The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1856, Page 4

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Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence. Agents -will please send im their orders as early as pos ‘thle. The News. ‘There were no signs of the Atlantic at Sandy ‘Mook up to two o’clock this morning. The weather ‘was clear. and the wind light, blowing from the west. ‘The steamship Canada reached Boston yesterday afternoon. Her mails will, if the condition of the yeads permit, arrive in this city this evening. Capt. ‘ang reports that he knew nothing of the Pacific, or the reports of her putting into the Shannon. We give elsewhere some additional European intelli- gence. The peace movements are not likely to pro- eeed with such hearty unanimity as many have been Jed to suppoee from the exuberant tone of the papers in the interest of the allies. Russia has conditions $0 propose that will hardly meet the concurrence of the Western Powers. The Queen's speech upon the opening of Parliament does not in the slightest manner allude to the questions in controversy be- ween Great Britain and the United States. The American National Council at Philadelphia yesterday settled the question of the contested seats. ‘The Pennsylvania delegates opposed to the twelfth wection were admitted upon an almost strictly sec- tional vote. It is not expected that the Southern members will withdraw.in consequence of this deci- sion. The Louisiana delegation was also admitted. They are opposed to the Catholic test. To-day the real business of the Council will commence in earnest. In the United States Senate yesterday Mr. Wilson eoncluded his speech on Kansas affairs. He attri- putes al] the difficulties in the Territory to Mr. Atchison, who, it appears, has but once set his foot Within its boundaries. Gov. Shannon was charged with practising the grossest immoralities. The matter was finally postponed till Monday, when Mr. Jones, of ‘Tens., will discuss the subject. In execu- tive session a number of appointments were con- firmed, among them that of Gov. Shannon. His case excited a warm debate, in which Mr. Wilson gastained a principal part. The nomination was eonfirmed by a strict party vote, twelve votes being cast in the negative. In the House the Kansas question was again under consideration, the Com- Mittee on Elections having offered a resolution asking leave to send for persons and papers with wegard to the seat contested by Mr. Reeder and Gen. Whitfield. Without taking the question the House adjourned. In the State Senate yesterday a memorial, signed by a large number of prominent citizens, relative to the taxation of this city, was presented. We give the document elsewhere. The report ofthe Vestry of Trinity Church was received. The value of its property is $2,668,710. The Canal Board reported adversely to abolishing the office of Canal Superin- tendent, Commissioner Fitzhugh alone dissenting. ‘The bill to increase the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals was passed. Nothing was done in the Assembly worthy of notice. By the arrival of the Cahawba yesterday we have Havana dates to the 13th instant. The letters of ‘our correspondents, published in another column, give the lates‘ current news of the island. Our Havana files contain a number of items of Mexican news which, although not of so late a date as the last received direct at this port, are interest- ing. Comonfort was watching Tamariz in Puebla, and Tamariz was endeavoring to measure the exact strength of Comonfort, with a view of attempting his complete overthrow. A constant marching and countermarching of troops, which had a most dis organizing influence, was the consequence. The supreme government had issued a decree, encour: ing the cultivation of tobacco in the mepub! the interior all the telegraph wires were cut away. Draga had been beaten at Toleman. It was suid that the Southern provinces were quiet. We learn from an American gentleman, who Jest year ascended the Amazon on hoard of a small steamer, in company with another, on an ex- ploring expedition, with commercial objects in view, that Tabatinza, where the Americans were killed, is in Brazil, and not in Pera. It is ia the province of Barra, and had a small Brazilian garrison at the time referred to, in command of a lieutenant. The town is from two to five miles east of the Peruvian boundary line, and within Brazil. It was stated that the massacre occurred at the instigation of the Peruvians, who were opposed to the Americans Jeaving for home; and an attempt, it is said, was made by the Brazilian soldiers at Tabatinza to stop them, which they resisted, and, thereupon, all ‘gwere killed, and became food for alligators. Be the awe as it may, they were undoubtedly Americans, and beyond all question barbarously murdered within Brazilian territory, and probably #hot down by b'razilian soldiers, If Martin Koszta was worth looking after, surely-a whole party of defenceless Amerie'ons, murdered in cold blood, deserve the rigid ix:vestigation of the government; and its authors, yvhether Brazilians or Peruvians, should be called upon: for satisfactory reparation, through their government Suthorities, ‘The exawi. ation of candidates for admission to \ g yomterday postponed until Monday noxt The Mevehaute’ Exchange, in this ¢ v was aliye with ral ertave operators prday, WA WOE AG ] NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1856. ‘anxious to invest in some of the numerous improved ignd unimproved lots which had been advertised to ‘be disposed of, that upwards of a quarter of a mil- lion of doWars werth of property, as will be seen by our report in another column, changed hands by sales under‘the hammer. The taking of so large & number of vacant lots for the Central park has no doubt had stimulating effect in real estate opera. tions, and caused property on New York island to advance again to prices which are almost miracu- Yous. ‘The cotton market was less animated yesterday. ‘The wales embraced about 1,200 a 1,500 baics, closing -without change in prices. Dealers were disposed to ‘await the receipt of letters by the Canada’s mails. ‘Pour continved heavy, and common grades of State were lower, with sales at $6 874 a $7, with some quite superior brenda as low as $675; the latter class of ‘brands, inéluding extra Western and Southern, were dull, but without change of moment in prices. Sales of Tennessee red wheat were made at 82c. a 82ic., which wes about 3c. a 5c. per bushel lower. West- ern mixed corn, delivered and from store, sold at 73c. Pork was in moderate demand, at $15 87} a $15 94 for mess. Lard was firmer, with sales of good, in barrels, at 10jc. Owing to the news brought by the steamer Cahawba, from Havana, regarding continued rains and the prospect of a short crop, a stronger feeling was manifested gp the part of holders of sugars; the sales to the trade and by auction er braced about 500 a 600 hhds. New Orleans and Cuba, at prices stated in another column. Coffee continued steady, at full prices, with sales of a cargo per Indi- cator, at private terms. Moderate engagements were made in freights, without change of moment in rates, which were steady. ‘The Central American Question and its Pro- posed Reference by Lora Clarendon. The arrival of the Canada brings us another diplomatic phase of the Central Ameriran dif- ferences between the United States and Great Britain. Lord Clarendon, after expressing confidence in the Britieh construction of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and admitting the po- sitive character of the American pretensions on the subject, declares that the London Cabi- net had proposed a reference of the matter in dispute to the arbitration of a third Power. Perhaps no prominent State in the world is so badly situated as the United States is when subjects of international differences are re- ferred to what is theoretically denominated a friendly Power. The honest truth is, we have no friends amongst the monarchs of Europe. A third and wholly impartial and disinterested umpire is not to be found. We do not com plain of this, Prejudices exist in all of the governments of Europe against the republic. It is natural and inevitable that it should be so. These prejudices result from the character of the Union, which is a ceaseless enemy of absolutism of whatever form. This enmity is not individual, but national—it is found ia an cpposing principle—in the successful ex- ample of a people governing themselves, and strengthening acd expanding ideas of self- government all over the world. Europe likes us quite as well as we like Europe. We lose no op- portunity to proclaim its tyranny, to exalt our own freedom. England, with her free press, is actually little more asceptable to the Conti- nental States than we are; but she has pre- served the forms of monarchy—she is admitted into the social estate of kings and emperors— her executive department is hereditary. Now, in this condition of things, we stand no chance in arbitration. Our rights are sure to be sacrificed. Near the close of the last war with England, Russia offered to mediate be- tween us and our enemfes, and we accepted her proffered services. England declined them. The proposed pacification created a Tull in the storm, and the Commission at Ghent was, doubtless, the fruit of it. Peace followed by a mutual withdrawal of the combatants. ‘We were then weak and divided, and it was the latter feature of our affairs that stimulated England to prosecute the war. She had strong hopes by £0 doing of effecting a dissolution of the Union. Again, about thirty years ago, we referred a dispute about the Northeastern boundary to the King of the Netherlands. That potentate lost no time in arranging the matter so as to give to England all she claimed, and more; and we had the satisfaction of finding that arbi- tration of difficulties of the kind mean only that we shall surrender our pretensions, of what- ever character, to our antagonist. We also re- ferred the case of the Gen. Armstrong, a difficulty originating at Fayal, to Louis Napo- Jeon, then President of the French Republic. The decision of the umpire evolved no new idea on the subject, but clearly confirmed the folly of euch references, We are ourselves, to a great extent, respon- sible for the fact, that, as a government, we have little or no weight with the Cabinets of Europe. We have undertaken an exclusively American policy, and rather discouraged all attempts to occupy a position in Europe at all corresponding with the wealth and resources of the republic. What has been done in the way of meking ourselves felt and appreciated asa Power has been done by private cuter. prise, by the commerce and genius of the American people. Once or twice we have spoken to Europe in tones suitable to the na- tion. When the five great Powers undertook to combine to control the freedom of the seas, Gen. Cass, then Envoy at Paris, on his own re sponsibility uttered the threat of the United States against the measure, and defeated it, He was feebly sustained by his government, and its voice was thus silenced and the moral power of its position utterly lost. Mr. Marcy, in the Koszta case, a less formidable offence, electrified the country by his bold stand, after the gallant Captain Ingraham had set bim the example, and for the time was successful. But this act of national energy was followed bya miserable time serving policy towards Spain, ‘howing that the Koszta movement was one of those spasics which even cowards know how, at times, to enact. It is thus by the unaccouat- able folly of onr own government that we are placed in a position of utter indifference, so far as the great States of Europe are cou- cerned, Arbitration under such circumstances is leas to be preferred than an open surrender of our pretensions. Besides, what is the question to be decided? Jt is the construction which fy to prevail upon a treaty lately negotiated between England and the United Sta coa- cerning affairs with which neither Party has anything todo. It is a question of govern ment in Central America, about which there never ehould have been a treaty at all. Ip ra land has had plans of colonization and con- quest in that direction, projected, doubtless, ag a counterpoise to the actual work of extending the republic to the South, and with a view of controlling what at an early day promised to be the point of transit between the Paci and Atlantic oceans. We had proclaimed the dogma of the Monroe dogwine, whigh means that we were prepared to prevent Enropean colonization on this continent. Of course this was an cz parte declaration, binding nobody but ourselves and hardly the’, as would appear from the fact that we entered into a treaty with the greatest colovizing Power in the world, the construction of which is now the question in dispute between the two governments, If there was avy meaning at all ia the declaration of our parpose to pre- vent European intervention in American affairs, we ehould have declimed to treat at all on the subject, and walted for overt acts as a ground for carrying oat our policy. Mr. Clay- ton was overreached by his adversary, for such be was. It must be remembered thatthe treaty was negotiated in the face of the Monroe doc- trine—of course, the British negotiator under- standing perfectly what was the intention of Mr. Filtmore’s administration in concluding the convention. The whole, then, is a work of special pleading, and the London Cabinet has adroitly transferred an issue by it from the Monroe declaration to that involved in the construction of the covenants of the treaty. The next step, then, of Lord Clarendon is to attempt to transfer this peculiar Americanism to the decision of one of the sovereigns of Evrope. The Monroe doctrine is to be- come the subject of consideration by an umpire; and England, by the decision, is to be put into peaceable possession in Central America, and to carry out{her projects in that direction. This is certainly a new phase of the matter, and, in any event, our adversary is to have the advantage of magnanimoualy tendering the question in dispute to the decision of a disinterested Power, and the United States are to bear the odium of refusing thus to settle a contioversy which threatens to disturb the peace of the world. These ere amongst the fruits of our imbecile fugitive foreign policy, of a weak administration, or “feeble govern- ment,” as Mr. Bulwer called it, and of re- ceding from an avowal which we had the am- plest means of enforcing. This is confining our diplomacy to this continent and limiting our influence in the family of nations to this hemi- sphere! This is our reward for putting smali men into large places. The remedy is stil] obyious—the enforce- ment of the American construction of the treaty, the positive refusal of the administra- tion either to arbitrate or recede, and let con- sequences visit the parties interested as they shall incur them. If England can affora to appeal to arms in such a cause we cannot afford to be neutral. Was Mr. Marcy “Satisrrep?’’~Lord Cleren- don, in his speech at the opening of Parlia- liament, (in defence of the “water grucl” ad- dress of her Majesty.) says that Mr. Crampton’s transactions in the enlistment business for the Crimea were all right; and that Mr. Marcy, upon being informed of Crampton’s iastrac- tions on the subject, “expressed himself satis- fied.” The London Timcs, we believe, eaid as much, some months ago; but the Washington Union indignantly repelled the accusation. From the emphatic announcement, however, in Parliament, of the British Minister for Foreign Affaire, that Mr. Marcy ‘expressed himseli satisfied,” we suspect that there must he some thing in it. How satisfied?—to what extent?— and what for?—are the questions next suggest- ed. Did these satisfactory instructions come to Mr. Crampton after the detection and prose- cution of his enlisting agents at Philadelphia and Cincinnati—or were the proceedings of thoee agents in the enlistiog of troops for the Crimea, under the directions of Mr. Crampton, carried on in violation of his instructions, with which Mr. Marcy was “satisfied?” We hope the Cabinet organ at Washington will explain, succinctly and authoritatively, or otherwise; our democratic fellow citizens may be led to infer that Marcy was, perhaps, altogether “satisfied,” and that for all the excitement and indignation of our government in the pre- mices, we are indebted to the more courageous and belligerent Attorney General Cushing. In another aspect, the debate in the House of Lords on the Queen’s speech, is of far higher importance than the declaration of Clarendon concerning the satisfaction of Marcy with Crampton’s instructions. Lord Derby,(formerly Stanley), of the anti-ministerial party, desired to know why the Central American imbroglio had been wholly omitted ia the Queen’s speech, a royal address, which he ungallantly declared to be “ redolent of water gruel; and he far- ther said, that his government, “ in carrying out the foreign enlistment scheme, had evaded the spirit of the municipal law of the United States’’ Of course these allusions to the Queen’s speech end to the evasion of our mu- nicipal law, were hits at Palmerston and Cla- rendon, the real authors of the speech of her Mojesty; and were the beginning of a war with the very opening of Parliament, to drive Pa merston and his belligerent ministry out of office. We have, therefore, no feara of a war be- tween the United States and England; for upon the iesne raised by Lord Derby, of peace, in- stead of war, the Palmerston ministry, it brought to the test, will, from the pressure of public opinion, be ignominiously expelled from power. We think we may safely say to Gen. Cases, that if peace between the two countries, involving the interests of the whole civilized world, shall be found to depend upon the ex- pulsion of the Palmerston Cabinet, that it will be thrown out and superceded without diffi- culty. The late alleged “angry words” b« tween Clarendon and Buchanan will have only excited & laugh from Maroy. Disarmep.—We published a short time ago an article, rather crae}, perhaps, upon “our fresh water cea ports and their icy blockade,” including, especially our enterprising sister cities of Philadcipbia ond Baltimoro. In reply, the Philadelphia North American answers in a style so modest, sensible and generous that we are disarmed. We sincerely hope that there will be speedily “a glow and a flow” which will open the ports of both Philadelphia and Baltimore to the ocean below. How many weeks have you been locked up? A Sprerrvan MaNirEstatios.— Hon. Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, formerly one of our Scnators in Congress, but now a resident of I’ond-da-Lac, Wisconsin, has written a letter in support of spiritual manifestations, to the Washington Intelligencer, in order to “relieve in some sort the monotony of Congressional proceedings.” Good idea; but why didn’t the Governor hap- pen to think of it pending the contest for peaker? Dat so it is with these spirit ualiste, They nevey come to our relief till the trouble in over, | Tae Dispvrep Jupcgsmr or Tue SurreMe Covrt—The General Term meets to-morrow. Are we to have a repetition of the scenes of last week? Is a mob to be collected to witness the degradation of the highest Court of the State? Will it gratify the love of notoriety on the part of any one of the actors in the last drama to have it repeated? Shall the frivo- Jous again laugh and the thoughtfal again weep over scenes which degrade the bench 10 the level of a primary meeting? We fervently trust that we shall be spared the necessity of again recording any such transactions, and that reflection and a due regard for public opinion will induce all parties conceraed to adopt a course of conduct that shall no longer be offensive to all right thinkingmen, No one expects Mr. Davies to recede from the position he has taken. Elected by 17,000 of the popu- Jar yote, he cannot retire in favor of Mr. Pea- body, who had but 5,000. Fortified by a de- cision of the Court of Appeals io his favor, he cannot be expected to give way to Mr. Pea- body. who has no certificate of election and no adjudicated title whatever. It cannot be pre- tended that the opinion given by Messrs. Roos: = velt and Clerke, in favor of the claims of Mc. Peabody is an adjudication. It was extra judicial and cxparte, and entitled to no other consideration than that of eny other two law- yers at the bar of equal standing. To say that the ballots thrown for Mr. Davies were “void tor uncertainty,” because unlike those cast for Mr. Peabody, they did not specify the particu: lar vacancy to be filled, when everynody knew that there was but one vacancy and voted accordingly, was a quibble unworthy of men in high station; and to attempt to con- summate the quibble by foisting upon the bench a gentleman receiving the smallest number of votes, in anticipation and defiance of the judgment of the Court of Appeals, was unlike the judiciary in ita best duys, and re- sembled very much the same partizan, trifling, and malevolent spirit which was displayed in the late case of Baker aud the Central Park, and which we unsparingly condemned. The solution of the difficulty now rests with Mr. Peabody, and intimately concerns his rep- utation. He held for a short time, undera commission from the Governor, the position of a Judge of the Supreme Court, and demeaned himself most acceptably both to the bar and the public. Let him not throw away the reputatien thus justly earned, and let him follow the advice of those who are his friends, and not merely the enemies of Mr. Davies. If he refuse to attend the General Term to morrow, the Court will be fully organized, and can proceed with the public business with decorum and without a doubt of the validity of its jadg- ments; and if he shall then consider that he is entitled to the seat of Mr. Davies, he can ap ply for the writ of guo warranto, and obtain a legal decision upon his claims of title. In our judgment, however, he will best consult his reputation by abstaining from further litiga- tion. If he should ultimately obiaia a decision in his favor, he will hold his position by virtue of a mere technicality, and in defiance of the popular vote, which cannot fail to impair his dignity as a man and his usefulness as a judge. By retiring from a scene of strife, he will be remembered in future elections as one who pre- ferred to lay aside his personal claims rather than disturb the decorum of a court of justice, and will thereby show himself worthy of the bench io which he aspires. Errecrs oF Ick vron Commerce—New York ConrrasTep witu OTHER SzaPorts.—The pre- sent severe winter has furnished us with in- controvertible proof of the great advantages which the city of New York possesses over any other seaport in the Northern, Eastern, and even some of the Southern States. While the harbors of Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities are blockaded every winter by the ice, ours, although not wholly free from it, is still open to the commerce cf the whole world. Occasionally, it is true, the accumulation and freezing together of large cakes of drift ice cause temporary inconvenience to the running of some of the ferry boats, but it is only tem- porary, and might be easily avoided. It is different, however, with the harbor of Phila- delphia, where vessels are as firmly frozen in as they would be in the Arctic regione, and where they are compelled to He idle at the wharves for weeks at a time. Some years ago one of the Cunard steamers had absolutely to be cut out of the ice ia Boston harbor, a work which cost several thousand dollars, but the expense of which was generous- ly defrayed by the merchants of that city. The importance of New York to the commercial world, in consequence of the uninterrupted a3- cees Which it affords to vessels, cannot be over- rated. To this fact, as much as to her geo- graphical position, is attributable her com- manding station among the seaports of the United States—a station that she will always occupy, despite of the rivalry and jealousy of the Modern Athens or the Quaker City. There wesa time when even our harbor was frozen up, and when the inhabitants of Long Island and New Jersey were in the daily habit of crossing the ice over the East and North rivers to this city, That, however, was many years ago, and is rem2m- bered only by our oldest citizens The present winter, which is one of the severest on & cord, the obstructions in our harbor have not interferred with navigation to prevent either the arrival or departure of vessels. We need no stronger evidence of this than the constantiy increasing fleet of merchant vessels which visit this port, and the remarkably rapid growth of our commerce compared with that of Boston and Philadelphia, The ice which, particularly at this season is observed in,our harbor, is detached from the Hudeon river by steamboats and barges plying between Piermont and New York. Pier- mont is the freight terminus of the Eric Ratl road, and the produce which is brought over that road from the Great West is conveyed to this city by barges and steamboats, These vescels, in making™their way through the ice, break it up, and it comes floating down the river in masses. Now, whatever obstruction oceurs to the navigation of our harbor, is caused by these, and it will be gratifying to our merchants and shipowners to learn that even this obstacle will soon be removed. The Erie Railroad Company have for some time contemplated the removal of thelr principal freight depot from Piermont to a place on the North river, between Jersey City and Ho. boken, and which was formerly known as Harsimus. They have already purchased an extensive water front at this point, and are now engaged in completing their plang for the goustrugtion 9f buil dings for ircight the Governor was so intoxicated that he could attend to bis dui le Be esuld ‘hese and » hundred thiege of Gov. Shannon. (dem ) of Teon., ovtained the floor, and the end passenger depots, When these im- provements are made, their beneficial effects upon the commerce of this port will be Imcal- | gu ¥ther'corstleration of tie subject gras postposed unt culable The produce which is at present con- 1 veyed from the depot at Piermont by steamers a and barges will be brought direct by railroad House of Represcntatives. Wasminaton, Feb. 19, 1855. TUE KANEAS CONTESTED ELECTION CASE. ‘Mr. Hickman, (dem.) of Pa., from the Committee on Elections, offered a resolution empowering the committee to send for persons and pspers in the Kansas contested election case. Mr. Puxtrs, (dem.) cf Mo., thought that the exercise of such » power would bean usurpation, as Mr. Reeder dces not claim he was elected by virtue of the law passed by the Kansas Legislature. He defended his constituents from the chasge of being border ruffians, which had deen repea‘’ed here snd elsewhere, and by one (Senator Wilson) who comes from # Siate where men warred on defenceiess women and burned Ursuline convents. He» earnest y condemned the anti-slavery men in Kansas, and ciaiwed that the Misacuriacs desire not the shedding of bloc, but to rustain the jams. pasion ir WASHBURN. (1 w o , thst Mr. Phelps na tea wigat iateon remarka, which were exceedingly exciting, not to say inflammatory. A large mojority cf the people of this country believe in their hearts that there was no Legislature of Kansas, no law, and nothing baving the vigor and effect of law, under which the election had been held, and by which Mr. Whitfield claims his reat as delegate. Tnis matter should be investigated, avd he asked how could it be sane ne power to send for persons and papers was ran Orhir. Srurusss (cational), of Ga., remarked that Goy. Reecer, himeelt, commissioned the members of the Legis- lative Assembly which passed the law under which Mr. paleo lng sleeiaee ne Pama A of which Mr, ew now cn the House to investiga’ juently, further proceeaingswere erstopped by the Ofidial acts of pt + haa who was thus, out of his own mouth, con- jemned. Mr, Castynmas (nigger worshipper), of Ohio, said it was a well settled prineiple of law that any statute be violate’ by fraud, which violation forms a subject for therovgh investigation. Ov this point the Honse should ‘be satistie?, and sometbing more was Cesired On which to: form the judgment than mere newspaper reporta and telegraphic despatches. Mr. Hickwan meade the pad op reports of the dit- ficul'ies in Kansas haa exsggerated or magnified either on oxo or the other side of the question, according to the: sentiments ot tne writers. It is conseqaentiy important that the investigation should be aided by the means proposed. Mr. Reeder had done ail the act of Congrese required of bim in the premises. e question was tasen op Mr. Stephens’ motion, that the request cf the Commitie on Elections be referred back to the committee with instructions to report the eae on which they ask for power to send for persons and papers. ro ae motion was negatived by the casting vote of the jpeaker. Pending the consideration of the main question, (resolu- tion to grant the commt'tes power vo send for persons and papers,) the Honse adjourned. to the harbor near Jersey City, and shipped on board the vessels destined for foreign ports. To bring the terminus of the road to this point it will be necessary to tuonel Bergen Hill to an extent of about four thousand feet; and when this is done, and this portion of the road is im operation, the cut at Bergen, which is one ot the most dangerous points along the whole route, will be abandoned by the Erie Railroad Company. Theee alterations and improvemeuts will be effected, we are intormed, within two years, and although at an enormous cost, the value to the commerce of New York thereby can hardly be estimated by millions. New York is already far in advance of her sister cities of Pennrylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts; but when this great work shall be accomplish- ed, they will be lost sight of in the rapidly lengthening distance. Proaress or Democratic Reuntoy.—The Al- bany Argus, hard, and the Albany A/lus, soft, have been fused together into one. This is considered at thehead of sloop navigation a great achicvement towards the reunion of the two democratic factions thronghout the State; but until the hard shell chiefs of the Stuyve- eant Institute consent to join the soft shell Sa- chems in Tammany Hall, we shell consider this Albany Argus and Ailas junction as nothing more than a newspaper speculation. Or let us have the little hard shell orgun of this city merged into the soft shell Evening Post, and then we shall proclaim the glad tidings of the consolidation of the New York democracy, in- cluding the Custom House, upon the half-shell doctrine of the Argus and the Alas. THE LATAST NIWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. GEN. WILSON’S ONSLAUGHT ON THE ADMINISTRA- TION--THE REEDER AND WHITFIELD CONTRO. VERSY, ETO. Wasnncron, Feb. 19, 1856, Mr. Wileon cecupied two hours in finishing his speech to-day, in the course of which Governor Shannon and the administration were severely handled. Tae sudject was then postponed until Monday. Tae Senate then ‘went into executive session, and confirmed a large batch of appointments. The claims of Whitfield and Reeder were thoroughly discussed in the House to-dey, on Mr. Washburn’s reso- lution. To morrow the vote witl be taken on the resolu- tion, whea it is believed it will pass. Hon. Thomas R. Whitney, of New York, is now conva- lescent, having been dangerously ill for the last two weeks. The city is now full of leading politisians from all parts of the Union, wire pulling for the Cincinnati Convention. I jearn this evening, from reliable authority, tbat the fued between General Pierce and Ja‘ge Douglas is very bitter. What's up? The report that 9 diffisulty had occurred botween Mr. Buctanan 4:4 Lord Ciarendon has caused a good deal of talk about the State Department. Governor Aixen gives s largo party this evening. Over one hunéred members of Congress will be present. D. GOVERNOR SITANNON CONFIRMED—DEBATE ON THE KANSAS QUESTION— DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MESSRS HORTON, OF NEW YORK, AND RUST, OF ARKANSAS Wasmincton, Feb. 19, 1856, After a protracted executive nession to day the Senate confirmed Governor Shannon. Senator Wilson was vio- lent in opposition, much to the amusement of severa! Senators. The Committee on Elections In the House asked to ba empowered “to send for persons and papers,” An ex- citing debate followed, which indicated the position of parties cn the Kansas contented seat. The Unton will soon publish an interesting corres- pondence between the Hon. Thomas R. Horton, of New York, and Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas, in relation to a letter written by the former, and published Ina North- ern paper, about the difficulty between Mr. Rust and Mr. Greeley. The letter was very abusive of Mr. Rust, who demanded a retraction of Mr. Horton or personal satis- factior, The retraction will be msde in the columns of the Union. EB THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION—NIGGER WOR- SHIPPERS’ HEAD QUARTERS—DEATH OF MRS. CA- ROLINE LEE HENTZ. Dinner to the Hon. fenry M. Fuller. Wixesparre, Fed. 19, 1856. ‘The fiien¢s and neighbors of the Hon. Henry M. Ful- ler gave him a public diuner yesterday, which was par- ticipated in by whigs, Americans and demoora's. Mr. Fuller being catled out, made a speech of some length, vindicating the course of himself and friends duriog the struggle for Speakership, and arguing that his position on the slavery question was sound, naticnal and conser- vative. He deprecated the agitation of the ques‘ion, im and out of Congress, as calculated to inflame the public sectional divisions. He desired thatthe men of the North and the men ofthe South should live and act aa brethren. He also showed that the Hon. Chester Butler, former whig representative from this district, advossted in Cor gresn the doctrine that States should be admitted, reecgnizing or excluding slavery, as the people might de. termine. He thought tke people of the Territories phould be left to act, unmolested, for themselves, and that attempts to czerce their action were improper, and to be discountenanced, His remarks were received with manifestations of much pleasure, eliciting great applause He returns to Washington with an assurance of good will and the support of ali who have methim on this visit United States Supreme Court. Wasuincron, Feb. 19, 1856. Noe, 54, 65 and 56. Lessee of James B. Murray, et. al. vs. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, and Lessee cf William P. Rathbone, et. al., vs. Rut-en, Suck- ley & Co., et. al.,oma certificate of division of opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court for the Distmet of New Jerzey. Justise Curtis delivered the opinion of the Court, that the said warrant of distress in the spe fal verdict mentioned, and proceeding thereon and ante- rior thereto, under which the defendants c’aim thetr title, are sufficient unger the constitution of the United States and Jaw of the land to pass ana transfer the titles and estate of said Swartout in and to the premises in question, as against the lessees to plaintiff, and this opinicn on the third point renders any on the first and second questions unnecessary. No. 52. John G. Shields vs. Isane Thomas, et.al. Justice Daniel affirmed the decree of the Circuit Court for Northern Towa, with costs and interest. No. €5. Argument concluded by Hon. Nathan Clifford for plaintiff, Nigger Worshipper’s Mceting at Frenton. ‘Trevton, N. J., Feb. 19, 1856. At a meeting of the nigger worshippers of New Jersey, held in this city this afternoon, Hon. Joseph C. Horn- blower and Franklin Devereaux were elected delegates at large to the Pittsburg Convention. Two delegates were appointed from each Congressional district. Hon. Robt. 8. Kennedy, of Warren, presided, Railroad Travel Eastward. Srniwarmtp, Feb. 10, 1856. The storm of Saturday night, and the blow ever since: have thrcwn the trains on all the roads in this vicinity into the utmost confusion. No storm during the win'er has £0 paralysed railroad travel. The Sunday night mail train fom New York encoun- tered an immense snow bank at Longmeadow, at two o’clock on Mordsy morning, and there romeined until four o’clock this afternocn, being joined in the mean- time by the six o’elock morning train from Hartford, the 9 A, M. New Haven train, and at 4 P.M. by the New York morning express train. By this time help enough had been collected, so that by the united efforts of nine locomotives and # large number of men the trains were enabled to reach this city, The express train which left Boston yesterday morning, arrived here at half-past nine o’c’ock this morning, and started for New York at ten. The New York afternoon express train arrived here at ten o’clock this morning, having remained: at Longmeadow all night, and will start for Boston at ‘two o'clock. The morning train from Albany, due here at noon yes- tercay, arrived at one o’clock this morning, ‘The Northern roads, though suffering badly from the storm, are more favored than the Eastern, Srnivormup, Feh. 19—10 P. M. The mail train from Boston to-day arrived st three e’clock this afternoon, and left for New York at 4:16. This train is due here at 10:504,M. ‘The mail train from New York arrived at Springfie!d at 2:30 this after- noon, and started for Boston at 4 o'clock. The immense uantity of snow has prevent track, td hay, consequently, caused mech deny oe Hanaronn, Feb. The morning mail train from Bostor meehod hors at 5:15 P.M. The evening mail feom Boston had not yet arrived (10? M.) ‘The New York morning mall arrived here at 2), M. tl viene » and the evening mail from New $$. Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Boston, Fob. 19, 1866. Z The following table shows the footing of our bank state- ms tor the week en x the week previous:— pion Fu alan ‘Wasnixcrox, Feb. 19, 1856. The following is a list of the recently elected officers of the nigger worshippers’ Association of Washingtoc :— President—Dr. E. M. Joslin. First Vice Presi¢ent~ Jacob Bigelow. Second Vice President—Martin Buell. Reccrdirg Secretary—Lewis Ciepnane, Corer ponding Secretary—Daniel R. Goodloe. Treaeurer—H. 8. Brown. Directorr—Wm. Blanchard, D. J. Bichop and &, M. Tudor. The arsocistion derives importance from the fact that it is becoming the centre of operations of the nigger wor- shipping party, as the most eligible point to affect the ensuing Presidential election. Col. Fremont’s warrant for the Mariposa tract of land in California was signed to-day by the Land Commis. sioner, The State Department has sent to the Senate a mass of documents bearing on the Central American question as far back as 1850. Among them is a plan proposed by Marcoleta to Lord Clarendon, two years ago, that Nicara- gua, Great Bri'ain and the United States unitein a treaty for the settlement of the Mosquito Indian question. Mr. Marcy, in a letter to Marcolets, denies that Great Britain has any sovereign right over any part of Contral Ameri- ca, and that to unite with her in the tresty proposed would be a distinct acknowledgment that she has, and such an arrangement would interfere with the claims set up by Costa Rica, Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, the authoross, diel at Mezi- anna, Florida, on the 11th inst, ——$______ WHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate, Wasrxcrox, Vob. 19, 1856. Several executive communications were laid before the Senate hy the presiding officer, incladiag one from the Secretary cf State in reply to the resolution calling for a copy of the report of the adjudications made by the Board of American Commissioners to Paris, to audit and liquidate the rpoliation claims of American citizons against France. The Secretary says there {4 no such re- port in his department, and he thinks there never has been. THE KANSAS QUESTION. The conslderation of the Kanaas question was resumed. | Capital ato: aes 10K. oe eees 1, 960, o a took eo Me., asked Mr. Wilson on fats and discounts, sn t0 what authority ho yesterday stated that Mr. Atehison WES ojocvasvens 527, went to Kansas armed to control the election, Peek aime wae Hep Mr. Witson (nigger worshipper) rep'ied—On the autho- . 14,744,000 rity of Gen, Pomeroy. On the 1th of March (as statod 7,808,000 by Gen. P.) Mr, Atchicon entered tho Territo wine ade, Gian, with bowie kni’e and revolver, ready to Sir the blood Wire at Bt, mt N.B. of any man who would not do his bidding. Sr. Joux, N. B., Feb. 19, 1856. Mr. Cryer did not suppose Gen, Pomeroy m: stetement on his own authority, but that some oe ie hed 0 reported to him. The aly time Mr. Atchison ever orosred the border, so far as he (Geyer) had been able to learn, was during the late disturbances, an wc. count ot which was read im the Senate yosterday. “At that time it was apprehended that there would be serious collision and destruction of life, Then Mr. Ate! son, with two or three other gentlemen, went into #as for the purpose of persuacing those assembled at Wi kanya to forbearance and moderation. He went there to counsel peace, not to excite violence, and that was the only time he éver went there, ir, Witeon Continued—He had simply placed before the Senate the statement of General Pomeroy in opposi- tion to the statement of the Senator from Missouri. Tao document from which be read was prepared by General Pomeroy, end rigned by him and several others weil known in Kansas and the country; and, si its receipt, he had boen assured by Gen. Pomeroy that all its state. ments were true and can be proved before a committee of either house of Congress, He (Mr. Wilson) regardod Mr. Atchison as the moving spirit of all the Missouri o-- citement from which there disturbenoos have arisen. The speaker alluced in omphatic terms to the character of Governor Shannon, raying that he wat the com. penion of ‘gamblers and drunkards in California; and that when # Missourian spot dowa # citwen of Kan. Ten or twolve small houses were dest ‘ morning, in Kelley’s row, in this ty. Ridididmres Marine misaaten, i ALTIMORR, Feb, 5 enhe ship Canton, trom New York tot Rotierdamn wads have put into’! vannah, eee eveeyesiaeaneens eee Arrival of the Nashviile at Charleston. The United States mail stenmenie Wei eee here from New York at 2 o’¢locl a worse wees Marke PHILADELPHIA STO BOARD. Praonirima, Feb, 19, 1666, }; Ronding Railrond, 45; Canal, 18%; Pennsylvania Raile . New Ortrans, Feb. 18, 1856. Cotton—Salox to-day 14,000 bales, at an advance of ie. hi A — ote bag hm gl news, Middiing is q bd ce c. Sterl © premiom, Freighta stiffer. © XCUADS® © per cent Salen of cotton to- wy jaye fives, 85; Morris Cuartaston, Feb. 18, 1860. 5,500 bales, at ag advange of