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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 2 OV NASSAU AND FULTON STS. S, ash tn adeance, Money sent by mat sei be at the ve sender, Postage tampa wot received as subscription ‘le PALLY ARRALD, two cents por copy, $7 9 = annum ? PERLY HERALD ay, ate ente per copy. or 88 per annum; the Extition ave . ti ta per cans wy part of Gr Britain, 1 ae ents bar eaey Pike Continent, boon fo tnctade ye as obee cons Y HERALD on Wednesday, at four cota per ‘ORRESPON DENCH, Ca tYorwia B:tition on the 6th and With of ‘ony _or $1 Gi) per annun THE FaMIL » ‘Etaken of anonymous correspondence We to not jected somnuened an ISEMENTS renewed 3 advertisements tm period in the Weenty Hweato, Paar fama, and in the Cdfornia and ‘Editions. JOB P. 7m executed with neatness, cheapness and de epateh, Volume XXV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSTO, Fourteoath street.—Itacarn Ormaa Daw Faxucavre. NIBLO® GARENN. Broadway.—Cooxe’s Borat Aurm- Sumarzs—Afternoon and Evening. 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The Senate Committec’s amendment, that six per cent interest on claims should be re- ceived by mail contractors in full for all damages, and that the contractors themselves shoul ! :eceive the interest in place of the parties to whom claims had been assigned, was adopted by a vote of 36 to 13. An amendmentabolishing the franking privilege on the 10th of April next was also adopted, by a vote of 31 to 21, and the bill was then passed. It will be taken upin the House to-day probably, but it is understood that that body is firmly set against the abolition of the franking privilege, and the final pastage of the bill may in consequence be delayed for some days. In the House, after considerable debate, the election of a Printer was postponed till Monday. The standing committees were an- nounced. We publish a complete list of them in our report of the proceedings. On Saturday last the Assembly adopted a reso- lution calling on the Central Park Commissioners to report a statement of the character and cost of the werk executed by their order to February 1, 1860, and an estimate in detail of the cost of the work required to complete said Park, together with the original estimates for carrying out the plan of | improvement and embellishment adopted by them. In complianée with this call, yesterday an admira- bly arranged report from the Commissioners was laid before the Assembly. We priat the document in to-day’s Heratp. It furnishes all the informa- tion asked for by the Albany Solons, and much more th.t is interesting with reference to the Park improvements. We hope, now that the Legislature has been enlightened, that they will not unneces sarily delay granting authority to the Commission- ers to raise the $2,600,000 required fur the success- ful prosecution of the work. In the State Senate yesterday but little business ‘was transacted, members not having recovered | from the prolonged and exciting executive session of the day previous on the New York appoint- ments. The bill limiting the rate of ferviage be- tween New York and Brooklyn by the Union Com- pany’s boats to one cent passed to a third roading. Among the bills introduced was one relative to the foreclosare and sale of the Erle road. The bill relating to assigaments by debtors was passed ‘The Canal, bill was debated and recommitted, ‘with ‘instructions to strike out $120,000 to tho Champlaincanal. The proposition to strike ont tho to the Chenango canal was defeated, 122 to 19. The consideration of the Governor's Message was resumed, and Mr. Hammond continaed NEW YORK HERALD Bounced by District Attorsey Roosevelt in appro- priate terms,and the Courts adjourned till Mon- dey #6 a mark of reapect for the memory of the deceased. To-morrow at noon a meeting of the bar will be held at the court room of the United States District Court to give suitable expression to the feeling of sorrow experienced at the decease of Judge Ingersoll. Some of the most eminent lawyers of the city will speak on the occasion. Our files by the City of Washington contain ample details of the European news to the 25ttr ulumo, published in the Hesanp yesterday mora- ing, We give to-day fuil reports of the speech de- livered by Queen Victoria on the ocossion of the opening of the British Parlirment, as well as of those made in both houses s the debate on the address in reply. The progress of the great free trade movement in France is noted, with the tactics of the protectionists in opposition, The agitation on the Church temporalities question con- tinued ail over the cominent. Particalara of the fatal disaster which deprived Captain Harrison, of the Great Eastern, of his life, will be also found in this paper. Betting in England on the probable result of the contest between Heenan and Sayers was favor of the “Benicia Boy.” The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen which was to Jeave Southampton on the 25th ult., would not be able to leave on that day, having on her outward passage met with an accident to her machinery which necessitates a thorough examina tion before she can again be sent to sea. Our correspondent in Venezuela, dating at La guayra and Puerto Cabello on the 10th and 25d ul timo, confirms the melancholy reperts of the con- dition of the republic in consequence of the deso- lating progress of the civil war. It appears now as if a strong party, discontented with the central executive, wished for the return of Monagas. A party of federalist political prisoners, destined for Maricaibo Castle, had seized the convict vessel, car- ried her into Curacoa,and freed themselves. The | crops were almost wholly lost, and agricultural operations entirely suspended. The Forrest divorce case came up in the Supe- rior Court yesterday, and it was arranged to argue the motion to confirm the referee's report in favor of the plaintiff on the 20th inst. Inthe Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday Patrick Tannart was tried upon the charge of cans- ing the death of Patrick Honeyman, in December last, while engaged ina prize fight, and the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. The Board of Councilmen had no qnorum last evening, and the President declared it adjourned to Monday next, at5 P.M. There were but three members who answered to their names at the call- ing of the roll. The cotton market, on account of tho foreign news, closed with more steadiness yesterday, while the sales embraced about 2,000 bales, including 600 in transit. Tots in store wore sold on the basis of 114c. for middliug uplands. The receipts at the ports since the Ist of Sep- tember last have reached 2,053,000 bales, which exceeds the amount of receipts for the same period in any former year. Of tis amount we have exported 1,739,000 bales, which, vained at $60 per bale, gives the sum of $56,950,- 000; leaving a stock on band of 1,040,000 bales. The total imports at New York for soyen months, or from the close | of the last fiscal year ending Jano 30, 1859, to Februaryfl, 1860, amounted to $137,801,786. ‘The exports of domestic produce for the samo time amounted to $36,793,091, and of specie to $87,875,302; making together $74,606,483, which, if subtracted from the imports, gives an excess over exports at this port of $63,125,303. To make | up this deficiency the products of the South, and espe- cially of cotton, have to be depended upon, and which, seeing that we haye already shipped $36,050,000 worth of cution, or $25,814,097 in excess of the balance of trade against this city, it is fair to presume that, with a fair trade from the South with the importers and jobbers of New York, as large as the importations have been so. far in the present fiscal year, that no very serious conse- quences are to be apprehended. It is the immense value of Sovibern protucts which goes forward to relieve our importers of an indebtednces incurred in seven months of $€3,135,3(3. Flour was firm yesterday, but some less active. Wheat was comparatively quiet, and corn was rather casier. Pork was firm and active, with free sales at $18 25 for new mesa On the spot, and new prime at $14 37*j. Sugars were firm and in good demand, with sales of 1,400 hbds. at prices given in another column. Coffvo ‘was qvict, bat Ormly held: 200 bags good to prime Rio sold at12!(c.0183z¢, Frelghts were mc‘ive both to Liverpool | and jondon, with more offering, while rates were firm. | The New Commercial Policy in France— Its Probable Effect on Trade. In the news from Europe by the City of Washington, it is stated that the manufacturing interests of France had presented a strong me- morial to the Emperor against the new com- mercial policy he hed inaugurated, declating that it was nothing less than “an economical and social revolution,” which should be. resist- ed by every possible means. This is very similar language to that used'by English protected interests when Sir Robert 1 sacrificed the cherished convictions of Jedre, the affiliations of party, and. almost his “tenure of power, to the evidences of reason and of truth. The divest prophecies of rain and Gonoluled his remarks. In the Assembly the | ‘were poured forth; but time has proved their report of the Central Park Commissioners was re- ceived. The. Mouse, in Committce of le, took up the Pro Rata Freight bill. It-was debated by Messrs. Miller, A..A. Myers, Jowett, Darcy, Flagler, Littlejohn, Williams, Merritt, ©. Allen, Pel- ton and Milliken. Several motions. to amend by excepting various roads from the operation of the bili Were lost. The bill was fimally made the spe- cial order for Wednesday, - The Maryland House of Delegates yesterday adopted a resolution condemning the course of H. Winter Davis in voting for Mc. Penningztoy for Bpeaker of the House of Representatives. Tt will be seen from a notice in our advertising columns that the Young Men’s Democratic General Committee held a mecting at Tammany Hall on Tharsday evening last,and that a preamble and resolutions were adopted in which they declare the endorsement of the Helper treason manual by po- litical, lay and clerical members of the republican party, an act designed to create false impressions forthe purpose of getting the reins of power iato their hands. Phe Committee declare their strict adherence to the constitution of the United States, and desire no “higher law.” By its provisionsthoy think the negro fs not the peer of the white man, from his deficiency in intellect, lack of capacity for self-improvement, or elevating conceptions, as his past history abundantly proves. The freedom of the white man and the slavery of the negro they declare were primordial to the constitution of the United States, were interwoven in our system of government, which principles they will sustain, They declare the late Union meetings in the Northern States worse than a delusion and a saare, ‘At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a report was presented by the Commit- tee to. whom was referred the resolutions of a meet- ing held in Bremen in reference to maritime inter- course in time of war. We give this document in ur report of the proceedings cf the Chamber, to- gether with a memorial to the President, urging the mediation of the United States in the pending war between France and England and China. The annual clection of officers of the American Tastitute was held last evening, and the contest be- tween the Pell and Hall factions was carried on with great spirit. The canvassing of the votes was commenced at seyon, and discontinucd at nine o'clock, when the inspectors adjourned. The in- epectors announced that, ao far as they had counted the ballots, the vote stood as follows:—For the ticket headed with the name of William Hall for V'resident, 237 votes; for the ticket headed with the name of Robert L. Pell, 187 votes. The canvass will be resumed to-morrow evening. In the United States District and Circnit Courts ois ents of Jatge Iogcsall was ap: a oe 3 .- fallacy, and that the fiscal system then adopted by England is the most advantageous for the State and for the people, including even the protected classes. Louis Napoleon has taken care to secure his new policy by a com- mercial treaty with Eogland, which has already been signed, although its stipulations as regards France will not go into effect until the year 1861. The initlation of France, and through France probably of all Europe, on a career of free trade, is thus secured, and we may prog- nosticate the greatest benefits to accrue there- from to all the realms of commerce. As the fiscal system of every gation is but little more than the plan of raising taxes, which are paid by its own people, it is upon its own ndustry and wealth that the greatest effects of relaxations are produced. ‘The industry and commerce of England have exhibited a won- derful augmentation since she threw off the old trammels of pretection to manufactures and agriculture, but the trade of other nations has participated in this improvement. This is evi- dent from the increase of our own trade with the United Kingdom. The following table ex- hibits the statistics of that commerce for a pe- riod of fifteen years, as given by the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury on commerce and navigation. We have divided them into three periods of five years each, during which three great general causes operated on trade. These were the new financial policy of Eng- land, the influx of gold from California, and the wars carried on by England and France in the Crimea and in Italy. The following table exhibits, during those periods, our COMMERCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Experts, Yearly de, Movomant 11160 ieee Inc...70 por ct. a 180,268,166 Ino...45 Increase in 15 years, 147 per cent. dinporls. $2E0,005,925 56,011,355 2 598,041,525 207, 626,883,905 105,598,761 Ynorease in 15 years, 90 per ceat. Here we have an increase of nearly 150 per cent ia our exports to, and of 90 per cent in our imports from that country. The ratio of increase in the imports has been largely di- minished by the effects of the revulsion of 1857, which cut down our demands for the two succeeding years very greatly. Our trade Inc.,.91 por ot Dee! 2 Vide 2 PARTS, OS a5 influences, but wanting the geatal tmpulse of freedom, shows the following statistics; — COMMERCE WITH FRANCE. Exports. Agorenate. Yearly average. — Moveunent 68,490 17,011,695 795908 =—-26,169/181 Tac. 55 per ot Lvb 669,423 88,133,886 loc. 46 per ct. lncroase in 16 yoars, 124 por coat. Imports. 2,867 412 os 24,573 482 164,881,179 30, 6 Ine 25 por ct 206,011,688 anges. s31 Inc, 33 pee ot Tecrease in 15 years, 67 per coat. But the effects of freedom aad of restriction upon the growth of commerce are more com pletely exbibited in the respective mavements of cotton and tobacco—one the most lightly, and the other the most heavily taxed article of general consumption. The following are the statistics of our trade in each of those articles with those two nations during the same period of fifteen yeara:— RBXPORT OF COTTON AND TOBACCO TO GREAT BRITAIN. Peruds. Cotton, ; Tobacon, nits Increase of tobacco trado in 16 years, 24, per coat, EX?ORT OF COTTON AND TOBACCO TO FANCE Periods. Cotton, pounds, Taw Aris. 1845-49, 1860-54, 1866-59 Increase of cotton trade in 15 years, 39 por cent Increase of tobacco trade in 16 years, 38 per cent. The contrast of fiscal systems in their effect upon commerce could not be more strongly presented than in these tables. We see that as regards the two countries, the one pursuing the liberal policy advanced by far the most ra- pidly, and in respect to the articles of trade, the freest exhibits a steady and sound growth, while the most taxed preseats the anomiiy of avery Flight movement, with the exception of the last period in France. This exceptioa was caused by the great demand for tobacco by the French government for its troops in time of war. When we contemplate the fact that this in crease of trade with Engiand has been effected in the face of a continually growing competi tion on our part in the production of the chief articles of importation, the increase of com merce is the more striking. With Frauce, with whom we have little or no competition in in dustry, the growth of commerce has been slow and small. Under the new system it will opea to a new life, and, indeed, we cannot bat be lieve that we shall experience far more benefit from the change in the French policy than will England. The taste of the French in the pro- duction of textile fabrics must open to her manufactures here a large marfet, which will be still furtherincreased by the liking of our citizens for French calicoes and silks, French wines, and French articles of luxury. We ought soon to exchange with the thirty-six millions of Frenchmen as much as we do with the thirty millions of British subjects, and we doubt not that when the new commercial treaty shall have been completed, our com- merce with France will exhibit an increase far beyond anything that has been witnessed with any other country. Avorner AuBaNy Lossy Levy oy tHe Cor- roration Prorzrty.—The Albany lobby dis- play a degree of ingenuity in plundering the city which, if exercised in a good cause, would challenge admiration. The State spoils, proper, are, as Our readers must be aware, very small, beggarly and pitiful affairs, quite unworthy the attention of financiers of extended and liberal ideas. The canals have been pretty well used up, and, with the exception of some petty operations in the prisons, more congenial than profitable, the lobby can find nothing to steal from the State. The attention of the Albany philosophers is, therefore, confined to exploration in the city, and they have lately struck some rich placers. They have to go through considerable moral mud and filth be- fore they get to the gold, but they don’t mind the wear and tear of conscience so that the thing stands them in wellvat the end. One of the latest and best placers found in the long suffering city is exposed in the West Washington market property. The State set up aclaim to this property, which had been used for market purposes by the city, and leased it for a nominal rent to some of the lobby speculators. The question of the title to the property is one altogether apart from the merits of the transaction. Whether the State or the city own the property, the affair isa job gotten up for the aggrandizement of private persons, It is claimed on the part of the city, that if the State has any title to the property, such title has been fraudulently obtained for a gross)y inadequate consideration. If the State has no title, then the city is defrauded by a false pretence. However, the State gained the cause against the city, and the Corporation has been ordered to vacate the property, pay over the back rents, and permit the land to be sold for one-fourth ofits actual value. Ifit goes for a quarter of a million, somebody will make three quarters ofa million by the ope- ration. The new Counsel to the Corporation has distinguished himself by contesting this | claim of the State, or rather the lobby, and there is still some hope that the property may be saved. The lobby has shown its spite against Judge Bronson, who is endeavoring t reopen the judgment, by introducing a bill to deprive him of three-fourths of the emoluments of his office. Pending the-final issue of the West Washing- ton Market case, the lobby has a greater thing of the same kind on hand. It is the enactment of a law, already introduced into the Senate, authorizing thesale by the State of all the space of ground and soil of the Hudson and East rivers which has already boen in whole or in part reclaimed and filled In, either by natural acere- tion or otherwise, and which lies outside of and adjoining the grants made to the Corporation of New York under the Montgomery charter of 1730, or by any other charter or grant to the ‘city from the State, and giving the Commis sioners of the Land Office power to sell. said lands in the city of New York. The City Comptroller may pay for the same by a loan and issue of real estate bonds—the lands in question to be pledged to seeure said bonds. This bill is part of a acheme to deprive the city of very valuable property which has been reclaimed for slips, piers and other purposes. The value of the property sought to be thrown into the hands of the lobby is immense, amounting to at least six or seven millions of dollars, and the bill trenches, as well, on the rights of Congress to regulate commerce. If the State had right and title toland beyond low water mark, as is claimed in both these cases, it might extend New York to Now Jersey, fill up the river and bay, and block out commerce nt Ne such wiht wove Mcudoucd entirely ' ovgbt to pass, and we call upon the city dele- gation in the Legiclature to oppose it by every wears in thelr power, We have no doubt that the Counsel to the Corporation will do his duty to protect the city against the shameful and wholeswde schemes of plunder set on foot by tbe unscrupuleus Albany lobby, which has ad- vanced step by step until it has made stealing ore of the fine arts, Tur Papat. QuEsTION—-ApDRESS OF THE Ro- man Nouitity—An address has been got up by the Roman nobility to the Pope, which affords a curious example of the lengths to which men will go in deflance of class privileges. It un dertakes a vindication of Papal policy, and winds up with a prayer for the contiauance “of the blessings of theocratical goverament. The fuct that out of the 145 Patrician families of Rome, 130 signatures have been obtained to this document, would tell sadly against the iatelli- gence and patriotism of that body but for the redeeming circumstance that the heads of th® Roman aristocracy, such as the Prince Doria, two of the Rospigtiosi, three Piombiai, two Marsimi, the Duke of Germaneta, the Duke of Fiazo, the Duke of Lante, one of the Vitelles- chi, Prince Gabrietii, Prince Torlonia and Signor Malatesta, have refused to append their names to it. It is stated that outof the number who hxve signed the address at least two thirds are officeholoers, a fact which at once explains the manver in which the document was got up. That the Roman government shontd have re- course to a contrivance of this kind is evidence of the desperate condition to which it feels it relf reduced, Certficutes of character in cir- cumstances of political distress are not, however, likely to avail much in our day. The Roman question, like all otbers involving material in- tererte, bus to be settled on data more positive. It is not likely, therefore, that the Holy Father will produce n.uch effect on the mind of Europe by this piece of compulsory testimony. The abuses of the Papal system are too well es- tablisbed to be palliated by the slavish asseve- rations of a class who have so strong an inte- restin upholding them. At the same time we capnot but leok upon the fact of the Holy Father having recourse to such means of de- fence as a proof that be is awakening to a sense of tbe force of public opinion. All such efforts on the part of the Pope are now too late. The time was when by judicions and opporiune retorme he might have averted the political doom with which he is threatened. Now he bas passed out of the circle of the diplomatic necessities which have to be con- ciliated, and bis interests will be disposed of without reference to traditional prejudices. As a political sovereign he weighs like an incubus upon Europe, and men have made up their minds to get rid of him. The storm raised by the ultramontane party, with a view to force the Catholic world into a defence of his pretensions, has found but a small echo. Tbe struggle which has been carried on be- tween the bigots and fanatics of the Church and its intellectual elements has culminated in the utter defeat of “the former. Rational Catholicity has no longer any sympathy with pretensions which are based on injustice and oppression, and even the inferior clergy admit that it is for the interest of religion that an end should be put to a system which has brought so much discredit and odium upon it. Were the partisans of the Papal government wise they would oppose a less fierce resistance to measures which it is wholly out of their power to avert. The only effect of their violence will be to prevent a compromise, and thus to ren- der it imperative upon the European govern- ments to reduce the Popedom to the propor- tions that it occupied previous to the time of Constantine. Porrricat Dears anv Burtan or 4 Con@rEs- stoNAL Demagocve.—In another column we re- print two articles about Mr. Ashmore, of the House of Representatives, published by the Charleston Mercury, the well known leading or- gan of South Carolina, his own State. This is the same individual who took up the cause of Pryor, the representative of Virginia chivalry, when we characterized him as he deserved, and stated that he was silent in the debate. Ash- more exhibited the good taste to propose the expulsion of our reporters from the House—a proposition, moreover, which argued his high sppreciation of the liberty of the press guaran: teed by. the constitution. The exhibition of his courage was equally remarkable, for he soon became frightened by his own movement, and backed out, after coming to the conclusion that “the better part of valor is discretion.” Now he is involved in another affair with the democracy: of his own State, and the journal which best represents its opinions—the organ of the late John C. Calhoun—puts him into po- litical Coventry “forever” in South Carolina, asa trencherous confederate of free soilers, a man Who glorfes in a banner which has in- scribed upon it—no more slave States.” He said in Congress, “if that banner should be stricken down it would cover him.” “It was stricken down,” replies our cotemporary, “and we think it will cover him politically, as effectually as six feet of earth.” We protest against this sudden burial of Ashmore six feet deep. We want to have the sentence respited for six months, in order that he may have an opportunity of setting himself riglit: with the country, and that we may see whether there is anything in him. The interment is premature, for we have not yet setiled our account with the demagogue. Meantime, we may observe that the extracts from our cotemporary show the calibre of the men in Congress who set themselves up in op- position to the New Yorx Herauy. They are repudiated in their own States, and the course of this journal is fully vindicated. For twen- ty-five years it has battled for the Union and the. constitution, through good teport and through evil, and it stands this day without a stain upon itsescutcheon. It hasbeen ever true to all the interests of the country, but eapecial- ly to the South, because that section has been an object of constant attack and aggression, and its rights have been trampled upon, in vio- lation of the solemn compact of the constitu- tion, by thean'i-slavery crusaders of the North. Tue Posr Orrwen Derrcmser Bu w Srnairs.—The Senate passed the Post Ofice Deficiency Lill yesterday. and sent it back to the House with one or more Important amend- ments for the consideration of that immacalate branch of Congress. One of the amendments abolishes the franking privilege—that abomi- nation of hal#a century. It is hardly to be expected that the House will agret to the alvoli- tion of this much abused privilege. Even the Glaeu, gam mall conlractess, ia thols dire ts FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1860, — not accomplish it by the aid and influence of | before tho Senate Brown Raid Committee to-day. The their necessities, We suppose that the action of the Senate brings the matter to a dead lock. We shall see, Oe Ficur 1 Covaress Anovr tae Prrvriva Sror.s.—The spoils of the printing of the House of Representatives is the only remaining bone of contention to be disposed of for the present, and we may expect a fierce fight of the politi- cal dogs of the two republican factions in Con- gress when the House meets again. Great ex- citement prevails at Washington on the sub- ject. The first caucus had it all arranged for Mitchell, of St. Louis, Missouri; but a second caucus has it fixed for Defrees, of Indiana. Nevertheless, it is not yet finally determined, and there will be a hand to hand fight in the House. Mitchell is the candidate of Blair, of Silver Springs, who, though he appears to be retired from public life, isan old politician who still pulls the strings, and he has an interest in the printing establishment of Rives, of the Washing- ton Globe. His candidate for the Presidency in 1856 was Fremont, who was defeated by the in- trigués of Weed in Pennsylvania. His present candidate for the Presidency is Bates, of Mis- souri, whom he can control as easily as the showman directs the movements of Punch and Judy. Defrecs, of Indiana, on the other hand, is the candidate of Thurlow Weed, who has an interest with Wendell, and, of course, wants the job for him. Seward is the candidate of Weed for the Presidency, and that gives the contest for the plunder a political complexion, involv- ing a faction fight. The slate of Blair and Bates has been broken for the present, and the slate of Seward and Weed has been substituted, but the contest is not yet ended. How it will end is still doubtful, and leads to much speculation in Washington. Our correspondent accuses the Weed and Wendell party of bribery and corruption in getting the programme changed; but they are no more guilty of bribery than the other fac- tion. They are both guilty alike, and neither is worse than the two democratic factions in the last Congress, who played the same game. They are all corrupt, and none of them have any scruples about bribery whenever it serves their turn. In the case of the Speakership, with the aid of Forney and his little clique, Weed was van- quished, for Sherman was his man, and also the candidate of Seward, while Pennington is the successful nominee of Blair and Bates. The contest between the rival factions in the House is now extended to the printing spoils. If Mitchell gets the fat job, Rives gets the work, and the Bates Presidential stock goes up. If Defrees should be the lucky man, then Wendell gets the work, and the Seward stock goes up in the market, the higher law is raised a peg higher, and the irrepressible conflict will spee- dily come to a crisis. We shall watch this fac- tion fight with some interest. It is the prelimi- nary skirmish before the great battle at Chicago. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. | Passage of the Post Office Deficiency Bill by the Senate. Abolition of the Franking Privi- lege by the Senate. Probable Dead Lock on the Bill in the House. List of the Standing Committees of the House. THE SQUABBLE FOR THE PRINTING SPOILS, de. &., de. Our Special Washington Despatch. > Wasiuxarox, Feb. 9, 1860. THE POST OFFICE DEFICIENCY BILL. The action of the Senate in hitching on the Post Office Dill a number of amendments, and capecially one abolish. ing the franking privilege, will defeat the bill. When the Dill comes up in the Honse to-morrow a motion will be made to lay it upon the tabie, and the motion will un- doubtedly prevail. The mail contractors are in great tribulation to night. ‘The House would have adjourned to-day until Monday but for their desire to act on the Senate’s amendments to the Post Office bill to-morrow. THE CONTEST FOR THE HOUSE PRINTING. An attempt was made in the Honse to-day to proceed to the election of a Printer, but Mr. Hoard, of New York, Prevented action on the subject by offering a resolution, in view of what happened in the caucus yesterday, in- structing the Committee on Public Expenditures to inquire into the expenditures on printing for the House of Repre- sentatives and report at‘an early day. The resolution was adopted, and the committee, consisting of Messrs. Haskin, Theaker, Edmundson, Longenecker, Somes, Hindman, Wood, Clopton and Fouke, will take carly action on the subject. Mr. Stanton denounced the action of the caucus, as cal- culated to bring upon the republican party the same charges of corruption that had been brought against the democracy, and for one he would never consent to bring it under such odium. Mr. Defrees’ proposition to the republican caucus, to ‘pension the party on tho public treasury, croates a storm of opposition to him from those republicans who are con- stantly arraigning the administration for its alleged ex- travagances, and who are just now preparing to investi gate such charges in the oxecutive as well as all other de- partments of the government. On motion of Mr. Sherman, the leader of the House the election of Printer was postpoted until Monday next: Since it appears that the action of the caveus is calcu. lated: to compromise the republican party throughout the country, it is not likely that the nomination; obtained by only one majority, in the faco of the fact that soveral of the absentecs wero opposed to the nomince, will bo ia sisted on. If a vote had been taken in the blouse to-day on the subject of Printer, the canzus nom'vee would have undonbtedly been defeated. It is a mistake that Mr. Mitchell had made arrange. ments to join the National Era newspaper of this city. ‘The irionds of Mr. Dofrees say that the remarks of Mr. Stanton in the House to-day will not in the least damage his prospects of election as Printer. TaN: HOVER STANDING COMMITTEES. ‘Tho construction of the House Commitiees by Speaker Pennington, as announced to-day. t faction than usual. Thora are somo gentlemen of course, a8 the Herarn’s report of to. willshow. Other gentiemen, on the vepubl! M of asking the House to cxeuse them from service on ger- tain committees. Tho chairmen of tho principal commit tees have been rr ted in this os ponden Many members would kave for howe to day wut for the importaut positions thoy bare been saddenly called ppom to assume, This is uly the case with Mr. Toppan, of N. H., who is Clairmaa of the Committee on Claims, He has been phed to go bome on ac: count of iliness in hia fam owing to the great pusinese that has lated during the delay we the House at be disposed of hy this ne, be has beon couipelled to yield to public ) And has calle | a meotlag ot the committes-to Fevestia ation. 4, % Garsa, aad OXamld Committee learned through tho testimony of . Cloptom, of this city—one of Brown's ee ea An’ drew employed him, Mr. Andrew was asked by the committee what his object was in doing so, how much he paid Clopton, and who subscribed the money? Mr. Andrew roplied thas he employed Clop- ton on his own responsibility, and ‘Agreed to pay him ono thousand dollars, and afterwards authorized Cloptoa to employ Mr. Green, of Charlestown, and agroed to pay him three hundred dollars more; that he engaged these men to act as counsel for Brown because the generay opinion prevailing in Boston was that tho attompt to try @ ‘sick man among his encmics without counsel was contra. Fy to all human and legal justice. Mr. Andrew testifies that gentlemen in Boston contributed to Pay him back nearly all the money he paid to counsol. Se THE TREATY WITH MEXICO. Lane arrived here this evening, in dience to instructions from tho Tiepazisiens of’ puss Oh confer with the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs in re= gard to Mexican affairs, and the treaty in particular, ‘The Committes have not yet definitely acted upon the treaty, but will do so at their next moeting, All the facta in reference to Mexican affairs wero communicated in hig despatches of the 24th ultimo. He says the only hope of saving Mexico and redeeming her from her present un- happy and distracted condition is by an carly ratification of tho treaty, The Juarez government continues to maintain its position, and is gradually strengthening itself, ‘Mr. McLave left New Orleans on Monday morning, and reached here to day, making the trip in the unprecedent- edly short time of three days and seven hours, BRERCH LOADING CARRIES, ‘The Secretary of War to-day issued an order to Poult. ney & Trimble, of Baltimore, for soveral hundred of ‘Smith's patent breech loading carbines, they having beem called for by @ large number of officers of the army ag the arms best adapted to the wants of the service. FRENCH SPOLLATIONS. ‘The friends of tho French Spoliation bill are determined | to press its passage at the earliest practicable period. 4 BANKRUPT Law. A movement has already been made for a bankrupt law, but there is no premise of success. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. , Wasuixcron, Feb. 9, 1860. The Senate met at one o'clock. ‘THE HOMMSTKAD BILL. Mr. Laser, (dem.) of Oregon, presented a petition im favor of the Homestead bill. PREVENTION OF CRIME ON SHIP BOARD, Mr. Scumyrr, (rep.) of Mass., introduced resolutions im- structing the Committee on Commerce to inquire into the expediency of fi her legislation for the prevention of violence and crime on board our merchant marino, FRERDOM OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. ‘Mr. Taomrsoy, (dem ) of N. J., presented a petition im fayor of the freedom of public lands. YRINTING PATENT OFFICE RXPORTS, ‘Mr. Fitch’s resolution to print fifteon thousand extra copies of the agricultural portion of the Patent Offica report was taken up and adopted. A resolution offered by Mr. Frraramnicx, (dem.) of Als., to print ten thousand extra copies of the report of the Patent Office on Arts and Manufactures occasioned a de- bate, and was voted down. Si Davis, (dem.) of Miss., moved to reconsider. Car- ri Mr. Davis offered an amendment to print two thousand extra copies. Mr. Wisox, (rep.) of Mass., offered an amendment joe is tra r be printed to furnish one copy te each patentee. Mr. Siaatons, (rep.) of R. I, moved to refer the matter tothe Commies on Patents? nT Mr. bay ob nod had Ala.—Gentlemen on the other side cep up the discussion to provent the of the reso- lution till the election of @ Printer by the House, o that the work may be done by him. Ho hoped the Senatora on this side would sit them out Mr. Sommoys said the Senator had no right to motives. The Senator wes a better judge of his own mo- tives than of his (Mr. Simmons’) votes and The Senators en the other side were alike. Mr. Frrar, (dem ) of Ind., wished to make a statement. An important document, which had been in the hands re} "8 ® the Printing Committee a jong time, had not been This hostility was intended to allow the Senator’ to settle their quarrel among themselves; but they in- tended to keep it up till the end of tho session. Senatora on thet sice contradict” their speeches by their votes. ‘They are determined to defer the publication till the elec- tion of a Printer. The Senator from Alabams well said what their motives are, and Senators dare not deny it. Mr. Samoss had not alluded to the Printing Committee. When he brovght a man for the job it would be tima enevgh to impute motives. He ineisted on his motion. ae motion to refer to the Committce on Patents waa at. ‘The subject was debated at by Mesars. Corramer, Davia, Frtem and weg “ hari The amendment to furnish one copy to each patentos ‘was agrcod to. Mr. Davis’ amendment was adopted, and the resolution was adopted by yeas 34, pays 24. VILEGR. The Post Office Deficiency Dill was tak: = Pir uae, MEE none eS ay . GREEN, 5 6 amendment eix per ont Tekareet sca be Feereoe Sitened in full of all claims for vnly should receive the intercst. Six per cent, he eaid, ‘was not sufficient to pay tho Sustained by the failure of the government to pay its debts. Injustice was also done the assignee by exc! him from reco:ving, ‘because bad bought cer tes with the undor- stand! should get the interest. It was too emall a ices for the Senate to engage in. Mr. Hexrm, (dom ) of Va, said tue contractors. could. deciine to receive interest, and filo a claim for damages. Mr. Mir.ony, (dém.) of Fia., moved to strik kines giving ee) to the contractors only. das A debate ensued. Mr. Haux, (dom ) of Cal., hoped the government would ‘not violate its engagements with contractors. The con- duct of Senators would be romembcred in the tol slactiad- i Ir. Puc, (dem.) of Ohio, said six por cent was regular interest on debts, and the octane hinemaie of ae. mages. He did not know tho assignecs in the matter. The Postmaster General had a right to izsue certificates, ‘The contractors had borrowed money on these certificates, ced bog funds to take them up to prevent them from ing sold. Mr. Gxsux asked who had ever heard of person who violated a contract aflixing the measure of damages? The amendment was re: by yeas 17, nays 32. The proviso that the interest be payable only to con- tractors themselves, and. be in full of ail claims for da- by and be receipted for accordingly, was then adopt- an ere = 36, nays 13. ag ia amendments m: in cg yesterday in committee An amendment was offered by Mr. Too: di Ge, totaly Sbolling | he frankie riviloge, on) ". \GMAN, - . C.. unio of aa By , Moved to fix the time for ir. Toomns accepted the amendment, wherey the amendment was agreed to by yous 31, nays 21, said ae, it then paused, and ‘the Senate adjourno A tilt e we —— House of Representatives. ‘Wastinaton, Feb. 9, 1860. ‘TIE ELECTION OF PRINTER. Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, moved that the House Proceed to the lection of a printor, and domanded the previous question. Mr. Burygzt (dem.) moved that there be a call of the House, which wae agreed to. od - On motion of Mr. Hoann, (rep.) of N. .¥., it was re- solved that the Committee on Public Expenditures’ should inquire into the expenses for the printing of the House, and reportatan early day such modifications of the rates paid a8 public justice and a due regard to rigid economy in the expendiiures require, and that they have powor to examine witnesses and report at any time. The Houso refused to second tho domand for the pre- ‘vious question, by @ vote of 74 against 86. Mr. Stayron, (rep.) of Ohio, requested that this subject. be passed over for the present. He did not think that any good could come out of the elcction of a Printer at this time. He wished to state why thoy. should not Pro- coed to thie business. ‘Mr. SHERMAN, 88 @ reagon for his motion, said he de- sired to complete the organization of the House. Ho did hot care a fg who was tlected. Whoever should receive the cffice would ‘not be watcbed by any one than himself. Leta Printer be elected, and. 2 Chaplain. Then ttako up the give it due consideration andsther Certain gentlemen not why they should delay tho mett. Let the House elect to two or three ‘thousand doliars. This was a corruption to be used for party purposes. wt uch gentlemen on the other sic Ms stain largely in tho responsibility of Jertslation, before they elect a Printer rare ire or Jaw Oxing the prices at rates which wilt afford no such epeoils.. Mr. Snerwas remin ied his colleague of the fact that at, the begianing of tho last Congress & proviso was attached to the tnotion to procced to the election of a Prioter, thas Congress should not be prevented from reducing the ‘rates ane regulating the mode and mariner of exvceting tas pablic printing. He now adced this to his motion Mr Stastos reptiod, that st lat Coograge the gon.