The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-19

Ayies. EAcnange on Onseu
states stood at pf.f.
Our hles OIL Zirgton, (Jam.,) papers are to the
18th Oh No,emser but the news is not important.
Inc iegifatnre was paying much attention To the
sui Jects OF popular education, church extension,
and imml grafton from Canada. The Baptists had
resumed their agitation against the Anglican church
as an establishment. Feyers rather prevalent.
lcng continued drought had been succeeded at
tie north side by refreshing showers. Copper
mining was paying well.
From Nassau IN. P.) we have files to the lst of
December. st. Andrews Day was duly celebrated
ON The 30,h Of November. One hundred and fifty
thousand oranges had been shipped to New York.
No important news.
We publish elsewhere the details Of the Mexican
news to the sth inst. They are important. The
Alvarez ministry broke up on the 9Th One account,
how ever, denies that any ministerial crisis had oc-
CURED. Comonfort had abandoned Alvarez, and it
was thought the latter would return to the socth.
The condition of the country was worse than ever.
QuaIrels pronunciamentos robberies and every con-
ceivable species of disorder prevailed.
The bids for the State loan of four millions aud
half of dollars were opened at Albany yesterday
Several millions more than required were rendered
The rate OF premium ranged from 100 l5 TO 1903 per
cent. The stock is five per cent stock, payable
January !, 1874. Four millions Of it ia an extension
OF credit on the same amount of State bonds due
on the list proximo, ana the remaining half million
is an addition Of that amount to our State loan 10
order to make good The failure OF the canal reve-
nues to contribute the annual constitutional appro
priation to the Canal Sinking Fund.
We learn that Robert Schuyler whose name and
fame are notorious throughout the world, died in
November last, in the 9th year Of his age lie had
long suffered from i'll health.
The bill to give the choice of Presiden ia Electors
to the people passed the House of Representatives
of South Carolina on the 14th instant, by vote of
81 to 3d. South Carolina is at present the only
State in the Union in which the Electors are chosen
by the Legislature. .
IN another column may be found a report OF the
preliminary examination at Boston yesterday, OF
Edward 0. Coburn and Franklin Dalton, charged
with the murder Of young Sumner, the particulars
OF which are no doubt fresh in the minds of our
readers. TIE proceedings attracted numerous au
dience including many ladies'.
The ceremonies of laying the corner stone of
Trinity Church. an Episcopal edifce at lIoboken,
occurred yesterday, and were conducted by Rt Rev.
Geo. W. Doane Bishop OF the diOcess Of New Jersey.
Congress-The speakership--The Triangular
Discussion Continued, but not Quite Com
cluded.
We begin to fear that the case of Mr.. Banks,
the fusion candidate for Speaker, is scarcely
better than was that Of the poor lieutenant,
when Corporal Trim submitted his sad cond-
ton to the benevolent Uncle Toby. We fear,
too, that Mr. Banks has had bad Corporal
Trim in Thurlow Weed, and a sorry Uncle
Toby in Master Giddings; and that the whole
of the outside committee appointed to lubr-
cate and strengthen the backbones of the weak
brethren are nothing but O set OF medical
charlatans after all.
Mr.. Banks wants half dozen additional
votes to put him in the Speakers chair; there
are fifty scattering members from whom these
six or seven recruits might have been obtained
in single night, by judicious management;
but for ten days his devoted adherents have
labOred in vain to raise another man. The
scattering votes remain intractable, the demo-
cratic phalaDx continues unbroken, and Mr.
Banks for ten days has not advanced foot.
Brought thus to dead halt, the discussion
which was fairly opened on Monday was con-
tinued through the session Of yesterday, Mr..
Campbell, of Ohio, having secured the floor
when the House adjourned.
Our Geographic report of this debate exhi-
bits the salient points Of this triangular SQUAD
BILE for the Speaker in pretty bold relief; but
it is quite likely that Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio,
will contribute largely to the value of this dis
cussion today. Next to Joshua r. Giddiugs,
he is conversant with all the minutia of the
pipelaying and scene-shifting of
the negro freedom fusionists from the begin
ming Of this demoralizing bit of gambling for
the public plumber. Thus far all three sides
have some complaints to make. The democrats
complain that they were cheated ont of their
rights in the coalitions of free sellers, aboli-
tionists and Know Nothings, in their elections
to this Congress; the black republicans COM
plain that there are members, and quite re-
spectacle number Of them, too elected as stiff
antiNebraska men, who are now playing hide
and-seek between democrats and Know No
things, instead Of standing boldly up to their
principles. The Know Nothing complaint,
however, is the most remarkable of all They
complain, substantially that the democrats, in
planting themselves with Richardson fairly and
squarcly upon the Nebraska platform, have in
sultingly closed the door against the co-opera-
ton of the national Americans with the demo-
cratic party. We had supposed that the Know
Nothing conservatives could not possibly desire
any such alliance upon any terms-ther atti-
tudc being that Of active war equally against
Seward and the administration.
But politics, like misery, as Mr.. Bolts said,
after sleeping under the same blanket with
Captain Tyler, give us strange bedfcllows, and
SO We are prepared for fusion Of democrats
and black republicans, or Know Nothings and
democrats, upon Speaker, directly or indi-
rectly, before the end Of the week. The ques-
tion before the House is the motion of Mr.. Tho
rington Banks man, for the adoption of the