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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GURDOR BESNEST, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘SPPIOR H.W. CORNER OF NABSAU AND FULTON ETH cash in bat Sa ‘Sanum, 19 Vpart of Creat Britain, or $5 10 amy part oF the Continent, bh '¥ CORRESPONDENCE, convineng import eolicitad from quarter woorkd—</ used will be = ‘paid for. ria Wess ‘CORRESPONDENTS ARR AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE Broadway—Heans tae Honrsr, om tas Fousst Frexp 4xp Tux Denon Hones, GARDEN. Brosdway- Evy Kino, on Waite ame Povenry -Foux Lovers. WERY THEATAR, Bowery— Fux. ix 2 wows Ta Husrea, on rus Ueuom Houmas, =~ BURTON'S THEATRES, Chambers street—Taz Wistzn’s LAURA KSENWS VARIETIKG, Broadway- Tat 3xc10cs Pamiir— Jucoment or Paris. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Sroadway- Joun Boii—?o-ca- mOF-tAs. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Natan Queen By tux Woon & Mansy CuiLones, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Brmorian @eunances—Harry Max, on Tuxaty wire Jaran. BUOCELEY’S SURLESQUE OPKZA HOUSE, 689 Broad- wag—Nxcno Mixeramsy—Lucarria Boras. 663 Broadway —Panouawo Picrvume Pus- A@ADEMY HALL, ep Gums ary Jaraz. Sew York, Sunday, ¥cbruary 17, 1856, The News. Up to ten o’clock last evening the steamer Ca- mada had not been telegraphed at Halifax. She is mow in her fifteenth day ont from Liverpool—an ‘anprecedentedly long passage, even at this season ef the year. Nothing of special importance transpired in either branch of the Legislature yesterday. The bark Antagonist, Capt. Crowell, arrived at this port last night, from Buenos Ayres December 30- Business was very dull; nothing doing either for the United States or Europe. Produce was scarce and high. Capt. Samuel Perey, formerly of the brig Matilda, came passenger in the A. He reports the ‘Doss of his vessel in September last, off Hatteras, while on the voyage from Savannah for St. Johu, N.B. The particulars of the disaster, as detailed by Capt. Percy, are given nnder the maratime intel. Mgence head. Governor Shannon left Weshington yesterday for Kansas. He will endeavor to reach his destination im time to prevent the meeting of the free State Legislature, on the 4th of March next. He is clothed with plenary powers to quell the rebellion im the Territory, and the War Department has issued orders to the troops at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Biley, numbering one thousand men, to assist him if deemed necessary. Late accounts from Kansas state that the abolitionists there are organizing troops, erecting fortifications, and collecting muni tions of war at Lawrence, in order to be ready for instant and effective service. We have advices from Vera Craz to the 11th inst, They confirm the news of the capture of Puebla by the forces under Tamariz which we published in yesterday’s Heratp. The revolutionists were forti- fying the city against the troops sent by General Comonfort to retake it. Asan offset to the loss of Puebla, the government troops had defeated General Uraga. The greatest confusion prevailed through- ont the country. In consequence of the numerous burglaries and robberies which have been perpetrated in this city of late, the Mayor has deemed it necessary to issue ‘an order to the police of the different wards, inform- ing them that in all cases where burglaries, riots, or robberies occur on their respective beats without the arrest of the offending parties, the salary of 1) policemen on duty on said beats, will be stopped for three days succeeding the commission of each offence. The order was read to the men in the several station houses last evening. It is hoped that the mandate will have a very beneficial effect. At all events it will do no great harm to giveita trial. ‘The Mateell investigation was resumed before the Police Commissioners yesterday. Quite a crowd of spectators were present. Several witnesses were examined for the defence. We give a report of their testimony elsewhere. From the official report of the City Inspector we learn that the number of deaths in this city during the week ending 1(th instant was 377, namely, 60 men, 62 women, 139 boys and 116 girls—the tota) corresponding exactly with that of the week pre- vious. Of the whole nomber 34 were inmates of the public institutions, and 249 vnder the age of ten years. There were 10 deaths of bronchitis, 6 of congestion of the lungs, 44 of consumption, 24 of inflammation of the lungs, 7 of congestion of the brain, 16 of dropsy in the head, 9 of infammation of the brain, 4 of diarrhcea, 3 of dysentery, 6 of erysi- pelas, 5 of puerperal fever, 2 of typhus, 5 of inflam- mation of the bowels, 4 of palsy, 9 of smallpox, 23 of convulsions (infantile), 13 of croup, 14 of debility (infantile), 30 of scarlet fever, 4 of hooping cough, 18 of marasmus (infantile), 3 of measles. There were alco § premature births, 39 cases of stillborn, and 16 deaths from violent causes. The following is the classification of diseases :—Brain and nerves, 71; generative organs, 8; heart and blood vessels, 12; lungs, throat, &c., 110; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 49; stillborn and premati births, 47; stomach, bowels, and other digestive organs, 49; uncertain seat and general fevers, 33; old age, 1. ‘The nativity table gives 284 natives of the United States, 53 of Ircland, 26 of Germany, 8 of England, 1 of Scotland, 2 of Switzerland, 1 of italy, 1 of British America and 1 of South America. Five hundred and twenty-eight Mormon emigrant, on their way to Great Salt Lake City, arrived at this port yeste in the chip John J. Boyd, Capt. Austin, from Liverpool December 15. A steam boiler in the foundry of Anderson & Co., at London, C. W., exploded yesterday afternoon, Killing five men and badly wounding nine others. ‘The building in which the boiler was ated was utterly demolished, and the concussion caused con- siderable damage to other buildings in the vicinity. The United States steam frigate Powhatan arrived at Norfolls yesterday from Chine. Cotton continued firm yesterday, with sales of about 4,000 a 5,000 bales, chiefly in transitu. Flour ‘was unchanged, so far ae common grades of State and Wes‘ern were concerned. Southern was in good demand, and rather firmer for the better qua- lities. Wheat was steady for good milling lots, but gales were limited A small parcel of Tennessee red sold at $190. Corn was inactlve; a sale of Tennez- gee mixed, nearly white, was made at S0c. Rye was ‘at $1 27, delivered, and $1 25, from depot. Pork sold pretty freely at $15 87 }for mess, Sugars were in rather better demand, with fair sales at full prices. Coffee was quite firm, at Ilje. a 12¢, Freights were firmer, with more doing for Liv. erpool. To London they were also better, and tierce beef was taken at 7s. 6d.a 8s. A Cuance ror 4 Great Parry.—-The present is a fine opportunity for the organization of a great political party—the party of the nation. The old whig and democratic parties are gone. The whig party is dead; the democracy is too much under the control of political nigger drivers, and the modern “ republicans’ are en- tirely ruled by the negro worshippers. The Biupidity of a great body of freemen quar Telling about a few niggers is apparent. Now is the time for a great new party; but the Know Nothings must improve a great deal and learn a great deal before they gan he that party, (The Foreign Folicy of the United States. We have become one of the great Powers of the world, and must have a foreign policy in Europe and elsewhere. It is undoubtedly true that the interests as well as the traditions of the American people have heretofore counsel- led us to avoid entanglements with Earopean governments, and to assert our absolute right to the exclusive contro} of affairs on this con- tinent. So far as the mere extension of our Territories and our political independence were concerned, this counsel was judicious and wise. In the organization of the Union there was contemplated only the structure of a compact government. The prejudice of the men of the revolution was very strong against any colo- nial or territorial dependence. Hence it is that the constitution omits all reference to the organization of any such communities. Pro- vision was made for the admission of new States and for giving to Congress exclusive power to sell the public lands; but no authori- ty was given even to organize governments with anything less than State rights and im- munities. It is evident that it was the inten- tion of the early actors in our political affairs to confine the general administration to an American sphere. We neither possessed the resources nor the wish to step beyond the bounds of this continent. It was enough if we could maintain the Union and give effect to its prin- ciples upon a basis even so limited. Meanwhile, our commerce and industry of every kind have been extending to all parts of the world, until there is not a nation with which we do not maintain commercial and po- litical intercourse. The example of our gov- ernment, and the success of our people under it, are exercising amongst all the civilized States of the world a most potent and effective influence. Our enterprise has penetrated al- most every country; our commerce floats upon all the oceans; our genius is impressed upon every nation and people, and we hold relations of mutual interest and sympathy with all man~ kind, It is doubtful, indeed, in such a state of things, if we have not arrived at that point of national developement and power when it be- comes our duty—~a duty we owe to the human family—to mark out and establish a distinc- tive foreign policy. What we have denomi- nated such policy has been really nothing more than domestic. It relates solely to this conti- nent; to our own interests, in connection with our territorial extension to an assumed right, in fact, of supervision over neighboriog States. It is obvious that to confine ourselves to such a@Dserrow and selfish sphere of action, we go far to discredit our system of government and to impair the force of its example over the public mind of the world. To be effective, we should be consistent and faithful to the ema- nations of the great cause of liberty which we exclusively represent in the governments of Christendom. There is no neutrality for a people occupying the position we de in politics, especially after having passed to the estate of political man- hood. Tobe neutral is to be afraid to assume the responsibility of the principles we have adopted for cur guidance--to limit the effect of those principles, by our own acts, to our own country. Nothing would more strengthen public con- fidence at home and abroad in the federal Union than the adoption of an ambitious, dis- tinctive foreign policy, leading to the exercise of power and influence in Europe as in Ameri- ca. It is doubtful if without it the States would not ultimately break up into fragments, as did the ancient republics of Greece, and, in the middle ages, those of Italy. Nothing can so surely unife them as the inauguration of a foreign policy having an eye on the naval am- Vition of England throughout the world. In this view there should be a great diplomatic mission sent to China, to warn the people and governments there of the vast projects of Eng- land, looking over the Himalaya to the valley of the great rivers in that direction. The pre- sent war with Russia, however it may end, will leave our transatlantic relatives full scope in the East ; and the extension of our commerce in that direction, as well as with all the States of the Continent, cannot fail to impress upon us the necessity of keeping a vigilant watch over the affairs of China and India. In order to make this at all effective we should re-or- ganize our diplomatic service in Prussia and Austria, and put ourselves in more active com- munication with Russia and all the States on the eastern borders of Europe. England occupies just at this time peculiar ground. She is in the anomalous condition of not being able to offer peace without the abso- lute reduction and subjugation of Russia. Such aresult may seem to be accomplished in the acceptance by the latter Power of the Vienna conditions ; but it is yet too early to judge in fact what thore conditions really mean, Should they embrace a project for re-composing or combining the leading States of the Continent, with Napoleon at the head, it will be England, and not Ruesia, that will be required to make severe concessions. It is in the power of Rue- sia, more than any other State of the Continent, to intercept the projects of Englandin Asia and China, But this can never be done with- out the aid of a navy, to prevent the growth of which in Russian waters, was one of the chief objects of the present war. To terminate the war, then, without material guarantees on this point would be concluding a peace, as we did in 1814, by totally ignoring one of the real causes of hostilities. Meanwhile, Russia has been wholly disabled in the Black Sea, and England has secured for the time being a guarantee of undisturbed operations in Chins, If it is said that the policy of the United Statee ought to be exclusively American, it ought to be proved that the interests and en- terprize of our people are exclusively confined to this country—that our example should be equally circumecribed; that our ideas, our discoveries and inventions, our habits of life, our social and political institutions, should be hemmed in by the boundaries of the republic, We may as well get rid of all such fallacious and impractical theories at once. They were suited to our infancy, but not to our manhood: they were wise and just maxims to guide ug through the experimental period of the Union, but they become signs of imbecility and weak- nees when applied to our maturity, We pompously parade the principles of our government--not as adevice of man, but ag settled laws of justice and equality. We hola that our forms of administration are the giti mate expressions of those principles. Now, if we are right we have something more to do than to secure the application of these maxims to our own people. By their influence we have become one of the great Powers of Cbristen- dom ; and it is our duty, a6 such, to exact the recognition of our just authority. To do this we sball not offensively propagate our ideas or unduly sttempt the extension of our forms of government—we shall simply secure to our- selves credit for what we really are. England is our neighbor and our rival ; her industry and enterprise are carried to all parts of the world. Where ehe has the power she has sought for exclusive rights of trading ; and she has succeeded. It is our interest to keep open the ports of the world to free competi- tion. We exact equality everywhere. We rely upon our industry and skill to succeed wherever we are not crippled by unfair and unjust local laws, The United States, to effect this end, has something to do out of this coua- try. They are required to throw the weight of their position into the councils of nations; to exercise a vigilant watch upon all, and to insist upon justice and equality everywhere. To do this we require a foreign policy based upon such principles, and looking forward to the vast expansion of our trade, to the increas ing etrength of our government, and to our “ndustrial and political advancement. A New Ivxviwe, Coxvention—Tue ABOLI- tionists Borpiy DispLaying THE CLOVEN Hoor.-—We find the following call for an out- and-out infidel convention, in the last number of Lioyd Garrison’s Liberator :— ‘WORLD'S BIBLE CONVENTION. ‘We, the undersigned, desirous of promoting the im- vement of our race, and believing that the doctrine of civine sathociy ot the Bile is one of the greatest hindrances to its improvement—and believing turther, ‘that this doctrine has no foundation in truth, and that a fair and thorough investigation would lead to its speedy and general abandonment, potigerae| in whatever part or the world they may dwell, who the matter, to meet us in New York in May next, and to adopt such measures as may be calculated to mceed through the world what may appear to be the trath on this pier aul ‘The alleged fovsed ot the divine Ce ed the Bible will, as far as practicable, be examined in the order in which they are presented in the werks most approved by the leading religious denominations, and most fre- quently reMgped to as authorities by advocates ot the common faffh. Such a:rapgements will be made with regard to speakers as way appear best calculated to se- cure a correct exposition ana @ thorough discussion of every branch of the subject. ‘To secure the order and efficiency of the convention, it isrequired that all who contemplate taking an active part in the discu:rion will please apply to the Committee of Arrangements, accompanying application with suitable references as to character and talents, aad, in churches or by liberal associ- their delegation. The discus. sioza will take up the forenoons and afternoous, The evenings will be given to lectures and addresses. JosxPH BaRxER, Salem, Ohio. Recme Ween, Philadelphia. Envasrive L. Rose, New York. Ava. Tago, Stamm, Ld Horace Seaver, Boston. J.P. Munpum,” J. M. Backerr, “ There can be no misunderstanding the mean- ing of this call. But what a precious gang of reformers are these for “promoting the im- provement of the human race.” Who are the leaders in this movement? Declared infidels— avowed enemies of the government and the social institutions whieh protect them—be- lievers in the abominations of Tom Paine—in the crazy absurdities of our Women’s rights conventicles, and preachers of the monstrosi- ties of perfect indifference and perfect equali- ty in all things, social and political, of sexes and colors? And what can be expected of this “World’s Bible Convention,” formed of such ma- terials, but such scenes of blasphemy, treason, and confusion as characterized the meeting of “Liberté, Eyalité, Fraternité” of the “Reign of Terror” of the first French revolution? Here, indeed, we have the outspoken principles of the Jacobin Club, and the proclamation of the Goddess of Reason ! And these deluded visionaries, who seek “the mprovement of the human race” by abolishing the Bible and constitution and laws, aad gil the institutions which constitute the strength, the glory, the safety, and the hope of civilized society, and mankind—these repulsive and atrocious fanatice—are but the active auxilia- ries of the Seward Holy Abolition Alliance. And they glory in theirshame! And they are to have a “World’s Convention” in this city, in May next, in which they are to prove their lunacy and their degradation, in pleading that the Bible is an imposition, that Christianity is ® nuisance, and that society can only be re- generated and made perfect by its reduction, first to the savage state, and then by rebuild- ing it upon the horrible doctrines of the abso- lute equality in all things, of colors and sexes, free love, agrarianism and amalgamation. Let them have their convention. Good, we dare say, will result from it; for the public mind in this full developement of the infidel-abolition- socialist programme will revolt from it, and from all its debasing and seditious socialist and negro living associations. The convention is to be held in New York sometime in May next, perhaps during the an- niversary week of our religious societies, What @ jubilee will be this omnium gatherum to our Fourerite philosophers and socialist re- formers, great and small! Tom Paine against the Bible; Fourier against all the experience and teachings of six thousand years; the French Jacobin Club against the founders of the American Constitution; the bats and owls of darkness against the eagles of the sun and the doves of the ark! There may be much to de- plore, but there is nothing to fear. case they are delegated ations, wiih certificates Tur Sovrn ror Peace.—The following ex- tract fromthe Charleston Mercury is but the reflex of the opinions of such conservative Southern men as Mr. Mason, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Butler, and others of the United States Senate. The Mercury says:— We copy a strong article from the last Liverpool Times, cn the question of the difficulties between the two coun- tries, It is admirably written, and indicates forcibly the feelings which the commercial world of England enter- tain of the exoseding importance of preserving our peaceful relations. Eapeciaily it exposes the folly of dis- turbing those relations tor so worthless an object as keeping up the Morquito protectorate, The views are essentially the rame as those We have expressed, ‘To neither country is the matter of this controversy of any prosent practical interest; still less of an interest that would justify a resort to war. Great Britsin is bound, by her own repeated and most explicit declara- tions, not to eolonize, fortify or occupy any portion of the Mosquito country. She can, therefore, never derive any advantage from this humbug of a protectorate; and the United States, by persistently denying the rigutful- ness of her pretensions, will save us from any appearance of concession, We may safely | the rest to time, which is steadily wasting the influence of European na- tions cn this coutinent, and as steadily increasing our own, The truth is, that Senators Seward, Wilson and Foot have cut under the belligerent pro- clivities of the President’s me: administration will thus be constrained to drop this theme for agitation in disgust. Ask Mar- cy now about the meaning of the message, and he will most probably say, like the “used-up- map,” when he had looked into Vesuvius, “Oh! there was nothing in it.” Turvy Hop Fast to tem Ayri Suavery Prarvorm.—Read the proceedings in another column of the late festival of the Massacha- setis Know Nothings at Worcester, Read the epeech of Governor Gardner, and thon Jet our New York Americans decide whether, in the event of the nomination of a Southern man for President, the said Gardner is or is not the proper man to be nominated for Vice Presi- dent? Idolaters of All Serte—Fire, Sheep, Cat and “Worshippers. Manis a animal, If we had not God, said Voltaire, it would be necessary to invent Him. For in every human breast, now, through all past time,.and probably for ever, does, has, and will rule @ craving ‘or something to worship, some being to venerate, some creature or essence to make an idol of, and cherish as a divinity. Some times it has been a being clothed with attributes of supe- riority, at whose feet superstitious mortals have knelt, to implore divine favor, or to seek res- pite from divine wrath. Again, men have raised above themselves creatures naturally far béneath them—the lower orders of man- kind, and the lowest organizations of animals, whose natural humility has apparently en- hanced the merit of elevating them. Or, again, impalpable substances, or ideal existences have been deified, and have enjoyed a wor- ship the more substantial in proportion to the upreality and consequently the expansibility of its object. The first men naturally songbt gods io animate and inanimate nature. The Iera- elites in an hour of agony and back- sliding, deserted the worship of the column of fire and smoke for that of a brazen calf. They became calf worshippers; and not all the rage of Aaron, or all the elo- quence of Moses could thoroughly eradicate the passion from their hearts. Centuries after- wards, they met in private to worship the cow. Even Moses in his iconoclastic zeal, only pro- posed to substitute the serpent for the calf— he was a serpent worshipper. At parellel ages, Hindus and Egyptians made menageries of their temples. Toere was nota brute without its altar and its priests, On the border of the Ganges, the god Fo cer- tainly entered the body of some animal; for fear of omitting the right one, the whole ani- mal creation, from the vulture to the constric- tor, was deified, and a swarm of devotees wor- shipped beast, bird, fish and reptile alike, while herds of debauched Brahmins lowered themselves beneath the level of the lowest living thing by their loathsome immoralities. Visbnu was incarnate ag an ape. To the ape then prayed the Hindu maiden that he would grant her fruitfulness, and an easy death; to the ape the Indian warrior returned thanks that he had been permitted to murder his sleeping enemy without detection. Zeus Am- mon had been seen under the fleece of a ram; Apis and Osiris, of aloving pair of horned cattle; Babastis ofa cat. Se the cat, and the cow, and the ram received divine honors They had their temples and their priests; their holy boats on the Nile; their processions when the overflow began; their rich offerings; their poets and their pious, enthusiastic, retiring worehippers. When the cow, Apis, died, all Egypt was searched for her successor. The fortunate animal must be spotted in a particu- lar way, and streaked likewise; her horns must be of euch a length, and with a prescribed curve; her whole appearance must be such as to charm her priests. Once, six months elapsed before a cow could be found to suit; Egypt narrowly escaped revolution at the hands of the impatient devotees, Bat the Egyptians delved lower still for divinities, They gave divine honors tothe onion. An Egyptian of moderate means, station and edu- cation—such # man, for instance, as might be a clergyman ora merchant in our time —said his prayers to an onion, and handled it with respectful awe. Rising higher than these, the Syrians, Per- sians, Chaldeans, and a host of other nations, worshipped the sun, moon and stars. There was something elevating in the Persian rite. Before daybreak the Persian gentleman as- cended his roof, turned to the East, and watch- ed for the sunrise. When the straight rays flew, he fell on his face, and repeated with fer- vor some maxims of common place morality, He thanked his god that it lighted the earth, warmed him, and taught his crops to grow: Nor less touching was the devotion of the pure Phonician girl to the goddess of chastity—the moon—whose gentle light harmonized with the purity of her own heart; or to the distant star, in which her priest taught her to view a sy mbol of her fortune—a bright heavenly pro- tector. And if the Syrian worship of their sun god partook more of Egyptian mazquerade than of oriental solemnity, it was none the less imposing; probably none the less sincere, The Etruscan, in the simple domesticity of his habits, saw his god on his hearth, in the blazing logs. His creed had but one article—love of home. His Laresand Penates must not be removed. Soon, however, these simple notions and the grand and vague ima- gery of the East gave way to the more practi- cal systems of Greece and Rome. Men were defied--doubtless, great, good, ingenious men —euch excellent citizens as had left fae and honor attached to their name on dying—an Apollo, a Hercules, a Vulcan, a Neptune, a Prometheus, a Ceres. Fancy gave to these, goddesses largely endowed with human frail- ties and eensual attractions; and mun’: :d wor- shipped the new fashioned godhead w'th re- newed fervor. Then came the iconoclast, Christianity, a giant in the vigor of youth combating pigmies in the decrepitude of age: and for a time, men worshipped Christ and his ministers. But the abstract service of a spiritual divinity did not suffice the craving for idols in the human heart. History teams with a succession of gods of various kinds, who have been faith fully worshipped in their day. The church has been worshipped; all Europe and most of America have crawled in the dirt a8 the feet of scheming priests, fancying themselves the while very superior to the cat worshippers of Egypt, the spe worshippers of India, or the moon worshippers of Syria. Nobility has been worshipped, and in England is worshipped still, John Bull who saw the light in a cottage, trembles at the sight with naked eye of King or Duke; his voice falters when he speaks to him; he reasons with himself, strikes himself in the chest and bullies himself to gain the conviction that this lord or dupe is but a man, and that it is mean to worship him. He worships him, though, for all that. In this country, our worshipping propenst- ties have lately found a safety valve in the di- rection of the negro. The disease is similar to that of the English; the only difference is that they find their idol elevated above them, while the negro worshippers raise theirs out of the dirt. They worship men like themselves, whove ancestors had merit; Seward, Gar- rison, Abby Kelly Foster worship negroos, of whom nothing is known but to their dis; credit, whose humanity is denied, whose bru- tality is not. And their negro worship, which NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1856. is far meaner and more contemptible than any of the animal worships we have mentioned, sppears quite as enthusiastic and blinding as apy. That it will end like the others, there can be little question; and then its votaries will be classed with the ape worshippers, and the cat worshippers, and the fire worshippers, who figure as the laughing stocks of history. Governor Wisk AND us Tax on OysTERS.—~ Governor Wise, of Va, among his expedients for replenishing the State Treasury, proposes tax upon all the oysters in all the waters of the Old Dominion, upon which proposition, the Richmond Whig says:— As tobis Excellency’s idea of resuscitating the finan- cial energies of the commonwealth by a tax on oysters, the glory of that conception must forever pertain to the statesman of “Only.”? But if this is the only hope for the oki commonwealth, we fear its fortunes have waned to wax no more. Tho fact that the theatre of operations extends over some 2,000 miles of coast, and that a whole fleet of revenue outterr, axd an indefinite sumber of in- spectors and officers will be necessary to collect tze tax, will at once present to every rational mind the absurdity of the whole project. The revenue which the Governor ant from hia foray upon the oysters, is put down, at $270,000; the cost of the collection, to say nothing of the vexation and ce to the le er 10 oye- ering, would probebiy not fall ehort ct 9600, cf $500,000. By this mode of incre: our revenue, it will require no Seeniey arithmetical genius to calculate the num- pd he it will require to reduce us to hopeless bank~ ruptey. The oysters, we hope, will be spared. New York city has a right to be heard upon this question to the extent, perhaps, of at least half @ million of dollars a year. In her behalf, therefore, whatever other measures of reta- liation against the abolition agitator of the North may be adopted, we beseech the Virginia Legislature to reject the appeal of the Gover- nor, and to spare those oysters. Tue Kansas Rewer Cait in Ruope Isuanp. —The appeal from the Kansas ‘Free State Ex- ecutive Committee” was sent into the Rhode Island Legislature, and has been referred to a joint committee. Governor Hoppin, in com- municating the document, says that “if au- thentic, it should call forth from the govern- ment and people of Rhode Island an expres- sion of indignant horror;” but he adds, “I will not allow myself to comment upon the grave matters now presented to you for deliberation, involving issues pregnant with the dissolution of the Union and the gloom of civil war.” Upon the whole, the message of Governor Hop- pin is in much better spirit than that of the abolition Governor of Ohio, or that of our Sewardite Governor of New York. Governor Hoppin questions the authenticity of these Kaneas revelations of fire and sword. He at least is desirous to know the truth, and the whole truth, before committing himself even to his Kansas confederates. ee eeeen eed A Fmsr Rate Norics.—The Princeton Ken- tuckian, K. N., entirely ignoring the claims of “Live Oak George,’ thus glorifies Mr. Fill- more:— Mr, Fillmore is to-day the star toward whose cheering light thousands of eyes are turning for deliverance from our present troubles. He is a statesman of high intel- leet and tirm recolve—a patriot pure and incorsaptible. We have tried him in the time of danger, and he has proved himself worthy of his trust. Like the heroes of Buena Vista, ‘he was baptised in fire and blood and came out steel.” His patriotism is bounded by no Ma- son snd Dixon line; itis as broad as the prairies and forests, the lekes and rivers of our continent, coiopre- henéing all in common brotherhood. To the end that this charming puff may reach ex-President Fillmore, (who is spending the wintcr in Italy,) we republish it in the Heratp. It would be a pity that such a gem should be lost. Let all eyes turn to Italy. Mr. Fillmore is the “star” of the “cheering light,” and he is thar. Loox Ovrt For an Excitive Time.—Hon. John Minor Botts has been appointed a delegate from the city of Richmond to the Philadelphia National American Convention of the 22d. THE LATHST NAWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Missing Steamers. Haurax, Feb. 16—10 P. M, We are still without any tidings of the missing steamer Pacific. The continued absence of the over due steamer Canada, with Liverpool dates to the 24 inst., is beginning to excite some uneasiness here, ‘The weather is very wet, and a dense fog prevails, s0 that it would be impossible for any steamer to enter the harbor to-night. Interesting from the National Capital, DEPARTURE OF GOV. SHANNON FOR KANSAS—THE NAVAL RETIRING BOARD, ETC. Wasuivetox, Feb. 16, 1856. As linformed you yesterday, Gov. Shannon left this afternoon for Kansas, He will travel night and day until he reaches Shawnee Mission. The President desired him to arrive there before the free State Legislature assem- bles at Topeka, on the 4th of March next. He has full power, I understand, to arrest the members of that Le- gislature, as its meeting {s deemed, by powers that be, an overt act, and as sueh deserving of severe punishment. If he carries out his instructions, it is thought by geatle- men now here who are residents of Kansas, that there will be a collision between the federal authorities and the free State men. Letters are pouring in from Legislatures of various States, now in session, urging Congress to use every means in their power to repeal the naval efficiency law, and restore those two hundred and one officers disgraced by the action of the ‘ Immortal Fifteen.’” Quite a number of those officials dismissed about the Capitol have already been provided for in the different Departments, D. ORDERS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT RELATIVE TO TRE KANSAS DIFFICULTY—THE BLACK REPUBLI- CAN PROPAGANDA—THE PUALIC LANDS—THE GRA- DUATION SYSTEM—NUMBER OF REGISTERBD SEA- MEN, ETC. Wasmxcron, Feb, 16, 1856. Governor Sharnon left this afternoon, dhect for St. Louis, and from thence to Kansas, He will imme- diately rerrove his office from Shawnee Mission to Le- compton, the centre ef the prevailing difficulties. Orders will be issued by the War Department this af- ternoon, and they will probably be conveyed by Governor Shannon to Col. Sumner. There is no doubt but what they will be in accordance with the President’s views aa expressed in his special message in regard to Kansas, and in Lis late proclamation, and that directions will be given to have them properly enforced. There are 800 troops at Fort Leavenworth and 400 at Fort Riley, to be called out if circumstances demand. ‘The Republican Association of Washington is making strenuous éfforts to establish similar societies in evory city, town and village throughout the Union, serving, 0% a ciroular rayr— To rally the le, inspire them with confidence and enthusiasm, and furmish the information necessary to ox- pose and fairly meet the sophistry of pro-siavery dema- gogves, making the issue slavery or {reedom in the Presi- dential campalgn. ‘Tho design is to ecatter, broadcast, documents and speeches upon the subject. They have already prepared 162,000 copies in Fnglish, and 20,000 in German, of the sperohes and writings of Mosars. Seward, Hale and others. A report, not yet published, prepared at the General Land Office, in compliance with # resolution of the House cf Representatives, shows the amount of territory subject to the actof August, 1854, to graduate and reduce the price of public lands to actual settlers and cultivators. Of the first clase—one dollar an acre—there are 18,- 768,759 acres ; of the second class—seventy-five cents por acre—there are 15,654,148 acres ; of the third class—fitty cents per acré—there are 11,540,920 scres ; of the fourth clase~twonty-five cents per acre—there are 6,485,827 acres ; and of the fifth clasa—at twelve and a half cents per acre~there are 26,114,358 acres. ‘Thisland is Atvided amorg the following named States:— Ovio, 70,495 ; Indiana, 458,700 ; Iitinots, 2,884,610 ; Wis- consin, 1,9(6,757 ; Michigan, 8,785,890 ; Towa, 595,490 ; Missouri, 19,850,020 ; Arkansas, 14,212,610 ; Louisiana 7,800,040 ; Missiasippt, 7,002,043 ; Alabama, 14,039,503 ; Florida, 6,848,500—making in all 77,561,007 acres, it appears from patatement prepared at the State De- partment, giving the number of American seamen regis- tered and enrolled in the United States for the last six- teen years, that fer the year ending October 1, 1840, there ‘were 8,001, of which 140 were naturalized ; and for the year ending October 1, 1855, there were 9,686, including 200 naturalized persons. Affairs in Kansas. { THE PRO-SLAVERY MEN ON THE ALERT—THE MILI- TARY MEASURES OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. Sr. Louis, Feb. 16, 1856. The Leavenworth Herald of the 9th says a pro-slavery meeting was held there on the 24 inst., at which it was determined to offset the influence of the free State agents seut abros@jby despatching George W. Melean to the Southern States to give the people there the pro-slavery aspect of the case, and to urge Southerners to emigrate to the Territory and aid in rescuing the contrel of affairs from the hands of the abolitionists of Lawrence, Robinson, Lane, Brown, & Co., who are diing everything possible ‘to bring on a civil war. They apprehend that many free State men will refure to follow them into rebellion against the federal authority and the laws of the Territory, The Herald of Freedom seys that Messrs. Robinson and Lane have adopted precautionary measures, and organ- ized regiment; that tho forts are guarded day and night, and that munitions of war were belng collected in Toadiness for instant service, an attack being expected. ‘The Topeka Herald appeals to the friends of the North and East to hold themselves in readiness to march at @ moment’s notic® says that the struggle begins to show iteelf in earnest, and invokes the people of Kansas to die in preference to surrendering. The President's special Kansas message has réached Leavenworth, but not Lawrence. News from Mexico. Naw OnteaNe, Feb. 16, 1856. ‘The steamer Texas has arrived here, with dates from Vera Cruz to the 11th inst. The revolutionists, under Tamariz, having captured Puebla, were fortifyirg it, in order to repel the forces of Gexeral Comonfort, who bad despatched government troops sgainst the place. Itis reported that Tamariz lacks money, and that many excesses had been committed in Puebla by his toldiers. Uraga had been defeated by the Government troops, and geacral confusion seems to prevail. Werrible Accident at London, C. W. EXPLOSION OF A STEAM BOILER—FIVE MEN ‘KILLED AND NINE BADLY WOUNDED. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1856, At Lenaon, C. W., at half-past two o'clock, this after- noon, & steam boiler in the foundry of M. Anderson & Co, exploded, blowing the building to atoms and burying thirty men in the ruins. The firemen repatred prompt'y to the reene of the disaster, cleared away the rubbish, and took out all the bodies. Five were found to be dead, and nine others were badly wounded. The shock wag felt througheut the whole city. The widows of the Western Hote), and also those of the English church, wore shattered. Heavy Robbery on 2 Railroad Train. ALBANY, Feb. 16, 1866. Mr, H. R, Hemingway, of Chicsgo, was this morning robbed of $8,500, while coming to this city in the early train from Schenectady. The money was inacarpet bag, and $2,000 of it was in specie. Mr. H. was asleep whem the robbery was committed. Arrival of the United States Frigate Pows hatan at Norfolk. Norroik, Va., Feb. 16, 1856, ‘The United States frigate Powhatan arrived at this poré to-day from China. 4 Honesdale Charter Election. Honespa1s, Pa., Feb. 16, 1856, ‘The charter election held here yesterday resulted in the choice of the entire Know Nothing tisket. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Purtapecpnuus, Feb. 16, 1856. Stockaare steady. Quotations are as follows:—Penn- rylvaia 5’s, #5: Reading Rai rcad, 45%; Long Island Railroad, 1734; Moris Cansl, i534} Pennsyivania Rail- road, 44%. CHARLESTON, Feb. 15, 1856. Cotton.—Sales to-day 2,500 balee, at unchanged rates, New Orteans, Feb. 16, 1856. ‘The rales of cotton to-day add uj 500 é decline. We quote middling at 9c. ot the week have been 45,000 bal tame time last year. The receipts at this t up to the present time are 300,000 bales in excess of thone of last year. Stock on hand, 224,000 bales, Naval Intelligence. The United States storeship Relief, Commander J. D, Camp, will sail from the New York navy yard in a few days, for Rio de Janeiro, (Brazil). Letters, papers, &c., rent to the Naval Lyceum wil) be forwarded. TraL Trp oF tHe New United Staves Srkawmn Maret. muac.—It is stated that the United States steamer Merri. mao will shortly start from Boston on ¢ trial trip, and will put into erther New York or Baltimore, as ciream. stances will allow. We think the fact of there being seventy mi’es of ice below Baltimore likely to prevent her from putting into that port. Tar Evrorean STeamEns.—We learn that the Collins steamers, in order to avoid the ice, will not cross the Banks north cf 43 degrees. This arrangement will last till the Ist of August. Our Washington Correspondence. ‘Wasuincron, Feb, 12, 1856. The Naval Retiring Board—Case of Commodore Smith—Cu- rious Reports Concerning the Probable Action of the Senate~-General Cullom’s Decapitations--Funny Letter Srom One of the Victims, dc., dc. It would seem from the late recommendations and ac. tions of the President and Scoretary Dobbin that these functionaries have begun to discover the injustice that has been perpetrated by the action of the late Naval Board—better known as the Immaculate Fitteen—for why have they thought proper not only to retain Com- modore Smith, an officer retired for inefficiency, as Chiet of the Bareau of Yards and Docks, but also to assign him the charge of the scientific Bureau of Ordnance and Hy- drography, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of -the lamented Morris, much to the chagrin and disap. pointment of another Commodore, and a member of the Naval Board, who fully expected to have been assigaod that duty. There must be @ ectew loose somewhere, What says the Board? Nous verrons. Here’s one blun+ der, anyhow. Let all the Cuttles ‘make a note of it,’? There is, I understand, « “rod in pickle” for some of those who sat in judgment on their brothers in arms, and who se valiantly and disinterostedly put themselves in safe line of promotion. The Senate committee, to whont re referred the papers and memorials of the offi rh were affected by the action of the Naval Board, tia wala will report against the officers, and sustain the Prealdent and Secretary of the Navy in the course they have pur- sued. I doubt the truth of this; yet it is known that the President is doing everything in his power to bring about such a result, ere are quite a number of Senators wha have Katee themselves the reverse of this, They in- tend to take the matter in hand, and at the proper time=« be use the Janguage of one of the Senators—"'make the fur y,”? It ls exceedingly amusing to look about the Capitol this morning ard view the disappointed, Lean, lank, hungry and cadaverous; they have spent the last dollar. Poor devils; Congress ought to appropriate money enough to send them home. Those decapitated by the Clerk seem not to take it toheart. The following is a reply to a note from the Clerk, advising the writer that his services weie no ionger required, “it 18 senteantious and to the point:— NOX. WM, CULLOM, CLERK, HOUEE OF REPRERRNTATIVES. Your long expected note was received Jate list even- Ing, by which I am informed that you ‘‘reluctantly” re- Heve me of my official position. highly ate your hind feelings in the discharge of this ‘duty.’? The on! regret I have to offer is. that you did nct_as I requested, enclose me @ lock of your hair to take with me to Ohio"as 4 token of remembrance. From the political indications throughout the countiz He estert Me your ones career mass be Med hte 0} erefore, ¥ corres! rilltant, Your's respeettully, MATHIAS MARTIN, Wastunoton, Feb. 12, 1856. Mr. Martin, I understand, will leave for the Buckey@ State in a few days, where he will enlist for the campai for the overthrow of those who now possess the legisla tive cepartment of the government. A leading article appeared in the Sen/inel this morning, which has created a good deal of excitement in certaiz ae, in whieb the President and his cabinet are han- ‘led in most Spprove, style. The author of the artiole is ‘a gentieman well known in this city, and a warm and de- voted friend of Pennsylvania’s ‘ feyorite son.” It {4 said to speak tbe sentiment of the “Old Domimon.”’? Since its ‘appearance Pierce stock has fallen twenty per cent. ‘ocaenienremeenepeicansaanasitn City Intelligence, ELECTION OF Orricers 1x Tan New York Crry Guarn—& meeting of the members at the New York City Guard was hold at their armory, in Broadway, on Thursday evening last, to elect officers in the vacancies occaatoned by the resignation of the old Captain of this company, T. T. Ferris, Colonc! MM. Van Buren, of the Eleventh Regi- ment, presided e following officers were elected unanimously : helas B. Laban, Captain, in place of Coptoin Ferris, resign connected with Ge ed by his brother 6c nant, in piace of L . Captain Laban wae seed en’s staff, and is highly esteom- . Wim. H, Halliok, First Lieute- . Bulkeley, resigned; Thome 0. De Luce, Third Lieutenant, ia piece of W. H. Draper, pro- moted toa stall appointment; 1. 1. Stone, Fourth Tkeu- tenant, in place of W, H, allick promoted, A com pli