The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1859, Page 4

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New York, Friday, December 30, 1859, The News. Neither the North Briton, due at Portland, with Liverpool adyices to the 15th inst., nor the Canada, due at Halifax, with European news to the 18th, had arrived up to the closing of the telegraph Offices last evening. In the House yesterday the discussion on party politics and the slavery question was renewed. The monotony of the debate, however, was re- lieved by a colloquy between Messrs. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Branch, of North Carolina. The affair grew out of Mr. Grow’s explanations respecting the defeat of the Post Office Appropria- tion bill at the last session of Congress. It is thonght that a duel will, perhaps, ensue between the parties. The House had another ballot for Bpeaker, but without effecting a choice. The democrats concentrated upon Mr. Scott, of Cali- fornia, who also received the votes of seven South- ern opposition members. The telegraph furnishes a brief account of an at- tempted servile insurrection in Bolivar, Missouri. The outbreak was promptly suppressed by the citizens, and armed parties were scouring the surrounding country in search of the fagitives: In connection with the despatch containing the particulars of the rising of the slaves, we publisha curious document, showing the contemplated field of Old Brown’s operations in the slave States. This field embraced portions of Alabama, Flo. rida, Ceorgia, Kentucky. Tonisianh Mtesisoter ty South Carolina and Tennessee. Now, it is not quite clear where the servile outbreak alluded to above oecurred—whether in Missouri or Missis- sippi, as both States abound in Bolivars. But in the programme of Old Brown, which we publish, the town of Bolivar, Mississippi, is marked out as a spot where an insurrectionary movement would be likely to succeed. The population of this town, according to Old Brown’s memorandum, consists of 395 whites and 2,160 slaves. There was quite a jubilee among the republicans of this city yesterday, consequent upon the cere- monies extending a welcome home to Wm. H, Beward from his late European tour. At half-past ten o'clock A. M., the Old Men’s and Young Men's Republican Central Committees assembled in par- lor No. 41 in the Astor House, where the reception Ceremonies took place. The room was densely crowded, and Mr. Seward entered in charge of a sub-committee. He was received with three cheers. Ex-Judge Peabody, the Chairman of the Old Men's Central Committee, welcomed him in an extempore speech, carefully refraining from mak- ing any allusion to the political events of the day. Mr. Seward made a brief reply, giving a synopsis of the remarkable characteristics of his travels, and made his preroration with- out alluding to the “irrepressible conflict,’ John Brown, or other kindred subjects. After the ceremonies at the Astor House, Mr. Seward repaired to the City Hall, where he was met by Mayor Tiemann and other officials, when speeches were made by the Mayor and Mr. Seward. Ex-Goy. King, Hon. Truman Smith, of Ct.; Hon. Mr. Briggs, of Ohio; Henry Ward B2ech- er, and a host of wire pullers, hangers-on and small fry politiciés made up the assemblage. The two principal getters up of the reception were James Kelly, the Receiver of Taxes, and ex-Judge Peabody, who are among the endorsers of “‘Helper's treason manual.” Mr. Seward left town At half-past four in the afternoon, per Hudson River Railroad, for his home at Auburn, N. Y. His son and his nephew, General Clarence Seward, ac- companied him. The reception on the whole was @ very formal and tame affair contrasted with the ceremonies at the departure of Mr. Seward from this country ff May last. During the day yesterday we experienced quite a change in the atmosphere, and shortly after dark a snow storm set in with every prospect for a sea son of sleighing. The ground is in excellent condi- tion to receive it. The snow fell so denscly an the Fivers as to somewhat retard the free navigation of the ferry boats; the pilots, therefore, were oblizea to use much caution in navigating their craft. Fog whistles were freely used to aid them in their work. The sale of the Brooklyn ferry leases, postponed antil yesterday by Comptroller diaws, was further indefinitely postponed, until the decision on the in- junction sued out by the city of Brooklyn, restrain- ing the sale, shall be decided by the Supreme Court of Columbia county. The argument will be beard on the Sth proximo. ‘The examination into the case of the yacht Wan Gorer is going on privately before the ‘@uthotities at Boston. The two Portuguese women who were @ecoyed on board at Flores, were examined on ‘Wednesday last. It is stated that it does not appear hus far that any of the crew were in complicity with the commander of the vessel. Acoounts from Brownsville, Texas, tothe 20th dast., state that Cortinashad met with a defeat and thadretrested. No particulars of the battle are Capt. Williams, of the ship Gem of the Ocean, Which arrived at Boston trom Calcutta on Wednes- Gay, reports that on the 18th ult., in latitude 1 south, fongitude 34 west, spoke the British ship Errington, Grom Liverpool for Caleutte, ia charge of the second mate, the ca mate having died from the effects of poison administered by the steward four days previously bout half past four o'clock yesterday morniag a five was discovered in the second floor of No. 83 Ann street, extending through to Beekman street, occupied aa a manufactory of gilt mouldiags acd locking glasses, and wetore it could be subdued six boildings on Beckman street and five on Ann street were totally destroyed, and several of the adjoining buildings were severely damaged. The particulars of this extensive conflagration are given in another part of to-day's paper. The loas of the sufferers is estimated at nearly half a million of dollars. Fight citizens of Ottawa, Illinois, were indicted on Wednesday, under the Fugitive Slave law, for the rescue of an alleged fugitive slave in October last. We have news from the West Coast of Africa dated Benin, the 2d of October; Old Calabar, the Ist; Lagos, th§ 10th, and Sierra Leone, the 2lst of November. The Cameroons was in a very unset- tled state in consequence of an anticipated rise of the slave population. Great sacrifice of life was feared: Dysentery was very prevalent among the Kroo- men. At Bonny the Regent Illollah Popple had murdered a woman accused of witchcraft, and a civil war was feared in consequence. A large number of soldiers and emigrants had arrived at Fernando Po from Spain. Another attempt had been made to fire Lagos. Business, however, in palm oil was brisk. Cojoe, King of Accra, had been taken prisoner and confined ia the fort. Trade dull at Cape Coast. Her Britannic Majesty's ship Spitfire had captured a slaver at Jacknel, with 469 slaves on board. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 800 bales, chiefly in etore, on the basis of Llc. for middling uplands, The firmncas of holders checked gales of flour, which was in good demand from the trade, and with some purchases on gpeculation. Southern flour was quite steady, and the demand was fair, and closed without change of moment in quotations, Wheat was inactive, and sales small at $1 21 for Milwaukee club, and $1 40 for Western white, and at $1 60a $1 55 for prime Kentucky white. Corn was more active, and better, with tolerably free sales at quotations given in another place. Pork was heavy, with | moderate sales of mess at $16 1237, and of prime at $11 623j a $11 75. Sugar more firm and in good demand, | with sales of about 900 hhds. and 360 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffve was firm, while sales were | confined to 900 bags Rio at full rates for good quality, Freights were firm, with more doing, especially for Liver- pool and Loudon. The Republican Party and Its Pros- pects—The Reserved Conservative Vote of the North, The return of W. H. Seward from his recent travels in Europe, Africa and Asia very natu- rally recalls our attention to the republican anti-slavery party, of which he is the great apostle, and to its prospects in our approach- ing Presidential election. Mr. Seward will soon discover that during his absence abroad there haye been some re- markable events at home, and that these events have brought about a popular reaction on the slavery question, against which it will be perfect folly on the part of the republicans to adhere to “the one idea” of his Ro- chesier manifesto—the abolition of slavery. Indeed, we think he will also discover, before many days have passed, that there isa very strong desire and purpose among some of the republican managers again to set aside the author of said manifesto, on the ground of availability. But in any event, whether set aside or taken up as the republican candidate, we apprehend, from the present aspects of the political field, that Mr. Seward and his sectional principles will again be the defeat of his party, as in 1852 and 1856. Some of our Southern fire-eating politicians Gisunioe ewe ePeal® oe Glace Topas lican President in 1860, and are dis. posed, meantime, to give up the contest in despair. They have made up their calculations upon the following basis:—That the republican party, since 1856, having held fast to the States which voted for Fremont, and having beaten down the democratic partygin two successive elections in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and having divided and crippled the democracy of Indiana and Illinois so as to render the acqui- sition of those States an easy matter, the repub- lican managers have the game in their own hands, and the result is a foregone conclusion. This, however, is a superficial view of the subject. The Northern elections of the last two years have gone by default. Over half a million of voters are held in reserve—a hun- dred thousand and more in New York alone. The bulk of this reserved vote is conservative, and is beginning to manifest itself in Union meetings, in denunciations of Brown, Helper and Mr. Seward’s “irrepressible conflict.” It is a reserved vote, holding the balance of pow- er, and awaiting the organization of the party movements of ihe day. New Jersey and Pennsylvania are afloat, the States which decided the election of 1856. The oppo- sition party of New Jersey is only a fu- sion for local purposes, between the republi- cans and, Know Nothings, upon a tince which has now expired. The same may he said of the people’s party of Pennsylvania. It is a loose coalition of odds and ends, organized for local purposes, and wholly inapplicable for the larger necessities of a Presidential cam- paign. Detached from the conservative Know No- things and old line whigs of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the republican party is reduced in those States to a paltry faction. But how are these discordant opposition elements to be combined at Chicago? ‘There's the rub.” We fear that the task will be found as impractica- ble as that of fusing the Lecompton and anti- Lecompton democracy and South Americans upon acommon candidate for Speaker. The Chicago Convention wiil most probably go just far enough on the back track to disgust the radical abolitionists, without going far enough to satisfy the conservative opposition elements of the Central States. As matters now stand, this reserved Nortb- ern popular vote of over half a million is await- ing the order of battle for the succession Upon the broad national platform embodied in the name of General Scott, the bulk of this vote might at once be secured to a new national party; but from the dilly-dallying and shilly-ehallying of Know Nothing executive committees and old line whig executive com- mittees, in the work of organization, we begin to suspect that the mass of these floating popu- Tar elements will be left to float into the demo- cratic or republican camp. In this view of the subject, the Charleston Convention, in seizing and appropriating the democratic Unioy.game of 1852, may recover the ground they have lost, and carry the election. But to do all this a new democratic captain will be necessary, as well as e new platform. No outstanding, hold-over candidate, no sec- tional agitator, no rebellious Presidential aspi- rant;will answer, He must he a now wan, and, litician, s comparative obseurity, cboore, of the pattern of Polk and Pierce ; and he mast come, not from the South, not from a , pot from the Bast, but from the Great W The South, upon any reliable de- inocratic fon candidate and platform, will vote asa unit; the Eastis beyood recovery ; but the Great West, with a Wesiern man, may be reecned from the republicans, and Peunsyl vania, New Jersey, andeven New York, may thus aleo be reclaimed. The Charleston Convention wiil have the ad- vantage of the initiative movement for the pow: erful reserved conservative vote of the North. The democracy can afford to bid higher for it than the republicans, To this end the general progressive policy, foreign and domestic, of the President’s message is the true Union piatform for the Charleston ticket. The chaffy resolutions of the Cincianati Convention having broken up the party, something more substan- tial will be required toreunite it. The guiding lights of the message, the drift of the present popuiar reaction on the slavery question, the reserved Northern conservative vote in the Central and Western States, the trouble and alarm in the republican camp, and the great ruling popular ideas of Union, business and progress, ought to teach the Charleston Con- vention the way to victory. At all events, and under any probable or- ganization of parties, the chances are now against the republicans. They stand commit- ted to a sectional crusade, and before the meet- ing of their National Convention, in June, their expected Northern allies and reinforcements may be arrayed against them. They may be routed and put down as was the old whig party in 1852, or they may fail to the ground between two stools, asin the contest against Mr. Bu- chanan. central Crime and Immorality in High Life ‘Abroad. We give in another part of this paper re- ports, extracted from our foreign files, of two very remarkable cases—one a civil action brought by a wealthy English commoner against a peer of the realm, the latter having been guilty of adultery with the wife of the former; and the other the trial and conviction in a French criminal court of a mother who burned her daughter’s child, born out of wed- lock, and under the most remarkable, not to say revolling, circumstances. We believe that we should be quite false to our duties as American journalists did we not lay the full particulars of these cases before the public. On the one hand, we find a peer of Great Britain, a most noble Marquis, using his coronet asa means whereby to debauch the wife of his friend. The influence of the privi- leged class of England can hardly be under- stood in this country, where there is no aristo- cracy save that of money, and that obtaining no special respect. But an English peer is a vastly superior being to the commoner, no matier how rich, how learned or how clever the latter may be; and when this position is prostituted to base ends, the heinousness of the actual crime is proportionately increased. The shameless way in which the Marquis of Anglesey and his paramour lived together in a fashionable hotel in the centre of London re- calls the history of the orgies of the titled profligates in the reigns of the Third and Fourth Georges, and presents but a sorry picture of the morals uf tie Dritich esistoaraoy of the Risin Gedie bricauy we anor nd this taint running through them, and occasionally breaking out in cases like that of Madeleine Smith, or the more recent one of Doctor Smethurst. Lower still in English life, the mur- der of an old man by his mistress. Maria Manning, and the scenes at the execution of the murderess, go far to prove that England, with all its glory, wealth and power, hath not yet so far emerged from barbarism that the London Times can with propriety set itself up as the teacher of a moral code to foreign nations. The French case is horrible in its details. A young girl, brought up in the midst of luxury and refinement, handsome and accomplished, is so unfortunate as to have her mind tainted by abad book. She breaks through all moral re- straint, in a manmer which seems to show that lasciviousness was with her a disease, and finally descends to an amour with a servant, who was not only vulgar, but positively ugly. This man she chooses as her husband, and bears a child by him, in order to force her mother into consenting to the marriage. The scene should now properly change to Dahomey, instead of the loveliest part of the most polite nation in the world. But we are, unhappily, dealing with facts, not fiction, and we have the horrid details of the burning of the child by the grandmother, “to save the honor of her daughter.” We have not read in the annals of crime a more sad and revolting account than that of the Lemoine infanticide. There is a special lesson in these cases which should be heeded by such journals as the Lon- don Zimes and the Paris Constitutionnel, which are fond of sneering at the model republic, as they call us. They are especially industrious in collating from the American newspapers all the criminal news, and commenting upon it in the worst spirit. If 4 border ruffian, a thousand miles from the metropolis, shoots his com- rade, the Constitutionnel immediately writes an article to show that there is no law in any part of this country, save that which is admin- istered at the point of the Bowie knife or the muzzle of the revolver. If a negro, who has committed some diabolical crime, is lynched in Mississippi, the London Times straightway argues that the hanging of slaves by their mas- ters is among the every day amusements of the Southern planter. Now, what we say is, that this Pharasaical tone—this get thee behind me, for 1am holier than thou, order of argument—is enfficiently impertinent at any time, but with such a state of morals existing among the higher classes in England and France as these recent develope- ments seem to indicate, it is absolutely absurd. The model republic is as yet a new country. To it the European governments send rogues without number. We have to keep them in order as best we can. But, with all our faults, we are still behind the French and English in cool, calm, deliberate rascality. The greater part of the premeditated crime in this country is committed by foreigners, who have fled from the vigitance of the French and English police. But among American citizens of the respectable Class, we claim that there reigns a purer and better code of morals than that which obtains among the upper and middle classes of England and France. We have given to-day the facts to verify our statement. And until the foreign NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1859. papers can Bring two American casey to mateh these of Anglesey and Lemoine, we met main- tain that the best of the argument restuing on this side of the Atlantic, Tus Ancio-GuaremaLa Treary—Tux Duncan Busingss.— We print elsewhere an article from the Gace/a Oficial—an official gazette of Guate- mala—which undertakes to justify the late treaty between Guatemala and Great Britain, by the terms of which the latter acquires the right of sovereignty over Belize and a large tract of country adjacent on the Bay of Hon- duras, Among the reasons which the Guatemala Paper assigns as influencing its government to enter into the negotiations, there is one exceed- ingly amusing. It appears that it was a sacri- fice on the part of that disinterested and sym- pathizing government, from which the United States has received so many proofs of friend- ship and good will, for the purpose of healing up the differences between us and Great Bri- tain. In other words, Guatemala surrendered to England all that in her most grasping mood she ever laid claim to, and all to which the United States ever contested her pretensions, asan act of friendly interest, and a tribute towards the restoration of a good understand- ing. This isa novel way of encouraging the intervention of friends, and will, perhaps, in- duce the United States to enter again into the support of Guatemalan rights againat British or other aggressions, We are quite ready to agree with ourastute Central American contemporary, that Guatemala was not bound in any direct way to the provisions of our con- vention of 1850 with Great Britain. As that convention, in part at least, was made in her inter&ts, she might have waited for its results; for even if she never obtained any practical benefits under it, she could never be put ina worse position than that to which she has now surrendered herself voluntarily. The strongest point in the article which we translate is decidedly that which is supported by the quotation of one of the additional arti- cles to the treaty of 1856, negotiated between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Dallas. That treaty, fortunately, was not ratified by the Senate of the United States, and may be regarded asa repudiated and disgraced document. Its se- cond additional article did concede, as of right to Great Britain, all to which she ever set up pretensions, and all that her convention with Guatemala secures. How Mr. Dallas ever came to. admit such an article is inexplicable. It was in entire opposition to the expressed and oft-repeated views and instructions of every administration, as also opposed to the unani- mous opinions of the statesmen and people of this country, and was furthermore, ‘without doubt, an influential reason for the rejection of histreaty. We have yet to find the authority, in any document emanating from this govern- ment, for the insertion of such an article, and its admission can only be characterized as a blun- der or a weakness on the part of the American negotiator. The Gazette of Guatemala may, therefore, rest assured, that the treaty of its government with Great Britain, surrendering Belize and its surrounding territories, was never contemplated by any competent au- thority in the United States. The carelessness or weakness of the American Minister in Lon- don cannot be taken as an interpretation of the views of the American government, especially when wo find that his acts were not only in RRR sae SOAS ME aH Fe ARAL a GE by the constitutional tribunal to which they had to be submitted, and the sanction of which they had to receive, before they could become of the slightest vital force or effect. Itis said that the protest of Mr.Clark, the Ame- rican Minister in Guatemala, was made without instruction or authority; but however that may be, we are sure that it is a better exposition of American sentiment and policy than the artiele in Mr. Dallas’ treaty, by which the government of Guatemala seeks to justify its shameful sur- render of its rights to British arrogance and pretension. Trivmru or THe Steam Fine Exarwe—Revo- ution Ix Extieuisuina Fras.—Yesterday morning, as the reader will see in another column, a fire took place in Fulton street, which destroyed property to the amount of half a million ofdollars, and were it not for the operations of the steam fire engines, proba- bly the fire would have equalled the great fire of 1845, and perhaps that of 1835, when the victorious flames achieved a conquest of twenty millions worth of property. Hitherto 9 great prejudice existed in New York, particularly among the old firemen, against the innovation of the sicam ongine in- troduced here from Cincinnati, where it had been very successful. Three or four had been made here by order of the Common Council, but owing to the feeling among the firemen they have not become general. The result of the fire yesterday morning, however, has almost completely removed that prejudice, and the oldest firemen now admit the vast supe- riority of the steam engine over every other engine yet constructed for extinguishing fires. In the intensity of cold weather the difference is rendered still more striking, and it was owing to the accident of the excessive cold on Yesterday morning that the firemen generally became convinted of the merits of the steam engine. The great fire in 1835 took place in the same month—the night of the 16th of December—in a store in the rear of the Merchants’ Exchange. The wind was blowing fresh from the north- west, and the weather was intensely cold. It was with the greatest difficulty that the engines could be keptin working order; barrels of brandy and other spirits were kept beside the engines and emptied into the boxes to keep them from freezing. The firemen were compelled to put brandy in their boots to keep them from freezing. But every exertion failed, and it was necessary to blow up buildings in order to ar- rest the progress of the fire, It raged for fifteen hours, burning over a space of fifty acres, from Wall street to Coenties slip and Broad street, a region of the city at that time covered with ary goods stores and warehouses, filled with the most costly merchandise. Seven hundred build- ings were destroyed, which, with their contents, involved a loss of twenty millions of dollars. The insurance companies were made bankrupt. Had the steam fire engines been then in ope- ration the loss would have been comparatively small ; and had they not been at work yester- day morning the¥eis no telling how far the fire might have extended, or what the amount of the lors might have been. The steam fire en- gine docs not depend on the weather for its cMi- cieucy. Jn London, Cincinnati and Philadel- phia two horses are always in harucss, ready to be hitched in an testant to the engine. Only two men are absolutely necesvary to bring it to the field of operations—the engineer and # man to drive the horses, riding on the back of one of them. ‘So satisfied are the Philadelphia fire- men of the superiority of the steam engine, that when an account of the fire reached them yes- terday by telegraph, they sent a message here offering to bring one of their steam engines by railroad. But their friendly aid was then un- necessary, thanks to the courageous efforts of our firemen and the success of our own steam- engine, Considering that during the month fires have taken place in this city destroying upwards of a million dollars worth of property, it is high time that the Common Council should establish steam fire engines all over New York. The ex- pense is great ($4,500 for each engine), but the number required would be comparatively small. The Hibernia Company, of Philadelphia, who paid us a visit a short time ago, and received such a splendid reception, raised the funds for their steam engine by subscription. But what- ever these engines may cost the city, it will gain by them in the end. Tae Neoro Insurrecrion 1s Mussourt—Con- TINUATION OF THE IRREPRESSIBLE ConrLict.—It will be seen by a telegraphic despatch from St. Louis, in another column, that an incipient ne- Gro insurrection showed itself on Monday night in the town of Bolivar, in the slave State of Missouri. It is a remarkable fact that almost immediately after Mr. Seward made his cele- brated “irrepressible conflict” speech at Ro- chester, John Brown’s treasonable foray was organized and subsequently developed at Har- per’s Ferry; and that now, on the very eve of the return to this country of that great instructor of the irrepressible conflict party, a negro in- surrection should break out in Missouri. Al- though the citizens of Bolivar succeeded by their promptitude in driving the insurgent ne- groes from the public square into the woods, and thus saved the town from the conflagration which the negroes threatened, it is evident that the intention was to commence then and there a negro insurrection. The negro is, in an emi- nent degree, an imitative animal, easily led astray, and prone always to follow the example of the white man, and though neither brave nor very excitable, is often carried away by that kind of passion for glory which led the five free negroes who accompanied John Brown to par- ticipate in an attempt in behalf of their own race. Thus the negro is often found—acting under evil influences—to commit deeds, the consequence or criminality of which he is igno- rantof. It was doubtless the sympathy excited for Brown and his followers, as well as the re- cent action of some of the slave States with re- ference to the disposition of free negroes, that instigated this attempted insurrection in Mis- souri. But whatever the cause, or however futile the attempt, it is significant that it should have oc- curred just now. At all events, it shows the monstrous impudence of the republican party in Congress, in endeavoring to force a man in- to the position of Speaker—the third political office in the conntry—who endorsed the abominable doctrines of Helper’s book. Helper appeals, be it remembered, to the non- slaveholding whites and free negroes of the South to rise up against the slaveholders; and this is precisely what the five free negroes of fabio tse: negroes at Delivers cantata. plated on Monday night. Yet in the face of these results of the atrocious teachings of Helper’s book, and the manifest condemnation t receives from a majority of the people, the republican members of Con! gress insist upon putting into the Speaker's chair a man who recommended its circulation, and to this day refuses to condemn its doc- trines. The John Brown treason, with all its bloody consequences; the recent insurrection in Boli- var, Missouri; the subscriptions -of money for John Brown’s family, which the managers thereof do not limit to number within a million of relatives, or sympathizers; Seward’s Roches- ter manifesto, and Helper’s infamous book, are, it will be perceived, all parts of the same ma- chinery—portions of the same programme to create a servile insurrection in the slave States, to carry out the irrepressible conflict between the contending forces of the North and South, and thusdestroy the commercial prosperity of the whole country, and break up this great con federacy ina grand wreck. This is the plat- form upon which Mr.Sherman seems to stand in the contest for Speaker. Ovr Minirary Arrams.—The report of the Secretary of War, which we published on Wednesday in full, has probably been read with very general interest. In its statement of the numerical organization and actual strength of our army, it ets forth facts which at once explain why the predatory forays of bandits like Corti- nas have been so long suffered to go unpunished. Although its authorized strength is 18,166 men, it appears that its actual number on the Ist of July last was but 17,498, and that out of this there were only 11,000 men in a condition to take the field. Now, taking into consideration the fact that there are 130 permanent garrisons, posts and camps to defend, scattered over an area of three millions of square miles, it must at once be evident that so small an effective force is utterly inadequate to the duties which it Is called upon to perform. Although the Secretary expresses a hope that he will next season be able to make such a disposition of the troops as will prevent any further repetition of the outrages on our Southern and Mexican border, we are afraid that he will fail in accom- Pplishing that desirable object. Until the mis- take is remedied of endeavoring to meet by a peace establishment a condition of things which is in reality one of constant and active warfare, the protection afforded to our Territories must always fall far short of that which is demanded by our power and dignity, as well as of the con- sideration which ts owing to our troope, who are-exposed to greater fatigues and hardships than thoce of almost any other government, Acapeuy of Mcsic—Tae Parn Bexwrrr.—The weather, last night, was not favorable to a display of public eathu. siagm, ora general turn out of opera goers. Still the benefit of Miss Patti formed a sufficient attraction to fill the Academy in every part, with a thoroughly matropo- litan audience, assembled to honor an exquisite artist whose carcer 80 far has been brilliant in the oxtrome. ‘Tho programme for the night included the wholo of “ La Sonnambula,” with Miss Pattl, Brignoli and Amodio; the first act of “La Traviata’ with Mme. Colson and Stigelli, and the second act of “Tucrezia Borgia’ with Gazzaniga, Amodio and Sugelli. These performances havo, hereto fore, been noticed al length, and wo have nothing to add to our previous impressions. Miss Patti suny Amina as exquisitely ns ever, and improved upon her prey ious por= formnues of the finale to the second ast. Sho waa fry. -___ quently recatted ain! much petted by the public. Beignose gained special honors i Elvioo, aud Gazzaniga wae as fing as ever in the Luor%& The “ Don Giovanni’ wil be given to-night, the last ,¢formance of the season. Expected News from Burope, NON-ARKIVAL OF THE CANADA, Saccvitue, N. B., Dec, 20—Kvoning: There aro yet nosigns ui Hah (ax of the steamship Ow nada, now in her thirteenth day fom Liverpool, NON-ARRIVAL OF THE Wt'RTH BRITON. PortLany, Dec. 29-11 P. M, ‘There are as yot no sigus of the steamship Norte Briton, now over duo here, with Liwerpool dates, via Queenstown, of the 15th inst. . Psst eal ataelt Great Union Mass Meeting in Rechestery Rocaxsrmr, Dec. 29, 1859. A large Union meeting was hold in this city last ¢vea- ing, which was aidressed by ex Governor Hunt and others. The resolutions adopted were of rather a mixed character, but the principal one is the foKowing:-— Resolved, That we cannot too strongly rebuke ment that the election of a Fresident by ® bare views. oF publie , would furnish ; We, on the itorous, eenl- wits wile the r ‘just cause for the a f Me aod e from ail enemies within or without, at home or abroad. ‘There was an effort to lay this resolution on the table, be it panied by a large majority, and the meeting ad- urned. The Fugitive Slave Law. INDICTMENT AGAINST KIGHT CITIZENS OF OTTAWA, ILuinors. ST Court last Curcaco, Dec. ‘Tho Grand Jury of the United States District evening found an indictment, under the Fugitive Slave Jaw, against eight citizens of Ottawa, Illinois, for the res- cuo of an alloged slave in that city in October last. News from New Mexico. InpEvENDENCE, Dec. 29, 1859. ‘The New Mexican mail, with dates of the.Sth {nst., ar- rived hero today. ‘The Navajo Indians are again hostile, having killed one man aud wounded others, who went te trade with them. The ope mail, which left here four weeks ago, was attacked by the Indians beyond the Ar- kansas river. An escort was with the mail and the Indians were repulsed, None of the mail party were hurt. This mail came with More & Reese's train to the crossing ef the Arkansas, and from thence by the air line; no Tidans were seen. The mail party experienced very cold wea- ther, and their mules were kept from treezing with ifa- culty. . News from ban ile. ‘ew ORL¥ANS, Dec. 29, 1869. ‘The steamship Arizona is below, Sho’ brings $150,000 fn specte and Brownsville dates of the 20th inst. Cortinas: had mct witha defeat, aud he had retreated. No further are given. Person: Movements. Avavsra, Dec, 28, 1869. €C.C. Mominger, appointed by the Governor of South ee ‘as Special Commissioner to Virginia, has accepted ¢ office, Senator Wigfall, of Texas, bas arrived here. He leaves for Washington in the morning. The Norombega Bank. Boston, Dec. 29, 1859. The Norombega Bank been put in the hands of re- celvers, and its affairs wound up. The cashier has loaned apparently some $20,000, without the knowledge of the ident and directors. The circulation is stated at 76,000, but the Bank Commissioners think it will all be redeemed. —______ \ The Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Paitaperata, Dec. 29, 1859. The Philadelphia Committee of Bondholders and Board of Directors of the Fort Wayne and Ohicago Railroad, after a very harmonious eession, have agreed upon W. B. Og- den, of Chicago, as receiver of the road. J. P. Rdger- fea ie receiver appointed by the Ohio courts, has re- signe Loss of the Ship Heidelberg. ‘New Onieans, Dec. 29, 1869. The ship Maritana, from Genoa, has arrived here. She has on board the crew of the ship Heidelberg, which sunk on the 22d inst. ‘Weather Report. Tuvaspay, Dec. 20—8 A. M. Montreal—Weather very cold and clear; thermometer 11° below zero. Tho river frozen opposite the city. Boston—Thermometor 7° below zero; weather 5 ico rapidly forming in the bay. 's Point—Thermometer 30° below zero. &t. Johnsbury—Thermometer 33° below zero. Opdocsbars Thermometer 20? below zero. ‘hite River Junction—Thermometer 24° below zero. Hudson, N. ¥.—Shortly before sunrise the thermometer stood 14° zero. Markets. ‘New Orreans, Doc, 28, 1869. -Sotton easier, ut .wohuanolably. lower: epics eda pool 19-32d. Momux, Dee. 28, 1859, Cotton firmer: gales to-day 6,500 bales; middling 10Ke. Ava a 1850. Cotton firm: sales 1,000 bales, sn? D9 3 Bay a Cotton unchanged: éales 690 bales, an? De 28, 1800, Fiour frm: sales 2,500 vole supe ‘at 3660 "Wheat Glned salen 1,000 bushels a Be fr uow yeton oid key 26}c. a Pie. he salataroin ei ore Flour unchanged. Whiskey dull tye ‘Wheat advanced 2c. Corn firm. firm and demand fair: sales to-day 1,700 at $6 a $6 30. Receipts to-day 12,000. Mess pork $16. Bulk moats 6c. on the spot, and 8c. for future delivery. Lard held firmly at 1¢c. “ ————————E==— The Sunken Steamship Granada. ‘The steamship Granada, Captain McGowan, which was sunk on Wednesday night, by coming in contact with masses of floating ice in the North river, lies sunk off the end of pier No. 30 North river, foot of Chambers street. ‘The veegel lies in an inclined position, the forward part being pretty well out of water, and the stern and quarter- deck completely under water. The cargo consists of fifty-eight bales of cotton, two hundred barrels Or flour, twenty-five barrels of stearine and twenty- five barrels of clarifed sugar, brought from New Orleans. The cargo is materially damaged, but the loss is fairly eovered by insurance. ‘The damage to the vessel and equipments cannot be as- certained until the vessel shall have beon raised, but it is presumed it cannot fall short of from six to eight thou- gand dollare—fully insured. Yesterday the insurance companics had charge of the vessel, and were preparing two powerful steam pamps for the purpose of clearing and floating her. Among the sufferers by the affair were the sailora, waiters and firemen, who lost ali their clothes and valua- bleg. The Granada is advertised to sail on the 4th Prox. ; but itis not probable she will be ready at that time; if not, the Ariel will supply her place and sail on the 6th prox. for Hayana and New. Orleans. Cenmrat Park Skanxa Poxp.—The pond was in excel- lent condition yesterday, to which fact the hundreds who ‘spent the day there can testify. Indeed, on no day this eeagon hag it been in such apple-pic order. Although the weather is still evidently a little too cold, yet the number at the pond was large in comparison to Wednesday. There were as many as half-2-dozen curling clubs on the ice playing at this favorite game, which, by the by, docs not appear to meet with as much favor as might be eup- poked, from its nature, it would. Let all, however, who refuse to see anything in it, just participate ina game, and they will be convinced that it isa superior game, and one well calculate to bring their muscles into play— anal important consideration to Young America. The nam- ber of lads atthe pond yesterday was very large. It is truly astoniabing to ece with what rapidity they lcarn to skate and put older faces to the blush. Some of them cam cut an 8 or ap cagle with “the first man,” and one young fellow who has certainly not seen more than thirteen summers, could, with his skates, write his name om the ite with wonderful correctness and case. Our reporter, who donned a pair of skates on the occasion of his visit yeater- day, was put completely to the blush by Jada to whom he might in all henesty, as far as years go, bear the relation of parent In short, letall who know not how toskate buy @ pair and learn; and let all those who haye knowm how, brush up their practice. It is said there have beem sold in this city, upto this time, over half » million pairs: Of skates. WIS would not like to be ia the Dualuces® poten ae tad ad Arsivalsand Departures. ARRIVALS. From Belize, Hop, in the bark Cube—J W Hart. For Li 1, a aten arp tty ‘Ms ng REET Rg MnO Sedatadgr a, iv, Bee erwin eee lo, ‘Sasi; ule Tener My ore bier’ Edarmyn, etl te sPoer ae A Favrot, Switzerland; @ D Uurquiota, Antonie’ ifn, Boston JM Upton, 9°L Move, New Tork; Mre'D MoKea- ie, Makaod, Californias La en ee ene op Glousceer: Wm tency, Wn St Nove Bos ‘and, Cornwallia—17. For Savannah, in the nery—W B. Ghonten De ange Renu, oka are rife nd lid; ‘Mick Mary Young, J Taylor, M Roswell, Kvanoiae ‘wife—and 17 in tao ateorane,