The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1858, Page 3

per to the relatives of the deceased, residing in Spring- Myer® was about thirty ive years ofage, five feet four or five inches high, and woighed perhaps ohe hundred and thirty-five pounds.’ From some eause big hair seemed to have grown prematurely gray, which gave him the ap- pearance of bemg wuch older than he seally was. Our Chihuahua Correspondence> * Cmuvauva, Nov. 3, 1858, Mineral Resources of Sonora, Chihuahua and the States on the Western Slope of the Cordilleras—Annuel Produce in Coin and Bars—Peaceable Character of the Popula- tion in the Mining Districts—American Labor in Ke- quest, do. Of jate politicians and capitalists have had their atten- tion frequently called to the mineral and agricultural re- sources of Sonora, Chibuahua and other Mexican States, but few who have not resided or travelled in Mexico can form any correct idea of tha.immense treasures that lie ‘buried in the States of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango, patiently awaiting the employment of capital and well directed labor to develope them. So little is known of the above named States, as well as others situa- ted upon the western slope of the Cordilloras, that if one-half was told of the wealth of the mines it would ap- pear fabulous, Yet the factis patent to any one who bas taken the pains to travel and investigate the facts. In those States silver, gold, copper, cinnabar, tin, iron, coa and saltpetre are found in inexhaustible quantities. Cali fornia, in her palmieet days, bore uo comparisonin poin of mineral resources to the same area in avy one of the States above mentioned. The amount of silver in coin and bars that is annually taken out of Mexico upon the Pacitic side of that country amounts <0 $18,000,000. The bulk of this sum is in bars, and is smuggled out of the country. The exports of cop- ee pigs or bar amounts to about $2,000,000 yearly. @ Mines are now worked with vigor, and no political erroumstance, however adverse, can check the yieid from these great sources of wealth, From 1796 to 1820 the mines of Mexico produced annually $22,000,000. Since Ubat time they have steadily increased, until now the yearly product amounts to uearly $37,000,000, and this, wo, in the face of a!l the political troubies by Which the country is distracted. At no time since Mexico has been ‘nation has she been sunk so politically low as at the present day, and at no time since her history began have her mines been so prolitic and yielded so abundantly. The ‘States above mentioned also abound in cheap aad reliable Jabor and all agricuimral products that the miner needs. There is found in many oi tho mining distriets splendid water power for wopaliing machinery to reduce the va rious Kinds of ore, good timber, limestone—in fact, all the elements necessary for the Various constructons con. abituting @ mining hacienda. people of these mining regions are a quiet, inoftenvive, industrious race, entirely different from those found about populous cities and coast towns. Ihave travelled amongst these people many thousand ‘miles, examining the mines of the country, without arms or defence of any kind, aud have never ina single instance been treated other than in the most kind and hospita- ‘ble manner. Near four years of residence and travel among the mines of Mexico has convinced me of their inexhaustiple riches, and also of the fact that many misrepreseatations have appeared from time to time of the people, especially of the mining districts. Persons and property are as Bafe in hove districts ag they are anywhere. The people of this part of Mexico are represented as being hostile to — ers, This isan entire mistake, ‘They are anxious for ang earnestly desire Americans of good character aud ital to come amongst them anil engage in industrial pursuits, and whenever they have done so they have done all in their power to axsist and protect them. Fili- busters and men of that stripe they do not want. Such men do not plant, but reap what others sow, whilst av the fame tite they spread desolation, distress and rain amongst those who wish to be in peace. Cur Havana Corresponden. Havana, Deo, 16, 18d. Profitable Charter of a Veewel for the African Tray— One Thousand Soidiers Landed from Spain—~The United States Steamer Despatch for Norfolk—Poo Cargoes of Slaves Landed—Escape of Chain Gang Prisonars—The Opera, the Artists, and the Publjc—Yellow Fever on a British Bark—Lodics Taken from the Ruins caused by the Late Explosion. The bark J. J. Cobb. Tam told, has been chartered by a Spanish house in this city, for two years, to be engaged in the legal trade with the coast of Africa. T hear the low- est wages offered, eveu to Jandsmen, to goin her, is $60 per month—a circumstance in itself euflicient t excite strong suspicion On the 10th instant the Spanish corvette Ferrolana ar- rived (in fifty-three days) from Cadiz, bringing one chief and his family, Siteen officers and 588 individuos de troper. On the Ith nstaut the Spanish frigate Isabel Segunda arrived (in fifty eight days) from Cadiz, via the Canary Isles, bringing one chief, fifteen offlvers and 534 soldados. On the 13th instant bis Excellency the Captain General received at the Campo Marte two other battalions of the woluntarios, and 1 bave never before acem such a tad falling off tm men pretending to have any knowledge of military matters. They excited the inugbter of the spectators by their bad marching as they pasted along the Paseo in double quick time, on their return to their quarters. fine, Not a single company was in 1 their move of marching can only be described as hop, skip and jump ada. Siates sieamer Despatch eailed on the 11th ia Key West N from Philadelphia, broaght nnd jast Sanday Captain his Excellency, but po- The bark Prise amare for the © Genera! Newton was invited to dine with litely declined the bonor Acargo of slaves, seven banded in namber, was re- cently landed on the north side of this island, somewhere to the west of this port, at & new place purchased for the exprees purpose of landing bozales. The exact locailly is pot known. Another cargo of slaves has also been recently landed at Coyo Cincoleguas, which is also on the north side of this A island. ‘On Monday or Tuesday of Inst week two members of the honorable fraternity of the Presidio (chan gang), employ. peering) Seente fhe hi ‘halt of of 4 ‘only weapon they was a Bein sors, which Franklin said “may do to scrape « treacher with,” but which they, fastening to a pole, used asa Jance, killing a negro they met in the road: and afterwards moceting a gal they took bie horse, with pan- irre, dah nod al’, from him. One of them moonted the horses and rode away, the other, pursuing bis journey on foot, was overtaken and recaptured. ‘On the Vth instant the ‘Traviata’ was ted at the Villanueva theatre, with Macaferr) Ale fred — Stefani — be! unwell, I am sorry to may Macaferri was hissed. Next evening the same ‘opera was repeated, with Steffens as Alfred. Lyte 4 ‘went off most gloriously. Gazzaniga achieved fresh ti mmpbs. She exhibited with excusable pride, in the ban- quet scene, the gold vase presented to her in this city last season. Soce then “Ii Barbiere ' bas been thrice repre: sented, with the Gassier as Rosita, art ber busvand as Fi garo, ‘After the opera, on each evening, Gasser sung the “ Carnival ef Venice with variations, with great bri) Nancy, power aod sweetness. “ La Traviata’ was repre sented Inet evening, to a crowded house, ‘On Friday last the British bark Abeona, of London, im here in dietece#, having been tweety four days ‘Coatzacoalous, Mexico, laden with mahogany for Loa- don, Two of her crew bar died and been buried at sea, and ber owner, mate and four of the crew were jl! with hen she put into this port. They are con. valescent, it ie hoped that in the course of a few days the Abeona will proceed on ber voyage. Twas ogain atthe Lycep on Monday evening, and wit vion of a three act comedy, called title quite untranslatable into our vernacu! or The weather is delightfal, resembling early summer weather at New York — Thos far the present hasbeen the most agrecable winter T have ever Known in thie city. J have thie moment been informed by a reliable party that on the 13th inst. twenty-eight corpees were taken from the ruins of the Pobovin de Marina, the site of the dreadful explosion that took place in Gotober last, nearly three months age. Dutch Monopoty tn the Indian Seas, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Dec. 2, 1858. A correspondent in the columns of your journal today, in reply to part of my communication of the 28th Novem- ‘ver, informs me and your readers that the Dutch govern ment hae officially notified the State Department at Wash- ington, tbat on and after the Ist of May, 1859, the ports of Sumatra, Horneo, &e., are open to the “world trade.’’ All the ports in the southern portions of Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, such as Padang, Moora Kompeb, Ranjarmas- ein, Samboe, Macassar, Menado and Kema, where the Muteh have established forts, and maintain some show of authority, have long ago beon opened to a certain froe- dom of trade; and Holland now offers to permit a freedom ‘of iptercouree with the northern portions of these islands, ‘over which she bas no more right of jarisdiction than the United states. The Englieh-Indian journals, especially of Singapore, have recently been f'scussing the absurd and unwarranted assumption of the eg ge Ment fa jesuing a decree to permit intercourse tho feland of Ba, whence her troops were once ignominiousiy xpelied by the natives, and over which she excreises no ity whatever, It is like the offer of the devil to our Saviour, or of King George to Allen—making a of gifts which did not belong to them, 1 notwithstanding this offer of open ports, which may be moro or less warranted by sume ttle to sovereignty, the troe grievance against Holl with which Tam not disposed to ‘be quiet’’—is this: al. though Batavia, and Soorataga, ail Macassar, Padang and banjarmassin, ports in Jaya, Celeber. Sumatra Borneo, are accessibi ips on the payment of cer- tain of export and certain onerous restrictions, which to a great extent prevent their entering them, yet no American citizen is permitted to entor the interior of any of these islands, whether his object be curiosity trade of to spread the Gospel. Once ina while a favor person obtains permission, after application tw the Gover- for General, to visit the ‘interior, when he is laveriably followed by a government spy. These porta of the Dute Rast Indies are opencd on precisely the same footing at a few of the ports of China were opened previous vo the treaty of Tien tsin. The Christies ambassadors in the Kast should not have paused in their Crientat labore until they baa opened the isiande of the fadian archipelago to the iree intercourse of the world, an! had decided where Tuitch soveresenty 4 efectually maintained, and where it j# merely an assomption, ar it was in the case of Jambee befor: “he late Dutch Mibustering raid avon this torri- tory OCEANICUS, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 18 OUR STATE ARSENALS. Spendthrift Expenditure of the Public Money in Military Bulldings—Insecure and Value~ Jess Character of the State Arsenals, dic. We propose in this article to give a_condensed history of military arsenal erections in this State during the last dozen years, and expose to the people the large amounts of money which have been squandered by epauletted as- pirants and political spendthrifts within the above period. Henry Storms, when Commissary General, in tho year 1846, conceived the idea of selling to the United States government a pcce of property owned by the State at the Narrows, in Richmond county. This land was con- veyed to the State, portions of it in 1794, and other por- tions in 1809, The object of the purchase by the State was for erecting thereon military defences of the city of New York. Negotiations were entered into between the Commissioners of the Land Office on the part of the State, avd Major Delafield on the part af the general gov erpment, and concluded on the 28th December, 1847, when the property was duly transferred to the United States for the sum of $33,284 87, being the amount which it originally cost the State, with six per cent intercet for about forty years. This amount was deposited in the Manhattan Bank to the credit of the State. ‘The next step was to uso this money in the construction of a new State Arsenal in the city of New York, The Le: gislature parsed an act for that purpose, and authorized the Commissioners of the Land Office, together with the Commissary General, to select the ground upon which the new structure should be erected. The State was the owner of ten acres of ground in the upper part of the city, located between the Fifth and Sixth avenues and Sixty-third and Sixty-fifth streets, upon which the powder magazine then stood. Upon this plot of ground it was de cided to erect the new arsenal. This was under democratic rule, General Storms was the general superintendent, and the erection of the new arsenal was commenced. It soon proved that the archi tects and master builders were incompetent to discharge the duty properly and economically, A lage portion of the money appropriated was expended in draining the lands and blasting rocks for a foundation. The structure arose gome two stories, when polities took a change General Storms was ousted, and Colonel John Stowart whig, became bis successor. Upon an examination of the accounts, it was ascertained that nearly, if not quite, the whole amount received from the general government and appropriated to the construction of the arsenal was expended. Other ai chitects and different mechanics were employed, and a we, known politician was sent down from Albauy as principal superintendent. The politicians now no doubt for political purposes, condemned the work as far as it had progressed, and decided to demolish it and commence anew from the foundation, But the funds were exhausted, and, after consultation as to where more Money could be procured, it was finally determined to dispose of the old arsenal property im Contre street, opposite the Tombs, The Common Council of the eity of New Yerk adopted the following resolution: — in consideration of the State releasing to on of shia city, the ground situate in Ceutre, Fm, Franklin and White streets now oscupled for arsenal pur. pores, the Corporation of this city will pay to the Mtute, ont of Treproceeds of auld property when wold, for the prirpose of erecUng & new arsensl upon other grounds in dis clay, th sum of thirty thousand dollurs, provided the Suite Cominis sioners for the erection of said arsenal, in coc jnnction with the ety procure the passage oF an act authorizing auch payment as aforessi! Acopted Uy the Boord of Aldermen, May 3, 18:8. Adopted by the Board of Apsistants, May 5, 1848. ‘Approved by the Mayor, May 6, T. VALENTINE, Clerk. The Commissioners of the Land Oifice accepted the pro” porition of the Common Council, and tho old arsenal grounds were traveferred to the city on the 28th of June, 1848. It is proper to remark that the entire block was under a perpetual leave to the State from the city, for a nominal annual rent,so long ag used for military pur- poses, exceptone lot on White street, the title to which was held by the State. ‘The new managers of the State arsenal now hail thiriy thousand doliars more to expend. The work then was commenced, and thie new appropriation soon became ex: pend . but the arsenal still remained unfuishea, al- though the politicians had expended sixty-four thousand ‘The Legislature was next appealed to, and twon: tyfour thousand dollars more was taken directly from the State treasury, making a total of nearly ninety thou sand dollars expended upon the arsenal on Fifth ave” nue; and with the absgrption of this immense amount? the concern \s a m)serable structure, unfit for the preser- vation of the military property of the State, and unsuita- die for a depository of arms in any reapect whatever. In 1857 @ portion of the military staf of the Comman der in chief, ex-Governor Clark, conceived a proposition to ) the arsenal and the ten acres of ground owned by ate. This property had then become of immense in conseq of being included within the space (or the new Central Park. Those military gon tlemen, nothing dannted on account of tho large amount squandered by preceding politicians in arsenal building, sought to obtain possession of funds also, tor similar pur pores. of th the project failed at that se bat in 185 a favorable lobby, the act was passed. Iu n are that the city of New York should have right of porchase, at a stipulated amount, the money to be used in the erection of arsenals fn various parts of the State. Three commissioners were named iv the act to bave the contro! of the fund thas realized, and these men were sclected entirely from the republican party, an’ without any guarantee whatever for the faithful application of those funds. The city of New York was preferred in the law, and accordingly entitled to all that immense property, for the sum of two banired and seventy-five thousand doilars, whereas, had the ten acres been surveyed and parcelled out in lots, the pro- perty would have yielded 1 the State at least « million of dollars. Well, the city the amount, and provimon was made by the Legisiatare for its distribution and ex- penditure, ar foliowe>—For the copetruction of a now areens! in the city of New York, $100,000; Brooklyn, $40,000; Albany. 26,090; Butfaio, $45,000," Home, $17,000; = prov the prior Corning, $14,000; Rochester, $5,000; Troy, $5,000; Utica, $4,000: Syracuine, $4,000; Auburn, $4,000; Ovwoje, 83,090 Balieton Spa, $3,000; D kK, $3,000; Ogdensburg, ao: Schobaire, $3,000—the |itter for the purchase of a lap dated old Revolutionary stone fort. Now we come down to the period of the eroetion of rome of those works, and the expenditure of the funds. Each one that bas been commenced has been under con- tract to the lowest bidder—the modern system of erecting pablic buildings. In this city a formidable arsenal in out ward arance was near being Snmished; its towers seemed substantial: preparations were hurriedly making to celebrate its completion, and delivery ty the aforesaid commissioners on Evscnation day. Our city mili tary were elated with the expectation of having an arsenal whieh would accommodate both large and small arms, and bailt so strongly and securely as to stand the test of tine for 1 come. ut, moet nofortanately, jurt upon the moment when those Mopes were about to be realized, the entire roof gove wayand crushed the building into fragments Persone well informed estimate this loss at $30,000—one thirdof the appropriation for its construction. ‘It is not Jor us to determine upon whom the blame of this acci- dent lies, but we do nasert that the slight materials em. ployed in the construction ef the roof, and also the quality Of the mortar ueed in cementing the brick walle, were not of the firm and enbstantias uatore which a building of sach mammoth dimensions require!. An investigation will be heid, bet Will only succeed 1a Heeciag the State treasary outor the amount necerrary to foyair the roof and sides. ‘The Brooklyn arsenal, also nearly ready for ocenpation, and erected under the supervision of the same arch tect who planned the New York one, Bat been pronounced dangerous, Measures have been taken to strengthen the root and wails by means of patchwork, and we learu that the aforesaid commissioners have consented to it. We doubt whether Major General Duryea will venture any Portion of his command under the present roof, which, ceibg constricted utter the same supervision and apos the identical experimental plan of the New York Seventh ave ue Arsenal, is just as able to crumble into atoms. The roof at Brooklyn should be ent rely taken offand another substitnted, from which no danger need be reasonably eli mided ‘eo Jearn, also, that the Albany arsenal ie in a lamenta- Die condition. The State was in possession of a large, substantial building, located upon a valuable eligible position. Instead of rebuilding upon that spot, the commissioners disposed of that property to the Corporation of Albany for less than one quarter of its value, We cannot anderstand what these 4 commissioners were thinking about when they low a anech a sacrifices of that property. No more appro- priate spot could have been se! npon which to expend the twenty-five thousand dollars. And farther, to show the folly Sethe Board of Commissioners, we may add that selected a spot for the arsenal at Albany apon noarly ove quarter of the amount appropriate! was expended in driving piles arownd the whole extent of the lot before a single foundation stone could bo Iud. Tt appears almost increditle that thoy should ondeytake to erect a building of that class withont directing their en. —~— and architects to make a thorough examination of he foundation. Ha squandered thatsam before com imencing the building, there is so much deficiency that it has fonnd necereury to abandon the third story en. tirely, for want of fands, From what we learn we have drought wited to give an account wh; took the responsibility Seenenicacerns ate fhateat noted of Leap tg Cah ming to draw erection of New York, Brooklyn and mewn Cer = who have been proved so utterly incompetent for the ful filment of their duties. has been no lyht as yet shed upon the erection of arsenals and armor. so other parts of the Stal There will likely be some Kind of a report submitted to the Legisiators, ging an account of the progress of there wailitary works, and the expenditure of that large amount of peble moneye; and we hope that they will be able to convince that body—nndonbtediy they will the majority — that no more money has been used in travelling expenses in the payment of Tavorod but unedneated architect office hire, clerk hire, ant superintendents, than has bee just lable : Such isa brief outline of the experience of the State in mititary arsenal building within the last dozen yoars, It will be perceived from the sale of the property at thy . in Centre street, the ten acres in Cen- rows, the tral park, and the valuable lots and b in the city of Albany, that the Stato has been direct ‘out of a million and @ half or two millions of , and in retnrn a pile of brick and mortar in the Seventh ave- nue in this city, @ dangerous unfinished etructure in the city of Brooklyn, and a miserable abortion in the city of Albany, tottering and swaying about upon a wooden foundation, composed of nemiocie and pine , Pre- senting to the eye the meanest specimen of arc! are in. the country, @ State bas been liberal in its efforts to advance the military spirit of its citizens, but her leadi military political partisans have spent her means withou' producing the least benefit to the protection of its arms or the discipline of its citizen soldiery, The Late Austrian Bank Forgeries. COUNTERFEITS ON THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUSTRIA FIRST COUNTERFEIT ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND— FRAUDULENT NEW ENGLAND BANK, MAINE—AF- FIDAVITS IN THE AUSTRIAN BANK FORGERY CASE SUPPRESSED, ETC. TO THY EDITOR OF THR HERALD. The most important investigations that have taken place in a century in relation to paper money , have recent- ly oceupied our police courts,and the most liberal and exten- sive publication of the evidence should be made, in order to wake up the slumbering interest of the good natured, humbugged public. 3 Jt appears that the counterfeits on the National Bank, Austria, were engraved and printed in this city, and that they were manufactured precisely in the same way that the first counterfeits on the Bank of England were manv- factured, just one hundred years ago. Here are thefacts:— The Austrian bank note was cut into as many separate pieces as there were pictures composing it, Each pieceor picture was re taken to the best engravers fn the city and was cMPraved without the least suspicion of any wrong. A bank note printer was then employed, ata sa lary of $15 per week, to print the separate plates, one after the other, on pieces of paper, forming the requisite combination of embelii . The ingenious rogues had nothing to do themselves exeept the tilling up with pen and ink. It isa matter of history that the notes of the Bank of England circulated for sixty-tive years previons to 1758 without an attempt to counterfeit them; and that in that year Richard William Vaughan, a Staiford:hire linen Graper, manufactured the first counterfeit, in thit way, viz: Hie cut a £20 note into as many parts as the various pictures and words#of which it was composed would per- mit, and these be caused to be engraved by the best ea. gravers in Londo eparate plates, at different tines and places, In Ii anner be procured the printing also. ‘Thus, without executing a stroke of labor himself, he pro cured counterfeits to the number ef twenty, engra' printed by the best workmen, without thé least suspicion on their part, Itappears that he filled up, signed and de- posited them in the bands of a young lw!) to whom he was attached, solely as an evidence of his wealth, and gh her tey Went into circulation, axa soon found way to the bank, causing great commotion, not only m the bank but throughout al! England, Vaughan was detected, tried, convicted and , becoming the first martyr to an insecure system of constructing bank notes, which bas been the ruin of thousands upon thou- sands since. - ‘One hundred years have passed since then, and not the first step has been taken by the banks to prevent the same occurrence, There is scarcely @ bank note in circu. lation in this country that cannot be counterfeited in the In fact, our baak note engravers adopt th ed by Vaughan, viz procuring the Various v es, titles and ornaments, engraved on separate pieces of stecl, and subsequently combining them, Vaughan was hung’ for the ntion, bot now our original notes are maniiactured on his plan of producing counterfeits. Thus it actually appears that our whole eystem of manufacturing our paper currency is a system of counterfeiting ip its very nature. The bills of one bank are counterteits in some respects of the bilis of other banks. Nay, it is not very rare we find the bills of the worst kind of bogus swinding concerns exact Tac similies of good engraving firm, with the same a Tt would be no difficult task to demonstrate that all of- ficial action taken by the various and eaccessive tende iu relation to engraving, have aii tempted, encouraged and ailed coun ; 1. By having the notes of ail the banks alike in pictorial arrangement, euabling a counterieiter to make one plate answer for counterfeits on all banks in the State by merely ite and lgeation. NM notes of all denomina the trouble of engraving part of a note more than onee. 3. Ordering the particnlar location of the State arms to designate the denominational vate Thus, on all 20'8 & ud upwards it must be at least an inch and a half fre: either en:.”)—while millions of 020 dotiar notes arc in eir- | culation with the State arms located there, euabling rogues | to alter such notes to 60's and 100"s, and prove that if they are not such in re e rales of the sag: unk Department ‘The Bank Superintendent of this State bas entire control by law of all eng onght to be suck accord. intendeut of th money of this State, by law to } retam im bis custed control all dies, and materia though may 8 now that & Bank, Maine, (tia not nikely that be about it in bls next annual re State of Maine as thi peton. Ma ely altered, thas husetis substituted place of Fairmount. St may ultimate intention of origipaiors, in or the eireulotion of the New England Bonk, Bost ite COMBE ‘The newspapers suy that this is the Oret occurrence of | the k But any one might have geen in any bank time for the last ten or fifteen years, that 10°, ed 100°8 Piauters’ Rank of Tom 8 were wb And it 18 well Known that a Uniced s ate of the denomin ounter “Accidents wil! ppen in the °° ‘The president of the consolidated er to extend m, without p all this matter occurred bel mated, But it does not follow that the samme thing may not occur again. The counterfeits on the National Bank, Austria, prove Mat it may occur, and that, to, without compromising the integrity of the innocent workae ‘The truth is that every ene carrying on business is gla to get business, and the man alremly establahed may ‘overstep the bouhae of cantion with more safety than he who is straggling for a good reputation. It ts absurd to pretend to engrave for none but good barks, since pone can draw the line between & good and a bad ene. Were it not for the profits arising from the work of what the papers calf borns one horse swindling concerns, no bank note engraving firm could pav expenser, a& now organized and mansged. The work of a large bank, like the Ame rican Exchange Bank, New York, costs ‘tho engraver i large sume for new vignettes, &c. but when they order for the American Exchange Bank , Wash iugt the price is precisely the same, and the whol clear profit, because the dies, title and all, are ready at hand. Fashion has as much to do with our bank notes as with a lody'* dress, Security hos no more to do with the one than warmth and comfort with the other, [tis the faeh jon how fo have onr notes printed in many colors, ene ov the top of the other. Though eS Ts arc reaping a rich harvest in passing off their off f in new dresses, the engravers wil! be no more likely to discourage the extra and foolish expense than the manutactarers_ of hooped skirts to recommend their abandonment. The quack doctor don’t want bis patyents cured too quickly, for then be would bave no market tor his medicines. Some of the affidavits bave been suppreswed in this Austrian care, «0 pray, Mr Bstitor, let us have im the co. Jormne of the New Yous Heraty atoll report of the ev) dienee concerning the counterfeits on the National Bank, Aust ia. W. L. ORMSBY. ‘The WU! of Benjamin Marshall, Late of ‘Troy. ‘The will of Mr. Marshall has been published. MMe first provides for the payment of bis just debts and his foncral expenses; second, he devises his dwelling house, furniture, plate, &e., to big son John Stanton Marshall, third, be devises the mortgage which eecutes his interest ip the New Vork Mills (Oneta county), ope third in trust for hie son Jobn, for his support maintenance, the principal to go. to his iseue, if any, one-third to the el dren @f hit brother James in Engtand, and the remit third to the children of hie brother Jeremiah in Engiw in equal shares, and te thele issae, if any; fourth visea the rernainder of hie real and. personal estate executors in trust for objects specified im the fith elavse, vig: bie mille at Troy are to be kept in operation during the lives of Joeoph M Carville and Joseph Marshall, or eo long a the executors may deem advisable, The income therefrom, and also the net annual income of his other property, to be divided as follows:—One-half of en’ come to be divided and paid over in equal shares to the American Bible Society, he American Homo Mission So: ciety and American Tract Society, and the other half thereof to he expended in supporting and maintaiming the Marshall Infirmary, in the city of Troy, for the support of indigent poor or lame persons, which is located on the land and premises on the south side of the Poestenkill, near the Ida Mille. Sixth. [further order and direct my said execators, the survivors and survivor of them, on death of the said Joseph Mareball Carville and Joseph Marshall, and the survivor of treme, convert into money or otherwise dis Pore of i their discretion, all the real and personal hereby bequeathed and devised to in trust, and to distribute and deliver over such an’ estate to the several legatecs and for the objects in article fifth above named. and in the carne proportion as the income thereof is directed in said article fifth to be distributed. Seventh. In cage of the death of my said son, John Stan ton Lg hasan nda ge eh in that case I give, devise . all the ome estate above devived cad bequevaned to him children of my said brothers James and Jeremiah, to be distributed among them in the same manner tion as directed of the bequest to them in article third. Fighth. He nominates his nephew, John W. the city of Philadelphia, and John Stanton Gould, of Stock- port, in the county of Columbia, and Amos K. Had the city of Troy, executors. John W. Downing to reside in the city take © and supervicion of the mills the same hovse with Jobn Stanton Marshall the anneal income of his son's estate to their joint household establishment, and the personal ex- penees of his son, and over and above that, to recsive the annual sum of one thousand dollars. Jolin Stanton Gould to take charge of the enuf manufteturing business in Troy, and of the Marshall Infirmary, and to receive five Ynndred ae annum, and Amos K. Hadley to take charge of all counselling and legal professional busi- Ness as may be connected with the management and die- porition of Said estate, and to receive the sum of five hun- ‘rod dollare per annum, The will was signed April 6, 138, Latest News from Kansas. OUR LAWRENCE CORRESPONDENCE. s Lawrence, K, T., Dec. 10, 1858. Leavenworth Constitution Sent to Congress—Parties in Fu vor and Against Admission Under it—Speculating—Land Jobbing Projects for Obtaining Granis of Land from the Federal Government, dc. Politics, so far as the people are concerned, are very quiet in the Territory at present, but speculators and poli- tical aspirants are ever working, plotting, planning and devising. The admission of Kansas as a State and grants of land from the federal government for railroad or other stockjobbing purposes are the subjects which chiefly occu- py their attention. The Leavenworth constitution, it will be remembered, ‘was ratitied by a smal) vote of about 7,000, Sovwith standing the opmion of the Attorney General asainst th legality of that constitution, many parties bere vlatus ths ite Ge and desire Kansas to be admitte 1 under it Judge M. F. Conway, the President of the Convention which framed said constitution, accordingly forwarded, u few days since, by the United States express, to Washing ton, two copies of the document, duly authenticated, ac- companied by two copies of «tabular statement of the returns of the election on the ratification of the same; one to be given to M. J. Parrot. for the House, and the other to Seward tor the Senate. The constitution has doubtless been presented ere this time; 80 that the application of Kat for admission must vow be before Congress. What the republicans here tear is that the republicans in the States will themselves suppress the application, so that 1 it gets before Congress at all at this session it vil! be at » late day, asd then introduced, only for appearance sake to be referred to some committee and quietly killed. would epable the repubhicans to keep up U 2 of & Blecding Kansas,”? Then Robinson is engaged in a scheme to get the Do! ware Reserve and other valuable lands in the Perr to appropriated to a railroad company,’ of whieh be principal stockholder, He desires to defeat our admission ata State, because that would defeat hws jond spoliatio scheme. It would neeessariiy supersede this speciat an direct grantof land, and cause all the lauds given by the federal government for railroads and other purposes to be granted, provided for in the ordinance to the Stato Constitution, the provisions of which would De an insuperable obstacle to the schem> of Robinson & Co. It is understood that Robinson has engaged with him ‘ge number of republican members of Congress. heard Henry Wilson's name mentioned a8 one of them, It is, therefore, quite possible that in order to share im this plunder, and to keep the Kansas question sil in some measure apen, for political uses, the republicans inay be eager Ww shut olf Kansas, without a word ut this se Robinson isa great gehemer, He has been preteading that he wonld leave the republicans, and go over to the cemo- crats: but this is sham. Tle has got the influence of Den- ver snd other administration democrats ta behalf of bis scheme, upen thir expectation, while at the same ten tells republicans, secretly, nov to organize the repablican party unt! he gets through with the democrats and secures ig land, and that then he wil! be with them. Ie caleur Jates on swindling Me democrats, and thereby getting the Tha trickster ought to Seward has an inte of designs, to use to effect the yute of Kansas ix 1860, Meeting of the Creditors of the Ohio Life and Trust Company. {From the Cinetuat: Gazette, Dee, 15] A meeting of the ereditors of the Trust Company, called . 4 at Melodeon Hal yesierday present, who assem- purpose, or at whose in- or did explain, and tbe fcrenoon. ble slanee. gentleman w stuck as close to His seat ne tl his coat tails had voen Waxed by some mis- chievous b Finally, Mr. Averstrs Isnam addressed bis fellow suf ferer®, and ated an instapee of a poor woman who had $500 locked up in the Trust € $200 with tbe hope of a divic mpiny, an! bad borrowed i by this time, but now found herself unable to pay. He thought there wer other ine 8 equally as painfa! in the relation. The m then formally organized by appointing Mr. N. Bartlett chairman, and Mr. Josoph itiggs y Wm. Key Bond, Fsq.,one of the committee @ meeting of the ered tors ins nbOr, along, tedious account of the explosion of Ui pany, and what the directors promised to do, ahd what they had not done—with which every person present had been familiar for a your, He seed ti , ne to these meeting dvised « Bond closed meeting a preamb read avd adopte but afterwards t Mr. ff. B, Hardy, ancl tho re Dr, Fone said that che eresitors had con feeling that there was some shrinking MeLcan undonbted)y stood ready to « i it was ked for, but would not eth d exe} pted separately, The ‘rat Hof Beil & Grant, in the United mn isiraten of the areete without any qualification, 2. The eresit drag ged inio the Superior Court, end bean the suit of Spin. in the United Stat t lability Of tie ris of the triste of their own ehote safe administratic of jurisdietie g & Brown. Court beewuse it looks trustece, 4. His r« had reference , aathorited to respectfully » kind of a comeromise, and t ask a postponement of further action for t part of the Superior Court, but if that te termine npon the appointment ofa new +r the erediters shoul! be heard tovebing that anjo om, in Other words, that their wishes snould be ¢ adopte ntment concurred in by a fi was adopted, instructing the Another resolution to roport at an t ton o'clock, The Cheirman then appo nted as the mittee of three Wilham Key Bond, Die. Fore and H. B. Hardy Mr. Harpy then offered the following resointion — Resolved, That we, the erbditers of the Ome Lite Inew rance aud Trust Company, emphatically object to being represented by Spining & Brown in the action commenced by their attorney, Judge Hoadley , he Superior Court of Cincinnati, being entirely opposed to the objets and purperes of the said action, as we understand therm. The revoiution was adopted, and Mr. Nesmith’s mooting adjourned. The resolutions, no donbt, expressed the honest, candid sentiments of the creditors, who are ready. to adopt any honorable course 10 get posession oF the money of which they bave been tefranded. They come together at each periodical call, in the hope that some: thing may be done or suggeste:| for theif interest, but the movers in thir pais were afraid to show their hander ond only ope of them bis face, and be was put forward the work, though he had not the courage to avew bs agency or objects. Death of a Desperate Character—Carcer of 0 Canadian Patriot. A fow days vince, says the Madison (Wit.) Argue of the 16th ipst., 6 manand bis wife, in Milwaukie, were arrested on a charge of stealing money from a sick stranger, who afterwards died, as was suppose, from the effects of jo The charge of murder was then airo brought against m i ubsequently ascertained, however. that he was pot poisoned, but died from imfammation and paraly ew et the lunes. The person who thas died was Benjamin Lett, noted twenty years Ie arag the Canada rebellion, as one of the Sravest, Teck.ess and daring of the band en goged in it. We remember bim well, having, as a boy, seen him many times at pablic gatherings in New York, which was near the frontier of Canada, and be had no cular at- tachment to either fide of Niagara river. He was nota man of apparently great power, bat we have seen him at general trainings and town meet take by the collar, one in each hand, two men of nary Weight, and lift them, at arms’ length, from the Ne was a pro. digious jumper, and beat all specimens of vaulting thet We ever sew. The Milwankie Sentinel gives this account of him — Ne was born im Canada, of Scote’ parents, and spent the early portion of his life, of we are not mistaken, in the city of Toronto, Those of the “Capada patriots” of will remember him as one of the bravest ant most desperate of the rebel army. It @ trae that be was the antbor of many barbarous deeds, but they were not whol ly without cause, In the year 1837, when the rebellion first broke out in Conada, a sitter of Lett's whom be loved with a brother's affeetion fell inte the bands of a nunber of British officers, who submitted her to the crossest jadi¢n tes, which, we believe, ultimately resulted in her death. Henceforth Let harbored the bitterest enmity towards the govern ment and ite officers, and from this occurrence may be desperate career. He foxg! Ty engagement with the go ot troops, and not unfrequently signalizod him. of bravery. He took a_ prominent of the British steamer Sir Robert Peet, committ adjourned mecting on Thoreday morning and at Mill Point, where so many of the rebels wore captured, he by jumping from the second story of a house and cutting bie way through a larg party of troops who had surrounded it. Lett then cam over t the American side, bat shortly afterwards went hock in disguise and shot Captain U , the leader of the Canadian party who burped the American steamer Caro. bine. Tht seems to be one of the most cowardiy acte i i : i : i joa ee fot him to come to the door, when Lett shot im dead on the spot, and again mate his ercape to the American side. Shortly afterwards he blew 7 the Canadian steamer Groat Western, at Oswego, N. Y., for which he was arrested, tried and convicted at Buf- falo, woe cad to Reven 2°, “ae. while bei conveyed State end weatteled, he jumped from thirty’ miles’ ax boot, ‘tnd mado. Wa ecoupe, irty mi an ry \ His bands were emailer than his wrists, and he in getting off the handcufls, and then, with his feet stilt BP y ne when he took a pair of rocks and at his ancles land canal, which events ore the vigilance of both the Uni has be Ganteaie teas. cere ‘upwards of a year, #! was ily recap. tured and sent to the New York State prison, on the in- dietment for blowing up the Great Western, but was par- doned ont after two years’ confinement. After this he came to Tilinom, where he has eince resided, and we are that he wae the owner of considerable property in the vicinity of Ottawa in that State. ‘risters. 58. The South Carolina Senators, OUR SPECIAL COLUMBIA CORRESION DENCE, Couvama, 8. C., Nov. 26, 1858. The South Carolina Legistuture, as Compared with the Legislature of New York, de. The Legislature, which is now iu session here, presents somo striking contrasts with the Legislature of the State of New York. Incredible as it may seem to the Weed, Matteson, and other lobby men, thero is actually & State Legislature meeting daily in this city, with- out a ‘third house,” or a single lobby.man within the boundaries of the capital. Nay, more: a United States Senator is about to be elected, and nota wire is pulled to influence votes—not a single long nose is poked into the ear of senator or representative to win him over to “ our candidate’? The manner of conducting the business of the houses here differs materially from the mothod in New York. The Presidents of the two bodies are seen dressed in pu) plo gowns, lined and fringed with velvet of the same color, and with kid gioves on their hands, while the clorks wear flowing silk robes, after the fashion of English bar ‘Yhe members observe but little order, Walking about and conversing while business is voiny on, ‘and only seated and silent from courtesy during adebate, The fashion, too, of wearing the hat during the session—visiters only are required to be uncevered—gives the houses a rowdyish appearance, very sunilar vo our own legislative halls during a recess. The presiding officers of both houses are dignified and able men, and conduct the bu the midst of the confusion, promptiy and corre y rarely indeed is a point of order raised; and should a recent Jeflerson Manual repsesentative from Queens be caught sudd in the South Corolina Logisintnre, he would be eaged Miown as a curiosit There are inthe Honge of Repre sentatives threo reporters,and inthe Senate one, But this is accounted for by the fact that no lobbying is done ationery orders are allowed. Both reporters are furnished with such articles 'y a8 are required for use in the chamber, aud Another feature of distinetion nm this ture and our own i¢ the fact thet*every member here pays foil fare for all his railroad riding, No. such thing a8 a “iree piss” to a representative was ever heard of in the State. The moral of all this is, that the South Carolinians logisiate for the State instead of for individvals; waste no time over needless matters: lay no pipe for log-roliing; steal nothing, either from the State or from individuals who desire legielation: meet, do up their busines# and go home, paying their board and wash- ing bills and their fares. Corvmma, S.C, Dec, 2, 1858. The Election of United States Senator—The Senator Elect— Senator Hammond and his Fumily—The Oficers of the Detphin, de. The truggte for the United States Senater for the long term ended in the South Carolina Legislature to-day by the election of the Hon, James Chesnut, Jr., conservative, by a vote of ninety three, against iifty-four cast for ox: Governor Adame, tire er. Colonel Chesnut will be an acquisition to the social circles at Washington, if he does hot make any marked addition t the brilliancy and abili ty of the Sepate Chamber. He i8 a gentleman by nature, ag well as by education, of pleasing miners, attractive personal appearance, fair intelligence, and considerable wealth. Ho is a practising lawyer, as well as an exten. sive planter, and has been accorded an honorable position at the bar in bis district. At the present time he is Present of the Senate of his State, a positon w whieh rewd to oil the yneancy oveasioned by the i the ottice of rnor Alston, bis pred or. The mut forty-the C height ont five feet nine or ten pe rk lair and eyes, bo Whiskers, an ohably imirers in the call quite handsome, ‘He bas many warm , but main! his courteous and atniable manners, is modest’ and retiring as a politicwn, and qaive un- Lous 1H The parade of his pol.tical Opinions. Never theless be bas been bold and firm when occasion bas 1 nd in 1851, a8 a member of the er house tn the slatove, he was a strong ! pist,”” and ingly epposed the secession move: sion pon the * fever render a ® + 18 Hemly opporod + Hd Regard the re openin neath blow to the equal rights” of # ports eranoe of t the shay that trai, ts of South Caro: Chenu appears tion, and w it posible, ns a, bot in rived here ng. with bit danghiters, mestice, en Xpression of Prior to oy. Manning had run abea!, but to that on- stor Hammond was opposed ov persoval grou bt Gov, Manning, wou but ‘he , but ‘he tor'a Wy big arry teman se No a eeat * bof prince spl, a Keiend ing, slive tea samp) fa . ured by the for Adame in the two Senotor Hammond 8 of course just now thy Of ali cheer ver eas he is in the North: epeecbes have touched the popaar eoutiment bere, which is most decidedly oppoeed to ultra measures, and in favor of starving out the abolitionists and blaclere want of an issue. Hammond has only ly what every sensible man fees in to be sound policy. He has thar won political standing, Which 's the more signilicant as it i# yielded, ¢ y : for, aa hutle too rogardless of all save opinions, A little above the mediam probably about tity-flve years of ago—somewhat heaviy but, round beck end somewhat awkward looking partially bald, white hair, a keen, bright eye, Littie Giant,” the eyes of Uy nation His wife i# a good looking laity, about HN OP egbt yoars hie jamor, of easy, pleasing and refined manners, Of the two daughters now with bim, the eid- e8t, @ Young lady of about eightern years of age, is a very interesting looking girl, of an jateiigent and pleasing countenance, withew! beng handsome, acd with a fine, noble figure. She basal the appearance of a true hearted, vnaffected, amiable young woman. Her sister is about of Present sof the state. Le principally manages the large Pantations at React feland the family resute, and J8 @ practical, Well miormed man. It imay appear strange that while the majority of the people of the State are moderate and conservative in their sentiments, a Grand Jury should just have re ! to fod a bik of indictment against a gang of pirates, or slave traders, who have Cwary broken the jaws of thelr country. It'must be re- membered, however, Wat this Richland distriet os the very bot bed of slave trate ultraiem, even as Syracuse is in your own State the ¢ ground for rank abolitionism, Governor Adams Te bere, and his influence is all powerful When the officers of the Dolphin—splendid fellows, by the way—Grst arrived here, there was serious talk of ar resting them for piracy im steating the fcho’s niggers. Thu is all over now. Capt. Maffit—a gentleman »y nature Bnd as gallant an officer as ever walked a vessel's deck— o* pow popular with all. Lieatenant Bradford, whe tae with him a very beautiful and accomplished wife, is ey ‘well liked, and #0 are all the other offtcers of the Unit States ship Dolphin. bat more of them another time. Our Berlia Correspondence. Brnurs, Nov. 24, 1858, The Elections Disappointment of the Anticipations of the Preseian Literale—The New Government as Desplic as its Predecestor— Arrival of te Prince of Waler—Dro- ceettings Againat the Prex—Ican Golovin Ordered to Quit Bertin, be. de. 1 ‘formed you in my last that the primary elections were concluded, and that the poblic were look ng forwart With considerable interest to the result of the final elec tons that were to come off on the 23d inst. Although per. f0u8 accustomed to the excitement that prevails on such occasions in Pugland, and still more in America, would searce!y have noticed that anything unusual wae gome on our eity—and, if they had « happened in’ at one of the election meetings, would assuredly have thought (he whole Proceedings remarkably tame—it is a fact that more po litical activity was exhibited by the various parties than had been observed or permitted for the vt noe years, and that names were mentioned and principe avowot that bad not been heard of or alluded to during that en tire period, At any rate, the government wok fright and all at once, like a clap of thunder from « cloud jess otky, down came an avertiaemen! from the ‘Minister of the Interior to the President of Police, inform ing that funetinnary that the approaching elections bat given rise to “ expectations, wishes and hopes,” the fuilll- ment of which would be subversive of all the tra'itions on which the power and greatness of the Prussian monarchy were founded, and instructing him to oppose these erroncous opinions, pretensions and auticipations: in every possible manner, and to promote such views of public affairs ag were more in accordance with the inten tions of the government and the welfare of the country The whole document is couched in an imperious strain’ resembling a decree of the Court of Pekin, with “obey and tremble" at the end; and, as no other “expectations, wishes and hopes’ had been expressed than that the arbitrary system pursued by the late ministry should make way for a legal and constitutiona! régime, it i@ to be presumed that these expectations were unfounded, and that there has only been a change of per sone, not of principles. At ail events, this strange manifesto nowt bry Het of trietapm Nits the Vera watule the F Several of the meaeives as cand, seems, indeed, that the w0-.-1y are conscious of having committed a mistake, os explain away M. Flotwwell in the offrial journal, and a elreular ca p= eyed the presidents or governors of the different io 4 monishing them not to countenance the él fons of “exclusive” or “extreme” opinions—that is, chiefs of the Kunz Zeitung faction; but it is. very probabl the latter will persuade “* innocent people in the country’? ‘that itis only the democrats who are pointed at by the official pubheation, and that the best way of forwarding the views of the present ministry will be by voting foe the aiherents of their predecessors, In short, M. well bas succeeded to admiration in disgusting the friends of Dig colleagues and encournging their adversaries; and, when it is recollected that he was Governor of the pro- vince of Brancenburg for a number of years, under the rule of M. de Manteullel, without being dismissed from office like other public functionaries who had shown @ little honesty and independence of spirit, it is naturally asked why M. Averswaid, if be really intends to govern the country on libera! and constitutional prigip'es, re- tains a man in his cabinet who stil! clings ' what he calls the “ traditions on which the power and greatness of Prussia are founded’’—that is to say, absolute rate on the partof the sovereign and his advisers, and passive obedi- enee on that of the people. A step tax been mato in the right direction by removing some of the official personages, who are among the most zealous tools of the late administration—¢. g., M. de Kielst Retzow, Governor of the Rhenish Provinces, and M. Peters, Presi- dent at Mindeu—but it will beof little use turaing out the understrappers as long as men of the Same Stamp are ro- tained at the counell board itself, ‘ It was afortunate thing, at best, that the manifesto of the Min eter of the Interior was not published pefore the primary elections; if it bad been, the number of citizens who abstained from voting would bave been still greater, and the reactionists would have been encouraged to pro pose their own candidates for wahimanner, instead of supporting moderately liberal men, as they did in y caser,to keep out the more advanced democrats. Hera in Berlin the deputies returned yesterday are the same who Were OxXed upon in the preliminary meetings, and be- Jong, without exception , to the constitutional party, who were in opposition t Inte government, M. Rodbatus and the other democratic leaders haying given notice, as I just mentioned, that they had concluded to re- tire from the field, Berlin is divided inte four electoral districts, the first of which choose, three and the balance two members cach, Ia the firet district the deputies elected are MM. Korhues Reimer and Jonas; in the se Riedel and Veil; in the third Armin and Grabow, and in the fourth Wentzeland Mathis. Of these the two first and the two last repre- sented Berlin in the late Legislature; the others were | ay some years ago by the spring tide of reaction, now in their turn overthrown their conservative Grabow was Preswontof U ‘ational Agsem- Diy f 1848, and is claimed both by the democrats and the constitntionals, He and Honry Yon Armin are the most popular names of the whote tot. In the provinces the elections appear to haye been of a mixed ebaracter—a se0d many liberals, but with a tolerable sprinkling of re- actioniety. , we have only received ac~ ts. Grabow has been at Prenziow, whe rewaid has be r ev Pp eral Bonin for two or thy Flotwell for Potsdam, Patow for Cottbus. As for the old ministers, not one of them has been re-elected. Tt would hardly in- terest your readers for me to enter into further particu- lars Ae far as I can judge from the lists published, about: twenty rouctionists, gixty liberuls or adherents of the now ministry, and wn members of the Roman Catholic party (whose votes are determined pot se much by political aa by religious motives) have been elected; so that there are BI! near 250 vicetions to be accounted for, bowdes those that have to take place in the room of those persoas who have been chosen for severai districts at yace. For the present, therefore, it is not possible to form a detinite opinion as to the general result of the elections, though there can be no doubt but that tainisters will have a de- Jed majority inthe new House. Whether this mxjority will be chiefly composed of liveral elements, or of timo serving politicians whe accommodate their consciences to ie MuOLber qrtestion, of Wales urrived here on Saturday evening, on a visit to his sister, vas PeEE ) at the railway terminus by Prince Frederick Wiliam, and conducted to thy which the reyal couple had only moved into a few days vefere, and where apartments had been pre- pared for their youthful relative, Itis the same validing that was ocenpied by the late King Fretemek William TIL, who bat taken a Tiglike to his ancestral sehioe ever since it bad been inha’ m; but it bas been and pont oecupante: pauint ers, gliders and uph «Lave been working atit up to the very il even now the interior is nob young Prineese, however, was so anyon i get settled at her own home before her ac- covebeneut that ber husband resolved to take up be resi- dence there as soon as the rooms intended for tacir ase were in habitable order, She expects te be coufined about ebruary, ang it to the three the end of January, or the begining of she should present i’russia with an there will, of courge, be gr The pol t rejolcings. seem determined toshow that they, too, have be traditions upon which, ax M. Flottwell and greatness of the country are founded. Swiks newspaper, the Hund, hus Just been forbidden on wont of some strictures on Uhe poltcy of Prussia: and a few days ago M. Ivan Golovin, a Russian exile and well known poutical writer, who has been staying here lately, received orders Wo quit the city and the kingdom forth: with, It was stated thet he had claimed the protection of the United States Legation, in the quality of « matarallzed n: but, from inquiries I have made, it a report is net correet. M. Gelovin pin the United States, bnt net ton 4 and the Amerieun “sadder won)! je to interfere in his bebalf, even {fhe had to bim, whith Tunderstand is not the cage. { bave heard whether he has actually left Berlin, and perhaps government have thought better of it and allowed him t > Temain, for it is really difficult to imagine what they cam porwibly have to fear from this Muscovite refugee, who, whatever umb ¢ nay have givengto the rnlers of bhsown country, bas certauly dove nothiug to ofleud the Prussian authorities. Gur Venezacta Correspondence. Vatecta, Nov, 24, 1858, Retrogressive Progress of Venesucla—Projet for the Con. wohidation of the Public Deit—Improviee? Diplomats— Abecnce f Protection for American Intereate—Proposed Reception of General Paes, ie., de. | am at present in the nominal capital of Venezuela, un- tt the capital shall be determined by the Convention, which has assumed all kinds of power and responsibilities, without the authority of a constivation to base their acta upon. consequently, all such acts are supposed to be un- ‘coustitutional. All matters in Venezuela proceed tail foremost. The Venezuelans crucify Jesua Christ on Thursday and cele- brate the resurrection on Saturday. The anniversary of independence falls an the 6th of July, but they commence the celebration on the 4th, at 12 o'clock, and iMuminate the evening before the day of celebration. Thus every- thing i* adelante except jnetice and the payment of debts; there are far behind. By the report of the Secretary of jon, the pablic debt vtands. Foreign debt... Titercet unpaid Domestic debt. The country is kept poor by a host of unnecessary ex. penser. The entire population ts less than ffeen huadred thousand—equal t a third rave State in the American Tniot—each province having a Governor and Logisiative body, at a heavy annual expense. Suppose each of the covnties in the State of New York (whieh hay larger popniation than the provinces of Ve- bezueia) bad a Governor and Legmiative Assembly, and every town a Mayor and Corporation, as the cantons of Venezuela have, would not the State be reduced to and priests, all receiving poverty? Add to this a host of stiares from the public treasury, independent of their ex- orbitant exactions for ministerial perfor an army of militar y sober on the army fist, with a many generals as Lowis Napoleon bas ot every revolutionary Movement the old officers retire on thelr pensions aad aa entire batch of ere are created—<thus the expenses are muiti- phed, ard the bational debt increased Veneruela dees not adhere to the adage to “be just be- fore sbe = generons.” She provides for those vampyres: who are rxtracting the heart's blond from the nation, and pony oa «ber honest debts. The of the Trea- ry wury bas presented a | ogg cad for the dation of the foregD apd Comestic debt, against which a solemn protest bas becn inade by the domestic creditors. ‘The new Americam Minister, the Hon. Mr. Turpin has not appeared at the seat of ,overnment, waiting im Caraceas, it is su for the government to go to him. Members of th jon, from the Orinoco district, who are acquainted with Mr. Turpin’s habits, consider bim a good bueiness map, and the: if his attention i# not diverted from bis public duties far the parposes of nm jation, as that of some of your foreign ministers been, he will make a good minister for the purposes that & minister is required here. The clase of animale cafled politiclams seem to be sidered as onqualified for foreign missions. Some of Kvropeap governments have appointed wo present them. Denmark heaappointed an) 3 353 i cary as ite (iplomat, who, after roi m, cooked hat and sword, . - i iat