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Mexican Affairs. THE ORDER OF GUADALUPK—NOTES PASSED BE TWEEN THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT OF MBXI00 AND ME. JUAN BAUTISTA CEVALLOS, JUDGR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE SAME REPUBLIC. To rmx Mexicans:— Having been raised divers times to various offices of the highest responsibility, it is becoming that upon all eventful occasions where I may have to act in matters of public concern I should give my fellow-countrymen an explanation of my course, and the reasons that have prompted me to the fame. The fact that lam away from my country, and in no way connected with its public affsirs, doos not, in my judgment, do away with this re- sponsibility. My decided determination not to accept the honor which the goverum thought to confer ‘upon me by appointing me Knight of the Order of Guadalupe, caused some sensation at, Mexico, and ‘was commented upon by divers salaried writers after their fashion. The best and only answer which was to be ven to men bought by govern- | ment was silence; this I did give them, and ever | will, so long as the writers of my coantry are not | what they should be—independent, enlightened, | conscientious, and the organs of public opinion. Now that I can speak with freedom, I shall offer my fellow countrymen a statement of all that has eccurred in this matter, in form an accurate and impar conduct and the singu: rse of the govel towards me. As a pub! n I gave myse! ly to the mation; she wlone has a right to judge me. New Orleans, February 15, 1854. Juan B. Cavauios. Orrics or Tur Srorerary or Srate, &c.,} Mexico, November 22, 1853. His Excellency the President, Grand Master of the National and Distinguished Mexican Order of Jit re-establishes by decree bearing date the ith instant, by virtue of the powers thereby coa- eded him, and taking into consideration the ser- tices which you have rendered the nation, has been | \\ased to appoint you knight of the said Order. | is Excellency flatters himself that you will fully i mply with all the obligations incurred by so dis- inguished an appointment, and in communic, Lis, trom compliance with his desire, I have the honor to forward you a copy of the statutes of the Ordcr, begging you to repair to this office to receive the necessary instructions. I have the honor to remain, sir, &c., &c. (Signed) Bonus. AN FIGHTS. eed TERRIBLE INDI A Month Later from New Mexico. OFVIOIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE WITH THE IN- DIANS—LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED—AMOTH i | FIGHT, ETC. ETO. | (From the Santa Fe Gazette, April 18.) TRE FIGHT AT CINRGUILLA. Through the kindness of Gen. Garl the official report of the fight at Che the Apaches and the United States Dr: we now have the pleasure to place an account of the came before our renders. After the fight between Lieut. Bell and Lobo’s party, the Indians croased the mountains and show- ed themselves on the road between Taos and Sinta Fe. On the evening of the 29th ult. Major Blake, commanding at Cantonment Burgwine, ordered Lieut. Jno. W. Davidson, with sixty men of com nies F and J, first regiment of United States Dra- ons, to make a scout in search of the enemy. He left the cantonment the same evening, and was ac- companied by Ast. Surgeon D. L. ruder. The hext maoming Lieut. D., with his command, came upon a party of Apaches, aoe to number near © two hundred warriors, at the foot of the north slope of the mountains and not far from the small Mexi- can village of Cineguilla, When the troops appear- edin sight the Indians immediately raised their war-whoop, and manifested a disposition to make an attack. The camp of the Apaches was situated upon a mountain ridge, and in ® position naturally strong and difficult of access, Lieut. Davidson saw that an | action could not be avoided, and therefore made the To the Hon. Juan B. CevaLios. | Mextoo, November 24, 1854. | S1a—The official note which | this morning re- ceived from you, at 11 o’clowk, dated the 22d iast., in which ycu communicate Lo me the fact that his Excellency bas been pleased to appoint me Knight | of the Mexican Order of Guadaiupe, recently re- | established, no less than the irankness and loyalty | with which an honorable man should act, oblige me to state, that trom the character of my convictions, erroneous perhaps, but sincere and deep rooted, 1 | think that an institution of this character cannot | suit our country and is inconsistent with the tradi- tions which have nurtured the present generation for thirty years past, and that having no contidence in the attainment of the euds which His Excellency | had in view in the re-establishment of the said Urder, my co-operation can be of little use. I trust, therefore, His Lxcellency will not require the sacri- fice of those cauritio es—a sacrifice most painful to me, while it would be of no advantage to His Excel- Jency and the public weal; and that he will rather | exeuse me from acceptiug the honor in question, remaining assured, meaiwihile, of my sense of grat- itude for the kindness which has prompted the offer. | T have the honor to remuaia, sir, &c., &c., God and | liberty. Juan B. CevanLos. | To His Exckiiency, THE SxureTary, &0. Mexico, November 26, 1854. | His Excellency, the Presideut of the Republic, to whom i communicated your note of yesterday, has read the same with Renn dissatisfaction, aud has desired that I should say the following in reply, | the same being in strict and literal accordance with the expressions dictated by him:— His Excellency, in conferring upon you the dis- | tingushed honor of Knight of the Order of Gaada- lupe, believed that your Exdellency was fitted with the qualities which, as indispensable requisites, are necessary to deserve it; these qualities are virtue, loyalty, merit and patriotism, in all classes of the nation, as is set forth in the preamble of the statute; but your Excellency, in refusing this decoration, has ceitainly confessed yourself exempt from such | and distinguished’ qualities, and it has caused His Excellency to inquire into your antecedents, | avd he has been painfully undeceived on fiadiag | that the country was indebted to you for no service, | for that | Shas? athe ean to the magistracy, which | ‘was conferred upon you in the Sapreme Court, was | the effect of one of those dine fee party in- trigues which use such shameful means as the | falsification of ballot yotes to supplant the mani- | festation of the true will of those deliberating bodies. His Excellency, moreover, believed that your opinions were then different from those which you now glorify in. Your attack upon national repre- sentation appears indeed inconsistent with those opinions, for though it may be urged that the body which you violently dissolved had incurred general displeasure, still it was lawfully operating under ex- isting institutions It seems, then, that no parallel znust be drawn between an attack of this character, in which the laws were violated with the utmost scandal, (and for which laws you now exhibit so much concern,) and the admission of an honorable distinction, which can be inconsistent, or at war with every peacipte, however democratic or exag- gerated they may be. | His Excellency, who respects the opinions and convictions of each one, 80 long as they do not tend | to a violation of the laws, is of the opinion that | if these, which you profess to entertain, were such aa to forbid your acceptance of the proffered honors, a simple refusal or more honest motives might have been pleaded ; but that you should never have given veut bb the insulting reproach which you selected as an argument offensive to the authority and respect due supreme magistrate. he can see nothing wash away the stain thrown upon your political | Tife, and to find favor in the eyes of your political aber by your resistance to, and Boas stful indif- ference for, favors which are, nevertheless, appre- ciated by good Mexicans. If such has been your intention, you must agree that you have given one more preot of versatility in political sentiments, to serve the ends of the disturbers of public | he could mount, a few Mexicaus and Americans, | ! Dould—Total of F troop killed, 8. necessary preparations for battle. He dismounted | his men, and with a small guard to protect and hold them, placed his horses a little ways in the rear. With the balance of his command, not more than fifty strong, he made an attack upon the camp of the Indians. The .oldiers charged bravely up the | ridge, and carried the position of the Apaches, who | were forced to retreat. They rallied, however, al- most immediately, and attacked the troops at close que:tera, with great desperation; they were several | times repulsed, and upon each occasion, seven in all, | rallied again to the charge, in every inatance ex- | hibiting the utmost determination and bravery. The | troops naintsined this unequal contest for nearly three hours, when they were forced to give way and retreat, which they succeeded in doing, and reached Taos the same afternoon, with their wounded. The loss on the part of the troops was very se- | vere. The official report shows twenty-two ‘Killed upon the field, twenty-three wounded, several of them badly; and upwards of forty-five horses kille1 and lost in the action. Of the Indians, it is not known how many were killed, but Lieut. Davidson judges they must have lost at least fifty or sixty. On the arrival of the troops at Taos, Major Blake immedi- | ately started for the scene of action, to bi in the dead bodies, and took with him twenty soldiers, all anda small party of Pueblo Indians. They suc- ceeded in recovering the bodies of those killed, which they took to Taos, and had interred. | ‘This is one of the severest battles that ever took | place between American troops and the Indians, and our loss much greater in proportion to the num- bers engaged. The Apaches fought with a brav- | ery almost unprecedented, and we are well convinced that nothing but the stubborn valor of Lieutenant Davidson and his men saved the command from entire destruction. The troops had greatly the disadvantage. The Indians selected their own position, on a rugged mountain ridge, and the dragoons had to charge up a stee slope to reach them. The latter were encumbere with their horses, which it required nearly a fourth his State. a B Es Ed who were present and partook of the “ things of life,” paid a high compliment to the t, if we are allowed to judge from the few fragments that remained ¢f the feast. ARRIVAL OF THE ARMY STORES IN SANTA FE. On Sunday evening, the 9th inst., a train of ten ‘wagons red from Alburbueque, loaded with com stores, and are destined for the seat of war, in case the troops are in want of provisions. The wagons came the whole distance, eighty miles, in two fea and each one is loaded with about four thousand pounds of stores. 'TDE PROCLAMATION OF ACTING GOV. MESSERVY. We call the attention of our readers, this week, to the proclamation of the Hon. William 8, Messer- vy, acting Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in relation to the war now existing between the Jicarilla Apaches and the United States. We consider the proclamation called for by the present osition of affairs; and since hostilities actually ex- t, itis right aoe proper the same should be de- clared in an official manner. We hope that all third parties will heed the warn- ing contained in the pi ion, because, if an: are found acting contrary thereto, they will be dealt with in the most summary and rigorous manner. All such will be considered as enemies of the United States, and punished in the same manner as the In- disns who are caught with arms in their hands. And at the same time it is the duty of all good citi- zersto notice tothe Executive of all persons who hold commmunication with the enemy, in or- der that they may be brought to punishmen' In the present emergency, the civil authorittes ard Gen. Garland, the military commander of this department, are acting in ay harmony; and the litter is giving the most efficient support to the act- ing Governor. We know the most vigorous mea- 8 res are being taken to bring the war to a close; and the chastisement the Apaches will receive, will e so severe that it will be a warning for all Indians, in the future, to remain at peace. {[t will be impos- sible for the Jicarillas to escape the troops, and we are in daily expectation of hearing that an engage- ment has taken place, and that the whole tribe has been wiped out. Our Missouri Correspondence. Sr. Louis, May 24, 1854. State of Parties in Missouri—The Past Election— The Coming Canvass—Col. Benton—The Nebras- ka Bill, §c. In the dearth of news from the Far West, I have thought some account of the present condition and | relations of parties in this State might be amusing | and interesting to your readers. We have had two great conflicts between the friends and the enemics of Col. Benton. The canvass of 1850 for Congress and for the Legislature was characterized by a vin- dictive zeal hitherto unknown in party warfare in The public mind had been deeply exas- art of the command to take care of; and the valley | perated by the Colonel’s tour in the summer of 1849, in which the troops were at the time they com- | menced the attack, is so filled with large boulders as to render the movement of horses almost im) | sible. We are sorry to learn that Lieut. Davidson | and Dr. Magruder were both slightly wounded. | retreated to the west side of Rio del Norte, and are now hotly pursued by Col. Couke with nearly two | hundred dragoons and riflemen, and a Spy company of citizens and Pueblo Indians, under the command of Mr. James H. Quinn, of Taos. The troops are on | their trail, which leads among the mountains to the | north; and as the Indians are encumbered with their women and children, and are reported in low spirits, taken. General Garland has taken the most prompt and | | vigorous means to bring the war to a speedy and | successful termination. A large number of troo) under the command of gallant and experienced offi- cers, have been ordered to the north, and are now in rapid elt of theenemy. We cannot conclude this article without signifying our approbation of the gallant conduct of Lieut. Davidson and Dr. Magra- cer, and towhose bravery and good conduct is justly | attributed the safe retreat of the survivors of the command. If brevets were ever carned they were | upon this occesion. LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. F Troor—Privates led—Brieswood Bowditch, Awant, Kimble, Mitchell, Higgi, 1 Troor—Killed—Firet Sergeant Holbroek, Sergs. | Kent, Farrier, Snell. Privates—Brailey, Brenker, | Dale, Driscole, Gibbins, Humbert, Null, Pease, Ren- ottger, Kyan. Total of I troop killed in ac- 4 tion, 14. F Troor—Wovnnen.—C ral Davis, slightly | wovnded; Privates Fell, , Mehoney, severely ; Winter, slightly; Buck, severely bruised; Bowles, slightly. Total of F Troop wounded, 7. Troop—Wovnrep.—Lieut. John W. Davidson, Ast Dragoons, slightly wounded; beta oid Dempsey and Byrnes, severely; Bugler McGrath, slightly; Privates Baitzell, Bronson, severely; Crout, severely | bruised; Curtis, J. Dowd, Junkins, slightly; F, Mi ler, J. Miller, severely; S. Somerville, Weldon, slightly ; Sullivan, severely. Total of I Troop wounded, 15. | Pn ped Surgeon D. L. Magruder, U. S. A,, | tly. ECAPITCLATION.—Total killed in action, 22; total wounded, 23—total killed and wounded, 45. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE BATTLE OF CIENE- We learn a few further particulars of the battle of | | Cieneguilla, by a private letter from Taos. In the selection of it | it an ill concealed design to | peace, and that even were they attained, you anust be sonsidered as an inconsistent revolutionist, whose wiles and mancuvres are reiterated in the briefest possible space of time. In conclasion, His Excellency is happy to have had an opportunity to know you and your political principles, ER profess any, and of having freed the rk ed Order, re-established as a perpetual record of glories of the nation, from anindividual os incapable of belonging to it without tarnishing its ustre. Having stated this in_ accordance with the order of His Excellency, the President of the republic, I take this occasion to assure youof my high con- sideration. God and Liberty. jONILLA, ‘Vo Mx. Juan B. Crvatios, Orvice or rue Secretary or Justice, &c. Maxico, Nov. 29, 1863. Under this date, I say to the Minister of the Sa- | reme Court of Justice, Mr. Juan B. Cevatlos, a | vgistrate, having stated in his communication of the 24th inst., directed to the Secretary of State, | that his convictions were not in conformity to the | mearures dictated by the Supreme Government, to re establish among the Mexicans their high senti- ments of honor, which, unfortanately, have been sacrificed, thanks to doctrines tending to an- archy and dissoulution, and it not being expe- | dient and proper that any public office shouid be filled by a party professing principles antago- nistic to thoee adopted by the supreme governmentto | n if Ls | Six dead Indians were found on re-establish social order, and reorganise the admin's- tration of public affuirs—-His Excellency the President as the full power conferred upou him, and in con- formity to the provisions of the circulardated Aug. 22, to the effect that the our reproving or in any wat dis; ing the acts of the supreme government, shall be immediately removed from office, has ordered that the said Judge Juan B. Cevallos shoul: be forth- with removed from the office which he filled in the Supreme Court, and that the vacancy thereby » created be filled as the law provides until another appointment be made. ir, L state to 7 Prod and Libert tod ard Lil \. (Signed To Juan B. OavaLos. nse ou for the knowledge of the Sa- | such ends as may be ai ARES. | Monper mm Crxormnxatt—Between 10 and 11 | o'clock last night, an affray occurred at Andrew's Coffee House, on Wainat street, between Mercer and Thirteenth, between two men named Conrad | Hamer and Henry Shelbeg, in which the former was | Killed. It appears the parties got into a dispute about wrestling, which ended fn # personal fight, when Shelbeg drew « knife and stabved Hamer six times in the le't side. The wounded man fell and expired ina few minutes. Shelbeg was arrested Shortly afierwards, by the Teath ward police, and Jodged in the Bremen strect station house.—Cincin- mati Commercial, May 27. Eaoa.—We noticed yesterday a large namber of boxes on the sidewalk iu frout of the store of I. H. Cordes, on East Water street, very carefully packed ears that ¢ight or nine dead Indians were left on the field, and on passing a certain point on the Ojo | Caliente, they admitted 2 loss of twenty-three, and were in great tribulation. The Indians are said, by the Mexicans, to be tired of the war, and are ready | to surrender all the plunder they have taken, and make peace. Lieut. Davidson was wounded in the shoulder by an arrow, and Dr. Magruder was wound- | ed in the hand and head. Their wounds are not con- sidered dangerous. The Indians did not scalp any of the dead who were left on the field. | ANOTHER FIGHT WITH THE APACHES—BATTLE OF | AGUA CALIENTE CREEK. | Major Nichols, Assistant Adjutant General, has kindly placed in our hands the official report of Lieut. Colonel Cooke, of his fight with the Apaches, | at Agua Caliente creek, Saturday, the 8th instant. The report was brought in by a dragoon who left the camp the same evening of the battle, and arrived in Santa Fe on Wednesday, the 12th instant. Lieut. Col. Cooke, with’ nearly two hundred men, had been following the trail of the Apaches for some days on the west side of the Rio del Norte, | now and then obtaining information of them. From Ojo Caliente, where last heard from, he marched in a northwest direction, until the afternoon of the 8th | instant, when he came in sight of the enemy’s camp. It was almost a surprise, as he got very near | them before he was discovered. They had only | time to send off their women and children and part ¢ their baggage before the troops were down upon em. immediately took post in avery strong and inaccessible mountain position; but the troops bravely charged them, drove them from it, and pur- sued them for about a mile and a-half, fording a difficult stream, passing over a very broken country, and keeping up running fight. Al! the lodges and camp equippages, @ large quantity of provisions, and many of the horses of the enemy tell into the hands of the troops; and they also leit behind a number of the armsand equipments lately captured at Ciene- guilla, which were recovered by Colonel Cuoke. e field, but it is not known whether they sustained any further | loss. Of the troops one man was killed—private Ca- | sey, company (, Ist Dragoons, and and one man of the 2d Artillery, severely wounded. The day | ot the fight the troops marched through snow two feet deep, and it was also snowiug some of the time. Maj. Carleton, with a reinforcement, joined Col. Cook, about an hour after the battle, and will unite with him in the further pursuit of the enomy. From | the crippled condition of the enemy's resources, we have every reason to believe they will again be over- taken, and bron; we hope, will Delos the war to a close. The result of the expedition of Col. Cooke, thus far, makes it a fixed fact that Indians in New Mexi- co can be caught by the eocps which circumstance alone will have a beneficial influence on the other tribes, who, heretofore, have considered themselves quite secure from attack from the soldiers. LATER INTELLIGENCE PROM TH SEAT OF WAR. An expres from the seat of war arrived at head | quarters Thursday evening, with news to the 12th ht to a general engagement, which, | and of course in the following spring his friends and his opponents were both thoroughly drilled and ani- mated by a furious determination to wage a war of extermination. The result of the election exhibited | Since the fight at Cineguilla, the Indians have | g popular majority, as proved by the Congressional | yote—in which local interests exercised no influ- en: Benton. Nevertheless, in consequence of various temporary causes, the divisions of his enemies, who had no recognized chief, and the struggle of the | whigs to avail themselves of democratic divisions, | we think there is some chance of their being over- | the friends of Col. Benton had a majority of five or six votes in the Legislature over his enemies. In this condition of parties it was obvious that no one could be elected to the Senate ifeach of the par- ties insisted upon their own man. After alarge | number of ballotings to no purpose, the whigs pre- sented the name of Mr. Geyer, who had been known for years as a strict constitutional construc- ticnist—was a believer in the right of the Le- gislature to instruct and the duty of tho Senator o obey, and denied the wer of Congress o interiere with the subject of slavery in the. Territories. These were the chief issues which the opponents of Col. Benton had made with him in the canvass; and inasmuch as there was no hi pe of electing a democrat, and as the issica of meie policy between the whig and democratic par- | ties were ‘considered of minor importance when ccmpered with thove,they, after mature deliveration, ecnciuded that it was their duty in view of the slavery agitation then going on, rather to vindicate t e constitution and defend the rights of the State: and Territories, than to vote for an unsound demo- crat, or leave the State but half represented in the Senate. They therefore cast their votes for Mr. | Geyer, and he was elected. ‘he second great conflict was in the summer of | 1862. In this, as in the former canvass, Col. Benton | was charged by his enemies with being an ally of the free soilers and abolitionises of the North. The ce—of four thousand five hundred against Col. | York—The Salt Crop—Politics im Venezuela— Presidential Aspiran!s—Dread of Another Revo- The Governor of this island took his departure on the first instant for the mother country, on leave of absence. It is sincerely hoped by the majority of the population, that his absence will not be a py- tracted one, as he has proved himself capable of ad- ministering a healthy government for the welfare of the inhabitants of the island and its dependences, during the entire period of his governorship. For the benefit of invalids and others, it may prove ueeful for them to know that we have a new clipper (the bark Venus) plying between this island and New York as a regular packet, commanded by one of our most experienced ship-masters. Asa proof the veasel’s speed, she has made two succes- sive in ten and a half days. NSolt pss have commenced raking salt, and it a large crop. The weather continues quite dry, and the island is perfectly healthy now. . e latest dates we have from the republic of Ve- nezuela, are up to the 14th instant. The pi of the news is that the government are Bierce of i Forni of eee os Tadeo Monagas, but ‘y of the popu- lation are strongly in favor of the election of Re A. Ruiz, or Dr. Acosta, to the Presidency. The | latter named os , OF was quite recently, | sojourning in United States. From the present aspect of affairs in Venezuela, there is ever: soon to expect another civil revolution, an: crease the already much embarrassed state of the mony market of that misguided government. The country will never again flourish unless its in- bahitants demand the return of its old and tried pa- triot, General Paez, to the head of ita government, or else some one of his stamp to the Epeeibenny. ‘RRITAS. Co tal ‘Term. Before Hon. Judge Roosevelt. In the matter of opening Bightieth street, the Court sppointed the following gentlemen Commissioners of Estimate and Assessments:—Livingston Livingston, Ter- rence McGuire, Edmond Gross. reason Supreme In the matter of opening Eighty-third street—William H. Etting, M. G. Hart, J. Sherman Brownell. In the maiter J as Sixty-first street—Thedore Richard H. Bishop, James P. Dunn. MONEY MARKET. ‘Toumspay, May 30—6 P. M. ‘There was quite a reaction in the stock market to-day” and the bears in Cumberland and Nicaragua had a fine opportunity to take in some of their shorts. This will | serve to strengthen them materially, but it may lead | them again into difficulties, even greater than those re- cently presented. At the first board to-day, Canton Co. declined 3¢ per cent; Llinois bonds, 3; do. privilege, 34; New York Central Railroad, 3; Nicaragua Transit, 3¢; Cumberland Co., %; Erie Railroad, 34; Harlem, %; Read- ing Railroad, 3; Michigan Central Railroad, 3; Cleve- taken is not an unusual one. After a period of great buoyancy and activity, the market becomes subject to such fluctuations. The bulls frequently bring about such a change purposely, to give sellers a chance to get out. It weuld not be good policy on the part of buyers to put prices up, without any reac, tion, as it would endanger the safety of their contracts, and destroy all their prospective advantages. There is very little doubt but that the bears have already been | seriously bled, and have yet a large margin agaiast them; | | it would therefore be wise on the part of the bulls to | | give their opponents a little favor, sos to cnable them | to fulfil their contracts at maturity. The last week’s bank statement was not so favorable as speculators in | | stocks for s rise desired, and many may have realized | | from that cause. The banks of this city have been | drawn upon largely lately from Boston and Philadelphia, | but the drain is only temporary. The Boston banks com. | | mence their regular weekly reports on the lat of June, | and they have naturally been desirous of making a good. | show, which could not have been done without a supply | of specie from our banks. In helping them our banks | | have impoverished themselves. Fortunately, the de- | | | | mand for specie for shipment last week was unusually | tmited, otherwise the returns woul have looked gloomy | 4: | enough. We have no doubt the banks of this city and Boston will hereafter keep large amounts of specie ia pretty active motion between the two cities, for the pur- pose Of aiding each other in making up their weekly re- ports. A million or two of dollars in bullion could be made with merely the expense of transportation, to answer a good purpose in making up average weekly re- turns. After the adjournment of the board, the following sales of stocks were made at auction by Simeon Draper:— $1,000 Clevelond and Toledo RR. 7s, and interest... 80 8,000 Great Western (Illinois) RR. 108, do. Also, the following securities, payable 10 per cent day of sale, the balance, with interest at 6 per cent per an- num, on delivery of stock, 1st July next:— 200 shares Cleveland and Toledo RR 91 100 do. Reading RR. Co 18% | ‘The mining world was ra’ ‘day, and lower | charge was indignantly and emphatically denied by himeelf in person, and by ell the candidates for Congress and the Legislature, who espoused his | cause. This denial was all that saved him from an | overwhelming defeat. The true to its interests, its institutions and its constitu. tional rights, and CA need only to be convinced of the free soil proclivities of an aspirant to public office, to spurn him as they would an incendiary, or clandestine agent of the abolitionists. Even with | this flat denial, his constitutional opinions were so alpably in accordance with those of Martin Van ren and his adherents, as to excite deep suspicion, and the election resulted in giving his opponents a | majority over his friends in the Le, tslabere. It is worthy of note, too, that although the chief charge made against his opponents was that some of them had voted for Mr. Geyer, his friends in this conflict uniformly supported whigs in the counties where they could not elect one of their own number, and this was done at his own special instance and re- | nest. : The third and Iast campaign is now about to a Calls for public meetings, arrangements for the dissemination of newspapers, pamphlets and hand bills, and circular letters, with plans of pro- ceeding, all indicate that we shall have ‘war tothe knife.” What are the changes which have taken place? And what is likely to be the result? The course of events has more and more tended to prove | the affili:tion of Colonel Benton with the free soil | and abolition factionists. During the whole of the last summer his organ here teemed with vindictive attacks upon General Atchison, because the latter doubted the legality of entering into. and settlin, uw the lands along our western border, nearly al of which were secured by treaty to the Indians. The Colonel could see no difficulty or wrong. In his opinion anybody might do so with impunity. and he even pens amap gratuitously, and dis tributed it widely, to stimulate emigranis to move there. They were, however, deterred from taking his advice by the prompt and decisive course pur- sued by the missioner of Indian Affairs. so the matter rested until the meeting of Congreas. soon thereafter, Judge Douglas introduced the sas Nebraska bill. Here was an opportunity af- forded the Colonel to carry out hjs favorite pro- ject. Did he avail himself of it? Not he. The sa- credness of the Missouri cempromise—an act which he has habitually ridiculed for twenty years—sad- derly loomed up before his eyes. It was no longer an object to have the Territories organized fortn- with. And why? Because the bill was not so framed as toexcude slavery. This was the palpable rearon, and even this was given too late. Long before the Colonel delivered his specch aguinst the bill, all our citizens, of all OK rae 4 his own—had declared themselves in favor of i How many of them will shift their position st hia | bidding, remains to be seen. I hear of great num- bers in the interior, who have been his active and minent friends, who have abandoned him to his fate. | _ In this city and county, which compose his Con- gressional detrict, his Thandes to sustain himself are somewhat better. We haves very large foreiga Fenlation here—cbiefly Germans, vy all of | thea are democrats—nominally at least. They have hitherto sustained him with a blind devotion. Oey do so now? There is much reason ta doubt it, A gh nearly all ot them are free soilers, many s them = a ore? Kgs eng the Tp jJemocrat . They look w speech against the Nebraske bit as ® declaration of war ‘pee the party of the nation, and they are unwilling to sepa- rate themselves from its organization and hazerd inst. Since the action on the Sth inst., Col. Cooke anc his command have been in active pursuit of the enemy, whom bey pressed so i they were ob | liged to separate into small parties to save them- | selves. They led the troops over the most inacces- sible country in New Mexico, with snow in places three feet deep ; and Kit Karson, who i guide, says it is the ronghest country he seen. The Indians have suffered vers their bare foot prints were seen in the When the Indians separated they t ever y mach, and and marked for New York, inquiry we fond | southweet and iti: suppoced they will attempt to pag pe ET afi ofvm along SS ee | thousand dosen same ' ¢ Sroopa Weie ex)rec revch Abiqain | Louse —Mi.wauhe ( Wis.) ‘Sentinal, May 23. on the evcuing of the oth, where they would walt < | @ mass mee their charactors in following the lead of an individaal whose ultimate who they are inc’ to believe is see! ther revenge for his mortified vanity than the 43 Of democratic les. A call ‘now in circulation for the friends of the national demo- cracy, has been ly signed, and by many in- fluential Germans rly attached to Benton. There will bethree complete tickets in the field here. Luther M. Kennett will be the whig candidate for Congress, Mr, Benton himself will be the Benton candidate. Who will be the democratic candidate is hot yet The contest will be a severe ona, bet I am now under the impression that the whig must be elected. x le of this State are | ¢, Will | irposes they cannot fathom, and | ‘4 kin, prices raled in many stocks. Wyckoff gold sold at 2; the | last sales, if we remember rightly, having been at 3X. | The following wore the bids :— fala, | Dyewood, tes. Sugar, bnds.. 826 S.turpent’e,bs 175 5000 Wisconsin Bon:ia, 128, . Llano 6,000 Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark RR. 7s 68 | 1120 shares Fast River Fire Ins. Co. per shase.... 77% | & ‘The steamship Europa, from this port for Liverpool, | to-morrow, will take out about six hundred thousand take out a large amount. ‘The warrants entered on the books of the Treasury De- partment, at Washington, on Saturday, the 27th of May: | were:— | For the redemption of stocks, For the payment of other Treasury debts. For the Customs sees Covered into the Treasury from Cust Covered into the Treasury Trom lande Covered into the Treasury from neous source: For funding un For the War Department. | For repaying for the War Department For the Yoterior Department The returns of the banks of New Orleans, for the week ending May 22, compared with those for the week pre- vious, prevent the annexed statement: — Bans or New Onrgans. CASH ASSETS. Specie. May22. May15. 1,016,277 1,659,892 1733,418 1,657,901 1}872)201 s 981,823 1,294.90 1,957,934 818,521 25,009 "886,506 197,452 907,815 900,712 215,754 Total. ..$17,252,019 17,409,767 Decrease... .$157,748 CASH LIABILITIES, Circulation. Js May 22. Mayl5. May22. May 15. 2,082,970 0,885 1,844,442 1,959,454 + 1,900,407 1.85) ¥ " 1)829,824 State, 1,690,130 6 993,01 587,600 593,965 792,402 806,428 | 819,745 831,100 232,780 882,140 ' £1 821,905 809,710 602)154 651,640 | Total....98,181,621 8,127,846 11,801,638 12,077,018 In addition to the foregoing cash assets, the banks held foreign and domestic exchange on the 22d inst. as follows:—Bank of Louisiana, $1,031,348; Canal Bank, | $1,157,588; Southern Bank, $473,720; Louisiana State | Bank, $150,067; Mechanics’ and Traders’ Bank, $114,919; | Citixen’s Bank, $410,820; Rawk of New Orleans, $262,835; | Union Bank, $194,480; Total, $3,795,736. | "tbe Boston Traveller of the 20th inst. says -— | To answer the requirements of the law passed by the Inst Legislature, the various banks In Boston are hers after koop accounts of their business, for the pury of furnishing a weekly average to the Secretary of State for publication. The Secretary has alresty is- sued the necearary blanks, and requested the banks in Feston, in order to secure uniformity, to include the en- | tire week preceding the lst of June, when the act goes into operation. ‘The act iteelf is rather ambiguous, and it is difficult to | ascertain ite exact requirements, The Secretary states to be | the first Monday of July, and will include the ing weeks. A summary will be convenient by the Secretary. The annexed statement exhibits the quantity and va- | Hayt lue of certain articles exported from this port during the | week, ending and including Saturday, the 27th of May, distinguishing the destination and extent of shipments ‘to each place :— Commmncs oF THE Port or New York—Waexty Exports. oN. Bacon, Ibs.651,816 $44,640 Fr acco, . 8 017 Flour Mf. tabaceo. .8,200 Corn, bush.10,564 Camwood,tons thus in- | Rosi land and Toledo Railroad, 3. The turn the market has | R&™ dollars in specie. The Franklin, on Saturday, will also | ne + efrenlar that ‘the objects Ub obtain an average of the coniftion of the irg institutions—in the particulara indicstel—i ‘and the elty ef Boston, for each mouth and week | : H SC ienZe tesu0d require the following pa-tleulars, as of the act » ir several bank: in the i Lard, Total, Ww 40 Coal, tons... 600 Wh. oil, gals. 167 Furniture, ps. 38 Provisions, tes 7% Herrin; 200 Pkid. 2 Nails, kegs... 16 Drugs, pkgs.. 34 Furniture, do. 90 Book, cases. 2 ‘Total & bread, bbls. 200 &. tur’tine,do. H 18 5 + 22 Whaieb’e, Ibs. 160 Len sher, do. 490 M. tobacco,do 529 Tard, do....2, Cheesa, Total, Paints, do.. Te gecaas 96 Cocoa, bags. 312 8. 6 Shellac, bbls. 28 Nal kege.. 78 Wh. oil, his. 100 Machinery, cs. 6 Tamer, 173,087 in, bbls +, 14 7,445 Pork 1,600 520 209 Lamps, o8.... S Se +. 004 Wibone tbs.34, 892 1,667 3175 406 Ex. logwood,es 100 Total......+s008 < 610 WEST INDINS. Shawls, cases. Jhinery,ps 131 F crackers, $500 1,886 Cheese. 03 Dom’cs, pkgs. 50 Paper, rms.1,000 100 6 $45,735 5 637 900 6,817 $39,198 $180 537 $79,428 $27 8,151 9,611 20 Yt 8,550 5 608 2,217 eee veces B121,692 $280 Hardw’e 6 372 Lambet, 000 Oe = F. orack., bxs. » pt 300° Flour, bbls, 200 Cassia, mats 300 4 200 = Pm 184 pass 39/613 79,433 us Tos 40,237 | 20,648 i 2,853 va Total Value of imports in same time ‘Total ‘The principal article of export from this port last week. was cotton. The aggregate was exceedingly small. Breadstuffs have been rather quiet lately, and form now but asmall portion of the total exportation. It will be seen by the above statement that the shipments have been well distributed, Stock Exchange. $1000 Cal’fa7’s 70... 84 2000 NY Cen RR bds. 87 1000 Ch & Rk IRR b. 95 40 sbs Fulton Bank 128 . 10 Del & Hud C Co, 11434 40 Pank State NY. 104 SECOND $1000 Erie Income bs 97 200 shs Cant Co.8165 600 shs Wyckoff. 260 Uleter.... 100 Gardiner Gold..s3 6 600 Parker Vein.. .63 5 100 Gold Hill...... b90 8% 1K 8 60 Flint Steel,.blwk 5 5% CITY TRADE REPORT. iano nes 30—6 P. M. Asus —Sales of 150 bbls. were at $5 8734 for both kinds, per 100 Ibs. BrespeTcrrs.—Flour continued in brisk and was a shade dearer. The day’s operations comprised 9000 bbis.: ordinary to choles State at $8 pone oe mixed to fancy Western at $8 87}, a $9 other kinds in proportion. Sales were also rej of 4,700 bbls Canadian at $8 for common, Se er aad pty $93; for common to good, free, per bbl., with 2,500 bi fouthern flour, chiefly ¢-mmon to good, at $9 a $9 3734; 150 bbls. good’ fine rye flour at $6 a $6 25, an’ 200 bbis. Jerscy corn meal at $375 per bbl. Wheat remaine: light’ stock and fair request, with sales pine Genesee white, ((1 to ars 800 fair Canadian do., in bond, at $1 Western red, at $1 87% a $1 90; Lake, at $1 70 a $1 7 4,000 bushels rye, a5 $123; 800 do. and sundry small lots of State and a G4c. per bushel. Corn was less and valuable. The day’s transactions consisted of bushels, at 70c. a 73c. for unmerchantable, 740. & for round yellow, 74¢. a 78c. for mixed Western, 79¢. for Southern yellow, and 82c for do. white, per bushel. .—The sales for the day were estimated atabout 1,500 bales, the market closing —— Corrzz —The market waa quiet, as ra were wait- te et ae suction, to come off on the Freigers.—| Slat inst., (to-day.) have to notice engagements for Liver- me of about 8,000 a 10,000 bushels of corn, in gs, at 7d.; and about 1,000 bales of cotton, at 44. compressed, and 160 do., Sea Island round bales, at “a ‘There was ‘of moment reported for London. Havre, 200 » 300 bales of cotton were 1 ged, at ‘A veseel was chartered to load with deals at S John, for the Bristol Channel, at £6 10s. A brig of 175 tons was chartered for a voyage to Jamaica, at $16 per ton. To California, rates were unchanged, and ranged from 45e.. 8 60c. per foot measurement. OF ge pret snes pein resid ys 2p FeaTHERs.—Sales of 4,200 Ibs. prime live geese were reported on terms not made public. , and $1 for local use, per 100 Ibs. Hors were less sought after at 280. @ 83c. for last year’s, and 180, a 20c. for 1852-5 Howry.—falea of 2 ‘bénd on private terms. Liwz.—Rockland was less inquired for at 87}4c. a 900. for common, and $1 30 for lump, bbl. Lakp was quiet, and prices ui . Motasems.—There was but s moderate business ey 3 other sales 50 hhds. Cuba muscovedo were al 2c. vols wisi turpentioe at 45 ey canny 800, bole ouiny 8 urpentine at 46 c. i$ large bole. trom store, at $1 70; 200 do., No. 2, do. $1 90, it ? gee do., common, sfloat anc delivered, at $ 1 6734. same. cured have been about 14,000 gallons Linseed within the last two days, eh tee a sou: por galbons per C ‘The day’s sales included 900 bbls, at $13 50a $I3 62% for eas, and $12.26 for prime, per WM. Contracts for 1,500 bbls. mess were settled at $18 625; per bbl. Sales were made of 140 pkgs. pickled shoulders and hams, at 53. a Ske. and Te. a7%Ke.; 126 pkgs amoked hams, at 8o.; 670 bbls. lard, at 340 a 9%. per 1b.; and 435 dbis. at previous quotations. Butter and cheese contin: about the same. REAL eee pe nt on northeadt corner Sixth avenue ‘orty-fourth street, $3,11 J lot adjoining the above, on the avenue, Baio, od on Sixth avenue, about 60 fest north ‘of Fouriesath street, $1,950; 1 lot north side Fifteenth street, between avenues A and $2,100; 1 lot north site of Thirty- ' street, 100 feet east of Sixth avenue, $3,000; the above, each $3,475; 5 lots on south 4 lots 1ige Thirty eighth etrvet, 100 feet act of Gisth avonne, sch }; 4 lots north side Thirty. th street, 1i¢ fa ote Macnee cook ator ists " the above, ench $3,000; $ ote on’ north side of sighth street, 635 fest east of eth avenue, each 33 000; 1 joining the above, west, $5,150; house and 2 lots bn sont aide ae ninth street, 210 feet east of Sixth avenve, each 1 ining abo 590; Sole cn south side Thirty nth coreet 696 feet weet Pua AVenne, $2.950; 1 lot on southwest corner Sixth avenue and 1 intn Street, $7,250; 1 lot adjoining the above, $6,100; 2 lots also a@jotmug, $4,475; 2 oa Columbia’ street, 25 feet west of” Cranberry, n, hp RA pre nog hn Pang ocklyn, ;. ining, $570; 8 «ame loon Wom 8630; 1 do f a0 5 $620; 1 $680; 3 do., $600: 1 $116; 2 seme avenuo, near Full patrase $900; 1 on Lafayette avenue, corner Graham -treet,9800; 1 do, Kent avenue, $890; 1 do., between Kent and Graham stree!, $050: 1 do., 825; 4 do. $2,480; 6 om | Kent sess, detwcen DeKalb street and ave- nui ; are. de., lest, Kice—The market was dull, and the sales atte’. The stock in this market, for the month closing , the Fg i een 5 whole casks, oF | ‘the market was steady, with moderate sales, | iucluding 200 a 200 New Orirans at 41; n 4ic., 460 do. | Cuba, at 44¢ 8 4%¢., and 100 boxes yellow Havana at 6 3c. SeRre—At ‘the day’s sales were S2 bbis. clover, af 7 ocee e P—Only 180 boxes Castile brought lie. per Ib. Tariow--tales of 46,000 Ibs. homemade on terms; the previous males were mace at 11}¢0., tba ‘pposed \t « fraction less. *\Wemmr-—The day's trassctions were ovatined to 180 Dols Ohle and prison 08 37 © 37360. por gall.