The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDILOR AND PROPRIELOR. OY NASSAU AND FULTON STS OFFICE N. W. GOR «Money sent by mail will be at the mot recetved as sulscrigion tac derile per 20) BS fo any por te MENTS renewed every day; advertisements in- TT Waeuty Unaaum, Pauty Mamaiby end tn the Gornium! Bur opean EnMWons. SO PRENTLNG execdad eth neatnen, cheapness and de- opt seeeeMo. D Volame XXV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THRATRE, Howery—Bovs ‘Ano Ginis or tus Parsext Dar—Woman's Wuims—Kexvesrous, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond strbet.— Ocrozoon. : WALLACK’S THEATRE, Oxvax—Inisu Post. LAURA KEENE'’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Jeamis Deans. Broadway.—Hussamp to NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bow —LoRD oF rite Isias—MotueR Goose 4ND Tun GoLDaN -iuuu Tiaek. THEATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.—La Dame aux Cammiias. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- noon Tiaur Rore AScexsiox—PuxNOMRNON IN A SMOEK Fxocx—Duma Great ov tue Inn. 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Subsoriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New You« Harare will be received at the following places in Europe:— Sampson Low, Son & Oo. , 47 Lndy Hill. Lansing, Starr & C>., 74 King William street. Pans,.....Lansiag, Balawin & Co., 8 piace de la Bourse. Livenroor.. Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East. Haver, .., .Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 rue Corneille. Hamsore.. De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of th , Evrorray Eormow ov tmz Hxatp will combine the new received by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week and up to the hour of publication. The New The News. The steamship Atlantic arrived at this port yes- terday morning from Aspinwall, making the tripin peven days and four hours, bringing the passengers, mails and specie that came by the Pacific mail steamer Sonora, which left San Francisco Dec. 20. The Atlantic brought $1,788,666 in treasure, con- signed to various parties—half a million more than the arrival at a similar period last year. By this arrival we are put in possession of the latest news from California, Washington Territory, Oregon and British Columbia, Central America, New Granada, the South American republics and Japan. It oppears that the temporary settlement of the Sea Juan . Island affair was creating quite furore among the newspapers in that section of the country, and great dissatisfac- tion was manifested at General Scott's course. The Americans resident at San Juan island held a meet- ing on the 18th of November, at which they passed resolutions expressing thelr belief that San Juan is a part of Washington Territory. General Har- ney’s course in ordering United States troops to garrison the island was warmly endorsed. They said nothing about Gen. Seott’s late mission. The new United States steamer Saginaw, built at Mare Island Navy Yard, had made a very suc- cesefol experimental trip. The arrival of the five hundred Pitt River and Hart Creek In dians captured by General Kibbe in his late expedition, had created considerable excitement in San Francisco. The papecs at the latter place gave very graphic descriptions of the appearance and condition of the red men. The citizens of San Francisco were lionizing the officers of the two Russian corvettes recently arrived at that port from Japan. The first Legislature of Nevada Ter- ritory met and organized December 15, at Genoa, Carson Valley. Gov. Roop delivered his message. A committee of three was appointed to draft a me- morial to Congress to expedite the formation of a new Territory. From Central America we learn that Mr. Wyke the British Minister to Central America, had con- cluded a convention with the government of Hon duras, after which he proceeded to Nicaragua to arrange the basis of a treaty with that republic. Accounts from Bogota, the capital of New Gra- nada, announce that a decisive battle between the revolutionary forces, under General Nicto, and the government troops, commanded by Gencral Posa- da, took place at Barranquila on the 9th of De- cember, which resulted in the overthrow of the latter party. New developements were constantly being published in regard to the auriferous proper- ties of lately discovered mines. The Constituent Assembly had met at Carthagena. The first act of the body was to annul the laws called the unconsti- tutional laws of the federal Congress. Christmas and New Year's were celebrated on the Isthmus in the usual uproarious fashion. An interesting account of the late close run of the steamships Atlantic and North Star from New York to Aspinwall is given in our paper. By the way of Panama we have the important news of the termination of the war between the Argentine Confederation and Buenos Ayres, It appears that after his late victory at Sepita, Ur- quiza marched to the wails of the city of Buenos Ayres, where the inhabitants entered into a convention with him, the main point of which is that Buenos Ayres consented to again onter the Confederation. ‘The news from the South Pacific is dated at Val- paraiso the Ist and Callao the 12th of December. Chile was quiet, and public works were going oa favorably. The indians in the south were, how- ever, troublesome. ‘rade was dull in Valparaiso. ‘The statue of Bolivar was duly inaugurated at Lima. General Castilla was still before Guayaquil, with the Peruvian army, but seemed equally afraid to attack or retreat. Late advices from Japan contain official notice from Mr. Harris, U.8. Minister in Jeddo, to the effect that the native embassy to Washington would embark on the Powhatan on the 22d of February, and travel vis the Sandwich Islands to Panama, and thence to Washington direct from Aspinwall The embassy would number in all seventy persons. An inereasing trade was going on between San Frag. cisco and the Japanese ports. A horrible case of a drunken man eaten by rata, @t the Jefferson Market Police prison, was pub. NEW YORK HERALD, TU ‘ lished in last Sunday's Hurarn. The deceased was then unknown, but be has since beem identified by his own son as & Gorman named Jacob Steubenbord, fifty-three years of age. The affair has led to much ry relative to the internal management of some of our city prisons, which are said to be in the very worst condition, The proceedings of Congress yesterday are in- teresting. Among the bills introduced in the Senate was one to promote the efficiency of the army by retiring disabled and infirm officers, also to prohibit the circulation in the District of Colum- bia ef bank notes of a less denomination than twenty dollars, Notice was glven of a bill pro- viding for the establishment of a goverument print- ing office, with a view to checking the gross cor- ruption that has grown out of the public priating contracts, A ‘resolution calling for «ll eorres pondence between Gen. Scott and Gen. Harney, relative to the San Juan Island affair, was adopted. Senator Iverson, of Georgia, delivered a set speech on the Presidential question. We give « full report of his remarks, from whioh it appears that neither Judge Douglas nor any Northern democrat need look for # nomination at the Charleston Conyen- tion. The House ballotted three times for Speaker without effecting a choice. Both houses of the Legislature met last evening, but transacted no business of importance. The standing committees were announced. They are given in our report. A resolution to grant the use of the Assembly chamber for the purpose of hold- ing a Union meeting of the citizens of Albany, was refused by the republicans, - ‘The committee appointed on the part of the State to estimate the value of the State's interest in the West Washington Market property, hare made a report. They assess the value of the property at a quarter ofa million dollars, and recommend ita sale rather than to continue a doubtful litigation with the city of New York as to the proprietor- ship of the property in question. The anniversary of Gen. Jackson's victory at New Orleans was celebrated last evening by the Tam- many sachems and braves, atthe Old Wigwam, in spirited style. We give an account of the festivi- ties in another column. Both branches of the Common Council met yes- terday afternoon. But little business of import- ance, however, was transacted in either Board. In the Board of Aldermen a message was received from the Mayor recommending the establishment of an “Emigrant and Strangers’ Protective Bu- reau.” The document is given in our report of the proceedings. The Board adopted an ordinance prohibiting the sprinkling of salt and other sub- stances in the public streets in order to melt snow and ice. A communication was sent in by the Comptroller, showing the expenditures on city trust and special accounts, during the past year, to have been $19,031,521. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday Judge Ingraham denied a motion for the discharge from custody of Margaret Burke, who is charged with poisoning certain parties at a boarding house in Fourteenth street abouta year ago. A motion was made to send the case of James Sheppard, the incendiary, back to the Court of Sessions for trial, and a decision on the point will probably be ren- dered in a day or two. The European news by the Kangaroo and Arabia tended to check transactions in cotton yesterday, which were confined to 300 or 400 bales. The market was rather un- fettled, though without quotable change in prices, Flour ‘was in moderate request, with some speculative demand, while thore was little or nothing doing for export, and the home trade purchased sparingly. Canadian flour was firmly held. Southern brands were in fair request, and sales made at steady prices. Wheat was heavy and dull; small lots prime white Western sold fat $1 45, white Southern at $1 42}, and red do. at $190. Corn was heavy, with small sales at 87c. a 930. for new and old Jersey and Southern yellow. Pork opened with firmncss, but grew dull at the close, with sales of mess at $16 37}¢, with some lots in the forenoon at $16 50; prime closed at $11 75 a $11 873¢, and 1,000 bbis. new meas sold, deliver able between the 15th February and 1st Aprii (were re ported sold), at $17.50. Sugars were firm, with sales of 1,000 bhds. and 2,400 bags Manila and 136 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffee was firm but quict Freight engagements were moderate; 800 bales of cotton were engaged for Liverpool at 316d. a 7-S2d. The Great Crisis of 1860—Virginia's Pro- posed Remedy. The Message of Governor Letcher, of Vir- ginia, takes a lofty and statesmanlike view of the agitation which already threatens to con- vulse the commercial and credit fabric of the North, and proposes a remedy which must strike all parties as reasonable, sensible and practical. We are a community of sovereign States, having peculiar and different agricultural, in- dustrial, commercial and social interests, living under a common constitution and laws, which are intended and adopted for the purpose of securing and protecting the rights of each, and of promoting the mutual intercourse of friend- ship and commerce. Yet several of the North- ern States, while claiming the right to enjoy all the benefits and privileges of this common bond and Union, have violated some of its sacred compacts. Misled by the sophistries of fanati- cism, several of the State Legislatures have passed acts nullifying some of the stipulations of the constitution, and abrogating the Fugitive Slave law enacted by a common Congress. At this very moment a large number of the repre- sentatives in Congress from the Northern States are insisting upon tke election of Sher- man as Speaker of that federal and national body—a man who has pub- licly endorsed and recommended — the most aggressive and incendiary counsels against the social institutions of fifteen of our sister States—who has not and will not abjure and denounce them, but merely gets his friends to say for him that he did not know at the time what he was signing, and whose election will be hailed in every portion of this Union as the announcement of a determination on the part of a majority of the federal representatives to carry on the war of legislative aggression against the rights of the South. In this state of affairs, the newly elected Governor of Virginia recommends to the Legis- lature of that State that the sister States call upon Congress to convene the convention pro- vided for in the fifth article of the constitution, to see if ina free conference the controversy cannot be settled on some basis satisfactory to both. This sensible proposition will no doubt be accepted by all theSouthern States, impelled by the sentiment of a common danger, and their Legislatures will all probably pass resolutions adopting the call. The constitution requires that the call shall be made by two-thirds of the several States, so that the adhesion of twenty- two States to it will suffice, aud Congress has then no other option than to convoke a national convention for the amendment of the constitution. Starting with the fifteen Southern States, seven more only are required to enforce the measure. In view of the fact that the interests of California and Oregon lie with the whole Union, and not with either section, we may anticipate that they will accede to a measure designed for its pre- servation. Five States only are wanting then to carry it out; and let us now see where these can be obtained. Under the existing state of excitement the merchants of the Southern States are not only ing refraining from coming North to buy goods, but the agents of Northern manufacturers and moerchautsare being sent away empty handed by the people of the South. The excitement against the purchase and use of the preducts of Northern industry is being increased in the South by the persistence of the Northern members of Congress in their determination to elect Me, Sherman. This of iteclf is already beginning to produce a Goancial preseure upon the merchants and manufacturers of the Middle and Nerthern States, which thecatens to increase greatly as the season advances. It is no very difficult matter for the South to go on without the arti- cles it is accustomed to receive from the North. The people, iustigated by a deep political feel- ing, and the desire of self preservation, can easily continue for a year, or perhaps two, with the old fabrics of wear and articles of use, as many of them have before done when their rivers wore dry and their facilities for procuring supplics diminished. Bat there is another element of power in their possession which can be used with terrible effect upon every Northern interest. Their present crop of cotton is estimated at four mfM- lions of bales—the greatest ever made. This staple isa necessity for the manufacturers of Europe and the Northern States. It is shipped to the consuming markets, and drawn against through the bankers of New York to the extent of fifty dollars per bale, or two hundred mil- lions of dollars annually. The equilibrium of trade bas‘been supplied by Northern exports to Southern markets, This Northern trade being dried up, or even largely diminished, the South will call upon our bankers for specie in return for the bills on the manufacturers of Massachu- setts and Europe. Suchacall as this would drain every Northern bank of its specie, and bring the whole of the immense edifice of North- ern credit crumbling about our ears. This is no imaginary picture. Every merchant, every banker, every man of sense, who contem- plates calmly the changes which the present excitement in the South is effecting in the chan- nels of trade, diminishing their current and changing their course, sees it clearly, and already contemplates how he shall provide for the exigencies which it must produce be- fore the coming summer shall have passed away. The crisis of 1837 commenced by the failure of the South to meet its pecuniary obligations in May of that year. The crisis of 1857 came from the failure of the Northwest in the same respect,and our recuperation commenced with the hearty response and support of the South. To-day the Northwest is inno position to carry us through a crisis consequent upon a with- drawal of the commercial demands of the South, and such a misfortune would surpass anything that has ever been witnessed in the commercial worlg. To the brink of it are we brought by the miserable intrigues of demagogues and spoils politicians, of fanatical declaimers of sophistries and absurd abstrac- tions, and forgetfulness on the part of the people of the true rights of others and the holy compacts of our common bond of union. ‘When the crisis comes, ifnet before, the central commercial States will readily supply the number wanting to convoke a national con- vention to amend the constitution, and to put down forever such restless demagogues and destructive revolutionists as Seward, Helper, Sherman, Wendell Phillips, and the glorifiers of John Brown. », First Rare Purrs From ovr Orronests.—The course of the New York Huratp has often afforded great cause of tribulation to the phi- losophers of the 7iibune, to the Honorable Jef- ferson Brick, and various other journalists here and elsewhere. We do not thiak it would be possible, were we to try ever so hard, for us to print a paper that would please the 7ribune or Mr. Brick. Consequently we do not at- tempt it, but confine all our attention to making the Heratp a newspaper for the public at large, at the same time being penetrated with grief whenever our distinguished cotemporaries fail to approve our course. Neither are we espe- cially overjoyed when we receive—as it hap- pens once in a while—praises from our oppo- nents. We are mindful of the memorable ex- ample of the Trojan horse, and accept no gifts from our enemies. Nevertheless, they some- times do a good thing for us by accident, and we blush to find ourselves famous fn that manner. They have been rather more industrious in that way latterly than usnal, and have flattered us to a most dangerous degree. We are told by the Tribune, on the one hand, that we furnish all the brains for the democratic members of Congress; we are not over and above proud of that—hy a country journal, that the President's Message was made up from the Heratp—by the Tribune and Times, that we are doing the work of the Garrisonian abolitionists; and at the same time we are persistently charged by the first named journal with printing a pro-slavery organ, bound hand and foot to the South, and there- fore wielding a power in that section of the country such as no other newspaper ever had anywhere before. According to these philo- sophers there is nothing mundane which we cannot accomplish if we set aboutit, They give us the credit of success in enterprises where they have failed time and again. Even the little dogs of the Sunday papers bark in the same strain. By the Tribune of yesterday it seems, too, that we have entered a new field. The comic is our latest line; and we are charm- ed to hear that we do it so well that, if we keep on, we shall drive all the professed funny papers out of the field, We are much gra- tified with this praise, although it comes not from Sir Hubert Stanley, When the Tribune is not dull and heavy, it is short and surly. However, people who have no fun in themselves may appreciate it in others; and so we imitate honest Sancho Panza, and look not a gift horse in the mouth, For the rest, we cannot say how delighted we are at all these compliments. They prove that we have succeeged in making the Henatp universal—a complete mirror of the times—a newspaper in point of fact. If we had any ad- vice to give our cotemporaries we should sug- gest that they might find their account in at- tending strictly to their own affairs, as we do, and making their papers as nearly as good as the Heraup as they can. Forour own part, we shall go on to print this journal in our own way, and for the benefit of the public only. It is very sad for us to be obliged to suffer the compliments of our cotémporaries, after enjoy- ing their contamely so long, but we believe that with Christian patience we shall be able to worry through even that calamity. . The Alleged British Treaty with 1 duras. Advices by the steamer Atlantic, from the Tathoue, received yesterday, affirm that Mr. Wyke, the successor of Sir William Gore Ouseley as British representative in Central America, had concluded a convention with the goverpment of Honduras, and had gone to Ni- caragua for a similar adjustment of affairs with that republic. Taken in connection with various comments in the newspapers and givings out of Washington correspondents, the public may be led to infer that Great Britain has followed up her negotiations with Guatemala (in which she secured everything from that State to which she ever had the audacity to setup pretensions) by a convention with Honduras for the ren- dition of the Bay Islands, seized and organized in 1852 as a colony of the British Crown. We doubt, however, if such has been the case. That Mr. Wyke went to Honduras some months ago is well known; but his principal object in going there was to force on the government of that republic the recognition and payment of certain English claims, the most important of which was that known as the Carmichael claim,” which originated as fol- lows:—Mr. Carmichael, an English trader of Belize, obtained from the Mosquito King @ grant to cut mahogany on the river Roman, within the territorial limits of Honduras, and ‘where no Mosquito Indian had ever been known to exist. In accordance with his concession he made an establishment on the river, and went on cutting wood for some months withoutdisturbance, when a quar- rel arising between some of his overseers, im- perious half breeds from Jamaica, and the workmen, chiefly Caribs and laborers of the country, the latter drove out the overseers, set fire te the establishment, cut adrift the maho- gany, appropriated such articles as they could lay their hands on, and dispersed. Mr. Oar- michael thereupon set up a pretence that his expulsion was done under the authority of the government of Honduras, and demanded from it an indemnity for his losses—-a round sum of upwards of $100,000. The government of Hon- duras explicitly disclaimed any participation in the affair, direct or indirect; and furthermore, took the position that, as Mr. Carmichael as- symed to act under Mosquito authority and on Mosquito territory, his claim for redress must lie against.‘ His Mosquito Majesty.” This was some years ago; and during the in- tervening period Honduras has been sytemati- cally bullied by the English agents in the in- terest of Carmichael, but she has steadily re- fused to recognise his claim. Mr. Wyke has been conspicuous in his menaces, and his com- munications to the Honduras government have been framed on the offensive modes left him by his great prototype, Chatfield. As we have said, Mr. Wyke went to Hondu- ras primarily for the purpose of forcing through this claim; and, as in his last written communication to the government of that re- public he threatened an enforcement at the mouth of British cannon, it is not impossible that he has compelled a compliance with his demands. But beyond that, we will venture the assertion, he has made no treaty affecting either the Bey Islands or the Mosquito Protectorate—. the only points open to negotiation in which the United States has the least interest. The relations between Great Britain and Honduras may be briefly stated. On the 26th of August, 1856, a general treaty of amity and commerce was negotiated between the two countries by Lord Clarendon and Sefior Don Victor Herran, in London, which was ratified in due course, and is now in full force and effect. At the same time this treaty was signed, there were also signed two other conventions:— 1st—For the rendition of the Bay Islands to Honduras, under certain conditions, such as trial by jury for its inhabitants, relief from general taxation and military duty, except for their own defence, and winding up with the clause, that “as slavery had never existed in the islands, it should never be permitted,” &c. 2d—Recognizing the territorial limits of Hon- duras, as claimed by herself, and as against the Mosquito Indians, and providing for the con- centration of such Indians, if any should be found to exist, within a certain sufficient reser- vation. This was to be done bya joint commis- sion of the two governments, which also was to arbitrate all claims of British subjects on Honduras. Neither of these conventions was accepted by Henduras, and although Mr. Wyke may have been instructed to propose them anew, our advices from Honduras assure us that they would not be listened to, except with such wide modifications as Great Britain has repeat- edly declared were inadmissible. We are not discussing the wisdom of the policy of Hondu- Tas; but it has been steadily predicated upon the absolute rendition of the Bay Islands, in reality as well as name, and we do not believe that she has now receded from this position. In a word, we do not credit the report of a convention with Honduras, nor the intention of one with Nicaragua, in the sense of a restora- tion, of the Bay Islands or the abandonment of the Mosquito Protectorate. Nor do we believe that any ireaty whatever has been concluded in Central America by Great Britain, except the secret and underhand capitulation made by Guatemala on the 30th of April last. In refusing to accept the Clarendon-Dallas treaty, as amended by the Senate of the United States, which comprehended a plan of settlement of the Central American question on the basis of the acquisition of Belize, the sur- render of the Bay Islands, ‘and the abandon- ment of the Mosquito Protectorate—in refusing to accept this plan, Great Britain relieved the United States from the obligation to admit any of her pretensions. It was simply a fraud to take Belize, as she bas done, and then claim that she is only carrying out ihe plan of adjustment proposed in the Claren- don: Dallas treaty,as. amended by the Senate, but rejected by herself. The concessions of that treaty were te be mutual and simulta- neous, Great Britain has taken all that it was proposed she should receive, on condition that she should give up the Bay Islands and the Mosquito Protectorate. But she has fulfilled neither of these conditions. The reports set afloat that she has made this or that arrange- ment with Honduras and Nicaragua, are proba- bly simple fictions, designed to amuse the Ame- rican Congress. If she be honest and sincere, and acting up to the letter and spirit of the treaty which she refused to accept, and by which she now pretends to be governed, how comes it that her very first act under it was in the nature of a fraud? Why was not the Ame- rican Minister-in Guatemala informed of the negotiations going on, as is now alleged, in a ESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1860. tisk spirit of concession to the United States? Or, stranger still, how happens it that the Ameri- can government was not consulted, or at least informed, in respect to negotiations so seriously affecting the compromises of the two countries? The fact is, Great Britain has not given up, nor does she intend giving up, any of her Central American pretensions or plans of acquisition. She has got Belize, she has got the Mosquito Shore, she has got the Bay Islands, and she means to keep them all. * Tue Secret or THE Repusuican Parry’s Svo- cess.—In an address “to the republican party,” signed by C. B. Wheeler, and published in yesterday's Tribune, the writer gives advice to the abolitionists, which shows that he under- stands his subject and knows how to operate successfully for the revolutionary cause. His mode of winning the Presidential electiog in 1860, is to send anti-slavery documents all over the middle States—the Northern States, includ- ing New York, being already secure, and the Southern States being hopeless. He says if they caanot elect their man by the people, they have no chance in the House of Representa- tives, where the South would certainly have seventeen votes against fifteen, the vote of the delegation from each State only counting one, and the vote of Minnesota being just as good as that of New York. His idea, then, is to cul tivate Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Mlinois, In- diana and Minnesota, and the southern part of Ohio. Even all these States, ‘and Kansas if admitted, would not without Pennsylvania win the election; but with Pennsylvania, then New Jersey and Minnesota would be sufficient. The writer surrenders to the South both California and Oregon. This calculation appears to be correct, with perhaps the exception of the State of New York, which may be claimed as doubtful, and, accordingly, the efforts of the abolition pro- pegandism will be chiefly directed to the Middle States. From the two treason shops here—one in Spruce street, and the other in Wall—these States, “which may be called the battle ground of the election,” will -be flood- ed with such documents as Helper’s Impending Crisis. These are the am- munition with which they intend to carry the day, and with these they have been already successful to a vast extent at the North. With similar documents they have leavened those States where the anti-slavery sentiment is in the ascendant. This shows that while some of the leaders of the republican party in Congress pretend to re- pudiate the most obnoxious portions of Hel- per’s book, their agents at the Northare active- ly engaged in distributing the political poison by which they expect to profit in 1860. Now, if the Union men could only imitate this zeal and activity, and go to work in the same way, circulating documents of a salutary tendency in the same States, as antidotes to the abolition bane, instead of wasting their strength in quar- telling about the spoils, s vefy di@erent result might be expected than that which, there is too much reason to fear, unless the conservatives ofthe country will at once forego all minor considerations and rally as one man for the in- tegrity of the. Union and the Constitution as transmitted to us by the great founders-of federal republic. It is wise to take a lesgon from the enemy and try if he cannot be beaten with his own weapons. Tus OrGanmation or Concress.—On the whole, the battle which has been fought against sectionalism, gbolitioniam and disunionism, by the conservative, Union members of the House of Representatives, has been, so far, masterly. Including South Americans and anti- Lecomptonites, the national men of the South and North seem determined enough upon the one point—that an endorser of Helper’s book, or a republican who does not explicitly and emphatically disavow and repudiate the sentiments it contains, shall never preside over them. And it is to be noted that not one republican has yet acted in a manly and honest manner with respect to this question. They have all held off, on the absurd supposition that, although they were in a minority in the House on the great national question of the day, they could eventually weary out their more patri- otic adversaries into a suicidal adoption of the plurality rule. It is to be regretted that the South Americans persistin clinging so obstinately and blindly to @ mere fossil, and that the anti-Lecomptonites should continue to imagine that the Lecompton constitution isa present issue. Both of these parties are resolved that no republican shall be Speaker. Why, then, as they are in a minority as compared with the democrats, do they not name a democrat of their own selection, upon whom they pledge themselves to unite? In such a case, an anti-abolitionist Speaker would be chosen without further delay. It has been evi- dent from the beginning that this was all that was needed to organize the House. ° Bowsry Taearre.—The sisters Ada and Emma Webb, comediennes and vocalists, who have been very favorably received in the South and in California, will commence an ‘engagement here this evening. A new picce ds circon- stance called “Boys and Girls of the Present Day,” will ‘be brought out on this occasion. ‘Tae Ferrero Somes Daxsante.—Mr. Edward Forrero, the accomplished maitre de danse, will give a soirée at the Academy of Music to his pupiis and their friends on the 7th og February. The affair wili begin at five o’ciock in the afternoon, in order to give Young Amorica an opportunity: to share in the festivities. Lavra Keexe’s Taxarre.—The Scottish element ia our metropolitan popniation rallied in full force las night to assist at the first performance of Mr. Bourcicanit's adap- ‘tation of the ever popular tale of ‘‘The Heart of Mid Lothiaa.’’ There was, too, more than the usual jirst night house, attracted by the reputation of the dramatist and the very excellent distribution of the privelpal charae'ers in the familiar story. Long before the rising of the cur, tain the theatre was crowded to cxcess. In his very clever adaptation Mr. Bourcicault has followed very close- ly the thread of the story, and given to the extended aclear and compact dramatic form. He has also around this form « vivid artistic coloring, strongly ey rig 5 it would be difficult to award the laurel of s ity to either. The audience divided its ly the fair artiste. Miss Wells was very effective in Meg, and ‘the male characters were all wol! ; that vid Deans, by Mr, Charles ‘Bo. the trial scene, Mr. Bourcicault played NEWS FROM THE sTaTy” CAPITAL, we Oar Special Albany Da'P#tch, Atoasr, Jan. 9, 1860, » ‘The evening session of the House was taken v'p in of- fering petitions, presenting bills and resolutions, and aa- nouncing the Standing Committees. Mr, Gibbs, of Albany, offered a resolution granting the . use of the House on next Thursdey evening to the citizens of Albany, for the purpose of holding their Union meet- ing. Mr. Fingler, (republican) of Niagara, objected, which, under the rules, dofeated the resolu- tion, Thus we find black ‘republisans refusing the use of the House for the purpose of expressing Unien sentiments, In what shape will the cloven foot appear next? Cam it be possible that they are becoming alarmed at the awakening of the conservative sentiment througia ~ the country that foliows in the wake of the Union meet- mgs? Having thus shown a disposition to prevent the ex- porty— ‘The undersigned, a committee appointed to appraise the interests of the State im the known as Woes ‘Washington Market, in the city of Now York, report ‘thas, bave been much embarrassed in arri Laid Hathctery copatuaion, to the peculiar poses tie Seopents sed ts Gress ‘as to what be the feal tthe Gout a Fagard the ie which decalaay im the ordinary course of litigation, will be delayed. In \‘ew of these circumstances, your 00: are af opinion thatthe interests of the uate will be wy sale of the property at $250.000, under terms of the resolution ordering the sale, ratber thaa to continue & doubtful litigation, therefore appraise the interest of the State in the property at that sim. | Your ive at while no bid for a less amount can be i i i gz : i Our Albany Correspondence. Aveany, Jan. 7, 1600. Wm. H. Seward and His Ohances—Dr. Chapin om the Rochester Orator—Phe Personal ‘Liberty Bil—Pro Rata ‘Tare on Freight—Mr. Plagler to be Chairman of the Oom- mittee of Ways and Means, dc. Albany is nearly deserted to-day. The law makery and the bangers on in general having left for home, every - thing is quiet. The fow that have romained here are dis- cussing the prospects of Wm. H. Seward as a Presidential man for the republican standard bearer in the next Presi- ential contest. It is needfess for me to assert that he is fully endorsed by the republicans in and about the Legis- lature—not a few are constantly arguing that if nomi- nated, certain localities that have heretofore gone against the republican party would go for Seward. Recognizing the Rochester orator as the embodiment of the republican party, or rather the platform of the party, they very naturally object to laying him aside for any other persou, and thus virtually repudiate their platform (Seward), re- cognized by them in all their acts. Conjectures as to the course of Seward on his appear- ance in the United States Senate also enter largely inte the conversation of his friends here. The general impres- sion is that he will remain quiet and let others do the talk- ing. Whilst on this point, it may not be uninteresting to give the opinion of Dr. Chapin upon the course of Seward. ‘The preachers in the Northern pulpita form an cssential part of the republican party and wield an immense iafla- teristic of the stump orators of the day. One gontieman seated near him, saked Dr. C. what he thought Senater Seward would do in regard to the John Brown raid upom taking bis seat in Congress. To which the reveread eeeeceriece geeaettetas : & az alte, Tsheg ie lal i point in the it an easy task to judice, which ts finding an echo in the Legislature. Pressiire hore in favor of its passage is tment of the gelect committee in irs done to the Capitol Baildings, including ‘ting, since the adjournment of the last Legis- lature, will exceed ten thousand dollars. Mr. Flagler, of Niagara, will be the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House. Ho will, however, find it no easy task to arrange the supplied with that accuracy that characterized the action of that comunittee under the financial control of Mr. Conkling, of your city, who arranj the supplies within $15, of the amount raised mg government expenses. That may be considered ci calculation and evidence of financial abihty, when with that of tho of 1857, which over apj 4 the fund of the tune of $150,000. The committee of last sea- purpose, action of the adividual members of the committee, more the chairman, will be closely watched this session. Aupary, Jan. 7, 1860. Into What Hands has the Empire State Fallen?—Who are the Men Controlling its Destiny?—The Way the Great Oity is Represented—Insurance Department—Union Mect- ing, dc. ‘The republicans having now the entire control of the State government, In the executive, ministerial and legis- lative departments, have taken upon themselves a heavy responsibilty. The condition of the treasury, the unex- ampled and extending canal debt, the encroachments of the railroad monopolies upon the resources of the State, ‘the support of the many charitablo and benevolent insti- tutions, supported and encouraged by public patronage, together with many other important matters, require the conceiving people and the welfare of the the State all or any of the mea- sures of public necessity remains to be discovered. 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