The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1855, Page 4

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Wven's MINETRELS—! inion Hsll—472 Broadway BUCKLEY'S OPERA MOUSE, 689 Brestway--Buox- ‘ung’: Bvudrran OPERa Trove. NESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 839 Grosdway—Pano- ains Gy EUROPE AND or benserowen’ ERAT" OPERA HOUSE, 665 Broad- we anieran Grtea Teor ‘New York, @aturday, June 16, 1855. Whe News. ‘The'iabers of the Know Nothing Convention at Philadelphiaterminated yesterday. With the ex: eeption of the wnanimous adoption of resolutions denouncing the Pierce administration, the closing Proceedings sre of no special importance. In the point ailuced'te, however, the convention have hit the right nail square upon the head. Itis quite as important as either of the fourteen art cles com posing the platform, which is promulgated complete for the information of the public in our colamns to- dsy. Tceritual has been somewhat modified, and the @atbolic test reaffimed by a larg? majority, notwithstanding an eloquent effort was mado by Judge Hopking ard others to effect its abroga- tion, A-committee was appointed to ascertain the amount of Mr. Barkor’e exponditures in behalf of ‘the cause, with the view to its repayment. The sum ia ssid to be a large one. The representation in the Nominating Coxvention wili comprise one delega'e from each Congressional district, and two at large from each State. The next convention will be held in this city, on the firet Tuesday in Jane next. The members separated in high spirite. A mass meet, ing will be held in Philadelphia to-night, one in this ity on Monday evening, and another in Baltimore on Wedresdsy. The Know Something abolition gathering at Cia ‘einrati also dissolved yesterday. Am attempt was made to bind the organization to the support of Beward for the Presidency, but the delegates from Maseachuset‘s aud Indiana would not listen to it, A constitution snd ritual were adopted, based upon aptislavery and anti-papal principles; bu! the amend. ment of the naturalization laws, and all those other questions which were supposed to form faudamental principles with the original Know Nothings, seem to be entirely ignored. A permacent organization ‘was completed by the choise of Hiram Griswold, of Ohio, for President ; George S. Bout well, of Massa- ehusetts, Vice President; Wm. Richardson, of Al- bavy, Secretary; and Joshua Robinson, of Pittsburg, ‘Treasurer. Two of these are said to be foreigners. From Boston we leara that the seceders from the Philadelphia Convention intend t> urge upon the Msesachuretts Know Nothings the propriety of ealling a convention of the people of the Northern and Northwestern States, in ordor to concentrate aciicn in the present crisis. Senator B. F. Wade, of Obio, made a speach ata free soil meeting in Ashtabula county on the 9th inst.,in which he urged the free rotlers to work hard for the success of thsir principles, as in case they failed he shou!d resign his seat in the United States Senate, for he never cold bear to look a foe ia the face whea repudiated at home. Wade’s mo- Gesty has never been so excessive heretofore as to leed to eny serious apprebensions for the safety of the republic. The State Temperence Convention of New Jeraay, which metas New Brunswick «n the L4th instant, passed resolutions recommending the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, avd als> passed the follow- ing supplementary reeolye:—-That in the opinion of thie convention the dr beverage is detrimental to t stinence, snd, therefore, that we do battle agaicat 6cf our greatest enemice.”’ This rezolve, t, is not directed #0 particu'arly at the German population as against the temperance mea themselves, who have taken to drinking immode- Fate quantities of lager, under the happy delnsion thet it is merely & harmless enlivening b:verage. The Germans of Williaweburg are making prepa’a- tious to forcibly resiet the ento:cement of the prohi. Meetings have been held, and re- solotions recommending violent measures adopted. Alscady fifty men have volunteered to carry out the eentiments of the resistants, and preparations are meking, itissaid, forthe organization of a formi- duble force. Stirring times are expected about ths Fourth of July. . We have news from Mexico to the effect that the Insurgent have taken possession of Guansjasto, and that Victoria and Saltillo bad joined tie revola- tioni-te. Oar correepoudense from Central Amsrica, pub- Vehed this morning, will be found very :nteresting. Groytown, the scene of our imbecile admin'stra tion’s gresteat exploit, bas been entirely rebuilt, and onthe 24th ot May the citizens who compose thas “nest af pirates” formed a now government, by for- mally edopting a couctitutivu snd electing munici- pat officers, from cbicf magintra‘e down to police marshal. The reports concerning the Kinney exye ition created bat little interest, and the impression prevailed that the Colonel would not make the at- tempt imputed to him. By an arriv:) at Charleston we have news from Hevare to the 9th ins!.—fivs day’s later than pre- vious adviecs, The island was healthy, but busi. nees very dull. The letters of our correspondents contain the latest intelligence. Some further d» velopements sre made respecting the alleged volun- tary aboli.ion of slavery as a means of securing the ingependence of Cuba. Owing to the report of the prevelence of cholera at New Orleans, sixteen days qrarsotine fe now imposed upon vessels arriving Hem itfected porte. We have been requested to state tha’ an invevti- gamrtion took place yesterday forenoon, at the offive sof the Commissioner of Strests and Lamps, before Ur. J.B. Ebiing, as to the trath of the allegations « Wetained in certa'n affidavits implicating Mr. B, Jy Wen, the Street Inspector of the Seventeenth ward, wi G Megally receiving money from the men em- ploy ‘ed imcleaning the streets of that ward, and that the i, \quiry resulted in the vindication of Mr. Jones, there baving been no proof aiduced to sustain the charge ¥ preferred. Tre : ‘hio Wm. Rathbone, arrived yesterday from Liverpoo \, had nine deaths among her passengers. Tho cotton market yesterday was less active, ané the sXles were confined to 1,200 to 1,600 bales. The mark-t closed firm. The etiffaees of holiers Dad» tendency to check transactions. Flour was sal bout featber change of momext. A small lot of Cea rcian white wheat sold a $244, Corn was quite active, but closed ot lower figures, viz. : from 940. @ 99%. w 1000., the two latter quotations for ehipoings lote. Rye sold at $108. Oate were more plenty, evs! drop ved down to sbow' 60-. for Western. Pork was wtrer, Wd provisions generally were stiff, with au sdvancWB tendency. About 15,000 packe’s of corn Ip bagw we. ikem for Liverpool at 2}e. tod}. im abipe’ bage, ‘The more violent of the Seward organs are in ecstacies at the late split in the National Council of the Know Nothings in Philadelphi , ‘on the slavery question. We are assured ’ pat this new party is thus broken up, ds) anded, ard scattered to the four winds, 90% that the track is beautifully cleared in the orth for the triumph of the Seward coalition, The results yet to come, however, wi). probably dissipate these estimates es vain “clusions, Our view of the mystter is, that the split in the Philadelphia Ce uncil om the question of a platform, secures, the strength of this new party in both sections, instead of destroying it. We think, too, the’, an agreement, on the other hand, upon either a Northern or a Southern platform, would have destroyed the party in one section or the other. By the disagreement, the Order in both sections remains substantially intact. They are thrown beck, in each section and in each State, upon first principles. Slavery remains an open question, and must so remain, at least till the inauguration of a pew admiao- istration. In the meantime, no national party can be formed upon any common declaration of principles on this vital issue of slavery. The recklegs follies and blunders of this ruinous free soil and secession administration of Mr. Pierce, have rendered the thing impossible—utterly impoesidle. The failure, then, of the North and South in this Philadelphia Council to agree upon a com- mon platform, amounts to nothing. It leaves the party precisely where it stood before—free in each section and in each State to act ac- cording to the circumstances of its position un- til the time shall have arrived for a national movement upon acommon candidate for the succession. Nor is it necessary that there should be any declaration of a national plat- form upon slavery if the party can produce a sound conservative and acceptable man to all sections of the country, Whether Kansas, upon her application to come into the Union as @elave State, shall be rejected or admitted, can only be determined by Congress. National Couneils and Conventions can do nothing with it, and they may just as well, therefore, tura over the subject to the tribunal to which it belongs. In agreeing to disagree upon this subject of slavery, the Philadelphia Council have acted judiciously. They have not compromised their strength in any quarter. They may indulge a perfect freedom of individual opinion upon slavery in both sections, and make a common cause of union and cohesion upon other issues of quite as much importance as slavery ia Kansas or the District of Columbia, The Know Nothings have the: materials, and they have the examples before them of the election of General Harrison in 1840, and of General Taylor in 1848, to , guide them. I¢ is the policy. of a general demand for a new administration, for retrenchment and reform in the government, and for a new and more practical, positive and progressive Ame- rican policy in the management of our domes- tic ard foreign affairs, including our Earopean diplomacy, the finances, the tariff, the army, the navy, the Post Office system, the public lands, the disbursement of the spoils, &o. It was, more or less, upon such a platform, drop- ping any definite declarations upon slavery, that General Harrison and General Taylor were 80 triumphantly elected. It isonly upon such a platform that this corrupt democratic Pierce dynasty can be met and swept away by @ great national movement in 1856. In the meantime, let the Know Nothings North and South act independently of each other upon slavery, look to the expediency of securing the State elections, without doing violence to the prevailing pro-slavery or anti- slavery feeling, as the case may be, and pre- pare the way tor taking the offensive against the democracy upon the merits of this Pierce dynasty in 1856, and the day is their own. The democratic party are evidently desirous of shuffling off from this Pierce, Marcy and For- ney, this Cushing and Jeff. Davis coocern at Washington; but they mast be held to it, and to the main question whetber there shall or shall not be a new political dispensation, “‘frech from the body of the people.” There is to be an open-air meeting of the Know Nothings this evening at Philadelphia. It isa new feature in their party machinery, and important developements may be expect- ed—not of the dissolation of the Know Nothings in reference to the Presidential election; not of the transfer of the Order in the North to the Seward coalition; but developements indicat- ing the continued vitality of this new party in both sections, and in every State for itself. There is to be another open-air meeting of the great gens of the conservative platform of the Philade)phia Council in the Patk on Monday evening, under the auspices of the New York delegation. Having, as a Northern State, stood almost alone with the South on the Philadel- phia majority plaiform, it is probable that some attempt will be made at this Park meet- ing tuhcep the party in New York to that position. But there is no immediate necessity for this. The party im New York should or- ganize themselves for the direct issues of oar fall election, and not attempt any unseasonable experiment of a bold conservative movement upon slavery, against the stiff current of this Nebraska agitation. An adkesion at this time to the Philadelphia majority resolutions would be playing directly into the hands of the Sew- ard Holy Alliance. They are chuckling over the prospect. Let the New York Know No. things dicappoint them, by avoiding a rupture upon this matter. We must glide with the cur- rent till we can stem it. There is time enough yet for the campaign of *66; but in the interval, the first thing to be done is to secure the State elections, State hy State, without breaking to pieces upon the rocks and quicksands of slavery. At the pro- per time, with the proper man, the Know No- things, North and South, may be easily rallied upon the general platform of a new administra- tion, and with the same overwhelming success as that which marked the Harrison campaign of 1840 and the Taylor campaign of 1848, The Americon people desire a new administration; end as the government policy upon slavery can only be settled by Congress, that subject may be sefely ignored by the State and national party councils of this new American pariy. The proper man for a new administration will be the ruling question. Crostxa Stores on Sarvrpay.—Considerable fuss has been made in some of the newspapers about the necessity of closing stores at three o'clock on the Satarday afternoon. Why don’t those persons who are so nervonsly aoxions on the subject close their stores all day Saturday, and have doug with the matter? NEW York HfRALD, ee NEW YORK HERALD '™ So soeeemnmeaame ~ - . w POR i: it aD ORDO a AYP’ sus oy Mzxico—It. appears by the tele-| Tau or Lyman Core von Fonczny—The| TH E LATEST N pws, & oh that wretched Mexico is once more @ * Aey toa successful revolution. Monterey bas been taken, under what circumstances we know not; but the fact seems to be undoubted, and it will give the revolutionists command of all the northern departments. Matters seem to tend towards a fusion of the revolutionary elements. ‘Though there seems to be no evidence of any- thing like an understanding between the insar- gents of the north and the bandit Alvarez, circumstances may and prebably will render @ coalition between them inevitable, and all the discontented elements will probably joia them in a concerted effort to overthrow Santa Anva. That they will succeed seems more then likely. Whatever Santa Anna’s desigus may be, and whatever of purity there may be in bis motives, the fact becomes clearer and clearerevery day that his power is destined to be ephemeral. It may be, as his apologists assert, that he has no other aim in view than the good of Mexico. Indeed his worst enemies cannot suggest any form of government for Mexico, consistent with the preservation of her nationality, that would be better fer the coun- try than the one he has established. But the more thoroughly democratic institu- tiovs are tried in Mexico, the stronger becomes the conviction that they are not suited to the preeent condition of the people of that nation. It is very difficult to say where the hitch ties. It might seem conceited and foolish to assert that the Anglo-Saxon is the only race suscepti- ble of peaceable self-government; though this is the clear inference from past history. Pos- sibly, a better solution of the failure of free ia- stitutions in countries peopled by the yarious branches of the Celtic race is to be found in the fact that the people to whom they have been entrusted have been subjected to tyranny for 80 many centuries that they have lost their native elasticity and self-reliance, and will require nursing for several generations before they can use freedom satisfactorily. But whatever tne cause may be, the fact is patent. Neither Mexico nor the people of South America have proved themselves competent to erect stable and orderly republics. What fortuae is des- tined for them, it is difficult to imagine. Without foreign interference, they may be tossed on the sea of revolution for halfa dozen ger erations, and then finally settle down to the peaceable enjoyment of freedom. Huw long the preparatory process may last, no one can tell; it has already lasted over sixty years in France, and the people se:m no nearer the goal than they were under the restoration. As to Mexico, whose proximity to our bor- Gers renders her movements more interesting to us than those of the States of South Ameri- cacan be, it seems very doubtful whether she can reasonably expect to steer safely to port through 80 tronbled a sea, Nothing is more probable than that some one of the revolutionary govern- ments to which she will fall a prey will con- ‘trive to embroil her with the United States. In such an event, the issue of the contest would of couree not be doubtful. And the question would arise whether it would not be the duty of this country to use the sdvautage it had gained to place Mexico on such a footing that further revolutions shoud be impossible. The Britich possessions in India would not have been eafe for a day had not Great Britain and the East India Company established a military government in the peninsula. It seems highly probable that Mexico would be more prosper- ous if the fortified places were held by a gar- rion of United States troops and as much liber- ty as possible given to the people, than under apy other form of government. Fourny Lrset Svrrs.—The publisher of the New York Ledger, a weekly paper, published in this city, informs us that he has commenced two libel suits against two of his cotemporaries: ene the Philadelphia Times, and the other a little psper published in this city. He does not inform us what lawyer he has engaged. or what fee he has paid to him. The cause of these libel euits, is, however, given, and it ie exceedingly amusing. Some weeks since, this editor and proprietor of the New York Ledger announced to the world that he bad made @ contract with “Fanny Fern,” by which he had bound himeelf to pay her one hundred doliars per column for ber amusing twaddle, which our amiable cotemporary of the Mirror calls “tho most exciting and interesting literary matter of the preeent age.” On the announcement of this contrect the journals now sued for libel de- clared that they didn’t believe it, and couldu’t believe it, and wouldn’s believe it, and shoaldn’s believe it. The proprietor of the New York Ledger now brings a libel suit against them for want of faith. Now, we propose to make up this matter—‘o compromise thisquarrel. We would advise the parties who have been sued to plead guilty ic the following words, to wit:—“We believe that there is 9 contract between the proprietor ot the New York Ledger and “Fanny Fern,” by which the former agrees to pay the latter orfe bondred dollars per column. We respectfully believe this, but we also entertain the belief that the editor in question must be like the man in ‘a d—d fool to pay so much for small beer, when gin avd water can be had so much cheaper.’ Sue for this, as much as you please Notwithstanding all this, we hope that Mr. Bonner, of the Ledger, will sell one, two or three hundred thousand copies of his paper weekly, and thus find the balance on the right side of his Ledger. = Reerrct ror Reraron.—An educated, intel- ligent mon, with the natural instincts of a gen- tleman or civilized being, will never insult or ridicule the religious services or ceremonies of apy sect, no matter how strongly he may dis- sent from its doctrines. There is an ex-member ef Congress, and en actual State Senator, who conducts an obscure paper in this city, who never loses sight of an opportunity of ridicu- ling and insulting the observances of a particu- lar sect of Christians, and that sect the most ancient of the Christian world. We allude es pecially to the tone and temper of the Express newspaper whenever it happens to touch on the ceremonies of the Catholic religion. If the editors of that paper be Christians, they must believe most of the essential dogmas that Catholics ¢o, If, therefore, they had the in- stinets of educated men, with the feelings natu- ral to gentlemen, in a social sense, they would never permit themselves te insult the religious observances of a sect of Christians which has a common origin with that to which they them. selves belong. Hence it follows that such per. tons in their instincts must be low and venal ia the extreme, and no controversy upon any issue between them and an Archbishop can lift them from the degradation which they eo naturally occupy, second trial of Lyman Cole on a charge of for- gery on the Chemical Bank, was postponed the other day at the instance of the District Atéor- ney, in order to afford time and opportunity to bring it up egain in @ more convenient shape. A good deol of attention has been directed to this trial, in consequence of various circam- stances connected with the parties implicated, and which transpired some time ago in the Western States. Kiesane, the associate of Cole on this charge of forgery, was tried some weeks since, cou- victed, ond is now in the State prison. In addi- tion to the indictment for forgery pending against Cole, we believe there is anger against him for fraud on an insurance company, arising out of the famous Martha Washingtoa case, which occurred a few years ago on one of the Western rivers. It must be in the recollection of our readers that Kiseane, now in the State prison, and Cole, who is awaiting his trial on this charge of tor- gery on the Chemical Bank, were both parties in various indictments growing out of that conspi- racy. ‘The trial of thore indictments occupied the courts of the Western States for several years; ut by eome means or other the parties impli- cated succeeded in baffling a}l the effurts made to convict them. The insurance companies who were detranded have, however, followed up the matter, and have procured indictments in New York and elsewhere againat the two parties above named, and their various confederates ia the West. It is generally believed that the ap- preaching trials of Cole—first, on a charge of forgery upon the Chemical Bank, and secondly, on a charge of fraud upon an insurance com- papy—wil) disclose some curious facta in con- nection with the band of individuals with whom they have been connected in Onio and elue- where for some years past, - Prodigious efforts were made during the trials in the West to stifle the investigation, and to put an end to any farther prosecution of the partier. These efforts were unsuccessful. It is generally believed that similar exertions will be made here to manage the judges, juries and lawyers, and so defeat the ends of justice; but we feel aseured that no attempts of that des- cription can possibly be effective whilst the public eye and mind are directed to the conduct of the prosecution, the character of the testi- mony and the finding of the juries, Tue New Hampsaire Unirep States Sena- Tors.—Messrs. Hale and Bell have just been elected by the Legislature of New Hampshire to the high post of Senators in Congress to represent that State. Both these gentlemen were in Congress before, and by a revolutioa of the poiitical wheel had lost their positiou and retired into private Jife. In consequence, however, of the weakness and folly of General Pierce, the President ot the United States, in his management of the government at Wash ington, a political revolution, caused by his acis, has brought back both these gentlemen inte public life, precisely in the same position which they formerly occupied. One would think that General Pierce since his elevation to the Presidency has been endeavoriag to comply with the ultra Christian rule of “love your evemies.” He has certainly conferred more favors on bis political foes than any other man who has been in power in this country for the last half century. + Mr. Hale has left a reputation and position in“Washington which will render all parties glad of his return there. He is a man of great wit ond drollery, and he will, no doubt, amuse the United States Senate during the dull days of winter with the ingenious sallies which used formerly to set the Senate Chamber in a roar. Mr. Bell, who, we believe, is a respectable; guiet man, will vote according to his opinioas, aud at the end of the session will pocket his pay and mileage, give his receipt, and go siraight home, as a sensible, honest man should do. Post Orrice MisMaNaGEment.—The public is much excited abcut the recent Post Office reve- lations. The report of the Post Office Iaspec- tcr on the Connecticut and Rhode Island Post Offices does not disprove the fact that money letters, and letters containing valuable papers have been sold by the Postmasters as rubbish at so much a pound ore bushel. If there were only half a dozen cases of the kind brought to light, the fact would still be shameful in the highest degree. And no excuse whatever can be offered for the infamous practices which the recent investigation at New Orleans has brought to light. The fact is, the Post Offive is in the wost disgraceful state of disorganizatioa from top to bottom. Nor does their seem aay reasoa to believe that any of the other public depart. ments at Washington ure on a better footing. Brrrish Coyststency.—The British govern ment appear to have been toking pretty active meseures to recruit roldiers tor their army in the Crimea, in various cities in the United States, ‘The newspapers in England make no secret of the matter. They talk of their re- cruiting agents in the United States, as coolly us if these fellows were not engaged in break- ing a law of this couutry, and stirring up others to do the eame. Yet these are the same journals which affect such virtuous indignation when a word is said about Cuba, or a few ecapegraces fit out a steamer to give mate rialaid to tbe poor creoles. As usual with the English, their idea of the saciedness of the neutrality laws is in exact proportion to their interest therein, Marine Affairs, PRESENTATION TO Cart. Cavenpy.—The pesengers of the steamship Washington, at the clone of their late homeward trip, presented Captain Caveady with a silver pitcher as # mark of esteem. The following interesting corresponderce took place on the occasion: — AT SxA, orr Lona mia Epwarp CAvenpy, of the U. ju. — Dear Str—The fo part, perhaps to on to you ir, whion may form ‘ex.branoo of @ voy whieh none but th * vee ‘Althouzh. fos and the pasince di bes issned from ck, amidst your officers mt any difficulty whioh might arise you would Bort of danger as the post of ‘honor of «thorough ling thus, our lives ure under yuur feithful a email token of our imony of ocr nigh oon wwalities as a skilful and oarotul therongh gentleman. Jt, Mee. Wynth, Otto Wm. Pollits and Incl, Rd. "Chatterton and wife’ Joseph Thomson, Chas, Si bbing “Jr. Rlive Hensler, J. H. Drover, Fr. de ery, av", F k, C. Pappio Wychgram, Ed "'t. Zopvier. 8. W. Chaney, Ie ‘Delinn Nickell, Chs. A. Rakieléwies, Aug’ n On Boann vite U. 8. M, Sreansnre Wagninoron, ¥ "4 1805. Ju Gextiemer—Tho vrexpected honor wh le it celights, overpowers my feelin, to my duties but lit literature, apd conveys the dict povrselve d eatoom, pearance Moers eR yee CAVENDY. To tho gentlemen of the Committee, The Washington leaves again for Bremen this morn- ing, With a good list of passesgers. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, affaucs in Was’ POST OFVICE AFFAIKS—AB ov. OR" cag o- THD Gs—RETUKN OF BEOR yy Wor eLLAND, ETO, @asuivaton, June 15,1855, Teappesrs that ‘he VW! sation of souls by the special agents of the Post Of ico Department at New Orleans, about which 80 TU’ sh has been said and written, was practised On'y Wp’ sn certain letters addressed to a ficti- tious persorags, yclept “ Marshal Hauson.”? It had ‘deem usce” tainsed by the agents in question that thia cog- nomen b.ad Oeen adopted by somebody deeply engaged in rob’oing the mails To ascertain who that somebody war, and to detect him, if possible, 12 his nefarious em- PYoyment, the Marshal Hanson letters were violated, Dut nobody’s rights were invaded. Itis not trae, how- ever, that the Post Ofice Department either authorized or ‘winked at’? such violation, ia this or any similar. case, as intimated by the witness Whitman, who, it seems, bad recently been discharged from the office of speo'si agent by the Department, The Department hus uniformly refused to authorize, sanction or justify such violations by ite agente or others, aad has disavowed the power to break the seal of any letter not returned to itas dead or refused, though repeatedly applied to for such autLority, by the officers of the law, for the detec tien of crime. An to the great paper mill atory, in which 2,000 letters ‘were reported to have teen sold among the waste and rubbish of certain post offices, it proves to be baseless. The #o called lectezs are shown to have been refused Congressional speeches and documents, unséaled lottery and ‘naurance © omdAEe, fe. 1 Tons of such matter ac- cumulate m the princi vem every year, aad are, with refused sovepepen, wold to the pepen ~alyd It is known, however, that votwithstanding the pre- fent low rates of postege, there are some persons #0 mean asto violate "he law by concealing lettera—and acmetimes even valuable letters—in mewspapers, to chest the government out of the 0. It is possible that «letter, or = valentine or two, thus concesled, may Dave escaped the vigilance of the Post Office em- yees, and £0 have reached the paper mill in question, 16 is the only grain of truth apon which thet misre- sentation reste. The proprietor of the paper mill re- ferred to. wes more aston‘ahed than anybody else at its oitude, The recent removals of the Know Nothing from the Treasury ard Post Office department is jard- ed bo hee rps to the decapitation of the higher Cig icers belonging to that order. Much alarm ex- its among the clerks, especialiy of the Treasury, The Secretary of the Interior returned to-night Lieutenant Captain Ingrahem is here. Land warrants are in good demand at $1 07 a $1 09, Henry A, Wise and the Soston Granite Clubs. Bosrox, June 15, 1855, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, having been elected an honorary member of the Granite Club No. 1, of this city, ins letter from Onancooh, Va., June 10, tenders his gratefal acknowledgments and expressions of heart/elt joy there are stillin Massachutotts friends of freedom and conrervative democracy enough to sympathise with ‘those everywhere, and here partic , Who are Jing ‘to maintain the faith of the fathers of the = v) a pas ot sol and religion, le con LS atealy, firm, organize and be vigilant, ondwe’ shall yet ace. the country aafe. News from Quebec. WRECK OF THE LOCHNABER CASTLE— ENLISTMENTS FOR THE ORIMEA—FATAL ACCIDENTS. Qurerc, June 15, 1865. The ship Lochnaber Castle went ashore on Bird Rocks at eight o’oloct on the evening of June 4. She haa 657 passengers, 210 of whom were taken off by the Sophia McKenzie, Two hnndred tons of the cargo, consisting of salt and rice, were thrown overboard. It is supposed that the veseel and all the remaining passengers will yet be saved. Enlistments of men for the British army, between the ages of 19 snd 40. are being made at Magan. Yesterday sftervoon, two men were #0 severely injur- ed by the falling of a log of timber upon them at Mum’s wharf, ‘hat their lives are despaired of. Jobe Craig, a farmer, at St. Foy’s, near this city, fell upon bis hearth stone, day before yesterday, while in a siate of intoxication, and immediately afterwards died of apoplexy. Farther from Bfexico. New Orweays, June 14, 1855. Our Mexican a‘vices mention that Guanajuato was in posvestion of the insurgents, and that Victoria and Sal- tillo had jo'ned the revolut “Kentucky Politics. Lovisvitte, Jane 15, 1855. Charles 8. Moorehead, the American candidate for Go- vernor, adérersed a meeting of eight thousand persons his evening. Markcts. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PaILapeLraia, Jane 15, 1855. Money easy. Stocks steady. scr 45 18-16; Mor- in Copal, 143¢ ; Long Island Railroad, 173¢ ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 44; Pennaylvanta State 6's, 8834. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. Paitapevrnta, June 15, 1855. The foreign news by the Atlantic created a firmer spirit in our irom market, but as yet has caased no ad- vance in prices. The accumulations caused by the late stagmant wm betog consal ‘The sales for the pas ve been active, at an advance of $1 & $2 over urrent rates of previous week; the aévance, however. taking place betore the receipt of the steamer’s rews, Saies of 1,700 tons American pig, No. 1, at $% 25; 650 tons No 2 at $24; 2000 tons foundry iron, Nos. 1 and 2, at $23 a $26; 1,700 tons forge at $13--mekirg the ‘total sales for the week 64160 Sass Nails in moderate request; sales of 2,400 casks. tars—Seles of 230 tons Ameri: . The rollng mills ere now manufacturing to order only, Orders receiving indicate a promising healthy resuscita- tion of the iron trade. New Ontaans, Jane 14, 1966, Our cotton market is firm, but the day’s business did not exceed },500 bales. Good middling is quoted as ho an ae at 202. Ohio deur 9960 0 60. jen, 9340. . } “Sinao, Jane 15—6 50P. M. Our flour market is unchanged in every respect. Sales to-day, 6,(00 bushels at $2 for Milwaukie, and $2 40a $2 42 for white Toledo, Corn. Sales 46,000 bushels, at 873, = 900 550 bbls. flour: 100,000 bushels wheat; 50,000 bushels corn; 26,000 bushels oats. ALBANY, Jane 15—12:30 P. M. Floor—Nothing ¢coing of any consequence, $9 ao $9 50 for common to good State. Wheat, no sales. Corn—Ealen of ae aoe camels Western mixed at B60 0 9c —principally at the lower figure. Whiskey, 350. Receipts by carslto day: 2,016 pile four 98,132’ bush: ele corn, 4,118 buthels wheat, 6,088 bushels oats, 2,961 bushels rye. Borrauo, Ji |5-—12:30 P. M. Flour continues very quiew—the demand being mode. rete, and the mathet still favoring buyers; sales 300 ble. at $9 6234 for very choice Wisconsin, and $10 for favorite Michigan. Wheat continues to t-nd downwards; relen 5 0-0 bushels Milwaukie spring, om private terms: parcels of this description were offered at $1 80, and re- tured; bite Michigan sold at «supply of this kind is very vient. Corn is $2 8735 : t, to concede; salen 23,000 bushels, at 78. a ‘ite, Onte ipactive; buyers offer 50c., which holders re- fuse. Canal freights are firmer; corn 12c. a 12i¢. to Albany and Troy, and 146. a 14)¢c. to New York. Burra.o, June 16—6:30 P. M. The floor market is still drooping, and is @ shade eanier; onden 700 bbls, at $0 for common upper lake, $0 6234 for very chotee do, $9 50 for Illinois, and $10 for extra Micbigem and favorite Milwaukie Wheat clcsed inactive, and the market lower. U; dat $1 80, and refuced; rales 6,000 bus oy ona 2.740 bushels prime white. Michigan ® Mthroe, Comm rather quiet; sales 25,000 bushels. at 783, « 700. Sever bolcers have withdre wn their samples, Oate inactive and 40M; wader 4,000 busbets upper lake, at 6Ce. Whiskey dult’and quiet, I freights firmer. Corn, 120, & 1240, and wheat 15c. a 16346. to Albany and Tro Receipts for the t renty-four hours ending noon to-day Flour, 4,997 bbls ; wheat, 47,117 bushels; corn, 188) bushels; cata, 41,068 bushels, Yesterday Capt. B. E. Brooke was detached from the receiving ship North Carolina, and ordered to report as nepior officer of marines, Mediterranean squadron. U. 8. eleop of war Vandalia sailed from Shanghai pre- vious to April 7, for Houg Kong. ‘Tne Usrrep States SteaM FRiGate NIAGARA.—Mossre Pease & Murphy, of the Fulton Iron Works, have this week cast the first cylinder and second condenser for the engines of the steam frigate Niagara, and are progressing rapidly with her other works. Paseep Mipempuen.—The following midshi; have nts at the department Anoa- heir exa ination betore the board now ia , ond are hereafter to take rank as passed midebipmen :— BE. T. Spedden, FR. Ot the Class of 1848—J, 8. Skerrett, K Owen, W. T. Glassell, J. R Ce De G. Livings Of the Class of 1849—B. P Leyall, C. B. Cashman, 0, F. Stanton, W. H. Cheever, H. A. Adams, B. B, Taylor, W. B. Ward, J. W. Duoniegton, H. Garland, Jerso Taylor, Jr., J.G. Moxwell, Henry Erben, F, EK. Shopperd, 7. P. Felot, BE. P. MeUres, OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENCE. Key West, June 10, 1865, The sloop of war Cyane, Commander Wilson, entered the harbor the morning of the 9th, She has been cruis- ing off the conrt of Cuba. Together with the Princeton, abe assisted the bark Dublia, of Machias, Me., ashore on the Colorado reef, and on the 20th got her afloat. Oa the Slet ult. the Cyane got ashore, and did not succeed pe.ting off until Sunday morning, the 34 inat, Sho fustained no damage whatever # “he sloop of war Jamestown Commodore Crapbe, sailed lant evening for the coast of Africa. The stesmer Fulton, Lieut. Mitchell, commander, ar- rived from Havana yesterday aftefnoon, and at the re- quest of Commodore Crabbe, took a tise from the James- town, avd towed ber to the ey) channel, She then rs- turned snd anchored abreast of the town, The Movements, VESTVALI'S BENAFIT LAS? NIGLT—ENTHUSUSM OF YOUNG NEW YURK—THE SIGNORINA MAKES A SPBEOH— MIS HB>SLES'S DEBUT THIS EVEaING— THE ENGLISH AND G&BMAN OPERAS. ‘The Academy of Music was packed last nigh: from Parquette to dome. In th» lower part of the house every seat was taken before the performance, and the late comers, tothe num ier of some hundreds, were obliged: to seek camp stoc's sad chairs, or resolve themselyes. into standing comwittees, The more demosratic part of the house was crowded to excess, The oscasion was the benefit of Signorina Felicita Vestvali, the prima donna coniralto of the company. The programme commenced With the fourth act of Verdi’s “ Rigolatto,”? with Signorina Vestvali in the rdle of Mavdslena, @ comparatively small part, which she maie quite interesting by her capital acting and erceilent ren- dering of the music, im the third act of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’? a» composed by Vaccai for Malibran, Veatvati looked and acted the gallant Veronese to the ife. The music does not amount to much, bat was ‘well executed both by Vestvali and Steffenone, who was the Juliet of the night. The performance closed with the third and fourth acts of * Ii Trovatore,”” which are already quite fam liar to all our opera going readers. When the curtain ‘ell on the pleasant csnowement of ihe ‘Trovatore,’”’ Signorina Vestvali and she other’ artista were called out. The fair dene/iciaire was over- whelmed with bouquets and bravos ; aud, coming down to the footlights, said, with just enough foreign aesent to make it piquant— stone ipa Tanya ne Smee c cally pelther con Ifind words ittiog to express. te your . titude at inceasing kindnes: Mee Ina strange land. (Chere) pt The Signorine retired amid loud plaudits, and bravow “ in very choice Italian. MISS BENSLER’S DEBUT. This event—an important one in the rusical world— ‘will take place this evening, at the Academy of Music. Mies Hensler will sing ‘‘Linds,” the réle in. which.she» made s great bit ia Milan and Florence. When Miss Hensler left Boston ‘or Italy she was & singer of more then ordinary ability, and she returns with {a voice ripened by culture in the best European schools, and with the seal of approbation from the first opera house in the world. She is now to sing before am American. audience in the american Academy of Music. She has peculiar claims upon her countrymen, and we hope to see them fully honored to-night. The serenade has been postponed. On dit, that the La Grange company will return to the Academy next week, when ‘The Huguenots” will be produced. “Belisario” will be given on one night nex’ week, at the Academy, introducing the new (enore robusto, Signor Rossetti. THE ENGLISH OPERA. ‘The pleasant array of pretty faces and brilliant toi- lettes at Niblo’s theatre every night proves that the English Opera has vot lost its popularity, although ran- ning its fourth or fifth short season here within ten months, Singe the commencement of the season at Niblo’s the houses have steadily improved. To-night “The Daughter of the Regiment” is announced. On Monday, “The Daughter of Saint Mark” (Balfe,) is to be - produced. It has never been done in the United States. TBE GERMAN OPERA. There is to be a sbort season of German Opsra at Wal- Iack’s theatre next week, commencing on Taesday eve- ning, with ‘The Daughter of the Regiment.” “Fidelio,” and other German compositions, will also be given. Caroline Lebman, wlle. D’Ormy, Mme. Siedenberg, Herr Quint, and other well known artista, are included in the company. Tae Merrnorouray.—This theatre was crowded om Thursday evening to witness Mr. Hackett as Rip Van Winkle and Col. Nimrod Wildfire, We have seldom seen. @ more artistic performance than that of Rip Van Winkle. Our Washiogton Correspondence. WasHiaron, June 15, 1855, Senator @win’s Election —The Senate to Decide the Ques- tion— Precedent in Point—Mileage the Real Bone of * Contention—The Secre Naval. Medical Board in Session. —Will the Proceedings of the New Examining Board be Secret or Open ?—Graduates at the Naval School— Price of Land Warrants, dc., éc. The pretended re-election of Senator Gain, by the Legislature of California, is now a subject of general Giscussion in political circles, aud while it is conceded on all hands that the Senate will be tha judge of the qualifications of i:s own members, there appsars to bea great diversity of opinion as to the probabie result of the controversy. I think the Senate will have but little. difficulty in disposing of the matter, if it {s not already res adjudicaia. Precetont, if one in point can be found, must settle the question. It will be recollected that Mr. ‘Yulee once claimed to be United States Senator from the State of Florida.on these grounds: There were forty-two members of the Legislatare present when the vote was. taken for Senator. Air. Yulee received twenty-one votes, and there were twenty-one blank ballots, The Legislature continued ballotting, and after long time Mr. Mallory receiving @ majority of the votes cast, was declared duly elected, Thus was the contest brought before the Senate of the United States, Mr. Yulee claiming to have been elected on the first ballot. How the Semate would have Cecided his question had the voting stopped after the first ballot was cast, is not known, but under the facts an they existed, the Senate decided that the Legislature, being the most competen: interpreter of its own action, had negatived the itea of Mr. Yulee’s election, by pro- ceeding with the ballottings. Will not this desiaion Cover, precinoty, De. Gwin’s case? and if 20, may we not consider the controversy already setilei? Yet the. seat inthe Senate chamber is not exactly the bome or contention with the Ucetor, so much as the mileage be fallowed, even though ussuccessful, for it hea be- come one of the rtanding grules of both houses of Con-- 68 to allow tho reguiar mileage to all parzies contest- ae a whether successiul or not, as @ vort of peace’ ering. If it should be decided that s plurality vote did re- Senator Gwin, then by calculating tne number of times he was re-elected on the different bal multiplying that number by 6, we find the Doctor ed for the snug little term of 348 years, We hope he may oan <—_ term with honor to himself ana profit to is country, The secret Naval sedical Board, which has beem con> 5 jola to the United States, from his com- mand of the, orth Pacific. Exploring bxpedition, secret in its operations that but few persons in ten aze aware of even the existence of euch a py. ppears to be a positive the e i 4 E E i i H . bE 3 : them cpenly avd frankly, The ridiculous little secrery clothes their actions with an air tance Cory eg be upy erent ro quence of this, man; rest facts are kept from Publle, and facte, 100, which the good of the pervice f the political and moral atmosphere is Hi i In this connection I would make the inquiry, if the pro- ceedings of ths pew ‘Naval ‘at ‘Board’? are to- be kept secret too? Such is now: the impression here, and it is rumored that mot even a record will be Kept which can tll a tale hereafter. And this fs and regulate “he” setting err in my of the American navy—a board sit! secret, Sud Without a record to fix responsibility. quantion of te preebrtved by abe Steretary of ihe Navy, Tuese rales ese) 8 Se * oe Se ic anne oe act eenion. are c Commodore Stribblisg, who reached New Yock ter tne Sen Jecinto, and who will oe here in time. port from the Grad Clase at the Us Naval School at Anns reached the Navy ment yestercay. The is the list of gra- E. Law, Iodiana; P. Porcher, South Carolinas R. WM. Grabam, District of Colambia; EP. Lull, Wiscensin; Alfred Hoptins, New York; E 0. Matthews, Minn sep ; Thomes McK. Buchanan, Pennsylvania; Mw. icard, New Yerk; E Lea, Tennessee; ©. L. Ne New York; H. H. Dalton, Micsiesippl; Alex. F. Cross. man, Pennsylvania The whole cluss parsed with high honor, Of the classes of 1848 and 1849, all parsed their oxa mination with the bigheet credit, and take ronk as, ed midehipmen, excepting Carey Carter, of clacs of 1848;) Calvin F, Thomas, of New York, O. Walker, be tage) (class of 1849 D state! in 1} ferent papers various qu value of laud warrants in “Was 4 1 would state that they readily $1 10 without regard to Fize; and forty acre warran' bring a fraction mere. the price: The Liquor Qyestion, LIQUOR DEALERS’ MERTING IN WILLIA MSBO! The liquor dealers of the Eastern district of the’ solidated cities, compriting Williamsburg and Bash: held an adjourned meeting yeu aitercoom Bwift’s wos corner Grad veetet and Daiom aver ‘to complete the orgavization of mae tothe printed. aon Peatinde meted presented tho faite pointed ata meeting lint of officers, who wi ved of by the President— Jer wie Vice Praiden—Wm EB Gi Secre aory—Jebn B. Medally. vip vewce. Col, Ganpxan ‘supgerted that the meeting adjour subject to the call of .be President and Se:retary. did not think ft was necessary to hold meeting some action had been takem by the Carcon Leag who woula soon commence to try agi break up the business of dealers. Ha presumed that the breaking up of Judge Cok |