The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1855, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1855. NEW YORK HERALD. TERMS, cork in THE DAILY HERAL: ate per coyy—Tl per aneum. THE WKEKLY HERALD every Suturday awe cents per ¢ Buropenn Evition & per annum Sreoerig nat titan, ana tote ony park ef the Con Recut No. 86 Fourteenth etroet—Mania ps ecarEMy OP MUSI rr BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Pscamno—Love anv Lancesy. peeing WOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Laov or Lvome—Tax AVALADCHE. @URTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Urren Tax anv Lowen warty Inism Turon, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—San Wourn ano Que Mover Nor—Carraiy or tum Waren. SMBRICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Love. Svening— @uvian's Daze. WOD'S MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway, LEYS OPERA HOUSE, 539 Brosdwey—Buon- aeons am Orana Trove. PRRHAM’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 6¢3 Broad- @uy—Arniovian PensronMancrs. orm. New Vork, Wednesday, March 29, 1655, The News. The Atiantic arrived yesterday morning at her mcorings in the North river, after a tedious passage of over sixteen days. Her news bai been looked fowward to with intenee anxiety, owing to the doubts ‘thrown upon tre previous announcement of the Ozar's death. That important event ie now fully condirmed, with but little variation of the ciream- stances be‘ere stated. Tne Emperor breathed his ‘ast shortly after noon on Friday, the 2d of March, im the presence of bis family, preeerving his com- posure and resigmation tothe last. Up to the mo- ment of his death bis thoughts remained fixed on the political situation of his empire. His last imstractions to the Empresa were—‘ to tell her brother (the King of Prussia) to continue attached to Russia se he bad hitherto been, and never to forget his father's words” ‘The sensation caused throughout the Furopean eepitala by the news of this unexpected event was ae might be supposed, intense. In England and Prance it was differently received. While: in the former it caused unbounded joy, pushed beyond the Benits of decency in the exuberance of ite expres: son, in the latter the feeling of relief which it bwought to the minds of most was characterized by @ becoming reserve in the manner of ite manifeat- ation. ‘The Paris j>arnals in general treated the mitter ‘whh the due respect which so solemn an event calied fos, and paid a high tribute to the peraoaal qualities of the dec sssed monarch. Theauthorities even went ae far as to arrest some ballad singers for singing ‘werses disrespectful to his memory. No sooner did the newa reach Paria than Lord Cowley telegraphed to the Earl of Clarendon to meet the French Emperor a’ Boulogne. Different versions are given of what paved at this conterense, though of course nothing positive could be ascer- tained on the subject, as the only persons present at it were Louis Napoleon and Lords Clarendon and Gowky. The London Morning Herald, which, though understood to be miulsterial, is naver re- ma ded asa very safe authority in the way of poli- tuea) intelligence, states that at this interview the Veench Emperor remonstrated in strong terns against the proceedings of Mr. Roeback’s Parlia- mentary Committee, and intimated that if they were carried out the armies of the two nations could no Jonger operate together, although they might ext for the same object. Lord Clarendon is said to have satisfied him by the assurance that the Eagtish go- vermment would defeat them by resorting to their ecvatitutonal right of dissolving Parliament. There may be some grounds for this statement, improbabie a8 it may appear; but it is more likely that the main object of the interview was to deli berate on the recommondatign orged upon the Ea veror by the Austrian and Prosclan Ambazsaioz, | Bot t> press on the war, but to give the new Em: peror time to es'ablish himself upon the throne, *dBa w consider garefully the courne that he might De dispesed #0 take, Sq far ah Snyihing is known of Alexander's pre: stout feelings and intenti>ns, they all seem to poiat to o firm perseverance in his father’s policy. His tet manifes‘o declares as much, and there are many cencurrent circums’ances to justify that conviction. Although, therefore, the fist announcement of the ©xer’s death in London and Paris caused a strong danpression in favor of peace, and sent up the fande in both capitals, few days reflection and the decided character of the document alluded to prodneed on great a reaction. People generally weem to havs ayvived at the conviction woich we have #0 lovg urged, that the Pastern war was, on the port of Russia, the result of a settled system of nations) policy, and not the offspring of the ambi- tion or obstinacy of an individual. ‘The peace negotiations had commen:zed at Vien- ma. The first subject discussed is said vo have been the preciee meaning of the third guarantee point. Some changes are announ ed in the command of ‘he Rassian armies in the Crimea and Bessarabia, and in the former Prince Menschikoff has been sub- aituted by Gortschakoff. A misty sort of account @ given of the storming of a redoubt by the Irench gm the Crimea, in which several hundred Raseians «we said to have been killed, and the Grand Dake Wichse) mortally wounded; but the whole statement. #0 vague that we attach but little credence to it. The allies and Russian versions of the affair at Eapa- ria d'ffer materially, the latter merely styling heir attack upon that place a reconnoissance in orce. There ia a strange report current with re. pect to the French General Forey. It is asserted hat he hes been sent back to France to be tried by ourt martial for betraying the military plans of he alles to the Rnesiane. ‘The Sardinian government has published a mani ssto in explanation of its adhesion t» the Western ‘Hanod, which it states not to be founded on personal wtives, bat on the interests of Earope. The King ' Beiginm is without » ministry, and it seems that | | for stockjobbing purposes. o Belg an statesman ia willing to undertake the yankless cffi:e of forming one. The French journals announce the death on the ame dey, and almost at the seme hour as that on hich the decease of the Czar took place, of the merabie Dupent (ce l’Eure.) By a curious coinci ance, the ides of March proved fatal to two of the enteat champions of the antagonist principles of poblicanism and deepotiem. When, as a member the provisional government of France, in 1848, s received M. Rush, the United States Minister, the Hotel de Ville, Mr. Dapont cordially shook née with him, and said to him, with a smile: “Ze uple Francais terre la main du peuple Ameri- He bad just entered his eighty-ninth year i" ve received a long communication from srgtae, dated December 24, for which we are adie to tind space te-day, and which gives a fuil “yunt of the diffi ulties that have arisen bet ween » Prered Admiral and the rebels. It seems thet sat the time of the arrival of the former, one of the ach residents, of whom there are only about half | exen in the place, purchased for ® nominal sam ct of land mretchiog from near the city wails _ + the Sang-King Pan creek, the boundary of the || sign settlement and the limit over which troops ‘@ forbidden to pars. This tra>t wae a sort of sable ground, and had been the scene of the tects betwerm the rebels and the imperialists. soon as the French Admiral reached the pert, it perched to build @ wall to Keep ont the rebsle, ie (Sect io starve em out, ao ainon all the; provisions by which the city was supplied pissed that w: The concurrence of the American and Exgi-h acthonties wes obtuined for this proseed- ing, mach (0 the disgus: of the America resilen's, asthe reb:le had up to that time been on the moat friendly terms with them. Tho wall wasaccordisg. Jy Wavlt on the French, and afterwards exte-ded on tbe English and American sides. The reb:ls, f2d- ing they were in danger of being comp etely hom med in, issu: 2 out in force and destroyed the wall. An engagem-nt forthwith ensued between them and the French, which was attended with some joas of vife. The Admurs) next dey published » proclama- tion declaring the place in & state of siege, and it as reported cost he wes only awaiting the enival of another frigate and corvette to sueil the city. Ia the meanwh'le a meeting of the foreign residents was held at the Eogtish consulate, and a reaola- tion was unanimously come to, to tave nothing to do with the erection of a wall between the nettle ment and the city. The conduct of Captain Pope, the United States officer in command, ia severely censured by our correspondent. He states that the captain @uffered himself to be compietely hood winked in this matter by the French Admiral, and that the couras whic he has taken is decidedly op- pored to American interests. ‘The effect of the foreign news, #0 far a3 cotton ‘was concerned, was not developed yesterday. The sales only amounted to about 600 bales, tie market having closed in an unsettled state. Though the market hed been very active in Liverpool at aa ad- vance, which had again been partiaily lost, yet the rapid rise here had rather move than anticipated the effect of the Emperor’s death and peaze pros. pects upon the Liverpool market. Hence, sales eould not have been forced yeaterday without some concession in favor of buyers. Holders, however, were dispored to await the receipt of the Asia’s news at Halifax before doing much, As prices of bread- stoffs here are regulated by loca! causes, such as supplies and the domestic demand, the foreignnews had vo effect upon that branch of trade. Owing to fears of a serious diminution in the Western pork crop, that article, wito beef, continued firm, while otLer articles wem without important change in prices, In the Senate yesterday the bil! prohibiting bonds and mortgages as a barking ba-ia was debated and referred to a select committee to report complete. The deba’e on the Temperance bil: waa resumed. The influences at work for and against this mea- ure are #o peculfar that i$ ia utterly impossible to copjecture from one day to another what course will be pursued ia regard to it. On Monday a mo. tion that the bill take effect oa the Fourth of Jaly, and that no licenses be granted after its passage, was defeated bya decisive mjority. Yesterday, however, the motion was renewed aad adopted. If adhered to, this will emabie our liquor mer- chants to prepare for the law by selling off their atecks, which are estumated at trirty millious of dollar. A motioa to strike out the search and se’zure clause was rejected by & majority of eight. In tre Aesemb'y, the Senate bill to prevent obstructions upon the harbor of New York was passed to a third reading without amend: meat, The bil] providing for tolls on railroads was referred back to the Committee of Ways aud Means, in compliance with the solicitation of the officers of the companke interested, in order to afford oppor tupity tora full discustion of the subject, A bill ‘was reported levying a tax of one mill on the dollar on all real and personal estate, to meet the defi- ciency in the revenue of tha present year. The halt mill tax of 1842 ia to be repealed. We have news from the city of Mexico t> the 19th inet. Santa Anna had returned to the capital, where he was received with the usnal demonstra- tions of enthusiasm. The bombastic reports pre- viously circulated relative to the discomfitare of Aivarex are somewhat modified, and it ie stated that uothir g positive was known concerning him. The story that he fied precipitately on the approach of he government troope is, however, still persiste lin, ‘The telegraph from New Orleans gives uss brief account of the burning of the stesme: Bulletin, on Saturdsy, below [ake Providence. Twenty-taree of the passepgers and crew are missing, smong the former Mr, J. B. Williama, of this city. The vessel end cargo, conpiating of 3,500 bales of co'ton, are 9 iolal lors. ‘The eteamer Huvisvitle bes.a'so beet | destroyed by tire. She had on byard 4,000 bales of cotton. ‘The water in the North river is uousaaliy low for the season cf the year, and vessels of ordinary Grevght ground on the bars. What has bscome of the appropriation by Congress for improring the ravigation cf this river? The Committee on Repairs snd Supplies, of the Boerd of Councilmen, met yesterday afternoon to hear the various parties who bave presented plana for the proposed new City Hall. There were no less than eight of these preeented; but that de- signed by Messrs. Jackson, Gilvert & Stuart, ao peared to meet with more tavor than any other. This has already been described. It will have an extent of 520 feet on Chambrrs street, 365 on Broadway 365 on Chatham street, and 250 rooms, the Jargert of which will be 95 by 44 and the smallest 31 by 27. The building propseed by Mr. Bucknan would have 285 rooms, the largess baing 44 by 72, and the smallest 19 by 23. Mr. Gilbert and Mr, Bockman were both heard in favor of their respec- tive plans, after which the committee adjourne? to meet again on Thureday at 3 o’closk. A+ the charter election in New cleans, on Mon- day, the candidates of the American party were chosen by a handsome majority. The News by the Atlantic—No Prospect of Peace. Jt is to be presumed that the Thomases who doubted the correctness ot our opinion with regard to the death of the late Nichotas I. are ratistied by this time, and will not persist in the theory that the business is a farce played by Alexander and the European governments The allies have found ita pretty substantial reality by this time. The first impression created by the news of the Czar’s death was that it would be fa- vorable to peace. The Grand Duke Alexander had been well spoken of; he had been supposed to possess great liberality of mind and open: ness of purpose; he had been identified with the peace party in Russia, Hence arose a pretty general belief in England and on the Continent that among his first acts would be a reversal of his father’s foreign policy, and an acquiescence in the terms of pacification pro- posed by the Western Powers at Vienna. It seems, now, very doubtful whether these anti- cipations are to be realized. Alexander's manifesto on his accession is something more than the stereotyped form of such documents. He therein announces emphatically that he will carry out the policy of Peter the Great, of Catherine, of Alexander I. and of Nicholas; an announcement which can only refer to the sub- ject of Russian aggrandizement on the south aad the epread of the Greek Charch. Ithasalready been +o interpreted in England, and by the time the steamer left, the opinions which were current on she Sd had undergone sensible modi- fication. It was noticed that the measres taken at St. Petersburg for the prosecution of the war had evinced no decay of vigor since the Czar’s death. It began to be generally rumored that ro far from cherishing hostility to his father’s policy, Alexander had been for many yeors his confident, and was likely to be better acquainted with the principles which guided him then any other man living. Finally, the orders sent to the allied troops in the Crimea te re@oobie their energy were not calculated te strengthen a belief that the war was on the point of terminating. On the strength of such grounds as these, the people of England and France seem to have altered their original view of the Czar’s death, and to have made up their minds that, after all, the war went on for some graver reason than the ‘perversity of one despotic old man.” | We congratulate them on the additional ight | they have received. Whenseever the peop'e of | England shall understand that the present war is not by any means the iruit of one man’s am- bition or one man’s perversity, but that itis a concession—and a tardy ene—to the heart-cry | of a whole people, burning to regain the homes, and the churches, and the burial places of their | fathers and the cradle of their faith; then, but not till then, will negotiation be likely to be followed by peace. For the present, the British | masses utterly misconceiving the question at issue, the wretched aristocracy writhing under the detection of its incapacity and its folly, the French Emperor scorning the gotion of recalling his eagles un- crowned by laurels, and already chafing at the restraints of British parliamentary committees, free pressee, and so forth, the chances of peace seem infinitely slender. f “I know,” said the Emperor Nicholas at one period of his reign, ‘that I am not as popular ag I might be with my subjects, because I will not declare war against Turkey.” After a time, he found it impossible to restrain the tor- rent any longer, and it broke forth. War was declared against Turkey. It was followed by an invasion of Russian territory by two foreign Powers, who are now encamped on Russian soil, besieging the strongest Russian fortress of the South, and demanding that it be dismantled, In the battles that have been fought, the Rus- asians have been defeated; in the last, with great slanghter, by inferior numbers. Now, under circumstances like these is it possible that Alexander can make peace? It is said that his accession has been peaceable, and tha‘ his bro- ther Constantine was the first to take the oath of allegiance to him. This is all very well; but we know perfectly that Russia, and espe- cially the army, contains a large body of dis. affected individuals who would be glad of a pretext to rebel against the new Czar. The Société du midi is not yet extinct. What better pretext could these conspirators de- sire than « tendency towards peace dis- played by the new Czar at a time when the honor and interests of Russia required the vigorous prosccution of the war? And is it natural, is it at all reasonable to suppose that Alexander, who is of course fully aware of their schemes, would do them so good a turn as afford them this chance? We think not. A brief trace may yet be declared, if the nev Czar is not fully au fait of the duties of his station. But a peace, never, until the demands of Ruseia are granted, or the power and strength of the Western Powers broken. What of England? The Committee of In- quiry dregs out its length, and there is a de- cided tendency on the part of the aristocratic managers to make it @ mere farce. The minis- try exists still; but the prestige of Lord Pal- merston is badly hurt, if not gone, and the old complaints about aristocratic imbecility are as loud as ever. Day by day, more evi- dence of the utter rottenness of the military system comes to light. Officer after officer turns State’s evidence and confesses that out of the whole army of England the officers who have any practical or scientific acquaintance with their duties may be counted on the fingers, A sort of lethargy appears to have succeeded to the excitement produced by the first news of the disasters at Sebastopol, France begins to chafé at the alliance. Napo- leon will not allow his troops to act in concert with those of England if the committee of the House of Commons continue their investiga- tions, Lord Clarendon crosses—express—to Boulogne to tell his imperial majesty the com- mittee fs alla sham, a hoax, intended to throw dust in the eyes of the people. Bat Prince Napoleon shows up the British alliance in a pamphiet, in which the advantage of breaking it is forcibly impressed on the attention of the people of France; and the soldiers in the | Crimea are not backward, now, in expressing their dissatisfaction at being obliged toencamp on equal terms with allies who cannot cook their own food, or keep themselves alive with immense supplies of provisions and fuel only eight miles off. | Altogether, the news may be summed up in | two words: war, confusion. Both must go on | alittle longer before any net result can be obtained. Turn Opron ns Puatrorm.—We published yesterday, the platform of Thomas S. Flournoy, the nominee of the American party in Virginia for Gover- nor. Upon the whole, it is a sound and gensi- ble platiorm in its local and domestic views. He is, perbaps, somewhat too hard upon the Catholics; but time and a little experience will rab off all such rough edges of the general policy of his party. Ina national view, Mr. Flournoy is eminently conservative; and oocu- pies substantially the American Live Oak State Rights platform of George Law. He says that he cannot take the stump in opposition to Mr, Wise; but upon this brief exposition of his principles he will leave the issde to the people of Virginia. Between the candidate of the Cabinet spoils democracy of Washingtov, and the Richmond regency, and the ch»smpion of the new American party, carrying all the old whig party with them, and many of the old line democracy, we may guess the result. Mr. Wise will most probably be reserved a mission abroad, or a place in the Cabinet; for it is evi- dent that he is to be defeated. New Hampshire bas spoken, #0 look out next for a tremendous echo from the Old Dominion. Cnevatten Wikorr anv. Mr. Sovrr.—We understand that Chevalier Wikoff intends to elucidate a certain important disclosure made by Mr. Soulé in his recent correspondence, giving an account of a supposed hostile mission to the United States by Prince Napoleon, the son of Jerome Bonaparte. This disclosure has been heretofore supposed to be what is classi- cally called “a mare's nest.” We understand that Chevalier Wikoff, who had, during that period in Paris, personal, social, and all sorts of knowledge of Prince Napoleon, and who met him on terme of intimacy daily in Paris, is prepared to show that there was no foundation for the statement relative to the supposed hos tile mission alladed to in the Soulé correspon- | Napoleon, acting upon this conjecture, is | | bewildered; the peace conferences at Vienna ‘The Affairs of Europe and Our Own Affairs —True Policy apon our Spantsh Relations, ‘There ie no peace in Barope in consequence of the death of the belligerent Nicholas—no prospect, po rymptems of peace, On the con- trary, the cause of Russia, transferred from | the late Emperor to his son, has become | doubly consecrated in the heart of Alexan- | der, and hie firet manifesto substantially | proclaims the fact to the world. The war | will still be prosecuted by Russia, and per- baps with a pew impulse of energy, unity and activity, under the auspices of the new Emperor. At all evente, the cagacious Lonis making his preparations for a desperate, pro- tracted and Napoleonic struggle. England is are confounded; all Europe shares in the ap- prehension of a long and general war. We are neutral—this Eastern quarre)] is no affair of ours; with regard to the destiny of Turkey and she European “balance of power,” oar policy is non-intervention; but there is “another balance of power” which it be- hooves the government at Washington, of all things, to keep in view at this crisis. The Par- liamentary declaration of Lord Clarendon comprehends the most “happy accord” be- tween England and France, in reference not only to the Old World, but to this Western hemisphere. Their alliance and their policy are to secure their own ascendancy—military, naval and commercial—in all quarters of the globe. In this comprehensive view, the pos- session or control of the island of Cuba is as essential to their “balance of power” in the West as is the right of way by the city of Con- stantinople to their ascendancy in the East. If Sebastopol and Constantinople be the lock and key to the Black Sea and the Mediterra- neap, Havana and Cuba hold the same relation to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Straits. Nor is it less consistent with the “happy accord” of the Western Powers to put acheck upon the territorial and maritime ex- pansion of republican America on the one side, than it is to arrest the advancing strides of despotic Russia on the other. It will not be disputed that England is jea- lous of the growing commercial supremacy of the United States; it is manifest that she is ambitious to retain her boasted dominion of the seas, whatever else she may sacrifice. It were absurd to suppose that her benevolent solicitude concerning the island of Cuba rests upon any other ground. Just in proportion to the maritime strength which the pos- session of the islend would secure to us is England opposed to its severance from the crown of Spain. Louis Napoleon is aleo ambitious. His colonial government in the Pacific ocean; his diplomacy at Domi- nica; his “happy accord” with the policy of Englend, East and West, very forcibly indicate his desire and his purpose to share with her the ocean and some of the convenient corners, loose islands, and waste places of the earth. England, in “happy accord” with this idea, has Jed him into this present alliance, and has thus identified his policy with her own in regard to the balance of power in both hemispheres. The two Powers, in this relation, stand as the guardians and proteciors of Spain. Under this protection Spain has become very insolent of late, and from the outrages inflicted from day to day upon our citizens, public officers and commerce, by the authorities of her favo- rite colony and her vessels of war, her sove- reignty and regulations over Cuba have be- | come to us little better than an insufferable nuisance. The correspondence of Soulé’s mis- sion to Madrid offurde neither relief nor a hope of relief. Spain refuses to Fell; “it would be the sale of the national honor ;”’ she refuses to modify the local laws of the island; she refuses to listen to overtures of commercial recipro- city, and she has had neither the time nor the inclination to settle our outstanding balances against her. The creoles of Cuba conspire for a revolution, but they are diccovered and put down. The filibusteros within our own shores conspire for liberation; but they are detected and dispersed. Spain is secure in her colony, for with the rumors of insurrection and inva- sion, the fleets of England and France volua- teer for her deliverance. This is but a fore- taste of Lord Clarendon’s “ happy accord.” Since the return of Mr. Soulé, the Spanish | Fremier, Signor Luzuriaga, has signified the generous readiuess of his government to eater into negotiations for the settlement of the Black Warrior outrage; and the Washington organ of the administration jumps at this declaration and proclaims it an adjustment. The protec- torate of England and France frightened our imbecile administration. It would punish Spain; it would insist, peace or war, upon a general settlement; it would have Cuba at all risks: but it isafraid, and has been afraid of any risk, on account of Eogland and France. If they were not in the way, the firing into the Et Dorado, we suspect, would have been followed by the bombardment of Havana; for it would have been as easy and quite as popular as the burning of Greytown. In fact, the Ostend policy iteelf, for all that we know, would have been adopted by our warlike President, but for | the inconvenient protectorate of England and France, and that terrible Nebraska bill. We bave had enough of this. Now what is | to be done? Does the administration think to escape the judgment of the Ameriean people hy simply accepting the offer of Senor Luzu- | tiaga to negotiate upon the Black Warrior | case’ It will not do. The dodge is | too transparent. The present European | crisis affords the opportunity, and the last ebance fora clean and permanent settlement with Spain, upon our own fair terms, and | without war. On the other hand, there is every reason to fear, unless we enforce a set- | tlement in the meantime, that a peace in | Europe this year, the next, or two or three, or ten years hence, will be followed, if not by the appropriation of Cuba between England and France in some shape, at least by the Afri- capization of the island. This would place it | at once and forever beyond our reach. Make Cuba a free negro settlement, and the annexa- tion as a sovereign State of the empire of Soulouque would be quite as desirable. What, then, is our present policy t It is ac- tion. .t is the call of an extra session of Congress, and such recommendations to the two houses as will bring Spain to a definite and permanent settlement. Such a course, we maintain, is the only course for peace. We may now dictate the law to Wngland and dence. Moreover, Chevalier Wikoff, who was at the time the diplomatic sgent of Lord Pal- merston and the British Foreign Office, will prove that Chevalier Soulé has been entirely takeo is by # Parisian canard. France. Wait until they are relieved of Rus- | sia and they will dictate it to us, or, under a belder administration, we shall be compelled to fightit out. We plead for peace in pleading for a prompt and decided eettloment. The al- | | the Governor’s appointees are scrutinized. lied proteeters of Spain are now subject to our “balance of power.” She, subject to their will, must therelore succumb to our just de- mands, Negotiations and indemnitics for the Black Warrior outrage, and all others, upon our people and our ships, in and about Caba, , Whl not suffice. We want not ouly “indemnity for the past, but security for the tuture.”” Now is the time to command it. -Let the friends of the administration who de- | sire to seeits last days better than the first— | who wish the restoration of the democratic party to popularity and bonor—who are ia | favor of a bold American policy, plead with Mr. Pierce for an extra session of Congress, It will save him. The country will sustain him, because justice will be with him. If the Cabinet rebel, let him get a new Cabinet. Where is the difficulty ? Now is the time for this bold and popular movement. The late speech, in the Cortes, of Luzuriaga, shows that an extra ses- sion and a definite and decisive message from | the President are the true policy for Mr. Pierce. Let him pluck up a little courage, and with- out shrinking-or fainting, “strike while the iron is hot.” We plead for action, for decision, for an American ‘balance of power,” for justice and for peace. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Another Cabinet Crisis. THE KL DORADO OUTRAGE—WHAT SHALL BE DONE anour iT? Wasutncton, March 27, 1855. The Cabinet is in a crisis on the subject of the Fl Do- raco affair. The President is in favor of decisive mea- sures, and Davis, Gutnrie, and Dobbin concur with him; but Marcy stubbornly persists in his fogyism, and Cush- ing is dead against all action, as he hopes to retrieve his sunken fortunes by a semblance of conservatism, Soulé is up and doing, But what of all this? Time alone will tell. The Union, in the meanwhile, will come out to mor- row with a pompous lucubration on the disgraceful ad- Justment of the Blask Warrior difficulty. You may be sure that there are storms in the winds. Latest from the State Capital, THE TEMPERANCE BILL—ITS PASSAGE OBRTAIN-— REVISION OF THE CIVIL. CODE—BONDS AND MORT- GAGES AS A BANKING BASIS—A MILI. TAX TO BE LEVIED—PABSAGE OF THE HARBOR ENCROACHMENT BILL—THE APPOINTMENTS, ETC. ALBANY, March 27, 1855. The Temperance bill has passed through the Commit tee of the Whole in the Senate, just in the shape it came from the House of Assembly, and from the hands of the State Temperance Society. The few alterations made in the Senate, do not in the least interfere with its main features, viz.:—Prohibition, search, selgure, confisca- tion, and destruction of property. TheState administra. tion engaged all its strength, when the bill was taken up in the Senate, to render the bili less objectionable, by undertaking to strike out the odious features of search and seizure, Senator William Clark, the immediate re- presentative of William H. Seward, and Senator Dickin- von, the organ of the whig party, united their strength and influence in order to accomplish that purpose. They foresaw the disastrous effects which would be produced upen the whig party if these clauses were retained, whereby peoples’ dwellings could be searched, their pro- perty seized and destroyed without any legal warrant or proof of law. But the administration had two strong forces to encounter—the honest temperance men, and the honest anti-ultra factionists, The former voted against all propositions to amend, from honest convic- tions that it search and seizure were stricken out, the vitsls of the prohibitory law would be torn out. ‘Tho latter ave those who are decidedly opposed to the bill ia | all its phases, every feature, and who would not consent to allow apy alteration which wan intended to sofven its stringency. This class, Gnding they did net ponsess the stcength to defeai the entire bill, have voted steadily to keep all the obnoxious sections in it, im order that the pura xt becomes a Jaw, may be forced upon the so full of objections that it cannot be put in forces, and eo palpably unconstitutional that it may immediately be pronounced so by the courts, It is therefore eminen' proper that the people should now be advised that the prohibitory bill will soon become a law. A day or two since, Senator Bishop introduced a bill appointing three comumirsioners to revise the civil code of thia State. It was referred to the Judiciary Commit- tee for an opinion, and this morning that eommittee re- ported against it. Such a report was not expocted, es- | ee by those who are atquainted with a necessity for such revision. Mr, Bishop boped the report of the committee would not be agreed to, but that the bill would be reerred to the Committee of the Whole. He stated that the civil code now extended through fifteen or twenty thousand volumes, in half a dozen lan- gusges, and to make a complete lawyer’s library it re- wired something like fifteen thousand volumes, The lish and French have a perfect code, and why shoald pot we haveone, To say that we cannot make a code, {s a reflection upon our ingenuity, our powers and our knowleage. As the gentlemen namod in the bill, Mesars. Field, Noyes and Bracford, bad volunteered their ser- vices to do this for nothing, he (Mr. B.) could not un- derstand why the Judiciary Committee reported tit. Mr. B, recollected the time when it was proposed to revise the statutes of tho State, that the old fogy lawyers ridi- culed the idea, said it was preposterous, that it could not be brought to perfection, But after the first edition of our Revised Statutes wore pudlished, every tate in the Union imitated our example, A comues- wion was several years since appointed to revise the civil code, as contemplated in tle constitution, which drew fignt thonsend dollars ont of the State Treasury, without accomp!ishing mney ‘The rej mas laid on the table, aad the oill will be taken up mimi t tne. ‘The Bank bill wan ogain discassed. Mr. Sherritt, chair- man on banks in the Senate, reported it, ceclaring that hereafter no bonds and mortgages pall be taken as ne- curity for banking purposes. an amnedment was of- fered by tenator Lansing to the ellect tha? bonds sud mortgages may be taken on two-lifths of real valuation, and eighty per cent of bills issued thereon, Anotuer amencment, in case of failure of a bank to redeem, the | Attory ey-General shall immediately fo-eclose and sell the property and mortgage to the counties where it may pe located” Without arriving at any conclusion, the bill was referred tox sclest committee to make the pro- pred amenéments. During the discussion vome of the | causes for the removal of Mr. St. John from the Bank Department were divulged, which arc, that he is in favor of throwing ont all bonds and mortgages at® basia for bank bills. The Committee of Ways aud Means have introdaced « dill to the House imposing a direct tax uoon all the real and persona! estate, of one mill on the dollar, for the year 1858, vlenish the general fund. tho deticiency i this fund, on the end of the last fiscal th of September, was $279,004 8. The law of imporing a half mill tax, is to be repealed, so that instead of paying alt a mill, as bas been the case vince 1843, it will be increased to a mill the ensuing yearonly, accord’ng as the bill stan s, ‘The Encroachment Harbor bill passed the Rouse as it come irom the Senate, Various amenimenta were of- fered, but all promptly voted down, Some Senators ob- jected to leaving the selection o! commissioners to the Governor, on account of the well known difficulty his | Excellency labore under, in being hela in leading strings. To morrow the Senate coors are to be closed in order that the public may not know how much the characters of The debate on the confirmation of Thompson for health officer will be resumed. The nomination of Schoonmaker as Bank Superintendent has received no strength during the week, and if the Lieutenant Governor bas secured threeSaward whig Senators agai im, as is allegee, he will be de ‘The ten democrats and four Know Nothings, feated. | which are sure agaipat Schoonmaker, to which add onl; two Seward whiga, or Raymond whigs, and the thing {fa done at once. The New York Senators will prevent to morrow a very formidable protest from the merchants and shipowners jainst the confirmation of those of the harbor masters whore names are before the Senate. An effort will be made to induce Chambers to withdraw the ilree obnoxious gan- tlemen, but there iv no reason to expoct that he will, their defeat murt then certainly ‘ ‘The trial of Colone: Hamil! charged with wringing the none and flogging the face and back of the “adminis- tration,”’ did not come off to-day before the Special Ses. It was postponed on account of urgent business ante-room of the executive chamber, Next Tues. 4 ¢ time set down fr an examination of an ailair which bas been « topic of Congress Hall conversation for whole week, Know Nothing Victory at New Roch New Rocwxtix, March 27, 1866, The Know Nothing ticket is elected by 72 majority— 360 votes polled—inrgest vote ever cast. Great re- Joicing—cannon firing, bonfires burning, etc. Know Nothing Victory in New Orleans. New ORLRANS, March 26, 1855, The Know Nothings carried the charter election in this city today triumphantly. Suickte of a Bank Teller, Bostox, March 27, 1855 Thomas W. Hooper, paying teller of the Merchants’ Rank, in this city, hung bimeelf this morning, in the cellar of the bank. The particulars have not transpire, but everything in his accounts are all right, aa far as known. Dernorr, Marcia 27, 1855 ‘The Hon. Thomas Fitagerald, formerly Uni enator from thie Sta'e, died at Niles om Sundey. ————— ll Later from Mexico. RETURN OF SANT ANNA TO THE CAPITAL—REFORTED FLIGRT OF ALVAREZ. New Outeans, March 26, 1835. | ‘The steamsh‘p Or'zsba bas arrived at this port with» ‘lates from the city of Mexico to the 19th inst, Nothing decisive was known conceraiug Alvarez, It: was reported that he lad fled on the approach of Santa Anna’s troops, and that they would pursue him to the | neighborhood of Acapuleo, Santa Anna had been received at the capital with. great enthusiarm. Frighttul Steamboat Disasters. | HE STREAMERS BULLETIN AND HUNTSV1LLE DesPHoy- | ED BY PIRE—PASSENGERA MIS*ING, BPC. | New ORLEANS, March 27, 1866, The steamer Bulletin was burnt on Saturday, below Loke Providence, with 3,500 bales of cotton. Twenty-three of the paseengers ani crew are missing, Among the former are J. B Williams, of New York, aud’ M, MeCan- sbe, of North Carolina The lady passengers and the officers were all saved. The vessel and cargo are a total. loss. Insured $20,000, ‘The steamer Huntsville has also been destroyed by fire, with 4,000 bales of cotton on hoard. We have not. Jot leayned the partisulars. Wreck of the Schooner Gouden West. PeILaDELrnts, March 27, 1855. The pifot boat Hazard reports fallivg in with an abandoned schooner, named the Golden West. She wax © new vessel, apd had apparently beex run into, the crew deserting her in haste—50 barrels of mackerel were found in her, but atont 100 barrels of apples had been thrown overboard. She had gene ashore on the Dar near Towmsend’s Iaiet. The Ohio River. PrrrssurG, Maich 27, 1855, ‘The water ia the channel of the river lure is'five feet. deep, and falling, Tbe wather is cloudy. > Markets, PHILADBLPHIA 8TOCK BOARD. PRILADELPAIA, March 27, 1855, Our money market continues easy at previous rates. Stocks were quiet at the first board, at the annexed quotations:—Reaving Railroad, 423; ; Morris Camal, 1b. ; Jeng Ieland Railroad, 124;; Pennsylvania Railroad, 45. The steamer’s news bad no effect upon our flour marke but corn is advancing. _— ‘THKATRER.—In consequence great quantity of news, the usual musical and theatrical vo'ices will have to{be omitted. The programmes of all the places of Amusement are filled with several novel nd attractive features, for further details of which we refer our readers to the regular a¢ vertising columen. Progress of the Municipal Revolution. THE LIQUOR DRALERS. Several liquor dealers appeared at the office of the - Mayor yesterday, to answer the charge of violating the law prohibiting the sale ef liquor on the Sabbath, Two . were fined a dollar for every glass of liquor which the; sol’, and the remainder were ‘allowed. further time te . mahe their defence CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDKK PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. Henrietta Engel appeared before Justice Osborne yes- terday, and made the following affidavit:— Henrietta Angel, residing at 465 Second ay ‘enue, being duly sworn, deposes ana says that she hecame acquaint ed with a man named Robert Edmund Thee) in the month of September, 18-4, and that said Theel three days after bis fist introduction to her, made her proposal of marriage, which abe, in good faith to his homaty, ae cepted; and deponent further says that whe gave to the said Theel divers sums of money, amounting in all to $60, for the p of buying furnitare for their house-keeping, and that be made her the proposal 1» commence a business in 170 Eighth avenue with ber money, and that this was done; an¢ that the busi- ness there was opened on the id'of November, and that for the establiebment of this business, and goods to furnish it, and rent aod other ex, es, she (deponent) handed to said Theel about $540; and that. ae benides there sums of money, lent said Theel one gold watch and chain, one gold chain, one gold ring, one Pair of gold spectacles, and one silk umbrotia, all worth about $119 60. and depouent further suys that he, the taid Thee!, did not give any money to the establishment above-named seger business, and leponent) never received more — 17 —_ — Lwenpee of said bua'pess; and that she has ascertained, and can prove by other witmenses, that the real name o/ Theel is der, that he isa married man, and thet he supports his family, and liver. at 203 Seventh street, from | epee of her (depo- Dent’s) business; ‘and depouent further says that she, on hearing these factr, closea her store, and that all tue rematpining stock «ft on her hands is about $100, ‘The case is under examination before Justice Oxborne. U.S. District Court. Maxcu 27,—In the ease of the U.S. against Haward Brown for counterfeiting, the evidence was submitted to the jury, who retired to their room about six o’elock and, alter being absent some twenty minutes, returned with a verdict of guilty. Obituary. Second Lientenant rey W. Campbell, (of New York,) of the United States Corps, sed at Nor. folk, Va., a dey or two since, on board the frigate Co- India, ia which vessel he recently retur: to the United States- He was among those down with the fever on the arrival of sel from the West Inciev. ‘ Romonrp Deracation in Baurimone—Ron on qHE BANK or Commence —Current rumor has dealt fieely, for a day or two past, with the Bank of Com- merce, but we are happy to the excitement is nearly over. Yesterday there wae a brisk ram upon the bank, bu ft! ag ‘went off? aatisfactority. Ibe institu- tion bas but 640,000 in circulation, andof that amount $2,000 wan yesterday inted at the counter and paid. 4 Seme few depositors also withdrew their accounts. Should the entire circulation be sent in, Mr Miller, the casher, in fully prepared to meet it promptiy. The ru- mers of defalcations to the extent of sixty or seventy thousand dollars, are aa before stated, erroneous. The é pee between the account of the bank and the ident, will be sbout $7,000 or $8,000, which may be Besrly all recured by tne bank.—Halfimore Sun, 27th jarch, To the Soveres, f Amncrica.For the last twonty years, Brandroth’s Pills havo boon romewhat exten sively used by the sovercien people of ‘Therr sale has gone up from ninety thor seven handred on of substantial hela. proud of the favor oh free a ‘han if I had been received and ig) Purope. Ifaking favors s partionlar m: jo the came; the people follow the exsmp y they do. "They take this course to fintter gurry faver with those in stations superior (o thelr o ‘They woutd do thir ver poor and miseradl cine might be in i Not so in this country, wh eatt fairly expanda wit and knowle fecls in overywhers., Here people as they plem ake a medicine because the P. whom they know bas. ite good effec Pills have b qi are harmless as bread, if. As food to the tary: ti ring to health, aiving, strength in inet, proving themselves well worthy putation they now possess Toe public's. B. BRANDHETH. clpal office, Brandret reot—at 25 tents per box, Wi at tbe branch #, No. S74 Bows street. jo be had of D. D. Wrighr, No. 6 Hou Lewis, Spring Styic.—Have you Seen The New KNOX'S new spring style the age, and we reaot behind ‘ ither at’ ™ ng Styles of Gentlem are now ready at 214 Broadway, hureb, Ladies’ Sk Hats ave B'S millinery establis ere milliners Ta ‘4 il belelaat Prices which ety stact Persons nos will dud ik to thelr ad ATERS, 333 Broadway. competition, for cash or # the city having orders for p vantage to call on HORACE Melodeons Triumph meladeon at agency. me.—An Accurate Likeness of Patrick Mh Nin, alias Paugene, who was implieated in the mur der cf William Poole, wil! be found in the Police tte, of this week, Also ® magnificent engraving of Tom Hyer, the friend of Poole. Ready on Thursday, Ye Portraits Paper, ada; tor nending to friends, by letter, to any pert of thi Daguerreotypes 5c. and Alo. , stereosoope pictures 8 by HOLMES! patent stereoscopic cameras. Depot 129 Broadway. Special fare Notice.—or sale, a fall sized female figure, reolining, suitable padlic honse oF club room ona of the unest pat kind in tbe city at the Arbor, 882 Bro: re the paintiny eam Leland, Teacher, , room No. Te 10, OF more in class, Nightingale meeting f this club will take p ny 4 nt the Rainbow Hotel, 31 Bekman street, at 50 The no commodations being ampl:, the club and its frieudsexpect to } enjoy a Pied (rent im the verivty of songs, ples, Ae.