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‘) 5} WHOLE NO. 8194. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Proceedings of the Democratic Caucus Last Night. Programme of Measures for the Relief of the Government. Bill in the House, &o., &0., ae. ‘The Democratic Caucus at Washington. Wasurvatom, Feb. 9, 1859. ‘The demooratic caucus on the tariff met at the Capitol to-night. Mr. Jones, of Tennessec, was called to the air, and Messrs. Jenkins and Pendleton were chosen meeretaries. ‘Mr. Puxtrs, of Missouri, offered resolutions declaring ‘Wat ibe temporary necessities of the government should ‘be met by an extension of the law authorizing the issue and re-iesue of treasury notes for the period of two years; fiat the appropriation bills ought to be acted on as speedily as possible; and that the expenditures of the go- ‘vermment ought to be reduced to the lowest point con- Sietent with the wants of an economical administration of , the government, Mr. Pue.rs briefly argued the insportance of immediate action, to ay ert the necessity of an extra session. ‘Mr. Crawroxp, of Georgia, proposed the following as a substitute for Mr. Phelps’ resolutions: — Begolved, That it is inexpedient and unnecessary to dis-” terb the tariff of 1857. Resolved, That the temporary necessities of the gov- ernment should be met by the re-issue of Treasury notes, Resolved, That the President be requested to convene the Cabinet, and submit to them the estimates heretofore presented, for the purpose of ascertaining what deduction therefrom is practicable, Mr. CrawForD made a speech in advocacy of his pro- Peaition. Mr. Baton, of New Pork, wanted forther information ‘on the subject before he was prepared to vote. Mr. Dewart, of Pennsylvania, said he did net expect when he came here that the tariff question would be in- reduced, and desired to know whether any one was to be ‘beund by the action of the caucus. He wasa democrat, and wanted gentlemen from the South to understand there ‘were democrats from his section of the Union. If the action of the caucus was to be binding on all present, he sheuld object, and beg leave quickly to retire. ‘Mr. Srupuens, of Georgia, thought it very proper that the tariff question should be discussed, as it was of great ational concern, The tariff act of 1857 ought not to be ‘dieturbed. The government could be conducted on the re- r) venue raiged by it, with economy. He did not regard the ‘question of raising the tariff, nor anything connected with as a test Of democracy—at least until the national democratic convention has specially provided for the sub- Jeet in its platform of principles. Mr. Kunxe, of Maryland, proposed, as a substitute fer Mr. Crawford’s resolutions, a series, declaring that the necessities of the government ought to be suppliea by an increase of the tariff of 1857; ‘that the amount to be raised under such revision ought met to exceed about sixty-five millions of dollars; and that ‘te revision should be on the principle of the tariff of ao. ‘Mr. Siceizs, of New York, gave notice of his intention ‘te offer a reolution providing that a committee be ap- pointed by this caucus to confer with a similar com- mittee on the part of the Senate caucus, to take fate consideration the proper manner practica- ble for reductog the expenditures of the gov- ernment. He urged the importance of harmony as essential to the success of the demoeratic party, ar- wuing that they should have a common ground on which to stand, ‘Mr. Jomw Cocnmaxn, of New York, also alluded to the existing differences of opinion among the. seconded the views which were advanced by his col- beague. Mr. SINGLETON, of Mississippi, suggested that the mem- bers present select such items of expenditures as would, im their judgment, justify a reduction, and designate the amounts of such reduction, Mr. Soorr, of California, spoke of the impropriety of at- tempting to cut off any of the communications with Call- fervia, which, in eight years, had contributed twenty millions of dollars to the support of the government. Not- withstanding her large appropriations she would be will- ing to bear her burden, in view of the increasing territory ‘and people and the necessity of the country. Mr. Winrrery, of Delaware, was not tobe frightened by ‘the cry of protection, although its real object was to raise sufficient amount of revenue to carry on the govern- mont. It was impossible to reduce by reasonable econo- my the expenditures of the government to any amount ‘within the revenue raised by the act of 1857. The advo- acy of direct taxation would defeat any man, even in Missiseippi, and he thought his friend Barksdale could mot be returned more than once upon that issue, ‘Mr. BARKSDALE, of Mississippi, replied that he was for a tariff for revenue, but between protection for the sake of Protection and direct taxation he was for the latter. Mr. Sunma, of Virginia, said that any reduction of the expenditures ought to commence with members of Con- gress, and referred to the compensation and mileage as fit subjects for retrenchment. Mr. Tavzor, of Louisiana, with his usual caution, opposed Taasty and inconsiderate action on this subject. Mr. Bowi, of Maryland, gave notice of a resolution de- elaring that the democratic party ought to adhere to its ancient policy of a tariff strictly for revenue; that a tariff to raise forty millions could not be arranged on the basis of an expenditure of sixty-five millions; and that it is the duty of all honest men, without distinction of party, to unite on such an adjustment as would benefit the country. Mr. Mactay, of New York, gave notice of a resolution laying down certain fundamenta: constitutional principles, ‘and proposing to instruct the Committee of Ways and Means, as the sense of the caucus, to report a bill for le- vying a direct tax. ‘Mr. Boyoxr, of South Carolina, said it was evident there manst be an increase of revenue or a decrease of expendi- ture, and, therefore, thought the only security for ecd- momy would bo the presence of the gatherer of direct taxes. Mr. Ciay, of Kentucky, was not present to dictate to the democratic party. Not long ago, he was called only a yearling democrat, and he was of course but little more ‘than a two year old now, But he wished to say that the question of a tariff is above all parties, one in which the ‘imterests of the entire country are concerned. He, there- fore, hoped it would be adjusted in accordance with this sentiment. Mr. Owsn Jones, of Pennsylvania, was in favor of a change in the tariff, and spoke of its importance to Ponn- aylvapia. He would not be satisiied without some reason- bie adjustment. Mr. Stawarr, of Maryland, favored an increase of cus- toma, and espocially the taxing of the articles in tho free List of the present tariff. Mr. Suwann, of Georgia, thought it was impossible for the government to be carried on with a great deal less ox- Penditure than now estimated, and that the only solution ‘of the difficulty was in the restoration, eithor temporarily oF permanently, of the tariff of 1846, Mr. Cavaxavan, of Minnesota, moved ineffctually , to Jay the whole subject on the table, Under the operation of the previous question, the reso. Tutions of Mr. Kunkel wore lost ‘by ayes 10, noes not counted, Crawford's first resetution, declaring it inexpedient aand unnecessary (0 disturb che tariff, was rejected by 27 ‘against 36—-come members not voting. Mr. Crawrorn then withdrew his two remaining resolu- ba ty Oompa need tnraen ‘were thon adopted 5; Pine mein ty, wrhen the eancud adlonrned. ‘ fe x wore present from New York Messrs, John Coch- rane, be A » Corning and Hatch; ten Ohio, Messra, Oox, Groesbeck, Pondloton, Cock: erill, Hal) and Burnt, and’ from Pennsylvania, Mssere, Florence, Owen Jones, Reilly, Landy, Loldy, and’ perhaps the It was understood that the members presen: to be bound by the action of ba the caucus, Our Syecial Washington Despatch. Wasmmaton, Feb. 9, 1869. ‘Tho proceedings of the caucws this evening are con- siderod as positively indicating that a change in the tari ‘will be agreed to. The proposition to suspend the tariff of 1851 for two years, will probably be the compromise agreed upos. It is favored by the leading mombers of the Senate Finance Committee, and commands nearly as large a Southern as Northern vote. ‘The Committee of Ways and Meaus meet to-morrow. It is Delieved they will consent to allow Mr. Phelps to re port his bill, 20 as to bring the matter directly before the ‘House, thoughnot pledging themselves to its support. It is the impression thie evening that the House will dispose of the subject this week, and by an increased tariff. The loan idea, as part of the tariff, is growing ‘weaker and weaker, THR GENERAL NEWAPAPER DRAPATCH. ‘Wasmoron, Feb. 9, 1850. ‘The rumored difficulty between Mr. Sickles and Mr. But- terworth is entirely without foundation. They occupy the same relation towards each other that John Tyler and Jobn Minor Botts occupied soon after the death of Har- ison. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury asks that power be givoa to discontinue, from time to time, such lighthouses as may become useless by reason of the mutations of com- merce or otherwise, and to restrict the creation of new lights to such as shall be reported on favorably by the Lighthouse Board. ‘The drafts paid and drafts issued last week amounted to nearly five millions. A repert is credited that General Denver will shortly resign the office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the view of returning to California. ‘The Central National Botts Club have rosolved to with- hold the publication of their address to the people until ‘Mr. Botts shall have delivered his speech on the 22d inst. in New York, The Arizona, Mexican and Central American Association is now chartering vessels to take out emigrants under tho direction of General Henningsen. The Executive Committee for the Napier complimentary ball is composed of Senators Seward and A. Kennedy, and W. W. Corcoran, B, Ogle Tayloe, W. L. Hodge, Henry Ledyard, and Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Kaquires. They give notice that subscriptions may be made to the books in thelr handa, THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. BROOND SESSION, Senate. ‘Wasmmncton, Feb. 9, 1859. Little business of importance was transacted during the morning hour. ‘THE CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. A regolution offered by Mr. Kusa, directing am inquiry into the working of the Reciprocity treaty, and the expe- diency of its abrogation, was adopted, ‘THE HORSE RAILROAD PROJECT. On motion of Mr. Bayarp, the vole by which the Penu- sylvania Avenue Railroad was defeated yesterday was reconsidered, ‘THR FINANCIAL POLICY OF THR GOVERNMENT, ‘The Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Bigler’s resolution that a large public debt is inconsistent with the true policy of the country, and that Congress should pro- ceed without delay to aalise the revenue and expendi- ture. Mr. Toomns, (adin.) of Ga., proceeded to reply to Mr. Bigler’s pence y , and went over it, section by section. After showing first paragraph of the resolution merely expreesod a traism, “that it is inexpe- dient in time of ‘peace to incur a large public debt,” the truism, however, depending on whether the debt’ be of casual or permanent deficiency, and that the second sec. tion assumed this deficiency to be inevitable and fixed as the laws of the Medes an ) Mr. bs ceeded to demonstrate that it is not only avoidable, but ought to be avoided; that there is not only no necessity to k the expenditures at their present standard, but ‘the present tariif is ample to meet the just and proper expenses of the government. The Secretary of the Treasury estimates for the five for to 1857 show a revenue exceeding the expenditures. «ting that there was a revenve of fifty millions, and an expenditure of forty-eight miilions, the tariff wags reduced without party diecussion, South Carolina and Massachu- setts—the extremes of eectionalism—uniting to do it. He did not propose by his vote on the tariff of 1857 to cripple perdi) A epee mance, ), and he did lat gioly now. the belter oljeck of voldng correption a of mang the e better ay corruy ing country great and able for fature action, either in peace or war. We have no extraordinary |; NO Wars ox- cept Indian, which we always have; hence no occasion for increased res exiets. The tariff was put on with the deliberate consideration of the government and the people; and it has done what it was expected it would do, notwithstanding the temporary falling off in re- depression. It ceipts during the time of mercantile 4 is not the tariff, but the estimates that are falla- cious. The Post Office has absorbed nearly nine mil- lions of tho deficiency over the estimates. Further, the estimates assume that every ‘dollar of the appropriation, not only for present but ‘will be required for the fiscal year 1869-60. Tie showed that the estimates were framed to exhibit a deficiency, for it is impossible that all theee appropriations can be laid out in one year. Yet further to force deficiency, the surveyed public lands were not offered, as it was the duty of the goverpment to offer them, for sale. the pro- ceeds of the seventy or eighty millions of acres of sur- veyed lands been brought into the at there would not have been one dollar of deficiency. fere the Post Office expenditures reduced within proper limits, there would be no deticiency. But instead of these retrench- men's, tho expenses are welled into extravagance to cre- deficiency in the estimates of 1860, which ie 8 to be inevitable The Senator from Pennsylvania says the government is in distress from shortness of revenue, and he proposes to remedy it by putting on new burdens, by bringing up the revenue to the expenditures, Now, he (Mr. Toombs) wanted to bring the expenditures dows to the revenue. Both the Legisla- ture and Execative have deviated far from the original track, and by their action have fostered those corrupt oxtravagances in the Army, Navy and Post Office Depart- . It iatrue we must maintain an army, anavy and a Post Oflice, and must take some care of our Indians; but we bave no need of any army, except to keep in subjec- tion the Indian savages, for we depend on free men to perpetuate our freedom. Nor have wo any need to com- ce with the armies of England, France, Prussia or Austria. England has to keep an army to hold her possessions, We stand ona different principle. If we oh orgy of @ country we turn it loose and trust it to defend itself. Here we want only army enough to keep the Indians in check, and navy enough to keop pirates our coasts. Five years since our army cost nine millions of dollars— now it cost eighteen millions, although then we had more straggling settlements to be defended, and had not California and Oregon, with their 600,000 people capablo of defending themselves. As to the navy, there has been nothing to call for increased expenditures, and yet more ehips bave been built by special apy . We have bad for many years 8,000 sailors in navy, and have no more toman it now. The two and a half’ millions in- crease in its cost does not pay poor Jack one extra shilling & month, nor give him one more glass of grog. France, with her large navy of steamships, bg on it twenty- four millions of dollars per annum. fe expend thirteen millions on ours. -Yet the true policy of preparing for war is to build up the resources of the nation in time of peace, not to squander the public means. We prepare for war by increasing the ability of the peo- ple to bear it. We can turn all the people into soldi when the republic is in danger. Europe uses her arm) ‘to oppress her ‘They need We need & part of Mr. be . Ne ae the Southern States from the ice. He (Mr Toombs) argued at great len, pro- pricty and necessity of hating the Post © self-sus- taining. He aaid it is unjust to levy the deficiency of Hee po dgpetiord sage treasury—jt is no more than CE pence from the door of the le for the bene tof the rich. The government, indeed, has no moro absolute right to carry the correspondence of the country than ‘ts hay, corn or cotton; and he believed that the mails to the Pacific could be carried by other means for 000. The Paciflc mail has fallen under the guidance of public plunderers, As regarded Mr. Bigler’s recommendation to increase the duty on iron, he (Mr. Toombs) could by no means assent. Ho would rather have it free. He would not assent to tax the transpor- tation of the country, of the Great West, and would raiso no revenue by imposing burdens on an article that would Tenct as tax on seven-elghths of the country’s industry. ‘His opinion was thot specific duties were the ‘best modo of taxation, Thirteen years’ experience bad satisfied him of the troth of that opinion, He had given all the protection he ever has or ever can give. Forty = ago our manu. factures were feeble, and they have built up by a system which is not applicable to their present growth. In conclusion, he referred to elaborate statistical tables, ba ing ho retrenchment is the only remedy, 1¢ subject was postponed. Mr. Honren, (em) of Va., attempted Coneular and Diplomatic A| (adm.) of La., was eqi uestion. A lengthened RK HERALD. MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1859. the clanse of the bill for five per cent bonds, able providing » TEs. Domne fens) ef, Wis., considered thas the two orifcaees toe eehieoee eestor American. "ie contteded his romarke ¥ vcoring = wah, stitute for the Cuba bill, to the effect tbat Gfty be bloke gay hn. caigungpe od Yucatan, or Central or South 4 » territory, on which a free ae to meet at 11 A. M. Howse of Representatives. Wasmmeror, Feb. 9, 1890. SUSPENSION OF WORK O¥ PUBLIC BUILDINGS. ‘The Ermaxzr laid before the House a reply from the authorized public buildings which had not been com- menced previous to the late revulsion, owing to the in- sufficiency of money in the treasury, and that be wili ontinue to act on this rule until Congress shall provide money to meet the liabilities, or shall otherwise direct. Mr. Harn, (opp.) of Md., called atteation to the fact that Congress several years ago appropriated two hundred thousand dollars for the Baltimore Custom Hono, with upmistakeable instructions. The reason assigne'' by thy Secretary is untenable, especially as it is recoliected that when the last Congress adjourned there were twenty- three mihions of surplus revenue, five of which were, in his opinion, unnecessarily applied to the redemption of ixteen and a half per contum Mr. Puxtrs, (adm.) of Mo., justified the reasons as- signed by the Secretary, saying that as no valid compact had been entered into; the execution of the law might pro- perly be extended toa future time, considering the con- dition of the lpharan dp Mr. Hanrm moved to refer the communication to the Committee of Ways and Means, with instructions to report & bill appropriating the two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Corry, (adm.) of Ala., moved a substitute, in- stricting the committee to report a bill repealing all laws betcpokory | the construction of post office, custom house and court house buildings where no contracts haye been made. Ruled out. ‘Mr. Harris’s motion was agreed to. THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED—REDUCTION OV DITURER, ‘The Houre retumed th8 cott'2tialion of the amend- ment, reported from the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, to the Executive, Judicial and Legisla- tive bg Gepbajaees bill, The House concurred with the committee in striking out the following items:—$200,000 for the mileage of mem- bers and delegates of the House for next year; $10,000 for furniture and repairs and boxcs foramembers, and nearly $73,000 for the Congressional Globe, and for binding the the same and reporting the proceedings; also in cutting off $100,000 for wages of the workmen and adjusters at the San Francisco Mint; also reducing theappropriation for workmen in the New York Assay office from $45,000 to $28,000; and reducing the appropriation for workmen. at the New Orleans Branch Mint to $15,000; algo in striking out $225,000 for the purchase of property in Now York now leased for Court purposes; also in adding $175,000 to supply deficiencies in printing. ie bill was then passed by 16 majority. NAVAL BURGKONS AND PURSERS. Mr. Bocoox, (adm) of Va., from the Naval Committee, reported a bill to increase the number of surgeons, assis’ tant surgeons and pursers in the navy. TBR ACQUISITION OF CURA. Mr. Braxc, (adm.) of N.C., from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back the bill appropriating $30,000,000 to enable the President to settle unadjusted difficulties with Spain and purchase Cuba. Referred to Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. ~ Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Miss., gave notice that whon the bill comes up he will move an amendment striking out the word “‘purchase”’ and substituting ‘‘take,”” THE OCRAN MAIL SERVICE. Mr. Prxirs, (2dm.) of Mo., from the Committee on Ways and Means, arked leave to reporta bill making appropriations for the ocean mail steamer service. ‘Mr. Hovston, (adm.) of Ala., wanted to knqw whether Provision was made for any contemplated new service. Mr. Ganvett, oe] of Va., baving he jected to the re- ception of the bill, Mr. Pours di to answer Mr. ‘Houston’s question. POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. Pueips reported a bill making appropriations for the support of the Post Office Department. ‘THR NEBRASKA CONTESTED SEAT. The House proceeded to the consideration of the reso- lution of the Committee on Elections declaring Bird B. Chapman legally elected delegate from Nebraska, in place of Fenner Ferguson, the sitting member. Mr. Witsoy, (opp.) of Ind., made a speech in favor of the resolution. ‘Mr. Wasupury, (opp.) of Maine, argued against the contestant. Mr. Borce, (adm.) of 8. C., spoke in favor of the sitting member. ‘Without coming to @ conclusion on the subject, the House adjourned. United States Supreme Court. ‘Wasnincton, Feb. 9, 1859. No. 62. Jobn Pemberton, liquidator of the Merchants’ Insurance Company, vs. Edward Sackett etal. Argument concluded for appellant. No. 63. Dickerson P. Morehouse vs. Wm. A. Phelps. Argument commenced for plaintiff. Personal Intelligence. Goverxor Wiss xp tum Nanionat Grarp.—Wo learn that Governor Wise has, while acknowledging in band- some terms the honor of the invtiation extended to bim by the Seventh Regiment National Guard, of this city, to be present at their fée on the 22d inst. on the occasion of the presentation of the Wolfe testimonial, reluctantly de- clined, alleging as an excuse, delicate health ani the pressing duties of his office. In his atwenoe, he has re- commended Colonel Wm. M. Peyton, a talented Virginian, resident in this city, as his substitute for the occasion, who, we understand, has accepted the honor tendered him. * Hon. A. 0. P. Nicholson, United States Senator elect from Tennessee, is in Washington. ARKIVALS. At the Clarendon Hotel—Ex-Governor Washington Hunt, Mra, Hunt Mr. Robert Hunt Lockport; Mr. and Mra. G Bolton Alle family, New Rochelle; Mr. aod’ Mra. 5. Watson, P phi; Miss Adams, Mr. J. M. Newby, Augus: ta, Ga; M'ss Sarah Dall, 8 Cohén and A. Dexter, ; Miss C. Beebe, Litchfield; D. C. Winter, England; Mr. anc Mra. Stephens, New York; J. Wataon, Dublin; Hon. Samuel A. Fost, Geneva; Adam D. Logan, Egypt, N. C.; B. B, Kirby, St. Louls; Dr. Charles McMillan, i E & et i pales FEOESES fg : " 5 oa "i i} s F j 2 e, ; fs gad ub A Fpoaesey fe i Ly he Perry, Miss H Butler, 7 my, ‘Jno Knox, Chas Winter, ‘Vander- Gilchrist Heard Hyun. C fligen: 3 Jn font, etchum, J Hope A ma RA Parsons, B Handy, A U Hillyer, H Samson, Geo 'V Brooke, T H Curtis—and 10 in the steerage. Accident on the La Crosse Ratiroad. SIX OR SEVEN PERSONS WOUNDED—THUEE PASSEN- GER COACHES OFF AN EMBANKMENT TWENTY FEET HIGH, (From the La Crosse Free Democrat, Feb. 3. ‘The evening express train on the La Ceca namic, which left here at fifteen minutes past six o'clock last night, met with a bad mishap at abous @ftecn minutes past eight atthe high bridge, two miles west of Hartford, thirty-six miles from thi » aad this side of Rubicon. The accident was caused by of iment twenty fect high. The sngines ment twenty feet hig! e tender, mall care got safely acroes the Bridge. ‘The’ were all well filled, and there could not have been less than 225 passengers on board, and what seems miraculous is that no persons are said to have been killed, and but six or seven wounded, The cars were completely wrecked. ‘We have no particulars as.to who are the injured, far- ther than that KF. L. Buttrick, ofthis city, is among them. ‘This mor ate tote er, received a despatch juries were dangerous, Bridgeman ‘was conduct or on the train. The rumors are all agreed that not sone are injured, none of them eaters tho first two ps Army Figned the d of tranaiating from the French that é Cy crea Cong “Evolution of the ‘ides sent in use in the ‘wap Assistant ical reeted to ae sid for duty to the command! Lieutenants Mullins, Second dragoons; Griffin, Second artillery; and Roane, Fourth artillory, haye each pom gibad tee cf thettcs Tor ainty dayn’ ~~ QUR FOREIGN POPULATION. Annual Report of the Commisstoners of Em'= | gration to the Legislature—Statistics of Emigration—The Financial Affairs of the Commission—Working of the Quaruntine Establishment—Mazme Hospital, Lying-In Asylum and Ward's Island—Recommenda- thons, déie., dic. ‘The Board of Emigration Ccmmissionors held their regu- lar weekly meeting at the office in Worth street, at the usual hour yesterday afternoon, President Verplanck in ‘the chair.. ‘Tho minutes having been dixposed of, the regular weekly return of the arrival of emigrants, expenditures, &c., was read, and showed:— Emigrants arrived to Feb. 2, 1859... ++ 8,073 Do. do. since to Feb, 9, 1850. vi pr oe i) 8,287 1857. 1868. 1869. Inmates at Ward’s Island, . 1,745 1,906 1,182 Do. at Marine Hospital, 123 106 ow 21a iss sees, 95,656 28 Aggregate receipts to Feb. 2... ....85,260 67 Receipts since to Feb. 9, 1859, for com- mutation of passengers, &5........ 758 00— 6,006,57 bigs ssessetevse cose sees $11,663 85 ‘per’ ‘previous’ ‘account to ++, 82,850 28 of Jan.26 and Feb.2 8,788 82—11,639 10 Balance of Commutation fund... 68% ‘The election of officers for the current year was post. Poned vatil next meeting. Captain CRaptres presented an official account of the circumstances connected with the burning of Quarantioe, differing in no essential points from the version of the oc- currences already published in the public newspapers. The report was adopted. The anvual report of the Commissioners for the year ending with December, 1858, han been prepared and for- warded to tho Lagisiatiire of the State of New York. The principal features of the document will be found con. densed below:— STATISTICS OF EMIGRATION. The year 1858 has been marked throughout by the grently lessened number of alien emigrants who arrived uring the year in the United States, and especially at this rt. ‘The number of alien emigrants who arrived at this port during the year 1868, and for whom commutation was paid, or special Donds executed, was 78,589, being 105,186 Jess than in the year immediately preceding, and 63,753 legs than in 1856, whilst the proportion to the average of former years, since 1846, is much less than half. Of there emigrants $1,874 were from Germany, 26,075 from Ireland, and 12,824 trom England, ‘The details of the various operations of the Commission and their officers during the year 1858, present the fol- jowing results:— uses of sick sent from office.........+seseseee or Number of lunatic emigrants under care last year “emigrants sent back to Earope........ Number forwarded to yarious places inland by the Number temporarily relieved in this city with money 418 «supplied tempor’y with board and lodg’g.. 8,731 Number of outcoor poor in the city buried at the expense of the Commission,........ sesseee 86 Total number provided with employm’tat this office 9,246 Whole number relieved and forwarded in and from the several counties of the State, char, the Commission, about,, Grand total relieved, forwarded and provided with employment by the Commission in the State and city of New York... + 19,450 Amount of money received from frie omi gronts for forwarding them, etesereees 4,581 46 Amount of money received by’ Trish’ Emigrant Society, and applied to the forwarding of emi- grants, chargeable to the Commision. + 1,188 98 ‘WARD'S ISLAND. ‘The report then gocs on to speak of the condition of Ward’s island, relating all the facta connected with that institution. The lands were purchased at very moderate prices, and Locos in ee vents anda Lao fea wall bas been e shore, e labor of the inmates, Kofi yerhens On the ist January, 1858, there were in the buildings 1,915 inmates; the number on Ist January, 1859, was 1,052. The whole cost of buildings and improvements on Wara’s Isiand is about $260,000. Some of this sun, spent on the earlier wooden buildings, which were very useful for the time, may be considered as sunk; but the more important works were economically as well as durably constructed, and it is probable that equal accom- modation for the objevts of such an institution, exclusive of the price of lands, could not now be obtained for s leas sum than the whole amount laid out in buildings. pila orialrts and belplees ts tha olberaepartnoas, ‘bos; or infirm and beip! t, puring the year, was 6,906, being 1,683 lens thnh 1a 1857. and 754 leas thon in the year preceding. The average number at apy one time was about 1,200, The net cost of fupport of the Exuigrant Hospital and Refuge was $76,243, being $32,602 less in 1857, and $98,640 than in 1856. and amounting to litte more than one-third of the expense in $1856 for in several preceding years. ‘The number provided for was indeed less than in those Fa’ enios aah ee liberali- y of supplies, was m than dimination of numbers. Fire whole MEIAGGE of tags pent s spent by the inmates of the Hospital and Refuge during the year in thore institutions being 438,046, gives an average of 1,200 persons throughout the year. It will be seen that the average cost of support, incinding the compensation of physicians and the salaries and wages of officers and nurses, and all other expenses on the island, was nearly $68 50 a ae or, by mah g nek Salaries of medical and other officers and wages of subaltern emptoyés, about $43 60 per head for their whole cost, including special hospital expenses. Of the above average of 1,200 persons sus- tained and aided in the Ward’s Isiand institution there was about an average of 730 Hospital patients and 470 in the Refuge department. It is quite difficult to separate the ‘Accounts £0 a8 to show the relative expense of each class; but the Hospital patients, of course, receive much the largest proportional shee, ‘The folowing summary gives the aggregate results of the whole of these establishments, including the hospitals proper as well as the Refuge departmeat:— Inmatce in jnetitution on Ist January, 1858. Acmitted to institution during 1858, sive ee O14 14)f126 Britsin = 366 Total number cared for during the year see0 8,906 Discharged during the year 5. Of deaths during the y Number remaining on 3let December, 1858. . ‘The school for cbildren, under the chargo of the Com- migsioners, remains as a ward school of the city, the Oom- missioners providing a commodious apartment and paying for certain expenses. to be be- neficial, and the present number of pupils is about one hundred and fifty. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DEPARTMENTS. The Hoepita! department on Ward’s Isiand is admiaister- ed on the system adopted in July, 1855, as reported in 1867, The medical department proper is under the charge of a salaried physician, wholly resident on the island, with as many salaried assistants as the hospital service may require from time to time. H. B. Fay, M. D., was the physician-in chief until his resignation in July last, when Dr. George Ford, who had acted as one of his assistants for two years preceding, to the entire satisfaction of this Board, was ror his successor. He is now assisted by F. Simrock, M. D. ‘The surgical department is continued under the charge of J, Murray Carnochan, M. D.,as surgeon-in-chief, who visite the eurgical wards at times fixed by the byo-laws, and as often in addition ag the surgical service may demand. He peforms all important operetions. He is assisted by two salaried and constantly resi- dent surgeons, Drs. J. Carey Selden and Herman A. Guleke; the last, as well as Dr. Simreck, is a German by birth; of them speak several European 5 ‘The Commissioners have always been sensible of the im- of having in their employment persons capable ‘of conversing with the patients and other inmates iu their own Janguages, $0 that, except in special cases (as the Chineee), the inmates can almost always find an inter- preter to explain their wants. The number receiving medical or surgical aid was be- low the average of the years precoding, there being 5,067 cases treated in the hospital, against 3,147 in 1866 and on lowing is a eummary of thi te result e 10 ary ¢ aggregate results of the practice, both medical and surgical, during 1868:— ‘There were cared for in the hospital during 1868, includ- ing 1,003 in hogpital on Yat January, 1868, togetbor with 566 births... +5672 arrangement Of whom there veces B12 Discharged, cured or elie 14,695 Remaining on S8lst December, 1 » 605 In the Refuge department, which een appropriate- ly termed for medical purposes the nsary depart: ment of the institution, there wore 4,467 cases treated, Toe deaths, 115 in number, were all infants, deprived of their natural sustenance by death of the mother, or other Whe toes ruber f grrptoal onoes trogtsa won 1609 The whole eu was 5 of which 1,089 were discharged cured, and 28 died, show- ing a pI on of deaths @ fraction more than two por cent on i cases treet ‘i WARDEN'S POWERS. Sere Gee October, 1856, the Ward's Island oatablish- ment ha been under the charge of Amos Pilabury. He has been invested with tho full responsibility of the order Co be) Pas and of and raion be chargeable to the from chargeal commission , there were remain: ast year, 40; admitted or transferred, 62; diniarged during the year, 28; ¥ 47. ides other there was little of patients, whi greatest importance in the cure of mental disease. over, there are violent be Kept at Ward's wn enocllen tte Iready in excel al may beset apart for this purpose; @ quarry the ground would leesen the ‘expenses of building, and many of the present provisions for the government and | medical care of the hoepital and ite other samates could be | extended toa Ward’s Island Asylum, with very litte ta- cresses expenditure. LANDING VLACE FOR KMIGRANT PASHENGERS AT CASTLE GARDEN. ‘The Commissioners bave the satisfaction that the experience of a third opinions expressed by them in their former reports onthe Fo Md usefulness of the ayer pomp orden a exclusive landing alien emigrants, under the authority and pie tne the act of 8, 1866, ‘for the protection of emigrants.’ The Mcht continues to fulfil, and even exceed, the expecta- tiops of the Legislature. The number of pereons who landed at Castle Garden, ‘was 84,226, (including many not subject to bonds or com- mutation,) arriving in 451 vesse's, from nineteen different None of these versels was crowded with passensers, a8 it often occurred in former years, the average number in cach vervel being 187. Register entries have Leea made of the intended or avewed destination of each a tablo of which accompanies this report. Of these, $4,206 reported their intended destination tv be the State of New York; 8,630 Pennsylvania and New Jersey; 3,530 to New England; 3.520 10 the Southern States, and 31,131 to Ohio, Indiana,’ lilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and California. ‘There has been advanced, as a loan to enable families to reach their destination, during 1858, the sum of $3,759 to 425 families. Of this’ amount, $4,873 has been alroady repaid by 345 of these families. Of the whole amount advanced since this plan was adopted in August, 1856, vix.: $15,693 60, there remains due $2,179 75 by 182 families. The table in the appendix shows the whole amount since 1856. From June 80 to January 1, 1859, there were 1,376 let- tars whiten for Dewiy epsived pasvagers, ta which. 608 avswers were received at Castle Garden, ora $5,816 61, Beales this, remittances amounting to $6.7: 62 were also received in anticipation of the arrival of the pasrengers; and in addition, numerous messages from grant societies and from individuals, to inform passen- ready at their dispo- the necessary informa- tion ctipy 5 Tbe Commissioners, with the efficient aid of the govern- ment of the United States, have brought the abuses of booking passengers in Europe for distant inland points in the United Staves, before the view of the governments of them. thore States of Europe which had the scene of these depredations. Several of the Powers of Germany havo done all that was aeked in the way of legislation, aud. the offlcsrs ea trusted with the supervision of foreign emigration in Great Britain and France have given a hearty and eff-ctual co- operation to the measures of this Commission. ‘The lease under which Castle Garden is held by the commissioners expires in May. The title of this property, with the building, wharf, &c., is now in litigation beswoen the Btate and the city of New York, and the case is now before the Supreme Court, THE MAKINE HOSPITAL AND QUARANTINE ESTASLISHMENS AT STATEN ISLAND. ‘Under this head the commissioners have to report, with sorrow and regret, as the chief and almost the only very important incident, the fact already familiar to the peo ple of the State, of the destruction of the buildings of the Murine Hoepital by lawless violence. ‘The average duration of treatment was eightcen days. From the let of January, 1858, to the middle of April, the number was small; smalipox cases among emigrants from. shipboard, contributed the largest class of cases. From the 16th to the 20th April, forty yellow fever cases were landed from the United States frigate Susquebanna, and from the 8th June to 7th October a number more from shipboard, together with several others from the neigh- borhood, directly or indirectly connected with, or em- ployed at Quarantine, making 210 yellow fever cases in all. Of typhus fever, there were but 177 cases admitted during the year. The following summary of the monthly reports, made Fh peek to the Commissioners, shows the aggregate re- sults of the year:— ® Number retaining Ist January, 1858 ++, 87 Received during the year.,....... ++ 1,167 ‘Whole numberunder hospital treatment during 1868.1,204 Of whom were discharged cured 1,067 Of whom died of — 1,163 Remaining on let January, 1869...........ese0006 41 ‘The proportion of deaths in this establishment was, dur- ing the year, 8.81 per cent on all cases under treatment, which is a very favorable result for any institution of thia nature. From emigrant vessels infected with smallpox, 4,004 perons were landed from thirteen different vessels, and detained and provided for at an average of five daya. Be- sices these, 250 officers and crew of the Susquehanna, and 169 passengers, 312 sailors from fifty-five other vessels, infected with yellow fever, were detained by the Health Officer and provided for by the Commissioners for the same average time of five days; thus making 4,725 sailors und passengers during the year, quarantii for various perioés, but averaging five deys each, as a vationary See it. self; but in the great majority, after puri! the vessels, ‘are appeared Bending ang danger cf fection, "= wee OF SP2Fe- The reumetasicea nected with the destruction of the are then 1» ia relieved from the further ony aye of the Marme a. a8 not legitimately chargeable on the Emigration fund. FINANCIAL @ONCERNS AND CONDITION OF THE COMMISION. On the 1st of January, 1868, the books of the commis- sion presented the following’ results of their financiai state:— Amount of bond and mortgage... $125,000 00 Amount due the several counties fi of emigrants, as per bills examined and cor- 167,662 29 Deduct balance in Shoe and Leather Bank to credit of Commissioners of Emmigration, Jap. 1, 1858....... WUT iedUb SS coduitr ow 82,155 89 TUB. orpvadonvasveserene > scersecesses 185,506 40 Being less than at the close of the year 1856 $126,696 73 This was exclusive of the unsettled claim of the Gover- aah the New York Almshouse, then amounting to $37,648. Dering the year 1857, the original debt, contracted for the purchage of lands and the erection of buildings, secured by mortgage on the real estate held by the Commissioners, $150,000 in amount, bad been reduced by a payment of $26,000, accompanied by a stipulation on the part of the mortgagee to renew the loan up to the original amount, should any necessity ariee for euch assistance. The pro. bable use to which this sum was intended to be applied happily did not occur; but the destruction of the Marine Hospital on September 1 and 2, having imposed, as is else- where stated, the necessity of providing such building, as might auswer the absolute necessities of the public heaith. it Was considered that this sum, having been raized ou the security of the real estate on Staten Island and Ward’s Island, and not forming any part of the Emigrant Commu. tation Fund, afforded the most appropriate resource for this contingency, and it was £0 appiied. ‘The amounts due the several towns and counties for the support of alien emigrants were reduced by a pay ment of $16,893 16 on account; and several local hospi- tals at New York, Troy, Buffalo and Rochester, which had received special cases, chargeable to the Commission, were aleo paid up to the amount of $8,002 73. From various causes this debt to the counties, with the addition of that incurred during the yoar, stands now at $47,687. ‘The general fuancial condition of the Commissioners may be thus stated :— bg pct at the close of the year ee i per annual report, was, «8136, Indebtedness of Cémmissio1 nee at the close of the year 1858, greater than at the close of 185 ‘The Board of Health of this city having, for a cholera hospital one of the butidings Tented or used ‘by this Commission, and being also indebted to them for the support of patients affected by contagious diseases, and sent by their authority to the hospital at Quarantine, this indebtedness has been acknowledged by a committee of the Board of Health, but no appropriation has yet been made by the Common Council. is gum, when paid, would reduce the unfavorable balance of the year above $16,000. ‘The balance of indebtedness is also increased by the som of $26,000, secured on mortgage op tha Ward's Island and Staten Island real estate, held by this Com- mission. 1854, taken QUARANTINE RXPRNERS. Amount of epecial deposit to credit of Vice Pre. sident, Feb. 11,7 . eeeeees Amount paid on accou! for erection of six one ry brick for erection of offices for Heath Of- ficer and phyeician, for Warden's house and store, gatekecper’s lodge and repairing Quarantine wall..... ~—s—— 25,651 21 9,201 25 There is a balance etill due on last contract of . $1,368 75 ‘Tho unsettled account with the Governors of the New York Almshouse, amounting onthe Ist of July, 1869, (since which no bills have been rendered from that De artment) to $40,770 19, still remains unadjusted, tho Eomnmissionere claiming, aa heretofore, a large amount as an offeet to these charges, being for the support of native children of emigrant mothers, Receipts of commutation fund during the Balance in bank, Jan. 1, 1858). Total No other bi Court. Justice Bosworth. ACTION AGAINST AN INSURANCE COMPANY. Fen. 9 —James McMahon Before surance — was an action on a life insurance Fett’ ihe anrigoes' ine painif) rendes In Wisconsin, att ee jes that ihe insurance al have their office in New Jer- sey. Judge diemiseed the complaint for the want of ju- risdiction, Under tho Code it requires that the subject of the should reside in this State to give jurisdic. ton to Court. From ‘—Two Princes, sons of the late Imaum ec Monat ha Wied of smallpox at Zanzibar—Se. yed Imochea died Oct. 11; Seyed Hamdan, aftticted with Glephantesis, died Oct. 20. ‘The smallpox was raging fearfully at date, Nov. 4, PRICE TWO CENTS. THE FINE ARTS. ton, than the number and high character of tions of pictures they possess, whether in same period. Public gaileries containing many works 0° choice works by the old masters, which afford admirable Studies for the lover of art, as well as the paintings of the best artists of modern times, both of our own country and those of Europe. We propose im this article to gives brief sketch of each gallery in the city and the works of artists pow on public exhibition. And first, of the latest and freshest picture, ‘‘Niagara by Moonlight,” just com- pleted by Regis Gignoux. GIGNOUX’S NIAGARA BY MOONLIGHT. This superb picture is now on exhibition at Goupil’s gallery, No. 366 Broadway. It was painted for Mr. Au- gust Belmont, to adorn his fine gallery, and by his per- mission it bas been placed for u short time at che service of the public, the proceeds of the exhibition being de- voted to the benefit of the Nursery and Child’s Hospital, an institution which is under the charge of several charitable ladies of this city, We trust that no one who loves art in its highest and most elevating form will mise eeeing this truly great work. Mr. Gignoux, many of whose pictures bang in the private gal- leries of the art-comnoisseurs of this country and of Europe, produced, about « year ago, anotier re- Presentation of the great monarch of cataracts in one of its rarest and most difficult aspects—encnained by the icy fetters of winter—and his effurt bae been received with 2 Universal admission of its great merit. In the present picture he bas approached the stupendous subject under ‘@ still more difficult aspect, and has accom the taak with a fidelity to nature, a’ boldness of effect, a swoet and entrancing beauty, that can be far easivr aporociated by the spectator than described by the critic. ‘ing for his foreground the boid mags of rocks with which the cause- ‘way connects the tower between the American and British the great Horeeshoe, in the distance. Thus the cataract is viewed from above ivatead of from below, the hne of eight being slightly over the level of the mass of water. By this artistic arrangement one’s idea of the immensity of the depth to whlch the full plunges is considerably mag- nified, and the effect is necessarily more impressive. AS a whole, the picture is a most ma-terly ove. To describe it in detail, with any justive to the work, would be impos- sible; but there are some W ue about it to which we cannot refrain from referring—for instance, the transparency of the great unbroken mass of water in the centre of the fall, which, though in deep ehacow, is yet £0 pellucid that one can gee clear it, and fancy that its surface is ‘Then the soft diffusion of moonlight aiong river skirting the shore is most charming; and the sky, with its broken clouds illuminated vy the moon, and its few stars, peeping out of the decp night blue, is the flcest moonlight sky we have scen from the pencil of apy modern artist. At the first glance it seems almost: too warm for our conception of a mooolight effect, but a little study convinces the spectator that nature is more true than his preconceptions, and that nature is before him on the canvass. To represent Niagara by moonlight is an undertaking upon which the abiest artist migut hesi- tate to engage; to accomplish it, as Mr. Gignoux has done, 4s certainly @ success of which apy artist might feel proud. In conclusion, we advise our readers to spend an hour at Niagara by Moonlight before the pictare is removed to Mr. Belmont’s gailery. It is a troat they may never have a chance to again, and which once enjoyed, we Sone then wine easily be forgotten. Cem THE RICHARDT COLLECTION AT -THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN. results of several years of labor by the artist, Ferdinand Richardt. Mr. Ricnardt’s design in painting this series ik ay E as those in the White Mountains, at Saratoga, and Ni Falls ; but they will be terree incognile of the West and Northwest, ral beauties have rarely attracted the steps of the sional artist or the amateur, but which are destined day to become the to resorts of the blasé tion of future cities, whose houses can now be counted @ few scores, and the residents whereof do not outnum! one of our villages ou the Hudson river. Here have the musical falls of Minnehaha, far in Minnesota, within two mites of Fort Snelling, of Congressiopal memory, and the Falls of St. Anthony, with their four woody isianus nestling beneath the cata. ract—the islands of “+ Hennepm,”’ “ Cataract,” “ Spirit,’ apd “ Upton” —npon the three ast of which human foot ‘has not yet troaden; but which, within a quarter of a century, may become,even hke Goat Island at Niagara, the stand point of many a worshipper of nature, and the strolling place of mapy a dreamer who may find in the poetry of the scene a reflection of that throbbiog but yet unspoken passion within bim, which needs on'y the in- spiration of such a ecene to evoke it in art, in eloquence, ‘or in song. Here, too, is lie on the Upper Slississippi— the low wooded shore, the stern-wheel boat, the desert though picturesque islands which stad the stream. Two views of Harper’s Ferry in Virginia, at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, will etrixe the visi- ter at once as remarkably faithfni to nature. The cele- brated Mammoth Cave in Kenincky forms the subject of several pictures, in which the effects of ligut and shade peculiar to subterranean curiosities of this kind are very strikingly presented. Among the scenes in our own ré- ten Ley attgrersesny are the views on the Hudson, particularly 1 ken from Cold Spring, looking up to- warcs Newburg, with the Crow’s Nest mountain, Bre Neck mountain and Ball hill in the the a Stony Point in the middle distance, and to the right the Hudson River train of cars shooting out from behind one of those humerous rocky projections which skirt the river side of the railroad bagel they are wont to do some asin twenty times a day. Other views there are aiso on the 1 dhgt§ Rohe thd mind so fair and 80 true af this. In the representation of American scenery ted; accordingly, we have here two pictures of Cape le Ove of them may almost be |, though iy 4 usual sense of the term, a still life picture, for it presents nothing but the ontetretching waters of the Atiantic— looking really like water—unbroken, save by aspeck or two on the distant horizon, in each of which, however, one can readily fancy a little world, animated with house- hold hopes, and fears, and joys, walking the waters “like ‘a thing of life,”’ to or from the goal of all those hopes and joysand . The other s2ene can lay no more claims to still life than the beach at Cape itself on any fine summer forenoon. Disporting the surf are some hundreds of bathers in the fantastic costumes which bathers most afiect, while along the beach are hundreds of others, some participants in and some spectators of the scene. This is an adinirable picture, thoroughly characteristic, though perhaps there is some sacrifice of fact to the effect of color in the variety of costumes introduced—a veuial fault certainly, conside the general beanty of the work. The fine of New Hampshire is very fairiy represented in thiee the Village of Centre Harbor, Winnipiseogee e and Squawn lake—which, taken together in panoramic form, give an excellent coup d’@il of the scenery in the vicinity Of the White Mountains. The artist has depicted several admirable views from tho picturesque scenery of Lake George, many others in Virginia, around Niegara and interest—comprising, in the American landscapes, embodying those’ of nearly every region on the continent, and unmatched for variety. Io &@ series of oil sketches, pajuted solely with a view Ww their repreduction in ine expect to find marvels of coloring pherle effect; yet in neither of theso properties are Richardt’s pictures materially de‘ivient, while in an lute fidelity to nature, even in the smallest details, may be said to be almost unsurpassed. There is one picture in the collection of peculiar interest—namely, Grace church, on Broadway, with tho congregation turning out from The 5] : years on this collection. miles over this continent, in order the ol Scenery , alway and tran it to ninety-one fint two hundred Fr Europe. A publication of this kind will make the of the Old World thoroughly familiar with the scenery of the New, with which they are now acquainted only by name, or perhaps in pictures, with a few of the ‘mort Nar parts, such 'as Niagara and some of our views on the Hodson. Every one who ie desirous to bebold the finest pointe in American scenery should visit the Richardt collection