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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR 4M) PROPRIETOR. OyHCR N, W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 87S ous in advance. Money sent by mai? roill beat the ike Ae venders” Poncge sinmpat ees rectoed a toseription wmte . NE DAILY HERALD, two conta THE WEEKLY HERALD. every Raturrkty, wl ote conte copy, oF $8 per annum; he European Editi: Weed ry, Bl six cots per copy, $4 per anmun to any part of Great Frits, br 85 toany part of the Continent, both to inclwle postage; the Galifornia Ecdition om the Sih and 2th of each month at wbx conte per copy, or $1 50 pet annum. THE FAMILY HERALD on Wednestay, at four cents p j, OF $2 annum. a "TGS PRINTING executed wth neatness, cheapness and de $1 per ann. Volume XXIV. No, 348 THIS EVENING. MUS! NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Itauian Orrea—Taova ORR. BOWERY THEATBE, Bowery.—[nsuxuxction—Wittow Corsz. Murphy and Hardy, were appoiated to draft an ad- dress to the democracy of the city, pnd county of New York. The General Committee for 1860 will mect on the Sth of January for organization. No other business was transacted. The Board of City Canvassers yesterday made a final disposition of the charges of fraud in the Kighth Aldermanic district. We understand, from reliable suthority, that certain interested parties intend laying the matter before the District At- torney ina few days, for the purpose of having the cuilty parties punished according to law. At Ue meeting of the Board of Aldermen last vening, & communication was received from the Comptroller, submitting a draft of an ordinance providing for a farther appropriation of 885,000, for the following purposes, for 1859:—Common Council, $45,000; cleaning streets, 625,000; cleaning markets, $500; law department, $3,000; water pipe, &e., $5,000, The documeut was referred to a com- mittee. A petition was received from citizens of New York and Brooklyn, asking that the terminus of the Brooklyn side of Catharine street ferry be changed from Main street to the WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, oppoulte Bond street.— | foot of Bridge street, and that the terms of sale o Ocrox00x. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Everrsovr’s Feimx>—Porring tux Qoxstiox. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Distart Rewarions. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Haro.p—Briuax O'Lywx—Nice or tax Woops. FRENCH THEATER, 59 Broadway.—Cowsit's MusicaL ‘Rxvsetauunny, AMERIOAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—After- Prec s+ Bepvxv Koom—Foun Lovers. Bvening— Doow or Davuse. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ersroriax Sonas, Danoss, &c.—Putsn Pree Perren Povas. BRYANTS' MINSTR: Boxresqves, Sonas, D. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Cmaisty's Mix- @reais is Sones, Dances, Buxtesquxs, &c.—Biack Status, , de. — ALN’? Got Time To TagRy. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 12) Broadway.—Deavron’s Pan- Lor Orcas any Lraio Provanss—Ouiviera, Tak Viowinis:, CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Kqorsmmuax Pexroas- ayces, &c.—Dick Tunrin—Fast Max. HOPE CHAPEL, 73) Broadway.—Wavan’s Itars. New York, Friday, December 16, 1859. The News. The intense excitement in the public mind, grow- ing out of the Harper’s Ferry foray, the debates in Congress and the incendiary harangues of the abolition orators, was unmistakably mani- fested at the meeting of old John Brown's sym- pathizers at the Cooper Institute last evening, and at a similar gathering in Philadelphia yes- terday. We give a full report of the proceedings at the Cooper Institute, and a telegraphic account of the meeting at Philadelphia, in to-day’s paper; and it will be seen that at both meetings it was only through the timely interference of strong bodies of police that a violent and perhaps bloody popular outbreak was prevented. In the Senate yesterday the Special Committee to investigate tho Harper’s Ferry affair was an- nounced. It consists of Messrs. Mason, Davis, Fitch, Collamer and Doolittle—three democrats and two republicans. Mr. Mallory gave notice of ‘8 bill to regulate and increase the pay of the navy. A resolution was offered directing inquiry as to the expediency of repealing the act requiring the laws passed by the Legislatures of New Mexico and Utah to be submitted to Congress for approval or rejection. The Rev. Mr, Gurley was chosen Chap- lain, and the Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, deliver- | ed a slashing speech on the slavery question. We give 6 fall report of hia remarks elsewhere. Two ballotings were had for Speaker; the last one re- sulting as follows:— —Mr. Sherman lacking only four votes of a ma- ority. ‘The steamer Bremen, from Bremen and South- ampton, and the Nova Scotian, from Liverpool, have arrived at this port and Portland respective- ly. They bring news to the Ist inst., five days later than the accounts brought by the Persia. The ad- | vices are unimportant. The European Powers had been officially invited to take part in the pro- posed Congress, and it would probably meet early in January. We give in our compila- tion of the news the text of the treaties negotiated at Zurich, and an address issued by Garibaldi at Genoa te his compatriots. At London on the Ist inst. Consols were quoted at 96{ a 963 for money, and 96 11-162 96 13-16 for account. Ramors of the bombardment of Tangier by the French had caused a decline in the French funds. The Liverpool cotton market ‘was unchanged, though inferior qualities were diffi- cult of sale at former rates. Breadstuffs and pro- visions were quiet, but steady. By the Isabel, at Charleston, we have news from Havana to the 10th instant. Nothing of interest had transpired since our reports by the Moses Taylor The commercial summary, which is two days later, contains the following:—Our sugar markets have been more quiet, on account of light stock and the high figures assumed by holders. Stock reduced to 33,500 boxes. Freights not in demand. Many vessels are leaving in ballast in search of business in the Gulf ports of the United States. Exchange on New York and Northen cities 4 to 4} per cent premium. We have files of Turks Islands papers to the 26th ult. They state that there had been very little done in salt during the previous week, and the demand was so limited that there was no likelihood of an advance. About 7c. was the price of the last cargo sold. Export duty 3c. Lola Montez lectured to a very numeroys and refined audience at Mozart Hall last night, on the subject of “John Bull at Home.” Some three thou- sand people were present, and the lecture was listened. to with marked attention. She was frequently applauded, especially in the allu- sion which she made to the interference of States with city rights, which she said was per- fectly unknown in Europe. Her pictares of Eng- lish life were humorous and amusing, but free, as a general thing, from ill-nature and abuse. She showed the resemblance between English and Ame- rican peculiarities of character, and traced the latter to an English erigin. ‘The trial of the Adams’ expreas robbery case, in the United States Circuit Court, was terminated yesterday by the company obtaining a verdict for $60,000 and interest against Nathan Maroney, their former agent at Montgomery, Ala. The evidence prodpced by the company was such as to induce he defendant’s counsel to abandon the case, after consultation with their client, and submit to the above verdict. The’ case of suspected arson pending against the ferry franchise may be altered. The peti- tioners state that the Brooklyn terminus of Cutha rine ferry is so close to Fulton ferry, that it is of comparatively little benefit. This was referred. A resolution was offered by alderman Boole to change the name of Chatham street to East Broad- way, and adopted. It was sent to the Councilmen for concurrence. The Councilmen met last evening, and passed re- solutions repealing the permits allowing the Metro. politan Gas Company to lay. mains, and giving Messrs. Patrick Gallagher and Benj. Slidell, Ser- geants-at-Arms for the two Boards of the Common Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— | Council, $250 each as extra compensation. ‘The Schuyler frauds on the stockholders of the New Haven Railroad Company are again before the Courts—the suit of John O. Woodruff and others against the Company being now before Judge } Woodruff, of the Superior Court. j A new movement in the shipment of produce } direct to Liverpool from Cincinnati via the Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal and Portland, came to our notice yesterday. It seems that an agent of the Grand Trunk arranged for the freight in Cincin- pati, to be delivered in Liverpool at 95c. per 100 Ibs. The sterling bill of exchange drawn against it in Liverpool was sold yesterday, with no less than six bills of lading attached; and the drawer in Cincinnati was authorized by telegraph to draw at sight on this city fer the money, which he un- doubtedly did, selling his draft ata premium on yesterday, while, according to rule, those to re- ceive the cash advanced in New York on the goods will not be paid till Saturday, thus showing the value of steam and electric commnnication. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 2,000 bales, about 1,500 of which were sold in transit. The market closed with steadiness, on the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour was heavy and sales moderate, closing in some cases at 6 cents per bbl. decline. Southern was in fair request, with sales to the trade within the range of quotations given in another place. Wheat was heavy and sales moderaic; the demand was chiefly for milling purposes. Corn was firm, and sales mado to a fair extent. Pork was heavy and prices lower, especially for mess, which sold at $16 10 a $16 25, and prime at $11 50. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 700 hhds. ,ja- cluding 400 New Orleans by auction, at an average of 8-04c. per Ib., which was considered a vory good sale; 800 do. Cuba muscovado and 250 boxes at private sale, within the range of rates given in another column. Coffee was firm and in good demand; the sales footed up about 2,000 bags Rio and 75 mats Java, on terms stated elsewhere. Freights were firm, especially for Liverpool and London, while en- gagements were moderate. The Great Union Meeting at the Aca- demy of Music. At the call of three or four thousand mer- ze | chants of this city,a meeting is to take place on Monday evening next, which will be one of the most extraordinary, curious, wonderful, fascinating and suggestive assemblages that ever congregated in New York. It is desig- nated a Union meeting, and these gentlemen have signed the call, though they did not ori- ginate the movement, because they are fright- ened—as well they may be—at the consequences that must ensue from the hundred thousand politicians who control the two great parties of the country rushing headlong, like two loco- motives on the same track, meeting each other, without engineers, or conductors, or brakes- men, or, what is the same thing, with these offi- cers all intoxicated and utterly reckless of the coming collision. It isto prevent fhis catas- trophe that the merchant princes of this great commercial metropolis are coming forward to take part in what they call a Union meet- ing. But what do they propose? In what way will they arrest the career of the two parties, and prevent the inevitable smash? Is it by uttering a few generalities about peace, and harmony, and brotherly love, without doing anything to stop the antagonistic forces? In their call these merchants tell us that the sentiment to which they desire to give utterance is “abhorrence of the crimes of John Brown and his confederates.” Now, that point has been already settled in New York. The late municipal election has settled it. But they “solemnly pledge themselves, by their influence, by their example, and their votes, to discoun- tenance and oppose sectionalism in all its forms.” In what practical way, we ask, will they do this on Monday night?—for there is not a day nor an hour to be lost. Have they any plan of operations, or is this meeting merely to afford an opportunity for buncomb speeches, tending to nothing? Is it to be a mere vor ef preterea nihil—talk and gas, but no action? And are the signers to be mere instruments in the hands of artful politicians, by which they may accomplish their selfish objects? The corrupt clique at Albany known as the Regency, tainted to the core with abolition, knew very well that the whole movement as “a mockery,a delusion and asnare?’ We have no objection to Mr. Dix, provided he has abandoned) the Buffalo plattorm, and that he will say 60 above board. As for Mr. Hunt, he has always been conserva- tive-—-a representative of the conservative whigs—and there can be no better man to take a prominent part in this demonstration, Mr. ‘Thayer ia a man of the same clase, and some others we might name. But something practical must be done— something better than resolutions, Itis work, and not talk, that is wanted—deeds, and not words. It is said by divines that a certain hot place, very far down, is paved with good in- tentions. Good works are necessary to mlva- tion; and platitudes about John Brown, the Union and the constitution, and assurances of -sympathy with the South, and oppositioa to sectionalism, North and South, will avail but little, while four-fifths of the delegstion in Congress from New York, and the delegation from Massachusetts, belong to a sectional and revolutionary party, whose leaders have endorsed Helper’s book. Many among the three or four thousand signers of the call have signed the calls for the Opdyke and Havemeyer meetings. Notwithstanding this, we will assume that they are all in favor of the preservation of this Union at all hazards. But how to do itis the question? We answer, these gentlemen have the game in their own hands, and if they play the part which the oc- casion requires, the Albany Regency and Tam- many Hall will be swamped and become as ciphers in the meeting. Let them, then, rise above being made a mere ladder for the ele- vation of filthy and corrupt political factions. Let them take the management of the meeting into their own hands, and propose a Union and conservative candidate for the Presidency. The man who will suit the emergency is now in this city—General Scott, the hero of a hun- dred fights, whose untarnished name and fame are linked with our history for half a century, who has always proved himself true to the honor and the interests of the country as the needle to the pole. This tried and conservative man is the right leader around whom to rally the country to meet the dangers, North and South, which threaten to overthrow the constitution and all the fundamental laws of this great con- federacy of States. These merchants, as we have said, have the game in their own hands. They have the sinews of political war, and, being on the right side, they are sure to win if they fight the battle in the right way. In twenty-four hours they can raise $100,000. If the name of General Scott is announced from their meeting as their chosen chief, it will go forth on the wings of the press and the light- ning’s wing, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande. It will be re-echoed from the Catskills to the White Mountains, and from the Alle- ghanies to the Sierra Nevada. Taking their cue from New York, the centre of wealth, of . civilization, and of conservative principles, Union men‘in every State, from Monday night till November, would hold Union meetings of a practical kind—meetings in which the name of Scott would operate asa spell word to elec- trify the masses, and to restore the harmony and equilibrium which have been lost in the .ighty machine of human government invented b) he wisdom of our ancestors. This meeting, ti fore, may either prove an utter failareys.: .o any ‘practical result, dr it may have’ the f ir of originating a movement which will sa‘. the country from the danger which impen’s over its destinies, like a black thunder cloud charged with destruction and death. 12. Concressionat. Lyixc.—The degradation and debarement of our political system have been very frequently a fruitful theme for satirists at home and abroad. They are particularly ap- parent, however, in the debates of the American Congress, which have sunk as low as the squab- bles of the primary meeting or the vulgar dis- putes of acaucus. More than this: the mem- bers of Congress are not satisfied with abusing each other, but they shield themselves behind the parliamentary privilege, and attack per- sons who are so fortunate as to be outside of Congress. Thus, the other day, Mr. Missouri Clark accused one of our city cotemporaries as a thief. This charge, as we truly believe, was utterly untrue; and if there was any foundation for it, why did not Mr. Clark make his words good? Again. a Senator from Mas- sachusetts has had the effrontery to declare in his place that the editor and proprietor of the New York Herarp is likewise the owner of the copyright of Helper’s infamous book, “The Impending Crisis,” and that the object of this journal in denouncing said work was to pro- mote its sale. Such a statement from such a source is, indeed, unaccountable. In the ordi- nary course of things it could only have pro- ceeded from the lips of a Natick cobbler, while mending an old negro’s brogans. Heretofore we had supposed that the Hon. Henry Wilson, a Senator from Massachusetts, howsoever we may have differed from him in political mat- ters, was a gentleman in his habits, character- istics and feelings. His charge against us, fab- ricated out of whole cloth, will go very far to change our opinion. He must know that the copyright of the Helper’s book stands in the name of the ostensible author; that it has been published by Mr. Burdick, of Spruce street, and that it is sold freely every day, over the Tribune this Union demonstratien was to take place, and its depraved affiliation in this city— Tammany Hall—knew jt still better. ‘The free soi) junta at Albany, and the kindred faction of ‘Tammany, defeated together in the late muni- cipal election, and their Buffalo platform made a heap of ruins, resolved that they would take time by the forelock, and take the wind out of the sails of any genuine Union movement, by being first out with their call. Desperate, after an ignominions defeat, they resort to this.expe- ent to regain their lost prestige, and to come into public favor with the Union tide, which Francis Petrachi and wife, was fully investigated yesterday by Fire Marshal Baker, before Justice Brownell, at the Police Court, Yorkville. The evi- dence elicited was not sufficient to warrant the Justice in holding the accused parties for trial. They were, therefore, discharged from arrest. ‘There were a number of gentlemen in court ready ‘to prove the good character of Mr. Petrachi. ‘The Tammany Hall General Committee met last evening st Tammany Hall—Isaac V. Fowler in the ehair. The principal business was the appoint- ment of Inspectors for the primary election, to be held on the evening of the 17th instant, to elect five delegates from each ward to form the General Committee for 1860; also, five delegates to form the Young Men's General Committee, and five delegates in each election district to form ward committees. A committee consisting of Messrs. English; Vance, Marsh, Compton, Jadge Connolly, they see is setting in, deep and rapid and strong, and which is likely to leave them high and dry on the beach. Their principal spokes- man and representative at the meeting is to be Boratio Seymour, virtually one of the owners of the organ of the Regency, whose editor vio- lated every principle of honor by publishing the private letter of Governor Wise, of Virgi- nia. Seymour is one of the firm, and is respon- sible for its acts, which he has never disa- vowed. He has, therefore, no right to take a prominent part in a meeting of honorable merchants whose object is to assure the South generally, and Virginia fn particular, of the friendship and sympathy of New York. Will not Virginia and the South, judging from appearances, be apt to set down counter. And now, with all these facts patent to every one, we are obliged to apply the good old English term—the word used in the time of Milton and Dryden and Shakspere—and to de- nounce Mr. Wilson’s statement asalie. Ifhe desires to show that he has the slightest spark of gentlemanly feeling, or the faintest trace of that dignity which should distinguish a member of the upper branch of the Congress of the re- public, he will at once retract the charge level- led against us, in the place where it was made. Tue Hox. Horace F. Crark.—The position of Mr. Clark among the contesting parties for the Speaker of the House of Representatives challenges our commiseration. As a repre- sentative of the conservative Union people of this great commercial metropolis, the duty of Mr. Clark is plain and easily understood. But he hesitates, while looking over at the repub- lican camp with longing eyes. And yet we can hardly believe that he is prepared to stir the fire and wash the pots in Thurlow Weed’s political kitchen. The party antecedents, past associations and present responsibilities of Mr. Clark are all opposed to this humiliation; and he would do well to think twice before voting once for a Speaker committed to the revoln- tionary programme of Seward, Brown and Helper. Tus Joun Brown Muztine at rue Coorsr In- strrore.-—Read the proceedings of the John Brown meeting at the Cooper Institute last night—the red-hot abolition treason of Wendell Phillips, and the sanctimonious gall and worm- wood to the “slave power” administered by the pious Rev. George B, Cheever. And let not the reader be deceived by the idea that this meeting of abolition fanatics and incendi- aries is to be taken as an affair wholly detached from the republican party. In 1856, when this party was contending only for fair play to the free State cause in Kansas, the line of division between it and the radical abolitionists was broad and distinct; but since the proclamation of Mr. Seward's “irrepressible conflict,” and its practical interpretation by Brown, and its elucidation by Helper, our Northern abolition radicals of the school of Garrison, Phillips and Cheever may be fairly set down as the ad- vanced guard, the scouts, the pioneers, the Zouaves and Turcos of the aggressive republi- can army. In this view, these John Brown sympathy meetings assume the fearful propor- tions of agrand active revolutionary crusade against the South, with the powerful republi- can party bringing up the rear, just as the main body of the allied army in the late Italian war followed close upon the heels of the advanced free corps of Garibaldi. And where are we to look for relief from this formidable anti-slavery and disunion cru- sade? To the democratic party? Not until, upon a national basis, it is reorganized. To the abounding conservative popular elements North and South, that are ready to be fused into a new national Union and constitutional party? Yes,ifthey can be put under an ac- tive and practical national organization. And why not? The independent conservative Southern opposition party in Congress may set this ball in motion at once, upon the name of General Scott; and let us hope that the ex- periment will be tried. It will prove the great- est and most effective Union movement of the last half century. Tue New York Nartonar Democracy anp Tuer Maniresto AGarsst THE ALBANY RE- cency.—The official manifesto which we pub- lished yesterday, from the national (or Fernando Wood) division of the New York democracy, against the Albany Regency, has given our readers a very clear understanding of the differences existing between these two rival democratic camps. But the pith of the matter may be thus summed up:—The anti-Regency democracy have the Regency and Tammany Hall upon the hip; and the fullest effect will be given to this advantage in the election by Congressional districts of delegates to the Charleston Convention, in opposition to the Regency set appointed in the lump last fall by the State and “Slate” Convention of Dean Richmond, Cagger, Cassidy & Co. We predict, too, that the anti-Regency delegates will be admitted to front seats at Charleston, while the Regency, if admitted at all, will only be ad- mitted in the rear of their rivals, and upon the stool of repentance. In fact, we may pronounce the late national triumph of Mr. Wood in this city as striking the key note for the recon- strugtion of the democracy, not only in this State, but in every State, upon a solid national footing. Execution or THe Harper’s Ferry Trarrors To-pay.—At eleven o’clock to-day, the two free negroes who accompanied Brown in his foray at Harpet’s) Forry—Oopelana and Green—will pay the penalty of their crimes on the gallows, at Charlestown, Va. and the white men—Cook and Coppie—will share the same terrible fate at three o’clock in the after- noon. This scene will probably bring this fearful drama to a close; for there appears to be a disposition in Virginia not to execute Stevens and Hazlitt, who-are still in prison and untried. There is a significant fact comnected with these executions, which illustrates the real extent of sympathy existing for the negro, about whom all this wild fanaticism is raging— for whose welfare, we are told, the Harper's Ferry treason was conceived and consum- mated—and that is, that while the mortal re- mains of the two white convicts have been claimed by their friends, the bodies of the two unfortunate free negroes have no friends at the North to claim them and lay them decently in mother earth. They will be buried under the shadow of the gibbet upon which they die. Where are the friends of the afflicted colored race now? Where are Wendell Phillips and Lloyd Garrison, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the other advocates of human freedom? Alas! Horatio Seymour.—This active Albany Re- gency scene-shifter for the Charleston Conven- tion is among the chosen speakers for our forthcoming Tammany Union meeting; and he will doubtless seize the occasion for a peace offering to the national democracy, and to Governor Wise, of Virginia. But we fear that Mr. Seymour is somewhat behind the time. When the treacherous Albany Regency sought, last fall, to break down Governor Wise and the national democracy of this State, in the publi- cation of that confidential Donnelly letter, and when that letter was actually sold to the news- papers for twenty dollars, in what company was Mr. Seymour? We fear that he will find out that he was in the wrong box when he and the Regency and Tammany Hall are brought to the bar of the Charleston Conven- tion. Tammany Hani in Great Distress.—Poor old Tammany is in avery critical situation. A complication of disorders has reduced her to ® consultation of the doctors, and they have decided that nothing but Union pills, by the box at a dose, can save her. The last pills ad- ministered by the quacks of “the Coal Hole” were the Buffalo free soil pills of 1848, accord- ing to the prescription of the medical firm of Van Buren, Adams, Havemeyer, Tilden & Co.; but they have beenas violent in their opera- tion as the cholera; and so the only hope of Old Tammany is the most powerful tonic of a Union medicine. Poor old Tammany! —_—______ ‘Tae Ormra at Ninto’s Garpgx.—Tho last evening per. formance of the Opera season here will take plnce this evening, when “‘La Traviata’” will be given, with Albor- tini, one of the finest lyric tragediennes who has over sung here, im the réle of Violeta. The fairer portion of the Operatic world will not forget that there is to’be a Matinee on to-morrow. —________.. ‘Tae OPERA AT PHILADELPMA.—Miss Patti sung Amina in the “Sonnambula” at the Academy of Music, on Wednes- day, and achieved a great triumph. The house was crowded to excess, The same performance will be ro- Peated to-morrow evening, and on Monday Misa Patti will ‘fing Zerlina in “Don Giovanni,” for the first time, The acasou bas bon guecessful go far. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1889. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. INTERESTING CONGRESSIONAL PROCERDINGS, Names of the Senatorial Harper's Ferry In- Vestigating Committee, Vehement Speech of Mr. Vallandigham e in the House, TWO MORE UNSUCCESSFUL BALLOTS FOR SPEAKER, Kee, Ree, ke. Our Special Washington Despatch. Wasuwaroy, Dec. 15, 1869. ‘THR SPRAKERSHIP. ‘The total vote for Speaker increased one to-day, by the arrival of Mr. Adams, of Kentucky, who voted for Mr. Boteler, thus increasing the number necessary for a choice in the same ratio, and making Mr. Sherman’s chance of election by a majority more difficult. Two members from New York—an American and anti-Lecompton demo- crat—are considered good for Mr. Sherman when the other two can be found; but, as Horace F. Clark is reported to declare that he will never vote for Sherman, it is impossible to conceive where they can be found. Messrs, Riggs and Adrain, of New Jersey, and Davis, of Indiana, refused to vote for Sherman under any circumstances. Forney was bere last evening, laboring with them, but to no purpose. I think it is clear now that the House cannot be organized by a majority. The democrats and South Americans are satisfied that neither can go to the other, Mr. Davis, of Indiana, is trying hard to make capital out of his position, but, possessing none of the elo- ments necessary to win either the Southern Americans or democrats, to whom he caters, he stands not a ghost of a chance. He ignores the republicans, and they would not touch him with a ten foot pole, considering his present leaning. He is considered as acting under the direction of Senator Douglas, and the latter would like to sce the ad- ministration members humbled by being compelled to vote for an anti-Lecompton democrat. They never will do it, and if they would, they could ‘not carry the South Americans with them. The despatch in the Heratn, stating that the President and Cabinet desire the house organized, was verifled by the action of the leading democrats yesterday and to- day, who yielded for a ballot, really believing that Mr. Sherman had the strength to be elected, to which they have no objection, finding themselves unable to elect a Speaker. ‘The pressure and clamor of mail contractors for the money due them by the government is felt by the demo- oracy in the House, and by the Executive, and the former, having exhausted every fair parliamentary objection to an organization, it is thought will consent to allow Mr. Hickman’s plurality resolution to take effect in a day or two. It is understood that Senator Douglas influences not only Davis of Indiana, but Riggs and Adrain of New Jer” sey, if not Horace Clark, of New York, from voting for Sherman, although common report attributes the conduct of the latter more tothe influence of his father-in-law, Mr. Vanderbilt, than any other. Mr. V.’s mail steam- ship interests are too valuable to be sacrificed by a singlo vote for Speaker. THE REPUBLICANS QUARRELLING OVER THE SPOILS. ‘Thurlow Weed went home, and sent a crowd of emissa- ries here from Albany, to demand of Mr. Briggs that he change kis course and vote for Sherman. Briggs did not see it, and he will not, since this onslaught has been made upon him by the Weed and Wendell interest for the printing. It is astonishmg how many things appear on this printing slate—here and there a Clerk, a Doorkeeper, Sergeant-at-Arms, Postmaster, and an army of subordinates under al! these officers, are all fixed without consultation with the repre- sentatives. Out of this fact grew the quarrel between ‘Weed andsome of the New York delegation. ‘The repub- licans are very indignant that a man is brought forward for Doorkeeper who has just left the service of Mr. Bu- chanan in the Treasury Department, instead of tried men ip the party. ‘ME CALIFORNIA UNITRD STATES. SENATORSMIP. An intelligent politician, direct from California , informa me that Mr. Denver will surely beat Weller for the Senate of the United States. THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTERS ‘The democratic Senators held a caucus this morning, further to consider the arrangement of the standing com- mittees. Mr. Toombs is understood to have advocated the restoration of Mr. Douglas as Chairman of the Com- mittee om Territories; but no vote was taken on that Point, a8 Mr. Toombs stood alone in the caucus entertain- ing that desire. Mr. Green will doubtless continue chair- man of the committee. Messrs. Pugh and Douglas were not in the caucus. ‘THE ESTATE OF THE LATE SENATOR BRODERICK. Mr. Wilkes, of New York, was yesterday appointed ad- ministrator upon the affairs of the late Senator Broderick for this district. Mr. B. left most of his valuable papers here, including a will, made in 1853, just before fighting tho duel with Mr. Smith, leaving all his property to Mr. Wilkes. The story that he has relatives in California is Dot true. OUR TREATY WITH MEXICO, ETC. The United States ship Brooklyn is expected within the next three or four days at Pensacola or New Orleans, with Minister McIane, who is understood to haye the new Mexican treaty ratified by that government. Intelligence has been received here from Senor Lerdo, that since his arrival at Vera Cruz the Juarez government had yielded the points in dispute and allowed the treaty to be ratified. Shpuld the Brooklyn, thorefore, reach the United States before Monday next, the President will not, it is said, send his Message to Congreas until he receives the treaty, and has time to change the portion relating to Mexican affairs. The offer of G. W. Bickley, who had tendered his ser- vices, together with a force of several thousand men, to the Jnarez government, to aid them to establish the libe- ral party, had been positively declined by that govern- ment. MISCELLANEOUS AFFAIRS. The Secretary of the Treasury has invited proposals till the 27th instant for the issue of any portion or the whole of the three million in Treasury notes, in exchange for gold, under the authority ofthe acts of December, 1857, and March, 1859. Messrs. Adams, Eliot and Train, members of the Mas. sachusetts delegation, visited the President to-day, and ‘were courteously received. The President expressed an earnest desire that the House be organized as soon as possible. Minister Yancey, on his return from South America, was made the bearer of a magnificengold snufi box, studded with diamonds, worth $5,000, from Gen. Urquiza, Presi- dent of the Argentine Confederation, as a mark of his per- sonal regard to ex-Con missioner Bowln, of the Paraguay Expedition, who is no: yet aware of the present. Senator Hamlin’s chamber was entered at an early hour this morning, and twd gold watches and some cash stolen, without his being awakened. Mr. Letcher, the Governor elect of Virginia, is among the recent arrivals here. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate, Wasmnotox, Deo. 16, 1659. ‘DIR HARPER'S FERRY INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. The Vice PRESIDENT announced the committee on Mr- Mason’s resolution adopted yesterday, which consists of Messrs, Mason, Davis, Collamer, Fitch and Doolittle. ‘THR LAWS OF UTAR AND NEW MEXICO. Mr. Pucn, (dem.) of Ohio, submitted a resolution, which lies over, instructing the Committee on Territories to in- quire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act for the organtzation of the Territorial governments of New Mexico and Utah us requires all laws passed by those Territories to be sabmitted to Congress for approval or rejection. INCREASE OF THE PAY OF THE NAVY. Mr. Matiory, (dem.) of Fla. gave notice o° his intention, to introduce a Dill to regulate and increare the pay of the ites MLECTION OF CHAPEAIN. The Senato then proceeded to the election of a Chaplain. the first ballot there was no choice, but on the second Rev. Dr. Gurley was elected, receiving 35-vous eras wei petinioge wore presented when the Senate ad. journed til Monday. House of Representatives. Wastinaton, Dec. 15, MR, VALLANDIGHAM’S VIEWS OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Mr. Vartanpicnam, (dem.) of Ohio, romarked that the ‘courtesy ho extended to others at all times he wag re- solved to exact for himself at every hazard, and therefore last ovening he bad a right to expect the courtesy of ap adjournment, ashe then did uot wish toaddress the and tranquillity of the country—a book intended or tend- ing to sow the seeds of strife, discord and civil war be- tween the different sections of tho Union—intoaded ov tending to incite servile insurrection in the South—and who refused, either by himself or any one else, to-dis- avow such sentiments, was not fit to be a member of this House, not fit to be the Speaker of this House, That sea- timent I reaffirm this morning, in all its force and sig- either or by recommending incendiary pub- lications wi that view, was not only ‘fit to be a Speaker this House, fit te live. When that statement was made there as the best of any of you on this floor,1 tell you im the mame of my constituents and in my own name—I tell you. that just wi rights, pri , courtesies, liber- ii BF republican side of the discussion; but let me tell them that the country holds its breath in-sus pense at very word that is uttered House. The of the and listening to Faget a) that floor. - Locou positign of armed neutrality. Py am nota Northern man. I have no. naga? with the North, and very little good feeling with the North, and I am bound to it by no tie whatever. But lam bound to the South; I am identified with the South and hor slave fastita- tion, and at this particular time, when sho is in the midst of insurrection and murder, and when she is threatened with the torch of the incendiary, and ha®@ the knife of the asgassin suspended over her, I am with her, i and soul. I have no respect for Southern’ rights simply because they are Southern rights. I say these rights are not mine. Protect them yours, Tike men, bere and everywhere, the means in your power, as I know you Will, a8 T know you can, and then Tsay that no power oa earth can subdue you. i have the highest respect for the rights of the South, and your rights, a8 far a8 1 am con- cerned, will be observed to the very lotter—the Fugitive Slave law, equal rights in the Territories, and whatever else and all the coustitution gives you. (Applause from the democratic benches.) This algo ts. the of the men of the West. That determination is t pro- serve the balance of power, and to keep down the aggres- sive policy of the North. ‘That power ha been arrogant, boldly, fearlessiy, with all dominee! , inconsistent, fierce, denying the consti- tution and laws made for it. Power now and here is what power has been in every age. But, gentlemen of the North, you who are ignorantly or unwillingly driving the republic to its destruction—you who tell the South to go on with disunion if they daro, and you will bring her back by force or leave her to lan- guish and perish under your overshadowing greatness, did it ever occur to you that when this momentous but most disastrous of ali the events which history shall ever to the end of time record, shall be brought about, the West— the Great West—which you now ly reckon as a pro- vince—w! you now reckon yours as a fief of your empire—may choose, in the exercise of her own’ sove- reign good will and pieasure—in the exercise of a popular sovereignty which will demand and will have non-inter- ‘vention—to set up for herself? Did you never dream of a Western confederacy? Did that horrid phantom never float acrogs you on visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon man? Sir, we have fed you, clothed you, and ministered to your necessities: we have paid tribute to you, and enriched you, for sixty years—we it is who have built up your manufacturing establishments—we it is who have made your martes of commerce. Who made Boston? Who built up New York, til, like Tyre of old, sho sits Queen of the Seas, and her merchant inces aré honored in all lands? ‘The cotton of the South and the produce of the West. Maintain this Union and you will have them still. Dissolve the Union if you dare; send California and Oregon to the Pacific; force the South into a Southern confederacy; force the West into a Western confederacy—and then let me ask you what po- sition will you assume among the Powers of the earth? ‘Where then will be your pride, and arrogance, and inso- lence, and trade, and business, and commerce, and do- minion? Look at tho map—behold yoursolves, as Mr. Webster said to Austria, a mere +h on the earth’s sur- face! And, gentlemen of New England, let me ask you; what if New Jersey, and Paansylyanis, and New York, abould refuse to go with Yyou? You are a pecullar ple. (Langhter.) I ‘cannot say that people, for you have dethroned rah, Se ea tate ar en of your own; and I believe that before a year passes over you will set up the statue of John Brown in the place where the bronze image of Webster now stands. (Applause and hisses.) But suppose these three States your fel- lowsbip, then let me tell you, you will have fulfilled the uttered many years ago, of the reannexation of lew England to the British crown. (Derisive laughter.) Is it not, then, I to you, better for you of the North, better’ for you of ihe South, better for us of the West, better for all of us, that thig Union shall en- dure forever? Sir,Iam for the Union as it is, and the constitution as it is. Iam against disunion, whether for its own sake or for the sake of anything else, equality, in- dependence and liberty alone excepted. Do you ask mo when the hour of disunion will come? I tell you never, never while it is possible to prevent’ it—never while we can secure the just constitutional rights which the Union was made 10 secure—never, at least, till the time shall come wherein to vindicate the (leche rights of revolution. Do ask me when that our will come? Of that every te and every people must judge for themselves, before God and the great tri- ‘bunal of ry. Our fathers, in their day and - on, Judged of it for themselves. Thero is on our history at least one precedent of revolution, hallowed by success and canonized with the world’s history. American citi- zens, at least, daro not call it in question. I commend it to you; study it; ponder over it; reflect upon it. ¥ know, gentlemen, that it has been sometimes said that our fathers went’ to war upon a preamblo, and fought seven long years to vindicate a principle; but, gentlemon, 1am not sure that there is not in all this somewhat of the flourish of rhetoric, somewhat of the flourish of history, and a little of the “glittering generalities” of the Declaration of Independence. Ifear it may not bo safe for you to follow that precedent tao closely. Do you ask me whether the election of an anti-slavery sectional republican Presi- dent, on a gectional basis, pledged to administer this gov- ernment for sectional purposes, would, per se, be a justi- fable cause of disunion? I cannot answer you. But I tell you this, as a Western man, and I tell the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Nelson) that when you of the South shail have attained the numerical power and strength of the government, and shall organize a Southern party or & Southern basis, and when under the gis of the constita- tion you shall have elected a Southern President, for the purpose of controling all the vast power and patronage and influence of the Union, by action or nonaction, for the advancement of Southern interests, and above all for the purpose of extending slavery into’ States now free, with the design of making them all elave States, I will meet Pig as the Irish patriot would have met the invaders of is country, witn a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, and dispute every inch of ground, burn every blade of grass, aud the last entrenchment of independence Will bo my grave! (Applause.) Twill not. wait for any overt act. you tell mo that fire will not burn, that steel and poigon will not do their work of destruction to the human system, and that we should wait the slow pro- cess of experiment to ascertain their native and inevitable result. Never—never! (Applause.) Mr.» PENNINGTON, (rep.) of N. J., oflered a resolution that till ‘a choico be made for Speaker the House will proceed to vote atone o’clock three times, after which no further vote shall be taken. His object ‘was that gen- tlemen should not be surprised by a yoto in their absence, and that they could retire afterwards satisfed that no further vote would be taken. ‘Mr. Crawrorp, (dem.) of Ga., who held the floor, said that the friends around him objected. Mr. , (dem.) of Va., said, unless they adopt. some such resolution, a vote might be ‘sprung on them at. any time, to the detriment of the democrats, some of whom might be absent. ‘The ady might be taken, and would be justifiable by Latin ig "A tactics. Mr. Crawrorp said he regarded Mr. Sherman as an ex- ponent ublican and sectional Posty 8 and as such would hold ‘up to the country. North look. on slavery a8 a wrong, as the South consider it in wc- cordance with Divine teachinj mise it. The question has been dozen times the last forty years, and yet, anti- slavery sentiments were never 80 strong as they are to- On the other amd, pro-slavery sentiments South ‘were never more powerful than bg The whole matter resolved itself into the question of Slavery and disuuion, or no slavery and Union. His position and that of hit constituents was taken. The position,of the North was also taken, and there wasno mistaking it. sald that the South has committed aggressions and vio- lated compromises. He denied that the South had vio- Jated the rights of the North from the foundation of the ment until now, either by tariffs, or bounties upon. navigation laws, or on slavery. He proceeded to re- Mr. Hickman, who had said that the South had compromises, after having received the benefit on thoir side of the bargain. 'Thia statement Mr. Craw- ford disputed. For the first thirty years of the orguniza- tion of the government there was no aggression, oven ‘upon the part of the North, in regard to the Territoriat organization. There was no clfort to extend the principles of the Witmot Proviso in the organization Of the States of Tennessee, Alabama and other new States and exclude aes SA ‘He called on Hickmnan‘to ex- Plain what he meant by the Missouri . Mr. Hicxmay, (a. L. dem.) of Pa.—I meant to say that by the compromise of 1820 slavery was excluded from all the Territories north of thirty-six dey Tt was not to go there from hencoforward torever: but that compromme having been entored into for the par- pore of getting Missouri into the Union asa State, tho benefits arising from that compromise were destroyed by the subsequent legislation of 1850 and 1854. ™ AWHORD—I had expected as much from the gen- Hleman, and knew he was wholly uninformed in reference to this question, and that his people were wholly uniu- formed. In 1820, for the first timo in the history of the government, atter thirty years of inintorrupted enjoy - ment of slave property in the Territories, when Missourt came forward asking to be permitted to form a coustitt Hight aut come into tue Union as @ State, what wad prom ju are God's peou 6 thirty minutes.