The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1859, Page 4

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A portion of the United States squadron forming the Paraguay expediti were at Montevideo on the 30th November. It was expected they would sail in a few weeks forthe Parana river. The dates from Paraguay are to the 19th of November. It is stated the Paraguans were preparing to receive the United States forces, but itis evident that the prevailing belief was that the difficulty would be settled without recourse to war. It was reported that our government and Buenos Ayres were about to enter into an alliance, whereby the latter would grant the United States the right of free transit for our troops through her territory, and promised whatever assistance may be necessary for the con- quest of Paraguay. In order to counteract the effect of this project, an alliance of all the South American governments against the United States is recommended. Mr. Yancy, our Minister to the Argentine Confederation, left Buenos Ayres on the 27th November for Parana. The steamship Quaker City, of the Tehuantepec t New Orleans on Saturday, with ad- vices from San Francisco to the Sth instant. She broug!y redend twelve passengers, and eamship Golden Age dred and fifty passengers cisco and money scarce. The ships Great R from New York, and the Zephyr, from Boston, are the only arri mentioned from Atlantic port The California Legislature organized on the 4th. A very full and interesting de count of the seizure of the bark L tT, at New London, Connecticut, appears in our columns to- day. It will be observed that the attempt to fit out the vessel asa slaver, if made at all, was done ina very bungling manner. Much credit is due to Collector John Mather and the oth officials, for their vigilance and prompt the suspected vessel The ship Emerald, Captain William Cook, arrived at this port on Saturday from London. The cap- tain reports having experienced severe gales in his passage home. The first mate and one of the si men were washed overboard by a heavy sea daring the second gale. The rest of the crew s considerably at the same time. The annexed table shows the temp: atmosphere in this city during the px range of the barometer, the variation « rents, and the state of the weather at thee p during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. Ma— ure of md 2 vhog WON vy paw sf 5 &..li5|a001 Bun...) 16)30 24 Mon... |17| 30.85] Tues. Patel Wied. 34 60.63 38 ‘Thur. |2)/80.66!36 21/20 32)53)3, 22) 30 41/29) #4| et ell BRPZE ~aae4 SSSRLE: Fri Sat REMARKS, Saturday—Morning, dense fog; afternoon, overcast. Sunday—Clear all day. Monday—Cloudy and unpleasant all day; night, bright moonlight. ‘Tuekday—Clear all day. Wesnesday—Clear all day. Clear and very mild all day. Friday—Over at 13g P. M. commenced to rain, and continued the rem ler of the day and night. rday—Over We learnfrom a Minneapolis (Minnesota) cor- respondent that on the 15th ult. an adjourned meet- ing of the citizens of that place was held at the Court House to consider resolutions con demnatory of the railroad companies and railroad’ iy the State. There were about five hundred per- sons present, composed for the most part, as our correspondent asserts, of anti ad men, the Teadera of whom are defeated and extinguished politicians, disappointed contract seckers and members of the old and defanct railroad compa. | nies. The meeting was a very stormy one, and the Chairman, in the midst of great confusion and motions to adjourn, declared the resolutions passed. Our correspondent affirms that the resolutions were not even fairly voted upon, much less carried, and that all the real intellect, wealth and respectability at aka ents per | NEW YORK of Minneapolis were arrayed against them. The ob- Ject of the meeting was, he says, to injure the sale of the hondsin Wall street andin Minnesota; to make the main plank in the republican platform anti-rail- road combination, repudiation of State bonds, Kc. One of the principal agents in getting up this meet- ing he states to be a man who boasted publicly that he was an emissary of the Tribune. A despatch has been received in town from Mr. Cassidy, President of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company of North Caroliua, announe- ing that the river works have been completed by Major Morrill, and that a shipment of bituminous coal and black band iron ore ‘rom tie shy Egypt had arrived at Wilmingtou, N.C. The coal and ore loaded two barges, which were towed down to Wilmington by the steamer Houghton. On reaching the city the event was celebrated by the firing of cannon, s itis justly held to be of great importance to the interests of the State. ‘The foreigu news received by the Europa on Saturday came to hand too late in the @ay for its effects upon the market to be developed. Before the news was known the soles of cotton embraced about 4,000 bales, chietly on the spot, with a expall lot to arrive, closing firm on tbe basis of 124g¢. for middling uplands. After the news Was received no sales were reported. Flour was again better, with a ood demand and tolerably free sales, the market closing firm at the improvement, Wheat was firtnly held, and generally at rates above the views of purchasers, Corn was in good demand, with moderate sales at about 80c. a §2c. for Southern yellow,and Western mixed at 85e a $8c. Tye and barley were steady, Pork was somewhat less bucyant, while sales were Cair at $18.0 $18 1234 for new ness, aad at ) for old, aud prime at 312.40 a $13.50. Sugars were drm, with sales of about 1,000 bhds., chiefly New Orleans, and 150 boxes, at full prices Cofce was quiet, but firm. Freight ong gemeats wre light, and without change of moment in rates, orther movement in spices. Two cargoes of © Sold, one of 1,600 bags, by the Oak, and the op, ex John Patton, both on private terms, 29 6+, sold in lots at 934e,, now heli at 1ic., niento £old at 7c. The Great Changes in Europe and Americ: = The Work of the Two Statesmen of tie Age. The slackwater period in politics and diploma- cy that has for some time ruled the world has passed away, and an epoch of new political changes aid complication of policy, both in Ea- rope and America, is already berun. The initia- tion of this new order of things is maimly due to two statesmen, whose administrations of public affairs have been marked by uo ordivary ability. To Louis Napoleon in Europe, and to James Bu- chanan in America, is due the honor of establish- ing views of public policy that will change the entire face of the political world. When Louis Napoleon first attained power in France he was accepted generally by the world as a fool, who would not last long, but would lin the + | of the theories of soon give place to abler men. Ten years have elapsed; and in that time what great changes have taken place in Europe! In France the names of Louis Philippe, Guizot and Thiers, are scarcely remembered—their policies have left no impress upon the nation, and their statesmanship bas paled before the achievements of Louis Napoleon. And it is not alone in France that his policy has been felt. Founding the interests of his dynasty upon popular support, his policy has presented a strange blending of liberalism and despotism. By its workings the character of nearly every cxbine, and the policy of every throne in Europe have been changed, and their guiding statesmen shoved from the stage. Espartero and Narvaez have alike disappeared from public view in Spain, Manteuffel has sunk from power in Prus- sia, Nicholas II. and Nesselrode rule no more in Russia, Palmerston has waned in England, and even in Austria Metternich has not been able to return to power. The Baron de Buol there, and Cardinal Antonelli in Rome, are the only remain- ing exponents of the political systems that are passing away. With these changes of men the most important changes of policy, both as re- gards internal and external affairs, have been produced in the several cabinets. How these great changes have been produced. and men, whoin their day have been held as giants of intellect, were set aside, is evident to any one capable of generalizing the political events of the age. The overthrow of the first Empire resulted in the Congress of Vienna, where Europe was portioned out among the sove- reigns ruling “by the grace of God.” At that Congress a general policy of government was founded, which has been pursued hy the statesmen of Europe with great pertivacity, the spirit of which may be summed up single expression—resistance to the popular will. The result of that policy was the great explosion of popular wrath in 1848, which upset many thrones and threatened the princely families of Europe with destruction. Upon the great tide of that movement came Louis ng from the fac of Europe. To step was to ally rule with the will in Fr: and then to stimulate the of popular growth outside of her borders. Though in carry out this policy he forms of the most centralized popula: clement Tn Spain the co Queen Isabella has been eo vaintained through his Sar- ves her existence to him. Russia has stof the Crimean war with the overthrow Nicholas and the emancipa- tion of her serfs, Prussia has seen a libcral cabinet installed upon the ruins of the old one; and even in England, the men who, like the Duke of Wellington and Palmerston, constantly oppored concession to the popular demands, are rapidly giving place to those who labor in consonance with the new order of things, Austria, and the secular rule of the Pope of Rome, only remain of the old order of things es- tablished by the Congress of Vienna; and they, too, must soon pass away. While this new state of affairs is being estab lished in Europe by Louis Napoleon, an equally great statesman js initiating a policy in America equally in consonance with the popular develope- ment of the age, and destined to prodnee a like fruitfnl change. Mr. Buchanan is laying the foundations of a policy for our government that will be felt long after be ehall have passed away. Hitherto our growth has been the result of external circumstances rather than of a defined policy on the part of the government. In fact, we have grown from popular action alone. It was the course pursued by a party in Kentucky, which sought the opening of the Mississippi river to commerce, that forced the government into the purchase of Louisiana. The action of the jana filibusters against Western Florida led the government into the purchase of that penin- sula, Texas cane into the Union through the | movements of the popular masses, California | Was conquered by a band of emigrants from | Missouri before the Mexican war broke out. And Cuba, Mexico and Central America are at this | Moment the objects of popular contemplation and ‘incentives to popular movement, Hitherto and is the government has done all it could to resist these developements, but ‘without succe=s- The old style statesmen of both of the popular parties have followed the same course of policy. Van Buren and Clay opposed Texas; Polk, when he got Mexico, was afraid to keep it; Fillmore and Marcy held the same notions against the ac- quisition of Cuba; Webster and Benton alike dreaded new acquisitions; and the whole school of big and little statesmen who have attained power in the government have followed these traditions. ‘The consequence has been that the government has always been at variance with the popular course, though it bas in each instance been forced at last to acquicsce and give its sanction. Many evils, and not a few conflicts between our states- men and those of Europe, who have followed the Congress of Vienna policy, have resulted from this want of identity between popular develope- ment and national policy. Not sympathising with the popular will, the government has been unable to exercise a control over and guide it. Thus it was that such expeditions as those of Lopez, Car- bajal, Walker to Sonora, Raousset de Boulbon, Walker to Central America, and Crabbe, have been made. Mr, Buchanan, comprehending the folly o! following a traditional policy which, al- | ways opposing, has always been forced to sanc- tion the popular will, has thrown aside the old traditions of statesmanship and laid down new principles for the construction of a national policy, which, while it follows and guides the popular will, shall, through that course, exerclze some control over it. In asking Congress to sanction a negotiation for the pur- chase of Cuba, and to grant the means necessary to success, he has initiated a policy which will eventually control and settle the now tangled and embarrassing questions of all Spanish Ame- rica, In thus laying their hands upon the maps of Europe and America, and drawing upon them new lines which will affect the interests of civi- lization for ages to come, Louis Napoleon aud James Buchanan are but instruments in the hands of destiny. They are merely exponents of the popular will of the age in which they live. They have not nor can they grasp and comprehend the immense results that must flow from their rending of the shackles of tradition. Neither are they called upon to doit. It is theirs alone to study and comprehend the intel- lectual developement of the age they govern, and to see that the policy which guides their action be in consonance with the popular will. Then will their ideas and acts live after them, and continue to guide the ripening of nations. LeaisLative Moras.—The discussion in the Assembly, on Friday, on Mr. Opdyke’s resolu- tion calling on the Sheriff, Register, Clerk, Corpo- ration Counsel and Attorney of the city of New York to report the amount of their fees and sala- ries, was quite of an instructive character. No- thing can show more distinctly the influences by which the legislation of this State is carried on. In order to demonstrate the partizan character of the motion, Mr. Chanler (democrat) moved to extend its operation to all the counties of the State. The amendment, as might be supposed, was lost by a large majority. Then followed some amusing cross firing in the way of further amendments. Mr. Jeremiah moved to amend by inserting the name of the Health Officer of New York, and Mr. Chanler offered another amend- ment, inserting, in addition to the name of the Health Officer, those of the Port Wardens and Police Commissioners. When the democrats, finding themselves likely to be beaten on the original question, took this sweeping view of the subject, Mr. C. S. Spencer, a republican, rose and lectured his party on the folly of this special legislation in regard to New York, adding that if the organization was not destroyed by its friends, he expect- ed that ere long they would elect their sheriffs, county clerks, &c., them- selves, and then, he was very sure, their friends would not go to the Legislature to have their salaries razeed down. This argument told imme- diately on the republicans, and Mr. Opdyke’s resolution and the motion to reconsider were laid on the table for the day. The time is past when we could be humiliated hy such a spectacle as this. We have become so accustomed to the disposal of great public ques- tions as mere party considerations, that the open avowal, as in the present case, of the vilest per- sonal motives in legislation ecases to bring even inge of shame to our cheeks. We allow our- sto be sold unresistingly. like a pack of ebeep, to the factions who live upon the public spoils, and we must not be thin-skinned when they talk unreservedly of their crrangements for a division of the plunder. When there is no public spirit in the m there can be no honesty in legislators; 9 . all we have now got to do is to patiently submit our fleece to the shears. Rerorm or f Coumon Scoot System.— The Legislature has now before it the report of the Commissioners of Public Schools in this city, appointed in 1857, in the shape of a bill which they recommend for thb future government of the common schools of New York city. In many respects this bill, should it pass, will be an im- provement upon the present system. In the first place it centralizes the powers now scattered over some two hundred elective officers in the Board of Education, composed of the School Commissioners mainly, by giving them the ap- pointment of trustecs, of whom there are eight in each ward, and who are now clected by the peo- ple. Tt also gives to the Board the appointment of a City Superintendent, now appointed by the Supervisors ; a School Building Superintendent and Lis assistants, and abolishes the School In- Spectors entirely. It further provides for the ap- pointment by the Board of a number of truant officers to carry out the Truant law of 1853. Thus the school government is reduced within a tmaller compass, and the principal authority is concentrated in one elective Board, consisting of twenty-two members, who will be responsible to their constituents for the good working of the system. It is contemplated to bring the exist- ence of the present Board of Education to an end in 1860, the new Commissioners to be elected at the charter election of 1859, and to be divided into classes to serve for terms respectively of one, two, three and four years; and no School Commissioner can hold any other office, except that of notary public or commissioner of deeds. In addition to the Free Academy and other schools now existing, provision Is made for a Girls” Free Academy. The purchase of fuel, books and stationery, hitherto in the hands of the Board of Education, is transferred to the trustecs, These are the most material changes proposed in the reconstruction of the common school system, and they strike us as tending in the right diree- tion towards a wholesome reform, ‘The Presidential Questton=Can the Oppos!~ tion Fo anents be Combined t As the party leaders and managers of thie | Congress have mainly devoted their time, | studies, speeches, schemes snd intrigues to the crooked business of President making, we hare | become accustomed to look to Washington more in reference to the official movements of parties and cliques for the succession, than for any use- ful proceedings upon the legitimate business af- fairs of the two houses. Thus, the other day, the speech of Mr. Washburne, of Maine, endorsing the general drift of Mr. Seward’s Rochester manifesto as the policy of the republican party for 1860, is regarded as having been delivered by authority, and not upon the individual eesponsi- b lity of the orator, In response to this proposi- tion from the republican side, Mr. Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky—the great gun of the South Americans in the House—did, on Wednes- day evening last, put in the ultimatum of his party, which was represented in the Presidential electoral vote of 1856 by the solitary voice of Maryland for Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Marshall takes the ground that there can be no coalition between the republicans and the rump of the American party until the former shall have declared themselves ready to abandon the slavery agitation, and “to march upon a platform of broad, Union-loving and practical statesmanship And what chance is there that the republicans will make this inditpensable concession to the conservative opposition minority of the South? A very small climee, from present appearances, The Ameri- can yarty, which, with all its endeavors, North aud South, in 1856, was found competent to carry only the secondary State of Maryland, has since been so materially frittered away as to leave it utterly hopeless in any other State for the future, and its continued occupation of Maryland a somewhat doubtful question, In the meantime the republicans, from the Northern elections of last autumn, have been consoling themselves with the idea that they have recovered Pennsylvania, and have the Minois democracy upon the hip, and are thus in a position in which they can better dispense with the doubtful assistance of Maryland than that general raid upon Southern slavery, whereby they have built up their party, almost as a unit of power, among the Northern States. And thus, from all the signs of the times, we may conclude that the South Americans, evidently anxious to join hands with the republicans, will, hence- forward to the spring of 1860, find it impossible to do so except upon terms which will render the coalition in the South utterly incompetent to carry a single State, county or town. Such terms will, of course, be rejected; and Mr. Humphrey Marshall and his Southern opposition party, should no broader fusion movement be tried, will thus be left to choose between the democracy and an independent ticket of their own. Meantime we perceive that a new and active experiment has been started in Virginia for the resuscitation of the old whig party—an experi- ment, too, which seems to have been attended, thus far, with a remarkable degree of success. Should it be followed up throughout the South- ern States, upon the basis of the prominent fea- tures of the old Henry Clay whig party, the result may soon be such a respectable array of strength as will encourage all concerned to push it into the Presidential election, North and South, as a separate party enterprise, should nothing better be offered. Thus Pennsylvania and severa? other Northern States would pretty surely be lost to the republicans, from the diversion of the old line whigs and conservative Americans over to the resuscitated whig party; and thus this whig party in the South would, while retaining Maryland, be very apt to recover Kentucky, Tennessee and North Caro- Jina. In any event, as the conservative materials of the opposition, North and South, will not fuse upon Mr. Seward’s Rochester programme, it can hardly be denied, from the enfeebled and dis- tracted condition of the democracy as a na- tional organization, that the anti-Seward wing of the opposition army will hold the issue of the Presidential battle in their hands. They may, if driven to a separate ticket, carry the election into the House of Representatives, where the condition of parties and sections is rather sug- gestive of an abrupt dissolution of the govern- ment than of a compromise upon any one of the three candidates from which the President will have to be chosen; or these opposition con- lives may, by cutting in and out, as in contrive to throw an electoral majority into the hands of the democratic candidate. Such, from the existing dislocated and broken condition of our political parties and factions, are the doubtful contingencies of the next Presi- dency. The odds are decidedly in favor of a scrub race, and a contest in the House of the most perilous character to the government anf the Union. But there is an opening through which the democracy may win the victory; and in default of this there is a very simple mode whereby the opposition, as in 1840, may walk over the course. This democratic trump card is the Cuba movement, involved in the thirty million project. Let it be tried and followed up, and it will soon form the nucleus for the fusion of the scattered odds and ends of the party, and for much of the loose drift from the opposition side. Let it be cast aside, and the broken frag- ments of the party will remain detached from each other, and enter the canvass of 1860 with no other hope than the uncertain chances of a scrub race, or of a fatal division among the op- position forces, when there may be yet a com- mon bond of union among them. The basis of this union we have already indicated, from time to time, as the platform of 1840; and some such independent national conservative candidate as Gen. Scott, we still maintain, is the only availa- ble ticket. Otherwise, as we see from these Con- gressional manifestoes—republican and Know Nothing—the abundant resources of the opposi- tion will be wasted in the dangerous contingen- cies of a scrub race. Unctatwep Devosrrs ix Savincs Banks —A curious proposition was made by some of the republican members in the Assembly at Albany, on Friday, and was warmly sustained by the Speaker, who left the chair for the purpose of advocating the resolution, The proposal is nothing lees than an appropriation by the Legis- Jature of all the unclaimed deposits in the say- ings banks, to be used for the completion of the canals and other public works. In other words, to seize upon money which belongs to some one else, for the benefit of a set of speculators and operators. The, unclaimed deposits which re- main after the expiration of the statutory limit of twenty years, should be considered the pro- perty of the depositors, and we think might be paid to them in dividends, at certain stated inter- HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1859, vals, The money thus held strengthens the Lanks, and increases the security of the deposi- tore; but as the surplus must be divided at some period, would it not be well to make a provision to regulate the time—say every twenty years— when a dividend of these unclaimed deposits might be declared? It is absurd to think that the State has a claim upon them, under any circumstances, and it will be a gross injustice should the attempt to lay hold of them succeed. If the State rans some millions of dollars into debt by coustructing ex- pensive public works, it should find some other Source from whence to meet its liabilities be- sides the unclaimed deposits of the savings banks. —_—_—_— THE LATEST NEWS . Our Special Washington Despatch. THR ACQUISITION OF CUBA—REVORTS IN FAVOR OF ‘THE $30,000,000 PRorositiox—rue REVISION OF TRE TARIFE—THE NEW YORK POLITICIANS AT THELR OLD TRICKS, ETC. Wasuixcroy, Jan, 28, 1859, ‘The Slidell proposition, to give the President thirty mil- Vions in band and authority to negotiate for the purchase of Cuba, is still a enuse of discord among the republicans, It is known that a number of the members belonging to that party will. not put on record their vote against the measure, and the feeling now is that the republicans shall pursue the same judicious course tliat was adopted in the democratic Senatorial caucus, and permit every man to ‘yote as he may choose, ‘The bills are now being prepared in the Foreign Affairs committees of both houses; and it is understood that Mr. Branch’s bill, giving the President thirty millions, where- with to open negotiations, will be reported tomorrow by the House Committee. There will be a minority report against it; but, from present indications, the prospect is that the bill will pass, as no doubt some of the more libe- ral of the republicans of the Banks stamp will vote for it, Meantime members are busy gathering statistics and ma- terial for their speeches on Cuba and all other contiguous territory, and files of the Hearn are in great demand, Mr. Slidell will sabmit his report on Cuba to the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs to-morrow, and if it is adopted, will present it immediately to the Sonate, and ask its con- sideration. Mr. Phelps bas been busily engaged with Secretary ‘Toucey, together with several Custom House officers from the principal cities, framing a tariff bill that will repre- sent the views of the Treasury Department, which will be presented to the Committee of Ways and Means on 1 day next, This tariff will be exclusively ad valorem, in opposition to the President’s suggestions of 8) 1. ties. It will be based upon the expected large increa:» of imports during the coming year, and will therefore | but a moderate increase of duties. The counter proj will also be preséhted at the same time. Some of the Southern members would yield, to return to the tariff of 1846, and unlees there is united action among those who fa” vor an entirely new tariff this will probably be the com- promise. Thurlow Weed arrived here Jast night, aud is under- stood to have come at the suggestion of Seward—whether to look after free wool on his owa account, or the woolly heads for the future prospects of the Senator, Icannot say. Mr. Ward, Minister to China, is here waiting instruc- tions, which will soon be given. His misgion, in connec- tion with the treaty made by Mr. Reed, is an intportant one. ‘The Senate baye not acted on either the China or Japan treaties. Tammany is largely represented here again, and the political cauldron is bubbling tremendously, Another move is being made to displace Schell and Birdaall, General Reneau and Cuba, New Onteans, Jan. 22, 1859. Havana papers of the 19th instant contain a statement to the effect that General Reneat had offered General Concha fifteen millions of dollars to deciare Cuba inde- pendent. Trial of the Filtbusters. Monte, Jan, 22, 1859. Captain Maury and others have been tried before the United States Commissioner for obstructing the United States officers in the discharge of their duties on board the achooner Susan, and for violating the neutrality laws, and the Commissioner has held them to bail in the sum of $2,500 for their appearance at court in February. Louisiana Senatorial Election. Baton Rover, Jan, 22, 1859. The democratic caucus has ballotted forty-two times without effectinga choice, Mr. Benjamin has two votes over cither of his three competitors. The caucus has ad- journed till Monday, when the voting will be renewed. Salling of the Steamer North American Ponriaxp, Jan. 23, 1859, ‘The Canadian screw steamer North American, having been repaired, sailed for Liverpool this afternoon. Markets. , Jan, 21, 1859. & Cotton—Sales today 8,500 bales, at 11%ce. for middling, Sales of the week foot up 25,000 bales, year, The receipts ahead of last year a bales. Flour firm and unchanged. pork quiet and unchanged—bolder Shoulders, 6c. Lard buoyant at 11340. New Ortxans, Jan, 22, 1850, Cotton—ales to-day 9,500 bales at unchanged prices, Sugar firm. Molasses advanced 1c.; sales at Sic, Flour advanced 1234¢. Wheat buoyant at 85c. a $110. Corn firm: gales 3,000 bushole at 87 3c. a 95e, Lard buoyant. Dramatic and Musical Matters. ‘The dramatic event of the week was Mr. Lester Wal- Inck’s military spectacle, ‘Phe Veteran,” which really promiees to fulfil the elegant annomncement of the bills and be an enormous success, Tho tableau of tho assanit of the Zouayes upon the Sultan's Palace is the finost stage picture we have ever seen. Of course the play will keep the stage for a long time to come. The “American Cou- sin’ excitement at Laura Keeno’s theatre ctoes not abate, On the whole it is fnoreasing, and the prospect that the play will run throngh the season is good. At Burton’s theatre they have in preparation a play of the same order, called “Our Female American Cou- sin,” and iilustrating"the adventures of a young woman from New England among the “bloated aristocrats of Bri- tain.”” Some of the effects are of the pre-Raphaclite school; in imitation of the shower-bath gcene in Mr. Taylor’s play, thero ia a striking situation with a dumb waiter. Miss Julia Daly will play the heroine. Mr, Joseph Proctor com- pleted an engagement of two weeks at Burton’s theatre on Saturday. At the Broadway theatre the equestrian drama callod “Rookwood,” haz been played during the week, and at the Bowery, the Misses Western havo attracted full houses to see that remarkable—we may say wonderful— play, “The Three Fast Men.” The farewell concert and matinée of Arthur Napoleon, the pianist, took place at Niblo’s Saloon on Friday and Saturday, The attendance was only limited, the weather being terribly bad. The concert, however, was excellent. ‘The young pianist, whose execution is really wonder- ful, was encored several times. The gom of the pro- gramme, popularly speaking, was a new fantasia upon the melodies of the + Bohemian Girl.” It was admirably con- celved, and executed with a degree of verve that was irre- eistible, Mrs, Emily Lesdernier, owing to a end domestic afflic- tion in the death of one of her children, is compelled to postpone her readings from the poots in this city. ‘The readings of Mrs. Kemblo and Mr. G. Vandenhoft will be continued during this week, as per announcements elsewhere, Mr. H.R. Ball announces a reading of “The Lady of Lyons” at Niblo’s Saloon on Friday evening next. Niblo’s Garden will be opened on Thursday next by Nixon & Co.'s popular equestrian company. Mr. Dan Rice is the principal tar of the troupe. At the city, theatres this evening the announcements aro as follows -— At the Brondway theatre the tragedy of Bertram,” in which Mr, Kady will appear, and the equestrian drama, Mazeppa,” with all the horses and now scenery, &c. At Borton'’s theatre Mien Julia Daly and Mr. G. Charles will appear in the farces called “ Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty,” “In and Out of Place,” and “ Miles ” AU Wallck’s “The Vetoran,”” with Mr, Wallack aud all the company, and the splendid effect, ‘At Laura Keoue’s theatre Our American Cousin,’ and a new jarce for Mies Latira Honey. ‘At the Bowery theatre the Mises Westorn im the “Three Fast Men,” with songs, dances, kc, ‘AL the Museum the Holman juveniles, a company of youthful vocalista, make their début this afternoon and dyening in a concert, to be succeeded by the performance of anew band of Fthiopian minstrels. ‘The colored opera companies—Wood's, Bryants’ and Sniffin'e-have various novelties on tholr programmes for the week, including new songs, farcer, burleaques, E6., 0 THE SLAVE TRADE. Selzure of the Bark Lauren@ os a Slaver, SUSPICIONS OF YHE COLLECTOR OF NEW LONDON— NOVEL METHO. OF FITTING OUT A WHALER URE AND LUNELLING OF THE LAURENS—EXA- MINATION OF TER CARGO—CURIOUS WHALING GEAK—COMFORTABL.® PROVISIONS POK A WHALING VOYAGE—THE JUDICLAL EXAMINATION TO COMB OFF IN FEBRUARY. Tke bark Laurens, of New’ London, Conn., bas been seized by order of the Collector af that port, on suspicion of being @ slaver, aud is now im the custody of tue United States Marebal, where she will remaim antl a judicial in- vestigation can be bad, at the next term of the United States District Court. ‘The Laurens is quite an old whaling ship, of abont 409 tone burthen, built at Kennebusk, Me,, aboat twenty-two years since, She has been fitted out for whaling voyages both from Cold Spring and Sag Harbor. On her last voy- age she was run away with by the captain and went into Rio. She was subsequently seized as a siaver, it is said, on the coast of Africa, brought into thé port of New York, and gold by the United States Marshal. Moses Taylor wag the purchaser, and he sold her to Perkins & Smith, of New Londen, on behalf of whose assigned estate she has been for some montbs up for sale at that port, along with other ships belonging to the estate, In the latter part of November last she was bought by Mr. Hanam, a respectable ship broker in Boston, for $6,500, ae he said, for other parties, and preliminary steps were taken, as Was alleged, to fit her out for a whaling voyage to the Indian ocean of sixteen months’ duration. ‘The novel aud unusual method ef loading aud preparing ber soon at- tracted attention, though to whom the credit is due of the first euspicion is yet a matter of doubt, First she was loaded with one Lundred tous of stone ballast and nine hundred casks of fresh water. It is usual i ballust wich falt water, and, unless the vessel is crank, she is not baliasted at all. Then the stores aud whaling gear were noticed to be out af the usual course of things for a lep ti- mate voyage, and the men employed were evidentiy unfamiliar with the business of whaling. Mr. Hanam r made any formal applivation fur a clearance, because he could not get a bondsman, us is necessary on the occasion of the transfer of a vessel and taking outa new register, which Mr. Hanam wished to do, making one Curties, who was represented to be the captain, the owner. He had finally determined to haye the vessel cleared in his own namo, as owner, and with this understanding the ves- sel hauled out into the stream on Wednesday last, it being announced that the crew would come up from Boston that evening. The Collector, Mr. John Mather, thonght it was no longer safe to allow the ship to lie there, ar an attempt might be made to slip her off to sea without a clearance; und, in view of all the suspicious circumstances, he deter- mined to have her seized. Meanwhile, United States Dis- trict Attorney Shipman and Marshal Curtis Bacon had been notifled, and been for some days in New London watching the movements of the owners, ship and crew, and on Wednesday evening, shortly after half past five o'clock, the seizure was made, and Lieut. Carson, of the revenue cutter James Campbell, Capt. was placed in charge of the prize. The only men on board at the time were—one man who said he was boat steerer, another who represented bimself as mate, and a third as steward. ‘They were ‘hot arrested, as was stated by a cotem- porary, but were allowed to go on shore, and were still at large on Saturday afternoon. The ballast was not decked over, as stated by the game source, but joists were laid across it; nor rwere there any ghooks put into her, nor was there more lumber than is customary, nor is the ship a {ast saiier; she isonly ‘a fair sailer; nor did she make application for a clearance. The Marehal had his libel all ready on Friday, when ho attached the ship, and will retain his custody of the ves- tel until the United States District Court can inquire into the allegations concerning the character of the contem- plated voyage. No examination of the ship was made on Wednesday night, nor until Saturday, when Collector Mather and Mar- shal Bacon, in company with a number of inspectors and. a neceseary force for examining the cargo, proceeded on board for that purpoge; and so far as the examination had proceeded up to Saturday afternoon, the stores were found to correspond with the marks on the packages; but there are some peculiarities about those. The ship will carry 4,500 barrels of casks. It was found that she had on board but 1,000 barrels of new casks and 360 barrels of old casks, being short of her compicment about 3,000 barrels. GOOD FEED YOR A WIALER. ‘She had 788 barrels of water and 120 barrels of bread. The bread was put in barrels, and not in tight casks, as usual, She had only 12 barrels of pork and 24 of beef, when on her last voyage she had 300 barrels of these, ten barrels of molasses, (usual quantity fourteen barrels,) thirty boxes of codtish, the usual quantity is about six; thirty barreis of rice; sailors never like rice—thoy say it 8 too much Lke chicken fodder—but it would bo an excel- ent preservative of a kod of “wool and ivory,” or of “blackbirds;” two barrels of beans, usually about twice ‘hat quantity; three barrels marked vinegar, but contain- ing wine and beer; one and a half barrels of pickled tongues, not usual; éne barrel of crackers, never carried by whalers; twenty-two barrels of meal, the usual number Sabout six, and these are so suspiciously heavy that they aro supporsd to contain something else; cight barrels of frozen potatoes, and two of frozen onions; four and a half barrels of extra fuinily beef; one half-barrel of split peas; four kiddies of sounds and tongues, and four boxes pineapple cheese—rather good feed for a whaler; one hun- dred boxes of red herring; one dozen scrub brooms—at least three times as many are usual; two copper pumps— re ought to be half a'dozen tin pumps; eighteen new ‘kete—whalers always carry wood and make the cooper buckets; six boxes pale Otard brandy, not generally carried, but good ag a general rule; one box pickled oys- ters; four boxes preserved fruits; one box soda a ers; one box butter crackers; one box soft shelled almonds; three-eights of a barrel of tongues; one barrel of bam; 5ix barrels of macaroni; three barrels of farrina; ix boxes of baking powders; four barrels of whiskey; ne barrel of bottled porter—these last were probably for the officers, and are somewhat better than whalemen ever thought of; nine boxes containing sundries, which are yet to be opened, NOVEL WHALING GRAR. The ship has but ten new gigs, (a sort of harpoon), tem fluke ne, and one pair of graines, while a genuine Jer carries abont four dozen of cach. The ship on ast whaling vovage garried five anda half tous of boop i100; this time she has but three bundles of fifty six pounds each. She ought to have flve hundred pounds of coopers’ rivets; she has not a single one, Thero aro uevally a conple of dozen coopers’ hammers; this ship has et one, ‘Then there are no “drivers,” no “flags” for tightening casks, no sawdust, n very necessary article, of which at least twenty bushels ought to Ve carried, and this ship took 150 bushels last time: no char- coal, no hard coal, when there ought to be twenty bushels of sand, when there ought to be no copper cooler to cool the oft before it is ponred into the cask; no mincing machine to.cut up the binbber: no cutting guys; no guy fall; only two coils of tow line, when there ought to be at least thirty, as there is often more tow line lost at one lowering than'the ship contains; no boat compass—a decidedly necessary article when a bout gets out of sight of the ship; no cedar boards to make buckets; no timber to build staging; no pumps for pumping ofl no shaterial for mending boats, and no boat nails, She has fitteen cords of wood not sawed, ‘The univer eal method of whalers 1 to saw the wood and pack it im casks, This is just hove in loosely, The bread ia put up in whiskey barrels, when it ought to be put up in. tight casks, The flour is just as improperly stowed, as whalers ropack it in tight casks, while this is in bar- stag iteame. There is but one «mall flake chain r making a boat fast to a whale, when there ought to be half a dozen large ones. Thore are but four old cut Ling spades and threo boat spades; the nsual number three dozen new ones, There ig no head axe, and but one axe on voard; two _ old boarding knives; the general namber is four. There are two old mincing knives; the general method is to use a mincing machine. Ther are no dried apples, a most necessary article to put into the “duff” ofa whaler’s crew at least twice per week; only two blubber hooks, while four are necded, On her’ last voyage from Hurd’s Isiand she brought 4,600 barrels of elephant oll. She has not now on board enough gear to capture a single whale, whilo thoee who, it fs represented, wore to command her, have not the rudimental knowledge of the business, Thus there is ample evidence that the vessel was not intended for a whaling expedition. But it is by no means so clear that she was intended as a-sinver; and if tho owners and fitters out have been unzuccessful in the pro- tence that they were going on a whaling voyage, thoy have not, a8 yct, at least, 80 far as has been made public, made any preparations which can convict them of being engaged in a slaving expedition. It is not known, how- ever, what evidence the United States Collector, District ‘Attorney and Marshal may have retained until the day of judicial hearing. The bags of meal are yot to be examined; the whole quantity of stores has yet to be broken out to ascertain whether it is what it pretends to be: the river has to be dragged to seo whother any im- oper articles for a whaloman have been thrown over- Hoard; the maps of Cuba and the West India Tslagds have to be accounted for, and it j# somewhat mystorious about that rice:* and the chart of Long Island Sound would have been of little use in the ordinary course of legitimate busi- nes®, It ie not at all likely that the owners, whoever may be, will allow a vessel of her value to bo.cond without an effort to wave her; and, perhaps, if the truth is known, ¢ome parties in New York may be implicated. As it is the matter bar created great excitement in the quiet little town of New London, where to tako a gin-cooktail is a heinous offence, and the marvellous snake story is alto- gether eclipsed, ‘The result of the judicial {nvontigation, which takes place next month, is anxiously looked for by all parties, The Suspected Siaver In Savannah, From the Savannah Republican, Jan, 20.) The Spanigh bark Angolita was detained at this port yeeterday,, by Collector Boston, on suspicion of being fttod out for, or engaged in, the slave trade. This bark arrived: hero on the 80th of October last, and is reported as having come from Matanzas with a cargo of fruit, consigned to master. Since that time she bas been in the dry dock, and hes been overhauled and ecoppered, Previous to her arrival Mr. Borton had received communications directing his attention to her as a suspicions craft, and he was in- Gtructed by the goverument to keep a strigt wate 30 tunnels or material to mnake them; 4aPEES. 5 = rir ins