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4 if See Ore ceeaen NEW YORK HERALD. in prices. Flour continued to rule firm at Saturday's quotations, while Bales were some less active—attributable Mainly to the firmness of holders. Wheat was firm, with sales of Western red winter at $185, choice Rpetacs 43 and go! EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, white at $1 69, white Western at $1 42. $1 Ee ree Chicago at $1.06. Corn was firmer, with sales of Western QPFION H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASBAU 8TB ] ricod, in store, at S6c., a 87c, and now Southern yellowmt oo 82c. a 86c. Pork was steady, with sales of new mess at beat th , eR, SD Ponce aampenee 1 mi Miubecription | $17 623¢ 0 $17 5, old do. at $17 20 a 17 25, and primo at money, vam dibeli eine Sper armen, _ | $184813 25. Thora was a good demand for future delivery. Tile DALEY TEAK ALD. every Sutuntact ete con per | Sogars.continued firm, and tho sates of all kinds embraced eopy, 0 $8 per wanin; the European Edition very Wemwrly | about 8004 900 hhds. and 2,600 bags Bahia, at rates Gt ote cents por copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Brit ra ng veg Shea Gr BS to any part of Che Continent, both to include peaeen: Ee given in another column. The st comp Gavia bait on the Sth and 20h of each mouth, at etx 13,800 bhds., 11,661 boxes, and 494 bhds. melado, The Path EMILY TIERALD, every Wednesizy, at four center? | consumption of sugar has increased from 269,466 tons, in Meee er Col ‘ howing a progressive in- UNPARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing dmportant } 1850, to 388,466 tons in 1858, I pee sited, from any quarter of the world: met se ane | crease in advance of population. Coffe was frm, with Beraliy paid for. waver Kenney, Ooneaus uno Pads | sales of 1,600 bags Laguyra and 600 do, St. Domingo, at One TIOe taken of anonymous correspondence, Wedo not | terms given in another place. ‘ The stock of Rio and return reheated communications. + advert Santos in this market was estimated at 20,000 bags. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every days advert ihe | Eccights were dull and engagements light, serted tm tho Wrexty Hn atp, Family Ca INTING ceccted with nentuess, cheapness and 4 | one Ney Cuba Movement in Congress, and patch, Its Probable Consequences Among Our Do= ecayed Political Parties and Factions. The proposed Congressional bill of thirty mil- lions in behalf of active negotiations for the pur- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, seven NOT RROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Rocrwoon—Ros- | chase of Cuba, viewed in the light of a partisan movement for the Presidential succession, is a masterly stroke of democratic policy. Whether RURTON’S NEW THEATRE, Brosdway—O'New, tax | the purchase of the beautiful and “ever faithful Resei—Nick or tae Wo ' island” may now be practicable or impossible, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus VsTeuan, this thirty million bill’raises a new issue, which LAURA KRENR'S THEATEN, No. 624 Boondway—OUR | must inevitably divide the masses of the Ameri- PNET ertecr " can people into two great parties—the one in fa- vor @f and the other in opposition to the general movement. The democratic party, in taking the initiative in behalf of bold and active negotia- tions, have thus placed themselves in the best position to command the field, because the pre- vailing conviction of the American people is that sooner or later Cuba must be ours, and because their prevailing desire is the earliest practical movement of the government in this direction. The Kansas slavery agitation of the last four years has left the democratic and ‘the opposition parties of the country in an unprecedented condi- tion of disorder and disintegration. Upon the re- maining fragments of their late slavery and anti- slavery party capital we can expect nothing in | 1860 buta loose, disorderly and riotous scrub race for the next Presidency, and a contest in the House of Representatives which may abruptly break up the generalgovernment and the Union. *But with the gencral rally of the scattered elements of the old democracy upon this auspicious party move- ment for the acquisition of Cuba, all the existing lines between sections and factions will disap- pear,and the democracy, from the brink of de- struction, like Napoleon in the critical moment at Marengo, will be enabled to charge back upon the enemy and win the field. In recurring to the vicissitudes of our political parties, it will be seen that in the presence of any great progressive popular issue, the party supporting it has become the dominant and irre- the disposal of the President, to be used as a first | sistible organization, and that in the absence of ben ia the eatin OL Seas analy any great and overshadowing national question up in Congress yesterday. The matter will be re- | the party in power and the party in opposition ported on ‘to: nd immediate action probably | F 5 px” > ae take plece. Very little business was transacted by have been frittered away into factions and cliques Congress. A resolution appointing Commodore | Upon paltry abstractions and the personal Stewart Senior Flag Officer inthe navy was adopted | jealousies of rival politicians. Thus it was that by the Senate. The House committee have agreed | the purchase of Louisiana by Mr. Jefferson, com- to abolish the franking privileges of members, and | prehending the outlets of the Mississippi and 9 substitute stamps to the value of one hundred dol- | rich territory of a million square miles in extent, lars for each meer, “The departments aro also | aanhling, at the trifling cost of fifteen millions of i ets ile stamps in lieu of the present dollars, the supernctut aroa of the United States, saps toner arth | rendered his administration und his party per- Seis ares lag NES a PR a fectly impregnable before the people. Thus it partment of the West, has been ordered to proceed | ld Jette i epubli to Fort Leavenworth, to assist the authorities of | WAS, t00, that the old Jeffersonian republican Kansas in suppressg the outrages in that Ter- | Party wound up its carcer of honor and glory to ritory. the entire satisfaction of the American people in The United States steamer Harriet Lane, of the | the purchase of Florida, under the administra- Paraguay fleet, was spoken on the 3d ult. in lati- | tion of Mr. Monroe. tude 20 04 S., longitude 34 W. She would put into The modern democratic party next, organized Rio Janeiro to repair machinery, = | under the auspices of General Jackson, elevated Additionals details of the revolution in Hayti | a4 maintained in power during his administra- have been received, and will be found elsewhere. tion mainly upon the bank question, went down ‘The constitution of 1946 has been proclaimed, and | h ith the fi ialveveln hich numerous decrees promulgated by the provisional | # the oa w poh copetns nin Sih brig hela og President. One of the decrees liberates ali the po- | under V - Buren, followed the death of the litical prisoners, and another deprives Soulouque of | “monster’” and the collapse of the “pet banks. his power, while his administration is characterized | Down in the dust the democracy would doubtless as having been a series of robberies. The republi- | have remained but for the lucky interposition of cans had taken possession of St. Marks, where they | the Texas annexation question. Upon this issue intended to remain until strong enongh to meet the |g national convention, elected to re-nominate forces of Soulouque in the field, or to attack him at Wan Buren, cast him aside, because of his oppo- ea ‘ | sition to the measure; and a comparatively ob- A bill for the suppression of prize fighting and for : scure and ordinary man was taken up as the the punishment of parties implicated, passed the | Senate of this State yesterday. | pledged and devoted advocate of annexation. Additional files of European papers reached us | Aud what was the result? Mr. Polk was clected yesterday afternoon from the steamship Jura. The | over Henry Clay, one of the very greatest of our dates are the same as those by the Niagara, which | great statesmen, and personally the most popular came to hand on Sunday night. | man of his day in the Union, next to Geueral _We have advices from the Bahamas, dated at | Jackson, Thus the Texas annexation question Nasau, N.P., on the 11th of December. The Cunard | yifteq the prostrate democracy at once to their mail steamer Karnak was expected at Nassauin a | feet; for the people could not fail to rememt few days. The salt pond at Inagua, belonging to “tag rs Peo} . msacectin’ the company, was advertised for sale by the Mar- the magnificent results of prosperity and power shal, at the instance of the bank at Nassau, to | Which had followed the acquisitions of Louisiana which itis indebted about £2,500. The Bahama | @nd Florida. After the annexation and the Mex- Herald urges the necessity of adopting timely mea- | ican war the party became distracted and divided sures to prevent the sacrifice of apiece of pro- upon the sectional division of the vest er aaere has cost the shareholders some | territories thus acquired, again doubling in 50,000. | extent the previons geographical area of eae have files of Turks Island papers dated at | 4. Union, Sait nig oppoeisk, seizing 3rand Turk on the 25th of December. The Royal | tpon the Mext 1 Is of G al Tayl Standard says:—At prosent our salt market js | UPOP “1¢ “extcan laurels of General Taylor, rather dull, although not more so than usual at this slipped im into the White House between season of the year. The canals, by which salt is | the main body of the democracy under General mostly conveyed to the interior,in the Unitea | Cass, and the anti-Texas, anti-Baltimore Conven- Btates, are all frozen over, and will continue to be | tion, free soil faction of Martin Van Buren. 80 for some two months to come; until these are In 1852 the old whig party, having no further open we cannot expect our trade to improve. There | business upon its hands, and having become poh vo the different ports of the colony, over | hopelessly demoralized from the conflicting pre- pear Salk tae keen Peo hid on | tentions of ambitious leaders, was routed, bro- Coroner Diakinksh conitaced his eters a Kea up and disbanded; and in 1864 the demoera- on stigation of ia the Elm street murder yesterday. Several wit cy were carried away into that desperate _, nesses were examined, one of whom positively slavery experiment of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, identified Glass as the person who fired the pistol which instantly rediced the party throughout The investigation wil be continued today. Wo | the country to a shuffling popular minority. Ia sive a report elsewhere. this condition the party has since continued, and nasty iene as Pemtig at one evening and | so remains at this day. With all the great por- hiss écabahtkeaor ath ‘w= Levy, the fur- | sonal popularity of Mr. Buchanan, and notwith- of which was laid over til] Mon- standing the division of th ition fo day next. $25,000 was appropriated for the “Cahle ant Tike okie aie celebration.” A very large lobby was in attend- i oe two candidates, and the want of organize- tion in the new republican camp, the democracy in 1856cscaped a crushing defeat as by a miracle. ance, As it was, the general rosnlt exhibited an oppo- The Board of Councilmen were in session last , evening, and a number of resolutions, which will be sition popular majority of over three hundred thousand. found in our report of the proceedings, were pre- | sented. A special committee was appointed to in- Nor does it here require any recapitulation of the election results of 1858 to show that the de- Veatigate into the present mode of weighing coal. fections and rebellions, and factions courses of In the General Sessions yesterday Joha V. Do | Close pleaded guilty to attempting to steal a horse democratic leaders and would-be loaders at the Jast session of Congres, have reduced worth $250 from John Gardner, and was sent to the the party to a much more deplorable Btate prison for two years. Angelo Teffani was pitas! of ities ease to steal a gold watch from ‘arles H. Tr, and was senten imprisonment in the State leas” Ohcten ‘iaier, condition than that from which it was resened by Guilty of potit larceny, was sent to the penitentiary | Mr- Buchanan. In desorting him, and in at- tempting to break down his administration these over ambitious aspirants and misguided leaders have comiitted such damages to their for foar months. Barney McGorry was tried for sten!ing $50 worth of lead from the New York Lead already sufficiently enfecbled party that nothing but come great and popular coup d’éat, under Company; but the evidence was conflicting, and the jury failing to agree were discharged. the auspices of the administration, can save them, The steamship City of Manchester, which arrived | Here, however, we have the required coup d'état INsow CRUSOR. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Tanne Fast Mex. AMERICAN MUSEUM, Rroadway—After- ning~A Laby AND GENTLEMAN IN 4 Paaruex- KNT—LOAN OF 4 LOVER. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— Kruiorten Bonus, Dane: New Year Calis, BRYANTS’ MINSTRF! ‘Way—NRGno BONGs AND BUHANICS’ HALL, 427 Broad LESQUES—-SHYLOGK. SNIFTEN'S CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.— Mxropiss, Borvesques, do.—Paovn-1 THmves. lay, January 15, 1859. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The New York Herald—Editien for Enrope. f, The Cunard mail steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, will loave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. ‘opean mails will close-in this city at cight 5. f the Heearp will be published at ovclock in the morning. Single copies, in conta, Subscriptions and advertisoments for any edition of tho New Yor« Beescp will be received at the following places {nm Surope:— Lospor,. .. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hilt Tanking, Siarr & Co.,74 King Wiliam street. Pamw......Lansing, Baldwin & Go. 8 Place de 'a Bourse, Lavanooot. Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street, R. Sinart, 10 Exchange street, East. Haver... Lansing, Baldwin & Oo., 21 Rue Corneille, Hawrrvro..De Chapeaunge & Co, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Herar will gombine the uews received by mail and telegraph at the effice during the previous week and up to the hour of pubiication. ‘The News. The proposition to place thirty million dollars at at this port from Liverpool on the 11th inst. at mid. night, discharged several hundred tona of cargo, | ‘took on board eight hundred tons of freight and six 5 =o tons of coal, and sailed on the 15th inst., at o'clock, for Liverpool, with tho Unitea | 1 thle thirty million bill 4s the initiative move- na Arm) on board. cap oo tee purchase of Cuba. It is a moye- cotton yesterday ombraced about 1,800a | Ment which, if boldly and vigorously follow 2,000 bales, ‘The market closed steady, without change ' up, will relieve tho Camoveney very o00e “to NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1869. their present disorderly, precarious, defoasible position, and place them on the strongest ground for offensive operations. It is a move- ment upon which all sections and factions and cliques of the party will be compelled to rally around the administration, thus presenting the administration and the party in a solid front for the succession. In this view we cannot but ad- mire the sagacity of Mr. Douglas. He under- standa the matter exactly, and from his cordial suppert of this scheme, at the first tap of the drum, he has put himself in the best posaible po- silion to recover all the ground he has lost, even in the brief interval to the Charleston Con- vention. On the other hand, we would admonish all those over cautious and scrupulous democrats of Congress, who shrink or hesitate upon this great measure, of the fatal mistake of Van Buren upon the Texas annexation question. His Raleigh letter was a model of prudence; but had his advice therein been followed, the California gold mines, and all the wonderful results which they have produced upon the commerce of the world and in the grand advanced march of civilization, would, perhaps, have remained un- touched dewn to this day. And who shall say that the acquisition of Cuba will not be followed with results ofequal moment and magnitude to the country or to the world? Atall events, as the “qnanifest destiny” of Cuba is annexation, and as the American people stand ready to socond the policy of the admiuistration upon the sub- ject, the democratic party in Congress have only to fuse upon this thirty million bill and the general bold and decisive foreign policy chalked out by Mr. Buchanan in‘order to produce a political reaction which will give them a splen- did victory and a new lease of power in 1860. Upon this great and popular movement we again commend the sagacity of Mr. Douglas. He has rightly chosen the strong ground of occupation, and he reads well from the book of the past the contingencies of the future. The Lobby Investigation at Albany. An Albany editor has been surprised. Cu- riously enough, the Senate has given one of the Capitoline journals a sensation, The Cold- streams have been stirred up at last. What has done it?—an earthquake, or a flood, or some other convulsion of nature? No, it is simply the upper branch of the Legislature of the peo- ple of New York. The subject is the lobby— the eternal, everlasting, ever present, omniscient lobby. The impelling cause of the splcy pro- ceedings in a body never particularly distin- guished for gaiety is the portion of the Gover- nor’s Message which animadverts upon the odious and corrupt system of assisting legislation, known as the lobby. The Governor thought that the third house was a colossal nuisance, and that the Legislature ought to take itin hand. The matier having been brought before the Senate, a motion was made to refer it to the Committee on Public Buildings, which committee is com- posed of one republigan, one democrat and one American. The matter was passed over lightly, and the motion to refer prevailed without dissent. On the next day came a serious request from Senator Wheeler, that the committee have pow- er to send for persons and papers, in order that hey may investigate the whole history of the lobby, from beginning to end. Then came the sonsation..thon onsned long ond -ac- rimonious debate. The old story of the Assy- rian feast and the terrible handwritiag on the wall was enacted over again. The Belshazzar o° republicanism trembled in its guilty shoes, “Tho thief,” says the dramatic poet, “in each bush doth fear an officer;” and the republican Senators affected to see“in this ordinary request from a standing committee a reproduction of the wooden horse which caused the downfull of Troy. But even Senatorial debates must have an end; and ffiat contest of which we speak was not an exception to the general rule. The Senate divided upon the proposition of Senator Wheeler, the yeas and nays wore ordered, and the vote was as follows:— YEAS AND NAYS ON THE PROPOSITION TO INVESTIGATE, BY SENDING YOR PERSONA AND PAPERS, 80 MUCH OF THE’ GO- VERNOR'S MESSAGE AS REFERS TO THE LOUMY. {Democrats in italic, Americans in sMAlL Cartrats, republicans in CAPITALS.) eAs—Meesrs. Brandreth, Burhans, Ely, Jomxsox, LAFLIN, Mandeville, Mather, PATERSON, Pratt, Schell) Scott, Spinola, TRUMAN, O. B. Wusziee, John D. Wil- lard, WILLJAMS—16. JOARDMAN, DARLING, FOOTE, Navs—Mesers. AMES, HALSTEAD, HUBBI LOVELAND, PROSSER, WIL- LARD—9. It will be seen that the entire negative vote came from the Governor’sside of the Senate, and that only four republicans voicd in the affirma- tive; so that we have the curious spectacle of an executive who is indebted to the opposition for the adoption of one of his most important suggestions. We shall not attempt to analyse the motives of the Senators who voted against the proposition. We place the facts on record, and leave the Senators to their constitnents. As for the investigation which the Senate has ordered, it promises to be extremely interesting. We are aseured that it will be thorough, agtive, vigilant ond searching in the extreme. Mr. Senator Wheeler has entered into it com amore. Tn order to concentrate the labors of the com- mittee, as far as possible, they will be confined to an examination of the proceedings of the noto- rious lobby chief—the absolute monarch of the third house, the State barber—Mr. Thurlaw Weed. During the past week he hes turned up at his old quarters, the Astor House, whete there have been summoned sundry little toa parties of spoilsmen, with a view to arrange matters so that Weed and his friends may seiae another instalment of the Corporation spoils. There was a little game on foot to shave the tax- payers of this city more closely than ever be- fore, and all the apprentices of the State barber were in close communion with him, sharpening the razors and polishing the ba: But they were not unwatched. The implacable Wheeler was on their tracks. He followed Weed with the keen scent of a bloodhound, through all his labyrinthian windings and turnings, ctreuttous as the clue to the bower of Fair Rosamond, or perplexed as the web of Penclope. Where Weed was there was Wheeler on his tracks. Sometimes they were so strong that the olfacto- ries of Whecler were offended; and, to speak familiarly, the Senator was compelled to hold his nose. Nothing daunted by the inodorous work, and armed with a large supply of moral disinfecting fluid, Wheeler proceeds on iis mission, enthusiastic as Loyola, por- severing as Marquette. He will follow the lobby chief to the West, along the line of the canals and the Central Railroad, and glean a history of all the mammoth lobby operations for twenty years. The printing jobs, the railroad intrigues, the canal humbugs, will all be thoroughly ven- tiluted. Trae, the investigation will be con- flaed to Weed; but he is the corner stone of the whole edifice of legislative corruption, and his history is the entire history of the lobby. The Congressional Committes exposed Weed to the eo be acceptable, The hour is | to raise anamount sufficient for tho salaries of ae fare ae = m}d the party which | Justices, as then fixed, without-rofercace to sttices boldly for it no will ny. Ve basil ia | Moronse, the, defendants ate oot Uablo for dhe of this m*ropolis, same, judgmen' e Court, which we SeBeeR WI ot tile peooly aaa 8 give in another column, was delivered on an ap- ‘Whe President's Cuba Policy What i a a peal from a decision by Judge Iugraham, who Do for Agriculture, Manufactures ®"" | declared that the Corporation was, under the olr- o ces, not liable, | Judge Brady, however, holds that the defond- ants are liable beyond all question, and susyect to the legal consequences of their liabi- lity. A similar decision was rendered in the ge- cond district of the Supreme Court. This settle- ment of the question proves the wisdom of the course the Street Commissioner is now pursuing— namely, refusing to contract debts for which the city would be liable, ata time when there are no funds in the treasury, and when no appre- priations have been made for any portion of the city expenses, THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. extent: of a free ‘wool operation—valns five thousand dollars; but the investigation now going, on promises to be much more extensive,. in- volving hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. No wonder that with such a prospect in view the republicans shrunk from the investigation called for by the Governor—-no wonder that tho Albany editor had a sensation. The sensa- tion given to Weed and his confreres of the lobby may possibly be more profoung than anything they have yet experienced. It would be a cu- rious exemplification of a great philosophical theory—-to wit, the compensating principle in nature—should the throats of the State barbers be finally cut by their own razors. je. The President has initiated with great cautlony and thus far with perfect success, his new policy for taking the Cuba question out of the hands of the filibusters and placing the acquisition of that island in a train of successful accomplishment. We have been for some time aware, through private information from one of our correspon- dents in Spain, that movements were being made there to induce Mr. Buchanan to send a Minister to Madrid prepared to “plank down” at once, in case any negotiation were made for Cuba. These efforts were continued all through last year, and no doubt had much to do with the delay in ap- pointing our Minister to the Court of Spain. Cautious and wary in diplomagy, Mr. Buchanan refused to be led into any scheme by the fulla- cious promises of hope. He demanded, and we have renson to believe that he received, some- thing more than blind intimations. His next step was to feel the public pulse in this country; for though he has mado his selection for the mis- sion, Mr. Preston has gone to his post without a word in his instructions in regard to | no proposition to authorise tho Preeident to renew the the purchase of Cuba. The public pulse will be | negotiations for tho purchase of Cuba, and to-place thirty, felt in the discussion of Mr. Slidell’s proposition | millions of dollars at bis command, is causing an immonse to place thirty millions of dollars in the hands | “cal of talk here, It is wondered why the Committees om i " + Foreign Relations, in both houses, haye so readily coim- % mn ea to be applied to the acquisition | citcain the plan, I learn from good souroos that it wap ol 6 Island, brought about by private revelations to the mombera of It may be two or three years before the policy | the committeos, of information received by the Prosidont so cautiously initiated by Mr. Buchanan can he | from eccret sources in Madrid, in regard to tho feasibility worked out to a successtal completion; but when | o& 4 okpee bani ie movement. This information it is worked out it will give an impulse to the ee al. cee Rl industrial interests of this country that will far | gayanco with the Cuba question to-day, It is understood surpass that given by the discovery of gold in | they will to-morrow, and then ask finmediate action om California. Great as our commerce now is with | the report to place thirty millions in the bands of the Pre- Cuba, the natural trade that should exist between poms hag dpccsscandlen nee pe ee : ap " stor Brown, the United States and that island is dammed and Miss, ; is in favor of a hundred millions, and zoay Bibby barred by a double line of tariffs and antago- | on amendment in the Senate to that effect, on tho ground nistic political systems that have a most disas- | that whatever is done in tho matter ought ‘to be done trous effect upon it. What this commerce would | boldly and well, according to tho magnitude of tho ques- at once become when the obstacles that now ob- ban The Reiraiiltgd that the former proposition, at struct and depress it are removed will be evi- gecesi Bid telaceanisnd 40° Cotonct Sams dent from the citation of a few simple figures.) | nor, who has command of tho Department of the West, to Cuba contains at the present moment s popu- | proceed immediately to Fort Leavenworth aud hold bim- lation of very nearly, if not quite, two mil- Le in aga ay the civil authoritics to eaforce the lions of inhabitants. Through the differences | }4¥S ssainst tho Montgomery marauders, caused by difference of climate, soil and jor ees a 8 itt progeny ion. Tho com- labor, they produce an abundant supply of | mittee agreed in general terms to abolish the franking two of the most important necessaries | privilege and to substitwte stamps, amounting to one hun- of life which we require, and they consume, al- | dred dollars per annum for each member, and that an ac though they cannot produce, an immense amount pat Ne ces nes Piokenan eee ae of the staple products of our labor. In this point | i. tien of the present franking priviloge. hoard of view Cuba is the complement of the industrial | change the mode of advertising lettings of mails, so that interest of the whole Union. We need not enter | hereafter transmission of mails alone shail be contracted, into the sugar and coffee question. That comes | for. : home every day to the cups and saucers of every lin Sepik Ea ear Gae pees man, woman and child in the country. But let | win soon take definite action upon it, They disapproved us look at the other side of the picture. Cuba | the recommendation of the War Department to purchase now consumes, at an average cost of $18 per | additional land near Fort Monroe for the school of artillery barrel, halfa million barrels of flour, of which [-practice. not ten thousand go from this country. Take date peareus nine bo revenue laws, under away the present duty of ten dollars a barrel, | 1.5 neither sce the a wrt amd ftee anh 9 and give Cuba flour at a cost not exceeding the | a measure, ns ably submitted by Mr. Cochrane, If this present duty on American flour, and she will take | important bill be defeated it will be through the stupidity from our grain fields one million of barrels of | 2%4 non-action of members. flour, with an imprescindable law of natural in- | _ Tere is trouble about the Detroit Post Office. Mr. crease. The same thing occurs in meats, butter, pedi da pty pie deat sonsne oe said, is to tp Pethoved lard, and olive oil, which is used as a cheap sub- | the man. baa ideas Sse neg stitute for the highly taxed lard. Of these she | Hon. D. L. Seymour, of Troy, arrived at Willard’s to- uses in the aggregate about sixty millions of eh 98 is one i a Sep emee of disaffected hards from junds yearly, of which not your Biate, come here to consult with Mr, Corning and the Emported tom ths county. ‘Tae away the | "st! sto snrininents Tee ina fiecal and political restrictions that now turn this commerce intg other channels, and their cost to Wasmmyoron, Jan. 17, 1859. the Cuban consumer would diminish at least It appears from a public document that the amounts one-third, and the consumptiou would immediate- | Paid and incurred by the Executive of Kansas, on account _ ly double. of extraordinary expenditures, were, by Governor Geary, __ In the trade in our branches of manufacturing sundlig that at otal 2 cg rss orton industry a similar state of things exists. The | state recommends an appropriation to meet the indebted- commercial value of the annual importations | ness. into Cuba of textile fabrics, metals wrought and ear pacino it ret paare Sy providing for unwrought, leather and other manufactures, weey Ter ‘the delivery of buncsmbe amounts now to between twenty and twenty-five reno racemes pdietoph gro? Rovabs: ron millions of dollars. The prices of these articles | House in the earlier part of the day, when it will be in- are about fifty per cent above what they would | sisted that the discussion shall be strictly confined to the cost if the trade with us were as free as it is be- | Measures legitimately before that body. tween the Atlantic ports and. New Orleans; Mr. Clemens, who was wounded in the duel with Mr. Wise, is still unable to walk or leave his room. His while, under the existing state of affairs, the pro- strength has been so reduced by suffering and confinement portion of the imports taken from us is, of cot- | that in all probability he wil! not resume his seat in Con- ton goods, five per cent; of leather, wrought and | erees during the present scesion, Ho came to Washington unwrought, ten per cent; of metals, fifteen per | '° tY the effect of change of association, cent; of railroad iron, sugar mills and other ma- tee oe S00 ests: eee ae ae nufactures, thirty per cent. Nearly all of this | amount to $112,609, of which over $21,000 haa ‘been paid trade, if it flowed into its nataral channels, | to the clerk. would go from us, and give employment to our There were comparatively few members in the House shipping, which now in a great measure goes to to-day during the delivery of the funeral eulogiee, which Cuba in ballast to take away its sugar and coffee: | Md Aout two hours. Probably one vessel a week only leayes the ports of New York and Boston the year round laden with a general cargo for Cuba. When Mr. Buchanan’s policy for its acquisition shall be carried to a successful issue, a shipload of Yan- kee notions would leave daily for that island. We have only sketched in the rough the great natural elements of trade between this country and Cuba—elements which can never be worked out until the political problem is first solved. When that is done an impulse will be given to the industrial mind, and occupation to the busy hands of our farmers, mechanics and merchants, that will act like magic upon our material interests. Every plough, loom and forge in the country will have new and con- stantly increasing employment. New manufac. sea = railroads, new banks, new mechani- cal appliances of all kinds, will be required for production ond trade. The daha will react sinahar ts itl Gascony: cn ae cali &, prvi . every nerve and fibre of society. Present re between New York and Europe, praying for » modi- lcation of the « poerprteheym ypreonna nig haben pea At"ot the drawbeck” "Roker tthe Gomes on Foe dividends, fallow lands will be stimulated to fertility, rents will go up, stocks will go up, Prices of everything will go up, and we shall enter upon o new decade of prosperity and specula- tion that will place our material developement as far abend of what it now is as the present Is ahead of that of ten years ago. Stagnation mv Fasuronastx Soormry.—There seems to be a sort of stagpation just now in the fashionable world. The exhaustion consequent upon two seasons of the Piccolomini fever has fora time killed the chances of any other ope- ratic speculation, and for the nonce our Fifth avenue belles are without this means of publicly displaying their charms. Of private parties thero have been comparatively few during the present season, and these have been confined to particu- ar cliques. Sexton Brown is so puzzled by the falling off that he has taken to examining the mortality tables for the causes of it. He has been so long occupied in trying to make the ex- tremes of joy and grief meet that it is but natu- ral he should expect to find the fruits of his marriage feasts turned to ashes. The daughters of our New York millionaires haxe all been dis- posed of, and there is consequently any number of Ialian Counts, German Barons and French Zouaves left pining in hopeless destitution. As filibustering expeditions are for the present used up, we fear there is no alternative for these un- furtunates but the almshouse. In Washington things fashionable are in the same inert state. There are but few dinners, and fewer balls. The host of scheming mammas and aspiring daughters who annually flock there are not as formidable as usual to the peace of bachelors. The lobby influences, which seek through the same delicate agencies to conciliate obstacles in ruling quarters, are comparatively quiescent, With the exception of an occasional diplomatic dinner, or a formal reception, there would seem to be as complete a lull in the fash- ionable world in Washington as there is here. The reason is patent. This is the short session; and in the short session, as every one knows, there is no time for the intrigues, political, social and amatory, which are worked out by the aid of dinners and balls. An effort is, we see, being made to redeem the flatness and insipidity of the Washington season by some’grand fée, which will have the effect of galvanizing it into temporary life. The ap- proaching departure of the British Minister, Lord Napier, has furnished a motive for such an entertainment. It is proposed to give this popu- ‘lar nobleman and his lady a ball, in order to mark the high respect which is personally felt for them, as well as the general regret caused by their recall. : We have two objections to offer to the project, In the first place, in a season like the present Washington is not the place where such a com- pliment should be paid. There are not enough familios of distinction in that city, just now, to render it an entertainment such as we desire to see given to Lord and Lady Napier. In the second, we think that in order to invest it with the features of interest which the universal es- teem entertained for them calls for, it should be given in New. York. Such a project has, we know, been for some time past in contemplation amongst the English residents of our city. We must take it out of their hands, and render it a Jéte cosmopolitan in i#s character, and one in which all, natives as well as foreigners, can join With this view some twenty or five and twenty of the leading families from the principal cities of the Northern States and Canada should be invited, together with the diplomatic corps and the most distinguished foreigners at present in the country. The only place suited for such a demonstration would, of course, be the Aca- demy in Fourteenth street, and musical arrange- ments might be made to impart to it ad- ditional éclat. The tickets would have to be priced bigh—say at ten dollars—in order to guard against overcrowding, and insure the liberal expenditure called for by the occasion. The compliment thus offered would be appreciated, not only by the distinguished subjects of it, but by the English government and people. Whilst it would demonstrate the high estimation in which Lord Napier’s character and social quali- ties are held by us, it would serve at the same time to disprove the stories which have beén circulated as to the causes of his recull—such, for instance, as the report of his alleged Southern proclivities ond associations—a silly rumor set afloat by the Sumner family in Boston. We trust that this suggestion will be acted upon at once by the numerous admirers of Lord Napier in this city. His lordship will probably leave early in March, and the ball will, therefore, have to be given some time in February. It will take several weeks to organize it on the scale which we suggest, and no time should be lost in making the neceseary arrangements. All things concurring, we think this fée may be rendered a most brilliant and effective one, and by its means the cloud of dulness which seems to have settled over our fashionables may be dispelled for a while. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE PROPOSITION TO PUKCHASE CUBA—THS KAN- SAS DIFFIGULTIES—-ABOLITION OF THE FRANKING PRIVILEGK—THE INDIAN WAR DEBT—CODIFIGA- TION OF THE REVENUE LAWS, ETC., BTC. Wasinnaron, Jan. 17, 1859, - ‘THE GBNERA® NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. TIURTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. Senate. : Wasmanaros, Jan. 17, 1859. The Senate chamber was crowded to excess, to hear Mr. Douglas pronounce a eulogy on Mr. Harris, of Tilinois, Mr. Sewarp, (opp.) of New York, presented the cro- dentials of Mr. Wilson, re-elected from Massachusetts, and algo the following resolution, which was adopted:— That the gen Secretary of the Treasury communteate nate an ftly anit Ax bot Hi paves ea enemas ot American vesgels are y in the palm ou trade on the const of Africa, the average number ‘of thelr Export and imports and tie ie oe Gut Senlted. aes them by the treasury of the United States, ie TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATIONS. Mr. Sarmps, (dem.) of Minnesota, offered a resolution inetructing the Committee on Territories to inquire into the expediency of organizing that portion of the original Territory of Minnesota lying weet of the new State, which wap adopted. PRETTIONS. TucrLow Wexp ann Hig Frrenps i Oav- cus oN THE ArraiRs or THe Merrororss.— We give.a report in another column of a very important caucus held in this city last week by Thurlow Weed and some leading republican politicians with reference to the plans and pro- jects to be carried out in reforming our city government, amending the charter and other schemes of which Master Weed ig so fruitful. It will be observed that somo bold plans were struck out, but on the whole there was o great deal of hesitation and timidity exhibited lest the prospects of the republican party in 1860 should be injured by the course pursued. If Mr. Weed and his friends only have the courage to go boldly to the Legislature with a plan for a tho- rough reform of the government of this city that is to say, with such a plan as will break up the corrupt system now existing in the depart- ments, concentrate the executive power in the hands of the Mayor, and give us what we most require—a responsible government—thoy will find that the prospects of the republican party, sofar from being injured, will be served, not only in 1860, but for all time to come. But if they go back to Albany with any half measures their party will assuredly suffer; for the people will revolt at any attempt ‘to tinker up the wretched municipal system under which this city is rapidly going to perdition. They are thoroughly alive to the necossity of an entire reconstrugtion of the government, and nothing ‘THR WAVY. tion, (of Fing omicer It) tho lod for the yeas and call B7against 14. | Ga, , moved to take’ the motion. iday of each weok for the con- LAG OFFIORR OF On motion of Mr. Hara, ( pointing Commodore i taken up. fr. 8, and it was adopted. Kee: Trunsow, (wim) of” from the table to sideration of private bills. RXPENDITURRS OF TIE GOVRRNMENT, Mr. Jonson, .) Of Tenn., moved to take from the table his resol Senn oie report a bill in accordance therewith, to limit the expen- a of the government within the revenue. Mr. Hunter, Chairman of the Finance Committee, ob- Jected to the subject wat ‘oforred to tile committee. z Luasuity or Tae Corroration—An Inrort- ant Deciston.—A case of some fmportance in the present state of the city affairs, relative to | « tect Comin. niet eahon yatgbaahane abimkied 1 4 . the Hability of the Corporation in eases where | i5.t0° being whether vo. nen to tho: Commiton ot We there are no funds in the treasury, and no specific | nance or a Bpecial Committee, but action was stopped by appropriation has been made, has been recently from the House, ie & message - oe eae “ TARRIA’ rH. decided in the Court of Common Pleas by omen Dovatsa, to the Riggs 4 er ae noarly re Oe, ae a eee of tenon | Tee ¢ last Legislature ealaries of Justices o e . the District Court were Increased, and this suit | which the Seunie a ig paren ee was bronght by one of them to recover such in- prose crease. The Corporation set up in defence that petty: TT Pu ie. sae they had no funds to mect tho plaintif’s | On motion ot Mr. Puxzrs, (adm.) of Mo., it’ was ro- claim; that they were restrained by | solvod that during tho, next two wooks from to-day it the amended charter from paying any | *all be tn order for the Committee of tho Whole on tha mon t for the specific pu for Biate of the Union to take a recess till soven o'clock, for which the appropriation is pte on that as the | “™*™ debate only. f ’ of CONMDRRATION OF TRH L ne . tax bill of 1857 only authorized the Supervisors Mr, Sravmevs, (adm) of Ga. il an Rooney, Wet