The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1858, Page 4

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ARE ale (OTTERS OD ACRE Pannoc.aniy Brauserep to Beat NT Os NO NOTICE taken of anonymous corres smdence, We do not j adrarti einents ine ALD, and in Che Datiforwia und Pusepean Bilitions Zip PUINTINE raenaied wlth neainens, cheapnae ant dee return rejected com mur ientions ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every tented in the Wrrety Hexaty, PaMinur AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OFTY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 446 Broadway. Saceen anv Cuassical Vocal amp LystaommsTaL CONCERT. AMUBEMENTS Tu MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE. Brondway.—Ravesrniantsa— Gem dsstice—JOCKO, THE raztuian Are. NTBLOS GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tiowt Rore Feats— AcaLast «Dia Noo BOWERY THKATRS, Bowery.—Ricuarp Horruan. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadwey.—Hamcer— Pisce. Iw amp Out oF WALLACK'S THKATRE, Broadway.—Mzacasnt or Vi. 10m LAURA KKENE’S THRATRE, No, 6% Broadway.—Oce Anumoas Coumn—Tus Bosm wire. BARNUW'S AMKKICAN noon sad Kvening—Amas Gik Dar. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 863 Broadway— Brusorss> Songs, Danows, £0, OTHBRN LIFE LLcsTRATED 7M. Broadway.— After. ex Jones—Tus Brera MECHA NIO'S TALL, 427 Broadway. —Ravasry’ Muvstee —Neguo Sonus axe BURLESQURS—l Aint Got TiME To PaRaT CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 44 Broadway.—Ermoriax Ouaractenisrics, Sones, &c.- Mace Grrran. ew York, Sunday, December 12, 185. The News. We have important news from Central America, received by the steamship Washington, which arri- ved at this port yesterday forenoon. She left San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, on the 26th ultimo, and Aspinwail on the Ist instant. On her outward trip, before entering the harbor of San Juan, the Wash- ington was boarded by a boat from the United States frigate Savannah, and subsequently by arm- ed boata from the British ships-of-war Valorous and Leopard. The officers from the British ships inter- rogated sharply as to the object of the steamer's voyage, the number of her passengers, na tionality, supply of arms, sud other matters, and indeed exercised the right of search as thoroughly as in @ majority oc instances in the Gulf lasi summer. The steamer Catharine Maria, sailing under the American flag, while proceeding up the river to Granada, was pursued by the cap tain of the Leopard, aided by three armed boats. It thus appears that, notwithstanding the declara tion of Lord Malmesbery in June last, the assever- ations in the debates in the British Parliament, and the assurances of Lord Napier, that the “right of search” had been given up by Great Britain, and the deoision of the highest British legal tribunal that ita exercise is contrary to the law of uations, the often repeated predictions of the Hexavp, that the point would not be practically abandoned, have been completely verified. Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley, the British Minister to Central America, was on board the Valorous at the time the visit to the steamer took place. At the same moment the United States ships Roanoke, Jamestown and Sa- yvannah were in the harbor of San Juan, The Washington reached San Juan on the 18th uit, and waited there until the 26th, when, it being ascertained that the government of Nicara gua were not disposed to permit her passengers to cross the Isthmus, and moreover that the Hermana had not stopped at San Juan del Sur, she pro- ceeded to Aspinwall. On her arrival there the Go- vernor of Panama issued a proclamation, couched in a homane spirit, advising the passengers, many of whom were nearly destitute of me not to land and thus ¢ them esto great hard ships and privations. After a very exciting time at Aspinwall about two hundred, men, women and children, got over to Panama, with tickets for Cali f nd the remainder of the Washington's pas. eongers returned to New York. The United States steam frigate Niagara arrived | at this port yesterday morning from the coast of Africa, having delivered the living balance of the Congo negroes taken on board at Charleston, 8. C., to the agent of the Colonization Society at Mon rovia, Liberia. Our correspondent on board far- nishes two highly interesting letters, detailing all the events of the cruise from the shipping of the argo to the landiog of the blacks amongst Seventy-one Africans died on the of the remainder would | same fate were it not for th yn the Niagara humai ic protectors voyage, and many hared the arranger have ex carried out by her o! tm and crew. The Pi | dent of Liberia, with the members of his Cabinet, visited the chip, and his government borrowed a quantity of gunpowder d other war munitions from her stores. Napoleon's “free emigration system was carried out with pertinacity on the coast, and his agents and officers did not scruple to iberia, provided they could Trouble was likely to ¢ Several American “w watched by the British cruisers. The N x ted «i «lid performance as a | nai 1 t order and discipline war of nt twith-tanding the pecu- e duty take free citiz on tl at in quence. Hows: tb ate on the Jndg Tn the | Watrows imposed aterday. g to the report of the City Inspect: 51 deaths in the city during the pa week—a decrease of 25 a» compared with th mortality of the week previous, and two more than scoured during the corresponding period in last year. The following table shows the number of deaths for the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguishing the sexes: there wer Men. Women. Boys, Girt. Tual. | Work ending Mee. 4. .67 ” ne Of "76 Week ending Deo. 11,.77 “ 2 Among the principal causes of death were the ow —— Week ndingp— neva ses Dee 4 Deo. 1 t 5 1 ane ptien ; 53 5 ulevonm (untantile) .. 22 3 1 the bead il 1 mimaten of the bowels. 2 7 on of the lungs 2 a2 nfantile) 4 W 4 7 ths of apoplexy, 9 of con gestion of the lungs, 16 of croup, 5 of diarrhea, 6 of disease of the heart, 7 of whooping congh, 4 of emma! pox, 7 premature births, 23 stillborn, and 7 deati« from violent causes. The annexed tabl) thows what portions of the human system have been t affected:— in Dee 4 Dee. U1. Tons §, BO... 2 1 Brew OVER ese « “ Gene organe « 8 5 New blood weasels, 16 u Fomt, WO. . 184 ui . 1 8 aud ernptive fevers 2 15 and premature birthe . & » owels and other digestive organs 45 “0 ‘and general fevers, 1 % faigattttetereseees ve ; . Total . 876 hl The owmber of deaths, compared with the cor NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECKMRER 12, 1858. responding weeks \. 1856 aud 1857, was a3 ol | been advised from well informed sources, an! | the Impeachment of Judge Watrons, of lows:— Week ending Deo. 13, 1856 .. Woek ending bee. 12, 1857 Week endiug Nec. 4) 1858 Week coding Dec. 11) 1868 she. at.vity table gives 242 natives of the United Sates, (3 of ireland, 26 of Germany, 5 of Engtand, cf See Iaad, aud tue balance of various foreign countiies. Woe seve advices from the South Pacific, date 1 9! Valjiare go the Ist, Callao the 12th, and Paita the Ieth ult, Four Peruvian ships-of-war hal sailed With troo) 8 to act against Kouador; but the hostile demonstr:tion was not popular, and it was { io7)' that beuador would triumph in theeni, Tus Am: rican shi; 8 L'zz'e Thompson and Georgia \9, lately seized at Callao, were about to be pressed int) the service of Peru, as transports, Congress had re- solved to pay all the revolutionary debts of Vivan- co, officers of the army and navy of each side’ to be recognized, exiles to return to Peru, and a gone- ral political jubilee to be solemnized. Mossrs. Lomer and F. Tracey were pardoned. General trade and fieights were dull at Callao. Captain R. Harriman, of the American ship Mary Godeil, died at the Chincha Islands on the 6th of November, Revolutionary rumors were stl rife in Coile, and the opposition to the government waxed stronger every day. The harvest and mining reports wore good. Business at Valparaiso very dull. Our advices from Australia are date! at Mel- bourne on the 26th of September. Trade was steady and money easy in the market. Numbers of people were flocking to the new gold fields at Port Curtis. The idea of a mail route by way of Panama was very generally supported. We have news from Havana to the 5th inst. The markets were dull. Many vessels, unable to obtain freights, were leaving in ballast. The bark Rover, for New York, and the bark Howard, from New Orleans, came in contact off Havana, and the for- mer had one of her crew killed, and waa injured to such an extent as to compel her to put back. The case of Cancemi was given to the jury yes- terday, but at about eleven o'clock last night they informed the Judge that there was no probability of their agreeing upon a verdict for some hours. The Court accordingly adjourned till nine o'clock this morning. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday counsel for Charles Devlin, Charles Turner, Enoch Dean, J. B. Smith and others, who have been re- indicted by the Grand Jury for alleged conspiracy to defraud the public treasury ved to quash the indictments on the grov 1 per plead- ing. Counsel for the prosec d, and the Recorder reserved his decisio: ‘The Coroner's investigation «! the circumstances attending the homicide of Christupher Goff. in West Broadway, on Wednesday last, was concluded yes- terday, and the jury rendered a verdict implicating Michael Forrest, who was accordingly commited to prison to await the action of the Grand Jury. The cotton market yesterday was firmer and more ac- tive, with sales of about 4,000 bales, closing at an advance of about ye. per ib. We now quote middling uplands firm at 12c. The dour market was firm, wit a fair amount of sales, closing at full prices both for common and extra erades of State and Westers. Wheat continued firm, while sales were moderate, including mixed Illinois us $1 16 in store, red Southern at $1 1244, and white South erm at $1 25a $1 46. Corn was quite active, with free sales of Western mixed at 763gc. a T8Xc., new white Southern at 76c. a T7c., and old yellow 87c. a 88. York was lower but active, Old mess was at $17 65, check to-day, @ $18 124818 18. Prime was at 814 $14 25, closing at the inside figure. Sales of mess were made for delivery in February, January and March, at #18. Su gars were firm, with sales of 7000 800 hhda., and 4000 900 boxes, closing at about !yc. higher, Coffee was ac tive, with exles of two cargoes Rio, 6,700 bags fair to good, at 203¢0, a 1134¢., with 4,000 Bulia at p. t. Freights were steady, but en; muta quite limited, ‘The British Protectorate Established tn Cen- tral America=What Congress Should at Once Do. The return of the steamship Washington from her attempt to re-open the Nicaragua Traasit route, and the details of that enterprise, as fully given in another column, fully confirm the views we have taken of the gathering difficulties that await us on the American Isthmus and in the American Mediterranean. Two points in the great conflict before us are now demonstrated. These are: First, that an English protectorate bas been established over the Nicaragua Isthmus; and second, that under that protectorate the government of Nicaragua has peremptorily re- fased to permit the route to be opened for the transit of the passengers conveyed by the Ameri- can company now holding the privilege. There is no getting over the evidence of the existence of the British protectorate. On this occasion there is no excuse that there was an aleence of American power to enforce a respect for the laws upon the American citizens in tran- sit. Not only were the American ships Roan- vke, Savannab, and Jamestown in the port | of San Juan del Norte, but on board of the first named ship was Commodore Mclutosh, the commander of oor Home Squadron, Yet, without consultation of any kind, the British officers, in a neutral port, board wo American steamship, put a number of officious and really impertinent questions to her officers, and whea one of them replies that the information desired could be ob- | tained from the American men-ofwar in port, the British officer coolly answers that his instruc- tions are to get his information direct. Neither | can it be argued that this was the act of some subordinate and ignorant officer. Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley, the British Minister to Nicaragua, and Commodore Kellet, the second in command of the British West India fleet, were present in the port. Itis to usa matter of deep regret that Captain Chorehill and his subordinates did not reply to the first and all the succeeding questions of the Britieh officers, that it was none of their business, No British naval officer, either in a neutre! port or in a British port, has any business whatever on the deck of aa American ship, and vhen one comes there he does so by courtesy, But the evidence of the existence of a British | protectorate in Nicaragua is still more conclu sive. The steamer Leopard put to sea announe- ing that she was bound to Jamaica. When the river steamer Catharine Maria, finding she could not get up the main channel of the San Jaan river, went round to go up the Colorado branch, ehe found the mouth of it blockaded by the Leopard, and after entering the river several miles she was chased and boarded by three armed boats from that steamer. Captain Wainwright, of the Leopard, was in one of these boats; and finding bimeelf caught in the exercise of a doubt fal duty, endeavored to explain the fact away by the playful remark that be was taking a pull up the river, but finding the current rather strong he thought he would go back. . ‘The second point in these events is the refusa of the Nicaraguan government to permit the pas- sengers by the Washington to cross the Isthmus. A direct collision on this point has been avoided hy the fact that the steamer Hermann, from very different and totally independent causes, did not touch at San Juan del Sur. Had she been at that port serious difficulties between the pas sengers and the government of Nicaragua would have arisen, The course pursued by that go- vernment in this matter would never have been adopted had it not been assured of support from some quarter which it had reason to suppose could cope with the United States. We have bave repeutedly stated im the columns of the Herat, that these assurances have been given by England to President Martinez; and had the preparations of the Transit Company been made with tbat certainty which should attead such aa enterprise, we should have experienced an ua- foresee collision with Nicaragua aud ber Kuro- pean allies, which, though wow delayed for a time, will certainly occur, It beboves the administration and Congress to prepare for the serious work that is before them. The policy which England and France have evidently determined to pursue in regard to the American Isthmus and the American Medi- terrancan, is clear and palpable. We should meet it without hesitancy, and with a spirit equal to the great future that is before us, Let Congress at once pass the resolution abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. That treaty is a dead letter in every way; and if it were not, England has violated it in her recent exercise of an armed protectorate in Nicaragua. She may yet throw the treaty back to us in view of the long time that we are palavering about throwing it back to her. Then Congress should at once act upon the suggestions of the Presi- dent’s message, and authorize the purchase of Cuba and the establishment of military posts in Chibuabua and Sonora, * Then it should give the President the authority to use such force as he may deem proper in the settlement of the pending difficulties with Central America. Had this been done last session, when it was asked for and should have been given, we might have been saved from many of the difficulties we shall now have to evcounter. It should follow this up with the authority to build twenty light draught, fast and heavily armed steamers. We want this class of vessels everywhere to-day, and the necessity for them will increase, not dimi- nish. And, finally, it ehould authorize the Presi- dent to send special missions at once to Eag)and, France and Spain, telling those Powers that we are not to be humbugged by the trumpery as- surances of the Napiers, Ouseleys, Sartiges and Tasearas; that their governments are virtuous and have honest intentions about Cuba, Mexico and Ceneral America. These things should be done, and dove at onoe, Congress will yet find that it bas something more than President- making to do thia session. And the develope- ments in these southern questions that will take place in the next eighteen months will sweep from the board every Presidential aspirant who does not take the right position on them now. Tus Case or Dovaias Worse ann Worse.— It appears that there will be no flinching to- morrow, on the part of the democratic majority of the Senate, in the expulsion of Mr. Douglas from his high position in the party camp, of Chairman on Territories. The thing is tixed; aud even if there were half a dozen fishy democrats disposed to back up the little mischief-maker, there would be no hope for him, inasmuch as the republicans have resolved unanimously to drop him. His denunciations ef their party, their leaders and their principles, since the Illiaois election, have completely cured them of their late Kansas sympathies for poor Douglas. When he opened his Illinois campaign he was full of smooth words and soft blandishments for the “patriotic republicans and Americans” who had co-operated with him against the Kansas policy of the administration; but the moment he sup- posed that his State election had given him a se- cure majority in the Legislature, he began to sing his old song of abolitiouism and black re- publicaaism, and to speak like one having aa- thority of the reorganization of the democracy. In this exalted frame of mind he is off upon his present Southern pilgrimage down the Mis- tissippi. Carrying, as he supposes, the State of Ilinois in his breeches pocket, he fancies him- self possessod of that Northern balance of power which makes him the arbiter of the democratic party in reference to the succession. We appre- hend, however, that this significant act of expul- sion of Mr. Douglas from that position in the Senate which has given Lim all his political capital and party iofuence will bring him down from his lofty caleulations to a proper under- standing of his true situation. In this connec- tion we think it very likely that his case in the Illinois Legilature will prove to be a very des- perate one. With only a nominal majority of three or four, at most, in either house, we ven- ture the prediction, that ia consequence of his excommunication by the democracy of the United States Senate as a contumacious heretic, he will not secure a re-election to the Senate. The action of the republicans at Washing- ton upon his case will give the key to their brethren of the Illinois Legislature, while the action of the democrats of the federal Senate will be very apt to create a fatal diversion in the Iili- nois camp upon which Mr. Douglas so confident ly relies for a re-election. A decisive defeat in the November State election would have been infi- nitely better for him than the delusive victory upon which he plumes himself as a party dicta- tor. “Pride goeth before a fall,” and great will be the full of Douglas. Tar Tanirr—Tuk Frvances—A Stew ms rae Hovse.On the very first day of the present session of Congress, Mr. Dewart, of Pennsylvania, asked leave to introduce @ resolution instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to report a Dill increasing the duty on coal and iron, and, at the request of several gentlemen, he incladed lead, sugar and such other articles as need protection against foreign competition. Ob- jection being made, Mr. Dewart moved a suspension of the rules, and the vote was—for the motion, 102; against it, 87. Two-thirds being required for a suspension of the rule, the motion failed; but the importance of the vote lies in the decided majority disclosed in favor of the pro- tective system. The treasury is short of funds; its expense are certain and heavy, and its re- ceipts insufficient and doubtful under the re- duced tariff of 1857. The first necessity with the government is an increase of its revenues. This increase the President proposes to gain by a new tariff law, including specific duties upon iron and tome other articles, thus affording a practical incidental protection to home manufac- tures; and we have no doubt, from this prelimi- nary vote of the House on the general issue, that anew revenue system in conformity with the President's views can be passed at the present session. The Southern democracy are opposed to the President's «ystem; but they can be spared, in view of the accession of the whole strength of the opposition. Thus, as it repeatedly happened during the last session, so we discover from the first proceedings of the present, that where, upon any great practical question, the President is deserted by his own partisans, the deficiency is made up from the opposition side. Let his faithful supporters in Congress, therefore, push ‘The House of Representatives bas been coeur. for the last two daye ia tue diccuaeion Of ® question of great interest in itself, frat the somewhat novel points that are involved SQ it of the highest inte- reet to the people of ene of the Kates of this Union, and of conaiderable interest to the people of wil the other States; because its decision will cetat deh a precedent to gdvern future cases 0, the impeachment of Juiges, The queston ir wheiler the Hon, John C. WiMrous, Distalet Sud;e of the United States for tre istrict of Texes, hall or shall not be impeached 0° high crimes ard misdemeanors, The o+« will, very yrobul ly, come before th fenateo th: United Stoter for trial, and will, therefore, occupy cons'd- erable public attenion for some time to come, To cnabie cur readers to understand its merits we will lay before them a brief statement of the case, as presented. Jobn C. Watrous was the firat United States District Judge for the district of Texas. He was appointed by President Polk immediately «after. the admisaion of that State into the Union. He was originally from Alabama, and had been for come time in the practice of the law in Texas be- ‘ore her admission. Prior to his appointment as Judge he had made some speculations in land. With those the present case has nothing to do; but while he was on the bench he became inte- rested, with a number of persons in Texas and Alahama, in a large tract of land lying to the left of the Brazos river. The mode of his becom- ing interested was this:— There was a certain Thomas M. League resid- ing in Galvston, Texas, who had realized largely by speculations in land, the claims to which for the most part were derived from Mexican granta. ‘These grants, or atleast documents purporting to be certificates of grants, could be had at the time, on the most reasonable terms, trem Mexican functionaries on the other side of the Rio Grande. A grant of a league of land might be had for a mule; and certificates bearing some marks of authenticity, as far as seals and signatures went—whether genuine or not—were sold by Mexican notaries or regidors, and bought upcheap by the carly settlers and speculators, This Thomas M. League mentioned on one oc- casion to Judge Watrous that he kaew of a splea- did chance to make money in the purchase of a tract of land, eleven leagues square, and that the only difficulty with him was the absence of ne- cessary funds, In fact, he had already made the purchase, but as th» terms were the payment, within a few weeks, of some $7,000 in cash, he was anxious to let others, who had that amount of moncy to advance, share in the advautages of the speculation. The Judge bethought himself on the instant of certain moneyed friends of hia, who were living in Selma, Alabama, and who he supposed would be glad to go into that sort of a speculation. They were communicated with, aud eagerly jumped at the offer; but Qrst they seat one or two persons of experience into Texas to examine the land and to inquire into the title. The report of these persons being satisfactory, the business was closed. League and Watrous proceeded to Selma, where they met with their friends, and League, who had already had the title vested in him, conveyed it to Johu Lapsley, of Selma, in trast for all the partners. The Ala- bama people furnished the purchase mouey, which was paid over to one Mrs, St. Joha, by whom the title was made to League. As to League himself, and Judge Watrous, who were to have an equal chare in the property, their portion of the consideration money was nil. In other words, they gave their joint note for their share, payable five years after date, aud of which not a dollar has ever since been paid or asked. This transaction took place in the month of July, 1850. The title under which Mrs. St. John claimed to hold this property was a deed or coacussion made several years hefore by the goverameut of Coabuila and Texas to three persous, named re- spectively Rafael de Aguirre, Jose Maria de Aguirre and Tomas de la Vega. Each of them received a concession of eleven leagues of !and— the one document covering the whole thirty- ibree leagues. The grant in question in this case was that nade to La Vega. At the time this property, or the apparent title to it, passed into the hands of Lapsiey, League, Watrous and their associates, there were already some dozen or scores of settlers upon it who bad located there, for the most part under land warrants for military service. It be- came necessary to dispossess them or to get them to acknowledge the Lapeley title. They re- fused to give up possession, or to recognize the title of Lapsley, asserting that this pretended concession of thirty-three leagues from the go- vernment of Coahuila and Texas was a falschood, and that no such grant had ever been made. Then suite were brought against them. Where ? In Judge Watsous’ Court. Why there? Because the person in whom the apparant title was vested was not a citizen of the State of Texas, and was not, therefore, compelled to sue in the State courta, but had a right to sue in the federal courts. This, it will be seen, was very skilfully arranged, atid is asserted to have been part of the plot or conspiracy which was at the foundation of the whole business. At this time there was such a prejudice in the minds of the people of ‘Texas against the swarm of land grants purport- ing to have been made by the old Mexican go- vernments that nothing but the very clearcet and most irrefragable testimony of their genuine- nees would prevail with a Texas jury; and therefore it was of the last importance to have the case tried claewhere. The charge against Judge Watrous is not that he actually heard and decided the case——for this he did not do—but that he knowingly and cor- ruptly was a party to the whole scheme, and allowed suits to be brought in his own court for the purpose of affecting adversely the interests of the defendants. It was not till after the cases had been pending for several terms—during which time there was an opportunity given for effecting settlements—that he disclosed his in- terest. The allegation is that although suits were filed in his court in January, 1851, it was not till December, 1454, that his interest became publicly known; and then the cases were trans ferred to the nearest Circuit Court of the United States, which was at New Orleans. There the trial took place, and resulted in the extablishing of the title ot Lapsley and his associates. This curious fact is, however, to be observed as bearing on the result of the trial at New Orleana. One link in the title was a power of attorney, purporting to be executed by the two Agairres and La Vega, and under which a sale of this portion of the property had been made to Mrs. St. John, or the person from whom she de~ rived it. There was no possible mode of proving the execution of the document, for the fact was forward the work of the message, tariff and Il. qhot though it was drawn up ia the joint names of the three, it had only the name of sae of thears-Rafaol de Agnirre—attached, by way of sigvature, How was this difficulty got around? Simply thus: the counsel for Lapsloy bad him- sclt engaged to defend a suit brought to recover porrese'O0 Of other property claimed under oue of the other eleven league grants. There were two triale, Thé first resulted, we believe, in favor of the plaintiffs; Judge Watrous granted a new trial; and at this new trial the counsel to whom we allude was the senior counsel for the defendante. It was nicessary to the plaintiff's oase to prove ‘his joint power of attorney, and tho fiwility to do 80 Was supplied by the opposite counsel, whu, itis geserted, actually farnishkd tho document and let it go in and be marked as of record in the case, This resording guve it a certain de- gree of authenticity at the other trial at New Or- jeans, and tous this necessary tink in tho chain of title was supplied. ‘Theee are the salient facts in the case. The Legielature of Texas have on several occasions petitioned Congress to impeach Judge Watrous, which is the only constitutional mode by which he can be removed. At one Cungress the Judi- clary Committee of the House reported against his impeachment, and at the last Cougress the same committee unanimously reported in favor of his impeachment, But the report was pre- vented on the very last day of the Congress, when it was impossible to have action taken upon it. The matter was fully examined by the Judiciary Committee at last session, and the committee was equally divided on the subjeot— four being in favor of impeachment aud four against it, The question for the House to decide is, ehall Judge Watrous be impeached? If they decide it in the affirmative, then it will devolve on the Senate to try him, and it will require a vote of two-thirds to declare hin guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Doos his complicity in these land suits amount to cause for removal ? It is that which the Senate will have to decide, if the House, which sits as a sort of Grand Jury, agree to impeach him. Tux “Anerwan Party” Sri. iW Tuk Marxet.—At a meeting of the American General Committee of this city,on Friday evening, it was unanimeusly resolved that, “in view of the past, it is the duty of the American party to maintain its organization, nothing disheartened by wiat has been, and nothing dismayed by the dread of what may be;” that “the events and necessities of the future must develope our future action; and to that end it is abs lutely essential that our present organization be maintained.” Very well. The hopeful Micawber, so long flouted and buffeted about by misfortune, but still per- severingly “waiting for something to turn up,” at last made a decided hit in his adventure to Australia, for he had scarcely arrived out when those rich gold mines were discovered. And who knows but that something of the sort may yet “turn up” for the American party? When all parties are in a state of confusion and fermen- tation, who can tell what will appear upon the surface with the cooling down of the cauldron? A New Exrerment or “Squarrer Sove- neionty.—Mr. Morris, one of the Ilineis Douglas delegation in Congress, has given notice to the House of a bill providing for the election of Ter- ritorial Governors, Judges, &c., by the people of each Territory respectively. In ordinary t'mes this would, perhape, be rezarded as a common place movement; but at this particular time there can be no doubt that the project is nothing more than a new hostile device of “squatter sove- reignty” from Mr. Douglas against the adminis- tration. The question involved is undoubtedly too large for the present short session; but it may be the nest egg of anew batch of troubles in the party camp, uvless Mr. Douglas and all his mischievous followers, with their squatter sovereignty crotchets, shall be adjudged as formally cut adrift w.th their treacherous and rebellious lead » Tammany Haut axp Mr. Dovoras.—The federal officeholders among the sachems of Tam- many Hall, interested in the case of Douglas, are now called upon to do something. THis case is pressing, and calls for instant relief. Dark days, these, for the Old Wigwam. THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. ‘The Escaped Fillbusters to be Pursued—At- tempt by Spain to Expel American Mis- stonartes from Fernando Po—Reported Mur- der of Major Emory and bight Soldiers by the Indians—The Cases of the Retired Naval OMkcers, de., &e. Wasmrvorox, Deo. 11, 1858 The departure of the Mlibester from Mobilo is a new source of trouble and embarrassment to ie administra. tion. Every possible effort will be made to captare them, and instructions to that effect will at once be despatched to every point where they may be likely to pass, Information has been received by our goverument that the newly appointed Governor of Fernando Po and de pendencies, off the coast of Africa, went there in a man-of. war, and declared the religion of Spain the only religion of the island, and threatened the immediate expulsion of our missionaries. The subject has been brought to the attention of the State Department, and the necessary steps taken in the matter, The Spanish Minister hero disclaims all knowledge of the mattor, and is understood to have addressed bis government wpon the subject. tt is thought serious difficulties may arise from it, as the island doce not belong to Spain, The President has been engaged to day with the secre. tary of the Navy, arranging the squadron intended for the Guif, and making out the programme which the com. manders are to follow in the delicate and important duty which will be assigned them. ‘The President bas been engaged also, it is understood, with Judge Black and Mr. Holt, Commissioner of Patents, he Secretary of the Navy, examining the cases of retired naval officers, with a view of coming to a foal de cision in thi delicate and laborious business. The Hoase Committee on Naval Aairs will immediately take up the recommendations of the Secretary of the Navy for building ten new sloops of war, and endeavor to got the bil! passed early in the session. As there is an evident misapprebension as to the motives of the Senate caucus in proposing to remove Senator Douglas from his position as Chairman of the Committoo ‘on Territories, it may be proper to state that there was no retrospective feeling or policy with regard to the Pp ton iseue on the part of Senators. it was simply following a consietent precedent in not allowing him to occupy an important political position inimical to the views of the party and to the majority of the committee. If the views of the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, or of the chairman of apy other commitice, were inimical to the majority, the same course would be pursued, independent Of political antecedents. Senator Bigler did not vote in cancus for displacing Douglas. Lieutenants Mygatt, J. D. Todd, Richmond, Avlick and M. Patterson Jones, and Surgeon O'Conner Barclay, have been ordered to the sloop-of war St. Louis. Unofficial information, believed to be reliable, has been recelved that Major Emory and eight men of the First oa valty had been murdered by Indians while on the way to Fort Arbuckle from Cottonwood Springs. ‘THE GEYERAL NEWSPAPER DROP ATOH Wastnsetos, Deo. 11, 1968 ‘The recent cacape of Alibusters from Mobile excites in tonse interest in official quarters, as it is considered that if they shall be arrested by the British and other foreign forces, the volunteer fueling of thie counwy would ve sroused to the highest degree of exoitemont and immcase reiaforcements rush to their rescue; hence a crisis in tee foreign relations of our government would be precipitaud, “od a most apgry and throatening state of things probe bly Sesult betwee our government and those of Great Witao, France and Spain, The question would arise sbether Suropean governments should be allowed to in- terfere for the tegulation of affairs upon the American continent, to tle prevention of which our governmont ts comanitied, who Union of this morning, reforring to this subjest, 8 ys:—* It is to be hoped that our own naval vessels may Jot cupceed in intorenpa the fugitive Susan, bringing ' her beck to our ports and pred#rving this flibuster quas- ton etill longer as a purely domestic 08¢ in our policy, Upon the vigilance of our officers in thé Waters Of the Gulf may depend in a great measure the peace of the world.!" ‘The chagias§ M blankets and dry goods for the Indian Depart ba aer along controversy, been awarded to Meesr® p B ndeén & Co., of New York. Tho oon- woveray was Qhem and Messrs. Cronin, Hurx- thall & Bean, the @@eemtractors. It was sought to rele ‘out the former, on te ground that the bid of Messrs. Chit- tenden & Co, was ambiguous and conditional, inasmuch as fter its specification of prices to each article there were appended the words “deduct three and a half por cent, trade discount.”” It is said the amount paid for th® blankets and dry goods furnished last year waa $300,000, ‘The Superintendent of Printing has awarded the oom tracts for supplying paper of the first, fifth and sixth classes to Messrs. Megare Brothers, of Philadelphia; ae «ond class to Mesers. Miller, Hines & Co., of Columbue, Obio; third and fourth classes to Mesars. Grant. Warren & Co., of Boston; and seventh olase to G. W. Vanderhoovea, «f New York. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION. Senate. Wasurvarow, Deo. 11, 1856. The Senate is not in seasion to-day. Houme of Represontatives. Wasmrxato, Dec. 11, 1866. Twenty thougand extra copies of the President's Mas sao and accompanying documents, and sixteen thousamd extra copies of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury wore ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Scaua, (adm.) of N. C., a resolation wes ado, ted, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish a etateme:t of the different payments from the Treasury , from 1840 to 1858, under the heads of ordiuary, extraordinary apd public debt. ‘The House resumed the consideration of the Watrons impeachment’ case. Mr. Srewart, (adm.) of Md., had not seen in the teati- mony any evicenc» of official misconduct to lead him to believe Judge Watrous guilty. Mr. Reagan, (adm.) of Texas, argued that there was sufficient ground for impeachment. Mr. Cragg, (opp.) of N. Y., with the greatest amount of deliberation, bad come to the conclusion that the iute- rests of tue country require that there be no impesch- ment. ‘ Mr. Stanton, ( pp.) 0° Obio, briefly argued that there was no case moc for impeachment. There was pot ooly ‘an absence of ¢f cial mconduct, but no imprudence oF iudiseretion. Tae whole proceeding against Judge Wa trous bad 11s origin in tocal Prejudice amd the mation of disappointed suitors. Mi. Davis, (opp.) of Md., opposed the impeachment. Acjourned. Non-Arrival of the Steamer Persia. Sanpv Hook, Dec. 11—Midnight, ‘There are 98 \ et no signs of the steamship Persia, now overdue, with Liverpool dates of the 27th ult. Weather cloudy. Wind W.8.W. r Avrival of the Callforn!a Overland Mail. Sr. Louw, Doc. 11, 1858. ‘The overland mail, with San Francisco dates of the 16m ultimo, has arrived here. The papers received contain ne news of interest additional to that already telograpbed from New Orleans. Five through passengers came with the mail. News from Mexico. ‘Wastnoton, Des. 11, 1866. New Orleans papors of Sunday last are received. They contain « letter from Monterey, dated Nov. 15, which says:—During the ensuing week fivo hundred rifiomea ‘will leave for San Lais, and thus in « short time the num- ber of men will amount to three thousand. Zanatocas came back to the conetitational order as soon as the ‘Mochos’ ‘eft the city. The Governor of that State ts im Guadalajara with one thousand men, six pieces of artillery and about four thousand ‘Pelados,’ who emigrated from Zacatecas as 807 a& Marquez entered that place. Tt is said the city of Mexico was again attacked on tho 6th, by Bianco's and «ther forces, and it is for this reason thas Miramon has not been able to march upon San Luis, whiok is garrisoned by only eight hundred mea.” News from Havana, Savanvait, Deo, 11, 1858, The schooner Alice Ann Biandell has arrived here with Havana dates of tho Sth inst, Sugar was firm and molasses inactive. Ficights were heavy, and a large number of vessels were leaving in ballast. Fecbange on London had declined to 12% a 12% per cent premium, and bills on New York at sixty days were 2% @ 3 per cent premium. Tue bark Rover, for New York, came in collision with the bark Howard, from New Orleans, near Havana, vad tho huli an! rigging of the former was injured so se- riously that she was obliged to return. One of her orew ' was killed. The captain, officers and crew of the Americaa brig Fidelia, recently wrecked on the Babomas, reached Ha- vana on the 3d inst. The Yacht Wanderer. Savanwan, Dec, 11, 1886, he Republican oft is morning Larus, oa goo autor ty, tat the yacht Wanderer succeeded in evading the vigilance of te cruisers, and landed a cargo of slaves ia the neighborhood of St. Andrew's Sound, near Hranewick, Geo., avd that part of her cargo was subsequently seus up Saitilla river on board of a steamer, Schooner Golden Gate Ashore. Newport, Deo. 11, 1868, The schooner Golden Gate, Captain Weeks, fron Boston for New York, in attempting to put into Newport for « harbor, went asbore on Goat Island last night. She lies perfectly cary, and will probably come off. She reports having, on the 10th, lost overboard W. Jenkins, aged twenty-two years. Resignation of Hon. John Kelly. AunasT, Doo. U1, 1868. ‘The resignation of Hon. John Keily, member of Com grees, was filed today at the office of the docretary of State. It is to take effect December 25. Commutation of a Sentence for Murder. Mowreeat, Dec. 11, 1868. Howlett, who was to be executed on the 17th for the mur of his wife, bas had bis sentence commuted te imprisonment for life. ‘The Toronto Stabbing Case. Tokowto, Doo, 11, 1858. The Coroner's jury haa returnod a verdict of wilfal murder against Fleming, the telegrapher, who stabbed Madigan, op Monday last. Sentence of Criminals at Pittsburg. ’ Premamcra, Deo. 11, 1868. Jacobi, conviete! of the murder of his wife, was to day sentenced to%e hong. Kelly, one of the Wisemaun bo. micides, was rentenced to the penitentiary for eight youre and nine monthe. "Markets. Ba mone, Doe. 11, 1868. Flour firm and anchanged, Wheat unchanged. Gorm active: white 65¢., yellow OTe. a 68. Provisions steady and unchanged. Whiekey firm: Ohio 60, PRaApeirma, Deo. 11, 1868, Flour unchanged. Wheat firm: sales 6,600 ty is red at $1 28, western white $1 22 Corn firm: sai 11,000 Whiskey bushels new yellow at 67c. a 70e., white 68. firm at ¥ 40. 260. —_. ‘Tan Orers tm Bostoy.—Mile, Piccolomini made ber début at the Boston theatre on Thursday in the ‘ Tra- viata.’ The prices were couple the usual opera rates, but the house was full. The “Huguenots” was an- nounced for Friday. The nowspapers are, a8 usoal, ola Worately mysterious, but the success of Piccolomini with the public seems assured. —— Superior Court—Generat Term, Before a fuli Bench Famund Savage vs. tho Lorn Exchange Fire and Inland Navigation Company.—Verdict set aside. New tial cote to abide event. efames W Elwell va. bon B. Crocker and auothor.— The defendant ia entitled to judgment, and, pursuant to leave reserved by consont of both parties at the trial, ue judgment for the defundant should be here onter ad Alexander Gillespie et al. v3, Daniel Torrance. —Judg- tavnt afligumed, with Gouts.