The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1855, Page 4

516 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE N- W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. Volume XX EMENTS THIS EVEN BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Love’s Sacninice —Barsuy Baken. BOW®RY THEATRE, Bowery—Wiurr Horse ov rum Perrexs—Two GREGORIES—TOM AND JRRRY—UGOLINO. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Aconavatine Baw—Bvack SWAN—WANDERING MINSTREL. WAZLLACK’S THE. My Wire's Dentist, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon and Evening—Love's Sacnivicr. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mall—472 Broadway. RUCKLEY Rey’s EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—PAanonama or EvRorx, » Broadway—Inisn Hern: *S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Brosdway—Bucx- N OPERA Troure. To Advertisers. ‘The pressure of advertisements created by the demands of the #pring trade, necessitates a greater stringency in our office regulations as to the latest period of their re- ception, Of our present average of advertisements, ap- proaching close to a thousand per day, the greater por tion does not reach us before a late hour of the evening For the future, if the pressure continues, we shall be compelled to postpone to the following day the publica- tion of all advertisements which are not delivered before 9P.M. By adhering to this rule our getting to press will be much faciliteted, and our readers enabled to re- ceive thelr paper at an earlier hour of the morning. Benton and Calhoun. We have received from a distinguished Southern cor- respondent, several pages of extracts from an unpublish- ed work, entitled ‘Incidents in the life of John C. Cal- houn, from conversations with Richard K, Crallé, Esq” As they conflict with some of the statements, and cor- rect some of the historical errors, contained io Col, Ben. ion’s “Thirty Years in the Senate,” we shall take an early opportunity of publishing them. Mr. Benton’s memory will be severely overhauled. Malls for Kurepe. ‘THE NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Collins mall steamship Baltic, Captain Vomstock, will leave this port this morning, at 11 o’clock, for Liverpool. The European mails will cloce in this city at half-past nino o'clock. ‘The Bxaxp (printed in English and French) will be published at nine o’clock in the morning. Single copies in wrappers, sixpence Sabscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Hern will de received at the following places in Kurope:— Lavereoor, John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street Lonnon.,...Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. “ Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catharine street. PARI... Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse The contents of the Faropean edition of the H=raip will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the sffice during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. The News. We continue to-day the publication of the Ostend Conference correspondence. Its importance will insure an attentive perusal, and we therefore re- . frain from commenting upon the points newly de- veloped until a more favorable opportunity. The steamer Pacific is now due wit later news from Europe. Stand by for ths grand democratic fusion demon- stration at Old Tammany this evening. A meeting of the prime movers in this affair was held las evening, at which all the preliminaries were com- pleted. Among the speakers announced to ba pre- sent are Gen. Cass and Mr. Douglas. By telegraph we have received the results of mu nisipal elections in towns in this and several other States. These contests have been particularly eharp and exciting, and their effects are of more ‘amportance than usually attend such struggles. Ia every instance, we believe, the question has been @'stinctly drawn between the Know Nothingism and apti Know Nothirgism. In this State municipa elections were held yesterday in Oswego and Au barn. In the former, the fusionists, composed o whigs and foreigners, succeeded in electing their candidate for Mayor by a handsome majority over the Know Nothing nominee. In Auburp, however, the Know Nothings were success- ful by & majority of two hundred over ® candidate of a coalition formed of fag ends of all the old parties and factions, At Rochester, Norwich, Oxford and Shelburne, the Know Nothings were also successtul. At Utica, the whig ticket was chosen, while at Syracuse and Troy the ‘usionists triamphed. At New- port, Ky., the American ticket was defeated. Throughout Massachusetts the Know Nothings have eustained their ascendancy, four fifths of the towns heard from haviog been carried by that party, At Detroit, Mich., a democratic Mayor has been choren by large mojority. In Maine the Know Nothings have carried everything before them. ‘The onward progress of the new party seems per- fectly resistless. A cespatch from Norfolk states that the friends of the officers of tne sloop-of war Decatur have given up all hopes of her safety. The Dosatur sailed from Norfolk on the 14th of last June for the Pacific staticn, arrivedat Rio Jansiro Aagnst 27, and sailed thence for her destination on the 21st of September following. When out a short time she, in company with the steamer Massachusetts, en- countered @ hurricane of uvusual violence. Tae steamer put back to Rio for repairs, andj reported seeing the Decatur during the storm, a fall account of which was published in the Heaato of Nov. 16. Since then she has not been heard of. Valparaiso dates to the 16th Janua y, four months later than the date of the departure of the Decatur from Ho, have been received, and they make no mention of her. There is good reason, therefore, for believing that the Decatur foundered in the gale alluded to above. She carried sixteen guns, was built at Brooklyn in 1839, and was of the same class a3 the Albany, recently lost on the voyage trom San Jaan to this port. In the New York Senate yesterday Mr. Good qin, the Kuow Nothing succersor of Gov. Clark, intro- duced # joint reso’ution directing our members of Congrees to sustain a law extending the proby | tionsry term of naturalization to twenty one years, and providing that none but citizens of twenty-one years’ residence shall have the privilege to ex erciee the right of voting. After considerable opposition, the 21st instant was assigned for the consideration of this subject. The bill relative to the tenure of churcy property was again discussed. As yet but one Senator has op- poeed this measure. The select committee bas re- ported a bill abolishing capital punishment. Soli- tary confinement for life is substituted for hanging, ardno convict sball app'y for a pardon nntil the Court of Appeals has ordered & new trial of the criminal. In the Aesembly a bill was passed re- dccirg all moneyed transactions to federal currency —wbolishing the contemptible and petty swindling pourd, ebilling and penoe system. This is a good thing, and the Senate ehou'd act upon it without deley. Several other bills, of no special importance Lbowever, were also passed. The Know Nothing anti-administration organiza tion in New Hampshire is making an energetic effort to succeed in the approaching election in that Btate. On Monday a large public mesting waa hala ot Nashus, and yesterday a convestion was held at Concord, at which the utmost enthasiasn prevailed. Without a doubt there will be » heavy vote caat acaipet the administration in President Pierce’s own State. Cotton was quiet yesterday, and the sales only embraced about 500 #600 bale * etea ty prices, Flour continued firm, with an upward tendency in prices. Canadian, in bond, continued active. Wheat wae ecarce and bigh. A smali loc of Sonth- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, M ern white eold at $2 35. Genesee was held above the views of buyers. Corn was active, witn sales for export, without material change of prices. Old mess pork was firmer, and sales were made at $13 ‘75 @ $23 87, closing firm at the latter figure. Rive continued firm, with moderate sales. Elsewhere wi)] be found further curious develope ments in connection with the operatic war now rag- ing in this city, inthe shape of legal proceedings before the Superior Court against Mr, Ole Ball, and the additional disclosures which were maie at the second meeting of the artists held yesterday at the Academy of Music. This contest promises to rival in interest the most famous diesensions record- ed of a tribe whose profession is concord bat whose practice ia but too trequentiy the opposite. The sloop-of- war Jamestown will not proceed to the coast of Africa, being considered unsea worthy. The Constellation will ba sent in her stead, and will probably leave Norfolk in aboat a fortnight. The Indiana Legislature yesterday passed the vetoed State bank and Free bank bille, and they are now laws. A public dinner was to have been given yezter- day by the citizens of Montreal to the Governor General of Canada. The Universal Democratic Republican Society met last evening, and resumed the discussion on the sdoption of the late report on the state of the working claases. The report was finally adopted under protest from Mr. Arbuthnot. A committee of three will introduce the paver to the delegates of the Workin gmen’s Committee. The Historical Society held its regular monthly meeting last evening. Professor Greene read an in- teresting biographical sketch of his grandfather, General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary me- mory. At the meeting of the Board of Ten Governors, held yesterday, the resolution passed at a previous meeting dischsrging, all the employes of the Board who were not citizens, was in effect nega tived by the passage of a resolution of a totally opposite character, offered by Governor Dcaper. There was considerable excitement manifested pending the passage ot the resolution, and “San” was severely berated by Governcra Draper and West. The cifficulties with the Commissioners of Emigration was again the subject of a long report, which will be found in our account of the meeting published elaewhere. torm—Truce Policy of the Government. The official correspondence of the Ostend conference is coming out. It proves the sub- stantial correctness of the voluminous and ex- clusive information upon the subject, published trom time to time, through the columns of the New York Heratp, from October last down to the transmission of these Ostend papers to Con- gress. The affected mockery of our slow-coach cotemporaries, the dissimulations of the Cabi- net organs, and the incredulity of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, are thus deci- sively answered by these official documents. Fully satisfied of the sources of our exclusive information a)l along, we have been patiently awaiting this confirmation of our statements from the files of the State Department. We have it and we are content. From these official papers the vasillating policy of the administration upon the Cuba question, from the first instractions to Mr. Soulé down to the resignation of bis mission, ismost strikingly exhibited. On the 23d of July, 1853, we find Mr. Marcy chalking out a bold, fearless and dashing programme for our Minister to Madrid, He is to require the most explicit explanations touching the movements and designs of England and France, and, as the very least that we can ask, a complete: re- construction of the local government of Cuba. In the same month corresponding instructions are issued to Mr. Buchanan concerning the movements and designs of England. On the 11th of March, 1854, Mr. Soulé is instructed to demand immediate redress for the Black War- rior outrage. On the 17th of the same month he is ordered to require forthwith $300,000 in- dempity, cash down, and not to mince the matter. Spain must pay at once or abide by the consequences, On the 3d day of April Mr. Marcy is apprehensive of a design on the part of England to Africanize Cuba, and he thinks the time has come to make a bid for the island. If Spain will not sell, then she is to be encour- aged to provide for the independence of the colony. On the 16th day of August last, our Premier recommends a joint conference “at some con- venient point, say Paris,” between Messrs. Ba- chanan, Mason and Soulé, Shortly, thereafter, Mr. Dodley Mann, Under Secretary of State turns up in Paris, “ona private ‘visit,” and, following his arrival, certain raysterious dinner parties take place across the channel in Loa- don, between George Sanders, Kossuth, Mazzi- ni, and other progressive republicans of that choo). There is evidently a grand, positive and most important movement afoot, which may involve the most tremendous issues to France, England, and the United States. After beating about the bush for some time, the proposed diplomatic conference is com- menced at Ostend, in Belgium, on the 10th of October, continued there on the 11th, but is re- moved on the 12th, perhaps to avoid inquisitive curiosity, to the historical Aix-la-Chapelle, in Prussia, where the consaltations between Merers. Buchanan, Mason and Soulé are con- tinued from day to day until the 18th of Octo- ber, upon which day the results of their delibe- rations are communicated to Washington (in the care of Mr. Sickles, official Secretary of Mr. Buchanan), in the most remarkable and impor- tant diplomatic despatch of the nineteenth cen- | tury. This despatch is a faithful and complete em- bodiment of the Cuban policy of the adminis. tration down to that time. I: was adopted in the firm belief of @ fall and unqualified sup- port from Washington. The joint ambassadors | Propose an offer of one hundred and twenty millions for Cube or an advance of twenty millions upon the cash equivalent proposed by President Polk. ey think the time has ar- rived for action—they are confident of success. They think Spain will be willing to sell, because | | Cuba naturally belongs to the United States; be- cause We musthave it. and can’t do withont it; because the sovereignty of Spain is menaced | constantly by the dangers of insurrectio cause the island does not pay expense ase its transfer to us would result in the greatest commercial benefits to Spain and all concern- | ed; because the Spani iry is bankrupt, and must have money; and becanse we cannot, | | do what we may, guarantee the safety of Cuba against the filibusters, The joint commission | ers eay that this of adventure, in which restless spirits abouod io every portion of the world,’ and we cinoot guard sgainst them. These are strong points of this important despaten, ond they are dove- “is an and daria tailed into a platform of remarkable symmetry and solidity. | Nor is thisall. The cream of the affair isin | the alternative proposed. We desire to be | just--we despice this thing of land stealing; | who have “proved treacherous to their cause” desire to be magnanimous, but thisis no matter for trifling. Our diplomatic triumvirate say— and mark what they say—that “after we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far be- yendits present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to eonsider the question—Does Cuba in the possession of Spain seriously endanger our internal peace, and the existence of our cherished Union?” And then they add: “Should thes question be answered in the @ffirmative, then by every law,human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we - possess the power.” Such is the ultimatum of those con- ferences at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle. We have said that it agrees with all the instractions of Marcy up to that time. Why, then, was this policy #0 suddenly set aside and reversed by the administration? Why those counter instructions to Mr. Soulé on his return to Spain, which provoked his iadig- nant resignation? Why thissudden change in the wind? It was the anti-Nebraska reaction of the October and November elections that frightened off our trembling and shrinking Ex- ecutive—it was a jealous fear, on the part of Marcy, of the prospective ascendancy of Bucbanan as the chief of this Ostend pro- gramme, which izduced our Premier instantly to reject it. Thus is our previous information upon this subject sustained by the official dates, facts, acts and documents, The important question next recurs, what is now the manifest policy of the administration? It has been repudiated upon its domestic spoils systeii—it has been prostrated to the dust upon the Nebraska bill. It has nothing left upon which to recover itself but a bold and popular foreign policy, and nothing but Cuba upon which to rest it. The time is auspicious —it is the golden opportunity. France and Eazland, absorbed in their terrible struggle with Russia, are at our mercy. At this juncture, even the prospect of a suspension of our friendly relations with the Western Powers would probably derange their commercial, manufacturing and financial sys. tems beyond recovery. A rupture with us would certainly destroy them. The sensation atthe Bourse instantly following the news of the affair with Mr. Soulé at Calais, indicates the paramount necessity to the allies of peace with the United States, A rupture with us, hazardous to them at any tjme, would now in- volve the peril of the greatest disasters to the ruling elements of both France and Eagland. They dare not at this crisis, in any event, or upon any issue involved in their “happy ac- cord,” break the peace with this republic. The only hope, then, for Mr. Pierce is, to fall back upon the Ostend and Aix la-Chapelle platform. And this is the time. Toe contioued sovereignty of Spain over Cuba is “dangerous to the peace of ourcherished Union.” It is the present policy and the purpose of Eagland aad Frence to make it so, and Spain is but the in- strument of their schemes. Moreover, a mighty popular revolution is at work in our midst, carrying with it right and lett the masses of the people. There must be a diversion to ar- rest it, or, by the next fall elections, our untor- tunate administration will be utterly aban- doned by the people and by Congress. This Ostend platform, if adopted, will, on the con- trary, excite a tremendous reaction, and in se- curing us'the island of Cuba, will give to the administration a powerful lift for the succes- ion, and a substantial claim upon posterity. Let our Executive reflect upon the position of our affairs with Spain, the position of Eag. and and France, the danger of delay, and the extreme demands of his own position, and ‘brow himmeif boldly upon the Buchanan pro- gramme and upon the country. If Marcy be an impediment, let him retire. What is a man or two when the democracy, the administra- tion, Cuba and the Union are at stake? Mayor Woop anxp His Orrictan Duttes.— The business of the Mayor’s office appeers to be increasing daily, if we consider the amount therein transacted, independent of its charac ter. The complaint book occupies the attention of one person exclusively, and he finds it almost impossible to record all the complaints present- ed to him; the presence of a police Justtce is required from ten o’clock till three, for the ex- amination of criminal cases, and in addition to these about half a dozen clerks are constantly employed, while about the same number of policemen are detailed to attend to the outdoor business. From the time the Mayor arrives till two o’clock, the hour at which he leaves, the office is crowded with complainants of all de- scriptions. A woman charges her husband with having deserted her; a son makes a complaint against his father for ill-treatment; a servant accuses her employer of defrauding her of her wages; quarrelsome neighbors appeal to him to settle their disputes; mothers call upon him to punish the sedusers of their daughters, and shirt sewers to force their employers to pay them their wages. Over none of these cases has the Mayor the least control or jurisdiction, and when- ever he acts upon them in his official ca- pacity, he transcends the limits of his authori ty. All such complaints can only be decided by the regularly constituted civil tribunals, and by due legal process. Mr. Wood knows | this, and in assuming to act upon them he ex- | ercises a power and authority which may be at- tended hereafter with the most injurious effects. He has, in the exercise of his legitimate duties, a wide field for the display of his abilities, without undertaking to decide upon charges of fraud against employers, or family quarrels. For his exertions in euppressing the Sunday liquor traflic, he is entitled to all praise; but there is much more to be dove before the work o} reform is accomplished. We were promised clean streets as soon as the sweeping machines | arrived from Philadelphia, yet they have been here for several weeks, and the present condi- tion of the city would disgrace the worst ad- | ministration we have ever had. Let Mayor Wood keep within the limits of his authority as prescribed by the law, and he will have enough to do without interfering in matters over which he has properly no control. Tus Last Kyow Norutwo Maniresto—We publish elsewhere a circular signed J. W. Barker, the President of the Know Nothings ia this State, to the State Council, containing va- | rious allusions to their past history and fature | | prospects. He says that the strength of the Order in May, 1854, did not exceed 5,000 in this State and 10,000 in the Union. Now he speaks of the 960 councils in the State, and confidently asserts that the party is invincible. Recreant members have been expelled, and this appears to be the resolve of the Order in | all cases in future; members of the Legislature | | bere, and mag soon be passing away. ARCH 7, 1855. future. Altogether the document is important and deserves a perusal, ‘The Break-up at the Opera. The comedy in Fourteenth street having made way for a drama, in which tenors, bassi, musi- eians, candle-snnffers, and prime donne, take the firet parte au natural,and the unfortunate mana- ger, Mr. Bull, is not only ruined, but is sa- vagely abused, and mercilessly satirized—we may moralize a little on the event. From all accounts it appears that the convulsion which led to the break-up was occasioned by the want of harmony exieting between the manager and his performers, as well as among those person- ages themselves. When they should have sung, they feli to quarrelling; and discord, in any sense, is of course fatal to musical enterprises. First one card appeared, then another; and so on until the managem nt, apparently exaspera- ted by accumulating proofs of insubordination, and wearied of losing money, despaired of im- provement and closed the concern. Tne facts are to be found in the city journals. Events constantly repeat themselves, and the operatic drama of March, 1855, is nothing bat a repetition of another operatic drama which was played at the Italian Opera House when Mr. Fry was manager. On that occasion, the artists quarreled with the manager and with each other. First, Madame @euffi published her card, just as Madame Vestyali did the other day: then manager Fry made a speech, as manager Maretzek did at the Academy. Then more cards, speeches, quarrels, in both cases; incessant waut of money; finally, in both, with perfect resemblance, a general smash, and fright- ful wrangling among the mutilated fragments of the troupe. Here the difference begins. When Smash the Firat took place, it so hap- pened that the Heratp was the only jour- nal which thought it worth while to chro. nicle the death of the Opera, and report the last dying speech and confession of the culprit. The other journals observed that commendable discretion which they so often practice when we feel bound to publish impor- tant news. Raging over his failure, Mr. Mana- ger Fry sought a victim; and finding no one so handy as the journal which had given noto- riety to the facts concerniog his Opera, he in- stituted an action for libel against us, demand- ing of us a bonus of twenty thousand dollars to console bim for his managerial losses. Smuch ine Second has been luckier in the matter of biographers. Several journals have thought fit to report it with all its incidents. In our Seward cotemporaries we notice espe- cially a full and complete account of the scene at the Academy of Music, which ought to afford Mr. Manager Bull ample matter for cogitation. Here are several papers which state posi- tively that he has broken down; that he has been cheated, robbed, ruined; nay more, that his character has been destroyed. If Mr. Mana- ger Fry could persuade a jury to give him $10,000 tor what we taid of him, surely Mr. Manager Bull can make a small fortune out of wll these libels. We caanot of course estimate his losses, but it appears that eight thousand dollars went in two slices; a single newspaper would reimbarse this amount. Bat by charging so much for libels on his pocket, so much for libels on his head, and so much for libels on his heart, a much larger sum might be obtained, and Mr. Bull might be once more a rich man. We commend the sub- ject to his thoughtful consideration. Meanwhile fresh attempts are to be made to set the Opera on its legs, and it is said that Mr. James Phalen, whose interest in the building is large, will undertake the direction of a new vompany there, to be composed of the remains of the old one. Other rumors ascribe the ap- pointment as manager to the Chevalier Wikoif who aprears always to be turning up when most wanted. Wikoff’s antecedents are promi- sing. He managed Fanny Elssler very succes fully ; managed Lord Palmerston; managed Louis Napoleon, and nearly managed his cou sin and Abbott Lawrence; managed the press of Paris, and only failed when he tried to maa- age Miss Gamble who appears from all ac- counts to have been wholly unmanageable. Where could a more likely manager for the Opera be found? For the rest, as te success that can never be hoped we tear se long as Italian artists, even without a European repu- tion, expect salaries higher than star actors. When Italian tenors and soprani consent to sing for the same salary as they receive in Eu- rope, the Italian Opera may be successful here; till then it will always be precarious. Tue Great Tammany Re-unton.—A Worn or Apvice.—The great Tammany Hall love-teast, for the reunion of the democracy, comes off to- night. A host of distinguished speakers are to be present from various parts of the country, The occasion, it is expected, will decide the fate of the party not only in this State but throughout the Union, as a cohesive and living organization, or as one that has existed, but is henceforth divided, disbanded and defunct. We presume that there will be no lack of pa- triotisem on this occasion, that we shall have a plentiful outpouring of democra- tic principles and Baltimore resolutions, and the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson, } and constitutional and State rights, and all that; but something more will be needed than hackneyed and windy democratic abstractions. an the democracy be reunited upon the ad- ministratien and its spoils policy? Can the hardshells be gathered into the wigwam upon any such expedient? Manifestly no. Can they be reunited upon their old broken-down Baltimore platforms in the midst of the existing popular reaction throughout the country? No. Can this spontaneous uprising of the people un- der the quaint disgnise of Know Nothings be arrested by a rehash of all the democratic reso- utions and speeches of the last hundred years ? No. If ycu would reunite the democracy, here and elsewhere, if you would divert the popular current to your cause, if you would save the administration and make it useful to the party, | mitted attorneys and counsellors of the Su you must give the party something to stand | upon. Old issues are obsolete; all the new ones afloat have been monopolized by the Kaow Nothings, except Cuba, That is an open ques- | But the crisis for action has come, is If we wait another year Cuba may be Africanized under the machinations of France and England and made another Hayti, when its annexation would be utterly out of the question. Toe platform Jaid down by Meesrs. Buchanan, Ma- ronand Soulé at Aixla Chapelle is the true policy for this Tammany Hall reunion. Let them adopt that platform, and urge it strongly upon the administration, and a popu- tion. | lar demogratic moyement will be started which | Morrison commences stumping to might at thie plac» will be perfectly astounding. Nothing can re- sist it. It will spread over the country like a fire in the dry prairies, erackling and roaring ahead at the rate of forty miles an hour. Cuba must be ours. This is the universal sentiment from Boston to New Orleans, Here is a plan, plain and above board, and sure as fate, The administration set out upon this plan; but it has been scared off. Give Mr. Wise a lift— give the administration a lift—bring it to the mark—rouse up the democracy as the Caba party, and it will spring into life and action. All other expedients to give the party vitality will be the vain efforts ot galvanism. The Aix-la-Chapelle manifesto is the card for Tammany Ha)l. Couldn’t have anything better. Let the meeting act accordingly. and make a living and national sensation. Try Buchanan’s policy ina bold dash for Cuba, Oh! that old Hickory were now alive. Tue Courter aNp THE European Powers.— The Courier and Enquirer contradicts our statement that Lord Clarendon has never re- tracted the language used by him in reference to this country and the Western Alliance; and reiterates its belief that his lordship wrote a letter explaining that, in saying what he did, he had no intention to refer to the United States or Cuba. In making this statement the Courier instructs its readers that the editor of this journal has been constantly imposed upon of late. Our cotemporary is in error. This journal has not been misinformed or imposed upon; as the editor of the Courier would know ifbis time had not been so much taken up of late with dining with lords and other great people. We have indeed been accused often enough of publishing false news; but as it in- variably turned out in the end to be true, our accusers have seldom stuck to the same accusa- tion for more than a week or two ata time. Our news of the Mexican treaty was pro- nounced forged, and we were soundly rated for publishing it, until the documents arrived, and confirmed all we had said; and our account of the Ostend Conference was discredited even by the government, until they too learnt the sub- stance of the Ministers’ report. So now, the Courier disbelieves our telegraphic mes- sage stating that an autograph letter has been received from the Czar. We believe that our correspondent stated the truth; and are content to leave it to time to test the question. Apropos of false news, some time ago the Courier let the world into the secret that Sebastopol was to be taken on or about New Year’s day. Ouraccounts from the Crimea which are several weeks later, strange- ly enough make no mention of this important -event. Ifthe editor of the Courier was so widely mistaken on this point, how can we believe his statement in reference to Lord Clarendon’s letter; which stands alone in oppo- sition to every other authority ? Had he not better correct his own blunders before he as sumes to chide those of others? THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important from Washington, SOULE AND THK PRESIDENT—THE BLACK WARRIOR OUTRAGE—THE BRIGADIER @ENERAL@HIIP. ETC. Wasninarox, March 6, 1855. Before Mr. Soulé left the United States, he communi- nicated his views fully in writing to the President as to the necessity of the acquisition of Cuba; and it was only because of the acquiescence of the President in the views #0 expressed that he accepted the mission. This corres- pondence not being embraced in the call by Congrees, has not been gent ia. Mr. Soulé was instructed peremptorily to demand tatisfaction for the Black Warrior outrage, and to “enter nto no argument” Scarcely three months elapsed after these explicit instructions before he received a dexpatch from Mr. Marcy, of over eighty pages, entering into an elaborate argument on the Black Warrior affair, and directing him to change the terms of the peremptory demand into an argument This is but one instance of the backing and filling which characterized the con- temptible policy of the prerent administration. There is no doubt the Ostend Conference was suggested by Marsy, under the impression that Buchanan and Mason would adopt the old fogy side of the question, and thus check- mate Soulé, Marcy’s reply to the joint despatch does not attempt to combat any of the points advanced, but simply announces that the views of the administration have undergone a change, and directing Mr. Soulé to re- pair forthwith to Madrid and ignore his former proceed- ings. The sum suggested in the joint despatch to be offered to Spain was one hundred and twenty millions. The British government by some means obtained infor- mation as to the contents of the joint despatch, and it war through the influence of that government that the éebate took place in the Spanish Cortes in which the an- nouncement was made that the sale of Cuba would ba a “national dishonor.” The excuse the administration will ret up through its organs is, that the joint despatch was not sufficiently explicit as to the course to be adopt- ed. Absurd as such a defence may seem, itis to be carried out. Language could scarcely be stronger than that used in the despateh in question. rumor prevails that Jefferson Davie, Secretary of War, is to get the new Brigadier Generalship. Sach an appointment will be a gross outrage upon the intentions of Congress in creating the position. It is known it was created for General Shielde, and a statement to this effect signed by a large majority of both houses of Con- grens is in the President’s possession. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. WaAsHINGTON, March 6, 1355. Hon. N. P, Banks, Jr., Massachusetts; David A. Noble, Micbigan, and Charles James, of Wisconsin, were ad- me Court. No. 3, Original docket.--State of Florida va. the State of Georgia —On motion of the Attorney General to in- tervene on behalf of the United States, Chief Justice ‘Toney delivered bis opinion, granting leave to the A) tor- 1 to adduce evidence, her written or otuer- wise, ‘amine witnesses, &c., to establish the boun- dary claimed py the United Stat No. 7i.—Mary Lewis, administratrix, vs. Edward R. Bell, assignee, &e —On appeal from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia —Judge Greer delivered an cpinion, affirming the decree of said Court, with costa, No, 86.—Jobn C, Hays, plaintiff in error, va. the Pa- cifle Mail Stesmship Company.—Argument was con- cluded for the plaintiff ip error. No. 58. W. D. Prtee, plaintiff in error, vs. the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia — Cause was submitted on the record, wnd o pvivate argument by the Hon. Joha Letcher for delencants. New Hampshire Politics, ANTI-ADMINISTRATION CONVENTION AT CONCORD, Coxconn, March 6, 1855, The Peop'e’s Anti-Administration Convention is aow nsession here. The two largest halls in the city are filied to overflowing, and several thousands of persons are im the streets. Hen. John P. Hale is speaking in he Phenix Hall, and Hon. George Nesmith in the De- pot Hall. The greatest enthusiasm prevails. [Another despatch states that the meeting dissolved about ten o'clock. Not less than six thousand persons were prevent Besides Messrs. Hale and Nesmith, ex- Governor Colby, Jomathan Kittridge, Thomas M. FA- wards, A. J. Fletcher, Bdw. A. Stevens and others ad- dressed the meeting. So large a political gathering in the capital of the Granite State has not been held since the days of “Bgpecaroe and Tyler too.’ The best fecl- Ing pervaded the immense saxembly, and all opponents of the administemtion are sanguine of a complete tri umph at the election on Tuesday next J MELTING OF KNOW NOTHINGS AT NASHUA. Nasnva, N. H, March 6, 1856, An immense public gethering of tte Know Nothings was held at the City Hall last might. Hundreds who came to hear could not gain admittance to the hall, The people are intensely excited in the present canvasa. Addresses were made by John P. Hale, John T, Swift, of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and David Cross, of Manchester. The administration par y were thorrughly shown up, and the Nebraska infaury exposed The American party are very ssnguine of euccess. Mr VOL. XX. Latest from the State Capital. KNOW NOTHING MOVE IN THE SENATE—SENATOB.! GOODWIN AND THE NATURALIZATION LAW8— CHURCH TENURES—THE LETTER WRITERS—THE OFFICE SEEKERS, ETO. Ausaxy, March 6, 1855, ‘Sam’? made his appearance in the Senate this morn- ing, and made quite a fluttering amongst the members of the Seward section. It was on the occasion of Mr. Goodwin's offering a joint resolution requesting our members of Congress to use their influence in endeavor- ing to procure the alteration of the nataralization laws fo that foreigners shall not be permitted to exersise the right of suffrage until they have been resident in this ountry twenty-one ye In offering the proposition, forteusa that It connderation be mate the special onde? ‘Thursday, re was final agreed to make it the special order for Wednesday, the 21st imstant, imme diately after execu- tive session. As Senator Goodwin bears the reputation of being an intelligent and able debator, and as ic is the first time of his speaking in the Senate—and will likely be the last—an aucience will no doubt be collected of many hundreds to listen to an exposition of some of “ Sam’s”? peeuliar doctrines ‘be Church Tenure bill was up a to-day, and oc cupied the entire session. Mr. rooks Jed off in favor of the bill, gnoting history a long way back, entering some- what elaborately into the churcN property practice of Catholics in the early ages. He was attentively listened to by a very large and highly respectable audience. Mr. Crosby followed in detence of the Catholics, labor- ing to show that all the bills which the Legislature mer pass cannot interfere with church discipline, [This di Dot appear as exactly appropriate, as the bill betore the Senate relates only to the holding of realestate, o tem- poral mat } ‘There upon the bill; only one Sena- tor bi it, still it must be tried in the political turnact he party divide against st, in order to secure the Catholic vote, it will be killed in the House, if it does pass the Senate. Has Mr. Putnam re- flectea upon this’ Several of the reporters and letter writers from the capita] bave been ‘hauled over the coals’’ in the House during the session, whether for justifiable cause or otherwise, the ‘deponent”’ knoweth not, This morning Mr. O'Keefe discovered a paragre nt in the Zimes of yes- terday, which reflected upon his conduct as ® member, and he called the attention o: the House to it, upoa a privileged question, ‘The article speaks of the motion made by Mr. O'Keefe yesterday and carried, asking to discharge the Judiciary Committee from the further con- sideration of the New York Volice bill, and that it be re- ferred to the city delegation, The article goes on as Mr. O'Keefe read:— “Mr. O’Keefe J think you wil! search the books in vain for a justification of such trickery, and know you have doomed youxself and gained only a temporary euccess. Butloonery 48 sometimes tolerated for the amusement it af- fords—bombastic eloquence is commonly endured—but id fraud will 1 ou tue confidence of your nd the respect ot all men,”? fe said he rose to call the attention of the matter, and to vindicate himself from the Hagrant wrong committed on his personal character, and pronounced the above false in every particular. The police bill was smothered in the Judiciary Committee by a trick—that committee desired to have nothing to do with it, He then read an extract from Mayor Wood’s letter, when i Mr. Boynton called to order and stated that he was not. discusing the question of privilege. eg Char (Mr. Blatchrord)—The point of order is weld en. Mr. Petty moved that permission be given Mr. 0’K, to proceed. Mr. O’Keefe—I have only another paragraph to read. Which he gave, in which Mayor Wood intimates bis inten tion of resigning if the police bill pastes, He continued’ speaking:—The Judiciary Committee did not want to examine the police bill, and upon the assurance of Mr. Stuyvesant ‘that it was all right, they reported it. The only place where the bill ought to go, was to the New York delegation, and that was the motion he made, and was unani- mously carried. He denied ever usivg any deception. On the floor of the House, or anywhere else, no man can accuse him of practising fraud. He believed he pos- sessed as much frankness as any gentleman on the floor. His honor no man ever questioned, and no one dere do it here, He characterized the article as false from begin- ning to end. His only purpose was to assist the Mayor of New York in bis efforts at placing the city under good government. The matter then dropped. To-morrow being executive day, expestation is on tip- ‘toe with regard to appointments. Nothing is yet known as to the certainty of the harbor masters. Neither the Bank Department, the Health Officer, or Canal Appraiser, are finally settled. Municipal Ekcuons, TRIUMPH OF TRE KNOW NOTHINGS AT AUBURN. Avnury, (N. ¥.,) March 6, 1855. ‘The election in thin city to-day, has resulted in the triumph of the Know Notbings over the people’s ticket. ‘The Know Nothing candidate for Maycr has a majority of about 200 over his opponent. ‘Ihe Know Nothings are in high glee this evening at the result. DEFEAT OF THE KNOW NOTHINGS AT OSWEGO. Osweco, March 6, 1855. The election which took place here to-day was very exciting. The entire Know Nothing vote waa thrown for Samuel J. Holley, the soft shell candidate for Mayor. The whig and foreign votes were thrown for Littlejohn, who is elected by nearly 600 majority. It is reported the Know Nothings spent $3,000 with the hope of gain- ing the day. Continual fighting is going om over the- city this evening. WHIG VICTORY AT UTICA. Unica, March 6, 1855. Henry H. Fish, whig, has been elected Mayor of Ham- Iton by about 400 majority. Three whig and three democratic Aldermen have been elected. MORE KNOW NOTHING VICTORIES. Unica, March 6, 1855. In Nor Oxford, and Shelburne, the entire Know Nothing tickets were elected. FUSIONIST VICTORY AT TROY. Troy, March 6, 1855. John A. Griswold, democrat and anti-Kaow Nothing, has been elected Mayor by about 200 majority over Slocum, whig. The Irish vote was unprecedentedly large, KNOW NOTHING VICTORY AT ROCHESTER. Rocuester, March 6, 1855, C. J. Hayden, the Know Nothing candidate for Mayor, has beea elected to-day by over 100 majority. Six anti- Hindoo Aldermen are a!so elected. Five Hindoo and five anti-Hindoo Supervisors have probably been choren. The towns of Brighton, Pittsford and Bergen went whig. FUSIONIST VICTORY AT SYRACUSE. Syracums, March 6, 1855, Lyman Stevens, democrat and fustomist, has been. elected Mayor by about 400 majority. ‘Me whole fusion. ticket ‘been carried triumphantly. Six fusionist Al- dermen and Superviscrs out of eight are éleeted. There is great rejoicing here this evening, bonfires are blazing, and processions with bands of music are parading through the streets. The town of Cazenovia bas gone whig. DETROIT MUNICIPAL ELECTION—DEMOCRATIC VIC- TORY. Derrorr, March 6, 1855. ‘The election re‘urns show that Ledyard, the demo- cratic candidate for Mayor, has a majority of about 600. The First, Second, Fifth and Sixth wards elect in- dependent candidates for Aldermen. The democrats elect their candidates for Aldermen in the other wards. KNOW NOTHING SUCOMBSES IN MASSACHUSETTS, Bostox, March 6, 1855. At the town elections held throughout the State yes- terday, the Know Nothings appear to have fully sustain- ed the ascendency they acquired last fall. Of the fifty towns heard from, they Lave carried at leart forty. DEFEAT OF THE AMERICAN TIEKET IN NEWPORT, KY. Cincinnati, March 6, 1855. The municipal election yesterday, in Newport, Ken tucky, resulted in the defeat of the American ticket. KNOW NOTHING VICTORIES IN MAINE, ETO. BaxGor, March 6, 1885. The town elections throughout the State, so far aw heard from, have resulted in favor of the Know Nothings. In the city of Bath they elected their Mayor, Freeman H. Morse, and the ert re City Council. At People’s caucus this evening Job I. K. Haywood was nominated for Mayor, by a vote of 479 against 460° for William H. Mil Banki lana, Crvcinxati, March 6, 1865, Iacislature bas passed the State Bank ‘ree Bank bill over the Governor's veto, ana bey are now laws. Naval Latelligence. Nonroux, March 6, 185 The United States sloop-of war Jamestown, which for the coast of Africa last week, has been recalled Hampton Koads, said to be unssaworthy The crew wil be transferred ¢ ousteliation, which cap be got ready for sea in te The friends of the of. ficers of the Decatur have given up all hopes of her afety. The Weather at the South, Barriwone, March 6, 1855, The weather in South Carolina had been cold beyond The average temperature during four mors ings of last week was only twenty.two degress above mer, giving everything the appearance of mid winter. The Case of Judge Loring, Rosrox, Marsh The Legislative Committee on Ja in em Loring’s case were sixhours today Theodore Parker, forthe pen toners, advocated the removal mainty on the ground ofa violation of the moral law; also the State; and for jurtifying such a violation. R. H. borate argument of four hours, iT of rer i crses and ¢ insterce orly in ge inecmpeteney from old age, party, another party of of Vielovion of a law of