The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1855, Page 4

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By adhering to this rule our getting to prese wil be much facilitated, and our reaiera enabled to re- setve their paper at an earlier hour of the morning. The News. New Hampshire yesterday surrendered to the Krow Nethings. The victory is quite as complete aad overwhelming as that in Massachusetts. Ac cording to all appearances the administration party ia entirely wiped out. ‘We are still without later news from Europe. The Africa, from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston, is wow im ber eleventh day out, and the Harmana, fom Soutbampton for this port, is out fourteen @eys. During to-day, therefore, without doubt wa shall receive later intelligence by oue or the other of these vessels. As for the Pacific, the belief is genera) that she is detained at Liverpool by some mocident. The Nashville takes her place in the Sime, and will leave this port on the 21st inst. ‘The letter of our Washington correspondent, on ‘the first page, should be read attentively. It de- velopes & new programme with reference to Cuba, originated by Secretary Marcy, and to be carried oat by cur new Minister to Madrif, Mr. Dodge. The Yength, breadth and scope of this new plan i@ comprehended in the negotiation of a reci- procity treaty between the United States and Cuba. The alternative to be presented to Spain ie, free trade with Caba, or a repeal of the neutrality laws and the encouragement of fi'i- Dusteriom. This is the groundwork; of course the Imteretices of the plan will be carefully filled in be fore the scheme is committed to the care of Mr. Dodge. This is, however, but one ef the plots of the administration; anothor is contained io the ar- ticle copied from the official organ, which is dis- eusecd in the editorial columns. ‘The Vicginia Krow Nothing State Convention ay sembled at Winchester yesterday. There was a Jarge attendance of delegates. Nothing whatever had trancpired with respect to the nominations for State officers. The annual sa‘urnalia of the Ten Governors aud the members of the Legisla‘ure commenced in sernest yesterday. A steamboa’ jaunt to Randall’s snd Bia: kwell’s islands, pretty speeches Lo the boys im the Houee of Refuge, replies by the juveniles, and all that sort of thing, len’ zest to the “flow of poul” which followedafter. But anfortunately tho “feast of reason” was left ont of the programme. The bards and the softe, the teetotallers and the anti- teetotallers, the Sewardires and the K. N.’s, could not stand together, even upon a champagne and tur- tie soup platform. Aud so they fell out over their cups and purchbowls, and kicked up @ precious sow. Our reporter has graphically sketched the proceedings and incidents. Atter a night’s rest and refrigeration the party will to-day, we understand, vieit the Qoarantine ground at Staten Island. We have received our files of Kingston (Jamaica) papers to the 26th of February. By way of Port Antoplo we sre informed of the loss of the British war schooner Bermuda, which vessel stood out so prcminently in the Greytown occurrences, under the command of tie Jate Crptain Jolly. A namber of the newly arrived Chinese immigrants were in a miserable condition. They had no work, and were tom pelled in consequence to resort to street begging and daily acts of vagrancy, for which many of them were sent to prisom inallthelargetowns. Prepa zations were being made to have the island worthily represented at the Paris exbibition; but we find that a member of the House of Assembly is of opinion thet it must soon cease to be an exporting coun- try, owing to the depression of ifs agriculture! and imdoustrie] reeources, resulting from executive ne- glect. A movement was on foot for the formation of ® Baptist Church Union Association, The weather waa rough and stormy. Our advices from Hayti arc to the 17th ult. Our a NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1855. bargain, will lay before Congress the “ultima rier of separation, of desert wastes and mous- | vention which would enable him sitting in his freely at $14 60, and mew de. at $15 874 a $16. Flour and graim wlso continued firm. Several lots of Southern white wheat sold at $2 28 a $2 30 and $2 350.5 white Geneseo was held at $2 70c. There were made yesterday; at the Merchants’ Exchange, the largest sales of realestate the presezt season. Much was desirable property. All, except two lota on Fifth avenue, probably purchased for churches or for fancy private use, sold under rates current this time a ycar ago. The delegates of the American Baptist Missionary Union met in session yesterday forenoon in Dr. Lathrop’s church, in the Second avenue. Afteran organization was perfected a report from one of the commitices was read, in which the reasons for the present convertion were set forth. They relate chiefly to the state of the missions in Barmah and elsewhere. A number ofunimportant papers were presented, after which a recess was taken. The evening session was kept private, William Kissane, notorious for bis connection with criminal charges at the West, pa:ticularly the Martha Washington conspiracy case, was put on trial in the Court of Sessions yesterday, on the charge of obtaining some twelve thoasand dollars from the Chemical Bank, by means of a forged check. The circumstances connected with this affair, which took place about six months ago, and the incidents of Kissane’s flight, his adroit baflliog of the police, and his subsequent arrest, are doubt- less familiar to our readers. We give elsowhere a report of the trial as far aa it has progressed. The case of the steamer Massachusetts, charged with being engaged in an illegal expedition against the island of Cuba, was continued yesterday bsfvre Judge Ha}!, in the United States District Court. E. P. Cowles, Esq., the newly appcinted Judge of the Supreme Court, took his seat at Chambers yesterday, and transacted some: routine business. We publish to-day a full report of tho court pro- ceedings which took place at the first levee of His Majeaty Ksmehameha IV, the addresses of the foreign diplomats, consuls and naval commanders, and the replies of the King thereto, all after the fasbion and quite as important, perhaps, as similar spectacles at the courts of more powerful potentates. Cuba and the Administration—A Neéw and Startling Manifesto—War and Seizure Threatened. We transfer to our columns this morning, from the Washington Union, the very latest manifesto of the administration upon the Cuba question. This programme is very bold, and is very important and suggestive, as the present platform of Mr. Pierce upon our relations with Spain. Upon the perusal of this manifesto, it will be remarked that since the late ominous resolu- tions of the democrscy at Tammany Halla very considerable reaction has taken place in the Cabinet upon thejCuban pronunctamento of our diplomatic triumvirate of Aix la Chapelle. It seems that Tammany Hall has spoken to some purpose—that the administration has taken the hint thrown out by the Heraup and the Tammany resolutions, and is resolved to follow it up, as the last living chance for hold- ing Mr. Pierce and the democratic party toge- ther. In a word, Mr. Pierce has resolved to abandon the old fogy counsels of Marcy, and to place himself upon the Aix la Chapelle poli. cy, the Tammany resolutions, and the acquisi- tion of Cuba as an administration party mea- sure, by purchate or by seizure, be the conse- quences what they may. According to this article of the President’s official mouth-piece, his present policy of ac- ion upon this business proposes— Port au Prince correspondent gives a summary re- | port of the (rial which took place in consequence of an asvault on Mr. Knight, acting commercial agent | Jor the United States, witha sketch of the scanes in court ard the peculiarities of the Haytien method of eondusting trials, aad an announcement of the sen- temce pened on the scouced. The fever was raging, a the veesels in port had lost more or leas of their | erews. New Orlesna papers of the 4th instant, received ast evening, state that news ha@ reached that elty from Havana to the cfifect that the invading expe dition bad dispersed, owing to the vigi'ance of the government. Volunteers continued to pour in- ‘Two slight shocks of eorthquike were felt at St. Jago de Cuba on the 20th ult. Thay cansed no damage; but the inhabitants were beginning to feel much alarm lest a severe one may be abunt to ocxur, as this was already the second time they had expe rienced shocks this year. Mr. Wm. Sydney Smith’ British Vice Consul at Trinidad, was recently mar. ried at Havana, to Miss Bass, of Montreal. ‘The #ardinian frigate Des Geneys, now lying at aychor off the Battery, is an objoct of curiosity to many, in consequence of the discussions relative to the character of her passengers, both before and after her arrival. These passenges are now al! Janded, and we understand that among those who are suppored to bo paupers and criminals are repre- weatatives of the clerical, legal and literary pro- Jeasions. The frigate will soon depart on her voyage to Sardinia, laden with flour. Cotton was active yesterday, and the sales reach- ed about 7,000 beles, sbout half of which were made im transitu, and the remainder was in part for nome consumption and part for export. Coff-e was ac tive, and the rales embraced about 3 500 bage, in- eluded in which was the cargo of the Marion, 2,647 bage fair quality, at 11c., showing am advance of jc. de. and 9 ems!) Jot prime quility sold at 1125, Old mene pork advanced 25c, per bbl., baying alg 1, Another and a final effort to seoure the acquisition of Cuba by purchase, or, failing in this: 2. An appeal to Congress in behalf of the forcible seizure of the island. We are free, thon, ta acanmo that Me Dodge, our new Minister to Spain, will go out to Madrid with the most elaborate and thoroughly digest- ed instructions to re-open and prosecute nego- tiatiens for the cession of the island to the United States for a liberal equivalent in hard cath. These negotiations will probably extend to England and France, in conjunction with the efforts of our Minister at Madrid. In the meantime the warnings ot the Union may serve their purpose with the Spanish gov- ernment, either in frightening it into submis- sion as the official endorsemeut of the Aix-la- Chapelle pronunciamento, or in driving the proud spirit of poor old Spain to an attitude of wrath and defiance. Iu either event our object will be gained. If Spain is frightened into submission, she will sell; or if she is exas- perated by these warnings and threats beyond Jorbearance, she will tight; and then, of course, in the language of the Ostend triumvirate, we hall take the island, “if we have the power.” That we have the power, is perfectly conclu- sive. Inthe event of a rupture, the seizure and occupation of Cuba would be o mere holi- day operation. Not all the fleets of Eagland and France could prevent our swift steamers from slipping in upon the coasts of Cuba a suf- ficient force to overrun and revolutionize the island in ashort campaign. The plan of the administration, then, for the recess of Congress being the plan of the Ostend conference, we have only to make our esti- mates of the probable results. First of all, it involves the question of the continuance of Marcy in the Cabinet. After snubbing, as he has done, the policy of Messrs. Buchanan, Ma- son and Soulé, it might be supposed that this snubbing of Marcy by the President’s organ, would result in an explosion of the Cabinet, or in another back out on the part of Mr. Pierce. But it is possible that ncither of these misfor- tunes may occur, though both may come to pass. Marcy is flexible or firm, as his spoils policy may require; and he will be very apt to thape himeelt to the exigencies of the day. He is teracious of the apoils, aif is dead set against the Buchanan interest stepping into his shoes. We conclude, therefore, that Marcy will con- sent to try the Ostend game under the auspices of Mr. Dodge and the new Ministers that will most probably be appointed, in the course of a month or two, to England and France. Granted that this Ostend policy will be pur- eued during the recess, ostensibly to the end of buying Cuba, what is to follow? It is manifest that Spain, upon this sort of compulsion, will not sell, but would prefer the extrem- ty of the emancipation of the negroes of Cuba, and the delivery of the island into their hands. The long Congressional va- cation of nine months will then most likely be exhausted in vain endeavors to porchase Cuba, and inefforts equally vain to modify the local regulations of the island to our advantage, But should this turn ont to be the case, we are encouraged, and Spain, England and France are warned to prepare for the meeting of Gen- gress, The days of grace to Spain are limited to this interregnum. On the reassembling of Congress, should the government of Her Most Catholic§ Majesty continue contumacions and intractable, blind to its own interests, as to our necessitier, it must abide by the consequences of ite obstinacy and folly. The President, failing to make a pemeable ratio regum” in one or the other of two alter- natives. He will demand of the two houses authority by law for the seizure of Cuba, or @ repeal of our neutrality laws, that the filibusteros may haye “scope and verge eneugh” to do the work. The Presi- dent’s organ is in favor of the glory enuring to the government, instead of the filibustering volunteers; and therefore prefers the alterna- tive of seizure as better than the indirect poli- cy of a free paseage to the Cuban juntas. The organ says that “to propose by negotiation to purehase Cuba, belongs to the executive; but, upon the refusal of Spain to sell, it belongs to Congress to determine whether the forcible cession of the island is necessary to our inter- nal peace and the existence of our cherished Union.” The case isclear. Marcy’s old fogy policy is abandoned. The Ostend plan and the Tam- many resolutions for the salvation of the ad- ministration and the democracy against the Know Nothings, have been adopted, doubtless, in Cabinet council. Itis virtually so proclaim- ed. Another effort, under a solemn warning, is to be made to buy Cuba. Failing in it, we fall back upon gunpowder, and possibly upoa an extra war session of Congress, It is the last chance for the administration, the democracy and Cuba. Will Mr. Pierce stick to it? Let the democracy come to the rescue, Let us have another meeting in Tammany Hall. War! war! The skies are thick with the clouds of war, Politics on the Pacific Coast—The Movement for a Western Republic Confirmed. We published some days ago a letter from San Francisco giving us the exclusive informa tion of a great political movement on foot ia that quarter, looking to the ultimatum of an independent Pacific republic. Our California exchanges brought by the last steamer, bring us ample confirmation of this intelligence. The programme of this movement we published yes- terday—substantially the same as that of the letter referred to; and we give in our columns to-day some further extracts upon the same subject. First, a new pariy is in process of organiza: tion, to be called the Pacific American party— aname in itself significant of a geographical line of separation from all other parties. The avowed objects of this new party are, a peremp- tory demand upon Congrees for the building of the Pacific railroad, the division of California into two States, the admission as States, forth- with, of Oregon and Washington Territorics, the annexation of the Sandwich Islands as ano- ther State, and the absorption of Sonora and as much more Mexican soil as may be conve- nient for another State or two. These are the avowed objects of the new party; but our San Francisco exchanges bear out our correspon- dent in his disclosures of the ultimate objects of this Pacific organization. They are all re- tolved intothe grand ultimatum of an indc- pendent republic on the Pacific coast. This ultimatum, however, is not tobe broach- ed forthe present. Extreme demands, of the character indicated, are to be made upon Con- grees, the denial of which, it is expected, will create tle necessary estrangement from the gov- ernment at Washington; filibustering foray is to be made upon Sonora, and then, in the event of the interference of the government, the hue and cry of independence anda separate republic is to be sent up from the mountains to O14 fogiea may pranonnoe thig a yl- siopary echeme; but since the revolution and the annexation of Texas and California we have ceased to regard cach Anglo Saxon projects as this with either incredulity or indifference. The conservative journals of California are evidently alarmed. They do no affect to despise this revolutionary movement; but they discues it rather as an existing and formidable danger, They say that disappointed noliticians are at the bottom of it, anxious to be great men, as members of Congress of new States, as governors, and as presidents, and so forth, of a new republic. “Very well. The division of California into two States, and of Oregon and Washington Territory into two or three more, the appropriation of sufficient Mexi- the soa con Territory for one or two more, and the organization of all them into an independent republic, with its federal capital at Sen Francisco, would undoubtedly create a tempting catalogue of rich offices. Herein lies the great danger. California swarms with ambitious and disappointed politi- cians from the Atlantic States. The demand for offices is very large, but the supply is emall. The intense hunger of the spoilamen for the Vimited' allowance to California is aptly illus- trated in the contest for the election of a United States Senator to fill the place of Mr. Gwin, After some fifty odd ballots the result is further from a choice than the first. But our politi- cians have not gone to California for nothing. They have gone there for the spoils, and find- ing that the fat places at Washington are far- ther renfoved from them than ever before, of course “they are in” for a federal government of their own—a half dozen new States, a Pacific republic, a President, Vice President, Cabinet and Oongrers at San Francisco, We repeat it, that herein lies the great dan- ger; and when this projét shall come to be pre- rented to the dashing, adventurous people of California and of Oregon and Washington Ter- ritories, it will be hard to stop it. In the old Atlantic States, when the little country politi cians find themselves thrown out, they start up the project of a new county—and they get a new county, with its court house, and all the- officers of a county. Thus the courties are in- creasing in all the large States of the Unioa. In Virginia, for example, many of the coun- ties bave been divided and subdivided into new counties, until the people find it hard to poy the taxes; but still they are always in favor of & new county, &® county seat and o court house of their own. It gives them some the way. ‘The same privciples lie at the bottom of this California movement. It is on a more gigantic and formidable ccale; but it is substantially from the tame impulses as the movement for a new county. And there are in this Pacific revolutionary enterprise, al! the elements cal- culated to fascinate the attention and aftrast the support of the daring and adventurous people of the Pacific coast lively change from the bumdrum menotony of the establiched order of things, and a thousand temptations in the way of spoils, and speca- lations, and money-making adventures, And there are other considerations locked. Between our hospitah!, Western fron- tiers of the Mississippi valley and the Pacitic coast, the Great Creator bas interposed a bar- | CCL importance in the world; and the spoilemen lead It promises a | not to be over- | tains of some two thousand miles wide. The only medium of a union between these widely divided sections is a Pacific railroad, which the most careful engineering has substantially pronounced impracticable. Thus isolated, it is argued that the question of an independent republic on the Pacific coast, is simply a question of time. Whether that day is at hand or not, the course of events will probably soon determine. We know not what may happen. We struggle to keep pace with the tremendous developements of these times. To this end we put this Pacific movement upon the record, and shall watch its progress. ‘Revolution, sir. It is the living instinct of the age.” The Chinese Revolution=The Religious Ele- ment. Really so little is known aboyt China that every scrap of intelligence makes quite a per- ceptible addition to our stock of information. The narrative of the Rev. Mr. Bittinger, Chap- Jain of the United States steamer Susquehanna, which was published in the Heraup of Mon- day, may be regarded as a useful and welcome contribution to the fund. At all events, on the most interesting ot Chinege topics, the re- ligious character of the revolution, it gives us the candid opinions of a man who has had fair opportunities of judging, and with whom ap- parently, a desire to be truthful has done much to neutralise sectarian bias. Mr. Bittinger be- lieves that the insurgents are bona fide Chris- tians. Allowing that many absurdities have eprung up side by side with the new Christian doctrines, and that in many instances the fol- lowers of Tae-ping-vang seem only to have exchanged their original creed for another equally senseless, he still asserts that the rebels are, ag a rule, anti-idolaters, and possessed of many if not of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity. In support of this view Mr. Bit" tinger enumerates many facts evidencing the belief of the Chinese revolutionaries: Their pos- session of the Ten Commandments; observance of the Sabbath; iconoclastic tendencies; reverence for the Bible. In this view, it will be borne in mind Mr. Bit- tinger etands in opposition to the Jesuit autho- rities, and some other travellers. Mr. Huc, undoubtedly the ablest of modern writers on China, totally discredits the notion that the insurgents are Christians, and treats it in the light of a Protestant fable. Other reports from the Jesuit missions which have reached the light through various channels, are equally explicit in denying the conversion of Tae-ping- wang or any of his crew. It is right to add, too, that the printed narratives of several foreigners—chiefly Englishmen--who have visited China since the revolution broke out have rather tended to confirm this Jesuit view than to belie it. The evidence before us therefore is of two kinds: that of the missionaries and the agents of the Bible and other Protestant societies, which unanimously goes to show that the in- surgents are Christians and Protestants; and that of the Jesuit rivals of the missionaries, who cannot be brought to admit that the Pro- testants have achieved in a few yearsa victory for which the Catholics have been unsuccess- fully contending for three centuries. We have self complacent exaggeration to guard against on the one side; evil-speaking jealousy on the other. A correct judgment can only be formed by allowing for these influences. m Nothing in history is more difficult to trace than the progress of a religious opinion among the masses. The seed is often sown, and left Nothing comes of it for years and years, till men forget the cower. At last when people are expecting something very different, up spring the ear and the blade, and shortly after a strong hearty crop. Every man’s memory will suggest to him such periods in the history of Christianity and Mahometan- itm. It looks very much as if a similar thing | were taking place in China at present. For three centuries the Jesuits have been working | silently but perseveringly in the heart of China. Men of unfaltering courage, and eub- | lime skill, who have always been ready to die for their miesion, and consider they have done their duty if they have reclaimed the morals of a few families, they are to be found in al. | most every parish, every town and vil- | lage in China. Sometimes the charches have | been well attended, sometimes ill; sometimes | | the clergymen have been successful, sometimes | | discouraged und ditheartened. At times the | Emperors have taken them under their protec- tion and eccured them not only safety but | honor ; at others, some intriguing Mandarin | | has obtained a decree of persecution against them and they have been driven to hide them- selves in disguise. But never, during the whole of these three hundred years, have the mission- aries wavered or given up their design of Ohristianizing China ; nor, during the same pe- riod, has there ever appeared any good reason for believing that they would ever succeed. For about a like period, and under circum- | stances by no means dissimilar, the first found- | ers of Christianity labored. From the period | | of the crucifixion of Our Saviour to the aczes- sion of Constantine, Christianity made no pro- gress worth mentioning. It smouldered in | caver, and forests, and catacombs: made con- verts here and lost them there; now advanced, | now declined; opened its arms to the vile | Gnostice, and did not disdain the leadership of a mad Origen; mixed up all sorts of absar- dities with the Biblical doctrines; was little thought of and then only as a topic for a sneer. Allat once, the Emperor becoming a Christian, | the courtiers, and the army and the people fol- | lowed the example in astonishingly quick time, and the new religion had conquered. Not from worthip of Constantine; but because the Chrie- | tian seed had been imperceptibly sown in the | bed of society by the faithful workers, and | | Rowe at the firet eunshower of favor—it sprang } up. How similar the movement in China! These | Triade, who have always been known as thieves | | and murderers, all at once to turn oat good Obristians and worshipping God, and fearing | the commandments, and this not by dozens or cures but by thousands and millions! Strange remblance of seed long ago sown on tardy ground, | . Prooness or THe TeLeorawa—It appears that of all the ecientific treasures and toys | which the Emperor of Japan wus invited by Commcdore Perry to inspect, none struck bis | a8 being particularly wonderfal but the tele. | | graph. The railroad he thought neat and use- ful; other ecientific instruments he proaounced | | very good; but the telegraph was to him uo | -peakably wonderful. It is further said tht | ree | conrleting of molasses, is nearly a total loss, | eel may possibly be got off. | the gale commenced, are missing still. zing at once the vast importance of anin. | y palace to hear What was goingon in every part of his empire and thus acquire a know- ledge of every movement that was made al- most as soon as it began, the Emperor gave orders that the whole of his dominions should be forthwith intersected by telegraphs. We are not aware from what quarter of the globe his Japanese Majesty intends to supply him- self with instruments, wires and operators; but dare say that we shall hear of him again in this quarter before long. Thus progresses the tame lightning. Nicho- las, when he has driven the Allies to make peace, and let him swallow up Turkey, will pursue his project of telegraph and cannot fail to succeed. Should the snows of Kams- chatka and the Siberian deserts be unfavorable for the completion of such an enterprise, an understanding might be had with the Japanese and submarine wires laid to Sitka, by interme- diate stations. It is of course still to be feared that no telegraphs of any such length as this can be successfully carried into operation until a battery and a wire are invented to emit and carry a spark over five hundred miles; but we have men enough in this coun- try whose minds are directed to this problem, and it is sure to be solved shortly, The Pacific and Atlantic will soon be united by telegraph, VOL. Xx. ‘Weather in Boston, dc. Bostoy, March 13—1 P. M. The barometer indicates an approaching gale. Wind northeast. ~ ‘Thursday, April 6th, bas been appointed for a day.o fasting and prayer in this State. Markets. PHILADAREREA STOCK BAER ILADELPHIA, ‘sh 13, - Stocks firm to-dsy, and money easy. Headie R w: 4234; Morris ne 16; Long Island K. R., 16%’. Pennsylvania R. R., 4534; Pennsylvania State 6’s, 89," New ORumaNs, Merch 9, 1856, ‘We have no change to report in our cotton market. sales to-day amounted to 2,500 bales, and the sales: week have been 28,000, The receipts at this port less than those of last year at this time are 40,000 Dalene The stock, including that on ship board, is 110,000 bales.. Coffee—Prime is selling at 1034c. a 103,c. The stock on hand ie 42,000 bags. Bacon—Sides are 7%c. per Ib; Freights—Cotton to Havre 13-16. Political Intelligence. THE GEORGE LAW LETTER. ‘There appears to be a diversity of opinion among « number of journals in regard to the effect produced’ rmong parties and politicians by the recent letter of George Law. The Chicago Tribune, of notoriously free soil proclivities, agrees with Mr. Law’s Know Nothing sentiments, 60 far as they go towards the establishment of a native American party, but repudiates the doctrine that dangerous evils will grow out of sectional agitation; and that journal tells Mr. Law and those who act with him, that if they think to array the American party against the principles of abolitionism, they mistake the character of those whom they seek to control. The Tribune also charges Mr. Law with being influenced im: part by interested motives, when he states that it is not: the policy of our government to protect Ameriean indus- not only at the narrowest, but at the broadest | try sgainst the pauper labor of Europe, It says Mr. Law part of the continent, The Czar can easily in- tersect Asia. The Western Powers will have built the European share of the line before the war isout. Before five years are over, the submarine line from America to Europe will be in full operation. Nothing remains to be done but the part which can very properly be laid aside as the share of the Emperor of Japan. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the European Steamers. Haurax, March 14—1 A, M. We have no tidings of the steamers Pacific or Africa. ‘The latter, with Liverpool dates of the 3d inst. (one week later than the regular day of sailing of the Pacific), is momentarily looked for. ‘i Triumgh of the Know Nothings in New Ham) ConcorD, March 13, 1855. ‘The vote of Concord is, for Baker, 774; Metcalf, K. N., 1,094; Bell, 120; Scat., 53. Ten Know Nothing repre- sentatives are chosen in Coacord, with the assistance of the whigs and free soilers. Manchester gives Baker 671, Metcalf 1,915, Bell and Fowler 29, and sends fourteen Know Nothing representa- tives. Some thirty towns in Rockingham, Strafford and Hillsboro’ counties show just about the same relative yote for Governor, and, with only two exceptions, have elected Know Nothing representatives. These votes in- dicate that “Sam” has swept New Hampshire as clean as he did Massachysetts, electing the Governor, Legisla- ture, members of Congress and all. For members of Congress there were but two tickets in each district, the democrats and the opposition, and the latter are believed to be elected in all three districts ‘The same remark applies also to State Senators in most of the districts. In Dover the Know Nothing Moderator was elected by 245 majority. Rollingford, Somersworth and New Mar- ket also chose Know Nothing Moderators by large majo- rities. The Virginia Know Nothing State Canven- ton. ‘Wixcusster, Va., March 13, 1856, The State Convention of Know Nothings, to nominate State officers, met to-day. The attendance is large, and it is thought the convention will continue in ses- sion through to-morrow. The proceedings bave been kept entirely secret thi . Dreadfal Accident at Meredith, N. H. Concorp, March 13, 1855. Ip Meredith village this forenoen, while citizens were balloting for moderator in the new town hall, the floor fell in, precipitating about three hundred people eighteen feet upen stones and rubbish beneath. George Clark, John O. M. Mead, John Leavitt, Hiram Plummer, R. ©, Tuttle, and Thomas Eastman, were so badly in- jured that slight hopes are entertained of their recovery. Forty-six others were taken from the ruins, many of them with broken limbs and other severe injuries, ‘1wo persons were reported dead when the train left, peieas tees ee anus Shipwrecks on the Eastern Coast. Boeroy, March 13, 1855. The ship Hudson, from Savaanah for Boston, went ashore on Saturday, on Brewster Flats, Cape Cod, and had twelve feet of water in her hold yesterday. Ninety-five beles of cotton had been taken out by the schooner Waldron, Holmes, arrived here. The vessel lays easy, | snd will probably be got off, the weather coatiauing good, The crow are safe, At Provincetown the gale was heavy. The schooner Eujokah, from Norfolk for Boston, went ashore near Race Point. All the hands were drowned. The vessel and cargo, with the exception of sixty barrels of tar, proved a total lose, ‘The bark Edisto, from Charleston for Boston, with a cargo of cotton, rice, &e., is a shore on Orleans Beach, lying high and dry. It is thought she will be got off without mush dameg, and that her cargo will be saved in good order. ‘The schooner I illic Rich is ashore at Barnstable. crew and passengers are safe, but littie camage. The bark Murillo, from New Orleans for Boston, is arkoreat Nonset, and has bilged. Her maste are gone, Her cargo will be partly saved, The schooner J. C. Bowly, from Norfolk, is ashore in Darnetable Bay. Her crew are safe. ‘The brig Civihan, from Matanzas for Boston, went arhore near Cape Cod light. Crew saved, but the cargo, The ves. Her She will be got off with The schr Caroline Grant, from Cardenas for Boston, went ashore near Bellengate light; crew saved, and the versel and cargo probably saved, ‘The schooner Morning Star capsized in Barnstable bay, and drifted ashore, The crew were saved. ‘Three other schooners, known to be im the bay when Great Fire in Woots of South Carolina —Additiong! Particulars. Bavmwonx, March 18, 1856. Fxtensive fires are prevailing in the woods in South Cerolina and Georgia, A despatch from Columbia says tremendous fires are raging all around us, In and about Lexington, houses, mills, fenees, and a vast amount of property, have been | destroyed, and at last accounts the town itself was threatened with destraction. On the Charlotte road the woods for many m lea are on fire; many saw mills aud dwellings have been burned, and the railroad his sought fire in several places, causing an interruption to travel. In Camden, the railrood, a number of houses, and the teregraph poles have been consumed, thereby preventing any communication with the North, On the South Carolina Railroad the woods on both sides of the track were burning, and a car loaded with | ecotten was consumed near Gadsden yesterday. It was feared that the track would also take fire. The woods are also burning on the Greenville road. There was a tremendous gale yesterday, rendering all efiorts to stay the flames fruitless. The Savannab papers also cay that fires were raging extensively im the pine woods between that city and Macon, The railroad was in great danger, and cotton. trains bad ceased running, ihe telegraph line hax been consumed for a con tiderable distance near Cheraw, and some days must clapre before telegraphic communication with the South can be resumed. Troy, March 13, 1956 James Higgina was found dead morning, on the is @ great owner of vessel property, and desires to bring. about a condition of things that will increase the carry~ ing trade, and thereby put dollars and cents in his owre pocket, It says, also, that such a doctrine is anti- American, and can never receive the countenance and support of the new organization. ‘The Chicago Press (democratic,) thinks that Mr, Law may turn up & candidate for the Presidency, and it there- fore gives the principal points of his letter, with the re- mark, that whatever else may be said of it, it 1s at least; frank and outspoken. The letter strikes the Savaunah Republican (whig,s with horror. The very idea of coupling the name of George Law with the Presidency is truly shocking. The folly of the effort, it says, to foist such @ man upon the country, as @ candidate for the office once filled by ‘Washington, is equalled only by his impudence, Things have arrived at a pretty pass, when men like Law ara seriously speken of in connection with the highest office in the gift of the nation. The New Orleans Delta claims the honor of being thé first to bring Mr. Law out for the race for the White House. it says he is a regular Glencoe runner, has bot- tom as well as speed, and is likely to become a popular favorite before the homestretch commences. Our nag is off, says the Delia, has made a good start, and sweeps well round the course, They will be in ecetacies in New Orleans when they see his letter. Operatic Affairs. RB-OPENING OF THE ACADEMY UNDER NEW MA- NAGEMENT--FIRST NIGHT OF THE GERMAN OPERA AT NIBLO’S. The season at the Academy is to be continued under the direction of a committee of the stockholders, Messrs. Phalen, Coit and Payne. ‘The last named gentleman has the general direction of the management. Steffanone, Pico Vietti, Mme, Bertucca-Maretzek, Brignoli, Badiali, Vietti, Coletti and others form the company. The prices will remain at the standard fixed by Ole Bull. Mr, Maretzek has been engaged as chief of the orchestra. Inthe meantime we nothing further from Ole Bull, Ullman, Strakosch, and Jacobsohn. It is believed that U!lman will shortly be here. We affairs during his season at the Academy. Niblo’s theatre was opened last night for the per- formance of German Opera. There was an excellent house, both in numbers and the appearance of the sudience. Many of our most respectable German citi- zens were present, as well as a host ef opéra-goers, hitherto strangers to the works of the German mastore. rendered in the vernacular, The opera selested for the initial performance was Flowtow’s “Martha,” with Mme. Siedenberg, (soprano,) Mme. D’Ormy, (contralto,) Mr. Quint, (tenor,) and Mr. Vincke, (bsritone,) in the principal parts. The story of ‘Martha”’ 1s founded upon. an old English story, of two maids of honor who dis- guired themselves snd went to Richmond Fair, where: the farmers chose their maid servants. The aristo- cratic females were captured by two agriculvurists, and after a variety of adventures the affair ended in two weddinge. Balfe has written an Opera, .‘The Maid of Honor,” on the same subject. Martha’ was per formed at Niblo’s some years since, when Mad, Bishop and Miss Rosa Jacques sung the principal parts. It wae leo produced recently at the Stadt theatre, in the: Bowery. itis one of tlie most agroceble Gevalad operay, ful of spirit, Hive and action, There is a delicious quar. tette (nocturne) in the second act, and’ a very Pretty chorus in the first act. Madame Sieden- berg’s voice is thin and uneven in the lower register, and her upper notes are painfully sharp, She is, how- ever, a well educated, careful and correct sings Mme. D'urmy has a full, rich contralto voice, but she is care- Jees, and necde cvitivation and a good school. Mme Siecemberg’s execution of “The Last Rose of Summer, ’” in the second act, (drst introduced in this opera by x. Bochea,) was #0 artistic ae to gain her a positive encore The baritone, Mr. Vincke, has a good voice and = good meihed, Asan actor his powers are above mediocrity. Mr. Quint is a respectable tenor, making the best and most tasteful use of his voice. The orchestra, con- éueted by Mr. Unger, one of our very best resident mu- si was excellest. The chorus was «mull, but well trained and effective, “Der Friesebutz”? is shortly to be produced here, in which Mies Caroline Lehmann will appear, City Intelligence. Lroronrs ox Tax Easteny WaR.—Dr. Solger delivered & lecture last night, the first of a course of four, on the Fastern war. The lectures are to be illustrated by mape showing the position of the allied and Russien foreen’ The subject is an interesting one, and tne lecturer brings toits consideration abilities of e high erder. The next lecture will be on Filday, 16th ingt.; t2e wubject ing ‘‘ The policy of tho ¥ inistry— sd being «The poliey ate English ministry—of Aus A Feanrvut Posirion.—On Monday afternoon, & man employed on the sicop Argentine, laying at anchor in the North river, while engaged io arranging some tackle high Up on the mast, was taken with a fainting fit, He fell back, end in doing so his legs struck agains: a epar, and he remained ruspended in the slings, hie head haoging down, and he working in a convulsion. The csptaic teeing bis perilous condition, ordered two wen aloft, ono on each side of the mast, to save him, if pos: ib) sneceeded in throwing a bow rope around his body, bet Just at this juncture he fell loose from the slings, and he remained suspended by lis middle from tae ricging by the rope. He was soon lowered to the deck, aa om the application of suitable restoratives, resovered his cou sciourness, and is now doing well, Sart Patnick’s Day.—The Irish military end civie #o- cieties are making preparationa to celebrate the birth day of Ireland's patron saint in a becoming manner. There is to be procession, and the 'Longshoremea, the Laborers Union, the Order of Ancient Hiternians, to gether with the three Irish regiments, and several volun teer companies are to parade. In the evening the Unite: Sons cf Erin will feast at National Hall, ‘ou Friends of Ireland at the CUinese Roems, Son i The Pviendly Saint Patrick will also spond therevening in x maurer. The Mayor and the Common Counsii them in the Park, —In the report of a fire at No. 202 Rowery in Monday’s Herat, the Metropolitan lire insurance Company was noticed as belog one of the underwriters Our inferment was mistaken ; it should bave been the Metropolis Insurance Company. The CxaLDREN’S Atv SocteTY of Williamsberg will hole te first anpiverssry this evening, in the Congregations! Church in South Ninth stroet, between Fifth and Sixt: street, Messrs. ©. 1. Brace, R. G. Pardee, and Rev, E Ss. Porter, will deliver addrestes, and the children, about 160 of whora will be present, will take : ciser. The occasion a Naval InteDigence. The U.S. steamship Massachusetts, since reported at Callao, arrived at Valparaivo on the 16th of Jane ; the corvette Decatur arrived on the following day, and tir corvette John Adams on the 29th—all from Rio Janviro The Decatur sailed again on the 26th fer the Sandwict Islands. OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENCE. . Sr. Domyeo, The U, 8, sloop-of war Falmouth, Shaw, has been here for « afternoon on @ well om board. Tt is can ice under the railroad bridge over the Hudson river. [t \» euppored that he fell through the bridge last night, ‘The Ohio River. ‘ Wirreiava, Mareb 15, 1886. The river riving, with tom feet nine inches of water in bause). We bave beep visited by heavy raiaa, on the arrival of » mas-of-war all tomary here, th the consuls hoist their Gage | thin was forgoten on the orrival of the Falmouth, and all the flagstatls, with the exeeption of that of the Oanich Consul, remained de prived of their croament. Of souree, the stare and stripes displayed their tight colors from the ‘wre Copeulate s presume that Ole Bull is busy with his statement of -