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War rumors prevailed in Paris, and an impression seemed to gain ground in that capital that a mo- mentous crisis in the affairs of Europe was impend- ing. Large contracts for gunpowder and heavy cannon had been made by Great Britain. Mr. Reed, our Minister to China, had gone to India in the Minnesota. Money was abundant in London, and at un- changed rates, with a slight decline of bullion in the Bank of England. Consols closed at 95] a 953. The cotton market had experienced a slight de- cline, and closed quietly on the afternoon of the 29th. Holders were offering freely, but did not press sales, Trade at Manchester was dull. Bread- ptul were steady, Duc quive ult. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were im- portant. In the Senate an animated debate in the case of the Indiana Senators, and a speech from Mr. Hunter on the tariff, occupied the attention of that body. In the House Mr. Phelps asked leave to introduce a bill reviving and continuing in force for two years the Treasury Note act. On the question of suspending the rules, objection having been made to the reception of the resolution, it was de- cided in the negative. The debate in the House plainly evinced the temper of that body on the tariff and loan questions, and a determination not to pass the one without an amendment of the other. Advices from Kingston, Ja.,to the 29th ult give us some additional details respecting the revolution in Hayti. The Standard of the 26th contains Sou- Jouque’s paper of abdication, and adds that upon his arrival at Kingston the greatest excitement prevailed among the Haytien refugees who had been expatriated by his orders. The negro popu- lation of Kingston were unanimously in his favor, and rushed in thousands along the streets to get a sight of him. A strong escort of police was found necessary to keep off the crowd while his sable highness was proceeding to his lodgings. The steamship Philadelphia arrived at this port yesterday morning from Havana, with advices dated on the Sth instant. General Concha reviewed the troops at a grand parade on the 5th instant, in presence of some thousands of spectators. The French ship Francis the First had landed eight hundred and thirty-six Chinese coolies. She lost forty by death on the passage from Macao. Cap- tain Williams, of the brig Nancy, had addressed a letter to Consul General Helm on the subject of the losses sustained by all parties interested in that vessel, owing to her detention through the action of Mr. Savage, late Acting Consul of the United States. Sixty-five thousand boxes of sugar remained on hand, and holders were firm for high prices. Freighta remained as last reported. Exchange on New York was at one per cent premium. Our Key West correspondent gives us some very interesting information concerning the efforts now made to induce the Indians to remove from Florida to Arkansas. A number of Seminoles were to embark in the steamship Magnolia at Key West on the 12th inst. for New Orleans. Colonel Rector had despatched Capt. McNeil on a mission to the Tallahassee tribe, and he, after an interview with Ranging Deer, a sub-chief, was induced to believe that the larger portion of them would accept the terms offered by the President. The consent of Crazy Tiger, the chief, was not however assured. Tiger Tail’s party would not go this season, hay ing found plenty of ammunition and provisions on the wrecked bark Thales, which they fell in with near Julita. The tax levy as amended passed the Board of Aldermen last evening. The amount required will probably reach ten million dollars. Alderman ‘Owens offered a resolution requiring the Croton Aqueduct Department to pave Broadway with the Belgian or block pavement, in lieu of that now in use. A resolution was also offered instructing the Counsel to the Corporation to communicate to the Board what powers, if any, were possessed by the Common Council to investigate or supervise the management and expenditures of the Almshouse Department. The annual report of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was sent in by the Mayor. ‘The report shows that during the past year the bank had 32,620 depositors, who deposited the sum of $2,050,265 01. During the same period the anount drawn out of the bank amounted to $2,224, 708 27—showing an excess of withdrawals over re- ceipts of $174,533, The revenue cutter Washington, which arrived fast evening from a cruise in search of vessels in distress, reports having fallen in with the brig R.D. Clark, Captain Ramney, of and for Boston from Philadelphia on the 4th, in a damaged condition and leaking so badly that sbe sunk in thirteen and a half —_———_—_————— fathoms water, Barnegat bearing northwest by west twenty-three mile:. The captain and crew were rescued, A report will be found elsewhere. Advices from Venezuela to January 8, received at Havana, state that the new constitution had re" ceived the sanction of the executive. The Conven- tion had under deliberation two bills, one granting General Castro a life pension of $3,000 yearly, and Le other the title of eminent citizen, with the pay of $3,600 and a present of a sword. The nomina- tion of General Castro as President of the republic until the next election was also ratified. The coun- try is represented as somewhat disorganized, owing to the machinations of Monagas and others. The Tehuantepec route seems to be increasing in popularity and facilities. The Quaker City, re- cently at New Orleans, connected with the Sonora ‘rem San Francisco, and brought nearly one-third cf her passengers to New Orleans. The stage road over the Tehuantepec isthmus will soon be in fine orcer, and in less than sixty days the company will be able to transport all the travel that may offer, with a fair prospect of making the time between New Orleans and San Francisco in less than four- teen cays, A newspaper correspondent, named John F+ King, committed suicide on Saturday, at the hotel f Mr. Rutzer, in Poughkeepsie, by taking prussic acid. Ina letter to the press and the public the ide declared that he died by his own hand, but es no other reasons for terminating his exist ence than that it “had been productive only of dis- appoiniment, discord, blight and pain,” and that he was content to follow his destiny wherever it led. There was much gaiety yesterday on the Central Park pond. The ladies greatly increase in number. A delegation from the Philadelphia Skating Club was there, but could do little, as the ice was so bad. Should the weather be favorable this forenoon they will be there, and in all probability a large concourse of spectators. An adjourned meeting of the citizens of Brook- lyn favorable to the erection of a building in that city adapted to musical, literary and scientific pur- poses, Was held last evening at the Atheneum, At- lantic street, which was well attended. The com- mittee submitted their report, and addresses were delivered by Drs. Storrs, Melburne and Kennedy, and Messrs. Lowe and Chittenden, a sketch of which appears in another column. Professor Guyot delivered his first lecture on “Comparative Physical Geography in its relations to History and Modern Civilization,” at the rooms of the Historical Society, yesterday afternoon. The introductory lecture was delivered last week. The second lecture will be delivered at the same place this afternoon, Mr. Fontana delivered a lecture at Clinton Hall last evening, upon “King Bomba, or the last Sici- lian Struggle for Liberty.” He eharged the failure of the revolution of 1848 upon the perfidy of Eng- land, and gave it as his opinion that another similar struggle would soon occur in Sicily. Park Benjamin delivered the last lecture of the season on the course before the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen at the Cooper Insti- tute last evening. He treated his subject, ‘Private and social life, especially in America,” in his usual humorous vein. The house was nearly full. Last evening the Count Johannes delivered a lecturein Hope Chapel on “The French Empire and its Metropolis, and the audacious insult upon the name and character of Washington by the French Imperial Government, at Paris, July 4, 1858." The case of Moses Erich, who stands charged with receiving stolen goods, was to have been tried yesterday in the General Sessions, but was postponed till next Monday. Mary Fitch and Mary Colwell pleaded guilty to grand larceny, having stolen $600 worth of dresses and shawls, the pro- perty of James W. Barker. Fitch was sent to the State prison for two years and six months, and Colwell two years and two months to the samo institution. This was the woman to whom the Governors of the Almshouse entrusted the care of two little children, who were kept ina state of starvation and filth, and drugged for the purpose of keeping them quiet. The officers found the unfor- tunate children reduced to mere skeletons. Wil- liam H. Horton pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and was sent to the Penitentiary for six months. Mary A. Jones, having stolen $36 worth of property, was vent to the Penitentiary for three months. Henry Moore, a colored man, formerly em- ployed as a waiter at the Girard House, was taken into custody yesterday on suspicion of stealing $3,000 from a Cuban lady boarding at the above establishment. The theft was effected some three months ago, as the lady in question was ascending the stairway leading to her bedroom. She had just returned from the American Exchange Bank with $3,000 in bank bills, and as she was en- tering her room she missed the package of money. Moore, the prisoner, was behind the lady all the way up stairs, and is supposed to have picked her pocket. The examination in the case of Nelson A. Hume, the spiritualist, on charge of seduction, was post- poned until two o'clock this afternoon. Some rich developements are expected. The case of Stephens, who is charged with having poisoned his wife some time since, came up yester- day in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, but was postponed until the first Monday in March. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales, a large portion of which was in transitu. Middling and lower grades, in the absence of foreign news, were irregular and more or less nominal, while fine cottons, in store, continued scarce and were unchanged in prices. Flour was in rather better demand, chiefly on speculation and for the home trade. The market closed at about five cents per barrel advance on common and medium grades. Wheat was firmly held, while sales were con- fined to small lots of Southern, including white at $1 60, and red at $140.$145. Corn was less buoyant, and extra new yellow Jersey and Southern sold at 840 a 8434c., and prime Southern at 86c.; Western mixed was sold at 8c. a 88c. Pork was less buoyant, and the turn of the market was in favor of purchasers; new mess sold ‘at $18 3734, and prime at $13 60 4 $1370. Beef was firm and in fair demand. The sales of sugars embraced about 700 hhds., on terms given in another column, Coffee was quiet and sales limited. Freights were steady, with mo- derate engagements, chiefly to Liverpool and London, at steady rates. Anglo-French Intervention in Mexico—Our Case Stated, and What We Should Do. Our Vera Cruz correspondence, which we pub- lich in another column, gives an accurate ac- count of the measures intervening in the do- mestic affairs of Mexico, recently taken by the Anglo-French fleet off that port, under the ad- vice and direction of the British and French Mi- nisters to that republic, It seems not atall unlikely that the course porsned by the European Powers will cause the fall of the Juarez or constitutional government at Vera Cruz. By their action they have de- prived that government of the resources it pos- sessed for carrying on the war against the cen- tralists, and they have so chosen their time as to make it correspond with a period when Miramon is advancing against the constitutional strong- hold with a large force. What is the more sin- gular in this proceeding on the part of the Bri- tish government is the fact that it has not only | insisted on an increase of the rates of duty on the productions of its own manufacturers—thus | injuring its own trade with Mexico—but it has 80 operated as practically to make the British merchants at Vera Cruz pay the British holders of Mexican bonds. We do not know that we have any right to complain of the course pursued by the Anglo- French commanders in their intervention in Mexico, In the first place, it puts burthens upon the French and British trade with Mexico that will greatly increase the profits of our smuggling trade between New Orleans and the Mexican Gulf ports, and that from Texas across the frontier, Next, if it drives Juarez and the constitutionalists out of Vera Cruz, and renders their cause desperate, it will only make them more ready than they have hitherto been to ac- cept American aid ; and if they ask it from the right kind of men they will get such as they can accept. Let President Juarez come to New York, and we will show him where he can put his hand on experienced, high toned and trust- worthy military officers, who in ninety days will organize, equip and lead to Mexico fifty thousand men, and replace in three months more a constitutional President and a constitutional Congress in power at the capital; and that, too, with an expenditure of less than one-fourth of what has been spent by him in the futile struggle of the past year. Lastly, the British and French governments have taught our government, in their action against President Juarez, the course we mast pursue towards the government of Miramon, which they seem resolved to establish in Mexico. It is with Miramon that our quarrel direcily lies, for he is the legitimate and direct successor of Zuloaga, who 60 insulted our Minister and citizens that the administration directed Mr. Forsyth to close the American Legation and come home. Miramon ignored the Robles revo- lution at once, because he saw that it interfere with his own designs on the Presidency. Whea he learned that it resulted in his own election he could not draw back, and so he put Zuloaga back in power for a day or two, and then ac- cepted the Presidency with all its obligations from him. Thus there is no plea ef a change of government to stand between himself and us in our demand for satisfaction. The moment, therefore, that he occupies Vera Cruz or any other port where we can reach him, our government should do as the Spaniards did st Tampico, and the British and French have dore at Vera Cruz. We must havean apology for tle insult to our Minister, a return of the forced loans exacted from American citizens, the Ame- rican government and name elevated to such rei- pect in Mexico that a treaty for the settlemert of our back claims can be made at an early day, aud the lives and rights of our citizens secured for the future. It is high time that those irre sponsible institutions called governments, it Mexico and other parts of Spanish America should be brought to their bearings and taught a lesson. We therefore call upon Mr. Mason tc call upat once his resolution authorizing the President to use such force ashe may deem ne cessary for the settlement of pending question with the Spanish American republics, and t urge its passage. And we suggest to the Hous Committee on Military Affairs that it reconside: its action, and bring in a bill authorizing the lo cation of military posts in the wilds of Sonon and Chihuahua. Laying Out of the Region of Washingtm Heights. We see by the records of the Legislature it Albany, that a few days ago a petition, accomm- nied by a bill, was presented to the Senak, signed by certain persons at Washington Heiglts and in the Twelfth ward of the city, asking br the appointment of a body of Commissiones, without naming them, to lay out the regionof Washington Heights, Manhattanville, and tht vicinity, on @ new plan, founded on a configure tion of the ground, and avoiding by all meam the rectangular system adopted in the lower part of the city. Among the names signed to the petition we find that of “ James Gordon Ben- nett—forty acres of land.” We understand since that name was affixed Mr. Bennett signed another petition of a very different character, and with- drew his name from the first, in consequence of discovering that that project has been princi- pally gotten up by the same set of men who origi- nated o similar one in the previous session, for the purpose of creating expensive commissions and never ending jobs in connection with the harpies and contractors of the Corporation. By the provisions of this bill—which the reader will find in another column—the Board of Supervisors | would have the power of taxing the property holders to any amount they please, and continuing the job for an unlimited series of years, for the special benefit of their political favorites, and the work might never be finished, but left in that disgraceful state in which the Battery park is lett by the Corporation and the sharks which attend its movements. The blank left for the names, too, would be filled up with commis sioners who would play into the hands of the contractors by whose bribes and corrupting in- fluence they would be appointed. The new petition and bill are entirely dif- ferent. The names of the commissioners are in- serted—men well known in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, and in whom the proprie- tors of land there have full confidence. If, therefore, any change is made by the Legisla- ture, we trust that this is the petition which will be adopted, and not the first one, which is likely to throw a fat job—ruinous to the property holders—into the hands of the greedy harpies which hover about the Corporation. The region around Washington Heights is the most healthy and picturesque in the county of New York or in the neighborhood of this me- tropolis. By former enactments the lower part of the city has been laid out as far as Trinity Church Cemetery, near Manhattanville. But the ground north of the cemetery, to Spuyten Duyvil creek, has the good fortune never to have had any legislation, either municipal or State, inflicted on it. Two or three winding avenues parallel with the line of the river, and a number of winding cross streets, following the natural sinuosities of the ground, are all the laying out required for that region, A committee appoint- ed by the landholders of the place, from among their own number, would be much better judges of what is required than any commissioners ap- pointed at Albany or elsewhere. Such a com- mittee could lay out the ground in half an hour, and without the humbug and endless expense which would attend a job superintended by com- missioners, who would be the creatures of the lobby. r In a few years the vast and rapidly progress- ing improvements of the city will reach that neighborhood, and make it one of the most de- lightful faubourgs of this metropolis or of any other in the world. Immense speculation is going on in the vicinity of the lower end of the Central Park, but for many years to come that locality must prove unhealthy. But the region of Washington Heights, for pure, bracing air, for splendid views and for general healthiness, eclipses all other suburbs on this continent or in Europe, while its easiness of access places it within an hour’s reach of the bu- siness part of the city. We hope, therefore, that if anything be done ! NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1859. by the Legislature in this business, the recent Petition, published in some of the newspapers & few days ago, will be negatived by that body, end the enactment sent up with it be throwa into the basket containing the waste paper. If anything be done, let the second petition be adopted. But what we prefer is, that nothing be done for several years. In the present condition of that beautiful euburb, there is no need fur has- tening the laying out of the grounds, The pro- perty holders can very well wait till the upward Pressure of population renders it more neces- fary and desirable than at the present time, Tue Apmisston or OrkcoN—ANoTHER ADMI- NISTRATION Success.—The bill for the admission of Oregon as a State finally passed the House by a vote of 114 to 103, but not asa party measure. It was an administration mea- sure, but it was carried by opposition votes, as almost every important measure of Mr. Bu- chanan’s has been from the beginning. And why? Simply because of the justice, expediency and moral weight of his measures among the patriotic men of all parties. The following, for example, are the republi- cans who voted for the bill:— Billingburst of Wisconsin, Colfax of Tudiana, Comins of Massachusetts, Cragin of New Hampshire, Curtis of Towa, Foster of Maine, Horton of Obio, Kilgore of Indiana, Kunkel of Pennsylvania, Leiter of Ohio, Nichols of Ohio, Pettit of Indiana, ‘Thayer of Massactusetts, Wood of ine. These men, in thus casting aside the shackles of party, are entitled to the thanks of the coun- try. But, per contra, the following democrats voted the other way, to wit:— SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS AGAINST THE BILL. Benham of South Carolina, Boyce of South Carolina, Bryan of ‘Texas, Cobb of Alabama, Curry of Alabama; Dowdell of Alabama, Houston of Alabama, Keitt of Sout Carolina, McQueen of South Carolina, Miles of South €xrolina, Millson of Virginia, Moore of Alabama, Scales of Seuth Carolina, Shorter of’ Alabama, Smith of Virginia, Stalworth of Alabama, And the following are the South Americans who were also among the bolters:— H. Winter Davis of Maryland, Gilmer of North Caro- lina, Harris of Maryland, Hill 'of Georgia, Marshall of Kentucky, Ricaud of Maryland, Trippee’ of Georgia, Vance of North Carolina, Woodson of Missouri, Zollicoifur of Tennessee, H. F, Clarke and Haskin, of New York, were the only anti-Lecompton democrats who voted against the bill. ABSENT OR NOT VOTING. Administs ation—Anderson of Missouri, Clemens of Vir- givia, John Cochrane of New York, Crawford of Georgia Faulkner of Virginia, Goode of Virginia, Kunkel of Maryland, Shaw of North Carolina, Sickles of New York, Warren of Arka Anti-Lecompt ickman of Pennsylvania. Keqvutlicans—Bennett of New York, Bliss of Ohio, Demreli of Massachusetts, Davis of Massachusetts, Sher- man of Ohio, The majority of the South Americans, and the South Carolina fire-eaters as a unit, cheek by jowl with Giddings and the bulk of the republi- cans, is strongly suggestive of the old axiom, that “politics make strange bedfellows.” And so they do; for the demoepatic administration leader of the House upon this bill, Mr. Stephens, was an old line whig, while Eli Thayer, who stood so bravely up to his support, is the very man who organized the victorious anti-slavery republican movement of the Northern .Kansas Emigration societies, Finally, it seems that Mr. Buchanan was very much delighted with the success of the Oregon bill; and well might he be, for, considering the fuc- tious and sectional bolters from the party camp, the euccess of that bill was glory enough for one day. Greeley is gloomy over it. “Let them laugh who win.” Loss of the Brig R. D. Clark, of Boston—Her Crew Saved by the Cutter Washington. ‘The U.S. revenue cutter Washington, H. D. Hunter, commanding, arrived at this port last evening, froma cruise in search of vessels in distress, and reports on the 14th inst., at 8 A. M., observed to the loward a brig with topsails to the masts, bore away for her, and at 9 A. M. hove to and despatched Lieutenant Stirk and tie pilot, who boarded her. She proved to be the R. D. Clark, Captain Rumney, of and for Boston, from 1 Found no person on board except Capt. R. the pumps, the mate and ffve men having ieft in the boat for the cutter when she hove insight. Took off the captain and received the crew on board. On the return of Lieut. Stirk, at once despatched Lieut. Murden with orders to get the brig in port if possible. At 9:30 Lieut. Murden returued and reported the brig sinking very fast. Despatched two poats un- der charge of Lieutenant Stirk and the pilot to save what they could; but after getting alongside the brig settled £0 fast that they did not board her, and at 10:15 A. M., Barnegat, bearing N. W. by W. twenty-three miles, she sank in 133 fathoms water. Brought the captain and crew to this port. The following is Capt. Rumney’s state. ment:—February 18, at 2 P. M., left Delaware Breakwater with a cargo of coal, bound to Boston. About one hour after leaving, tried the pumps, and found the brig maki ome water, but kept her free by strict attention unti about 434 P.M. of the 14th, when the leak increased very rapidly. “Sounded the pumps and found the water gaining very fast. Worked the pumps hard until 834 A. M.; then sounded and found five feet six inches watcr in the hold, and brig settling fast. Made a signal of distress and got the boat out, (still working the pumps,) when the United States revenue cutter Washington, Capt. Hunter, came to our assistance, and sent Lieut. Stirk and the pilot, with a boat’s crew, to assist us, but found the brig sinking fast. Took me off and returned to the cutter. My first officer, cook and crew came on board the cutter in the brig’s boat. Capt. Hunter again sent the first cutter, under the command of Lieut. Stirk, and the second cutter, under the command of T. W. Conklin, pilot, to save what ‘they could from the wreck, but she sunk as they were going along- side. The captain and officers did all that lay in their power to save the vessel, but all of no avail. To them anu the interposition of Divine Providence we owe our Age) The vessel sunk in 133¢ fathoms water, at 10:15 Broapway Tuxatre.—An English comedian, Mr. Harry Pearson—and we opine that the name will be altogether fresh to our readers on this side of the Atlanticmmade his début last night in a domestic drama called “The Villagers.”” The play, although nominally new, calls for no special description. It has a marked family resemblance to all the other domestic dramas, and is founded upon a-well wornf situation, which has been more skillfally treated years ago. There isan unsophisticated gentleman, with sundry responsibilities; of course, Corydon falls into the hands of sharpérs, Phillis goes into hysterics, and the Sheriff's offlcers levy on the Lares and penates. A fresh, jolly conntryman, with whom Phillis went gipseying in the olden time, comes to the rescue and discomfits all the sharpers. Virtue raises its triumphant head, vico shrinks away through an impossible door, P. 8. No. 2. Mr. Harry Pearson is the cheery rustic who typifies the homely, household virtues, the manly heart, &c., &., in this play, To say that Mr. Peareon does it well is faint praise, He is an excellent comedian, rotund, fresh and jolly as the summer morning. His country dialect is not so broad as that some of his predecessors, and is the more understandable on that account. His acting is artistically suggestive, and he does not think it necessary to throw a line at the audience with the propelling force of a cannon ball. Mr. Pearson’s phi is admirably suited to the impersona- tion of the line of character which seems to be his spe- ciality. Rural felicity sticks out all over him. He bas a good singing voice, and gave the old beer ditty with such true British goiit as to command an imperative encore. Mr. Pearson made a fine success, and at the end of the play he was called out and ioudly cheered, a compliment for which he returned thanks in a modest and gentle. manly way. While we may applaud the tact that suggested the début of so clever an actor a8 Mr. Pearson in a now part thereby avoiding comparative criticiam—wo may still express ® with to see him in a better play than the “Villagers; ” and incidentally, with a little better support’ than he received last night at the hands of the Broadway company. Brooklyn City News. A Fasmiy Powoxep.—The family of a colored man named Anthony Gale, residing in an alley running out of Jay street, near Concord, was poisoned on Saturday, as supposed, by tea bought at a neighboring grocery, Gale bought six cents worth of mixed green and black tea on the evening previous, together with a pound of brown sugar at nine cents per pound. Tea was prepared in the usual vessel, of tin, the following morning, and was sweetened with the sugar. Gale and his wife drank a cup each, and the two children drank part of a cup each. About an hour afterwards Gi who had gone to his hor irning sensation in his womach, Socotmpanied with violent . Mra. Gale and the children expe- rienced similar sensations, and all were laid up. A phy. rician was called, who administered to their relief, and they are all recovering. The children were not serious; affected, although the parents were confined to bed. Surgeon Ball, of the police, has procured samples of the ten and sugar for the purpose of analyzing it. The tin veasel in which the tea was prepared will also be ex. amined in order to arrive at a correct conclusion as to whether the poonous effects are to be attributed to the 0%) Sugar, or utensil in which the tea was prepared, purging and vomiting, THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The Dead Lock in the House on the Tariff and Loan Bilis. NECESSITY OF AN EXTRA SESSION. PROSPECTS OF THE SLIDELL BILL. THE CASS-YRISARRI he, &., TREATY, ko. Our Spectal Washington Despatch. Wasninaton, Feb. 14, 1859, ‘The vote of the House to-day ou Mr. Phelps’ resolution to suspend the rules, 80 as to take up the bill for a re- issue of Treasury notes, proves conciusively that no loan bill can pass unconnected with a rovision of the tariff, and that if the Southern fire-eaters refuse to consent to such a modification an extra session is inevitable. Mr. Phelps’ resolution did not emanate from his committee, ‘but was introduced to test the feeling of the House, and demonstrate to Southern impracticables that they could not carry out their views. The Committee on Ways and Means, at their meeting this morning, did not take up the tariff question. ‘The President will probably send in this week, should the dead lock continue, a message calling upon Congress to do its duty, and provide the government with means to goon. He will place the responsibility where it belongs, and express bis determination that no effort shall be wanting on his part to avert the threatened disgrace of national bankruptoy. He will show that an extra session will involve no increased expense on the country, as, for- tunately, under the existing law members receive neither additional pay nor mileage, and an extra session will bea necessity forced on the Executive by the faithlessness of Congress. Should an extra session take place, it will be called for June, and special elections would have to be held in all the Southern States but those which have already held elections—Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, and South Carolina and Virginia, which elects in May. The President's pro- clamation would have to go out to California and Oregon by the fifth of March, or those States will be unrepre- sented, . The Navy Department received degpatches by the Moses Taylor from Commodore McCluny. He writes that he had taken command of the squadron, which was ina satisfactory condition. He also states that a special mes- senger had arrived with the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, and would proceed with it forthwith to Washington. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs meet to-mor- row to consider the Cass Herran treaty. ‘The House Military Committee have been engagod con- sidering what reductions can be made in the Appropria- tion bill, without detriment to the public service. Nearly two millions can be stricken off from the estimates of the Secretary without impairing the efliciency of the sorvice, and the Chairman has been instructed to submit amend- ments to that effect. Joseph Miller, member from Ohio will be appointed Judge in Nebraska, vice Black, recently appointed Go- vernor. The prospects of the Cuba bill continue to improve. Accounts are coming from all parts of the country to So- nators and representatives, which cause them to range themselves at once in its support, or to modify, and in gome instances abandon, their opposition to it. The peo- ple everywhere are largely in favor of the measure. An accurate count of the Senate on Saturday showed a cer- tain majority of ten for the Slidell bill, which has since been increased to twelve by the admission of Oregon. It isa curious evidence of the progress of this republic of States that the first measure of importance upon which the new State of Oregon is called to vote will be that looking to the admission of Cuba, and she votes in favor of it, ‘The fate of the Slidell bill in the House is doubtful. only from the want of time to act upon it. If the session were to continue one month longer it would be carried by a strong majority. As it is, there may not be time to pass it, and it will be brought into the next House, when a flerce hand to hand fight will be made on it. Many of the repubiican members regret this, as they think sucha result will‘make Cuba the point of the contest in 1860, and cause them to lose the victory. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction with Seward for leading the party into a position where it must encounter certain defeat. THY GENERAL NEWSPAVER DESPATCH. Wasurvoton, Feb. 14, 1859. The Committee of Ways and Means had a meeting this morning, but, contrary to general expectation, the subject of the tariff was not called up by the chairman. The Ocean Mail Steamer bill, reported to-day from the Committee on Ways and Means, proposes to appropriate $62,500 for carrying the mails from New Orleans to San Francisco by way of Tehuantepec. This is the only new route specially provided for. The Postmaster General has discretion to procure their conveyance to European ports. The larger amount of obligation incurred on ac- count of the ocean mail service is to be defrayed from the postage receipts. Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, to-day introduced in the Senate a bill as a substitute for the Post Office Committee’s bill to abolish the franking privilege. It provides mem- bers of Congress with stamps for correspondence, and debits the treasury with the cost of postage on letters re- ceived, ‘The affirmation vote in the House to-day on Mr. Phelps’ ineffectual motion to suspend the rules to enable him to introduce the Treasury Note Extension bill was made up entirely of democrats. The Pennsylvania democrats, with several of the party from other sections, voted with both wings of the opposition in the negative. The House Henend Committee still have under con- sideration that part of the President’s message in refer- ence to a bankrupt law, and may goon report on the sub- ject. Owing to the pressure of other business in the Sen- ‘ate, Mr. Toombs has had no opportunity for calling up and advocating the bill for that purpose, as he designs, It fs the general opinion that the debate to-day on the Indiana election case was one of the most interesting and able on constitutional law that has ever taken place in the Senate. First Assistant Engineers Lawton and Gideon have been ordered to superintend the construction of the machinery of the naval vessels building at Charlestown, Mass., vice Chief Engineer Gay, relieved of that duty. Chiet Engineer Stewart has been ordered to superintend the construction of the machinery at Baltimore for the vessel building at Norfolk. Firat Assistant Sloan is to superintend the construction of the machinery of the sloop-of-war Lancaster, at Phila- delphia, THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. BRCOND SESSION: Senate. Wasmvoton, Feb. 14, 1859. The Senate met at 11 A. M. THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. Messrs, Sewarp and Fessevpen respectively presented memortt from the cities of New York and Portland respecting the working of the Reciprocity treaty. Referred. EW MEMERRS Messrs. Pvau and Gwin introduced the Senators from Oregon, Meesrs. Lane and Smith, who were sworn and took their seats; they then drew lots for the long term, and Mr. Smith has it. Mr. Hunter presented the credentials of Mr. Toombs, re elected for six years from the 4th of March next, ‘THR TARIFY. Mr. Bigler’s tariff resolution was taken up to allow Mr. Hunter to express his views, ‘Mr. Huyrer, (adm.) of Va., began by saying that the present issue is between bigh taxation on one side and moderate expenditure on the other. His personal connec- tion with the tariffor 1857 induced him to review the circum- stances under which it came into operation, and the princi- ples on which it was established. Secretary Guthrie bad jounded his estimates on the opinion that the expenditures for the preceding years, exclusive of payments for the public debt, bad never required more than forty-eight millions of Gollars. The tariff was, therefore, reducod by the consent of ail sections, Unfortunately, in the first year of its operation it encountered the great financial de- pression; but in this year, as far as it has gone, it pro- mised to attain the amount estimated by the Secretary. The Senator from Rhode Isiand had estimated that it would produce but forty millions of dollars; but during the two firat quarters it has produced twenty-three mil- lions, and the probability is that the two last quarters will produce fully the amount of the estimates, It has done what it was expected to do; and the question is, shall we continue to use it to carry on the requirements of t ernment? The President and the able head of tl ‘easury Department gg od it insufficient; but after earnest thought he (Mr. Hunter) had come'to a different conclu. sion, He went on to show that the esti the re- ceipts from the public lands arc not overstrained, and the unexpected nces of appropriations, if deducted, as probably they ought to be, would reduce the estimates twelve millions. The war expenditures might be reduced nearly four millions, the navy nearly four millions, and then it would have as much as was actually expended on it Jast year; and if the Post Office be made gelf-sustainiyg it will economise nine millions upon the estimate for the year. The bill reported by the Post Office Committee would add three and a half millions to the revenue; tho abolition of the franking privilege, it is supposed, will save one and # balf million more; and if by increased chagges we can make the departwent self-sustaining then reduce the total expenditures to fifty-five mi ‘There are many moral, political and fiscal reasous fer this reform in the Post Offce. Aa it at stands, it ae vast machine of irresponsible power. He here read from the table, to show the steady and alarming increase the burden of the Post Office on the treasury, Continued atthe same ratio, would soon make it way, than oe, ne and navy: With 27,97! 1#, exclusive agents, spocial agents, and other officers, who make a total of nearly 30,000 millions, it would give a surplus of thirteen millons to pay off the Habilities of the government, Next he tu demonstrate that the estimates of the revenue for the fiscal ved are Dot exaggerated, but, on the contrary, are ‘The customs Food peices, and eraploy more bases, and asdsorgh prices, and employ more 5 cereals are under a temporary depression, the difference is more than compenaated by the increased product. He had beard it estimated by a competent authority of New York that the year will show a revenue of w sixty three millions. But without scoala, that figure, be was willing to take the responsibility of k on the assumption that the Secretary’s estimates will be rather over than under. Hence in his opinion #* ‘would be unwise and inexpedient to touch the tariff of 1857. If, on the meeting of the next session of Congress, it_be found insufficient, everybody might come to some agreement for its amendment. Mr. Hunter proceeded to argue elaborately the advantage of un ad valorem over specific duties, and showed that the effect of specific im- pests is to make the consumer pay ‘more when he could least afford it, and less when he was best able. The value can be casily ascertained, We have the prices current from abroad, and the consular certifi- cates, aud if the government will appoint faith- ful appraisers, and not act on the rotation Pi pom we will have aa honest, faithful valuation. In address- ing bimeelf to the protection arguments of Mr. Bigler, Mr. Hunter said that be did not believe that tion bene- fits even those interests which it secks to aid, were it for no other reason than that it induces competition, and brings down the level of profits, The depression of the fron interest in this country, as in England, was from the revulsion of the credit system, and it was a revulsion common to all brauches of industry. The production of gold m California and Anstralia isdoing more to protect the iron interest than ail the customs acts that could be passed into law. It has been proved that iron can be produced in America as cheaply as in Europe, for our ad- vantages of cheaper ore and coal exceed their assay on of cheaper capital and labor. After expressing hie lief that the Amorican iron interest has nothing to fear from competition, that it is inexpedient to touch the taruf, and that the only way to get along with safety is to re- duce the expenditures, Mr, Hunter concluded by eaying that the Senator from Rhode Island bas made an appeal in the name of the Amorican laborer. When ho does so, he is eloquent and earnest, and, said Mr. Hunter, touches my heart, if not my head, He, too, had at heart the interest of the American laborer. He would cheapen the axe with which the laborer opens his way in the forest; the hoe with which be wrings from the reluctant earth a subsistance for his wife and children; the coat that covers him from the summer’s heat and winter’s rigor. He would cheapen the bolt that secures the sailor’s ship; the cordage that keeps his spars in their places, and he would open by every justifiable means every port, on every sea, to his commerce. He would cheapen to the manufacturer his food and rai- ment, and the cost of the sugar that sweetens the cup that cheers but not inebriates. He would cheapen the iron, and thus extend the track on which the milhons speed their way, by day and night, in their pursuit of pleasure or business. In sbort, he would open wide the door for the self-developement of American industry, and for himself he was willing to bide the result, aid not doubt the capacity of his countrymen to compete with the world. The Young Giant of the West Las not in attained his full stature. It is idle to seek t bind jim. He will goforth in his path of enterprise and of empire. He will not sct up his pillars by a smooth and tideless sea, or pause at the first outlook upon a wide and stormy ocean, but will meet its billows and buffet with its storms, leaving wherever he may go monuments of his prope and power enduring as the rock. Of this there can be no doubt. Would it were as sure he ‘would be the minister of mercy ag it is that he will be of power. But the very suggestion of territory changes his whole nature. Territory awakens in him the lust of ac- quisition, like the Pheenician who surrounded the lands with strips of his bull hide shield, or like that old Saxon Viking, from whom he is perhaps descended, who sowed. the lapful of earth over whole flelds, to be held by such tenure as the strong impose on the weak. But while Mr. Hunter reprobated the universal! lust of dominion that would bring fiom the ends of the earth the handful or soil or the branch of the tree as emblems of his seizure and his title to possessions that may be useless when obtain- ed, still there are acquisitions which he should use all honorable means to secure. There is Cuba—the “rib taken in his sleep from bis side’’—‘‘male and female created he them.” With some further remarks Mr. Hun- ter concluded amid a hum of applause. The subject was then pustponed. Mr. Crittenden did not speak on the Cuba bill, as it was expected he would. ‘The case of the Indiana Senators then came up, and was debated for several hours, the debate being mainly con- fined to the lawyers in the Senate. It was highly inter- esting, but turned so much on the legal and constitutional points involved that it is impossible within the limits of this despatch to convey even an outline of it. Messrs. Seward, Trumbull, Fessenden, Harlan, Colla- ts Sten tenes he Rplvierwadise Messrs. ard, Green, jami ‘ugh, an rs, against the contestants, Messrs, Lane’and Macarthy, Mr. SewARD referred to Mr. Benton’s expunging resolu- tion, and said as the resolution to day would certainly be carried he would move every year while in Congress, and perhaps some one will move when he is gone, till it be carried that the resolution of the Sonate of June 12, 1858, be in the year eighteen hundred and —— expunged from. the records of the Senate, Mr. HARLAN moved as an amendment that the Indiana case, with all the papers connected with it, be recommit- ted to the Judiciary Committee to inquire if Messrs. Bright and Fitch have been elected in accordance with the con- stitution of Indiana, and that the contestants be allowed to appear at the bar of the Senate and argue their right to seats, Mr. Pucn moved se to amend that the report of the Judiciary Committee, declaring Messrs. Bright und Fitch, Senators, be sustained, and that the vote be final in the f tion was lost and Mr. Pugh’s adopted. The Committee's Judiciary report was sustained, and the committee discharged from ali further consideration, by votes respectively of 32 against 14, and 30 against 16, and 20 against 16, and 80 against 15, viz: Messrs. Bayard, Benjamin, Biglet, Broderick, Brown, Chemut, Clay, Chingman, Davis, Green, Gwin, Houston, fol Hunter, Iverson, the two Johnsons, Jones, Kennedy, Lane, Mallory’, Mason,’ Polk, Pugh, Reed, Rice, Shields, Slidell, Smith, Stuart, Toombs, Ward. Yulee. On the other side Messrs. Broderick, @ameron, Chand- ler, Clark, Collamer, Doolittle, Douglas, Fessenden, Foot, Hamlin, Harlan, King, Seward, Trumbull and Wilson, Mr. Dixon gaired off with Mr. Wright, Mr. Durkee with Mr. Sebastian, Mr. Hale with Mr. Thompson of New Jer- sey, Mr. Simmons with Mr. Allen, Mr. Wade with Mr. Yulee, Mr, Foster with Mr. Pearce, and Mr. Bell with Mr. Hammond, Mr. Bright and Mr. Fitch did not vote. ‘Adjourned. Mouse of Representatives. Wasitvaow, Feb. 14, 1859. NEW POST ROUTES, Mr. Exoust, (adm.) of Ind., reported a Dill establish- ing many new post routes, and giving authority to the Postmaster General to contract for carrying the mails, ac- cording to existing laws, on all pubic roads which have been or shall be constructed, and when, in his opinion, Abe public convenience requires ‘t, During the debate Mr. ENauist, in reply to a question by Mr. Jones, (adm.) of Teon., eaid there was a provision in the Dill for & route from St. Paul to the Pacite. Mr. Joxws replied that they nlready had an overland mail to the Pacific, which would prove a curse to the coun- try, at a cost of six hundred’ thousand dollars per annum for six years. Mr. Exeuen enid there was nothing in this bill re- service to be put on the route from St. Paul to lc, the Pacific, Mr. Jones moved to tabie the bill. Motion negatived by 80 against 98. He then moved tostrike out the clause establishing » post route from St. Pan! to Puget’s Sound, Mr. Wasnncene, (opp.) of Il!., said as there was a route coer south to the Pacific, there should be one from the north. Mr. Puecrs, (adm.) of Minnesota, offered an amendment: directing the Postmaster Generai to contract for service on that route, weekly or semi-weekly. Disagreed to—77 ‘against 104. Mr. Jones’ motion was disagreed to by 81 against 101. ‘The bill was then passed. THE OCKAN MAIL—TREASURY NOTES. Mr. Pumurs, (adw.) of Mo., from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the Ocean Mail Steamer bill. He asked leave to introduce a bill reviving and continuing in foree for two years the Treasury Note act. Objections having been made, he moved a suapension of the rulos. ‘The question was decided in the negative by 87 against 110, Mr. Pieirs moved a suspension of the rules to iatroduce an order that on and after Thursday next the daily hour of meeting be ten o'clock, and that the resolution pro- viding for night sessions be continued in force one week. Disagreed to by 109 againet 83, not two-thirds, ‘A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE, Mr. Owen Jones, (adm.) of Pa., rising to a question of privilege, stated that last session he presented peti- tions numerously signed on the question of the tariff, which were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, who have taken no action hereon from that day to this, although he had in meantime spoken to the m mbers concerning thom, now asked leave to offor a resolution, ingtructing committee to report to the House, at the next meoting, all Propositions now before them looking to an increase of ‘he revenue to a point suflicient to meet the expenses of ‘he government. ° The Sreaxer decided that no action for a question of Le ie bo ee presented, oh hein one could not arise pending the motion made by Mr. Phelps, of Mo., 0 into Comittee of the Whole on the State te ti, Union. Mr. Jonns withdrew his question, and Mr. Pholps’ mo- tion prevailed. ‘The Senate's amendments to the Indian Appropriation Mr. Pasars, (adm.) of Pa,, maintained that heel | . Dill were taken up. to the showing of the Secretary of the Treasury himae! all bis estimates were realized, there cannot be less than twenty-five millions of deficiency, for which it is the duty of Congress to provide, ‘The ‘Secretary in his report of December, 1867, was twenty-three millions out of the way. In view of this fact it was unsafe to rely on his estimates, Mr. McQuekn, (adm.) of S. C., remarked that he would use government bonds, believing that the country would recover in two years from its financial embarrasaments, Mr. Pmiturs replied that ho did not think that he Queen) was a good financial doctor, as he would not