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BROADWAY THKATRE Brow A Toor rE Nesix—hazerra—Deeps or Dreapest. ‘TRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aftornoon and Bvening— Cee PenronMANcRs= Raine” Howsis, MULMS &e. > BOWERY THEATRE, Sowe: ox, suv Feware Bosixson Oxo: ue Tuxse Fast Mew BURTON'S NSW THRATRX, Brondway—Ovr Famaue AuxuicaN Covsix—Porvan Faunce. WALLACK’* THEATERS, Broadway.—Tue Verekas; or, Faxcy aND ALGERIA. LAURA KEENK’S THEATRE, No. 64 Broadway.—Ovr Axrsicas Cousiy—Aunt Coancorre’s M 41D, BASNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM. Srosdway—atte:- oon and Evening~Negao Mixsraxusr—Juutosiries, do. WOOD'S MIBSTBEL. 2ULLULNG, 661 and 563 Broadway— Bravorien Bercs, Dawoxs, 40—New Year Cats, BRYANTS! MINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ 5 AL way—NacKo Sones anw Kratesques—Tar Vere 77 Brod QNIFFEN’S UAMPRELL BAINSTRELB. 449 _sronaway.— Mavonies, Bossesques, £c.—Dovsie Bropen Roox. 765 Broadway.—Me. Vaxpexnorr’s LYRIQUE HALL, Dramawe iN New York, Friday, February 4, 1859, The News. The reply of the Secretary of the Treasury to the requisition of the House of Representatives, re- gpecting the prospective receipt: i of the governme: as sent to Cong day. give the document in another columa The Secretar’ ates the views expressed in bis annual rep favoring a modification of the tarilf to meet deficiencies in the revenue, a re- sue of Treasury notes for one or two years, and opposing an increase of the national debt. A memorial from the Legislature of New York, urging Congress to provide for the improvement of the harbors on the lakes that are used in connection with our system of inland navi- gation, was presented to the Senate yougpiay and appropriately referred. Reports fromf the Judiciary Committee, for and against the claim of Messrs. Lane and Macarthy to represent the State of Indiana, in place of Messrs. Bright and Fitch, the sitting members, were presented. Gen. Houston introduced a bill to unite the two judicial districts of Texas, the object being to effect the removal of Judge Watrous. In the course of a speech on the subject, Gen. Houston revealed an extensive conspiracy, in which New Yorkers were implicated, to obtain large tracts of land from the republic of Texas. The vote recommitting the bill making donatiqus of land to agricultural col- leges was reconsideted, and after the adoption of amendments, its further consideration was post- poned till Monday. The Indian Appropriation bill was passed. In the House the Judiciary Com- mittee was instructed to inquire into the expe- diency of a law to punish poligamy in the Ter- ritories, and to restrain the people and authorities taerain from interfering with the federal judiciary. The recent news from Utah has, no doubt, given rise to this measure. A bill to promote the effi- ciency of the army and marine corps, by retiring disabled and infirm officers, was reported. The bill making appropriations from the civil depart- ments of the government was discussed in Com- mittee of the Whole, and several sections were stricken out. In the Legislature yesterday the report of the committee appointed to examine into the sanitary condition of New York city was presented to the Senate. It is a document of great importance, and it is therefore given in full in to-day’s paper. The Assembly was engaged in discussing the bill an- thorizing the trial of the alleged Quarantine incen- diaries in New York or Kings county, but no defi- nite action was taken. The new steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn will leave the Navy Yard this forenoon at ten o'clock under orders from the Navy Department, on a trial trip of one week to Beaufort, S. C. Ex-Mayor Wester- velt, and James Murphy, of the Fulton Iron Wo: accompany her. Atthe mecting of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday a communication was rece'ved from the Mayor on the subject of the propositions now be- fore the Legislature for the construction of various railroads in the city. ‘The Mayor is decidedly op- posed to the Legislature conferring important privileges of this character upon companies with- out consulting the wishes of the corporation. He is in favor of opening the railroad franchises to gene- ral competition, in the same manner as the ferry grants are now disposed of, as by this means the city would derive considerable revenue. He re- commends that the Legislature be memorialized to withhold all railroad grants in the city until the Common Council shall first ask for the passage of . laws conferring them. The Mayor also sent in messages vetoing the resolution having reference to the members of the Common Council receiving salaries, and the resolution to fit up the Comp- troller’s office without first contracting for the ex- pense. A resolution directing the City Inspector to advertise for contracts for cleaning the streets was adopted by a vote of ten to three. The tax levy was taken up, and the amendments of the Councilmen ordered to he printed. The Committee on Markets of the Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon and heard par- ties interested in the proposed removal of Wash- ington Market. A large namber of dealers from the market were in attendance, and urged their claims to be left peaceably in possession of their sheds, on the ground that they have now done business in them a long time and pay a large rent to the city. the Committee adjourned to hold another meeting before they will report upon the subject. The Chamber of Commerce held their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon. The sub- ject of amending the by-laws in regard to the ad- mission of new members was discussed and laid over. The Chairman of the Committee on Usury Jaws read a copy of the memorial to be sent to the Legislature, praying for an entire repeal or an essential modification of the existing usury laws. The report was accepted, and the memorial ordered to be sent to both branches of the Legislature. ‘The Committee on the proposed Observatory re- ported the result of their work thus far. The Pre- ident stated that $17,000 had been raised for the erection of the new edifice. Prosper M. Wetmore made a touching appeal for “ material aid” to pay the expenses of the Chamber. The Tammany General Committee held a regular monthly meeting last night, Isaiah Rynders chair- rian pro tem. The entire evening was occupied in reading, discussing and voting on amendmenta to the by-laws, A motion was made to have five ficndred copies of the same printed, which did no We re NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY prevail, and the subject was postponed until the next meeting. The Committee then adjourned. The American Institute held a meeting last night, Mr. Pell in the chair. The agent submitted @ re- port of the finances for the fiscal year. The ques- tion on the yracticability of selling or leasing the Institute’s property on Broadway was discussed. A resolution was passed to the effect that it was inexpedient to sell the property. The subject of leasing the same was referred to the Trustees, with power. xamination was commenced yesterlay be- ore Commissioner Bridgham into a case of very sea) tless nature, where the industrious poor, as is usually ‘he case, were the victims. It is charged Italian woman, residing in Crosby street, assed a number of bogus five dollar gold coins in hat neighborhood, a poor Irish woman having ‘een vietimized to the amount of $45. Some of ‘he peces were produced in Court. The surface is e, but the body of the gold seems to have teen ingeniously filed out and baser metal intro- Iuced. The accused was arrested by the police, and, it being an offence against the United States roverrment, she was handed over to the federal authorities. ‘the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park held their regular semi-monthly meeting yeaterday. ‘The architect reported that the major part of the police cfiicers stationed in the Park have to be kept at the skating pond. Serious complaints were made in regard to the inclination of the public to cut or otherwire injure the trees and shrubbery of the Park. A mass meeting of the members of the Seventy- first regiment, American Guard, was held at their armory k stevening. The attendance was conside- rable, though many were absent through the incle- meney of the weather. Speeches were made and resolut’ons passed condemnatory of the admis sion of foreign citizens into this regiment, and the bers present, with scarce an exception, ex- ed their determination to remain in the regi- no longer than*it shall continue an exclu- sively American organization. Licut. Mow y lectured on the “Geography and Rescurces of Arizona” before the Geographical and Statistical Society last evening. See our re- port. The Hudson County Court of New Jersey has just decided a case brought by the Sheriff of the uty against A.B. Seymour, Superintendent of Dock Company, for the refreshment ex- incurred by the militia which was called out ring the troubles among the workmen of Bergen el. Mr. Seymour promised the Sheriff to pay said exjenses as a condition for calling out the militia. The Court upheld the promise, and gave judgment in favor of the plaintiff. We understand, upon what we consider reliable authority, that Mr. F. O. J. Smith has consummated arrangements for the sale of all his telegraph inte- rests to tiie American and the Magnetic Telegraph companies for the sum of about three hundred thou- sand dollars, which includes Mr. Smith’s two-thirds ownership of the New York and Boston Union line, the Boston and Portland line, and various claims against Western and Southern telegraph compa- nies, alleged to be worth one or two hundred thou- sand dollars. The rumor is also current that the negotiations between the American and Magnetic Telegraph companies, looking to a speedy consoli- dation of interests between Nova Scotia and New Orleans, have been brought to a mutually satisfac- tory termination. The steamship Etna, of the Cunard line, will sail from this port for Southampton and Havre to-mor- row, and take the Engtish and French mails in- tended for the Arago. Owing to the disposition among dealers in cotton yes- terday to await the receipt of later foreign news due at this port, combined with the inclemency of the weather, eales were limited and prices without quotable change. Coramon grades of flour were heavy and lower, while the higher brands were unchanged, and sales more moderate. Wheat was in speculative demand, and prices firmer, while sales were freely made, consisting chieflygot West- ern white and red at full prices. Corn was some firmer, while sales were light. The market for pork was excited, and in good speculative demand, bothon the spot and for future delivery: sales of new mess were made at $18 3734 a $18 6234, and of old do. at $17 8734 a $18, and prime at $13 60 a $13 6234, and 1,000 bbls. new mess were sold, deliverable in June, at $19. Sugars were firm, with sales of 400 a 500 bhds. at full prices. The prices established by Messrs. R. L. & A. Stuart for their refined sugars will be found in another column. Coffee was quiet for Rio, while a cargo of 2,800 bags St. Domingo was gold for export on private terms. Freights were unchanged, while engage ments were light. There has been a speculative move- ment in American pig iron, aud within a week gales in this city, in Albany and in Providence have been reported to the extent of about 20,000 tons, closing at about $24 for No. 1 and at $23 for No. 2. There bas also been a move- meat in cloverseed, and about 1,000 bags, within a few days, bave been gold in this market, and 1,000 do. elpbia for New York, all within the range of c. a M1 ge. The Presidential Question—The Cameron Movement in Pennsylvania, The letter which we published yesterday, from our Harrisburg correspondent, on the increasing | popularity of the Cameron movement in Penn- | sylvania for the next Presidency, when placed | in juxtaposition with the present distractions among the democracy in Congress upon the tariff question and other issues, may well com- mand the attention of the calculating politicians and scene-shifters of all parties and factions throughout the country. The leading points of the case, as presented by our correspondent in question, may be thus sum- med up:—-1. That ever since the nomination of Gen. Simon Cameron for the Presidency, by the New York Heratp, in June last, there has been a growing feeling in his favor throughout the State, so that there is no other politician in the Union that could to-day poll so large a vote in the Stdte. 2. That the disaffections thrown into the ranks of the democracy by the anti-Lecompton movement have worked a deep and lasting breach in that party. 3. That nine- tenths of the anti-Lecompton bolters in the State were friends and co-workes of Cameron when he was in the democratic church. 4. That the uni- versal demand for protection and relief amongst the people of Pennsylvania has forced all her politicians to this side of the question, and has thus brought about such powerful combinations in the State that they cannot fail, upon the Presi- dential issue {to exert a telling influence upon the politics of the country. It further appears that the leaders of this | Cameron movement have been consulting upon | the policy of calling, at an early day, @ mass meeting at Harrisburg, for the purpose of formally trotting out Gen. Cameron upon the Presidential course, and that the opposition elements of the State are pointing to Cameron as their man for 1860, with much of that unanimity which cha- racterized their preliminary movements of 1839- 40 for Harrison, and of 1847~'8 for Gen, Taylor. On the other hand, it appears that the nomina- fon of W. H. Seward in 1860, as the repubtican candidate, would be the signal for the repetition in Pennsylvania, in an aggravated form, of the triangular contest of 1856, With these significant Pennsylvania land- marks before us, the shaping of parties and party tactics for 1860 becomes a very interesting sub- ject. As matters now stand, Pennsylvania may be considered as holding the balance of power between the republican party of the North and the democratic party of the South. Unquestion- ably, the loss of Pennsylvania in October, 1856, e the democracy, would have elected Fromont, and a change of fifteen hundred votes, out of half No. 60 Lewis street, when a flood of boiling & million, in that October election, would have | water was discharged from the waste pipe U- given the State to the opposition. It was a nar- row escape; and on recurring to the heavy gains of the democracy in that struggle in che iron dis- | tricts of Pennsyivania, we can now discover that the well known views of Mr. Buchanan in favor of incidental protection bad a greatdeal to do with that decisive October election, We may safely say this of the tariff views of Mr. Buchanan, as con- tra-distinguished from the uncertain position of Col. Fremont—a recent democrat, educated among the free traders of South Carolina, The Northern elections of last autumn, how- ever, bave left the democracy without a solitary Northern State, excepting California, and, per- haps, Indiana. Pennsylvania was carried, as by a whirlwind, over the opposition side, and their tremendous gains in the manufucturing counties show that in spite of all the clamor of Lecomp- ton and anti-Lecompton, the neglect of this de- mocratic Congress upon the tariff question ex- erted a mighty influence against the democracy. Impressed with this fact, and anxious, no doubt, to restore, if possible, the old Keystone to the democratic arch, and sharing, too, in the popu- lar tariff sentiment of his native State, Mr. Bu- chanan, in his last annual message, has urged upon the democratic majorities of Congress the expediency and the propriety of such modifica- tions of the tariff for the relief of the treasury a3 will afford some incidental protection to our great iron interests and other domestic manufac- tures, against their otherwise unequal competi- tion with the cheaper labor of Europe. This brings up directly and distinctly to the democratic party in Congress the question whe- ther they areor are not ready to dispense with Pennsylvania in 1860. They have lost her, and she can only be recovered by some practical conéessions to her domestic industry. Judging, however, from the late democratic caucuses of both houses of Congress, the Southern managers concerned therein have resolved to let Peun- sylvania remain where she is, in the hands of the opposition. In support of these caucus pro- ceedings, we also observe that some of the South- ern organs of the democracy flatly recommend the policy of casting her overboard; for they say that she has already given the party trouble enough with her protection heresies, and that as her recovery into line is doubtful in any event, it is best to let her go. Assuming, then, that the democratic party, with the adjournment of this Congress, will be reduced to the territorial limits of the Southera States, it becomes as clear as the sun, that, with anything like a coalition among the opposition factions, they will probably carry the Presiden- tial election as triumphantly as that of 1840. But how are they to unite? The republican leaders in Congress have re-affirmed the pro- gramme of Seward’s Rochester manifesto; and that policy, if followed up, will undoubtedly swamp them; for there is a Northern conserva- tive opposition balance of power, competent to turn the scale, not only in Pennsylvania, but in New York, New Jersey and Illinois. The negro question, then, will have to be thrown in the back ground, and the Cuba question will have to be evaded, asa party test, by the opposition, and they will have to unite upon some such practical policy, in reference to the general government, as that of 1840. But a policy of this sort will require the shelving of all the outstand- ing republican and Know Nothing candidates, and all these sectional and sectarian heresies, and the adoption, as in 1840, of a man whose name, national character, conservative principles, and general popularity, will serve as the common platform of all the sections and factions and loose materials of the opposition side. The opposition leaders in Pennsylvania, it ap- pears, acting upon the hints thrown out by this journal last summer, have laid down the basis of a formidable movement in that State in behalf of Gen. Cameron. It must be admitted, too, that hisantecedents and his present political princi- ples, taken all together, cover a very large area of ground. He has been a prominent Pennsyl- yania democrat, a leading Pennsylvania whig, a- general of the Know Nothing order, and is a captain general of the republican camp. Here are principles enough to meet all the requisitions of rebellious and disgusted democrats, old line whigs, Know Nothings and republicans. We may say, too, perhaps, that next to a man like Gen. Taylor, without any political antecedents whatsoever, are the advantages possessed by a man whose antecedents cover all parties, all principles, all questions and all sides of all ques- tions of the last twenty-five years: provided, always, that his present position represents the general principles of the party or the coalition of which he is the representative. Gov. Wise is of this class of representative men, and his adherents in Virginia manifest the same confidence wt his availability for the Charleston nomination as do the Pennsylvania adherents of Gen. Cameron in his comprehensive popularity. But while we apprehend that Gov. Wise will find it exceedingly difficult to touch bottom at Charleston, we also fear that Gen. Cameron’s availability outside of Pennsylvania will not be equal to the pressure against him. Upon some such truly national and universally well known and popular man as Gen. Scott, there would be no difficulty in a pactical fusion of the opposition elements. But as the Pennsylvania movement for Gen. Cameron has been started upon a practical government issue which commands the popular pulse of that State, it is a movement in the right direction, Between it and the “ irrepressible conflict” of Seward and his managers against the “slave power,”” we may henceforward antici- pate a beautiful fight. The general question here involved is whether the opposition shall be united, asin 1840, upon the practi¢al government issues of the day, or divided, asin 1856, upon slavery. With the adoption of the first alternative the coast is clear, for the demo- cracy are so terribly cut up among themselves that they may be easily beaten. But with the adoption of Seward’s anti-slavery programme, the best that we can expect is a scrub race dis- graceful to all concerned, and possibly ruinous to the harmony and the peace of the Union. Let the Pennsylvanians, of this Cameron combina tion, go ahead. Anything in the way of a Presi- dential movement, in anticipation of these jng- gling party conventions, and in defiance of the old party tacticians of the day, is good. Now is the time for the people everywhere to be in motion. A Dasoxrous Practice is Crowpen Tuo- rovonrares.—A transaction, resulting in loss of life, occurred in Lewis street a few days ago, in which we think the Coroner’s jury are some- what reprehensible for the nature of the verdict rendered. ‘The facts are these :—A few boys were playing in front of the wire raiding factory opposite | | | | ning under the sidewalk into the gutter, scalding” one of the boys—the only son of a respectable } resident of the locality—so horribly that he died almost immediately. The verdict of the jury in the case was “ Accidental death,” simply, without a word of censure or comment upon the dangerous practice of ejecting volumes of hot water and steam into the crowded thorough- fares—a practice whch, we regret to say, is common in many parts of the city. In some instances the steam from these factory pipes is discharged into the street with a force hardly lees than that of gunpowder, to the immi- nent danger of any one who may have the ill fortune to be stepping off the side- walk at the moment The hot water, though not as sudden in its movement, nor as explosive as steam, is still quite as dangerous, as instanced in the case of this poor child, who was hurried from his innocent pastime to an agonizing death, almost in a moment. The question is whether this habit is not pro- hibited by some of our city ordinances, If it is not, then measures should be taken at once by the Common Council to suppress it. It is an outrageous and dangerous nuisance. It is not necessary to the requirements of trade and manu- factures, though it may be convenient to the owners of factories. The superfluous steam could be blown off into the air from the roof, and the water might easily be dis- posed of within the premises; and we hope that an ordinance will be passed compelling manufacturers within the city limits to make such a disposition of these two dangerous clements, that the lives of citizens may not be imperilled any longer. One victim and ope example are sufficient to prove that it is unsafe to permit the discharge of steam and boiling water into the public streets. ALarminG Morranity or New Yorx Crry.— By reference to our news columns this day, our readers in New York city will find a document which possesses more real interest for them than anything they have read for a number of years, It affects that which is dearest to all men—their lives, It involves questions of life and death to every inhabitant of this great city, containing a population of three quarters of a million. We allude to the report of the committee appointed by the Senate of this State to inquire into the sanitary condition of New York. The fucts and figures are truly alarming, and are sufficient to stir from its depths the popular indignation against the men who have so misgoverned this city for many years as to sacrifice the very lives of the people, while the cost of this misgovernment far exceeds in money that of any other city in the world. It is proved to be the most unhealthy city, when facts show that it ought to be and might be the heatthiest on the face of the earth, It has exchanged places with London, which was once the most unhealthy of cities. In 1856 the mortality of London was one in forty-five of the population. In New York it is one in twenty-seven; whereas in Philadel- phia it is only one in forty-four—which by na- ture is not near so healthy as New York. Two centuries ago the mortality of London, before there was proper drainage and sewerage, amounted to one in twenty-four of the inhabi- tants; and in New York fifty years ago it was one in forty-seven and a half—which is better than London can boast of even now; so that it is plain that while the health of London—in con- sequence of attention to sanitary laws—is every year improving, the health of New York is retrograding in the same ratio. The United States is now the healthiest country in the world. Only one and a half to one hundred of the population—or fifteen to one thousand—die annually; whereas in England the mortality is twenty-three to one thousand. In Russia the mortality is as high as thirty-six to one thousand. There is, therefore, fearful responsibility and culpability resting on the heads of our city government and State Legislature. The best proof of the natural healthy situation of the city is to be seen in the fact that in those wards in which cleanliness and ventilation are observed, and free sunlight and pure air admitted, the mortality is exceedingly small. For example: in the Fifteenth ward it is only one in sixty- nine ; in the First ward it is one in twenty-one— more than three times as great! Defective and overcrowded dwellings, damp and dark cellar residences, excluding the direct light and the pure air, the insufficient sewerage and drainage, and the dirty streets, combine to make this vast difference. It is proposed, therefore, to enforce, by law, in the most unhealthy wards, the same sanitary conditions which are voluntarily adopted in the most healthy. We trust that this will be done, and that the report will not be a mere vor et proe- terea nihil—sound, and like all its predecessors, a mere vox ¢ preterea nihil—sound, and nothing more—ending in a bottle of smoke. More Trove.e Wira Tux Mormoys.—A tele- graphic despatch from St. Louis informs us that Judge Sinclair had adjourned the Grand Jury of Utah upon petition of nine of its members, who alleged that the jury was unable to command the attendance of witnesses. It is further stated that there was much bad feeling between the Gentile and Mormon members of the panel, and that “revolvers were freely drawn.” Our cor respondence, published in another column, in speaking of the action of the Grand Jury, makes no mention of revolvers. ‘That Utah is still troubled is beyond peradven- ture. Otherwise we should not have two or three thousand troops there, when they can be main- tained at much less expense elsewhere. With the troops there are numerous camp fol- lowers, drunken, fierce and disorderly as camp followers always have been and al- ways will be, without doubt. There are quarrels between these hangers on and the Mormons, as a matter of course, and it is no wonder that “revolvers were freely drawn.” The wonder, if any, is that they are not freely used. Let it be understood that we are not de- fending the Mormons nor aseailing the Gentiles. We believe that there is blame on both sides. In the first place, the civil officers in Utah have not always displayed that temperance of conduct and calm firmness of judgment so absolutely necessary to the settlement of the tvoubles in the Territory. Judges Sinclair and Eckels are both charged with attempting to embarrass the settle- ment of affairs, by delaying the action of thd President’s amnesty, and thereby exasperating, rather than conciliating the Mormons. We do not endorse these charges; but we are in duty bound to call attention to the notorious fact thet frontier troubles, Indian wars, and so on, are and encouraged by contractors who are interested in keeping a large body of troops at a 4, 1859. particular depot. The profits upon supplies fur- nished to the army at points remote from the seat of government are enormous; and there is too much reason to believe that the Utah war bag been not an affair of the Mor- mons nor of the federal government, but rather of the army contractors, sutlers, and 80 forth. We are free to say, also, that since the army has been stationed at Salt Lake City, its criminal calendar has swelled to an alarming degree; and we shall regret to see any new difficulties arise to keep the troops there. We believe in fair play for everybody—the Mormons not excepted. Tne Propanc Conrrovensy.—We print, in another part of to-day’s impression, an extended report of the debate in the Academy of Medi- cine, on Wednesday evening. That discussion was instituted ostensibly to throw some light upon the causes which operated to induce the death of Mr. Samuel Whitney, who had, accord- ing to Doctor Mott, a complication of diseases, and who, according to common sense, suffered from a superfluity of physicians. The war upon the Whitney case commenced with a statement in a Boston paper, to the effict that the patient’s windpipe had been punctured by Dr. Green, and that said malpractice had caused his death. A metropolitan journal immediately took a brief for the defence, and plumply denied the statement. Then commenced a terri- ble conflict between the old school fashionable physician and the new school scientific practi- tioner. Some journals were on one side—some on the other. The Heraup essayed to put ina word or two for the patients of the contending schools, and suggested that the discussion as to the cause of Mr. Whitney’s death was futile, inas- much as the most eminent of American surgeons declined to give an opinion upon the subject, after a post mortem examination. As we have stated before, the first debate in the Academy grew out of professional jealousy. The old school physician was angry at the idea that he should lose a patient. The modern savant lost his temper in thinking of the stupidity of the old fogies. So there was crimination and recri- mination, but the public gained nothing. We cannot see that anything further has been deve- loped by the second debate. It bas not been proved that the use of nitrate of silver in dis- eases of the throat and lungs is a safe, proper and efficacious method of treatment; neither has it been established that such treatment has been attended with beneficial results. It is not held by the opponents of Dr. Green that Mr. Whitney’s death was caused by that physician’s treatment, and the Academy adopted a resolution white- washing all parties concerned in the matter. The esprit du corps of the profession was roused to the defence of its pretended infullibility. Had the doctors only thought of washing their dirty line at home a little earlier in the day, the public would have remained in blissful ignorance upon the whole subject, important as it is. But now the disagreement among the doctors has opened the eyes of many of their patients, who demand to know why Mr. Whitney died. The Academy cannot tell; the Academy satisfies it- self by saying that none of us did it. Now, the public naturally argues in this way: If the most eminent surgeons can- not arrive at any conclusion as to the cause of death from a post mortem examination, is it probable that he or any other surgeon can diagnose correctly from external symptoms in life? And the public answers itself in the nega- tive. We are forced to the conclusion that the physicians are all in the wrong and entirely in the dark, so far as the true theory of the causes of disease is concerned, and that they, from lack of a proper basis for their diagnosis, kill more than they cure. This is the popular impression, and, the debates in the Academy of Medicine would seem to fortify rather than to dispel it. Tex Moion Taxarion.—It appears from the recent communication of Mr. Haws to the Board of Councilmen that poor Flagg left as a legacy to bis successor in the Comptroller’s office an ab- solute deficiency of nearly half a million of dol- lars, the result, no doubt, of the loose and disor- derly fashion in which the affairs of that depart ment have been conducted for the last five years’ Mr. Haws is at a Joss to account for the fact that this deficiency had never been discovered until he overhauled the books; but he says :— This large amount (445,207 30) could not have been of sudden accumulation, and ‘the fact that it has not hereto- fore caused serions embarrassments to the treasury is due to the facility with which the city is enabled to effect Joans, and thus anticipating, by the issue of revenue bonds in the early part of the year, receipts from taxes to be collected the énsuing October.” Means thus realized have been diverted from the specific purposes contemplated in the tax levy, but replaced by draiis on the revenues of the succeeding year. Mr. Haws proposes to add this amount to the tax levy for 1859, as the only measure whereby the deficiency can be provided for, and we presume it will be so added. The tax levy passed through the hands of the Board of Coun- cilmen for the last time on Wednesday, upon which occasion they cut it down $170,200—a wonderful stretch of economy, considering that the additions made to it by both Boards since it game from the Comptroller amounted to over a million and a quarter. When the $445,307 de- ficiency and the $29,000 for judgments are added, as the Comptroller recommends, the tax levy will be found to amount to ten millions—just as we have predicted many a time during the past year. Great “Semircaw” Barris i Prosrrcr.—By reference to our advertising columns the reader will see an an- nouncement of a great contest about to come off on the subject of “Spiritualism,” which is likely to rival the battle of Heenan and Morrissey, for the prowess of the combatants, for the hard blows given and received, and for the interest excited among the respective ‘backers,’’ ‘There is something in the “articles” of the fight which we do not consider quite fair. Judge Edmonds is to lead off on Sunday morning at Dodworth’s Hall in favor of Spiritualism. In the evening, at tho samo piace, Signor Monti, of Harvard College, is to answer him; and on the following Sunday Mr. Joel Tiffany is to reply to the Signor. And further the programme sayeth not. Now, this ia two to one, which is not considered fair in any kind of a fight. Let us therefore have another champion for a rejoinder to Tiffany. Brooklyn City News. Dratn rRow Invevins ReexivRD IN A QuarRer.—Thomas Shicids, a laborer employed by Contractor 0’ Honnell, died at the College Hospital yesterday morning, from injuries received in a yuarrel come days since. Michael Dwyer, « fellow laborer, had some words with deceased, and pick- ing up @ pitchfork thrust the prong in one of his eyos to such a depth that it penetrated the brain. No one else was ws a ‘and Dwyer’s version is that he was attacked by Shields and defended himeelf with the pitchfork, but bad no intention of injuring him. ‘The accused was ar reatod, and committed to await the Coroner's investiga tion, which will be held to-day. Rinawooo WaTmE.—The first water for tenement houses was introduced into a row of newly built brick buildings ‘on Myrtle avenue, near Jay streot, during the past week. The water bas been introduced into several other houses which are occupied by the owners, and ik found to be clear and of exvellent quality. Personal InteDigenoce. do, io the. steamabtp Ro DoY chmod, Ac, mn ke—D © Van rall'apa Thay, a Bimier, M TU D Culver, John Dear. born, Mra Fravtns and child, H a DeMunn, Henry Lowell, Mra Allen, M Waussbaum, © Craig, PA Wells, Misa K Peano, H Jacove, Misa H Lunt—and 15 steerage. —__--e——oeo- THE LAvY=ST NEWS. AFFAIRS AT THE WATIV,.< CAPITAL THE NATIONAL FINANCES, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Condition of the Finances—His Ke- commendations Respecting the ‘iariff, Re- trenchment, Freasury Notes, &c. Wasuixeton, Feb. 3, 1859. The Secretary of the Treagery sent to the House to-day a reply to the resolutien calling for the actual and probable receipts from custemé, public lands, and other sources for this and the next fiseal year, and for his opinion whe ther the said receipts will be adequate to meet the publie expenditures. He says that the receipta during the first quarter of the fiscal year ending September last were nearly twenty millong two hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars, as stated 1p bis annual report, The receipts fx the remaining three quarters wore estimated at thirty- eight millious Ove hundred thousand dollars, of whick sum thirty.eeven millions were estimated from the eug- toms. It was believed that the quarter ending Deeember last would yield wen millions; the present quarter, ending On the 31st of March, fifteen millions; and the next quas- tor, ending 6m the 30th of June, twelve millions, Ia reference not only to the customs, but the publie jands and other sources of revenue, all the infor- mation which has been received at the Department ainos bis annual report confirms the correctness of tho estimates. of the probable receipts for the progent and noxt fiscal year. He is, therefore, of the opinion that the result wit show that the actual receipts for the remaining quarters of the present year and for the next fiscal year will not vary materially from the estimates already submitted te Congress. In support of this opinion he submits a comparison of the receipts for the sume quarters of the two preceding years. During the fiscal your ending 30th June, 1687, the importations were very heavy, amounting in dutiable goods, exclusive of those exported, to over two hundred and ninety-four millions, and the receipts from customs that year were sixty-threo million six bun- dred and forty-eight thousand dollars. In the fiscal year ending June, 1868, the importations were much reduced, amounting in dutiable goods, exclusive of those exported, to two hundred and two millous, and the receipts from the customs to forty two millions forty-six thousand. To realize his estimates, the importation af dutiable goods for the present fisca? year must reach twe hundred and fifty millions, besides those exported, and for the next flacal year the sum of two hundred aud eighty millions. Comparing the foregoing statement of receipts, and looking to a favorable and healthy reaction im business, he should regard it “as unsafe and unwise to cal- culate upon a larger importation than the present eati- mates contemplate. Entertaining these opinions, he is compelled to say the receipts will not be adequate to the necessity of the pub- lic exigencies, unless the expenditures be reduced below the amount estimated for. He has seen no indications that would induce the opinion that such a result cam be reasonably anticipated; on the contrary, should the bills which baye been passed by either or both branches ef Congress be finally passed by both, and become laws, the expenditures would be very largely and permanently increased, It is estimated that the Pension bill alone, which has passed the House, will add several millions to this year’s expenses of the government, and even a larger amount for the next fiscal year. Other bills, also, which have either passed the Senate or the House, will, in a large measure, swell the amount of the expenditures. These are contingencies to which the attention of Congress should be directed in considering the probable receipts and ex- penditures of the government. Either the expenditures ust be reduced to the estimated receipts or other means: Of revenue should be provided. If the first can be ef- focted it is certainly most desirable. Ho bus already submitted to Congress a plan for codi- fying the revenue laws, and for reorganizing the collec- tion districts, which, if sanctioned aod passed into law, would [aban fh ives fhe Mrmr of the Treasury De- partment, anc luce je expenses of collectmg the revenue Led ‘There stand on the statute books laws requiring the building of custom bouses, poet offices and court houses at places where the public service does not require them at this time. The repeal of these laws, or the postpone- ment of their execution to a period of greater prosperity’ and Jess embarrassment, would relieve the treasury of that amount of expenditure. The recommendation to abolish the franking privilege, and of raining tho letier rate of postage to fire cents, with the view of bringing the Post Office Departinent as. near as possible to ita former self-sustaining position, will if carried out very greatly relieve the treasury. In other departments reductions might aiso, in all pro- bability, be made. He only speaks of those which have been brought to the attention of Congress, and commends them to their favorable consideration. If, however, the appropriations made at the present session shail reach the amount estimated for in the Secretary’s report, a de- ficiency will exist, which must be provided for by addi- tional legislation, and to the extent which the ap) tions shall exceed the estimates will that deticiency be necessarily increased. He says he has already expressed the opinion that the public debt ought not to be increased by an additional joan, That opinion remains unchanged, The present tariff should be 60 modified as to supply such deficiency a8 may exist,and he recommends his the ‘subject exprested in his annual report to onsideration. attention to the outstanding Treasury notes. In his estimates of receipts and expenditures, the permanent redemption of them, as may fall due, has not beea contemplated. Ali the calculations have been made upon the basis of continuing them in circulation, and asa matter of course the redemption of the whole, or any part of them, must increase the anticipated deficiency unless authority be given for their reissue or other provision be made for their redemption. Since February list there have been redeemed $543,700. By the 30th of June next the sum of $17,758,900 will fall due, at which time their payment must ‘be Congress adjourn without legislating on the ubject, it would be simost impossible, under the most favorable receipts from ordioury sources, for the department to meet the public liabilities until auother Congress could be convened, He had already recommended that this immediate demand should be provided for, by ‘authorizing the re-issue of thesc Treasury notes for ove years. This can easily be effected, by extending for that period the provisions of the act of December, 1867, authorizicg the issue of Treasury notes. The proposition to convert theso notes into a permanent debt ought not to receive the favorable consideration of Congress. It would be virtually to postpone their ultimate payment toa dis- tant day, when the policy of the government should be to redeem them from year to year, as the means of the trea- sury will justify. A public debt which remains in the form of Treasury notes can alway be redeemed without endanger! the success the department. ever there excess of revenue over expenditures safely placed to the redemption of the Treasury notes. For the power of re-issuing those existing, should the future receipts from any cause fall below the estimates of the department, additional reason is given: namoly, the notes can be redeomed without the payment of any Se will hardly be the case with United stock. ‘Contemplating the gradual redemption ot these notes, and being opposed to the policy of adding the sum twenty millions to the permanent debt, he repeats his former recommendation for extending the operation of the ‘Treasury note act trom one to two years. Our Special Washi he VIEWS OF THE SKORETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THR REVENUE AND LOAN QUESTIONS—PROGNOSTIOA- TIONS AS TO A MODIFICATION OF THE TARIFF—RE- ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTION DIsTRIOTS— REDUCTION OF SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS—PROPOSED NEW BANKRUPT LAW—VISIP OF THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE TO THE FRIGATE WABASH—THE OCEAN POSTAL SERVIC com PLIMENTARY BALL TO LORD NAPIER, ETC., ETC. Wasmveros, Feb. 3,1860. ‘The reply of the Secretary of the Treasury, which was gent to the House to-day, is what it was repreeentea it would be—a reiteration of the views he had already ox- prested as to the necessity of a change in the tariff and against a loan, It will have little effect on Congress. Bat the conviction is gathering strength that a modification Will be agreed to without half as severe a fight in the Senate as was at first suppored A Howse cancus for Saturday is called of ali demo~ crats, and will present @ different result from the pro- ceedings of Tuesday. Although Mr. Crawford's resolution was then carried, it had but twenty-three supporters, showing that at that time there was buts slim attendance. ‘The Pennsytvania democrats propose to meet on Satur- day evening by themselves for conference. It is cortaim that specific duties will not be even partially adopted, and the Pennsylvania delegation will be satisfied if they get iron on the thirty per cent schedule, The Senate Commitice on Commerce have authorized their chairman to report a bill similar t that submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury somo weeks ago, arranging the collection districts, designating ports of entry and delivery, and regulating the appointment of officers of customs, &. The Senate bill reduces the ex- penditures below that of the Secretary, cutting down the salaries of all the officers, from the oollector to the tide. waiters, and diminishes the clerical and other force noarly one-third. The salaries of all the Collectors of the prin- cipal ports are to be uniform—five thousand duiiars a your cach; Surveyors and Naval Officers aro yednoed to four thousand five hundred dollars; and eo on through all the grades, except Ingpectérs, whose salarics remain un- changed. The savipg in the expenditures for the collec~ tion of the revenue is estimated at upwards of one million of dollars, The announcement will probably bring hithee