The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1852, Page 6

ivetins Home Correspondence. District of Columbia, Wasninaton, Apral 4, 1852. The Seme-Oficial Presidential Movements on Wash- ington—HWho is to be the Administration Can date?—Seward and his Aims. ‘The correspondent of the Courer and Enquirer, from this that ‘There is an informal organization of offcis!—T had almost said officious—gentiemen here, who have compl cently taken upon themselves the management of Mr more’s affairs for the Presidency, and who are now pro- ing with much energy in looking after the clection of delegates in different parts of the Union. No public man more uniformly or more justly deprecated the intrusive interference of office-holders in such matiors Chan Mr, Fillmore himself, and although the present movement is professedly designed for his benefit. it must be believed he wilt interpose to prevent its continuance. if properly brought to his notice. There is no sort of support so dani- gerous to a candidate, expecially when the candidate is in power, as that of the office-holders, Mr. Fillmore, now hat hy cknowledged aspirant for the succession will ua esustained by a vi tion ot the Sout other and und better inspi trigues a ivances of official dependen As! in the seerets of the gentle- men” referred to, I y but what the infor- mation is correc nt | would like to add to it. If | Willmore wink » adopted by ce of his ‘official dependants” in his ewn behalf, it i equally true that he blinks at the doings of eoriain ot bor het ean ot in his fay organization this city for months past, headed by rer in the post office department» Colonel ogether with a the treasury woth) ythe name of who boards at Senator Se 's, Mr chief clerk of the th Auditor’ *, chief clerk of the Comptrolle a host ofother small fry dependant midatl nization is Pike, who | d in the and Webster ¢ a the name: + but if there sh y trouble you fi t denial of t! a complete list 0s T dependant” dowa to the tem- porary clerksat three dollars a day felo, there is Webster and hii tis, Charles March the latter individy and Scott in t doing the abuse » Baltimore Sua, and | warm dange thy “dependa the ne: i chanc Meany Colonel Webb ge ter? or does he support hi the declaration Mr. W ute committee, when Webb's 1 Austria was 3 k the t 2 afterw 2 vote Wa Wasuineton, April Welw weral Cass on th jewel. The cours ion of the count tors, in s all confidene re eve whom they « ey candida Certain politi- es under their him as the ern i in refere' these misre- om the Ci moro hostile and better than any of as haviog sold himself to the So: of Southern rights and und misrepresent his consse and vote to the Wilmot proviso. Incorrection presentations, wo subjoin an extract i Globe, of Ts50, wud what bis ¢ en. ersonal inte- is competi- , should do tors to him in the approaching conte him jus Fairness, at least hetween membere of th much to expect of a deb It way used partisan pyr independent journals of the country, who havo no | persoual preferences to gratify, or prejudices to feed, sis to promote. should correet a y- te of the United States, Mel A nhc it iv the duty of bie territorial y nia. for Deseret. and New Mex' ‘aes concluded his re Proviso in th arks in opposition to » word Yue Wilmot Prov sunt of its expedion It is opposed upon of its uneonstitut hose who urge it may well abandon it, when i be mncasure is lad esult. 1 ange the om of the t ed by it, will not the convi lings sod inte 1 he sacrificed nof the great comp: al fumily orth the cost? Toy sve, unconstitutional py at a recompense ieted, and the f excited, whose disastre wan can conten i 1 neoment: viso on the statute for the wounds thy igs that would 1 < effects no right minded ut the most serious ap- us may live to see the youngest may not live to or myself, | will minister nO sit in no such erusad whatever motives rte discharge my duty can Senator, to the country and to the whole coun- try, agreeably to the convictions of my own dut ns of the constitution ; . L stall cease to have ¥ sentiments upon w before the Sei stituents and the couatry. 1 | wnformity with the soon aw pre I have b i ne a fellow of infinite modesty, states | + | in our midst ea and will | Timo was whon @ sweeping edict from tho Vatioaa carried terror and Sonny the breaste of the chosen victims. But the Bs path wo in this country has passed. The spirit of personal inde- pendence laughs to soorn these “‘paper batteries” of church asttnaton, mornin, rs contain the reply of Mr. Le Couteulx to the p's circular. You may reool- lect this gentleman is the respected son of the late Louis Le Couteulx, a very wealthy and highly es- teemed Roman Catholic, who rty tothat Church, in this city, now worth over $100,000. reply tothe Bishop is in ape temper, and repels his lofty assumptions. The community general regard this effort of the Bishop to obtain control, by means of Mr. O’Keefe’s bill, of the tomporalities of the Church, as a high- measure, and in direct opposition to the es, ‘established policy, of the State in regard to ecclesiasti: rty. The congregation of St. Louis Church, who resist this effort, embrace the great body of our German and French population, who are distinguished for their intelligence, virtue, and pecuniary independence. ‘The opponents of the bishops a1 ee in this wise:— Our laws, say they, were designed by our ee forefathers to guard against the concentrated powor of accumulated wealth of Protestants as well as Ro- man Catholics. It was the doctrine of ropublican- n in opposition to monarchical government, to do- centralize (so to speak) all church property. With 3 | that design our laws di Ist.---That such property should only be held by certain trustees or vestrymen, elected by sympa- thizing in sentiment with the congregations 2d.---The amount of property which could be 50 held is restricted and limited, und the trastees are required to report periodically to the legislature its value, so that, if they exceeded the amount pre- seribed, euch corporations could he dissolved. 3d.---They could not take by will or devise, un- less expre: thorized by law so to do. 4th.—By various evaet wife or child, could devise more than one-quarter of his estate to certain religious corporations, nor would awill, giving them property estat The ol an overpow which we: Old World the fires admiral attempts, by lish this Roman Cathe hy, the evils of monarel f nocratic fovefathers, fo’s bill, to re-estab- ‘monopoly. The vilewes and powers which h itthold from all other religious » bishop is rendered sole mong yasto amount of property, w devise. or othor- rting Lo the legislature, and no direc- s to the manne He becomes sponsible sole corpora nw? ‘The contest between the Bishop and sofa serious political cha » lniter have decidedly the advantage © of theive ; but whether power (o weary OBSERVER 0 Pe tion used. Ce Cmnistt, Texas, Maveh 1, | dts Resources and Prady —-bithat it will be, | | r to be held in our town, on th f May, s ing much interest: throu he State of | 1 vd T trust isa sufficient excuse to furnish | ve ters with some ets, and, inci, dental a brief de » town and the count The of the North son tu suppose that the people a“ eq tod with the re- ourees of Uy border sntation public sentiment is the theory that a ‘in wien must transpire ere a hei insured. This fermentat : but it endured ‘OM peO= ht be serviecable to sertion that there te in the Union pos- more exal moral tone than exisis 1 will further hazard the declaration, are noe two States iu our extended federal embrace as many elemenisof wealth and sessed of anon that there league th entire portions n Niate | entirely deserted of plantersaund slaves, who hi | creetly burried trom their barren heaths to this K the alluvial bottoms of our inexhaustible river banks. ertained that no soil ore , mate surpass tivation ¢ or colton. Nov . en Obio has been shown to be interior inthe preduct of cory, while the extreme western portion of the State equals the most fav the | Northern States for wheat. Again, we en, stream of setti iv wnotion the most e who e witnesse t jo, can well verily el | powerful m an Mare { another dey iy speak at the present time, as more ected with the vicinity of Cory tothe grazing intevest. try of the work upon the N r to any other s instance a fael that will ag Nimrods ¢ ( correboration of my positi ing for the traveller who seou ics that lay between this place aud San Antovio or the Kio Grande, te de: twe thousand deer in one herd. | illustrates the wonderlul capacity of the grazi jou “Jn the more € f « river, os h } State. [will he f the y no une ymense pre the State the or nuLrieious It parches quire tha with which it is endower latter end of the lor In this vicinity, the forining the richest and cattle and horses ave that childeen we anil defies the of continnous green, suming it with the avidity it res! Christmas dinner dyou f water in pul explain, Mg plrpose: onts, “ta person leaving a | be valid, unless | , | executed at least two months before the death of | | the ed | anifestiy to prevent | inwhich the property may be | | obseure—decided, falte be to the land | ‘a riment of profit that |) whieh fortanate ands whe were in the habit of mecting ther for ehe parpose of talking abont their own domestic slavery. oe whether it wits a harmless #0 which had play- i ot favorite theme tor youthfa On looking at the report of the pr 1 am inclined to ent n an lavorable opi nd to cousider them as ab of ardent statisticians, who are desirous of | | P er has his range: and ifthe | ascertain they do | country popalated, il ix necessary that not conve: | he she herd within the | or that the « is | preseril e ranges very often extend and cam U rominent siren Now, un- W he nth wany } flow in the ne | examin | will surely die during « prc rreqtired to vote ap a} * Herein consists the he ¢, in w bill prov | Valley. In every direct rennial ny duty | within their ute hozoms to the ~ | water sufficientiy nice for the most tustidious st rend | mach. Jn every direction are to be sven the e | nebos; and trom four to fire th own | tle, and one thousand head of ho mu s subject, and le | frequently roper sme good citizen in these tors i yw diseretion. | parts. ‘But it almost. seems to me that | an - | attempting to prove what every citizen of Texas New York. | concedes a fuet. Yet not to grazing purpozes alone ALBANY, Aprils, 1852. | is this beautiful region fined. Cotton and corn ¥ . pt flourish he in other sections, although the Dieting of the Democracy m Favor of Gen. Cass. | wondertul favilities for stock raising, and the ready J sond you the proceedings of a meeting held at | market at New Orleane, bas toa great extent mio- Congress Hall t y Ata meeting of the demo- | nopelized the attention of the people om all parts of the State, held at Congress | thus far lost sight of our town of Corpus ‘ Pe ‘. . | «Which deserves more than a passing notice. on the 8th April, at 3P.M., Stephen Meeks, | wollect thet the rendezvous of Gen. Tay- of New York, wae called to the chair. and | jor at this point, was seized upon by the Mexican | a ee “a: = Smith, of ne wore | government as a pretext for a doclaration of war. latices chud by Lada Hendon a “i ell The rain of his fortifications are still visible ubont pest waa 3 mas | a mile below the town. To form some conception Aeeved upon the condition of the democratic party of |” ‘dig? Sieg Ps a the Union, in conneetion with ths sporcasniiag Pr ; i of torty feet. and deseribing a segment of a cirei that distinguished | This blu jute against the waters of the bay at statenman of ent position in th the asertic effectual i the State of New \ { | | ‘ork fre i earnest 5 { . wineipal warehouses, with their stocks of groceries, athe jotge and earnest support. | ‘This bluff is lined from one extreme to the other | anda vetuin to the old system of hanging would | May bya een kon te huemeds Madcine ns it whom the de ewes | with most magnificent mensions, built in modern | create universal indign ud disgust. ‘ another part of tne town jone excepted. mueb ent ius | architectural In the rear of the bluffis the | The ministers are all absent from town, with the | warfield’s warehouse, Adame do., north of the thelr evnfid | Mexican town, containing about one thousand | exception ¢ re. Coméron find Mor There is | @jinton House, and every bnilding in that direction, | Tee tants. In the Amerienn portion the | | ent hus put @ stop | tothe Gas Works and Deer Creek street. are gone. lings ave om y tree stories | itic | Mrifield & Ln loss is quite heavy—$75,000 n height, mich an brick is to | From New Bennewick we lara the railroad | some say. All the fine row of stores in Adams’ ai he observed. HH we take in con: n the | bills sed both houses, and (hat thesmembers | toe, thelr contents, were deat ese | My Constant sen breeze that fans the checks of our good | are dole far wiedte. Mv. Attorney | Jo & § nd Marfield & Luckott's, dry goods: | i denizens ourd loxuries of oysters and’ fish | Gene heen called upc his constitu | Yew aus, hardware ; Ws bros ens | (red ip ), the immense quantities of wild | ont n, Which, like a sex 1 We has ree | ri daiale- “Maliaitcie. or son hi fowl, the propinquity te game of every deactipt 16 t Clark & Son's, and gil the smaller establishment 1 nt el ar Mt the certainty of the enjoyment of hea be Mr. been again returned hy a large m= | every vestage o! The Meswr: Houaye hs ould he difeute te more a fable | jo orland, N Colonel doin Baral | Pyaser had just sed hame into | - ath 1 for resident Wr pla ni ye vermment. We | theiy establishment. all ), with mueh other | - " " © somet complete equ tho har- “ t ‘ re 1 er 1 galt, “hs Avasrican porlion sPeke® Paar tote SDALONAL | i street following establist euolee arafively of recent date, 10 1800 f A d about Cube, 1, Jumes A. MoGinnis, the | 1} J | Woodbridge, Dr. James | bunor yanu, friendles and slone, er the Nueces. mnt won W YOK WATALD | Se Seok ae ae | : See hee? Het = ies te Jhave read w ouch pleasure the article on f any sort left standing on the | , ren Chae ; . " ; | H indicated. The dwellings of W. Ross, The Laie Mar ] "W ‘on of this Acquiring in a Cuban affa iblished in your valuable paper | Wah BEG. “but Miller & ‘Co ‘The rovent lowe knowledge of the Spanish March the ih. Tho writer of the article in ques | ler's, Bomvett. & Brother ing oerta nok peity trade with hia swarthy neighbors. | tion has evideutly pair more than gomuon attention | | & Shull’s, W. He Douglass & Son's, | 2 ung man isnow Col. Kinney, scarcely ar | io the condition of this island, and appears to be | Glomuley’s, James MeClintick, Junior dor and ’ the me 1 of life, the owner of cight | familiny with its politiow! history, such ws ib pose | Reove’s, dry goods, W. The Cardina ty ked ranchos, the proprietor of alinost the | veges, I tnke. however, the liborty of offering come | i .Wwes is’s hat shop, several donding woalt comp ntire valley that lies between the rivers Nucor j remark#, which, sl J tuilor sho wore burned on the wost side, per Band iat Magpie Mg nts need pie ag 1 owner | you oniertain, hat beou suggested hy | aad cvcry store, shop and building on tho oat side, snequivooally opp hemes of of the towne of Nueces and Corpus Christiin | jybtic opinion, brought aboat by evouls stil ties | from May's corner, on the oni tho Madeira Maggcapdizowment on the part the bishops. fine, the originator of the great Gorpus Christ | i ihe acamvry vf peers body | Hone. thea tn this ¢ i | will prove in- | each extremity, continuin of four miles, and compl which lies npon # level in length the distance ely environing the town, iain beneath. A loyelier location for a town was never seen North or South. | | circumstances of peculiar atrocity, and though the | pos yeecived # blow from whied she cannot reeover ury recommended the prisoner te mervy. the Judge | jy, years, | name. asthey oceur to me, a few of the yersisted in the gen hs i prisener | aificrers, Two thousaid of our population are toentertain hopes o! mutation of hiesentence. | } From six to eight hundred thonsand pretty sure, however, that he will not be | Joliurs worth of property was eonsnmed. Al our | queer discovery fair, Tho distinguishing trait in Mr. Kinney’ character ia his i nergy. i. ban He has already excavated « commodious channel thro: ap bar at the mouth of tho bay. "ae is now , at an immonse expense, an Ar- bene well —_ heart of the town, ane Lhd al- ready com} eve arrangement for the most extensive ir over held inthe United States. It has been ascertained that more than ten thousand rsons will visit this fair. The indofatigable mil- lionaire has received information his Mexican emiasarios that large numbers from Mexico will be present, and among them two celebrated and an- tagonistieal companies of bull fighters, with their been ascertained that trained brutes. Jt has t propa- tions are making in nearly all the Southern and many of the middle States, to bring hither stock of various kinds, in order to bring them in competition with the productions of Texas. A circus is already on the ground, with most excellent equestrian talent. You may rest assured that our same Corpus Christi fair will well repay a visit even from oe Northern section. J. G. H, Our Canadian Correspondence. Quebec, April 2, 1852. Last Struggle of the Protectiomsts—Pickwickian Meeting at Toronto—Anti-Slavery Dfeeting—- Facetious Doings-- Maine Liquor Law in Cana- da--Sentence of Death on a Murderr—New Brunswrck--Nova Scotia, §c. it is amusing to see what straws drowning mon will grasp at, and what bursts of exultation tho fnintest ray of hope excites in their minds. Your Hnglish correspondents have placed you in posses siou of such full accounts of the position and pros- pects of the Dorby party, that [ need not refer to the letter F wrote you when the telog an- nounced their accession to power. You had, in fuct, forestalled me in the prediction that their tenure of office would be short/and their party measuros—if indeed they vehtured to risk an ac- coucheinent of any—would be weak, puny, and short lived. One would imagine that this fact was so obvious that no man who takes the usual menns of procuring information could doubt it for on instant. There is a party in @anada, however, through a medium of their own, ‘g endowed with « powerful imagination, are perpetually giving to the world the most as- tounding revelations, and the most wonderful, pro- pheeies-—the accomplishment of the latter, Inocd handly say, being invaria to an indeii- | nite What thei or whether not worth my while to inquire: but 1 may, ot passant, anus your readers with a briof sketch of their doings anent Lord Derby This party, then--heing generalled Sherwood, of Toronto, Mr. Cayley, M lout, and others whose patrony mio: few days ago. that Lord Derk ng avownl of his fears that he never would uble to restére protection, were in a great ure occasioned by the uncertainty whieh pre vailed in his mind respecting the sentiinents of the ycople of Poronte on the question of free trade. A you will, perhap: i the people of Toroi ence in the p: , and that th ere. recollect the gentiomen, M their names to fi for a return to protection. at trifles, A meeting was cn but a meeting of he fr Orange loages * bhoys” were inv ro in high feather. : east, pray’ ut We must not shop od—not x public on 8 of protec! Mr. Sherwood said he Kd not be sed to tian hi : F that, highly respecte ble tribe, and deel: if Loid Dorby did not restore protection. Ho was ne was a free born Hnglishman, applause.) and demanded his ly to enfore: ce, Ke peaker, havin anid bis audience up to ment and valor, moved r treatise than anythi by this’ time wrought hb htful pitch of excite lution, more in the . the purport of wh ought to vemit (he one shill per quarter on Canadian wh Now, th %$ as not actually a duty ry nue poses of revenue, hut a tax to cover some ttended with the importatio Mr. Sherwood’s — mode: thereiore, simply amounted to a begg’ would make Cani ported from hence. — Mr jollowed in the saime stra snd cool argu but the Orau ud not gone there iry fiyeiees, 2 b'hoys were i le so the speakers were mpelled 16 revert to tvaved,” Sand © England. with alt e., which took amazing dy the Orange leader outed Che Wationm, aud wound up th appeal to the reliwious ft ers, wid water enlog Williom of Which wae exceedingly apropos wud con then The prod Vickwiekinn Ly--n ade dyess to Ler is to be forwarded t Dow Sherwood sys he tels sured that ic ly intiuence Barl De wiley ‘Ths the Inet you will he: the purty i thuive by i from the While Pain on the » us well just heen be od What the obj whether it ute toot the nnders ciation ¥ preparing materials for the future historian of negro re Thus they tell ns, that trom 5,000 to 6.000 0 wve arvived in Canada daring whole number af rece taneunts to 30.000, which it know. They add that they collected a sum of the la t Lwo urse, it was peing an au- p up the so they enter nist” slay the United the Southert y in yn for had wers’ Greek slave aud connected it wientioned the heen taken to New Orlean whut ingeniously with the hearaeading degradation ofthat unhappy city. But I forbear. ti ing epidemic in Lower ¢ aine Liquor lew, it being pre rome infected pe from New York bas heen al- lowed to ent without quarantine. some- Mr. Cameron, th it of the Council, who has ypinions on teectotalism, is said to ieviously attacked; and other men in public stations bave shown syiptoms of the distemper. It was a godsend to th pWepaper editors, who have written some very conclusive and striking articles © subject. proving conclusively that liberty at hing. and that happiness can only be attained hy # perfect state of bondage. Meanwhile. the tem- perance societies have strick a vein by advertising » “trial of alcohol j A mock court st ip state, with a wheezy chief justice, and a very modest attorney general, who looked terribl when the counsel for the prosecution rose te ine, ‘The culprit was a hottle of brandy wassentenced to perpetual seein i sho his has taken prodigic ple. You may expect the exeitement to eubside when the spring thaw takes place. As ce to death—an unusual thing in Canada nt —wus rendered at the criminal term in Montreal. by Mr. Justice Aylwin, on Andrew Merville, tor the munler of his wife. The cri vs committed wader anged. Capital punishment is obsolete in Canada. the minntes | One of the speakers | The possession of Cohotaaaine | gmat: of Pena sho gradually has sunk down to o low level, and the ition she still holds in is more one of toleration by courtesy, than one of standing oeais igs poctaalh]- We is, poninaular a 3 her power — half continontal, half maritime—noither fish nor flesh. Asa continental nation, she dare not aspiro high; ase she cannot. Yet once #ho maritime, was both; but one colony waa wrenched from her grasp, and others she ld not keep. Sho clings now to tho few transatlantic ions still in ber jon, a8 a king who has lost his lands clings to the title of majesty. Since the last two years, the Spanish government has not drawn a single dollar from Cuba—the sur- plus of several millions usually seat home being now expended in the increased state of defonee rendcrod indispensable by ciroumstances—and there is no reasonable hope for any change for tho bettor. But although it does not derive any actual bonefit —a_ benefit only at least, of the trouble and anxiety occasion by adouble and divided adminis- tration—still Cuba enables Spain to make show of a vy. Itis the moans of gratifying hor pride—the very life-blood of her existenoe—ol being classed, though by courtesy, among maritime nations. Should Cuba be transferred to the United Statos, by revolution or purchase, England would immediately seize on Porto Rico and the Canaries, as security for money lent. Spain could not offer any opposition, but penere would even cone to be deburassé of the Philippine Islands, toe, if somebody should find it convenient to do her that service. Nothing is easier than to find capitalists to furnish the purchase money for Cuba. The patriotic plant- ers could very safuly promise. a hundred millions. ‘That would be such a cupital investment that even patriotic England would not hesitate to lend double the amount, secured on the revenues of Cuba—the result of slave labor. But the uation would not por- mit it, from pride, however advisable this stepwould be. Take away Cuba, and proud Gastile will be, in the eyes of France, vothing more than a neigh- bor—such as is Belgium—to be annexed on the first Hngland would considor her a mero munufactures; and the United the Alhambra of Grenada than they do now ¢ of the King of Bavarin—Lola Montes’ partieular friend. It is, therefore, improbable that Mr. Saunders, or anybody olse, could ever have got the cabinet of Ma- 1 toeniortain ihe idea of selling Cuba, for any rs may have made some blun is that American who, bein in at foreign country, that does net 1 however smart he y be al home. Spain did net want to outer at all inio any discus- | sion about it--she did not wish lo have that sore | tonched--and showed My. Sausders the cold shoul- don the slight put on a by the President, in nm the mediam of communication, x This may be a pi t : but L bave good v id My, Saunders so, who, de- ainistor by v F no upou himsel ed himself ne ng hin to prot. r Sta r { to sever the bonds that uy in, | to bo annexed (o a countey that al ah them en object of hatred, and on tiwuks to th ke, fostered by the and kepe up 3 odition, has now r tho first intimation of such s yermnent would be th y presenting the ple voluntarily fighting for + and scorning liberty and od branel of olive. ar, those who believe that the Creoles | are devirous of being amexed to the United are uot test misiaken. They certainly are too apwihedic lo love ox to hate anything; but they ment eid Me? proportions, | tention of the home | Bonwire.. asap: | yy ve fut ov could have felt’ any” sympathy that presents such a ‘ence of slonwige, religion and principles. ever held out any hopes to i ether with the es tn Cuba and his Chateaux d’ Es- vented itself in arhitrary perseontion of such ‘of the native population who ‘kept aloof oth from wavt of cour and sympathy; nor was the con- duet of his fellows calculated to jmpress them favor- ppolmtment, tu pone, ably will their fut : and so it hhappe thal hey became loyal with # veng i ainly ex ‘oung y now it bis merely written some h dirges of tyranny, and sonneis int sicad of spoechifying at their secret urce caves of riots apy others © they long for the hoom of i Be how ofie 1 Queen T hoxemeters a meters. That's all. musi nol be imagined that the inhubic and Spanish, are fatistivd wilh the he dev het the © Puey Allare vs that Cuba hould e ros of mt ¢ zed nution as does Spein: obable that these moderate and just demands will he denied, and, ere Jong. tlavaau wilisend her Deputy to the Cortex Cadiz aul Barcelona, sad the Captain-General will | 1 ture with # speech from the ne, invoking blessings on the head of the | worarch who made Cnba free, aud then let the | Libusteros”” do their worst. Vextras. Details of the Con iyo THOUSA of the Ob April Ly the h Yr ofa stove ina | the Chiton House. i BLN soon communicated with the wdthen to the building itself. fot that structure, five In ten swinutes th stories high, was en fire, a great distance. » Clinton, on Walnut street, ‘ght. and thenee the Sames spread rapidly int street, sweeping off every warehouse on the canal. north of Second street, and ail tire stabling. smoke houses, &c., in their rear, By two o'clock, eve in the square, hounded hy Wal int steets, and the can: and § every store and waroh | every with single and singy ilar & were inretrievebly lost, Still the | wind ble «and as the mpty (ihe wate drawn off tor repairs), the entire nerth the city, north of Secon urth of the taxable pro- luding all the bu a Warehouses, ited wcrose P . and sp ward to the Madeira, Hon st of Mulbe ling eastward and south that, of course, y street (two squares place the fire originated), about ¢ half ot the buildin though some were bury at the distance of four or five farlougs from the Clinton Honsecorner. The only houses lett stand. rth side rot O. HH. Holcomb, uew Catholic Chureh, lis'*. The whole population, women ac wellas yen, are worn ent with fatigue. Hy strenu- our and heroie exertions, the fire was preveuted from communicating iy building om the vouth side of | Second sticet. While “ Ross’ Block” was burning, | the heat on the opperite cermers (Woodbridge’s and Waddlell’s) was intense, aed the cornices, shutters, &o., were enly prevented frem catehiag, by painful and constent exertions. I+ ie impossible to arri ta correct estimate of the losses. Old Chilicothy = 2 = | improvement Fue Mitler, o0- cupant of the House, Allston’s, Jones's doomed distriot, were, with muoh of t! ‘contont reduced to ashes. Tho fire proven Rae “s canal north- wardly, and destroyed tho: buildi West é Co.. T. MoDougall’sdwel hing, and'30. “poly houses beside, whose ocoupante I have not positively asoertai . city will be ommaciens, to hoar that some buildi poy enstorn side of Bridge street _— cousumed. Singular as it may soem, early in tho fight the firemen were hastily driven from the best engine in the place, which was consumed where it stood. Much of the fire spears beside was con- sumed. With nothing to on for water supply but wells and cisterns, the best engines in the world could have done but little. The calamity with which this city has been visited is more severe, in proportion to the size of the place, than any similar visitation I recollect to have read of. The fire at Fayetteville, those of San Francisco, &c., were not a whit worse, relatively speaking. It would bo difficult to oxaggerate the effects of this fire on the present appearance and early future of our devoted city, by any pen and ink description. Fully sever cighths of the entire amount of merchandise this morning has gono to feed the flames. Our principal hotols are in ashes. The Advertiser printing office, st office, wholesale Lychee ishments, the Valley Bank, are among the things that were. N. Wilson, A. Spencer, T. Woodrow, Smart & MoFar- land, dry good storos, J. W. Morris’ drug store, and all the offices in Ross’ block, on Second street, are consumed. Tho Court House, county offices, United States Land Office, all the churches in the city, all the mills, Welsh’s large foundry, and some other important establishments (though some of thom re unscathed. THE LATEST ADVICES RecwVED AT THE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICH, Apnit. 10, 1863, Asapatoo, Mexics Adelaide, 8.Awi Aloxandcis, Bay Angostura, Vener’ Antigua, Hankok, 0 Bombay, ¥. 1) ‘orto Pi . Puerto Caboilo, Vou. Puata Arenas Camponchy, hiexivo,. Fa Capo Huytion, Hay tt, Mai 1.Feb. a Constantinople, Couracon, Domerncn, Br. a Wy Santa Cov $ Santa Fe, anta Mart Wi ovta Risa, 2 Crba Hayre, France, ... Hobart Town, V.D. long Kon: ono tal dacmel, f Portugal. . nb, We Le, Kingst ‘ Laguayra,Vencaucia, Mar. 10 Tags exis Jan. 18 Tal 8.1 Liverpool. . ‘Talealnana, London Moxie Madei ‘ahasor Trinidad de Cul % Truxillo, Hendar Turks Islan Vaiparnis: Vera Cruz, am p Manzanillo, Cu Maracaibo,’ Ve ‘Mesiqua, CITY TRADE REPORT. Fripay. April 9—6 P.M. Asnrs.—There havo been 100 bbls. pots and pearls bought, at $5 061¢ and $6 57!;—the former rates, Brvswa bo buyers ai 260. a 264e., eash. Breavsrvrrs—Flour did not vary much, the da: sules having reached 6,700 bbls.—common to al $4 259 $4 56, S41 874:. foncy Genesee and Ohio, at $4 93% a $: extra Ohio. at $5.25 a $5 5614; and extra Genesee. }. Nothing of moment was done in r Wheat tended downwards—I r¢ 00 bushels mixed. yellow, Southern precured. at 65e. a 6 7 bushels rye were obtained Loats have not var mand per Ib. Nothing occurred in anthracite or orre ool cannel were ta ab Oh) aise.; 1.000 Lagu Demingo, at 744 a Se. Market em, a 22), ensh. pe geese W a 406, per Ib, Liverpol. about engaged at 00 bales of cotton. compressed, wer was offered at G-I6d.. and refu €d, About 20,000 a 20,060 yesterday aval Co-day. at tl a Londen, Nour was going forward al . To ‘To Havre, | cotton Was being enzaged at }.d.; pot ashos, at $6; and Tiee anti hy 28. 'To California rates were dull, atd5e, a 006. Fren.~-We heard th Ket at $55.05; aud 000 1) ---Some (O00 hoxes M 5; 240 halfdo,, at b onde, tid, at Jay, —River was abundant and lan; 100 1) Heotr,—About 0 ules Amerigan undressed chil ends at 3215, ustial credit Inox.—There were a8 tons Scotch pi Demand light, 1s.—Eae ern appeared rt 21235 per M 55.4 G0e, per bought at $21, more plentiful amd less tor Spanish 8 $4.75 por 100 tbe 000 bbls. Rockkend common. reduetion, lo feteher sand hela at $3 A rosin at Ph 25 1 , (now in N. re adlevwar refused for une \ nts asked Provisions presented no new feature of am interesting cheracter—the trawsiction® comprising 650 bbly, new meee, und new moss pork at $16 i phew, extra shoulders and hame HO DIS. grease amd prime lard a and 200 bbls, prime and mese beef at $5), Y & $124, respectivel t tix d “1.100 tierces hove Sper 100 thm. the previons figures, Skoan los of 73.000 German have been made at 56, usual time —Included in the day's operations were 200 priton whiskey wt Yice, # Zhe; and 1.400 do (F, & D.) Obie, Ze, per gallon, cash. Demand br 5.100 Orleans at 4 je. Market unchanged. and 109 exes, on obtained, in part at S. per | les this weex, blood Merino. af d2e. a 40¢,; 10,000 ibs. eupey. and extrin pulled. Gse,, @ S0e.. cash; 14,000 Ibs. unwashed Spanish, price not transpired, and 4 smal lot unwashed Smyrna, at 11),c., six months. Conjecture ie rife se to the prospects of the rummer's Musiness, Manufacturing hue incrcaccd In this country. but in « fax geeater ratio bas wock growing. The very bigh pri the two last years have induced fu in all sections of country to em- hark In the business It is bovdly unsaie to «ay the coniing clip will not fall far short of 100,000,000 Mos, All appesr to Le of opinion that prices will be much low and at present theve is wo desire to speeulare, fecturers purchase very sparingly crits oF PRODUCY 2 bhi, flour, 4.800 bushels 5.600 bushels bav- cash. Supply linaited. Ty Nontn Riven oats, WO casks ashe ley. 68 bbL beef, 20 bbb Br FE pack! and utter. 59 bbls, corn meal, 3, lex leather. IMPORTATIONS OF THE WHEE ENDING OTH INET Pyrac casks, Coat Corre Cocoa=-87 bbls, cocon shells. 12 caves 114 prokaye i y Raltic, WM per Afrien, ise, | por Marion, 1,050 naga sumac. ar; 10 bbls, conna: 110 tone; 9 half bbls, co » casks cal soda; 23 bbis, pavias 1 sal arnmonia; camomile Howers > WOxeSs Oranges; 6,690 loose do.; 2,088 lemons; 1.000 pineapples; 62,000 coeon nuts; 1,800 bunches bananas; 100 begs ants; 560 bbls, plums Frax—64 bales, H—408 kogs 2 bbls. herring © wr 1.0 boxes. Gust Clore ane Baos—219 Wales clots, 100 buadlos bags. Howse 33 bbba. BT TEIEEEEESS SSS PPP PP P PZ 1,000 Ibs. American yellow found | Cgh Yn ved Southern, at $4 1834 a $4 3745; ordinary to choice State, mixed and faney Western, at $450 a flour or bushels «l fetching but 9%e ; as did also corn, of which 1 and white Some 5.000 Bar- ern were freely dealt In, ai $4.0 $4.25 patent «perm were in slow request. sh. Old aud new sheathing were briskly enquired | erm, seemed searce and noe | vhds, Mascovuda disposed , Some 100 teres prime city rendered were | 1.000 The. quarter to full | Manu. | packages | Ss Hiprs—1,735 hides, 830 Bulfalo hides. § bales 40, 80 baise JuTe—300 halen jute. Inow—11451 bars raiiread iron, 11.15% bere, Lint bundles. 607 tons pig, 200 bundles boop, 225 strips Leatien—12 casks akivors. Lean—000 pig a lead. Dimra1—100 oases sheathing Morsssce—O43 hhds., 150 tierces, 11 blols Marrinc—S 449 rolls Ou—t11 bbls. Prasren—160 tons, Provisions—1® casks German hame Paixt—100 bbla, colors, 25 oaaks Apanish brown, 1 bbls. drop black, bbls, blackLoad. Katrans—856 buniles, Brice 22600 mate cassia, 1.000 bones, 99 vagn ginger, Picks—! onaaia, 1 | Ke, . 8.315 picules pepper, 2 bids. nutmogs . Sexp—L, linseed Svaar—1.746 bhds, 2,709 boxoe Sicans—158 casos, 1.708 boxas, 24 quarters, 2 bhis Saxt—7,000 bushels, 1,500 sacks. Aurreric—1,700 bags. Sr 04 pipes iid canks gia; 1,21 4 inal, pinrxs—134 piped, 112 casks gin; 1,211 pipas, 7 546 gre. 30 bbls, brandy; 6) punchoens ram : ‘Vin—2,650 boxes tin plates. | Sieicce bales, 'va—49,491 packages tea rere ee : ivx—314 bhds., 84 half, 190 gear’ 138 810 barkets. pesieaiaris Woot—5b baloa woollen waste Winvow (1.4s¢—2,080 oases German. Zixo—SA casks. COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. Gornectzo Weonasay, Arai 7, vox tae New Yona rare, NEW YORE MARKMT, Duties payable in cash. Goods stored to Se sold at public auction at the end af one year, ‘The tn in all casce to be 2,240 ASHES— Pot por 100 1bs. 5 064(a P os. O25 ®: | HAY, 109 ths.— S124) North Kivor...,—95 a— 60 os EMP — | Ruseia,cla,ton 210 — 936 Do. outshos, 1 — Am, dow rot'd..105— alle Do. wator do.185— al Manille, tb, a 10% Sisal. 10 9 — HADES AND SKINS— Rio J. & B. Ayr— 18% a— 1d Oronoco, 4 BEESWA Yellow, per ib. — 26 a— 263g CANDLE: ‘Tallow anl'd,1b —0 i a i Door, winter —19a~ 1B | a i {| Dear, shaved. 1s HORNS— Ox, por 100... iors St. nro CORDAG American, prlb.— Bengal | se’ " ' 4 tai 16 ol® | Mcatsmix tog 4 ol, ok les, Ib— 22 a— 25 middle 2k a— 23 hoavy.— 21 dy bido— 16 D i Eng’b olf, rough vi ME Rookland, o'sk, Lhe LIQUORS— Brandy JJ Da- Do.N. E | Gin, How Do. 3 = ie 1% 11h bis io “a 84 | Do. Port. 5 | Maing, dry. 2" | Do. sweot. Brown dril'n Sutff, col; Kent’y Jeni face Jopper S Sheathing, Bolta,.. s ¢ Tron,Se pig, tow.20 — Amoricay, do.3t— ‘Am, common 19 — Ambar... . English bar. 34 — Norway bur. 196 — Russian do. ..87 50 Do. and up- = Sheet E&Am— 3 a— 3! Ross sheot.. .— 1 a— Boiler plate-— 4 a— Lend, pix, owt. 445 Alum, ‘Aloes, € Sheet 4 stimony, § rgsincet hi Steel, Germaa,— aud gray <|, do.” English, Argolsr'dX Banca ow! A Bolsam ¢ auisauan 'T » mus— 19 sweet—I7 srim'er, pr tos Borax,rol, tin Camphor Sp. Terpt } Camph Varnish, | Conch s Carbo i | Content, Mex— ineal, Hon- Cop'ras 11001 Do., Am Klivge— 41g Sp.ben, dry ewt— 75 Do. eernd in vil— 4 Paris, white, ..— — + Am: por 100.. 1 — Do. white Eng, Whiting, Aim, i — “balk, per ton. 175 an China. 125 OV, . do. Ohio . ‘ Man tal — 19 “n— I Li — 6 ; Madder, Ombro— Siya— 10° 287 qa 2 62he Madder, Ke... 15 6 RAGS— Legh'n, No8,1,1b- . Trieste, 8.2. & RICE, 1001 Ns SALT: Tusks Island..—19 a—20 Liverpool, sack— 90 ‘seeps Oil; Pep.(eash) Opium, ‘Turkey Ags Rowe, o7.. 450 Pink Root, wit Bat | Sersap'la, Hon. i} Pri Bindi! ‘ w Sn'ke Root, Vir— Ud | SoduAchoO pene, Diya— 2 Sugar Lead Ps ae Ae | Tart need Lont— ‘| Manuf'd No, 1 ° | de. midalli { | Cavendish Noim 25 | do. com, to mit 9 Wool | Am. Saxony, ..— 42 do. Merino 1co— 38 mM | Smyrna. | South A Mexican, win Woo hs— | American, FRUIT