The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1859, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orricy ¥. W. CORNKB OF NASSAU AND FULTON era PERMS, cash in advance. Money vent matt will be atthe kar pateien Petage sangdl nat retiocd os pesenionee mony : THE DAILY HERALD theo cents per ST annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD. overy Saturday, ut ie enter the Luropean Baition w wer, annum; Wedi bp et ofp Bi per anne to any pat ret frais to ¢ Continent, a Gajornia ky ion n the Sth and BUA af each month at ss cents per : NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1869. doubtless meet the hearty approval of the aboli- tionists throughout the country. The Asia, from Liverpool on the 10th inst, at rived wt Jersey City yerterdsy morning. Her advices are about two days later thaa those brought by the City of Washington. Cotton bad déclined one-cighth of a penny. Breadstuff’ were steady. The stock of American cotton in Liverpool amounted to 275,008 bales. Consols closed in London on the 9th at 95] a 96 for account, ex-dividend. Active preparations were still being made for PLE EAMILY HERALD on Wodnevlay, at four cents pr | the assembling of the European Congress, but it or $2 per annum. Y CORI INDENCE, contats WoLUNTARY CORRESPOND! NCB, sontatning tnportant news, from any quarter : af sed, will be FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS 4Ru eg a KS OEY OB. er) NOTICE ay eee correspondence. Wedo not JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and de- Woke KXIV........::cesseeeereee eee NOs B55 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDER, Broadway.—Four Lovers—M. Dr- CuaLomEsv. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Yarnrx Tans—Rep Ran- CER—GOOD NaTORED GENTLEMAN. was thought that England's action in not sendiag a direct representation would detract from its importance. Some additional details relative to the progress of the war between Spain and Morocoo ae given io our compilation of the news. From 8t. Petersburg it was announced in London that the Chinese had ordered the Russians to evacuate the Amoor river settlements, and had shut up the Embassy at Pekin in their palace. We have files from the Cape of Good Hope to the (th ult. The Parliament has been further pro” rogued until the 11th of January. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, ONINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— | writing on the Ist instant, says:—Withia the past WALLACKIS THEATRE, Broadway.—Evenrsopr's Friexp—FortY axp Firtr. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Distant Brations. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Prorix’s Law. yore Sue Maray!—Warmugic Gic Hati—Barer cm FRENCH THEATRE, 595 Broadway.—Cowst's Mustoan ENTERTAINMENT. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broatway —After- noon—Camr at CusLONS—PHENOMENON IN 4 SMOCK FRocK— -Lapy or Lyons. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Ball, 472 Broadway— Buriesques, Sones, Dances, &c.—Suarrisz Panty. NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Cunisty’s Mix- erneis ux Soncs, Dances, Buriesqvrs, £¢.—Dviciner Swirrs. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRFL’S, 444 Broadway.—Eraiorian Sonas, Danczs, &c.—New Yeau Cais. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 72) Broadway.—Drarrton’s} Par- | ~ Lox Orgars anv Lyric Proverss. CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Eaquestaiax Penronu- anxces—Dick Torrin—Two Bonnycast.ss. New York, Friday, December 23, 1859. The News. The President’s Message will, in all probability, be sent in to Congress to-day. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Gwin introduced the Pacific Railroad bill. It is the same as the one acted on last session. Bills were introduced provid- ing for the payment of the expenses of the Indian wars in Iowa, Oregon and Washington, and also for the payment of certain Texas volunteers. A resolu- tion was adopted, to the effect that when the Se- nate adjourn to-day, it stand adjourned from time to time till the 3d day of January. This course was regarded by some Senators as an evasion of law, but precedents were found for it in the ac- tion of the Senate on the occasion of the meeting of the Cincinnati and Philadelphia Presidential Conventions. In the House the discussion between the demo. cratic and Southern opposition members respecting the Speakership was resumed, and two ballottings for Speaker were had without effecting a change. A proposition from the democratic side to adjourn over for the holidays elicited a stirring speech from | Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, who urged an early | organization of the House im order that the suffer- ing mail contractors may obtain their pay. He said the contractors threaten soon to discontinue | their services unless their claims were satisfied. | The Republican National Committee continued their session yesterday at nine o'clock A.M. After | being organized, a member spoke in favor of a call | in terms inviting men to the National Convention | from all parts of the country. A strong opposition | was made to this proposition, as many members | were in favor of a strict party call. One delegate, while speaking on the question of the call, said the great fault in the course of the republiean party was the unnecessary agitation of the stavery ques tion. By so doing a furor had been created that would not have followed a more conciliatory course. During the proceedings a colored man, named Putnam, an agent of the American Coloni- zation Society, applied for admission to see Mr. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, but that gentleman not being present Putnam went away disappointed. At one o'clock the committee ended their discus- sion as to a call, and adopted one; but some diffi- culty was experienced in getting an endorsement for it. It was, however, finally accomplished. It is printed in another column. The matter of the apportionment of delegates was then taken up and discussed for some time, but the majority came to the conclusion not to alter the present plan. The committee then adjourned sine die. The question of the right of government con- tractors and others to appeal from the decisions of the heads of departments to the President has recently arisen, under the following circum} stances :—Meesrs. Sweeny, Rittenhouse, Fant & Co., bankers, addressed a letter to the Presi- dent, containing a formal appeal from the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury against them on two points:—First, his refusal to permit them to deposit at San Francisco any portion of the go- vernment loan taken by them under the proposals by the Secretary, of the 17th December, 1858; and second, his refusal to refer the question to the At- torney General. It is understood that bankers take the position that the place of deposit was clearly made a material part of the contract, and that the bidder, if successful, was explicitly authorized under the proposals to select any government depository nearest to his residence, or indicated as most conve- nient by him. Iinmediately after the award this firm offered to deposit the amount with a depository at San Francisco. The Secretary declined to receive it there, on the ground that he did not require funds at that place, and that his proposals did not au- thorize them to deposit at San Franeisco. A balance of their loan, therefore, remains unpaid. The correspondence shows that they have always been ready to pay at San Francisco. The Presi- dent has answered their letter by informing them that an appeal does not lie to the President from the decisions of the heads of the different executive departments. Their acts and decisions are those of the President, for which he is held responsible, and that they are his, in fact, in all cases of dif- ficulty and importance. The truth, he says, is that such an appellate jurisdiction would render it im- possible tor him to discharge his high duties to the country, and would resolve his office into a tribunal to hear and determine private claims in tne last resort. He refers these bankers to the Court of Claims or to Congress. They have selected the latter. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a lecture last evening at the Cooper Institute, before the Gillette Young Men’s Association. His theme was, “How to save the Union,” and he promulgated very strong Union sentiments, but differed materi- ally in the way in which some persons would work out the problem of saving the Union. The hall was very well filled, and the proceedings passed off in perfect harmony. ‘The anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim ‘Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, and the fifty-fourth -anniversary of the New England Society, were celebrated by said society last evening, at the As- tor House, with the usual festivities. We give a re- port elsewhere, from which it will be seen that Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and Dr. Bellows, of this city, alluded to the “ irrepressible conflict” raging in the political world. The Doctor animad- verted upon the proceedings of the Union meeting at the Academy of Music in a style waich will . ten days three vessels from the United States have arrived with breadatuffs, and, strange tovsay, prices have edvanced. Flour, $6 a $6 25; corn meal, $5 20 a $5 40. Corn is wanted; last sales §2 35, and none in market. Good herrings, alewives aud mackerel are wanted; codfish in good supply. The weather continues very genial; the heavy rains through the country have been succeeded by bright sunshine, with occasional showers, mostly at night, very | tavorable for vegetation, and the crops continue to improve rapidly. Writs for the new Assembly will be issued next week, so that the House will be ready by Christmas to meet his Excellency Mr. Hincks, who is expected by the steamer that leaves | England December 1. The water works are pro- | gressing rapidly, and will be completed by the mid- | dle of February next. terday, a report was presented from the Joint Com- | mittee on the Comptroller's budget, recommending | an addition of $10,000 for city contingencies, | $10,000 for donations, and $20,000 for street re- | pairs; also deducting $1,000 from the estimates for } lands and places, $1,000 from that for water pipes &c., and $35,271 from the estimates for schools—thus adding $2,729 to the Comptroller's estimates. The amount to be raised by taxation for the expendi- tures of 1860 is put down at $6,887,000. The re- port was made the special order for Tuesday next. The Board concurred in the report appropriating $12,000 for repairs to. the bridge of the Grand street ferry. ‘The Board of Councilmen last evening author- ized a donation of $2,500 to the Fire Department Funé. The Comptrollerasked for an additional $20,600 for printing authorized by the departments without the authority of the Street Department. The ordinance respectiog the inspection of steam engines was made the special order for Tuesday next. The Board of Supervisors met last evening. Mr- Bell said that in consequence of the slim attend. ance of members he would defer his resolution re specting the proposed increase of the Judges sala. ries for the present. The Committee on Printing, &c., reported on the bill for printing the minutes and documents of the Board, and gave it as their opinion that the work could be done tor less than $1,018. They recommended that the present bill be allowed, but that a committee inquire whether the work cannot be done on more reasonable terms for the future. A report of the Committee on Criminal Courts, recommending the payment of the bill of the Manhattan Gas Company, for gas sup- plied to Essex Market prison, court room, &c., amounting to $1,530 22, was rejected on the ground that the bill was not properly a county charge. The report of the same committee, recommending the increase of the police force to 1,400 men, was re- ceived and adopted. The Board then adjourned to Tuesday next. The express train on the New York and Erie Railroad, bound east, when near Painted Post, Steuben county, about half past one o'clock yea- terday afternoon, struck a cutter containing two persons, killing one (James Thompson) almost in stantly, and injuring the other (name unknown) very seriously. The horse was also killed and the cutter smashed up. Mr. Thompson was the owner of a tannery in Painted Post, and leaves a family to mourn his untimely end. A large number of the members of the Fire De- partment turned out yesterday afternoon and united in paying the last tribute of respect to the remains of Francis Kane, late of Hose Company No. 17, who lost his life while in discharge of his duty'at the late fire in Wooster street. The funeral took place from the late residence of the deceased, in avenue A, and the remains were interred in Calvary Ceme- tery. the foreign news by the Asia had a depressing influence on the cotton market, which fell off yesterday one-eighth of acent per pound; sales were more active, however, ‘at the concession, especially for lots in transit, and em- bracea about 8,500 bales, mostly in transit, including about 2,000 bales in store, on the basis of Lic. per Ib. for middling uplands, and at 1134c. for strict middling do. Flour was less active and buoyant, while prices were without important change. Wheat was quiet, and in the absence of sales of moment quotations were nominal. Corn was heavy, and closed atadecline of 2c. a 3c. per bushel. Pork was firmer, with moderate sales at $16 a $16 123; for mess, and at $11 60 a $11 6234 for prime. Sugars were firm, with sales of 400 a 500 hhds. and 500a 600 boxes at prices ‘given in another column. Coffee was quiet, while holders were firm. The stock on the 20th inst. embraced 15,606 bags Rio, 36,500 mats, and 1,000 bags Java. The total of all kinds amounted to 60,392 packages. Freights were firm, with fair engagements. The Call for the Republican National Convention—Taking the Back Track. The ~‘call” for the National Convention of the republican party, which we publish to-day, is a very remarkable manifesto. It was the result of great labor and muoh ¢ibulation. It is brief; but it embodies a volume of matter in regard to recent political events and disclo- sures, and touching the present alarming and threatening crisis of the slavery agitation, and the movements afoot for the organization of a new Presidential party upon a national plat- \ form. After designating the time and place for the | meeting of the National Republican Conven- tion, the authorized committee of said party call upon “the republican electors of the seve- Tal States, the members of the people’s party of Pennsylvania, and of the opposition party of New Jersey, and all others who are willing to co-operate with them in support of the can- didates which shall there be nominated,” &c., &c., to send delegates to said convention. Now this is liberal; but the people's party of Penn- sylvania, and the opposition party of New Jer- sey. will be very apt to go up to Chicago with the full knowledge of their power, and they will be apt, also, to extort such a candidate or platform. as will drive the radical anti-slavery men from the camp, and entail a loss of half a dozen other States, in this effort to save New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That the republican managers are anxious about these two conservative States is evident from their skulking abandonment of Mr. Sew- ard’s “irrepressible conflict,” as interpreted by John Brown, and as elaborated into a regu- lar system of anti-slavery operations in the slave States by Helper. The republican party, At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes- | it now appears, flatly repudiates not only Seward, Brown and Helper, but the republican platform of 1856, concerning the removal of ~ those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.” The “call” in question invites the co-opera- tion of all who are “ opposed to the policy of the present admiuistration—to federal corrup- tion and usurpation—to the extension ofslavery into the Territories—to the new and dangerous political doctrine that the cohstitution, of its own torce, carries slavery into all the Territo- ries of the United States—to the reopening of the African slave trade, and to any inequality of rights among citizens.” Such are the negative principles of the republican party, as now officially proclaimed to the world. The intelligent reader will perceive that they embody a good share of clap- trap for buncombe, the old obsolete idea of the Wilmot Proviso, and hostility to the Dred Scott decision. The African elave trade dodge was expected; but we apprehend that very little party capital can be made out of it, from the fact that the movements forthe revival of this unlawful traffic are limited to a few reokless Southern fire-eaters and a few North- ern speculators of the philanthropic school. In regard to the equal rights of our citizens, we are somewhat in doubt whether this “call” is particularly intended to denounce the late invidious Massachusetts naturalization law against foreign born white citizens, or the laws against those free negro Northern citizens who, as employ és on board ship, may visit the ports of South Carolina. The visiter to the menagerie, who inquired which is the rhino- ceros and which the hippopotamus, was answered that having paid his money he could take his choice; and we dare say that in this matter of the equal rights of our citizens, the republican committee allows everybody the same privilege. The new affirmative principles of the re- publican party, in this connection, call for the co-operation of all “who are in favor of the immediate admission of Kansas;”’ of “restoring the federal administration to a rigid system of economy, and to the principles of Washington and Jefferson; of maintaining inviolate the rights of the States, and defending the soil of every State and Territory froy lawless inva- sion, and of preserving the integrity of the Union, and the supremacy of the constitution and laws passed in pursuance thereof, against the conspiracy of the leaders of a sectional party, to resist the majority principle as estab- lished by this government.” Here we have the pith of the whole matter. Here we find that Seward, Brown and Helper have been somewhat too fast, and that they are unceremoniously kicked out of the republican camp; that we are not to have an “irrepressible conflict’’ with slavery, “until all the States shall have become free States or slave States,” nor anything of the sort. And to this “call,”’ thus softening down the republican party creed to a mixture of milk and water, we find the names of such endorsers of the Helper handbook of abolition treason as Edwin D. Morgan, of New York, and Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky. What does all this mean? Is it hypocrisy or is it repentance? The managers of the republican camp are evidently frigitened; they have suddenly changed from the wost rampant of anti-slavery crusaders to the 1 st plausible of Northern doughfaces. Placed +- tween two fires—between the progressive a »- litionists and the conservative masses ©! the North—Seward’s followers are called «Jon to take the back track, and we shall awuit with great interest the general result. It will either be a bolder anti-slavery front at Chicago, or the loss of those progressive abolition elements without which the republican camp is broken up. In either event the party will be shorn down to a mere faction and destroyed, with anything like an active movement in the or- ganization of a new and national conservative party, upon the platform embodied in the name of General Scott. JovrNanisM iN THR Orn Fooy Srrie—The two papers in this city which made the greatest noise about the late Union meeting at the Academy of Music, the Hxpress and the Jour- nal of Commerce, got up the whole affair be- tween them, selected the speakers and made all the arrangements, took as. much pains as possible to keep everything connected with it secret, and render it as cliqueish as they could. The way they treated the transaction as jour- nalists is peculiar and deserves exposure. They got the speeches of the orators printed be- forehand, with all the “cheers,” “applause” and notes of admiration neatly inserted, and sent around slips to the other journals before the speeches were made at all. Our mode of treating that meeting as jour- nalists was different. -We allowed the mer- chants to get up the meeting in their own way; we allowed the speakers to prepare their speeches a week in advance, if they had a mind to, and study their delivery in the highest dra- matic fashion, if it suited them; but when the meeting came off we sent ten reporters there to take down the speeches exactly as they were delivered, not as they had been printed in advance, and describe every incident exact- ly as it occurred. Our report is the only true and correct one. The speeches printed in the Express and Journal of Commerce are not ex- actly the same speeches made in the Academy of Music, and the “cheers,” “applause,” notes of admiration, ‘and so forth, are all bogus. Their report of the meeting is a cheat and an imposition on the community. And yet the editors of those papers claim to represent all the piety and respectability of the New York press. One of them represents the sanctity, the religion, and the Sabbath piety, and the other the respectability and intelligence of New York journalism. . The laziness, indolence and impudence evinced in this transaction deserve to be ex- posed. More Financterine a La Conp.—By refe- rence to to-day’s money article, it will be seen that the Secretary of the Treasury has pitched upon so unfortunate a day to open the bids for his new $3,000,000 of Treasury notes that bidders will have to make their de- posits three days in advance. As, moreover, many people leave town on the Saturday be- fore Christmas, the bids will probably be mach fewer than they would have been had the Sec- retary selected Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday for opening the bids. In a word, Mr. Cobb has just, chosen the very worst day of the week for his work, and the chances are that his blunder will cost the United States 4 per cent on the loan—say $10,000 a $20,000, So much for financicring by Georgia lawyers. General Stott and the Union Meeting. ‘The pious depravity that directs the columns of the first daily abolition sheet ever started in this city, our blanket cotemporary of Wall street, has a fit of downright anger at the Heravp and the Union meeting for nominating Gen. Scott as the conservative candidate for the Presidency. Instead of adhering to the demure language that becomes the hypocrisy and the cloth they wear, they have resorted to the vocabulary of Satan. According to their view, the nomiaation of Gen. Scott is “brazen-faced impudence or downright depravity;” the Hrranp has seized upon him “very*much as a hyena;” his fair fame “is trifled with and sacrificed” to “unhal- lowed desires;” “the brave old man, just re- turned from along and toilsome service,” is seized by the “evil spirit and passions of a de- praved panderer to the worst feelings of the human heart,” and devoted to “the fangs of this destructive instrument of evil.” Such isa sample of the style in which it pitches into the Heratp, calling it an “unprincipled falsifier of events,” and then it triumphantly asks, “Can baseness go further or deeper than this?” To which we reply we should rather think it could. The Journal of Commerce will find abun- dant evidence of the truth of our reply, by looking into the motives in its own bosom which prompted its attack, ap- parently upon the Heraup, but in reality on General Scott, on the thousands at the Union meeting who hailed his name with enthusiasm, and the spontaneous outburst of popular sentiment in the country, which is de- termined to place the veteran pacificator at the helm of State during the stormy period upon which we are now entering. The pious de- pravity of the abolition sheet is shocked be- cause the intrigues of its pet, the Albany Re- geucy, did not succeed in controlling the ex- pression of popular desire in the Union meeting. Therefore it turns upon us and ac- cuses us of doing exactly what it had planaed to do itself. It would deliver General Scott, or anybody else, over to “the fangs of the destruc- tive instrument of evil,” if by so doing it could save its pet rascals in the Regency. And it is all the more irate because it foresees that the popularity of General Scott is destined to un- mask the hypocrisy of its fellow abolitionists, Confidence Cassidy and Company, of Albany. We do not see that there is any necessity for letting the name of General Scott rest in for- getfulness, because “the brave old veteran, who was ready to give his influence to his country’s good” in a recent emergency, has “just return- ed from a long and toilsome service.” The “brave old veteran” can rest from his physical fatigues, even though a grateful country does invoke his name with pleasure and confidence; and it is only the pious depravity of a set of unprincipled political schemers, who fear that his honest patriotism will defeat their abolition intrigues, that prompts the desire that General Scott’s name should be hushed in order that he may get a little physical rest. To use his own words, General Scott “is a minute man at the call of his country,” and in the coming emergency the whole country will seize upon his name as the beacon of hope and the promise of safety for the constitution and the country. THE WasuincTon ConstitvTIoN AND TAMMANY Hatt.—The blundering, brainless journal at Washington, called the Constitution, publishes and fully endorses the address of the Tammany Hall General Committee, issued after the de- feat of that degenerate, rotten concern by the national democracy and Fernando Wood; and what is still worse, it endorses Tammany Hall itself. In the Tammany address, among other things, it is stated that the republican party voted for Wood, and that the Simon Pure democracy alone voted for Havemeyer. The force of im- pudence cannot further go. Every man in this city knows that the very reverse is the truth, and that Wood was nominated by the national democracy, and supported by them alone, while Havemeyer was nominated by the free soil democrats of Tammany Hall, and received at the same time the active support ofthe repub- licans. Wood has always been on the side of national principles; Havemeyer, it is not de- nied, was one of the leaders in the anti-slavery and sectional movement of 1848, developed in the Buffalo platform, which has debauched, divided, distracted and defeated the democracy in this State ever since, and once has been the cause of the defeat of the party in a Presidential election. Havemeyer, therefore, though not an active politician for some time, was recognized by the republicans at the recent election as holding the same anti- slavery sentiments as themselves, and their support was claimed on that ground, and they electioneered for him. Tammany Hall hired the black republican 7imes to sustain him day after day in almost every column, and Mr. Anthon, an avowed leader of the republicans, and who keeps the treason shop in Wall street for the circulation of Helper’s book, was one of the principal orators for Havemeyer at the Tammany meetings. Can any doubt, therefore, exist about the matter? None whatever. Yet the drivelling journal at Washington which endorses the pro- ceedings of those men, and probably sympa- thizes with the anti-slavery element in New York, is owned and edited by two men who are candidates for the printing of the Senate. Such ignorant boobies are unfit to be printers to that body; and men betraying such leanings towards the wrong side in this dangerous crisis ought not to receive any encouragement at the hands of the most conservative branch of the national legislature. Sovurnern Secesstox—-Axp THEN ?—The or- gans of the Southern people, in Congress and out, on the stump and in the press, are unani- mous in declaring that in the event of the elec- tion of Seward as President they will secede from the Union. How is this to be déne? By raising an army of a hundred thousand men, and then organizing a government for a South- ern confederacy. Suppose that Mr. Seward were elected, and the South had taken this course, what could he do? The trade of the North would be broken up, if not altogether destroyed. There would be panics, distrust, degolation, and finally civil war. The Presi- dent would not only be powerless against the South, but he would find the North in rebel- lion. The federal government would be just no government at all; and while the South would present a united front against it, the North could give it no material aid. Probably the executive would have its hands more: than full with the work of putting down the North- ern disaffection which the etagnation of com- merce and the ruin of our industrial interests would naturally create. That is the “then” of Southern secession. Toe Evrecr or Tue Late Union Meerina.— From all quarters we are receiving intelligence, both public and private, of the effect through- out the country of the great Union meeting held in this city on Monday last. Ithas stirred up the right spirit everywhere; and we have received numerous inquiries as to what ought to be done to sustain this national movement; and the chief anxiety of our correspondents is to know all about the nomination of Scott and Houston as President and Vice President for the campaign of the coming year. We publicly reply to these letters, by advia- ing all Union men, no matter what they have been hitherto called—all who want to prevent the breaking up of this confederacy and the destruction of its great interests, North and South, East and West—to form Union associa- tions, and to hold Union meetings, at which they will nominate Scott and Houston, and pronounce in strong resolutions in favor of the constitutional rights of the South. The demo- cratic party is rotten, tainted in the North with abolitionism, and in the South with the disunion sentiment; it is demoralized and corrupt, and can do nothing to avert the danger which threatens the country, but, on the contrary, is a principal cause of it. The republican party is treasonable in its language and designs, and is more directly instrumental in bringing about such a disastrous condition of our political af- fairs. Both parties must be crushed by the overwhelming weight of public opinion, and by organization all over the land for the con- servative and Union ticket, which will work a complete revolution at the polls, breaking down the depraved existing organizations with as complete a defeat as thatin which Andrew Jackson and his white braves overthrew the British power at New Orleans, or that in which General Scott whipped the Mexicans at Vera Cruz, at Cerro Gordo, and behind the ramparts of their capital. A Very Mean Cuarce.—The, Washington correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer makes a false and silly statement, to the effect that “Bennett of the Herap” was paid up- wards of two hundred dollars out of the con- tingent expenses of Congress last year, for Heraxps furnished to members of the special session of Congress, which lasted only ten days; and adds that the joke of the thing is, that ninety dollars of the amount was paid for per- sons who were not members of that Congress at all. Now, the rule is, that members of Con- gress are allowed to take a certain number of papers every session, for which Congress pays, in order to keep them posted in the affairs of the country. They order them from the Clerk of the House, or the Secretary of the Senate, and select what papers they choose—the Heratp, or Tribune, or Courier, whichever best suits them, the bills for which are made out and paid at the end of the session. We never send the Hxrratp to any one but those whose names are forwarded to us by the Clerk, and they have all been members of Congress. If the Clerk has charged $90 against fictitious names, that is a matter for Mr. Allen to settle with Congress itself. We have nothing to do with ft. The Courier’s correspondent must know the law governing this matter as wellas we do—that is, if any one in Congress thinks the Courier worth reading—and with that knowledge, to make such a charge, is meanness most contemptible. Arr anp Irs Parroxs.—From the report of the proceedings at the auction sale, which ap- pears in another column, itwill be seen that Mr. Barbee’s beautiful statue of the “Fisher Girl” was yesterday disposed of for the shamefully low sum of $2,750. If the work was worth a cent it was worth five thousand dollars (mini- mum estimate), and the sale that has been made of it can only be regarded in the light of a sacrifice enforced by the necessities of the sculptor. In the hands of Mr. Derby, who can afford to keep it until he gets his price, its money value has risen in a single day to more than double what that gentleman paid for it. Weare satisfied that if any one were to offer him five thousand dollars for his bargain he wouldat once refuse it. There is one great consolation for the sculptor in this disappoint- ment. What he may have lost pecuniarily he has gained in fame by this exposure of his work. It was universally conceded yesterday, by competent judges, to be superior toany pro- duction of the kind that has ever been brought under the hammer here. When Mr. Barbee has another statue to dispose of he may restaasured that he will have no difficulty in finding a purchaser for it. The discriminating collectors who were afraid to touch his chef d’auvre be- cause he had not a reputation of market currency will be glad enough by and bye to give him his own prices. The humiliation of yesterday is one of the penalties which genius has to pay fora name. Let Mr. Barbee not be cast down or discouraged; he will soon be in a position to take his revenge on the in- difference of those pretended patrons of art who can only detect merit when it is endorsed by dealers and pre-ented to them with the sur- charge of a stiff commission. TeLxGrapuic ComMuNicaTION wiTH THE Pa- civic SHorE.—The time is fast approaching when we shall have a direct telegraphic com- munication with California; and the news from that region, which is often of the highest com- mercial importance, and which now takes twen- ty-eight days to reach New York by the overland mail, and about twenty by the isthmus, will be flashed along the wires every hour. Last fall telegraphic lines were actively being con- structed westward from St. Louis, and are now considerably advanced—one by way of Fort Smith to Los Angeles, California, where it will connect with a line running from San Fran- cisco; and another from St. Lonis by way of Atchison to Salt Lake City. Arrangements have now been made by the Western Union Tele- graph Company for carrying forward a tele- graph line from St. Louis to San Francisco, Three hundred miles of this line are already completed west of St. Louis, on the route of the overland mail, and two hundred and fifty miles at the San Francisco end. Itis intended to transmit semi-weckly sum- maries of California news arriving from San Francisco by the overland mail, adding two or three days later news at Ios Angeles; and on the arrival of the mail at Springfield, Missouri, the intelligence will be immediately despatched by telegraph to New York via St. Louis and Buffalo. This arrangewent will at once bring * CE EEE New York within about sixteen days of San Franolaco, and will give us a full summary of California news twelve days earlier than we now receive a telegraphic sketch of the same overland: This is perhaps the greatest achievement in telegraphic operations on this continent, and when completed will Prove of the utmost importance to the commercial inte- rests of the Atlantic States, and, indeed, of the whole country. Woxverrut Revival, 1x THE Opgra.—We have already alluded to the peculiarly interesting circumstances under which the recent Opera season at the Academy was begun, continued and ended—how almost everything and almost everybody except the eleventh hour donna, Miss Patti, broke down, and how her ex- traordinary success saved the fortunes of the. Opera, and carried the managers away to the provinces with flying colors. It is known, too, very well, that in Philadelphia Miss Patti re- affirmed her metropolitan triumphs, and excited the immobile people of the Quaker City to an unwonted excess of enthusiasm. Just now the managers of the are operating both in New York and in Philadel- phia; their artistic resources enabling them to divide and conquer both cities at the same point of time. For them the golden age com- menced with the engagement of Mias Patti. The two nights reserved during this week for “Lu- cia di Lammermoor ” and “ La Sonnambula,” im both of which operas Miss Patti sang, were very successful. The Academy of Music om Wednesday and on last evening was crowded with a purely metropolitan audience, assembled to hear in hackneyed operas a prima donna who was altogether unknown six weeks ago, The amount of money taken at the Academy for these two nights is nearly five thousand dollars, or something more than a week’s re- ceipts during the dark periods of the season. As a matter of course, this prosperous re- sul has inspirited the managers and restor- ed their drooping spirits and given new life to the directors of the Academy, who fur- nished the material and wherewith to carry on the season. So far have the latter poten- tates been delighted with the success of Miss Patti that they are making arrangements for a grand benefit, which is to be given to the new prima donna next week. It is intended that this benefit shall be a brilliant tribute from the polite world of the metropolis to an ex- quisite singer, who belongs especially to New York. During the whole of Christmas week the Opera will be continued. On Monday “Ernani” is to be given for the début of Signor Susini, a basso, who will be favorably remem- bered as having been a member of the Grisi and Mario company. “Don Giovanni” is an- nounced for Tuesday, with Miss Patti as Zer- lina, for the first time in New York. Perform- ances will also be given on Thursday and Fri- day, and one of these nights will be taken for the grand Patti benefit. It is quite a new idea this of giving opera during the holidays; but the fact is that we live in a day of new things, a time of revolu- tion in operatic as well as other matters. “Little Patti” has made a thorough operatic revival, and the managers make use of it to their own advantage and the delectation of the public. It is very refreshing, too, this onsis in the desert of politics. People are beginning to be a little tired of the music of the Union destroyers, and that of the Union savers does not seem to be particularly effective. Both sides, however, can meet upon one plat- form with regard to such artists as Patti and Gazzaniga. With regard to the quality of their music there can be but one opinion; and we seriously advise those rampant agitators, the Reverend Doctors Cheever and Beecher, to try the effect of a little operatic medicine upon their biliary ducts. The soothing effect of music upon the most confirmed lunatics is uni- versally acknowledged by medical men; and who knows that Miss Patti’s Zerlina, or Ma- dame Gazzaniga’s Saffo, may not yet bring about the result that the orators and publicists are now endeavoring to compass, and actually save the Union? In this point of view the Opera becomes a matter of national im- portance, and should command the support of all parties. South Carolina Legislature Preparing for Secession. Ciartaston, Dec. 20, 1859. A special despatch from Columbia, dated 19th inst., says that both Houses have adopted a resolution that South Carolina owes it to her own citizens to protect them and their property from every enemy, and that for the purpose of military preparation, for any emergency, the sum of $100,000 be appropriated. ‘The Senate also adopted a resolution that, while still de- ferring to her Southern sisters, she respectfully announces to them that, in her judgment, the safety and honor of the slaveholding States imperatively demand a speedy separation from the free soil States of the confederacy, and earnestly invites and urges her sister States of the South to originate the movement of Southern sepa- ration, in which she pledges herself promptly to unite. ———$—$ The Ohio State Treasury Defalcation. CoLwMavs, Dec. 22, 1859. In the case of W. H. Gibson, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio, tne jury, after being out twenty-four hours, Drought in this morning a verdict of guilty of defalcation. The Schooner G. F. Williams Ashore. Boston, Dec. 22, 1859. ‘The schooner G. F. Williams, from Now York for Hills- boro, reported ashore on Nanctucket beach, got off this morning and has arrived here. The Florida Savannah. Savannan, Deo. 22, 1860, ‘The steamship Florida arrived here trom New York rebeag o’clock this morning. She was delayed by a storm. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Puriaperpnta, Dec. 22, 1859, Stocke quite. Pennsylvania State 6’s, 9534; Reading Rail 2034; Morris Canal, 60; Long sland Railroad, 11; Pennsylvania Railroad, 38. New Orugays, Dec. 22, 1869. Cotton casicr, but quotations unchanged: sales to-day 12,000 bales; middling 105jc. a 10%c. The combination of cotton factors has dissolved, and their committee have resigned. Sugar dull and declined }, fair to fully fair 6%. a T3gc. 3 Gio. Freights to Liver- pool 13-16c. “Sterling exchange has declined 44; sales at 7X a 8 per cent premium. Savannan, Dec. 22, 1859. Cotton—Sales to-day 1,400 bales. The Asia’s news had no effect on the market. Sales of 'the week 7,500 bales. Receipts of the week 20,000 bales, against 16,500 in the corresponding week of last year. Increased receipts at all the ports, 291,500 bales. “Stock here, 80,600 bales. Caariesron, Dec. 22, 1959. Cotton—Sales to-day 1,000 bales—all before the receipt of the Asia’s news; sales of the week 11,750 bales; prices on the week are’ gc. higher; good middling is quoted. at 107,c. Pintaperpma, Deo. 22, 1869. Flour quiet. Wheat unchanged. Corn ly. Onts steady. Whiskey firm at 26440, a 2734¢, Cixciysatt, Dee. 22, 1959. Hoge—The market opened buoyant, but as soon as it was ascertained that the recelpta were beyond expecte- tion the buoyancy disappeared. Thero was, however, * good demand a; $6 26 a $6 60 per cwt. ‘Pork Armvat $16 50 a $16 75 for mess. Bacon—sides 944c. and shoul ders 73{c. Lard steady at 1c. meats dull. Flour buoyant: supertine $6 30 n $5 Whiskey 230. Court Calendar—This Day. 1 Surnxme Cc -—=Part Lax Nos. 6087, 6481, 6095, 64354, Guls, 461, 4577, 4537, 2491, 6199, 6565, 436, 643, Nos. BOLL, 4464, 6062, 6610, BORE, 5096, 5266, € 2. Serenion Cov 800,