The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-18
NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY Is, 1855.

Kansas Topeka Legislature, and one of Gov. Robin
sons Census Marshals, preached last evening in DR..
Bellows church. on the religious wants of Kansas.
We have news from Puerto Cabeiio, Venezuela, to
the 4th inst. Our correspondent says:-On the goth
ult. we had a great celebrations here, on account of
the running of the railroad cars to the interior on
the first railroad ever built in this republic. It was
a grand affair. and gave delight and unbounded salts
faction. The country continues perfectly quiet,
healthy. and crops never better. Business is quite
stagnant, owing to the almost total impossibility to
dispose Of bills on London or France; and the
scarcity Of money renders it very difficult to make
sales of produce, which is a drug, on account of the
deplorable condition of commercial affairs in the
United States and Europe. Coffee. washed, lie. TO
l2c. currency; unwashed do. 93c. a l0c. Hides, l3ac.
a lac. Cotton-No sales. Indigo, sars. per h., +.
Cocoa, $40 a $27 per ITO lbs. Lignumvit@, $l2 so
per ton. Fustic, $ls a $40 per ton. Deerskins, 50
per dozen. Goatskins, 81. Brown sugar, &c.
The Legislature of Alabama, by a unanimous
vote, have adopted resolutions authorizing the Gov
ernor of that State to call a State convention in the
event Of Congress refusing to admit Kansas into the
Union under the Lecompton constitution. Here we
have another phase of the Kansas imbroglio, look
ing towards a secession of the slaveholding portion
of the confederacy in certain contingencies.
The store of Wilson, Midgley & Jennings, at the
corner of Duane and Church streets, was broken into
on Saturday night, and IS 900 worth of silk goods
taken therefrom, by three expert housebreakers.
Two OF the robbers were caught in the act, one of
whom proved to be Chauncey Johnston, the celebrat-
ed burglar who stole s36 900 in money from the Bank
of the State of New York a few years shoe. John
ston has only been released from Sing Sihg prison
for q few months. All of the goods. stolen have
been recovered. The. number Of daring ibufglAries
has been largely On the increase 1alely; in fact,
this form of crime is quite 9. mania aundhs the city
rogues at,ppssenf.' 30.
The favorable sswy regarding the Liverpool cotton mar
ket, recetved"s ys the America on Saturday, led to greater
Hrmness on the pAttof holders here. The sales embraced
about / 900 bales closing firm at 93sc. a 9Kc. for mid
ding upland. TheAour market was heavy and sales mo-
dera,e, without, hswevsr, any change Of moment in quo
tations. Wheat sold 70 a limited extent; prime to choice
lots were scarce spd,xanied for city milling; Iowa spring
sold at 81 "a a 81 05; prime kentucky at 81 SIS, and South
ern' do: al 81 80. Corn was quiet and nominal for white
and yellow, at zoe, q 72c. Pork sold to a moderate extent
at9l4. rs . Ga IS for new mess, and prime at s11 so q
sl2 so: Sugars, within a day or two, have declined about
NC. pellb, ,apd with the close of the week at about hc.
belsHHKAh isheA prices of the previous week. The sales
Saturday owing in partto the inclemency Of the weather,
xsxsqSpsped TO about 300 hhds at quotations. given in
snosssreiunp Coffee was quiet and prices unchanged.
Ffeigts siS3 enexs we're moderate, while rates were
without CHING y Of moment.