The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSET, RVITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR. BFR NW. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 818 joance. Money sent by avail voit he ut the oatage eanige not reeetvad ‘as mlacription per 0 nay yt of Gar _ the Continent voth to include pos! the Gh und Eh of mh month at six conte ni ALD on Wednesday, at four cents por pe : n YTARY CORKESPON DENCE, contataing tnporwu meee. vited from any quarter of the world: if used, will be Wcrally paid for.” gee Our Ko ti0n ConsmronmENts ARE Paxricotaw.x REQUWeTRD O Ska. 4d Listreas AND Pac Sars sexT UA. WO NOTICE taken of anonymaua correspondence. We do not OVERTISEME, dt every day; aa ey tw dee in the Wert Faeyr NienarD, and inthe ditornia and European Editions JO PRINTING ccwuted with nostnens, cheapness and da puch, Woteme XXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AOAPEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtenth etrect—Irauiax Orn- Ri—La Sonnmnona, NIGLO'S GARDER: Browdway.—Secaet Maneiage— Tenrsicnoxn—Guaen Moweree, BOWERY TSEATRE, Rowery.—Cene ave Repent. Axcx—#KD RaXGER—DaMox rreutas. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street. — OereKxvon. WALLAOK!S THEATRE, Broadway.-—Everynopr's Priesp—Forty anp Firty, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Distayr RELATIONS. NEW BOWERY THPATRE, Past Womex—Pappy tux Pirsi Rowery.— Hropay Haxp— aw ENGLISA Cousin. FRENCH THEATRE, 69 Broadway.—Cowsls’'s Musica, Rxreirassuent. : BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSFUM, Broadway —After- noou— AMP aT ClisLOXS—PHENOMENON IN 4 SMoCA FROCK— Evening~La Tovk pe Nesie—HovsLs Beppen Room BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mecbantes’ Ball, 472 Broadway— Buxixsaves, Sonvs, Danci »—SUarnion Pauty. "3 SALOON, Broadway.—Gzo. Cnrrsry’s Mix- ux Sones, Dances, Boruesaves, &0.—Douciaee woos Dancers, &e. INSTREL’S, 444 Broadway.—Ermiorian Soncs, New Year Cais. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 720 Broadway.—Drarron’s} Pan- Lor Organs axp Lyric PRovEnns, CHATHAM AMPHITHFATRE—Eqursreuax Perronu- ances—Purwam—PKENOM Sry. TEMPLE HALL, Ninth street —Kine oroMon’s Teurie. New York, Thursday, December 22, 1859. The News. ‘The National Committee of the republican party met atthe Astor House yesterday, and selected Chicago as the place, and the 13th of June next as the time for holding the Republican National Con- vention for the nomination of candidates to be Supported for President and Vice President of the republic at the election in November. We give a report of the proceedings in another column. The American National Committee concluded to change their place of meeting from Washington to Philadelphia. They accordingly assembled in the last named city yesterday, and appointed a commit- tee to confer with delegates from the opposition meeting recently held in Washington, but transact- ed no other business of importance. Senator Crit- tenden delivered an eloquent Union and conserva. tive speech at the Washington meeting alluded to, of which we give a full report elsewhere. The National Conventions are appointed to meet as followa:—The Democratic Convention at Charles" ton, 8. C., April 23; the Republican Convention at Chicago, IIL, June 13. In the Senate yesterday notice was given of bills amending the act establishing the Court of Claims, and also re; ig and changing the manner of appointing cadets in the Military Academy. The standing committees were announced and adopted. They are pretty much the same as those of last year. Quite a number of appointments of Mar- shals, Postmasters and District Attommeys were sent in by the President, but none of them were acted on. The treaties with China, Nicaragua and Peru were also communicated to the Senate and appropriately referred. The proceedings of the House were quite excit- ing. Messrs. Boteler and McClernand withdrew from the contest for the Speakership, the former nominating Mr. Millson, of Virginia, a democrat, in accordance with a previous understanding among the South Americans. The House proceed- ed to ballot for the seventeenth time, with the fol- lowing result:— Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, republican. Mr. Milison, of Virginia, democrat. ‘Mr. Gilmer, of Virginia, Southern opposition 6 Mr. Etheridge, of Tennessee, Southern opposition . 1 ‘Mr. Davis, of Indiana, anti-Lecompton democrat. 4 om rved that the democratic vote is Jarger than has heretofore been cast. But the Southern opposition members refused to go over bodily for the democratic nominee, and hence the failure of the attempted coalition. This failure gave rise to an exciting discussion between the de- mocratic and Southern opposition factions, Which was warmly kept up till the adjournment. Judge Amasa J. Parker has declined the office of United States District Attorney for this city, to which he was appointed by the President a few days since. There are quite a number of appli- cants for the place now in Washington, but the name of the successful aspirant will probably not be sent to the Senate for several days. The impending crisis in our political affairs has caused a great commotion among the Southern medical students in Northern colleges. In Phila- delphia the feeling has led to a complete sta:npede, Bome two hundred of the students having yesterday Bhaken off the dust of the Quaker City and depart- ed for their homes. The stadents of the New York University Medical College held a large meeting last evening to decide on imitating the Philadelphia Southerners in seceding from Northern colleges. The meeting, which was a very enthusiastic one, was in session for along time, and after a great deal of speaking, fourteen stu- dents agreed toa resolution to leave the University. ‘We give a full report of the proceedings elsewhere. We have news from San Francisco to the 28th ult. The steamer Cortez, with the passengers who sailed from this port in the North Star, ar- rived out on the 26th, causing much rejoicing. Business was very dull. San Francisco had been visited with a terrific gale, a fire, heavy rains and a slight earthquake; yet these calamities had caused Do unususl sensation. We have Havana dates to the 1Ath inst. The sugar market was buoysnt, and holders demanded anadvance. The stock on hand was 20,000 boxes, Against 33,000 same time last year. ~ The names of the successfal bidders for the new State loans, together with the amounts awarded to each, are givenin the money article in to-day's paper. The following are the premiums on the several loans:— * 20,788 & fraction of an average premium of 6.21-100 per cent. ‘The steamship Persia, which sailed from this port for Liverpool yesterday, took out $151,512 in specie. Realf, the “Secretary of State” of Old John Brown and his abolition confederates, has tarned up in Austin, Texas, where he has been studying theology, with the view of becoming an itinerant preacher of the Methodist church. An account of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER his adventures and rascalities is given in to day's paper. He freely admits his connection with the conspiracy of the ubolitionista, and implicates seve- ral persons, whose names are mentioned, Realf las, it ix guid, placed himself at the dispo-al of the President, and has also offered to surrender himselt to Governor Wise. The Vanderbilt line of European steamers haviag been withdrawn for the winter, there will be nu mail steamer from this port for Europe ov Saturday next. The next mail from this city will be forward ed by the Nova Scotian, from Portland, aad will close at halt-past one o'elock in the afternoon, ou Priday, the 23d inst. The Commissioners of Emigration met yester- day afternoon at Castle Garden. Comiaissioner Carrigan repocted that the city government have agreed to admit the claim of $11,985, made by them for the rent, repairs, &c., of the building in Frank- lin street, used in 1854 ua a cholera hospital. The Commissioners are indebted $25,000 to the city for the rent of Castle Garden, and the acknowledging of the claim of $11,965 leaves them now indebted only $13,085, that beiog the balance of the accounts between both corporations, The report was ac- cepted and the committee in charge of the matter directed to discharge the balance of the dept’ The nuniber of emigrants arrived daring the week was 912, making the number since last December 77331. The balance of the commutation fund is now $5,904 02. At the meeting of the Board of Education last evening, the President infurmed the Board that the executors of the will of Seth Grosvenor, who be- queathed $30,000 to the Board ef Education, had transferred to the Board the securities and $1,150, their value together being equal to $30,000. The Finance Committee were directed to investigate the worth of the securities, Commissioner Fagen presented a resolution to the effect that the even- ing schools be directed to be opened an@ closed by reading “a portion of the Scriptures, without note or comment.” The res-lution, however, was objected to by several menibers of the Board, and consequently laid upon the table. No other busi- ness of interest came up before an adjournment took place. We understand thatthe counsel for James Ste- phens, under sentence of execution for poisoning his wife, has given the District Attorney notice that he will move, at the general term of the Su preme Court, to be held this day, for permission to file, nunc pro tunc, as of the 13th inst., the affida’ vits of Thomas V. Patterson and of James Ste- phens, and that he will further move the said Court to enter upon the record his motion for a new trial on the ground of after discovery evidence and the decision of the Judges overruling it. Tho questions to be discussed will be interesting. The Court commences at twelve o'clock. The sale by auction of the Brooklyn ferry leases had been adjourned over until yesterday by rea- son of the injunction issued by Judge Hogeboom; but in consequence of a hearing not having been had in the premises, the sale was further adjourned until the 29th inst. The argument on the injunction will be heard on the 24th inst. Beef cattle were dull during the past week at a reduction of half a cent to a cent per pound. Cows were dull, but unchanged. Veal calves were in moderate request for all kinds at previous prices. Sheep and lambs were dull, and fifty cents to one dollar per head lower, except for extras. Prime Christmas stock sold readily at high prices—some of them at $15 per head. Swine were abundant, and sell at 5}c. a 6}¢. There were on sale 3,871 beeves, 141 cows, 509 veals, 13,981 sheep and lambs, and 25,000 swine. Tne sales of cotton yesterday embraced 3,000 bales, chiefly in transit. The market closed heavy on the basis of 1134c. for middling uplands. The receipts at the porta since the first of September inst amounted to 1,759,000 bales, against 1,493,000 in 1858, 832,000 in 1857, 1,204,000 in 1856, and 1,252,000 in 1855. The exports for the samo period embrace 902,000 bales, against 729,000 in 1868, 423,- 000 in 1867, 418,000 in 1856 and 679,000 in 1855. The stock on hand embraces 800,000 bales, against 660,000 in 1858, 433,000 in 1857, 610,000 in 1866 and 525,000in 1855. The flour market was firmer, and most kinds of common and medium grades were better. Wheat was steady and sales light. Corn was less buoyant, whilosales were pretty freely made, closing within the range of prices given in another colamn. Sugars were firm, with sales of 1,200 1,300 hogeheads, including 200 New Orleans, aold by auction, and 800 boxes, on terms given in another column. Freights were firm, but engagements were moderate. Our Political Party Movements for 1860— A New National Union Party Looming Up. The Republican National Executive Commit- tee met yesterdgy at the Astor House, and ap- pointed the 13th'of Jnne as the time and Chicago, Milinois, as the place for the meeting of the Na- tional Convention of said party for 1860. The National Convention of the democracy will meet at Charleston on the 23d of April. On Tuesday evening last, at a meeting of the Ame- rican National Committee at Washington, a committee of ten was appointed to “confer with the Executive Committee of the American party, and the Executive Committee of the whig party, and with such other persons as are favorable to the formation of a national party on the basis of the Union, the constitution and the enforcement of the laws, and to report some plan for the formal inauguration of such a movement.” Thus our readers will perceive that there is every prospect of three great parties, and three contesting Presidential tickets for the succes- sion. The triangular fight thus indicated will be an intensely interesting one; for, between the Northern anti-slavery republicans and the Southern pro-slavery democracy, there will be a beauti‘i margin for the organization of a great paiivual and decisive balance of power party. Looking, too, at the prevailing senti- ment of this third party caucus at Washington in favor of Gen. Scott, we are glad to announce that this grand idea of a new national party is beginning to assume a definite shape, and to move in the right direction. With the election of poor Pierce in 1852; on the solid platform of the great compro- mise measures of Henry Clay, the democratic party held in their hands a new lease of power for twenty years. But alas! in the year 1854, however, this emphatic ex- pression of the confidence of the American people, North and South, in poor Pierce and the managers of the democratic party, was most shamelessly betrayed, and proved a delu- sion and asnare. Repeated experiments had shown that the Southern engineers of the Na- tional Conventions of the democracy ruled the roast. Mr. Bixon, a whig Senator from Men- tucky, doubtless seizing upon this idea, chal- lenged the democracy to the repeal of the Mis- souri Compromise, as a Southern test question. Mr. Douglas was persuaded to seize the glitter- ing bait, and poor Pierce, completely blinded by his late success, could not permit himself to be snpplanted among the Southern President makers that would come up'to the Cincinnati Convention. But the tremendous Northern revo- jution precipitated upon the democracy by that Kansas Nebraska bill, together with the vacit- lations, imbecilities and corruptions of poor Pierce upon sll other great questions, brought the convention hucksters at Cincinnati tos dead halt. Thus they were compelled to cast both Pierce and Douglas overboard, and com- pelled to fall back wpon Mr. Buchanan, whose hands were clean of any contact with that Kan- |] The Fatal Catastrophe im Brond Street— sas-Nebraska juggle; and thus the democratic party wus saved from the very jaws of destruc- tion. From this point the party bad another op- portunity to recover the ground which they had lost. The inaugural platform, and the conservative national Cabinet of Mr. Bu- chaoun, afforded & basis upon which all sections and factions of the democracy might have been consolidated, But Southern Presi- dent makers and Northern Presidential aspi- rante instantly began with their plots and in- trignes, their schemes and conspiragies, to rule or rnin the adminiscration for their own sordid and selfish purposes. Prominent among these soured and disaffected party leaders was Mr. Senator Dougtas. The consequences of his an- ti-Lecompton rebellion are patent to our read- ers. The Northern democracy, barely saved in 1856 by the personal popularity of Mr. Bu- cbanan, are broken to pieces, and overwhelmed by the most formidable anti-slavery. organiza- tion that has ever lifted ite head above the troubled waters of our sectional disoords. And thus, with the North in the occupation of an anti-slavery alliance whieh has ad- vanced its standard from the Territories to the slave States, and with the South in a state of active fermentation upoa the desperate ulter- native of a Southern confederacy, we find the same old corrupting aud demoralizing system of party tactics, from which we suffer all these political disorders, still in full blast. Who is there that has any hope of peace and harmony from the Charleston Convention? Who expects anything butan “irrepressible” sectional con- flict from the Republican National Convention? Where are we to look for relief? Is there no way of escape from the debasing and de- structive despotisms of these old party conven- tion gamblers, hucksters, vagabond loafers and trading spoilsmen? The only hope of deliver- ance is through a popular revolution in behalf of the independence of the people.\ Our financial and commercial, our agricultural, manufacturing and mechanical classes have the power in their hands. They have only to organize upon an independent platform, and the day is won. They have only to begin this work of organization, and it will go on like a great river released from its bonds, At the late Union meeting in this city, among the independent masses outside the Academy, the right chord was touched in the nomination of General Scott as the embodi- ment of those great ideas of patriotism, conser- vatism, nationality, fraternity, law and order, cherished by the solid majority of the American people. Thus, in the name, character, public services and independent patriotic principles of Scott, we have the true platform desired and required for a new national organization Let this movement be followed up, and if the Charleston Convention jugglers cannot be brought to reason, and if the Republican Con- vention cannot be brought down from the three- legged platform of Seward, Brown and Helper, all this rotten party machinery, democratic and republican, with all the juggling spoils- men concerned, can be demolished by this proposed new national party, either before the people or in the Honse of Representatives. The old democratic party has run to sed; the republican party has run into an aboliiiun crusade. We want a new national consiitu- tional party. The people are ready. The time is auspicious. The materials are abundant, North and South, and from them we have the fullest confidence in the signs of a peaceable and glorious revolution, and reconstruction of our political affairs. Mr. O’Conon’s Great Port on THE SLAVERY Qvestioy.—Mr. O’Conor’s bold and decided position on the subject of African slavery— to wit, that this institution “is just, wise and beneficent;” that “it is benign in its influences, both on the white man and the black;” that “it is ordained by nature, and fs a necessity of both races’—has taken our black republican cotemporaries all aback. The philosophers of the Tribune, however, seize the occasion for crowding Mr. Jefferson Brick again into “the elbows of the Mincio.” Mr. Brick, on his part, is brought to a dead halt, and is evidently dis- posed to give up the office of Jack-o’-lantern to Tammany Hall, for fear that Tammany may be compelled to follow in the wake of Mr. O’Co- nor. And why not? Upon what other defence can slavery, or the South, or the democracy, or Tammany stand than that slavery as it exists in the South, is right and good in itself? Admit it to be an evil, and we must admit that all efforts to abolish it are founded upon justice and truth. The only available defence of slavery is that putin by Mr. O’Conor. This is a new idea in the North; it is not an old idea in the South; but it is the only idea upon which slavery can stand. Upon this idea, however, it can stand; and in the bold position taken by Mr. O’Conor we detect the inauguration of a new epoch in the discussion of slavery, of the deepest interest and the greatest results. Who speaks next for the Northern national democracy? A Carmant FoR A Portion or THe Jouy Brown Fuxp.—The story of the Pottawottamie massacre in Kansas, which was committed bya party of ruffians under the leadership of old Jobn Brown, has been 0 often told by the Chicago Tribune, by the Kansas Herald of Freedom, and in the report of the Kansas Congressional Investigating Committee, of which John Sherman, the republican can- didate for Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives was chairman, that it must be familiar to every mind which is not totally blinded by the most wicked description of fa- naticism. Three of the sufferers in that massa- ere were James P. Doyle and his two sons, William Doyle and Drury Doyle. The Doyle family consisted of the three above named, together with the wife and mother, a younger brother named John, and two or three smaller ebildren. When the report of the murders reached Chattaneoga, Tennessee, from whence the Doyle family had emigrated, the citizens contributed a sum sufficient to bring the remain- ing members of the family back to that place, and there they have resided to the present tine. Mrs. Mahala Doyle, the widow, is now repre- sented as being in circumstances of great desti- tution. She has her children with her, and her only resource for their support is in the scanty wages of her son John, whose life she begged at the hands of the murderers—a boy now about nineteen years of age—who is employed as the driver of a cart for a commission house in Chattanooga, We claim that the widow Doyle is justly entitled to, and should receive, a por- tion of the fund now raising for the widow Brown. Slaughter of Our Citizens. ‘The shooking catastcophe which eccurred by the fulling of the houses Nos. 54 and 56 Broad street, on Tuesday evening, by which two men were hurried into eternity, and several horribly wounded, is another melancholy example of the careless munner in which buiidings are erected in this city. In this instance, one glance at the ruins is enough to couvince any one that the building was wholly unfit for the purposes to which it was applied. The side walls are exceedingly thin, and the bricks and mortar composing them actually crumbling away. The timber work and joists of the floors are dry, and apparently rotten. These houses, like nearly all the others in Broad street, were originally constructed for dry goods stores, and were, in their best days, unequal to the enormons weight of flour and groceries with which they were filled om the occasion of the accident. Bat there is a feature about this disaster which calls for the strongest reprobation; nay, more, for the severest punishment to the fullest exteat of the law, of the firm occupying these build- ings; and that ‘is the fact thatthe unsafe con- ition of the housesis said ta fave been known to them for several days pasfens. Yet, with the exception of a bungling attempt tofurce the arch wall of the cellar back into the position from which the immense pressure had driven it, nothing was done to prevent the frightful disaster by which a respectable citizen, uncon- scious of danger, on his way home to his now helpless family, was crushed into an undistia- guishable mass,a policeman in the perform- ance ef his duty stricken to death, and a num- ber of gallant firemen cruelly mutilated. We trust that this affair will receive a rigor- ous investigation by the Coroner's jury, and that the responsibility will be placed on the right shoulders, There will be no safety for any one walking the streets as long as build- ings are allowed to be erected in this reckless fashion, or the occupants are permitted to crowd their stores and lofts with goods beyond their capacity to sustain the weight, regardless of all consequences. We have heard that nearly every house in Broad street is in a simi- lar condition to those which fell on Tuesday, and that hardly one of them is safe, as they are at preseat occupied with heavy materials. The gross negligence of builders and workmen employed on the new buildings being erected in this city is continually pro- ducing fatal results. A few days ago a scaf- folding in @ structure on Duane street gave way, causing the death of one man and seri- ously wounding nine others. In this case it appeared that the scaffolding was amply strong to sustain five or six men; but, through sheer recklessness, ten men crowded on it, and they consequently paid the penalty of their care- lessness. But it was the duty of the foreman to see that no more persons were employed on that scaffolding than it could bear with perfect safety. Another instance of criminal neglect on the part of a landlord occurred, also, last week, in a tenement house in Baxter street where a man was killed by falling from a stair, way which was left wholly unprotected by a ballustrade. It appeared, on the inquest, that the premises had been in this dangerous condi- tion for a long time, and that several persons had previously fallen down, though, by some singular good fortune, no one was killed except this unfortunate man. All these facts show the slip-shod fashion in which things are done in New York, and call loudly for some reform. Human life is trifled with in the most shameful way, and some steps should be taken by the authorities to compel parties building or renting houses to render such accidents impossible. In the case of the Broad street disaster an example should be made which may have a salutary effect upon other parties in future. Tf the facts alleged concerning the unsafe con- dition of the building should prove true upon investigation, the occupants should be indicted for manslaughter. Sramrepe or Sovurwern Sropents From THe Norta—Procress or Dysuxion anp Revow- tron.—In another column will be found a re- port of a meeting of the Southern students of the Medical College in Fourteenth street, who, taking their cue from the meeting of the Southern medical students in Philadelphia—an account of which we published yesterday by telegraph, and a fuller report to-day—have re- solved on removing from the New York Col- lege, and completing their education at the South, So infectious is disunion, and to such extremi- ties are the disciples of William H. Seward driv- ing the young men of the South, and, indeed, its oldest and wisest statesmen, as we have recent- ly seen from the messages of the Governors, the proceedings of Legislatures, the meetings of the people, and the tone of the journals. The present movement in New York and Philadel- phia is ominous and dangerously suggestive ; and no doubt it will be imitated in other col- leges and schools at the North. This is the first step, because itis the most easily taken. The second step will be to send the Northern teachers back from the seminaries of the South; and thus the line of demarkation in education between the North and the South will soon be com- plete. The next step will be a complete withdrawal of the Southern trade from the North. Already that movement has par- tially commenced, and our merchants begin to feel it severely; but it will soon be- come general, if the “ impending crisis” is not met with vigor and firmness, and by those prac- tical measures which can alone satisfy the South of the good will of the conservatives of the North, and of their ability to defend the institu- tions of the South from Northern aggression. This may be accomplished by Union meetings with a definite object—the nomination of the Tight man to the Pyesidency, after the example of New York. This is the only way in which the danger can be averted or the progress of disunion arrested. It is by a revolution at the ballot box, and by that alone, that the eountry can be saved. W. H. Sewarp an INcenptary or a Hompva.— The Chevalier Webb labors hard to prove that W. H. Seward does not mean anything in his “Grrepressible conflict,” and that he is as inno- cent as the man in the moon of any purpose to interfere with slavery in the slave States. If we may believe this explanation, then Mr. Seward is a political cheat, and a candidate for the Presidency upon false pretences. Other- wise he is an abolition incendiary. He must be one thing or the other—an abolition incen- Giary or a political imposter, unless, indeed, he 22, 1869. is a Uttle of both. In any shape, however, he will prove to be a demagogue of very difficuit digestion té the republican party. The New Treaty with Mextco—F ree Trane ait and Commercial Privileges. The United States steamer-of-war Brooklyn arrived at New Orleans the day before yester- day, from Vera Cruz, with Mr. McLane on board, and the treaty with Mexico which he has just concluded with President Juarez. ‘This treaty is substantially the same that was arranged last summer, but which was not signed because of certain temporary difficul- ties. We have already given the points of the treaty, but they are of a character soimportant that we repeat them bere. It stipulates:— 1. A perpetual right of way and free transit for Amori- can mails, citizens and property acrosa the Isthmus of Tebuantepec; the same on a road from some point ou the lo to Mazatlan on the Pacific, and also on a road from Arizona to « port un the Gulf of California, with free warehouses at the termini of each line of transit. ‘2 Goods shipped from transit warehouses to foreign countries to be ft impost. 3. Our troops, military stores and munitions of war to have free passage from occay to ocean, across Tehuante- pec, and from and to Arizona by the road from a port oa he Gulf of Gaiifornia through Souora, 4. The newtrality of tbe transit is guaranteed by both Ny te foree for its at governments, ‘eech “hoe Rearing 8 freedom isto be guaranteed to Ame- rican citizens in Mexioo, no forced loans w be exacted of (6. Fur millious of Jollara, to. be pal United States for these concessions, one-half of which is appropriated w he payment of claims of American citi- “his fs one of the most important friendly treaties ever made by our government, and it must produce material effects of a marked cha- racter to both countries at no distant day. While it will give to Mexico the prospect of an early settlement of her civil disturbances, it will at the same time act as an immediate stimulus to trade with and through her ierri- tory, which will vastly strengthen the elements of order there. The first fruits will be gathered in the effects upon the developement of Arizo- na. The vast mineral wealth of that region now lies fallow from the want of an easy water communication with the markets of the world. This is safely opened through the port which is opened to us on the Gulf of California and the short land transit through the State of Sonora. In connection with the opening of this new California, we may state that arrangements are now on foot which will bring Guaymas within twenty days’ travel of New York by regular steam commu- nication, and a gentleman left here on Tuesday by way of Panama to perfect the arrangements for the running of steamers from Acapulco to the Gulf of California. Under this arrange- ment a tide of emigration will be poured into Arizona before the coming year has closed that will at once create a new State for this Union on the golden-shored Pacific. The rights of transit from the Rio Grande to Mazatlan, and across Tehuantepec, are of even greater importance, though prospective in their realization. In the stipulations of the present treaty the system of free isthmus tran- sit is secured, and will serve hereafter as the type for our treaty arrangements with all the isthmus republics. Had similar care and fore- sight been taken in this respect to that which Mr. Buchanan has exhibited in the present in- stance, the developement of our transisthmus trade would not have been retarded as it has been for the last half dozen years by transit route squabbles and filibustering. The protec- tion which is guaranteed to our merchants in Mexico by this treaty will produce an equally beneficial effect upon our trade with that coun- try; and besides the increase that must accrue’ from the greater security of our citizens, this very fact will tend to concentrate the foreign trade of that republic into their hands, We learn from authentic sources that the conclusion of this treaty was brought about by the joint efferts of Senor Lerdo and Senor Ocampo in the Cabinet of President Juarez. These gentlemen have supported from the first the policy it developes; but the signing of the treaty was delayed by the coming of Senor Lerdo to this country last fall, and the fact that a change in the Juarez Cabinet occurred for a time by the entrance of Senor Fuente in the place of Senor Ocampo as Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The return of the latter gen- tleman to this post, and of Senor Lerdo to the Cabinet, has carried ont the policy that was initiated last summer. Both countries will de- rive immense advantages from the new treaty, and it is to be hoped that it will be ratified by the Senate at an early day. Porrrica, Craquers—Arrnatse ACCORDING to OndER.—It appears that some of the cut and dried inside speeches at the late Academy Union meeting were not only printed before- hand, but were plentifully interlarded in the printed slips with “cheers,” “applause,” “great applause,” &., and that on the delivery of said speeches the “applause,” “cheers,” &c., were, according to the Journal of Commerce, all put in exactly “in the right places.” We presume that the claque was brought in from Tammany, or was adopted from the idea that, such an institution is attached to the Italian Opera; but for a great independent political demonstration, we prefer the offhand speeches and the spontaneous applause of the truly in- dependent outside Scott meetings, PALACe GARDEN HALL.—A testimonial concert to Mr. G. 'W. Morgan, one of the most eminent resident professors of music in the city, and the organist of Graco Church, will be given here to-night. Mrs. Mozart, and other popular artists will aasiet in a very good programme. ‘Tae OPER a7 Pan ADELPHA.—Mies Adelina Patti sang for the last time at Philadelphia on Monday, when “ Don Gio- vanni” was given, with Madame Gazzaniga (Donna Anna), Madame Strakosch (Donna Alvira), Miss Patt! (Zerlina), Susini (Leperello), Brignoli (Don Ottavio), Ferri (Don Giovanni), and Amodio (Masetto). Tho papers praise all the performers, and speak in the highest terms of Patti's ™ Pedrai Carino,” which was cncored. “The Magic Flute,” with Colson, Gauzaniga, Stigelli and Ferri, was announced for last night. New Frexcu Treatre.—The artists of the late French company will give ‘(La Damo aux Camoilas,” at the theatre No, 199 Bowery, this evening. Banuxn’s Fister Gmat.—Mr. Leeds will sell this beautiful statue to-day, atthe Merchants’ Exchange, to the highest bidder. Tho sale takes placo at half-past twelve o’clock, in the Rotunda, and no reserve price will be flxod upon the work, as it must be at once disposed of. It is to be hoped that art connoisseurs and patrons will muster in force on the occasion. Political Intelligence. ‘Tus Recisray Law or Ruope Istaxp.—All persons who desire to vote in Rhode Island at any election held during the year 1860 must have their names rogistored bofore the close of the 31st day of the present moath. PEnxsvivaNtA.—Mr. A. G. Curtin stands prominent be- fore the people’s party of Pennsylvania as a candidate for Governor. ‘Tue Frer Niaaer —The Harrisburg (Pa.) Pelegraph, a black republican papor, says ‘the colored population of Harrisburg exceeds that of any other town in tho State, and this class is made up to a great extent of indolent, in. tomperate, worthless and disorderly porsons of both sexes, some of whom are before our magistrates almost every day in the week.”” The Tl-praph beleves in tree piggets. IMPORTANT POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, Meeting of the Republican Na- tional Committee. The Republican National Convention tobe Held in Chicago on the 13th of June, Meeting of the National American Central Committee. THE CONSERVATIVE. MOVEMENT. Speech of Senator Orittenden, of Kentucky, Kes Rey ke. MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE AT THE ASTOR HOUSE. ‘Tho National Committee, appointed at the Philadelphia Convention of 1856, met at the Astor House yesterday, for the purpose of determining the time and place for hold ing the Repubtican Nationa! Convention. The committees 18 Composed of the following gentiomen:— Bartlett, octet Goodrioh, Stookbridge. Lawrence d, St Albans, Rhode Island.—Wm. M. Chace, Providence. Row Yor—-Bawin D. Morgia, cley of Now Yeck. low yan, ‘ New Jersey.—James T. Sherman, Trenton. Pennsylvania.—Thomas Williams, Pittsburg. Marylasd.—Goorge Harris: Balti y! ris, imore. patchy Coes M. » Whitehall, Obio. mas Spooner, innat. Iilinois.—N. B, Judd, y Tudiana.—Dr. James Ritchie, Franklia, Michigan,—Zachariah Chandler, Detroit. Towa.—Andrew J. Stevens, Fort Des Moine, Wisconsin.—John H. Tweedy, Milwaukee. California. —Canabas Cole, Sacramento City, Kansae. aie ae pence, District of Columbia.—L. Clephane, Washingtom. Missouri —F. P. Blair, St. Louis, ‘The proceedings of the committee were conducted with closed doors, and @ porsou was stationed at the door ef the committee room, to prevent those from entering whe did not go through with the formality of sending in those cards. Our reporter gained admittance for a few me. ‘ments, but could gather nothing of importance, Among the places proposed by the mombers to holé the coming convention in Were the following:— ‘Wheeling, Virginia. Detroit, Michigan. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Philacelphia, Pennsylvania. Indianapolis, Indiana. Chicago, Iliinots. The following delegates wore present:— Maine.—Joseph Bartlett. New Hampshire.—George G. Fogg. Massachusetts.—John Z. Goodrich, Rhode Island.—Wm. M. Chace. Connecticut.—Gideon Welles. New York.—Edwin D. Morgan, Governer of Now York. New Jersey.—James T. Sherman. Pennsylvania.—Thomas Williams. Maryland.—George Harris. Kentucky.— Cassius M. Clay. Ohio. mas Spooner. Tilinois.—Norman B, Judd. Indiana.—James Ritchie. Michigan.—Zacbariah Chandler, United States Senates. Jowa.—J. R. Doolittle. Fee aoe Ne apelin Kansas.—Martin F. Conway, District of Columbia.—Lewis Clephane. Virginia —Alfred Caldwell. Miseouri.—Asa F. Jones. Minnesota.—Wm. A. Howard. Governor Morgan, of New York, had the chair, Wm. M. Chace, of Rhode Island, acting as Sec! ‘ After talking all day of the probable chances of the vari- ous Presidential candidates, the effects of the Old Brown raid onthe republican party, and whether certain States would be with them in the camp , they at about eight P. M. came to an agreement upon the follot time and place to hold their Convent , June 18, 1860, at the city of Chicago, Ulinois, There were quite a large number of outside republicans: in the halls and barroom of the Astor, showing considera- ble interest in what was doing in room No. 41, and a number were in the room with the committee. Thurlow ‘Weed, it is said, was not there. Washington, till after the election for Printer, ia the most attractive place, as he can regulate the Convention at any other time. Horace Greeley was about, here and there getting a word in now and then, but whetber he accomplished ap; ig further than having the privilege of putting the call in type and send- ing slips to the other papers is more than our reporter could ascertain. MEETING OF THE NATIONAL AMERICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Partapstraa, Dec. 21, 1859. ‘The National American Central Committee convened te- day at the American House. Hon. Jacob Broom was ap- pointed Chairman, and Blauten Duncan Secretary. A committee was thon appointed to confer with the committee appointed by the Washington meeting on Mon- day night, “to consider a plan of organization for uniting the opposition to the administration,” consisting of A. H. Hi. Stuart, of Virginia; Anthony Kennedy, of Maryland; Erastus Brooks, of New York; Blauten Duncan, of Ken- tacky, and Jacob Broom, of Pennsylvania. A committee was also appointed to proparo an address to the American people. No other action was decided on. ‘The session was chiefly devoted toa private discussion of the claims of a number of prominent men to fill the tial chair. Hon. James of New Jersey, was appointed a commitice to meet the Washingion coximilteo fe thas city on Friday evening. SPEECH OF SENATOR CRITTENDEN, OF KENTUCKY. ‘Wasurvaton, Dec, 21, 1859. Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, made a powerful ‘Union speech to the conference of oppositionists held in ‘Washington last night. Unfortunately, there was no re~ porter present to take it down, the meeting being private; ‘out Mr. A. 8. Mitchell, editor of the St. Louis Bvening News, being present, undertook to write it out. The fol- lowing is the result, and it is regarded by those who heard it as a remarkable case of the vivid and almost literal reproduction of a speech from memory, several hours after ts delivery. It is furnished by him exclu- sively to the Hera, Mr. Crrrrenpey having been called on to give his views of the present condition of public affairs, rose and said: — GxxTLEMEN—You have given me a broad subject—one that I shall not easily cover to-night—tho present coa- dition of our public affairs, and our duties in view there. of. My share in the work before you cannot bo great. Tam beyond tho point of taking an active in new political affairs. I think Iam now Mend much like one of those Chinese instrumenta—gongs, I think they are called— which are sounded at tayerns to bring you to breakfast, dinner and supper. (Laughter.) @m sounded now merely to summon others to work. But it isto no such entertainment as this I call you. There is mush work for the country to be done. I trust there are many of you able and ready to do it. The sul }, of present deep interest to all of us, is the condition of our national Jature—tho failure of the House of Representatives to or- ganize. This protracted delay presents a spectacle that is painful to the country. It is not creditable to the Tepresentatives of the people, that up to this time they have not been able to assume even the form of a tive body. The fact cannot meet the approbation or re- spect of the country. Ido not pretend to say where tho reproach of this state of things lies. The position of the so-called American members in the House has been em- barrassing, and they have earnestly sought the lins of duty. It does seem to me that, knowing nothing of tho purposes of the two leading parties of the House, they did wisely to nominate their own man, one of their own body, and adhere to that nomination. They have dono 80, Jt is a question whether they shail nat continue to do ‘80 to the end of fee contest. It may be a matter of feol- ing witn me more than of judgment, but I feel thas ground that is id to stand on will do to fall on. (Applause.) Bue I beg that mo one take this as ‘my advico in the matter. I give none. But all things must have an end, and so must even this contest for the Speakership. When or how we cannot yet seo, but it will end. Perhaps the plurality rule may be adopted, though it seems that a majority that re- fuges to clect a ‘er may refuso also to adopt that rulo. But, after all, the contest muat come to an end; apd if before doing so the ‘opposition party resolve to cease casting a united vote, then every one must take care of himself in lea his present ground. But here, again, I musteay, I feel that I would like tobe the last ono to leave. (Applause) But, looking away from this con. test, and abroad over the country, we find much to dis- trees every true patriot in the present stato of the public mind. Iconfess that never before in my life did \ feel such anxiety for the fate of our government. I bave nover believed it possible that Icould bring my mind to the deliberate purpose of pulling down this great fabric. Ido not think that any of us have reached that point, and though we should think so, I am constrained to think that when wo como to the attempt wo should turn in horror from the work. For, think of it, what is the decd pro- Posed? | It Is ono too great, too vast, for any mind fully to comprehend. I hardly dare think of it. If we colt overturn the Alleghany Mountains it would shock all this land as by an earthquake; but to overturn this go- vernment, it would bo mountains upon mountains falling? It would kond a shock throughout the civilized world. No calamity that over fell upon the nations of the earth would spread such horror among men as the falling ruins of, this republic among them. (Deep senaation.) Why, firs, when tho Roman empire fell it was after con- turies of vice had sapped its strength and propered the world for its fate. Corrnption had under- mined its foundations, It sunk slowly, and the process of dissululion was visible for generations be- fore it fell. Bat yet, when it went down at last, it plunged the world in the darkness of barbarism for ages. But a greator disaster than that would be the fall of this republic, now in its yout and vigor. [cannot beliere What We arg Ob Ihe Verge os auch a mig qalauulty. &