The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1858, Page 4

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MPFOR A NIOR BALL, €73 Broad #+)—barant’s MINSTRELS ~Erniorian Soxas—Hor or Fa! New York, Saturday, Maron 13, 1898. The Vews. We have news by way oi the Plains direct from Salt Lake City to the »f January, one month later (han the accounts received via California by the last steamer. The bearer of the news came through the mountains bya roate kuown only to the Mormons, ardof which the army heve as yet dis- covered no trace. He reports (he Mormons as busily preparing for # stout resistance to the United States troops, They were casting and manufac- turing revolvers and gunpe + e quantities. It is reported that Brigham + g is not opposed to the entrance of the civil officers into the Territory, and their exercise of their fynctions, bat that al! attempte of the army te cnier the valley will be re- sisted (o the last extremity. As am instance of the feeling of the Mormons upon this poiut, it is stated that Young addressed « mecting of nine thousand of the faithful on the 21th of January, to whom he put the question— © in favor of giving the troops hell will rise,” when the eutire multitude sprang to their feet. irmish had taken place between a party of M is and a picket guard of soldiers, in which tw: ¢ former were killed, and it was reported that f of the troops were also slain. The winter at 5 ake Valley and in moun- tains had been unusualiy mild. The session of the Senate yesterday was occu- pied by Senators Chaudier, of Michigan, Hunter, of Virginia, and ennedy, of Maryland, who élaborately discur-e) ihe Kansas question. There are some twenty more speeches on this subject yet to be delivered in the Senate. The House passed the Consular and Diplomatic appropriation bill. and a bil making au appropriation to pay for repairs to the Nerwegian bark Ellen, the vessel which rescued the pas-engers of the wrecked steam- ship Central America. ‘he bill allowing the persons engaged in the Arctic searching expeditions to re- ceive medals from th British government was also passed. The question of the appeal of Mr. Harris from the decision of the Speaker with reference to the action of the minority of the Kansas committee was theu taken up, and ao ani d discussion of the pointe of parliamentary law bearing on the case eusned both branches of committee present their papers, and that the farther consideration of the subject be postponed till Taesday next, was ob- jected to, and @ motiou to lay the pending appeal on the table was negatived by a vote of 109 against A motion that the 111, Mr. Harris finally withdrew his appeal, say: i © would let the wity of the committee take the chances for the ‘otroduction of their report. The resnit of the doy’s proceedings is regarded as mission of Kansas into ‘oppton constitution, as indicative of the cert: the Union, ander the Lec soon a the subject cau be revwhed. The government | eased Barton's theatre, in Chambers street, for the United States Courts and occurred in the State§Se- Assembly debated the Metro- d made it the special order for yo next. Messrs. Hamilton and Kennedy, who were arrested on Thursday for contempt, in refusing to testify before a <pecial committee concerning the affuirs of the Castle Garden emigrant depot, made satiafactory explanations regarding their conduct, and were discharged {roi arrest. The court martial of Col. Samner, upon charges preferred by Gen. Harvey, was concluded ut Carlisle, Pa., yesterday. A report of the plea for the defend- ant may be found under the telegraphic head. Our files of English papers to the 27th ult., brought by the Canada, reached this city from Bos- ton about six o'clock evening, but the mails containing the letters of our Evropean correspon dents, and papers from the Continent, were not re- ceived at the Post Ofice until midnight, and will be éelivered at an early hour this morning. We pub- lish the indictment preferred by the French govern ment against the conspirators. It contains a com- plete official history of the late plot, and is very in- teresting in consequence. It will be .seen that Colonel Allaop’s name does not occur in the paper, but that Simon Bernard, wnder arrest in London, is charged equally with Or-ini and the others. Mr. Haas, an American merchant, lost his life in cohse- quence of injuries received by the explosions of the homie. A revised list of the Derby Cabinet is riven, with the opinions of the leading journals as to his lordship’s chances of « continuance in office, The allied forces were at last accounts in possession ot Canton, the government treasury, and the person of Commissioner Yeh, who maintained his baughty apirit in the presence of his captors The unenviable ordeal of sight-seeing through which the Torkiah Pacha and his suite have passed during the past week was too fatiguing to continue without interroption, and all invitations for yeater. day were necessarily declined. The Pacha has con- tinually arged the presenre of business as an excuse; but his refusal would mut be received by the Com- mon Council Committee unti! he had accepted afew invitations at least. He was officially engaged yea terday, bot will, it is stated, be to-day eacorted on a visit to the Blackwell's Iiand institations. He will proceed to Washington on Mouday The preliminary examivation of Jacob H. Mott, who is said to be implicated in the Union Bank de- falcation, was yesterday postponed until Tuesday, the 16th instant, at three o'clock, when it will be heard before the Recorder, at his chambers. Judge Clerke, of the Sapreme Court, has granted an order for the arrest of Jacob H. Mott and Garret S. Mott, in a civil suit arising ont of the alleged defalcation We understand that the criminal prosecution will be discontinued. The prisoner waa placed in the hands of the Sheriff on Thursday night on the civil suit, and is Bow confined in the Eldridye street jail, in default of bail, which has been fixed at $141,000, the ascertained amount of the defalcation. There was not much buriness done dp the Court of General Seations yesterday. Thomas Bogan was charged with mayhem, having committed that of fence on John Davia, on the %0th of October. He pleaded guilty to assault and battery, and was re tmanded for sentence. Henry A. Kimm, keeper of a grocery store in Harlem, indicted tor ripe on Mary Eliza Dyer, pleaded guilty to assault and battery. Hie will ve sentenced on the last day of the term. Jobn Bimone was acquitted of 8 charge of assanit and battery alleged to have been committed on Mary O'Brien. The case of William and Cornelius Quin, Monday. The preliminary examination of two men named Middleton and McCarty, charged with conspiring to take the life of Marcus Cicero Stanley, was com- menced yesterday before the Recorder. Mr. Stanley TERMS. cash in advance. was cross-examined at great leagth as to bis history | THe WEERLY BBRALD eeern er teg nc’ nic cones par | ond mode of living, and refused to answer various questions propounded to him. A graphic report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. The hear- ing was adjourned till Thursday next at eleven o'clock. The examination of a seaman named Byrnes, sent to this city by the American Consul at Liverpool, charged with the murder of Charles Pelea on board the ship America, will take place to-day before Com- missioner Morten. The Recorder delivered a supplementary decision in the General Sessions yesterday in the case of the people against Mortimer Secor and others, indleted for selling lottery policies, overruling the demurrer, and directing the prisoners to plead to the indict- ments, The sates of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,600 ‘baie, cloeitg at about 12c. 9 12igc. fcr middling uplaads. As the Canaoa’s letters were not at hand, buyers in many cases were disposed to await their receipt before doing much, Flour was quite steady, with a fair amount of salea, chiefly to the domestic trace, the transactions for export being light. The market cioaed tolerably firm, at abou: the previous day’s quotations, Wheat coatioued firm for prime qualities, while gales* continued to be light. » With sales of white at 67c. a 6Sc., and prme Soul yellow at 7lc., which was an outei¢e figure, Pork was quite steady, with sas of ess at $1676 @ $1680, aod prime at $15 50a $14 60. Sugars wore quite firm, and stocks of all kinds roused. The sales embrace’ about 600 nids , At rates given in another colums. Rofined sugars were firm and in good demand at ful! prices. Coffee continued torule firm, with eales of 3,000 bags of Rio aud some lcte of St. Domingo and Maracaibo at tuli prices. Freights were firmer. Cotton was engaged for Liverpool at 3-164. for square bales, and about 80,900 bushels of grain at 410d. a 44d. in Dulktand 64. in bags, and bacon at 178. 6d. Ratee to other European ports were unchanged. The Administration of Mr. Buchanan, and Its Troubles. Another exciting contest upon a preliminary vote has agitated the “House of Representatives during the last day or two, in reference to the admission of Kansas as a State under the Le- compton constitution. We have but little doubt, however, that upon the main question itself there will still be found sufficient practi- cal common sense in both houses to pass the bill and settle this ridiculous imbroglio. The struggle has degenerated into a factious fight upou sbsiractions; but these cannot mach long- er postpone the real test upon the Lecompton constitution as the organic law of the new State. But in connection with this exciting and em- bittered fight of the factions over this barren fig tree of Kansas, we are drawn to the general demoralization of our public men and political parties, as indicated in the sectional and tac- tious opposition in both branches of Congress, to other aud more practically important measures, Here we have an administration commanding more intelligence, political experience and moral power than any of its predecessors since the time of Gen. Jackson—an administration with a calm, firm, clear headed and experienced states- man at ite head, eurrounded by a barmonious Cabinet of talented, able and patriotic men—an administration commanding the confidence of the couotry, and represented by a powerful party majority in both houses of Congress; and yet what do we see? We ace in the Senate andin | the House that a spirit of discord, of faction and demoralization has already been developed which has rendered the President utterly power- | leas, which baffles him at every step, and which threatens speedily to prostrate the administra- tion at the feet of its enemies, and to scatter the whole democratic party to the winds, We know, too, that should this party be now destroyed it will be sunk beyond the hope of resurrection; that it will be as completely ex- tinguished as the old federal party, the old re- publican party, or the old whig party, wud that the re-construction of its broken fragments will be upon violent sectional antipathies, Such, however, is the pressure of this spirit of section- al and factious discord which has crept into the party camp that it is reckless of these dangers, and instead of being softened into respect by the moral dignity of the administration, this spirit of rebel- lion seems thereby to be inflamed into the very blindness of hatred and revenge. Presi- dential demagogues aud piotting sectional and loeal politicians have made paramount their paltry selfish schemes, regardless alike of the success of the administration, the integrity of the party, or the peace of the country. During the lukewarm milk and water ad- ministration of Mr. Fillmore, the several cliques of the whig party kept up a sharp running fire against each other for the whip-hand; but they were still united upon great issues of vital mo- ment to their organization. The still weaker and vacillating administration of poor Pierce, though continually harassed by the triangular Cabinet war between Jeff. Davie, Cushing and Marcy, and by the spoils and plander quarrels of the party, still contrived to maintain some- thing like party discipline in Congress and throughout the country. perior statesman et the helm, with a uuited Cabinct of experienced and capable men to back him, and with party majorities in Congress equal to any necessity in ordinary times, we have the extraordinary spectacle presented of an administration rendered powerless in the first year of ite existence by democratic treachcries, and in the particular issue upon which it has etaked ita success or rain, depend- ing upon the support ofthe Know Nothings—its moet intractable political enemies. In this remarkable and significant work of party demoralization, strangely enough some of the leaders and managers of the democracy who were most prominent in the election of Mr. Buchanan are the leaders of the mutincera Wise, Douglas, Walker and Forney—the captains of every forlorn hope of the party in the terri- ble and doubtful campaign of 1456—are the men who have set in motion these present inside aad outside filibustering operations against the Pre- sident, from their determination to bring him to their terms, or to tumble him and the party headlong to ruin. They moved heaven and earth, and the waters nnder the earth, in 1856, to save us from the fearful contingencies of « sectional disruption; but now, with the full con- vietion that they are hurrying themselves to sure destruction, they are rushing madly, upon their miserable abstractions, to all the perils of political confuslon, sectional striles and disso- lution. From this ontline the intelligent reader will perceive that the party treacheries, the sec- tional discord, the factious alionations, and the unscrupulous démagogues, North and South, which environ the Preablent, render his position more critical, and the fate of his administration more momentous to the party, to all parties, and to the coantry, But here, with a sa- | NEW YORK HEKALV, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1858. charged with manslaughter, was postpoaed till | than the success or failure of any preceding ad- ministration of the last half century. All men will admit the ability and experience of Mr. Buchanan; all mu:t concede the ability and barmeny of bis Cabinet; nor can any man bouestly questiva his conscientious discharge of his great responsibilities. So tar, then, as the Cabinet is concerned, we may say that we could not have one more conspicuously representing a pewerful and united national party. But, apart from the administration, all the signs of unity and power in the party have ceased to eaist. Its exponents in Congress are as Wis- cordant asthe tongues of Babel, Neither in the House nor in the Senate is there anything of fixed discipline or order in the ranks. Sec- tional disorganizers, plotting conspirators and desperate demagogues have entered upon their work. Defections, corruptions, imbecilitics and factious trickeries have utterly demoralized the camp. The end will probably be, first, the ruin of the administration, and next, the total rout, the final diolution and dispersion of ‘the party, never to riseagain. These are the signs of the times, from the proceedings in Congress upon Kansas, the Army bill, the Mormons, the fili- busters and other subjecta. They are significant of av impending political revolution and recoa- struction of parties, of the most tremendous aud startling proportions; for party corruption and demoralization are but the beginning of political anarchy. The events of a day may determine the destinies of the country tor generations to come. We await the events of the day. Tue Wart Srreet Bays anv THE Faro Banks.—We live in a strange age and a singu- lar state of society, when extremes meet, and when the most apparently antagonistic ele- ments of society bave esscatials which are pre- cisely similar. Every day this conviction is forced upon us, but not often so decidedly as in the recent developements of the close connec- tion between the baukers of Wali street and the bankers of faro. The Wall street banks are often subject to fluctuations and mutations of the most extraordinary nature. When no one wants specie they have plenty of it; but when their creditors demand hard money they have none. So they “suspend"—which isa delicate way of shutting up their doors—or break alto- gether, and leave their depositors to gather up the crumbs from the receiver's table. The bill hoiders are protected by a most stringent law; otherwise their pockets would be picked with that cheerful alacrity which always distin- guishes professional financiers. Thus, the banks of Wall street are managed really upon the gambling system, with the dif- ference that the gambler pays his losses, while the Wali street banker does not. Is it strange, then, that the persons who play in Wall street in the day time should exercise the ruling pas- sion over the green cloth at night? Is it strange that bank clerks should make the faro establishments clearing houses for the Wall street surplusages? But in a philosophical point of view, there can be no doubt that the faro banks conduct their business in a more direct manner than the Wall street banker. Who ever heard of a faro bank without a sur- plus sufficient to pay all its lossea? Who ever heard of a faro bank—ne matter how tight the money market might be--that ever suspended specie payments? The Wall street bankers, it is said, sometimes set up the faro banks in business—it is quite certain that they supply them with the funds to give their expensive suppers, to furnish their guests with choice wines and liquors—and thus to win their money in the most amiable, soothing and gentlemanly manner. Yet the Wall street bankerisarespecta- ble member of society; he prays at revival+—has the most expensive pew in a fashionable church—gives dinners to the rulers of the land, and looks with Pharasaical contempt upon his | confrére, (the faro banker.) who is a social outlaw, and legally a vagabond. This is all wrong. The principle of “honor among thieves” should work between the Wall street banks and the faro banks. The former might take some valuable lessons in the mavagement of their affairs from the latter; while the Wall etreet men and the fare men might arrange a new clearing house system, and settle their balances regularly every day. The faro men should also be received into the ame society as that to which the Wall street men are invited. If there is any advantage on either side it is in favor of the faro bankers, who shave their cus- tomers with the cheering emollients of canvass beck ducks and champagne, while the Wall street men bleed their victims with the roughest kind of razors, and bally them when they ask | for satisfuction. If the law that obliges the faro banks to refund is just, why not extend it to the Wall street banks’ Or, better yet, why not consolidate the Wall street and faro banka into one magnificent plundering and swigdling establishment? What does Mayor Tiemann say? Tux Arnican Stave Trane Hoax.—The re- port that the African slave trade was in full blast between the negro coast of Africa and the Pearl river of Mississippi turns out to be one of those absurd hoaxes or forgeries peculiar to that fire-eating jack-o’-lantern, the New Or- leans Delta. In respect to the bill for the im- portation of negro apprentices from Africa, passed by the Louisiana House of Representa- tives, it will doubtless end ina fizzle. The pro- ject is absurd. The New Orleans /icayune—the most popular paper of that ultra-Southern city —is dead against the schome; the Richmond Enquirer, the leading democratic organ of Vir- ginia, ie equally decided agninst it; and, from these and other indications, we presume that the idea of re-opening the African slave trade in the South is limited to « few desperate, reck- less and impotent dieunion agitators And so we may rest easy upon this subject for at least @ year or two to come. Tar News rrow Mrxico.—As was expected, the government of Zuloaga is like that of Comonfort, on the point of breaking to pieces, and Mexico is once more adrift. According to the latest news Alvarez was again in arms against the government, and every petty chief who could raise a few men was exercising a sort of feudal despotiem over as much territory as he could sweep. Indeed, the whole country re- minds one of those wild countries of the middle ages, where no man’s life and no woman's honor were safe out of bowshot from a big castle, and where the sole occupation of the inhabitants was to make war upon one another, from year’s end to year's end. All thie presager the return of Santa Anna; but after all, even thie woul only postpone the end « short while. Chronic disease must re main the condition of Mexico until it passe into the hands of the United States, Pee Curious Case of Allsop and the reach | ‘Tyranniotdes, The crew of docialists and philosophers » hose organ is the New York Tribune, are unfo ding their theory of murder in language calcu'ated to startle and disgust. They consider that the private murder of tyrants is quite justifiable, and that a tyraanicide could-not be rendered up under the international compacts which exist among nations, Thus we are told, in lan- guage that would do honor to the reign of terror under Robespierre, that Allsop is innocent of any crime under which his extradition could be conceded by this country, and the whole doc- trine of biood is enunciated in the following terms:— is Lot oven « Frovobmaa; it is aot even wo cass that be should evor have been in France; it suffices that he bad something to do with the attempt Wo execute aguinet Louis Napoleon the eeateuce of obey. Beptence of doaih was pronounced ou ium by preper tribunai on the very day of the coup dita; ts exe- cution is yet suspended, but tt has never Devo revoked This. covers the whole case, and revives in all its freshness the age of Murai and the ever wot guillotine, in the midst of u Christian, a moral and «Dp orgenized republic. We cannot but suppose, from the language here put forth and the feeling displayed, that the persons whose views are thus expressed have already selected an agent and an executioner to proceed to Europe to carry into effect the sentence not yet executed upon the Emperor by Orsini and his associates. Our amiuble and bloody minded cotemporary is mistaken in charging us with juggling on the question. The distinction between homicide in the course of a revolution, and homicide in the shape of private assassination, appears plain enough to common understandiags; and it is perfectly simple that while the law and its min- isters refuse to ciass the former among the crimes for which a mau may be demanded un- der an extradition treaty, it would be prepos- terous to grant a like exemption to the common aseattin. If, for instance, the Emperor were to- duy to demand of us the extradition of Monsieur Caussidiere, who we believe now pursues ihe comparatively inoffensive calling of a wine mer- chant in this city, on the ground that he was ac- cessory to the death of various persons in 1848, we should of course retuse to surrender him, in the teeth of any quantity of evidence and ship louds of affidavits; simply because in 1848 France was in revolution aud Caussidiere and his party were at open war with the other pre- tenders to power. Weare bound to treat the deaths of those who died in that revolution as no more murders than deaths on a fieid of bat- tle. But if Napoleon were to demand of us the extradition of Thomas Allsop, cither on a charge of being concerned in an attempt to murder him, or a3 an accomplice in the homicide of six or eight private individuals who were killed in the Rue Lepelletier by the bursting of the bombs —{it must be noticcd that there are two distinct crimes, and that, if the fucts are as alleged, All- sop is liable to prosecution for both)—where is the law, where the principle on which we could refuse to give him up? We are told that Allsop is probably sorry for the people his bombs kill- ed. Very likely; but his post mortem sympathy don’t do the dead men any good, nor does it lessen his crime. Most murderers, after the deed is done, are sorry for it, Bat it is not the fashion to let them off on that account. There need be no apprehension, in the event of proceedings being taken for the extradition of Allsop. that any right will be violated or any undue concession made to the Emperor of the French. Should it be found that Allsop is here, M. de Sartiges, the French Minister, may apply personally to Mr. Cas# for his extradition, ac- companying the application with a record of | the preliminary proceedings in France, which must make out a prima facie case of guilt. On this the President would issue his warrant to the United States Marshal of the district where All. sop might be, bidding him apprehend the fugi- tive and carry him before « United States Com- missioner. A hearing would be had before the latter, and every opportunity given to the friends of the prisoner to sift the evidence on which he was arrested. If they failed to do 80, the United States Commissioner would then ren- der judgment, in the shape of a report to the President, to the effect that the prisoner was a fit subject for extradition, and the President would accordingly issue his warrant, under which the prisoner would be conveyed abroad. Such is the asual course of proceeding, and a single glaace will show how admirably it is con. structed for the protection of the innocent. Tux Fravps ov rue Fisaxce Derartweyr— INVESTIGATION BY RHE JonyT COMMITTRE ON Ac- covnts.—The Joint Committee on Accounts are progressing with their work of investigation into the frauds in the Finance Department. They are in permanent occupation of room 17, in the basement of the City Hall, where tney will continue their labors until the arduous task they have undertaken is accomplished. It is but afew weeks since they commenced, and they are consequently not in a positions to re- port progress at present, but it is their inten- tion to make monthly reports to the Mayor and Common Council as they proceed. They have begun with the contracts, assess ments and work done since 1850, examining all the payments made, with a view to discover whether the work in the Street department has been done according to contract and specification, and whether the assessors have honestly per- formed their part of the duty. They then de- tign to follow the assesment lista to the Col- lector’s departinent, and ascertain whether that official has kept his accounts faithfully. In the Bureau of Arrears—a department established in 1864, and where all the unpaid taxes, assem ments and Croton water liens (amounting since that time to reveral millions) are deposited— they have already found that not « single dollar has been charged to the head of that depart. ment. This arises from the neglect of the Street Commissioner in preparing his returns. To such an extent have the frauds and delinquen- cies reached that the Chairman of the Board of Assessors would net receive as correct a single ne of the returns, The committee are of pinion that the accumulation of this business is now #0 great that it will be impossible for the Finance Department ever to set it right. Up to the present time the work has laid iu a state of chaos. The attention of the joint committee will he extended to the City In=pector’s department and to the Croton Water department, the Strvet Commissioner's office and Finance department The Bureaw of Assessments will, for the suk ‘of the unfortunate property overs, receive their epecial attention. The committee have engaged ex Councilman Homer Franklin--«ho undertook a similar tark laet yeat- to aid them, aod be bas appointed five competeat clerks, who are all now actively employed in the work of investigation. Witmesses ure examined in pri- vate, in order to prevent collusion, and render it difficult, if not impossible, for them all to get up the same story—ae was the case to a con- siderable extent in the open investigations by the Committee on Frauds. It is desirable that every one who wishes to see the outrageous frauds which have been eo long perpetrated brought to light, should sustain this committee, and furnish them with every information in their power. The committee are about eatab- ishing a new set of books, and a system whereby the public accounts may be perfectly kept here- after. All this corruption seeme to have reached ite climax with the charter of 1849, which gave the election of the heads of departments to the people, rendering them independent of each other, and responsible to no.autbority. If the Mayor had the appointment of these officials there would be eome check imposed upon them; but under the present system such @ thing is impos- sible, It would be well in future, if any cases of al- feged traud should come before the Common Council, that they should be referred to the Joint Committee on Accounts inswed of to the com- mittces of their own boards, as they are now. In this way they would be all reached in turn, with some prospect of a colution. Iurorrant Decision or THE Recorper—Tue Lorrery Pouicy Question—OneRous Duties oF our CrimivaL Jupges.—Our readers must have observed that since the elevation of Mayor Tie manu to the chief magistracy of our city he has made efforts to break up lottery policy estab: lishments. He issued warrants for the arrest of # number of persons supposed to be engaged in the illegal traflic of lottery policies, agaiast whom the Greod Jury found indictments. To order to test the validity of the laws of the State on this subject the counsel for Jacob Borgers en- tered ademurrer to the indictment, and after argument before the Recorder, he promised a decision at an early day. In consequence of the immense amount of business which the Judges of the Court of Sessions are called upon to transact, often requiring their attendance at chambers till midnight, he was anable to pre- pare his decision at the February term of the Court. In the General Sessions, on Thursday, he delivered an able opinion, which we publish- ed yesterday, overruling all the points of coun- sel for the defendant on the motion to quash the indictment, and ordering him to stand his trial. The Recorder decides that the lotiery policy law is not void nor inoperative, yet the degree of punishment to be inflicted rests entirely in the discretion of the Court; that the offence charged isa felony, and not a misdemeanor ; that the words “common gambler’ did not ne- ceasarily make it a misdemeanor, and even if it were a misdemeanor, the Judges of this Court had original jurisdiction over such offeaces; that the act probibiting the selling or vendiag of lottery policies was sufficiently definite; that a single act of selling subjects the vender to a prosecution under the amended act, and that the language of the indictment was perfectly intelligible, and gave the defendantan accu rate statement of the charge preferred against him. The Recorder states that the efficient City Judge examined the abore propositions, and concurs in the conclusions to which he ar- rived. This decision will undoubtedly atfegt the disposal of a large number of similar in- dictments. This opinion is contrary to the spirit of pre- vious decisions of their predecessors on similar motions, furnishing another illustration of the determination of the present officers of this Court to maintain the laws and protect the per- sons and property of our citizens. Since the elevation of Judge Russell to the bench he has exhibited the characteristics which every crimi- nal magistrate should possess, namely—an un- swerving purpote to administer the laws, un- bending integrity, perfect familiarity with criminal jurisprudence, and great promptness* in the discharge of his dutice, He has been ably seconded in his efforts by the present Re- corder, whose career for the last three months has conclusively demonstrated that he has not only the talent to occupy the position to which he has been elected, but a great desire to co- operate with the City Judge in his efforts to prevent the increase of crime, and, in his own language ona recent occasion, “to make the streets of New York as safe for pedestrians as their own parlors.” The amount of business transacted by these two Judges in a single week is very great, ren- dering it neceseary, as has been observed by the Recorder, for him and his colleague to sit to a late hour in the evening. While their brother Judges are faring sumptuously, sipping their claret, and dozing in their armchairs at their firesides, the Judges of the Court of Ses- sions are listening to the grievances of plun- dered or outraged citizens, discharging the onerous and too often thankless duties of a criminal magistrate. During the past year Judge Russell has alone adjudicated upon 3,500 criminal cases, an amount of business unpre- cedented in the annals of criminal justice in this city. How such an immense number of cases as are usually presented for adjudication at each term of the Court of General Sessions can be #0 promptly disposed of, can only be accounted -for by the systematic course of action which its presiding officers have marked out for them- selves, At the commencement of the pre- sent year the City Judge and the Re corder drew up an admirable set of rules for the government of the Court of General Sessions, and published them in pamphlet form, for distribution among lawyers and the atiachés of the Court—the perusal of which will satisfy the most incredulous of their knowledge of all the quibbles which disreputa- ble practitioners resort to in order to defeat the ends of justice, and of their eminent qualifi- cations for the proper administration of crimi- nal justice in the city of New York. ‘To abolish the office of City Judge—as has been attempted by a silly member of the Assembly —would not only be an act of folly, but would be more de- trimental to the interests of our city than the passage of half a dozen Metropolitan Police bills. Better open the doors of the State prison and penitentiary and allow all to escape at once. Patent Orrick Braas——We have received a copy of the bill reported in tie Senate by Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Patents Iti vests the Coramissioner with power to enforce the attendance of witnesses; it creates a board ot three examiners in chief, w whom ao appeal shall be allowed from the decisious of the pri mary examiners, except in interference cases, until after the application shall have beon twice tajectod; it makes the appeal to the chief Com- missioner from this new board final; it equalizes the fees as between foreigners and citizens, and reduces them generally; and it provides addi- tional sufegusrds against the infringement of patents, The chief recommendations. of this measure are its simplicity and uniformity. Could we be assured of its passing through Congress without additions or modifications, we might be content to accept its provisions Bat the danger of all these attempts at reform ine department im which such large moneyed inte- reste have a stake, is that lobby influence wil be employed to saddle on to them amendments which are not only calculated to neutralice their main principles, but to directly subserve the views of the large patent monopolista. 86 adroitly are these things managed that it is dif- ficult to detect the honest pugpose from the oor rupt one. It must be a coufessedly bad state of the law which should induce Congress to incar this risk. We are not aware that the com- plaints against the working of the present eye tem are of a nature to justify the hazard of fresh legislation on the subject. THE LATEST NEWS. MPORTANT FROM UTAH TERRITORY ONE MONTH LATER FROM SALT LAKE Clty. ACTIVE PREPARATIONS OF THE MORMDNS FOR WAR, Skirmish Between a few Mor- mons and Troops, INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Defeat of Mr. Harris’ Scheme in the House. Speeches of Senators Chandler, Hunter and Ken- nedy on Kansas Affairs. Accommodations for the United States Courts in New York. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Conclusion of the Court Martial of Colorel Sumner, é&e., éc., ke. Innportant News from Salt Lake City. Sr. Lours, March 12, 1856, ‘The Council Bluffs Bugle, of the 3d inst., says that Mr. Wingate has just arrived from Salt Lake January 26, and reports that there was no enow in Salt Lake Valley ‘and very littie in the mountains. He came by & route known only to the Mormons, through tho mountains, by which only horsemen in single file can pags. The army has not discovered any trace of it. The route passes through perpendicular rocks for thirteen miles, is in many places only three feet wide, and is compietely covered by @ roof of rock. ‘Mr. Wingate says that {he Mormons are mancfacturing swall cannon with percussion locks and telescopic sigits, which will carry atwo pound ball with much more cer- tainty than a common rifle ove hundred and twonty yards. They are also making five hundred revolvers a week, ama manufacturing a coarse kind of gunpowder for mining Purposes. A skirmish had occurred between a party of Mormons and a picket guard of the army, if which twe of the former were killed, and it waa reported that four of the latter were slain. Mr. Wingate saysthat Brigham Young is willing that the civil offers shall come into the Territory and cater upon their duties; but if the army atiompts to enter the valley it will be resisted. On the 2th of January Brigham Young preached te 9,000 people, all of whom rose when Young called ou for “AU in favor of giving the troops iw. to rise.”? (Our despatch then proceeds to give an account of Capt. Marcy's perilous trip from Fort Bridger to Taoe, New Mexico, the details of which have already appeared ia the Hera] —— Our Special Telegraphic Despatch from Washington. FATE OF THE RRPUBLICAN KANSAS MOVE &Y TOE HOUSK—CHANCES OF THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS UNDRR THER LRCOMPTON CONSTITCTION—RURTON'S CHAMBERS STREET THKATRE LEASED FOR COURT ROOMB—POPULARITY OF THE PROPOSRD BANK- RUPT LAW—GEN. CASS AND THE REPORTS OF 118 KESIONATION, ETC. Wasisctox, March 12, 1864. ‘The vote in the House to-day is indicative of @ majority favorble to the admission of Kansas under the Lecomptoa constitution. Mr. Harris so construed it, and withdrew his appeal from the decision of the Speaker which be made yesterday. Four of the South Americans who voted with the republicans to-day will vote for Lecompton whea the question comes up. Ik ix now setiled, beyoud ali question, that as eoou as the vole can be had Kansas will be admitted. ‘There are twenty speeches yet to be made on the Kan- sas question in the Senate, consequently @ vote cemnot be taken ip that body before the last of next week, uniess Digh: eeasions are resorted to. ‘The Secrotary of the Interior has leased Burton's the tre, in Chamber's stroct, for fifteen years, at sixtoon thousand dollars per year, r Unitea States Courts and other purposes, the government to make the alterations necessary. Col. Selden, the new Marshal of the Wistrict of Colum- bia, received to-day letters from the Virginia Board of Public Works, freely exonorating him from all charges affecting the integrity 0° his transactions with that State, Be will, therefore, be confirmed without opposition. Senator Toombs has roseived letters, signed by thoe- sands of merchants from the Northern and middlo States, urging the carly passage of the bankrupt bill. The feal- ing among ths committoe is favorable to including all banks, and thus indirectly regulating the currency of the country. The reports circulating in various quarters that General Cane tntends leaving the Cabines isa stk jobbing bisek republican fabrication. He is hale and hoarty, and labors More hours than any member of ttf Cabinet. The President haa received an antograph letter trom Prince Albert, accompanied with a medal containing the likenesses of the Princess Royal and Frederick William. The letter is @ friendly one, and contains sentiments of high regard. THE GRNRTAL NRWSPAPER DREPATOH, Wasmuc tom, March 12, 1868. The statement that Mr. Harris, of Lilinois, intended to ubmit to the House to day, in behalf of thé anti-Lecomp-* on members of the Kansas Committee, embraces @ com- plete record of ite minutes and proceedings. They say thoy indulge in no reflections discreditablo to the charse- tor or integrity of the majority, who bave stripped the resolution under which the commit'e was appointed of all vatituted thelr own views and Practical effet, and substlis measure, for that evidenoe , dan joquiry a= tothe apportion ee inority an ” ya Gr tue. Joteuven: Une majorn'y have roniated a every effort at inquiry by eiber of the minority, while ' vee 6 ericited potaing relauve to ine mat ter of inquiry not alreaty before the country Indeed, some or most }mportant items of information admitted by the in the resolutions adopted by them at the Inat see: ‘pe ‘‘ensetial to the investigation,” have nevor hem Hie | & $ ui uy 33 : Fa i the opinion of the minority, failed to execute the ..0080, abd also to accomplih any one which the committees was raised. There haw ‘ample time to procure ail the information sought by the , had the committes taken the steps to oDtain scores of promtoent citizens of Kansas, of all here, who covid bave given the most touching ali the points of inquiry embraced im lutions, particularly in relation ty the most mon- * the elect on the Zils HEH 3F 3 i A g2 fii a 3 E ‘Decem| % The minority thuk there i¢ ne excuse for leoting to use the means within the reach of commitios, and for retarning to the Hoose ith no information but woat waa dirsadp