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Oe / Affairs in Venezuela. Laguarea, April 1, 1854. Of Irade—Soldiers—The Slave Question—The Code— Internal hh I feel great satisfaction in announcing to you that the 1 which for some time past have afflicted this leountry, have disappeared, especially from Caraccas. Business is active—prices of exports are good, and there a spirited competition in the prices and purchases for markets. Large consignments of coffee, cocoa d hides, arrive daily at this port, and also at Puerto o, for exportation; in fact, the animation is great, notwithstanding the influence of the European war. The political horizon of this country becomes every day clearer. We no longer live in dread of revolutions. ‘The popularity of General Monagas and the Secretary of State, Mr. Planas, increases daily. It seems that some slave owners have made pretended jenles of their slaves to foreigners, hoping thus to avail ‘themselves of foreign claims for intemnification. This is one more of the many abuses that have resulted from ‘want of patriotism on one side and cupidity on the other. ‘were annually appropriated mpiling the different and notwithstanding this, commaiarce Severe the ted. Now, however, leceapliadions axe being ‘made. Dr. Julian Viso has pre- izented to the consideration of Congress a civil code, which is ‘of. This work, so useful and important ‘to Venezuela, has to the publie treasury, because the {asigniticant sum of $200 per month Dr. Viso for two yeara from the government, is merely of uisimeto has entered into a con- the construction of a railroad extending from to San Felli which will connect with the from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe. OUR CARACCAS CORRESPONDENCE, Caraccas, Venezuela, April 3, 1854. Discovery of Gold and Silver Mines—Law to Protect Mining Interests. Rich silver and gold mines having been discovered some time back at Carripano, Duaca and Turnario, the Congress ef the Republic has been discussing a law to protect the mining interest and to promote the working of the mines. ‘The law has passed the Senate and has received two read- ings in the House without opposition. The following are ‘the ore mr gery Ins Pie Brsaniive, is rane were! ive s of mines to persons applying Pech thee. Titaacan’ iasusee tbe property, Pe caine for ever to the grantee, and from that moment the mine can be transferred or conveyed as any other real estate, not being subject to forfeiture for any cause whatever, but held as any other property. The mine can be sold or is) of in parts, or in any other manner, without any further consent from the government. Those who are now in possession of mines by concessions or declarations given previous to the e of this law, will be full pro- prietors, without further formalities, after the day of the promulgation of the law, no previous report, measure- ‘ments of lands or other preliminary steps being necessary. ‘Whe miners and other persons employed, and common Jaborers at the mines, are free from any military service and all municipal taxes or services. The yield of mines worked in Venezuela will be free for twenty years, from ail duties or taxation, national or municipal ; which time ia to be reckoned from the day this law is published. This exemption includes, the toll paid on roads. No import duty will be exacted’ on machinery, tools, apparatus or ny other utensils imported for the working of mines. Proprietors of mines who should establish in Venezuela sme furnaces to work and separate the metals from their ores, will receive from the Executive three miles of Jand contiguous to the mine, or in any other place they should prefer, that they may establish on them the necessary offices and buildings. The gold and silver, the product of the mines worked in Venezuela, will only’ pa: ‘when coined, as mint duty, five per cent for the gold, anc two and a half per cent for the silv. No other duty is ever to be exacted. if THE SAN FELIPE RAILROAD. Puerto CanELio, April 5, 1854. J. 8. De Acrepa, Esq., New York.—Dear Sir: Your Jetter by the Pauline is received, and I regret much that 1am unable to give you the information you desire by ‘thi letter, but am happy in being able to state that the The J tract Yarite more, when I am sanguine in the belief that it will be much more favorable than the most interested could have ‘The survey is already complete, and shows that there ‘will be but very little Jabor on the whole route, with but very slight grades and curves—indeed, it is nothing more than an extended plane all the way to San Felipe. The of it is a perfect plane. ‘The streams and rivers present no difficulties in bridg- ing, from the fact that during the dry season all the abutments can be built without the necessity of a single ferdam, thus lessening the expense of them, and opportunity to construct them in the mos! manner. ‘No road of similar length can be found presenting less of engineering difficulties than does this, and even from the ent amount of products to be brought over it, no ean be fou: will pa} r per centage its cost, and I belleve Thazard ut little when I say that in five years from its completion, the stock will be one of | the best investments anywhere to be found, (provided al the government remains stable and secure, and no civil wars happen to disturb the continued increase of the productions of the land. 4 If this road be built, in a few years more it will require to be continued to simi-to, and there shoul al o be built immediat short branch, say eight or nize “miles long, from the Palito towards Valencia, thus s2- curing immediately all the freight by the way of An this port is the only natural outlet for the produe- of a great portion of the interior, and is the = , it must also be the great terminus for ‘to be built. ‘There will soon be required a road from Caraccas to ‘Valencia, and I A et not cagA from ae to od Felipe—it depends solely u; e construction, comple- ‘tion, and foental ge srl of the road now in con- tion from this port to San Mc ag T it et not Bp Barc able to ~ you the ‘precise cost of is road; and all I can now say, is be otherwise than most favorable. ‘One week og all continuing well, I shall know theamount cost. is one other point very favorable for the con- ion of this road, and that is, it follows nearly the ion of the present , and thus gives great ad- ‘vantages for those who bu@d it, securing also the healthy portions of the country, and when completed will of ne- censity secure all the products of the Pueblas along the ‘With my best wishes for your continued health and it the hope that your most sanguine an{i- Tipations 1 vegard to this I toad may be ful yemain, as ever, yours truly, JOHN DOUGHERTY. ‘Theatres and F.xhibitions. Broapway TresTre.—The benefit of Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams comes off this evening. They have selected three capita! dramas for the entertainments. et ‘and America,” the next, «Law for Ladies,” and the last the vaudeville of the ‘Irish Thrush.” ‘TumaTee.—The benefit of Mr. W. H. Hamblin to-night, The drama of “The Brigand”” Bowser will take place vill commence the amusements. It will be followed by ‘Parents and Guardians,” and a om entertainment, ynd all will close with the drama of ‘‘ The Robbers.”’ ene od MHEATRE.—Two new are announced for |e saad eed after which the comedy holy.”? Nationa. Trmataz.—The same entertainment as has pen given every for the last nine months, namely, ae drama of ‘U; Tom’s Cabin,’’ is selected for this vening, Little Cordelia Howard, Howard and Mr. rior in the leading characters. ‘Wattace’s Trmarne.—The interlude of ‘‘ Number On ound the Corner” will commence the amusements, ae stecessful comedy, entitled “Hearts at Fault,” Rough Dia- ill sueceed, and the favorite farce of the ‘“ sond,’? will terminate the amusements. AvorRICAN Musecm.—The farce of ‘‘ Trying It On,’ and ie comedy of ‘‘ Bachelor’s Torments,’” are selected ‘or lece called ‘+ Major afternoon amusements, and the mes’ Courtship’ and the farce of ow the evening. ie ‘* Phenomenon’? ‘Woon’s Mixstmm:s announce the operatic burletta of + Unele Tom’s Cabin,” instrumental performances and Maxon re on the ‘True Rights and Influence \e Stuyvesant Institute, on Monday evening next. Scapa mv New Yorx.—Tho following bit of gossip a) ef a. Plfladelphts here has had, as the Bible says of sin, —Gonsi ansry morsel”? to “roll under her tongue,”’ in the sha; for st ba By 8. gentleman concerne@® a Mr. lady is, or wae, 8 Miss Bisset, or Bissop, a some of the thestres. 5 F., rumor assures us, be- ming ‘of the face or feet of the fair Bayadere, enamored guised himself in shabby clothing, and, applying to the operty man of the theatre, secured an engagement as “‘gupe,”” in order to be near the object of his igolatey. could not be without its effect. The y her cher amie were soon seen riding out together to | » High Bridge, dining in the private rooms of the ertote: and suppingin the recherche ditto of the y Hotel. Last Wedne: weok the two lovers visited Doklyn in company, and were married. Three days er, the bye —. the bridegroom discovered the sal . But, intead of hushing up the unfortunate cae arn oe miter, fi iby txreatoetang universal laughter, firs - uate the wliole thentro for a conspiracy to ruin ‘his son, 1 next by using the most ridiculous means to obtain himself the ar the document in question, the Ne vag apepeeb yee pmat — on er youny usband, w! lter- finda "himself locked up one day in his father's and ction asa derater retort, up evidenee of the Impurity of his new and making arrangement ‘off to Canton as a curiosity, & daughter-in- estimate and report will be completed in @ very few days | @istance is fifty-five miles, and fifty-threeanda half miles | on | The first » The commencing eye Tipedows gee) | performed, and the amusements jill coneiude with the farce of ‘Away with Melan- mG pea oneesy. are doing weil. for is evening cor great vb popular melodies. fi ae hae Ds Grawprort will give a French lec- of Woman,” at e ., About nineteen, and the son of ¢ of the firm of the important silk house of F—— & Co, e danseuse , "s certificateof marriage, under the belief that | ‘annulled. The old gentleman’s folly has | ta, ad interim, to ship sol ‘The Southern Commereial Convention. to be with them confidentially, (great laughter,) and | Eixtravaganee of the Board of Kducation, | preferable to the prosent dull, monotonous sta‘e of | hanks. “This me revrel, wa then eaemeot from alle THE SOUTHERN PACIFIO, RAULROAD—GEN. LESLIE althon ho of rey een ang at veer TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. tom. 7 4° changed sini teiay.: | ton, “There ia 8 few pratt hts ta bolt okt Gen, Leslie Comba of Kentucky wat frat prosonted to | those of w thousand ugly men, After some farther | I the published proceelings of the Board of Rio |. Mining stocka have not changed since vestanlay. | Shin. Tim a toms rather than to fry eter the Convention on the above sul Ho said he had | pleasantry, Mr. C. concluded his remarks by recapitulat- | eation of this city in your journal, I notice an appropri. | Not Carolina reached 2 at the Mining . under the old system, some say, we are going on com been honored with the privilege of commencing the dis- cussion of a subject W! he conceived to be of more vital and practical importance than all the other subjects which might come before the Convention. He alluded to & copnection, by railroad, upon our own soll, between | the States on'the Atlantic ocean and the great State on the Pacifiz ocean. The Governor of Kentucky (and hea emocrat,) had honored him by appolating him as a delegate to that Convention, he 8 whig, thus show- ing that he (the Governor of Kentucky), a8 also he, (Mr. Combs), did not anticipate that politics would be intro- duced in their deliberations. (Applause.) The great orator of Kentucky—he whose pet tones had so often been heard in the halls of the national legislature on the great question of internal improvement—was no tore. ‘His voice was hushed in the silence of death and the people of that State stil] mourned his loss as a great | calamity; and now in a place which ho would go admira- | bly bave filled, was found one of the humblst sons of Kentucky. He had no flowers of eloquence for that Con- yention—no bouquets to present to the bright and beau- tiful countenances which now ornamented those boxes. (Great applause.) What he had to say to the Convention was upon a dry subject, consisting mostly of facts and figures. Before he proceeded to speak of the present and fu- ture, perhaps he might be pardonod for making a brief re- ference to the past. In looking upon all that had been done in the construction of railways, it seemed to him but yesterday since this work had commenced. He re | membered the time when he wi hought old enough to de elected a delegate to the Kentucky Legislature, and had presented before that body the first proposition for a railroad west of the Allegheny Mountains that had ever been entertained. There were at that time but four rail- roads commenced on this continent, and he believed but ‘one in Fngland—from Liverpool to Manchester—and not one on the continent of Europe. They had one four miles long in New England, one in Pennsylvania, constructed of wooden rails, and he believed there was one from Charleston to Augusta—a little saddle- bag affair, on which orse power was used—and the t pioneer Baltimore and Ohio Railroad just begun. That wasin the year 1829. Now, what did we sec? He had taken the trouble to trace ona little map of the United States the principal railroads in the Union, extending, one of them—true, it was as yet only on the map—to the Pacific. Some fifteen or twenty thcusand miles of railroads were in use on this continent, costing over five hundred millions of dollars, and covering some of the States as with an iron network. Before the time to which he alluded, when on the fron- tiers of Lake Erie, there was not a civilized inhabitant be- tween the head of Lake Erie and the Pacific. And now, what was there? State upon State, with immense re- sources and an intelligent population. Indiana, Michi- gan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and territory upon territory, extending clear across the continent. All this had come to pass within this brief poriod. ‘The President, (playfully )—How did you get there ? Mr. Coombs—Part of thie way on the top of the earth, and part of the way through swamps, when defending the country against invasion by red coats and savages, in 1812-13. (Applause.) And nowfrom four little rail- roads see what Tos been completed! When he had the | temerity to present a proposition in the Legislature of | Kentucky, the wealthiest landholder in the State thought | ho was a fit subject for a lunatic asylum. Fortunately, a | very able and intelligent mechanic of Kentucky con- structed the first locomotive that ever was built in the United States, but this wealthy gentleman thought it could not be made to go without legs, because he could not conceive how it could be made to hold back in going down hill, or how it could shove up when it came to a tight fix. (Laughter.) But this ingenious mechanic also constracted a miniature railroad, and placed this one horse locomotive upon it, and after this sceptical gentleman had seen its operation, he became one of the most ardent advocates of the railroad system. The re- solutions which he had the honor to present the other | day, were, with other resolutions of a like character, re- | ferred to the committee appointed for that purpose. | They were three in number, the first averring that it was of vital importance to the interests of the whole country that we should have one or more railroads to the Pacific. He was for more than one. Tho second resolution point- ed out the commencement, with a route and description of the plan on which a Southern Pacific Railroad should be built. He had laid down the route on a small map of the United States, and regretted that he had not procured alargerone, that it might be better seen by the Conven- tion. Here (pointing to the map) was Massachusetts re- presented by a little blue spot, and that ‘‘inch by inch and a half State,” had expended fifty millions of dollars in the construction of railways. This larger blue spot was no- where in those dae, ut it is now called the State of Maine. At iret t there is now a railroad away “p in the North and through the mountains connecting that district not only with her older Southern sisters, but also with Canada. New York—this broad, fan-like looking concern, with her foot on the Atlantic, and her shoulders extending lneag Baby lakes—had not a raflroad in these days to which he had referred; but he remembered very well having heard it said that when the projector of the canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson river spoke to Mr. Jefferson on the subject, he replied that in the next cen- tury it would be time enough to complete it. Yet in twenty years it was completed, and there was a railroad connie. alongside of it. And not only that, but look now at all the other railroads in that State, and others ran- ning to the West, bringing in the produce from those teeming granaries! Here (again pointing to the map) was Kentucky. It did not look very lange upon paper, but there it stood, with one foot on the Mississippi river, and its high, proud head resting on the summits of the Cam- erland Mountains, presenting its broad breast along the frontof three free Bates, ‘and, asin times past it had been a bulwark against the ravages of the Indian, so even | Bow it was, and in future it would continue to be, a bul- wark to the other slave States. (Applause.) He would | Bow discuss the route a cole. ted for this South- ern railroad. Here ting to the map) was Texas, larger than Now Fort and Pionarirenie and Ohio all together, and asco many railroads were point- ing from the North to the South in that direction, he proposed to extend the Southern route as far as it could be done, according to charters already granted. | He did not propose to ask the geceral government to | do anything. He urged that the people of the South should put beth shoulders to the wheel, and by doing so they could make a railroad to Paso del Norte, without any aid from the general government. He proposed to run from St. Louis and New Orleans, nccordiug to the charters already granted, to the thirty-second parallel of latitude. From Vicksburg to Shreveport, and from Cairo and Memphis, via Little Rock and Fulton, to Marshall, near the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, in Enst- there to unite in one great trunk to the West. ture of Texas had, at its last session, passed a giving twenty sections per mile for a road, to be con- structed very nearly on the thirty-second parallel of lati- | tude, which was a greater bounty than any other State could give. In adopting that line he expected to accom- plish two objects—to run through the centre of the slave territory, and to have the benefit of the twenty sec- tions per mile donated by the Stato of Texas, He had heen over a great portion of the country to be benefitted by the road; and from his own observation and reliable | information he had not the slightest doubt of the practi- cability of the route to the Rio Granle. After that the line would run through a portion of Mexican territory. Probably the best route was through @ portion of Mexico. Nota sterile waste, as'some supposed, but the greater part ot the way through fertile regions, with grass and water | sufficient to maintain immense droves of sheep and other animals, driven to California from Texas and New Mexico. He was, therefore, much gratified when he heard that a treaty had been made with the government of that country for a portion of land embracing that route, Whether that treaty had received the sanction of the Senate was more than he could vouch for; but he hoped its main feature would be adopted by the United States, and receive the sanction of Mexico. In looking over the map, it was impossible not to perceive the vast interests which would cencentrate themselves upon that line. It was true that the main arm would run through ; but it spread out ite hand and grasped all the other States, and especially the States on the Mississippi river. In addition to the law passed by the Legislature of Texas, there were many propositions before Congress for the donation of lands for the construction of railroads in various Southern and Western States; but he regret- | ted to say that when he left Washington, a few days ago, he saw little probability of any of them being pass- ed.’ All of them had readily passed the Senate; but in the House of Representatives the first test question hap- med to be upon a proposition granting lands to Towa or | Wisconsin, and the bill was cither laid upon the table or | committed to the Committee of the Whole House, there | to be buried. He knew that some of his Southern | friends supposed that only one railrond to the Paciiic | was necessary. He, however, believed that there would ve two at least. At the meeting of the great railroad | celebration in Horton, he wat) perhaps, the only slave- 0 | | | holder grerent. never expected to sec such a con- vention again. The President of the United States, with a portion of his Cabinet, was on the one band of the presiding officer of that body, and the reprosentative y, in the person of the Governor-General of Canada, on the other; and he (Mr. C.,) had suggested toa friend of Lord Elgin that if he could not make a living in Canada he could be guaranteed one in Ken- tucky as a stump spenker. (Laughter and applause.) That convention looked to the carrying out of a systema of railroads from the North to the Pacific—ani he believed that Mr. Hincks, the chief adviser of the Governcr-Genera), had been in England to negotiate loans, and had returned with a subscription of | $55,- 000,000 for that purpose. It therefore became the South to be up and doing for themselves. It had been urged that a road could not be built over the snows of | northern mountains; but it might as well be said that the ice on northern lakes would prevent their navigation. If the North built a road they would pasa the gorges of | the Rocky Mountains. But even if it were built, there | would be from three to six months in the year ia which they would have to pass over the Southern route. And were both these routes constructed, he would not con- sider them as rivals. They could be both sustained. It scemed as if the God of nature had intended that these two lines should be built, so that the old States of the Atlantic should be like a mother taking the younger States into their arms, and protecting them, even to the shores of the Pacific. With these two roads constructed, the people of the States could go on a trip of pleasure on ‘one route and return by the ether in less than sixty days, and all without injury to health. He did not come here to speak unkindly of the Northern States. It was not the habit of the people of Kentucky to speak behind the backs of those to whom they were opposed in interest. He would be the most ungrateful man on earth to de- nounce or slander the North. His greatest earthly hap. piness—his wife—came from the North, and she was as gentle and truthful as she was lovely and affectiona’ ides, he had some magnificent little half Yankecs at home. If other Southern gentlemen woul follow his example, and some of our warm hearted girls consent to warm the icy bosoms of our Northern bret! |, we should soon see the beautiful results. There would te no more talk of severing the Union. He had spoken to the peo- ple of the North face to face. He knew theso people well. It is true, there are many ‘isms’ at the North, but they are continually consuming each other. Let them alene, and fear no danger. On the subject of woman's rights they had completely changed front. in olden times, he believed, it was contrary to tho law for » pious old lady (o speak ina public assemblage when the spirit moved her. They were sometime: scourged for so | far violating what was then considered fomale propriety, | and a lady Who was so unfortunate as to have a mi under her left elbow wes hung or drowned asa witch. | Now, Lucy Stone & Co.,these strong minded, pantalooned, | ble declaimers, were all the fashion. He had never | Coen best eben to any of their meetings; and he did not want to hear them discuss public matters, He preferred ig, brie dy ‘the route which he proposed, and the parti- cular benefit which would be derived by the Southern States if it were adopted and the work commenced anl carried on in an energetic manner to its consummation. Capt. Pike, Senator Jones ant Lieut. Maury then suc- cessively addressed the Convention, in support of their several propositions, to whom Gen. Combs briefly replied. He said that when he had on Monday last, desired the aid of Lieut. Maury, and therefore appointed him as a delegate from Keutucky, it was because he wished the convention to have the benefit of his great experieace and high science on winds and waves—especially the ocean currents, but did not expect him to interfere with him (Gen. C.) on dry land. (Lieut. Maury replied play- fully, that he felt honored by the sppolntimnen , and had tried to prove himself worthy of it.) On terra firma Gen. C. wished to be commander-in-chief from Kentucky, He did not believe that hn Congress could be induced charter the stupendous scheme of the genleman, to be paid for out of the public treasury, and then made free to the “rest of mankind; ”” that the people would ever tolerate such a work, or that it would be the best plan if carried into full operation; that all the States which had tried such experiments were heartily sick of them, &c. That as to the plan of Mr. Pike, it required too much State and Indian legislation, to be carried into effect in any reasonable time, if, indeed, it was not wholly im- practicable; while the plan and route proposed by him, (Gen. ©.) required neither State, Indian nor national le- lation till it arrives at the Rio Grande, within a few undred miles of the Pacific ocean; that several of the fingers touching the Mississippi river at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, &c., were in progress of construc: tion, and he had no doubt that in leas than ninety days the-rich bonus offered by Texas would induce capitalists to embrace her charter with avidity, and goon construct the main trunk to El Paso. It ua that timo, the gen- eral government had not obtained the right of wa: through Mexico, the railroad company might purchase , or send to Tennessee, Kentucky, and other Southern States, for emigrants to colonise it as they have done Texas. Then, indeed, we should have glorious times, and the dream of Columbus be realized. We should reach Chi- na and the East Indies by sailing West. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasuinaron, May 1, 1854, ‘The Real Position of the Administration—and what they think of Themselves. To one ont of Washington, it is really impossible to ap preciate the profound obscurity into which the adminia- tration, per se, has fallen. Never before, during an ex- citing session of Congress, and when events of the gr est moment were transpiring in every portion of the ci ized world, was the administrative arm of our govern- ment reduced to so absolute a cypher as at preseat. With the exception of members of Congress, and claim agonts boring at the different departments, and here and there agreen democrat astray from the country, who goes to stare at the President, the White House and its appurte- nances might as well, for all practical affairs, be removed beyond the Rocky Mountains, ‘The government has not force of character or strength of ideas sufficient either to originate important measures or to resist abuses. An intense and stagnant inanity has settled upon the whole West End, more paralyzing and destructive than the fogs that rise from the oozy shores of the Potomac. From the first moment of its organization, the members of the go: vernment have employed the whole of their energies in defending their own position and trying to preserve their own reputations. Like a company of coons and ’possums who have stumbled into possession of » beaver dam, their whole time is engaged in petty and absurd measures to prolong their occupancy of fo snug and comfortable a home—unmindful of those grander labors necessary to be carried on outside in the middle of the great stream, which else, at the first freshet, will sweep all away. An to General Pierce himself, his state of mind may be characterized as a helpless compound of dismay and de- Jection. He feels keenly his want of strength and de- termination to carry out the right, even had he the poli- tical skill or the moral conscience’ to discovor it. He is one of those amiable, well meaning men, #0 excellent in the private walks of life, and so dangerous to the welfare of nations when entrusted with political power. The epeg howoep ae ideas about the influence exerted over in by certain individuals are greatly exaggerated. His nature is of putty, and the last hand that presses it ob- literates all other traces, and leaves its own mark in thelr siead.. He is a beeel! of sand from » granite State, upon which every succeeding wave writes its brief history, to be washeu away by its follower, He has long since given up the hope of slgoatzing his administration by any act redounding to his own personal fame, and sits confused and uncertain amid the jarring and discordant councils, schemes and projects of his advisers. Mr. For- ney, who cunningly allows the public to magaify his in- fluence over the President, for the purpose of making his perauisites more valuable, is very ‘seldom with’ the sident, and is in no’ particular favor with any member of the Cabinet. His principal coadjutors are the editors of the Evening Star, which paper, through the government advertising ani its industrious gossip and twadélo, they say has begun to pay pretty well. The government, however, care very little for it, and have no confidence init. Forney, who, if not an owner, is at least a dictator of its general course, is also the con- trolling editor of the Union. But neither of these papers, nor any other paper, either in Washington or else: where, speaks the sentiments of the administration. In truth,'the administration has no sentiments. It has isolated itself from the movement of public opinion, from the pervading activity of the times, as illustrated and directed by the press, and is like udynasty of the or Chinese empire suddenly transferred to tho midst of Anglo-American civilization, and rubbing its yes and praying to ite wooden gods in consternation at the dizzy whirl of great events and great ideas that go rushing by, Not a member of the aministration has any idea of the press, nor what it is accomplishing ia the present age. Mr. Cushing, who is called by his few admirers, picked up along the shore after the great Tylez wreck, the “master spirit of the administration,” is, in that position, as feeble as a child to grasp the diisutties by which he is surrounded. He is 4 man of talent, doubtless, and is calculated to exert rsonal influence over his fzionis. Bat a8 a minister is deficient in every 1 qualification, He has neither apprehension ni . He is a guide ignorant of the path in which i atiemptel to conduct the benighted travellera, liable at every moment himself to tumble into a pitfal, or to be devoured by a wild beast. His fate is inevitable, for his self-conceit blinds him to his true position, and he really imagines he is sailing prosperously before the wind, while lis ship is rapidly filling with water, and already begins to reel and stagger with the throes of sinking. Mr. Marcy is the only man in the government who possences any semblance of individuality or force. But ¢ in im his dotage, and it would be absurd to dignify his obstinacy and self will with the name of power. Satu- rated with the old exploded ideas imbibed under Mr. Van Buren, he is a lingerer on the scene after the school is broken up and the master departed—a relic of a by-gone age—the veritable political Nip Van Winkle of the pre- sent generation. His political careor is long since ended, and his public life does not contain one throb of vitality. While the people aro shrugging their shoulders in pity for his imbecility, he fondly imagines that he is laying strong ity, vast schemes and playing an immense game for the suc- cession. The succession | Succession of what? After the débris of Pierce, Cushing, Forney & Co., what comes next ‘As to Mesers, Guthrie, Davis, Campbell, and the rest, there is really not enough of ‘their present position to make a paragraph. They go through the routine if their duties, and twice or thrice a week enact the exqui- site farce, along with the others, of a “grand Cabinet consultation’? upon nothing. Wut, mighty questions he y are discussed there? What comes of i das any- body ever heard? On the whole, it appears to me, from what your pay tells 1 eecnen Board of Aldermen and Councilmen, that the tion of the general government and that of the commercial metropolis, are very nearly on a pai They exhibit the same unmistakable xymptoms of politi- cal atrophy, marked by the presence of a wide-spread and eating corruption, which pofnts to death as the onl, relief. You have in New York one advantage over the country: your patient will die and be decently buried out of sight in afew months, while the other must con- tinue to exhaust our forbearance and pollute the atmos- phere above ground for three long years. NUX VOMIOA. Ax Exp 70 SPECULATION ON TIE PART OF THE Usrrep Stains Dnezursing AGrwrs —The Secretary of the Interior is now sending out, through the heads of the dif- ferent bureaus of his department, the folloving circula addresred to each of the army of disbursing agents und his authority. It effeetually closes the door to their fu- ture use of the public fands in the hands of any of thom, except as directed by the laws of the department :-— “An arrangement having been made by the Treasury Department, under which the Assistant Treasurers of the United States at the various leading commercial poiats throughout the country become depositaries of the pu lic funds, the disbursing agenis connected with this de- Jartmnent are hereby instructed to avail themselves of the facilities thus afforded, as far as practicable, by doposit- ing with those officery such funds as are not wanted for immediate uve, and drawing the same, from time to time, as they may be required. ‘This arrangement has been made for the accommoda- tion and security of disbursing officers, in view of the heavy responsibility resting upon them under the provi- sions contained in the sixteenth section of the act of 6th August, 1846, as {found on page 63, Statutes at Large, volume’9, to which, in all ite details, attention ix spe: cially directed; and it is, therefore, expected that the in- structions abov will be strictly complied with, and that, hereafter, no disbursing agent of this department will draw ay. draft or check upon any person other than — officer with whom his f are herein directed to be cept. @ Pay or Postwastens.—The first assistant Post- master General has written a letter, in which he says ostmasters are allowed one cent for the delivery of cach ree letter, except euch as coma to themselves. They are not allowed any commissions, however, for the delivery of printed matter made free by the frank of members of Congress. 4 Tax Svrcrpe at Taytorsvitir, Va—The Bul- letin learns that the German who committed suicide by banging himsclf near Taylorsville, on Suntay the 28d ult., was anative of Bremen, and had only been in the United Stotee a few months. A short time since he reach- ed New York from Bremen, with a stock of goods, valued At $7,000, which he bad been authorized to sell on com- mii He succeeded in disposing of the goods, but in doing so encountered sacrifices Which unsettled his reason, He reached this city on Friday, from New York, in aframe of mind bordering upon derangement, and took the cars the following Saturday night for the north. He is represented by a New York m: who knew him ell, and who has visited this section of the country for the purrore of taking charge of his effects, to have been on estimable, but most sensitive man, His parents in Fremen are reported wealthy, and he himself had acquir- ed as an actor, some distinction on the price, however, is still about 23. The following were the bids at the Mining Board:— fortably enough, and are loth to change. ‘There is né- now the same urgent demand for such an establishment with us, as there was in New York. Our present system is much better than their old one, and a greater degree of confidence exists between the banks; but the time will ation of nearly thirty-five thousand dollars for building one schoolhouse in Rivington strect. Thinking there must be some mistake in this enormous and unusual ap- Io FS oS be § propriation for one schoolhouse, to be paid for by a tax 5% ” ne when their increase will make it a matter of ne- on the inhabitants, I made inquiry and found that there oN ceanity, ‘The prominent feature of the new system is, was no mistake in the matter; and further, that 5g | that it requires every bank to come up, day after day, the finishing, fitting up and furnishing, will probably Caledonia 20° | and settle its balance. Thus each institution would cost seven or eight thousand more, and valuing the lanl New Jersey Doppe 7 stond upon its own merits, and in case of weakness, (which already belongs to the cily, fortunstely,) atleast Tenigh ‘i Vanderburg 80c, | would be prevented from going too far, as their real con- at twelve thousand, (a low estimate.) and wo have a 1. Whit Lindsay. 65c, | dition Would be exposed. The act of the Legislature re- footing up of about fifty-five thousand dollars for o: ‘ x, | quiring weekly returns, into operation the first of school building. Is not this, Mr. Editor, something re- Ratherfood. 1© | June, when will be published the a amount of spe- quiring attention, and are our citizens to remain asleop MeCulloch 61g | Cleon band, the amount of loans and discounts, While extravagance bs permittnd fo ran mia? At this Conrad Hill bic, | tion and deposiets. rate, to what amount may we not expect to see the ex- - fi a | he Mew Haven Ja " annexed resume fense of common school education in this eity run up to bbe taensy eA > Neale isons ina few yeers? But three or four years ago $12,000 to Wyckoff Gold., —* 4°» | allroad intell. gence -— $15,000 was deemed high for @ public school building. , ee Noawieh., The Air Line road will petition the noxt Legislature _ b Already it is more than double, and still progressing. | ~~ for power to issue bonds. Similar power has been grant- Tt ia high time the public eye was direstot to the | The following is an abstract of a paper read by Prof. | oq Aaaiiah abs. sali is, and waa toile by the last coedings of the Board of Education, whose expent | Silliman at the last mecting of the scientific association | Legislature, but Gov. Seymour vetoed the resolution, are without limit, and untrammelled by any concurrent | at Washington:— and it was defeated. We ‘understand that the Governor power or subsoquint revision: and if may be found in te end to the advantage of the cause of common school ou. | cation if the progressive extravagance for schoolhose3, ey ee ety To. Common bitumt brah iy cise, Scena INQUIRER. “| otis cont varies from 1.27 to 1.6, and the anthracite | from 1.60 to 1.85. The only coal lighter than this, #0 far afterwards expressed his regret at the veto, not under- standing at the time the true state of the case. The Middle(own and Hartford Railroad will also petition for an extensicn of powers, and the New Haven and ford road will probably try to get permission to a The cannel coal of Breckenridge county is characterized | Auntiversaries for Muy. onen t wtih a | mate with the New York and New Haven—a permi which are to hold their anniversaries in this city during | ty wit! be sought chiegy in the yery large amount of vo- | Stants for fear it would onesie « powerful sorporstian with a close charter, which might override all the other the present month :— New York MAcpaten Socrery.—This Society held its | usual anniversary yesterday. None but ladies were ad- mitted, with the exception of Rev. Dr. Tyng and Rev. latile matier. 2. Its Tenaci'y and Blasticity.—Conls are usually brittle and elastic, ‘This is tough, resists powerful and repeated | Plows, and rebounds the haramer like wood roads in the State. Persons interested in the Norfolk County road will i. tition for three charters of roads starting from > The splints ic and aoehactine wilt M, Seudder, who delivered appropriate addresses. of this coal may be sensibly bent by pressure, and regt a eee eee eae tod Ialvod ona at some en to rey Pach mactiog jo es their original form ag: A fissure in it may be sprang Pettad Horwich there will be a petition fde’ a rbad Shean ie. Hd pote The doors of the Tareenecio | f{C2,P¥ 4 wedge, and will close again on withdrawing it. | Norwich to Lirbon, connecting with the New London and a he writer has never seen any other coal with this pecu- rity. | 8. Its Electrical Power.—The Breckenridge coal be- comes powerfully exerted by friction, with resinous elec- tricity. This peculiarity may b: onstrated very easi- Willimantic, or Fish and Providence roads. ‘The sivck of t York and New Hayen road is sell- ing at the New York Exchange at 90, and it is said that the comyavy will pass another dividend. will be thrown open to those who may not have secured tickets ten minutes after the exercises have coamence |. Bunpay, May 7,.—American Female Guardian Society, at the Mercer street Presbyterian Chureh, at 734 o’clock. | 7 Count di ‘ing to obtain a connec- Addresses by Iv. Mr. Cupler and others, aaci,., | Wy und has never been Uefure noticed in way other onal, Pee Are Lite ake Waepehe Tiel, soto Moxvay, lay 8, 736 P. M.—American Seamen’s Friend | go for as the writer hax been able to lara, except the er hand, the Air Line is trying to connect with the Society, at the Brondway Tabernacle. | ‘Alberte oal,’’ of New Brunswick, before named. It is | cy, River road near the same point. Each opposes § eee emibate for the Blind, at the Tabernacle, | ot cary to understand why other very hight: the other, and:beéwean.thetwo ‘ths Manpiotiaesete Logie he on. nous cculs soul! not bave this property, b ; h Moxpay, May 8.—Anniversary of Union Theolozical | fact with a lacge number th enka lature will probably geant meltivae, Seminary Mercer street Church, wt 13 P.M G hater 3 wane raps a poe Nk sie Suretietd Uraueh to the Ginal road te considered UREDAY, May 9, 1036 A. M.—American Foreia and | jp the by destructiv oF w age pat » n a iy» DY 7 bg nm "0 olny iness. . Dr. Green, at of Hampden Sidney ss ey eget lege; Rev. Bir. Kirk, y. Dr. Be ad Rev : el from Waterbury, and it is supposed it will soom hts ev. te Kirk, Rey. Dr. Bethune, and Rey. Dr. | Velatil at redni } become * of , tsomo ie the New York A a ee ie read, as ttf Ay to its stockholders. has Benne TR RTE rnarT, Of tho Amerigan. Bux The E ction with the New London road will | be perfected in May, when the company will have a right to expect « larpe through travel, The Canal road exten- sion to Northampton is expected to be completed about ‘Tuxspay, Nay 9 the Dutch’ Reformed Church in La o'clock, Addresses from R. gon, lately from Africa, F TURSPAY, May 9.—yin the same time. denberg Printing aud Publishing © aro very | Stock Exchange. the evening, at the Eleventh stree! Mt 4 of volatile Tucnapay, May 4, 1854. Wepxespay, May 10.—American Tract Society, at the For example, we fing RR 1036 Tabernacle, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Addresses by ley. Dr. Duff; Rev. Mr. Oncken, of Germany; Rev. Dr. Green, President of the Hampden Sydney Cellege, Va., and Rey. | . Albert coal, of New Dr. Brooke, of Baltimore. i (4 Wronespay, May 10.—Ameriean Home Missionary So- b cannel, 1046 , wt 734 oelock, P. M., in the Mercer street Presby- | Scotch coal, are the only ones ¢ porti TO terian Church. | of volatile matter, I proportion of 101g Wepxespay, May 10.—Anniversary of American Anti- | Volatile and fixed ing nous coals are | i Slavery Society, Mr. Chapin’s Church, Broadway. cmpletely reversed in the Breckenridge cannel. | 10% Weoxespay, May 10.—Aaniversary (1st) of American | twithstanding the large proportion of bituminous 5 Ws Congregational Union, in Brooklyn. matter which this coal contains, it yict 80 Continental Bk.. ‘ 1 Wepyespay, May 10.—American and Foreign Anti- , &¢ticn of solvents, wl t 100 Morris Canal. b30 143g 50. 10; Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, at 714 P.M. | twenty per cent to spiri 20 Wash 98 100 7 Wrpxgspay, May 10.—Five Points House of Industry, | 48 m'ght be expected, ery powerful | 150 Nic T 253 in the Broadway ‘Tabernacle, at 3 o'clock P. M. | and abundant flame, deinandin: aceestof air for 200 5 Tuvuspay, May 11.—American Bible Society, in tho | its perfect combustion. In burning, this coal does not | 200 Broadway Tabernacle, at 10 o’clock A. M. Business meot- | coke or cohere, nor does any fatty exudation distil out of | 260 ing at the Bible House at 9 A.M. same day; after which | its in the combustion of the fat, caking coals of E | eo 9736 the society and its friends will take carriages for the | ¢rm Virginia and Pittsburg. It appears fitted, 100 26% 2B Oesescanee O19 Tabernacle. Annual sermon, Sunday, 7th instant, at 73 | others in the Valley of the Mississippl yet exa | 100 26° 45 Stonington RR... 643¢ o'clock, in Rev. Dr. Alexander's church. raising steam in the cylindrical boilers of the 100 do b10 26 100 do...b4mos 66 Fripay, May 12.—American Board of Commissioners | T!¥ here an abundant and sustained flane is 5“ 100 Penn Coul Co.s60 1031 100 do, 26 10845 50 Breck Coal Co 7 do... 10 Crystal Palace, 800 Cum C1 Co. 60 Nor&Wor RR,b10 b3 me reasons ils adaptation for sugar builing, stationary steamboilers, reverberutory furnaces an for Foreign Missions, in the Tabernacle, at 10 o’cloci A. | glass works, is very obvious. Fer private use, it pos- | M, Addresses from several returned ‘missionaries and bors. Frivay, May 12.—New York Anti-Slavery Society, in the Tabernacle, at 73, P. M. sesses the advantage of great cleanliness, not producing any dust or powder of small coal, and no: even solling & n ala white glove in the handling. It does not clinker upon | 200 d eA ey fhe American Society for Ameliorating | Prate bars, 60 far as experience has tested it. Itis unt | 250 do Lafayette piace, 732M. Addross by Rey, John For: | for Mackrmiths and fron furnaces, as it produces #0 | 160 do stall a coke. syth, of Newburg. 0. —'May.—American Temperance Union, ‘Another peculiarity of the Breckenridge conl, due to | 400 Par V 61 Co 4 its state of aggression, is its resistance to injury from | 100 do. thir year in Piiigtelphing erp apee atmoguherie and mechiantcal causes; such is txatrength | 850 do. 8 do a if ee Se ‘i | and elasticity that it loses practically nothing in trans- 0... 35 i een ee Tee tae, meeting it be bedi nest Friday | Jortation orhandling, It tay als be exposel for any | 200N Caro Copper... 23; 50 Mich Coa iE. 03 104 fev. Doctor Duff. ‘Nekets may be had at the places | length of time to the rains and frosts without the least | 50 NY Cen RR....68 104%, 116 Mich South’n RR 111 1¢ designated in the advertisement injury. Those practically acquainted with coals willap- | 70 a ‘23 N Ind Const’ion.. 1023¢ ‘ preciate this peculiarity without comment. It is well | 250 do 10 Cleve C & Cin RR 1163 , known that not less than ten per cent loss is occasioned — 100. do.. 23 Sixth Avenue RR 85 Dirricunty amoxa Concorp Firemen.—The fire- | jy every handling of ordinary bituminous coals, owing | £6 do. 45 Cleve & Pitts RR. 80 men of Concord, N. H., havo disbanded thelr orgaulae- tion on account of the city refusing to pay them as much as they aeked. They have heretofore been paid $2 each man yer year, and 2) cents an hour while in actual ser- vice at fires. ’But this is not satisfactory to the iremen; they demand $5 each per year, 26 cents an hour while at 5 Gal & Chicago RR 125 to the breaking down of the lumps; while under the in- 1 flvence of the rains and frosts the common coals are goon slacked to dust, or set on fire by fermentation of their continued pyrites. | In several places where the speaker first uncovere! this | coul on the hill-sides, its out crop was found to be el 5 do. | 200 Cl & Tol RP 21 Cer SECOND BOARD. $1700 Ohio 6's '56... 102 20 shs NY Cen RR. 104: 2000 NY Cen RRBds 8974 60 Clev & ToLRRDIO 93. 5600 11 Cen RR Bds 7634 ae , : ; 92 fires, and*25 cents for atiending each monthly meeting | and sharp, the angles of the coal perfectly preserva ‘0 110% during the summer, Ho: fooalithasagnatiare die: G6 Gner mpc nt coal vinta in | ng ne eet a i 0 ma re the surrounding soil hy oration of the | 469 NictTrane Co. o052 703% Rarsixe tre Enre.—The steamer Erie was de- | ovtcr surface of the change visiblo in it; | 100 NicTiane Co DO. 20 16 stroyed by fire in the summer of 1841. It is knowa that | and half an inch w ethe mass appeared | ayy 9 i on3 703g she had on board $16,000 pecie on freight. A large num- | as ci A bright aa when token 100 yards from the | jq9 > dag 7012 ber of her passengers were emigrants, who had with them | surface. No better eviteuce can be obtained than this | 569 par vein CCo. a3 70% considerable amounts of specie. All this probably sunic | of the powcr of this conl to resist atmospheric influences. | 762 x"Car Comper 400 Tose With the kull of the steamer. It has been thought « | This cliaracter masks itself on the topography of the | J, NCerycpper boo oe We good speculation to raise the hull, and moasures have | region. A slight terrace or projecting Ic bench,” | 209 Bon hee ae 4 been taken to do eo early this spring, by a firm in Bostoa | ag the conl Viewers call it, may he econ marking on the i00 b haa 21; 74 —Buffalo Courier, May'2. hill-sides the iturtion of ‘this é yi 35 Crystal Paisceblo. 44°. 49M se dM a 3 In some respects the Brecken islike jot. Like | soy Hadron KRIDSO 65 It is estimated that at least fifty hogs were drowned in | that substance it sustains perfectly well the mechanioxt the flood at Hartfor operations of sawing, turping, and drilling, and may be MINING aa race to a-rume a high polish.’ tis easily wrought into | 1(0shsCaledonia..«3 4 2 ait tae Reet = ous Celeate orsamenta’ Articles tee 4 spol ; Pn 63 f Fed .@ sandstone 5 ove luis coal rm and | ‘ J ine, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Init are seen ste eral spectes of coal 2 are but not very abundantly. There is no overshale 2: MONEY MARKET. fant pla in nany bituminous beds. me 2 usta: Mh eneath is very firm, and contains seams of flat | TauRsDAy, May 4—SP. M. ) as intaceous wire alems, wlich appear abundantly after | ay There was considerable activity in the stool market 4}. floor has been thrown out for some time, subject to 2 to-day, but there was no material change in prices. The | the action of the frosts. No roots of stigmarial were leading fancies sold largely on time, but it appears im- inthe floor or roof. ‘ 7 5 ’ 1 app cular in having the st 4 possible to get up any excitement. At the first board, arise imbedded anly th the tubstanee of the CITY TRADE REPORT, Delaware and Hudson advanced 14; New York 1 A spectmen illustrating this cireumstance is Tavrspay, May 4—6 P. M. Rallrond, %4; Michigan Contral Railroad, 4%. Erie Rail le. Stems of this sort were ceon atx feet in | Aes have not vasied much. 8 are con’ Brapstcrrs.—Flour was in very poor supply and im- proved demand, solely for home use, at higher rates. The day's sales embraced 7,000 bbls. ordinary to. choice State at $8 0 $8 0734; mixed to fancy Western at $8 25.098 6234, and other kinds at proportionate prices, indicating | an advance «ince our last of 123g¢. per bbl. ‘There were sold 1,800 bbls. Canadian, in bond, at $7 8734 0 $7.90, and 2,000 bbls. Southern at yesterday's quotations. Rye flour, corn meal, wheat and oats were unaltered. Sales trans- pired of 500 bushels rye, in the slip, at $1 15, and 40,000 bushels corn at, 88¢. a'85e. for mixed, 85¢. # Ste. for Southern white ‘and round yellow, and 86c. a 89. for Southern yellow, per bushel. Coriox —The market was dull. The sales included 100 bales for export, 448 do. for home use, and 290 on speca- lation; total, 889 bales. 200 St. road declined 1 por cent; Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail- road, 1; Crystal Palace, 234. Those who have held Crys tal Palace stock with the hope that the opening, under the auspices of Mr. Barnum, would give a greater market value, have probably by this time found out their mis- take. The procession this morning was indeed a sorry sight, and the public appear to take no interest in the aTair | whatever. The Palace has had ite day, and it will be found impossible to revive it. The mazket value of the stock must rapidly depreciate, and it is possible that at very low priees it may fall into the hands of certain in. dividuals, and form a private show room for exhibitions of the most extraordinary inhabitants of the water, land and air, and nondeseripts of all kinds. As a company, it is, in fact, defunct. It ia somewhat extraordinary that daily transactions in fancy stocks to the extent reported ean take placo without creating greater variations in prices. The brokers are, it is true, operating almost entirely on their own account, and many make an effort to make up in amount of sales what may be wanting in differences, but even this docs not The fluctuations are of roche (diag: charraet tants: | The Cleveland japers are rejoicing that the Sense of way, that brokers who buy aad sell on‘{slFowi adcount | FeTBs7 uals Han passed the’ bilt extending the Cleve. | can hardly squeese out a desent commission. We sce'no | la ind Ashtabula Railroad to Erle, in that State. The prospect of any immediate change in this state of things, | VOC £004 18 for, to 14against. The company are to pay We see nothing esleulated to encourage holders, or that | P°mSy!vanin ® bonus of $260,000 for the right of way would justify selling short or long tino at’ prosent | ™ Erle to the Obio State line. The bill also requires | wae” Mt te 60y dlataph ‘fected. the wat in izopo | bees peel ee ha hy certain amount of the Sanbury scat inh . J earor® | and Erie Railroad stock. g va ite eee sciip: svvalieibinetistina Git we | sists should bear in mind that proposals ‘il be first be so imperceptible, that we do not aticipate any phd dal aca come prs may bi gicgh So gb) ap . ‘ Wall street, until the close of business on the 10th of sudden recovery of confidence or important reaction in | 41, ror the first ixsue of first mortgage bonds of the prices. The present comparative steadiness in quotations | y;,s10m Railroxd Company, amounting to sevcateen hun for all kinds of securities, shows how equally the public | 4 doll These bonds bear iditereat’at the mind is divided on the questions at iseuc growing out of astirg very beautifully with tho dark ‘on which thoy rest. When a considerable mass burned without disturbanoe, cinders of | be found in the ashes, which present, ia a very remarkable manner, the reticulate] ap) nce of an endegenous stem ax seen in crosy section. This cir- cumsiance, together with the other peculiarities of this cogp, alrendy dwelt on, led the writer to query whether thf coal seem was not composed entirely of the eom- pressed stems of large trees brought together in the | menner of tigurite, rather than that of ordinary bitumi | nous coal, to which it has apparently m® analogy. ‘The receipts at the office of the Assistant Troasurer of is port, to-day, amounted to $96,061 84; the payments were $€5,786 10—leaving a balance of $8,766,868 93. The Secretary of the Treasury gives official notice that his deparment has been advised by the consul of the Uni- ted States at St. John’s, Porto Rico, that the authoritios of that island had determined, on the 20th March last, that after that date the value of the sllver dollar of the United States, of the coinage of 1853 and after, should be at the rate of one hundred and eight cents Macuquino, or cight per cent premium over the Macuquino currency of the sald island of Porto Rico. | | ried into @ light eolored | | Cor¥rx.—The market was quiet, with sales of on! bags Rio, at 11¢.; 200 mats Java, at 144c.; and 1 Domingo, at 03¢¢. Frevcuts.—Rates were dull, and engagements for direct. European ports very light. To Liverpool shippers offered: 2s. for flour, and 5%. for corn, while 2s. 6d. and 6d. were asked. 70 tierces rice were engaged at 30s., and 100 puncheons of rum were engaged at 10s. per cheon. Yesterday and to-day some 1,800 bales of cotton. were engaged at 6-1°d. a 11-32d.; anda lot of oil cake at 808, To London 60 tons oil cake were engaged at 30a, and 044g tierees tobacco at Gs. A veasel was taken up bt A. Leary, to load with deals in Nova Scotia for Lon: at £6 10, A bark of 200 tons was chartered for tweln months, at $360 per month, the party to victual and mw her. The Plymouth Pock Was taken up to load with co for Panoma, xt $15 and § per cent primage. To Califor nia there was little or no flour, coal, or lumber shipping - surement goods going forward were at 50c. a 60. pe foot. x Hay.—There were 600 bales river disposed of, at former rater. Horry. —11 tlerces Cuba were solid at 42c., in bond. In food Scotch pig was in fair demani, with rales, wishin two or three days, of 260 tons, in lots, at $40 50, six months, LaTve.—Fastern were in better request, at $2 75 per thow ‘The market was firm, with sales of 100 tons Fpanieh, at Oe, cash. i fe ate 6 per cent, payable semiannually at the Mora sales of about 200 bhds, Cuba muscovado the condition of affairs in Europe; and as hostilities pro- | cme of tle company in this city. They will be issued | Were made, ic. « 283¢0.; 59 do. clayed, at 20}¢¢. ; 100 gress, and the position of the difforent powers become | 5. sie of one thoucand dollare each, with coupone at. | Duis New Orleans, at 24e., and 100 Porto Rico. at 2ke. better defined, we shall be better able to forma more cor- | yn ny oy a z= So hag tte Nava Stork: —The sales embraced 150 bbis. spirits na : * | tached. The whole amount which can bs issuet under | turpentine, at C0c.; the market was at about Ode. a le. rect opinion as to the ultimate result of movemea's | 41.0 morgue in $3,000,000, and it will be the first and only | 1,00 bble. rosin were sold, at $170 a $1 72%. | Turpem going on in the Gnaneial world. Geri sad will consttute the sole debt of | “RC*8s nominal. Tar was held at $4 60 a $475, Ci.—Whale and sperm were unchanged; sales were mace of 150 baskets olive, at $3873¢ — $4, and 5,000 polions lineeed, at former prices. Provisione.—Pork moved to the extent of 400 bbls, mers at $14 43% per bbl. Prime was searee, and nom- After the adjourninent of the board the following salos of stocks were made at auction by A. Ii. Ni $5,000 Stockton City, California, 10 per cent ti 5,000 do. do. do. » $1,399,000 of this outstanding plain e, and propose to | fred thou the co company reser mortgage for the exchange of all th bonds of the company now in existe 400 Ohio Canal Sixes, 1840........ ne digpone of the residue—ono million seven hu w | inelly worth $13 6244 per bbl. Cutmeats were in fair de- ia EF ie City pene, 8; and dellars—for the purpose of discharging all their firm. There have been ie a pkgs. 000 Mansfie dus dst morte floating debt, and of t of the expoaditares necos- pat Meroe 060 Lyons (I ; ll ty! ow sly bol. Bu fhe ae ee ee ae rary for the full complotion of the improvements now in titer 380 shares Bank of North America progress upon the road. The capital of the company paid Rice—Sales of 150 casks were 8 a 4)ge. for ie of amiecien, W834 | fn iy $1,500,000 of preferrol stock, ant 62,690,000 of com- | Inferior to prime olin tine ont 6 do. Ti,, | monstock, upon which regular dividends have been earned | ScQan tie transactions embraced 200 Ride orto Feo 12 06, os : 18645 and paid for the last five years, of eight percent per annum | at Se . an 400 0 Lind i amet, Orleans at prices I AIR oe le on dh gl + 150)4 on the former, and four per cent per annum on the latter. | within the range of previous quotations. 1 a2 North River Insurance Co. 2 20" | When we look at the promiums paid for Bele Railroad | goin pa} of St, este nae Ce aany at 3 bon ane = ft 3 + first mortgage bonds, for the Hudson River first mortgage | Fic ies, aan ee Connecticut seed leaf were sold om 50 do. City Fire Insurance Co + 18954 | ponds, and for the firet mortgage bonds of several other | private terms. i Fe asErEeae Co. + 105 | eaflroad companies in thia section of the country, wo can- |. 74\'O¥—There were 10,00 Ibs. prime taken at 12s¢e. 6 do. Reliance Matual Insurance + 80% PF y per Ib. 20 do. Lafarge Fire Insurance Co... 1 76° | not doubt fora moment but that the bids for the first | " Wivexmy—faler of 560 bbie, Ohio and prison wore ef 20 do. Mechantew and Traders" Insiraicy Go-. 9) morigoge bonds of the Harlem Company will average par | fectel at 243gc. 0 e., and bhks. drwise at Me. per ee pe miearanes Co. + BOM atleast. ‘There ia no better security in the market, and | &*llen. 125 do. American Oil Co... vee O00 if the bids are not for more than double the amount re- Domestic Markets. Cospriner Cattim Manset, May -At market 436 cat- tle—-chout all beev of work- ing oxen, cow y old, quired we shall be much mistaken, ‘The receipts of the Hudson River Railroad Company for the month of April, 1864, amounted to $198,491 71, againat $102,268 98 for the same month last year, show. ing an increane of $6,192 73, equal to about twenty. six percent. We understand that the Croton bridge will be ropaired during the present weck, and on Monday the regular trains will be resumed. ‘The enrnings of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Com- pany for April, 1864, amounted to $73,082, against The regular weekly auction sale of stocks, by S. Dra per, will take place at the Merchants’ Exchange to-mor: row, at Lalf- past 12 o'clock. At the second board the market was about the same. With very moderate transactions prices wore sustained. It {s long time sineo fancy stock operations in sirect_have been s0 fiat and unprofitable as we have 0- ticed during the past six months. It is the samo move mont over and over again, day after day, and it would really be a relief if something would occur to ervate ASiAT. Colf-ekins—I8e. p $4 50, $5, $6 a $I 18 at market. Oxen—-$192, $194, $182, $145, $158, $102, 6175 Cows and Calves—$31, £35, $39, $40, $620 $80. Two Years Uli—923, $40, Three Years Oll—845, $47,'948, $6 and Lambs—! ‘ 71, $75.0 $100. Sheep 508 at ma-- enough of excitement to give a start td speculation. It $95)238 for the same month last year, showing an in | $02, $77 hd ; > 5 welt nt make mach iferneawhich way prices wont | cree of $87,844, equ tone undrd and ten pe cet tr 8 a ai igh i a8'st; ator fit mid anything that would give the market start up or down, | 1@ Boston Journal o! }. Says im out regard to quality, Swine—' , a in desizable, A mocerate panic for a chort time would be The clearing bouse system which it is proposed to | be.; volt hogs, be. and hard fat, at ),0. per pound,