The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1859, Page 4

4 WEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1859. Great Conservative Movement for N EW YORK HERALD. ig is tt to be Organized? JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. prece XN. W. COBNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON ara SAAR, ened in advance, Money vent by mail will beat the risk of the senter, Postage warnne not recetved as subscription Y APRALD. 00 conte per 1, ST per annum. ¥ HERALD. every Saturday, at six cents annum; the uropean dition coery Wednacdoy, copy, $4 per ansium (0, ani of . tof the Continent. bth'to tnrtuds povtane; the ia Ziition on the bth and ith af each month at si cents ‘07 BL 50 per annum. FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four conte per annum. TARY CORRESPONDENCE, ‘from any posers ff sed, will be ‘for. OR FOREIGN CORRESFONDENTS ARE ReEQussTeD 70 SEAL 4 Lerrens Woerally >? Pasmcocsacx AGRA S¥NT TA ‘We want a new national party. The present crisis of the slavery agitation calls for the in- tervention of such a party without further delay, The late spontaneous popular mani- featations in this city on behalf of Gen. Scott indicate the drift of public opinion in regard to the principles and policy of such a party. The materials within reach of an organization of this conservative national character are abundant North and South. But they are un- ing important | Organized; and in default ofa broad national organization upon which they can be united aso Paoe: | in season for the work in 1860, the bulk of ZOE PRUFTLUTG enecited with neainens, chenpasee anide- | these available materials for a aew party will wot Volumes XXIV... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ATADENY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Tux Mussan, ev ras Nsw York Hagmomtc Socierr. be drawn off into one or the other of the two No. 356 | rotten sectional factions of the day—the dis- union faction of our Northern nigger worship- pers, or the secession faction of the Southern fire eaters. There were nearly four millions of votes cast NTB10'S GARDER, Brosdway.—Cowsoatrr—Les Asguixs | in our last Presidential election, and that the —JocKo, BOWRRY THEATRE, Bowory.—Sawta Cisvs—Vanure ‘Tans—Sev Races, WINTES GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Octesoon WALLACK!S THEATRE, Broadway.—Kranvaopr’s Fatsvo—Forty anv Firzy. aggregate vote of 1860 will largely exceed four millions there can be no reason to doubt. But putting down the popular vote of the Union at four millions, and our total popu- lation at thirty millions, and looking at the pre- sent controlling position of the republican party glAUSs XRENE'S THEATRE, 614 Brosdway.—Dusraxt | North, and of the democratic party South, upon NeW BOWERY THEATRE, Motux2 Goose AND THE GOLDEN FRENCH THEATRE, 895 Broadway.—Cowsu’s Musica, Baresat atest. se apis NEW FRENCH THEATRE, 199 aad 201 Bowery—Ga- BRIRLLE. Bowery —F 4-00-2ON-tas— ox insu Covsix. TM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broa¢way.—After- Tour pe Nestz—Dounix Bxvoep Room. Hven- ' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Ball, 472 Broadway— | . Sones, Dances, &c.—Suarnise Party. NIBLO’S SALOON, Brosdway.—Geo. Curisrr's Mix. | srugs ix Soxos, Dances. Buncesaues, &e—-Afiernoon | aad Evening—DvLcrmex Swires. i} WOOD'S MINSTREDS, 444 Broadway.—Ermiortax Soncs, Danoxa, &c,—New Year Catts, —faquesteiay Pearorm- | CHATHAM AMPHITHEAT ok TURPIN—Santa Cavs. ANCES—Atiernoon and Eveniny POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Brooklyn —Matinee at Two | o'Ciock—DRAYTON'S FAKLOR OFRARS axp LyRic Paovenss. | New York, Saturday, December 24, 1859, The News. The President's Message was not communicated to Congress yesterday. As there is not the re- moteat prospect of the House organizing till after the holidays, and as the Senate has virtually ad- jouroed till the 3d prox.,in all probability the Measage will not be sent in till after that time. The President yesterday nominated Judge Roose- velt to the post of United States District Attorney for this district, made vacant by the death of Theo- dore Sedgwick. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate. Jn the Senate yesterday a bill was introduced providing for a temporary government and the creation of the office of Surveyor General for the Territory of Arizona. This Territory, according to an official report just made by Colonel Bonneville, is valuable solely on account of its mineral pro- ductions. Its population consists of about four H huadred Americans and three thousand Mexicans, | and various tribes of Indians. After an executive session, during which several unimportant appoint- ments were confirmed, the Senate adjourned till | the 3d of January next. The House waa engaged inan interesting cateche” \ tical discussion of the slavery question, and the state | of parties in general, in which Mr. Farnsworth, re- | publican, of Iinois, sustained the principal part. In the course of the colloquy several Southern members expressed their views, and the views of their conatituents, respecting the reopening of the African slave trade. Our readers are referred to our report for the opinions of these gentlemen on this subject. The House balloted for the twentieth time for Speaker, without effecting a choice. The republican candidate held his own, but the demo- cratic votes were scattered among several nomi- neea. By the Overland mail and telegraphs we have news from San Francisco to the 2d inst., also later accounts from other parts of the Pacific coast. The particulars may be found among our telegraphic despatches. Accounts from the Pike’s Peak country to the ‘14th inst. state that the Legislature had adjourned after perfecting’a code of laws, and that an extra seasion would be called to complete the govern- mental machinery for the new Territory of Jeffer- Bon. We have dates from Utah to the Ist inst., but they contain no news of the slightest importance. Previous to the discharge of the Grand Jury yesterday, in the General Sessions, they made a prezeatment recommending the passage of an ordinance requiring all iiquor saloons and dancing houses to be closed at twelve o’clock at night, as is the custom in most of the European cities. A meeting of the Yourg Men’s Republican Cen- trai Committees was held last evening at the head- quarters, 613 Broadway. On motion, both commit- tees went into joint session to make arrangements for the reception of William H. Seward, whose ar- rival from Europe is daily expected. The only step taken, however, towards this object was the ap- pointment of a committee, consisting of the officers of both committees, to wait on him upon his arrival and extend to him the honors of a welcome. Further particulars in the programme of arrange- ments will be decided upon at the next meeting. The Police Commissioners held their regular meeting yesterday afternoon, with closed doors, all the Commissioners being present. Mrs, Stewart, wife of officer John Stewart, who was killed in Broad street on Tuesday night, was placed on the Peusion list, and will receive the sum of $140 an- nually, being the interest on $2,000. The resigna- tion of Wm. H. Smith, of the Third precinct of Brooklyn, was received and accepted. A resolu- tion was adopted that none but members of the old force should be appointed to fill up the number fixed by the Board of Supervisors, Messrs. Tiemann, Powell, Bailey and Ulshoefter voted in the affir- mative, and Messrs. Bowen, Stranahan and Stillman in the negative on this proposition. The following members of the old force were reinstated:—R. Con- ner, Wm. McGrath, D. McCanley, D. Harn, P. Mag- na, J. Van Brakle, George 8. Burrows, J.B. Towne, T. Desmond, Leroy T. Clark, J. L. Metcalfe, John W. Elder, John Towers, Peter McIntire, A. B. Ma- roney, M. D. Underhill, T. Moscham, G. Jackson, J. L, Codette, J. Thebo, J. McDermott, T. D. Cono- ver, W.C. Havens, John Flynn, F. Carroll. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 3,000 bales. ‘The market closed steady for lots in store, on the basis of Uc. for middling uplands. Flour was firmer, with a bet- ter demand from the trade, and in some speculative re- quest. Southern flour was less active, while sales were without change of moment. The holders of wheat were firmer in their views, which tended to check sales, the chief of which were confined to Milwaukee club at $1 22. Corn was heavy, and salcs moderate, at prices given in nother place. Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $16 1254 and prime at $11 623¢ a $11 75. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 600 hhds. and 600 boxes at prices Sven in another column. Coffee was firm. The cargo of the Yankee Blade, consisting of 3,812 bags Rio, was sold at pt. and 230 do, do. at 12c.a 123c, The receipts ‘Of breadstitfs the past week amounted to 9,371 bbls, of flour by railroad, and 27,062 do. by other sources, chiefly from tbe South; of wheat, 657 bushels by railroad, and ‘36,281 from other sources, chiefly from the South; of corn, by railroad 604 bushels, and by other sources 61,505 bushels, chiefly from the South. The exports the past week comprisod 49,167 bbls. flour, 64,801 bushels wheat aud 8,967 do. corn, Freights were firm, with moderate engagements this one idea of slavery, the question recurs, how is a new party to be organized, competent in 1860, North aad South, to control the ba- tance of power? We dare say that the working machinery of the republican party is in the hands of leas than three thousand men, and that the mana- gers, directors, President and principle makers of the democratic party hardly exceed two thousand. And have the four millions of voters of the United States no way of escape from these two despotic oligarchies of corrupt and unscrupulous politicians? It is to these reckless slavery agitating demagogues, North and South, that we may justly charge all the sectional discords and dangers that now so seri- ously afflict the country. It must also be at last abundantly manifest to the most incredu- lous reader, that unless something shall be done to cut off and supersede these two rotten sec- tional and disunion parties, the next Presi- dential election will most probably precipitate our beautiful fabric of popular government, the constitution, the Union, the North and South, from our present commanding position of unity, power, wealth, prosperity and happi- ness, into something like the horrible anarchy of Mexico. ts The Southern fire-eaters who manage the Southern democracy have decreed that the election of a black republican President in No- vember next will be the signal for the seces- sion of the Southern States from the Union. We apprehend, on the other hand, that if the con- test is limited to the demoralized democracy and the anti-slavery republican party, it will bean “irrepressible” sectional conflict which can only result in the election of the republi- can candidate. Thus the fire-eaters will be put to the test, and, from all the existing evidences | of Southern alarm and excitement in favor of disunion, it is folly to sappose that when driven to the wall they will surrender at discretion to an aggressive anti-slavery Northern party in the occupation of the federal government. To prevent this conflict of sectional parties, | and this ultimatum of a Southern secession, a third party must arise and cut in between our Northern negro-worshippers and Southern fire- eaters, and take away from both the balance of power. The independent conservative people, North and South, to the number of a million of voters and more, are ready at once to join this third party. And the way to bring them into line is to fight the enemy with their own weapons. Against the despotic managing committees, central juntas, caucuses and conventions of the existing parties, na- tional, State, county, town and city, we must oppose a universal network of independent conservative Union clubs, upon some such uni- versal platform as that embodied in the name of Gen. Scott. And this work only needs a be- ginning to put it into general operation. We thus attach no ordinary degree of importance to the movement reported to be on foot in this city for the organization of an independent Union club of our young men. Let our inde- pendent young men, disgusted with North- ern disunion nigger-worshippers and Southern secession salamanders. act upon this idea, far and near, and they will soon discover that they can call up a Union party of immense power, at the tap of the drum. Meantime let the independent, coneervative members of Congress, Northern and Southern, consult together, and issue a call ‘for a Na- tional Convention, say in the city of New York, in the last week of June or the first week ot July, of all men, of all parties and sections, in favor of a new national party for the Presi- dential contest, and the country will feel at once that the Union is secured, and that the suppression of this diabolical slavery agitation, and the corrupt sectional politicians who sup- ply it with combustibles, is close at hand. As matters now stand, our only way of escape is through the active intervention of a third party for the Presidency; but to be effective, this party must be called up without farther delay. Breaktxe Ur or Lanxp Specunation on Man- HATTAN Isuanp.—A large auction sale of lots, some five hundred in number, in the neigh- borhood of Kingsbridge, was advertised to take place at the Merchants’ Exchange on Wednesday last; but as bidders were not dis- posed to pay as much as was expected for them, they were withdrawn, and the sale proved a faflure. This locality is well suited for a thriving village like Bloomingdale or Harlem; but the fact is that a set of specula- tors in that region have puta fictitious value upon the land, which is not worth more than about fifteen husdred to two thousand dollars an acre, or thereabouts, while some proprietors value it at the absurd price of five thousand. Besides, these speculators calculate, by their lobby influence in the Legislature, to get up some profitable jobs there, and people will not buy until they are satisfied that nothing of that kind will be accomplished. The truth is that land speculation on this island must come to a stand-still until the pre- sent political excitement is over; for the eve of a revolutionary epoch is not the most favor- able time for investing capital in real estate in any country, and people here realize that idea just now. Property in the vicinity of Kingsbridge, and all that district of the island, will not acquire the value now sought to be put upon it until the Central Park is completed; and it is absurd at this time to ex- pect to force it into the market at a high price. We recommend persons wishing to purchase land in that direction to wait for about six months. Next svmmer lots can probably be vought all around Washington Heights for a third of their present price. Until this political agitation is at an end, and revolutionary senti- meats are crashed out, and until the Central Park is finished, and hungry speculatom aban- don their ideas about legislative commissions to cut up and destroy the land for their own profit, we fear that land speculation on Man- hattan Island must break up, The Extent of Abol: the North—Senator W Out of His Own Mouth, In another page of this day’s HrraLp we publish a dish of treasoa, rebellion and revolu- tion strong enough for any stomach—even for John Brown's, if he were alive. It consists of @ lecture of Garrison, endorsing John Brown and nominating Seward for the Presidency, and a speech of Senator Wilson, endorsing Garri- son, together with a number of letters from their friend and confederate, Henry C. Wright, in which he says they all knew of John Brown’s plans for the last four yeare; that John Brown is a better Saviour than Jesus Christ, and that it isthe duty of the North ‘to follow him to the death, and rise up in insurrection at once against the slaveholders of the South; and, finally, Mr. Wright shows that those senti- ments are not merely his, but cherished by thousands. The extent and violence of the abolition sentiment in the North have been denied in Congress. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, in his place in the Senate Chamber on the 6th of this month, declared that the intelligence of John Brown's raid “was received, almost unanimously, with disapprobation and regrets at the North;” that “everywhere he heard re- gretand condemnation of that movement, and he never saw a man who did not regret it,” and that the contrary belief arose from the fact that “one or two of the leading papers of New York, for the purpose of affecting the pending elections of New York and New Jersey, made the most violent, false and infamous charges against the public men and masees of the peo- ple of the free States.” This “honorable” Senator was then cate- chised by Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, who read the report of the proceedings of a public meeting at Natick, Massachusetts, where a resolution was adopted that “resist- ance to tyrants is obedience to God, and that therefore it is the right and duty of the people of the North to incite slaves to resist their mas- ters.’ Mr. Brown asked whether Mr. Wilson was present and countenanced such a meeting. The high-minded and valiant Senator did not deny that he was present, but said that it was merely “a lecture by Henry C. Wright;” that it was “attended by a crowd from curiosity,” but “only some dozen Garrison abolitionists, who hired the hall, voted for the resolution.” There is a self-contradiction here, for the resolution shows that it was a meeting, and not a lecture: and Henry C. Wright, “the alleged lecturer,” flatly contradicts Wilson in a letter, which wil be found among the abolition documents we publish to-day. “It was not a lecture, but a meeting for discussion, publicly called.” But the Senator, who is sworn to maintain th.: con- stitution of the United States, aamits the Treason at eom Convicted + was afresolution; and that he acquiesced in + tucit- ly approved of that treasonable 1 ..:utiou, which proposes to overthrow the ¢...ti tion, he does not deny. He did not dissent. um it, and we must regard him as one of the “( arrisonaboli- tionists,” of whom he speaks with st1vu contempt within the halls of Congress, partly from moral cowardice and partly because the aboli- tion demagogue feared his admission of the truth would affect the chances of Sherman for Speaker ot the House of Representatives, and damage the republican party in the campaign of 1860. Now, itso happens that we can convict the Senator out of his own month. In Congress, before the assembled Senators of the South, this dissembling dastard says one thing—in Boston and at Natick he says and does quite another. By referring to a speech of his deli- vered in Boston, which we publish in another page, the reader will see what is his opinion of Garrison and abolition. Among other things, he says:— Tam here to-night, sir, to express my love for the great cause your guest has advocated for twenty years through the columns of the Liberator, and my profound admiration and respect for his self-sacrificing and unfaltering devo- tion to it amid obloquy and reproach. Tam not ed to acknowledge the debt of gratitude I owe him for his labors in behalt of three ions of men, and no fear of censure, ridicule or reproach ghall deter me from express- ing, on all fit and proper occasions, msy respect and admi- ration for the man. Thus, in Boston he fully endorses Garrison and exalts him to the stars; in Congress he speaks of him as if he were a contemptible fanatic, without followers. In Natick, his na- tive town, he attends a public meeting of sym- pathy with John Brown, and, as Mr. Wright shows, the most treasonable sentiments were uttered, and Senator Wilson was regarded by the whole meeting as consenting to them by his silence. If only a dozen persons at the meeting sanctioned the treason, how was the resolution carried? If only a dozen traitors were there, how was it that the loyal men, like Senator Wilson, were afraid to speak! Mr. Wright shows that it was not from curi- osity, but from sympathy with John Brown, that the people assembled, and in the most conclu- sive manner he demonstrates from the pro- ceedings of a meeting of three thousand per- sons in Tremont Temple, from the proceedings of both houses of the Legislature of Massachu- setts, and from every indication of public opinion, that if Mr. Wilson has not wilfully lied before Congress and the nation, he has avoided the truth in the most remarkable manner on record. With what force does Mr. Wright observe You would have them think that regret and condermna tion of Brown and his objects are universal at the North. Well may they, in their terror and agony, ask you, What mean those mighty gatherings, and kneli-tolling of bells all over the ‘North ‘on the day of his execution’ What mean those speeches eulogistic “of Brown and his doings, and 80 condemnatory of Wise and Virginia and their doings? What means the almost universal applause be- stowed on the remark of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the most prominent literary man, lecturer and moral philosopher in the nation, that the execution of the hero and saint of Harper's Ferry will make the gallows as. glorious as the Cross? Why Was it that the seizure, trial and execution of Brown asa felon swelled the republican vote at the recent elections in the Northern States’ Will you, in the face of ten thousand facts like theee, still assure the quak- ing slaveholders that republicans have no sympathy with Brown?” These questions are posers, which Wilson cannot, dare not, answer, but which ought to bring a blush to his face, if he is capable of that external sign of an inward sense of shame, In Boston and Natick he endorses Garrison and John Brown—in Congress he repudiates both; and not only so, but pretends that no- body at the North believes in either. Well may friend Wright, after ynoting the proceed- ings of the Massachusetts Legislature, reprdsoh him in these words:—“Rend the above, and then teh the alaveholders that republicans have no sympathy with Brown, and no responsibility for his deeda. What will they think of yout” Senator Wilson says the intelligence of John Brown’s raid came at first upon the North, in- cluding himself, as a surprise. They “regard- ed it merely as a strike of workmen.” But what does honest Wright let out in his letter to John Brown immediately before his execution? He says:— We have felt the deepest interest in your plansand movements, as we have known and watched them for the last four years; and we have wondered that those who hold to armed resistance to tyrants have not more cheerfully aad numerously gathered around your standard of insurrection against slave- holders.” He says the same thing in his letter to the Richmond Mngvirer. Will any one pretend to say, after these revelations, that Wilson was not in the secret, aa well as his friends Wright and Garrison? Can Wilson himself deny it? If he does, we have to ask him another ques- tion, and we hope some Senator will repeat it to him in the Senate chamber. It is this: Does he endorse or does he repudiate the lecture of William Lloyd Garrison, delivered ia Boston on Tuesday evening last, and copied in our co- lumns to-day from the Atlas and Bee, a leading organ of republicanism? “In 1830,” says Mr. Wright, “Garrison sounded the tocsin of inswr- rection and revohidion against slaveholders and all that sustains them.” Wilson, in his speech at Boston, endorses that mode of overthrowiag slavery, and by his acquiescence in the pro- ceedings of the Natick meeting he endorses it; for insurrection and inciting to insurrection were there proclaimed a right and aduty. Gar- rison, in his lecture on the 20th inst., calls the horse thief and the assassin of Widow Doyle’s children “a devoted martyr,” and says that he “simply endeavored to remove Virginia's cancer ;” that “if our revolutionary fath- ers were justified in rebelling against the mother country, then all the slaves of the South would bea thousand times more justified in rebelling against the slaveholders, and striking home for liberty John Brown fashion.” “The South,” he adds, “‘is a vast bedlam of lunatics and idiots.’ “I say there is no Union. A bloody oligarchy rules over us, and it is therefore time for us to separate.” “I say, in the language of Governor Banks, that I think the time has come for us to ‘let the Union slide.’ ” Are these the sentiments of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts? The report says:—“In con- clusion, Mr. Garrison alluded to the condition of affairs in Congress, where the Northern members dared not avow their sympathy with the anti-slavery movement.” There can be little doubt that he referred to the Natick cobbler, who seoretly encourages inswrrec- tion, and Garrison and Wright, and other men of the stamp of John Brown; but in the Senate, in the presence of men of courage and honor, disavows the connection and protests his loyalty. In the same way, on the eve of the breaking out of Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the republic of angient Rome, that traitor, who was also a Senator, denied, in the Senate House, the charges of treason brought against him by Cicero, at the very time that his lieutenants were mustering his insurgent army in the field. Puwantunoric Financrenina.——The public in this country, like that of Great Britain, is a dear, good, rich, confiding soul. Like a sailor, it makes its money easily and spends it freely. The public likes to see its name in print as contributor to some fund which is raised ostensibly to further some philanthropic, religious, political or social work. Charity is agood trait in our public heart—one that shows usto be all right at bottom; but there is such a thing as carrying a good thing too far. Then there are to be found in this community certain idle fellows who manage to get a very comfortable livelihood out of the confid- ing public, by the organization of funds nomi- nally to assist in the work which happens to be uppermost in the public mind. Thus, during the triumphal tour through the United States of that delicious humbug, Kossuth, there was Hungarian fund, the object of which was to crush Austria. The House of Hapsburg still gives the law to the Magyars, and where has the money gone? Did any one ever see a business statement of it? Then there was the Hon. Massa Greeley’s great fund for the liberation of Ireland, amounting to some forty thousand dollars. Ireland is not liberated, and probably never saw any of this money. Where is it? Then came the “ Kansas work,” to assist in which some parties at the North bled freely. That was a Tribune affair, as well as the Irish fund. There was still anoffler operation of the same kind in Massachusetts—the Emigrant Aid So- ciety; we haye never seen the shadow of a finan- cial exhibit of the affairs of these funds. Has | any one else been more favored? During the excitement in this State about the Maine Liquor | law, a great temperance league was gotten up in the interior of the State, and considera- ble money was raised to pay the expenses of carrying on the war against the Liquor Deal- ers’ Association. The latter won the day very easily, however, and the temperance treasury, at the last accounts, was empty. Where did the money go? Very recently the confiding public has been called upon to put its hand in its pocket to assist in that hopeful work, the conversion of the Irish to Presbyterianism, and to help a colony of French people in Illinois, who, it was said, were in sore distress, all be- cause they had seceded from Rome. It appears now that they are in comparatively comforta- ble circumstances, and that it is more than doubtful whether or not their alleged separa- tion from the mother church is not also a fabri- cation. Coming down to the excitement of the hour, we find two or three veteran financiers in the field with a John Brown fund. These engi- neers issue photographs of the great departed to such of the faithful as have a dollar where- with to pay for them. The hearts of all the old ladies in the country are bleeding for Mrs. Brown, but entirely dried up for Mrs. Doyle, whose husband was shot by Brown in cold blood. Whether this new fund is in part a pri- vate speculation of some photographist, or whether it is intended to raise money for the election of Seward, or more raids in Virginia and other slave States, it may be as well for those who may think of contributing to it from merely charitable motives to hesitate and exa- mine the faets, not only in this but ia all similar cases, whether monument, or Kansas, or Brown, or Chiriqni, or [rish Pro- testant, or any other fund. In nine .oMes out of ton they aro gotten up solely for the <°88TS2- dizement of a set of loafers who are @ ‘°Ve honest labor, but not above swindling the em ™ fiding public. It is high time they were ex- posed and compelled to give an accouat of their operations, about which their victims know aa little ag they do of the domestic poli- tics of Dahomey or the private affairs of the King of Timbuctoo. Discontent Among the Cormorants—How to Organize the House. The cormorants who feed upon the public treasury at Washington, and some of the journals who sympathize with them, are crying out against the delay in the oj tion of Congress, and in the consequent passing of the appropriations for their claims. We are not sorry to see this. It shows that the jobbers and plunderers who live on the public treasury are getting hungry. There is no dahger of their starving, however; for when- ever they get a chance at the public purse they generally manage to grab enough to carry them through a long season of deprivation. But if the black republican members who pre- tend to such deep sympathy with the poor contractors are really desirous of an early organization of the House, why do thoy not imitate the example set them by the black re- publican Central Committee which met here two days since. Instead of doing that, they insist upon electing as Speaker Mr. Sherman, who is one of the endorsers of the incendiary and seditious publication issued from the trea- 6on shop of William H. Anthon, a No, 16 Ex- change place, New York. Day after day they defend him and vote for him, in the face of a majority of national and constitution respecting men, who refuse to confer their presidency upon a man who has secretly endorsed and recommended the most bloody doctrines that have ever been inculcated in this country. Had Mr. Sherman had the nerve to endorse this treason teaching openly, or, having done it secretly, the pluck to stand by and defend his act when he was found out, there might have been some reason for selecting him as a leader. But a man who shields himself behind the paltry excuse that he did not know what he was endorsing when he put his name to the business circular of Anthon’s treason shop, and even now does not dare to say whether he ap- proves or condemns the treason, is only worthy of contempt. All men can respect pluck in an antagonist; but none can entertain any feeling of sympathy with a shuffling trickster. The republicans may try to defend him, and Mr. Grow practise his variations on the joke of the Heratp supplying brains to the democrats; but such a course only carries them deeper into the mire. Now we cemmend to the republicans in Con- gress the action of their own Central Com- mittee here. These met at the Astor House, and, under the benign influence of the excel- lent liquor of that establishment, cheap and good, the whole of them, headed by Gov. Morgan of this State, one of the endorsers of the treason shop circular, took the back track frankly and boldly. Abolitionism is thrown overboard, Seward is thrown over- board, Garrison and Phillips are thrown over- board, the “ irrepressible conflict” is ignored, and some indications of a return to reason and common sense are exhibited. As all this has been done by the excellent liquor of the Astor House, we recommend the republicans in Washington to try the same plan. Let them adjourn to Brown’s, and if his liquor is not good enough for the purpose, let them go on to Willard’s, who claims to have the best. They should not give up the attempt, even if they have to resort to sixpenny glasses in the pursuit, but persevere until they have got rid of Sherman and the abolitionism that is fast reducing their party to a faction, and given some sign of common sense, like that which has marked the programme of their central com- mittee under the mollifying influence of the excellent liquor of the Astor House. Then let them go back and put up some national man who knows what he does, and having done it has the pluck to avow and defend it. Tse Praswent’s First Brow Acaryst Tam- MaNy.—The President yesterday sent to the Senate the name of Judge Roosevelt as United States District Attorney, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore Sedgwick, and the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination. This is the first blow which the President has struck against Tammany Hall and its corruptions. te refused to nomi- nate Judge Roosevelt, rer y, for the judge- ship, the duties of which he had previously per- formed in so able and upright a manner; but Mr. Buchanan bas now appointed him to the important office of District Attorney. This is the first rebuke to the old harlot from that high quarter, and if the President would now only clear out all the Tammany rubbish from the federal offices he would be doing good ser- vice to the democratic party, to this city, and to the country. Gorp vkom OrEGox.—We received yesterday, a specio men of pure gold, in scales, from: Jacksonvilla, Oregon, ac- companied by the following note, directing us to what purpose it was to be applied:— JAcKSONVILLA, Oregon, Noy. 18, 1859. To James G. Beyverr, Esq. :-— Enclosed you ‘will find a small specimen of gold, weighing a little over one doilar and a half, for which you will please place my name on the subscription roll of Your semi-monthly edition for California and Oregon, and direct the same to me. This reminds us of the first specimen of gold we re. ceived from California, when it was discovered there eleven years ago—the first that ever reached New York or any Atlantic city. For two or three years afterwards all our subscriptions from California were sent in gold dust—one pinch for the Weety and two and one-third pinches for the Dany Harazp. ACADEMY OF Music.—The usual Christmas performance of ‘The Messiah,” oratorio, will be given to-night, under the auspices of the New York Harmonic Society. The solo singers will be Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Colman, Mrs. Westervelt, Messrs. Simpson and Thomas. ‘Tux DRaYTONS At BROOKLYN.—Mr. and Mrs. Drayton, ae- sisted by Senor Oliveria, the famous violinist, will give a matinge at the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, to-day. ‘That is good news for the orinoline population across tho tiver. Tax New York Heraup.—Yesterday & wagon load of New York Hxrazps (triple sheet), containing a full Ps, spl’ Union Moss Meeting in New York, arrived in this city. They were distributed Pigg eg to all coe A oS » Main street. A similar batch was sent to all the chief cities in the South for free distribution to the citizens. Call at Adams’ Fx. preas and get a copy.—: Enquirer, Dec, 22. Supreme Court—Special Term, Before Hon. Judge Clerke. Dao. 28.—The Corn Eachange Fire and Inland Navigation Inmurenee Company ve. Geo. Underhill and others.—Motion Thaac H. Norton vs. Stephen Haynes. —Julgmont opened on payment of costs of extering the same and $5 costs of tho motion, | D, Wali and other SEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. S ocearnaaacrnaaaaaanenl Arrival of the Overiand Mall—Iaterestiag Intelligence from California, Columbia d&e., do. epeai Maxtor's Stanion, Mo., Dec, 23, 1850. 9.°0 Overland mail, with San Francisco dates, arrived at thie #tm, OF #4 half past eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, ‘the foe, T0é 1 the summary of the California news . Say Farancipoo, Dec. 2—Nooa, Tho steamer’ Con”? Sailed on tho 20th ult, for Panama, taking one’ hua‘dred m4 cighteon passengers. On hor roturn she will ring op #29 mail which was to have loft New York Dec. 5. Judge Torry, indie ted for killing Seuator Brodorick ia & duel, was arraigned o 1 the 28th, to plead in the Court ef Sessions of San Franc ‘800. His counsel moved for a transfer of the case to th ° Fourth District Court, also im San Francisco, which was ‘onied. The case was post- poned till the 20th, togive d. Wendant time to apply to the Supreme Court for a mandam, ‘8 compelling the transfer. Colonel J. W. Pardee, an old Ne ree citi zen, formerly manager of Wells, ’ banking business, died suddenly, on the 2 ‘th ult., of hemorrhage of the lungs. ‘There were about six hundred-tho, and dollars in the State Treasury on the 1st. ‘ Snow had fallen to the depth of four "€t in the Siorra Nevada mountains; notwithstanding wi ‘uch, says tho Placerville Observer, we see many persom * 0M foot and horseback, or with trains of pack mules, pu %ing on te reach the Horseshoe mines. Over three tons of silver ore arrived at San Francisco on the 2th uit. news from Carson Valley contim tes to be ly of lead mofteaentr rani Kon teanal were frequen! " Menry Meredith, of Nevada, recently purchased a om0- Sortie share in ‘the original’ Comstock Silver Mina 3 fer 0 San Francisco Standard says that if the leves @ not instantly repaired that city will be inundated. . ‘The month of November was one of almost continued given augury of au unusually storms and rains, andghas wet seazon. The steamer Panama arrived at San Francisco on the’ ‘28th, bringing Oregon dates of the 25th ult. ‘A Democratic Convention had beengheld in Oregon City. Sixteen del from eight. counties withdrew, leaving eleven counties represented, Those who remained se- lected General Lane and Judge Deady as delegates to the Charleston Convention, instructing them to vote for Gen. Joe Lane for President. The seceders resolved to support the nominee of the Charleston Convention, but elected no delegates. Oregon papers contain further accounts from the new Simiikameen gold mines, representing them as a reality and probably extensive. Gold has been found a hundred miles above the point where it was first discovered. As evidence of the richness of these mines, aa account says that the parties discharged from, im mediately fitted out at Colville and went there, ’ and soldiers who had not worked more than three or four months exbibited $600 or $800 each. Already several parties have started for the diggings. From the Dalles company about fifty organized at Portland for the same , but there would be no great rush until Spring. e steamer La Bouchere arrived on the 28th from Vic- toria, bringing 154 passengers and dates of the 23dult. On pur the 22d a steamer arrived from Victoria New Westminster, with about $100,000 in gold and 175 rs, The pas- ipper Fraser sengers gave a flattering account of river diggings, but the prospects of a severe winter were causing the entire abandonment of that region till next spring. Lower Fraser river was free of ice, and the miners were dispoged to stay during the winter. About ‘1,500 miners remain at the Vancour diggings. The gone- ral impression at Fraser river was that there would be am immigration of ten thousand. to British Columbia by the of March, but there does not foundation for these extravagant ¢: ; Major Downte was on his way down from the Upper Fraser river region by the Lillivet trail and Port Doug- lass. There wére reports of his having made some val able geographical discoveries on his journey from the coast to Fort Alexander, among which were a chain of lakes ex- tending along the route one hundred and fifty miles, so that steamers drawing twelve inches of water can navigate a distance of 100 miles further than steamers draw- ing four feet, which latter run on Senass_ ri- ver, and a’ practicable portage of forty miles will then reach Fort Alexander. These reports aro looked upon at Victoria as important, as if true the upper mining districts will be much more accessible than heretofore, being brought almost within water communi- cation of Victoria. Numerous buildings of wood and brick were being erected at Victoria, and real estate was said to bo rising. ‘The papers contain not a word bearing on the late San Juan difficulty. Only a light commercial trade was doing, and no large operations were ventured upon. Candles were weaker and without buyers at over 20c. Coal very firm. Coffee . iron. sells at about $32 50 from the ship. Nails dull. Oils quiet. Provisions moving in quantities without improvement. Twelve hundred firkins of old butter were sold at auction yesterday at 123<¢. Shipments via the Isthmus were affecting the market untavorably, as the calculations of the quantities cuming were at fault. Tard in tins was worth 12. a J3c. Small lots of for were selling at $18 per bbi., and $10 for bbls.; prime $14 50; hams'$11 a $11 50, and patent covers very dull; in $12. Rice quiet and unchanged. Raw sugars heavy, sales at former rates; eastern crushed oeak: French bran- dies nominally firmer. Domestic spirits move moderately at 45c. a 46c. ; biped 38c. a 40c.; low proof whiskey 37c. a 38c.; pure spirits 65c. a 6734c. Alcohol in bbis. and spirits turpentine dull and heavy. Teas without ani- mation. Cask claret still ruling high. Arrived November 29, steamer Uncle Sam, from Pa- nama. Suailed 30th, ship Grey Feather, for Valparaiso. The Conservative Movement. UNION MEBTING AT NEWARK, N. J. Newark, Dec. 28, 1859. In response to an extensively signed call, a large and en- thusiastic Union meeting was held here this evening. Mayor Bigelow presided. The resolutions were conservative and soundly democratic. They were unanimously passed. Eloquent addresses were made, deprecating ion, by entra. J ¥. Frelinghuysen, Wm. K. Maclouaid. Gacredt istinguished citizens of New Jersey. number of letters were received from prominent A public men by the committe, and which they intend. to publish. News from Pike’s Peak and Utah. Sr. Lous, Dec. 23, 1869. ‘The Pike’s Peak express arrived here this morning, with $10,000 in gold dust. The advices from Denver City are to the 14th inst. Both branches of the Legislature had adjourned, after perfect- ing a code of laws for the government of Jefferson Terri. tory. An extra session is to be held on the 23d of Janu- ary. Elections are to be held in all the counties on the first Monday in January,’ for tho election of local officers and a general orgavjzatiou under the new order of things. Utah advices to the Ist inst. are also received by this arrival, but there is no news from that Territory of gene- ral interest. ee Sixty to Eighty Persons in a Perilous ie Position. Se. Lovis, Dec. 28, 1859. The steamer Diligent, from Alton, is aground on the Chain, ten miles above this city. Sixty to eighty persons are on board of her, without provisions, and the ice pre- vents any communication being made with the shore. Strong eflorts are making to keep them from starving. A Monster Cannon. PrrmsnurG, Dec. 28, 1859, A monster cannon for the government was cast this morning, at the Fort Pitt Founiry, under the superin- tendence of Lieut. Rodmann, and was a complete success. It weighs over thirty-five tons, and is called the Floyd. The metal is from the Bloomfleld furnace, and Messrs. Kuapp & Wade were the contractors. Murder at hooked x, Dec. 23, 1869.: Wm. Harris, steward of the ship Said Ben. Sultan, has been convicted, in the United States District Court at Sa- lem, of the murder of Capt. Edwards, a Passenger on the voyage home. Execution at Harrisbarg. HarrisnurG, Pa., Dec. 23, 1869. Hulsinger, the negro {convicted some time since of the murder of his wife, was executed this morning. The War Steamer Narragansett, Nowroux, Dec. 23, 1859, The war steamer Narragansett went on another trial trip to-day. Loss of the Schooner Samuel Caasc. Norvorx, Dec. 23, 1859. ‘Tho schooner Samuel Chase, of New York, wrecked: at Rogers island, will prove nearly a total loss Trade of Baltimore. Battimorr, Dec. 23, 1859. of the week............ 3 Increase over game week last year. Imports of the week. Decreage a8 compart Jest year....... Fire at Au Ga. A Deo. 23, 1850. Lather Rolls’ carriage establishment, in this city, was destroyed by fire laet night. A numbor of carriages and ‘buggies were consumed. The fire vias the work ofan in- cendiary. The loss is insured in. the Southern, Mutual ‘Company. scandy W. A. Gibson Admitted to Ball. 2 Convmaua, O:, Doc. 23, 1359. W. H. Gibson has been admiited to bail in.the sum et $10,000 to before the Court on the 26th.of Januarz, When a motion for a new trial. will be argued. enemas The Court of Appeals, MBANY, Doc. 23, 355% The Court of Appeals adjourned to-night, In the case of Stephen Clark against the city of New York, in which judgmeat had been rendored in favor of Clark for $120,000, new trial is ordered. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Prunangcrara, Deo. 28, 1850. Stocks firm : Pennsylvania State Fives, 93%; Reading Railroad, 2034 ; Morris Canal, 49% ; Long Island Rail road, 11/; ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 957%. New OntRand, Doc, 25, 1859. Cotton stead; sales to-day, 11,500 bales at 10s§0. @ 10746. for middling; salos of the, woek, 61,500 bales, re-