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a celety and Politics in Washirgton—No. 15. Wasurneton, D. C., April 7, 1854. To Jamzs Gorpon Benverr, Esq. J. Shillington, Esq., who commenced his career {n Washington by retailing Heraxps at the capital, * «nd has propelled his way up until he has become he leading bookseller in Washington, transmitted 4 Yo me tonight a handsome bound copy of Shaks- peare. I have placed it upon the table, where alfeady reposes a copy of the Bible, the only book Ihave thus far found it necessary to travel with, and which my wife stowed away in my carpet bag when I left Green Valley, New Hampshire, to come to this delightful town. The presence of the Bible has given a pious turn to most of the letters which T have written to the Heratp. € Shakspeare, from my casual reading of his book, 3 since dinner, appears to have been a man who was : pretty well posted up for the ignorant, telegraphic- p Jess time in which he lived. Had he have been per- = mitted to have held over a few half centuries, and 4 delayed his entreé into the world until the age ¢ Which produced such an illustrious trio as Franklin § Pierce, John W. Forney, and Sam Green, Jr., we € then could have instructed Shakspeare. Some of ‘Bhakepeare’s remarks, however, will apply very well to our era, including this week especially. His ideas of fighting out a quarrel are not bad. He had a friend named Touchstone, who had a quarrel upon seven causes, and then he and his opponent met and separated. We can beat Shakspeare’s time, for two of our friends have had a quarrel, but they made up on fifteen causes—eight more than Touchstone and his opponent. But I will give you Shakspeare’s version, and then I will give you that of Sam Green, Jr. Touchstone says: “I did dislike the cut of a cer- =tain courtier’s beard; he sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was. This is called the retort courteous. If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself. This is called the quip modest. If again it was not well cut, he tedisabled my judgment. This is called the rep’y churlish. Tf again it was not well cut, he would an- lswer I spoke not true. This is called the reproof aa waliant. If again it was not well cut, he would say ofl lie. This is called the counter-check quarrelsome, ‘and so the lie circumstantial, and so the lie direct.” Jaques—“ And how oft did you say his beard was Li not well cut” ca Touchstone—“ I durst go no further than the lie ive ‘circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the lie di- Clrect, and so we measured swords and parted.” 3 Jacques—‘Can you nominate in order now the adegrees of the lie?” Ki Touchstone—“Oh, sir, we quarrel in print, by the z I will name you the degrees. The first, the paretort courteous; the second, the quip modest; the Pithird, the reply churlish; the fourth, the reproof trvaliant; the fifth, the counter-check quarrelsome; Fe he sixth, the lie with circumstances; the seventh, Fathe lie direct. All these you may avoid but the lie ‘direct, and you may avoid that, too, with an if. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quar- rel, but when the parties were met themselves one prof them thought but of an #f, as, if you said so, then ‘I said sc—and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your if is the only peace maker. Much virtue in if.” ‘Toconvince you that old Shakspeare was sensiblé as | ell ascorrect, I can only say that Breckenridge | t nd Cutting would have both been killed and buried | if—thus you see—if—if they had not made up on | she fifteenth cauge. Therehas been a tremendous ritime here. President Pierce set Breckenridge at Cutting, and consequently felt so interested that he ' got me to go and see about it. He gave me a letter isto Col. Monroe, a relation of his—that is, Col. Mon- firoe being a nephew of a former President, of course, Sgpolitically speaking, he isa sort of grand-nephew of President Pierce. I went to Jim’s room, (Cut- : ting called the Colonel Jim,and I suppose I must fol- | LE suit,) and he me to assist. I didn’t have fenuch to do with the principals, as they were too | fe busy keeping out of the way—running ‘from pillar | © post, off to Baltimore—then over into Jo Gale’s ods—then down to Alexandria— George. own in a canal, a Sa wT baa ‘= Sassi I read the documents.” There were fifteen letters, and they made a and parted on the fifteenth letter, Touchstone did on the seventh. The firat docu- ment was a letter from Mr. Cutting to Mr. Brecken- age, tellin, oy that he had given him the counter- qurarelscme, which was Touchstone’s fifth cause pfa quarrel. To which Mr. B. made response that could not withdraw the charge until the canse removed. This reached the sixth, or lie circum:tan- Mr. Cutting then nded in a manuer that | prould have ended the whole matter #f the second— | (pol. Hawkins—had delivered it. Then there were Hots of letters about weapons, and terrible disputes fhmong the friends and seconds. Breckenridge was Mleath on rifles at sixty paces, and Cutting could kill fe mosquito at ten paces. Gen. Shields said a rifle bras a murderous weapon. At last, when the causes had reached No. 15, the parties got back again to [No. 5—the lie circumstantial—and then they got {among the 7fs, and it all ended pleasantly. fir. Breckenridge was satisfied, and so was Mr. Cutting, b L rho had as live fight as eat if necessary. Brecken- age felt ash: that he had been made a catspaw Gen. Pierce to poke Cutting into his grave, nd Cutting was quite glad to be left alive to kill pff the administration instead of Breckenridge, who had done him no harm. Shooting Northern anti- lavery members by Southern members is not a pusiffess likely to pay in the long run. I, of course, eported every day’s proceedings to Frank, but he Hidn’t like it when I told him the contents of No. 6, and that the parties had got back to the lie cir- pumstantial. When this affair was all settled, it would have one the parties’ hearts good to have heard the com- nents of the small private crowd that was assem- bled around one of the President’s grates. There the President, seated by the table, with his legs rossed, and looking real pretty. to him was Pierce Butler, who lives and sleeps in the White House—has a room in it when he is here. There s Capt. Magruder, who is one of our chaps, and pid Webster. “ Well, I thought Breckenridge would back down. he is a real coward,” Frank. “Yes, so I thought. He is a terrible coward,” id Forney. “No, no—he is no coward ; I don’t mean that by ny means; on the contrary, I know Breckenrid, o be as brave as a lion, and there is no back out hat breed. I meant Cutting,” said the President. “Oh, yes, of course, I understood you perfectly ell. Breckenridge will tnd his way bedi gt a ousand bayonets, but Cutting I knew would show white feather,” chimed in — “No, Forney, I don’t agree with you. Cutting ib game ; he will there is any pie interference of the miserable seconds,” said the esident “T always told yon, Mr. President, that Cutting brave. I saw him lick a commodore in his own once. If there has been no fight, it’s the conds that are to blame, as you rightly observed, ral,” echoed Forney. to take Sam and do “Now, Forney, I want hat I told you,” said the President. Col. Forney. ; p, a1. d beckoned me to follow him into Sid vel room, at the extreme end of the building. Vhen we reached it he asked me to take a seat he, “Mr. Green, I have a great respect as well I, quite suspicious!: regard for you.” “Thank you,” say and I eyeing him, while he continued : “ Presi- tells me that he bas persuaded you not to leave n the lst of April, as you propose doing, but that have to remain, provided you can get hto employment, and that you pre- “The lent is right. I am willing to stay rovided I can get a sit sstianas] ain kore ome nt employment—and rye nin bs it in con- c @ newspaper. I won’ at any mean tustion, such as holding office or being interested contracts or plunder. If I stay I want to do all n the equare, and above board.” “Of course, certainly; perfectly right and proper. can give you just what you require.” “ You !” “«Yes,me. I'll tell you what it is ve bit for ve a quiet whist party at my house to-night, and nk—I mean the President—is to be there; and I ould Hs to tell him that you are suited. It would im. “ Well, out with it. What is the situation?” “You may have heard that I am going to edit the Enicn newspaper, the government organ?” “Indeed!” “Ye, Frank—that is to say, the President—has nére :onfidence in me than in any one else, and he nme to get rid of those infernal beasts at the het end of the town, who envy me my position ‘the President, and take charge of the Union; ind] am ig to do it. Now, then, I want an as- hat is all very: fine, but if Tstay here I “Th is Ine, but ere I must for the Hunan.” a pty. Of course you will. Just what we r you, and tell what to write to pake Yur rs amusin, can post you all about ings.and make your letters more spicy than ever. if youare on the "Union with me you can do any- tht in & moment, at any odds, out at all, it has been done by | thing you like up at the White House. I think you have a son, have you not?’s “Yes, I have; and a fine fellow he is.” “How mous ye like to have him get » midship- man’s warrant! Ble IY, be ip nly a Tt Lib OF & He is only ree years old. That don't make any difference. The warrant Preside « —_—e eign it rite once, ratte lent, I me: a show you what I rs do. z dozen Senators could of uch for in a year.’ metgpen pod ‘word, fone Forney! I am a little come to p—if you—— x By Baio ghey Consider our gon a midship- man. What's his first name? Henry, you say. [ have it down. Now will you goon the Union?” “Well, I don’t see any 0] ion; but tell me what you are going to give, and what I am to do?” “Will fifteen dollars a week do for the first year.” “Don't say any more. But what am I to do?” “Fond of reading newspapers?” “Extremely so.” “Very well, then. To edit the great leading news- aper of the country—the organ of the administra- ion—it is necessary to guide and direct all the other administration papers of the country.” “Yes, sir, [see that. Keep ‘em in the harness.” “Harness is good, Mr. Green, extremely good. But it is necessary to know whether they wear the harness and draw. Now, I will furnish you with the list of all the eee democratic newspapers in the count®y, and you will have to read their articles ev- oF we When we have an article in the Union telling the party what we are going to do—that is, if the Union, in its leader, says that Nebraska is a car- dinal measure—you must watch all the exchanges, and see if they say so too.” “Yes, I understand.” “If they don’t, make a note of that fact.” “Tf we Cr cso is, the President, me and you and the rest of us in the Union—drop Nebraska, and go for Cuba, it will be your duty to see that they draw with us. D—n it, if we ‘say black is white, or vice versa, they must do it two, or spi ‘em. “What does that mean?” “You will see what it means when we catch a arty paper bolting from the track. As soon as w ost it the President will send for the democrati Senator, or some of the members of the House, from. the State where the refractory paper is published and it will be the member's duty to whip that pape into line.” “And is that all I have to do?” “Pretty much.” “Look here, Colonel; how do I know you will keep faith with me, if I make anarrangement with you? “Did I ever break my word with any one? “They kind o’ talk that way down to the National They say that a party of chaps from New York— George Glasier, Dick Connolly, Charley Baker, anda few other of your friends—came on and made a con- tract with you for stationery, and that when they had ot all their contracts on here, after having had’ per- fect understanding with you, that you fiung the whole things on their Sands; and they will lose some thousands.” e “Pooh, pooh! Mr. Green. When you can catch shads let the herrings go. Don’t bother with them. Thad to do it. The House contract got talked about, and I let it slide. They must do the best they can. But I must be off. What are you going to do?” “Well, I think I'll try editing the Union, for a at least.” Mii d bye, and let’s get out of this house as soon as possible.” ‘ nd we left together and chatted merrily through the grounds. I came wp as far as Fourteenth street with the Colonel, and then we parted. . Tue Man wor Nominatep Frank Prerce. Gautemala—Honduras. Wasurnaton, March $1, 1854. ‘70 THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. Sir—Your paper is anti-American and reactionary in its policy. Youare the apologist of every government, particularly if monarchical, that may happen to insult and wrong our own. You may claim to be conservative; but you are not so. Aman must be for or against his country—there is no intermediate ground. Whenever he | pauses to give weight to the charges brought against his country by her enemies, and listens to lame apologies for the dishonor of her flag, he that moment becomes a traitor, and, in the eyes of every patriot, he is guilty of an overt act when he publishes to the world the emana- tions of his treason against her rights and honor, Your course, sir, in all matters of dispute with foreign powers, has been universally against your country. What apo- logy can you give for the line of conduct you pursued, ind are still pursuing, in the case of the recent outrage Spain and the monarchists of Europe, and the secre enemy of all democratic and free institutions? You course, sir, is not only antagonistic to democracy in our own country, but everywhere. Indeed, you seem to ex hibit the firet symptoms of monomania on the “divin right of kings.’ ? Look at your own articles against the republic of Hon duras, the last refuge of liberty and democracy in Centra’ America. Honduras, with liberal and democratic princi- ples, is battling alone against the threats and encroach- ments of England and Guatemala. She has to contend alone against the secret power of the priests, and the im perial influence of Santa Anna’s minions in the other States. She occupies the high position of being the last home of outraged democracy and free pringiples in the Hispeno-American governments north of New Granada. She is the city of refuge for the persecuted friends of freedom in the South. She is striving to preserve her nationality and her integrity free from the stains of “servilism” and the chains of monarchy. She com- mands the moral sympathy of the friends of freedom throughout the globe. Her very position demands it of us asa right. If the ‘Monroe doctrine” is to be carried out, we should not only yield Honduras our sympathy, but’we should give her “ materialaid.” She occupies the ition of Poland in the last century, and Hungary in present—striving to preserve her liberty and integrity among nations hostile to her institutions and encroaching upon her territory. No man, sir, but a tyrant at heart, anda traitor to liberty, could refuse to yield her that sympathy which the nobility, greatness, and justice of her cause demand. And you, sir, instead of yielding her that sympathy, assume grounds against her, takes course not only antagonistic to her rights, but against liberal institutions in Central America. You publish broadcast the slanders of some lame apologist of Guatemala and monarchy, who writes for your paper over the signatare of “N.Y Did “N.”? write’ that article of his own free will and accort or did not you request him to do it, in order to bolster up the editorial slanders which appeared inst Honduras in your paper of the 13th February? Well, sir, it matters ‘ot, for the “truth of history can be vindicated”? either against you. or an, acribbler. jal article of the 13th ” anonymous And I will now Lage’ toshow that your edi- ult., and the communication of f the 16th instant, are base slanders upon Hon- duras, and miserably lame apologies for the serviles and monarchists of Guatemala, and that they give encourage- ment to Santa Anna and the encroachments of Great Britain; that they are wholly anti-American and anti- democratic in their tendencies and character. But first, I will let you know who I am not. Tam not a member of any slibastering company or par- ty. Ido not belong to the Cuban ‘‘Junta;’’ I neither be- Tong to the “Lone Star” order, nor the order of the “Oural Owls.” Iam not railroad contractor in Hon- auras, nor do Town any stock in the railroad proposed from Punta Cavallo to the great bay of Fonseca. Iam sorry for it, for it is the best route for a railroad across the continent from Cape Horn to the Arctic Ocean, and through the best country. Ido not know any of thecon- tracting parties to said railroad, or a solitary stockholder in the concern. I am not influenced by pay or pecuniary interest, as some of the corps editorial may be; but I am Induenced only by a desire to, seo the triumph of free rineiples. Tam well acquainted with Central America. am liar with tl wa and institutions, and with public opinion, in the several States. I know their soil, climate, productions and natural resources, as well as their people. I know that there is a servile, monarchical spirit which pervades every State except Honduras, and which is growing in strength. I know that there is a settled hatred of everything American—of our people, laws and institutions—in every State exept Honduras; and I know that among her mountains alone is the pal- ladium of Central American liberty, and that its only protectors are her brave and hardy sons. They need our moral support and sympathy, and they must have it. I will now, sir, proceeed to notice the article of your correspondent: He asserts that the ‘‘question of territo- rial limits betweon the two States of Guatemala and Hon duras is as old as their separate independence. The pro- pe: lines of demarcation have never been agreed upon, and unfortunately, to this day, they are still the subjects of dispute between them.” Whose fault is it, that this question has not been amicably settled? It ia the fault of Guatemala alone, who by her continual encroachments and uniform demand for what was not right, has driven Honduras from a settlement of the question. The ques- tion had to remain unsettled, or Honduras had to sur- tori ON, render her territory to the arrogant and unprincipled demands of the savage Carrera. The boundaries of Hon- duras were marked and known prior to the royal ordi- nance of intendents of 1786, and Honduras has uniformly adh-red to her ancient limits. On the other hand, Gua- temala claimed beyond the ancient boundaries, and beyond the boundaries under the ordinance of 1786. This unfounded claim included a considerable extent of fertile country, extending across the whole northern border Honduras. By the treaty stipulations of 1845 the boundaries were to be settled according to the articles therein contained. overnments met at The Commissioners of the two pinnae! 9 gi The Commissioners of Guatemala were ar- rogant in their demands, and claimed that the diocesan boundary of 1786 extended further south than the line insisted upon by the Commissioners of Honduras. The Guatemalan Commissioners would not act outside of the thirteenth article of the treaty, which stipulated the diocesan boundary; they would not act under the eighth article of the treaty, which provided for reference and arbitration in case of disagreement, What courag was then left for the Commissioners of Honduras to pursue? The requirements of the Guate- malan Commissioners were unyielding under the thir- teenth article of the treaty; they held that they were guy limited to its provisions, and, consequently, would not negotiate under the eighth article. Under these circumstances the Commis: of Honduras could do nothing else with honor than to withdraw from the conference, which they did on the 24th of October, 1847. Who was to blame in this? Not the Commis. sioners of Honduras, certainly, who calmly itsisted on their rights, but the Commissioners of Guatemala, who limited their arbitrary action to one article only of the , treaty, thus clearly showing that they did not wish an sajustment of the matters in dispute. No; the tyrant Carrera, with his hands yet reeking in the best blood of Central America, was meditating a blow at Honduras with his barvarian soldiers. The career of Carrera commenced in slaughter. He was the ignorant and blood-thirsty leader in a war of castes the whites and foreigners—far more bloody and successful than that of Yucatan, when the whites received all our sympathies. He rose to power by murder. He crushed the State of Los Altos by butcher- ingin cold blood the City CounciPund officers of Quesal- tenango. ‘The pathway of his barbarian ambition was marked with slaughter. His government to-day is more despotic than that of Louis Napoleon or the Czar. He rules by the sword. He controls the Assembly by the bayonet. Once a member of that Assembly spoke of the power of public opinion. Carrera was present, but said jing. He immediately left the hall, and returned armed with his myrmidons, who filled the house and surrounded the doors and windows with their glittering bayonets pointed at the affrighted members. ‘‘ Now,’ id Carrera, in derision, ‘‘ where is the force of your public opinion? While I have these armed Indians control it.’’ This is characteristic of the monster. His murders, outrages, and confiscations are unprecedented in the annals of crime. The murderer of Hugo Bassi wasa saint to him. Yet every tyrant has an apologist. Napoleon has one in the fulsome Abbot, and Currera one in the prory ‘N." and the editors of the Intelligencer. It ix true that Honduras and Salvador invaded Guate- mala in 1851; but it was for just and righteous causes— for repeated insults and aggressions, and acts of the most despotic tyranny, And it is not true that Guatemala had no notice of the invasion or warlike preparations against her. It is enough to refute this to show that the battle field of Arada, where Carrera met the invading force on the 24 February, is on the frontier of Guate- mala. There he met them with the whole regular force of the country; and owing to a want of concert of ac- tion between the forces of Honduras and Salvador, they were defeated. The only stand made was by the troops of Honduras, who were inferior in number and disci- pline to those of Carrera; besides, Carrera had a heavy field battery, and outnumbered the Hondurenos both in men and guns It is a well-known fact that the troops of Honduras are the best and bravest in Central America; and when well officered and disciplined, those of Guate- mala have never been able to stand against them. Hon- duras produced Morazan, almost the erly great and good man of whom Central America can boast. He was uni- yereally victorious with his countrymen and the people of Salvador, for more than ten years. Subsequent to the affair of Arada, constantly asserting her claims, and protesting against the encroachments of Guatemala. There was a gacetle war kept up on the subject of boundaries, and crimina- tion and recrimination proceeded from the presses of both Guatemala and Honduras until November, 1852. At that time the government of Guatemala made a most unwarrantable and unfounded complaint against Hon- duras, That government was seeking a casus belli, and it felsely and fraudulently made one. Honduras was accured of being the aaylam of “lawless marauders” — ‘that ehe encouraged “illegal organizations for the pur- pore of making horrible inroads” into the territory of Guatemala. This was a false accusation. It was de- signed as a blow against the free institutions of Hon- durag, denying her the right of becoming the protector of those free and liberal spirits who were driven by bar- barian tyranny toseek an asylum among the people of Honduras. Honduras was, and is, the refuge of political offenders if those who favor free and enlightened institutions be called offenders. She never aiforded shelter to the criminal—to marauders and violators of the laws, who Honduras kept Increase of the Navy. SPEECH OF THE HON. CALEB LYON, OF LYONSDALE, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON THE SIX STEAM FRIGATE BILL. ‘Mx. Cuamman—After the able advocacy and admira- ble exposition ta ag te y, ay feiend, ee pablo man from Virginia, (Mr. Bocock,) I feel great nce in its consideration. Having the distin- d honor to represent in _part the icultural and onmmesl eres oan of, the pire bg a celing knowledge portancé shall make me its fearless, shen beni champion. We live in sti we live in thatera of the world whose sul was never dreamed of by Plato— hose tion revelled only in the model re- ublic of an Arcadian valley—whose lawa were those of eat national improve. ‘the eee thie teckeked the Metis floatin, armed galleys w! ¢ liber of Athens. . His was a eager ideality, a shadow, a fiction—ours is the actuality, the substance, the fact. Sir, look around you—you behold a republic peopled by happy millions, cradled between two mighty oceans, veined by navigable rivers, perved by wondrous rail: roads? enriched by sands bogey than those of Pactolus, a soil exbaustless in fertility, and produetions vieing with the fabled gardens of Hesperides, while the true patriot discovers a Minerva in every school madam; & Prometheus in Franklin, and a Mercury in Morse. The | wisdom of our fathers lit from above, has developed for us what so long baffled the alchymists of yore—tho veri- table yphilosopher’s stone—‘the pearl eg “Self Government.’? Lord Bolinbroke’s fhest idea of human liberty was that of « patriot king, whose or Kai who is seeking, the fame of philanthropy among icel of the North. The navy has always upheld, in stainless glory, the honor of count since the days of Paul Jones, Bainbridge, Perry, and D catur; and only last year we beheld in the harbor of Smyrna—the rth place of bey i Ingraham achieving a triumph more glorious than that recorded of Homer's heroes. The able and patriotic recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy for a thorough personal Teorganization, upon a proper basis, will ren jud cious iacrease I advocate still more effective. Believi in am economical administration of the government, 1 shall never deem that public treasure squanered which is spent in the protection of tho rights and property of the people, rendering them doubly secure in peace and invineiple in war. Believing with the great poet, ‘that the nation who wisely wields thy trident, 0! Neptune alone is arbiter of the empire of the world.” Affairs Washington. [Correspondence of the Detroit Free Press. } Wasmixatox, March 29, 1854. The Case of Caplain Gibson—The Mexican Consul in New York—The Ramsey Route. Despatches recently received from August Belmont, our minister at the Hague, indicate that the negotiation in regard to the indemnity demanded of the Dutch go- vernment by Capt. Gibson, of the American vessel Flirt, | for the loss of his property, and his imprisonment at | Batavia, are nearly closed. It is probable that the in- | demnity will be granted. I understand that Capt. Gibson ig preparing a narrative of his exciting adven tures in the Dutch East Indies, and that it will be pub- lished some time in May next,’ under the title of “The Prisoner of Meltreveden.” ‘It will doubtless prove « great aim should be the happiness of his people; but the Sorld bas seen its thousand Lings, while {ts patciots have | been like angels’ visits, Aside from theories, national | respect is only won by a prompt vindication of national honor. But what is our state at the present time? Since | the promulgation of the following sentiment by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic in his inaugural, “that upon every sea.and upon every soil, American citizenship is an inviolable panoply for the security of American | rights,” we find committed outrages, depredations, and insults. Sir, was this meant to be a flourish of fancy }—an empty though brilliant period? Or shall we not write it in blood, if it need be, upon the escutcheon of that nation who dares to violate it,.as a sacred prin- ciple akin to constitutional liberty?” Citizens of the | United States have been imprisoned, their property de- | stroyed, their persons insulte/, in almost every country in the world, The files of the State Departinent are caning with complaints. The cases of Gibson in Java, flichmond in Avetria, and also those of Hamburg, and Obili; and last, though not least, the infamous Warrior outrage in Cuba—with not ‘a solitary ve war in readiness to send to resent wanton aggression. Is this the security of American rights? Cuba should have been taken, sir, aud satisfaction demanded afterwards, The remedy Iles ina prompt increase of the navy. Ths | American people are tired of “words, words, words.” ‘They want acts; and upon Congress will fall the consare if the means are not given to the government to carry out the patriotic declaration of the Chief Magistrate in spirit and in truth. Why, in a time of actual war it would take all the vessels we have to guard the mouths of baysand rivers, to prevent the enemy ascending and burning our towns and devastating our country. It can- not be forgotten that this city was burnt in the lst war e President narrowly escaped being made a prisoner. Had 2 few thousands been appropriated in time, it would have saved millions; and we should not have the descendants of those who lost their all besieging with just claims Congress for spoliations righteously due them. Would entlemen of the committee like those scenes renewed ? , ples Zz are the associates of Carrera and his Ministers. Hon- duras has sheltered and protected those who fled from the savage tyranny and misrule of Carrera because they had the manliness to, espouse democracy. Has she dono more than the United States has always done? Has not our country been founded and built up by those who fled | from oppression, to seek freedom on our shores? Do we not now shelter every political refugee from Europe ? Who are Mitchel, Meagher, Martin Koseta, and hosts of others? And yet the apologist tools of tyrants, like the editors of the Intelligencer, would deny Honduras this right—a right born in the heart of democracy and sacred to freedom. “N.”” has erroneously stated that a party of marauders, recruited and armed in Honduras, attacked and pil the town of Gualan, in Guatemala, more than two months previous to the accusations of Guatemala against Honduras. Now, if Gualan was attacked and taken by banditti, it was banditti from Guatemala, and not from Honduras. Honduras knew nothing of such lawless characters: neither her people nor her government coun- tenanced them. In fact, the banditti were ‘men in buckram,’’ got up by Guatemals as a pretext for the in- vasion of Honduras. ‘This banditti in buckram were dispersed—no person in Honduras ever saw them; but the soldiers of Carrera followed their phantoms across the Honduras line, en- tered thg rich district of Copar, destroying everything before them—shooting and butchering unarmed and de- fenceless men quietly at work on their plantations, and insulting and ravishing women and children, No army of Goths or Vandals which swept down from the North, on the beautiful plains of Southern Europe, ever com: mitted such depredations ; and yet you, sir, as the edi- tor ofa public journal, openly sanction such atrocities, by publishing an article like that of ‘N.,”’ and by up: holding the barbarous conduct of Guatemala, This wanton invasion arqused the Hondurenos to arms. The brave and liberal Cabanas—the friend and compan- ion of Morazan—was at the head of affairs. He gathered an army to avenge the wrongs committed by Carrera’s rovea LOW ard, marched to mect dem witha Pull ‘organized army, and afine train of field artillery. No hostilities, however, took place at that time. ‘The diplomatic correspondence which ensued between the two governments was based entirely upon the fale charges of Guatemala and her wanton aggressions. long array of facts, showing their wrongs, aggressions, insults, and barbarian and oppressive conduct, was male out by the Honduras government. The reply of Rodtiguer on behalf of Guatemala, was based entirely upon. false iseues and pretended facts, and was not supported by the “truth of ite statements and the irrefragable force of ite arguments.’? A treaty was negotiated between the parties on the 19th of April, 1853. This treaty was ratified by Guate- mala, after loading it with dictatorial and arrogant amendments, which the government of Honduras could not accept, and it was rejected. If Guatemala had sought peace, the treaty would not have been loaded with diehonorable amendments. In July of 1853 General Cabanas marched with a body of 1,500 troops—not renegades and malcontents, bat the citizen soldiery of Honduras, who were aroused to aris by the outrages, rapine, and murder committed at Co- pan. They invaded Guatemaia, and penetrated to Chi- quimula. "He here made a retrograde movement before a greatly superior force of the enemy. He was pursued by the troops of Carrera across the line, and a partial engagement ensued on the 12th, at Ocotexeque, where treachery and treason, instigated by Carrera, alone se- cured the Guatemala forces from complete defeat. General Cabanas continued his march towards Los Llanos, puraued by the forces of Guatemala, under General Granadas, who is a disgrace to his education and profession. There troops committed the most horrible outrages wherever they went. Murder, robbery, and rapine marked their pathway. They laid the country desclate. Smouldering buildings, ravaged fields, and slaughtered domestic animals, greeted the eye on every side; and yet these are what ‘N.” calls “trifing dis orders. But this general, «educated in the Unite States,” was soon compelled to retrace his steps. General Cabanas re- ceived a reinforcement of citizens, aroused to arms by the brutal outrages committed, and advanced towards Los Llanos. General Granadas beat a precipitate retreat. He fled beyond the frontier, and Ca.anas was unable to bring him toan engagement. The wanton violation of stipulations at Omoa finds an apologist in ““N.’ General Zavala, also educated in the United States, was no whit better than Granadas—indeed, he was worse. After stipulating with the American Con: sul on the part of the Honduras commandant, that arms, munitions of war, &e., of the garrison should be secure, the General pretended to find a flaw in the stipulations and said that it only applied to the private arms, &c., of the officers and men, and seized upon the best cannon’ of the fortress, and that, too, against the remonstrance of the American Consul, who, as a party to the stipulations on the part of Honduras, certainly knew how to interpret em. But, sir, I find my communication {a getting too long, and I will defer the remainder of my reply to your corres. Pondent ‘N.”? for another occasion. GC. ¥. Legal Intelligence. Court oF Arrrats, April 5.—! 60, concluded. No. 29, submitted. Nos. 9 and 64, called and passed. Judgment affirmed by default in Nos. 18, 27, 62 and 76. No. 65, re- rerved for April 14th. No. 66, reserved. for April 1ith. No. 71, Schenectady and Saratoga Plank Road Company, respondents, agt. George H. Thetcher, appellant.-Mr. W, H. Learned for appellant; Mr. B F. Potter counsel for re- tpondents. Day Calendar for April 6th, 1854.—Nos. 69, 10, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80. April 6.—No. 9, restored and set down for to-day at foot of calendar.’ Argument No. 71, concluded. No. 69, reserved for 13th April. No. 70, reserved for 8th April. Non. 72, 17, reserved for fourth week. Nos. 73, 75, 76, 79, 80, passed. Calendar for April 7.—Nos. 81, 62, 88, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, $8, 31, 38, 24, 46. Nos. 91, 135, struck olf. No. 78 judgment aftirmed by default. No. 9, Thompson and others, appellants, agt. The Mayor, &e., of city of New York, ‘reeyondents.—On argument. Mr. A. L. Robert- son for appellant; Mr. R. J. Dillow for respondent. No. 97, reserved for 14th April. No. 9, not concluded. April 7.—Chief Justice Denio announced the follow. ing decisions:—No. 14, Zannitz agt. Dixon.—Appeal dis- miaced without costs.’ Hurd agt- Hunt,—-Motion to re store the appeal, denied without costs. Louisa D. Hine, appellant, agt. Astor and others, respondents. Same dents, same appellants.—Motion to suspend entry of Fedement denied. De Kotbeck and wife agt. Astor and others, respondents.—Motion to dismiss appeal de. nied, and motion that the appeal be argued on points served in former appeal also denied. Argument No. 9 concluded. Default in No. 42 opened and cause reserved for April 12. Nos. 81, 82, 88, 89, 98, passed. No. 84, Babcock agt. Beman.—Judgment affirmed by default. No. 86, reserved for 12th inst. No. 87, reserved for 18th inst. No. 46, reserved for 12th inst. No. 88, Bishop agt. Houghton.—Judgment of gen tm of Common Pleas reversed, and judgment on report of referee confirmed, with costs by default. No. 90, Waterman and others, respondents, agt. Whitney and’ others, appellants. Ar- ged, Daniel 8. Diekinson, counsel for appellants; D. ‘avis Noxon, counsel for respondents, No. 31, Blunt agt. Van Buren and others. Argued. | J. H. Reynolds, counsel for appellant; Mr. Hadley, counsel for res pondent. ReGuLation OF Pusiic Executions IN Pexy- BYLVANIA.—The Senate of Pennsylvania has almost una imousl; hee poral ager | tothe act regulating the execution of criminals, which provides that the number of persons present at any execution, including the sheriffs, or coroner’s deputies, shall in Bo onee exceed twenty-five; that any sheriff or coroner allowing a greater number to be present, shall, on conviction, be fined $500, one half to go to the informer, and one half to the county; that during the hours «pecified by the death warrant, the en- closure where the execution is to take place si der the exclusive control of the sheri! that it shall be the duty of these officers, or the general deputy of either, to inflict the punishment of death in casee provided by law; and in no case shall auch punish ment be infi! by & professional hangman, or one em- Fleyed eclely for tut purpore, ‘hen let them remember that prevention is better than cure. In what condition are the vessels we have? | Why, they have been lengthened and’ widened, | narrowed and shortened, till, with few exceptions, little | of the original timber'is left in them. worn out, and ought long ago to have beoa broken up. | We want new ships, constructed upon the most improved scale of naval architecture. A common argument against the proposed increase is the expense to be incurred—the fear of indebtedness ; but these reasons are not applica- | ble at the present time. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury is raring to such persons who, bad, the good fortune to make investments in our stocks 23 cents premium for | each dollar invested, and the surplus in our Treasury at | the present time exceeds $29,000,000. Why, sir, Noah Fas thought to have made a bad investment by, building | the Ark; his squadron was unit, but with it he defi | the deluge that scourged a guilty world. Navies have ever been the guardians of trade, that potent civilizer of | mankind. Solomon imitated the Phonecians, bis con- temporaries, in shipbuilding—though his capital, Jerusa- lem, was sixty miles finland. The products of Egypt and | the Fast protected by them, made cities of the villages of Athens, Rome and Carthage, and gave vitality during the middle ages to the republics of Venice, Genoa and Amalfi. ‘The blue waves of the Mediterranean ministered to their eatness, and upon their transparent bosoms have bhen fought bloody conflicts, and won the glorious victories which decided the successive empires of the world, To Spain her navy, under the guidance of Columbus, gave a continent. The Viskings and Normans of the North, by their superior maritime skill made an easy conquest of Britain, who in her turn, at the Nile and Trafalgar, gal- lantly won for herself the undisputed title of Empress of the Seas. This increase will aid in the promotion of the Gospel among Mahomedan and heathen nations, by pro- tecting the American missionary in his laborious and ar- this lever, a nation once can- When some poor disciple duous occupation. Why, b; nibals now worship God. ’ ty oF eat Ler ay Te tthe “evannahs Gf the South, bebolds "n frigate or a sloop gliding into port, how his glad heart palpitates with joy as he gathers his little ones uround him! “See, there i the ribbon flag of our own dear country; fear not, rights will now be respected.” And this is the’ ca: whether simcng the Atabe of the Maronites, the Be- douinsor the Drases. Mr. Chairman, an efficient navy is the greatest aid in diplomatic negotiations, It renders arguments more effective in the formation of important treaties. Ah, sir, vou don’t know how polite it makes nations to the peoyle’s representatives, when their har- pennant was in a state of locomotion, and the | Many are | very entertaining and instructive work. The second | maie of the Flirt, who had been missing for some time, has recently turned up in New York. He was in this vessel during her entire cruise, and was arrested in com- any with Capt. Gibson at Palembang, and taken to Ba- via, where he was detained for ten months, During this period he was for some time confined on board a Dutch guard ship, and was removed from there to a felon’s prison, Even after it was ascertained by the authorities that no proof could be procured against him, he was imprisoned for two months at a public station, while awaiting the arrival of a vessel to convey him from the island. He was at length taken to Singapore, in» government mail ship, and after wandering about the World for a year or more, he at length arrived in New York. He confirms Capt. Gibson's statements in every particular. He has himself preferred a claim for in- | demnity, which will doubtless be enforced by our go vernment. It had been stated that Mr. Rafael, the Mexican Consul at New York, was to take the money obtained under the treaty, and apply it to the purchase of arms to be sent to Mexico, to be used against the United States, by Santa Anna.’ There is no truth in this ridiculous state ment. Mr. Rafael is now here. He is authorized, in the event of the ratification of the treaty, to take $25,000 and proceed to Europe, to endeavor fo induce an emi gration of Germans to Mexico. With this sum a large number can be brought over, to whom Santa Anna will offer Inds and other inducements to settle in his country This disposition thus manifested by Santa Anna to intro- duce an enterprising, industrious and thrifty pepulation into Mexico, affords an indication that he seeks to ad- | vance the interests of the country more effectually than they could be promoted by involving it in a war with the United States, | It is probable that the Ramsey route to California will soon receive the attention of Congress. It will be brought up in connection with the bill of Mr. Churchwell, concern ing California mail contracts, to which I have before made | allusion, This bill, as you are aware, gives the California | mail contract to’ the company which shall prove its | ability to transport it in the shortest time. The Com mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads have agreed unani mously to report the bill to the House, and it is altogether likely that it will pass. Should it’become a law, the | superiority of the Ramsey route will soon be made mani- fest ; and the Postmaster General, who now inclines to regard the route as impracticable, will doubtless be ready to acknowledge not only its practicability, but that it is altogether the best route for California mail transporta- tion. If it proves best for mail service, it will, of course, for passengers as well. Porto Rico. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. This quiet and retired island is indebted for much of her prosperity to the peculiar circumstances of her popu- lation, which removes her, fortunately, from the risk in- | curred by an unnatural preponderance of the slaves over the free inhabitants. The island has 480,000 inhabitants, of whom 38,000 are slaves, about 12,000 free colored people, the remaining 430,000 being whites, The result of this vast disparity in favor of the whites is not only its absolute safety from | successful insurrection, but presents an opportunity of procuring a constant supply of effective and, compara- tively, cheap free labor, not to be found in any other slave colony in any part of the world. Upon almost all the sugar estates the cutting of the cane is done most effici- ently by the natives of the island, who, although white, of a respectable class, and generally themselves the own- ers of small coffee allotments, adopt this mode of addin, to their means, work, without any rept at fiel labor of allkinds. The same men will often year after | Year contract with a particular estate, at the commence: | weal of the scason, to take dawn te whete crop at from $4 w $6 anacre, according to quality, the utmost fairness being observed on both sides. They are mild, conciliating and ouliging in their manners. Foreigners, as sueh, are regarded without any jealousy, | being very frequently placed in the highest municipal offices; and there hasthecn'gradually, axd now permanent- ly, established an amalgamation of the two classes, that acts most beneficially upon both. The plough has been extensively adopted, together with other agricultural in- struments, all tending to diminish the demand for so much manual labor, which renders that labor still eas! bors are filled with our men-of-war. The very air, sir, 13 redolent with the breath of Mars; the sky is lowering for the conflict. Upon the soil where our first parents trod, the great battle for dominion in the East is about to be fought. The soldiers are arming upon the banks of the Euphrates and the Nile, the Danube, the Seine, and the Thamer. Yersia, Turkey, Egypt, Clreassia, with all Eu- rope, and even the empire of Confucius, under the light of the Holy Trinity, and the guidance of a rebel sovereign yelept the Prince of Peace, is carrying conquest to the walls of Pekin, the celestial and imjerial city. A portion of the Japan squadron has been detached, to afford our citizens protection at Shanghai, Amoy’ and Canton. Many of the republics of South America are in a state of insuriection; Mexico is being dismembered. With a world in arms, should we not be prepared to protect and defend /merican rights, American interests and American honor? Lord Clarendon’ asserted upon the floor of the british | Parliament, “That France and England were not only united in relation to their foreign policy in the East, but would also act in concert, if ocension required, in other parts of the world.” Two years ago, these twin allies gave us notice that they lind assumed ‘the protection of ‘uba, the gem of the Antilles, with the consent of Spain. | And ‘since the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, that diplom: enigma upon the files of the State Department, Centra! America will, a8 a matter of course, come under their especial supervision, What more? Why, this European interference is to extend to those Eden spots of perennial beauty, the half way resting place to Japan, the Sand- wich islands. £0 much for the bold avowal of the Eng- lish Lord. Upon the heel of his notification, comes a leader in the Zimes newspaper, upon the inefficiency of ournavy, its utter unfitness for actual service, the rot- tenness of its organization; and in reading it, one woull | suppose that Boston could be sacked, New York illaged, and Charleston burned, before we could the keels of vessels of war to protect our- selves, Seneca says, ‘The wisest men arc taught by their enemies.” Do not let this mmfxim be lost on us asanation. Let us not be blinded to the true state of the case. When we know the worst, we can pre- pare for it. England owes usno affection. We rival her as the carriers of the commercial world. come ancctssity to her. Without us grass would grow in the streets of Manchester; the hum of the loom and the buzz of the spindle would’ cease in her cotton mills. ‘The cutlery of Birm ngham could find no market. We are her superior in prosperity, and in all that makes a nation beloved at home and revered abroad. Her bad faith towards Russia is the true cause of the present war —bared upon an after thought policy quite charaeteri: of her present Premier. It seems that arrangements the partition of Turkey with the Muscovite Czar had | been secretly acquieseod in by England—and ke her treachery becoming exposed, we are told she nt- ly refused’? the proposition she had once unofMicially sanctioned. From the official cireular of the same noble lord we find that Russian raw materials and manufac- tures, though carried in American bottoms, are liable to seizure and confircation; thus instituting a marine police | fo: the annayonce and destruction of ourcommerce. Will | the American people submit to such insolent and arro- nt surveillance, supported by the entente cordiale of Fngland and Frauce? No, never. The battles of 1812 | will to be re-fought ere England will drop her in- | sine preteusione—her obsolete policy—and the sooner | our navy is increased for that struggle the better. Let | not be deluded by the flatteries of her ministers. You | it as well expect a child would forget the mother | who cradled it in her bosom, as to suppose England woul forget the hostility she owes this country. No matter | how blond her smile, she delights to decei No matter how seft and gentle her voice, “her voice is the voice | of Jacob, but her hand is the hand of Esau.” | Sir, I will now give the committee a statement of the re lative condition of the navies of the world, compiled from the best authorities. Our tonnage is buta few thousands inferior to England. We have been gaining upon her till at last we are neck and neck. The value of her trade is $450,000,000, and ours scarcely inferior. | For the protection of her commerce and the vindica- tion of her rights, she maintai & navy of 802 sailing vessels and 192 steamers—total, 404, France, sailing vessels, 228; steamers, 182—total, 350. Russia, 27 steamers and 53’ sailing veasels—total, 80. Turco-Fgytian navy, 20 stenmors and 59 sailing vessels— total 79. The navy of Swelen and Norway, 12 steamers and 40 eniling vessele—total 62. Austrian navy, 27 sail. ing verscls and 6 steamers—total, 33. in, 9 steamers | and 16 sail'ng vessels—total 26, Sardinia, Holland, the Ficilies and Greece, 18 steamers and 57 sailing vessels— | total. 75, And it must be recotlected that all these ves- eels are in perfect order, and ready for sea ata day's notice; while all the “model republic’ cau muster for the preservation of our neutrality or defence, is the in- significant number, great and small, rotten and sound, of every grade, 72—9 steamers and 68 sailing vessels. ‘To | tell the plain truth we hnve scarcely 50 vessels fit for actual service, mounting less than a thousand guns, while the vessels of England alone mount fifteen thousand. | We need this increase for the preservation of exports to the smount of $400,000,000. We need it for th uardianship of 4,000 miles of sca board, and our fisheries. We need to have ships gliding into every foreign harbor, to attend toour interests, and guarantee the rights of our citizens. We need it in view of the inevitable general war in Europe, when our agricultural industry. will sup- py the ‘deficiency in England and France of the readstufe that usually flowed the Black fea and the Baltic, to the amount of $28,000,000. Are not these interests, present and a gt worth rotection? We have as gallant spirits who are longing lor active service. as ever trod planks of a quatter deck; but we lack the oe. Sir, we lack the ships. Ner should the serviees in science rendered by Wilkes Le forgotten, whose admireble narrative of the exploring | expedition has never been exceeded; or to Maury, whose practical wisdom has filled the hearts of thore who go down in abips with confidengs; or De Haven, who sought, A We have be- | | Treasury Department, started from Washington city yos- | stock on the list iy Nicaragua, and among the fancies it to obtain, There are many estates worked altogether b; the native white people. Large sums have recently been expended by ine spirited end enlightened proprietors’ of the District of Ponce, costing ome of tho estates $20,000, in conveying water from the mountains to the lower sugar lands for the purposes of irrigation, which has secured regular crops, and added exceedingly to the value of the properties. The productions of the island come away without being burthened with any duty, and the colony is in a state of tranquillity and prosperity of which it may be very justly proud. A VISITER TO THE SOUTH SIDE. The Turf. LOUISIANA RACES. Meraine CovRse—New OniRANS, March 31.—Trial stake for three year olds. Subscription, $300; forfeit, $@P. the club toadd $260 to stake, if run; mile heats, | to€arry three year old weights. W. 1. Minor’s ch. ¢. D. I. Ricardo, by Voucher, out of Norma, by Longwaist T. B. Goldsby’s br. c., by imp. ny King. lasby’ aralee, by imp. 1) By Jane, by imp. Leviathan BS A. Lecomte’s ch. f., by Flying Du Miss Riddle 1@, 1:57 34—1:55 Ly Same Day.—Bingaman stake, heats of two miles for three year olds. Subscription, $500; forfeit, $200; $500 added by the club, if stake ia run. Judge Hunter’s ch. f. Blonde, by Glencoe, dam by Wagner......+- rd. ft. T. J. Well’s ch, ¢. Lecomte, by Boston, out of Reel. pd. ft. A. L. Bingaman’s br. f. Atala, by Ruflin, out of ‘Araline,......... Serene Same Day.—Jockey Club purse $400, two mile heats. S. M. Read’s br. f. Maid of Orleans, by Berthune, out of Alice Carneal, by imp. Sarpedon, 4 years old, 2 1 A. L. Bingaman’s ch. g. Wade Hampton, by Boston, | out of Margaret Woods, by imp. Priam, 5 years old 1 dis Time, 4:093¢—4:33. Tuer Unitep Srates vs. Jas. Couuier.—We un- derstand that Gov. Anderson, of Maine, Commissioner of Customs, and —— Rodman, Esq., Chief Clerk of the terday, to attend the trial of this suit as witnesses. The deposition of Senator Weller, to prove the larceny of some public money, stolen at Monterey from Collier's deputy, was taken in this city yesterday, to be used on | the part of the defendant in this sult.— Washington Star. ipril 4. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. | MONEY MARKET. Sarorpay, April 86 P. M. Nothing new or important has transpired in the stock market. The transactions have within the past day or two been much more limited than usual, and there ap- pears to be a great scarcity of operators. The cash pur. chases are principally for delivery, and speculation in stocks generally is, at the present moment, very poor business. At the first bonrd to-day, Mlinois Central bonds declined $4 per cent; Florence and Keyport, ‘4; Cumberland, 14; Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, 34; Ston ington Raflroad, 1; Harlem, 14; Hudson Railroad, 4 Nicaragua Transit advanced 1% per cent; N. Y. Central Railroad, 4; Crystal Palace, 5. The fluctuations in Crystal Palace are no criterion of Wall street matters. Only a few shares changed hands at the prices quoted, and it is the easiest thing in the world for holders to put the market value at any point they please. The firmest is the best, and will pay better at present prices. There will bo a dividend paid in July, without the shadow of a doubt, and the financial report then made will astonish rome of the bears who may be short of it At the second toard prices experienced another de. cline, and the market closed dull and heavy. Canton Co. fell off 14 per cent; Crystal Palace 1; Harlem 4; Parker Vein 14; Ilinois bands 14. There is little business doing in mining stocks, and no material movement in prices. The heavier fancies arc | going through a slow decline, The bids at the Mining Board were:— Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked. Cumberland. 29° = Hiwassee.. 5M - Parker vein, 3 on Delaware 5 Hudson. Lehigh.. Aw. Potoma Bridgewater Pt — N. Carolina . 84 WyckoffGold. 3% The news from Europe, by the Europa, is not at all en- couraging. The decline in quotations for consols, for than has yet been realized. Consols closed heavy at per cent, showing a decline of more than one per cent three days. The produce markets were inactive, prices were all tending downward. The return of Bank of England for the week ending Saturdey, March when compared with the previous return, shows the following results -— Cireulation issue 062,515 Decrease £578,555 20,788,850 Decrease 230,565 8,678,817 Increase 779,220 11,805,883 Increase 417,987 im banking ment.. 11,844,100 Increase 96,072 Other securities in bank- ing department, «. 14,512,895 Increase 1,468,249 Coin and bullion in both departments Decrease 573,846 Seven day and Increase The Rest Increase 12,049 ‘The Rese and coin in banking de- partment)... .. . 8,038,989 Becrease 343,282 ‘The subjoined exhibits the extent of the week’s varia- tions at one view — Public deposit Other deposite Notes and bila i increase, .£779,220 di 417,987 lation. decrease, 228,490 Rest seeeesednerease,. 12,649 On the other side of the account Government recurities...increase, 96,972 Other securities. é 1,458,240 Coin and bullion + 878,846 Total, £1,783,702 £1,783,702 This return is yery unfavorable. For the large de- | erease of nearly £600,000 in the stock of coir and bul- lion we were prepared by our advices by the Baltic. The increase of nearly a million and a half in the “other,” or private securities, at the same time attest the brisk- ness of the sudden demand for money on the part of the commercial public, a demand which was aggravated by the efllux of gold. ‘The bonds and mortgages deposited as security in part for the circulating notes of the Merchants’ and Mecban- ies’ Bank at Oswego, were sold at auction at Albany, yes- terday, under the direction of Mr. St. Jobn, the Super- intendent of the Banking Department. The following is a record of the sale:— Am't for Mtg. record’d Lands situ- — Am’t which Lond & in Erie Co. ate in Hol- sold mig. were yween. lerks qfice. land, Erie Oo. —_for. 1 : 541% acres. $625 do 609 do 850 do 515 do 625 ce 5 27 do , 528 do s 3,195 529 do 650 630 do 77 581 do 25 532 do 25 533 do 1,050 75 do 925 $57,508 99,725 James Kipp, Esq., of Albany, was the purchaser in | each instance. | 111%. | to fane; | Western, $1 75. breadstuffa and cotion, are marked and important, and must produce a much greater depression in our markets The stock sales in Cincinnati at the stock board and at private sale, for the week ending Wednesday, April 5, 1864, were as follows:—25 shares Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad stock at 102; 20 shares Covington and Lexington Railroad stock, at 60; 20 shares Kentucky ‘Trust Company Bank stock, at 96; 8 $1,000 Covington and Lexington Railroad Company seven per cent Conver- tible Mortage bonds, interest payable Ist March and Sep- tember, at the Bank of America, in the city of Now York, 8634; 8 shares Columbus and Xenia Railroad stock, buyer | 10 days, at 108; 25 shares Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day- ton Railroad stock, at 102; 80 shares Indiana Central Railroad stock, at 034; 35 shares Madison, Indianapoli and Peru Railroad stock, at 56; 60 shares Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad stock, at 89; 60 shares Coving- ton and Lexington Railroad (new) stock, at 60; 50 shares | Cleveland and Pittsbarg Raiicoad stock, at 83%; 100 | shares Cincinnati and Hillsboro Railroad stoek, buyer 60 daya, at 60; 30 shares New Albany and Salem Railroad stock, at 46; 15 shares Little Miami Railroad stock, at 111; 68 shares Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad stock, at 78; 40 shares Ohio and Mississippi Railroad stock, at | 80; 20 shares Kentucky Trust Company Bank stock, 944; 40 shares Little Miami Railroad stock, buyer 30 days, Money rates for the past woek on stocks as ecl- lateral security, 134 to 2 per cent per month. Stork xo! a es ‘Sarvepay, April 8, 1864, $700 Ohio 6’s, °70.... 10 N Y Central RR. 107% 1000 Erie Ine Bai 20 QO,..5 20506 F 1600 NY & NH Bs, 16 Cleve & Pittsb RR 8334 1000 Hud Con Bds, 260 Cleve & Toledo RR 9034 10 Mich South Const 105 34 50 Panama RR..b60 166 5% 9 06 4000 Pan Bas. 2d iss. 200 Stonington RR... 60 6000 Ill Cen RR Bas. 8034 i ig 1060 do.....b10 8045 1% 000 do... bem 813g par 900 NY Cen RR Bas. 94 2 6 she Hanover Bk.. 98 ers 10 Corn Exe Bank. ng 20 Del & Hud © G ued 50 Canton Co N% M6 52 P} 1013g 500 Nic Tran ere lo. herd de de 200 SD <caseutiles Wie 100 Ulster Mining Co, 13g 2 Crystal Palace... 46 5 dO... a7 O86 SECOND BOARD. $5000 Ind StFives... 9914 100 shs Par V Co.b30 9500 111 Cen RR Bde. 80 850 do... 20 shs Bk St of NY. 1053 430 a 15 Chatham Bank.. 98 100 Flor & K Jt st 1300 do 100 a 150 do. 150 NJ Zine 300 C Coppel 500 Canton Co 25 Crystal Pa 15 do ‘ine 4 860 Penn & L Zinc.*3 7 100 Harlem RR 51 . 64 20 do 52 500 Reading RR..#60 74 MINING BOARD. 100 she Lehigh 83 3 200 shs Brookdale.... 4¢ 00 BO... ce DB BD 300 Dutchess Silver.b3 1) 100 do. .83 2% 200 Hiwassec... + ® 200 Ulster..... .83 1% 100 North Carolina... 3, CITY TRADE REPOR'’ Satcxpay, April 8—6 P. M. Asups were scarce, and nominal in value. The ig spection warchouse contained only 345 bbls. anf ly; tly BukapsturFs.—Flour was pretty brisk and st day’s business included 8,000 bbls., ordinory to choi State, $7 a $7 50, chiefly at $712 a $7 3734; poor mix Western, $750 a $8, including but few lol | under $7 683, and other kinds at proportionate rate¢ There were likewise sold 1,500 bbls. Canadian, at $7 26, and 2,100 bbis. Southern, ‘at $7 623, a $7 9334 for mixed to straight, and $8 a $8 75 for fancy, 1. We heard that 500 bbls. fine rye flour brought $4 50 a $4 75, aod 207 puncheons Brandywine cornmeal $18 each. Wheat was in fair demand; the day’s sales conmsted of 6,100 burhele Southern red, at $1 ry & $167; 200 Rhode Island €o., $1 66; 800 Long Island, $1 6634; and 1,000 mixed Sules transpired of 6,000 bushels rye, at 9€e., and 1,260 bushels barioy, at $1. Oats were un- changed. Corn improved during the day, with sales of (00 burhels, at 78e. a 74c. for mixed Southern; 743¢0. a ite, for do. Western; T4e. @ T6c. for round white and yellow; 75c. «77. for white Southern; and 77c. a 790. Tor yellow do., per bushel. Ciryer.—Scme 250 bags St. Domingo fetched 83¢. per pound. pocontes.—The day's selcs reached obly 606 bales, as fol- lows: for «xport, 217; and home use, 288. Market un- wet (led. Freicnms —Rates were firmer, with engageme of about 40,000 a 45,000 bushels corn, chiefly in shi for Liverpool, at Od. a 93¢d. ; 2,000 bbls. flour at cotton was 11-824. a %4. asked. To London, 600 bbls. rosin were engeged at 5a, There was nothing new to Havre, ond rates were nominal, with little offering. To California, rates varied from 50c. a 60c., with light en- gagementt. ; |AY.—Seme 750 bales river were bought at yesterday's. qnotations. 5 Hore.—The demand was moderate for last year’s growth at 26c. a 0c. ; 1852's do. at 20c. a 22c. per Ib. Trox.—Scoteh pig i inactive, but firm, at $41 0a $42 60 per ton, usual terms. Leap “The last sales of German and Spanish were ef- fected at $6 60 per 100 Ibs.—an abatement. Motarers.—There were 300 bbls. New Orleans taken at 24e, per gallon. Naval Store.—Tar and turpentine varied little. Some 2,000 bbls. (large size) Wilmington common rosin re- alized €1 82 per bbl. Ous.—Nothing new occurred in whale, sperm or olive. ‘There were 15,000 gallons linseed purchased, at B4¢. @ 860. per gallon. PROVISIONS.—Pork was rather lower, there haviog beem £00 bbls. disponed of at $14 6234 a $14 68% for mess, and $12 8734 for prime, per bbl. ‘The sales of cut meats reached 170 pkgs., at unaltered prices. About 460 bbls, lard were taken, at 9. a 94ge. per Tb. Some 880 bbly beef were procured, at yesterday’s quotations. No changt can be discovered in butter or cheese. Rice.—Holders are dis; to hold on. They thin. prices bave declined suffetent to warrant them in Go 80; besides, it cannot be laid down — Tates. sales of the week amount to about casks, at 80. 4 4\e. c orn. —foles were made of 576 hhds. New Orleans at Se. a 4%%e.; 200 Porto Rico, at 4%. abe.;1 Cuba, .. 4\e. a4%e., and 40 boxes yellow Havana, at 63g. 8 Te., per Ib. aliow was in demand, at 11M. a 12c, for prime, x Ib. Penerry.—There have been $60 bbls. Ohio and prisom sold, at 260. per gallon,