The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1859, Page 4

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Neither the Arago from Southampton, nor the Arabia from Liverpool, now over due, with later news from Europe, had been signalized up to a late hour last night. The Pacific Railroad project was laid out stone dead in the Senate yesterday. All that remains as the result of tne deliberations upon this subject is a bill, which passed by a vote of 38 to 20, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to advertise for pro posals for three railroad routes to the Pacific, the bids to be reported to Congress at the commence- ment of the next session. Mr. Gwin took the de- feat of his pet measure greatly to heart, and hinted at the possibility of a dissolution of the confederacy some day in consequence. The House bill, making appropriation for the expense of the various in- vestigating committees, was passed. Five thousand extra copies of the reports on the acquisition of Cuba were ordered to be printed. In the Honse the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up. The amendment adopted in Com- mittee of the Whole, reducing the number of foreign ministers, and also the one reducing the sum for carrying into eflect acts for the suppression of the slave trade, were disagreed to. The bill was NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1859. the schooner and was drowned, on the 6th of last November, as she was on her outward voyage. Dealers in cotton yeaterday were anxiously awaiting the receipt : f later foreign intelligence due by the steamer at Halifax. Tho sales in store embraced about 500 a 600 bales, without change in quotations. The transactions also embraced 4,000 bales in transitu. Flour was agin in good demand, and cloaed at an advance of about 5c. a 0c. per barrel, chiefly for the common avd medium grades, Wheat was firm, with rather more doing, and at fu!! pres, Corn was heavy and sales moderate, at 87c. for Western mixed, 80¢. a 81c. for Jersey yellow, and 81c. a8te, for Southern and Jersey white. Pork was tolerably ac- ive, bo on the spot and for future delivery, with sales oO” mess at $18 25 a $18 50, closing at the inside Mure; sales (4 February and March delivery at $18 50, and prime at $13 50 a $13 70. Beefand lard were firm and in good demand. Sugars were firm, with sales of 710 then rejected—88 yeas to 99 nays. A reconsidera- tion was moved and carried, and after voting upon several propositions to amend, a motion to strike out the appropriation for the mission to Persia was adopted. The House again voted on the pas- sage of the bill, and again rejected it—01 to 04. A motion to reconsider the vote, and to lay that motion on the table, was then made, pending which the House adjourned. Quite a large amount of routine but unimportant business was transacted by the Legislature yester- day. Our reports and special despatches contain all the particulars. The Galway steamship Circassian not having ar. rived at this port so as to leave on her appointed day, the 27th inst., the American Express Com- pany has made an arrangement with the agents of the City of Washington to transfer to that vessel, which leaves on the 29th, the passengers booked for the Circassian. This arrangement is prompt and satisfactory to the parties concerned, and is indica- tive of the business like character of the manage- ment of the New York agency. Accounts from Hayti to the Ist inst. state that at the last dates Gen. Geffrard held the department of . Artibonite, with his headquarters at Gonaives, where he had two thousand men, composed partly of the troops of the department. Soulouque, at the ~ head of six thousand men, reached the seaport of Arcahaye on the Ist of May, to attack Geffrard. Geffrard’s family was imprisoned when his flight from Port au Prince was discovered. The Panish brig Zephyr, Captain 0. Sanne, from Copenhagen, arrived at this port yesterday, bring- ing on freight 1,171 bushels of barley. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday after- noon. A proposition to rescind the resolution providing for the purchase of land at Ward's Island, and appointing arbitrators to assess the amount of damages, if any, to be paid to the ow of said land, was offered and laid over. N else of importance was done. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and after adopting a few routine papers and receiving the report of the Committee on Finance on the tax levy, adjourned till Monday, when its consideration will be the special order of business. The Committee on Markets of the Board of Aldermen, which were to have considered there. port of City Inspector Morton in reference to the condition of West Washington Market yesterday, failed to obtain a quorum, and consequently did not hold a meeting. They adjourned until this - afternoon at two o'clock. The Aldermanic Finance Committee met yester- day afternoon. The trustees of the Sixteenth Baptist Church, in Sixth avenue, appeared before them, asking for a remission of an assessment levied against the church, to the amount of $155, for the construction of a sewer, from which the building receives no benefit. They also stated that the church is already mortgaged to the amount of $15,000, besides a large floating debt. The com- mittee said they would take the matter into consideration. Benjamin Nathan, the President of the Jews’ Hospital, in Twenty-eighth street, ap- peared before the committee, asking for a donation to the institution. He stated that the number of patients at present in the hospital is 28, and that others as well as Israelites are frequently admitted, none of them being oharged for the care and at- tendance they receive while in the institution. The Committee said they would visit the hospital this afternoon, and then decide how they would report. Professor Mitchel delivered his closing lecture o the course on “ Astronomy” last evening, at the Academy of Music, to a crowded and appreciative audience. In his introductory remarks he thanked the savants of New York for the flattering recep tion he had received, and in eloqnent terms re- ferred to the growing desire on the part of Americans to become acquainted with the beauti- fal science which he has so simplified by his in- structive addresses. He also announced that, in compliance with the request of numerous parties, he would deliver an address on the “ Great Pro. ‘bhems of the Universe,” on Saturday evening next. By the arrival of the schooner Susan Cannon, Captain Reoke, at this port, we have files from Brazil, dated at Maranham amd Para, to the 31st of December, but the papers do not contain any news. William Kelly, a seaman, belonging to Holton, Meine, fe overboard from the mainmast head of hha. ana 3:0 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffer wos firm, with sales of about 6,000 bags o” Rio within the range f 103/c, a 113¢c.; leavinga trifling stock p firct bauds, and 250 bags Maracaibo wore sold at 12\,c. al2ic. Freights were dull and engagements iight. Phe Cuba Question in the House—Shall Polt- theat Tricksters Obstruct Our National Progress? ‘The question of the acquisition of Cuba, now vefore both houses of Congress, is the great question of the day in every circle—political, inancial, commercial and agricultural—because is solution, either favorably or adversely, direct- ly affects every interest in the country. We give to-day the report of Mr. Branch, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to the House of Representatives, on the subject, and his bill to give to the President thirty millions of dollars, with authority to open negotiations with Spain for the cession of the island to us. Mr. Branch’s report is an able review of the question in its 1 and practical form, making a comple- ment, as it were, to Mr. Slidell’s excellent argu- ment o1 the political and ethical phase of the subject. After reviewing in a concise manner the steps on our part which led to the acquisi- tion of Florida, Mr, Branch takes up, one after anotber, the relations which Cuba now bears to our agricultural, manufacturing and _ship- ping interests, showing from official sources their present connection with our trade, and th: numerous obstacles of a political and ece- nomical character which now obstruct its de- veloyement. They can only be wholly and con- clusively swept away by Cuba becoming a member of the Union. For the attainment of this point Mr. Branch goes to work in a pfacti- cal way, on the path pointed out by Mr. Bu- chanan in his last annual message. The question is now fairly and squarely before Congress, and upon that body rests the vast re- sponsibility of giving to it such life and action as become a question vital to the interests of a mighty peeple. We believe that there is a large portion of the members of both houses who fully comprehend the greatness of the issue, and who will meet it, in all places and at all times, ina way that will merit and receive the hearty ap- proval of the whole country. But there is a set of miserable, low, dirty, pettyfogging politicians in each of the great parties that divide Congress, who will neither look at the issue like men nor meet it as becomes the representatives of a free and American constituency. They have come into an ephemeral public life on the foolish quar- rel of the nigger question, and they wish to bring that question into every issue that is pre- sented to the people. Having no higher ground to claim a continuance their present posts than the fact that they are fanatics for slavery, or fanatics for abolition, they are ready to forego for awhile their bitter hostility to each other, and to strike hands in friendship for the purpose of keeping life in the nigger. In order to cover up their schemes with a thin pretence to virtue, they feign that it is the man and not the measure they mistrust. Measuring the sagacious and far seeing views of the Presi- deat by their own petty, selfish and shortsighted purposes, they cry out that it is dangerous to trust the President with so large a sum, forget- ting that its expenditure is strictly guarded and limited by the law; that there is no precedent for conferring so great a trust upon the execu- tive—forgetting some of the most brilliant pages of our country’s annals; that the time is not op- portune for the step—forgetting that their view, bounded by the limifS of the county of Bun- combe, would never let them know whether the opportunity was at hand or not; that it is a deep and devilish design to secure a re-nomination— forgetting the pledges of a statesman filled with | honors, and who has had enough of setting and keeping the country right after the disasters | caused by their miserable quarrels; that it isa partisan scheme for party aggrandizement—for- getting that every fibre of the body pojitic and the common weal thrusts out its filaments to- wards the island of Cuba, But the question is a national one in the hest sense, as these petty bunglers in poli- will find out to their sorrow before its dis- cussion by the people of this aonntry is closed materi | by the admission of Cuba into the Union, and we have entered upon the great era of material developement and prosperity which its coming in will inaugurate. And not only is ita national question, that will be appreciated by the Ame- rican people, but it is an international question of the highest character and moment. It is a mighty step in the path of our national destiny. The tact that we do not fear to contemplate it will give us a higher position and a greater moral influence among the nations of the earth than have hitherto been accorded to us. The President’s message caused a great commotion in Europe, because he did not hesitate in it to call upon Congress to take the giant stride that lay before us; but when Europe learns that the statesmen in the American Congress have not hesitated to take up the labor which Mr. Buchanan told them was theirs to perform, her slavish press and selfiah kingcraft will howl in their despair at the daring of a free people. Before the discussion which Congress has yet to go through is finished, the echo will come back from Europe, and the grandeur of the policy uggested will be known by the dismay it spreads among the minions of despotism. But when Europe shall eee that we dare to take the step that lies before us, and to which our national advance, the interests of ourselves and of the whole civilized world, and the increase of wealth and consequent developement of human knowledge, are impelling us, then will her statesmen and her princes turn to us with smiles, and had our progress and success in the mighty scheme of world developement. Should these miserable tricksters in politics, in pursuit of their own selfish purposes and am- bitious aims, succeed in defeating fir a little while the national progress, the indignation of an outraged people will soon overtake and overwhelm them. The question of the acquisi- tion of Cuba, with all its vast issues and bear- ings, bas now come up for discussion and to triumph. If it is defeated in Congress, it mast and will go before the people; aod no man who can put two aud tig! together logically can doubt the result in that sovereign tribunal. Its discussion cannot be de- layed, its elucidation cannot be stopped, its early trinmph cannot be cut off to enable political tricksters and fanatics to divide the country in discord on the nigger, that they may enjoy a lit- tle while longer the spoils of place and the sweets of power. Let thon beware how they dare to trifle with the nation’s progress, and to carp and cavil at its grandeur, because their petty souls bave not been able to con- ceive its mighty proportions, or their shrunken hearts to experience its heroic emotions, When the nation was still weak, their fathers dared to look its future in the face, fearless of conse quences. Let not degenerate sons dare to brave a people’s indignation because they shrink from following the path their fathers laid out for their couptry. Tux Way tugs Tax Levy 1s Increasep.— When Mr. Flagg sent in the tax levy for 1859 to the late Common Council, showing a reduction frem that of last year of $780,745 44, we said that this reduction was only apparent, and should not be taken for granted, as the new Boards of the Common Council would be cer- tain to swell the amount considerably when they came to amend it. The tax levy for 1858 was $8,620,920 72, and on the 21st of December last Mr. Flagg report- ed to the late Board of Councilmen as the tax levy for 1859 the sum of $7,840,174 28. At a subsequent meeting the Finance Committee of the late Board of Councilmen, to whom it was referred, presented the following amendments, reducing only one item, that of the fire aad police telegraph, from $10,000 to $7,000:— Ticreasing the general appropriation for roads and avenues from $10 000 to... Building a station house for the Tenth ward. Superintendent and clerk of markets 8 juries of the Board of Aldermen. Salaries of the Board of Councilmet Keeper of Corporation yard... Three telegraph operators at tho Ci For the Bourd of Health... For pay ing Presidents of the Common Counc Avrearag:s of the Board of Health for 1858, Removing night soil for 1859 Joint Committee on Accounts for 1} Recommending an increase over the Comptrol- ler’s estimate of $381,497 49. To this the Board added the amount of $213,683 07, thus making a total increase of $595,180 54. In this form it was sent to the new Board of Aldermen, with an increase of half a million tacked on. That body took itin hand almost at their first meeting, and during the three succeeding ses- sions amended it still further, as follows, On the 13th of January— REDUCTION. office INCREASE. Belgian pavement..$100,000 County Russ pavement. .... 50,000 Printing. Battery enlargement. 60,000 Stationery. 25 Cable celebration, ... 25,000 Fire and peiice tele- Mount Morris square. 16,060 graph. Hose and book and ladder companies.. 56,000 Total. Foundling Hospital.. 25,000 Tompkins square... 25,000 Total.....ceseese $356,000 Making an additional increase in the levy of $303,000. Again, on the 16th, the following amendments were made :— INCREASE. Tompkins square...... Printing for departments. Cleaning and lighting Ci Fire companies... Gas for engine ho Being a further increase of $143,500. And, finally, at the last meeting of the Alder- men, on Thursday, the tax levy was again brought up and amended, as follows :— INCREASE. REDUCTION. Lowber claim.... ..$235,000 Counsel fees, Jos. Inspectors of Ma- Walker case. nure,anew office. 10,000 Fourth av. pari County conting’cies. 1,000 Reduction in pr Increase to clerks ing of Supreme Court. 3,100 Total. .......+--$249,100 Here is an additional increase of $196,600— making in all an aggregate increase over the Comptroller’s estimates of $1,238,280 54, and over the tax levy of last year an increase of $45,754 10. Were we not right when we said that the new Common Council would swell the tax levy by a million or so before they were done with it? The Aldermen are now engaged in an attempt to take up the Russ pavement in Broadway—which cost nearly a million to lay down a few years ago—and cut it, up into Bel- gian pavemont. This job will cost the city half a million more, if carried out, as it probably will be; for at their last session only one vote was wanting to pass the resolution, and that, no doubt, can be procured by one of the many ways known to the Board for accomplishing such things. But thisis not the end of it. From the Board of Aldermen, which has now disposed of the tax levy, it goes back to the new Board of Council- men, and was to have made a part of their pro- ceedings on Monday evening. The Board, how- ever, on that occasion, as on many others, dissi- pated the term of session in the discussion of comparatively trifling affuirs, such as the refit- ting of the Comptroller’s office with new desks, and so forth, upon which subject several members evinced an unusual sensitiveness lest the public money should be spent without a due regard to economy, while they overlooked entirely the tax levy for the present year, upon the adop- tion of which the whole machinery of the muncipal government hinges. Until that ques- tion is finally settled by the Common Council the affairs of the city must remain, as they now are, at a dead lock; yet, for some reagon or other, both Boards of the Common Council seem to have resolved that no definite action shall be taken upon it. The opinion prevails that the tax levy has been so amended by the Board of Aldermen that there is no probability of its receiving the concurrence of the Board of Councilmen, in which event the operations of the Street Depart- ment, and indeed all the functions of the city go- vernment, must be paralyzed. In this condition of things the only relief we can hope for is in the change by the Legislature of the beginning of the fiscal year from January to July, 80 as to enable the appropriations te be made in advance. At present there is no money at the disposal of the heads of some of the most important departments, gnd they are necessarily compelled to suspend operations until the Com- mon Council pleases to make appropriations. We trust, therefore, that our Albany legislators will see the wisdom of attending to this at an early day, and thus prevent the recurrence of such @ disgraceful state of affairs as this city now pre- sents, No More Cnivarry.—In Bulwer’s last novel, “What Will He Do With It?” there is a charac- ter—one Colonel Morley—who combines the chi- valrous punctilio of the old school gentleman with the shrewd observation and cleverness of the well bred man of the world of the present day. He bas to meet another man for the pur- pose of drawing up @ mutual apology to be signed by two gentlemen who have had high words. The Colonel remarks upon the absurdity of high words in this enlightened age, when du- clling is out of date, and when a compromise is inevitable, We would recommend to our states: men and orators the propriety of listening to tbe | Colonel's suggestion, and of thinking before they speak. As it is now-a-days, they do not hesitate to provoke a quarrel in order to display their adroitness in avoiding a resort to arms. ‘he lie is freely given, notes are exchanged, the public | duly excited, and the end is—a half apology. Thea comes the farce of printing the correspou- dence, in which the parties are made utterly ri- diculous. There is plenty of writing about blood, but not the slightest thought of shedding any. This practice of getting up 4 reputation for pluck, and then not showing any, is one of ihe most stupid humbugs of the age, and it is bigh time that it was stop} Tux New Ena in Sraw—Corontas Strua- GLEs AS SeEN IN THE CorTEs.—We analyzed yesterday the speech of Marshal O'Donnell iu the Spanish Cortes on the President's Message. For the benefit of those juvenile journalists who are continually telling us what Spain will and what Spain will not do, while they have not the slightest idea of what really is pass'xg in Spain, we now translate trom a full report of the pro ceedings of the Spanish Cortes on the 13th of December last, the following remarks of Senor Calderon Collantes, the present Minister of State, The question under discussion was the proposi- tion of General Prim to amend a portion of the address to the throne, aud declare that the diffi- culties between Spain and Mexico “might have had a pacific solution if the government had been animated by a more conciliatory and just spirit.” In the course of debate the Minister of State passed in review the historical relations between Spain and the Mexican republic, in in- troducing which he refers to the causes which ted to the separation of the colonies, and the mistaken course pursued by Spain towards them, in the following language:— The spirit of emulation awakened by Spanish power, and many other things, gave rise to a movement for inde- pendence which showed itself in those vast and distant regions. Spain, being then engaged in one of the many contests sbe bas had to sustain, did not at that time com- prehend that it was impossible to restrain this spirit of inde- nendence; and. the ime passed away, and with. the oppor: tunity of obtaining the fruit that might have been obtained from a State that had once been dependent upon her, and no treaty was made until 1636. ‘So long a delay in recognizing that those countries, either through the force of the education they had received from the metropolis, or through the influence exercised over them by other countries, or from other causes difficult to enumerate, had reached a sufficient state maturity to obtain their in- dependence, was the cause of our losing the advantages we could have obtained from the influence we had over them. A more concise statement and recognition of the truths which ruled the policies of cabinets on questions of colonial relations could not be de- sired. We have there recognized the fact of the natural growth of the spirit of independence, either from causes inherent in the colonies, or from the influence of the example of other countries over them, the impossibility of restraining that spirit in distant regions, the occurrence of a period of time during its developement when by wise concessions advantages may be gained by the mother country, and that delay in recog- nizing these truths had deprived Spain of the fruits to which she was entitled. These truths were uttered by a minister of the crown, in defence of the crown, on the floor of the Spanish Cortes. Nocry was raised that they were an insult to Spain; no one demurred at them or denied their truth. Applicable as they are tothe past, they are more applicable still to the present relations of Spain to her American colonies. The spirit of independence is rife there. It is growing stronger under a daily con- tact with this country that renders its triumph certain, Whether that triumph is near or dis- tant is still in the bosom of time; but there can be no doubt that a period is approaching which offers to Spain “the opportunity of obtaining the fruit” which will be lost if it is suffered to pass away. We commend the ideas of Senor Calderon Collantes, and the assertion of Marshal O’Don- nell, that Spain is entering upon anew era, to the consideration of those who advocate the ac- quisition of Cuba, but deny the opportuneness of the measure proposed by Mr. Slidell. Tar Mawworms or THE Day.—Some over pious “professor of religion” in the pleasant village of Philadelphia—a town with a large water frontage and a pleasing variety of domes- tic architecture—has been writing a letter to prove that by going to the Opera one will be, as Dogberry says, “Damned into everlasting re- demption.” This letter has been published in pamphlet form by the American Sunday School Union, and circulated in Philadelphia nominally for the conversion of the fashionable soul, but really for the benefit of Signor Ullman, Im- presario general and Napoleon of the Opera. We reprint the pamphlet in to-day’s paper, asa literary curiosity; and we are careful to give the imprint of the society—otherwise people might say that Ullman had been Bonnerizing the Sunday school people, and imitating the form of a religious publication, as a clever way of adver- tising a profane playhouse. Of the general questions in dispute between the players and the preachers—the Opera singers and the parsons—we have little to say. These matters regulate themselves. Not many years ago the Opera was exceedingly unpopular every- where, except on the Continent of Europe. Now it is the only public amusement that the refined and educated classes of London and New York care to run after. The parsons, too, are very glad to obtain the services of opera singers, to increase the attraction and swell the re- ceipts of their churches; and very frequently a strain from Verdi or Bellini peals from the sacred recesses of the organ loft. The main point of our Philadelphian Mawworm is the al- leged immoral tendency of the Jibretti of the Opera, which people care very little about. Very few Opera habitués could tell you the entire story of any Opera of the modern repertoire. A young lady plays the Parigi O Cara on her piano from memory, but it would be hard work for her to tell yéu whether it was from the “ Tra- viata,” or some other work by the same master. ‘The writer is also a little behind the age, (curious for a Philadelphian), in supposing that we have no society like that of the Continental capitals. Society is the same everywhere, and our people copy with pre-Raphaelite exactness all the good and bad usages of the higher classes in Europe. The Opera audience here is equal in acumen to those of London or Paris, and superior to those of the smaller capitals, As for the practical effect of such attacks ag those of the “ professor,” experience has proved that they do not gather in one stray sheep, while they often cause backslidings upon the tender lambs who sigh for forbidden fruit. Picco. lomini’s furore in London owed much to a series of editorials in the Times, con- demning the “Traviata” on moral grounds, Human nature, the parsons tell us, is prone to evil. Then why tempt it by elaborate aecounts of the fascinations of the Opera and terrible warnings of future punishment for its habitués. The pecuniary result of the season so far, bas shown that the ladies of Philadelphia desired to ecg and Lowe this deliciously wicked epecies of entertainment, aud ran the risk of eternal sulpbur to do ¢0. Such is the way of the world, and not even the American Sunday School Union can change the order of things. So the young lambs may save their peanics which are swindled out of their taffy for the pub- lication of these sweet books with such powerful moral influences. It is hardly fair to the Phila- delpbia press, proverbially hungry, that Ullman should be advertised by contributions from in- fants’ savings banks. Tur Tarr Question mw Coxcress.—The Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives—a mixed commission of protec- tionists, free traders, high tariff, low tariff, speci- fic duty and ad valorem men—appear to have come to adend lock upon the important question of a tarift bill as@ revenue measure. There is thus, it secms, no prospect of the concurrence of a majority of the committee, necessary to report any bill to the House. Then the chances are very slim of any modification this session of the tariff act of 1857 sufficient to meet the current nee! ies of the treasury; and in a correspond- ing degree the chances are inercased ef the call ofan extra session to meet these wants of the government. Indeed, we apprehend that all parties in this Congress have about made up their minds to throw the substantial business before them over to the next Congress—an experiment of very questionable policy to any except the disorganizing echemers and factious conspirators of the two houses. We dare say, however, that Mr. Buchanan, should the exigencies of the government require it, will promptly call an extra session, and fearlessly leave the issue be- tween his recommendations and the bickerings of Congressional President making parties and politicians to the judgment of the country, If the democratic majority of this Congress think they can make any capital of the expériment of throwing over their responsibilities to the oppo- sition of the nest Congress, let them try it. The opposition have no objection. Tur TAMMANY AND ANTI-TamMany Rappie Once Morx.—Our Tammany and Anti-Tamma- ny spoils and plunder hucksters are again at Washington, with their never ending broils and squabbles. Some are quartered upon the Cabi- net, some at Willard’s, some at the National, and some, very likely, are “ bobbing around” on tick. The object of this gathering of the clans is said to be in consequence of another dead set at poor Collector Schell. The implacable leader of the hostile tribe is said to be Postmaster Fowler, the head Sachem of Tammany. When Fernando Wood was in the wigwam he managed to keep Ike under a good state of <iscipline. but Ike and his set having succeeded, with the aid of Thurlow Weed, in turning Wood.out of the wigwam, the Post- master and his gang have it all pretty much their own way, and are resolved to have the head of the poor Collector lopped off into the basket of the guillotine. The President, how- ever, would do well to dismiss these fellows without ceremony, and send them about their business, Otherwise, if there is any guillotining to be done, let the whole batch of these New York office holding and spoils and plunder managers of our city democracy be submitted to the axe; for anything short of a complete clearing out will only aggravate the troubles which the President has been so anxious to heal. It soothing plasters will not do, let the disease be cleaned out by the roots. The case of Col- lector Bronson is suggestive of a more compre- hensive policy in regard to Collector Schell Ifhe, the least offending party in the premises, is to be beheaded, the real offenders, who are the most active in the conspiracy against him, should certainly suffer a similar fate. Tue Pusiic Printine at Wasutnaton.—We understand that the House Investigating Com- mittee of Hon. George Taylor, on the subject of the government printing, are prosecuting their researches into this business with commendable industry. This is good; but we hope that the in- vestigation will not be suspended until all the Washington editors, publishers and printers, con- tractors and lobby partners implicated in this printing business are hauled up and examined. There is no other way of getting a complete in- sight into the lobby arrangements and combina- tions under which the treasury, during the last ten years, has been fleeced, on account of this government printing, to the tune of eight or ten millions of dollars. This Congressional printing, in fact, has become the principal fountain of cor- ruption, and the principal nucleus of the lobby, and thus an intolerable public nuisance, that can- not be too soon abated. Brief, therefore, as is the remaining business remnant of the session, we hope that it will not pass away without at least breaking the backbone of this grand lobby combination job of the public printing. Sratistics of Manvractures—New York Aungap.—The people of Philadelphia, and their press, have been long in the habit of boasting of the pre-eminence of the State of Pennsylvania in manufactures above the State of Néw York, and New England newspapers, politicians and states- men have claimed for their States a similar supe- riority. But “facts are stubborn things.” A di- gest of the statistics of manufactures has just been completed, in accordance with an act of Congress, and transmitted to that body by the President. This digest developes the condition of every branch of manufacturing industry in the entire country, in the year 1850, and is most valuable as presenting the only official and au- thentic information respecting the manufactures of all the States which has appeared for twenty- five years. From an analy8is of the tables of this document, we learn that Massachusetts has 8,259 establishments, employs 165,938 hands, with a capital of $83,357,642, and products amounting in value to $151,137,145. This is the highest; and Connecticut, the next in order, has only 3,482 establishments, employing 47,770 hands, with $23,890,348 capital, producing ma- nufactured articles to the value of $45,110,102; while the aggregate capital in the other four New England States—New Hampshire, Maine, Ver- mont and Rhode Island—amounts to but $50,865,819, and the manufactured productions to $78,153,099. Now, New York State has 23,553 establishments, $99,904,403 capital em- barked, 199,349 hands engaged, while the value of the products amounts to, the enormous figure of $237,597,249—exceeding Pennsylvania in the latter by $82,552,339, or more than thirty-three per cent. The statistics for Pennsylvania are: establishments, 21,605; capital, $94,473,810; hands, 146,766; value of products, $155,044,910. What becomes now of the boasting ofthe New Englanders and the Pennsylvanians about the extent of their manufactures, as compared with our Empire State? Before hard facts and figures it vanishes like the baseless fabric of a vision, oad New York State stands at the head of all others in the Union for the capital embarked, the number of hands employed, sad the value of the products, Avoruzn Lerrer rrom Dr Harcu on Sprerr- UaLism —We have received a second letter from Dr. Hatch, on “the moral, social aud religious as- pect of spiritualism;” but it contains no facts, Jtis a mere essay on the doctrines of the new sect, on which we have had letters and articles, lectures, and pamphlets, and books ad nauseam. There is nothing new iu this writer's secoud let- ter—not even as much as was contained in his first, of which it is almost a repetition, but much longer, and, therefore, 30 much the worse, The letter would be entirely too loog for our readers, He classifies spiritualists into two great divi- sions: first, those Christians who believe in the existence of spiritual communications, but regard them as unreliable, infernal, diabolical, and cal- culated to lead mankind astray; second, those who comprise three-fourths of the sect, and call themselves “Harmonialists,” who say that all spiritual manifestations are from God, and are designed to teach his erring children and prepare them for heaven—that the Bible is a very good book in its way, and suited for the ignorant, but falls short of the higher law of “harmonial philosophy,” which is a step in advance in the order of man’s endless “progress.” But it is on the subject of marriage that Dr. Hatch spreads himself. Some of the spiritual- ists, he says, believe in the sacredness of the marriage tic, and hold that it is ouly in pairs men and women ought to be united in wedlock, while others contend that sexual intercourse ought to be regulated by “affinity”—that is, by mutual liking and aptitude—so that it matters not whether the parties are single, or already married and have mistaken their “affinities,” they are at liberty to try others till they are satisfied at last. Dr. Hatch says this leads to promiscuous intercourse and prostitution. Of course it does; and the public long since knew it. Dr. Hatch is suddenly virtuous in his indignation against the immorality and social danger of the system. But the Doctor deals only in generalities. He promises facts in his first letter, but gives none in his second; but again promises revelations hereafter, yet with a reservation and a condition. He says, “ If by the time I have finished these letters the public think I have not succeeded (in exposing the fal- lacies and evils of spiritualism) I will try again.” So we are menaced with a second series of the Doctor's epistles; but even then we are not to be too sure about getting any facts, for he concludes, “My failure, most certainly, will not be for the want of facts, or matter, but from a fear of too greatly outraging the public sense of decency.” We cannot publish the Doctor’s letter. THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Defeat of the Pacific Railroad Bill in the Senate, &., &e., &. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE TARIFF QUESTION—DEFEAT OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL—THE PUBLIC PRINTING AND NAVY YARD COMMITTEES—CURIOUS DISCLOSURES—THR PRESIDENT AND THE NEW YORK POLITICIANS— COLLECTOR SCHELL NOT TO BE REMOVED—THE BALL TO LORD NAPIER, ETC., ETC. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 1859. ‘The Pacific Railroad question flickered out of existence to-day, as a practical measure, by the passage of an im. practicable bili in the Senate. The defeat to-day of the Consular bill before the House is looked upon as indicative of a general slaughtering of appropriation bills. Great indignation is manifested on the part of Northern democrats at the courso of Southern men voting with black republicans to kill this bill. No progress was made with the thirty million Cuba question to-day, but it is silently working in the minds of members of Congress. The administration democrate, seeing the republicans are uniting to oppose it on party political congiderations, are more determined to press it. It is now believed but few democrats will be against it, while there are some independent members of the oppo- sition who will vote for it. The Finance Committee have decided to make no move or suggestion in regard to the tariff or loan until action is bad in the House. The Chairman, and, in fact, a majority of the committee, are averse to making any change of the tariff. The House Post Office Committee will endeavor at their next meeting to abolish overland mail service to California. This move is made with the view of cutting down and re- trenching the expenses of the Post Office Department. Although the House disposed of the ocean mail service so summarily on Tuesday, I understand the Senate will re- vive the subject, and press a bill for authorizing of con- tracts for a few most necessary routes, where the amounts will not be large. The weckly line of Carlos Butterfleld to all Gulf ports of Mexico and Texas is one mush favored, as calcul to develope greatly our trade and political in- fluence in Mexico. The committee met this morning, but Bo quorum being present the question of ocean mail ger- vice was postponed. The Chairman will at the next meeting bring the whole question before the committee, when a general system will be adopted. A convention of railroad men mot at Willard’s this morning. There were present Charles Moran, Erastus Corning, J. Fdgar Thompeon and John W. Garrett. Tho meeting is for the purpose of adjusting various matters which had arisen betweea the four lincs. Mr. Moran was appointed President, and 8. M. Barlow Secretary. Mea- sures were discussed to insure uniformity of action, and adopted. They meet again this evening, There are two investigating committecs now at work in the Capitol. The one searches for facts and develope- ments relative to the public printing of Congress, and the other is pursuing inquiries connected with the Brooklyn and other Navy Yards. Thero is not much time for tho completion of the labors of these committees before the clogo of the session; but it is, nevertheless, expected that they will in that brief period bring to light some curious and remarkable disclosures. First as tothe Wavy Yards. It is supposed that the inquiries of the committee into the doings in the different Navy Yards will show that political influences have been suffered to interfere with the efficiency of their adminis- tration, This statement is said to apply more particu- larly to the Navy Yards of Philadelphia and New York. It is believed that in the latter the subordinate dotails of its management have been made to serve the electioncor- ing purposes of certain politicians connected with Tam- many, to the great neglect and detriment of the public business. The Committee on Printing has had four meetings, and some extraordinary statements have been elicited from the witnesses. The‘irst witness examined was a person who called himself a correspondent of the Heraxp; but that title, as every one is aware, covers wide ground. fe made somo curious revelations, but in consequence of his poverty was Jetof. Twenty other witnesses who are supposed to be Correspondents of the HERALD will of course be subpcnaed and will probably make other divclosures. MY. Heiss, of the States; Mr, Wendell, of the Union; Mr. Wallach, of the Star; Mr. Rives, of the Globe, and Mr, Seaton, of the Intel- ‘igencer, will, 1 understand, be also brought before the committee. If they tell all they know about the secrets connected with the public printing in Washington, they will reveal enough to startle Congress and the nation from their propriety. ‘What is tho mattor with the New York politicians again? Fernando Wood is hero; but, as @ distinguished person in the Cabinot observed the other day, it is uncertain which side he will take. Tho two Schells are hero, Isaac Fowlor \s here, George Sanders is here, Oscar Coles is here, But- terworth ts here, Bill Twoed is here, Bird inthe Bush is here, together with half a dozen othors of tho samo atripe. ‘Tho greater part of them wore at the hospitable mansion of « Postmaster General Brownga fow nights since, (Sabbath hight, 100,) Walking, lavguing and enjoying theumpmalyes it~