The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1858, Page 1

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA AT HALIFAX, THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Abolition of Slavery Spanish Colonies. NOTHING LATER FROM INDIA. im the Anticipated Outbreak of the Serfs in Russia. COTTON DECLINING—BREADSTUFFS DI CONSOLS 97 &e., ae. The steamship America, Captain Moodie, from Liv- erpool at 9 A. M. of Saturday, March 27, arrived mt Halfex at 3:30 P. M. om Friday, April 9. The America hhas had very heavy westerly gales sin:e the lat of April. ‘Owing to a thick snow storm the A is detained, and will not probably leave Ryaton until daylight, A light nortb- y 4 wind is blowing. ‘The America reports, March 28, passed in the channel wteamship Europa, irom New York for Liverpool. Same day, atl A. M., passed the American ship Endymion, ound up the channel, and at 6 P. M. the British ship Lady sird, bound out, and the American ship Byzantium, bound ep the channel. On the Sist ult , lat. 49, long. 25, exchanged signals with Britsh ship Childe Harold; aleo saw an American ship, with a cross in the close reef of her foretopsail, both steering eastward. ‘The America crossed the Banks in lat. 43, long. 60. Saw Re ice. ‘The steamship Anglo Saxon, from Portland, arrived out @ 11 o'clock on the morniog of the 25th ult. SPAIN. Despatches from Madrid to the 22d ult. say that the geverzment bas presented a project for the abolition of slavery in the colonies of Spain. Some disturbances had occurred at Valentia, and a few arreste were made Quiet was easily restored Tho agi- tation was occasizned by the drawing of a lottery. There ‘were also doubtful rumors of disturbances at Saragossa. RUSSIA. > Great agitation prevails in Russia in consequence of the ‘epposition of the vobility to the emancipation of the serfs. Many great proprictors had fied to St. Petersburg in fear @f weir lives. Aletier from Warsaw states that a camp of 100,000 men will be formed towards the middle of May. This is eonsidered as a macifestation against Austria. THE WAR IN INDIA. ‘There is nothing later than the telegraphic advices taken @ut by the steamer Indian to Portland, but an official des- patch to the Fast India government rays taat Colin Camp- Dell, with his force, consisting of fifteen regiments of European infantry, three regiments of native iafautry, three regiments of European cavalry, three regiments and @etachments of two others of native cavalry, with eighty heavy gunsand mortars and sixty three field pieces, hag erossed the Ganges, and was in progress t> Lucknow. The aitack was expected to take place on she 27th of February, when Jurg Bahadoors and Gonoral Frank’s forces, 12,000 strong, would also have reached Iacknow. GREAT BRITAIN. Parliamentary proceedings on the 24th ult. were unim- ‘portant. On the 26th, in the House of Lords, Earl Malmesbury, referring to the case of the British engineers at Naples, wtated that Mr. Watt had arrived in England very much improved in health, and that atolegraphic despatch had been received from Mr. Lyons,staiing that Mr. Parkes bad been |iberated on bail. ‘The same subject attracted attention in the Commons. Mr. Griffiths asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, if in the opinion of the law oflicers of the Crown the capture of the Cagliari proved illogal, it was intended to demand from the Neapolitan government full and an- ple compensation to the engineers for the treatment they Mr. IMaraeli declined to answer. Peel announced that it had been determine! 1) Clasp for service at Delhi and Lacknow. Mr. Roebuck brought forward bis motion for the aboli- tion of the Irieh vice royalty. Alter some debate a mo- us question was D: 3-8 a 97 1-2, &e. Bot been put. py bey ‘of Lords on the 26th tho sanitary condition of the army was debated, and the government promised the of ali pecessary improvements. In the House of Commons government was asked whe- Wer it meant to prowecute the direotwr, of the Western Bank of Scotland, The reply was that they had no mate Piale before them to justify prosecution. Mr. Henly announced that the government had no |a- tention of introaucing any measure it ard to the pase ing of tolls and local dues on shipping this session. ‘mr. Disraeli moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the government of India, acd explained its provisions at th. Like the bill of the former government it hes entirely the Fast Indie Company and Board of Control, and substitutes in their place @ Council com- ‘of & President, Vice President aod - Coes; tne Prosident 'to be a Secretary of . Tt was i ; : : ; ; of the bill were objected to by sundry mem. jeave was given to bring it in. ‘Appointment of General I'eliasior as Ambassador ELE it i tment of the Fmperor,as he is selected this distinguished to the alliance, to the Lag. to the two armies. believ on Genera! tettsten vo Englich alliance, and say fore the Privy Council, he ex. strongly to that effect. ly asserts that the resignation it 4 : HF rt az i xf F a i i frigate Niagara shows juring the trip to Fagiand she over three hundred miles in twenty-four hours. She have made a quicker run but for the bad quality of that Mr, Allsop, Orsini's accomplice, 5 led the govern- of hia defence. of Trade exhibit a falling off of over two millions sterling with the same month lart Britieh government have decided, it is said, to the fortifications at Maita with act! the decision of the Court of Admiralty, of the collision between the Ameritan ship Tuscarora and Andrew Foster, haa resulted in the deci- etmaces or Wei ‘The of Wellington and Devonshire have been Knights of the Garter, Nova Scotian, for the Ganadian tine, had official had been issued in regard to the Indian that the whole or greater part of Id be taken by joint stock banks and insurance com- 80 that it would be soarcely hoard of in the mo- It was supposed the biddings would range eight to one hundred. continved very abundant, but ly anticipated, the Bank of Rag. made no reduction in its rates. of the Canada Company no divi plared. 8 Winslow bas been requested oye Foreign report upon the mental atate of Mr. Watts, the en- Mr. Cobden has been elected an honorary member of the =_— Club, on the ground of his eminent public He 7 Zz z i THE MPLOMATIC SERVICK. « Lord Mali hae inaugurated his reign at the Fo: rd iN loft - of 17 i Rerlin, will " . Loftus, ygeceretary egation at Berlin, at Vienna. Sir J. Cramptoa, Minister at Hanover and late Minister pA States, will succeed Lord Woodhouse at St. Mr. Bue! Minister at Copenhagen |) succeed Lord Flowaen sari. orci ‘Mr. Elliot, af 1 nn Leos La at Vienna, will succeed Mr. Howard, Secretary of tho Embassy at Paris, will aucceed Lord Normanby as Ministor at Florence. Tord Chelaea | ean Mr. Howard ag Secretary of at Paris, 4 loading article, expreeses i ina ite gratit ‘moval of Lord Normanby from Floneres bet a of therppointinent of Mr. Howned, With thin ° itthnke he any atmen! avitente a on foocks ge (he claim. of long service aud exparience. FRANCE. he oe twttome of the 26th ult. bas an article ta laryotyy we betWe oa France and Pagland, Most frievdty eentiments aro expressed throughoas. saya that the Doke Jo Aalakoff pereonifics the aitiencs as living memorial of common glory aod common perils, ‘and that the Emperor could not have made a cho'ca more vienificant or more flattering for tho Queen and Eagiisa ple. Phe Paria Bourse onthe 25th oxhtbited an animation to which it had been for come time e# swanger, and a rige ia the funds aseumed a decided character. The London Globe's Pi correspondent gays that a line of railroat it ab wt to traverse the west Franca from Bordeaux through Rocbel'e, Brest clearly artratevetic rather thanta comm: the coneting trate hy the eieamers is quits ad-q mercantile purporce along the Atlantic horder of France Petitions demanding a reduction of duties on sugar aad coffee were pouriug in upon the government in large numbers. The Miniter of the Interior had In the several towns of France iemounted ar ited ip the arsenals, on the that thay are io ausD tate as to be dangerons to use, and promising that thay should be replaced by artillery in beter conditiva, The impression prevailed that the gune were removed lost a should fall into the people’s hands in case of @ ris 1g. ed all the arttliory ITALY. A Torip letier eays that Coun: Gavour has sent another note, written in very energe ic tarms, to the government of Naples on the refusal of the latter to give up the Cag liar, DENMARK AND PRUSSIA. ‘The late Danish p:oporitions are sala to va unasseptadte to Pruesia ip consequence of their containing nothiog pre ce. TURKRY. A despatch from Constantinople says that 850 Montene- grins bad violated the Austrian territory and panatrated Hlerzegovia. Forty cf them ente:e1 Suterica and burnod everything. ‘The Russian ambassador at Constantinople is underatood to have notified bis rnment that Turkey refuses to submit to the treaty for thy navigation of the Danuba, Several irreguiar corps were being organized in Bosnia by wealthy Turkish Be COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MONEY MARKET, Consol cloned Friday at 97% @ 9725 for money and #194 2974 for account. ‘The bnilion in the Bank of Eog- land had increased £772,000 on the weok Money market uncharged and abundantly supplied. Rar silver ia quoted at Ss. 17¢4.; dollars, 3s. 11744 ; engies, 768. 33gd. {From the Timea (City Article) March 27 ] The funds epered steacily at the improved pricaa of yesterday, but subsequently experienced a further ad ‘vance, which was well maintained. The strength of the market is entirely consequent upon the state of the foreign exchanges, and (he genera! belief that the Dank rate witi on Thursday next be rednoed to two and oae-nal! per cent Money was in rather increased demand to-day, oth In the discount market and Stock Exchange, but this is to be attributed merely to the usual requirements at the end of the quarter in foreign exchauges. Tais attor. noon the rate upon Amsterdam was slightly firmer and on other places generally without alteration. The ra lway trafic returns for the United Kingdom show a ditfar ence of eeventean thousand nine handred and seventy pounds for the week ending March 20. Yesterday ths price at which it was coojectared the new loan would be taken was between ninety eight and ninety-nine, but it ie now doubted if it will be so high, since the leading Srms do not announce any intention of forming liste where the total exceeds one or two millions. It ia alwaye best to in- ‘vite the co-operation of firma accu’tomod to operations of the kind, instead of adopting the Frerch plan of calling upon the public indiscriminately, by offering to ressive tenders for smail sums. {From the Daily News (City Article) March 27 J A decised improvement bas taken place ja the funds, owing to the accumulation of nnemployea money, coupled with the relief to the feeling of expectation tovolved in the definitive isoue of the Indian loan. The marcet closet to-day with great firmness ata freeh rise of 030 fourth percent. Tho other departmonts of the stock ware gene rally grovger. At the bank to day there were no bullion oper worthy of notice, There was mo increase in the applications for money at tho bank to- day, but im tho open warket a betler demana wae experienced. First class bills are still fracly discounted out of doors at 2\{a2'; percent. Ti ia re marked that the terma for long datad paper have ad. vanced to four, and even six percent 13 being paid ia many cases for good Six months bills, This circamstance ssems altogetber unconnectsd with the recent decision of tua back relative to redisconnts, The banks do not diszoant bills having more than 96 days to run. Smalter discount houses, ffloding their facilities dimiaished zo not care to block up their funes in six months bilis Yoraign ex changes were firma this afternoon at Tuesday's ratss. AMMRICAN STOCKS, Meesrs. Baring Brothers report the market for American securities generally Inactive. Lilinois Central, discount. .. Tliwcis Ceairal bonds, ex di Erie Nailroad 7's, couvertibies Pennsylvania Contral 6's, Ls Virginia by Vir,inia O's, United States 6’¢ bouds, 1868 Mosara. Tell & Co. report State at rater; rai:road securities slightly lower, but their quotations have not been received. Mr. B.A. Satterthwaite quotes: — United States 6's of 1867-8...... lutinois Contra! Ratiroad, discount Tiiimeis Cetra! on 7a, 1800, 5 Ta, 9 aT 80 De, do, Do. do, De, do, Do. do. do, Penorylvania Centr: tw. do do. do. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. The Brokers’ Circular says the cottcn market opened buoyant, at an advance on all grades of one oighth t» one quarter of 4 peuny; but owing to the unfavoradle advices brought by the Amorica, a react place, and it closed at a decline of on middling aod one-quarter of ny on the lower grades on the rater advised by the ‘ie. The vales of the week footed up 65,000 bales, of which speculators took 4,600, aad exporters 9,600. The sales yesterday wore 7,000 baics, of which 1,000 were to speculators and 1,000 for export. The market closed quiet. The aatno- rized quotations are as follows: — Fair, Middtir New Orleans, 7 Uplands... ss.) vee 9% on. ‘The stock at this port foots up 402,000 bales, of which 299,000 are American. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHBSTER. Pe a adyiecs from Manchester continue to be unfavor LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. The —— breadetufls market was fe Messrs. Ric » Spence & Co. quote flour dul irregular; Western ‘canal, 2is. a 2Js.: Philadelphia and Baltimore, 2%. a 23e.; Ohio, via the North, 23s. a 258. ; Ohio, via New Orleans, 266. a 20s. 6d. Wheat very dull and unchanged since j Ted Ge. a 6a, 3d.; white éd, Corn dull but prices steady, at Sis. 64. 0 6d. for ail kinds. LIVERPOOL, PROVISION MARKET. Lard firm at 476. a bls. Tallow un- doing at the close, changed. LIVBPOOL PRODUCE MA Rosin stomly; males of 4,600 5 3 for common, and 58. @ 12s. for medium. Quereitron bark dull; Baltimore, 7s. 6d a Sa. Seal and cod oils in better request, but unchanged in ‘ee, sperm oil scarce; linseed ol! quiet at 208. 6d. a Sus. Rprrite of turpentine dull at 41s. 6d. a 42s. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs. Barings’ circular quotes wheat quiet, with 2s. on white; American 44+. & 478.; red 428.8 44a. Iron dull at £6 a £6 6a. for Welsh rails and £6 for bar; pig iron 562. 6d. a 608. Sugar steady, but quiet. Teasiow of sale at unaltered prices Congou is selling for Is. 1d. Coffee steady. Spirits of turpentine close firm at a slight advance on all qualite:. The quotations are 41s. a 41x. 6d, Tallow quiet at 65s, o0 pnt and 2s. Od, deliverable during the last three wo of the year. Rice heavy. Lard dull at62«. Fien ofle—Sales unimportant. Linseed oll quiet at 209. a 20». 3d, HAVRE MARKET. Maren 24 —Cotton buoyant, Tho ealos for the week ending yesterday foot up 12,000 bales. The quotations for trés ordinaire are 104f. The stock in port is 122,000 bales. Breadstufts dull and quotations nom nal. Votashes dull and quotations maintained with difficult Coffee = pian Wy AT quotations nominal. Rice steady and quiet. doing in , jotations tomisal. Lard frm. Walebotie steady’ rth PASSENGERS BY THE AMERICA FOR BOS Mra Paysen and servant, Misa Reed, Mr Robertson Indy Mr Robesnon, chi, Uifaa and water Captain Barlow, Capt Titcom, Miss Ragan, Mesers Fallow. Robertson, she Lockhart, Charkon, Haven, Fray, Moodie, IMxon, Taylor, Merriman, Chamberlain, ins, O'Neil, two Smitha, Waitwright, Southall, Miller, Wilcox, Byerett, MeCyliongh, Hal ‘Oreen, Ral Fraser, Baile . and Mra Bailey sed Wir Blaser a Personal Intelligence, ARRIVALS, At the Rrerett Honee—Juan Antonio Martines, He. Pp flevens and tister, Mrs. Dorr, Morris Dorr, Mra. tn a Hen Hayward, Mra J. yman, Mi vward, J, MeLaarn BK. Mayward, Hayward [ - ‘two servants, fuetio fai, Tollan, Firth, wife, Lie epett, ‘toston, Mra. Stewar!, New Yor! ©. Yaw Je. Mrs’ Colt, Hartford: Frank 8. Piet Keene, N. HW, Mwieht, Mes Dwieht, fockbr! go, Mage. Mr. and Mra, J. W, Clark, New York MORNING EDITION—SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1858. F THOMAS H. BENTON, Brief Sketch of his Life and Po- litical Career, We yerterday received by telegraph tho intelligence from Wesbiogton tha! the Hon, Thomas Hart Benton, in the 7¢tb year of his age, had died in that city yesterday noon, an event of which, atany moment, the publis has been admonished for several days A later despaten in the evening informed ua that ho atill survived; but as it is scarcely pogsible that he ‘still lives,’ we are con- strained to satisfy the avxiety of the public mind in re- gard to the character of this extraordinary maa and the great events of his publ'c career, His disease, an internal cancer, bas admitted of no remedy, and but little alleviation. Yet it appears thet with & most heroc fortiiude he has borne his extrome sufferings to the last; and that with his mind cloar, caim and self posseesed, aod with that indomitable cner- gy peculiar to bimse:f, he bas soatinued to work upon his “ Abridgemont of tho Debates of Congress,” to the latest available whisper—one of his daughters acting as his ia- terpreter and agon-in-law aa his amanuensis, His rating passion against tho Southern ultra achool of democratic politiciass, as nullifors and disunionieta, has been strong in death ; and from the intonsity of his hostility of a quarter of a century to Mr. Oslhoan and his followers, he may be excused in believing upon his death bed that the def at of thé Lecomoton constitution in Congress was the salvetion of the Union. Col, Benton was born near Hillsborough, Orange coun- ty, North Carolina, March 14,1782, His father died when be was eight years old; his carly education was imper- fect; he was for some time at a grammar school, and after- warde at Chaps! Hill, the university of North Carolina, but finiahed no course of study there, a8 hia mothor ro- moved to Tonneases to settle on a tract of land delonging to bis father’s estate. Thomas stu lied law, and soon rose to eminence in that profession. He was now clocted to the Legislature, serving only a single teem, during which be procured the passage of a law refartniag tho judicial aystem, aud of another giving to slaves the benelt of a jury trial, the eame as while men, Oae of his earliest friends and patrons was Andrew Jackson, at that time @ Judge of the Supreme Court, and subsequently Major Genera! of the State militia. Benton becamo his aid-de camp, and during tho war also raiaod arogi ment of volun- teors, It was from that service he derived the title of colonel, which hag clung to him throagh life. Not- withstanding the close intimacy between Jackson and bim- self, which was of the most cordial and uareserved cha racter, a rude and rudden rencontre took place, (ia Nash- ville, between Jackson anda posse of his friends oa the one side, and Benton and his brother on the other.) ia which severe pistol and dagger wounds were given, and Produced a rapture that estranged them for many years. After the volunteers were disbanded Mr, Madison ap pointed Col. Bonton, in 1813, @ lieutenant colonel in the army; but on his way to serve in Canada, ia 1814, ho heard the nows of the peace and resigned. Ho now re- moved to Missouri, and took up his abode in the city of St. Louis in 1815. There he devoted himself anew to his profession. Soon, however, engaging in tho politica of the day, he was led to tho establishment of a uewapsrer en- titled the Missouré Argus. In this position he was involved in many disputes and coatentions. Daela were usual at that time, and he had his share of them with their un happy consequences In one of them, which was forced upon him, he kiilei his opponent, Mr. Lucas, an event he deeply regretted, and al! the private papers relating to which be has destroyed. For the precise and authentic facta and dates of the above paragraph we are indebted to tho proof alips of the “New American Cyclopedia,” now in the proas of the Ap- Pletons. The remainder of our sketch we prefer to make up in our own way, from a personal knowledge of the de ceased possensed by the writer, extending through a po- riod of fifteon years, and from the writings, speeches, and public ante of Renton, which most prominently strike the memory of the deponent as illustrative of the poouliar in- dividuality of the man. In 1420, with the organization of the Missouri State government, Mr. Denton was elected a member of the United States senate, and remained in that body an active and conspicuous member till the session of 1851, (thirty years in the Senste,) when he failed of a re-election. As Misourt, however, was not admitted into the Uaion till Angust 10, 1821, more than a year of Mr. Bsaton's first term of service hal expired before he took his neat. This interval he occapied in acquiring ao knowledge of the language and literature of Spain; and thenceforward, for many years, his industry as a student during his extra hours, scized from tha carly morning and appropriated from the night, form @ most interesting feature of the economy aad regularity of his personal habits. The results, too, wore of the greatest advantage to him as a Senator, for bav.ng acquainted him- elf intimately with the political, social and roligious sys- toms, and with the languages, laws and litorayire of tho goverving nat ons of ancient and modern times, his know ledge of every great subject involved in a Senatorial de. bate covered the mort minute experience and teachings of the history of man and of his progressive steps from the patriarchal institutions of the Hebrews to the compro- hensive civilization of our own day. His memory was reventive to @ most remarkable de gree, and thus with a readiness which was often aurpris- ing he could quote from a Roman law or a Greck phitoso pher, from Virgil's “Georgica,” “The Arabian Nights,’ “Herodotus” or ‘Sancho Panza,’ from the sacred pro- pheta, the German reformers or Adam Smith; from Fo pelon or Hudibras, from the financial reports of Necker or the doings of the Council of Trent; from the do>dates on the adoption of the constijation or from the io trigues of a kitchen cabinet, or from some for- gotten epecch of a deceased member of Congress. No member of either house of Congress, porhaps, since the formation of oar government, has aquired, or labored #0 industriously to acquire, the fund of available practical learning and information in matters of law, literature, re. ligion, society, party politics, &e., possessed by Col. Bon- ton. John Quincy Adams can scarcely be admitted as an exception, for though he was known as a “walking Worary,”’ it was a library not made up of that practisal assortment of books, facts and deductions which formod ‘the walking library of Benton. From Col. Benton's contiaual study of the more useful languages, ancient aud modern, he became somewhat pre- cine and pedantic in bus use of words. For instance, in one of his speeches in the Sonate, he remarked:— ‘At the time when these ev ents took placs—mind you, reporters, took place—don't say transpired, or I shall cortainly ex pire.” @n another occasion, having said that “wo were bamboozled with that amendment,”’ a doubt was expres as to the legitimacy of the word b@mboozle. Bat having called in half a dozen dictionaries bia support, the ques. tion was setéled by the admission that “I wag aware, sir, that the honorable Senator had studied the meaning of the ‘word for a night or #0, but for my own information I do tired to have his authorities."’ But to return tothe regular thread of our narrative. When Colonel Benton entered the Senate Mr. Monroo wan Presi tent, Governor Tompkins, Vice President, Joba Quincy Adame, Secretary of State; William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury; John ©. Calhoun, Secretary of War; Smith Thompson, of New York, Secretary of the Navy; J MeLean, Postmaster General, and William Wirt, Attahey General; of whom all have disappeared from the stage of action except Mr. Mclean. And here that voluminous and interesting historico-political work of Mr, Benton—of hia “Thirty Years in the Senate’’—inter. poses ite rich and copious details of the lexding public characters, measures, events and issues which agitated the country, divided ita political parties and determined the game for the Presidency from term to term, through all that long period. In glancing over the pages of theve solid volumes of a “Thirty Years’ View” of the Working of the American Government,” we find that the first, speech of Mr. Benton, prominently referred to, is his specch of 1824, in favor of an amendment of the constitu. tion of the United States in relation to the selection of President and Vico President, so as to secure their lection directly by the popular vole it ‘was not, however, antil after the ruptare between Presi dent Jackson and Vice President Calhoun, in 1831, and the breaking out of the war between (Old Hickory and the ‘United States Bank, that Col. Benton took the front rank in the Senate as a debater and as the champion of the administration. The war against the bank was virtually declared in Gen. Jackson's first annual message to Con grees, in 1829, and the war began in earnest in the Senate Pon jhe question of @ re-charter ia 1831—Mr, Benton leading the way as tke most radical advocate of a gold ‘and si. ver currency. The tremendons eyents which followed the removal of the government depesits—the removal of a Socratary of the Treasury for refusing to remove the dopostts from the bank—the consequent condemnation of General Jackson by a resolution of the Senate—the passage of the back re charter—(eneral Jackson’s veto—the universal panic from the dying struggles of the bank—the expaasion of the State banks upon the basis of thirty millions of gov. ernment specie—the consequent demoralizing aad wide spread epidemic of speculation and oxtrayagance— the subtreasury—the withdrawal of the deposits from the pet banks, and tho terrible fnancial collapse of 1837, are all familiar matters of history with the readers of the Henan. It was in this war upon the monater bank, declared in 1929, fairly commenced in 1831, and practically closed up with the Senste’s expunging resolutions of 1837—it was in this terrible war of tho Titans that Colonel Benton achieved his highcet renown as a senatorial debater, and as the steadfast, staunch and earnest supporter of Geaeral Jackson’s administration, His highest distinction and his greatest victory, with such men as Clay, Webater and Calhoun battling against himas for life and death, was the passage of the famous “‘oxpungiag resolation.”” The Senate bad passed, some years before, as alreaty men- tioned, a resolution condemning the removal of the de- posits, &c.,as high banded executive acts ‘‘in derogation of the constitution of the United States.” Benton’s reao- lutions, on the other hand, being passed, black Ilnes were drawn around the aforesaid resolution of contemaation, and the words ‘‘expunged, by order of the Senate” wore writen across the face of it, and 60 the record remalas upon the journal to this day. y Atierce and most exciting debate (January 14, 1837), in which the whole strength of Calhoun, Webster and Clay was brought to bear againat the expunging process, bed carried the day’s sitting far into the night, and what followed ig thus described by Colonc! Benton in his “Thirty Years’ View,” pages 730-31: Midnight was now approaching. The dense masses which flied every room iu the lobbies and che galleries remained immovable. No one wen! out—no one could et in. The floor of the Senate was crammed with privi jeged persons, and it seemed that all Congress was Expectation aad determination to #ee the coactusion was depicted upon every countenance. !: was evident there was to be no adjournment until the vote should be takea —until the deed was done; and this aspect of 1oviucibie determination had ita eifsct upon the ranks of the oppo sition. They began to falter under a uscless (peg for they alone now did the speaking; and while Mr. Web- ster wae yet wenn Protest, two Senators trom the opposite aide, who had been best able to roaintain their equanimity, came round tothe author of this view, and said “This question has degenerated into a trial of nerves and muscles. It bas become a question of physical endurance; and we see no use in wearing our- selves out to keep off for @ few hours longer ‘what bas to come before we separate. We see that you are able and determined to carry your measure, so Cail the vote as soon as you please. We shall ta? ne more.”’ Mr. Webster concluded. No one rose. There was a pause—a dead silence - and an intense fecling. Presently the sivence was invaded by the single word ‘Quostion”— the parliamentary call for a vole—rising from the seats of different Senators. Uae blank in the resolve remained to de filled—the date of its adoption It was done. The acting Prosident of the Senate, Mr. King, cf Alabama, then directed the rolito be called. The yeas and nays had been previously ordered, aud ied to be called by the Secretary of the Senste, Mr. Asbury Dickens. Forty three Senators were present, aneweriag; five abscat. Yras—Messrs, Benton, Brown, Buchanan, Dana, Ewing of Tinots, fulton, Grundy, Hub! King of Alebame. Linn, Morris, Nichoias, Niler, Page, Rives. Rovinson, a es, Bevier, Sirange. Tallmadge, Pipton, Wal ‘all, Wright. Messra. Bayard, Bi a lay. ittenden, Davis, Ewing of Ohio, Hendricks Kert, Knight, Moore, Pren tse, Preston, Robbins, Southara, bog gm ed the resolution was announced frem the chair. Mr, Benton rose and said that nothing now re mained but to execute the order of the Senate, which be moved be done forthwith It was ordered accordingty. The secretary thereupon produced the original manuscript journal of the Senate, and opening at the page which cou- nentence of heaipely Ln plod Swift, , Webster, strong letters these words:—Expuuges | by order of the Senate, this 16th day of March, 1837." Up to this mo- ment the crowd in the great circular gallery, looking down upon the Senate, though sullen and mena- cing in their looks, had no =manifes- tation of feeling; and it was doubttess not tho intention of Mr. Wobster that inaditation; but its appearar Linn, the ‘colleague of Senator Renton, Mr. George W. Jones, since Senator from lowa, and et a him fm this concluding scene of a seven years contest with that great moneyed power, Things were in this state when the Secretary of the Senate to the expunging process on the manuscript journal. Ta- —_- orm of hisses, groans and vociferatimns arose from tt wing of the Circular gallery, over tho heal of Seoator Renton. The presiding otficer promptly gave the order which the rules prescribe in such casos, to clear the gallery. Mr, Benton opposed the order, saying: — T bope the galleries will not be cleared, as many innooent perrons wi'l be excluded who haye been ‘gul’ty of no viols of order. Let the rudlans who have made the distueb- ‘alone be punished; let them be apprehended. 1 hope Hergeantat Arma will be directed \ enter the gallery aeize the rafBana, ascertalnin they ia en way he can. spr ‘and bring thom to ths bar of the Senae, Let him seize the bank rufians. I hope that they will net now be suffered to insult the Senate, as they did when it was under the power of t*e Bank of the United Biales, when rulfians, with arms upon them, insulted us with impunity, Letthem be taken and brought fo the bar of the tezate. "Bere s one just above me that may easily be ilen tifed—the bank ruffisne. Mr. Renton knew that he was the object of this outrage, and that the way to freatthese subaltern wretches was to ay} and seize thom, and bave them ‘ragyed as crimiaals to the bar of the Senate. were cougregated imme- diately over hi head, and evidently collected into that place. is motion ‘was agreed to. Tho or- der to cloar tho leries was revoked; the or- der to seize Se F von, and im mediately execiter the energetic Sergeant at-Arms, Mr. John ‘Sheckford,” and his acsistunt. The ring leader was seized and brought to the bar. This sudden example intim tated the rest, and the expunging process was performes in quict The whole scene was impressive but no part of itso much so as to sco the great leaders proaches potent deprecat! Tt. was a tribute to is invineiblity which cast into the shade all the eulo- giuma of bi friends, The gratification of General Jack son was etreme. He gave a grand dinner to the ex- ingere (# they were called) and their wives, and Reing too week ta #it at tbe le, he only met the com. » Plwed the ‘head expunger’” in bis chair, and with to is sick chamber. “That expurgation'<2it was the “crowning merey’’ of his civil,as New Orieans had been of bis military, life! “solitary and alone I set this ball in motion,” is an ex. prorrior of Benton's which, some years ago, was as fa- miliar with every schoolboy as a “household word.” The crowning result wie the greatest political achieve: ment of the Senator, With the passave of the expungiog resolution the victory orer the Bank coalition waa com pleto, and Benton was ut the renith of his glory. The pen which did the “expungiig’’ was gent by Mr. Benton asa sourenir to General Jackon, and the old chief prized it an Sighly ae does the Empress Eogenic the eagle's quill wih which the high contreting parties ratified the peace with Russia in the late treay of Paris. But the rejoicings of the dmocracy over the expunging resolution were brief. Th great revulsion of 1837 was upon them. In March ofthat year Martin Van Buren came into the Presidency as th anointed euccessor of Old Hickory. The bank rag and hinplaster inflation brought abcut by Gen. Jackson's pet bok system had reached its utmost tension, and the inevithle collapee was at hand The specie circular of 1896, reqiring all dues to the go- vornment to be paid in gold and diver, and the withdraw. al of the government fund to bi distributed among the States, had applied the breaks tothe pet banks, and tho result was & general costraction,. genoral suepensicn, and a general and overyholming ccllapse. It was on the brink of this stupendow revulsion dat the extra seasion of Congress of 1837 ww resolved upoa, and called by pro- clamation of the Preglent. But the general crash came on in the ‘merry moth of May,’ while the extra session, with a view to the elif of the country, did not aesomblo till September. Lila, too, wan done at this soasion, ox- soubriquet of “Old Bullion.” Hia hard money speeches through all the desperate battles of this Mnaneial revolu tion from 1849 to 1840, appear, in many instances, at this day, like tho teachings of a prophet, although oothing moré than the simple reasonings from cause to eifect, witb the principles of common sense as the teach stone The sub-treneury did not bring immediate relief to the coumtry—immediate relief was beyoud all human agen cies; and yet the people holding Mr. Van Buren, Gonerai Jackson and the democratis party reaponsible for ‘ the bard times”’ brought upon the country, ewept the party from power in 1840 with tho foree of a tornado, “Things cannot be made worse, and they may become better with ‘s change,” was tho irresistable argament which carried the election of General Harrison almeet by acclamation. ‘It was a political revoluticn without a parallel in the histo- ry of the world—a revolution effected by a universal car- nival of spontaneous music—monster processions, mon- ster barbecues, and long parades of wild Indians, wild hunters, wild animals, beautiful girle, clothed in white and born along in triumpbal care, log cabins on wheels, cider barrels, canoes and coon skins, It was a mighty revolution in the form of a universal popular caronsal, in which reason and argument wero drowned in the swelling chorus of « Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.”” Thus the currency regulator of an independent treasury —the crowning measure of Van Buren’s adminivtration, which “ the sober second thought of the people” has con- firmed as a measure of wisdom, economy and safety—-was the last parcel which broke the camel's baok. With the death of Gon. Harrison his administration <e- volved upon John Tyler, beginning with another oxtra session of Congress. Mr. Clay, tho great whig leader of the Senate, lost no time in shaping out a new administra tive policy. The Bankrupt law was pasred and approved; the Sub-Treasury act was repea’ed, and Mr. Tyler ap- proved the repeal; but two different bills pushed through Congress for the re-establishment of a national bank were ruthlessly yeteed. The Po gre of his wh cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, and a Congressional manifesto reading John Tyler out of the whig church, followed im- mediately. And hore was another po itical revolatioa, for with these vetoes of Capt. Tyler the whole fabric of Mr. Chay’s American syatom, which he was about to reduce to practice, fell to the ground, and with it the prestige of the whig party and ita hopes ’ Against the repeal of the Sab- Treasury, and against the eof the Bankrupt law, and those bank bills, Mr. Benton tought Mr. Clay im the Senate at every point. When John Tyler's second bank veto was brought into the Sonate end read, there were bisses and groans in the crowded galleries when almost precisely the same scene occurred ag that which followed the fulfillment of the expungin; resolution—Benton cuiling flercely out for the arrest ol rufiians’’ of the — step gine Bank gallery. After debate, the order jand a man ‘was arrested; but, having rar mPa ‘ot for his conduct, was discharged. A Op the adjournment of the Senate, in the midstofa group of rejoicing democrats, descending from the Capi tol, Mr. Benton was heard to say, ‘ Yes, sir, the work is done; it fs all over with the bank, now, sir; ‘all over, sir; and as Mr. Tyler is opposed 2 Mr. Clay aod the whige, the Gemocracy—yes, sir, we the democracy, must sup- port bim and his administration.” “ But, Col, Beatoa, when we come ) make a nomination in 1544, what shail we do then’ ‘ Dothen, my dear sir? Dothen’ Why, then, sir, we wil! make a democratic nomination.”’ An this programme, thus indicated, was carefully pnrsucd, Mr. Tyler’s administration being recognized by the demo cratic party much as at first the assumption of the Em- pire in the person of Louia Napoleon was recognized by the legitimate sovereigns of a’ something to be tolerated for the Bong being in behalf of law and order— ‘@ good parvenue, but nothing more. the very few leading measures carriod by Mr. Clay under Mr. Tyler’s administration was a land distribution act, which was shortly repealed, and the pro- tective tariff of 1842. Against this Tariff bill Mr. ‘eat measure, if only @ vote or so is required to paw it, ition will furnish it. /i3 the Bankrupt act was repealed, and in behalf of repeal Mr. Benton wok the initiative in the Senate upon @ petition from Vermont. ‘Texas—the annexation of ‘Texw—was ths rock upon which, as a politician, Mr. Bonton was first seriousiy damaged. of the Calboun fexas plot wo “blow Mr. Van Buren sky bigh,” is very curious and interesting. But Benton’s intense jealousy and batred of Calhoun dis torted all the public acts aud movements of the latter revolutionary cies, or treasonable or sec intrigues. It Presidential is true, however, that ‘ler’s treaty scheme for 1 ¢ annexation of in the Senate through the efforts of , the annexation = thus broached popular to be with. Accardingty, ‘Van Buren was sounded upon the subject, and letter discourrging the echome of annoxa ished the weapon with which he in the bead a the Baitimore Con In the “Thirty Years’ View’’ Mr. Cal the chief ultra slavery conspirator behiad in the intrigue ending in the nomination of Mr. Polk, However that may be, that porivation was tbe entering wedge to the dissolution of the Jacksonian demo- cratic party. Tho old Bourbons, of which Mr. Benton was one of the most tenacious to their notions of legitimacy, swalowed that nomivation with a bal grace; but they Hull hoped to get to the windward of what they called the Calboun op . Of this expectation, however, accord. ing to Benton's testimony, the Rourbous were wotully | cheated in the matter of the Texas annexation resolu if i i i | i 5 ES Hi : A eE It thus appears that the House resolution for uncondi- tional annexation—peace or war—was the scheme of Pre. ident Tyler and his Secretary of State, Mr, Calhoun; and that the policy of primary negotiation with Texas in tho arrangement of ber bouncaries was the policy which the Benton or Bourbon faction bad persuaded Mr. Polk to adopt as his policy, It was the last night of the session (March, 1845), President Tyler's Inst day in office, when ig compromise between the House plan and the Senate, or Benton's negotiation plan, was agroed upon by blending the two plans together, and leaving the choice to the Pre- sident. The Bentonians did not expect Captain Tyler to act wy an issue which properly belonged to Mr. Yolk; but in this they were mistaken, for on the | very night (Saturday night) that the blended resolutions packed, Tyler them, and assuming tho in itiative, sent off his spocial measongor with the uncon?) tional House plan of annexation as his offer to Texas When Monday morning came Capt. Tyler waa gone from the White House; but the work aone, and his moasengor was on bis way to Texas with the Moxican war in bis pocket. The mass of testimony furnished by Mr. Beaton upon this point is su 4 by the peace eter which governed Mr. ik in the prosecut of the war. He nominated (not confirmed) Colonel Ben- ton to the post of Commanding Lieutenant General of all our forces in Mexico, not to push the war to the utmost, but to make the carliest possible peace. To this end, also, the efforts; of Mr. Benton, as Chairmaa on Mili- tary Affairs in the Senate, wore maloly directed; and to = end Ly "' wae given to Santa Anne; and Mr, ist was sent down as 5 ce plenipotentiary, an! Senor Atreha, and to the cod or earliest possible peace, the treaty which Mr. Trist made without authority was ed by Mr. Polk and ratified by the Senate. All these go to prove Mr. Benton's view of Mr. Polk's peace alternative of annexation Had Tyler the resolutions over to the incoming President what then would have been the result’ The other alter. tative would have led. Negotiations would have settled the Texas boundary; there would have been no war, we sho@d not have ao- quired California, and the gold of that coumtry might bave remained undiscoveres to this day. That midnight menaenger of Captain Tyler to Texas was thus the avant courter of the mighty commercial revolution which hae followed throughout the elvilized world. Upon such «mall incidents hang the greatest events ia human history. The Mexican war and the Or queetion chiefly occu- pied the administration of Mr. ik; and io the business of the war, the varied knowledee aud experience of Mr. Beaton made bim a. useful as the Senate's chair- man on military affairs. fo bis “Thirty Yoars,” bow ever, Mr, Benton gives almort os much prominence to the distlenal of the old (lobe as the administration organ and the substitution of Father Ritchie and the Union, as to the war itself. This change was, of couree, the work of that ‘arch conrpirator, Calhoun, and in thie view even General Jackeon eeems to have shared the indignation and the ap Prebensions of the Van Buren Bourbons. Upon the Oregon question our readers weil know that the spesches of Benton were conclusive in silencing the clamor for “ fifty four forty or fight,” and in reducing our legitimate claims and our Oregon boundary to the line of forty nine, His old mape, old treaties and their red lines and old historical facts and avecdotes, were hore applied with remarkabdie effect. Mr. Benton, in his senatorial history, makes short work of the bill establishing @ territorial government for Ore. gon, including the Missouri compromise slavery prohibi Vion. There was a moat excited and desperate contest, however, in the Senate upon that prohil sa . Benton for it and Mr. Calhoun it, Dein, in the debate. The Propasttion to exten ion to Oregon, strange as it may appear, cam trom Mr. Douglas, The last sitting 1 el from Saturday, 10 A. M., to Sunday morning at 9, in- cluding a rambling debate throuch the whole intervening night. Mr, Benton, strong from bis regular and temperate habits, in addition to a naturaliy powerful constitation, maintained bis ground to the end on the {lcor. During the night, Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, attempt- ed a diversion to kif time, by moving an executive rewion to inquire into the propriety of Mr. Benton's conduct in cept the paseage g @ ten million loan, and a vain attempt | furnishing certain roeoluticns offered in secret seasion to & to pase a bill eeta/lishing an independent or sub-treatury ‘The administra¥n party in Congross, however, kept at this important fll from seasion to session till 1840, when they passed it frough both houses, and it was signod by Mr. Van Bureron the 4th of July, ration of indesMdence against the hanks, Through al he varions phases of this embittered floan cial contest fr. Benton, in the Senate, waa ever fore most of the dvanced guard of the democracy, his grand idea througdut being, mot only the separation of the governmentinances (rom the banke, but the establish went ef s Diyeree) bard money currency, Henge hig correspondent of the Naw York Herain for publication. Mr. Butler read from the Hewat that the revolutioas were published upon Mr. Benton's responsibility (resolutions re- iating to General Kearney), and move! that the Senate proceed to Inquire into the matter, This browght Col, Benton to his feet, in a towering rage. as a government decl®- | The motion made wae a reflection of dishonor; and if SbY man shen onderteke to impute a tishonorabie act to him the aces +r mid get the is Vee, rir, the Leive him th. eye's, endl vi * cowa bs thro, ir.”” 'Peflne’! Yengmar®, bub vory mm oh t Lud point. There wags scour of one on, of coureo, and > the amoke clears1 sway, wd the at) of Oragon * 6 , Cencrel Foote, of Mia, toe obverwed te U6 a mreieriow a hie r wan pp ioe 9 Corresporrtrat tage PRICE TWO CENTS. inquiring below learrod thet & duel sae projected. On Sunday he was fo far condrmod in this impression a wo proceed on Monday to a magistrate and make the reqaired Mr. aticnvit to secure the arrest of Benton aud Butler Penton was found at work over bis booke and pape: bis hovee, and on being brought into the magistraie’s office discla.med any intention of breaking ihe peace and called for proof, weluding @ eharp rebuke of the Heri correspondent. The magistrate, hewever, iemanded Renton's bonds, and appealing there’rom Mr. Renton bad ‘he matter carried up at once to ope of the courts then im Session at the City Hall, There the Hrkarp correspondent, £80 ip his testimony, including the scene in the Senate, but the court not deeming the eviderce eufficient for a conviction élsche:ged the privoner from custody. Mr. Butler was arrested later in the day, and in tha care, as Was supposed, en route for Blalensburg. He gave the bonds required and was discharged, Thus, trouga theagency of the Huxaty correspondent, this aifair was vipped in the bud. Otherwise its torminatioa might hava been very serious or exceedingly ridiculous, Toe main reason for the intervention of the Henan corres po adeut in the premises was that he was mixed up with the cause of the quarrel. In the fel! of 1847 Mr. Benton’s services wore called for ax the counsel of his gon in !aw, Colone! fremont, arraiga- ed ppon trial by @ court martial at Washing‘on for ma- tiny, Xc., in California, The trial Insted for wevera! te- dious monthe, end its resulw and consequences need no repetition hore. in the discussion of the Compromise measures of 1850 Mr. Benton was inainly iostremental in breaking down Mr. Clay’s Omnibus bill, and in reducing each moagure thereof to its own merita. At this point a division which bod eprung up in the Missouri democracy—RBenton aad avti-Bepton—resulted in tho defeat of Ronton for the Se- bate. He then ran fer the House as the Benton candi- date for St Louis, ‘vas electe?, and distiaguiahed bimaelf in an oppos'tion to the Kansas Nobraaka bill which wound up his official potitical carcer, His subsoquent trial for Congress apd for Governor in Missouri were signal do- feats; and his course in the iast Presidential election Agairet bis favorite and idolized son-in-law, Colonel Fre- mont, it wonid be agelees to attempt to explain. ‘Tho politiral rise apd fall of Colonel Benton afford a striking illustration of the rise, the glory and the decay of the Jacksonian democratic party, ite Jackson stood at the heim Benton waaa giant in the democratic camp— when Jackson was removed, and the party pogan to aplit upon factions and sectional issues, Benton with Veo Buren and all Pis mort faithful followers were thrown ont of the orthodox church npon the test question of tlavery. Aa the policy of Mr Calhoun haa become more and mere the pilicy of the democracy, this Van Buren element of the Nortb has stoughed off izto the republican camp, Waving Renton in Missouri high and dry. Thus oxpello¢, as it were into private life, the politician and the statesman bas rendered po small service to the country in his capa. city asa pohtical compiler and hiatorical. “His ‘ Tairty Years’ View” embraces an immense fund of varied and invaluable potitical intormaton, written ina style at once simple, beautiful and strong, and his compilation of the debates of Congress, as far as ithas progressed, fills ao important desideratom iv our political archives. The tene. manrer and bearing of Mr. Benton im the Senate wero not suited to the popular taste, nor adapted to win the partiality of the mass of his Senatorial brethren. Hig tone was bold aud imperious, his mannor precise, aad somewhat dictatorial avd dovinatical, aad his bearing that of a giant among the pigmies He wae by many men con sidered a coarse, savage, egotirtical, selfah vaio glorious &nd Joqvacious old aristocrat; and yet, in rolid substance, his speeches, on great and small inatiers, will favoradly compare with the best which any other man of our coun- try has producod, and his real character, in fact, was that of a most practical democrat. As the head of a family busband, father, compavion and bost, he wes % model o! affection, simplicity and hospitality. Amorg his neighbors ro man could be more — Amovg is children and randehiidren he was literally worehpped as their best viend, their teacher, their companion and their guide, At bie own table or by bis own freaide his gen'al spirit, bia extensive reatings, hie great experience and minute ob- servation concerning men and things, and bis wonderful memory, rendered bie conversations positively charming, upon whatever subject they might turn. And upon the Little tritles of every day goraip be could talk by the hour, and give ap essay upon a lady’s bonnet and the c! of the fashions 4s readily as npov the treaty of Utrecht. In person Col. Benton was tall, muscular and robust, and with a pregence singularly majestic and commending. Fils features were of the stroog Rainan mould, aad ther Labitoal expression was tat of a poli-porsosaed, welf- relying, positive and resolute man. ia marriage with @ daugbter of Col MePowe |, of Virginia, secured him an amiable and exemplary partner, and the domestic associations of an extensive circlo of influential fami- lies. Mrs Benton died some four yei ago. Of bis four surviving children, ail daughtors, one is “our Jessie, tho wife of Col. Fremont; another is the wite ot Mr. Wm. Carey Jones, late returved from a government muaion to Central America; another is marriod w a Mr Jacob, a well to do farmer of Kentucky, and formerly one of Fre. mont’s amateur mountain wey: the fourth and youngest Some Years ago was married to an altucké of the Freach Legation at Watbington, now Frem Calcut‘a. In the important matter of religion, Col. Benton was, if not a member, « feithful attendant with bie family atthe new school Presbyterian church, near hia rest donce in Washington. Among the people of Washington ho was esteemed a8 a citizen, and beloved ae a peghdor and friend. With frnton, the bast, may say Crittenden, s excepting Cree, and we the compeces of Uay, Cal- borin and Webrter, iy gone. If Cay war "hatin. guished for the love of hia friends, and Calhoan for the veneration of his disciples, aod Webster for the admiration of the commercial ‘politicians of the North, Benton was particularly dist nguished lu the esteem of those who knew him most intimately aod fcr the bitter hostility of bis oppopeats who only knew from his exou sable egotiem and sometimoer off- naively hareh aud impe- rious manner ae a public debater in tho Souate. The Street Commisstoner Controversy. THK KYPOT OF THE DRCISION OF THE COURT OF AITEALS IN THE RTARET COMMIRSIONER Cas— THE OFFICK CLOSED BY THE MaYOR—THK POLICE IN CHARGE OF THE BULLDING. No little excitement was manifosted yortarday afur- noon, in and about the City Hall and Street Commiasion- er’s Department, on the announcement of the desision of the Court of Appeals in favor of Chas, Devlin as Street Commissionor, Sovoral hundred gathored around aang over the al 1 the friends of Devlin tloeked in crowds At bin office to congratulate him and his clerks on their success. Conover, who still retains possession of tho Street Department, remained in his oifico until it was closed, everything being very quiet insite. About twelve o'clock Mayor Tiemann received the following deepatcia from Albany — Dasut F Trmwann + Apzil 9, 1868. Court of Appeals unanimously decided for © out pane ot Ap: 0 iy decile for Canover and Shortly after the receipt of the above telegraphie§ des patch word was received by the Mayor that Mr. Devlin Intended to take poraession of the Sireet Commissioner's office. In consequence of the charye against Mr. Deviin, developed by the trand investigations, the Mayor seat two otficers acd Bergeant Croft to close the office. fy virtua of the power conferred upon him by the new charter, he intenca to suspend Deviin from duty until the charges egainet him ebail have heen thoroughly investigated and Mr. Deviin cleared of the charge. Heforn tha office was locked up Mr. Fieid, Public Administrator, removed the safe belonging to Deputy Street Commissioner Turner to his office for «afe keeping. The doors were all then s- curely locked, and it is said the keys will be banded over to the Mayor this morning, Sergeant James N. Croft, with fifteen men, have been detailed to remain in charze of the Duilding all night. Some further action will, no = be taken by the Mayor to day in regard to opening e 0 Mr. Devlin denied having mate any attempt to take por- ser sion of the office, and contract entered nto with Mr. Conover be is not to do #0, until oflieially notified as to bis right to the office by the Court of Appeai#, As soon as he receives this he will then demand possession. Politics. MEETING OF THE REGULARS—ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The democratic secret organization known a4 the Rogu- lars’ General Committee met last night at their head- quarters, No. 168 Bowery. Some one hundred and 6tty Persons were present. Mr. Lynch, from the committee that had been sent on to Washingtam to sound the officials there as to the object the “Regulars” have in view, reported progres, Tt seems the delegation were well received, and caeder the visit satisfactory. An election for officers for the year was then gone oto, with the following result — President—George C. Genet. Sorretaries— Walter [.. Casein, 8. . Nolan. Treasurer= James Lynch. Sergeant at Arme—lvobert J. McTotire. Sapreme Court—Spectal Term, Refore Hon. Judge Clarke. MADAME RESTRLL—HABEAS CORFT'S FOR A CHILD, Avni. Q—The People at the Relation of Frederica M. Neidlinger vs. Mary Lohman alias Madame Restell.—A habeas corpus was iseued in January, 1857, for an illegal roale child belonging to the plainti!, and which was born ft the house of Madame Restell. The defendant seta ap that the relator gave her the child for the purpose of having ft adopted by some other party, Mr W. W. Drinker, on the part of the relator, moved for the of the report of the referee to whom the case had r who decides that Madame Restel! has the child in her poesession or knows where it is. Mr. White, for the defendant, contended that she had given the child away according to the wishes of the relator. Mr. Drinker contended that the mother had no right to give ber child away, and that ary such ad should be made by the consent of the Court in order that the lawasbould have su- pervision of the child: that a child was not a chatt!s aad wae Hot a subject for a cift. He submitted that the carser of this defer dant should be checked: \t was the facility afforded females for hiding their shame that led to the too frequent indulgence in licontiousness and immorality. Tle invoked the ‘arm of the law to intervene, if this de. fondant # to give up the ghild, he prayed thet she tieht be imprisoned, and provented from pursuing ber het ye frmetions for, the futore The Jad ge tov the Papers and reserved bis decision. ® Mor wars Go rs Readers cau @ € the Portland Syenr Compasy Wor at dur Sutlea sugar from molages to the extyus of 2,968, Prue,