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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. SROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—-Guaniaron—Tax WinpmiLy NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Romso anv Juria— ‘BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Goon ron Normine— Seven Teaprations Dice or Deatu. Banos CON annie Mineresi—Tus SractahE ‘Room, -ALLAOK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Srarm Pr pow ASSURANCE. s00NER AMERICAN MUSEUM—Aftorgcon—AmpRo” Mtoving—Lapy Or THE GaKe—Maip oF TH 4 Syme WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Vochanier’ HN" 7s prosaway MUCKLEY’S OPER’, amv's Benrorian OP7.n. MUPIRE HAL), [06 Brosdwal pawonana oy norm 7 a amp Sizce oF &pasro! PERAAWS BURLESQU, nag way-STHI0FIAN OPER TT.cCee® HOUSE, 063 Broad- ai 4 DDS eS New York, T mesday,, May 1, 1855. Mal Js for 4 THE NEW YORK } (ERALY —yprrron FOR EUROPE. ‘The Collins mall ; teams? ,ip Pacific, Osptain Nye, wilt Teave this port to-n sorroy ;, at twelve o'clock, for Liver- ‘The European r ails * sil) close im this city at ‘half: past ‘ten o'clock, to m prrov ¢ morning. ‘Tus HeRaup ( prist/ s4 in Buglish and French) willbe published at # m 0’! eck in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, sixper sce, Babscript’ one wad advertisements for any edition of ‘the New Y ona W cpap will be received at the following places in Europs>— | ‘Tavaaroo 4... Jo%in Hunter, No. 12 Eathange street, East, Loavon. .... Sandford & Co., No. 17 y ‘Wm. "fhomas &Co., No, 19 Catharine street. PARS......,. Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. The eorttonts of the’Zuropean edition of the Hmaup will ¢ @abre.ce the news received by mail and telegraph at the slice Uuring ‘the;previous week, and to the hour of pu! Mication.. The News. “The steamship Philadelphia, from New Orleans md Havana, ary ived at this port yesterday. Our correapondents, -writing on 23d of April, notice the arrival of the Uy ited States sloop-of war Jamestowa, bearing the bror .d pennant of Commodore Crabbe, on the 15th ultime », and her departure for Key West on 17th of same g jonth. ‘The Jamestown fired a nation- al ealute on #) .¢ 16th, but asthe Spanish officials did not return it until after a lapse of three hours, Gen. Coucha deig red to explain that he had ordered the officer in co mmand of the guos under arrest for neg- leet of dw! y. It was thought that Commodore Mo- Cauley w ould spend seven doys in official inter- course with the Captain General, and that at the end of thet / period all our documents of accusation, with ai’. the records of executive explanation, would be forwarded to Madrid. Seven thou- mend five hundred troops—black, mulatto and swhide —appesred at the review which Commodore “MoUenley and Captain Eagle, with the British and Wreech officers, attended. The soldiers made a goed sppearance. Several political characters had departed for Spain and England. Rodriguez, the betrayer of Pinto, had appeared in public; but the «shouts of popular execration were so terrific, he ‘became alarmed and ranaway. A brother of Es trampes sailed for New York in the Philadelphia, The volunteers were subscribing for the purchase -of Mipie rifles. In private company the Spaniards biueter quite loud with regard to the Unitea States. Four of their officers were well thrashed by three Creole gentlemen in a “‘free fight” at the Tacon theatre lately. Dr. Worrell, United States Consu! at Matanzas, bad left for the United States. The health of the island was good. Several incidents, Jooked on as omens of evil import, had occurred in Havena. Trade remained unchanged. The:Know Nothing movement in this country bas attracted the serious notice of the Earopean people and presses, We have already given the English and French views of the subjest, as ex- pressed through thir most influential papers. We te-day give the Szauish or Hispano-American, view of the aame eubject, as expressed in the Cuban journal, the Diario de la Marina. Significantly exough, the Spanish Is qaite in accord with the English and French sentiment,and thinks tha’ the Know Nothiog movement in the United States is perfectly right in its conception and design. It expresses, however, ita doub’s as to the good success of the movement, and thinka that the remedy is now too late—it should have been applied twenty years ago. The Diario makes use of one of the same arguments in fave: of Knew Nothingism which that curious entity wees against foreigners, namely: that every race sbould clieg to, reverence aud observe their ancient menners, babitudes and institutions. Tie article, if not very instructive, is somewhat suggestive. Late news from New Mexico consists of accounts of skirmishis between the government troops and parties of Utsh and Apache Indians. We are evi- dently in for a war ss troublesome and as costly as the Florida campaigns du: ing the Van Baren times. Cotton was active yesterday, the sales haviog rea hed abcut 5,000 bales, par) intransita. The market clos:d at about } sent advance. Flour de- clined about 12}c. per barrel; among the sslea were 500 barrels common Siate, deliverab!e in June, at $8 75. Southern white wheat sold at $2 65, which wes a decline on previous sales. Orn aid more freely, and at a decline on white, which cold at $1 1la$112, while yeliow eold at $1 13a $1 14, coloring aS $1 13). Pork was irregular, though ‘without change of moment in prises. Other provi- sions were without alteration of moment. Absut 900 bales cf cotton were engaged for Liverpool a’ 3-16d. for compreseed, and 7 32d. for uncompressed. The case of the New Haven Railioad Company sgainst the holders of stock issued dur'ng the pre- sidexcy of Robert Sohnyler, came up in the Supreme Court, before Judge Cowles, yesterday. A repoitof the proceedings is given elsewhers. The Liquor Dealers’ Society of Kings county me in Brooklya yes'erday afternoon, and perfected its orgenization by the election of officers and the en- roliment of members. Captain French, of New York, urged the expedtency of a united, determined, dnt legal opposition to the new prohibitory law, and the absolute neceasity of sweeping the temper: ance men from the political field at the next fall election by a powerfal “ balance of power party,” ecmposed of men intersted inthe liquor t-ade. ‘The adverse action of the clergy was severely ani- madverted on, asi was said that they were work- ing to effects usion of Church and S'ate, which would be dangerous to freedom. Col. Gardiner, of Williem borg, sketched cut th material of a pow erful army cf anti clerical crasaders, which he sald could be brought to bear with great effect against ¢hurch building avd “ donation visits.” A list of Ahe officers elected is given in our report. ‘The teraperance men are moving a’resdy towards the enforcement of the Maine law. The Carson League hed @ meeting 1:s$ night in the lecture rogm of the Mer-sntie Library Assoclation, ia Astor place, w' ich vas eloquently addressed by the Rev, E. H..Ctiapin, A report will be found in another colome. In Al \sny county the League is vary active, its agents \aving been warmly endorsed by the exegutive committee of the State Temperance Bo-iety. A eerions eccident occurred on the railroad b> ewcen Rochever and S'yracuse on Sunday night, The tra'n strnck » horee, ond the lst car was pre- elpitated down on embark went twenty fect. The car contained cight persons, one of whom, M. 0. Wilder, of Cananda'gus, was ic stantly killed. Six otber occupants of the oar were be'dly hort, am ing Easton, P large © -scourse of his friends and neighbors, end nacre ed them upon the subject of the troubles tha , sgitate the Territory. He regards Kansas as &" pquered by the armed squatters fom Missouri; Den Fuxisonvrz. ‘ bill granting « State loan million dollars to the Vermont Central Railre ga” * To dey is appointe? | tor opening the canals of this State, and from ivf smetion received at the Canal Department yest day there is no doub’ that all the canels will be’ -esay for navigation this morning. Gov. Ree? of Kansas, reached his home a’ @., yesterday. He was welccmed by 2 | aud it ia certain that they did ‘flax out” their a>rolition opponents at the recont election pretty soundly. The Southern Railroad Convention commenc:d ita sittings at Washington yesterday. Sixteen rosds wererepresented, "The Crops—Good Prospect—Agricultare North and South—Necessity of Liberal Prodacts and Prudent Consumption. Our Northern exchanges, from Long Island to the Missouri river, assure us that there is a good prospect for an unusually large product of wheat and other crops of small grain the coming season. The news to this effect from the great Northwest is especially cheering. Spurred up by the high prices of the last year’s scanty returns, the farmers out there have pro- vided for an abundant harvest, and they are appropriating the opening epring in active plowing and sowing in order to supply as far as possible all existing and prospective de- ficiencies elsewhere. This is good, and we are glad to hear it ; for the important question ofa substantial relief from the present “hard times,” or of another revulsion like that of 1836-37, will depend very much upon the general yield of our approaching wheat har- vest, and our autumn supplies of Iadian corn. ‘From the South, on the other hand, our ac- counts of the opening of the new season are less, flattering. Fires prevail in the woods along the Atlantic coast, from Virginia to Georgia, clearly indicating ‘continued deficiencies of rain, while from Kentucky to Louisiana the severity of last year’s drought bas well nigh exhausted their stores of the last season’s sup- plies. We presume, however, that they have made ample provisions for the next winter in planting more and larger fields of corn than ever heretofore. Their increased facilities of communication with the Atlantic markets will render any surplusage of theirs ia.this great staple hereafter a cash article; and this fact, together with the suggestive deficiencies of the last season, has, we dare say, resulted in corresponding preparations for an extra crop. We adverted the other day to the fact that notwithstanding the South suffered as severely last year from-drought and pestilence as this section, they have experienced very little of the suspensions of business and the inoipient famine which have pressed upon us for the last six months so heavily inthe North. South of Mason and Dixon’s line they have had little or no necessity for soup houces, and none of those distressing cages of destitution and starvation which, in this feature, have ranked New York 80 unnaturally with the over-populated and ill-fed cities of the Old World. And why this remarkable distinction between the North and the South? The reasons are obvious, The South isa great agricultural community, rest ing upon a system of slave labor, and steadily devoted to the cultivation of the soil. The slaves of the Southern corn and cotton fields are permanently established in the business, and subject to no enticements calling them off to other pursuits. Ia the North, what with California and its gold mines,bank and stock spe.” culations, manufacturing and merchandizing,the learned professions, tavern keeping and liquor selling, huckstering, gambling, loafing, the dirty trade of politics, and other vagabondizing substitutes for honest labor, an undue propor- tion of.our young men of the “rural districts” have been drawn off from our producers and added to the consumers of our breadstuffs and provisions. These, in addition to the annual influx of three or four hundred+thousand to our consumers from abroad, have resuited ia our hard experience of this last winter, ‘and in our still existing famine prices of the prime ne- cessities of life. The gold mines of California have been the primary cause of this unwholesome in- dustrial revolution. Thousands of our young men have been drawn away to Califor- nia; they have sent us back their monthly shipments of millions of gold, and these supplies have given that impulse to bank- ing, stockjobbing, speculations and swind- ling which, in conjunction with our accessions of consumers from Earope, short crops, and other secondary causes, have brought up flour to twelve dollars a barrel and beef to fit. teen and eighteen cents @ pound. We have had a fair warning. The laws of trade, like the laws of nature, may not be vio- lated with impunity. We must have a reaction ora collapse. We have seen that while under the steady regulations of this much «bused in. stitution of slavery ths South are comparative. - ly secure against famine, bread riots, and bu:i- ness depressions throwing thousands out of em- ployment, we of the North, with all our gold, all our banks and brokers, and all the blessings of free soil, free schools and free Jaber, have very narrowly escaped another gwne- ral breakdowa from our famine prices for bread, the pressure of debts upou uv, Schuy- ler frauds, overtrading, speculating and stock. jobbing. For six months we have been strug- gling against a collapse, nor is the danger yet over. A bountiful yield of wheat and corn mey set us right again; but another season of short crops would bring upon the North, at least, all the evils of general bankruptcy and rain. Let our farmers secure the labor that is adrift, and do their utmost for an extra supply of breadstuffs and provisions. We kaow not when the European war may end; and short supplies in Europe, may possibly drive alargely increased emigration to our shores. We have had our carnival, and the expenses must be paid Economy and retrenchment will be necessary to meet the bill. Every bushel of grain that our farmers can produce wili be wauted for the next season, though every distillery and brewery in the Union should be stopped. In flac, with good Crops this year, prudence fa business, caution. in speculating and stockjobbing, more drinking of cold water and less of brandy, whiskey and lager bier, Maine law or no Maine law, we may weather the storm. Togo on as we bave been going, drawing off from the soil our country population into our cities and towns after the speculating bubbles of the hour, while Europe is swelling by legions at a time the list of our consumers, can only result in a revulsion which will compel thoueends upon thousands «f ovr Northern people to emigrate to the fhem Messrs. & H. Ingersoll and ©") on Brainerd «f this city, The Governor of Maszac ise t's has vesped the | topbers? Sc uth, or to rise in arms for bend, or to perish fiom starvation. What ray ous free sof] philo- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, ‘MAY 1, 1655: ComMeNcemENT OF THE SATURNALIA.—Ac- cording to the law passed last session, no liquor licenses can be sold this day or hereafter. Some difference of opinion exists between the temperance party aud the pudlic on the legal consequences of the tcrmivation of the license system. The former seem to think that, the right to sell liquor removed by the stoppage ot the licenses, total abstinence will follow as a matter of course, and that people will not sell. In other words they argue that the right ‘o sell liquor is not a vatural right but an artii- cial or legal one, limited to certain persons and on certain conditions by express grant: which grsnt being revoked, the right ceases, and the mere sale of liquor becomes an offence at com- mon law, The public on the contrary (aad the authori- ties) reason that the grape was given to min for bis use, and that therefore the trailic in its fruit or the juice thereof is obviously, by the laws of nature, open to all, and cannot be re- stricted or limited without express statute. That, as to the argument that spirituous liquors are a nuisance, why almost every good thiag may be a nuisance if used in excess: printing, guppowder, medicine, animal food, &c. may all prove nuisances, ifillgueed; but no one would think of indicting them as such. That, at com- mon law, the right tosell the juice of the grape has always heen considered so clear that it has always, both in England and here, been re- stricted by special statute. In this couniry, indeed, the point was settled long ago in the State of Pennsylvania, at the time of the Whiskey riots; had the right to sell li- quor been an artificial right, and not a natural one, there could have been no contro- versy in that case. The pretension raised by the distillers was that their right was so clear, so natural, that government could not even tax their stille; to which Washington’s answer was that, clear as was their right to make and sell whitkey, the right of the government to tax that or any branch of industry was equally clear. Of course, if Washington had believed that the sale of liquor was in itself a crime, a thing forbidden by nature or common law, this position would never have been assumed. He would have taken the shorter course of treating them as offenders against the law, and dealt with them accordingly. But we apprehend the teetotallers will find very few in their own body to argue for any length of time that there exists in this city after this day any restraint whatever on the sale of liquor. They will in all probability make a feeble show of resistance to the inevita- ble course of events. The Lieutenant Governor will deplore the result, and prepare to weigh the chances whether it will pay better to be a teetotaller or not at the next session of the Legislature. Meanwhile nothing but great prudence -and self-control in the masses will save the city from the eaturnalia. Secretary Marcy, tHE CuBa QUESTION AND tae Virotn1a Exection—More TREACHERY.— We are privately informed from Washington, from a highly aespectable source, that Secre- tary Marcy has been playing the traitor to Henry A. Wise and the Virginia democracy upon the Cuba question. It will be remem- bered that shortly after the return of Mr. Soulé ‘rom Spain, Tammany Hall took a very bold stand upon Cuba, and one object of this was to give Mr. Wise a lift in Virginia asa diver. sion against the Know Nothings. The Union at Washington, and the Richmond Enquirer took the hint, and have kept up the war ery against Spain in full blast, till the recent ex- traordinary and mysterious backing down of the Union in reference to the naval mission og Commodore McCauley. Now we have the solut‘on of this mystery. It is Marcy. During the administration of Van Buren, as everybody knows, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, was the most violent and persevering of all the opposition membera of Congre:s against Van Buren, Marcy and all concerned. Marcy remembers it. He may forget his friends; but he never forgets an enemy. So now, as we are informed, by a preconcerted arrange- *) ment in Washington, between Marcy and that staunch Van Buren democrat, Extra Billy question has been suddenly turned against Wise, in the official confeseion of that milk and water policy, which in Virginia is exactly cal. culated to throw the administration democracy into public contempt. The first object-of Marcy in this is revenge; the second is to kill off Hun- ter, of Virginia, as a Presidential or Cabinet arpirant, as he has killed off Pierce, Buchanan, Mason and Soulé. We are also assured that Marcy has sworn that, in the event of the defeat of Mr. Wise in Virginia, he shall not be rewarded for his trou- bles and labors with the mission to France. We call upon Mr. Cushing to say whether he has or has not heard Marcy declare, in the pre- sence of a third pergon, that “no such public blackguard as Henry A. Wise made himself against Mr. Van Buren’s administration, can expect any favors of this, as long as the iriends of Mr. Van Buren can prevent it.” The Virginia election is only some four weeks off, and it is about time that Marcy’s posi- tion towards Mr. Wise were airly understood, Depend upon it there is treachery afoot, and Mr. Wie is upon a fool’s errand. Was he not at the Baltimore Convention of 1852, and did | he not lead off fur Buchanan? Inquire of Ex- ira Billy Smith. QvuaRRELS AMONG Eprrors.—It appears that when Mr. Seward agreed to a coalition with the temperance party in order to carry the State Jast fall, and everything looked favorable for that reeult, the two Seward editors in this city privately promised themselves a share of the pie. The senior of the two, whose labors ca bebali of Mr Seward certainly entitled him to something, ret his heart on the Governorship; the junior modestly contented himeelf with the Lieutenant Governorship. The first was disap Pointed; the last obtained the prize he sought. Strange to say, instead of the feelings of brotherhood and amity which such a fraternity might be imagined to inspire, the contest was no sooner over than a war broke out between the editor who was not Governor and the editor who was Lieutenant. The war has lasted ever sirce. The following ore its latest bulletins, The Tribune says of the Lieutenant Gover- bor -— ‘We think that in the interest ef public morality his (the Lieutenant’s) base and Slippery conduct requires to be held up to general contempt, and we have exposed it accordingly. As frequently pens in such cass, the culprit replies with personalities against gentlemen whom he believes to be connected with this journal. That may be the most convenient means of setting him: self right with the public; possibly by abusing all the cn in town who have'not given plesges contrary to thert convictions, and violated them afterward, he might p time restore his own reputation, aud revive conf- considers that the course of the Tribune is un- peralled in the history of the American press. lentless of ‘hose who bave made it their special bust- pers to walign bis character avd belie his conduct No extremty of persowal ‘abuse bas transcended its lisense, ‘and no enormity of falsehood and injustice has been too great for its exsy ané familiar use. Continuicg in the same strain he winds up with a bope that the public will ‘pass sentence of indignant condemnation upon a snnffiin~ f phoraraical, maliguaut jealousy,” meant” the jealousy of the Tribune towards the 7»), This is strong language On ") 04h sides, Oa the one we have the Li + o,ant Governor of tie State accured “7 aseness, slippery con- duct, dishonesty ang what not; on the other we bave th® organ of the pious prohibitionists charg’ “with fa'eehoo3, calumny, bypecrisy, *ud all sorts of mean vices. Naturally, one is surpicious of such very strong Janguage. At the same time it must be remembered that the editors of the Tribune and Times have known each other Jong, and had ample oppor- tunities of forming a correct judgment on each others character. They are somewhat op- posed now, and are likely to tell the trath. Aad on the whole, they may really both he right in what they say. “Tue Lire or Sam Hovsron.”—We have before us a neatly printed book of four hun- dred pages, bearing this title. Derby is the publisher, and has brought it out with “all the modern improvements” of maps and engrav- THE LATEST NEWs. BY MAGNETIC. AND PRINTING TE!".cpapps Governor Reeder |. J at Home. gt gps eh myst 4 "@uRITORY SUBJUGATED JRDINARY SPEECH OF ‘THE GOVERNOR. Eastow, (Pa.,) Avril 30, 1855. ‘The Hon. A. B 4 i day.’ + Reeder, Governor of Kansas, arrived , from the West, and mst s very enthusiastic wae «from ‘bis frlends snd neighbors. He reached a .ipeburg at noon, and was there met and escorted to oe Court House Square, in Easton, by a large concourse of citizens of all partier, accompanied by the Kaston ‘band. On arriving at the Court House, Governor Reeder _ was welcomed by the citizens with hearty chyers, anda formal welcome then extended to him in an eloquent and impressive speech, by the Hon. J. M. Porter, who com- plimented Governor Reeder on the manly and coura- geous, as well as able manner in which he had discharg- ed the duties of bis difficult acd respontible office. He went into a hasty narrative of the growth and progress of the slave question, attributing its dangerous and threatening character at the present ‘time to the fanati- cal abolitionists at the North, but admitting also that slavery men had in their turn become as fanatical and ‘wrong aa the abolitionists themselves. Se went through the old routine of apology for the South, saying that they bad slavery entailed upon them, and asserting in full the broadest pro-slavery claims, declared that Gov. Reeder had done his duty ably, ani that he would and abould be sustained both by Pecnsylvania and the coun- try at large. Governor Reeder in reply, expressed in feeling and elo- quent terms the grateful impression made upon him by the warm and enthusiastic reception given to him by #0 large an assembly of hia fellow-citizens. He referred to the reports of fraud and outrage upon the part of slavery men in the Kansas election, and emphatically confirmed the very worst statement of them which had preceded his arriva), He raid his opinions on the subject of popular sovereignty had undergone no change; but that the conduct of the people of the border counties of the north of Missouri had astounded and amazed him by ings. The title page also informs us that it is “the only authentic memoir’ of the hero “ever published.” Upon comparing this book, how- ever, with another, entitled “Sam Houston and his Republic,” by C. Edwards Lester, and pub- lished in 1846, we find the two substantially the same. But the old bonnet, fixed up accord- ing to the new fashion, and tricked out with a liberal supply of ribbons and flowers, is just as good as new. This work was brought out in 1846 to operate upon the Democratic Baltimore Convention of 1848. But the General and the book at that convention made but a feeble impression, for his time had not come. Gen. Cass was nomi nated without much difficulty. Again in 1852, when the field was open to all the availables, Gen. “Houston and his Republic” were brought to bear upon the conflicting elements of the anxious democracy ; but his time had not yet come. The brave old General, with all his gallant achievements, with all the romance of his most extraordinary, patriotic and useful career, remained among the scattering votes for a whole week, and towards the close of Saturday afternooo, the convention—pell-mell, neck-or-nothing—rallied upon Franklin Pierce. But now the prospect looks brighter; the Know-Nothings are up and in motion, and Gen. Houston has two or three strings to his bow. He can again try the democracy at Baltimore, and if they decline his services, the Know-Nothings will probably accept them. With an eye uoon the Know-Nothinge, we doubt not, his “life” is now republished. Its engravings betray its office. Itis designed as the electioneering avant courier of the “hero of San Jacinto,” for the great campaign of 56. Itis an authea- tic work—it is “by authority.” Asa history it is admirably adapted to electioneering pur- poses, fullof the most dashing, romantic and fascinating adventures, battles, victories, inci- dente, accidents, privations, and heroic philos ophy and endurance. It beats Amos Kendall’s life of Gen Jackson, and Greeley’s campaign life of Gen Scott, all hollow; and if it does not secure its hero the Presidency in 1856, then he will have to wait till 1860. Of late we have been inclined to think that, with all the other outstanding candidates, even Gen. Houston willbe set aside in 1856, for something entirely fresh and new in the Presi- dential course. It seems to us that the people are getting this idea into their heads all over the country. Hence the popular furore excit- ed in every direction, with the calling out of such practical, matter-of fact, every day basi- ness men, as George Law and Cornelius Vanderbilt. At this moment “Live Oak Smith, of Virginia, and some others, the Cubas| George,” according to six or seven hundred of our domestic exchanges, is far ahead of all competitors, and Commodore Vanderbilt is fol- lowing close behind him at a most tremendous pace. Indeed, from present appearances, all the old and young lawyers and generals will be superseded in 1856 by some available man from the practical business and working class- es of the community, by way of a change. We perceive, however, that an appendix to this “ Life of Sam Houston” suggests the idea * of running him “on his own hook.” If we are to have a miscellaneous scrub race, so be it, and “the devil take the hindmost;” but if the Know Nothings have but a single candidate, and if the democrats should re-organize upon a good footing, and upon a good national ticket, outeiders will stand no better chance than here- -tofore. If General Houston .cannot get some national nomination in °56, he is young and strong enough to wait till 1860. His fame will keep. The book will keep. Meantime, Derby will probably make a good thiog of it; for, without disparagement to the patriotic ser- vices of General Houston, we may say that in point of romance and “hair-breadth escapes,” this “ Life” is scarcely second, in its thrilling details, to the “Courtship of Chevalier Wi- koff. Nor Quire up to THe MarK.—The . follow- ing omendments were added to the Simon pure Maine law at the last session of the Maine Le- gislature:— s If an expressman, cartman, porter, or amy other son, shail carry a bcttle, or cask, or demijohn of wine or other liquors, to a gentleman’s residence, he is sub- ject toa fine of twenty collars ani costs for the first offence. For the second offence. a fine and costs and imprisonment. If any man carries in hisown ma flask or any other vessel y sort, to be used by him, the party coing £0 is mi iable toa fine of thirty dollars and thirty days imprisonment So it sppears that we are not yet quite up to the mark of the Maine model. It has been said that our law applies to every man who may walk the streets with a glass of liquor in his stomach, the act expressly declaring that no po shell be carried about “except in the original packages.” Unless this be the true interpretation of the law, it will need some patcbing to come up to the Maine platform. Why not call an extra session at once? ‘Tue OrsnA.—The management of the Academy of Mus'c announce that, in consequence of the illness of Signora Steffenone, the first performance of ‘Il Trovatore’”’ has been postponed until Wednesday evening. Canat Navication.—The water will be let into all the New York canals to day. The baby that gainea the prize at the show in Oh'o, é/noo in hia political honosty—but we hardly believe it, ‘The Lieutenant Govergor, on the osher hand, | lest fal), was born in Canterbury, Eogland, from whea:0 — emigrated when it was only eleven months their reckless disregard of all laws, compacts and con- stitutions; that the Territory of Kansas, in her late election, had been invaded by s regular organized army, armed to the teeth, who took possession of their ballot boxes and made a Legislature to suit the purpose of the pro-slavery party. Kansas was subdued, subjugated and conquered by armed men from Missouri; but her citizens were resolved never to give up the fight for their freedom, and the independence of their soil from foreign control or interference. The State of Missouri would be called upon to disavow all sympathy with these border ruffians. If she refused the South would be called upon to discountenance her. If the South refuse, the solemn duty would devolve upon the North to take up the matter, so that the rights of her sons who had settled in Kansas, on the faith of solemn compacts, shall be vindicated and sustained. He declared that the accounts of the fierce outrages and wild violen- ces perpetrated at the election, published in the Northern papers, were in no wise exaggerated. He concluded by saying that Kansas was now @ conquered country—con- quered by force of arms—but that her citizens were re- solved never to yield their rights, and relied upon the North to aid them, by demonstrations of public senti- ment, and all other legal means, until they shall be fully and triumphantly vindicated. During his speech Governor Reeder was frequently and enthusiasticaily cheered by the large audienca present. From Washington. . TELEGRAPHIC—THE SOUTHERN RAILROAD CONVEN- TION. ‘WasuIncton, April 30, 1855. The telegraph line erecting along the Wilmington and Manchester makes a continuous collateral railroad tele- graph from Washington to Montgomery, Alabama, and avoids the difficulties to wires along common roads. The Southern Railroad Convention has commenced its session, R. R. Cuyler, President Georgia Central Rail- road, Chairman ; L. J. Fleming, Superintendent Wil- mington and Manchester Railroad, Secretary. Sixteen ‘wards are represented. A Committee was appointed to prepare a schedule between Washington and New Or- Jeans, and to request the Postmaster General to suspend Sunday mails without abating the annual compendation, and report by the 22d of May. Awful Railroad Accidents. ONS MAN KILLED AND SIX OTHERS WOUNDED. Syracuse, April 80, 1355. 4s the six o’clock accommodation train from Roches- ter over the old road was coming into this city about ten o'clock, last night, it ran over a horse, throwing the last car from the track and down an embankment twenty feet, smashing it to pieces. The car contained eight Persons, only one of whom escaped injury. M. 0. Wil- der, a lawyer, of Canandaigue, was instantly killed; 8. i, Ingersoll, of New York, was seriously injured; and Clinton Brainard, of New York; Win. Hall andZ. Furman, of Skeneateles; Charles Isening and Joseph Lief, of Syra- cuse, and Mr. Becker, a brakeman, were badly hurt, 4 NARROW ESCAPE. 7 PmivapEtPaia, April 3, 1855. The three o’clock train trom Philadelphia ran off the track this afternoon at Bell Road, in consequence of the breaking of the tongue switch, and one car was thrown entirely over the bank. Noone was sericusly injured. The road was slightly damaged, but was soon repaired, and the trains are running again with their usual regu- larity, Effects of the Liquor Law. Axpayy, April 30, 1855, The celebrated 3ans Souci Hotel, at Ballston Spa, closed its liquor bar this morning. ‘The New Haven Shooting Affair. New Haves, April 30, 1855. Richard Wight, who was shot on Saturday night by Willard Clark, was ving at nine o'clock this evening. Itis now thought that he may possibly survive. He recognized his father (from Newark, N. J.) to-day. Arrival of the Sloop-of-War Levant. Norrorx, April 30, 1855, The United States sloop-of-war Levant has arrived at Hampton Roads, and been ordered to New York. From Boston. VETO BY GOV. GARDNER—FRENOH SPOLIATIONS— WEATHER. Boston, April 30, 1855, Gov. Gardner has vetoed the bill granting a State loan of one million dcllars to the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. Reaclutions were reported in the House to-day, affirm. ing the justice of the claims upon the United States for French Laem ing and denouncing the refusal of the United States to indemnify the parties rightfully inter- erted in them, as a disgraceful udistioa of just obli- gations. The recolutions went a ito the orders of the The weather continues cloudy and quite cold. Important Arrests at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, April 80, 1855. Benjemin A. Earle, Lorenzo Chapin, and Amasa Chapin have been arrested hereon a requisition from the Governor of New York, charged with obtaining money on false billao lading. A writ of habeus corpus was sllowed to day by Judge stiver, and the case will be heard on Wednesday. The prisoners in the meantime have been remanded to jail, bail being refuse, ‘The Case of Postmaster Kendall. Baxrimors, April 30, 1855. New Orleans papers of Tuesday are received. The arrest of Postmaster Kendall csused great com- motion. ta, and the testi- of strongest charac- ter. A ion was made before the Commissioner to set aside the affidavit, on the ground of insufficiency to cause arrest. aeeeeninvereinprnnaeictin Opening of Navigation on Lake Champlain. Troy, April 30, 1955, The steamers America and Canada have commenced regular trips on the lake, aud convect with the Rens- selaer and Saratega Ratlroad. The steamer Francis Sal. fers is mabiv; ular trips betveen Burlington and Plattaburg. 4 i@ with the Plattssarg and Montreal Railread. The lake is free from ice and navigation fairly commenced. The Ohio River. Prrtspura, April 30, 1856, The wafer in the channel of the river at this point is five feet one inch in depth, and is falling. The river at this point is pay good navignble condivi na’ 9 cf I" In the channel there is seven eet of water. eae Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK ROARD. PAILADELPHtA, April 30, 1855, ‘The money market is unchanged. Stoske are steady. We quote Reading at 42% ; Morris Canal, 14; Long Island Railroad, 16; Pennsylvania Railroad, 43%; Pennsylvania New Ontrans, April 23, 1855. Btate b's, 86%. Our colton market fe firm and prices temiiag upward, The receipts at all the less than at the with rales to day of 3,000 bales, same dpte last yewr. Aplansen in eelling at 9p. por gal Southern porta are now 236,000 bales a The Literary World, ¢ times appear to be unfavorable to ~ mo previous searom for many years have ones ‘import ant books bees annouuced by the trade as im preparation, It is complained, in all quarters, that mnce the spring salea the bcok business has been dull and its prospects @iscouraging. The few heayy works which are adver- tised for the ensuing summer and fall have, for the most. part, been a long time under way. Thus, Lippencott’s Universal Gazetteer, to be publishedin Philadelphia, has occupied balf dozen editors for as many years, and will bave cost on its completion more than fifty thouvand dollars. Such a work must of course be given to the: world as soon as finished. And the concluding volumes. of the works of Johm Adams, and the works of Henry Wheaton, which are beirg printed in Boston, will be is- eued during the summer, whatever may be the aspects of the market, Bat asa gencral rule, publishers will con- fine themselves to new impressions from old stereotypes, an¢ to new novels, avd such other productions as de- mand but slight iavestments of capital, until the over- stock now on band shall be partially exhsusted, ora new year bring confidence and greater activity into all de- partments of manufacturing and trade. Mr. Irving’ Life of Washington is to be published by subscription—the unparalleled success of Col. Benton’s “ Thirty Years in theSenate,” which was sold only in this manner, baving revived the popularity of the “ sub- seription system’? for productions of commoa and standard interest. Whatever might be the fate of «-. new Life of Washington from another hand, there is no doubt that Mr. Irving’s will Have an immenss sale. Tho iMustrious eutbor bas bad it in contemplation for nearly alfa century, and it is not less then twenty years since he began writing it. It will be worthy of his fama and of that of his ject. Tne firat of the three volumes of which it is to consist will be ready for de- livery in the present month, ‘The author of ‘ The Republican Court” is engaged upon a volume to be similar in its general character- estics, but far more splendid in artistic and mechanical execution, illustrative of ‘‘American Society, Colonial, Provincial, and Revolutionsry.” It will be issued next year, in a Jarge quarto, and among the por- traits with which it is to be embellished will be those of Mrs. Ben. Franklin, Mrs. Robert Morris, Mrs Jobn Hancock, Lady Temple (daughter of Gov. Bowdoin and granimother of Hon, Robert ©. Winthrop), Mrs. Gen. Knox, Mrs. Gen, Greene, Mrs. Gerry, Mis. Livingston, Mrs. Lee, Miss Vining (the most famous American beauty of the last century), Mrs, Mid- dleton, Mra. Rutledge, Mrs. Stockton, and other repre- sentatives of the old aristocracy of the country, and of the families made illustrious by participation in the civit or military affairs of the Revolution. The subject and material are extremely interesting, and the author wilt have little difficulty in producing a work of unequalled popularity. The venerable Prof. George Tucker, so well known ta historical students by h's ‘Life of Jefferson,’’ and other works, bas just completed a History of the United States, upon which he has been occupied many years. Prof: Tucker is a Virginia democrat of the old school, and has been personally acquainted with the most distin- guished actors in our affairs since the days of Washing- ton, His history will be in three octavo volumes. The long lost manuscript “History of Plymouth People and Colony from 1602 to 1646, by Governor Bradford,’” which has recently been discovered in the Fulham Li- brary of Oxford, England, will be published as soon as it can be properly edited, under the direction of the Massa,~ chusetts Historical Society. Central America comés in for » share of attention from authors commensurate with the general interest which it is attracting in the political and commercist world, Mr. Squier has in press ‘‘ Noted on Central Ame- rica, particularly Honduras and Sam Salvador, their geo graphy, topography, population, climate, productions, &e., &e.,”” which will embrace the results of his recent: travels and explorations in those countries. The Rev. Jobn 8, Barry has written s new ‘‘ Aistory of Massachusetts,” of which the first volume will appear in June, and will embrace the period {rom the landing of the Pilgrims to the union of the two colonies under on@ provincial government. The Rey. John O. Choules, D.D., has nearly completed am elaborate work illustrative of one of the most important epochs in the history of France: a Life of the Admiral. Coligny, embracing a minute account of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and an Inquiry respecting the politi cal pretensions and power of the Roman Catholic Church,’ which render such extraordinary assaults upon the rights of persons and States always probable where that church. sin authority or possessed of a controlling influence, Mr. Stephen Colwell, of Philadelphia, whose “New ‘Themes for the Protestant Clergy” made a sensation in. the religious world two or three years ago, has in pres an elaborate work on political economy The Rev. Albert Barnes is almost as voluminous az suthor as Cotton Mather; and whatever may be the merit of his principal works—that series of commen- taries upon the Scriptures by which he is best knowa in the religious and literary world—it cannst be de- nied that his suecess has been uniform and extraor- dinary. His numerous volumes of ‘Notes’? are now more universally read in this country and throughout the Britieh empire than those of any other commenta-' tor, living or dead. Mr. Barnes has just read the Inet; proofsheets of @ collection of his ‘“ Miscellaneous Wri- tings’’—origimally published in reviews and other perils, odicals—and they will be given to the public imme+ diately, im three volumes. : A new aspirant to authorship, and we venture to pre. dict a successful one, Mr. Samuel A. Bard, has in press a, novel work entitled ‘‘Waikna, or Adventures on thé Mosquito Shore,” which will afford us some definite ine formation regarding that hitherto semi-mythiesl coun- ‘try, besides the absorbing details of adventure which are necessarily incident to travels in such wild and romantig ions. as Charles G. Leland has in press ‘The Sketch Book: of Me, Meister Karl,”’ s work full of elegant wit, quaint: humor, and the richest fruits of curious and amusing learning. It was commenced while the sscomplishsd. suthor was a resident graduate at one of the Germaz universities, and some chapters of it which have ap: peared in a periodical eviacea genius as Pleasing ag various and peculiar. Mr, Richard B, Kimball, whose “St, Leger, or the Threads of Life,” is one of the most fasciaating - Tomances of our day, remarkable alike for scholarship, wisdom and dramatic interest, is spending the spring among the mountains of Swiczerland, where he will com. plete the Sequel to St. Leger—describing the scenery of his work from nature, “Rate Aylesford,” by Charles J, Peterson, is one of the best and most successful of American historical ro- mances, The revolutionary traditions of New Jersey abound in material for the novelist, and none of out ‘writers js more familiar with them, or more capable of adapting them to the purposze of literary art, than Mr, Peterson. ‘Kate Aylesford’ is especially of Praise asa historical study; it would be difficult to find anovel in which the costumes, manners, and temper of & past age are more carefully or trathfully reflected. Miss Alice Carey has in press, a new book entitled “Hollywood.” The Poems of this popular suthoress, recently published in Ticknor’s series of American poets, have met with an extraordinary sale, Except Lovgfellow, probably none of our poets is more popular, Mrs. E. © Kinney, wife of the editor of the Newark Daily Advertiter, (who, since he ceased to.be chargd de affaires of the United States at Turim, has resided at Florence,) bas sent home a poetical romance, entitled - “Felicta,”” which will be published in this city ina few ¢ays. Mrs. Kinney is unquestionably » woman of ge« nius, and if her new work fulfils the promise of her earlier poems, it will be an addition to the permanent. and best literature of the country. Mrs, J, Holmes, authoress of ‘Tempest and Sunshin: has in press a novel entitied ‘The English Orphans, which will be published in two or three weeks. One of the most important additions made to religious. literature during the last year, is ‘The History of the- Christian Church, by Dr. Charles Hase,”’ of Jena, trans- ated by Dr. Biumenthal, of Dickenson College. It is the most intelligible and interesting exhibition of the pro- gress of Christianity that has ever, perhaps, been pab. lished in a single volume, and it ia Itke'y for its brevity, Perspicuity, and apparent fairness, to have a large po- pularity. Elegance an atness are recent styles of hats introduced by Knox, the ter, Always avoiding anything Uke hee manufacturers or importers, and presen’ the publia only such etyles as give sn appearance of case and refine. ment to the wearer. Knox bas justly ‘omi- nenoe in his protersion. up-town depot, at 833 Broad- way, and his old and perhaps better knows at Ls Fulton street, aro patropized by all classes of our citizens. could . en Rodloine which hes a sll Sther meds SOHN BULLS lilsey Building. To Nervous Sufferers —A retired clorgymi roatored to health in a fow days after many Years of greng re nervous suffering, is snvious to make knowa te means of gore, Will send ifree) ths prescription ved. Rey, JOBN M. DAGNALL. 67 Ful to thy. ton street. Grovklen a