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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.—Ix Taovarons, BROADWAY THRATRE, Broa¢way—Conioianvs. BOWERY THEA‘ Bowery—Jacuers or BLuE— Seven Temprarions—Mipienr Warton. BORTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Davin Cor- PRRFIELD—SLASURR AND CRASHER. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Lasr Man—Tir yor Tat—SieTeR Kare. AMERICAN MUSEOM—Afternoon and Evening—Lavy or THz LAKE=POOR Pinicoppy. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—473 Broadway. KLEY'S OPERA HOU: 639 Bresdway—Bu: iC braoriay Orena TROUPE: ined PEABAWS BURLESQUE OPE OPERA HOUSE, 663 Brosa- way ETHIOPIAN PRRTORMANCLS. CHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Rama OF OPK AND SixGE oF ———o—————o New York, Wednesday, May 2, 1855. 539 Broadway—Pano- RBASTOPOL, Mails for Europe. THS NEW YORK BERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. Fhe Collins mall steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, will leave this port to-day, at twelve o’clock, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at half-past ten o'clock, this morning. ‘Tus HERALD (printed im English and French) willbe published at ten o’elock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Babscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Hzraxp will be received at the following places in Europe:— ML « we ‘Thomas & &'Co., No, 19. Catharine street. .. +++ Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse, The contents of the European edition of the Hau will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. ‘The News. The steamship Atlantic is now due at this port with one week’s later news from Europe. Se left Liverpoe! on the 21et ult., and is therefore now in ber eleventh day out. A week’s later news from California is also due. We publish thizjmorning an interesting account, from a European traveller, of a visit which he paid afew days ago to Washington Irving, at his resi. dence at “Sunnyside.” As he is an enthasiastic ad- miser of Irving, we have no doubt his letter will be read with pleasure by all who have perused that author’s works. ‘The second and twenty-fifth sections of the pro- hibitory liquor law went into force yesterday, ‘The firat named section relates to the qualifications and liabilities of persons duly authorized to sell liquor under the new statute; the other section pro- hibits the granting of licenses, except as provided for im section second, and states that all liquer kept in violation of any provision or prov:- sions of the act shall be deemed and is declared to be a public nuizance. The licenses now held ex- pire on Tuesday next, after which time they will not be renewed. In this city, however, until the 4th of July we shall have free trade in liquor, his honor the Mayor having so decreed. Sunday selling is punishable on conviction, but by a merely nominal penaity. In other parts of the State, after Tuesday wext, persons gelling liquor in less quantity than five gallons are liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each offence. Not until after Tuesday, there- fore, does the liquor kept in violation of the new law become a public nuisance. Navigation on al the canals in this State was resumed yesterday morning. Up to one o'clock yesterday afternoon, sixty boats had cleared from the collector’s office in Albany, for which tolls were paid smounting to $7,976 52. The Canal Depart- ment has prohibited the use of “ skeleton” bills, instead of fali bills of lading, in order, if possible, to prevent frauds upon the revenue. Our at Havana, writing on the ‘25th ult., state that the Concha and McCauley con- ferences were virtually at an end, and that the Commodore was about to eail for Key West, without having made any demand for redress on the Cap- tain General. The most pleasing peace rumors were prevalent, and it was said that the blockade of the island would be immediately raised, and the extra drills of the volunteers and regular troops suspended, From ward room g2ssip on board the Princeton, it would appear as if some United States offizers saw no eause for complaint in any of the late occurrences. ‘Tne divide et impera principle of the rulers of Cuba had been sbly caricatured. General Concha had replied to the complaint of the captain of the ship Thores Church, citing as a fact that she had not opened a register previous to obtaining a charter. It was reported that cholera had appeared amongst the troops in the Cabanas fortress. Tourists trom Havana to Cadiz by the Fernando el Catolico speck highly of the new route and pleasures of the trip. The Roxburgh Castle—a British vessel— had Janded five hundred and seventy-five Chinamen, from Amoy, at Havana, the philanthropists mak. ing the nice distinction between voluntary and in- voluntary slavery act asa balm for their conecien- tious qualms. Her Catbolic Majesty has may fested to Captain- General de la Concha the grief with which her pious heart was afflicted on being informed o? the recent revolutionary proceedings in Cubs, and has taken the opportunity of reiterating the assurance that the Spanieh nation—as represented in the Cortes— will protect the form and conditions of property in the island, recognizing explicitly that one of the most essential conditions thereof is slavery. Sho thanks Concha for the zeal he has displayed ia re- pressing criminal outbreaks; and notifies him that she is disposed, in anticipation, to approve of what- ecever measures he moy adopt. Finally, she em- powers him to return thanks, in her royal name, to the Jand and sea forces of the is'and and its loyat inhabitants, and to sssure the latter that the rein- forcements of troops which ars to be sent to Caba will be more then sufficient to repress all farther outbreake. We give a translation of the doco. ment. Onr correspondent at Valparaiso, writing on March 15th, advocates the propriety ot establishing a regular American steam line communication along the Pacific coast,from Panam, to Valparaiso, very strongly. He thinks it would serve tne trade of the United States vastly, resder intercourse with South America more certain, make her resources better known, and read a wholesome lesson to the old fogies ot the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Company at the same moment. He also points ont the prob- able profits and cost of suca a speculation. The Yankee enterprise for the navigation of the Bio- Bio iver was progressing favorably, and even now American four horse stages sweep from Valparaiso to Santiago. The inhabitants, however, were still decided anti-annexationists. Vessels of the allied Pacific squadron were moving about prepa- ratory to another attack on Petropaulovski, which is called in Chili ‘the Sebastopol of the Pacific.” The cause of the Czar in the Crimea had the warm sym- pathies of the Chilians, and bets of five hundred dollars were made that the allies would be unsuc- coesful. A great religious furore was created on the receipt of the news of the settlement of the Immaculate Conception dogma. Commodore Mer- vin was in port with his flag hoisted on the United Btates frigate Independence. The joint committee of the two houses of the Penveylvania Legislatare, appointed on the 24th of March last for the purpose ofginvestigating whether bribery or any other improper influence had been rerorted to during the late election of a United States Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of the Hon. James Cooper banded {na ‘ong and elaborate report to the Senate A piquant correspondence between Mr. Geo. B. Mathew, British Congul at Philadelphis, and the President of the St. George’s Society of that city, has made its appea ance in the papers. Mr. Mathew He sentiment would view the conduct of a company of Americans in London who would purposely re- fuse to toast the “ President ot the United States?” The President of the Society, after some compli- mentary remarks towards the Consul personally, replies—‘ Tnat public opinion would, and ought to, condemn American citizens in England, who should omit their national toast on the celebra- tion of their natal day, or make it give place to a toast in honor of another nation or its ru‘er. I sub- mit, also, that public opinion ought to condemn American citizens of British birth who place in the first honor the incumbent of a foreign throne. It must be borne in mind that American citizens, and Englishmen who have bscome American citizens, or the sons of such Englishmen, only can become ‘members’ of the Society of the Sons of St. Gorge, established at Philadelphia, for the advice and as- sistance of Englishmen in distress, under a charter tmanating from the State of Pennsylvania. Eag- lishmen who are not citizens are admitted as ‘as- sociates.’”” Mr. Mathew considers the “charter emanating from the State of Pennsylvania” a hum- bug, and that it ought to be amended. He seems to have been quite unfortunate on the occasion of the British anniversary. In addition to the falling out in Philadelphia, some tancied or real s‘ight im: pelied him to withdraw from the celebration of St. George's at the Metropolitan Hotel in this city. Among the subjects comprising the contents of to-day’s paper, and to whi:h we invite attention, msy be found a full acount of the unhappy shoot- ing affray at New Haven, on Saturday last; inter- esting details of news trom Mexico to the 18th ult; Proceedings of the Historical Society last evening; @ call tora convention of Hebrews in this city on the 10th inat.; anda report of the proceedings of the Board of Almshouse Governors. Cotten was quite active yesterday. The sales reached about 7,600 bales, about 4,000 of which were in teausitu. Part was taken on speculation, part for export, and some lots by spinners. Tho masbet closed firm. Flour was dull, without change of moment in prices. Indian corn was easier, with limited sales at $1 10a $112 for white, and $113 for yellow. Provisions were in fair demand, with- out change of moment in prices. Sugars sold to the extent of about 700 hhds. With the exception of bags, the stock of sugars, including hogsheads ard boxes, does not vary materially from what it was last year at the same period. Ominous State of Things in Kansas—Plenty of Work for the Administration, the Free Sollers and the Fillbusters. The reception of Governor Reeder, of the Territory of Kansas, by his friends of all par- ties, on his return temporarily to Easton, Penn- sylvania, has resulted in the confirmation of a revolutionary and dangerous state of things in the said Territory. The Governor affirms that the very worst statements which have been Promulgated of the unlawful irruption of the Missourians into Kansas at the late election, ere true. He says “that the conduct of the people of the border counties of Missouri had astounded and amazed him, by their reckless disregard of all laws, compacts and constitutions; that the Territory of Kansas, in her late elec- tion, was invaded by a regular organized army, armed to the teeth, who took possession of their ballot boxes, and made a Legislature to suit the purposes of the pro-slavery party.” He concluded by saying that “Kansas is a con- quered country, conquered by force of arms,” and he calls upon the North to vindicate their rights. New this is a very extraordinary and a very serious state of things; but it is hardly surpris- ing, when we consider the circumstances and instruments that have brought it about. In the first place, the administration, desi- rous of washing off its free soil affilia- tions, and of currying favor in the South, hit upon the desperate expedient of repealing the Missouri compromise, and of leaving the local institutions of Kansas and Nebraska in the hands of the people of those Territories. This repeal was a constitutional proceeding; it was a constitutional concession to the South; and the South accepted the offering. But there was a tremendous reaction in the North, in- stantly producing, among other things, the or- ganization of companies and societies for filling the new Territories, especially Kansas, by a sort of coup d’état, with abolitionists and free soilers. With boasts and threats, and the noisy parade of numerous detachments of free soil colonists to Kansas, the South were admonished that they would be expelled from the Territory by superior numbers opposed to the extension and the existence of Southern slavery. The consequences are before us. Hon. J. M. Porter, in his address of welcome to Governor Reeder, at Easton, has truly suggested that the late lawless invasion of Kansas was produced “by the fanatical abolitionists of the North.” They threatened to overwhelm all oppo-ition, ard to make Kansas an advanced camping ground of the Northern anti-slavery alliance, by throwing a mass of free soil squatters into the Territory sufficient to vote down all re sistance, and to make the colony the most thorough-going anti-slavery State in the Union. The slaveholding people of Mis- souri very naturally became alarmed. Look at their situation. It is somewhat critical. They have the free State of Illinois on their front, and the free State of Iowa on their left flank, and in view of another free State of the Massachusetts anti-slavery type in their rear, t was natural enough that they should become intensely excited in reference to the futare se- curity of their slave property. The Missouri- ans. on the western side of the State, looked upon this abolition colonization of Kansas as the deliberate establishment of a rendezvous and place of refuge for their fugitive slaves. Therefore. however unwise or injurious to themselves the policy of their late hostile and unlawful invasion of Kansas, it was doubtless adopted as a measure of self-defence. Regard- ing these anti-slavery squatters as a combina- tion of seditious and treacherous slave-stealers, and as neighbors whose presence can only be productive of mischief among their black popu- lation, the Missourians have fallen back upon the fundamental law of the strong hand to nip this conspiracy of their enemies in the bud. Such is the first result of the Kansas anti- slavery colonization scheme. What next? Gov Reeder will lay his complaints before the President ; the Attorney General, we presume, will give his opinion upon the subject, and the Governor will return to Kansas to order NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, '1855. |” ® new election. It is quite possible, how- ever, that Mr. Pierce may back out of the scrape, and leave the Missourians and the Kansas equatters to fight it out among them- selves, In any event, itis very evident that the trouble is just beginning in Kansas, and that the issue can only be finally determined by the Lona fide settlers of the T: whether slavery shall or shall not be established there- in. To this end, there is a fine field in Kansas, not only for all our intractable and warlike free soilers and abolitionists, but for the belli- gerent filibusters, whose hopes of a foreign war have been completely dished by the affectionate and most pacific mission of Commodore McCau- ley to Cuba, Meantime we shall await the upshot of Gov. Reeder’s official visit to Washington, the quib- blings of Cushing, and the shufflings and dodg- ings of Mr. Pierce. Serious and delicate busi- ness that in Kansas. Mr. Fasens anp THE Kinney Expgpirioy.— Mr. Fabens, whose recent newspaper contro- versy with Senor Marcoleta, the Minister from Nicaragua, has resulted in binding over the Kinney expedition to keep the peace, turns out tobe rather an important cliaracter in connec- tion with the grand enterprise. Our readers will recollect that Mr. Fabens was our Consul at Greytown when Captain Hol- lins hauled up the sloop-of-war Cyane in front of that unfortunate settlement, or that “camp of savages,” as the President has been gra- ciously pleased to call it. It will be remem- bered that Mr. Fabens was somewhat instru- mental in securing the bombardment and bura- ing of the town. Cui bono? What for? To make money out of it, as we understood the case. Mr. Fabens, as we learn, had secured for a trifle certain rich lands in Nicaragua, which, if they could only be brought under Yankee American enterprise, would soon become exceedingly valuable property. The question then was, how can we bring these Yankee equatters in here. Get the United States into awar, and get the Yankees to come in as vo- lunteers and they are bound to stick. Hence the whole of that chapter of accidents, from the row kicked up by our Minister, Major Bor- land, and the breaking of that whiskey bottle over his nose, down to Mr. Pierce’s demand for indemnity and bombardment of Grey- town. These incidents and accidents were all, we are told, parts and parcels of a deliberate scheme to draw our government into a war in Central America, s0 a8 to make an opening for Yankee enterprise, and squatters, and hard cash, into the rich lands brought up for little or nothing by certain Yankee American speculators in those prolific regions. The bombardment of Greytown failed of its object, and the Yankees in Central America next turned their eyes towards the Kinney ex- pedition to the Mosquito purchase of Cost Johneon, Cooper & Co. But Mr. Jo. White, of the Nicaragua California line, put a spoke in the wheel of this Kinney movement, which stopped it. He saw after joining it, that it was a filibustering scheme, that it would disturb the interests of the Nicaragua Transit Compa- ny in consequence, and so he instantly aban- doned Mr. Kinney, and left him to the mercy of Marcy. Thus the first projected Kinney expedition has exploded. Next Mr. Consul Fabens comes on here from Greytown. He has private lands in Nicaragua. Surely he has the right to eettle them. Good idea, Co}. Kinney’ adopts it. His armed colonists will settle on the landsof Mr. Fabens. The expedition is re- orgavized accordingly, and the day is appoint- ed for the sailing of the first ship load of the “armed occupation. But here Senor Marcoleta steps in, and Col. Kinney is bound over to keep the peace. We would now advise the gallant Colonel to give up the job entirely, and embark with Mr. Fabens and the whole Kinney expedition to aid in settling the question of squatter sovereignty in Kansas. Good lands in Kansas ata dollar and a quarter an acre, Fimst Errects or THe Pronsrrory Law-- Cuanczs iv Our Horen System.—The Prohibi- tery Liquor law has already effected quite a revolution among the fashionable hotels, and yesterday the per diem price of board at the St. Nicholas, the Astor, the New York, and the Clarendon, was increased from two dollars and a half to three dollars. That the principal reason for this increase is found in the passage of the new liquor law there is no doubt. The hotel keepers probably desire to make up for the diminished sales of liquor by the charge of the extra half dollar per day for board. It is also true that, during the past two or three years, the Ame- rican hotel system has been quietly undergoing a radical change in its management, and, hay- ing attained the height of luxury, it bids fair to take the other tack and consult economy. The present per diem system has many evils, which were lately pointed out very strongly by a gentleman who once conducted the most fashionable and most profitable hotel in the United States. Under the present system, in many cases a few persons get the best rooms in the hotel, the best places at the table,and the mor- ceauz choisis of the cuisine, and pays no more than the unknown guest, who gets a back room in the sixth story, and perhaps does not eat a meal in the house during his stay ; while, in another cage, a desperate glutton Inxuriates in everything’ on the carte, eating two or three times his money’s worth. The American system originated in Western extravagance and abundance. When every- thing was cheap, the hotel keeper could give the best of everything for two dollars a day, and receive a handsome return for his labor. Now, what with bad times, bad debts and bad crops, he cannot get his money back—to say nothing of time and labor. All these facts have combiged to turn the attention of New York landlords to what is calledthe European system—that is, @gparate charges for rooms and meals; and we have now a dozen hotels on this plan. Some of them are entirely new, and fitted up in the very best style. It is a remarkable fact that the Irving House, once the most popular hotel in America, is now undergoing alterations to fit it for a hotel on the European plan. That this plan bas many advantages, no one will doubt, and that ft is gradually growing into favor here is shown by the increase of hotels kept upon this method. It is more economical than the American system, if one is contented with a decent room and moderate fare. It can be made, however, much more expensive. It would perhaps be advisable to retain the best points of the two systems—a mixtnre of Ameri- can enterprise and liberality with Enropean coneervatiem and economy. Poxrrica, Parsoxs.—If Dr. Tyng and Mr. Chapin had lived two centuries ago in Spain or even in Massachusetts, they would have led much happier lives than they are likely to lead here. They might have abused people who differed from them without a word of remon- strance ; and on great occasions, they might easily have enforced their doctrines with the halter, the knife or the faggot. It is their mis- fortune and our happiness that these privileges are now denied them. The fact is, the tendency of our clergymen Protestant as well as and perhaps more than Catholic to meddle in political affairs is be- coming more and more alarming. Of course in one point of view, a man does not cease to bea citizen on becoming a ministe:; his right to hold and express opinions on pub- lic affairs in any way lessened. But though his right remains the same, his duty is very different. As a minister of the Church of Christ, his flock are taught to think he speaks on all occasions the words of truth. His preach- ing is admitted to be so unanswerable that it is contrary to usage and etiquette to discuss it. When he prays no man dissents. It is of the essence of his calling, and among the chief sources of his power that he should never be supposed by his own congregation to go wrong. Children are brought up in a robust unques- tioning faith in his wisdom and honesty : “what the minister says” is conclusive in any argument. It is from a knowledge of this circumstance, that the sagacious Church of Rome has ever since the Reformation warned her clergy against intermeddling in political disputes ; lest by being found in the wrong, their igno- rance or infirmity should be exposed, a loss of influence should follow, and religion be the final sufferer. It is from ignorance of the same that Dr. Tyng, Dr. Chapin and other clergymen are mixing in the pending discus- sion of the prehibitory law. They may believe they are right, and probably do. But will that do them any good if half their congregation think differently, believe they are wrong, and cease to respect or rely upon them as formerly? The churches may depend upon it, the people of New York will in the end do what is right in this matter of spirituous liquors, with or without their interference. The only possible effect of that interference will be to give to some few clergymen a questionable reputation as demagogues, and to lower generally the cha- racter of their calling. Fanaticism.—An abolitionist cotemporary publishes a number of prurient details in refer- ence to the maltreatment of a female slave by her mistress in Kentucky. They are not pub- lished as ordinary matters of news, but are given in large type and in a prominent position; the object being to convey the idea that the insti- tution of slavery was answerable for them, and that such horrors were common occurrences under its sway. The inadvertent honesty which prompted the completion of the story, including the indignation of the neighboring slaveholders, renders it hardly necessary to point out the gross unfairness of attempting to hold the insti- tution of slavery responsible for such crimes. Slavery has no more to do with them than free- dom.. Our police courts constantly try cases quite as shocking and even more revolting. On hearing of them, monarchists cry: Ah! you see the results of democracy—you see what republicanism engenders! Just in the same narrow-minded way, when the abolition- ists hear of a piece of cruelty down South, they ery: Ah! you see the fruits of slavery ! Our New Miyster To Spraty.—The Hon. Augustus Cesar Dodge leaves the United States this day, in the steamship Pacific, to enter upon the discharge of his diplomatic duties at Ma- arid. The Marcy policy having wholly triamph- «din the Cabinet, it is understood that his in- structions are of the most pacific character, and that whatever alarm may have been created in the minds of loyal Spaniards by the publication of the recent doings at Ostend will be dispelled by the first interview between Mr. Dodge and the Spanish Minister. All accounts concur in stating that Gen. Concha and Commodore Mc- Cauley are on the very best of terms ; and that in that quarter there is no longer any serious ground of apprehension. Mr. Dodge’s office is likely to be purely honorary. Courrovus Case or Copyriaut.—See the card of Miss Bunkley, in our advertising columns. She is the young lady whose escape from the Catholic temale school at Emmettsburg, Md, created such a sensation some time ago, It ap- pears that she had prepared the material for a book upon the subject, but that somebody else has got hold of the papers and secured the copyright in this city, and that in consequence che has instituted a suit to recover it. The case will shortly come up before Judge Betts, and avery curious case it will most likely prove to be. Worxinc or Tux Mate Law.—Ia Boston, Mass., there is hardly a show of restraint in the sale of liquor; in Portland, Me., four hundred and forty drunkards were arrested during the past year; in Providence and New- port, R. I., liquor may be bought by the penny’s worth; in Hartford and New Maven, Conn., it is sold openly, and the Carson League wink at it; in Cincinnati, Ohio, the groggeries are in full blast, and in Sandusky City and Cleveland the Germans quaff their lager bier on the stoops in front of the saloons. Personal Intelligence. M. Sartiges, the French Minister, and Baron Gerolt the Prussian Minister accredited to this government, con’ template visiting Europe soon, both having obtuined leave of absence from Washington to that end. ABRIVALS. At the St. Nicholas—Hon. Chas. Ingersoll; Virsinia; Dr. A. Westeott ‘and Jedy, Sra Tachsonville: Prot G. Ry Perkins, , Washington. . Perkins, U. mn. W.P K Mai W. tolling, rhea Ww. Yee ‘Chicago. At the Astor J.C. Kew York; Maj. W. B. U. 8. A; Cape. Orlean: jor Tirade rh ‘amily, w Orleans; E. Bouilist, mgnee. From Savanna, in the steamship Augusta—Wm § Child, Mrs G Child, MreG A Wilkins nod 5 children, 8 B Knapp, Mre mattered, ebild and sister; DS Wintrn and child; $ V' Roberts, Mrs J Chore ‘and Infant, Miss Buck mast Ia and Zohtidron: W 8 Underhi Indy, Miss Caroline Mee Wood H Fearball, Noah Phillipe, Dr Pollock vert 8x Gardner, E M Barris, F W Hadi ey, Ai Brett, J T Robin. fon and servant, . 7 B ris Ketoha ts. P Metealt, § T Olney, steorase. ‘aLfom Charleston, in the steamship Sousherses.—Miss Mt Palmer; Mra Kleisic! AG: jdenof, A Harmoand, fe Haly, xis ise Chandler +. ole, Mrs GW Soot, Miss Scott, IT itso ‘v1 Set J Tracey, Farley, ¢ Hoa arb: Groentoaf, 8 Brown, Geo Mixer, Uapt Breck, O iat Agupaeal Mesers awe oy a Tradoviel, e Solta, we Titehio, Ds Cott Calendar—This Day. U, 8. Disrrict Court—Nos. 7 to 16. A acne a THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Seen . Non-Arrival of the European and Californian Steamers, Sanpy Hoox, May 1-10 P, M. ‘The steamship Atlantic, now due from Liverpool, has Rot yet beem signalied off this point, ‘Wasurxorow, May 1, 1855 The latest advices from New Orleans are to April 30th, at which time there were no tidiegs of the California steamer, then fully due at that port. From Massachusetts, THE BSS COMMITTRE—THE MISSOUAI OUTRAGR3 IN KANSAS, ETO. Boston, May 1, 1855. ‘The Hiss Committee resumed its investigations to-1ay, but so far no new light has been thrown upon the matter. In the House to-day, Mr. Slack submitted a preamble and resolution concerning the alleged invasion of Kan- sas by armed Missourians, calling upon the executive of Missouri to prevent a repetition of the outrages; also calling upon the President to take instant and effective measures for sustaining the sovereignty of the citizens of Kansas against violence, and pledging the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, if necessary, to aid with her whole force the Governor of Kansas, and tue people of that or any other State or Territery, in support of con- stitutional rights by whomsoever infringed. Amos Stone, of Charlestown, the Know Nothing candi. date, has been elected County Treasurer for Middlesex. Condition of 1 reasury. Wasninaton, May 1, 1855. The United States Treasurer's statement shows that the amount in the Treasury on the 23d ult., subject to draft, was $20,208,387. From Philadelphia. THE MEDIOAL COXVENTION—THE KANE SEARCHING BXPEDITION—THE ELECTION. PHILADELPHIA, May 1, 1855. Dr. Charles A. Pope, who was present at the last ssa- sion, detivered an address, A committee was then ap- pointed to ncminate permanent officers and select a Place for the next meeting of the convention. An essay on ‘Placenta Praevia,”” by Dr. James T. Trask, of White Plains, New York, was declared to be the prize essay. Nearly five hundred delegates were present; 8 number of them visited the Alms House this afternoon, The propelier for the Kane expedition was launched this afternoon, at the Navy Yard, in fine style. A few scattering returns indicate the election of Hage™ for City Treasurer. He was supported by the whigs and democrats, in opposition to the Know Nothings. The Medical Convention assembled this morning at the Musical Fund Hall, and a large number of delegates were present from all sections of the Union. Wm. P. Rowand, of New York, ‘ Lloyds’”’ agent at Sa vannah, was drowned off that port on Saturday last. A Bold Robbery. CLEVELAND, May 1, 1855. The window of Messrs. Pierce and Nelson’s banking office, in this city, was smashed in last night, and some $500 or $600 stolen. The burglar made his escape. May Day Celebration. Boston, May 1, 1855. This forenoon the weather has been warm, with a drizzling rain; but, notwithstanding its inclemency, thirty omnibus loads of juveniles proceeded to Roxbury, and enjoyed a May morning breakfast. They were ac- companied by a band of music. Boston Weekly bmg be Statement. 15,887,000 7,272,050 The Operatic Event of To-Night. The production of the ‘‘Trovatore’’ at the Academy of Music is a highly important event in musical, theatrical and fashionable circles. It is more interest. ing than the first night of ‘William Tell,”’ because that opera had been given here in French, and being fre- quentiy played in nearly all the European capitals it was quite familiar to those of our dilettanti whose tastes have been refined by « foreign tour. The ‘‘Trovatore”’ is really something new under the sun. Only a few months since it was given in Paris for the first time, and the director of the opera had rearon to congratulate himself upon its production, as it saved his season. All these circumstances make the event of to night at the Academy one of no common im Having listened to the rehearsal of this opera on Saturday, we may speak of it upon its own merits and without regard to the verdict of the Parisians. The plot is eminently tragic—vide the annexed condensed sketch: ‘The libretto is by the inexhaustible Scripe, and follow- ing out the general design of all Verdi’s works, the inci. dente of the plot are nearly all tragic, and the situations are strongly melo dramatic. The story is one of Spanish passion, intrigue and revenge. Leonora (Steffenone) is in love with the Troubador Manrico (Brignoli.) She is at the same time beloved by the Count di Luna, (Amo dio,) a person with @ full baritone voice, but not re- markable for personal beauty. The opera opens with a rencontre in the night between the three persons above named. Leonora mistakes the Count for her lover, but Manrico soon rectifies that. M. the Count becomes ex- cessively indignant at this and demands the name of his rival. Finding that it is Manrico, who is a soldier and a politician as well as # troubador, and who is in arms against the “constituted authorities,” the Count chal- lenges Manrico, and they go off to fight, leaving the lady in a disturbed state of mind. In the second act we find that Manrico was wounded in the duel, and that he has taken refuge in a giprey camp, commanded,by Azecana, who is supposed to be his mother, That lady, who is s sort of Meg Merriles, tells him a long story, from which it seems that her mother was burned at the stake by the Count’s father on a charge of poisoning a younger brother of thenobleman, When Azecuna was returning from the execution with her own child in arms, she met the son of the Count, and concealed him until every one had left the place of execution. She then intended to throw the child into the fire, but being very much ex- cited she exchanges the children, and her own son is made the victim. After.Azecuns has finished this story, information is brought to Manrico that his adherents have taken the Castle of Castellor, where his presence is required. Further, he hears that Leonora, thinking him dead, is about to take the veil. He arrives at the resi- dence of the young lady just in season to prevent her from being carried off by the Count. In the third act we have Manrico and Leonora domi- ciled in Castellor, and besieged by their old enemy, the Count. Azecunais captured by the Count’s party as a spy—is recognized, and preparations for her execution sre made, Manrico makes a sortie to save her; he is de- Railroad, 1636; vania Btate fives, 86% | feated and taken prisoner. He is condemned to death, but Leonora offers to marry the Count provided he will liberate her lover. He refuses to accept pardon om such terms, and aftera stormy scene between the lovers it is ascertained that Leonora has taken poison. The Count finds her dying, and orders his provost marshal to hang up Manrico at once. The order is complied with. Aze- cuna, who bas been asleep through all this stirring time, wakes up in time to see Manrico’s body on th» gibbat, and to convey to the Count the pleasing intelligence that he has banged his brother. Verdi is great in the illustration by music of the strong, er passions of the human heart, He delineates love, jea- lousy, hatred, and revenge with a master hand. The ‘Iro- vatore’’, will be found to combine all of his excellencies with but few of his faults, Maoy of the effects are strik- ing, and they are worked up gradually, till the grand point is made, like the great finale to the third act of “Erpani.’’ The scene in the giprey’s cave in the second act is replete with beauties, and the chorus has a pleasant and careless ring, very Bohemian and very good, Here we have a striking scene between Avecuna and Manrioo, and the next scene is full of stirring incidents, in which Leonora, the Count di Luna, and Manrico are engaged. ‘The peculiar character of she opera will be understood by the summary of the plot, as given above, The play bills always promise that every new piece shall be put upon the stage withoat the slightest regard to expense, but experience has taught the people that these statements are hardly ever made good in effect. Until the preset season at the Academy, the opera has never been properly mounted, and the success of ‘Wil- Lam Teli’’ was owing in a great measure to the attention paid to the accersories of the stage. The mise en scene of the “Trovatore”’ will be better than that of ‘William Tell.”” Seme of the scenery is exquisitely beautiful. The moonlight sotne in the first act, the gipsey’s cave, " with distant landscape, and the prison, are all very fine- ly cone, and reflect the highest credit upon the artist. Altogether, the “‘Trovatore” will receive better treat- ment at the Academy than any opera which has yet. been presented in the United States. ‘Tax Nimo Orera.—We publish to-day the programme: for the Italian Opera season at Niblo’s, to commence next Monday evening, with the “Barber of Seville,” ia which Mme. de la Grange, Signori Morelli, and Marini have the principal parts. The price of tickets is fixed at one dollar each; reserved seats two dollars, There ig to be @ grand rebearsal on Friday night, and a not'ce to musicians anent that affair will be found im our adver- tising columns. . Obituary. CAPTAIN HENRY D. GRAFTON, U. 8. A. Captain Henry D. Grarroy, of the United States army, was recently stricken down with spoplexy, and aied suddenly at Davenport, Iowa, whilst he was enjoying himeelf on a visit to his relative, W. F. F. Gulsey, Esq. Coptain Grafton was the eldest son of Major Joseph Grafton, of Boston, who formerly served in the army of the Uniied States. The late captain was a graduate of West Point, of the class of 1849, and was attached to the Ist Regiment of Artillery until the close of the year 1854, and bad only resigned his commission yhortly be- ore his deatb. He was distinguished for his gallant and meritorious conduct during the Mexican campaign. Captain Grafton was married, at an early age, to the youngest daughter of Com. Ed. £, Trenchard, late of the United foe Navy, by whom he leaves @ most inte- restin; ly. He aied amongst comparative stran- pe ee was soothed during his short nd 1 fatal illness their attention and friendship. His did not Davenport until after hia ‘raneral, which was at = from the Episcopal Church, by a crowd of citi- eeveueaiinis R. 4. Bisnop, for a long time Presi- dent of Miami University, and of late years Professor of ge y and Political E:onomy in Farmer’s College, Col- i, Ohio, died on the 29th ult. be in Union Township, Shelby county, Ind. 6th ult., Me Jouy BricuTwe.., Cet soldier of the Revolutionary war, and battles under Wayne and other Col. B. U. CAMPBELL, a member of the Baltimore branch of the firm of Brown Brothers & Co,, died in Baltimore on the 28th ult. Col. Campbell was an officer of one of the Baltimore companies in the war of 1812, and, as such, took part in the defence of Baltimore and the battle of North Point in 1814, on the He wasa ought in various a, Political Intelligence. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES IN GEORGIA. Among the candidates for Georgia Covgressmen, Hon. James L. Seward, who was in the last Congress, is talked of for the First, or Savannah district; Hon. A. H. Col- quitt, alse in the last Congress, for the Second; Hon. David L. Bailey, in Congress from 1851 to 1853, for the Third; Hon. W. B. W. Dent, also in the last Congress, for the Fourth; Hon. E. W. hae in = from 1861 to 1853. is ‘willing to date for the Fifth; Governor Cobb for the Sate nad ‘David A. Reese, also in the last Congress, for the Seventh and Eighth districts, ‘The Concord (N. H.) Reporter states that the Post- master General has lopped off the official heads of three jaters who voted the American ticket at the recent election in that State, viz. :—Mr. Hale, of Lee; Mr. far- gent of £anbornton; and Eleazer ‘aa of East Canaan. 1 business. At an election for bases in Middlesex count; Mass., on the 30th ult., the Know Nothing candidal naidars received one hundred and seven majority in the city of Charlestown. Knox on the Fashions, the Cele< brated hatter, Nos, 128 Fulton street, and_583 Broadway, is one of the hat fashion regulators of New York, and his bate for the present soaron may be considered the “ne plus ultra’ of taste and beauty. The quality is unexoeptionable, and the shape gracoful and becoming. Beebe & Co., 156 Broadway, have just re- peived assortment of Paris made beaver, telt, soft. hats, extra fine and light. 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