The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1858, Page 4

oj NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETUR. the advisability of adopting floating hospi- tals for Quarantine patients, and supporting his recommendations by fucts acquired daring his inquiries into the system of floating hospitals in existence in England. We also give the reply of the Board, declining to comply with the Doctor's suggestions, on the ground that they have no legal power to introduce such sweepiag alterations nto the present Quvantine system. The ,:eliminary examinatio of Wood, Eddy & Co., charged with being dealers in lottery policies, which bas occupied the attention of the City Judge for the last four days, was concluded yesterday. His Honor wi!i give his decisio : next Thursday. OFFICE N. W. AND NASSAU STS by mail will be at the by mai abe of the een, ek we. Money sent risk of 60 pender, Postage sompa not received as subsert THE DAILY HERALD, two cents per $. per annum. THE WEFKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Six cents per copy, oF Sper annum; the Ruropoin Edition $4 per annum (9 eng rent of Britain, or $ tw any part of the THE FA MILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per cory, 07 $2 pe mmm VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing é) merce, sotvcited from any quarter af the ward: «fused, Eieraliy paid for Ra-Our Foweicy Sornesroxons ts Pauttoviseiy Requestep to Skat ale Lerrens anv P rg nent, ant AGES SENT Ts. James Stephens, indicted for t!e murder of his taken omy reapondence. Wedo not » * = PE aot es ena ‘ay ae wife by poisoning her, was arraigned yesterday in vertis in x, . a mremeyjaateeraemene t- | the General Sessions, and pleaded not guilty. At the request of the Assistant Distr ct Attorney, the EW YORK HFRALD, FRIDAY, viece have made him known to the country, and { would be indeed remarkable if Mr, Mallaly should who has the energy to act, and with him a | not succeed. This enterprise looks well, and ali Congress that will act. General Seott has the new journals will be waited for with some said that an energetic President, with j curiosity. ®. Peirtotle) end working: “Oongrem $9) , tecmns Bourn The Quaker Olly hie back him, could, by giring to. the again arrived at New Orleans with late news executive trangh f the government promptitade from California, received over the Tehuantepoe and efficiency, reduce our national expenses in < route, which we give in another columa. We two years to forty millions of dollars, It is such 1 ha tgtaenadtne setulae G6) 4. Weld a change as this that the people are called upon to make, for the course which the present Con- from San Francisco to New Orieans, via this grees {s pursuing is one that always leads to des- new route, Inetead of the difficulties and an: potiem, Like our own, the members of the last noyances which might have been anticipated National Assembly of France frittered away their fromthe keapecteok orguclastion otmner ne ger line through a tropical and newly opened i ti Hine and repainson unit: Se peng meee * | coe: tt will ba anon thatthe laapromioin madd joiced to bave Louis Napoleon step in and over- and Bi i SUB 'PRINTING caccuied with nates, cheapness and de- i z, i AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—MowsTer Pro eyape Concent Uspek tas Dinsction or Musano AND EEGMANN. ADWAY THERAT! Broadway—Rquestatan, Gru. asic AND ACKOBATIC FRA TS—MONKRY OF BRAZIL. BOWERY THEATRE, Howery—Buse, tas Raxcer— Po Ca WON TAS—Tom Curncus's LOG. BURTON'S SEW THEATRE, Broadway —Tor Gaus ten—Cartain CaaRLorre. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Mzrcuant or Ve- mice. WIS THE\TRE, No. 626 4, Brosderay—Ove —THx CAPTAIN 18 NOT A Mi BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Atter noon and bveuing—La Fete Dansaxt—WOMAN—OUPID AND ‘Hrs Frowcs. Mea: WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadwir— Brawrias Sosos, Dances, &c —SouTaeen Lire LuvsteateD, Bu vants’ MinsTRes MEOHANIOS’ HALt, 427 Broadwa; INT GOT TIME TO TARRY —Necko Songs any BURiesques—I CAMPBELLS MINST: Omanacrenterics, Soxcs, 8, 444 Rrosdwa:—Stmrorray Maat GUITAR, ew York, Friday, ‘December ‘The News. ‘The steamship Pacific arrived at St. Johns, N.F., yesterday from Galway. She brings London and Liverpool dates to the 9th instant, five Gays later than those previously received. The news is interesting. The application of the Atlantic Telegraph Company for financial aid from the British government was soon to be acted upon, and it was thought the sum required would be granted. The Liverpool cotton market had been dull, and a decline of one-eighth to one-sixteenth of a penny had taken place. Breadstuffs were also dull, ut nomina) rates. Consols, at London, on the Sth, were quoted at 97] a 98 for money, and at noon on the 9th consols for account closed at 963 a 96], ex.dividend. The political intelligence by this arrival is unimportant. The Queen of Spain, in her speech at the Cortes, took a firm stand with reference to the difficulty between Spain and Mexico; but recent events at Tampico have put at rest, for the present, at least, the dispute which occasioned her remarks. By way of the Tehuantepec route we have news from San Francisco to the 6th inst. The general intelligence is unimportant. Money was easy, mining about as usual, business quiet, and politics dull. The steamship Hermann arrived on the 27th ult. There had been two arrivals from London and one from Liverpool, but none from the Atlantic ports of the United States. The Golden Gate, which left San Francisco for Panama on the 6th inst, took & million and a half in treasure for New York. We have advices from Port au Spain, dated at Trinidad on the 7th of December, which state that there was quite a stagnation in the breadstaff and provision market. Stock came in abundantly, but wet weather retarded demand. American (S. Py) flour was at from $7 to $7 25 pér barrel. The news from Washington is in some respects important. In Congress yesterday the Senate re- fused, by a vote of 28 ta to take up the bill w the House at the passed duced by M referred to th v committec the late & ‘ur perso! pap 4110 the 4th of Janu of Printing, with pow Both hous sas es stand Orlean and the instructed to use #s it. dating at Bridge x out at rs there } Hance to et Our corres town on the ndent iu barbadoes. h of Dy T nd, with a glutted brea ured for, and a lot re erflowing, and no m the Unite 6, and tween some of the Taminany factions apposed an entire ks of the 2 party in this city. There is a proverb which you can lead a to water, but you cannot make him drink will be with respect to the mocracy and Oid Tammany remains to be seen. The we erday by praye rted that the novelty onversation, ¥ Sen: ies created an unusual im oubt pass soon after the 1 The packet ship Daniel Webster, Cap arrived at this port yesterday from London, having on board the captain and crew of the British ship United Kingdom. This vessel sailed from Quebec on the 6th of October, bound for Bristol, England. fhe encountered severe weather, and on the 7th ult., during a heavy gale, sprang her rudder, and eubsequently,in another gale, lost it altogether. Bhe also aprang aleak,and on the 14th ult., when fallen in with by the Daniel Webster, had five feet water in her wells, was leaking at the rate of three feet per hour, and was almost unmanageable. The captain and crew of the unfortunate ship saved little or nothing of their effects. We publish to-day an interesting communica- tion from Dr. Anderson, President of the Rich- mond County Medical Society, to the Com- Pilwsioners of Emigration, pressing upon them —$—$_$— | | } yt ledto | resolution creating | | help force | can only be remedied by probing it to the core. | roaring debauch would be the most venial, and throw them. So, too, with the elder Napoleon and the First National Assembly. It was their abandonment of public affairs aud constant per- sonal wrangles that opened the way for the Em- pire. We must have a revolution in the charac- ter of Congress, or its present state will inevi- tably lead to revolution in our political insti- tutiona, —_——————_— Curvatier Wess anp Tie Orrosrrion Canpi- pate Yor 1860.—Like Buckingham, the Cheva- lier Webb “grows circumspect.” A few weeks ago be would hear of notbing and talk of nothing but W. H. Seward, as the fixed, positive and in- evitable candidate of the republicans for the next Presidency. Now the Chevalier tells us that “there is much talk among some of our cotempo- raries, both near and distant, respecting the can- didate to be run by the opposition to the nominee of the Charleston Convention,” but that the Chevalicr Webb cannot join in this talk, in- asmuch as it “is premature and mischievous.” Enlarging upon this new idea concerning the republican party, the Chevalier thus philoso- phires: Itis erroneous to assume that the party has yet taken its final cast, its compiete de' pement. That which gives iLits Lif and streogth is the spirit witina it—the spirit of opposition to the imovations of slavery-—but the precise form in which that spirit is to manifest itseif, aad the particular agencies with which it is to work, yet re- main to be evolved. Much will depend upon the move. inents of our democratic opponents, The pro-slavery spirit which has now got possession of them allows them no rest; they will surely be forced to new and more ad- vanocd positions, and We must not oaly expect but be prepared to meat them at poms which were never dream ed of when the Philadelphia platform was formed. Again, much wii depend upon the disposition of those, North and South, who are sincerely bostile to the democracy and yet have never co-operated with the republicans. There js undoubtedly a certain mutual distrust, and yet also acertain mutual affinity, between these enemies of the present rule and ourselves. No man can say which will gain, ax 1800 approach #—the attraction or the repul- sion. In view of the present relations, and of the dasira- bienees of uniting all, im every quarter of the land, who are opposed to 4 federal propagandism of slavery, it is in- cumbent upoz the republican party to manifest as liberal and conciliatory a spirit as 4s possible without anjuring their organization. . Here we have it virtaally admitted that Mr. Seward, when weighed in the balances, may be found wanting—that bis Rochester manifesto was a little too strong and a little too fast asa Presidential experiment—that the republican party is in a transition state, and has not yet taken “its final cast"—that “its precise form” for 1860, and “the particular agencies with which itis to work, yet remain to be evolved.” This is all very good and very true; but what is the meaning of these new opinions on the part of the Chevalier Webb? Has he really turned the cold shoulder upon his great benefactor so soon, or is he only preparing the way for a new tack on the part of Mr. Seward himself? We suspect that the Chevalier still sticks to his champion, and is only counselling the suspension of public opinion upon the question of # candidate, inorder to work the wires of the republican party for Mr. Seward without interruption. In this view of the case we cannot agree with our cautious Wall street cotemporary, that the present discussion of the question of the opposi- tion candidate for 1800 is “premature and mischievous.” On the other hand, we hold that the more this question of a candidate is discussed and agitated among the newspapers aad the people of all parties, the better will be the ro- sults in behalf*of a Presidential campaign, the reconstruction of parties and the nomination of ates upon the practical ¢: sof the country. Holding this and believing that th ¢ has fally ¢ the largest liberty of debate on all sides in refe- rence to the Presidential candidate for the suc- cession of the democracy and the opposition, we shall, at all events, do our best to keep up the fire. It is only your gambling and scheming csue's and lobby politicians who, upon such an iesue, prefer to work in the dark. Lovts N. case was removed to the Oyer and Terminer. Pat- rick Gunning, Archibald Brown and John Kerrigan, tried for committing a rape on Mary Galloway, were convicted of assault and battery, and were remanded for sentence. There not being a quorum of Councilmen present at the call of the roll last evening, the Board ad- journed till Mondy. Captain Spencer, of the packet ship Daniel Web- ster, from London, arrived last night, reports, Sep- tember 20, in lat. 43 30, long. 43, on the outward passage, passing among @ large number of dead bodies, swollen and distorted, with the seabirds preying on them. They were, no doubt, of the steamship Austria's passengers. They were nearly together, in groups of two and three. The ewes of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,100 nh tatmely on the basis of about 12c. for mid- dling uplands, Flour was steady and in fair demand, while prices in a general way were without any marked change. Wheat was steady, and sales made toa fair extent, ioclud- at $125; white Southera at $135., Sev tbern red at $125. Corn was steady, with mode- rate transactions, including Western mixed at 76c. a 7740. some less active, while prices wore pretty well s)-ta'red, with sales of new mess at $18 123; old do. at $17 50 a $17 60, and prime at $13 75. Sugars were Urm, with sales of about 1,500 bhds. at rates given in , our v, and 1,409 boxes, for export, on private Coffve was steady, with sales of St. Domingo and asmall lot of Maracaibo at rates given in another place. Freights were inactive and engagements light. ork Why Cur Foreign Claims are not Settled— (pres that are Dragging Us to Revolution. The prompt settlement of the Spanish claims upeu te Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, for spoliations of Spanish subjects at Tampico, has very naturally given rise to the questions which are in every one’s mouth: Why are not the claims of our citizens settled with equal celerity? Why does not our government act with an energy at least equal to that of the effete power of Spuint There is a settled conviction in the public mind that our government does not bestow that attention and care upon the numerous individual questions that continually come up in our foreign relations which a great government ought to bestow. Our position as one of the four leading nations of the world is everywhere acknowledged in a political sense, and yet our citizens in many places abroad do not receive the consideration which is often bestowed upon the subjects of the minor Powers. This is a great truth, and a great evil for us. If we would preserve our moral position as a great Power, we must pursue the course which belongs to a great Power. Nothing weakens so much our influence abroad as neglect and carelessness in guarding the rights of our citizens. Individual cases are suflered to accumulate until by their own weight they have broken down all respect for us, and then a great exhibition of power has to be made against some particular country to restore a due respect for our national character and individual rights, Millions are then expended, where, had there been a proper display of energy and power in the first instance, the simple visit of some ship of war would have been all that would have been ‘There is a cause for this creat wrong—one that The task may vot be sable one, but Li th should be from the hideous in that of the phy regardles necessi 8 and to confi upon t branch of the at the necessary power to act. The spectacle that is presented in our Co sional sessions is one that stinks in the nostrils of the whole country. Time is frittered away with an incessant wrang- ling that is disgraceful to a deliberative assem- bly. Language that Wergcstl be expected from governm ‘on’s Fixcer Manns is St, Do- -It will be seen, by the iadignant pro- f the Dominicans—some of which we pub- Iehed the other day, and others we insert else- to-day—that Monsieur Reybaud, Louts Nopoleon’s Consul General, has been getting him- self in hot water in the Dominican republic. It seems tbat he wrote to President Santana, mag- nifying the distress of the country, holding forth the fac terrible Haytien invasion, and then coolly proposing that the President should va- cate and give piace to the sable Soulouque. The only reply he got was his passport, asa hint to leave the country: but the facts leaking out, the ire of Dominicans was roused, and they only regret that they did not catch Monsieur Rey- hand, while they hope that Soulonqne will come along as promised. The picture they give of Haytien civilization is not very flattering. Mon- sieur Reybaud was not so succesefl with San- tana as was Senor Segovia with Baez. Both had to leave St. Domingo. Who will come next? New Cror or Weeixy Jovrnars.—The begin- ning of the year always brings a great number of virtuous resolutions and new papers. Onearticle * generally as tangible and as long lived as the other. Some of the new crop for 1859—we refer to the journale—may turn out better. Nour verrons. The first of the new enterprises is der the auspices of M’Elrath, formerly the ‘al philosopher of the Trike, who, having en down in all eorte of mining, banking, stock jobbing other speculations, is going back to first principles in the publication of a weekly journal to be called the Gontury—which one the public is not informed. There is still an odal, of a celestial order, to be published by rts, formerly of Boston, ander the effulgent t of The Conetel: Roberta, it will be remembered, was mixed up with the Forney-Forvest-Jamieson divoree case, and it is said that all the correspondence, with explana tory notes, biographical, critical, personal, &e., &c., will appear in the first or second number of the new paper, and make food for all the town goesipe. A new Catholic journal ie shortly to be printed, under the editorial eare of Mr. John Malially, a giaduate of the Henatp office, and our corres- pondent on board the Niagara during her tele- graphic tripe. Mr. Mullally is a competent journalist, and, with the support of Arch- people. bishop Hughes, the sanction of the Pope, the There is no remedy for these evils but to | blessing of the clergy, the specie of the laity, bring into the Presidency some man whose ser-! and the experience gained in our office, it h coundrel ni the frequent epithets applied by me: sabe ve to other; and when their lungs tire with vitupe repetition, a fisticu? fight ia t space before the Speaker arelici Ont of doors the Cance are broken over each - Lats are thrown, and pisiols are not unfrequently resorted to. These are ‘coi occupations where of the members. Ifwe cout” fllow them tuto their nightly haunts, scenes still more disgusting would meet our view. ‘The yiot and filth of the from that h every act of unbridled liccase, endingin the gambling house or the brothel. Their courses of life would disgrace the occu- pants of our penitentiary, while those of our New York peniteutiary at least have the morit arping their living by their labor, which is than can be said of the mem of Con- « disgraceful picture no distinction of mn be made. All are alike in thetr ardism, corruption and rascality. It i public business that . but it is the riguing, cheating and lying that tried on for private and pol Every has bis blu der-hitting partisans at home to bie ow “of personal advan litical eliq adva pirant for the P: s party. With vor others, mone n, fear of exposure: while n ing their own vile instincts. power of the country is weaker nue equandcred by taillions, the government di ft the people plundered. The President may do his duty, but, unsustained as he is by Congress, he can do nothing. He has not the power to act; and we have already seen, even in the last session, how impossible it is to get Con gress to do anything effective. The request for power in the cases of our Central Ameri- man vie his particular pol sore ambi meat; + aod to up tive is power; with a few are only In this way he reve obs t! + hebd ion, can and Paraguayan difculties was first refused, and the laet only granted at the last moment. In fact, every man, iuetead of being acty sincere desire to advance the interests of the country, seems to be under a constant foor that somebedy may get a chance todo something that will make him prominent before the vated by a on the mind of the writer were of the most agree- able and pleasing description, Not only did he find the arrangements of the company wonder- fully complete, but the route itself offering a con- stant succession of magnificent scenery and novel incidenta, When we take into account the economy of time (seven days) which it is expected will be effected by this over all the other Pacific routes, the natural attractions with which it is invested cannot fail to draw to it a large proportion of the passenger traffic between this and San Francisco, The only thing remaining to give it a decided superiority, in our opinion, is the construction of twenty-five miles of rail- way across the Isthmus, and a little more elli- ciency on the ocean in the establishment of a line of steamers between New York and Mina- titlan, as well as between New Orleans and the latter port, These facts should not be lost sight of by the New York commodores who are squabbling for the Nicaragua Transit route privileges. Unless they hurry up and settle their differences, the ad- vantages for which they are contending will be worth nothing. With the Tehuantepec route, the Panama route, and the Overland mail route, (making the journey to San Francisco in twenty- five days,) to say nothing of the Pacitic Railroad, which will certainly be carried through, we ask what will be the value of the Nicaragua route, unless M. Beliy’scanal project be realized? Some of our American enginecrs say that this last schime is impracticable; so that unless the rival commodores arrange matters so as to turn the route to present account, itis certain that neither they nor the French speculators will derive any benefit from ita monopoly, Sream Navirs.—!n another column will be found an interesting article from Colburn’s U vo Service Magazine for October, on the Brit- ish screw steam navy. It will be seen, from the facts therein stated, that the views which we have recently put forth in regard to the feasibility of converting our men-of-war into steam frigates are fully borne out by the success which has attended similar experiments in the English navy. The 80 gun ship Colossus, which was transformed into a screw ship, has answered all the purposes of its conversion so well that it is probable that the Collingwood, Superb and Vanguard will un- dergo the same process. There is no doubt that any or all of these vessels, old though they are, are still capable of doing efficient service as pro- pellers. The London periodical from which these facts are taken makrs some curious blunders in regard to the American navy. It states, for instance, that we have never yet built a paddle wheel or screw frigate which has realized the expeotations of its builders; while England, on the contrary, possesses many most perfect specimens of screw chips, The author of this paper cannot have read the journal of the operations of the laying of the Atlantic cable, or he would not have made +o reckless an assertion, Ta all points, whether of steaming, sailing or mancuvring in obedience to the requirements of the expedition, the Nia- gara proved herself to be infinitely the superior of any of the English vessels employed. Whilst | She suffered nothing from the bad weather en- | countered by the squadron, and required but few repairs other than those demanded by the dis- placement of her fittings to make room for the cable on ber decks, we learn from this article that it has been found necessary to submit the Agamemnon to a thorough overhaul and refit. We do not notice this fact for the purpose of complaining of the unfairness of our contempo- rary’s assertions in regard to our navy. We only ask that he shall obeerve some consistency in his statements. The conclusions of importance which are to be derived from this article are: first, that sailing veseels can be converted into effective steam frigates or sloope; and, secondly, that, as in the case of the Agamemnon, tbe original destination of a vessel for steam is not necessarily a condi- tion of success. These facts established, the views of men like Commander Walker, who are snpposed to have a practical acquaintance with the subject, are reduced to the experimental esti- mate which entitles those of civilians like our- selves to an equal share of attention. Exiancenest or tHe Crntrat, Pank.—The purchase of that portion of ground extending from 106th to 110th street, north of the original boundary of the Central Park, having been asked for by the Commissioners, the Board of Aldermen, at their last session, approved of the idea to make application to the Legislature for a commission to purchase that slip of land and annex it tothe Park. This is as it should be. That portion of the ground comprises a most pic- turesque ravine, and affords some of the finest rock scenery in the whole vicinity. Besides, its enclosure within the Park limits will enable the Commissioners to carry out the plan of making a grand northern entrance to the city through the Park, by extending and widening Seventh ave- nne from 110th street northwards, This sugges- tion also meets the approval of the Board of Aldermen, and if it is carried out will give us a magnificent approach to the city, for which there is no superior in the world. The land recom- mended to be added to the area of the Park is wholly worthless for any other purpose, for the | cost of grading it would far exceed its value under the most favorable circumstances. Nature designed that it should form a portion of the Park. By excluding it beautiful piece of' the landscape is cut in two, and the boundary of the Park grounds located on the crest of a high bill with no possible approach to the level of 110th street. ‘The improvement of the streets and avenues in the vicinity of the Park, recommended by the Commissioners, also meets with the approbation ofthe Aldermen, and permission is granted to use the earth from Hamilton square for that purpose, which will undoubtedly prove a very economical arrangement. It is absolutely neces- sary, in order to render the Central Park avail- able, that these improvements should be at once proceeded with. At present there is no proper approach to it. Fifth avenue is in a shocking con- dition, and Eighth ayenue jg almost impassable DECEMBER 24, 1858. for vehicle) When these approaches are put in good order, and the roads within the Park are finished and connected by the bridges now in course of erection, our citizens will be in pos- session, for the first time, of a good drive and ride, beth of which have been #0 long ueeded. We hope, then, that these works will be pushed whead, so that when spring comes we may have something in the ehape of a park, with an ap- proach thereto on which it may be safe to trust life and limb. Wisk axp Dovgias.—From the earnestness with which the Richmond Enguirer had opposed the pretensions of John Letcher as the democratic candidate for Gov: rnor of Virginia, the nomina- tion of that gentleman (together with the fail- ure of the resolution introduced in the State Con- vention by Mr. 0. J. Wise, endorsing the late Illincia victory of Mr. Douglas) has been gene- rally accepted as a significant Presidential defeat of Governor Wise by the rival Hunter faction of the Virginia democracy. This construction of the case, however, as we are assured, from an impartial and well informed source, is a mistake, and that there was no issue in the Convention between Wise and Hunter. It farther appears, that so far do the triends of Gov. Wise consider his Presidential prospeots from having suffered any damage in the late Virginia Convention, tuey believe he has the State secured for 1860 against all contestants, as her first choice for the Presidency. We also understand that a very strong im- pression prevails among the Wise democracy of Virginia that Mr. Douglas will give way to Wiee in 1860. In this connection, we are remind- ed of a late rumor, that Mr. Douglas, on his retura to Washington, intended issuing proclamation declining himself to be a candidate for the suc- cession, and recommending the reciprocity policy to the democracy, of a Southern man for 1860, in consideration of the fact that the last two democratic candidates were taken from the North. Accordingly, should Mr. Douglas issue the circular indicated, we shall be qualified at once to comprehend his recommendation of a Southern man. The recommendation will be simply equivalent to the formal announcement of an alliance, offensive and defensive, on the part of Douglas and his followers, in bebalf of Governor Wise in the Charleston Convention. This coalition, should it be condrmed, may give some trouble to the backers of Hunter, Slidell, Jefferson Davis, Cobb, Breckinridge, and other Southern aspirants for the democratic nomination; for if Wise can carry to Charleston the Virginia delegation, and a few scattering delegates from other Southern States, and if Douglas can carry down the Illinois delegation and some seattering votes from other States of the West and North, Wise and Douglas combined may possibly be able to hold the balance of power, under the two-thirds rale, to the end of the chapter. And as the Presidential prospects of Mr. Douglas have become exceedingly dark since the meeting of Congress, we should not be surprised if he were to take the position of an aid-de-camp of Governor Wise. Where is Mr. Douglas? ACuance vor Tue Repverican Party.—The regent of the republican party, Thurlow Weed, has everything his own way in this State, after the first of January ensuing. He has put in his own Governor, and has, for once, a strong work- ing majority in both branches of the Legislature. Of course, having such tools to work with, Weed docs not intend to leave the city alone. We shall have plenty of special legislation; and we do not complain of the prospect, provided it gives us a simpler and stronger form of munici- pal government. The present system has been found a dead failure; no party desires to perpe- tuate it, and it should be swept away altogether. With « chief magistrate to be elected for at least four years, and girded with powers as well as burdened with responsibilities, and a reorganiza- tion of the departments so that the officials of them shall be responsible to the Mayor, and astrict overhauling of the Finance Department, we might have some hopes for better days. If Thurlow Weed or any one else will give us this, we shall all be duly grateful, and the party so doing will be morally certain of a Jong lease of political power. It is a splendid chance to do afine thing and have a fine reward for it. Ovtraces on Awmnican Citizens iy Cautao.— We publish in another part of this morning's Henao a letter from aa American citizen, named Alexander Robinson, who writes to us from a prison in Callao, in which he has been immured—as he himself says—without cause, and where he has been treated with the greatest inhumanity. It appears that he and two of the the inmates of the same house were dragged out of their beds at night by the police, thrown into adungeon and subjected to the most cruel tor- tures to force them to say that they were thieves. This is the second case of imprisonment of Americans which has been brought to our no- tice. The other was that of a Captain Jefferson, who bas been imprisoned for years in the same place, and who, we believe, is still kept in confinement. We trust our govern- ment will have these cases investigated, and if the statemeuts which have been made are trne, that they will call the Peruvian govern- ment to a strict account for the outrages alleged to have been committed on American citizens, Groncx N. Saxvens asp His Dixsens— The everlasting George N. Sanders, Navy Agent of this city, has been giving a sort of love feast to the harmonized New York democracy, at Wash- fngton. Sanders is a political philosopher of the carnivorous tribe. There was, many years ago, an English minister who acted upon the fundamental principle that every man had bis price; bat Sanders takes a shorter cut, and ope- rates as a mover of cabincts, parties, conventions and dynasties upon the infullible dogma that every man has a stom Walpole bought up his men like merchandise. Sanders feeds them like pigs. Money was the infallible spectiic in the one case, while a good dinner is the alpha and omegain the other. Let us cite a few of theee notable dinners of Sanders. His campaign of 1852, against the “old fogies,” was commenced with dining and wining caucuses in New York, and then, with the nominativn of poor Pierce, our eating philosopher went eating his way among the democracy, all the way up to Concord and back. Sent over as Consul to Lon- don, we next find Sanders involved in a Red Republican Continental revolution, inaugu- rated in the disguise of a dinner to the revolutionary refugeesin London, Re- called, however, by the “old fogies” of the Senate, this grand scheme of eating and drink ing up the despots of Earope was cat short, we think, at the third dinner. In the campaign of 1856, keeping safely to the windward, we find our faithful disciple of Soyer (the renowned French cook of the Crimean allied army) work- A ing along in New York, Philadelphia, Washing- ton, and clsewhere, with his platform of turtle soup, roast beef, stewed oysters, champagae and brandy; ditto after the election of Mr. Bae chanan; ditto with the appoiarmeat of Walker to Kansas; ditto both before aud after the ap pointment of Sanders as Navy Agent at thie port. The same processea were doubtless ap plied in Washington avd in Kansas concerning certain contracts for winter huts for the Kansas army corps, & year or two ago. The best of it is, that notwithstanding all these dinners, luxurious and expensive as they are, Sanders, whether as war maker or a8 peace maker, contrives, it appears, to make them pay. Forney’s plan with poor Jamieson was to make him drunk, and then note down his confessions; but Siders believes in good eating, including plenty of wines and liquors to fill up the chinks, Forney failed; but Sanders is a marvel of sue- cess, upon the broader theory that, like himself, statesmen and politicians, of high and low de- gree, must eat, and have more stomach thea brains. Sanders is the embodiment of good feeding ; and ifthe ravepous New York demo- cracy cannot be pacified under his treatment, there is no virtue in oysters and whiskey. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON, Proposition to Settle Our Difficulties with Spainand Acquire Possession of Cuba—The Question of the Reception of the New Minis- ter from Mexico—The Filibuster Movement Against Nicarague—Another Expedition Fitting Out—The Divisions of the New York Democracy=—Treaty of Amity and Concord Between the Tammany Sachems and Anti« Tammany Braves—Douglas In Trouble with Slidell and Jonces—Seward’s Presidential Asplrations, and their Consequences on New York City—Reorgantzation of the Ocean Postal Service, d&c., &e. OUX SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wastinaron, Dec, 23, 1858. The administration has under consideration the question of receiving Senor Mata as Mexican Minister. Two quea- tions seem to have been raised in the mind of the Presi- dent as to the propriety of receiving him—first, as to whether any government can constitutionally exist whose seat is vot at the city of Mexico; and secon’, as to the ability of the Juarez government, or constitutional party, to sustain itself, The administration is perfectly satistled, it is believed, asto the frst—that there is nothing im the constitution of Mexico forbidding the removal of the seat of government. The second is boing investigatod, The administration is doubtless inclined to receive (he Minister, especially as such an act would strengthen the constita- tional government, and might solve the Mexican difficel- ties. General Cass gives a dinner party to-morrow, at which will be General Herran, Senor Mata and Senor Milla, Sec- retary of State of Guatamala. There have been a great many applications for the poei- tion a8 Secretary of Legation to Spain. The applicants have been chiefly from the class of genteel loungers that periodically cut a swell in Washington; bat it is undor- stood a nephew of the Minister, Mr. Preston, will be ap- pointed. There is a good deal of anxiety about the knnding of tho filibusters in Nicsragua, and there appears no doubt that they have landed, as telegraphed to the Hxratp yester- day. Itissaid by military men who have served with and commanded these men on other occasions, that two hundred and fifty of them are equal to a thousand of any of the best troops in the world, Tt is understood that Mr. Slidell does not in- tend to rest quietly under the personal attacks mavie upon him by Mr. Douglas and his agents. It is be- Neved Mr. Siidell will demand a full and immediate re- traction from Mr. Douglas as soon as that gontioman reaches Washington. A letter of Senator Jones, of Towa, to Judge Douglas, pablished in the Galena Cowricr and reprinted in the Washington papers, denouncing Douglas as saying what was “infamously falee,”’ is the subject of general conver- sation among members of Congress. It looks a bad caso for the Judge, and it is difficult to see how he can come out of it without resorting to the dornicr argument of pistols. However, it is a common sense age, and highly Pick wickian. So many rumors have appeared as to the recent treaty, figned, sealed and delivered here, by which the difticul- ties in your city politics are to be healed, that I send you & copy of the document itself. The signatures of the high contracting powers—to wit, ou the partof Tammany , Fowler, Purser, Purdy, Wate: Coch Kelly, and on the part of the appended to the original document. Brandreth’s pills and Old Jacob Townsend's sarsaparilla must give place to this wonderful panacea. Parnum's Happy Family will be eclipsed by the beautiful harmony which henceforth is to reign in Tammauy. flor is THE TREATY. Arnieie 1, The patronage of the federal government im the city of New York to be exciusively employed to sas- taip the organization at Tamma Arnis 2. Every person holdin: government, and failing te suptx nating from Tammany H sustaining directly or indir: zation, shall be dismissed with ¥ the President removed the Lon. Jola M canine. Axreux 3, That the valuable ad rnment eball be wittily nrumprness tha ‘0 for suniar rtising of the federal a nominajly demo- nt warfaré on the us and personal as- cular organization, saults on ita eanditat Avncurd. That the regular organization at Tammany Hall shall secnre a representation in the General Comune tee for 1869, representing in the majority of delegates the Preponderance of democralie strengtl, ax shown at the ele ething organization—po person being bership of any committer who will not pledge sustain the regular organi: of the party aud a hominations, aud renounce all allegiance to other or- ganizations. AuneLE 6.—A ward committos to be ward, consisting of three from each which shall be the representati ted in cach and county, but the Ward Committers not to ary elections without authority of the General call prs Committee, AnnicLR 6.—The General Committee of 1859, before the Ist of Jury next, to prepare and acopt a plan’ by which ® chotee of membors of nominating copveations and com. mittecs rhall be bronght home more directly to the people in their reapective localities, Mr. Yulee, the able champton of the Senate Committee, on the Port Office and Post Roads, is diligently engaged im Preparing a plan for the future establishment of the ocean mail service. He will separate the projected South Ame. rican lines to Brazil on the Atlantic, and Chile on the Paei- flo~from the other ocean mail service, regarding those lines a# commercial and diplomatic measures as Woll aa Om the ground of postal facilities. Many Southern members Are also warmly in favor of lines which look to the pro- Motion of a trade North and South, all the existing lines being for the benefit of the Furopean trade, As all the ocean mail contracts expire on th h of June next, the Present Congress must legislate on ubject. The Senators bave reeolyed to occupy their now chamber fo the north wing of the Capitol on re-nesembling om the 4th of Janvary. A great many members of Congress left to day to spend the holidays at home. The city shows already the offscts of the migration. There ia a vigorous effort being made here by the friends of Mr. Seward to kil! off all rival competitors for the repab- Nican Presidential nomination. It is determined to rua him atallbazards. Free Wool Thurlow Weed is, of course, the leading wire puller. The intention is to secure New York, and, if possible, control the city alao, With this view your new Comptrotier, Hawes, is to be given untimit- ed power by the Legislature, and will be made, in fact, the head of all the bureaus of the city government. Sew- ard, depend upon it, is determined to stand aside no longer, either for Banks, Fremont, Crittenden or any one elae, Tho statemont telegraphed from here that Mr. Rutter- worth diemised a clerk in the New York Asey (moe decaure of his refuel to contribute towards election ex- penses is, a8 usual, canard. The clerk was dismiasod for insubordination and other sufficient reasons, On po- litical grounds he should have boen diamissed long ago, a he was an active republican Inst Presidential election. Profeesor Torrey, not understanding that Mr. Butterworth was the responsible head of the Assay Office, undertook to oppose the Superintendent's decision, but a reference to the Department here enlightened the soigntiic gentieman