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LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, 62 Broadway.—Distawt RxLaTiogs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.- Our Inisu Cov- BIN—PO-GO-NON-TAS—HERCULES, (S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- none Pave int. Ereuing—Lapt or LrOMs BRYANTS' MINSTREL Buriesqurs, Sones, Danc Mechanics’ Pall, 472 Broadway— , ke. SURPRISE Party, NIRLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Curisty's Mix- srxgis ix Sonos, Dances, BuRLESQuES, &c.—ARTrUL DopGEr. NEW OPERA HOU! road way.—Drarton’s§ Pan- Lok Organs aND Lrnic 720 Bi ROVERBS. CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE,.—Equestaian Parrona- ANCES—PUTNAM—FRENOK SPY, TEMPLE HALL, Ninth sireet.—Krvg foromon’s Texrie. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Wavan’s Irauia, New York, Sunday, December 18, 1859. The News. We publish this morning a complete telegraphic summary of European news to the 4th inst., brought by the America, which has arrived at Halifax from Liverpool and Queenstown. The intelligence is interesting. The European Congress almost entirely absorbed public attention. It will meet at Paris, probably about the Sth of January. There was considerable Speculation as to who would represent the various Powers in the Congress, and Lord Palmerston was Bpoken of as one of the representatives of Great Britain. The suggestion had hada favorable in- fluence upon the French funds. A letter from the secretary of Napoleon to a firm at Blackwall is published, which says that the Emperor always has been, and will continue to be, faithful to his alliance with England. ‘The question of the regency of Central Italy had been satisfactorily arranged, and Buoncompagni ‘was to proceed to Florence and enter upon the duties of his office, with the title of Governor- General. The Spaniards and Moors hada brisk engage- ment on the 30th ult. before Ceuta, in which the latter were repulsed. Gen. O'Donnell was awaiting the arrival of troops be fore taking the field. ‘The affair between the French and Moors, which resulted in the destruction of two forts at the mouth of the river Tetuan by the French naval forces, appears to have been amicably arranged. By the America we have interesting news from South America. The war between the Argentine Confederation and Buenos Ayres had begun in earnest. Advices from Rio Janeiro to the 8th ult. state that Gen. Urquiza had forced the passage near the island of Martin Garcia. A battle been fought hotwees «ie Opposing armies, ‘a oot the Buenos Ayreans were beaten and fled to the city. Urquiza was marching upon Buenos Ayres at last accounts. By the overland mail we have San Francisco advices to the 25th ult., four days later than the accounts received via the Isthmus of Panama. The steamer Cortez, with the passengers taken from New York by the North Star, which run ashore on her passage to Aspinwall, had not arrived at San Francisco a day or two subsequent to the departure of the mail. Business at San Francisco had been moderate, without change in prices. A duel had been fought between Judge Miller, of Shasta county, and James Gallagher, District Attorney of ‘Trinity county, but the result is not reported. There had been no arrivals at San Francisco from Atlantic ports subsequent to the 2lst ult. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr- Larrabee, a democrat from Wisconsin, delivered speech on the political questions of the day. When he had concluded the House ballotted for the ninth time for Speaker, with the following result:— Mr. Sherman, republican. Mr. Boeock, democrat... Mr. Boteler, Southern opposition. Scatterin, 9 No choice. . Briggs, American,of New York city, was then nominated by Mr. Bouligny, demo- crat, of Louisiana, and another ballot was had, which resulted as follows:— . Mr. Sherman, republica: Mr. Bocock, democuat. Mr. Boteler, Southern oppositi Mr. Briggs, American Scattering ‘There being no choice, the House adjourned. The nine votes cast for Mr. Briggs were given by South- ern pro-slavery men, The Rey. Dr. Raphall, of the Congregation Briai Jeshurun, in Greene street, yesterday made an af- fecting appeal for aid to the unfortunate victims of the war between Spain and her ancient foes, the Moors. The synagogue was well attended, and the exhortation of the Rev. Doctor on the duty of the Jews to aid their destitute brethren was earnestly heeded. Our readers are of course aware that in consequence of the act of Spain in declaring war against Morocco, thousands of Jews have been compelled to abandon all that they possess, and to Beek protection under the friendly shelter of the British flag at Gibraltar. Through the generous humanity of General Codrington, the Governor of ‘the fortresa, the starving and helpless multitude have been provided with food, clothing, and shel- ter in tents, where they now dwell like their fore- fathers when Israel was a mighty nation. Dr. Raphall’s appeal will doubtless bring forth abun- ant fruit, for the Jewish heart once awakened to a sense of the necessities of suffering hamanity, will not lag behind the grandeur of Christian charity, which declares that he who does not pro- ‘vide for those of his own household is worse than an infidel. Dr. Raphall will receive contributions for the relief of these unfortunate people, as will Mr. Strasburger and others, The steamship Fulton, for Southampton and Havre,and the Edinburg, for Liverpool, left this Port yesterday, and anchored in the bay, in con- Bequence of the storm. The Fulton takes out wixty passengers and $381,584 in specie, and the Eétuburg 149 passengers and $230,000 in specte. Owing to the temporary injunction served upoh oaliee o. Haws, enjoining him from selling the forry leases, the sale which was to have taken place at noon yesterday wag adjourned till ‘Thursday, the 29th inst. In the meantime, the motion for a petmanent injanction will be argued before Judge Hoy: boom, of the lll 85 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, Columbia county Supreme Court, on Tuesday, the 27th inst. About one hundred persons as- sembled at the City Hall yesterday to attend the sale, and of course many of thom went away dis. appointed. The Tammany Hall democratic primary elections, for the choice of members of the General Commit- tee, the Young Men's General Committee, and the several Ward Committees, for the ensuing year, took place last evening. The notices in our adver- tising columns show the results, The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 700 a 800 bales, closing rather dull, at 111¢c. for middling uplands. Flour opened dull, and olosed at a slight decline for somo grades of State and Western, while sales were limited, Southern was unchanged, and sales moderato, Transac. tions in wheat were also light, including Kentucky whito at $1 50a $165, Michigan do. at $145 4 $150, Southern at $140, and red Stato at $125. Corn was firm and in fair domand, with sales of new and old yellew and mixed at 92c.a$1. Pork was heavy and easier, with sales of mess at $16, and prime at $11.37}¢. Sugars wore firm, and closed at fully +c. per pound advance on the week's sales. The transactions yesterday embraced 600 a 00 hhds., 500 boxes, and 3,000 bags Brazil, at full prices. Sales of 2,000 bags of Rio coffee were made on private terms, Freights were firm, and engagements were mo- orate The Great Crisis—What ts the Remedy ? We published yesterday an accountofa Union meeting in Philadelphia; but, like the meeting in Boston, it did not achieve, or even attempt, anything practical. The question is, will the Union meoting to be held in this city to-mor_ row evening be of the same vague character? It is evident such meetings are of no value. Who believes that in consequence of the meet. ing in Boston, and the finely turned periods of Everett and the vehement declamation of Caleb Cushing, the revolutionary, rampant spirit of abolitionism is crushed in that city, or in the State of which it is the capital? As well might it be attempted to hew millstones with a feather, or td tame with the dulcetstrains of a guitar the raging winds and waves driving a doomed ship on the rocks of Cape Cod or the beach of Barnegat. The men of the South re- gard the Union meetings under such cireum- stances as only holding out false lights, like wreckers, to lure them to hug alee shore to their certain destruction. While the Union orators merely talk, the abolition demagogues not only talk in the same places, but they act, and make_preparations for greater action hereafter. In Philadelphia dur the last week there were two anti-slavery gatherings for one Union meeting, and the revolutionary element appeared to be the stronger of the two contending forces. Mr. Ingersoll made an eloquent speech in favor of the Union, but that did not render the Union one jota more secure. The abolitionists at the same hour boldly preached “a revolution,” and declared that “the rifle” was the principal instrument with which to accomplish it. At a Union meeting in New Haven, on the 14th inst., called by three thousand names, another Mr. Ingersoll said some fine things in condemnation of John Brown and in favor of the rights of the South, which elicited applause; but these ex- cellent sentiments do not assure the South. At Hartford, on the same evening, a similar meet- ing was held, at which Hon. Thomas Seymour was the chief speaker, and said that “there was a bad spirit pervading the North, and the sub- ject had assumed gigantic proportions. This spirit naturally led to non-intercourse, and thence to a dissolution of the Union.” This is but too true; and small comfort the South can take from such admissions. Mr. Seymour makes some rhetorical flourishes abuut the dangerous disease, but forgets to suggest a remedy. And 80 it is everywhere. Great expectations were entertained about these moatines ™&-y were tO work won- ders. But they have effected nothing. Treason and revolution are advancing, and the evil spirit is not checked, but is every day going ahead. It is useless for Union men and censervatives at the North to talk, while the North sends the men to Con- gress who have endorsed Helper’s sentiments, and have the control of the destinies of the South in their hands. It is making too low an estimate of the intelligence of the people of the Southern States to attempt to delude them in that way. It is an insult to their under- standing. It is only the voice of the ballot box that can satisfy them. The Southern papers, therefore, ridicule these Union meetings without measure, and are pre- paring the way for secession, as the only hope of safety for the South. The Governors of the Southern States, the Legislatures, the meetings of the people, are all pronouncing to the same effect. And jin Congress, where calmness, dig- nity and deliberation are most expected to pre- vail, what do the Southern members of the House of Representatives, and even of the graver and more conservative branch of the “collective wisdom,” say? With one voice and one accord, all who have spoken for the last fortnight proclaim that if an abolition re- publican President should be elected the Southern States will secede in a body from the Union. No matter how they are divided as to other politics, in this they are perfectly unani- mous, and the same unanimity pervades the Legislatures, the Governors, the press, and the whole people of the South. How, then, can Union meetings, called by a few thousand merchants of Boston, Phila- delphia, New York and other Northern cities, which are fast losing the Southern trade, and fear still greater loss in the future—how can such palliatives as these remove the crisis or alter the settled purpose of the Southern States? They cannot do it. They can only speak for themselves, and ean promise nothing for others. What the South wants is a Congress and a Pre- sident who will protect it in those rights so- lemnly guaranteed to it by the compromises of the constitution. Union meetings such as those recently held will not accomplish this. What is needed is the nomination for President of a Union and conservative man, like General Scott, of such popularity and high character that the four millions of voters will rally around him with enthusiasm—a man who, with the éclat of his name combined with the Union sentiment, can carry with him the election of delegations to Congress of the same conserva- tive stamp with himself. This, and this alone, can avert the impending catastrophe. It mat- ters not whether the South is foolish or not in taking the meditated leap in the dark. It is resolved upon doing it, and we have to deal with the fact as it existe, But, say some of the republican leaders, let the Southern States go—we don’t care about them—we can get on better without them than with them. Easier said than done. Others, and they are the majority, are of a different opinion, and say, we are eighteen millions—we will compel the Southern States to remain in the Union. Now, either of these courses—and they are the only courses-left—would inevita- bly lead to civil war, The ‘Tatter course—the course of coercion—ia undoubtedly that which would prevail. Now, this is in fact civil war itself, and would turn out to be not only war between North and South, but war between the people of the North themselves, for those who would not agree to the bloody crusade against the Southern States would be compelled to defend their sentiments with their swords. Such is the irresistible logic of facts and events. How, then, are these dire calamities to be prevented? Assuredly not by mere Unioa meetings. Nothing will do but a great practi- cal movement, which will break down the rotten democratic party and the revolutionary republican party together, and es‘ablish on their ruins a reign.of law and order and loyalty to the constitution. ‘ If the meeting to-morrow evening can rise to the height of this great argument, and appre- ciate the momentous crisis, then there is hope for the safety of the country. But if it cannot rise above the trammels and tricks of the poli- tical swindlers of Tammany Hall andthe Albany Regency, and if it cannot see the danger and the mode of removing it, and if it separate without doing anything more than making speeches and passing resolutions, then, indeed, is the worst to be feared, and we should not be surprised to see the Union severed in the course of afew months. The South will not wait for the onslaught from the North. As soon as it arrives at the foregone conclusion that its domestic institutions and constitutional rights are no longer safe, it will take the initiative before the North has time to muster its legions, and it will secede as a unit, and pnt itself in a state of defence, which, indeed, it is already beginning to do. And what is more, it will probably enter into an alliance, offensive and defensive, with one or more of the great Powers of Europe, which, notwithstanding their pre- tended hostility to slavery, would be glad to acknowledge the independence of the South for the national, political and commer- cial advantages which they would reap from it. Thus the South, though ina minority in point of numbers, might set the North at de- fiance; and to this complexion it will soon come | unless the friends of the Union at the North take practical measures at once to apply the only remedy that can meet the case. The peril is imminent, and there is not a moment to be lost. The eye of the South is upon us, and it waits to see whether, on to-morrow, the mer- chants of New York will do their duty. Wuere Are Our Mercuant Prryces?—WHERE Are THE Patrons or Ant?—We have frequently had occasion to refer to the works of Mr. Barbee, as illustrating more than those of any sculptor, except Mr. Palmer, the capabilities of our countrymen in this branch of art. His “Coquette” and “Fisher Girl” are unquestion- ably two of the most exquisite conceptions that have ever been worked ont in marble. has been a matter of wonder to us that they have not long before this found their way into the gallery of one of our rich New York col- lectors. A merchant of St. Louis has recently had the good taste to purchase the “Coquette;”” but the best work of the two, the “Fisher Girl,” still remains on hand. The statue that has been sold has not brought anything like ‘he price which it is worth, the artist having be... compelled to sacrifice it to meet the pressin exigencies of his position. He had spentall his available resources in the prosecution of his studies abroad, and had relied upon the proces or tmese two works to enable him to settle down tranquilly here to the labora of his profession. He had pictured to himself, in all the glowing warmth of an artist’s imagination, the pride that his country- men would feel in his successes. He has been met only by trials and disappointments, his re~ maining means having been exhausted in the effort to bring his works under the notice of‘our art connoisseurs, Unable to await the slow progress of public appreciation, he finds him- self compelled to expose the “ Fisher Girl” at public sale, and has obtained permission to place it in the Exchange for that purpose. We are truly sorry to see an artist of unmistakable merit, and who is as modest as he is deserving, reduced to such a strait. Are there no collec- tors amongst our rich merchants sufficiently ge- nerous and discriminating to prevent a man of genius from being thus humiliated, and a work of great value pitilessly sacrificed, merely be- cause it does not bear the cachet of a foreign reputation ? In Venice and Florence the most munificent Patrons of art were the merchant princes of the republic. They not only fostered native talent, but they invited foreigners of genius, from all parts, to settle amongst them. They allowed no’ works of merit within their reach to be outbid for by king or kaiser. Nothing -that wealth could do to render their native cities distinguished and envied was spared by them. The consequence is, that whilst their Political institutions have perished, the artistic glory which they won for those cradles of genius has outlived, and will survive, the influence of revolutions and of decay. There are amongst us plenty of men who are ina position to play the same generous and patriotic part as that of the patrons of art in the Italian republics, We may cite, amongst others, Mr. Astor, Mr. Lennox, Mr. Aspinwall, Mr. Belmont, Mr. 8. Whitney, Mr. Moses Tay- lor, Commodore Vanderbilt, Geo. Law, thé Browns, the Stewarts, &c. Why do not these gentlemen, individually or collectively, come forward and do something towards the foun- dation of permanent art collection, by taising a fund for the purchase of Barbee’s “Fisher Girl” as a beginning? If a dozen of them were to ‘subscribe ten thousand dollars each it would go far towards the erec- tion of a suitable building. At all events, they could prevent the dispersion of the works of merit at present exhibiting here, by pur- chasing them ang presenting them to the city, leaving it to the Corporation to provide a fit- ting gallery for their reception. ConprnseD JovrNatisa—The editor of the Pepresstakes great credit to himself, and boasts & great deal that he condenses the important proceedings of Congress into a paragraph or two. This is a very easy thing to boast of; but we boast that we give every day a full and graphic report of all the speeches made in Con- gress before any other journal. The Express editor reminds us of a story which we heard of a maitre d’hotel of a parvenu Fifth avenue es- tablishment, who boasted that he reduced the butcher's bill down to seven dollars and thirty- seven and a half cents per month; or of the Five Polat maa whe kept 4 horse aud gart; | party in thig gity ig Composed of coxruptionists and boasted that he had reduced tho expemves of his pony down to a straw a day—but, um fortunately, the poor devil died! Havemeyer om the Stoel ef Repentance— What fs tho Price of Sugar? Like some of the republican members of Congrees who endorsed Helper’s book, Mr. Havemeyer hastens, after his defeat in the re- cent election, to define his position. It seems to have had a most salutary effect in bringing him to his knees, and drawing from his eyes the tears of penitence and godly sorrow for his political transgresstons. Believing that “an open confession is good for the soul,” he makes aclean breast by writing a card for publica- tion in the newspapers, which will be found in another column. Mr. Havemeyer is very penitent now, and weeps over “the seotional agitation, the fanaticism and folly which prevail and en- danger the very existence of our government.” He ought to be in deep anguish, for he was the first to debauch the democracy of this State. It has been a political prostitute on the town ever since, and he has been its pander. He denies something about Texas, in 1844, which we never charged him with; but he does not deny that he stood on the Buffalo Platform in 1848; that his lawyer and late colleague in the election, Mr. Tilden, helped to draw up that instrument, the grand source of “sectional agi- tation, fanaticism and folly,” in this State, from that day to this. He says he was a member of the Convention which adopted it, and he does not deny that his name was the sixth elector on the Presidential ticket put forth by said Anti- Slavery Convention. It is well, therefore, that he shduld weep over the ruin he and his apos- tate associates: have made. “A decent respect for the opinions of mankind” demands it, even if his tears are such as crocodiles shed. It is a pity he did not become penitent before the election; for his card is rather hard on the re- publicans who voted for him, and whose sup- port he claimed and obtained because he was known to be a free soiler, who stood on the Buffalo Platform in 1848. Whence springs Mr. Havemeyer’s sudden conversion? The late half-and-half republican and Tammany free soil candidate is a large dealer in Southern sugar. What influence that fact has had in hastening his repentance we leave our readers to infer. He allowed himself to be forced into a false position in order to eave the sinking old hulk of Tammany Hall, and to do so he and Tammany fraternized with a section of the black republicans. Instead of saving the rotten ship Tammany, all went to the bottom together. He now emerges from the waves, and like a half drowned rat, shiver- ing and dripping, he crawls on the terra firma of the Union. There are many anti-slavery merchants like him who are rapidly retracing their steps. They are beginning to seo that this kind of politics will not pay, and they want to get rid of the connection 9s soon as possible. They are now frightened. We hope their repentance and reformation will be last- ing, and that it will not be with them and with Havemeyer as it is with scared sinners who be- lieve they are going to die. ‘When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; ‘When the devil got woll, the devil « saint was he. Tue New York Heavy iy tue Sovra.—Our dainty philosophers of the Zribune call the at- | tention of Postmaster General Holt and his Southern postmasters to the incendiary matter from tne to time published in the New York Herp, and specify, with considerable unction, varverveul Tepory ul we proceedings of the late John Brown abolition orgies at the Cooper Institute. We fear that the good offices thus volunteered to the South by the Tribune are like those of the fox who had lost his tail in a trap. He advised all the foxes to have their tails taken off—they would find it so very con- venient to be without them. But, seriously, 80 far as regards the support which this journal receives from the Southern States, we care nothing about it. It amounts to less than that which we receive from almost any street in New York of over half a mile in length. Take away, to-morrow, all our South- ern subscriptions and advertisements, and there would hardly be an appreciable dimi- nution of our cash receipts. We are perfectly independent upon this score. The substantial bulk and body of our cash resources are drawn from this imperial city of New York. And yet, for a quarter of a century, or more, in season and out of season, through good and evil report, the New York Heratp has been the consistent and earnest advocate of the con- stitutional rights of the South and the consti- tutional obligations of the North. And what have we received from the South in return? In former days the respect and thankful recog- nition of such Southern statesmen as Clay, Cal- houn, Rives, and others of that great school; but, in latter times, from Southern politicians, ranting oraters, Governors and foul-mouthed party organs, the New York Herarp and its editor have received more scurrilous, scanda- lous, filthy and libellous abuse than from all other quarters combined. We have thus ob- tained a pretty clear conviction of the Southern chivalry of Southern politicians, from the stumping candidate fer Governor down to the Southern party newspaper scavenger at Wash- ington. But for all this, we are bound by the consti- tution of the United States. We recognise its authority as the supreme law of the land; and thus it has been and is our duty and our plea- sure to maintain the constitutional rights of the South, regardless of Southern patronage or Southern abuse. Otp Tammany iv a Race.—Tammany Hall, smarting under her recent terrible defeat, rants and drivels, lies and scolds, like an old broken-down prostitute. In the address just issued she falsifies wickedly and calumniously in her allusions’ to the Heraup. She states that we “falsely” charged Mr. Havemeyer with being a free soiler and a supporter of Fremont. We never said he supported Fremont. We said that Havemeyer was a free soiler in 1848, that he supported the free soil Buffalo platform, and was among those who first introduced the anti-slavery sentiment into the democratic party in this State. Well, is it not so? Is not Mr. Havemeyer’s name on the list of Presi- dential electors on the Buffalo platform? Has Mr. Havemeyer himself ever denied that he acted with the free soil Buffalo faction in 1848? We think not. Old beldame Tammany also denounces the supporters of Fernando Wood, and calls them corruptioniats, desperate spoilsmen, thieves, and other delectable names. If they are de- serving of these titles, then the democratic 1859, and thieves, for the large majority of it voted for Wood. Poor old, toothles, drivelling Tammany ! te Tuuriow Weev’s'SiarTe,—We have pablished, from time to time, graphic extracts from the Washington letters of our own and other corres- pondents, in which frequent allusion is made to Thurlow Weed's wonderful slate. It is a great thing, that slate—a remarkable slate—a curious and most interesting slate—a slate which is al- ways full of the most abstruse arithmetical calculations, and covered with the most impor- tant statistics—free wool, printing and other- wise, According to the Weed slate, it appears that upon the election of a republican Speaker the Chevalier Forney was to be chosen Clerk, which office he stands much in need of. Ac- cording to all accounts, his paper in Philadel- phia is in debt to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. It is a very violent and a very expen- sive journal. Of the money already lost in it, ten thousand dollars, it is understood, came from the Douglas democrats; ten thousand from the friends of Forney in Pennsylvania, the men who are inimical towards Mr. Buchanan because they did not get the offices; and ten thousand from the friends of Seward and Weed. Singular as it may seem, we find tho friends of Seward and Douglas contributing to the sup- port of the same journal. It seems now, how- ever, that Douglas has left Forney to his fate, and gone back to the administration. Forney, then, is left alone with his new friends, Weed and Seward, and he must have the pickings of the Clerkship to pay his debts and keep his paper going. The next entry on the slate is the name of the nominal printer to thé Bouse—Sam Bowles, Of course if Bowles is chosen, Wendell will do the work, and the sur- plus over and above what he asks will be used by Weed as an electioneering fund for Seward. The job, altogether, is worth a million or so; and Weed will make Congress pay out of the printing the expenses of a grand Presidential campaign, after the same fashion that Lawrence & Stone, of Boston, had to bleed for free That is the Thurlow Weed slate which we hear so much about; and a very curious of Massachusetts. wool. slate it is, too. = News from California. NON-ARRIVAL OF THE CORTEZ AT SAN FRANCISCO— STATE OF THE MARKETS—SHIPPIN@ INTELLI- GENCE, ETC. Sr. Lous, Deo, 16, 1869. ‘The overland mail, with San Francisco dates of the 25th ult., passed MMalloy’s station at 2o’clock this morning, and will reach here to: morrow night, Much anxiety was still felt in San Francisco at the non- arrival of the steamer Cortez, but she probably reached port a Way or two subsequent to the departure of the mail. A duel had been fought between Judge Miller, of Shasta county, and Jamos Gallagher, District Attorney of Trinity county. James Hawerth, President of the California Stage Com- pany, states that he is prepared to enter into a contract with the government to run a daily mail between Sacra- mento City and St. Louts for $1,000,000 per annum, mak. ivg the trip in fourteen days. Sailed from do. 22d, ship Chataiton, for Melbourne. Bat a moderate business had been dono at San Fran- cisco during the last few days, and the bulk of the goods by the late arrivals was going into, storo. supplying the current demand at previous rates, and the trade were buying sparingly. Sales of 3,000 boxes can- dles at 20c. a 2lc. Coffee very firm. Eastern refined sugar, llc. Nothing done in raw. Lard 12%{c. a 180. June butter 30c. a 35c. Bacon in fair demand at un- changed rates. Other articles dull. Arrived at San Francisco 28d, brig Geo. Keill, from Liverpool. Failure of Bankers at Davenport, Iowa. Smreseray BRU: 10; 180Y. Messrs. Cook & Sargent, bankers, of Davenport, Iowa, closed their doors to-day. The cause is said to be the ailure of their Boston house. Their liabilities are not stated. Payment of Missouri State Bonds Interest. Sx. Louis, Dec. 16, 1859. Remittances were made to New York to-day for the January interest on the Missouri State bonds. Burning of the New Custom House at New Orleans, New Oxuxays, Dec. 17, 1859, ‘The new Custom House in this city was partly burned this morning. Loss about $20,000. The Minnesota Legislature. Ourcado, Dec. 17, 1859. ‘The republican members of the Minnesota Legislature, in caueus, on Wednesday, nominated Morton 8. Wilkinson for United States Senator. Both houses were to meet on the following day, when Mr. Wilkingon would, without doubt, be elected. ———____ The Victoria Bridge Open for Trafic, Mowrrxat, Deo. 17, 1859. A special train, comprising. three locomotives and ten cars, containing about six hundred invited passengers, [pore over the Victoria Bridge at one o’clock today. On ita return a cold collation was served up in the northern abutment of the bridge, which was covered for the occa- sion. hes were made by A. M. Ross, the engincer ofthe bridge, and others. The bridge is now fairly open to traffic, regular passenger trains commenced run- ning over it this morning. —_—————__|—__ Fatal Railroad Casualty. CuaTuam, Dec. 17, 1859. Dr. John Phillips, of Mellenville, Columbia county, was instantly killed by a train of the Hudson and Boston Rail- road this evening, while walking on the track near the above place. ‘The Anglo-Saxon Outward Bound. Portianp, Dec. 17, 1859, ‘The steamship Anglo-Saxon sailed from this port for Liverpool at four o’clock this afternoon, taking out ninety- eight passengers. . Markets. Cuarteston, Dec. 16, 1850. Cotton firm: sales to-day 2,000 bales. ————— Note from the Rev. Mr. Sloane. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Dec. 16, 1859. T observe in your report of the speech which I made at the Cooper Institute, last evening, these words occur:—“He would not even compare the death of Jesus Christ with ‘the death of John Brown. He'had a greater ides of the latter than of any event that had ever occurred upon earth.” By sul the word ‘former’? for ‘‘latter’” in this te it hg express the eth oes to present. I would compare no other event cru- cifixion of Christ. J. R. W. SLOANE. ———$— The Shooting Affair in Brooklyn, 10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. As a brother of the late James Murray, I fool tt a duty incumbent on me to reply to the unwarrantable charg+s I have seen made against his character in all the daily pa- Pers since Sunday night last, relating to the late fatal oo- currence in the city of Brookiyn, headed, “ A Rowdy Shot in the Sixth Ward.” The clroumstancos of the ‘case are as follows: On Sunday night last my brother, after part- ing with some frienas whom he had been to sce that day, in Brooklyn, on his way home, near the corner of Colum- bia and Pacific streets, was shot without any provocation whatever on his partor that of his companions. And now, sir, a8 he has been erroneously vat rowdy, and a resident of that locality, I take the liberty to state that he has never been a rowdy, and I challenge resident of the First ward of the city of New York, where I can produce incontrovertible testimony to prove that he has been always a qulet, inoffensive, hard working, indus- trious man. MATHEW MURRAY. Ducemnun 16, 1860. The Case of Stephens. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorx, Dec. 17, 1960. In a card published In yestorday’s paper, signed by the District Attorney, my nameis mentioned in @ covert inan- ner, but evidently intended to set aside the force of the amMdayit on the Stephens poison case read in Court last Tuesday. I believe my charactor ps May ‘unimy hable, and defy its scrutiny. Allow mo tordbeat, that fam rondy to ablde by every word of the affidavit, and to prove ita truth by a score of respectable witnerses. My friends and myself have done everything possible to obtain tho favor of ‘having say evidenoo given on tho trial of Stephens, and if fair play only had been intendod { cannot undorstand why it was withhold, ¢ THOS, Y. PALEDION, No, 459 Sux: avouws, Importers were Dob, dd weibely Ye brought to a @ aetna) Political InteiNgemcc. Tice Pamupeer Bowoxuxamas.—Hor. Jon C, Brockia- Fridge has announced by telegraph bie accep ence of the United States Senatorship of Kentucky, to whict: office he was reeently choson by Me Legislature, Higtyrm of Service will commence on the day that his funnions Cease ax Vice President, vis., March 4, 1861. Soum Canounta any TH CHARLEBTON CONTENTION. Tike following resoletion is up for discamsion in the Senate ef” South Carolina:— into any cauct 4 Slaten, forthe sominton of candlaten fore Pret nd Vice Presidency of the United tates Canpipare voR GovaRxow my PawsyiyaNis—honas M, Howe, who has been recommended as the a¥okion ean- didate for Governor of Pénmsyivania, repreanted the Allegheny district in Congress some years since Bap Apvicr yRom THe Sours:—The RichmondWhig ad- vises that little knot of Souttern disorganizes: in the House, who have no principles and no fixed naro, sailing merely under the nogative nom deplume of “oposition,"” to stand fast, and withhold their support from ne deme- crats in their attempts to organize the Hous some weeks ago this same journal recommended the oposition members to vote with the black republicans raher than the democrats. ‘Tus Democratic Canpipars yor Srxaxgr.—HonThomas 8. Bocock, the democratic representative fromhe Fifta district of Virginia, although an old member, im young looking man. Ho is a ready debater, and well killed ia parliamontary tactics. ‘Mx. Reagan ov Texas.—It has beon said in Webingjon that if the democrats would nominate Hon. oha H. Reagan, of Texas, for Speaker, thas the Souther oppeal- tion members would vote for him, Mr. Reman was chosen by almost a unanimous vote in the Easter district of Texas, He was nominated by both the regulaand the ‘Houston democrats, and was claimed by both fadons, Jonn Saxnuay.—Mr. Sherman, the republican cndidate for Speaker, is about thirty-five years of agejall an@ erect in figure, with a fine bearing and an easyind cot- lected manner of epeakiug. CanpipaTe ror GoveRNoR oF INpIANA.—Henry }, Lano stands very prominent before the opposition of Infana ag a candidate for the nomination for Governor. A CorncipENcx.—It is noticed as a somewhat cunus co- incidence that the day fixed upon for holding the ational Democratic Convention at Charleston, the 23d of ipril, is the birthday of Mr. Buchanan and Senator Dougla Quatmncations ¥oR Porricians:—A leading max with almost every politician is always to keop his countnance, ‘and never to keep his word. ‘Tux OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT IN Nur ENG- .anp.—We have before us a copy of a speech mde by Mr. Arthur W. Austin in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in which the speaker took strong grounds & favor of the Union and in opposition to the aggpssions which were continually being made upon te do- mestic concerns of the South by the free soildoma- gogues of the North. Mr. Austin is Collector of th port of Boston, and was ono of the Vice Presidents of the Union meeting recently held in that city. Such speches as this, proper as itd, can have no force in aliayug the troubles and excitements under which we nowlabor, except by reiteration, which Mr. Austin has dae by presiding at the Faneuil Hal) meeting and by daily (ction, ‘The times demand renewed energy, and call loudy not only for Mr. Austin, but for all the goverimentofilce- holders in Massachusetts and all the other New Kigiand States to come out and show their hands. Whethe, like some of the black republican leaders, they expess a willingness to “letthe Union slide,” or by their inert- ness it is permitted to go by detault, the result is thosame, and they are equally culpable. The Unionists throughout the country now demand some movement on the part of the government officials in the Eastern States. Lot the other national officcholders speak out or be forever ailent. Let us seo if Mr. Buchanan bas any more such office holders in the North. A Sovrurey Orrosrrion Mucsrr’s Orinion oF THR Caances oF Oncanmina Tax Hovar.—Hon. Joshua Hill, Southern opposition member of Congress from the Seventh district of Georgia, in & letter dated Washington city, De- cember 8, says :— oererst wien smarts ter temper among the members to-day. I under- take to guess the result of our labors. I presume, how- ever, that in the end the —— rule will obtain, and of course a republican be |. But of this lam by no means assured. J shall never assist in producing such a Gxorcia IxcistaroRR—On the 9th inst. a resolution was offered in the Senate that the State appoint one com- missioner to act in concert with two appointed by the Cotton Planters’ Convention, to proceed to Europe and endeavor to make arrangements for the direct shipment of cotton, and the opening of a return trade to Southern ports. In reference to the resolution, one of the Senators made the following remarks :— This is s move prove impracticable iiten ta eee eae ure. The South talks enough, God knows, about Southera indepondence—what manufacture—it always has, and haps, always fail whenever an apparent tmomentary advantage omen in conftict with a great apparent good. Tux SenaTe Pairninc.—The Washington Star classes the aspirants for the Senate printing as follows:—Broken down provincial Politicians, conductors of one-horse village newspapers, holders of petty federal offices, aud waiters on Providence for sucks at the treasury teats gonerally. AvanaMa Unirgp States Smnator.Tuesday was the day fixed upon by the Legislature of Alabama, to go into election for United States Senator in place of Hon. Ben. Jamin Fitzpatrick, whose term oxpires with tho present Congress. It was doubtful, however, whether an elec- tion could take place, as neither of the candidates could suoced in getting a majority. It is stated that the friends of the aspiranta stand as follows:— For Mr. Fitzpatrick, fifty-three; for Mr. Yancy, fifty-one; for Mr. Windton, twenty-four. If the friends of tho latter adhore firmly to him there can bo no choice. The Case of Vernon Jarboe. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Seeing in your valuable paper yosterday an account of the arrest of Vernon Jarboe for robbing his late employer, wo, his friends, wish the public to suspend J ton him until he proves himself innocent, which rely will. WELL WISHERS VERNON JARBOR. Alleged Carclessness of a House Agent. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. An article appeared in your paper on Wednesday with the above heading, containing the censure of the Coroner's Jury roflecting upon my alleged inattention tothe property Placed under my charge, much to my injury. Iam agent for the premises described, No. 14 Baxter street, but do not attend to keeping them in order, as they are leased to one Mark Ieeser, of No. 12 Baxter strect, for a term of threo years from May 1, 1858, said Lesser ‘agrecing to do all repairs. Consequently tho blame, if any, should fall upon the lessee and not on the agent.’ I had’ no occasion to go to the house; so I did not even know that the railing ‘was down. GEO. G. HALLOCK, House Agent, Police Intellegen: Rosstsc His Ear.overs.—A man about fifty years of age, named George Bumback, who for ton past has been employed as clerk in the clothing store of De Groot & o., 84 and 86 Fulton street, was arrested on Tuesday, by de. tectives Wilton and Williamson, charged with purloining is from the store. Until recently back had been leved by his ly honest, but house and employers to be perfect! po Baring learned that he had purchased a Jot ia Hol and incurred other heavy expenses, were Jed to suspect him of robbing them. Burorary.—On Monday night the grocery of Frederick Menicke, 15 Worth street, was entered by a burglar and robbed of $4in specie, some counterfeit bank bills and a ew other articles. The following morning a colored man, named Jobn Smith, alias Charles Youn wag ar While attempting t0 pass a counterfeit il’ and on exam nation it proved to be one of those stolen’ from ‘Moulcko. He was taken before Justice Osborne and locked up to an- swer a charge of burglary, and also pass. counterfeit mone; aa cere —_____ Surrogate’s Office. Before Edward C, West, Surrogate. WILL OF ELIZABETH OLEN. ‘This interesting case ie still on in the Surrogate's Opurt, ‘and has occupied its attention during the whole of the Present week. The evidence now being takon is to. prove the fabrication of the paper on which ono of the witnessom, for the contestants swore he had taken notes froma will ‘said to have been executed by the testatrix posterior to the execution of that now offered for probate by the pro- ponent and alleged to have been lost. A paper manufad- turer of Lee, Massachusetts, is now on tho witness stand, And also a machine used at his mills for trimming papet after it is made, the ohject ot time one of the witnesses for tho contestants testified he took notes of the alleged lost witl on it, while the oounsel for the contestants are Jniyoring to rofute this evidence. ze aUll presents ‘nany featarca of mugh InlOees, vglow this Yomey