The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-11

1850. April Y december Us
1851 zimmerman. April Is December 235
1852. April 20 December Ii 239
1853. April 20 December Is 2,9
1854. May ! December 2l7
1855. May l December 10 22i
BY the table it will be seen that the canal has
been open but twice during the past twelve years
later than the present one.
The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales
Of about 500 bales. Flour was dull, and common
grades closed at decline Of about 12sc 1sc. per
barrel. Among the sales were about 5000 barrels
for export. Wheat was dull, and sales limited,
while prices inclined to droop. Corn closed at &c.
Csc for inferior to good new Southern, and 99sc.
for old Western miXed Southern white was sold at
about 81 OF 81 OF. Rye was firm, and included in
the sales about 5000 5000 bushels for export
Pork was heavy, and prices ut the close rather I'M
settled. Lard was firm; Western prime was at l25c.
12Sc., and new city rendered sold at 13c. for ex
port to California. Coffee was firm, with small
sales. Sugars were firm, with moderate sales. New
Orleans new molasses was in good demand, at 45c.
Freights were higher, and grain to Liverpool, in
bulk and shippers bags was taken at Id, and cot
ton at I'd. 9-l6d.; tierce beef at Is. Rates were
also firm to other ports
Coneress-No Speaker Yet-BanI<s Almost
Elected-Ercat Excitement-G iddIngs comes
to the Rescue.
The proceedings in Congress yesterday upon
the Speakership, were decidedly interesting
and promising They were interesting as in
aicating the working of the fusion game, and
promising, nasmuch as they foreshadow the
probable election of Speaker to-day-per-
haps Mr. Banks, perhaps somebody else.
The first trial yesterday gave Mr.. Banks one
hundred notes.-the precise number at which
he left off on Saturday-from which it would
appear that nothing was done in the interval
from Saturday night till Monday morning by
his electioneering friends. Mr.. Thorington, Of
Iowa, thereupon, on his own responsibility,
innocent manD moved the adoption, after
three more trials, Of the plurality system--a
motion which excited q prodigious tluttering
among the uninitated democracy and the
scattering votes. But here the venerable
black republican patriarch Father Joshua r.
Giddings, came to the rescue, and proved him
self equal to the crisis. There was no neces-
sity yet for a resort to the plurality alterna.
tive. He believed the feeling Of the House
was settling upon Mr.. Banks. And so Mr.. Tho
rington oblsingly withdrew mis- motion.
The House then resumed their votings for
a Speaker; and from what Samuel Weller
the younger, would call "a VERY singular
coincidence" Mr.. Banks, on the very next
trial, received 1O5 votes. Lest other people
might say, however, that the first vote was all
shy, and that Mr. Thorington's motion for
the plurality dodge, and this second vote, were
all cut and dried before hand by Thurlow
Weed, we beg leave to say that we stick to the
record, and don't care just now to look be-
hind it.
But there is another curious circumstance in
these fusion strategetic movements of yester-
day. II will be seen that Mr.. Fuller, Of Penn
sylvania--the obstinate, intractable and IN
compromising Fuller started oil yesterday
morning with thirty one votes; that on the
second trial two Of these went over to Banks
and that on the fourth another went over
but that Fuller stuck at twenty-eight. Per-
haps those three deserters were decoy ducks
and their object may have been to create a
stampede among the real Fuller men, and to
carry them over to Banks. Thus far the
stratagem has failed. Perhaps the inaexible
Fuller may have been concilated to q surren-
der by the soft appliances of Thurlow Weed
and Gen. Webb last night, and the sweet
diplomacy Of Greeley. A few h0nrs more
Will tell the story, involving the election Of
or, perhaps the last vain struggle for Mr..
Banks
Sill another curious fact, in roekinc over
the several votes yesterday, Is worthy of
notice. On the thirty-ffth trial when Mr..
Banks received lO5 votee, he lacked but eight
of an election; on tie thirty-seventh he wanted
put I'VE to carry him into the Speakers chair;
on tie thirty ninth trial, receiving
w. votes, Re fell seven votes short OF an cleo
''on ioVI the accession Of one additional vote
y. y, 'nc Whole number cast. Sticking at lO7
my ~ Journed. We are still inclined to the
ppm on that should Banks stick fast to-day,
'o'' Southern conservative experiment will be
.ade upon ex-Speaker Cobb; and, from the
complexion of things at the adjournment yes
terday, bis election is by no means an impos-
sible event. Thus far, from the very begin
ming, We believe not solitary vote has been
cast for Cobb, which leads us to conclude that
there is at least an understanding in the mat
ter-that the democrats have been holding him
in reserve, as their trump card, for the South