The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1859, Page 4

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Negno Missrasusy—Ovuioar ins, 0 ANBTREL BULLDING, 661 and 663 Broacwas— srmorias Sones, ms Dawoxs, £0.—New Yaar Ostia, BRYANTS MINSTRELS, MS0HANIOW HALL, 497 Grose way—Neono Bowes axr Scuiesqres—WIDE AWAKE, SNIFFEN'S OAMPBELL AiNSTRELS, 444 Broadwoy.— Mavens, Bonissavss, kc.—Dousis Beppe Roou. Pg etd OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect—Rev. Wu. ‘Mipuer’s Oxati0N ON THE Lirm 4ND CHARACTER OF Taso uae. New York, Wednesday, February 9, 1859. The News. We publish some very interesting news extracts relative to afiairs in Europe and China, taken from our files brought by the Asia and Kangaroo, this morning. Biographical notices of Prince Na- poleon Bonaparte and his intended bride, the Prin- cess Clotilde, daughter of the King of Sardinia, are given, with a report of all the grand preparations which had been made at Turin and Paris for the celebration of the marriage and the comfort of the royal pair. A copy of the new tariff arranged be- tween the foreign envoys and the Chinese Imperial Commissioners is given, with some highly impor- tant articles for the regulation of trade which have been appended to the treaties of Tien-sin. We have news from Ceylon, dated at Co- Jombo on the 15th of December. The Observer of that date has the following:—The total exports of coffee to date are 59,409 cwt., in the proportion of 33,849 plantation and 25,560 native. The immigration ordinance is to be brought into force on January 1, without wait- ing for the sanction of the Secretary of State. Ina few months the steamers will be plying be- tween India and Ceylon. The list of arrivals for this year promises to reach one hundred thousand. The Coolies have now begun to go back; but a large proportion will remain here, deterred from re- turning by the news of the famine. The financial Position of the colony is most satisfactory. There has been a good deal of sickness over the country, and cholera continues bad at Galle. At Singapore, E. I., on the 6th of December, gold dust rated as follows:—Malayan, $28 50 a $29, and Australian, $31 per bunkal. Our files from the Manritius are dated at Port Louis on the 3d of December. The Gazette con- ‘tains the following summary:—-Until the arrival of the English mail there was much activity in sugar shipments, and the quantity sent forward was 5,000 tons in excess of last year. There has been a re- laxation since, and prices have declined. The crop is well advanced, and the present one may be estima ted at about 110,000 tons. The volcano at Reunion is «in eruption. The Nicolas Poussin has arrived from Pondicherry, with Indian immigrants for Marti- nique. Her tonnage is 445 tons,and she has 481 im- migrants on board. Sugar rates:—Vacuum, first quality, $7 25 a $750; very fine yellow, $6 50a $6 66; fine gray, $6. By way of New Orleans we have dates from Ha- vana to the 3d instant. The action of Congress on the Cuba question had created more excitement than that caused by the President's Message. By the arrival of the schooner John Tyler at this port, we have advices from Aux Cayes to the 16th ult., confirmatory of the accounts already publish- ed with reference to the revolution in Hayti. There was considerable firing in the vicinity of Aux Cayes on the night of the 15th, but the cause could not be ascertained on board the schooner. Congress transacted considerable business yes- terday. In the Senate a communication was re- ceived from the Secretary of the Navy adverse to the transfer of the revenue cutter service to the Navy Department. The House resolution autho rizing Lieut. Maury and Professor Bache to receive medals from the Sardinian government was re- ferred to the appropriate committee. A bill was introduced providing for the appointment of a com- mission to report to the next Congress a uniform system of marine signals. Memorials for a monu- ment to Baron De Kalb, relative to New York harbor defences, and for the settlement of the half-pay of officers of the Revolution were presented. A call was made upon the State Department for correspondence touching the alleged assertion of Presidents Mar- tinez and Jerez, of Nicaragua, that officials of the United States were accomplices of the filibusters, and if such assertion was made what apology is necestiaey for the misstatement. A report adverse to the organization of Jefferson Territory was pre- sented by the Territorial Committee. Mr. Bigler delivered a speech upon the resolution declaring it inexpedient to incur a large public debt in time of peace, and that Congress should adjust the tariff to meet the expeditures without delay. The bill authorizing the construction of a railroad through Pennsylvania avenue was defeated by a vote of 23 to 20. The Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was then taken up, and after the reception of amendments the Senate went into executive ses- sion and confirmed a number of appointments. The House was engaged on the war claims of Ore- gon and Washington Territories, and the bill mak- ing appropriations for the civil departments of the government, but nothing of general interest trans- pired. But little of importance happened in the Legis- lature yesterday. Although five weeks of the ses- sion have passed away, yet only half a dosen bills have been acted on. All the important measures will, as usual, be deferred till the Inst days of the session. The resolutions approving of the proposed acquisition of Cuba were taken up in the Senate yesterday. Mr. Diven, re- publican, offered a substitute, declaring that the people of this State will welcome the annexation of Cuba to the United States whenever it can be done on honorable terms, and whenever there is an assurance that the Island will be governed by a free constitution. At the mee‘ing of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday @ communication was received from the District Attorney asking another assistant at $2,000, © clerk at $1,000, and a messenger at $600 per ‘enum. A message was received from the Mayor vetoing the resolution of the Board requesting the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1859. take cas to check the mutilation of the tax lists under the Common Council, after being approved by the Supervisors. The Mayor is of opinion that the design of this resolution would seem to be to prevent any action of the Common Council in rela- tion to the remission of taxes being carried into effect. The law has given, or intended to give, the Supervisors the power of remitting or reducing taxes until the period of six months after the con- firmation thereof, but after that time the Common Coureil have the right to exercise such power, and as they have always exercised it, he thinks the re- solution not called for. The communication was ordered to be printed. A bill of $363 10 for ice for the public offices was received and referred to the Board. Adjourned to Tuesday next. The Aldermanic Committee on Lands and Places met yesterday to hear parties in reference to the present condition of Tompkins square and the pro- posed removal of the fountain therefrom. Manus Flannelly, who lives in the neighborhood of the syucre, said that it is the aristocratic class of the locality who desire the destruction of the fountain; bot he regards it as a benefit to the working classes, and the only beautiful spot where they can have recreation. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Mooney and others, who also expressed themselves in favor of having the fountain put in a proper condition, and urging that while the destruction of the foun- tain would be tantamount to pronouncing its origi- nal cost of $2,500 a useless expenditure, its removal would cost a considerable sum. The chairman of the committee stated that $800 was placed at the committee’s disposal to do what might be'consi- dered necessary to the square, and that they would hold another meeting before they would report, in order to hear the statements of others who feel an interest in the matter. The Councilmen’s Committee on Lands and Places held a meeting yesterday, and heard par- ties interested in the removal of earth from Hamil- ton square. B.F.Craine and some others were present on behalf of the Central Park Commission- ers, and stated that it would be an advantage to the city to permit the earth to be taken from the square for the purpose of grading Fifth avenue, Fifty” ninth street and the lower part of the Central Park, They argued that the earth must be removed some- where, and that it could not be better applied than as they stated. The committee thought that the earth was worth between $10,000 and $15,000, and that the Central Park Commissioners should pay for it, The committee adjourned the consideration of the matter in order to hear more upon the sub- ject. A horrible tragedy occurred in the rear of No. 251 Elizabeth street yesterday morning. A mulatto girl, about twenty years of age, named Ann Maria Bosley Cojay, made a brutal and desperate attempt to take the life of her mother while the latter was lying asleep in bed. The matricide buried an axe in the head of her parent, and then endeavored to strangle her with some pillows and bedding. Plunder was the motive which actuated the daugh- ter in thus attempting to destroy her mother. On being arrested, Anna Maria confessed her guilt, and said she had been instigated to the commission of the crime by her paramour, Elijah Martin, who was anxious to have the old woman put out of the way so thathe might obtain her money. Martin was also arrested, but he denied having any know- ledge of the conspiracy, and declared he was in no way implicated in the affair. Elsewhere will be found a full account of the horrible transaction. A fire occurred in a cooper’s shop in the rear of No. 57 Ridge street yesterday morning. The flames spread rapidly, and set on fire a frame stable ad- joining, and sixteen horses, together with a quan- tity of harness, fuel, &c., belonging to Samuel Phil- lips, were destroyed. At the meeting of the Board of Ten Governors yesterday the allegations of a morning paper, charging an outdoor nurse with cruelty to certain children committed to her care by the Almshouse authorities, were commented on with great severity by several of the Governors, and affidavits were read denying utterly the truth of the pathetic ac- count published in the journal alluded to. At the same time a communication from the Warden at Randall's Island was read, complaining that the beef furnished that institution was so tough that the younger children could not masticate it. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday Judge Ingersoll rendered a very important decision in the case of Denning Duer, a member of the firm of James G. King & Son, bankers, against Wilson Small, Receiver of Taxes, on the question of the liability of non-residents to taxation. The Court holds that the complaint is not sufficient to exempt the plaintiff from taxation, and denies the motion for injunction. Lieut. Henry Erben, Jr., who arrived in the Asia, left town yesterday for Washington. He is bearer of the treaty negotiated by Mr. Reed, which he was desirous should reach the Senate before the adjourn- ment of Congress. Lieut. E. was attached to the steam frigate Mississippi, and left her on the 30th of November. The steam frigate Minnesota sailed for Boston on that day. In the General Sessions yesterday, James Fox, who was indicted for stabbing Patrick Riley with a knife, on the 8th of December, pleaded guilty to an assault with intent todo bodily harm, and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. James Judge, jointly indicted with Robert Brady for bur- glary in the third degree, having on the night of the 8th of November entered the stable of Philip Smith and stolen a set of harness, pleaded guilty of an attempt to commit that offence, and was sent to Blackwell's Island for one year. George H. Cleave- land was charged with forging a note for $985 on the Williamsburg City Bank, to the order of J. H. Smith, and purporting to have been signed by Jas. M. Waterbury, and pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree. He was remanded for sentence. ‘Wm. Worum was tried and convicted of forgery in the second degree, having in his possession a quan- tity of counterfeit five dollar bills on the Granite Bank, of Mass. The Recorder, in passing sentence. said that he had ascertained that the prisoner had been engaged in counterfeiting for a long time, and that as forgery was a crime of frequent occurrence in this city, it was absolutely necessary to puta stop to it by the infliction of severe punishment. Worum was sentenced to impri#onment in the State prison for six years and six months. Jas Lattin, his accomplice, was sent to the same institution at the last term of the court for a term of years. ‘The tone of the cotton market yesterday corresponded somewhat with the character of Liverpool aavices by the Asia. Middling and lower grades were heavy, and closed at about one-eighth of a cent decline. Good to primo cottons were scarce, and prices but little affected by the news. The sales embraced about 1,200 bales, including middling uplonds at 113¢c. per Ib, The total receipts at the ports amount to about 2,472,000 bales, against 1,483,- 600 in 1858, and 2,016,000 for the same period in 1857. ‘The total exports amount to 1,281,000, against 840,000 in 1868, and 888,000 in 1857, and 2,213,000 in 1856. The stock in the ports amounts to 920,000, against 612,000 in 1868, and 786,000 bales in 1867. Flour was dull and rather lower for common grades, while prices were quite steady for the higher qualities, and there was a fair de- mand, chiefly from the domestic trade. Wheat, excopt for choice lots of white, was dull, and sales mode- rate, Corn was better, especially for Southern white, which was in speculative request at 630. a 84c., with sales of Jersey yellow at 80c. a 8lc., while Western mixed was held at 87c. Pork was leas buoyant, and closed ‘at casier rates. New mess sold at $46 60, and old at $18, with prime at $19 60.0 618 6234. Beef was firm and in good request. Lard was active and firmer, with s good demand for both immediate and future delivery, at fall prices. The sales of sugars embraced about 1,100 bhds., 1,200 a 1,600 boxes and 775 bags, with 14 bbis. St. Uo- ‘mingo, on terms stated in another column. The eales of coffee embraced the cargo of the Courier, of 5,380 bags of Rio and 600 bags @t. Domingo, on private terms, The stock of Rio and Santos in this market amounts to 5,780 bags. The total stock of bags and mate embraced about 71 465 packages of all kinds. Freight engagements werd Cowptroller to instruct the Receiver of Taxes to | light, and rates unchanged, State of Political Complications ta Europe— 7 Dnt of the Age. ‘The week's later advices from Europe pre- sent.no point of special change in the politidal questions of the Old Continent, but they give Louis Napoleon remains master of the aitua- tion im Europe, and the question of peace or war depends entirely upon the exigencies of his dynasty. In France the non-official press is very generally opposed to any new war, except it be a war with England, while the accepted organ of Prince Napoleon continues its stric- tures upon Austria, In Italy public attention is absorbed for the time with the marriage of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde, and the popular impression is that their wrongs had attracted the attention of bigher powers than themeelvea, and that in the spring action would eupersede the present state of passive endurance. Austria had come into the market for a new loan, and continued to strengthen her garrisons in Lombardy. A report had obtained our- rency in Paris that a meeting would shortly take place betwoen Louis Na- poleon and the Emperor of Austria; but on what ground this is asserted is not stated. The cession of Austria, before the demands of France, in regard to the marching of troops into the Servian Principalities, is claimed in Paris as a triumph of French policy. Preparations of the materi(l of war continued active in the French magazines, but they are ostensibly for use in Al- geria, In the meanwhile, the moneyed interests in the several European capitals do not exhibit any signs of an increased confidence in the present state of peace. In this cursory but truthful survey of things in Europe, we see with what ability Louis Napo- leon has drawn the courts of Europe into the necessity of recognizing and eupporting his dynasty. The empire is peace for Europe, and yet it is an armed peace, always on the verge of war. He rules its cabinets by flattering the re- volutionary passions of the people, and he holds these in check through amity with the cabinets. It is evident that the two other living Powers of Europe—England and Russia—have not only determined not to quarrel with him, but to give bim all the rope he wants for his swing in Cen- tral and Southern Europe, confident that he will hang himeelf at last. Such was the course they pursued with the Bourbons who broke themselves down with Charles X. and the house of Orleans, which hung itself before the death of its first monarch. England and Russia do not care what takes place in Germany and Italy, for neither of them have any good feeling for imbecile and treacherous Austria. It has already been suggested that an alliance be made between England, France and Russia, to dispose of Italy at the expense of Austria, just as these Powers in 1829 disposed of Greece at the expense of Turkey. On the part of both England and Russia there is evidently a growing disposition to dispose of the “sick man,” Turkey, after the fashion pro- posed by Nicholas to Sir Hamilton Seymour. In Russia this feeling is largely developed by her growing commercial interests in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, while in England the views of Lord Aberdeen and the tory party, in behalf of peace and co-operation with Russia, are evidently gaining ground. These combina- tions are ably taken advantage of by Louis Na- poleon to push his designs against Austria; and as he knows that itis not for his interest and that af his Apnasty tn parmit tha amanldaring volcano of European revolutionism to break out, it Will not be at all surprising to see Italy sud- denly severed from Austria through the consent of England and Russia, and without crossing the boundaries of popular revolutioy. But there are other elements at work in Europe which Louis Napoleon does not and may not be able to control. In England, reform is again the watchword of political agitation. From Russia we learned, not long since, that the commission of nobles convoked to discuss the plan of serf emancipation, before it separated recommended the Em. peror to convoke a national diet; and now an émeute among the students at Moscow has oc- curred, which the official journals take particular pains to assert was not of a political character. The very necessity of making the denial shows that men’s minds in Russia are contemplating the possibility of further political changes. In Prussia the Prince Regent has become alarmed at the great liberal majority in the lower House of the Prussian Parliament, and, to the great sur_ prise of his supporters, has made a strong re- actionary speech. What is passing in Italy our readers already know. These are the signs of the drift of the age—a tendency which disap- pointment and repression will confine only to cause it to break out with greater violence at no distant day. It is evident that the lines now drawn acroes the map of Europe, and which re. quire three millions of armad men to hold them in their places, are not to be of long continuance. Revrvat or Bustress—A great metropolitan jourmal is always a sure barometer, indicating the condition of trade throughout the country ; and consequently we can perceive from our in- creased receipts, both for advertisements and subscriptions, that business is reviving, and that the spring season will be a busy one with our merchants of all grades. The great hotels are Preparing to accommodate an anticipated rush of guests from the East, West and South; large importations are flowing from Liverpool, and Manchester, and Havre, and Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux and Lyons; the patriots who collect the revenue complain of being worked to death ; all the employés of the great wholesale houses are busy as bees, and the retail men are quictly preparing for the harvest which comes to them with the May flowers. Wall street, too, is doing well. The war cloud in Europe has caused a monetary lull in speculative stocks, but the business in official securities will be great. The federal government will want a matter of twenty millions from Wall street, and Wall street is very glad to lend it. The State of New York is likewise in a little pecuniary distress, and will want three or four millions ; and the city has to raise twelve millions, wherewith to carry on its beautiful government for another year. All this money, and more, is locked up, waiting for o safe investment—euch as government securities; and now it will be put in general circulation by the government, and will stimulate all kinds of trade. Next to a country without any money what- ever, a country that has a great mass of unem- ployed specie is the most unfortunate. That has been our case; since the crisis of 1857 some per- sons have been very naturally afraid of investing their money in the securities offered in the street, and have locked it up, and thus a great deal ofmo- ney has been Withdrawn from cifculation, Now democratic school of Southern abstractionista, filibusters and fire-eaters, for the establishment in the city of New York of a great central na- derstand, comprehends a sinking fund of one bundred thousand dollars, and the abandonment of Washington and the recognition of this me- tropolis as the real political centre of the Union. most important discoveries of the age—the dis- covery, by the parties concerned, that New York, cal affairs, is, de facto, the metropolis of the re- sury, and we include also the gloomy prospects concerned in this projected enterprise pro- ceed, dred thousand. rities, in the shape of cotton, tobacco, rice, it will all_ couse out from its hiding: places, aud we shall feel its effeot in a first rate ba.tiness sea- son, spring and early summer, with a maxgin for the fall, Journaliom of the Present Dey~The Metropolitan end the Provincial Press. There is a movement on foot, it appears, among certain politicians at Washington, of the tional party newspaper. The project, as we un- This enterprise, therefore, is due to one of the not only in a commercial, finanoial, social and religious sense, but also in regard to our politi- public; and that Washington, the seat of our federal government, is, after all, like Boston, Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, or Cincinnati, only a provincial town. We have been under this conviction a good many years; but when it bas so far impressed itself into the thick skulls of our Southern abstraction poli- ticians as to lead them to the experiment here of @ great central party organ, we are furnished with the strongest evidence that the independent prees of New York has, indeed, accomplished a wonderful newspaper revolution. Thousands of our intelligent readers, fifty years younger than the “oldest inhabitant,” will remember the day when the democratic “Thun- derer” at Washington, and its chief satellites at Richmond and Albany, raised up and pulled down politicians and statesmen, Senators, Gover- nore and Presidents, at their pleasure. Now, however, we find those once powerful party juntas, and their organs at Albany and Wasbing- ton, reduced to the common level of town meet- ings and provincial journals, and the great “Tbunderer” at Washington superseded by a half dozen hungry and wrangling newspaper beggars at the doors of the public treasury. In the meantime the independent press of this city has risen to the commanding position of the third estate of the government; and politicians and party managers, and juntas and organs, have thus sunk into public contempt under this new me- dium of public opinion—the independent press. This new conceit, therefore, of a national party organ at the headquarters of the independent press is not a badidea. It is a brilliant concep- tion. Itis a great discovery. It is an excellent device. But the proposed sinking fund of a hun- dred thousand dollars isa paltry sum—a mere , bagatelle; for it will not begin 1o meet the de- mands of the grand enterprigg-} A hundred thou- eand dollars in the work of starting a new daily paper here on the common footing of “the asso- ciated press” will be absorbed in the first year of the experiment. To give anything like stability to such an experiment, it will need a sink- ing fund of at least three hundred thou- sand dollars. Nor will this sum suf- fice to make the paper a self-sustain- ing concern, unless, from the more important investments of newspaper experience, industry, enterprise, tact, talent and independence, the paper shall be proved at least equal to its older city cotemporaries, and equally acceptable to the newspaper paying community. all events, instead of a hundred thousand as an outfit for this projected metropolitan organ OF demucrucy, wo weuld eoriowsly rocammend say three hundred thousand dollars. A proper building, suitable presses, competent editors, re- porters, correspondents, &c., &c., for a new and ambitious daily paper here, of the kind proposed, in the course of a few years will be very apt to swallow up even half a million of money. In this estimate of absorption, we of course calcu- late upon short allowances from an empty trea- the democracy for 1860,) Let the parties to raise their three hun- Good bonds and secu- then, sugar, or niggers, will command the cash in Wall street; for among the saints of Wall street, ten thousand dollars in niggers, with the cash price running up, are as good as ten thou- sand dollars in prospective crops of cotton, sugar, rice or tobacco. All that the financiers of Wall street require are good securities for their advances, and a good thumping interest arrangements, the heavy work contemplated will commence. We have had enough of news- paper experience, too, and have seen enough of the incompetencies, stupidities, laziness and ex- travagant habits of your party editors of party organs, to justify the prediction that, from this point, this new paper, if established, will be a sinking concern. Of all men in the world, those Southern abstractionists, fire-eaters and fili- busters ot the corps editorial appear to have the crudest ideas of the value of time, labor and money. A conceited fellow of this class, the owner and editor of a party organ, will content himeelf with a slashing article for the day; and thus, leaving the business of his office to take care of itself, he. will go off to luxuriate extrava- gantly among his loafing associates. An estab- lishment managed in this way must inevitably sink, sooner or later, according to the limits of the loans and credits it may be able to command, And upon some such slipshod, wasteful, loose and disorderly system as this, we apprehend, this proposed New York Central organ of the South- ern democracy will be started, if started at all. During the last six or eight months, and from time to time, for several years past, we have been approached by party politicians and news- paper financiers, with offers for the purchase of the Heraxp establishment, in some instances ap- proaching half a million of dollars, But the value of this establishment at present, we hold to be not less than one million of dollars. High or low, at even this price, cash down, the Heratp is not for sale. Money will not buy it; because we regard it as the instrument of a newspaper mission, which, even at this day, we have only fairly commenced. It is our purpose and our highest ambition to advance this paper as an in- stitution, and as an organ of public infor- mation and public opinion, with that ad- vancing spirit of progress and enterprise which is the distinguishing feature of the Step by step, for nearly a quarter of a ry, and from the smallest beginnings in the way of capital, the Heratp has advanced to the distinction of the first in the front rank of the American newspaper press. And while, from its independent position, it has thus prospered, and has contributed its full share to the practical xo- formation of the public journalism of the —, ithas had to lament the decline and fall of fearful number of metropolitan party organs, vet ‘up as the guardiaus and leeches of the New York democracy. Nomatter. Let our Southern fire-eaters and filibusters, intent upon a similar speculation on a inrger eoole, try their experiment We would monieh them, however, that there are some fv: ullarities of fire-eating chivalry which will be 01 of place on this matter of fact island. For ex ple, vulgar newspaper abuse of an unoffend- in ludy, because of her family relationship to a dip!omat or politician who has failed to satisfy the political demands of the offending newspaper clique, will never do. Nor will the use of bowie knives in our public streets meet with any mercy from the Court of Sessions, As for the duellist’s “ code of honor,” it is a code which, if attempted to be practised here, will be very apt to transfer the offender to a place among the oakum pickers at Sing Sing. And so, with these admonitions, for the present we leave the parties concerned in the new enterprise indicated to their calculations of their resources in bonds, stocks, plantations, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco and niggers, when reduced to a cash account in Wall street. Gamties or Wasiinoton-—ArrnroacHIne FasnionaBce Migration To New Yors.—In another column will be found several racy and amusing letters from Washington, giving an ac- count of the last week’s fashionable doings in that city. At no period within the recollection of its habitués has the capital, it seems, been gayer or more thronged than it is at present. The hotels are all filled to overflowing, and strangers are pontinually pouring in to increase the difficulties of accommodation. For the next three weeks, until Congress breaks up, Washing- ton will present a scene of bustle, intrigue and dissipation almost carnivalesque in its character. Dinners, scirées, receptions and balls will succeed each other with overwhelming rapidity, so that between these temptations and the lobbying, the wire pulling, the President making and the scheming generally, which are their daily occu- pations, the politicians who compose the society of the capital will find ethemeelves pretty well used up by the beginning of March. When Congress rises there will, of course, be a general scattering. Those who have exhausted their energies and their money will go home to recuperate. The small politicians and politi- cians’ wives, who are not familiarized to such a perpetual round of excitement and exertion, will carry with them into their respective localities a painful recollection of their nocturnal labors, and but faint reminiscences of enjoyment. The only benefit which they will derive from their visit to the seat of national legislation will be the opportunity of crushing, by the grandeur of their temporary assogiations, their country rivals. Of course those who have figured at the President’s receptions, hobnobbed with the Cabinet, and sported their quaint costames at the Secretaries’ balls, will have a right to hold their heads higher and to talk more patroniz- ingly than their less fortunate neighbors. Ot the small proportion who really constitute the élite of the fashionable society of the capital, the majority will come on here, Those whocome from distant parte of the Union rarely or never return home without paying a visit to the great centre of all the social, artistic, literary and cém- mercial influences which rule the country. Many have friends here who are glad to receive them during their brief sojourn, whilst the greater part make their arrangements for a longer stay. It should be the object of our citizens to multi- ply the inducements which bring on these visi- ters, and so increase their number. Those who have fine houses and the means of receiving should make it a point of extending their usual hospitalities; the managers of the Opera and of the theatres should enter into arrange- ments to render their entertainments as brilliant and effective as their resources will warrant. Then, as we advance into the summer, the owners of country seats in the environs of New York—in picturesque neighborhoods, for in- stance, like Fort Washington, Fort Hamilton or Staten Island—might keep the ball rolling by a series of fétes champetre, or other rural entertain- ments. By a continual succession of these at- tractions we shall not only retain amongst us for a lengthened period all that is most refined and distinguished amongst the first class society scattered over the Union, but we shall arrest to @ great extent the perigdical summer migration of our own leading families. Thus the trade, the artistic interests and the social character of our city will be benefitted, rendering it in other respects, as it is commercially, the fitting me- tropolis of the country. Tue Forry-seconp Hiauianpers.—In the English papers, received by the Asia, we do not find any mention of the sailing af the Forty-se- cond Highlanders. Better for the Common Coun- cil, therefore, to wait for further advices before taking any steps to give this famous regiment a reception. Meantime, we would that the hospitality ought not to be limited to the officers, as is done in the resolution adopted, but extend-- ed to the whole rank and file, as is becoming on the part of a democratic city. ‘Tne OPERA IN THR MerRorotm.—As our readers are al- ready aware, Mile. Piccolomini will pay a flying bri to New York and make her adieu to the audience with which she is s0 great a favorite inan evening perform- ance of ‘Don Pasquale,” on Friday, and a matinée on Sat- urday, when the same opera will be represented. It is very probable that after the above mentioned occasions Mile. Piccolomini will not sing in New York. Tho London papers by the Asia announce that it is considered well settled that Mr. Lumley will open Her Majesty’s at the usual time, early in April, when, of course, Piccolomini will return to London. Her farewell bencilt at Philadel- phia takes place on to.morrow evening. From next Friday upto about tho first fof April there will be no opera in New York, for the reason that during February and March it pays better to give concerts in the provinces; so a portion of the Ullman company, including Piccolomini, go to the Wost and descend the Mississippi to New Orleans. The other.section go by the seaboard route to the Jast named city. April, May and June will give us plenty of opera. Then the imperial Uliman will have returned from New Orleans, the indomitable Maretzek from Havana, and the mercurial Strakosoh from the con- secration of the Cincinnati Opera Houso, So that, judging by past experiences, there will be at least two operas going in the spring for the delectation of our fashionable people, who will bave returned from Washington and finished up their party and ball and dinner giving. Well, tho more the merrier for the public. Tat them come on. Personal InteHigence. a A.; wie: epee Gas geet a ee ‘Mayor of Baltimore, wore in Bova te eeodlg ARRIVALS. lady and ase a A rom Matas, nthe mh ot Rage © Caden Karnak—Mr and Fae ald fad are Matera. do; cay i two ohll ig and 7, ne For Se apt, Je un oe arte, Wobare, Mass: Mr sod business bas been *coomplished in the Legislature, We are now drawing cle'#e upon the middie of tho session. more than five woeks of tho hundred days have beea ox- pended, and only five a” #ix Dilla have passed through the Excoutive chamber. The republican majority is ampie, the uaual number of bills a6 On file ia either house, but for some cause or other no ia \Portant public measure has ' postpone for a woek. THE LATEST NEWS, xPFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPrraL, Oar Special Aibany "8 CANALS—THE ACQUISITION OF CUDA ae aan on me OA PIVE-BIGHTHS MILL TAX, wro. Auauny, Feb. 8, 1669, ‘Thor is domey hing mysterious in the fact that 60 little been accomplished. This sho@,* conclusively that there exists no great public emergency for any hasty logisiation during the present session. The latter ond © the humdred days will likely ea Libit ag muoh log- rolling and lobby .:severance as on @@BY previous oooa- gion, Both hon s this morning wore moStly engaged in local and unimportant matters. Io the S'uate, Mr. Pros- ser, ® practical canal man, who has cont*ibuted’ n.ore han any other individual in dispensing witlr the use of mules and substituting steam as a propelling payer, intre- duced a bill regulating the navigation of the cynals by ‘steam power. Some two weeks since, Senator Schell, an arden(, @i- cfent and enthusiastic adrairer aud supporter of the fit opal ‘administration, introduced the following joint reso-~ the Assembly concur), That our Senators and ives In Cougpeas, be requested to vote to place 1 Sea boners or eaten miuions negotiations for the purchase of Cuba, ‘This morning Senator Diven called up this resolation for consideration and debate. Senator “Rather moved te hat Senator Sobell hcg dae ‘spy oad wi meant by ‘opening a Senator Schell declined to answer the interrogatory unte he was prepared to give the Senate his reasons and views Forbes pret as pb an early day. Senater then proposed the following amendment, whea the Rusa ser nieceek — R _Tluat the people of the, State ful are tothe tse nant 9 Sue the fon po repel people of to blersags of ‘i the ype oset og | will Pinch th this State has prospered so aud they wi governed by & constitution eect oy pikerens of liberal insutudons and rewarded lavor. The bill, which had previously ed the Senate, to Veeged ize Highting, came up in House this mora- ‘was discussed at some length; but before coming to's conclusion, Mr. Bowen, of Erie county, submitted a substitute, which seemed to be looked at favorably by the yen of the House. ‘The House went into committee on tho bill to authorize a tax of five-eighth of a mill towards the compietion of the canals. On motion of Mr. Law (American), the amouat proposed to be expended upon the Biack river reservoirs ‘was stricken from the bili. Mr. Tomlinson (dom.) took the floor in to the whole bill. He offered @ substitute, an eloquent speech denounced the system of sivandrig th pe public finan, ag has boen case, in comp'eting He proposed a bill te lieu af the one mgrech pon by the repullions party, b; which an investigation may be bad into the ex; hare of the mapy millions on the canals, and still left thom in ap unfinished condition. Before auy question was taken the committee arose, and the subject comes up again on Thursday. Will the’ a bear defeat Mr. "6 Dill of investigation? Woe give a copy, thus:— AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN A t of the constitution adopted by the simaceins atan apd held in = eee Fev Taary, 1854, wi 1g Of dollars to comp! pub io works; sod: whoress, i ey flu the ropona of the buble olicersthat ine cost ta be soot eighteen orabout double the estimate om which the amendment was based; and, whereas, it is alleged and univer- sally believed that extensive frauds bave been committed ia the ure of the money and wi facrease of ; ‘people are to be tailed on to furnish, the shape of taxes or ‘nilidsoat tmeaoe of about five illiioe of dllar to complae ihe caaata tod, whereas itis due 1 the people bofore calling on therm fr further contributions of money, tha, hat an earuat fort sould bo y C= ego base Sonne pore gears: ciate sony een oa aie of tas ture into and eee eS rp "tai ae fetta pores oe dieting auch uiveatgalin, Msugniine, thai? save tho, sums power’ to cor Ibe suepdance of wiuieoses. to nimaistater osihe aad to Ape cootemgt or retueaito appear cr saewer that ts possessed committee appointed with power to tera ir petons soa papers. oa tn prosecuting auch investigation, and bal ho results thereof, with the testimony taken by to the Legislature. Kach of them sball be allowed and paid five dollars per day pun a Ri $85 E i §; bt the iker’s chor some six inches ere, asa sup- while the architects are engaged ines Ls ei eg port by iron beams attached to the roof. ig still maintained that there was not the least cause for the alarm exbibited on Friday last; and itis now freely stated that the excitement was created by some outsiders, to get a job of repairing; and others state that some of the members themselves took advantage of the alarm by ad- journing over from Friday to Monday night, in visit their homes. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Atzany, Fob. 8, 1859. The Senate Investigating Committee on the subject of the lobby made an attempt to commence operations this afternoon, by summoning Messrs. Randall, G. C. Davidson and E. Corning, Jr., to testify as to whether they had any knowledge of undue means being used to secure the pas- sage of the Albany Bridge bill, when counsel appeared for the parties, denying the authority of the committee. Mr. Ames then offered a resolution, that the committee had no power to investigate matters indefinitely that had passed a former Legislature. The resolution was voted down, and the committee adjourned till 4 P. M. to-mor- row, to consult on the question of jurisdiction, NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Bonate. Atbasy, Feb. 8, 1850, The bill authorizing the adjustment of the claims against the State held by the Bank of Orleans was lost, and @ motion to reconsider laid on the table. ‘The bill toamend the Revised Statutes rolativo to the punishment ef bribery was passed. STEAM ON THE CANALS, Mr. Progamr (rep.) introdaced a bill relative to tho approving of millions pol hej Cuba to ep.) offered a substitute, can be done by honorable treaty, and whenover there is an assul island will be governed by a free constit Assembly. es Aupany, Feb. 8, 1850, PUMSHMENT FOR PRIER FIGHTING, ETO. The bill to prevent and punish prize fighting was taken up. It provides one year’s imprisonment for arranging a fight, and if death ensues the principals aro to be held guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and those pro- , sent abetting the fight guilty of manslaughter in the third i Mr. Bowman offered a substitute providing for tho punishment of those arranging or participating in a fight. Fe eee eT ee 5 G0d te thine nn arrest ler takin pat, Py rng to tak ie ht made ta this State to ‘take iaine Holl Gate pllotago pon to Sinton, a the Green. Somer Island was referred toa third read. yes, ade OUT as Gen tere Wy enigen to prohibit z IVENING SESSION, Only private bills wore considered, of which several coatle agricultural potlotion } Gxtend ora ll f ta their property at fairs,