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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, STOR AND PROPRIETOR. = Orr ox N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Eas | shin advances, - TAR) AITY WERALD. two cents per annum. ? WEEKLY HERALD, every Rotary, at ote cents per o- ammvm; € ie he Buropeis eclition, $4 per anvurn to or Brtudn, cr So any part of the Continent, BOA CUB FAMILY HERALD, every Wednewlay, at four comts por VOL ENPaaY CORRESPONDENCE, contain important revs melictial from any quarter of the world, ripe Bet ibe rally paid for BgrOun Formics CORRESFONBERTS 188 > Fedeaaiy Ragossrea vo Seal ale Larrans aap Pat ne es. JOB PRINTING xevind with neatnass, cheapness and dee- rod Great Woke KKMIT,... occ ccccseee cree ceerecese Oe OF AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. DRM OF MT@IC, Fourteenth sweet—Itaian OPERA ae Ls Dina BROADWAY THEATRE, Broads E Cmranra 9 Mamacrn ‘Afternoon and Eve- a amp Femaue mag K Antum—)48 AM —_ BOFKRY THRATRB, Bowery—Orumiio—Tunnine Tan Tia eek atOs Wirweas. 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McGowaa, will leave tis port this afternoon, at two @ clock for Aspinwall ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘wi aiose at one o’c! this afternoon ‘The Mew Yora Weraciy Hanito—California edition— gonia sing the latost intelligence from aH parts of the vor'd, will De published at ten o'clock in the morning. Svagie copies, ia wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents Agee will pieass send ia their orders as early as pos- eae ‘The News. Tae steamship New York, which left Greenock, Scotland, on the evening of the 14th ult., arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, with advices twelve hours later than the news brought by the America. Consols closed in London on the evening of the 13th wit. at 964 a 96§ for money and account. Mr. Allsop, oue of the alleged conspirators against the life of Na- poleon, bad fied trom Paris for, it was said, America. The French papers will not publish any more of the addreases presented tothe Emperor. The English papers were engaged in discussing the proposed fer of the government of india to the crown. The Australian ship Marco Polo was off Holyhead with $1,500,000 in gold. De' of the late news » India had reached England, but there was no- thing reported. Eight paupers were burned to death in the Athy, Ireland, workhouse. Senate was not in session yesterday. The Hose was engaged on the private calender, but oothing of general interest transpired. The House 8d oomned till Monday. Schell’s Custom House appointees will find ia ou atch from Washington an announce- ment that will afford them much satisfaction. The Co lector’s appointments will not, it is said, be inter- fered with. Nothing of importance was done in the State aie yesterday. In the Assembly a number of « wer passed to athird reading. Notice waa ing the office of Street Com New York vacant, and authorizing the x to ill the vacancy. A large namber of re ports were presented by the various standing com- mitices, among them reports favorable to grantiog aid to the New York Lnstitution for indigent Women ané Children, the Eye Infirmary, the Dispensaries, and the Opthalmic Hospital. A favorable report vas also made upon the project of a railroad purallel with Broadway. The Assembly Investigating Com mittee ou the Brooklyn bribery case met last even- ing sod examined three or four witnesses, but elicited testimony Lmplicating @ny person in the charge & oged A meeting of officers of the New York city banks was held at the Clearing House yesterday to con- wider the question of discontinuimg the practice of s\lowing interest on current deposits. Forty of the forty+ix benking institutions have agreed to the Giacontinus: cc, and the meeting agroed to give the remaining six till the 16th inst.to make up their yainds on the suhiect. la the Board of Councilmen last evening a reao- lotion was adopted authorizing the City Inspector to sdvertise for proposals for cleaning the streets fora term of five years; also instructing the Cor- i & ueW en of a bill dec: zonen ation Counsel to draw up a memorial to the tate Legislature protesting against the passage of aay iocal acte without they are applied for by the Common Council. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in overriding the Mayor's veto relative to the pay of the Common Council, by a vote of eighteen to three. A message was received from lis Honor the Mayor in relation to the death of Commodore Perry, and a committee was appointed to arrange the obsequies of the deceased. Tue Aldermanic «tanding Committee on Vrands wore in session yesterday, investigating an alleged fraud in regard to an award of $24,000 peid to Heory Erben at the time of the opening of Canal #treet. Both the auditors of the Comptroller's office were examined by the committee, but neither of ‘Chem gave any information as to the whereabouts « the documents which would prove that the money laa Leen paid wa The Deputy Street Commissioner AsO present and his testimony was taken, but y went #0 far as to prove that he did not sign s for the payment of the money, and nd the vouchers if the Street se. Other witnesses, whose tes Jhave been most to the point, were coveniently absent, and the committee was conse- quently obliged to adjourn the investigation till pext Monday afternoon. The Councilmen's Committee on the Cleaning of ft Streets met yesterday to hear parties in reference 4 ‘1 beat mode of having the city cleaned. Seeing r ' be ~rwons present, however, to speak upon the t, the committee agreed to report in favor of «om the work done by contract, and then ad wrod The examination in the case of Marcus Cicero ebarged with selling lottery policies, was commenced yesterday before Recorder Barnard. 5 nony waa such that the pro ecuting officer <omed that Mr. Stanley ought to be committed. © coe witness was examived, w ve fort her NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1858, { ! three P.M. We give a full report elsewhere. ‘There were uo jury trials yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, in consequence of the cases not | being ready. The Grand Jury presented a batch of | indictments, to which the accused parties pleaded not guilty. James Ryan and Jobn Kerrigan, youths, charged with burglary in the third degree, pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and were each cent to the penitentiary tor six months. It was reported last night that an attempt would be made to destroy the quarantine buildings at Seguine’s Point, by an association that has been formed expressly for that purpose, and that Friday night was the one decided upon to demolish the buildings. A posse of police, under Samuel Bre- voort, was despatched to the island last evening to protect the buildings. The convention of delegates of the various Irish civic societies held a meeting laat évening to consult with regard to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, and agreed to mect again on Monday evening and complete their arrangements for the occasion. . ‘The sales of cotton yesterday ombraced about 1,000 bales. The market closed at abont 12c. for middling up lands and at 1230. for middling guifs. Fleur was in good demand yesterday, end firmer, eepecially for good shipping grades, which wore not plenty. Southern brands ‘also continued ia'good demand for export, apd the mar- | Ret closed et firmer rates, Wheat was quiet but drm, with sales of small lots of prime Kentucky white mt | $145, Virginia mixed ‘at 91 20, and Chicago spring at) $202, Corn was firmer, and sold at 686. a. 70c., with sales of prime yellow for export at the latter figure. Pork was firmer, with sales of moss at $16 80a $16 85 on the pot and at $16 75 to arrive next week. Sugars were firmor and in good demand, with sales of 1,300 @ 1,500 bhds., at rates given in another column. Coffee was in moderate request and prices unchaaged. Freight cngage- meals wore moderate, aud rates were without change of moment. The clipper ship Wanderer was taken up for Cronstadt, Russia, to load with cotton at 740. per Ib. Revtval of the African Siave Trade tn the Southern States. Some of our nigger worshipping cotem- poraries have started off upom a new scent. A bill has been passed by the Louisiana House of Representatives authorizing the im- portation into that State of voluntary negro ap- prentices to labor for a term of years, and this scheme is denounced by our anti-+lavery philo- sophers as the revival of the African slave trade. But it is no such thing as the slave trade which, by acts of Congress and treaty etipulations, we are bound to treat as piracy. True, this new system can be made to answer all the practical purposes of the regular treffic; but voluntary immigration lies quite beyond the reach of the standing penalties against the real Simon Pure slave trade. We are indebted for this apprenticeship dis- covery to the British West India emancipators. Their substitution for negro slavery of the ne- gro apprentice and Chinese coolie experiments was the beginning, and France, Spain and Bra- zil have net been backward in following these philanthropic examples of England. Nor can any of these parties enter any complaint should every one of our Southern States follow suit and proceed to the importation of negro apprentices by millions from the coast of Africa to aid in the cultivation of cotton, fugar, rice and tobacco. Very true, the federal constitution may involve the authority for some prohibitory or restraining act of Con- gress, in the power, for instance, to pass a uni- form law of naturalization, or in the power to regulate commerce, comprehending the power to make rules and regulations concerning im- migrant passenger ships; but we are not aware of any existing impediment to the introduction of voluntary apprentices to labor into any State of the Union and from any part of the globe We are somewhat surprised to find, however, a paper published at Richmond, Virginia, advo- cating this plan of African apprenticeship; for let it fairly be put into operation, and the first decisive result will be to make free States of Virginia, Maryland, and all the Northern border slave States, which have only continued to be slave States from the value of their slaves in a more southern market. The scheme indicated is full of temptations to the cotton and sugar growing States, but quite as full of perils to slavery in the border slave States; and the first authenticated shipment to New Orleans of these proposed African apprentices will be very apt to develope a very curious and interesting recon- struction of parties and principles upon the whole question of slavery. Lecowptox! Lecomptos!—Wuenk ane TH Brack Rervpiicans!—Why don’t the black re- publicans set to work and get up an anti- Lecompton meeting in this city? The affair at the Chinese Assembly Rooms was hardly any- thing more than a private entertainment for the exclusive benefit of Mr. Secretary Stanton and the | Rev. George Bancroft. Something more should | be done, or even that affair will go for | nothing. The Chevalier Webb, Massa Grecley and their anti-Lecompton compatriots are teil- ing us, from day to day, that only the office- holders and office expectants of the democracy here can be made to swallow the Lecompton constitution and ite immaculate godfathers Jobn Calhoun and Jack Henderson; but why can't we have @ grand blow out of the anti- | Lecompton party’ Are they afraid '—or is it because there is no place large enough to hold them that they have given up the job? W they want elbow room they can get ali they can de- | sire in the Crystal Palace; or if the Chinese As | rembly rooms are large enough, why not make | another effort there? “ It will never do to give itup 6.’ A small show would be better than nothing at all’ Senator Evans ox tux Parnyr Laws.—Wo | perceive that the venerable and estimable Senator Evans, of South Carolina, has intro- | daced @ bill to amend the patent laws. He is | an honest man, we know; but still we shonld | like to see a copy of his bill; for we suspect that, by some hook or crook, the lobby gang have been humbugging him. The India rubber, pis- | tol, planing machine and reaping machine mo- | nopoliste, who have already pocketed their mil- { lions of cash from their patents, will leave no stone unturned to pocket afew more millions from an extension of their monopolies. Will anybody give us a copy of the bill of Mr. | made in a remarkably short epace of time. ‘The Operatic Excitement. From pregent appearances it is safe to predict that the operatic excitement next week, when ‘he director of the Academy makes his grand cmp in the production of the “Huguenots,” will be eomething unprecedented even in this ‘nercarial and excitable city, On Monday, with ‘he production of the “ Huguenots,” the spring season will be fairly commenced, the previous representations having been given to feel the pulse of the public, to make time for full and perfect rehearsals of the new Opera, and as en- trémets before the pitce de resistance of the feast which the manager intends to set beforeus. On Monday, then, we are to have an art revival. The truth of the matter ia, we are in the midat of a general revival. There is the revival of religion, which is eo widely spread as to have brought even aldermen to a sense of their sinful condition; it has made repentant grocers shed a tear of remorse forevery grain of sand in‘ their sugars; it has caused even Wall street brokers to experience the pangs of remorse for having cheated the widows and bamboozled the orphans, and in fact has brought home-to every man the truth that he is » miserable siuner, only to be saved by immediate and unconditional penitential repentance from twélve to one o'clock evdry day, There is also w revival in stocks. ‘‘Fancies,” which were supposed to have gone so deep that nothing could bring them up, have suddenly come to the surface and taken a jump of two or three per cent in one day. Skélful speculators have made great fortunes within a few days, and every body with surplus cash is rushing to Wall street to put it into stocks. Again, there isa revival of trade, which has been stagnant through the winter. The great wholesale houses down town are receiving their orders from different parts of the country for spring and eummer goods, the hotels are being filled up with strangers, Broadway is full of rural faces and raral costumes, the crinoline expands still further and the metropolis once mare resounds with the roar of trade and the bustle of busi- ness. All these things work together in favor of the operatic revival which Mr. Ullman hasstart- ed up at the Academy, and which the public seem disposed to make even a more sweeping affair than the most eanguine mind could have predicted. The prices have been raised, but that fact has in no way diminished the rush for places. The manager has resolved to give the public a fine thing and the public is willing to pay for it. The result of Mr. Ullman’s campaign at the Academy has quite settled the disputed question as to whether or not the public here will sus tain the Opera. Unsuccessful managers have usually laid the blame of their failare upon the shoulders of the public, never remembering that a great deal of their non-success was owing to their own mismanagement. We have be- fore us some statistics with relation to the financial affairs of the Opera here eight or nine years ago. The season was one of for- ty-two nights. The highest receipts on one night amounted to $1,099 50. The average re- ceipts were $806, one-half of which sum was subscribed in advance. The monthly expenses amounted to $15,500; the receipts to $10,478; the rent was $14,196 per annum; the number of artists and employ¢s about one hundred; the loss of the manager in one season between | $20,000 and $25,000. Look now at the present condition of things. The regular expenses of the manager of the Academy average $22,000 per month. The receipts have sometimes fallen below, sometimes risen above that sum. In three or four weeks of the panic the manager lost a sum equal to the loss above mentioned for a whole season, but recovered it by the produc- tion of novelties. The receipts have been as low as $800, but have often risen to over $2,500, and on one or two occasions to nearly $4,000, For the first night of the “Huguenots” | probably $5,000 will be taken. The nightly ex- | penses are now about $1,300, which will be | doubled next week. The number of persons re- gularly employed exceeds two hundred; for the new opera that number will be doubled, No comparison can be instituted between the ar tivts of ten years ago and the urtists of today, Then we were obliged to take what we could get; now the best European artists seek for American engage aents, and we have our choice | ona par with Paris, London aud St. Peters burg, where the Opera has the benefit of aristo- cratic patronage or government subventions, The yearly rent of the Academy is $24,000, and there are no sube: iptions, those who would be subscribees being stockholders, and getting their places in lieu of dividends on their shares. The balance, then, sums yp thas: 1847 1858. Astor Place Opera House Monthly expeases + $10,500 Monthly receipt 108 Nightly receipts— Average regular nights som, abe Tigbea. ....... 163 verage expenses Yearly’ reat ee 14,196 Highest receirta. 1009 Receipts for forty nighta,..... 82,000 Number of employes 100 These figurer, taken from the best sources, afford conclusive proof of the progress of the Opera in this country. That progress has been We have done in ten years what the old capitals have been fifty o: a hundred years about: and the Opera bas now been firmly established here as the most agrecable, refined, artistic, intellec- tual and pleasing of all public amusements, The present manager has succeeded in his bold greater operatic campaign, to be commonced in the latter part of the coming eummer by Mr. Lumley, the director of Her Maju ty’s theatre, London, who intends coming over here with all his art'sts, headed by Piccolomini, the youngest, singars; and his new tenor, Guiglinimthe only rival of Mario. The fortunate result of Mr. Uliman’s season will show to Mr. Lumley that he can count upon the most triumphant musical Evans, 80 that we may see whether these patent jobbers have or have not smuggled themselves into it, under cover of some apparently inno- cent modification’ If these chaps succeed in apy of their lobby projects, it shall not be our feult, we can tell them. We know they are very busy, but they must be also very sharp, or we shall be cortain to find them out when they least expect it. Meantime, we would be obliged to the honorable Senator from South Carolina to send us a copy of hie bill, Is it like the bill formerly introduced by Senator Jemew# If #0, it will hardly do, for that was a plan of exten- five renewals, Apvick ro Srock Gawnuens.—If Kansas be admitted as a State, in afew weeks peace will be restored to the country, the banks will ex- pand, stocks will go up, and fortunes can be tuade-—if pot, aot, campaign that has ever been carried on in this country. Lumley, with Piceolomini, will make even a greater excitement than that created by Jenny Lind, Thalberg or Sontag. Braxpretn’s Pris —We perceive that Dr. Brandreth, in our State Senate, is engaged in the benevolent work of distributing his pills (a new kind) in very liberal doses. He proposes a princely increase of the salaries of all our State officers except the two unfortunate black ropublicans who happen to be among the list. For these twe heretics he has no pills to give; and here we enter our first objection, for we think that these new eugar-coated pills should be divided fairly all round among the sheep and the goate. Secondly, with anempty treasury, high taxes and several millions of money to raise for State obligations, by hook or by crook, we are ingli: d to think timt the benevolent doctcr is a little unrcasouable with his everflowing generoslty. But, as men are most generous when they have nothing to give, like Charies Surface, when his funds were procured of the good Israelite Moses at “fife per ehent a month,” so, perhaps, Dr. Brandreth may have conclided it is with the sovereign State of New York. At all events, these new sugar coated pills sre much better to take than any old mixture of gamboge and rhubarb; and we in- sist upon it that in dividing them round the two unfortunate black republicans shall be counted in, Shall even our medicines be pre- scribed upon party principles? Never. air Wrsizr and Rarwonp—tho one the broken down “Little Villain” in politics, and the other the broken down little stockjobber in Wall street—take adeep interest in suiting us to a foreign mission or a Cabinet office. If the Tariff Investigating Committee will only eum- mon these two little fellows to Washington to testify to what they profess to know so much of about the corruptions of the New England fac- tories, and if they refuse to testify, as one of. them did last year, we ntay then be able to re- | ciprocate their sympathy by secing them in a saug place in the same jail with Wolcott, the refractory witness. Their little associate, the broken up tailor of Chatham street, backed out from such a destiny ina quecr way—but per- haps his companions here have more pluck. Covert Designs cron tHe Punic Lanps— Tox Homestxan Bux.—The promoters of the Homestead bill are, we see, again endeavoring to press this scheme upon Congress. There never was any delusion greater than the os- tensible principle of this measure. It proposes to get government te grant poor and industri- ous citizens, out of the public lands in the West, small farms upon which they can can create homesteads at the public expense. Supposing Congress te be silly enough to pass such a bill on the recommendation of the State Legislatures, what guarantee does it offer that the persons for whose benefit it professes to have been drawn will ever carry out its provisions? In ninety- nine cases out of a hundred it would turn out that the original applicant had disposed of his gtant for a paltry sum to some land pirate or apeculator, and that the professed objects of the bill had been entirely frustrated. The needy persons who would avail themselves of the grants are not the class of people with whom it is desirable to settle a new country. An emi- grant farmer not merely requires land, but he needs some little capital to buy stock and to enable him to cultivate it. The class of indi- viduals who would most eagerly grasp at these grants are not thus circumstanced, but are in reality persons little above the condition of paupers, and who, not possessing the means of removing to a distance or of cultivating the land when they get there, would gladly dispose of their warrants for a fraction of their value, just as our volunteers did after the Mexican war. The Homestead bill is therefore a bill not for the benefit of the industrious poer, but for that of land monopolists, Wall street brokers and swindling operators generally. As such, it should be consigned to the bourne of public jobs, with its character plainly endorsed over its humbug caption. “Monsiver Toxson Come ‘Aaats.”— The re- gular red-hot radical abolitionists, headed by Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Abby Kelly experiment, and he paves the way for even a | freshest, most fascinating of all the European | Foster, Lucretia Mott, the black Douglass, and | such, are to hold an out-and-out Abolition Dis- union Convention at Albany, beginning on Monday next. They will doubtless have a good time of it, for they have been vastly encouraged | of late by the fraternal anti-Lecompton labors of Gov. Walker, Secretary Stanton, the Rev. George Bancroft, Colonel Forney, the -white | Douglas and Gov. Wise. The Chevalier Webb and Massa (ireeley should be present if they wish to enjoy a great treat in Garrison’s opinion | of James Buchanan. “Birds of « feather, come, flock together.” Fxrraorminary Reviva.s,--Religion is re- viving—stocks reviving—-cotton reviving— trade reviving-—-the opera reviving-—the slave | trade reviving—in fact, everything is reviving except niggeriem, abolitionism, Fourierism and Mormouism—these are going down. Mae Aoxes Ronaursoy.—This favorite artist, who bas lately won « great deal of applause as the Scotch lassie in | the new play of “Jessie Brown, or the Relief of Lack- now ,’’ tenders that piece and the “Swiss Swains” for her Devefit at Walack’s, to-night. Tae Highiand Guards and Caledosian Club, as a token of their appreciation of the | beneficiary's floe delineation of the character of their country woman, will attend the theatre in the full costume of their regiment and clans. Under these circumstances ' ts advleable to secure sents ax early as possible, for it is | doubtful whether there will be even #tandivg room afer the perfort ances commence. Meeting of Bank Officers, Ata mesiing Of officers cf the banks fo the o! York, convened at the rooms of the Clearing [ ciation, at 3 o'clock P. M.,om the 6th of March, 1858, at which thirty nine banks were represeuted, Thos. Tileston was chosea Chairman, and J. L. Bverit Seoretary. The Committee previously appointed to confer with the various banks in this city, relative to the \ discontinuance of the practice of allowing interest on current deposits,”” | presented their report. On motion® . stowm Tavion, Fiaq., President of the City Bank, thor, jcrtwas unanimously accepted and adopted ns expressing (he sentiments of this meeting (with but « fingle diesenting voice.) We are compelied toomit the report for want of epace. ‘The following resolutions, presented Zz A. F. Stuiuamas, President of the Merchauta’ Baok, were then unanimously adopted :— Whereas, fort of the forty stz banks composing the New Fork Clearing Howse assceiation have already anited ins writien agreemen( uo longer ‘to allow interes on deponite or 8 of any kind, elther directly or indtrect!s, provided fil the banks compoatng aueh ammoctacion shall concur in #ald ggreeme foe, whereas, am almost entire unanimity on the eu! | 9, do bind ently to the epirit of ald agreement, Resolved, That under the immediate pendency of matter, it is the nense of this meeting that no mem se of neporintion whe has subanrihed to aa out the violation of faith and nonorabie dealing, And no member who Ane not signed will, under the cirenmatanees of the case, cadeavor io allract, or consent to receive, an account coming from any other member of this association, by spre mine to allow interests om deposits either dirvetly or indi. rectly. On motion of J. Puxsert, Cashier of the Bank of Ameri- ca, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :— ved, That a committee of three be appointed by the aera et, Ties The bape rho have. Oot eighed tes. gares- ment, with acopy thereof, and urgently and reapert quest that they will reconsider the question, and ui Siher bankain signing whe same. ‘The following gentlemen were appointed that commit tp, vin Fan. Punnett, of the Tank of America. Jas. Gallatin, of the National Rank Wm. F Havemeyer, of the Bank of North America. After some discus#on following the paswage of the above, Mr. Punsert proposed a further resolution, vin — hereas, the experience of the pet yeor has showed that Py igale epocie Fererve of the beaks pf this elty haa st Limes been amalier than waa conmiaten! with that caution and rudence which should at all tinea de observed by the bank. h foetitutlons of this eliy: therefore eroived, That & comm|tier of ed to conaider the measure of each an officers be appolnt- nk's hold! Ly alitimes Jews than @ certain fixed per centage of coin to tte liabill- Tien ‘and to report to Ube adjourned meetnw on the 1th na ‘The Chair appointed aa that committae— F. Silliman, of Merchants’ Bank. THE LATEST NEWS. Oar Special Telegraphic Despatch. COLLECTOR SCHELL'S APPOINTMENTS—NEOESSITY OF SRNATORS ATTENDING TO BUSINESS—WHAT THS IN- VESTIGATING COMMITTRES ARE ABOUT—PATHKT O¥¥IO% PRACTICES—THE DANISH SOUND DUES TREA- ‘TY—APPOINTMENTS, ETC. Wasmrxoton, March 5, 1868. Iloara that, notwithstanding all the opposition to Mr. Collector Schell’s appointments, by seme of the Now York Gelegation in Congress, and by the cligue in possession of Tammany Hall, that the Secretary of the Treasury wil! not interfere with the Collector in the disposition of the offices under him. ‘There is @ porfect organization of tho republican party in tho United States Senate. It is composed of tho old republican Senators, Douglas and the othor two seceding democrats, and two Southern Know Nothings, making in all twenty-five votes—of which Dougias is the recognized leader. Their numbers, constant attendance and thorough Grilling, will compel the democratic Senators to as thorosgh a counter-organization, to stricter attention to their Cuties, and to better attendance at the sessions of the Senate, or they will be defeated om almost every moasure, and the government be embarrassed, This was strikingly shown on tho vote yosterday to adjourn over till Monday. The domocrats opposed the motion for ad- journment, deviring to hold an executive session to-day for th confirmation of some appointments, but in conse- quence of the absence of Senators the Dotiglas party de- feated the democrats and carried the motion to adjourn over till Monday for the purpose of causing Golay. ‘Tho Congressional Investigating Committees now in ses- sion, with perhaps @ single exception, are not accomptlah- ing much, There are alx at work:— 1. The Fort Snelling Purchase Committee. 2. The Tarif Bribery Committee—the Lawronce, Stone & Co. case. 3. The Willett’s Point Purchase. 4, The Committee on Clerk Cullom’s Accouats. 6, Committee on the conduct, &c., of the lato’and G. To investigate the preseat system af public pi Doorkeepers. ‘There is ancther demanded, I believe, by Mr, » of Philadelphia, relative to the charge that some one got $25,000 for aid rendered in the purchase of the Pennsyl-, vania Bank building for # Post Office. ‘The proceedings before the Fort SoeUing Committee devoid ef all public interest. They may be mod in two linte: A,B, Cand D testify that in their the Fort Saelling property was worth twice, thrice times the amount actually paid for it; aud Messrs. Gand H testify that they believe a fair price was for it, Its alla matter of opinion between experts. No charge of corruption in the mater has at- tached or been allempted to be atiached, specifically, to anyone. ‘Ihe only matter of interest, as I understand, that has relieved the staloncss of the investigation, has Deen the refusal pf Mr. Rice, of Minnesota, to appear and testify, he pleading his privilege as a Senator from the rew State. It is possible he may be treated es @ contuma- cious witness. There cannot be much important developements in the taruf bribery affair. The committee can merety trace the money to Woicott’s bands, Ashmun and the Journal of Commerce, and there the clue is lost, for the presext at any rate. Tam told that some curious developements will proba- bly bo made by Haskin’s commitice on the Willett’s Point purchase, The Committees on the Clerk’s and Doorkeepers’ ac- counts are mere whitewashing affairs. Mr. Rives, of the Globe, who could give the most important testimony in re- gard to Cullom, bas never been summoned. ‘The Select Committee appointed to investigate the pre- sent system of public printing will probably agree upou their report next Wednesday. it is understood it iwll be unanimously in favor of the establishment of a burcau of public printing and a change in the corrupt and cor- rupting eystem which now prevails. ‘The developements which bave been made before the committee will astonish those only who did uot believe in the sweeping charges which have from time to time appeared in the Hxnaty on the subject. It is in evidence that the binding of the last Congress was given by con- tract to one man; that he sold it to another for a certain sum; that the second man aguin sold it at alarge profit toa third, who, after all this attenuation, cleared some $50,000 upon the work. The lithography went through the same process of farming out. The printing of the Senate and Executive Departments was given to Mr. Nicholson, of the Union, who sold the contract for « large sum to Wendell, who did the work, and made a protit out of it also. Wendell—who, it is alleged, would have made a fortune out of the work if he had received the pay which the government has to give for it finds himself now in the lurch, whilst Nicholson and others bave pocketed the plunder. He has a large and complete printing office on his hands, and is compelled todo the work for the persons who have se- sured the jobs. Of course the government could do its work at least as low as Wendell dees it, and it is, there- fore, manifest that the money paid over what goes to Wendell—to S:eedman, Banks and Allen—is a direct loss to the public. Wendell baa made a proposition to the committee that if Congress establishes a government printing office he Will contract to do the printing for 60 per cent jess than is now paid, the binding for 33); per cent lows, and ther porting oud publishing, now done by the Globe, for 30, per cent lesa; aud he offers to find security to the amount of two million dollars to fulfil this agreement. Under all there circumstances of course Congress cannot continue the existing system—it would be nothing loss than rob Mr. Taylor, of New York, who is on the cominittec, will advocate the establishment of @ national printing office similar to those of England and France, He has an ampie fiold im which to gain an enviable reputatoa if, by his efforts, this devirable change is effected. The House printing so far this session has amountet to woarcely anything. Members are determined to oppose all achemes for the printing of documents til! some radi gf! cbauge is effected in tho present rotten «ystem The whole tribe of patent agents and hangers on around the Patent Office here has been wonderfully stirred up by your expos of recent proceedizgs here in the matter of the grant of patents to Messrs Mann & Co., of the Scien tifle American, on sixty app'ications which were rejected by the late Commuasioner Mason. The card of Mosare. Munn & Co., which you baye published, aifecting to teay the statement, is looked upon bore as an ingenious ¢.s tion of the chief point invelved, and every one who knows anything about the proceedings in and around the Patent Office ace impreesed with the belief that the original state- ment of your correspondent Is true. ‘This operation has been carried through by a simpie change in the organiza- tion of ihe Patent Office aa it existed under Commissioner Masou Formerly the course of proceeding in obiaining a patent was for the claim to be investigated by ous of the regular examiners, upon whose decision the application was granted or rejectod. In the jattor case appeal could bo takes to the Commissioner of Patents, and from his rojee. tion an appeal can be taken to the District Court. Under the administration of Judge Mason the parties having bu- sineas with the Patent (fice have boen more satiafied with the conduct of the office than ever before. He was seru- pulously exact @nd honest, and, besides this, was an aasi- duous laborer in the discharge of hie duties. He person- ally examined the appoals; and during the several yoara that he filled the offes his course convinced every one here that when be decided agninet an appeal it was elther because the claim waa aa infringement of some other patent or waa unfounded in itself. The new Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Holt, bas altered the former couree of an appeal te bim by appointing « Board of Appeal, which takes his piace in the labor of ex amining appeals from the decisions of the examiners. The salaries of the members of this board have not ye been provided for by Congress, bat they are in the full discharge of their duties; and a bill is before Congress to Suthorize the payment of salsries tothem. There are many objections to this Board of Appeal, among which I May mention that it deprives the decision of that personal responsibility that accompanied is when rendered by the Commissioner in person, and brings it within the action of a board which never has any sense of personal respon albility. ‘Tho whole thing of patent grants requiros looking into, for however homest the Commissioner may be, uniess he devotes his personal attention to the cases before him he Will find himself involved in many diMieuldow, | Tt is thought the governmont steamer Doapatch, is ordered to ware Now ‘York without deiay, is to watch cortain movements along the coast of |oulsiana— whether of flibusters or alavors, however, I am yetunabdle to say. ‘The President yesterday approved the wot of Congress to cembie him to fulfil the stipulations contained in the third aad eixth articles of the treaty between the United Brates and tho King of Denmark of tho 11th of April, 1857, £ the Clacontiauance of the Bound dues, The third extl- cle requires $392,011, and the sixth $16,720 44 to be patet. THR GENMRAL NEWSPAPER DeSPaTOH. ‘Wasuixatoy, March 6, 1866. The movement in the Seuate for @ general bankrups law is exciting much attention here. It is regarded as @ quasi edministration measure. Mr. Tooinds has charge of it, Corporations are included in its provisions. is ob Jeot will be to protect debtors and creditors justly, end regulate commorcial transactions throughout the Unite ‘States. Men of all sections and parties approve of the monsure. ‘The House Committee on Revolutionary Claims, of whteir Mr. Cox, of Ohio, is Chairman, have prepared a very ime- resting report, accompaniod by « bill giving the Wneal doscendants of the Revolutiouary offlcers the half pay for life which was granted them during the Revolution by several resolutions of the Continental Congress. It will be remembered that this half pay was fer lifeand was commated by five years fut pay: Some commutation was paid in continental mone, the othor not at all. The bill provides for a deduction where the commutation has actually been paid A Bim ‘Yory similar to this was passed by the House of the test Congress, but defeated in the Senate. An effort will be made for the consideration of the subject at the carless practicable period. Isis understood that E. F. Prats, son-lulaw of Rufus Choate, will be appoimed Assistant Treasurer at Bosvon, te Place of Ithamer W. Beard, who is transferred to the peut- It ts the general impression that Mr. Fletcher Webster Will not be Gisturbed'tn bis position of Surveyor of @e Port of Boston, L. B. Usher bas been appointed postmaster of Lynn, Mnss., vice Stickney, whove commission had expired. The Treasurer's weekly statement shows the amount om deposit to be over six millions,,of which there is subject te draft nearly four millions. The receipts of the week ere six hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, The Navy Department has made arrangements to testify in an appropriate manner their respect for the late Cm- modore Perry. ” THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Howse of Representatives, Wasncron, March 6, 1856. House is engaged this morning on private bills. bills of no general interest were passed, and the gress Southword—N Fan NYective Army Force von the "Fronticr— Views ‘of @ Westen Senator on Our ) Territorial Destiny. ‘The position Uaat the Haran oooupies, as the avant cou- rier of ideas and public sentiment in our couatry, is shown. from day to day in the proes which copios Its views, though not always honest enough to give ils language, and in the action of Congress, our national legislature. Tae ideas put forth in the Hxmaxp recently with rogard to the condition of Mexico, and of our relations with that coun- try; with regard to Cuba, an@ our interests and duty ia reference to that island, and as to what ought to be the comprehensive policy of States, as the great Power of this continent, in American affairs, have found a response in the Senate of the United States. A man of high national views, and of progreas—Dr. Fitch, one of the Senators from Indians-—went out of his way to some extent, the matter not being especially relevant to the subject under dis- cussion, to take the initiative in Congress on this highly im- portant question of the necessity of American progress towards and in the He has announced the idea im the Senate of the United States that southward must preyed of ee oe ne Whe can joubt as to wi response throughout the es- tire country—in the East, the trading Bast, as well aa in ‘the South, and in the great West, which will find in the tropics and in the Southern countries the great mart for its teeming productiens* In the course of the debate on the Army bill the Senator from Indiana, edvoonting the paesage of the bili, used as anargument notonly the necessity of an increase of the army on account of ihe troubles in Utah and of our great- ly extended frontier within a recent period, but the pro- bable contingencies which might require its services im view of what is transpiring in Mexico, and of the national progressive idea which now ins to southward. As this ia quite @ remarkable feature in the Senate de- bates, acting in unison with the forashadowing of the Hexai ano with the rising sentiment of the country, f will give briefly thesubstance of the Senator’s remarks. He paic ‘1 bave no respect for the ‘manifest * doctrine which has been put forth as ® pretence for armed forays from our country into the territories of other nations with whom we are at peace. But if there be any one tradition of our je more cherished than another, it is that we are to become Americans fin the mort enlarged sense of ibe term: that this entire continent is to be, if not under one government and that government our own, yet controlled ip ® measure by our enterprise and our institutions; that it is to be united to us by a community of mterest and feeling, and a common wo buropean interference with American affairs. If there be any one course of policy of our government more firmly fixed than ano her reiative to other nations, it is that while we will pot create cavses of quarrel’ with neighboring nations, we will not permit dilficulties within themselves, ‘or between them and European powers, to result in the transfer of their territory to any government inimical to ours or to the inte- Test of our peo; Thia is a wise policy of seif- preservation. W. nnot forget, and we ought not to forget, that we are in a position of polivical antagonism to most of the world, and our progress under our ingtitosions ts watched with a jealous eye, Events are at this momont trauepiring, and others rapidly approaching, baying a direct bearing on our American policy, Mexico ‘Musi either soon crumble to and & considerable Portion of it, like over ripe fruit, fali into our bands, it we be propared to avail ourselves of the opportunity’ to receive it, or Its government must undergo a radical change for the better, which is not a very provable cir- cumsiance. Under theee circumstances may not tha future of Mexico attract our most serious attention Let us look beyond Mexico to agother country, which prospective events might connect with it. It was aaid tha’ Ouba, from being the stronghold of Spanish power in America, aud frum ite geographical position would bo the point {rm which a:med expeditions would start for the ja 7asion of Mexican territory coutignous to ow own. Tt this be the case it would well become a question of grave debate for us whether some expedition other than 8 Olibustering one should not ,visit that island from our shores. I am opposed to . indrewtual Sillbustering, ani to suppress it would, necessary, give the executive greater powers than he now porsesses, but if the government, whea @ good reason for it existe, and ‘an occasion offers, will undertake some Slibustering on national account, I will cheerfully vote the call for volum- teers and the necessary supplies for the enterprise. White Prospective events, to which [ have alluded, can be met by the increase ose?” That is very woll for a Western Seoator, and shows ina fignificant manner in which direction popular sentiment is tending. Where are our Southern Senators? And what eay they’ The West isin advance. Upon the stple ‘hat “coming evente cast thelr shadows before Rom," * dling Spaniards, to look out, for this ropublic is en ite march, and the combined powers earth could not etop it from trampling down anarchical and effete im stitutions and pociety that stand tn Ita wi The noire of the chariot, which bears the Ly avenger regenerator of nations, is heard the shores of the Pacific to the westward, and along chain of the Am crenauneea ae ne fer Gaines continent, and oven x 5 1 Spatn— jext00 — wil! b) = der thist me Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention. Harriemenc Maroh 5, 1868. ‘The Democratic Stato Convention roassembied thie ported, declaring that the principle involved im the repeat of the Miasouri Compromiso and asserted in the Kamaas- Nebraska act, ( that the people of the Territories shalt have the exclusive control of their domestic institutions,’* is the only sure guarantee against agitation in the nation tm Tegard to the local institutions of the States and Territories; that by the waiform application of thie demooratio principle to the organization of the Territories and the admission of new States, with or without slavery, as the people may elect, the equal rights of all States will be preserved, the original compacts of the constitution mainiaiond and the inviolate hartnony and perpetuity of the Union preserved. The reeolutions are very long. They fully sustain the Lecompton constitution and resident Buchanan, Mr, Stones, of Westmoreland, offered a substituie, pre- senting the views of the minority of the committee, and declaring that the acceptance of the Lecompton constitu- tion would be Congressional usurpation, and that members of Congress voting (or Ieoompton would bo guilty of moral treason. It also endorses Governor Packer's course, eapectally his inaugural address, An exciting debate ensued on the resolutions at the af- ternoon session. Mr, Stokes’ amendment was lost by 21 to 109, ‘The committee's resolutions were adopted by 111 to 1, the anti Lecomptonites refasing to vote. The general nominations were made, tion adjourned until tho evening Indictment of Tuckerman, the Alleged Matt New Havaw, March 5, 1868. W. 8 Tuckerman waa indicted by the United States Grand Jury this morning, and pleaded “not guilty.” He war vrdered to give bonds in $20,000 with two surcties, 168) ‘onte of this State, to appear for tial before the Uni od Ciro!) Qourt, to oe held to thig % the Convea- i i ___ |