The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HER 4p. Bec aa JAMES GORDON BEN geqy, PROPRIETOR AND EDIT yp AMUSEMENTS T guy RVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Pocrteenth stroot—RiGoLerro. BROADWAY THEAT gy Broadway—Wacnern, BOWERY THEA’ Cuisto—Joun Ov: BURTON'S THY.ATRg, Chambers street—Domnry Av Bon—LeceBvEMain. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway—Diarv ov a Youne Wire-Oovusin Geer san— Ov Tue Perrmoars. AMERICAN M¥,SEUM—Aftornoon—Aveve—fRviNe t> on. Bverdag—e. vine Dorcnman. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ Hall—472 Broadway. BUCKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Broadway—Bvox- uav's Evenvviay Orena Taovure. PERHAW’S BURUESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 663 Broad- way—Ernioman Purronmancis. EMPIRE HALL, (96 Brosdwey—Pawonama er Evnors, New York, Monday, April 2, 1855. To Advertisers and Business Poeple. OMACULATION'OF THE NEW YORK HERALD ¥OR THE WEEK ENDING wARCH 31, 1855. "4, Yowery—Tux Count or Monre- Average for six deys . ‘This io the largest daily circulation of any newspeper $a Burepe or America. ++ 55,820 Whe News. Lester news from: California is now due; butup to @ inte hour last night neither the steamer for this port, nor the one expected at'New Orleans, had been telegraphed. Phe mail steemship Union, Captain Adams, which left Southampton for this port on the 14th ‘wit., put into Halifax on Saturday afternoon, for a wopply of coal. She had experienced an unasually tempestuousveyage. “Her passengers, forty-three ‘m number, were all well. The U. has a full general @argo. Capt. Adams has telegraphed her owners ‘that she would leave Halifax without a moment’s onnecessary delay. We publish to-day s mass of interestivg intelli. gence, both original and compiled from the French sand Spanish journals, in connection with the affairs of Cuba. In it will be found the Conche version of ‘the Cuban conspiracy, as detailed to the Council of Ministers at Madrid by M. Bastillos, the naval officer whom the Captain-General had despatched to Spain for that purpose. We also copy from the Madrid eorrespondence of the Paris Presse an account of the exciting scene which took place in the Spanish Gortes on the occasion of an interpellation put by General-ferrano to Senor Luzuriaga, on the subject @f the Captain General's communications to the government. In.an extract from the Madrid correspondence of the London Fimes will be found a ‘version of a confidential despatch of General Concha’s,to which no reference was made in the Chamber, but which gives rather a gloomy account of Spanish prospects in the island. Is would appeer, from a statement in the Clamor Publico, that a ministerial crisis is looked upon as not very improbable in Spain, palace intrigues being again called in aid of party tactics. In con- meotion with the above is given interesting letters of our correepondents at Havana, containing addi- tional particulars respecting the execution ot Pinto and an account of the trial—if such it can be called —and conviction of Messrs. Felix-and Estrampes, ‘These gentlemen are citizens of thé United States, and their triel was conducted ineuch utter disre- gard of the rights guaranteed by treaty, that Col. Rebertaon, our Consu!, was impelled to decline taking part in the proceedings. Archbishop Hughes enlightezed the faithfal who zowded the Cathedral yesterday vo hear and wel- come him on the true position of the Catholic Charchb in regard to the lately promulgated dogma of the Immaculate Conception. It was believed from the earliest ages, and only needed the sanction end authority now given to it, to make it, not a sen- timent, but @ point of faith. He proposes that the ‘8th of December—the day on which the decree was issued from St. \Peter’s—be commemorated as a great anniversary in the Catholic Church; and he imtimates his intention of erecting a monument, in the shape of a church, to perpetuate the memory of there events. We give a full reportof his sermon, which will be extensively read throughout the land. The Archbishop appears in excellent health, and ecems to have derived, physically at least, con- siderable berefit from his journey to the Eternal City. The President has appointed the following gentle- «men Visiters to the Military Academy at West Point. They are to assemb® on the Ist of June next:— Charles Negue, Esq., lowa; Hon. Isaac Davis, Mas eachusetta; John C. McGehee, Esq., Florida; Col. ‘H. Bhobsrt, Pennsylvania; Hoo. E. W. Chastain, Georgia; Protessor James Jones, Louisiana; A. B. ‘Hanson, Eeq., Maryland; Hon. J. M. Henry, Missis- sippi; Colonel Hans Crocker, Wisconsin; Hon. Arno Wiswell, Maine; Rev. Gurdon Coit, Connecti- ent; Rey. Francis Vinton, D.D., New York; Ste phen H. Lee, Exq., North Carolina; Professor W. W. Mather, Ohio; Hon. George 8. Houston, Ala- beams. The April term of the law courts will be opened to-day; bat the principal business of importance will be the murder trials in the Oyer and Terminer, which are fally referred to in another column. The Common Council commence their April sea: sions this evening, and again we beg of those tardy functionaries to give us a building for our courts of justice. An extensive conflagration occurred st Memphis, Texn., on the morning of the 25th inst. An entire lock of buildings and their contents, including three newspaper establishments, were totally de- stroyed. Forty-three valuable horses were also con- sumed. The loes is estimated to exceed one hundred ‘thourand dollars, a part of which is insured in the Home cffice, of this city. David 8. Manners, Esq., Mayor of Jersey Ciiy, bas conrented to become a candidate for re-election. The rurality of Hoboken has departed. It is aow an incorporated city, and to-morrow night its citi- zens hold a maes meeting to nominate candidates tor electicn to municipal offices on Tuesday. ‘The Lighthoure Board st Washington are en- gaged in the preparation of plans and estimates for the construction of eix range lights in New York bay, Great West bay, L. 1, and the beacon on Romer shoal. One-half the town of Jowvesboro’, Ga., was de stroyed by fire om the 25th ult, caused by a spark from a passing locomative. An ortival from Port au Prince 16th ult. reports the town free from sicknese. The markets were dull, and produce scarce and dear. The commercial intelligence brought by the steamer Asie caused quite a panic in the New Or. Jeans cotton market on Friday afternoon,and prices declined one quarter of a cent per pound. ‘The sales of cotton Saturday reached about 2,000 bales, the market closing rather easier. Middling uplands were at about 9c.; do. Floridas, at 94c.; d>. Mobiles at 9) « 940. and New Orleans and Texas at ‘jc. The short supplies of breadetaffs with a good home demand continued to regulate prices in thie market. Common to medium and choice grades of “w again advanced 12\c. per bbl. It is now »t than similar brands have been for years past. “we searce and firm ; $260 was asked for “s white, and s small lot of Southern fair “36. Corn wae scarce, and sold in a amell way at 990.0 $1. Rye and barley we're also fom. Pork edvanced fully 12}¢. per bbi.; a& “be close $1475 was refused for old mess, and $¥/i 87 asked, Freighte were steady, but inactive, as &.ippers were waiting for steamer’s letters. The Cuban Question in ‘Curope. From tbe extracts from the London Times and the Paris journals, give.o elsewhere, it is manifest that yhe people of Europe are at last arriving at come degree of consciousness of the true bearings of the Caban question. In Spain, ot all events, and we presume in England also, General Concha’s report on the late rebellion will have opened men’s eyes. Those who doubdt- ed the correctness of our statements in refer- ence to the Creote population, and ascribed them to the influence of a filibuster spirit, will Dow, seeing them confirmed by the highest Spa- nisk authority, abaté somewhat of their confi- dence in Spanish supremacy, and will likewise, it isto be hoped, recall the harsh language in which they heve been accustomed to discuss the policy of the United States. When General Concha states that the island is not to be gov- verned as heretofore, and that mothing short of @ standing garrison of twenty thousand men will retain it in subjeetion to the mother couatry, a man need not be a filibustere to fortell Ks ul- timate liberation. Light has been slow ia. com- ing, but it has come at last; and the members of the tripartite league now know whet they haye to expect, and what to‘hope in their efforts to maintain the statu guoin Cuba. The ques- tion ie narrowed down to the merest nutshell, Can Spain sustain a garrison of twenty thou- eand men in Cuba,-or can she regain the loyal- ty of the Creoles by a new colonial policy? If she can answer for the-ene or the ether, Cuba may possibly be saved from a Creole revolu- tion. But the former requires money to begin witb, and Spain is bankrupt. It is only a few weeks since the Spanish bondhoters in Eag- land presented Lord Howden with a testimonial in acknowledgment of his obtaining for them some emall fraction of their overdue interest. At the present moment the greatest difficulty against which the new Spavish government has to struggle is the absolute want of money. Cuba used tobe a source of revenue; it is already a source of outlay greater than the treasury can ‘bear; is it possible that that ont- lay could be inereased to the sum required to support 20;000 soldiers in the island? Let military men answer. But Concha thinks liberal institutions might answer the purpose as well as an army, and quotes the case of Canada in 1837 as an example to be followed. He advises colonial represen- tation in the Cortes. This latter expedient may be soon disposed of. The representation of distant colonies in the councils of the mother country was proposed at various times daring the colonial history of this country, and at & later period in that of the present British American ‘colonies. On every occasion it was fully discussed and unhesitatingly abandoned by all statesmen of judgment and experience. The bolder theorists of France have actually made theexperiment: with what success every- one who witnessed the helplessness and pain- fully ridiculous failure of the French colonial deputies in the republican Assembly can amply | attest. Equally futile would be any endeavor to pacify the creoles by allowing three or four Cubans to submerge themselves in the Cortes at Madrid, where they could be of no use to any one, and a burthen to themselves. It is of course, strictly speaking, possible for Spain to bestow. upon Cuba a liberal con- stitution. But would it not be wise, first, to secure ene permanently for herself? Not to speak of ephemeral shifts, Spain has had within the past forty odd years, at least three liberal constitutions, not one of which has existed over ten years. What security could the Creoles feel in any charter of freedom the Cortes might grant, when history so plainly shows that those Cortes cannot rely upon the permanence of the charter by which they them? selves exist? At best, such a concession to the popular demands in Cuba would only be put- ting off the evil day: devolving upon the Creoles the task of rising at some indefinite future period, when perhaps they may be woree prepared for it chan they are now. There are laws in the political as well as in the physical world, Jaws established by nature and immutable, but which nothing but an as- sured intellect dealing with a vast mass of precedents can hope to evoive, One of these laws is positive against the indefinite duration of the colonial State. It is quite clear now that though nothing had ever been heard of the Siamp Act, and no British soldiers had ever been quartered in American cities, this country would still have thrown off the colonial yoke at some time or other. Canada at the present moment retains her connection with England simply beause she is prac- tically independent and bas the power to declare herself so at any time. The South and Central American colonies of Spain could not have been retained by any possible line of policy. Nor can Cuba. Spanish officials or British lords may heap falsehood on falsehood, but they cannot alter the fact, which grimly stares them in the face whenever tey come to deal tangibly with the island. They may hang, they may shoot, they may imprison: none of these things ever suppressed a rebellion or quenched the spark of freedom; but they al- ways gave disaffection heart. They may pase laws of this or that kind; but these will only delay the fatal moment : did not Great Britain repeal the Stamp Act? They may rend sol- diere, as England did when this country was in Cuba's position: but every fresh man from Spain will add fuel to the disloyal flame in the Creole breast There is no contravening alaw of nature. It is too disheartening to refer to the rela- tions of this country with Cuba, In some other column, the public will tind an account—ell- cited by the recent abominable outrage on the person of the United States Vice Consul at Sagua la Grande—of the kidnapping of an American sailor on board his ship by a Cuban official. The event occurred in"1852, and has for some reason or other been suppressed until now. The Vice Consul protested, and claimed the man on behalf of the Captain; the reply to his letter was an insolent epistle from the Cuban functionary, threaten- ing to cend him (the Vice-Consu}) to Havana as ® prisoner. He was in fact fined $200 for endeavoring, in the usual way, to procure the restoration of the American sailor. Comment would be futile. There is no page inthe annals of the United States which the American citi- zen reads with a hotter glow of shame than the history of the six or seven years which pre- ceded the war of 1812: when every European nation treated our ships like pirates, captured them, funk them, stole their crewe; when it became 20 common, eo insignificant an cccur- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1855. rence for & French or English craleer to insult our Rag, impede our commerce, kidoap our citizens, rob oar property, that the American Dame was @ by-word for spiritless imbeoility, and foreigners spoke of a United States citi- zen as “only an American.’ Time is fast ac- cumulating materials for another page that will contest the palm. How will the futare histo- rian account for tne passive endurance of the United States government today? How will he defend their policy, when Mr. Soulé, their own Minister to Spain, toid them so plainly how to act that the report of Don José de la Concha can have taught them nothing new? Prospects oF Peace.—It is amusing to see how the bulls in Wall street and a few eccen- tric politicians persist in looking forward to peace. It is to be presumed that every adult person is aware that the mere assembling of the convention at Vienna means nothing. In all modern wars peace conventions have always been summoned after every campaign, and efforts made to avoid farther fighting. Peace can only be made at Vienna through the con- cession of one of the parties engaged in the war. When last diplomatic notes were ex- changed between the belligerents, there was a direct issue ‘between them. One side or the other must recede from that position, or there can be mo peace. Now, which side can yield? Alexander fs a young man whose throne de- pends in some essential degree on his securing the same popularity and strength as his father enjoyed. This hewonld wantonly throw away if be reversed his fether’s .pelicy, and by an act of his, lost to Russia the advantages of the past year’s work. From all accounts the Rus- sians are toa man ‘in tavor-of the war. They believe it is their destiny to ‘regain Constanti- nople. They sce that they have lost nothing during the last year’s campaign; whereas both expeditions of the allies have been fruitless. For.Alexander to yield, therefore, and make peace, would be'to fly in the face of the people, | to insult his father’s memory, reverse the hereditary policy of his house, and cast a slur vapon his-own character. Napoleon was the author of the Crimean expedition. He planned it and is responsible for it. Should peace be made now, as it has done nothing but fight fruitless battles, and loge men, it will have been onthe whole a fail- ure. And'for democratic sovereigns, like Louis Napoleon, raised on one breath of fortune and overthrown by another, failure is ruin, Napo- leon cannot make peace. Can England? If the merchants had their ‘way, the Four Points would be thrown to the winds and a‘treaty signed at once. But the merchants are avery small part of the ruling machine in England. That is mainly in the ‘hands of the aristocracy; for whom to make peace, when the warhas juet proved their in- competency and destroyed their prestige, would be simply tocommit suicide. Lord Palmerston ‘wae instajled as the war minister; his first act cannot be to conclude an ignominious peace. Nay, more, England’s name has’ suffered terri- bly in this war; she cannot crawl out of it until at least she has had a chance of retrieving her. honor. With Napoleon’s set purpose to influ- evce her, and the natural obstinacy of John Bull to rely upon, the chances of her refusing to yield one hair’s breadth are overwhelming. THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE Cupa QuESTION —Tuer Casmet Firinc Ur.—The Cabinet organ at Washington is hissing and blowing away upon the Cuba question like a huge war steamer firing up and getting everything ready to put out to sea with the first tide. And it appears that the Cabinet are in the same humor. The El Dorado outrage and the chse of Consul Thompson have stirred up the dormant patriot- ism even of old Mr. Guthrie, whose greatest anxiety heretofore has been to keep the long arms of Forney out of the sub-treasury. The Cabinet, according te our last advices, are for @ bold and decisive Cuban policy, six out of eight; and, strange to say, Cushing seems to have gone over toMarcy. The home squadron is to be immediately reinforced from all quarters, by all accessible ships at home and abroad. They are to get ready forthwith, and hold themselves prepared for sailing or- ders,and their proposed destination is undoubt- edly the island of Cuba. We second the motion. We call upon Mr. Pierce to stick to it, and not to faint and fall back at the critical moment. Let the home, tquadron be instantly increased to thirty or forty vessels of war, including, if necessary some of our ocean mail and commercial steam- ers, such as the Black Warrior, the El Dorado, and the Prometheus; or, if they will not suf- fice, add to them such as the Pacific, the Illinois and the North Star. Let this fleet haul up in front of Havana, and demand instant satisfac- tion from General Concha for all the Cuban outrages, at least of the last six months; and in the event of his refasal to act, let Havana have a taste of Bomarsund; and let the French and English mix in if they dare. Suppose they do. It is a case of hostilities, but not yeta war. It will bring France and England to terms; and with their hahds full of Russia and Sebastopol, we may dictate the terms of a complete and permanent settlement with Spain, for the past, the present, and the fature. Delay is dangerous. Our only hope of safety and security is in action. It is the last chance for the Administration and the democratic party. Action may save both—yea, it may even save Virginia and Henry A. Wise, But if there is any flinching or fainting ander the old fogy counsels of Marcy, Mr. Pierce will go out of power envying the good luck of Cap- tain John Tyler; for though Captain Tyler was left without a party, he was sustained by the officeholders to the last. Jobn Cochrane, Captain Rynders and Tam- many Hall have spoken. Their voice is for action. Send the home squadron to Cuba to open up a final correspondence with General Corcha. Commodore Perry has had some ex- perience in Japan. Try him on the Cuba question. “Diplomacy is exbansted. Action! Action! Proeress or Crry Rerorm.—The tashionable houses devoted to gambling, lotteries and Mor- moniem have escaped in the recent raids of the police, | Tie lower strata has only suffered as yet. Goon Conrurtion IN ALpany.—The disclosures among the politicians in Albany are astound- ing. Simony is there practised ona large scale by the party in power. The tariff of procuring offices on the canais is fixed at prices varying from $500 to $2,000 each, according to value. Such ere the charges openly made. Thurlow Weed, what do you say? Is not this as bad as shaving eff Monroe's whiskers, and parsing him off for ‘a good enongh Morgan!” ‘Presipent Maxino—Tue Law Taine 113 Coursr.— Whatever may be the condition of the cotton, woollen, iron or glass manufactories of the country, it is manifest that the late live oak manifesto of George Law has given a prodi- gious impulse to the mauufactare of candida gg for the Presidency. Among others that ' sayy | recently been trotted out, is the “ever! asting } John Minor Botts,” of Virginia. He ig jike | Monsieur Tonton, invariably steppi ag ia, as large as life, justat the moment whe’ ,everybody hasgivenhimup. We understand, g)go, that that terrible enemy of the Jesuits ar 4 the soft sheil | democracy, Helen Dhu, will * jroduce, in » few | days, the most wonderfal life, of Sam Houston that hes ever been publish ed, The object of this is a sensation—a ¢ ounter excitement, a grand rush upon Houst« jn, which will head off Live Oak George. On the other han?,, the cruelty of Live Oak George in refusir.g to be “ punstured” and “bled” by the “ venal politicians” of the seve- ral little oKl party cliques in the interest of such men as Marcy, Hunter, Buchanan, Fill- more, &c., has excited the unmitigated ridicule, scorn and contempt of their peculiar organs againet the pretensions of Live Oak George for the White House. But if they thus betray their alarm at the general sensation created by that Pennsylvania letter, what will they de if Live Oak George should follow it up in a still stronger let- ter to the New Jersey Legislature, and a half @ dozen others toas many other States? And why not? The friends of law and order say that thisis his policy, and that he mast keep up the fire, in order to prove that the old party pettifogging lawyers do not monopolize all the political knowledge of the country, but that practical business men know something of government affairs. Meantime, the poets are in the field on the opposition side. A Massachusetts paper thus speaks of the independent nomination in that State, by somebody, of George Washington Frost Mellen, as a proper successor of Franklin able man in the White House, but-he was. slug- 8it » and stupid in imtelleet, and his administra- t ,o0 wee equally stppid and sluggieb. Kyow Noteixe Movewents,—The Know No- | things in veveral States are dividing off into several cliqnes and coteries. In New York there are three factions: Ist, Barker’s party, estled Hindoos; 2d, the Allen party, calied Originals; 3d, the Utica orgavization, called bogus or Seward Know Nothings. In Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey there are two factions in each. All this is weaken- ing. Unless they onite in each State, and then in all the Stetes, they will be demolished by the ragged democraey. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the California Steamer. Wasmaroy, April 1-9 P. M. The operators report the wires in order through to New Orleans, and as we have no tidings of the California steamer, now fully due at this port, we presume sho has not yet arrived, The Steamship Union at Halifax. ‘The followirg despatch, addressed to Messrs. Spofford and Tileston, was rececived om Saturday :— Hauivax, March 31, 1855. ‘The steamship Union, seventeen days from Havre, ar- rived at this port this afternoon, short of coal. We baye encountered westerly galen the entire voyage. We sball proceed with ao little celay as possible, Passen- gers all well. R, ADAM3, Commander. Latest from the State Capital. LEGISLATORS SHIREING THEIR DUTY—THE FINAN: CIAL MEASURES IN PREPAKRATION—TAE APPOINT- MENTS, ETC. ‘ALBANY, April 1, 1855. The Assembly chamber, during most of the afternoon yerterday, was closed to members and outsi‘ers, ia consequence of a call of the House being made and sus. tained. During the morning scesion, a large number of members asked leave of absence for themselves until Monday noon, which really means Tuesday and Wednes- day. These applicants were mostly city members. The House refused to let them go. Upon assembling in the af- ternoon a baze quorum at first was present; but the members bept dwindling, until no more than sixty votes Pierce. From the gusto with which this poetry is tranferred to the Evening Post, we suspect William Cullen Bryant to be the auther. It is certainly in his original and peculiar style. Read :— From Greenland’s icy mountains, From Afric’s coral strand, From foul Cochituate fountains, ‘And eke from Newfoundland, There comes a voice of thunder From every bill side swelling— It calls on thee! thou wonder, George Washington Frost Mellen ! You can’t repress the whirlwind When it goes it with 9 rush, Nor still Niagara’s torrent By simply saying ‘‘Hush!”? *1is vain the hopes that round thee cling Ever to think of quelling, ‘Thou Ajax ef the Westera world, George Washington Frost Mellen | ! Whereupon the poet of the Post exultingly cries: — Pray, where are Law’s poets? In there no one to step forward and celebrate in sounding rhyme the great trader in steamboat contracts, flint- locks, railroad jobs and Democratic Reviews? Let not the ‘live hoax candi- date,” and his friend Saunders, go down to posterity, like ‘the brave heroes who lived before Agammemnon, “carent quia vate sacro.”” We need not say we shall be proud to be the organ of any bard who will properl; felebrate Mr. Law's pretensions to any position to which the people, or the Jaw, may elevate him. To which it may be said that Live Oak could be mui . The roll was called several times, and xo qvorum appearing, Mr. 0’Keefe rose and stated that, unplearant as it was to h'm personally to move a cal of the House, it was demanded by the state of the public business. His motion was sustained, and the Jobbies and galleries were cleared of all spectators, ex- cepting ladies, and the doors closed. The honorable Mr. Lowrie plead hard for mercy for the absentees, and hoped that neither fines or penalties would be inflicted, as the members now temporarily absent were‘gentlemen, and not a class of persons who ought to be brought before the bar of this House by the Sergeant-at-Arms. He hoped the call would be dis- yeneed with, the doors thrown open, and the House ad> journed. The Speaker called a member to the chair, amd took the floor. He said that the honor of the House demanded that an example should be made; and he doubted not, if this call is proceeded with, and penalties inflicted upon those who have absented themselves, contrary to the expross determination of the House, this morning, that it would produce a most salutary effect, and that we shall not again be left without a quorum. The Speaker remarked that the rules must be regarded, otherwise there could be no legislation. It ia as necessary to abide by laws and regulations ina parliamentary body as it isin the army. He concluded by hoping that the House would not adjourn without enforcing its authority on this occasion. Mr. Petty asked to be excused from the chamber for five minutes only. At first the House did not seem will- George is not a writer of poetry, but a builder of it in solid facts and substantial realities. His achievements sre recorded in granite, iroa and live oak. He steps forward, and the High Bridge at Harlem rises into view, solid, strong, beautiful and eminently useful, the conduit of that great essential of life—water—to a million of people—a sublime Iliad reduced to practi- cal reality. He speaks, and fleets of steamers cover the sea, er swift locomotives go whoop- ing through the mountains. Bridges, cana!s, railroads, steamboats, and such, are the poetry and poets of George Law, ranging from five hundred to a thousand horse power. These are the poems of George Law, equal at least to all the poems ever written from the epoch of Bathos to that of Bryant. But it is not the poet of the Post that is the most painfully exercised concerning the popu- larity of Live Oak George. The “venal politi- cians’’ who are in the service of the pettifogging lawyer and old party caucas candidates for the succession, suffer the most severely. Hear what the Albany Atlas says, after the failure to bleed Live Oak George for the benefit of Marcy. Hear him:— The Henan is the leader of tne great ‘Live Hoax” movement in favor of George Law. No paper is better calculated to lead a Know Nothing party, or a Live Hoax movement, than the Nrw York HxwaLb of the pre- vent day. That paper in now inthe hands of the very adventurers who were acouxtomed to be stigmatized by it as “Oyster House Critics.” The Hmeatp broke thea down, and then bought them cheap—if such chevaliers of industry can be considered cheap at any price. In stead of giving the world their second hand and cheap criticisms upon music and the drama, they regale it with oyster house politics. A“Live Hoax” movement, eh? To our view, it looks very much like the “live hoax” which first brought out Gen. Jackson, Gen. Harrison, James K. Polk and Gen. Taylor. “Oyster house poli- tics!” Well, there may be something in that- Ten to one that where a cluster of mechanics and working men—‘‘the bone and sinew of the country’’—are found in an oyster house, indulg- ing in a half dozen raw, or a plate of stewed, George Law is their man—a mechanic, a plain, solid, sensible, practical business man—one of themeelves. Rely upon it, this “live hoax” is getting to bea serious affair. If that single shot to the Pennsylvania Legislature does such execution among tricky lawyers, free soil small beer poets, and “ venal politicians,” what will be the result of the half dozen manifestoes of Live Oak George, that we are now promised as fast as his big Lancaster gun can be primed and loaded? Look out for the New Jersey broad- side. Tur Vircria Exection Conrrst,—The con- test for State officers now going on im the Old Dominion, as conducted both by the press and politicians, is one of the most vulgar, brutal and blackguard that we ever remember to have seen, The only man among them that seems to have some decency is Mr. Flournoy, the Know Nothing candidate, who published a re- epectable manifesto and then stood still. The patriot Wiee, and all his speeehes and news- papers, exceed in barbarism aud violence any- thing that was exhibited at election times in the Five Points ef New York. Senator Doug- Jas one evening was caught, and tried to infuse decency into the fight, but it had no effect. Captain Rynders and his “crowd” of savans are much wanted in Virginia. Ex-Prestpent FILLMore on Guano.-A curi- ous discursion bas been going on for some time among certain twopenny prints, as to the fact whether the ex-President ever endorsed, or did not, the famous guano letter of Mr. Webster, which be bad to back out from afterwards. Mr, Fillmore denied it at first, bat now admits it, when he sees bie own signature. Mr. Fillmore was pertonally @ very reepectable aod honor- ing to gratify him, but at length yielded. "his O Reele (perating to the aioe) said the gentleman must return within five minutes, otherwise he should inaist in placing him also in baceey Now, this conduct in members taking responsi- Dility to leave their se: t a and any day they choose, should not ae allowed, This has been too much the care during the whole seesion. There are now more than a hundred and fifty bills ready to be disposed of in thin boure by athird reading. It will be interesting to Haten to the excuses which some fifty or sixty members will be called on to render, on Monday, or any other day, when they return. ‘The great question of tolls and taxation is still in agi- tation. The Houre of Lords, and the committee of mem- officer, havi ps areina condition. Tay dey ote Hien thee ane, project of tolling raiiroade still remains a favorite, and some per Mon of the Regency deciare that they have advanced too far in the measure to recede. ‘was referred back to the committee, at the request of the said railroad lords, and should the administration sbrink byrne their favorite measure, it will be inevitable that the road interests hold Clark, Cook & Co., in leading strings. The court journal of yesterday, in stating that Mr. Blatchford’s ‘report in favor of imposing tolls upon railroads, received the sanction of a majority of the Committee of Ways and Means— Messrs. Gleason and May concurring”’—knows the fact to be to the cont '. Mr. May distinctly anoounced to the House that he not sanction the entire report, and within twenty four hours submitted his views against tolling the Erie road. And it is further stated that Mr. Gleason was not in the city, but sick at his bouse. This is corroborated by the {act ‘that the name of H. Baker appears at the foot of another report of the Committee of Ways and Means. Thus it appears evident that Mr. Blatchford stands alone in his effort to tax railroads. Ped ie tiesete ° 8 of carrying tl iden cin tone thus" Mr, Blatchford, as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, has done his duty There is a deficiency in the revenue necessary to carry on the government. It must be supplied by legislation. In what manner re- mains to beseen.’” The appointment of Nelson J. Beach, resident en- gineer on the river canal, is one of the most disre- gutable sets ever done by the Ganal Board; and that the tate Engineer should have moved his appointment, is truly a wonder. This man Besch helped to defeat the whig party by his course as Canal Commissioner. He bas no qualification as engineer, and can neither run a straight line or « level. The confirmation of Schoonmaker is now rendered certain. Matters have been so arranged as to leaye the publication of bank returna where they are. It is bigh time the fact was noted, that with regard to matters of State, as appointments to office by the canal rd, Ogden Hoffman, the Attorney , is never consulted. He is regarded by the lords asa are out- sider, enly to answer legal questions propounded by the Legirlature. From Phitadelphia. THE SUNDAY LAW—FIRE DEPARTMENT. PuuLapkrma, April 1, 1855, The Sunday liquor law is most stringently enforced to- day, and not a single drinking shop has been open. The refectories confine their operations to the dispensing of edibles only. The new law regulating the Fire Department went into operaticn last night, Fifty-four companies have accept- ¢d its provisions, while twenty-four have rejected them and gone out of the service. It was feared that disturb- ances would occur last night, and the police were kept on duty in force. Nothing, however, occurred, except several alarms of fire. . ‘The Asia’s News at New Orleans. New Ortkaws, March 30, 1855. The Kuropean news per Asia at Halifax last night, came to hand this forenoon ever the Nationsl line, and ‘Wan publitbed by the Associated Pross in their regular evening editions. The cotton advices created quite a panic, and during the afternoon limited trapsactions took place at a decline of one quarter of a cent par lb. The rales of the day are about 3,000 bales, mostly prior to the publication of the news. Sales for the week foot Up 25,000 bales. The recetpte at this port, less than last his time, are estimated at 108,000 bales. The and is 99,000 bales. We quote middling at 8c. @ 8X0, Coffee—Sales of the week amount to 17,000 bags. The stock on hand ix 27,000. Prime Rio is quoted at l0\c, Exchange—The outside rate for sterling is 9X0, Freighta.—Cotton to Liverpool, 34d. Lake Navigation, dic. Borvaio, March 31, 1855. To day has been mild and summer-like, for the first time this spring. The snow is rapidly disyppearing and business exhibits considerable activity in prepsrations for the epring trade, The ice in the lake extends from the American to the Canadian shore as far up as the eye can reach, and it is the opinion of the best judges that there will be mo opening of navigation till the Ist of May. It is understood that the Bufialo and Brantford rail- road trains will commence ranning regularly about the middle of next week. Markets, PRoviIpENCE, March 21, 1855. Cotton —The week coves with a quiet feeling. bave been to & mocerate extent, at irreguisr prices. —The market har been active during the week. Eales, 76,000 ponpée. Printing eloths.—No change in the market. Sales, 8,000 pieces. oe ‘The Expedition to Search for Or: Kane. 4 The government ie Bow engaged im (atiniy ont am expe divon to search tor Dr. Kane, whois sappore? to be im- prisoned among the icebergs of the North Pole. For this Tpore, the steam propeller “City of dustoa’’ was pur chased, ond for some time past has been Inying at the Navy Yard. The City of Boston was built at Medfor, pear Bosten, and for some years past bas been engaged im a line of propellers between Boston an? Philadalph'a, ‘This vessel was very strongly built, ond is driven by two steom engines, porséesing power enough to give her- headway against the most rapid currents on the eosst of Greeniard, She is five bundred and fifty tone burthea, and her model is sharp, Jong and narrow, For the past. ten cays or two weeks this vexsel has been upon the dry: Cock at the Navy yare, uncergoing a survey by a Boarcl ©f officers, who were to decide upon her rea qualitien, ber #trength and her other capacities for the exp-di- tion to the North Pole, This Board has just reported, swat adverrely to the City of Boston; the objection to her be~ ing mainly upon the ground that she was too large anit too old. The vesrel that is now fixed upon for the expe - Cition is yet upon the stocks at the Philadelphia Navy: Yard. ‘This last veasel is very strongly built, is only two hundred and fifty tons burthen, xbout half the sive of the City of Boston, und was originally designed for m- government light ship. It is intended to provide ber with a ncrew and engines for propelling, and to give her- a heavy press of canvass, The vessel wil, be provisioned: by Herry Grinnell, Esq , whose generosity, it will be remembered, fitted out the expedition under Dr. Kane, and will probably be ready to sail from here on her- northera cruise about the first of June next. The command of this expedition ix to be given to lieutenant H, I. Hartstene, who for some time past hon been, the commander of the mail steamer Illinois, running between New York and Aspinwall; on the California route, L‘eutenant Hartstene was born im, the State of South Carolina, and entered the Unie@ states Navy in 1828, having now given nearly thirty- years of his life to the naval service. Tum TuraTReEs offer attractive bills for this evening. The Pyne and Harrison Eaglish opera troupe will give m concert at Niblo’s—the firstin this city. This simple announcement will be sufficiemt. Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. At the Metropolitan Hotel—Hon b P Noble, Syracu Judge Rooscvell, Minois; Major Farrel) and family, Mexico: Juan F Gaucher, Mexico; BT Waehburne, Philadel phi: and Mrs C Noonaa, Si rs ‘m Smith, British army; John M B; A Guthrie, Chreago; Lieut. Crown rere, Boston, unter on Consumption.—petter No XUr, E Hznatp: r form ofconsumptien more f those describ mu is no cough, no frequently there: point to the nd but tew that of the general health. Bet there ie fometbing in unten ance whieb is rordily detected by the practised oye of the physician, and which is overlooked by the nearest friends, ‘The patient is gué of health, and failing: but. since he never complains of anything in the lunge, the physician has rarely an opportn- nity to investigate tho ease until the disease sediruly tab- lished. ‘The sufferer goes on, focling weak and desponding— Perbape becoming thinner—and has little energy of mi rs vat still remains ignorant of the true cause of tho mischief. He consults any number of ‘* Dootors,”” and geta the most inions, Some treat the case vi speedy cure. Others advise a and quiet.” One says it is all_™ stomach’ that the liver is ous of order. He tries the prescrip- tions of each in turn—the ‘ Regular,” the ‘ Hom@o~ ath,” and the ‘ Cure;” “but ‘finds he gets ne tier, He can rum up che results of his experience hy seving that his purse lightened by the sum of their- bifls, "And yet he eam why he does not get well, Not lighten bim. ‘Those who know disease promiaa the most—but accomplists nothing. Those who have discovered the truc state of the Jungs do not reveal their condition, beenuse they do not wists ng. Il symptoms. itting of to alarm w know of no remedy. In such a wo carefully examine the state of the lunge, we fi © upper: rally below the ‘This dullness is occs y age; tbe Physician in attendance fails to discover the real condition of the lungs, and to adopt proper means to arrest the progress of the diseuse, the pa- tient is irrevocably lost. ‘Fis kind of consumption is. tur more common than js supposed; but, when judiciously treat ed, is the mort curable of all. Speaking of the frequency of this form of the disease, Leennec remarks:—"We may, indeed, say that. the greater number of eases of consumption are latent, since not im more common than to find tubercles in lungs otherwise quite healthy, aud in persons who have never ¢hown auy symptoms of 'phthisis. It has frequently appeared to mo, {yom earetully comparing the history of my patiente, with the appearances on dissection, that the greatest number of first a for colds” The Queou’s physician, Sir ho lisbility to mistakes wf have known more than one many will happily realize adage, “an ounce of prevention is ded and masked by fever, n for remittent fev fe phy: for the: Febrile Consumption’—und is very fx - 08. id im its progress. the tome and. joes sritiooot eae’ e fymptoms culiarities " letter, i ak of * ‘Tubercles”* as the imme destraction of the lungs. Your jent servant, No. 828 Broadway, New York, Marol ‘2, 1865, a atonce = roadway, have Paulie with the evidences af tnete goed tenn oat arian, if es On their head, Reader, "go thou and do likewise. Holmes’ U. 8. patent double action sterce- scopic cameras for taking daguerreot} tiareoscopie eturerof all desciptions.” Brice Aitcen sna wenty dollars. louble osmeran are in opera~ tion, tahing 600 port 20 Broadway. Pianos—Great Bargains.—The BR fortment of celebrated pianos im the Unied "eete e. Gilbert an remium melean pi Horace Waters® ad th prising the ‘nion; will be at competition, fer cash or satistactor ir. Perrone im the city having orders for will find it to their s@- vantage tocallon HORACE WATERS, 333 Broadway. ma picrkaitasratanhbesedansastte Albert HH, Nicolay will hold his femi-weekly auction sales of stocks and bonds this 125e¢0'elock, at the Merchants’ Excha: tivulars see ndersigned leave to ii and the andie tear be be tallyepeee ive his attention to sales of hows ie apt me reaonee of ca ene " eco) es ren the folowing day Kivet th sates ante ALBERT H. NICOLAY, Aucti sure of opening ion of the and vicinity, a euperb tock of silk miilinery, French flowers, ribbons, etc., of the latest Fan Bazaar —On , the 2d of. |, will be opened thi f infants’ embroidered and tanided elcake nad hoods; also'n cn ot seh nt laces, att t ry received by the Atlai Genin’s Bazaar, 513 Broadway. eopers—Our Spring ‘oarpetii ent a tatorials is now ready for snapaaton, thawill te ofered st Fea LORD & TAYLOR, Grane stoves, Spring Fashions.—A Choice Selection of. my Indies’ bonnets, received per Atlantic.—J. H. HAR~ L John street, has straw bonnets to pl very body = alro, bonnet trames. Allof whieh will be sold cheap for onsh. mney, Our city friends supply all through the season. E Clothing made to order, and warranted to Know Ye th that's vold is aa good Where, for dollars few, suit you may Which will suit your form, ae well as your eye ‘Tis EVANS'S, 66 and 68 Fulton street, Vatromized by all that are discreet, ie, OF nO aRlo. ace Where the Clothing: heat, and durable as gold ! ny, AprileAnd thou hi new Carpet Ei ite cheap.— Royal velvet 10s, 118, 12s. per yards, wer loom ingrain ear Clocks! Clocks! Clocks! t—Just one hundred Opened,. d fifty new styles Paris made clocks. For. enlo ata small advance on the importation cost. W. J. F. DAILBY & CO., Marble Stores, 631 and 683 Brondway. io jamander Safes.Robert M. Pat- in peverrable de 192 Fearl ssreot, in the city. readera they oat do better bere than elsewher:, wholesale or retail. Scoteh Ale, Muir & Son's Sparking Edin~ borg ale, Bare & Perkine'& Co or erder, Fo: Breasway. re our either at Porter vy JODN DUNUAN &