The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1855, Page 4

463 NEW YORK HERALD. paMGS GORDON BENNET®?, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @rvicn % W. COBNEB NAzEAD AND FOLTOM e?s FORMS audience ee D2 cents per °°Pw, Pee AN Ty HERALD coer Sater tay ob Bie cents per seri or Berghe Be i ta af che oe ™ tof Great Britain, Saat Bei CG ARESPONDENCE, containing impor. Ni ilicted from any quarter of the worlds ~if used sent Aiberilly puid for. gar Our Fourie Ce anesvon- will be awe, Parse 8 mD TF REAL ALZ ACKAGES SENT UB. LETTER PTERS by Mail for Subscriptions or with £d-r tasements Co de post paid, or the postage wilt be deducted yrom alte ‘em a, OCG NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We de turn thowe bet 2 cted. RINTING evecuted with seatness, chewpness, and “EVR TISEMENTS renewed every day. a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broattay- Tue Eovrriax— Bison Evep Susan. a WERY THEATRE, Bowery—Huncunack--Naree AMrnioAn £40 RxwaiD. WURTON'S THRATRE, Chambory ssreet—Tue Boace een ine MinesauieTuw Shrine, Ob THE Soonway APLOAT. WALLACK’S THEATER, Brostway—Tuz Busy Door~ Winpsia. AMERICAN WDSEUM.— Aftorneon—Wearmrancocn— Nonanon s Comx, Eyeainy—Uncum fom’s Carn. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanion’ Hall—t79 Broadway WOCELEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 39 Bros¢way—Buox’ awy'e Zrworian Orema Taoure. AMPIRB HALL, 596 Broadwar+PavoRara or Evrorr, New ‘Work, Thurs@xy, March 1, 1855. The News. The steamship Canade, due at Hielifax from Liver- pdol, hed not been sigeolized at the former port at moon yesterday, the date of our last despatch. Later in the day the telegraph wires wore broken, or otherwise disabled, cutting of all communisation. The steamship Daniel Wobster arrived at'New Orieans yesterday with California advices to the ‘9th inst—one week later—brought down or the Pa Gific side by the Cortex. The forty-fourth ball: for ‘United States Senator’in the California Logisla- ture resulted in ne choice. The miners were suffering still for want of water. Commercial afiirs had improved. The Star of the Weat left San Jnana for this port on the 23d inet. with half a million in trea- sure. She will arrive in a day ortwo, when wo shall give the details of the news. Ia Central Ame- ica the revolution was progressing, and Chamorro bsd obtained an important advantage over his op pocent. The health of the Isthmus was good. We have some additional intelligence from Hava- va, by way of New Oxleans. Senor Hstramoes and Mr. Felix bad been sentenced, the former to death by the garote, amd the latter to ten years in the chaia gang in Africa, These geatlemen, our readers wil) probabiy recollect, were implicated in the attempt to land arms snd munitions of war at Baracoa, some monike ago, from vestels which -ssiled from this port. Mr. Felix was, we beliove,a resident of Brook- lyn previous to embarking in the enterprise which has resaited so disastrously. Everything wore a glcomy aspect at Havana, and the banishment and disarming of oreoles continued. There were threa British ships of war in port on the 25th. Garcia Mource and Conde de Carrigo had been appointed Teepectively to the Military and Civil Governorahip of Havana. The blockade recently placed upon Ha- vena by the-Captain General is not against mer’ ehart vessels, but relates only to armed ships. We reier cur readers to the eminently suggestive despatch of our correspondent at Harrisburg, pub- lished under the telegraphic head. Our Washing- ton despatc'es also contain several, interesting iteme—one stating that an attemp’ will shortly b> made in Congrees to poss a resolution suspending the neutrality laws, In the United States Senate yesterday the bil! providing for the more efficiont discipline of the Bavy, by the introduction of a system of rewards for good conduct and puishments for offences, was passed. The motion to reconsider the vote whereby the report of the conference committe: on toe bil pelative to swamp lands was adopted, was rejected ~—24 to 21; so the Icoaters and purchasers of swamp and overflowed lands racsive the relief sought for. ‘Phe Ocean Mail Steamer Aporopriation was taken up, the sisuee relative to the Collins steamers again @iscusced, and the bill finally passed—26 to 22. The olline steamers will continue to carry the inails till April, 1860, at $33,000 the rouad trip, Congress yehrquishing the right to terminate the contrast as six moths’ notice. The Civil aod Divlo matic Appropriation bill was reported by the Fi- mance Committee as received from the House, ta- oloding the modified tariff,and Mr. Hunter urged that it be passed without amendment. Mr. Pearce, of Meryland, objected to such a summary dispori tion of this important matter, and the bill was made the special order for today. It is believed the Benste will adopt the pzoposal to remit the daties en railroad iron imported from June, 1853, to July, 1866, and admitting dyestuffs, wool, &., free of daty. Gen. Caes announced tha he should cail ap ‘the resolution respecting religious freedom abroad today. The Senate went into ex:cutive session ‘and onanimously confirmed the appoint nent of NEW YORK H@RALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1855... Sen salen of Kentucky tl seq havo bevn Bde resently at very full prlcee eaying » light stock in market, The probiictery Yiquor DUT of the Delaware Legislature beosme a iaw yesterday. It goes into effect om #5 lat of June, The Canadian Assembly ‘has sP.cmed the prlpaiple of prohibition by a vote cf Corty-five to twenty-five. At the meeting of the Commissiozers of En'gra- tion Deld yesterday, a long and interesting comma- wicetion was received from Dr. Vache, Health ‘Officer, om the proposed removal of the Quarantine, in which he presents some very forcible objections to that measnre. The subject is an imvortant om, avd the document, which will be found elsewhere, will repay perusal, Mr. Gustav Saywab took his seat 23 Commissioner, (in place of 8. Witthaus, re- signed,) by virtue of his election to the office of Pre. ident of the German Society. Dr. A. Grardison Full delvered a iscture last cveaing, in the Chapel of the University, Washing- “ton square, taking for his subject the “ Forces of Nature, end their adaptation to the cere of disease.” The ettendance was smal! but select, and the Doctor advanoed the theory of electrical medicine, avserting tbat that agout (electricity) hee proved, in his bando, a meens of forming an unerring disgnosia of Gisease, and afterwards afforded a curative power which corld ‘be ured on acertain fixed basis by physicians, if they understood its action. The examination in the case of William Post Sackett, late receiving teller of the Market Bank, charged with being a defaulter to that institution Yo't're amount-of $25,000, was concluded yesterday, before Justice Connolly, at the Lower Police Court. ‘The counsel en both sides, after reviewing the evi- dence and descanting upon it at some length, sub- mitted the case t> the decision of the magistrate, who will, it is presumed, render a decision in a few days. We publish to-day a tabular statement, giving the numher of commitments to the City Prison during the year 1864, alzo a classification of tho prisoners as natives or foreigners, their habits, in- telectual capacity, and other interes!ing statisti. cal information. ‘This tablehas been prepared for the information and guidance of the Logislative select committees on the prohibitory liquor bill. There were received during the year,3@,691 prisoners; snd of thia number 5,320 only were of temperate habits, while the balance—26,370—were victims of the moat debasing of all propensities, and 9,481 of these miserable beings were women. Of the total number 6,966 -were natives, and 23,725 were for- eigners. Here is food for reflection, A report of the proceedings yesterday before the Railroad Committee of the Board of Councilmen, relative to various resolutions and petitions urging a redu:tion of fares on the city railroads, is given in another column. All the courts adjourned yesterday in respect to the memory of Henry P. Edwards, Presiding Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of New York, who died at bis residence in this city on Tuesday evening, after an illness of several weeks. Reports of the evlogies delivered before the various tribunals are given eleewhere. The fugitive slave Burns has been bought by citi- zens of Boston, and is now on his way eastward, where he will be quite a lion—-an African lion. The Alteration in the Tariff. It is wonderful to see how meek and quiet the old protection organs are under the pro- posed infliction of a new tariff. After they bave been clamoring might and main for an in- crease ‘in the duties as the only cure fer the evils under which the country is suffering, all of a sudden and almost without notice the House of Representatives passes a bill to cut down those duties yet twenty per cent; and actually there is hardly so much as a groan heard from the bewildered protectioniets. Let us ‘hope that this is a symptom of returning common sense, and that the unfortunate per- sons who have been so long crazed on this sub- ject will now become useful and intelligent members of society. All, however, cannot be classed in this improving category. The Wash- ington correspondent of the Courier and En- quirer is very affecting in describing the ills which he foresees must grow out of this diminu- tion of the customs duties. According to this authority, the reduction will cause a great in crease of importe, which will lead to a financial reaction, which must “cripple the country’s energy, and prostrate private business.” Now tbis is a fair sample of the sort of logic these protectionists have been hashing up for the last twenty years. The argument—if it can be dignified by such a title—is that low duties produce large imports, while high or protective duties tend to decrease them. It is quite clear to any man not blinded by the pro- tective mania that the consumption of foreign goods writ] be in every country in exact propor- tion tO the demand for them; that the people will buy them if they want them and can afford it, no matter how high the duty may be, and that if they do not want them or cannot afford them, they would not import even though th:re should be no dnty at all. For instance, under the compromise act of 1832, high duties were Gen. Scott to the Lieutenat Generalship. In the House a number of unimportant bills were paseed. The Senate bill granting one hundred and sixty acres of land to persons who have served in the wars since 1790, and to the widows and orphins @f deceased soldiers, was passed—135 to 39. ,This throws into the market about two hundred miliion acres of land at one dash, opening a rare chance to As a large number of prraons are in- ‘terested in this measure, we refer to a synopsis of ita provisions under the proper head. Tue remiin- der of the session was devoted to speeches upon Kaneas, Nebraska, slavery and Know Nothingism. In the New York Senate yes‘erday the Panama Railrosd bill was again. discassed. It provides for imcreasing the capital stock of the company two miltion dollars. Toe chances of ita success are qite problematical ; but its friends are revolved t> get the bill through before acting on any nomina- taons. The bill to allow resident aliens to hold real estate was paseed. In the Assembly the c mmittes om the petition arking the State to secure the swords of the late gallant General Worth, reported a bill favorable to the prayer of the petitioners, aad it preeed unanimously. The bill relative to the First | division of the Btate militia was discussed and passed, but four voting ia the negative. Among cther things it takes the commutation fees from the role contro! of the commissioned officers, aad om this account the bill has been strongly oppused by Gen. Bandfird and others, Gov. Ciark finds great difficulty ia msking his ap men's. Tae temperance men hold him strictly to his pletzs to sppoict none but teeto‘aliers to offlee, whilo tre whige as strongly inset upon his dissrimip yi 1g in favor of members of their party. How he wilex- ti) wte himeeif from the predicament js hard to con- jectore, Meantime, the office seekers are shivertag m@ tLe ante rooms of t'e Capitol, hat in hand. Tho Bomination of Dr. Thompson as Health Officer #!ill hangs fire, although the Governor has been threat- ened with terrible consequences if be does no od iw bis name. The Connecticat Whig State Corvention me at | Martford yesterday, snd re nominated toe ticket of | fest year for State officers by aoclamation. Am ong the resolutions adopted was one endorsing the prin- elples of the Know Nothings. Potton sold yesterday to the exten: of abont 1.000 bales, chiefly or home conevrption. The market closed at stesdy rates. Fiour and grain were wits | cnt material change. Dealers apreared dieposad ty wait for later foreign news. Park wae rather eas er | for cid mese, witb 6 lolz wocuns of euler, Here | enacted ; yet in tive years under the working of that act, the imports rose from about one hundred millions to one hundred and eighty per annum. The reason was very obvious. During the same period the banks expanded in their loans and discounts from two t> five hun- dred millions ; thus affording every man the means to buy. After 1837, the duties under the act of 1832 were reduced ; did the imports in- crease? Instead of increasing, they fell off from $140,000,000 to $64,000,000: because during the same period the bank accommoda- tions fell from $500,000,000 to $250,000 000, round numbers. Again in 1842, the protec- tionists got the upper hand and the duties were increased ; wherefrom, according to the Con- rier’s argument, the imports should have fallen off. But they increased again from $64,000,000 to $140,000,000 ; the banks having begun to expand, and the loans and discounts having in- creased nearly a hundred millions. Under the present tariff, which, whatever the protection- iete may say, is a protective tariff to all intents and purposes, the imports have increased one bundred and fifty per cent In eight years ; sim- ply because the banks have expanded one hun- dred per ecnt in the same period, thus doubling every man’# means to buy foreign goods and wares. There are some men who will never be con- vinced; and it may be that some protectionists will neyer admit that you cannot by law settle what a man shall buy for his house, his belly or his back, or from whom he shall buy it. The world, however, cannot wait for them; it most goon, and the twenty-six millions of enlight- ened human beings who compose the American people cannot be bamboozled any longer into Jegislating, at the selfish dictates of this or that on the insaoe method called protection Cradled in meanness and avarice, that theory hos grown by falechood, and has owed its euo- ers to the kpavery of come, to the ignorance of others, The first men who demanded a pro- rcti ff in this conntry were the manu turers who had Segurt to manufacture daring the war with Great Britait, and who foresaw th sce must destroy their vocation. They that Congreee should make « law fo pra- arked vent the peace des, oying their factories—or in other words + snoject the people at large to the burtheo’, of a perpetual war. The idea was caught up) y Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Clay and others who souy ht to make political capital out of it, and to marshal the people into political parties on tse issue. Then New England began to fond cotton mills; Rhode Island wet up ‘woollen factories ; Pennsylvania mined and wrought iron, All ran to Congress, and representing themselves a3 beggars, implored alme in the guice of protection. History proves that it is only on rare occasions that communi- ties of men have sufficient independence or Joftiness of character to refrain from mendicancy when anything is to be made by it. The manu- facturing interests of the United States made a business of begging. The more they got the more they wanted. When John C. Calhoun discerned the fallacy disguised under the word protection and denouuced it, Webster and Massachusetts begged more sturdily than ever. Their rapacity grew with their success. With maw gorged by the pnblic plunder, the indus- trials would return home to fatten and whine at the wantof protection. They said they were starving when they were in reality fattening on the plunder of their fellow citizens, Day after day they told us dolefal tales of closed factories, and broken mills; and the ink with which the impudent fallacy was written, the paper on which it was printed, the tools with which the types were fashioned, and the press on which the sheets were thrown off, were all bought and paid for out of the taxes imposed upon the public for the benefit of the complain- ants. A more astonishing example of brazens faced impertinence has never been witnessed than the spectacle of these manufacturers and their party friends crying and lamenting over the wrong that was done them, when in reality they had been screwing money on false pre- tences out of the nation for nearly forty years. Their day is ended, however, and unless Pro- vidence is unusually hard, we shall hear no more of them than we do of other lunatics. The tariff may be altered and reduced or increased according as the public wants require it. But these changes will not be based on the proiec- tive principle. Nor will any who have a regard for their reputation as men of sense, hazard future speculations on the effect of the tariff on imports, The figures are before the public, and no one can henceforth pretend ignorance of the fact that it has happened in this country that alterations in the tariff have been followed by the very opposite result to that expected by the protectionists. As well might we argue that a high tariff encourages, as that it tends to discourage foreign imports. Hon. Mr. Rurrin, tHe HeRatp ann THE Kyow Norninas.—Mr. Ruffin, of N. C., in Con- gress the other day, complimented “ Mr. Ben- nett and his Herap” as having “done more to further the progress of the Know Nothings than any other man.” We are obliged to Mr. Roffin, but beg leave to demur. There are other persons, occupying the highest official positions, who have done a vast deal more to advance this wonderful Know Nothing reaction than “Mr. Bennett and his Heratp.” In this respect the President of the United States is entitled to the first premium, Judge Douglas to the second, Gen. Cass to the third, and various other leading democrats to “honorable men- tion.” Mr. Pierce was elected by the Union sentiment of the country, for, notwithstanding the great military popularity of General Scott, and his blarney to the Irish and Germans, the Union sentiment was against him as Seward’s chosen man. But Mr. Pierce betrayed the people—and his appointment of Southern and Northern disunionists to the highest offices, and of incompetent foreigners to diplomatic mis- sions abroad, hurried up this American reaction. It commenced with the revolt of the New York hard shells; but hud Messrs. Cass and Douglas at that time cooperated with Bronson and Dickinson, they might have saved thems:!ves, the democracy, and perhaps even the adminis- traticn. But they stuck to the spoils and the epoilsmen; and to recover their lost ground, they ventured upon the desperate experi- ment of the Nebraska bill. Into this revi- val of the slavery agitation they plunged over head and cars. Disorganization and chaos followed, the administration was crushed between the upper and the nether millstone of the Northern anti-slavery sentiment and the indignant American sentiment of the whole country. The blunders and the follies of Pierce, the weakness of Oass, the reckless ex- pedient of Douglas, and the blindness of the Kitchen Cabinet and the organs of the spoils democracy, have, more than all other causes the great deep” of the American sentiment of the whole Union in this mysterious and tre- mendous Know Nothing reaction, which even now foreshadows the most decisive and over- whelming revolution in all our political his- will oblige us in making the neceseary cor- rection. The particular thunder which he gives to us belongs to the administration and to Messrs. Cass and Dougias. Mr. Pierce, es- | pecially, has done “more than any other man | to farther the progress of the Know Nothings,” | and not Mr. Bennett. Mr. Pierce “put the ball | in motion;” we have only aided in keeping it | rolling, Mr. Ruffin. Sout Commo.—At last we are informed that Soulé had started to leave Spain, and, via Liverpool, to return home, Let ,the filibus teros here prepare to give him a fitting Tecep- tion. He was faithful to his programme, but | the administration, Nebraska, and the late elec- tions prostrated him. Sickles and Sanders are here, the Cuban junta is here, Soulé may be here in the next steamer; so let everything be prepared to receive him in style. A great ga- thering of the filibusters may result in the most important disclosures. Soulé can tell & great deal, if he will; and be is bursting wish indig- nation against the treachery of Pierce and Marcy. He is full of useful knowledge from Ostend, Calais and Madrid, and he is coming. Gen. Hovston’s Mistake.—At the Academy | of Music, the other evening, Gen. Houston was guilty of a great blunder. He did not wish his speech reported, and so the accommodations | provided the press for that purpose were taken | away. This was puerile and ridiculous, It was an affectation of modesty as antit for Hous. | ton as the dress of a Broadway dandy. Why | should he imitate the folly of Henry A Wise? Hlas he but one speech on Texas? And if he | is it but theirs? Gen. Honston spoke to four | bepe five bondred thousand, speech reported? Fiddle-dedee Didn't want bie | | combined, operated to “‘stir up the fountains of | tory since the revolution of 76, Mr. Ruffin | Dearu or Henry PrenrePont Eowarps.—The fell destroyer, death, is busy in all ranks at every season, but amongst the judiciary ond the leading members of the bar he has of late drawn from their scenes of usefulness many whose voids have not since been adequately filled. Of nose who have passed away within the last few years from sudden casualities, from disease or ripe cld age, we need not again epesk; the more recent Mecease of Judge Ed- wards now fills the hearts of the whole legal profession with sorrow and with awe. Sorrow for one whose urbanity and undisturbed equa- nimity gained for him the respect of all whose business called them within his presence; and awe to think that ose so young, so fall of health and vigor of mind and body should be thas prematurely taken from the scene of his earth- Jy labors. Aj) the courts, federal and State, of this city, adjourned yesterday, after brief eulogiams on his memory, and a generaFmeeting of the bench and the bar is called for this day, at one o’clock. We learn from the few remarks made yester- day, that Henry P. Edwards died at bis resi- dence in Fourth street, in this city, on Tuesday evening, of typhoid fever; that he was the son of Governor Edwards, of Connecticut, and ne- phew of Hon. Ogden Edwards, formerly Circuit Judge of this State. He came to New York more than twenty years ago, studied law, rose rapidly in the profession, and posseesed legal and urbane qualities, quick- ness of perception and correctness of action— “yare in their separate excellence, but wonder- ful in their combination.” He was about eight years since elected to the bench of the Supreme Court of this State, at the first election for judges under the constitution of 1847. He sat during the past year in the Court of Appzals, and his term of office as Judge of the Supreme Court would have terminated on the Ist of January next ; yet there is uo doubt, as one of his associates has said, had he lived, his re- election would have been altogether unopposed. Of the merits of Judge Edwards, as a clear, logical exponent of the law, a calm, faithful, fearless, yet temperate and mercifal dispenser of justice in the highest criminal court of this State, his brethren have spoken more authenti- cally than we can; but from our observation of his judicial career we can endorse all that has been raid of him. Judge Edwards was only forty-six years of age. He was, therefore, in the fall vigor of life, and was remarkable for his manly beauty and dignity of deportment. He was not mar- ried. we The grave has not yet closed over the ashes of the lamented dead, yet rumor has been busy in the halls in naming his successor. Homan Nature Turety Centurtes AGo anp Now.—A little seven-by-nine country paper, published somewhere in the interior of Alabama, recommends earnestly the New York Heratp as one of the best and ablest newspapers of the North; but adds, that while it entertains the highest opinion of that journal, it has a great dislike of Bennett, the editor. The conductor of another paper out ia the Northwest expresses a similar opinion of the Herat; but amusingly enough also confesses to a strong prejudice against Bennett, its editor, without ever hav- ing seen that personage, or without, in fact, knowing anything about him. ; Human nature is the enme in all ages. A lapse of thirty centuries canuot, it seems, change the characteristics of the human family. Athens, in the time of Socrates and Aristides, was precisely what New: York is in this age ot dirty strects and bad government. The simple and upright character of Socrates rendered him an object of envy and dislike to the evil dis- pored, and the wit, sarcasm and ridicule lay- ished by him on the sophists of his age led to his arrest and suicide by poison. “I wish Aris- | tides to be banished at once,” said an Athenian loafer to a fellow-citizen, who, without bis being aware of the fact, happened to be Aristides | himeelf. ‘“ Why do you express such a wish?” inquired the latter. “Because,” replied the loafer, ‘I am tired of hearing every one call him ‘the Just.’ from Athens for setting himself up as superior to the rest of mankind.” Such is human nature in all ages and coun- tries, The individual who, by his talent, in- dustry and rectitude of conduct, raises himself above others who are deficient in those qnali- ties, is sure to be made a target for ali the epleen, malignity and calumny that his rivals can pour out upon him. Such was the philo- trophy of the conduct of the cotemporaries of Aristides and Socrates; such is the philosophy of the enmity of ours. Tne Vraita Orpostrion Canpipate.—Why not bring him out? Why not nomisate William C. Rives, one of the very first and most ex- perienced statesmen in the country’? It isa pity that Mr. Wiee should any longer continue to beat the empty air. Confront him with Rives, and leave the rest to the people. Give “him something to fight. © Affairs. Lavnemt or A Lance StkaMsniP,—Mr. Jeremiab Simon- | Woodworth, M e to give it to the public, hoover to gi o public, whose property | af thousand; we have repeated his epeech to per- | i thee son will launch at half-part nine o'clock, next Eaturday morning, from bis yard at the foot of Nineteenth atreet, East river, the steamabip Ariel, of 2,300 tons burthen, for Commodore C. Vanderbilt, She has been fully com- pleted onthe stocks, and has her engines and boilers already on board, #o that she could pe got ready for sea ata few hours’ notice. The machinery was constructed at the Alaire Works. Disasters ON THE OHIO AND M SSISeIPPI Rives —A letter from the agent of the New York Board of Underwriters | to Ellwood Walters, Faq., Secretary of the Board, dated Cincinnati, Feb. 26, syn :—The river is full of drift ices and the water is very low, which makes navigatioi esngerous. During the past week somo boats have been sunk, among them the # d Rott, Dresden, Northener, Norma, and Grand Turk, on the Mississippi river, and the Latiob, Helen Mar, Win- field and Cincinnatus, Janding bere, ard had « cargo on board insured in Bor- tom (it be: consigned there) for $58,000. The loss will de at least thirty per cent. The Helen Mar's cargo is mortly for and insured in Baltimore. Personal Intelligence. ARKIVALS. At the Irving Houre— Hon, Jacob Broom, Penn.; Co). B. F. Loud, Boston; Dr. Meppin, Phila.; Jno, Y¥. Ru ly do.; H. Lathrop, Sayannah, Ga; € a Thompson, Cleveland, Ohio; Judgo T. J. Smith, N. MP. Par on. . Tompkins, ‘bila.; Hon. B. Anthony, | Caseig Washington; A’ Lambard, tor ‘on; W. FP. Dalrymple, Baltimore; A. K.P. Cooper, : Hon. A. P. Seymour, Toronto. a wat sim en DBPABTURES, for Liverpool, in the steamship Asia, from Boston—M Yoknston Mist Jobueton, Mra Ht Stowelh onald, Mre Mrs P Mra JR Por Chartest and lady, J A Bi Adame, Mics KV Wood, GE i nt Me He deserves to be banished | The Cincinnatus sunk near the | Col. J. Badger, | | were of notaries in various parta of the State. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION AT HARRISBURG Interesting from Washington. Affairs at the State Capital. ONE WEEK LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. FURTHER ADVICES FROM CUBA. POLITICAL AND TEMPERANCE NEWS, der, Se, &e. . Non-Arrival of the Canada. Hauirax, Feb. 28—noon. The steamship Canada, now due from Liverpool, with one week’s later advices, has not yet been signalled. The weather is exceedingly cold, Wind northwest. Boston, Feb 283—10 P. M. We have no tidings from Halifax this evening, the New Brunswick line having been broken at a late hour this afternoon. We are, therefore, without later news relative to the steamer Canada, wgich is now in her twelfth day from Liverpool, and is fully due at Halifax. Portianp, Feb. 28—9 P. M. The line between this city and Halifax is at present interrupted; we have, theiefore, no tidings of the steamer Canada, Stirring News from Harrisburg. GEORGE LAW'S LETTER BECEIVED— EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT—INTENSE EXCITEMENT, AND MORE EX: PECTED. HaRniss0rG, Pa., Feb. 28, 1855, The defeat of Simon Cameron and all the old fogy can- didates for Senator is a great practical triumph for Young America. Mis nomination was a mistake, and the Know Nothings will profit from the result, Our State election next fall will be a furious contest between them and the rotten spoils democracy, But a new topic of light. Day before yesterday a letter was received from George Law some two columns long, in answer to the legislative letter on the Presidential question, to which Ihave heretofore referred. This reply is addressed to Henry K. Strong, Speaker of the House, and many other members of the new party in both houses. They have had a reading of it in caucus, anda curious and tremen- dous excitement was the result; but what for, and of what description, I cannot exactly tell. I understand that Mr. Law goes pell-mell into the cor- ruptions of the two old parties, and briefly, bluntly, and pungently gives his views upon national affairs, covering a broad, conspicuous, strong and comprehensive platform upon a Know Nothing basis. A prodigious political sen- sation will follow the promulgation of this letter, a copy of which I hope to beable to obtain to send you by mail to-day. It will prove to you that Mr. Law has other artic! his magazine besides old muskets. Interesting from Washington. THE COLLINS STEAMERS—THE MODIFIED TARIFF— THE NEUTRALITY LAWS—THE PACIFIC BAILROAD. ‘Wasuinaton, Feb. 28, 1865. There is great rejoicing over the Senate vote sustain- ing the Collins line. Mr. Hunter, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, desires to report the Civil and Diplomatic Appro- priation bill precieely as it passed the House, but there is no doubt Mr. Edgerton’s railroad iron, wool and dye- stuffs proposition, will be engrafted on it by the Senate. Mesers. Douglas, Toembs, Mallory, Chase, and a number of leading Senators, will advccate this amendment, all sections of the country being united in its favor. It in paid that a resolution will be introduced to-mor- row or the day after, suspending our neutrality laws. ‘The Pacific Railroad bill is to be tacked to the Iowa land bil), and its friends are sanguine of its passing the House in this shape. MRE. BENTON’S LOSS BY THB PIRE. Wasuinaton, Feb. 28, 1855. Mr. Benton lost, by the fire at his house yesterday, the data and notes for the second volume of his Thirty Years in the Senate, together with other important docu- ments, manuscripts, books, &c. UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, ETC. Wasnineton, Feb. 28, 1855, | The United States Agricultural Socie'y commenced its third annwal session to-day, at the Smithsonian Insti- tute, Twenty-six States are represented. Among the delegates presentare Messrs. Childs, Fay, Proctor, Up- ham, Waters, Newhall, Baker, Poore, Wilder, King, Morton, Walley, E’mondr, Brown, Mixer and Dickinson, of Massachusetts. Colonel Willer’s address, on takiag the chair, was warmly applauded. Committees were | appointed, and the Society adjourned till to-morrow. This evening George Washington Parke Custis lectured on the agricultural character of his father, by adoption, George Washington. The session has opened under fa- vorable auspices, ard, from the agricultural talent assembled (seldom equalled), the proceedings will be marked by the greatest interest. A proposition will probably be made in the Senate to- morrow to establish an ocean mail, as a substitute for that which ceased by the withdrawal of the Cunard steamers, Douglass C. Cooper, who was appointud to the super. intendency of Indian affairs, refuses to accept, and re- tains his old agency, and has been withdrawn as nomi- nee for the former office. Mr. Bolton, of Indiana, has been confirmed as consul to Geneva, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasuinotox, Feb. 28, 1855, A. B. Magruder, of Virginia, and Dwight H Olmatead, of New York, were admitted as Attorneys and Counsel: | tors of the United States Supreme Court, to-day. No. 79, The United States Ex relatione of Beverly Tucker vs. A, G. Seaman. Argument concluded by Re- | verdy Jobnron for the plaintiff in error. No. 80. Jack T, Griffin and wife, plaintiffs 1m error, vs. | James ¥ R Ar, | plaintifis, and submit { -aurence for defenda ued by 'Reverdy Johason’ for on printed argument by Mr. Latest from the State Capital, THE SWORD OF GEN. WORTH—THE CANAL AUDITOR- SHIP—NEWS FOR OFFICE SKEKERS—THE MILITIA LAWS AND THE FIRST DIVISION, ETC. Aupany, Feb, 28, 1855, | The Legislature is about accomplishing a meritorious | act, and one which no individual will object to. The family of the late lamented General Worth have con- sented to place for public inspection in the State library, a) the words which have been voted him by Congress, by State Legislatures, by corporate cities and a community | of individuals, Their value at!the time of their respsc- tive presentations are to be ascertained, and the annual interest of such sum is to be paid by the State to the | widow or other members of the family who survive that | Dlustrious mative son of New York. By placing these | distingushed relics in the public library, to which every | body Lan daily access, a noble deed will bs done by the | Legislature, which will redound more to their honor | than the passage of a doren prohibitory laws. | The question of electing a Canal Auditor by the people put at rest for the present session. This morning, » majority of the committee baving that matter under consideration submitted areport against the measure. ‘The minority, through Mr. Odell, presented their views in writing, which that gentleman read in his place, | After beirg read, several members, perceiving some strong arguments in favor of changing the mode of electing that officer, desired that the whole matter be deferred and laid on the table, in order that the report | {rom the minority might be printed, and laid before the Houre. Mr Biatehford being opposed to postponement, | though he id not urge it in a xpeech, it was decided to agree with the majority report, which killed the propo- tition for the session, There was no opposition towarla Mr. Echoonmaker, the present able Auditor, but it was argued that the people directly, and not through the Canal Board, should be permitted to make their own se- Jection of sach an important officer. Nothing of importance came out of the Senate execu- tive se-sion this morning. That body were sitting with cloned doors leas than half an hour, and all confirmations Wh. cannot these unimportant officers be appointed b; leeal their charac- the pames of certain gentlemen were withdrawn by tae Governor, as Commissioners of Emigration, was because they dec dedly refuse to serve, One of the gentiemen, having cevoted four years to the service, thinks hs hay contributed jhis full abare of time gratuitously to the immigration business, ‘There is an inevitable dissolution of the whi ag It is caused by th th fcr harbor masters. An 4 to bis patente ye The sempernes. = are sisting, stronger and stronger, upon bis fald!ment wedges ‘unde to thers. Tis Whigs allege that ha , and must consult his party friente; and ple¢ges not to appoint any but tem e has siready violated them in the se- f ilitary staf, The harbor masters are not et fully selected. name of Mr. Littlejohn, it reems, ae been rubbed off the slate with his own coavent, Among other bills in the Moure called op fora third reading wae the one to pmend the militia laws of the VOL. ‘XX: first division. It will be recollected that the bill was) i" on its final passage some ten since, and dt ite’ eacing it was s le Han an had satehes'c apne nasa” fr te teres ted. 0 it hee Init “ jefes' in until to day, when it was again taken up. Major Cocks addressed the revived the objections which the against it. Mr. Coleman opposed i self by peeing 5 iene from Get Hall and from an article in the rier and Enquirer, He was fully and completely answered by Capt. Waterbury, Col. May, and Major Gates, all practical military officers. The former- gentleman said this was an issue between the rank and file, who perform their duty in the ranks wich mens! and the mounted officers wearing gilded opauletts Sn¢ | colored plumes. Tho main features of the oppositi are—firet, that the bill defines the duty of bd ory » officers, and also deprives them of the coutrel of the commutation moneys. No other major general in the: State bas any control over those funds, except the officer dof the firet division. The question was fi ep, ee only four votes could be mustered: "1 oft and fortified him- . Blatehford, Jimmerson, and rk, and F, W.’ Palmer, of Uhau- The bill has gone to the Senate. There bas yet been- ro expression upon it. It is referred to the Military: Comirittee, consisting of Messrs, Hutchinacn, Waleer and Robertson. There can be no doubt of the Onal pas- tage of the bill. Will the major, general and ls four brigadiers thereupon fling up their commissions? Later from California. ABRIVAL OF THE DANIEL WEBSTER AY NEW OR~ LEANS—NO UNITED STATES SENATOR—PROSPECTS OF THE MINERS, ETC., BTC. excitement among the American party has just come to + New ORUPANS, Feb, 28, 1855 The steamer Daniel Webster, from San Juan, arrived at this port to-day, bringing dates from Califormia to the» 9th inst. The Webster connected with the steamship Cortez, which tailed from San Francisco on the afternoon of the~ Sth inst., bringing about half a million of specie on freight, most of which was transhipped to the steamer Star of the West, which sailed from San Juan for New York on Friday, the 25d inst. The Cortez brought one hundred and seventy passen- gers, thirty-two of whom arrived here in the Danie) Webster. The Legislature of California had made another at- tempt to ¢lect a United States Senator, beiag the forty~ fourth ballot for that purpose. This ballot, like its pre- decessors, resulted in ro choice. A meeting of native Californians was held at San Frag cisco om the 7th inst., to consider the expediency aad to take all necessary measures for a wholesale migration to Sonora, in order to escape the heavy taxes of the State, which seem to be generally considered ‘The mining interest continues to sulfer greatly for want of water, the recent rains having iurnished but a. yery limited supply. In tho interior, the miners are anxiously awaiting the arrival of weather adapted to their labors. ‘The Kerr river mines had afforded an extensive yield of gold, and thousands were flocking thither, the pros- pects in their own diggings being rendered extremely meagre in consequence of the drought. In the market, a better feeling was exhibited for some classes of merchandise, especially in provisions. For the inferior grades the demand was light, and no cash sales were reported, The ship Winged , Arrow, from Boston, arrived at San. Franc ieco on the 8th. ‘The Isthmus is reported as being healthy. The revolution in Central America is progressing, and Chomerro had achieved an important advantage over Governor Oristillo. The Cortez brought $235,600 in gold on consignment to Page, Bacon & Co., of St. Louis, from their house in San Francisco. Additio om Havana. THE FATE OF FELIX AND ESTRAMPES—DISARMING~ OF CREOLES, ETC. New ORLEANS, Feb. 27, 1855. A letter from Havana by the Crescen’ City says that arms had been taken away from a number of creoles, and that the parties were to be sent to the United States by the Crescent City. Senor Estrampes had been sentenced to death by the- garote, and Mr, Felix to ten years in the chain gang in Africa. Garcia Monroe had been appointed Military Governor. and the Conde de Carrigo Civil Governor of Havana. ‘The British vessels of war Medes, Buzzard and Hussar were in port. Everything wore a gloomy arpect in Havana, ARRIVAL OF THE ISABELLA AT CHARLESTON—NEWS* FROM HAVANA AND KEY WEST. Cuarueston, Feb. 28, 1856. The steamship Isabel has arrived at this port, with Havana and Key West dates to the 25th inst. Her ad- vices are mainly confirmatory of those received by the Crescent City at New Orleans, The blockade of Havana is not a; ele; it relates only to armed vessels, Eeveral Creoles have been banished to Spain. Carni- | val balls sre thinly attended and opera performances | bave ceased. Weather cold and trade dall. Markets generally unchanged. ‘The frigate San Jacinto had arrived at Key West, att well. She was to ga'l on the 26th for Havana. The marine news is unintere: inst yes chant yes- Later From Rio Janeiro. Barimors, Feb, 28, 1865. The bark Spirit of the Seas has arrived at New Orkuans with dates from Rio Janciro to December 28. The sloop-of-war Savannah and Independence were in port at Rio, The John Adams sailed for San Francisco on the 24th. Coffee was scarce and in great demand. The ship Ma- rion bad sailed for New York with 1,000 bage, and the bark Curioca for Philadelphia with 2,000. By the arrival of the Southern mail, as late an due, we have received New Orleans papers of Thursday. Pol al Matters. CONNECTICUT WHIG STATE CONVENTION. Hanrrrorp, Feb. 28, 1855. In the Whig State Convention held here to-day the en- tire ticket of last year was renomimated by accla- mation. The convention passed resolutions endorsing the Amo- rican principle, including in that principle the doctrine of protection to American industry; declaring that the repeal of the Missouri compromise bad put am en) to all compromises on the subject of #lavery; expressing » determination to resist, by all constitutional means, the admiseion into the Union of more slave states; expressing disapprobation of the course of Ieaac Toucey in the United States Senate; condemning the veto of the river and harbor and French spoilation bills by tee President ~ approving the Connecticut probibitory lav, and declar- ing the administration of Franklin Pierce to be euch av to entitle it to little respect, ANT KNOW NOTHING MOVEMEMT AT AUBURN. AvbuRN, Feb, 28, 1855. The Daily Advertiser at thie place contains a call for & meeting of the citizens at the Court House on Friday evenirg, to nominate an anti Know Nothing tieket, to be supported at the ensuing charter election by all who are Opponed to necret political vocleties. NOMIMATION FOR MAYOR AT SYRACUSE. Syraccse, Feb. 28, 1855. The demorrats of this place yesterday nominated Sey mour Stevens (soft) as thelr candidate for Mayor. A fusion of democrats,g whigs aud republicans was at- tempted, but no agreement could be made. The whig and republican committees nominated a ticket headed. by Allen Monroe, the present Mayor, but the convention adjourned without acceptirg it. RLECTION OF STATE TREASURER OF MASSACHUSETTS_ Poston, Feb. 28, 1866. Thi afternoon beth branches of the Legislature met in convention, and elected Thomas J, Mareh, of Wal tham, Treasurer and Receiver General of the Common wealth, end Alfred B. Ely, of Newton, and Ansel B Tyler, of Charlemont, Directors of the Western Railroad. PENNSYLVAMIA LEGISLATURE. Hanrisnuna, Feb. 28, 1855. Our Legislature did not adjourn yesterday to the first Tuesday in October; it was only the joint convention hat did ko. Both houses met, as usual, to-day. MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN GEORGETOWN, &. OC. Wasmwatox, Feb. 28, 1865, The election of clty officers took place yesterday in Georgetown, D. C., and rot in this city, ae inadver tently appeored in the despatch published this morning. Parchase of the Fngitive Slave Burns. Bactimone, The fugitive slave Anthony Burns is no on bie way back to Boston, his freedom purchased by a The Boston, Feb, 28, 1855, A second bearing on the part of the petitioners for- the removal of Judge Loring wae held this a’ternoon before,the Legisiative Committee. A large crowd wan in attendance. Wendell Phillips, Theodore Park Robert Morris, # colored lawyer, testified under oa and Phillipe fac that they, as coupsel for Barns, were