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Cifrrttijpiblitit T W H S T T Y - F T V E H U N J U R B D C O P I E S .

. B. Hitchcock,' K. "ft. Tillotson, I . G.Stirwell,

~ TUESDAY, fEERTJARY 3, 1857." T | K H S :

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RsrtaucAN OFFICE, Dec'r 28,1S56. M - — . ^mmm—•»™^

F o r P r e s i d e n t , i n 1 8 0 0 ,

JOHN C. FREMONT, Of California.

Sugar ' J S - ^ v

Tbe present high price of sugar Mpecaniipg a

topic of everyday remark, and of | requent ex­

pressions of wonder as to what is tO be done to

relieve us from the, enonnous%utlays(requ^ed for

procuring this mdjspensable article of every-day

consumption of «B classes of our people. Untn

the last two or three years, the cheap rate at

which foreign sugars couJd be obtained, has had

a tendency to make our farmers neglect altogether

I their sugar orchards, so that now their sugaring

implements are mostly broken up and destroyed.

J But 12^ cents per pound for the common brown

foreign sugar, the price at which it is now. quoted,

we should think, would induce very many farmers

having large orchards to put their •sap-works

agajn in order, and resolve, hard-' as. the labor is,

to call upon their sturdy maples again to give

dowp of their abundant sweetness. We have

very many farmers in St. LawrencesCounty who

could readily manufacture 1,000, 2,000, and even

3,000 pounds of maple sugar this Spring, assum­

ing that it should be moderately favorable, and

this work would be done at a, time of the year

which would least conflict with the ordinary ope­

rations of the farm.

A bill has been introduced into Congress modi­

fying tbe "present 'tariff upon sundry articles,

among which we notice sugar and molasses are

proposed to be reduced ten per cent. Even should

this bill pass, with the present reported failure of

the sugar .c rop^ Louisiana, there is no reason to

look for any immediate material abatement of the

present high prices. To us, it seems the subject

is worthy the consideration of our farmers, whose

judgment in the premises.is far abetter than our

own, although wijen boys we served lor a num­

ber of years severe apprenticeships at the lobor-

ious pursuit of making maple sugar.

D e a t h of P r e s t o n S. Brooks .

• PRESTON S. BROOKS, Member of Congress from

South Carolina, who has obtained all over the

habitable globe an unenviable notoriety for his

brutal and ruffianly attack on Senator SISINKR, of

Massachusetts, died at BROWS'S Hotel, in Wash­

ington City, at 7 o'clock, on the evening of Jan­

uary 27 th, from an affection of the throat with

which he was attacked on the Saturday previous.

Having been in bed! only a short time,-he was

telling his friends thajt he had passed tho crisis of

his illness, when b& was attacked with violent

croup and died in at^out ten minutes alterwards,

in intense pain. .

In speaking of his' death,' the Rome Daily Sen­

tinel travels out of the way, in advance of notices

from the country press, to give it as his opinion

that tbe Republican press or his political oppo­

nents ,will gloat over this event. That is in very

bad taste, Mr. /sentinel, and speaks but poorly ior

the fund of charity that is buttoned up in your

vest ' •

» Thifse imme4i«Jely connected'.with, the lumber

rbusineia in outsold " So,uth Woods," and cense-

quemly deeply ferterested in the- improvement of

the rrrers and hignway|^eading: thereto, wityiead

the following discussion with interest, and /eel

new confidence in the appreciative wisdom of our

legislators touching Northern New York, and their

disposition to lend a fostering hand to her inter­

ests as she has heretofore so bodntifully done to

other sections more favorably situated. On the

29th ultimo, Mr. Varnum questioned the wisdom of appro­

priations to these northern rivers. Competent men had expressed the opinion that the opening of these rivers «mly increased the* facilities for squatters to steal the timber of tbe State.

Mr. Sherman sustained the bill, "he lumber which would be brought out from this wilderness would, In a very few years, re-imburse the State in the increase of tolls which-would result from it.

Mr, Leavenworth deemed this and similar ap­propriations but an act of justice to the counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin. Other portions of the State had received an hundred fold more from the 'State, than these counties. 4 l e hoped the bill would pass. ~~

Mr. Varnum did pot object to these appropria­tions, if they would result in good. THis only hesitation was, whether there really would be any return from these expenditures.

Mr, Squire sustained the bill, urging Its justice and necessity, and exhibiting the benefits which had accrued to thu.State from kindred expendi­tures.

Mr. B. Owen would cheerfully vote for this bill, as an act of justice to the North and to promote the interesfs of the whole 8tate.

Mr, Mahen thought the bill was intended to ad­vance the interests of individuals only, and not of the State.

Mr. Woods sustained the bill, when it was or­dered to a third reading.

curredJijfon tM^gfoalrfotatfcros . All who l*d? • & I B t t * i m * m 4 e c W : v o t i n g ^ d « B s i t ed i g a i n s t p e substitute Sustained the-original Mfcolutions. . i? '.M ' . , •^vM;theq#o<-<f4»*nd carried by Joe same vote, that tbeyspjefjeed to^desteoate byballot a candidate for t h e W r a ^ S t a t e a SehatOivin puran. ance of the second resolution. (Those who had supported Mr. Titus's resolution still declined to vote or take further action.) Before taking this hajiat* Messrs. Hunt and .Held withdrew, first stating that they released (heir friendsfrom any commitments tiiey may have- made in favor of tbem. This ballot resulted as follows :

For Ward H u n t . . . . 8

F o r D . D . F l e l d ' 1

T h e F r e a e r v a t i o n of Smal l Bird*.

A bill was introduced into the State Senate on Monday, which provides that it shall not be law­ful for any person to kill or destroy, upon any land not owned by himself, any of the following description of birds. The robin or red-breast,

ShooklDjfTr»g»dy'

A FAMIM POISONED.

m u r d e r a n d S u i c i d e ,

[From the N. Y. Evenltij Post, January 20.] • Last evening the seventeenth ward Police re­ceived information that Charles Win, Bhineman, a tailor, living in the tenement house No. 25 Avenne A, and one of his children, were lying dead, and that his wife and another child, were ill from the effects of poison. Capt. Hart unjaediate-ly repaired to the hduse, and ascertained from Mrs. Bhineman that her husband had, in tbe morning, infused a poison of some description, supposed, tp be arsenic, in the coffee, of which he partook very freely, and then compelled a child of his, .five years of age, who was lying sick with the small pox, to drink a cup full of it. ft also appeared that the husband had for'some time past been very intemperate, and had threatened to destroy himself and family. On Saturday evening he Informed his wife that he bad something which would put an end to their troubles, but gave no

bluebird swallow, martin or swift, night or raOB- j particulars. This excited suspicion in the mind of Mrs. Bhineman, and yesterday morning, at break­fast, she noticed the coffee having a pecullar.taste, and at first declined drinking any of it, but seeing her husband swallow three or four cups lull of it, her suspicions were in u measure quieted, and she soaked some bread, and in this way partook of a small portion. She did tba same also in regard to her youngest child. After the husband had finished his breakfast, he forced the little girl,who wns sick, to drink a cup full of the coffee, and soon after the whole family was taken ill, and in the course of Ure day the husband and eldest child died. Dr. Shepard, tbe police surgeon, is now attending the mother and her infant, at the

_ _ - - - - - , house of her father, No. 44 Avenue H, and thinks* Valley. At first, and for nearly two ye^rs, they I t h e T w^] r 0 C O T e r . There appears to have been worked In the bed of the stream and in the banks, n 0 q u a r r c i between the husband and wife that making fair average wages. About eighteen | w 0 0 i d have incited the commission of so fearful

quito hawk, wood-pecker, cat bird, high-tailed thrush or brown thrasher, mourning dove, meadow lark or marsh quail, Summer red-bird, hanging bird Bpider bird or wax bird, ground robin, bob­olink or rice bird, and sparrow—under a penalty of $10. This penalty is also applicable in cases of the destruction of the above enumerated birds.

A R i c h M i n e .

[Prom the %in Francicco Herald, January 6.] Some five years ago, a company consisting of

five Irishman and one man from Pike county, located on a claim near Alison's ranch on Wolf Creek, and 'but a couple of miles from Grass

XXIW CONGRESS 2B SESSION,

A n o t h e r Snow Storm

We were visited on Saturday last with another

fall of snow, to the .depth of about six inches,

which was closely followed by verjf high winds, .piling up thehuge^drifts, and adding new obstacles

to communication by telegraph, raihoads, ami

stages. The snow is uow, we should say full two

feet deep.

Seeds from t h e Un i t ed Sta tes Office.

Patent

^ - . v c T U i r d a n d F o u r t h i ' a j f e s .

T o o a r P a t r o n s .

Persons with whom *r luuje outstanding ac-counfa for jub tovrk. advertising, t{"<\, are notijied that we shall u-ait upon them promptly for the purpose .i;' siftiaruw our books to the 1st of January, i^.r»7. \Y< fineerely hope tiiey wdl be prepared to in:-1 v$ the first lime, for m iu> oilier u>ay i-'in •--* neiprocoir th* favor u-hen balances are r'oun-t V f\ri*/ a^oins/ us.

nircn>~<>CK, rn.L"Tsox et STILWKLL. Jai*U>rm/ IS1!?.

Elect ion—One W e e k from To-Day .

Are the Republicans of every town in St. Law­

rence County aware t/iat one week from u>-day

(Tuesday, February 10th,) they will^e called upon

in discharge of their duty as Republicans to go

to the. Polls and co-operate in electing capable,

trust-worthy men to fill the various responsible

town offices, from Supervisor down to Sealer of

Weights and Measures ? Have they begun to cast

about them—to confer with their neighbor-, and

to hold free interchange of opinions as to the

best men to fill these offices ? If they have not

yet begun this work, the sooner they now begin

tbe better it will be for them—tbe more certainly

will be secured tlieir unity of action and^ttiumph

at the election. ,

Last Fail, every town in St. Lawrence-County

rolled up a proud and commanding majority for

the Republican cause, and we trust every voter

will be as fully awake now as he was then. Every^

town has a large number of Republicans.who

would do honor to any office in the gift of their

fellow-citizens—but no town -has a sufficient num­

ber of offices to bestow, to give one office to 'each

deserving man. In this situation of things, there

is but one course pointed .out by which unity may

be secured, and party ascendancy preserved, and

•that is for the Town Committees to give notice

for Town Caucuses for the nomination of candi­

dates, and after their tickets are made out, and

their ballots are printed, to vote them straight

through without a scratch or blot upon a single

name. That tbe Republicans of the County will

weigh all these, and the other considerations na­

turally awakened by our brief allusion to the sub­

ject, we sincerely hope the result of our Annual

Town Elections in St. La-wrerjce County on Tues-

dey next will fully demonstrate. That your op­

ponents will, in nearly if not quite all of the towns,

essay to break in "upon the compact phalanx

which last Fall's election presented, you may rest

assured. They will unite their forces—endeavor

to stir up dissensions, excite jealousies among Ke-

publteaus, and if they can thus get them off their

guard, they will make a united rush for your de­

feat. Think of these things—and then pursue the

path which patriotism and 'duty points out tp you

as the unerring way..

. Below. We'snbjoin the nanTeS"of 'ffie'Republican

Town Committees for St. Lawrence County for

1851 :—

TOWS COMMITTEES. 'i

, Brasher—Horace Hougbtdn, H. F. Deniof Eli­jah Wood, Samuel Butler, jr., L. Paige, D i A e h --ardson. .

Canton»-T. Cadwell, J. F . Ames, B: Squire, H. W . Hale, Alvin A-mes, S. J.' Bingham. ,

Cotton—Thomas Casey, Charles %ood Jfj D. "Morris, F. Welch, c , •' ' • x

peKalb—G. Cross, D. Wiser. S. Johiispn, E . Alexander, E. P. Townsley. l - • " '

Bepeyster— A. Tnyle, J . MeCurdy, N1. ThornJ ton. H. H. Hardy, W. Newcomb.

EdSrarfls—Thos. Laidjow, Wm. Martin, jr., JBOJ P . Flack.

Fine — B. C. Brown, 3no. Harsh, Amasa BrOwn.

Fowl_er—D. Fenner, Oren Wilson, H. ET. Haile, John Wight, 3. E. Spragne.

Bkmtnond—S. Soper, H. Fowler, J . J . Emmes, I>. MeSreg6r,\T. Alien.

Gouverusur — Myron Cosbman, ~W.' J>. 'Van

Dnzee, .EV Barnes. B-ermbn—S. McCohum, C. "Kellogg,"E: Mad-

dock, S . Sutherland, Wm. Gifmore. ., ' ; vHbpkratton^-JoTiSb. Sanfoidi 3s A. Srush, C.

W r i g % (S.% ferfrMa^-'-. ' * ! " v LOOTSviBe—S. Bradford,'*Ci rb#krSl ' i l len He

leod . "-" : * •'""f;*" • ' " - • * - ' - ' Lisbon-^W. A. CampEel&^S: iMlmghBm, ST.

O. P i e . ' „ „*• .»" '*•'•' f ' Jjawrence—0. F. Shepard.''^ P^ewis,^ Jatnes

Sherar. '• '• . ' ' ' : [ r'l *K ' -Madrid-R-H. Proctor, C, E; 'SEpriiglprie ; J<.

Masseias-^®-''ColburrJT a « 3or, &' B,

MmiBteb^lkfe 8$dV Jonif El-ParKer,' fai John SsSnyder. i-V " V ' " '

"" ''Sornstdwn^-P.*' & 'CofmrSat •ff.iWilaOn; W. ^^ffisOS/tt«ooi^F,-^aiBHy'a6rrE'-'^- 4r W

Jlorfolk—Calvin C. Elmes, AWn%*ni1>i'L?i6.

We are in receipt of a varietv of 'Seeds from

Hon. CHARLES MASON, Commissioner of the

Patent Office at Washington, for which that gen­

tleman will accept our thanks. Among these

seeds, there is the much-talked of Chinese Sugar

Cane, .Early Washington I'ea, Sea Kail, Pure

Earlf York Cabbage, Sweet Scented Vernal

Grass, Yellow Altringham Turnip, Spanish Water­

melon, Snow Bail Turnip, Early Six Weeks Turnip,

Marcemn Savoy Cabbage, 'Crimson Clover, and a

varietf* of other seeds, a portion of "which we are

prepared to distribute to our patrons and friends

who n a y desire to experiment with them, and

hajrerthe leisure and curiosity to give to them a

thorough trial. Most of these seeds, if not all of

them, have already been experimented upon in

various portious of our country, and their adapt­

ability to our climate fully tested. Persons will

obtain some of these seeds by calling at the ofiice'

of the ST. LAWRENCE.RKrniLiCAN.

Vermon t Sta te House . s-

Governor FLETCHER, of Vermont, has called an

extra session of the Legislature of that State, to

be convened at Montpelier on the lMh of Febru­

ary instant. The subject of re-building the State

House, which was recently consumed by tire, will

be the principal subject of discussion in the Legis­

lature, theViva! localities, Burlington and Rutland,

using their best endeavors,to have the Capitol re­

moved to those places, while Montpelier maintains

stoutly that it should be retained at that place.

It is said that Montpelier offers to rebuild the

house at their own expense^—Rutland offering to

do the same, and to construct the edifice of maF-

ble ; while Burlington will not probably be behind

her rivals in its offers to secure the anxiously

desired prize. Between these smart villages, we

may expect to see a spirited contest.

W a t e r for t h e Vi l lage .

Sundry prominent citizens of Malone,-Franklin

county, are moving in the laudable enterprise ol

supplying that village with- water from the nume­

rous excellent springs with which they are sur­

rounded. They estimate that the sum Ol SI ft,000

or £16,u0u will be necessary for the completion of

the work, and one-half the amount is already sub.

scribed.—When will Ogdensburgh avail herself of

the advantages offered of bringing a good supply

of water to every~man's door V Not only the or­

dinary uses of water, but the absolute necessities"

of an unfailing supply in cases of fire, ought to

ensure a combined effort on the part of our citi­

zens to secure so great a comfort and necessary /&

agent.

Oar N e w Cus tom House.

We find th$ following, in the documenfjappend-

ed to the report arthe Secretary of the'Treasury,

for which we are under obligations to our attentive

member, Mr. Spinner : . . .

OSDENSBTJRGH, NEW TOKK.

An appropriation of $55,000 was'made for a Custom House and Post Office at Ogdensburgh, with a proviso that if the expenses of collecting the revenue exceeded the amount collected, no money should be expended under this aot. During the fiscal year ending June SO, 1856, tbe

revenue collected amounted t o . . . . $4,109 83 And for quarter ending September 30, 2,000 28

[From the New York Tribune, Wednesday, January 1S\ Mr. Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina died

'at "Washinston at 7 o'clock last evening, ilia disease was in the throat, resulting in croup; and he was attacked with it only on Saturday last. He leaves behind him, with the world in general, most unenviable reputation-, not here enlarge.

It is perhaps proper now to say with regard to the act which will be connected with the memory of tiiis person as long as it shall live, that we do not suppose it to have been undertaken by him spontaneously and of his own mere motion. We have the impression that it was determined upon at a meeting ol the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and that Brooks was but the tool to ex­ecute the will ol hi* colleagues. To that infamous office he lent himself voluntarily, it is true, but .not till it had been decided that some one of the Congressional Representatives of that State must do it. Brooks came forward then, as the member from the District in which Mr. Butler resided, to discharge the function of a ruffian, and in case of need, of an assassin. He has his reward in tbe judgment which men of honor and unprejudiced intelligence pass upou bis act, but it can never be forgotten by the. impartial historian that he un­dertook it in compliance with the nearly unani­mous decision of the whole Soutli Carolina dele­gation in Congress, and that after it was don£*he wa*. saluted by the enthusiastic applause ol the people of that State as their noblest champion, whom they could not enough admire and honor. As for Brooks himself, then, now that he has gone to the grave, we imagine#that the world's con­demnation will be somewhat lifted from him, but it will only be to re9t with a heavy and inefface­able blot upon the escutcheon of his State.

Ship Canal B e t w e e n L a k e Champla in and Hudson R ive r .

[From the Plattsburgh Republican, January 81.] Mr. Sickles has introduced into the Legislature

of this State the memorial of the American Geo­graphical and Statistical Society, in behalf of an improvement of the Champlain and Hudson River Valley, by means of a ship canal connecting the River St. Lawrence and ail the great lakes lying on the northern boundary of our Confederacy, with the Atlantic Ocean in tbe Bay of New (York. The fact is riet torth that the British Govrrument, with a view to a more convenient access to Lake Champlain from, the St. Lawrence-, availed itself of the services of eminent engineer^, and have es­tablished the fact that lake craft of Jthe burden of hVe thousand barrels, by an artificial navigation to be constructed at a cost of only two million dollars, can pass from the St. Lawrence to Lake Champlain. It needs but the completion ot the

Jink between the St. Lawrence and I.ake Cham­plain and i'.e enlargin^ol the Champlain Canal to secure the passage without breaking bulk of the mSneral wealth and tbe grain of the West through to the Ocean. In view of these facts, the Society pray that the necessary legislation and executive action may be had on theBubject. This is an im­portant movement, and entitled to the serious consideration of the Legislature of the Empire State.

months ago, they struck a vein of auriferous quartz. A wagon load of it was dug up, crushed, and found to yield one hundred dollars to the ton. Thev then carried several loads of it to the Gold Hill mill, which yielded one hundred and fifty ' dollars to the ton, and sixty-two tons of the rook ! produced as high as threo hundred dollars per ton. , The company then went to work to erect a quartz j mill, which was completed on the first of October j last,' at a cost of $40,000. Meanwhile some seven . hundred tons more were gotten out, which yield­ed all the waytfr^m two hundred and fifty to five hundred dollars per ton. ,

The lead is from one to four feet in thickness, ^ and increases in width as explorations are made. I The cost of crushing the rock is twelve dollars , ami fifty cents, and the average amount crushed | twenty tons per day. Tho regular yield of amal- j gam of this mill is now not less than thirty tbou- j sand dollars per week ; and as the total expenses of running it will not exceed fifteen hundred dol-

I lars for the same length of time, it is easy to sea , which we need | what a princely fortune is rolling in upo.i the for- .

I tuiiate owners of this gold mine. A portion only i of their earnings is brought down to the mint for,, coinage, but, as the subjoined figures show, that "iusutulion " can bear unequivocal testimony of' the richness of their claim. |

On the Sth of November there were deposited i nine hundred and twenty-two ounces ; on the 27th (

one thousand one hundred and niuety-three ounces | and fitty-four hundredths, and on the lath of the preseut month, eleven hundred .'ai:d six ounces, I and sixty-four hundredths of an Ounce. The ori­ginal holders of this magnificent claim still retain possession of it, and as might be expected, are totally averse to disposing of shares.

I an act. Rhineman was a German, and about 38 years of age. Word was sent of the occurrence to the coroner's office, and an inquisition will be held to-day.

Destructive Conflagration.

BCRNTNQ OP THE 01RAED BUILDING.

[PVom the Philadelphia North American, J&nu&ry 29.]

About eleven o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the third story of the Girard buiUiing, in Chesnut street, aDove Third, occupied by Mr. E. Gaskill as a bindery. The building was a large five story structure, occupying two lots on Ches- j jjj

BEKATI, Jsmjary 54, 1857,—Mr, "'Wilson pre­sented the credentials of Mr. Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts for six yean from the 4th of March next.

The Senate proceeded to the Consideration of billa relative to the District of Columbia.'

Mr. Fessenden presented the- credentials of Amos bourse 01 Maine, to fill the vacancy occa-" sloned by the resignation of Mr, Hamlin. Mr. Nourse then appeared and was qualified.

The Senate then passed sundry private bills of no general interest. Adjourned.

REMOVAL, OF THB DOTY OH SUQAB.

HODSI, January 24.—Mr. Wak'eman presented a petition from many merchants, of New York, asking the importation of sugar free of duty.

Mr. Kelsey said he understood Mr. Chester had been brought to the city, and desired to be exam­ined before the Select Committee.

Mr. Letchei-—Let him be ordered to appear be­fore the Committee.

The Sergeant-at-Arms having produced Mr. Chester before the bar of the House, pursuant to order, Mr. Kelsey offered a resolution that the Speaker propound to him the questions, " What excuse have you to offer for not appearing before the Select Committee, in obedience to their sum­mons, on the 14th instant?" and "Are you now ready to appear and answer such proper ques­tions as may be put to vou by the said Commit­tee •"

The resolution was adopted. Mr. Letcher moved that witness be required to

write out his answers, and to qualify them under oath.

Cries of " N o , " "No , " "No." Mr. Phelps wished to know whether this was

the man who, it was Baid, was too sick to appear before the Committee. If he has abused the priv­ileges of this House, they should punish him, and he was prepared to do so.

Mr. Letcher remarked thafwhen witnesses are brought forth tor contempt, they are to answer under oatb. He wished things done in a regular way, and did not desire to see the scenes of Wed­nesday re-acted, when another witness (Simonton) instead of responding to questions propounded to him, undertook te deliver a lecture reflecting on each and all of the members of the House.

Mr. Broom, in response to Mr. Phelps, said be had not asserted that Mr. Chester was so sick that he could not appear before the Committee. Ilia statement was that Mr. Chester was unwell, and had gone home, and so he had been inform-

Haking an aggregate of $6,119 11 The expenses during the same periods

were , 11,149 6(5

Excessofexpensesover collection. . . . 5,030 55

It may not be improper to Btate that before t he reciprocity treaty went into operation,tberevenue collected for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1855, amounted to $81,064 92 The expenses of collection during the

same period vce're -9,436 97

.'Ank

I r v i n g aVBuVpraS of. I , . . . $28,627 95

Under these ekenmstances Congress at its next session may jBiink proper to. except this building from tbe operation of the proviso,—I would i-e-spectlully suggest ihat proposals fre solicited, and a, lot selected, eonditloheq' on such action on the -part of Congress, i n t t i s %ay several' months would be sayed ifCbhgresa should authorize the work to go on. f .

JU ~ * s i* . . Frftnconia Beard &<gn.

A le%r Ifrota Francppia, New Hiurip&te dated jfetOTdajj the 24jtu ul.rimo, reports, tne Moving facts respecting the weather in that Arctic wgibp, '"srifahiorisin tinlestastas being the col

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W h a t Our Lad ies - D o Sunday M o r n i n g s w h e n t h e y G e t to P a r i s .

[From the Foreign Correspondence of the Philadelphia Gazette j

On last Sunday morning, eighty-seven Ameri­can ladies and gentlemen were presented by our Mmister to the Emperor and Empress, in the Salle des Marechaux, at the Tuilleries. The Imperial decree, which requires that all ladies should ap­pear at the evening receptions in trains, would exclude many who are desirous,of witnessing the ceremonies of a court, from the possibility of a presentation, had not the Empress kindly consent­ed to receive foreigners at a morning levee, when a full dres\s carriage toilet is the costume prescrib­ed by etiquette.

Our fair countrywomen displayed the usual good taste in the choice of their attire. There were magnificent motrrr. antiifues, some plain and others with broad stripes round the dress. Those of a light color have white stripes, on which arc bou­quets or wreaths of flowers in gay shades ; when dark, the stripes are of the same.shade, in bright satin . also, magnificent grey Lyons silks, a disposition, in satin or velvet stripes of a contrasting color, and edged with silk fringes , bonnets of lace of the richest description, decor­ated with feathers or tlowei-s . mantles of embroid­ered velvet, with deep lace volant- covering the skirt of the robe like a tunic, and India cash­meres ol the finest texture and most brilliant hues.

Kaznehameha P u r c h a s e s a Po t a toe s .

Diamond SmuggHng.

ARREfT OF THE I1KULE BROTHERS, AND SEI7CRK OF $1511,000 WORTH OP PHF.CIOOS STONKb.

The steamer \\'ashtnoto/i, which arrived fiom Southampton on Tuesday, brought a box. of goods consigned to the firm of Heule Brothers, import­ers ol jewelry, No. '26 Maiden lane. The Custom House officers examined the box, and at first pass­ed it correct, but afterwards accidentally discov­ered that it had a false bottom, beneath which was concealed a lot of diamonds, valued at £-1",-oOO. These were seized, tbebiolheis- W. C. and Frederick Heule were arrested, and the entire contents of the safes in their store, embracing dia­monds and ,other precious jewels, amounting to over $160,u00, were removed to the Custom House. They were taken before the United States District Attorney, and gave bail of S7, ;J00 tu an­swer the charge of smuggling. They have been known for years as being importers of diamonds and precious stones, having branch houses in Ber­lin, Paris and .London. They deny having any connection with this attempt to defraud the re­venue, and are,-confident they will be able to vin­dicate their innocence. Ex-Judge Whiting is their counsel. u

D e a t h of t h e S ta te T r e a s u r e r of N e w H a m p s h i r e .

[From the Concord (New Hampshire) Independent Democrat, January 2°^

It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. William Berry, Treasurer of this Slate. After a sickness of a little more than one week, Mr. Berry departed this life last-Friday, at the age of 56 years. He wus firBt elected by the Legislature, to the office he held at the time of his decease, a yean ago last June. He was, before his removal to this City, a resident of Barnstead, where he always commanded the respect aud con­fidence of his townsmen, by whom he was repeat­edly chosen to places of honor and trust. He was emphatically that noblest Work of God—an honest man. By his death the State- has lost a faithful officer, the community a goqd citizeu, his wife and numerous connexionsa kind husband, brothor and friend.

His remains were caft'ted to Barnstead for in­terment, on Saturday ; and on M£nday his funeral was largely attended by bis 0J0 neighbors and townsmen.

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[Reported for the Evening Pott.] The Democratic Republican State "Committee

appointed at Syracuse 'July 24th, 1850, met at Albany on the 24th instant, pursuant to call of tbe Chairman, James S. Wadaworth. The following members appeared:

•1st District—D. 0 . .Field, J . H. Titus, W. W. Northrup, substitute.'',.

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In a recent number of the native paper c.dled the line f/airati, uppeart'd a letter of the King, which we find translated in the Friend, under tin-head of a " Royal Letter worthy of a King." It relates to a bargain made by the King lor a,lot of potatoes at Kalaupapa. We make the lollowing extract

" Ou my arrival at Kalaupapa, I noticed a ve^ »el at anchor there; and I inquired, "Who«e vessel

^ t h a t v " Tbe reply was, " It belongs to Kawana, , "a native, and it has come here to purchase pota­

toes of the natives." On hearing this I thoughts } also will purchase potatoes, and accordingly I in-j quired at once the price of potatoes per barrel. I

was informed that the price'Was from seventy-1 five cent" to one dollar per barrel. The arrange­

ment was soon made for tradinp with those who had the potatoe«, and it <(ras settled that the po­tatoes should be brouglrt ou board the following morning. The next morning one of my fellow traders came to me and said, " We have consult­ed together respecting our potato trade, and we propose to give you as many potatoes as yOu wish." On hearing lliis, I hesitated much what to do, because I had two vessels at anchor there, and I thought within myself, " What a greaj. sa­crifice thev (the people) will make." So I refus­ed their offer,, saying, " I have money, and you have potatoes—now let me have the potatoes ami you fake the money." They replied, " The pota­toes are for jou ; but the man who Bhall brjng us the mosey for them, both himself and the money will we throw into the sea." After this I yielded j to them, and here I have the potatoes in my pos­session. And " aloha" I return. I wish you to communicate the same to those who were so ge­nerous to me."

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Gertfernotr Ford, of Illinois, tells an anecdote of <Jne of the early judges of that State, but does not put upon record the name of. tlae considerate ma­gistrate.

At the cburt over which this judge presided, a man by the name of Green, was convicted of murder, and the judge was obliged to pass sen­tence of death upon the culprit. Calling on the prisoner to rise, the judge said to him : "Mr. Gree», the jury says you are to be hung, i want you and all your friends down on Indian Creek to know that it is not I that condemn) you ; it is the jury, and the law. Mr. Green, at what time, sir, would you like to be huug ? Thi law allows you time for preparation.

Tbe prisoner said, " May it please your honor, I am ready at any time : those who kill the body have no power to kill the soul. My preparation is made, and you can fix the time to suit yourself; it is all tbe same to me, sir."

" Mr. Groen," returned the judge, " it is a very serious matter to be hung. It can't happen to a man but once In his life, unless the rope should break before his neck is broke, and you had better take all the time you can get, Mr. Clerk, sinco it makes no difference to Mr. Green when he is hung, just look into tbe almanac and see whether this day four weeks comes on Sunday."

The Clefk looked as he was directed, and re­ported thajt that day four weeks came on Thurs-

nut-street (Noa, 1'eJ and li>4), and running back a depth of about 100 feet.

The lower floor of No. 102 is occupied by T. B. Peterson, the extensive publisher and bookseller. No. 104 is occupied by Goodyear's India Rubber establishment. Both these stores are filled with large quantities "of valuable goods, story was occupied by John M. Harper, importer of watches, who also had a larire amount of valu­able stock on hand , and/ Dubosque & Carrows, jewelers. The third floor was occupied by Mr. K. Gaskill, as a bookbinder. This unfortunate geutle-ma:: had hia establishment entirely a'estroyed by the disastrous tire in Jlanstead Court.

The fourth and fifth -tnries were occupied by Messrs. Sickels & Jones as a printing office. Thev had seveial valuable stwam presses, besides hand presses, and a large assortment of type, etc.

Messrs. Sickles k Jones lost everything, as their property was beyond the leach of afil. .

Mr. E. Gaskill'* bonk bindery in the third story was entirely destroyed. H H loss is estimated at from £10,0110 to £15.oon, which is mostlv cover­ed by insurance. A large quantity of unfinished work was on hand not insured. J

The building was insured for S19,onij in the lol- 1 lowing offices:-- Fire Association, ;*6,'»,,> ; Frank- 1 liu, *7,o<>" , Mutual Assurance, £•'(,'««', Hanu-m- 1 Hand, $3,O0ti.

The other Girar*! building, fronting on Third street, extends back to the west line of the Ches-niit-street edifice, but without a connection. The

I heat of the rlames was so great that the rear cor-j nice of this building caught, but fortunately was ex­tinguished promptly. In fear of destruction, the j goods in the bookbmdery in the upper part ol this j building were removed, and considerable damage

was done bv the water and otherwise. ! McLaughlin Brother's printing office, also in j this building, was slightly damaged.

. T. B. Peterson had li 1,0110 copies ol" Dickens' I works burned in Gaskill's bindery. IlU loss is

about $2,o0u, which is covered,by insurance.

Charles Talmadge, bookbinder, in the linllefin building,'lost considerable in the removal of slock. The property all around the building is very valu­able. Next door west of it iB the-pubstantial build-

violet, pink or blue, I ing occupied by /.achariah Poulson, as the office of hw /fatly Advertiser, and next 10 that the Com­mercial Bank. Right opposite,"in Chesnut-.-treet, stands the handsome edifice of the Bank of North America ; while along Third-street, stretch vari­ous newspaper office.-, the Girard Bank, etc.

Sickels & Jones lose f 12,t«"*. Insurance small. They had six steam presses. They have lost all their account books.

Goodyear's Indian Rubber establishment had a stock valued at $:i(),ftoo. Damaged by water to a considerable.^extent, only a small portion of the goods having been removed. Insured in the Frank­lin, Mutual, Assurance, North America and Phila­delphia Insurance Companies.

The Isdyer building was overflowed in the base­ment to the depth of two feet by the immense quantity of water thrown on the property bv the fire engines. All the other buildings adjacent were also flooded. The Ledger' presses were stopped by the flood. The steam fire engine was sent lor, and two horses were despatched to bring her, but as usual, did not make her appearance.

Lot of

Burning of an Aims-House, and Loss of Life.

BOSTON, Monday, January 26, W.7. The Aims-House for insane poor, in South Dan-

vers, was' destroyed by lire yesterday morning, and two female inmates perished in the flames.

T h e W e a t h e r .

1 OSWKGO, Monday, January 26,1S67.

There was a great snow storm here yesterday. I Over two feet of snow^feil ou a level. It appears I to have extended fef over ten miles around.

A Stumper .

Children ask some curious questions. We have a little boy in "Our House" who came home from Sabbath School one day, and meeting his mother, the following dialogue took place — "Mamma!" " Well, my dear." "Mamma the teacher says people are made of dust." " Yes, my dear, so the Bible says." " Well, mamma, are white people made of dust?" "Yes." "Well, then, I s'pose colored people are made of coal dust, aint they ?"

Close Calcula t ion.

We have seldom heard of a nicer calculation than that made in tunneling the Blue Ridge Moun­tain of Virginia. Excavations were made from both sides of the mountain, and when the augers met in tbe center they were but half an inch apart. The computed length of the tunnel varied but six inches from the real length as measured after its completion. The calculations were made by Col. Crozel.

" Then,'' said the Judge, " Mr. Green, if you please, you will be bung this day four weeks, at 12 o'cloekf

Tbe Attorney-General, James Turney, Esq., here interposed and Baid: " Hay it please the court, on ' occasions of this sort, it Is usual for courts to pronounce a formal sentence, to remind the prisoner of his perilous condition, to reprove him forjiie guilt, and to .warn hied against the

Judgment to the world to come." , 1 " Oh,. Mr. turney^ said. the Und'ge, " M*.

Green understands the whole mattery ho knows he has got to be hung.—You understand it, Mr. Green, don't you ?" '' ' : ., 1" C&tyuuV' fiaid&o pijjspnfjr,

"%. Sheriff, adjourn the conrt." , Four weetflfr.orn that day Mr. Green was hung,

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[From the Liverpool Times, January 10.]

Sir Robert Peel has been delivering a lecture at Birmingham reladve to his Russian visit, and the sights which he witnessed in Moscow at the coro­nation of the Emperor and. Empress. Tho present head of the house of Peel was known to bo "fast" in the days of his father, the great Minister,"and his career since he came to the title has not dis­abused that impression. The lecture in question, to use the words of a metropolitan journal, was a tissue of indiscretion, bad taste and buffoonery— " the coarseness of the Coal-bole and slang of the Casino."

Sir Robert told his audience that he was " hor­ribly fleeced " by tbe innkeepers, and " horribly done " in his dinners, for which he had to pay £60 a day. At Moscpw ho v?as "4one to an euormous extent" by a person who charged him £100 for each of the (our grays which drew his carriage from the railway station to tbe hotel. At Nishni he bought some torquoises which he in­tends to sell, to make good his losses, "as I am al­ways anxious to recover, and never like to be done." He drove from Moscow to Nishni, a dis­tance of 400 miles, in 28 hours. The horses got knocked up, anffwhen they" fell exhausted were left by the road side. The postillions met the same fate. " I never enjoyed any thing so much."

At Nishni >he waa-delighted with the fair ," and the brick Of « Governor." "During the whole tlmo-I waB in Russia, I never saw such a brickas this Governor was." " I jievex saw a man with' such a capaeity for drinkiog aB this brick of a. Governor j no matter .how much champagne he took, I dhtnot notice that ho-ever appeared tho worBe-fbrit." ifietheu described the coronation. 1'As the Empreea entered, shoij" flat on tbe floor —I supposed-by aceldepe, B^was, howqvor, to kiss some sacred «pne,«sft Other, nnd jhen she came in with hair dfcbewHedrfajldnS luto. Nor­ma in the-dpera." .n-^. . c' : I j^(rtes«iptionJortUaii*nob)represeufture at

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Mr. Phelps said he had not alluded to any par­ticular gentleman aa making tbe statement.

Mr. Broom iesponded that he was the only one who had publicly said anything on the Bubject, and hence his present explanation.

„,, , . Mr. I'helps remarked that he had heard the The 8ecoi.il i g U l e m e n t f roto o l h e r a .

Mr. Grow opposed Mr. Letcher's motion. He was not aware of any Court which requires a per­son brought before it charged with contempt to answer in writing under oath. The principle of free speech gives him the right to answer ques­tions as he pleases. This right belongs to every man under the common law, and he was against overturning the safeguards which the fathers of the Republic had thrown around our libertief3.

Mr. Stewart said, the witness having beeu brought here for contempt, it was altogether proper for Mr. Letcher's proposition to be carried out.

Mr. Broom said he was authorized to inform the House that Mr. Chester preferred, answeriug the question in tbe manner proposed.

Mr. Todd opposed Mr. Letcher's motion as an innovation on established principles. In anala-gous cases, in all Courts of law, responses are made without subjecting witnesses to reply under oath for contempt.

Mr. Washburne said this was not the general practice of Courts.

Mr. Todd replied that it was the universal prac-| tice of Pennsylvania Courts.

Mr. Stephens contended tliat Mr. Chester should answer in writing and under oath.

Mi. Letcher's motion to this effect was then agreed on.

Mr. Wade, by request'of tine Chairman of the Select Committee, asked lea^e to offer a resolu­tion that Mr. Chestrr be discharged from custody after he bhall have appeared before the Select Committee and fully answered all proper ques­tions which may be put to him by the said Com­mittee. #

Mr. Stephens—I object until-I hear what his answers are.

The Sergeant-at-Arms then retired with his prisoner, and private bills were considered till the adjournment.

SC.SATK, January 20.—Mr. Wilson gave notice of the introduction of a bill to secure to actual settlers the alternate sections of lands reserved in graritsto States for rail road purposes.

The Senate discussed the bill establishing a naval depot at Brunswick, Georgia. The Senate altera debate passed it.

On motion of Mr. Seward, it was resolved that the Secretary of War be required to direct topo­graphical engineers to inquire and report whether the public interests will be promoted by a survey ol the Niagara river, or any part of the same.

Adjourned.

11 «t"sx, January 26.—Mr. Chester having been brought to the bar by the Sergeant-at-Artns, the Speaker proposed to him tbe questions heretofore ordered to be put, namely, why he did not appear before the Select Committee, in pursuance of the summons of the 14th instant, and whether he was now ready to answer such proper questions as may be put by the Committee. Mr. Chester's answers under oath were read'.' To the first question, he says he never euterr^ained nor inteuded any dis­respect to the Committee of the House, but having made arrangements before this subpoena was issued, summoning him to appear before the Committee, to return home and attend to private business, which could not be neglected without great detri­ment to his interests, and under these circum­stances, he did not think it was required that he should attend on the precise day, and had it not been lor the storm he should have been here on Monday last, without the agency of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Who would bear witness tliat he evinced no disposition, by habeas corpus or otherwise, to a^bid the summons. '

To the second inquiry, he says he is now ready and will answer.

These answers being entirely satisfactory, on motion of Mr. Florence, Mr. Chester was dischar­ged from arrest.

Thursday and Saturday were set apart for the consideration of business relative to the Terri­tories, as two former days occupied for that pur­pose were absorbed by questions of privilege.

On motion of Mr. Quitman, the House, under a suspension of the rules, passed the bill increas­ing the pay, of commissioned officers in the army, and military storekeepers, twenty dollars a month, and commutation to thirty cents a ration.

The House passed the bill to enable property, to a considerable amount, belonging to an eman­cipated slave, who died intestate, to descend to his slave wife and children, their owners being willing to set them free. The reason for this act is a belief that the property under the laws of the Distr ict of Columbia, acts in the United States without such legislation. Adjourned.

SHNATE, January 27.—Mr. Wilson presented the pelitiojj of the Committee of the Humane So­ciety of Massachusetts asking Congress to grant $80,000 for establishing and supporting life-boat and mortar Btationa on the coast of that State.

Mr. Wilson said that this Bociety was the oldest in the country. They have sixty life-boats, five 'mortar Btations, and several buildings for the safety /of shipwrecked seamen. ! Mr. Brodhead presented the memorial of Hora­tio Hubbell, of Pennsylvania, showing that in 1849, in conjunction with CoL John B. Sherburne, ho caused to be presented to Congress a paper showing how a submarine telegraph mightbe con-sumated, and where it could be carried through. He now prays that nothing will be done unless bis rights as projector be fully secured, by his being made a member or director of the company. As the subject had passed from the Senate, the me­morial was laid on the table.

Tbe Indian Appropriation bill was taken up. There was- a debate and various amendment made to it. Adjourned.

HOUSE, January 27.—Mr. Campbell (Ohio) from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported an amended Tariff bill, perfecting the former one , so far aa a majority of the Committee are concerned. Bie states that it reduces the annual revenue $14,«, 000,000.

Tbe House discussed the bill giving to each branch of Congress the entire control of its con­tingent fond, without the revision of the Account tog Officers of the Treasury?- ,;

Mr. Jones of Tennessee saw no necessity for such a law, tjonceivingi i t would be "unconatitu-tionnl - • " ' • " fgMr. Cobb of Georgia eaid the House"was not Bunk so low as to refuse-to review the action of the Fireb Controller, who hadundertakeato lec> ture the House, not-Only for increasing salaries of their Officers, b a t tlfefrxrwn. «•

Mr. Jones inquired* whether Kr. Cobb ever heard Of- any ease WheroihoControllerrefu/3ed to alloV the voucheraoPthe' Clerk at this Bouse, when certified by the, Committee of Accounts?=

Mr.GObb repliea : that , ff the Controller never

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Aui*T, Saturday, January 24,1B5T. ( J S ? P f 0» COMMITTEES.

Mr. BradfoM—Epr the incorporation of the New York Harmonic Society.

BUVJfl HITRODBOBD. Mr. C. P. Smith—To incorporate the Central

Savings Bank of Brooklyn. Mr. Bradford introduced a nili appropriating,

according to law, for the support of Common Schools during the current civil year, $1,0'I2,362, raised for that purpose by tax last year. I t fBrI ther provides that every Supervisor, before he shall be entitled to demand or receive from his predecessor in office School moneys remaining in the hands of such predecessor, shall execute and deliver to the County Treasurer a bond, in the penalty of double the amount of such School moneys, conditioned for the faithful disbursement and safe keeping of said moneys. It makes it law­ful for the Board of Supervisors, at their annual meeting, to levy a tax upon any town in their county to supply any. deficiency in the moneys ap­portioned belonging to districts having their school-houses or school sites in such town, caused by the defalcation or embezzlement of School moneys by the Supervisor thereof.

Mr. Kelly—To restrain banks, banking associa­tions and individual bankers from assuming the title oPSavings Banks [and receiving deposits as such.

THIRD HEADING OP BILLS.

Tbe bill to enable Peter Cooper to found a Sci­entific Institute, coming up on its third reading, the bill was read through and passed.

MARINE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Mr. Spencer presented the following memorial,

prefacing its introduction with the statement that during the last eighteen months the Marine Insur­ance Companies located in New York had sustain­ed losses aggregating at §lt<,000,000.

The undersigned represent that the heavy dis­asters at sea during the two Or three years past have affected more or less the stability of tbe Ma­rine Insurance Companies in the City of New York, and impaired the security of the dealers of such Companies ; that a very general desire exists to add to the strength of the Mutual Companies by the adition of a cash capital to the assets or in­vested funds thereof; that the general insurance law providing for such addition contains certain expressions creating an ambiguity in regard to. the subscribers ot such cash capital, whereby it is rendered difficult to obtain such addition, and thus to add to tbe solid strength of the companies, and to the security of the commercial community. Your petitioners, therefore, desire- that such amendments may be made to the General insur­ance Law of 1849 aa will obviate tnese objections and enable these companies to add such cash ca­pital, and incaease the security of their dealers.

M. 'H . ORtSNELL, ALEX. HAMILTON, Jr.

RES0LLTI0NS.

Mr. Noxon offered the following concurrent res­olutions, amendatory of the Constitution :

Resolved (if the Assembly coucur), That the following amendments be proposed to the Consti­tution of this State :

I. At the general election of Judges in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, three Judges of the Court, of Appeals shall be chosen by the electors of this»Suvte; one for a term of eight yeais; one for a term of ten years ; and one for a term of twelve years. From and after the 31st day of December, in the year 18oy, the Court ol Appeals shall consist of six Judges, one of whom shall be chosen at the general election of Judges every second year, and the full term of office shall be twelve years. The Judges elected prior to 1859 shall continue in office until the ex­piration of the terms for which they were respect­ively elected. Four of the Judges shall constitute a quorum, and a majority of the Judges who shall hear a cause shall have power to give judgment.

II. In phu-e of Section 7, Article 0, substitute the following - The Judges of the Court of Ap­peals and the Justices of the Supreme Ceurt, in­cluding those in office on the first day of January, IsoT, shall receive, at stated time, for their ser­vices, a compensation to be established by law; and any rate of compensation established alter the said first day of Jauuary, 185y, shall commence on that day as to Judges and Justices then in of­fice ; and as to those elected or appointed after that dav, from the commencement of their respec­tive terms.

III. The County Court shall have jurisdiction in case- arising in Justices1 Courts", and such ori­ginal jurisdiction as the Legislature may prescribe. The County Judge shall receive an annual salary, to be fixed by the Board of Supervisors, which shall not be diminished during his term of office.

Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That said i amendment be referred to the Legislature to be j chosen at the next general election of Senators, ! and that pursuant to Section 1 of Article 18 of | the Constitution, they be published lor three I

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so .refusedy the evidence -is condttsitevtbat^ . Committee of Accounts* lmTe'diseh»rge&tneIr<lu> 'ties even to the-iatuu"acBonr Of thei'Gontrbneri fLaughtar.]-' i f - f "•• .'s • '"-^i- - ' -•Ml

Th^furtterconsideftutofi ^ffle-M-WaglpttttT poned'till to-morrowi ^ "-•"•• *»'.

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on the Statoflf ^TTfiioftOa % Tariff A f ».vv. .. M r . M a s « < i l l d 4 n 4 e 4 f t o r ^ ^ / ; # % f e dentin ;Ma:-iI^gfeMd of Ike Democratic parly. - ; = , - • &&>»>'}.

.A.<mw-iv*itM& fcte» ,xm3itm»i m> •evening •sessfo&Seihg .intenlded fb>]du$$jfc^£ debate only. ^i'Uv4^s>^ftJ4<v.Zii&,*' - . . 4 lwai '«do»^^»b«r8*«»m^tv f •,

tliey'wj'hla^to.lfeTllir tb» BcaaWenrt Hfeatage, « a 6 b t « m ^ « l ^ l * » J» y w * ttafr *!**&*, Adjourned,:. '**•£*• *• '

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months previous to the time of such election. Mr. Noxon had consent to offer a resolution

appointing the Hon. Alonzo S. Cpham President pro tern.

Mr. Sickles moved to amend so that the Senate pioceed by ballot to the election of a President pro tein. Accepted, aud resolution adopted.

Mr. Sickles named the Hon. Mark Spencer. Mr. Noxon named the Hon. Alonzo S. Cpham. Mr. A. M. Smith named the Hon. Erastus

Brooks. The result was announced by the Clerk, as fol­

lows: Mr. L'pham 14 | Mr. Brooks .'. Mr. Bpencer 3 j No choice

Mr. Brooks withdrew his name from the can­vass.

A second ballot was ordered, with the following result:

Mr. Spencer 14 | Mr. Upham . 1 2

Mr. Spencer, who was temporarily occupying the Chair, sa(d :

SKNATORS : You have placed me in an embar­rassing position. Certainly, nothing more unexpect­ed has ever occurred to me. Had I been aware that this expression of your favor was to have taken place, I should not have taken the Chair this mo­ment, at the request of the officer usually presid­ing in the absence of the President. I thank you for this honor of electing mc as your presiding of­ficer, and ask, what I know I shall receive, your indulgence and assistance in enforcing the rules adopted for your government.

Messrs_SickIes aud Noxon were appointed a committee to communicate the fact of the election of the Hon. Mark Spejjee«,as President pro tern. to the Assembly ; Jmd Messrs. J. A. Smith aud Bradford a committee to communicate the same information to the Governor.

The Senate in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Cuyler in the Chair, considered the following-bills:

To sell the burial grounds of the Wahabout, City of Brooklyn, and provide places of burial. [Third reading.]

The bill from the Assembly to extend the time for the cellection of taxes in the several -towns and cities of the State. [Extends the time to the first Monday of April. The cities of New York aud Albany are excluded from the effect of the bill.]

The bill was referred to tbe Committee on the International Affairs of Towns and Counties.

Adjourned to 1*1, a. m., Monday.

KEPOETB OF COMMITTEES. ASSEMBLY, January 24. — By. Mr. Hyde—

Against the petition to repeal the Militia tax. Agreed to.

By Mr. Harpingden—Against making the ex­penses of Boards of Health a charge upon respect­ive cities and towns. Agreed to.

Also, against repealing the lawr exempting min­isters from taxation. Agreed to.

PASSAGE OF BILLS.

Mr. Clinton moved to take from the table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the Sup­ply bill was lost

The motion was lost Yeas, 2 2 ; Nays, 48. To extend the time for the collection of taxes

in the various townB and cities in this State to the second Tuesday in April. - To incorporate the Turnverem. in the City of

New York. To; legalize certain acts of the Board of Super­

visors of the City and County of New York. BILLS INTRODUCED.

By Mr. Hanford—To charter the New York Towing and Wrecking Company. ,

Alsoi To amend Charter of Brooklyn. B y Mr. Strait—To amend the Revised Statutes

relative t o -summary proe'eetfings to''recover p o * session of land.

•.., raw jraBK BQ3& Mr. Pomeroy then introduced a number of bills

relating to the City of If few York.

1. A n A m e n d e d charter. , 2. ATobWbUI. '' -.iV. " / ' ^ . •

' 8; Bill forthe Central Patfc - - * 4. 3B1 ItlfailewtHtyHalf.-6. Amending Supervisor law-The New York delegation wanted all. the bills

referred toithenr,1jut the House sent them to the Co'tnmiitee On'Cities «nd Villsg-M."***' •

A!4rklnumTjer'of New T0&erS%ero present aWhenraej moiudmg; $uneo»' Draper, R, M. BlatqH(5rarAlexanderi«amat<|nYJr,, Moses SL «r^e1^.'0.\Westerreltj3!!r. Lesley of. the ThntiiEicnsj^ffott/aSdiothelll. .'»' •.•;•.•'•.

The reading of the bills extended nearly to tho nme'dfadi uMimeUti'when Mr'.:Geotgo got-in«a D|1 to' ataoltou'tho-'dea^ ff&OnmetlTOFlffei '* •»'"*'• *-> - ' s?B't-^«A£ r t |aK• Varnam anffeavbred to--e'*SMfie1Wof

fflonrnme&t, hut-fiatfa-doiwn-aMbor*aB"G^awtrt> *!^'[^rfW|i|«f. With- objeottona^altl^s^use frujoittnooV" '"*" •• '.. ' '••' •«"-'.pi

•. t, v %iwwtfton»r*.S&. | ,'Kr,.M8dde?,Mporj?jfaJhitt-|or &eamendmer#!

of the General Irisaratttiiaw, so tacaraelaM to

by, and that in cajW'such dmdeiia Ja i itockitoidem be betd'wd^idaa^feSbol ,__, the amount of it; alfowa-any such Company WW-crew* its nab. capital to aayamaunfrd*««edpro-perbyit J t < , , s / t > 4 "-' ?

Mr. Madden reported, -favorably on the bill to increase the ItercantMlr^q^mb* t V » capital & 1300,006-, „ "* ! - " v , /*- *•

Mr, Madded but'in ^elatl^'toKutoallnwrv anceCompaniwprbvHiw that no ditidead «hidl eterUmad* if ttf^pjmtinobrpwrtei «n. defthia'actwhenevwr-lta capiudstoak la Impair­ed, orwbwth^irBaktaKof aucn dividend woul4; hate th« dfe* of feNrtog * e capiW Mock, a * anydiTtt«Kt»*»ad«»fa*taubjeet tech ' ^ bo^moalirlBf tbeaaine to«a &dl"

3 » a * « v ^ d r « « r v a d b j MlaranyXoto^ioaonno* •»to*»iitrt»rt>nfc '

sjjeh cash capital, whether payable in full or by installments, shall each be individually liable for tbe'dgea 0;f "said Company to the extent of his in. indiria^al-Btibscription, or such proportion there­of * s aball be requisite in oi?ier to satisfy the debts of said Company until he shall have paid "hia sub­scription in foil; and such' cash capital shall be liable as the capital stock of the Company in pay­ment of its debts. , The subscribers to Buch cash capital shall be entitled, in the election of Trus­tees, to one vote on each $100 of their stock. The customary regulations for transfer are provided in the bill.

A bill was also introduced, similar in its provi­sions, for the benefit of the Mercantile Insurance Company, which has a special charter.

Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported unanimously against Mr. Barr's petition on the contested seat of the Third District, confirming Mr. Sickles in his seat.

NOTICES OF BILLS. To reduce the number of Loan Commissioners

to one in each county. By Mr. Rider^—To repeal all laws authorizing

horse-racing hi the State, and to repeal the bill for the incorporation of the Company to Improve the Breed of Horses.

BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Petty—Imposing a penalty of ten dol­

lars for the destruction of small birds. BILLS PASSED.

To sell the Wallabout Burial-gronnd. To amend the charter of the Lafferts Bank. A resejlution requesting information as to the

number of pardons granted by the Executive of this State for the last ten years, was adopted.

Mr. Brooks offered a resolution requiring the opinion of the Attorney-General as to whether it was constitutional for the Legislature or Governor to appoint any officers whose duties partaiu solely to cities and villages. Laid over.

Mr. Brooks's bill to create a Board of Canvass­ers in New York, was discussed till the adjourn­ment. No action was taken on it. Adjourned.

ASSEMBLV, Monday, January 26,1S57. PETITIONS.

A number for a Prohibitory Law. To amend the Usury laws. For the relief of Country Banks. For the International Bridge Charter.

BILLS NOTICED.

For an appropriation to the Free State settlers of Kansas.

To amend the act relative to the Convict State Prisons, so as to prohibit contracts.

BILLS INTRODUCED. Two to amend the act in relation to the Brook­

lyn Courts. To protect purchasers of |real estate at sales of

•partition lands owned by several persons. Mr. Prendergast introduced two bills to amend

the Juror act and regulate the Police Department of Brooklyn.

Mr. Prendergast's act in relation to the Brooklyn Police creates a Board of three Commissioners, to hold office for six years, except two ot those first appointed, who shall bold one for two and one for four years, atHa salary of $4,000 a year each. The Commissioners to be appointed by the Governor and Senate. In all il3*features in relation to the appointment^and regulation of tbe force, it is sim­ilar to the bilflB relation to the New York Police, introduced by Mr. Pomeroy.

By Mr. John Reilly—To confirm the action of the Board of Supervisors, Kew York, in the ap­pointment of Clerk to the Deputy Receiver of Taxes.

By Mr. Hanford—Constituting the wife or hus­band the ultimate heir of the deceased.

By Mr. J. J . Reilly—To abolish pawnbrokers in the City of New York. This bill abolishes all existing licenses, makes illegal the loan of money of any description at a higher rate than 7 per cent.

Mr. Reilly's bill to abolish pawnbrokers in the City of New York, provides—That it shall be* un­lawful for any person to loan money on any prop­erty of any description at any greater rate of in­terest than 7 per cent., and abolishes all licenses to pawnbrokers. That no person shall purchaae by bill of sale any personal property, with the un­derstanding that it will be re-purchased within a ceitain period at a greater interest than 7 per­cent., per annum. It imposes a fine of not less than *5on nor more-than $1,000, for violation of the act—one half to go to the informer—or ini-

; prisonment in the Penitentiary for not more than ! one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

By Mr. Bradford—To legalize divorce cases lor | desertion or brutal treatment. ' Mr. Pomeroy introduced two bills to amend the ! Charter of New York, and regulate the govern­

ment of the Central Park.

; RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. J. J. Reilly moved that the Committee on Cities and Villages be empowered to send (oi pet-sons and papers relative to the New York City bills now before the Committee. Lost.

Mr. Leavenworth moved that the Judiciary Committee be requested to report a bill in con-

{ggr" Byron, is safiT to have remarked thatj "the greatest trial to a woman's beau­ty is the ungraceful act of eating eggs."— Some Yankee remarks that tbe poet could never have seen a lady hanging on by tbe teeth to a blazing hot corn cob!

. £@r Edmund Kean, the actor, was the originator of a magnificent pun." Hazlitt, a critic of the first water, declared that Ins name was impervious to a pun. " Not at all," insisted Kean. " "What shall be said of the man whose genius has lit the age in which, he lives!"

I ^ f By the recent fire at Amherst College, the Society oi Inquiry have lost their extensive and valuable Museum.con-taining curiosities from all parts of the world, contributed by missionaries ; and which can never be replaced—a part, however, was saved in a damaged condi­tion. '

$g*T' Near Madison, Wisconsin, there are extensive beds of peat, which is said to be preferable to the best Ohio coal lor fuel, and to yield, also, superior illum;na ting gas. A recent survey gives the ex tent of the beds at 348,820 tuns, won. about $1,000,000.

jjcg"'The grant by Congress of 4G.OU0 acres of land to the U n i v e r s i t y of Mlnu.-

sota, will enab le t h a t insti tution, when it,

operation, to do a vast deal for educai.or:

in the te r r i to ry . T h e IJnivers i : v will be

erec ted on a sight conta ining '.'7 arres oi

choice ground.

J03T A coun t ryman passing over a rai.

road in N o r t h e r n N e w York, winch :<

proverb ia l ly slow, asked the conductor

w h y a cowca tche r was at tached • to tli'-

rear car instead of the usual place : he wa?

informed by tha t officer that it was " in

order to preven t the cows on that road

from r u n n i n g into the train.1 '

A n Affect ing Story.

Thrilling accounts are given in the. Marysvi l le (California^ papers of t h e !

chase of two lovers, by an enraged thir i party (the parent) who, as we take up ;!.•--the story, was following them across the Yuba river : .

Augustus saw the fury depicted in the old man's face, and deeming discretion the better part of valor, made a dead halt in the road and concluded to surrender Marie was frantic. L e a p i n g ?uilden!v

from her horse, and walk ing around

through mud three feet deep, she gathered her husband by the legs and dragged him to the ground. Then grasping him ticht-ly around tjie nfek. slit- shouted to her :a ther, who was now in speaking distance—

HoiaotfMk A o | «Mkttfc»

Ml SNit MSilal Mitt M 4 ito mtaaAwt to

j formity with Article 8, Section 9, of the Constitu 1 tion. The object is to introduce a general bill

restricting the power of cities to levy taxes above a certain amount. Adopted.

Mr. Floyd Jones called up the resolution de­claring it unexpedient and unwise to enact any Prohibitory law.

The question now pending is Mr. Foot's motion to amend, by declaring it expedient to enact a Prohibitory law.

Mr. Jones made a speech in reply to Judge j Foot's remarks, denying that the Democratic I party is the party of rum and Slavery, but declar­

ing it opposed to Prohibition as oppressive and unconstitutional. *

After debate, Mr. Jones' resolution respecting a Prohibitory law was tabled. Adjourned.

SKKATK, January 11. PETITIONS PRESENTED.

For prohibiting the sale of liquors. For the abolishment of days or^race on com­

mercial paper. .<

REPORTS. Favorable, to appropriate &l.r.u,0O'i to the sol­

diers of 1812. Favorably, on Mr. ^elley's, bill amending the

General Banking law.

BILLS INTRODUCED.

By Mr. Spencer—To enforce to better observ­ance of the Sabbath in New York and Brooklvn, by restricting the sale of liquor on that day.

Also to amend the General Insurance law. By Mr. Madden—-To organize an Insurance Bu­

reau, and compelling Insurance Companies to de­posit a proportion of their securities in the Bank Department for the better security of policy holders.

By Mr. Ramsay—To amend the General Rail Road law, with a view to perfect the titles to lands held by Rail Roads.

BILLS-INTRODUCED.

To extend the time for the completion of the Albany and Susquehanna Rail Road to three years.

BILLS PA8SED.

To amend the Charter of the New York State Agricultural College.

Mr. Ferdon offered a concurrent resolution to amend the Constitution, so as to entitle every male citizen of the age of 21, who can read the English language and has the other existing re­quirements, to a vote. Laid over.

The bill amending the act of incorporation of Insurance Companies, so as to provide for an in­crease of their capital, was passed.

The bill to amend the Charter of the Brooklyn Water-works was ordered to a third reading.

Adjourned:?*

ASSEKBLY, January 27.

The following Special Committee for the equal­ization of State Assessments aud Taxes was ap­pointed : Messrs. Leavenworth, Jones, Miller, H. Banker, Hastings, Van Valkenburg, George and Bell. ' .

The bill ceding jurisdiction over the Brick Church and other property to the United States was then discussed in Committee of the Whole.

The question pending is on tbe amendment re­serving to the State of New York the right to serve criminal process within its territory:

After debate it was adopted. I t provides that the jurisdiction so ceded shall be so limited .as not to prevent the service W'any civil or criminal pro­cess within the territory, so-far as the same may not be incompatible with tbe free use and enjoy­ment of the said premises for the purposes speci­fied in the act.

A further amendment,subjecting the property to taxation was proposed, and, after, debate, de-

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T h e F o r n e y Mania .

[From tbe Boston Telegraph.]

No electiou ever enraged the unterrified Demo­cracy so bitterly as that resulting in the defeat i>t Forney. Rich as the language is in epithets their passion exhausts the whole fund. I here is no limit to their invective on the one hand, or to their parasitical and disgusting flattery on the other. One-half the epithets they applied to Cameron would make a common thief respectable. 0ne-halfsthe sickening adulation they have eject­ed on tlwj man, whom Pennsylvania did not want in the Senate, would degrade an angel of light The result demonstrates the fact that power got by fraud is not always to be trusted. The New York Herald recommends a little philosophy by way of relieving the " unavailing woe" of the dis­appointed :

" The race it is not alwayB To him who fastest runs,

Nor the battle to tliein people What shoot the longest guna."

Wm. H. Boulton, Esq., late M. P. P. for To­ronto, has returned to that City after ail absence of several years in Europe. He W2s received very cordially by the members of the Orange As sociation in procession.

Dangerous G r o u n d for a Pres iden t and a S h i p . . ~"~~

[From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]

It will be observed by the' news brought by tbe steamer ^rajro, that the ship James Buchanan has. been wrecked on the Irish coast.

# N I C A R A G U A .

E\"ACUATION~OF R1VAS.

Offe r of S u r r e n d e r t o W a l k e r .

WALKERISM IN NI0ARA8UA DEAD.

[From the Correspondence of the New York Tribune. AsprsWALL, January 19,1867.

The British Mail steamer TTiames has arrived with dates from Greytown, river San Juan, to the 18th instant. She brought thirty-five of Walker's men, who were immediately transferred on board of the Granada, which steamer left this day for Greytown, to receive on board and convey to Ne"w Orleans the fillibnstere brought out by the Texas and James Adgtr. It was calculated that most of the fillibusters would leave by the Granadi. • Walker has evacuated or been driven out of Riyas, and was at S t George surrounded 'by tbe allies, who had offered him terms of surrender ; and as he had no means of receiving supplies i>f provisions, &c , it was hourly expected that his followers would ground their arms. The remnant of 7,000 men, sent at various times from tbe States to Walker, are now reduced to 600. Walk-erisuj in Nicaragua has ceased to exist.

feated. ,'_'Anpther amendment provides that joint juris­diction shall cease when the property ceases to be occupied bj the United States. - Adopted.

A motiouTrastuen carried'that the Committee rise and'report the tifflpithe Jfouse and recom­mend .its passage; but before^ihe question on agreeing with the-report of the Committee could be put, the hourjiradjournmenfr arrived, and-the House adjoumedtU. ' ^ --*-

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: '". '.PETITIO'KS. *.3@-*-<<-•»•-• „-$??>*!. ButcMeldMf .56ootUers.MtKeps of B * « y n , : f o r a e r e m o f & . t h e l S l n e . ,

Srom citizens, of; Nev^oj>k—®or a "registry

^msWdSsss,Ss- s* i-^'**"'f» •"•• • f- Ko^tterextenatoa-of-iSi®iS.^"3Se"''obiaiai.'

Hr. l>avenwo¥th reputed *a bill to amend the?

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Mi. John J. Redly ftwtgtfU reportmd bill from tbe favea^B^Cprtmtttee-on tenant houses, appofefed: by A«,*tX*w»ata«. -,

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Republican Town Caucus. *

The Republican voters of the^town of Oswe-

gatchie are requested to meet at the TOWN

HALL, in the village of Ogdensburgh, next SAT­

URDAY evening, the 7t\ instant, at 7 o'clock,

for the purpose of nominating suitable persons to

be supported as candidates tor Town Officers, at

the next annual Town Meeting, to be held- on

Tuesday, February 10th, instant, and to transact

such othee business as may come before the meet-

i ng- '

By order of the Republican Town Committee.

Dated, February S, 1S57.

Ayer's> Cherry Pectoral.

rpronrthe Washington County Observer.}

." We invite ou* readers to the .perusal of Dr. AVER'S advertisements which ap*pear in the col­umns of our paper. They deserve attention as e

treating of whatinferestsus all, and from a source which all have Iocg respected. The Doctor is well known as-one of tbe- leading chemisfa-tif-tnia country, who dgvotes his great acquirements, to the dteOTveryyan|d manufacture of remedies jfer popular1 u^a«*j|Ke 'unparalleled successifhichltas "foltbwed'bia'iaborsift^ja well known ib"BSa com­munity to need any elucidation from our pBn». <

^Wiat*r!fcJBabWtt"of Wila Cherry.

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