The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1858, Page 4

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Single copies, tp wrappers, «x conta, Subscriptions and advertisoments for sny edition of the Naw Yous fixxaup will be received at the following placne in Rerope:— mpson Low, Son & Oo., 47 Ludgate Hili Lausing, Starr & Uo..74 hove Welham street, ‘The contents of the Quropean edition of the Himsarp wil! fowbine the news received bF mail and telegrapb at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of publteation, The New: The Cunard steamship Asia arrived at this port last evening with the European mails to the 11th inst. The news is two days later than the tele- graphic accounts received by the Pacific, and in some respects is important The Bank of England had reduced the rate of in- terest to two and a haif per cent, causing increased firmness and an advance in consols. American se- curities had also advanced, with an active demand for nearly all descriptions. The Liverpool cotton and breadstufls markets continued depressed, at the decline in prices previously reported. The application of the Atlantic Telegraph Com- pany to the British government for aid to enable it to lay down a new cable was soon to be decided. The company ask a guarantee of four and a half per cent on a capital of between five and six hundred thousand pounds sterling. The applica- tion is supported by nearly all the influential busi- ness men of the principal cities and towns of Great Britain, and as the government has already ex- tended aid to other submarine telegraphic enter- press it was believed that the application of the Atlantic Company would be complied with. The Nortara case continued to attract attention, but the feelng il has excited will probably rapidiy side, as it is understood, the Sacred College at has resolved to prevent the recurrence of after by not allowing Christians service of Jews. such an affisir her to enter into t For some tim past secret societies of ribbon men hi been rapidly multiplying through- out Ireland, but more especially in the southwe part, ao not long since the Li t issued a proclamation warning all persons that they incurred severe penalty by euch organizations, and also that every rt would be made by the authorities to suppress Accordingly, on the 9th inst., fifteen young men, said to belong to respectable families, were arrested at Skibbereen and Bantry. They are, it is alleged, accused of belonging to a society hav- ing for its object the invasion of Ireland by Ameri- can filibusters. ¢ dates from the China are to the 29th of Octo- The American Commissioner had not returned ng. It was reported that the Emperor » New Orleans we have news ito the 22d inst. The position affairs had not undergone any materi hange. It was reported that Zaloaga was preparing for flight, and that Gen. Marquez had been defeated near Gua- ara by Degollado. There were five h and three Spanish vessels-of-war at Sacrifi- 1 States sloop-of-war Saratoga was pof-war was off Vera aks favorably of Presi respecting Mexico, as © to Congress, and e Kuropean Powers to re- titude. i San Francisco dates to t St. Louis. It is report- n had been libelled to t New York. The feuds of the border raffians of Kansas have burst out afresh. It is reported the notorious Montgomery, at the head of two hundred men, at- tacked Fort Scott the other day, and captured town, killing half a dozen of the inhabita Gen A Mexican pap that the steamer Her fy claims of parties in Uh melee. The object of the assailants was to release one of their band who was in confinement on a charge of murder. It is furthermore reported that a gang of Kansas marauders had ravaged Vernon county, Mo., killing a citizen, and carrying off valu Die spoil in the shape of horses, cattle and negroes. Other depredations and murders are also reported, but we have no doubt that they are all greatly ex aggerated, The Grand Jory which have just been discharged, have re-indicted Charles Devlin, Charles Turner. Joseph RB. Taylor aud Praacis P. Vidal, for an ged conspiracy to defraud the public treasury Warrants were placed in the hands of Captain Dowling yesterday for their arrest, and they wil appear before the Recorder on Tuestay to give bail. Edward 0. Baker was also indicted for m demeanor, in wilfully allowing Dr. Gaillardet to escape from his custody. He was arrested by Capt Dow! og, and Alderman MeSpedon became his @uret At ‘ve meeting of the Board of Aldermen last @ren a resolution directing the Comptroller to adver\.-¢ for proposals for opening a carriageway tir ve lower end of the City Hall park was Adopt y 4 vote of ten to five. It was subsequent hy re ed that the road be paved with the Belgian pavrrcot. Itis designed to extend Beekman street through the Park to Barclay street. The ordinance relative to the Street Inspector's Department was faken up. The document is given in our report of the proceedings. Motions to jay the subject over to the next Board, and to refer back to the commit tee, were lost, and it was finally laid on the table, The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and Concurred with the Aldermen in passing a resola NEW YORK TWERALD, TUE ton extending the freedom of the city to or Orr, of the House of Representatives. They also | cencurred in reducing the appropriation to the Ta- firmary of Indigent Women from $1,500 to $500. . Several reports of Committees were presented and laid over. The report of the Committee onthe Tax Levy for 1869 was submitied, and was made the special order for Wednesday evening. As the report was imperfect, it was impossible to learn what alterations the committee have made in it, end it was sent back to them for completion. A report of the Committee on the Fire Department, refunding $250 to Engine Company No. 11, was adopted. The Clerk of the Board was instructed to prepare and; ublish an extended report of the proceedings on the celebration of the laying of the Atlantic cable. A sesolution was adopted remit ting $371 10 Mrs. St. John, for taxes paid to Ira A. Libby, Deputy Collector, but which was not credit- edon the books. The Board will meet every even- ing this week. Gen. James Gadsden, late Minister to Mexico, dicd at Charleston on Sunday last. A biographical sketch of the deceased is given in another column. The friends of the late Robert Owen, the socialist reformer, met last evening in Stuyvesant Institute, expressed their high esteem for the departed, and listered to a historical discourse from Mrs. Ernea- tine L. Rose, a report of which will be found in this morning's Hexanp. entatives of the Fire Depart- ment held an adjourned meeting at Firemen’s Hall last night. After along discussion it was decided to admit to seats in the Board the representatives of Engine Companies Nos. 5 and 16 and Hose Com- Nv. 49. A committee of three was appointed to remodel the firemen's badges. The Coroner's investigation into the cireum- e+ attending the death of Freeman Cutting, at a house of bad repute in the Fourth ward, on Sun- _Say, was concluded yesterday, The jury rendered a verdict that deceased died from wounds inflicted b M ‘ae! Flynn. The accused was accordingly locked up to answer. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 900 bales, dull, without quotable change in prices. Dealers were disposed to await the receipt of lator news, due by « Asia, before doing much, Flour was in moderate rar’, While the gales were light and prices without \arpe Of mombnt. Wheat was quiet, and sates retrctee to a lot of Dhimois red at $110, and of C)s ag) spring at pri terms. Corn was heavy for new, but firm for old, while sales were to a fair extent, including Jersey and Southern yellow at 4. «0/6, W! ite Sonthern at 78¢. a 746., and old West © nixed at Tic. a 78. Pork was easier, with sales of new mess at $18, end of old at $17 50; old prime at $13 3734 and new do. at $13 50 4 $13 6244. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 500 bhds. at rates given in another columa, Coffee wes firm, but quiet. Freight engagements were limite, while rates were unchanged. The Demoralized Political Parties of the Country=—Symptoms of a Popular Revolu- tion, Party caucuses and consultations among the managing politicians at Washington appear to be the order of the day. The latest has just come off at Silver Spring, the country residence of Francis P. Blair, a few miles off in Maryland. It was a council of war, of the Congressional chief of the republican party, and its business, as given out, was to compare notes and count noses on the probabilities of passing a Pacific railroad bill and a tariff bill during the present session, The conclusion of the deliberations upon each of these subjects, it turther appears, was an adverse report, from which it is manifest that these republican managers have resolved to keep open the tariff question and the Pacific rail- road job for Presidential electioneering purposes. And as with the republican party, so with the various leaders and cliques of the democratic party and the pipelayers of the American faction, all other things have become secondary and sub servient to the general game for the spoils and plunder of the next Presidency. Thus we are convinced that aH hopes of any Gefinite action upon apy of the great leading measures recommended in the President's mes- sage, foreign or domestic, may be abandoned so far as the expiring Congress is concerned. Pre- sidentia! gamblers, jobbers and spoilsmen make up the bulk of the materials of the two houses. And the deplorable spectacle which they pre- sent of demoralization, disorganization and brazen faced corruption is without a parallel in the history of the country. And the worst of it is that this malignant dis- case, like a loathsome and contagious epidemic, hus diffused its poison into every branch aad every locality of every political party, faction and clique throughout the Union. The demo- cratic, the republican, the Know Nothing organi- zations, have thus become thoroughly tainted, corrupted and repulsive. They have fallen un- der the control of spoils gamblers, lobby jobbers, and plotters and schemers for the plunder of the public treaeury, the public lands, and the pockets of the people. The administration of Mr. Bu- chanan is the only party nucleus remaining of a patriotic and honest character; but though it stands to-day stronger in the confidence of the country than ever before, it is without a party in Congress, The original divisions of parties in hoth houses have disappeared, and those intes- tine discords which were so broadly developed at the last session have cut up the democracy, the republicans and the Know Nothings, into the camp followers of this leader, taat leader and the other, for the spoils and plunder of the suc- cession. Hence these Washington caucuses and consul- tations. They are all directed to the next Presidential election; and everything that may be done or left undone in Congress will be passed or postponed, not from considera. tions of the public good, but from caucus and lobby electioneering calculations. Our national legislature bas thus so rapidly deteriorated since the Mexican war, that now we find it controlled by wrangling jobbers and plunderers scarcely lees unserapulous and debased than those of the revolutionary governments of Mexi- co, Central und South America. Such a low ebb | of morality, honesty, and all the elements of pa- triotiem, admonishes us of the re-acting tides of rome great political convulsion, a “reign of terror,” or a military despot, or the broken frag- ments of the republic, fighting against cach other, and each electing its own P nt at the point of the bayonet; or a general uprising of the peo- ple against all existing parties, party manager and chi country, themselves and property from mob jaw aud general spolia fk, to save the thei tion. This laet alternative is the only hope of a peaceful and conservative reconstruction of our political affairs upon a bealthy basis, The old whig party having finished its mission, very pro- perly disappeared from the stage—the democratic party has run to seed—the republican party has used up its available stock in trade—the Ameri- can party has collapsed, and its fragments are all adrift, Hence this present confusion and fermen- tation among party chiefs, and managers, and Jenders of cliques, sections and factions. Hence, among the democratic aspirants for the succession we find Wise, Hunter, Douglas, Cobb, Toombs, Slidell, Jefferson Davis and Breckinridge, each upon a different tack, and each with his train of hungry jackals around him. And so with 8, Chase and others of the repab- jican cagyp, and with Crittenden, Bell and others of the rup of the Kuow Nothing brotherhood. Of course, as Mr. Buchanan will be ont of the field in 1860, bis administration, on all sides, is | tbus regarded as a machine to be used, or as aa | obstacle to be removed from the Presidential | track; and thus upon the tariff, a general bank- rupt law, the Pacific Railroad, the filibusteriag question, Cnba, Mexico, Ceatral America, we find as many strings to the party bow in Con- gress as there are party caudidates for 1860. There is an old proverb which says that “When rogues fall out honest men get their just deserts;” but in this business of President making bonest men must take their place in the field, or the rogues will fall in and carry off the spoils | for which they are so ravenous. The honest bedy of the people, in other words, must antici- pate these party conventions of huckstering spoilemen, or the old rule of “ the cohesive power of the public plunder” will, perhaps, in the next canvass, reduce the general government to a general asylum of vagabond politicians and lobby jobbers, whose demands will sink us into general bankruptey, and in that common ruin which must ultimately follow a continued carnival of SDAY, DECEMBER 28, 18 government of ber own strong endngh to cope with the obstactes it is called to sarmount. The advices by telegraph from New Orleans, which were reovived by the steainer Tennessee, sbow that the constitutional government at Vera Cruz appreciates the takiug of such « position by our government, and that it finds both consola- tion and hope in that interpretation of the Pre- sident’s message. It thinks that that able docu- ment will induce the European Powers to recede from their threatening attitude, and enable it to reorganise the republic. If we may credit the reports from New Orleans which, however, experience has shown we must take with some allowance—the church party ex- hibits increasing signs of weakness. The consti- tutionalists in the northwest had again defeated the Zuloaga troops under Marquez; the clergy were not disposed to advance more money, and there was a proposition to establish a triumvi- rate government, The French and Spanish fieets continued at Sacrificios; but it is not stated that any attempt had been made to favor the church party by eaforcing demands upon the constitutional government in Vera Cruz. On the whole, we think that the game of Mexico must be played a while longer by the Mexicans scbeming demagogues and their hungry vagrants of the lobby. In view of a popular reaction against these downward tendencies of our effete political par- ties, it is only some such man as General Scott, who stands detached and above the caucus machinery of every party, and whose name, character and eminent pubKie services of half a century, afford the best securities to the country — it is only upon such a name that the people can anticipate and break down, and ride over, all the rotten parties of the day, and all their in- gevious devices for reaching the public treasury. And this is the very time for such a movement on the part of the honest and independent masses of the people, when the democratic and the opposition parties are prostrate and helpless from their late debaucheries. Otherwise, as the rain of every government destroyed may be traced to its scurvy spoils politicians, so may the ruin of ours—the fairest ever framed by wortal wisdom—be precipitated upon us from the same causes, while yet we are dreaming of security and peace, From the inflated corruptions which now rule the roast in Congress, our State Legislatures, our Corporation councils, far and near, we may sefely say that we have arrived at that critical point from which the next step is mob law, ora military despotism, or a peaceful and wholesome revolution by a general and independent uprising of the people. And why, in behalf of this move- ment, do we adhere to Gen, Scott as the proper re- presentative man? Because he is tied to no party. He bas only been the dupe of party managers in conventions and in elections, But be bears his wrongs and his poverty as bravely as his laurels and bis honors. He is above such small re- venges as those which have been betrayed by Van Buren, Fillmore, Seward, Douglas and other Monsing politicians. He is not such a fool as to hold that political honors and offices are his by divine right, nor such a knave as to make his persoval disappointments a public calamity. He is the man for the crisis; for, standing untouched and uncontaminated by the party corruptions of these evil times, he is eminently the man for the people. They have only to start him as they started Jackson, Taylor and Harrison, and he will be found young enough and strong enough fo act us the standard bearer of a popular re- volution. Mexican Affairs in Washington and Vera Cruz—A new Mexican Pacific Hatlroad Scheme, Our Washington correspondence, in another column, gives the particulars of a new scheme for a Pacific railroad, which is about being pressed upon the attention of government, Con- grees and capitalists. ‘The scheme itself is simply to ran a railroad across Mexico, from such a point on the Rio Grande os will connect it with the Aransas Com- pany road, already chartered by the State of Texas, through Monterey and Saltillo, to Mazat- jan, on the Pacific. So far as we can see through the matter, its great merit seems to be that it forms part of a straight line drawn from Boston through New York, Philadelphia and Wasting- ton, to tbe Pacific; and all that our government is requested to do is, that the Seeretary of War shall send a party across Mexico to find out the natural advantages of the route, just as he sent parties over several other proposed Pacilic routes, and then published, at an enormous ex- pense, ponderous books on them, which nobody reads. We do not, perbaps, perceive at once the whole of the benefits to accrue to the country from this plan, nor exactly what business the Secretary of War has just yet in surveying rail- road routes across Mexico, These points may be made more clear by and bye; but before such a time it seems to us that some few preliminary movements are necessary. There are a vast number of schemes now hatching in and about Washington, to be de- veloped in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Mexico generally. We should not wonder if sundry members of Congress and would-be members, Senators and would-be Senators, had a flager in them. Perhaps our old friend George Law has one, too, and sundry other strong speculators, The eggs are only hatching now, but the chickens belong to the game breed, and as soon as they get out of the shell we shall have plenty of fight- ing among them, and mutual exposares. The fact is that the auriferous ceuntry south of the Gila river bas been selected by general consent as the scene of our next great emigration and land speculation movement. The projects are already carried into Sonora as far as Gaaymas and the Yagui river, and how much farther we care not to say. But from all of these it be- hooves our government to keep aloof. It has nothing to do with Mexican grants and great Jand speculations, and will only dirty its hands if it meddies with them. Our course towards Mexico fs plain. We mast lend our moral countenance and our diplomatic assistance to the support of her independence. If we tuke this position we can then rightfully pre- vent the Powers of Wuropelfrom intervening in her affairs, The future of Mexico must be work ed out by the Mexicans themselves. They con- stitute some eight or ten millions of people, who have in their midst much to destroy which they only can destroy—a church mortgage upon the real estate of the nation, obtained without a coa- sideration or an equivalent; feudal privileges on the part of landholders; class distinctions and tribunals for the priest and the soldier; suporsti- tions and false principles, deep rooted in the minds of the people: and many other evils which they themselves can and will root out, but which would only be confirmed and protected by the sentiment of nationality, if the attempt were made by the stranger. What Mexico wants Is a themselves, and that the time has not yet come for our government to endeavour to settle it either with Mexican railroad projects or Mexican protectorates. Tor Orera—Tue Piccoromint Furong IN Bostox.—The Piccolomini troupe a expected back from Boston by the middle of next week» their last performance—“La Zingara”—being fixed for the 5d of January. Whether this arrange- ment will be adhered to of course depends in a measure upon their continued attractiveness, which, up to the present time, has exhibited no indications of a falling off. Their success thus far in Boston has surpassed the most sanguine expectations of the management. In about two wecks and a half Mr. Ullman has netted upwards of thirty thousand dollars—a receipt which nearly equals tbat of any similar period during the New York season. Considering the difference in the population of the two cities, it may therefore be inferred that, great as is the popularity of Mlle. Piccolomini with our New York audiences, it is exceeded by the favor in which she is held by the Bostonians, What have the hungry critics and other jealous detractors of this admirable artist to say to this fact? What have become of their sncers and inuendoes pointing to special in- fluences and a manufactured excitement as being the origin of her successes here. Leaving aside the fact that no manager, however adroit, can, by any means known to theatrical operators, secure the success of a particular artist, the Boston triumphs of Mile. Piccolomini have, we think, fully demonstrated that universality of power which we claimed for her from a close observa- tion of her career, In Turin, where we first heard her, and where the audiences are colder than in Florence, Milan or Rome, she excited just the same furor that was created by her per- formances in the other Italian cities, and subse- quently in London, Dublin and New York. It is clear that no reputation that was not sustained by the highest order of talent could have passed through such ordeals without losing its prestige. Whatever, therefore, may be asserted to the con- trary, Mile. Piccolomini’s triumphs in all the great centres of refinement and musical cultiva- tion in the Old World, as well asin the New, prove her to be an artist whose gifts, such as they are, are held in the highest estimation by the public. The dissent from these opinions manifested by # few small journalists here can only be attri- buted to the fact that they do not understand or appreciate the qualities on which Mlle. Piccolo- mini’s success is founded. They do not seem to be aware that on the lyrical stage other than mere vocal gifts are required to raise an artist tofame. Almost all the great names that have been made on the Italian stage have been ac- quired less through the perfection of their voices than of their dramatic powers. The world re- cognizes in the combination of a fair share of both a point of excellence to which it is given to but few to attain. Had Mile. Piccolomini happened to be what is conventionally styled by the critics a lyrical ¢ragedienne, there are #0 many standards to compare her with that her position would have been at once fixed by them, and the denizens of Grab street would have had no difficulty in com- prebending her. It is because she belongs to a different and rarer class of lyrical artists, who can pass readily from serious to light opera, and from the most pathetic delineations to the oppo- tite extremes of coquetry and humor, that she is an enigma to them. Were they to witness the performances of the French actor Bouflé, he would alike be incomprehensible to them; for, having neither feeling nor imagination, they cannot rise to the level of a genius which plays upon all the different chords of the human heart with a facility which nothing but the highest in- telligence can impart. To the public, however, who am always ready to acknowledge the impresssioas made upon them without the reserve of a jealous critical susceptibility, always on the look out for de- fects, the success of such an artist as Mile. Pic- colomini can be no puzzle, Whatever difficulty they may find in analyzing the means by which those impressions are produced, they admit, by the enthusiasm of their approbation, that they can only be the result of rare natural gifts, to which cultivation has added the little that re mained to be bestowed. Mile. Piccolomini is, as we have before said, a little prodigy who can- not be judged by any of the ordinary rules or standards of criticiem. Combining beauty, co- quetry, vocal power and dramatic inteili- gence to a greater degree than any artist who has preceded her on our stage, her success has consequently been greater than that of almost any of her predecessors, When ehe retarns here,on her way to Phila- delphia, we expect to see the matured feeling of our New York public towards her marked in a manner still more demonstrative than on the oc- casion of her first performances. As the troupe can only give a few representations prior to the fulfilment of its engagements in the former city, it is probable that the Academy will next week present scenes of eager thronging and excite- ment unequalled even by the extraordinary em- pressement of the opening season. Harp Tres ty Wasntworox,—From all the accounts we gather from the journals, the cor- reepondents and private sources, it seems that the Capital, as far as society is concerned, is as dreary as Goldemith’s “Deeerted Village.” There are none of the lights of the fashionable world illuminating the atmosphere—no parties, few dinners, and very little social festivity of any kind. ‘The hotels and taverns are almost empty, and the shopkeepers can only suck their thumbs, 58, —s > = victims of brighter times, and hoping for future plunder. The lobby is iv great distress. Con- grees bas get an aftack of economy, and cou tracts instead of expanding. The poor fellows of the third Mouse are hanging about the Capi tol hoping to scrape together a few dollars with which to pay their tavern scores, and then sneak off to their homes, Mong Inpicrmenrs Against Crry Orrtoras.—- We understand that the Grand Jury which was dismissed on Saturday last, before concluding their labore, indicted several officials and late officials in the Street Department and Bureau of Assesements—the same partics who had been before informally and unsuccesefully indicted on charges of fraud committed in the performance of their public duties. There is no doubt that plenty of grounds exist to find indictments against there individuals, and there is as little doubt that foundation can be had for indictments against the majority of the Common Council and Corporation officials, for the past five or six years, in which period some fifteen millions of the public money have been stolen; and if all the facts necessary to produce a conviction could be presented in these cases, it would be a good thing to press them on. But it is extremely difficult to do this, for the evil doers were cunning enough to hedge themselves in with all kinds of precau- tions, so as to render positive proof of guilt al- most impossible. Therefore, in this instance, as in the former one, we may expect that the indictments will have tobe quashed. The fact is that indictments can be so easily defeated now-a-days that they avail nothing as a preven- tive of public plunder, There is but one remedy—the election of honest men to office— and that remedy the voters of this city seem de- termined not to adopt. THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Our Special Washington Despatch. THE WABASH ON THE SYRIAN COAST—EFFORTS TO BRING THE JAFFA CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE—THE ANOMALOUS POSITION OF MINISTER FORSYTH, ETC. Wasnuetos, Deo. 27, 1858. Despatches were received at the Navy Department to- day from Commodore Lavallette, of the Wabash, dated Beyrout, Nov. 2, It will be remembered the Commodore ‘was sent by the government to redress the outrages com: mitted on American citizens near Jaffa. On arrival there he bad a long interview with the Pacha. Four of the out- laws are in prison, and the fifth, whom it is alleged is the guilty party, is yet at large. ‘The Commodore informed the Pacha that speedy action must be had with reference to them, The Pacha replied it would be contrary to usage, if not to tho laws of Turkey, to proceed to conviction or punisbment of the four until the fifth had been appre- hended; but he manifested a disposition to do all he could, The next day the Pacha convened the Council, and made out a case against the prisoners, which the Pacha suid would be laid before the Sultan at Constantinople. The Commodore transmitted ali the papers to our Minis. ter at Constantinople, and thinks there will be little or no Gelay in obtaining justice. The Wabash was greatly admired wherever she went, She will cruise along the coast of Syria, Palestine and 5 oR was at Smyrna, but the Commodore had ordered her to the coust, there to remain until her stores were exhausted. Gon. Houston leaves to-morrow for New York, where he will spend the remainder of the wook. The position of Mr. Forsyth, late Minister to Mexico, or at present Minister, as the case may be, 6 an anomalous one. It is quite evident the administration docs not require the services of this gentleman any longer. in Meaico. Besides, be clesed his legation, thereby virtually ceasing to be Minister; yet be pretends, or his friends pretend for him, that be bas not given up his function, ‘and is stil) Minister to Mexico, drawing pay, though now at bome isthe United States, and no chance of returning. Why do Ministers like Forsyth and others compromise the dignity of their character by hanging om to positions when they are no longer needed or useful, and especially when they are in way of usefulness? ‘The statement in the newspapers that the administration had scceived information of more filibustoring expeditions being fitted out in the South is not true, No such infor- mation bas been received. Lievt. Mygatt, of the Navy, Iately ordered to the St. Lows, bas resigned his commission. TUE GENERAL NRWSPANER DRAPATCH, Wasninoron, Dec, 27, 1858. Judge Samuel Black will, there is litte if any doubt, de appointed Governor of Nebraska, aad the vacancy on the bench in that Territory thus created be filled by a gentleman of Georgia, While the opponents of the Old Soldiers’ Pension bill estimate that from eleven to twelve millions will be re- quired to carry it ito effect, its friends say, from the most accurate calculations, the amount will only be three millions pw annum. There is, however, no prospect of the bill becoming a law. General Waiker is believed to be ia the vicinfly of Mo- bile. General Heaningsen is still in Washington. Among the recent confirmations by the Senate were Alexander Wilson, to be District Attorney for Utah Terri- tory, and Alfred M. Lay, District Attorney for the Southern District of Miesouri. A letter bas been received at the Indian Bureau, from the Commissioners engaged in surveying the Indian boun- dary lines, which says that they are under the Protection of Major Van Dorn, who recently inficted the feverest chastisement upon the Ca Mauches on the Canadian river, and that through his vigilance and that of the officers accompanying his command, the frontier of Western Texas is not likely to be molested again for a long time by these marauders, who bave disappeared and nothing been seen of them fince the Oght at Whitebita village. Southern papers received here contain accounts of an enthusiastic meeting beld at Columbus, Mias., to consider the subject of rendering material aid to General Walker in carry ing out his Southern emigration scheme in Nica- ragua. Several other similar meetings are also an- nounced It is said the sympathy of Mississippi is fully awakened in faror of Gen. W. and his plans, Our Washington Correspondence. Wasmaron, Dec. 23, 1858. New York Politice—The Democratic Organ out of Tune— Wendell, Stadman, Forney andl the Public Printing— New Fashion, de A paper pablished in your city, ealled the Daily News (which, by the way, I may state is seldom if ever seen in Washington), has enjoyed considerable government Patronage for the last year, given to it by Collector Sebell and other government officials at New York, who bave heretofore sympathised with the outside organization at Mozart Hall. Mr, Buchanan, in order that the demo- cracy may become “ barmonized,” has signified his inten- tion of having this patronage withdrawn from said paper, on account of its anti-Tammany proclivities. The Shoriif elect, Joba Kelly, and Mr. Otancy, County Clerk elect, have agreed to cooperate with the President in this matter, and as soo ne they are properiy and legally in vested with power in the departments to which they were each elector, the patronage of these two local departments will be no longer enjoyed by the above named journal. Mr. Willet, the present sheriff, and Mr. Connolly, the pre sent incumbent of the County Clerk's office, “have fod the News long evongh’'—so say the Tammany braves. Jobn B Forney, formerly chief in the “Kitchen cabinet" of “ Poor Pierce,” came very near getting a vory fat job about a week ago, The facts relative thereto are of inte rest, and as yet have not been published, because the matter bas been kept quite a secret. Steadman, the nominal printer the House, was tickled in the back, and pressed by several members of Congress of both the Hew cian aa republican samen to make Wendell, actual tt up” to the sum of tt home dotlars. send ma ia eyen at the ug: pn, and 1, dean bg of that personage ten thoveand dotla for the farther use Of hie name. Wenlol became. tube. nant, and refused. Steadman told Mr. Wendell that on the Slowing day he would resign as printer for the House, and left, Next day Wendell catied upon Sterdman, stating that he had reconsidered the matter, and that jt Lk ee man) would wat until the following day he would com. ire. Steadman accepted the proposition. This gave to Wendell canvass the House for the purpose of Ascortaiping whether, in came Steadman did resign, he Coult he elesiot and finding that he could not, he pat Steadman bis prve. During this dificulty Forney was consoling themselves with the souvenirs of the { Se tofegrapbed to come to Warhingloo. Forney seut a friend, wit it was foond that the Devg as demoorais and reprbit Foraey for peter of une tis suid that Shoat "would have worwed fed the rab amd #ac- eranded, Te Ponsion 61M thas prtased ven Meuse. Members tried to Rnb it with amendments, Dot by a peeliaraentary’ shally the enacting clange wag struck ‘ont, whick cut of Unor amendments; 80 When it camy to he voted for, by ayer and ere could be Bo doting. Tou list of poasiouers un. are aiany aus! ib os sal (uatit wal envall Upow peut an annual expense of cight mi! of The Pacific Raibrof Dill will pass’ the Sam The route seted upon seems dollars asmall majority, the “ compromise route,” culied also tue Central route, on or near the foity-secuad parailol of latitude, This bill with meet moh opporihon in the House, as the Southern fire-eaters declare that it should go further South—tbat the Central route is Seward's route, &e. Col. Ward B. Burnet bat travsmitte! Presideat Buchanan importunt and very imterestmg letters, in which he states that rich placers have been discovered in Kansas, the gold being of the best quality. s {rom Arizona has aiso reached the Department that miners are leaving Cali- fornia in great num Sorete ig gold ou the western portion of tho Territory. A new style of coat is in fashion here, and attracts com siderable attention on Pennsylvania avenne, tt is called the “Jones cont,’* and is patterned after that worn by the trainer of Heenan—viz., the great prize fighter, Aaron Jones. The time is not very far off whon Broadway dan- dics will doff their raglaus and don the ‘Jones coat”? Who would have thought that our fancy gontlemon would into such a rage about a coat patterned after a man ‘nown 48 a shoulder bitter? The style, however, i@ very becoming wo persons over five feet eight inches im height, inasmuch as the skirt comes midway between the knee and ankie, George D. Prentice lectures at the Smithsonian Instita- tion next weok. ‘Mrs. Julia Deane Hayne is drawing full houses at our ‘Congress adjourned to-day until January 4. Before # adjourned a member offered a resolution (as a burlesque on a resolution offered by a Douglas democrat of ltude Sn providing for a tax of three cents per pound om all the: cak sold in Washington. This is a specimem of the wit (!) of some of the members. About baif of the members only will go to their re- spective homes during the holidays. Wasutyaton, Dec. 24, 1858. A New Pacific Railroad Scheme—The Mexican Central Railroad—Air Line from the Rio Grande to Masallan— Views of the Projectors, dc. , dc. Within a few days past some copies of a smal! pamphiet have been quietly handed round here, showing that there is a route through Mexico to the Pacifle by which the vexed question of an interoceantc railway may be settled, without trenching upon tho troasury, the public lands or the constitution. This pamphlet has been prepared by a gentleman favorably known as a civil engincer and as an explorer of new countries. A few intelligent and far secing men bave been for Years engaged in maturing their pians for the execution of this project. They have secured a favorable grant from Mexico, giving exclusive right of way for ninety-wne Years, perpetual possession, exemption from all daties oa their materials, and free transit for all freight and pag sengers. Texas has given 2 charter for that portion of the transit east of the Rio Grande, with valuable privileges at the terminus on Aransas Bay. These privileges, with the usual grant of sixteon sections of land per mile, make this charter very valuable in itself, apart from its ideutiy with the inter oceanic transit, Those two companiea— Texan and Mexican—are co operating, and are preparug to present the whole subjrct to capitalists ia a proper . AS most Of the *:ansit runs through Mexico tim 4 men might fear to invest means iv it without some gus rantee of security besides their right and their owa power. Such guaraotee & now sought from our own government, in accordance with its avowed policy. This obtained, the combined companies will proceed promptly to the execa- tion of the work. ‘The particulars of the project are contained in the fol lowing synopsis of the pamphict above referred to:—If a line be drawn on the giove from New York tangent to we Gulf of Mexico, and prolonged each way, it willcut the Pacific coast near Mazatlan, and, passing wear the Society Islands, will strike Australia near Meibonrne; whilst, ia the other direction, it passes over Boston, through New. foundiand, and strikes the western coast of Europe. Upon lines contiguous to this air line may be coucentrated mone of the world’s commerce than upon any other poambie route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, But thie route is especially important in reference to our owa coun- try. IWtruns from the extreme to soulLwest Of the Atiantic Staten, uniting the factories of the North with the cotton flelds of the South, and both with the gold and silver mines of Mexico, whiist the wa0e inhabitabie region east of the Rocky Mountains is also by ‘connected with our Pacific slope. From Portland in Maine to New Orleans, by routes proximate to the direct line, a line ‘of ratiroads is neariy compieted. Various roads from the Atlantic coast, from the bd lakes, and from the chief citics in the vailey of the ippi, are tending towards the southwest, and nd their natural conjunction at Houston in Texas, wheace 8 road is now under coustruction towards the Rio ‘Grande, ip the direction of Mazauian. Zz ‘it conven! This is the shortest possible railroad route from all the commercial cities of the Auantic, the Gulf and the great wo It is also behewed to be the pow the Pacific coast. only feasibie railway to the Pacific, as it is the onty one that be by private capital aione. It presents the ai ing characteristic of beivg the farthest north that a short transit of the continent can be found, and the farthest south that a continuous railway cau be had from the Pacific to connect with Nh ghee railway system. It also offers to trade the option of rapid motion by railroad for long distances, or the siower aud cheaper motion by water, except for the short distance from Aransas Bay, on the one side, t@ Mazatlan, on the other. Thi tand traumit will pot exceed seven hundred miles. A good harbor may Yat moderate cost, and it is the furthest south that it is possible to make a goo! harbor on the west const of the Guif of Mexico. Tue route thence to the Pacific, near Mazatian, is exceedingly favorable for « railway. ascent to the table land ts gradua!, and Presenta no engineering difficulties. Natural yaps afford easy arough the mountaies. Tue table lant af- fords a smnooth and level way to the western slope, Cowan. which the route descen a broad, amooth vailey, the bench along the Pacific coast. The Rio Grane is the only stream of any magni to be bridge! Food, ls. bor and materials are abundant on most of the route, The climate is mild aod salubrious, Tue road may Be built and worked as cheaply a& any road cf equal leagth abywhere on this continent It is entimated that fifteen ious of dollars will cover the cust of _— track from port to port, with all necessary appliances for a suc. c3onetul and that ten miliiont more will ada second track, with priate increas. of machinery. When ai! the connections ohall have bees mais to Ma vatlan, os now ery ee ume for mais ond pas sengers from New York to Mazatian will uot excee! uve days, and thence to San Francisca ‘he time oy aioe. isfour days. But when California shal! hyve made a road from San Frascmco to the mouth of the Colvra te steamers may ron from Mazatlan to the head of the Gulf of California in two days, and tenes the mails inay go by raijroad to San Francisco in one day, making eit days from New York to San Francisco The pastage from to Australia, by Uhis route, also, will be ten days Shorter than by Panama. Interesting from Mexico. New Oaieans, Dec. 26, 185%. The steamer Tennessee arrived here to-day, bringing Vera Cruz dates to 224 inst. The news is undecisive. The Progreso speaks in high torms of President Buchanan's message, and thinks the position it takes with regard to Mexico will induce the European Powers to re- cede from their present aititude. It also anticipates that the liberals will reap some advantages from the toue ae sumed at Washington, and consequently that there will be Recessity for establishing the military posts in Chihua. hua and Sonora, as suggested in the message. Zuloaga was still in Mexico, but was prepared for flight ata moment's warning. General Marquez bad been de- feated near Guadalajara by Degoliado. The Archbishop had refused to advance any more money to the Zaloaga faction, A new government, under the form of a trium- virate, had been proposed at the capital. A fleet, consisting of five French and three Spanish war veesels, was lying at Sacrificios. The United States sloop of- war Saratoga was also there, Another American sioap of-war was seen off Vera Cruz. It is stated that one hue- dred and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver bad beon found in the vault of Mr. Forsyth’s house near the city of Mexico. Tt was rumored that Zuloaga had offered to place Mexico under English protection, and that Mr. Worrell had gone to England to arrange matters. Echeagaray had defeated Camano at the hacienda of Sam Miehatas. A Spanih brig-of war wat at Tampico. — Alabriste defeated the Zuloaga forces before A bottle was found at sea off Coatzacoatcos, enclosing @ Written statement that the Spavish frigate Guadalouge ‘was lost off Lobos Island, while preparing to attack Vera News from California. Sr. Lous, Dec. 26, 1858, The twenty-eccond Overland Mail, with Sao Vraneseo dates to the 28th ult., arrived last night, bringiag one through passenger, and several from way stitions, Bix companies of the Sixth infantry, man, have been assigned to service in (he Mohave coum- try; two companies, with the regimental headquarters, Lieut. Col. Andrews commanding, at Los Presidio, amd ome company each to Humboldt Bay and San Diego. ‘The San Franciaco Herald reports the seizure of the steamer Hermann by the United States Marshal, on ¢latma against her by New York partics, Reported Outrages tn Kansas and Missourt. St. Lovis, Deo. 27, 1858, ‘The Jefferson City Examiner learns from a reliable source that Fort Scott, Kansas, on the night of the 16th inat., war attacked by Capt. Montgomery, at the head of two hundred men, and the town taken, When the Aaa miner's ‘informant cecaped five or six persons had beea killed by them, The object of the attack, it was pre- fumed, was to release one of Capt. Montgomery's men, who was confined there under an indictment for murder. It was feared the town would be entirely destroyed, A deepatoh from Kansas City says that tbe Harrison- der Col. Hot *