The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1859, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1859.—TRIPLE SHERT. 6: W. YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. my Conoress ano Rerorts THtne- or4—Many of the common spouters in Congress are beginning to be dissatisfled with the full, graphic and verbatim reports of their speeches given in the columns of the Herap. ‘There are two good reasons for this dissatis- faction on their part. First, very many of them, when they get upon their legs on the floor of the House, do not know what they do say; and flattering themselves that they have made a very fine speech, they are taken all aback when they see, the next evening, in the co- lumns of the Heratp, the mass of platitudes, nonsense and ribaldry which the faithful pencil of the reporter has put upon paper just as it fell'from their lips. Second, nota few of the members, and particularly of those from the North, dare not utter on the floor of the na- tional hall, and in the face of their fellow mem- bers from the South, the treasonable and atro- cious sentiments they have publicly proclaimed from the stump at home, and therefore they do not wish that a truthful report of what they do say shall go before their constituents, as it is sure to do in the columns of the universally read HERALD. Out of these two causes has grown the abo- minable system of Congressional reporting which fills the columns of the Washington Globe with its tardy exposition of the proceedings in Congress. After the official reports of the speeches are writtem out they are submitted to the respective speakers, each of whom endea- vors to reduce what he really did utter to something like what he wishes he had said, or what he desires should go to his constituents as his sentiments avowed on the floor of Congress, and in the face of the enemy. It is time that this shameful practice of garbled official report- ing should be brought to an end. Every man that rises to address Congress should do so under the weighty conviction that what he then and there utters will irremediably go before the whole country, and that he must stand or fall by the words that escape from his lips. When this is achieved we shall have less sopho- morical spouting, less ribaldry and buffoone- ries, and less folly and nonsense in the debates on national affairs. Members will be restrain- ed,'too, from promulgating, as partisans at home, sentiments which they dare not give ut- terance to when standing face to face with their brethren from other sections of the Union. The present system of bogus reporting for the columns ef the Congressional Globe does more than any other one thing to reduce the stan- dard of our national debates, and to lead mem- berg to forget the grave character of their po- sition on the floor of Congress. Let it be done away with. the courts, affording fine sport for the curious public end fat fees for the law- yers. Meantime an opposition theatre in Broadway (Laura Keene’s) has braught ont a piece which is full of patriotic speeches about the Union, the constitution, the rights of the South, and so on. This is voclferously ap- plauded, as is the opposite idea developed in the “Octoroon.” In the Bowery, ‘John Brown's’ Insurrection,” “Kansas,” and “Harper's Ferry” appear before the footlights in # highly color- ed drama; and at another theatre in the same quarter of the city, it is announced that a play isin preparation to counteract the pernicious effects of the “Octoroon” and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” So the nigger has absolutely samg- gled himself, in one way or the other, into four out of eight principal theatres in the city. As all this has been done in a fortnight’s time, we may expect that he will turn up in one or two of the others before the holidays are over. We have to tell the managers, as we have told them before, that the exploitation of poli- tics on the stage will be -quite as disastrous as it has been in the pulpit. New York is espe- cially cosmopolitan. Its public entertainments are supported by people from every part of the Obristian world. The sentiments of this mixed audience are so diversified, and upon any vital Political question so firmly fixed, that it is im- possible not to give offence to one side er the other. Thus a certain section of the audience is detached from the theatre, the performances are given to a “beggarly account of empty boxes,” and the manager finds himself bank- rupt. Let them take heed in time. People have enough of politics in the churches and the newspapers without being bored or annoyed with them in the theatres. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. INTERESTING CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, the battle of Cepeds, fought on the 284 of October, | The Great Union tion of between the forces of Buenos Ayres and those of | General Scott for the Presidency. the Argentine Confederation, is fully confirmed. | ‘The Union meeting, which came off at the The Montevideo correspondent of the Correio | Academy of Music last evening, was multitu- Mercantil writes, that “to judge by what is said | dinous, as we anticipated, and, as a popular by each of the combatants, they were both victo- | demonstration, was a glorious success, The rious; but we, whoare able to view the occurrence | speeches and the resolutions were failures; but with coolness, and by the light of reason andimpar- made it all right b: ion tiality, must conclude that the blood which hasbeen bees Sc si mnecetk: = eg shed will be completely useless, as neither party is are pelled to take a back seat, as the Heratp ad- & enough to impose its will upon the other by f the Al force.” Our correspondent in Buenos Ayres fur- vised, and Seymour, 0! lbany Regency, nishes some additional facts concerning the battle. | Was not there, though his unspoken speech is General Mitre, the Buenos Ayrean commander, | in type. In spite of the intrigues and machi- “made a gallant stand after the defection of his ca- | nations of the politicians, the hero of Lundy's valry, with his artillery, and when he retreated he | Lane was nominated by the outaide meetings, cut his way through the army. Urquiz8 | and his name received with tremendous enthusi- had eight hundred prisoners, but the Buenos Ay- | gsm, In the inside meeting he was not formally roans had captured General Santa Cruz, his som-in- | nominated; but the manner in which his letter law. Buenos Ayres was sorry that she had rejected | 1 received by the multitude—received as was the mediation of Mr. Yancey, our Minister. We hav no other name at the meeting—was tantamount e news from Havana to the 15th instant. General Concha left Cuba on the 13th inst., after | t© @ nomination; and had any one had the enjoying 8 magnificent farewell ovation. Oldu- | courage to nominate him by resolution at that Broadway.—After- | 88°8 were dull, but the contracts for new deliveries | moment, it would have been carried by ac- oe vealng— were active. The health of Havana was good and | clamation. The popular heart within and with- the island quiet. out the building turned instinctively to this By the bark Restless, arrived yesterday morning | great man in the hour of danger, All the rest from Santa Martha, whigh port she left November | was «Jeather and prunelia.” General Scott's 25,we learn that a battle bing Macon) he letter was the only one whick the committee Barranquilla, between the 3 of Genera! » of the liberal party, and General Passado, of the japon sy on the ne for they felt city of Barranquilla, the latter being in possession the ig of the people's pulse, of that place. Business is at a stand still. The resolutions, which didnot resolve to do anything, but asserted as truths what every- body knew, were all cut and dried and in type before the meeting began. The speakers played Captain Arey, of brig Fannie, arrived yesterday morning from Sierra Leone, Africa; reports that a the'parts assigned them—their speeches, though commonplace, were sound and true. John few days previous to his landing, the British steamer Brown was denounced; sympathy was ex- Spitfire had captured, Nov. 1,a brig supposed to be the John Harris, of New York, with 500 negroes on board. She was lying at Freetown when Capt. 1 pressed with the South; strong arguments were urged in favor of the Union, and the wicked- ness and unreasonableness of the abolitionists were exposed. In fact, the efforts of the orators ‘seemed “to be entirely directed to the conversion of the republican revolution- ists. As well might they whistle jigs to a milestone, or attempt to charm the deaf adder with song. In times of great danger it is not speech that is wanted, but action; and the people understood it, and indicated their will in an unmistakable manner. The senti- ments of the speakers were very fine; but something more appropriate was required, and that was supplied by the common sense of the audience. It is a subject of congratulation to all good citizens that this beginning has been made. Scott Union meetings—in other words, practical and successful Union meetings—will be held all over the land. But the duty of the New York mer- chants is not ended. They must keep up what they have so well begun. This is de- OFF(OE N. W. COBNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS Volume XXIV. No. 352 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. IBLO’S GARD Broad’ p——EVOUTIONS ON THE rid Korn Viviun Gases Monsten BOWERY THEA’ Naruuep Guwtieaan— WINTER ‘GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Ocroxoon. Bowery.—Rep Raxcrr—Goop 10 Tors—Srectne BaiveqRoom. WALLAOK!S THEATRE, Broadway.—Everrsopr's Franp—Fortr axp Firtr. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Distant RELATIONS. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.~ Our Inisa Cov- 8iN—P0-00-H0N-ta8—HERCULES. FRENCH THEATRE, 595 Broadway.—Cowsu's MosioaL ‘Epraetapncenr. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, noon—Prorie’s Lawyex—Consuua STRANGER—JOUN JONES. YANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Buniadguss, Sones, Dances, e-—SURPRE Paxtrs SALOON, Broadway.—Gxo. Curistr’s Mix- G8, Dances, Boriesques, &c.—Axtrot DopcEx, NI STRELS NEW OPERA HOUSE, 720 Broadway.—Dnarron’s] Pa- Lon Organs anv Lynic Provenss. CHATHAM TRE.—Equestaiax PERroRM- aNces—Purnam—Frexcu Sry. TEMPLE HALL, Ninth street—Kinc Sovomon’s Tauri. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Wavon's Irauis. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, December 20, 1859. From the West Indies our advices are dated at Antigua on the 22d ult. The weather was favor- : able for the coming crops. Occasional showers of Progress of the Country and its Effect | rain kept upa healthy and vigorous vegetation, on the Newspa Press. anda large yield of sugar cane was anticipated. per Two shocks of earthquake had lately been felt there. The progress of the Hxnaw during the last three | Tate gles from Barbadoes give the following:— months, affords satisfactory evidence of the general pros- | The crops throughout the island promise a return perity of our business community. In advertisements, in | equal to if not surpassing that of the past year, circulation, in all that indicates a sound condition of | Very heavy rain had fallen in November, more than things, it has never exhibited a more steady develope- | ¢XPerienced for many years past in the same ment. Nothing reflects with such unerring accuracy tne | Month. healthy growth or depression of commercial affairs as the isrueoe sahara fe en returns of a leading journal like the Hxatp. Although | conservative sentiment of the metropolis. Not the stagnation of business cannot wholly arrest, it checks | only was the capacious building completely filled, in a moasure their progressive increase. Asan evidence | but in the adjoining streets several meetings were of the improvement which has taken place within the | Organized, while martial music, the roar of artil- period specified, we have extracted from our books the | lery, brilliant fireworks and blazing bonfires Coliowing commparioon. of our advettieament, receipts: for added interest to the occasion and impres- the months of ctober and November, 1858 and 1859; | “Veness to the scene. We give full reports of the snes acalae Brocvedings, including the speeches of Charles October, 1858. 1'372 35 | 0 Conor, Mayor Tiemann, Washington Hunt, James 8. Thayer and Professor Mitchill, and letters from Another Disunion Speech from a Mississippi Fire-eater. Two More Ballottings for Speaker and no Choice. Withdrawal of Mr. Bocock, the Demo- cratic Candidate, Ren, Kee, &e. Our Special Washington Despatch. ‘Wasuinctox, Dec. 19, 1859. ‘THE SPEAKRRSUIP—MOVEMENTS OF THE DOCGLASITES. basics $1,708 09 | Gen. Winfield Scott, ex-Presidents Fillmore, Van | manded of them by their relations to the Empire zo? (aeons, grape tO D8, COnnHy JAR Ey November, 1 #20413 15 | Boren and Pierce, and other distinguished citizens, y P! Iurroven Tone oF THE DEBATES IN Con- | from this city that Douglas delegates have been City, whose continued prosperity or whose ruin now hangs by a single hair, like the sword sus- pended over the head of Damocles, amidst the wealth and splendor which surrounded him. Let the revolutionary party at the North cut that hair, or let the revolutionary party at the . elected to the Charleston Convention from Indiana is not correct. The report grew out of the fact, which seems to elate some of the Douglas men to- day, that by a canvass it is ascertained that the Democratic Convention, which meets at Indianapolis on the 11th of January next, to clect delegates to Charleston, will have a majority of about thirty for Douglas. This of Gress.—The entire country is viewing with satisfaction the marked improvement that has shown itselfin the preliminary debates of the present Congress over the customary balder- dash that marked the discussions of the past November, 1868 ——— | Gen. Scott was nominated for the Presidency amid Increase... +++ $1,926 the most intense enthusiasm, thus showing that the ‘These figures, as will be seen, show on this year an | hearts of the people turn warmly towards the fyerage advance of nine per cent—a large addition in ] veteran warrior as the saviour of the republic in twelve months to the profits of a businees in which no | the impending crisis. A lecture was delivered last evening by Mr. Wm, ‘Wyandot constitution, has arrived in this city witly official copy of that instrument, and will ask for the bea- mediate admission of Kansas into tho Union as soon as the ‘House is organized. The contest for Senatorship in Kaa- sas is between Mr. Parrott,the delegate, Mr. Stanton, Secretary under Governor Walker, and General Lane. Georgia to be a judge as to ; tees eee pogition of Superintendent of Public Printing. Copies of receipts were produced that Bowman had received larS® sumsot money, This wag soutly denied by his friends, who inumstot (hat the Papors wore forgeries. The orighel receipts were here Produced, with Bowman’s own sigeature. This caused quite # flutter among the friends of tte General, aad the caucus adjourned amid cousiderable oxsitement unt to- morrow morning. Wendell fernizhed the i tion of the sharges pew. ferted againat Bowman. If are sustained, will be defeated. if Care O08 TREATY WITH seXIC0, No intelligence bas yet reached our government that the Moxizan treaty has beew ratified. The administimtion are of opinion that ne treaty has boem mado, the Teames- See's mail bringing no intelligence rem Minister Motene ‘upon the subject. THE WANESOTA UNCED #TAgES sEXORGUP, ‘Tho latest advices from Minnesots are tant Mr. Witkin > Son, a defeated candidate for Congress last year from that. State, was on Friday last nominated by the: Fepublicang in Legislative caucus as a candidate for the Uisited States Senate, to succeed Goneral Shivtis. The nomination ig equivalent to an election, Mr. Wilkinson is abeat years of age, emigrated to Minnesota from Mew York about ten years ago, is a lawyor Dy profession, aad wag formerly a whig. ‘THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS INTO THE UNION, Mr. Conway, Congressman elect under tho Kemsag THR CULTIVATION OF THE TRA PLANT. Northern members who are constantly receiving appll- cations for patent office seeds are indignant at finding that the importation and oultivation of tea plants from China have exbausted the funds used for that objeot. These plants are to be distributed next month to one per- #0n in each Congressional district south of the thirty-sixth. parallel of latitude, and it is expected that tea will adom become a staple production of the South, ———— THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRS? SESSION. Wastuxcrox, Dec. 19, 1869,” The Vice President being absent, Mr. Baranr moved Mr. Fitzpatrick be appointed President of the Senate pro tempore. Mr. Foor, (rep.) of Vt., said that the reeent practice of the Senate had been to proceed to a ballot. ‘The Senate then proceeded toa ballot, and Mr. Fitzpatrick was elected, receiving thirty-three votes, while Mr. Foot recelyed nineteen, and Mr. Hamlin one. then took the Chair, returning thanks for the renewed mark of confidenee. Mr. Fitzpatrick ‘The Cuair then presented the report of the Treasurer of the United States, with copies of his accounts for the third and fourth quarters of 1858, and for the first and second quarters of 1859. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., asked that his Investigating Committee be authorized to employ a clerk. Agreed. Mr. Pca, (dem.) of Ohio, called up his resolution suty- mitted last Thursday. Mr. Haux, (rep.): of N. H., said it was not in order te proceed with legislative business prior to the organization. of the House. Mr. Pau stated that he desired to reply to the remarks of Mr. Iverson, made the other day, and he cared not whe- ther he spoke on a resolution or on a point of order. Ho desired to defend the Northern democracy from the charge of unsoundnees, which did not come with good grace from those in the South, who had not done so much for the party as Northerners: He spoke of the difficulty inthe’ North in battling a, rights of tha Sou inst sectionalism, and defending the ‘They never elected a Senator the soundness of their demo- rieks are curred. From this increase some idea may be A 4 one, and those of several recent Congresses. He diated _| W. Badger, of this city, at Clinton Hall, on “The | South anticipate them by cutting it first, and a eee * | course mdicates that Douglas delegates will bo clected; | Cra¢y. He repay the sentiment that the position of formed of the enormous profits that our loading commer Irrepressible conflict” and John Brown, before the | what becomes of our merchant princes, their | 4.8teat crisis is impending in the public | put rhave reason to believe that such a result is not at all itr Boog Saas, ey Me Cial houses must be making at the present time. In the Young Men's Christian Union. There was but a | goodly palaces, their luxury and their wealth ? affairs of the country, and the debates of that | certain, as in some six or seven districts there are double ere ead ae Risk Gomest Cass sustained Cireulation of our paper the improvementis equally mark- } smal) audience in attendance. Our report is | All will vanish like the baseless fabric of a| Pody seem to rise with the occasion, as though | delegations; and as the State Committee areanti-Dougias | Yared by'ifr- Iverson bitagelf iy the Hvac of hee ees ‘ed, the movement in the returns from both sources being | crowded out by other matter. vision, and the modern Tyre, which now sits | ™e" were deeply impressed wi ate grsye pee ‘sole aun clear 2 mneerniee of non near retha wie te ur Gace ‘eu od always relative. Both houses of Congress were engaged yesterday | the queen of commerce on the waters of the duty that lies before them. The voice of North- tion, there is a good chance for Mr. Douglas to got man. | letter or Mr. ag speech. He referred to in discussing the slavery question. The House also balloted three times for Speaker, without effecting achoice. Mr. Bocock, the democratic candidate, trea fants eto ie pr faa otc or | Hat Nithawn from the. contest, andi had not visionary political abstractions. To our merchants, as the | mocracy would concentrate their forces. Persons most interested in the peaceful condition and | The Forrest divorce case was up before the Su- material progress of the country, we must look for the | perior Court yesterday, upon an application for igcouragement and defeat of these snicidal schemes. rf | time to make a bill of exceptions to the referee’s report, and notice of across cause for increased alimony and an appropriation for counsel fees. ern fanaticism is either hushed or has given way to the profession ofa mutual respect for the rights guaranteed by the constitution, and the Southern fire-eaters leave the floor to the calm and dignified eloquence of Southern conservatives. In the Senate Mr. Trumbull, the republican Senator from Illinois, disowns Seward and Helper as the exponents of his po- litical creed, and disavows the brutal and bloody conflict which they would stir Thore is nothing that can check the unprecedentedly rapid developement of our commercial and industrial re- sources, thus indicated, but the incendiary efforts of agita- aged out of his delegates. This intelligence of seeming success on the part of Douglas may have induced the at- tempt of certain Northern democrats to concentrate the party upon Davis, of Indiana. Davis has never voted for Bocock, but always for a Douglas man—Clark, of New York, or Adrain, of New Jersey. Douglas has used his influence to induce his friends in Illinois, and the anti- Lecompton democrats representing other States, to con- centrate on Davis. The Illinoians were understood to agree todoso; but, to the surprise of every one, they voted against Davis to-day. Not se the other anti-Lecompton demo. crats, They refused—they don’t believe in Davis, They Atlantic, will soon become like her Phornician prototype, and like Carthage, Athens and Venice, which, when they were free and ie. centres of empire, rolled far and wide tv. world of commerce. What are these once great commercial cities now? What a sreat poet has sung of one of them is true of all:— ‘Oh, Venice ! Venice ! when thy marble walls ‘Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud they will only unite to put down the politicians and give lament along the sweeping sca. * * * effect to the conservative sentiments of the Union, by aid- the instructions sent’ by the Senators platform of Georgia, I the Kansas-Neb: for it, a8 expounded by Mr. Douglas, he would ha get that vote, by saying that Mr.’ ieee of ir. Gwin did not vote of is own motion, but was instructed by the California Le- lature to give that vote, and that the ire wrote the down for him in that instruction what it thought Kahsas-Nebraska bill meant: Mr. Gwin, (dem.) of Cal.—I voted instruc- ome ) before the the Senator ds that than his is. Now, baving read the non-intervention to read the squatter so- tions gi Mr. Pugu—I do not Suppose he is a better exponent of the views of his Legislature The case was not concluded when the court ad- up between the North and the South. On the | haye neard lately that he bas ae ‘. é Oh! 9; , that centuries should reaj ve reports ly indicated to | vereignty platform of He went on to remark ee age So Freeney o Genes!) Beiter | touened. No moliower harvest! ‘Thirteen hundred years floor of the House Mr. Sherman disclaims the | some of bis friends that he should go for Lane, | that this odious , squatter sovereignty,” which some Late equally ne candidate, there is nothing The Board of Aldermen held their usual weekly "4 wealth and glory turned ioe and tears. bs abolitionism which Seward and Helper preach | of Oregon, at Charleston, and they don’t like it; so they ee pee omy vd Bien the people from eye Ys that can impose @ limit tothe growth of our commerce | meeting yesterday, but the business transacted | New York has taken no “bond of fate” that | 14 youn Brown practised, and avows that he | !e#vebimout in the cold also, ‘The news from Indians | applied to her in. the formation of her Stale cons her case will be different from that of Venice, “the pride of the sea,” or the other emporiums of commerce in the Old World. Her destiny may change Davis’ programme. Douglas is denounced by the Southern Lecomptonites in the strongest terms. His absence from the Senate is said to be on account of o fear of being interrogated. He will and to our advancement to the highest point of political | Was of no particular general importance. | influence and power that has ever been attained by a At the meeting of the Board of Councilmen last people evening, a message was received from the Mayor signed the recommendatory circular of Helper’s incendiary book unwitting of its contents, while the Southern fire-eaters give way to the ititation, in which Mr. Gwin himself took an active part. The Le- compton constitution was ‘“ squatter did not see any safe the Lecompton the doctrine announced by Mr. Iverson is to be the doc- sovereignty.” He upon which the advocates of’ ition could stand for one moment if vetoing the proposed Yonkers Railroad, ranning | would only be still more melancholy than dodge to Florida, as he did to Now Orleans and Cu trine of the democratic Having quoted th I- . iba, ty a 1@ ‘senti- MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. parallel with Broadway. The Mayor thinks the | tnoirs if she should be now blighted by red- | °®!™ high-toned and statesmanlike views of Mr. | CS) Tt tte tr ate ent of, the Cioran Logiiatare wii tho Kanes bil Cunry, of Alabama. ‘These are encouraging signs of the improve- ment of the tone of debate in Congress, and of the spirit that begins to move our public men. At such a crisis as that which is impending over us, the jokes of the buffoon Hale in the Senate are singularly out of place, and are received with merited contempt by the sobered sentiment of the public mind. Sectionalism has taken possession of most of the political and religious organizations of the country, and it is only in the commercial and industrial ele- ments that the Union really exists. These, too, are threatened by the spirit of fanaticism which would isolate the North and the South; and as the danger comes home to every man’s daily occupation, and to the comforts around his hearthstone, the buffooneries of the Senator from New Hampshire, the bloody teachings of the Senator from New York, the incendiary fallacies of the renegade from North Carolina, and the secession sentiments of fire-eating demagogues from the South, are equally un- suited to the tone of the public mind, and repugnant to the prevailing sentiment in it. Let the sound conservative men of all sides lay on and fear not, for the judgment day of the buffoons, demagogues and fire-eaters is near at hand. Poxirics In THE TuoEATRES.—We have alluded heretofore to the demoralizing influences of abolition doctrines in the political parties and the churches, North and South. The negro question has divided the most numerous and powerful religious sects in the country—the Baptists and the Methodists; killed off the whig and Know Nothing parties, and created two distinct factions in the democratic party. In the pulpit it has made certain reputation for a number of theatrical parsons like Beecher, and ruined some dull imitators of the sensa- tion school like Cheever. People go to heart Beecher as they would attend the first night ef anew play or the exhibition of a hippopo- tamus; but Cheever does not draw half so well as the Brooklyn star. - Onehumbug ofthat kind is quite sufficient, and Beecher has a monopoly of the business. Naturally enough, the success of the theatrical parsons aroused the jealousy of the regular actors, authors and managers. They imme- | diately seized upon Beccher’s main point—the slavery question—and elaborated itinto several dramas, some upon one and some upon the other side of the question. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was the first of the abolition plays, and the manager who first presented it was ruined: and has been obliged to ask for an eleemo- synary benefit. The ‘“Octoroon” play at the Winter Garden has heen the cause of an immense deal of troutfle behind the ggenes, all gf which will come before proposed road should yield a considerable sum to the city, and responsible parties have offered one Mr. Singleton’s declaration on the floor of the House to- day that he would never vote for Douglas at Charleston upon any platform, nor vote for him afterward if he was nominated, is a fair expression of the feelings of Southern men in Congress towards the “ Little Giant.””. They spurn the idea of nominating him at Charleston, or. submitting to any dictation by Northern delegates, who cannot, by the last official record of a single State election in the North, pledge with truth a single electoral vote. ‘They declare in the same breath that every delegation from the Southern States, with but one exception, will go into the Charleston Convention with electoral votes, at their back. They claim that they represent a party which pos- sesses power, and controls not only the national govorn- ment, but all the Southern States except one, whilo the Northern delegates represent here and there a fragment of a party which nowhere controls a State government, and Js everywhere without power. ‘There is still somejtalk of uniting upon Davis, of Indiana; but the f riends of Mr. Buchanan don’t like the pill o” | Dr. Douglas.tA paper has been circulated about the House to-day, containing an extract of aspeech mado by Davis a Douglas meeting in Indianapolis about one year ago, which excels the republicans in bitterness toward the administration. The following is the gist of it:—In the next Presidential contest the candidate of any party who shall place himself upon a platform approving or endorsing the Dred Scott decision cannot carry a sin- gle township in a single county of a single State north of Magon and Dixon’s line.” This is considered a sweet morsel for the digestion of fire-eaters. It did its work to-day on the third ballot for Speaker. After Bocock withdrew, an attempt was made to concentrate on Davis, and he got only twelve votes, but one of which came from Ilinois and Indiana, Mr. Douglas’ strongholds, and not one from Mr. Davis’ own State. A more significant fact is that not a Southerner voted for him. How could they yote for a man who denounces Mr. Buchanan, Lecompton, an} the Dred Scott decision? Impossible. ‘The declaration of Mr. Bocock to-day, when he with drew his name from the list of candidates, that he felt proud that he had kept himself free from all complicity of arrangements, is understood to apply to those democrats who have tried to sell the democracy out to the Ameri- cans or Doiiglas democrats. Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi, placed the squatter sover- cignty democrats and republicans in the same boat, as against the interests of the South. He considered them allies, and as such there was an impassable gulf between them and the South. This declaration created considera- ble gensation at the time, and has been tho subject of great indignation on the part of Douglas and his friends. ‘THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTHS:. Some of the Western members of the National Repub- lican Committee have arrived here, en roug to New York, where that body meets on Wednesday. The place of meeting of the Republican National Conventton will be at Indianapolis, Indiana, or St. Louis, and the dixposition of ‘& majority of the republicans here is to go to St. Louis, ‘ag that city has given the largest free soil majority of any city in the Union, and because going toa slave State would appear less sectional. SENATORIAL CAUCUS FOR THE SRLROTION OF PUBL PRINTER CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL BOWMAN, ETO. ‘The democrats met in Sonatorial cauous this morning for the purpose of nominating a candidate for public printer. The following gentlemen wero presented by thetr friends:—General Bowman, of the Constitution; Har- voy Waterson, of Tennessee; Calonel Pickett, of Kentucky; My Smith, of the Alexandria Sentinel, ahd Corngtias ‘Wendell. Senator Brown, of Mississippi, read a lottor which had ‘yeen handed to him, preferring charges aga\ast “General Bowman. It stated that Rowman was {nterest ed in the public printing while ao bolt the * handed revolution; for whether they fell byslow decay or by conquest, it cannot be said that their greatness was prematurely cut short, whereas the imperial city of the New World would be nipped in the flower of her youth, as by an untimely frost. She kas no immunity from commercial death, and the same causes will ever produce the same effects. The com- mercial prosperity of New York depends on the political stability of the country; and in this crisis that depends in no small degree upon the intelligence, wealth, courage and patriotism of the merchant princes of this city. The course adopted at the meeting last night contrasts favorably with the inaction at the other Union meetings, which remind us of the old man in the nursery story book, who found naughty boys in his apple tree, and who pelted them first with words and then with grass. At this they only laughed, and at length he was compelled to try what virtue there was in stones. That had the desired effect; and the same means must be resorted to with the revo- Jutionists, and might as well be tried at first as at last. They care little about empty speeches and vague resolutions which lead to no action. They will laugh at mere words, and it is only by votes and the ballot box they can be put down. Their-bloody revolution must be met with a bloodless counter revolution—a revolution at the polls. The national destinies of the country are in the hands of a set of politicians, and on these depend its commercial destinies. The merchants, therefore, have the largest stake at issue, and ought to take it out of such hands. The politicians have no stake but the spoils, and for these they are ruin ing the country and dismembering the Union. For these they would sacrifice all that men hold dear on earth or in Heaven. The commer- cial and industrial classes have made this city and this country what they are. Will they suf- fer such unexampled prosperity to be destroyed ata blow, without one effort to save? They have everything to lose, and nothing to gain by the breaking up of the Union by secession or internecine war. The mercantile and industrial interests, therefore, and every interest in the city but that of the spoilsmen, ought to rally around General Scott with the same enthusiasm as did the meeting last night. And every commercial city in the Union, and every village, ought to promptly follow the example. By taking this action they will forestall, the plots of the politi- New York Herald—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship North Star, Capt. Jones, will leave | million dollars for the grant. this port this afternoon, at two o’clock, for Aspinwall. The Board of City Canvassers reassembled yes- The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific | terday at twelve o'clock. A resolution was passed see male afternoon. Caine to have the official canvass published in the Hzzatp ape ‘Y Hxraip—California edition— | and eighteen other papers. This was agreed to Sesh, WAG ees atti e Seitgpaa sales the | after a long debate. Several of the members poke uatinr will be publebed at eleven Goa tiatacrs. Pega AEC Tokina gh es Ing. city papers, but the majority considered the ex- Singlo copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, | Pense would be too great. The clerk read the off- Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos- | “ial declaration and announced the result of the Bible, canvass. The Board then finished up some unim- portant business and adjourned sine die. The official canvass of the votes cast for city officers at the recent municipal election in this city, is published in to-day’s paper. The Coroner’s investigation into the circumstances attending the death of James Murray, who was ‘Tho mails for Europe will close in this city at half-past shot by Capt. de la Barrier, in Brooklyn, some days ten o'clock to-morrow morning. since, was concluded yesterday, and resulted in the ‘Tho Evrorgan Epmox or Tas Heratp will be published | discharge of the captain. ‘At ten o'clock im the morning. Single copies in wrap- ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about'700 a 800 pers, six cents, bales, closing tamely on the basis of 11 34c. for middling up- ‘Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the | lands. The foreign news tended to depress the flour mar- Naw Youx Henaxp will be received at the following places | ket, which was heavy, and closed at a decline of fully 5c. in Europe-— per bbl., with moderate gales. Southern was also easier, Lenpon.. ..Sampson Low, Son & Oo., 47 Ladgate Hill while the demand was fair. Wheat was quiet, and in the William street. | absence of sales of moment prices were somewhat nomi- vatrset nal at Saturday’s quotgtions. Corn was less buoyant, but in fair demand, without change of moment in prices. Pork was heayy and prices were easier, especially for mess, which gold at $15 871, a $16, and prime at $11 3734. Sugars were firm and in good request, with sales of 800 a The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will {eave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. were firm, with a fair amount of engagements to Liver- pool and London at full rates. Cotton was also engaged for Hamburg, by steamer, at 1c. per Ib. ‘The News. An interesting résumé of the latest news from Enrope and Asis is published this morning. From | Tux Joux Brown Foxp.—We publish else- Cane: pea atau where in this paper the latest report of Mr. poi ere ‘i during the Rnpeor's late vi with fal ccout| Too rand From the ropet wil be teen peel aie bi agit ad loses that the political family of John Brown is set purnuits, i fall of pri rest. England’s sudden | 2°W® “ata million, scattered throughout the North,” a mass which, if taken away, would change of opinion as to the mode of her repre- sentation in the European Congress had disap- | make a prodigious hole in the republican par- pointed Napoleon. From Berlin we learn that} ty. The collections for the Brown fund, it ap- Prussia will propose to the Congress an important | pears, are going on swimmingly. It seems to alteration of maritime law in case of war, so as to | be a good hit—almost equal to the experiment Secure all property—except contrabands of war— | of the Kansas fund, to which, indeed, it is a from seizure by hostile ships; in fact, an elabora-} proper supplement. Mr. Hy, } tion of the proposition made by Mr. Marcy in 1856 B the Co I *. Hyatt also pro- tothe Conference of Paris. It was thought that | 20W2Ce® the Cooper Institute meeting of the England suggested the idea, fearing her inability to | Brownies “a success,” and takes the occasion Protect her merchant traffic in case of war with | % Say that “if you wish to get the best Teport France, now so powerful in her steam navy. The | Of that meeting, especially Dr. Cheever’s ad- United States frigate Mississippi was at Singapore | mirable argument,” you must read that of “the and Pensng,on her way to Boston, which port| New York Heratp,” a point upon which Mr, Captain oan hoped to make in fine time. Our | Hyatt will be very generally sustained by ali Correspondent on board gives a letter from each | parties whose speeches are specially reported place. .The crew of the surveying schooner Feni- ; more Oooper, wrecked at Yokiama for this journal. We give all sides the full be- | cians, and break down their caucuses and conf ; hy » Japan, would nefit of their own words, and if they “don’t be senthome by way of Catfornia. We give ful | °%t ¢ ; ventions and their whole machinery, in less particulars of the marder of Rassian officers and | ie it they can lump it.” But why does not | than one year. The people will thus be emanci- goamen by the Japanese. this active Brown financier Hyatt call upon | pated from the leading-strings of the political We have dates from Byenos Ayres to the 28th of | the Congressional endomers of Helper? To be | gamblers who are playing away the heritage Octobet, and from Rio Janeiro to the 9h of No | consistent, they onght to help the Brown fund | bequeathed to us by our forefathers, who wrote eumket The intelligence published yesteidey ot" 1! qhe tide decd with their owa Llood, understood the Kansas ting at purpose the lan; of the Pi fe peng cen resident’ who signed in bis message of Jauuary Si; 1856" Ho alse quavee a resolutions adopted by the Florida Logisiauure fa Decors, ber, 1847, in support of his position. was to show that an attempt is now made, contrary to the opinions formerly entertained by the Legisiatures of, tho compromise of 1860, and break through the covenant of the Kansas bill, and: on that text to preach sermons on the soundness or unsoundness of the cy. He quoted Mr. Gwin’s speech in Grass Valley, Cali- fornia, where it is. stated that Mr. Douglas was deposed from the chairmanship of the Territor account of his views on the Kansas bill. stand up here to defend Mr. Douglas, who was ablo to speak for himsolf. If he was expelled tee for that reason, they to expel ninety-nine hundi every non-slayeholding State. It was no longer a qucs- tion of individuals, but of principle; and instead of assail- {og a man who was.alsent, it would be moro manly to do as Mr. Iverson did, and arraign the entire party. Ho could see nothing in. the Lecompton case that ought to divide democrats or make it necessary to make changes in committees, but the facta seemed to.show that Mr. Douglas was not removed for that; after he had mado his speech in the Senate, denouncing the Lecompton tion, and taking issue with the administration and almost. the entire body of democratic Senators, North and South, the Senate procesded to put him again at. the head of the Territorial comptot avowal is that he is not removed for that course, but be- cause he had the misfortune to. entestain opinions. which aro entertained by almost the entire body of the democratic party of the North. He would appeal to. his bretbren in the States ise this as a test of demecratic fellowship. If, as the Se- else over him. He was soon golng out o! ookare rated to give Senators from tho chair of every single committee controlling tony and be ng been decaplated mn, and be n simplest way out of all this controversy was to.do and put down all these attempts, from one section of the py Che a atform eel pod cratic party. He excitement ailing ab erg! on the slavery question. The proventiogs inthe latures, ought to admot times. and the other, which. are fraught with danger to this glo- rious Union. occasion to respond, to those ble to himself, and. algo to ventilate some other touched upon’by the Senator. latform in California since the last session of Con- P gross. which was almost literallycopied from the Ohio plat- ,drawn up by Mr. Pugh himself. He sthted what ho ‘Nebraska bill to mean, adopt for rpretation of it as last found He said his object rn States to break through the principles.of the forthern democra- «Committee on He would not from that commit- t thereby be compelled redths of the demecracy: in constitu- mamittee, and he staid there until the La- yn controversy’ was dead and buried. Now the: lorthern whother they recog-, nator from Galifornia has proclaimed, you are parties to this act of decapitation, do you mean to have it go forth. to the country that whoever entertains these opinions. is unfit to be a member of the democratic party? Mr. Rick, (dem.) of Minn.—I was a party to the trang- action, and uphold it. Mr. Pucu went on to refer to the usage of the Senate on the subject of committees, first, never to displace a Senator without his consent, and second, never to Wi Sei s0d any one e Sonate, and hat this usage would therefore frankly di es 5 sean - the sl peony of Stes public was intolerably bad. It waa Biinois_ was the only, excey . Now, ho thought justice, use of Representatives, as well as in State Legis- us havo falion on evil ‘We. hear defiance and threats from one quarter Mr. Iverson, (dem) of Ga., would take some futaro remarks of Mr. Pugh applica- subjects, Mr. Gwin exp! ed the action of te California Legisla- ture m reference-to tho resolutions zeferred te and ted by Mr. Pugh. They were intended to take the > away from Con; “ the country,,’ guch questions, The position California is, that these aro purely judicial to the action im the case of Mr. Douj he eet na teu beng Sather ganized, ¢ algo conte! at it was majority of the democratio Senators, who were the ity of this body and who were heki responsible a8 and leave it tothe judicial tril of are tho only p1 tribunals to decide: of the democratic. party qv i major~ for its or~ should no leager place a mag at the head of que Committee on Territories holding opinions in direct conilict with that majority oa the subject of territorial wer. With what Mr. Pugh had said about ninety-nine undredtbs of the der ‘of every non-slaveholding Siate agreeing with Mr. Douglas, he (@win) said that Mr. Pugh might spoak for Obio, Dut that was not the doctrine of Catforaia, That queatlon had bt tri le, an an ovorwi ing majorit With Str, Dovglaa have been ooademned, The mainte. nanco of that doctrine is dangerous to the democratic 4 I debate hore ensued between Me. which Mr. Ra’ also, participated, It By ‘A lang collogy oud Mr. Gwin, to mM as The question of ordoe