The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1859, Page 4

4 « W YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS TERM, cash én vadvamce. Money seni by mail will be at the wae fd Powage ‘wamips Not Ao as subscription THe DAITY HERALD. two conts per copy, $1 per annum. THE WEEKLY HEKALD, every Saturday, at six cents per cop or BS per annum, he Bicoporn Biliion A per annem to ony fart of reat "Brain, or $5 teany part of the Continent, both HERALD, every Wednesday, ot four cents per cvenaun. v KY CORRESPONDENCE, containing inportrn mews, i from any quirter of the world; of used. will be Tiberally paid’ for, Ra-OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE Pariovianey Bequestey To Srai ati Lerreus ax Pack- AgEs Sxnt us. Volume XXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS DAY AND RVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Afernoou and Beene Bevesrmanse—Granasnce 3x. GORGE AND THE RAGON BOWERY THFATRE, Bowery.—Afernoon—Avorrep OmLD—To ca-tioN-TAS—RAovt. Byeulng—Abasio—Tus Scuoonmssten—Lorreny Tiexer. 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CAMPBELL'S MINSTRELS, 444 Brondway.—Evening- Brmsoriay 8, &o.—Tun 1 New York, Saturday, January 1, 1859, To Paper Manufacturers and Agents. ‘The proprictor of the New Yous Himaun wants to make arrangements for a constant supply of printing paper, puch as the Hzazp is printed upon, to the amount of 1,000 to 1,200 reams per week, payable in cash at the end of each week. The News. for New York, at short of coal. .By her we have Liverpool dates to the 15th ult. four days later than previons accounts. It appears that Lord Abercrombie has arrived Te been appointed Minister to the United States, to succeed Lord Napier, in place of Mr. Lyons. At Liverpool the cotton market exhibited consider- able firmness, at the extreme prices current on the 11th ult., with an occasional ance of one-si teenth ofa penny in some ca: Breadstuffs con- tinued depressed. The money market was easy, smd cousols are quoted at 97} a 97] for account. A couple of shocking railroad catastrophes hap- pened yesterday on the road from Columbus to Macon, Ga. The most disastrous was caused by the train running off the track in consequence of a culvert having been washed away by heavy rains. The accounts we have received of the accidents are somewhat confused, but it is ascertained beyond doubt that between twenty and thirty lives have been sacrificed. The names of some of the lost and saved are given in a despatch: under the telegraphic head. Senator Douglas received a very flattering recep- tion from the citizens of New York at the City Hall yesterday, a full accountuof which is given. In the evening Senator Douglas wa renaded at his hotel, the Everett House, when he came out on the balcony and made a speech defining his po- sition in regard to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and our foreign policy generally. It was remarked that he carefully avoided recurring io any question of a personal character as between him and the admin istration, contenting himself with saying that it was the duty of a statesman to follow out his prin- ciples to their legitimate logical consequences, re gardless of the effect they may have on his own public position, Full reports of his speeches are given elsewhere. ‘Thomas J. Barr was nominated last evening by the anti-Tammany Democratic Convention to sue- ceed the Hon. John Kelly as representative in Con- gress from the Fourth Congres onal district, for the residue of the present term expiring on the 4th of March next. He also got the nomination of the Tammany Convention. A telegraphic despa y's paper contains the gratitying intelligence that Messrs. French and the first and second officers of the ship »y, of Boston, who were some time ago sen- to imprisonment in a Spanish dangeon for arily causing the death of a number of coolies uppressing a mutiny on board the ship in the Manila, have heen released from confine- rat Madrid. be reminded how persis- Our re y the case of eeks Was d upon the notice of our government through coluions of the HERALD. ‘The snow storm of Thursday degenerated into a rain on Fr y moruing, which continued with little intermission throughout the day. The tide was nnusnally high, and the cellars along the river sides of the city were partially inundated. Early in the evening a dense fog set in, which continued uptii a late hour, making the croceing at the dif- ferent ferries a matter of much time and great an- noyauce. The Sound steamers bound East were filled with passengers desirons of spending the holiday at the Eastern , but they had not their piers as late as ten minutes pastten o'clock P.M. in the Lower Z hat to discern the bows of a steamtug while standing on the stern impossible. The steamship jers ne We again chronicle tl vess of the Parage flect towards the Parana. The chartered steame: Westernport arrived at St. Croix, W. 1, at four o'clock on the evening of the 12th ult. and ex- pected to be off again at midnight. The Western- port had an excecdingly rough p from New York, bat behaved well, although she leaked about the propeller more than was pleasant. The United States war sloop Cyane arrived at Rio Janciro on the 16th ult., with all well. James McLaughlin, an ordinary seaman on | died on the 18th of October. The two ships af the Brazil sqadron previously at Rio had already sailed for the La Plata. Our correspondents in Havana, writing on the 25th ultimo, state that the e by the reading of Mr. Buc not subsided, but was only extending by government “Joysity of the people.” n’s message had restrained from appeals to the At a Christmas eve supper Mr. Buchanan's health was proposed by | @ beautiful young lady, in Spanish, drank nine times nine, and responded to by a Cuban re- turned from the United States. The weath delightful and the hotels crowded. The ba Cobb, of New York, which hod cleared for the African coast, was detained for some time owing to suspicious complaints of the British Consul to the Captain General. After investigation, her inten- tions were pronounced honest and legitimate, and “she was permitted to go to sea. ‘We bave files from Bermuda dated on the 7th alt., but the papers contain no local news. Later 4, without date, had heen received from the her islands, In Barbadoes the Legislature was inseasion. There was a petition before the House from the United States Consul at that islani pray- ing the remission of tonnage duty on a vessel char- tered by it, and bringing a cargo of coal to Barbadoes for the United States steamers of war on their way to Paraguay. The inroad of the sea along the whole of the cast coast —_ scare anemasiftete itement produced | —_ 3 ee a yr Ur ‘ of Demerara was complete, and the inner dam was the only protection which the town had against being flooded. Means were being taken to remedy this accident to the sea defences. A survey of the country has been commenced be- tween the rivers Demerara and Essequibo, with & view to their union by means o a canal. The weather had been very sultry, and some rain had fallen, The estates were busy in gathering in the crops. Col. Ready, administrator of the govern- ment, convened the Granada Legislature for the despatch of business on the 26th October. Steps had been taken by the Assemb y to introduce mea- sures for suspending the tonna ¢ duties on vessels trading to Granada, Cancemi, convicted of the murder of policeman Anderson, left this city yesterday by the three o'clock train for Sing Sing prison, where he is sen- t-uced to remain for life. ‘The Board of Supervisors held a special meeting yesterday at two o'clock, when several papers were ed and referred. A report was adopted in favor of paying the clerks employed by the Commis- Paraguay from which we may anticipate a great extension of our commercial privileges and poli- tical influence, not only in Paraguay, but in all the otber States of South America, Very true it is that the necessities of the trea- sury have compelled the government to resort to some heavy issues of notes and loans; but these are cue to causes for which Mr, Bueb » an is, we dare say, less responsible than Governor Morgan. And why? Becuuse the terrible financial collapse of 1857 was but the natural consequence of that «woversal carnival of overtrading, sp ewiating, lobby jobbing, stockjobbing, embezzlements, de- \alcations, kite-flying, paper money, paper for- ones, land grabbing, town lot, railroad and other joint stock ventures, set in motion by the golden discoveries of California aud Austra- lias and we presume that the republican pariy were mere deeply implicated in this specula- tive mania than Mr. Buchanan. At all events, the inevitable revulsion came with a crashing sanenay clea napabrasese w . ae to ht upen the federgl treasury, and treasury create & County Burean in the office of the Comp- a age io troller, the chief clerk to.have @ salary of $1,c00 | 206 And lonns have .thus\been, demanded ito make up tbe deficiencies of reduced revenues from reduced importations, And so itis that while the legacies inherited by Mr. Buchanan from Filimore and Pierce have largely increased the neecssary government expenditures, the speculu- tors, pecalators, stock, land, bunk, railway and lobby-jol bers’ legacy of the late revulsion has quite as extensively diminished the treasury re- ceipis. lsat she difficulties thus accumulated upon the shoulders of Mr. Buchanan, we maintain, instexd of custing his administration into a state of “suspnded animation,” have only confirmed its living «nergy and intrepidity. We refer to his late snnual Message for the proof, for here we have a schedule of measures and suggestions presented to Congress which, if promptly and fully followed up, will not only relieve the treasury and the country from the still existing pressu'e ef the late revulsion, but will clear the calendar of all our outstanding accounts in re- ference to Cuba, Mexico and Central America, and put a Pacifie railroad into practical opera- tion, To this extent the administration has done its duty, and the responsibilities in the premises now rest upon Congress. Here, how- ever, we come to the place where the shoe pinches—here we find, in reality, the controlling characteristic of “imbecility,’’ and a most de- plorable condition of “suspended animation.” And bere we may say that if the existing ad- ministration, with its offices distributed, and its power and purposes limited to its appointed term of office, has less of influence over the managers, aspirants and disappointed spoilsmen of the party, than the game and scramble for the plun- der of the succession, the trouble lies deeper in the system than any acts of omission or commis- sion chargeable to Mr. Buchanan. He has specifically recommended his line of policy, foreign and domestic, and he awaits the action of Congress. If Congress shall adopt his mea- sures we may hold him responsible for the con- sequences; but if the present session shall ad- journ without providing for the current necessi- ties of the treasury. or for the settlement of our pending cmbarrassments concerning Cuba, Mexi- co, &e., the responsibility will belong to the de- moralized Presidential parties, sections, factions, cliques and leaders of the two Houses, while the administration will stand absolved and secure in the confidence of the country. To sim up: while the historical facts, acts and eventsof the past year fully vindicate the living energy, in- dustry and sagacity of the administration, the President’s Message of December last proves its readiness to grapple with all the great re- sponsibilities of the present, in view of the ne- cessities and contingencies of the future. The administration lives in health and vigor— it is the demoralized democratic party, and it is the disorganized opposition league of all fac- tions in Congress, that are in a state of “sus- pended animation.” a year; Auditor, $1,500; bookkeeper, $1,750; assis- aut bookkeeper, $1,000; assistant clerk, $800; mes- senger, $600. The Board adjourned to the second y on Jenuary. The Voard of Aldermen held a meeting last even- ing, President Clancy presiding. Messages were received from the Mayor vetoing extra allowances to messengers, and a resolution to extend the hospi- talities of the city to General Houston was adopted. A letter from the Comptroller, showing that the sale of the iron of the Crystal Palace realized 115 65, was referred. The Board adhered to its former action in reference to the sale of the lease of the North Battery. A vote of thanks to ihe President was adopted, to which he appropri- ately retarned thanks. Votes of thanks were also recorded to the several clerks of the Board, the sergeant-atarms, messengers, &c., for their dili- gence and the trustworthy discharge of their duties and the courtesy of the reporters of the press duly acknowledged. An ebony gold heeded cane was afterwards presented to Alderman Tucker with ap- propriate ceremonies, and that gentleman having expressed his thanks, the Board soon after ad- journed. The last session of the Board of Councilmen for 1858 was held yesterday, the President inthe chair. After some routine business had been disposed of a resolution offering the hospitalities of the city to General Houston was adopted. A resolution from the Board of Aldermen in favor of extending Beek- man street across the lower end of the Park was concurred in. The Street Commissioner was also authorized to open a curved carriage way across the lower end of the Park. The resolutions of the Board to extend the area of the Central Park and to widen the Seventh avenue from the northern boundary of the Park to the Harlem river, was re- turned without approval by the Mayor. Compli- mentary resolutions to the President, clerks and reporters of the press were then adopted, and the Board adjourned. The inclemency of the weather continued to prevail yes- terday, and if possible in a more disagreealle form than the day previous, rain baving fallen instead of snow, filing the streets with © slush,” or dirt and snow com mingled in a half dissolved state. The cotton market was quite steady, with sales of about 1,100 baies. Flour was in fair demand st steady prices. Wheat and corn were without change of moment and sales moderato. Pork was dull abd lower, with sales of new mess at $17 60 and new prime at $15 40. Sugars were firmer, and foreign were sold at an advance of one-cighth cent por Ib. The sales embraced about 1,000 hhds. and 506 boxes, at rates given in another column. A statement of stocks will be found fn another place. Coilee was firm and stocks light. Freight engagements were limited and rates unchanged. The Year 1858—The Successes and Draw- backs of Mr. Buchanan's Administration. One of our Seward cotemporaries of this city coolly says that “the characteristic of our pre- sent federal administration appears to be imbe- cility;” that “except in the matter of collecting taxes, making loans, spending money, and run- ning the nation into debt, the federal govern- ment, inthe hands of Cass and Buchanan, has fallen into a state of suspended animation;” that “everything undertaken by Mr. Buchanan has proved a failure.” Thus much for the general charges. The specifications which follow are : the failure of the administration to “force a slave State constitution upon the Territory of Kansas;”’ the failure to defeat the re-election of Mr. Dong- las to the Senate: the failure of “the proclama- tions of the President ” and of “the feeble efforts of the federal officers” to stop the filibusters; the failure to prevent the revival of the African slave trade in the South, andthe failure to pun- ish, arrest or discover the guilty parties, Against these loose and flippant indictments let us bring a few facts to bear. This day twelve months ago the administration was saddled with various troublesome legacies entailed upon it through the “imbeciliti of Fillmore and Pierce. including the Kansas entanglement, the Mormon rebellion, the Central American im- broglio. and the Walker filibusters. Next, the administration was confrouted by a Ovn Crry Rarroaps—Brancu Loves Wayt- yp.—Although there may be a gocd deal of well grounded dissatisfaction on the part of up- town residents in regard to the mode in which our city railroads are conducted, still no one will dispute the fact that these roads are among the greatest of latter-day improvements, and the idea of abolishing them and falling back upon the omnibuses would find as few supporters in New York as would the idea of abolishing the use of steam as a locomotive power and re- turning to the system of stage coaches. Some of these days we hope to see the causes for grumbling that now exist removed, and our city roads conducted on the principle of the lowest rate of fares combined with the highest mea- sure of accommodation. In the meantime, we think that the establis ma- jority in Congress practically reduced to | ment of two or three branch lines of roads are a minority from the treacherous and de- | indispensable to the perfection of our present moralizing schemes of Presidential leaders | system of city railroads. The branches that we and cliques within the party camp. And yet we suppose it will be conecded by the most unscrupulous opposition agitators that the Kansas difficulty is practically settled against the institution of slavery; that the Mormons have been reduced to submission; that the af- airs of Central America, internal and interna- tional, have been brought into a good shape for an early, definite and comprebensive settlement; that the Walker filibusters, notwithstanding their repeated efforts to re-enter the territory and re- assume the government of Nicaragua, have been arrested and defeated in every attempt by the careful precautionary proceedings of the adminis- tration; and that while the African slave traders were duly admonished of the unmistakable laws of the United States. of which the President is the responsible executor, every available effort, un- der the as been made to punish the of fenders of the captured slave ship Echo, and to discover and to bring to trial the offending par- ties, if there be any, of the mysterious yacht Wanderer. These things, then, are among the achieve- mente and proceedings of Mr. Buchanan's ad- ministration during the past year, They pre and activity, i stead of betraying any evidences of “imbecility” or “suspended animatton.”” Nor does the calen- dar of the practical work of this administration stop here. It has accomplished something posi- tive and isfactory upon that vexed, never ending and still beginning British issue—the right of search. Jt has achieved much in the pacification of the turbulent Indiaa tribes, from Dacotah to Texas, aud from Oregon to New would indicate are the following:-From the Astor House to the South ferry; from the Astor House to the Fulton ferry; and from Chatham square, by East Broadway, to the, Grand street ferry. The first would not be liable to the objections that have been properly urged against a Broadway road, be- cause the distinguishing teristic of Broadway, as the fashionable promenade of the city, does not extend farther south than @ham- bers street, and this branch line would not, of course, interfere with the beauty and gay ap- pearance of that great thoroughfare. While, therefore, we do not see any well grounded ob- jection that can be urged against this branch, there can be no question as to the immense con- venience it would be to the public, connecting, as it would, with the Eighth, Sixth, Fourth and Third avenue railroads at the Astor House, and affording to the residents of Brooklyn, and to persons doing business down town, facilities of travel of which they are now deprived. The next branch line of importance would be that from the Astor House to the Fulton farry, hy a singlé track in Fulton street and another in Beckmen street. With the establishment of this branch there would be a continuous line of ears from the most distant points of Brooklyn to the most northern poi of New York, the only break being at the ferry across the 2 This branch might he extended fier river, 80 as to give the same fac residing in Jersey City and Hoboken. The third branch would also prove of convenience to the residents in Williams), in the eastern quarter of this city. Tt sent arecord of life, energ: river to to those great gand ght to Mexico: it has established several highly | strike off from the Second and Third avenue nsefal overland mail lines from the Missis- | tracks in Chatham snare, and ¢ end through sippi river to the Pacific Ocean, which have | Last Broadway aud Grand street to the Grand greatly contrilmted to establich the feasi- | street ferry. bility of a Pacifie railroad; and while All these branches should carry passengers ihe administration has also largely extended the range of our commercial operations in China, Japan and elsewhere, in the Eastern hemisphere, it has adopted « method of active diplomacy with at one or two cents, and have arrangements for transfer with the various other lines. We do not know any projects of improvement in con- nection with city travel that are really so de- iver | sirable as there, or that would comman] a larger share of public approval and patronage. Wio- ever will set about and suceccd in establishing them will realize a fortune, and will entitle him- self to be regarded us a public benefactor, New Year's Day. ‘To-day we usher in the new year in the usual New York style, which is, as we have before re- marked, by no means a good style. We are all tuppored to enter upon eighteen hundred and fifty-nine with a large package of good resolu- tions, which are manuf ctured on the last day of every Dece » ber, to be broken up on the first day of every January. The manner of celebrating the day—that is, making it the excuse for a baccha- ation orgie—is the chief cause of our self-stultifi- cation. As arule, a general holiday among a miacé population like ours is a general nuisance, made so by drinking, fighting, and rowdyism of all sorts. Tbe deduction is plain, that if the univcieal celebration of New Year's isa nuisance, and we have within the last week received en- dorsements of our strictures upon it from many respectable quarters, we say that it follows plain- ly that such a nuisance ought to be abated. At the came time we do not assume the Spartan or Puritanical code, and attempt to deprive the peo- ple cf all classes of any recreatious or amuse- ments of a proper and beneficial kind. We favor the increase rather than the diminution of holi- days, Our argument is that the practice of general visiting on New Year's day is proper enough for a village or a small town, such as New York was a hundred years ago, but that it is manifestly absurd in a great me- tropolis, with a population—suburbs included—of over 9 million souls. Our social life is as yet disorganized, and very many people-—-the rising generation especially—require some training he- fore they can behave properly in a drawing room. The history of the observance of New Year's Day may give some shadow of excuse to the bar- barians who abuse it here. It was dedicated by the Romans to the god Janus, not the most re- spectable of the mythological deities. The Romans celebrated the anniversary of the double-faced god with shows, masquerades, games and feasts, andsoon. Very likely they roasted a Christian or two, by way of cheerful and seasonable variety. The early Christians fasted on this day, by way of contrast to the heathen. So it will be seen that we have fallen back into the siough of heathenism. At the time of the Reformation, however, the Anglican church gave us the example, and, with the Roman church, assigned the day as the period for the feast of the Circumcision. To the Romans belong the custom of visiting on New Year's, and that of presenting gifts, which were only at first respectful tenders from the servant to the master, or the inferior to the supe- rior. It does not appear that the Roman custom took root in Britain, the festival of Christmas having been the chief holiday from time imme- morial. In ‘Holland, however, the custom of celebrating New Year’s Day was universal; and the old Knickerbockers brought it to New York, where it has degenerated from being a period of cheerful festivity to a general bacchanalian orgie, alike injurious to the fame of the city and dis- graceful to the boasted civilization of the age. We believe that the custom is not observed to any great extent in any other city except San Francisco, where, if all stories are true, it is even a greater nuisance than here. We believe that the custom of celebrating New Year’s Day is going out. It involves great ex- pense and trouble for no adequate recompense. As we are informed many people will not re- ceive to-day; and, judging from the terrible con- dition of the strects at the present writing, the number of visiters will be smaller than usual And finally, if the younger portion of our people desire to preserve a vestige of their favorite holi- day, they must be careful to use its privileges in a more guarded, temperate, sober and polite manner than heretofore. Thus and thus only can they have a really happy new year; for which blessing to all our readers we sincercly and earnestly pray. Tur New Crry Govennweyt.—All the officials of the city government elected at the charter election of the 7th of December assume the func- tions of their several offices to-day. We have so often previously expressed our opinion of them, and of the probable results of their selection for the important offices of trust they are to fill, that it is unnecessary at this juncture to trouble our readers with any further comment thereon, We publish in another column to-day a concise and interesting sketch of all the departments of the municipal government, with the names and occu- pations of the several officers, by which the pub- lic may learn the specific duties, terms of office, salaries, patronage and responsibilities of cach. Thus, almost at a glance, the whole constitution of our local government can be taken in. We have no doubt that this document will be very acceptable to our readers, for there are many who are not thoroughly acquainted with the workings of our municipal system. Wuar Prosvect ty Coxaress?-—-The holiday recess taken by the two houses till the 4th of January is significant of a controlling determina- tion to do nothing, and avoid everything, except the annual appropriations and the floating jobs of the lobby. Thus, upon the tarifl, the finances, the increase of the steamers of the navy, the Pacific Railroad, Cuba, Mexico, Central America, we take it for granted that nothing will be dono. We shall doubtless have some gassy debates apon Kansas, Arizona, the African slave trade, the Walker filibusters, specific duties and ad valorems, the upshot of all of which will proba- bly be a hurricd passage of the regular appro- priations at the fag end of the session, a general scramble of the lobby, a large batch of spurious lobby items, and the necessities of the govern- ment at home and abroad left in the most pro- mising state for an extra session. In short, the lobby and Presidential jobbers have taken pos- session of Congress, aud are actively undermin- ing the treasury, the government and the Union When will the country wake w ‘Toe Moret Virsow Fexp—Lacra Krese's Liammanrry.— We have been requested to state that the proceeds of the performance of the play of Our American Cousin,” at Laura Keene's theatre, for the benefit of the Mount Ver non Fund, bave amounted to five bundred do¥ars, which sum has been paid over to Mist F. J. Montgomery, the Indy Secretary of the society. We feel much pleasure in moking this statement, and in publishing the reecipt for the amount named above: — Received from Miss Laura Keene the sum of five bnndred dollors, being the gross receipts of the smatines in ald of the Mount Vernon Find, on Wednesday aiternonn, Dec. 20, 168, ‘S600 ALAZAUATE J. MONTGOMERY, Secretary. sr.—In Springfield, Mass., a man by the name of F. M, Gowdy, a bartender at Jeat’s Warerley House, eloped on Friday uight with a widow Newellen visly bad ¢ rin that town-sienving his help: leas family, coneieting of a feeble wife and two sick girla, to tak ¢ Of themeelves He took with him his —e only means of support, in, the shape of $700 in cash be longing to hie wife, which be gotout of tue bauk by pra- curing bis wife's Dank book. ee —NEW YORK FFRALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1859. THE LATEST NEWS. TERRIBLE RALROAD CATASTROPHE. Shocking Accidents on the Macen, Ga., Rall- Road—Twenty Lives Lost—Names of the Killed and Reseued, é&c. Auausta, GA., Dee, 31, 1858. ‘This morning the train from Mucon ran off the track two miles from Columbus, and « freman and wood passer were kilicd, and G, W. Smith, engineor, bad his jaw broken. Nouo of the passengers were injured. The morning’ train to Macon ran off the track at Adams’ Mifls, in consequence of the culvert being washod out. J. H. Millor, engineer, the firemam and wood passer, and several of the the passongers, were drowned. About a dozen were saved. It 13 supposed about thirty persons wero ou the cars, The (oliowing bodies ware recovered :— ‘Two Misses Guiges, of Salem, Alabama, W. B, Suell, train hand. A lady and three children, of Toxas. ‘Two ladies of Columbus, names unknown. ‘Tho olker bodies have not been recovered. Twelve persors have beca saved :--Dr. Walker, of Co- lumbus; Dr. Phillips, of Atxbaina, 8. W. Blake, of New York; Conductor Snell; a gontieman from Texas; a geu- tieman from Alabama, four others uaascertained. Among the killed, it is believed, aro— ‘Thomas 0, Brien, of Charleston. ira West, of Georgia. Miss Van Ness. Ceieate Sharp. W. P. Dupee, of Houston county, Goorgia. Our Special Washington Despatch. REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENT BENT TO BRITISH COLUMBIA—GEN. HARNKY'S OPKRATIONS AMONG ‘THE INDIANS—SUMMARY PUNISUMENT OF THK SAVAGES-—MORE CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE Wa- TROUS—FESTIVITIES AT THE CAPITAL, FTC. . Wastnncroy, Dec. 31, 1858. Mr. Nugent, special agent of the United States to the Fraser river region, arrived bere last evening, having come from California by the Tehgantepec route. ‘He called on the President and Secretary of Btate aud gave full information as to his mission. We leaf that the Americans in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island are very much annoyed by the continual exactions practised upon them by the colonial government and Hudson Bay Company. Before leaving Mr. Nugent published an address to the Amert- can citizens resident in the two colonics, admitting the existence of many abuses, but promising the intervention of the United States government for the redress of those griovances, and exhorting the people to strict obedionce to the Jaws of the colony and of Great Britain. Before his departure Mr. Nugent was entertained at a public dinner by the American residents. A number of British subjects attended, and tho affair passed off plea- santly ‘Thero were about three thousand people on Fraser river. ‘At the time of Mr. Nugent’s departure they were con- stantly keaving, but a number haa expressed their deter- mination to winter in the mines. Some four or five bars were paying well; the rest of the country was not pro- ductive, Governor Douglas had been appointed Governor of British Columbia and had published a proclamation orga- nizing the colony of British Columbia ana legalizing all previous acts of himself and his subordinates in the local government. ‘The War Department reccived to-day additional advices from General Harney, detailing in full his movements among the Indians. The General had gone tofwork in good carnest to subdue the Indians. He had apprehended and hung the five Indians who murdered Indian Agent Bowlin some time since, and established various military posts in tho Indian country, with the view of suppressing Indian depredations. Father Dismute, the Indian missionary who went out with him, had com- menced bis services among the red men, and was accom- plishing much among the upper tribes. The General thinks that the Utah troops can be amply supplicd with provi- sions from the Walla-Walla country. It is stated that the prosecutors of Judge Watrous are preparing evidence of other charges to impeach him be- fore Congress. ‘The Spanieh Minister will entertain Mr. Preston at din- ner te-morrow. Mr. Preston delays his departure from Washington till Monday in consequence. ‘The French Minister gives a large ball to-night. It is reported that he hag tabooed the gentlemen of the press tn his entertainments in consequence of the liberty some of them mercilessly took with bis nose last winter. ‘TH GENURAL NEWSPAPER. DESIATOU. Wasncton, Dec. 31, 1858. Late and direct intelligence from Havana reiterates that much excitement prevails there concerning the President's: Message, but affords no basis for the belief that a revolu- tionary movement is contemplated. The gencral tone of the advices from Mexico is sueb as to warrant the assertion that the intervention of the French government bas not been requested for apy purpose, while it is repeated that the an- thorities of Tampico have, through the efforts of the Captain General of Cuba, satisfied the claims of certain Spanish subjects, this being an isolated case; the additional statement is made that the difiicultics be- tween the government of Spain and that of Mexico are in a fair way of an early adjustment. From another source of information in this city thero fare doubttess good grounds for the recent telegraphic statements from New Oricans concerning filibuster move- ments against Cuba. Release of Amertenns from Imprisoument in Spain. Bostox, Dec. 81, 1858, George French, formerly first oflicer of the ship Waver- ley, of Boston, and Mr. Weeks, second inate, who wore condemned to ten years imprisonment for endeavoring to suppress a mutiny on board that ship, in which so many Coolies lost their lives, at Manila, have been liberated by the Spanish government, through the intercoseion of Mr. Dodge, the United States Minister at Madrid. at Albany. DINNER TO GOV. KING—THE COUNTERFEITS ON THE BANK OF TROY. Atpany, Doc. 31, 1858. ‘A large number of the prominent citizens of the State, embracing all partic, have united in tendering Governor King a complimentary dinner on his retirement from of- fice, in token of their esteem of his private and oilicial character. About $4,000 in the counterfeit twenties on the State Bank of Troy is already discovered, Tho Motropolitan Bank of New York has $1,500 and the Clearing House in this city about $700—the latter, it is said,can be traced. It is suggested that the excellence in the engraving of the counterfeit may be traced to the consolidation of the bank note engravers, by which many able engravers were thrown out of employ ‘ Steamboat Collision, Sr. Loum, Dec, 31, 1858, The steamers Dickey and Uncle Sain came in collision with one another on Wednesday, seventy miles below here, The Dickey was damaged $5,000. The Erie Canal. ALBANY, Doc. 31, 1868. The Canal Board have upanimously ordered the lake harbor memorial to be forwarded to Washington, leaving the Canal Commissioners t subjoin the argument em- bodied in the draft submitted by Mr, Ruggles. tre at Detroit. Derworr, Deo, 1, 1858, A fire broke ont here early this morning, in the building ocoupied by the Detroit Daily Trinme, destroying the building, with al! ite contents, Lose $25,000; insured about $20,000" ‘The publication of the paper will not be sus pended, The Opera in Boston—The Weather. Bosrox, Dec. 31, 1868, Mr. Ullman, the opera manager, aud Mr. Barry, have taken a lenge of the Roston theatre for ove year, com. mencing on the Ist of June nest, for operatic and dra- matic performances, The name of the theatre is to be 1 to the “Boston Acatewy of Music.” Mr. Ut + company give thelr last performance on Tuesday afternoon next, when they return to Now York, The opera eevson hore has been very successful and remaner- ative Wo have had « thick snow storm this moraing, but i is now moderating, with indications of @ thaw, No steam- boat mail left last night for New York. Arrival of the California Qvertana gral, Sr. Lowss, Dec. 31, 1858, ‘The overland mail, with San FraucioNo daice Of the 3@ 4 inst., arrived here last night, Vive pusogers left Sey Francieco with the mail, three of wom stapped at Fore Smith. The rowds from San Francisco to Red Birer wore 2004, and from thence to Tipton very bad. ‘The accounts from the Giia river mince continue fa- vovable, ne of the mail stations bad beeu robbod of its catire stock of muics by the Indians, ‘The svow and ice on the route Lad nearly disappeared uador the influence of the late warm weather, a ‘The Emigration to Cuba. Nuw Ousxans, Dec, 31, 1868. 1 ivate advices received here condrm positively the re- port that a number of Axtericaus were in Cuba, ready we aid the revolutionists. ‘They ail lefs here with regular passports. Homicide, and Lynching of the Perpetrater. Amanta, Ga, Dec. 31, 1868. A bailiff wamed Webb being shot and killea today ab noon by W. A. Choice, a public mecting was held at the Court House this evening to determine whether tho law should be allowed to take its course or Choice be hunged icamodiately. ‘thoy decided upou the latter, and a meb ® now asscinbling at the calaboose. The excitement is very great. ‘The Case of the Yacht Wanderer, Savanxan, Dec, 81, 1858, Five witnesses were examined inthe Wanderer case O-day, Dut their testimomy was unlinportaut. The case ‘6 adjourned till Monday. Reveption to Senator Deugias in Philadel- phia. PuLADRLMHA, Dec. 31, 1068, Extensive proparations are being mace by the frivads of Senator Douglas for a reception on his arrival horoe ‘The city Councils have tendered him the use of Ladepan- dence Hall to receive his friends. The Arabia Outward Bound. Hiaurax, Dec. 31, 1666. ‘The Cunard steamship Arabia, from Boston, arrived ab 4:30 Aj M., ana sailed at six o'clock for Liverpool. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Prinapecvits, Deo. 11, 1858. Stooks steady. Pennsylvania Stute fives, 9534; Lerpa| Railroad 2614; Morris canal 46's; Long Islaua Rail 11%; Pennsylvania Railroad, 427%. HANS, Deo. 81, 1858, 1,000 ‘vales at’1LA6. @ New Cotton uncbanged: aules to-d 11346. for middling; the sales of the’ week add up 87,500 dulce; exports 42,000, and the receipts 81,500, against 54,000 inst year; t tal exports to date 6 16,600 bales; re- celpts at this port ahead of last year 278,600 bales: de. at all Southern ports 765,000; stock 376,000 bales, agaiast 285,000 Inat year. Freights—Cotton to Liverpool,” 15-320. a Md. Sugar, 6340. 0.5%. for fair. Molasses, 27340. = 284¢c. for prime. Polar whalebone, 68c. Meas pork, $18 $18 60. Coffee quict at Ile. a 1X. for prime; gales of the week 13,500 bags, and receipts 6,000; stock 25,508 bags, against 92,600 last year. Monte, Dec. 28, 1868. ‘The sales of cotton to-day ware 4,600 bales, at’Ll Ke a 1134c. for middling, The sales of the Inst threo days sura up 10,500 bales, and the receipts of the same time 16,500 bales. Monmx, Dec. 29, 1868. “he sales of cotton to-day were 3,500 bales, at ua- char god rates. Montix, Dac, 30, 1858. Cotton—Sales to-day 1,600 bales. Prices casier but quctations unchanged. Bacrimory, Dec. 31, 1858. Our markets to-day are quite dull, with but little doi inany article, Breadstuffs unchanged, Moss pork, $1 25a $17 60. Lard, 10c. a 11 ie. Pautapenema, Dec. SL, 1858. Flour dull. Wheat—White, $1 30 a $140; red, $1 25 = $126. Corn firm; yellow, 70c.; white, 66c. Whiskey dull at 24 3c, a 26240. Cincrynani, Deo. 31, 1858. Flour dull and holders willing sellers at $4°75 a $5, Hogs unchanged: 800 at $6.0 $6 26. Provisions unsettled; holders firm. Lard, 11c. THE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS. MOVEMENTS OF SENATOR DOUGLAS. THE RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL—LIS RESPONSE TO MAYOR TIEMANN’S WELCOME-——HOW THE POPULACE GREETED HIM—AN IMMENSE PRESS OF PEOPLE —THK CITY WALI, BESIEGED—SCENES, INCIDENTS, POPU- LAR REMARKS, WITTICISMS AND THE LIKE. ‘Ihe Hon. Stephen A. Douglas is having showered upon him, thick and fast, testimonials of attachment, personal and political. ‘The steamer which brought him hither had hardly reached her dock before the telegraph wires were at work spreading the intelligence of his arrival through- out the city. A properly constituted committee of the corporate authorities immediately waited upon and ten- dered him the city’s wolcome—the city’s hospitalities. With sedulous attentions he and his family wero conveyod to the classic Everett. Next morning, bofore he had re- covered from the fatigue and commotious of the sea, there ‘was a great rush, a great commotion of visitera, to see him. His reception room was crowded with the mea of mark in our metropolis—men distinguished alike in commerce, arts, literature, politics, or because of their wealth and position. This flattering ovation was con- tinued until yesterday in a private way. ‘Then the city’s quest bad a more public reception, in accordance with the following advertisement :-— Norice.—The Joint Committee of the Co oe appoluted to tender te hospitalities of the city totter Horne: yon A. Douglas, desire to inform the priblio that he hae a Friday, Dee: Si, at the Uity Hall, betwoon the hours of L aad 2 o'clock’ f. M. to recetve such of his fellow citizensor New York ag may Kemor him with a call. JOHN J. BRADLEY, HENRY W. GENET, JOHN LYNES, JOHN VAN TIN, THOMAS McSPEDON, JOUN PIAZE IC, THOMAS STKPHENS, ‘A.J. MOUARTHY, GEORGE STARR JAMES WEG, Joint Committee of tae Common Covnett. ‘The reception teok place in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen, Before one P. M. the halls that lead to the cham. ver were densely crowded by the unterrifled, while others kept pouring in, Squads of police were stationed along the halls to keep a passage way open, and it was not without some difficulty that they opened a way to the Aldermen's room for the egress of the distinguished Senator from Illinois. Mayor Tiemann accompanied Mr. Dougias. The chamber was immediately filled by the cager maltitade. The Mayor then addressed Mr, Douglas as follows :— MAYOR TIEMANN’S WELOOME 10 MR. DOVOLAS, Hoxonep Sm—On bebalf of the Coramon Council of the city of New York, it is my pleasing duty to welcome you here, and teuder you the bospitalities of the city. Iam happy to have this opportunity of expressing to you the bigh appreciation entertained by the citizens of New Yorke for you, andulso our high estimation of your past labors for the good of our common country. Our city, sir, is national, and joyfilly welcomes and honors the good and great from every section of our Union. On behalf of this ony, sir, allow to again to tender its welcome and hos. pitalities. SENATOR DOUGLAS'S RESPONSE, Mr. Mayor—I wiil not conceal from you the agreeable surprise which I felt on my arrival atthe whart io this city the night before last. I had not received the slight- est intimation from any quarter that I had attract attention of the authorities of this great city, muc that I should be received in this cordia! and complimentary manner by them, T confess that 1 was most agrevably surprised at it, New York stands pre-cminent, as she deserves to stand, the first city on the American continent, aud in activity and energy th in the world. New York is not sectional; she occupies her pre-eminent position as the commercial centre, the commercial heart of thie continent, and of « largo part of the commerce of the civilized world. New Fork can never be gectional—New York never can join in any fac tions that would disturb the peace of the country or the perpetuity of the Union, ‘The commerce of New York penetrates every State and every Territory. It carrics ite wealth and influence wherever the American flag waves, either over water or over land. New York, therefore, is national—national in the strict sense of the term—faithful to the constitution, loyal to te Union, in favor of a steady, firm and conservative government—of a government that protects life aud property and all the interests thatare dear to civilized man. To be received as the guest of this great city is a compliment which Idid not expect—one for which I fev! extremely grateful, one which I shall alwaye remember, and one whieh I trust my children will take a pride in.” Lrenew my grateful ackuowledgments to you for this mark of your distinction. (Applause. ) ‘The police then marshalled the multitude in line, so that they could advance by one side of the chamber to the front ef the speaker’s chair, shake hands with the “Little Ginnt,” say their say, cither commonplace oF otherwise, aud then retire by the other side of the chamber. Thero was a long row of people constantly seoking egress to the room, another seeking regres from it—one constantly ad vaneing towards the city’s guest, another retiring from him, while nis band was all the time kept moving up and down like a pump handle, and his body bending in sain. tation to the endless salutes which he received. The po- lice hurried one line of persons forward, hurried them in doing the agreeable to the Sonator, harried them from him, and rushed them out of theroom. The crowd inside wag intenge, the crowd outside in the hall was excessive, | and the multitude besieging the City Hail was immonse. The Fozcues were most pressing in their anxiety to seo 10 ‘Little Giant,’’ who comer victorious from the recent. hard fonght fteid of Miinois. He bowed and smiled and shook them by the band till his hand and arm must have felt that the reward of glory was more painful than the purchase of tt, Various, indeed, wore the congratulations and remarks that were incessantly showered upon him, One hige built, iron framed six footer, who towered abovo tho die. Uinguised Senator like a giant above a dwarf, with oxtasy exclaimed—"T am happy to seo you sir—tho ‘champion ef American freedom.” you ‘The xt visiter aait—"T am very ploaged to seo Senator—this is porsonal.”” Doveras—Vory wall, § Vierrsn—How is Mré, Douglas ¢ Dovaras—Kemarkubly well, I thank you. At this point an Alderman stepped up and offered to