphere. Nature designed it specially as a spot which should be occupied by beautiful country residences, hav- ing plenty of ground about them, intersected only by such green and winding lanes as may be necessary for inter-communication with each other. The idea of levelling or cutting through these lovely hills, or reducing that delightful country to the dull, tasteless and unhealthy flat of the remainder of the city, is too monstrous to be entertained. Yet there are men whose cupi- dity is invited by the prospect of gain which promises to accrue from such a work of de- struction. There is no necessity whatever for streets and avenues in this region. The Kingsbridge road and Tenth avenue afford commodious ap- proaches enough to the neighborhood, without disfiguring it by the unsightly mathematical constructions of city surveyors and street con- tractors. Whenever more avenues are required they can and will be made by individual residente, to suit, their own convenience and at their own cost, without taxing the city property for the sake of creating some fat jobs for a few indi- viduals. We protest against any such enterprise as this being sanctioned by the Legislature. It is wholly unnecessary and mischievous; and if these or any other greedy speculators shall ever succeed in their design to destroy the most beautiful and valuable portion of the whole county of New York, their work will remain a standing reproach to the city, a sink of cor- ruption, and a monument of folly for all time. Rewicious Revivais.—We hear that there is & movement among some of the churches of several denominations to bring about a revival of religion. It is high time that something was done to bring the indolent, ungodly and mam- mon worshipping Christians to a realizing sense of their conditioa. It has been too much the fashion here with our fashionable preachers to pronounce sleepy discourses to nodding pa- rishioners, reclining upon velvet cushions and wrapped in ermine and silk and broadcloth, and all manner of pomps and vanities. Other preachers, capable of better things, have wasted all their energies upon the slavery question. As they have quite proved that it is a moral impossibility for a nigger driver to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and as the nigger him- self is nearly exhausted, it may not be imperti- nent to request these expounders of the word to leave the black man to the politicians, and to shower their hardest apostolic knocks against the devil and all his works, as developed in the daily life of the white man in Wall street and elsewhere. There is still another class of shep- herds who go roaming about the country, de- livering lectures upon all manner of topics, and neglecting the spiritual interests of their flocks, to bore the long-suffering and uncomplaining denizens of the rural districts. The natural | effect of all this has been that the sheep, being left to themselves, have strayed from the fold, and have cither backslidden into the Slough of Despond or fallen into the pits of heresy and schism. There has been nothing like a general revival of religion here for many years; and to that fact may be undoubtedly traced the | rise and progress of the Mormon abomination a disgrace to the country—which never would have flourished had the clergy done its duty. These sinners are past praying for; but a grand effort should be made for the reclamation of the slothful and inactive. The church must stir them up. There must be some powerful preach- | ers, some lusty wreetlera, who can meet Satan on his own ground, and throw him. There is a growing tendency towards speculation and doubt, a disposition to wander away in search of the unknown God, to whom Paul found a monument in Athens, That tendency can only be counteracted by exciting the faith—the en- thusiastic faith—the faith which believes all things and suffers all things for the sake of the eburch. If the church does not do this some false prophet will. It was the preaching of the Crusades under the authority of the Romish church, with the stirring harangues of brothers of the religious orders, who exhorted the faith- ful by the wayride, at all times and all seasons, under the authority of the church, that conserved the church through all the assaults of its ene- mies. In England the Dissenters owe their power to their Wesleys, Whitfields, Knoxes and Spurgeons. In the United States no preachers have moved the masses as did Whitfield and Maffit. Where is their successor ? The clergy of these days are too lazy. They allow the tares to grow in the vineyard, without the slightest effort to pull them up. The apostles walked from place to place on foot, with scrip and staff, oftentimes wanting a dinner anda bed—the Son of Man had not where to lay his head. What a contrast to their successors of to- day, with their snug parsonages, fat salaries, cozy dinners, fine wines, and all the modern im- provements generally! We shall find the same difference in the cermons, which are, as Camille Desmoulins said of the speeches in the French Convention, “ like the etyle of wearing the hair * “NEW. YORK HERALD, “FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1858. in the ine of Loale XOL—Mot, wittost| THE LATEST NEWS. . The result of this state of things will be that if the churches don’t wake up we ehall all go to perdition together. If there are no ciergy- men within the churches capable of doing the work let us have some volunteers, It is gratifying to know that the good work of revival was commenced down town, within hail of Nassau street, and in the centre of the district where literature, journalism, finance and commerce have taken their seats, No class needs saving grace more than the Wall street editors and the Wall street financiers; they will be glad to know that there are daily prayer meetings between 12 and 1 o'clock, just before Change hour, at the North Dutch church, on the corner of Fulton and William streets. During Lent extra services and masses take place in all the Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches; so that there seems to be a fair opening for a general revival. Let us have it atonce. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Tue Burowaris or New Yorx—Inerri- CIENCY OF THE PoLics.—We published in yesterday’s paper a list of fourteen burglaries which have been committed in the city between the 1st and the 13th of the current month. There is reason to believe that this number is just one-fourth of the actual number of the burglaries committed ; or that, in other words, about fifty burglaries are committed every fortnight, or one hundred a month, or three per day, in this city alone. We believe that the world may be explored in vain for a parallel to so shocking a state of things as this. It is doubtful whether on the highways of Italy or in the vicinty of the cities of Mexico—places which go sensible person eyer visits save with an ample escort, armed to the teeth—robbery is more frequent than in this civilized, enlightened, and expensively governed city of New York. As to other large cities— London, Paris, and Vienna—no comparison is possible ; there, robberies do not occur as often in a week as here inaday. One main reason, of course, for the frequency of robbery and burglary in New York is the immense influx of foreign criminals who come here as soon as the police have made their European haunts too hot for them. Hundreds of thieves, burglars and other disorderly characters are landed on our quays every year; the last report of the Super- intendent of Police shows, for instance, that out of twelve thousand arrests made here within a given period, ten thousand were foreigners. The apparent contradiction between the state- ment that crime is more abundant here than abroad, and the assertion that the bulk of the crime here is the work of foreigners, is explained by reference to the state of the police. There are probably more men ready to commit bur- glary in the city of London than there are here. Burglaries are fewer, however, because the police are more efficient in preventing them, and likewise because the comparative certainty of detection and punishment deters many would- be burglars from committing felonious acts. Here, on the contrary, the punishment, till re- cently, has actually induced many to commit crime, who under other circumstances would have remained virtuous. Now the efficiency of the police in the one place, its inefficiency in the other, account satisfactorily for the contrast. It appears that arrests ef suspected parties do not follow burglaries in this city in more than one out of ten cases. In nine out of ten, or more, the police are informed of the crime by the parties injured, and make a note of the fact; but the note is merely ornamental, and never serves any purpose whatever. It hap. pens, once in a hundred cases, that a part of the stolen property is recovered; in eight or nine cases of the hundred some one is ar- rested, usually by the inmates of the house robbed, and after much trouble, expense and delay, is usually set at liberty again. In all the other cases the drama ends with the exit of the burglar from the house, and the victim never hears any more either of him er of his property. There even seems to be an effort on the part of the police to suppress information relative to burglaries—for what purpose one is at a loss to imagine, unless it be to conceal the inefficiency of the force. These things would amply warrant some ex- planation from Mr. Tallmadge. How comes it that so many burglaries take place, that so few burglars are ever caught, and 60 little property recovered? Where isthe flaw? As the case lies at present, Mr. Tallmadge’s efficiency would seem to be shown by these facts to be far below his predecessor's. Tus Axti-Lecomrton Meetiva at Cres HaLt.—A paragraph in yesterday's paper was rather too hard upon the Abbé McMasters. We did not mean to charge him with forgery, but merely to allude to his having circulated during the last Presidential campaign private letters about the religion of Fremont, which contained unfounded statements of fact. It looks, from the report of the anti-Lecomp- ton meeting at Chinese Hall on Monday night, as though the Abbé MeMasters had taken the command of the anti-Lecompton party in this city, and had superseded the blundering politi- cians like Butler and Greeley, who very nearly killed it at the outset. He seems to be the mas- ter spirit of the movement ; and on the whole, he is probably better calculated to engineer it than any of the politicians who are figuring at ite head. He bas, at all eventa, plenty of poli- tical experience and shrewdness, and from the exhibition recently made at the Academy these seem to be qualities with which the other anti- Lecompton leaders are not particularly well supplied. : Burron's Twraree.—On Saturday evening Mr. Burton will close the engagement of one of the best companies ever preseuted to the New York public. During a period of ten weeks he has favored the public with Shaksperean rovivals in a style which cannot but redound to his crodit, an woll as to that of his star company. The opportunities of the two remaining nights will doublese be improved by hie patrons. ———— Tus Orena.—The sale of subscription seate for the first six nights of the season, t commence at the Academy next Monday, began yesterday. The opening opera will be “Puritani,”’ and afterwards the “Daughter of the Regi- ment.’’ The company clozes a fine season at Baltimore to night. The Shipwreck Off Branch. THE VESSEL SUPPOERD TO RE THE WRECKING SCHOONER B. DRUMMOND—NAMES OF HER CREW. The schooner reported by the steamtug Huntress as seen off the Tavern Houses on Wednesday, full of water, and from whose rigging a man fronen to death was taken by one of the wrecking boate, is suppesed by those best competent to know to be the wrecking schooner B. Drum- mond, from the wreck of the ship Clara Brookman, ashore ‘At Squan, and bad on board « portion of that ship's cargo of fron, She is owned by Messrs. Herbert & Bennett, wrecking agents, of this city. We are without farther in- formation of her. ‘The following are the names of the per sons belonging to her:—Captain J. Fox, Michael Kerins (mate), W. B. Walling, Augustus G. MeNeil, Daniel Wat- #08, James Connor, J. W. Dann, Joreph Johason, Jr News from Wi ‘THE OOURSE OF THE GENATH ON THE KANSAS QUESTION. Wasminaton, Feb. 18, 1868. ‘The report of the Senate committes oa Kansas will be taken up on Tuesday cext. There is.no intention at Present on the part of the friends of the administration Of joining the admission of Kansas with that of Kianesote; but should the opposition endeavor to rush mauers, thea the bills will be passed together. THE GENERAL NBWHPAPHR DESPATCH. Wasinaron, Feb. 18, 1866, Jack Honderson, clerk of the Surveyor Gencral, and Mr. Marshall, the pro-slavery Governor elect of Kansas, bave both arrived here. Mr. Wiuston has been appointed Marshal of Kansas. He is the eame person who was some time ago appointed Indian Agent of that Territory, and was afterwards re- moved. CHIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST BBSSION. Senate. Wasinncton, Feb. 18, 1858. REPORTS OF THE TERRITORIAL COMMUTTEEL ON THE ADMISHION OF KANSAS, Mr. Green, (adm.) of Mo., from the Committee on Ter. ritories, reported @ bill for the admission of Kansas, gub- tmitting therewith a long report, which was not read, The report recites atlength the evenyg'that have occurred ia Kansas, and asserts that the majority of the people may simply, as in ancient days, assemble in a mass meeting and make a constitution, or they may elect representa. tives tomake one for them, or elect representatives to draft one to be submitted to them for their approval or rejection. The last method has been the most approved -during the past few yeara, though formerly the second method was very generally resorted to. In calling the Convention for this case, it was conceded to have been called and so legally elected and clothed with auth»- rity to make a constitution, can no more be interfered with by the Governor, Judge or Legislature, either to increase or to diminish its power, or to alter, modify or nullify its acts, than the pee- ple could be interfered with had they assembled on committee sap thus far sought power by methods uaknown to and by acts of violence, and not through the agency of the ballot box’ Claiming to have a majority of voters in the Territory, and therefore able to eleot a Le- gislature and Convertion, they yet ask Congress wrongfully do for them what they may at legal times legal plages rightfully do for themselvee—that is, to change or their constitution; and in case Congress refuse to comply with their constitutional de- mands, they threaten to afflict the country with an attempt at bloodshed and ition. Unless Congress will do for them what they assert they are not anxious to do for themselves, but whick they wilfully refuse to do, they threaten to plunge the country into civil war. This conduct isso exceed: unreasonable as to force the conviction upon the mind that they are conscious of being in a powerless minority, and onl; expect to be able to compass their unwarrantadiec pe 4 by departing trom the general peace and quiet. If your committee are not greatly mistaken, these reckless men misjudge the American . wil heir grievances, Pwnothe ir grievances, whether ‘The bill recites that the peopl for themselves a constitution and State blican in form, and that the Lecompton Intheir name and behalf, asked Therefore it is declared that Union on an equal fc with the original States, in alt respects whatever. The bill also prescribes the bounda. ries, contains the usual regulations relative to public landa, as in the case of Minnesota, and gives Kan- eas for the present one representative |p the H Dow as ) of M., also report, Ir. DOwGLAs, (opp. " a which he dissents from the views of the majority, for the reasons, among others, that there is no evi- dence tbat the constitution framed at Lecompton is the ie of Kansas, or embodies thoir the Convention fer, and no more, which was to form a constitution and send it to Congress as a memorial for admission, which could be accepted or rejected, according as it embo tied the popular will; that all the proceedings of the Couven- tion should have been held in strist obedience to the au- thori'y of the Territorial government, while fu fact the constitution was declared to be to take effect in defiance of ernment, as well as without the consent of Congress; that the only lawful election held on the adoption of the constitution was that on the fourth of January last, which ‘was in obedience to the law passed by the Terrhotia: la. gislature catablished vy, Congress with full legisiative power on all rightful subjects within the Territory. Mesers. ConLameR, (opp.) of Vt, and Wane, (opp ) of Ohio, submitted their views. They say that ihe Peers. torial government of Kansas was never organized, as Provided for in the organic act— that is, by its own people —but was usurped by u foreign force, and conquered, and subdued by arms, and that the Minority was tostal ‘expectations in both parties, one of which is cor- courage tainly doomed to disappointment. The reporta were all ordered to be 4. ‘Mr. Gukey gave notice that he should call up the matter atan early day. ‘THR ARNT MILL Was taken up, and the fourth section of the orginal bill stricken out, by a vote of 24 to 23. Mr. Witsow, (opp.) of Maae., the effect that a reduction not ee Mr. Iverson, (adm.) of Ga., contended reported by the Military Committee was more with the views of the administration than Mr. Jobnson’s icon reliable un regulartroopa, "Re ists 08 reliable ‘troops. of Tennessee volunteers at Cerro Gordo, that ran away at the first shot. The Tennessee Senator's ed to defend polygamy. simtlar opiniope the men Utah. Instead of whipping the Mormons, more likely to join them, especially if gave them half a dozen wives apiece. Mr. Haw, (opp ) Of lowa, submitied a in no case shall the force creater’ by this act service over two years, which was agreed to. A desuitory discussion ensued upon the com merits of the different substitates, thinly attended. oan Joummen, (sdm.) of Tenn., not iyeamy, merely drew & comparison showing consistency of entertaining an agent of the Turkieh : i E pette ite House of Representatives. Waamweron, Fob. 18, 1968. A PERSONAL AFFAIR. Mr. Hevny Winter Davis, (opp.) of Md., made a per- sonal explanation. Ho read extracta from 1 speech of his colleague, Mr. Bowie, containing strong language against the American party for ite conduct during the Baltimore election, and representing Lim as saying, looking towards Mr. Davis, “You, sir, have a day of reckoning,” “I will put you under my foot,’ “You shall not live an hour,’* &e., ko. Mr. Davia wished to know whother his colleague had applied such language to bim? hay (adm.) of Md., replied that when be thos people against such wrongs. He did not say how far Mr. t ounselled such wrongs: but if he did, he should take the responsibility, He had personally no unkindness for his colleague, felt grieved to Think that he hed wounded him. He would tell the House and the nation that he believed in bis inmost soul that such Know Noth- ingism would lead to bloodshed and revolution, and would Vy of my the American party, the House is the appro- priate for disenesing . He merely rose to quire whether the language of his coll applied personally to him (Davie). aponse was satisfactory. SPERCHES ON THR KANRAS QURFTION. The House then wom ee Commnane of the Whole on that ail the were united now on the platform, and were wo pay of the Union, the volutionary , or righ =the South were od to defend it, Mr Shorter con- fended that the Lecompton conetivatio 1 was legally adopt