The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1856. eam ee conves TROPELSTOB 45D GDITOR SDVIER 4. W. QUANNB OP SABBAU .ND FULTON O70. - BRE ome. Receseas sie hee YRR. sroadway—Heuxe tun Hexen on Fount Fuso no ‘rus Dewon Hoass, BURTON'S THEATER, Ubambers sreet—Wistan’s TALE —Bo Untise Sanson. 20Ra KCNeD VaARIeTiEs, troadwev Dreaus or @uavsions—Twe Can Posy ar rust Gaue—Noverrs, WABLACK’S THEATRE troadway—KxiceTs or] xe Rowan Tasit—T0 OsLacr BENSON. m0. ‘AY VARIETIES, 472 Breadway—“asap Queun, ex mas Woon & Maxam Omupuen -Waseeuinc Mimerani. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway -Srmerian cgumanons—{larvy Man. on Taxaty wrrn Jarax. BUCKLEY'S JURLASQUK Urcaa HOUSE, Broad wae—Mnano Monsraiss—Two Pourrre, ha ATHEN. No 64 Broadway—Paxonamic Paceunes sr "woe. anv Jaran New Vora. Satuzday, March 1, 1856. New York Herald—Edition for Eurepe. ‘88 ENLISTMENT DIFFICULTY—THE AR: ATION @ORRESPONDENCE ON THES CLAYTON-BULWER TREA- FY—LETTER OF MR. CLAYTON, ETC., ETC. The Collins mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. Ekridge, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Pne European mails will close in this city at half-past ten o'clock this morving. ‘The Heap (printed in Foglish and French) will be pablished at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, te wrappers, sixpecce. Sudseriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yoru Henarp will de received at the following places in Europe: — Lonpox—Am, & European Express Co., 17 and 18 Cornhill. Paris— do. do. 8 Pisce de la Bourse. MVERPOOL— 00. do. 7 Ramford street. Lsverroor—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, fast. The ecutenta of the European edition of the Hmritp ‘wil embrace the corzeepondence of the enlistment and arditation questions. a letter from Mr. Clayton on the @ayton- Bulwer treaty, and the news recetyed by mail and telegraph at this office during the previous week, and to the hour cf publication. rhe News. The arrival of the America at Halifax brings us some faint hopes of the safety of the Pacific. A gentleman who came out in that steamer, and with whom Mr. Collins is well acquainted, telegraphed on to him yesterday the following information. He states that, on the third day out from Liverpool, he saw a steamer without a bowsprit, and otherwise re- sembling the Co'lins vessels, heading towards the 8+. George’s Channel, with a signal set in the rig- ging, and as the Baltic (the only other Collins steamer which could have been in that neighbor- hood) arrived at Liverpool some days previous, after a good run of eleven days, there are some grounds for Lope that the steamer seen may be the Pacific waking ber way back to Cork or Liverpool in a dis- abled condition. The gentleman who sends on this statement haa, it appears, a good general knowledge of vessels, and is well acquainted with the Collins ships, having frequently crossed in them. The America’s news is not important. Its prinei- pal feature is the debate which took place in the Houce of Commons on the 15th, on the relations be- ‘ween Great Britain and thiscountry. Mr. Roebuck, who opened the discussion, expressed himself strony. ly in favor of the American view of the enlistment question, and was fiercely replied to by Lord Pal- merston, who styled the honorable gentleman the mouthpiece of the calumnies uttered in the United States against England, and as “holding a brief from the enemy.” in reviewing Mr. Seward’s speech, the London Times says that England will not give up the smallest of her rights to American elamor. The Peace Conferences were to meet on the 18th; but owing to the non-arrival of Count Buol and Ali Pacha, it was thought that the meeting wonld be postponed until the 21st. France and Austria were reported to have come to an understanding on the fifth point, in order to out-vote England if she at- tempted to make the disarming of the Eastern coast of the Black Seaa sine «ua non. They will, how- ever, concur with England as to the non-fortification of the Aland Isles. Thus before the Plenipotentia- aies assemble we have indications of the differences which are likely to divide them. The London Times betrays great anxiety on the subject of England's suecess in the Conferences. From the Crimea there is no news of interest. On the 26th January a surprise had been attempted against the allies, but it was discovered and defeated by the French. It seems, however, to have been bat a triffing affair. England is about to contract a new loan of $100 000,000. The Dutch have concluded an important treaty with Japan, which gives them privileges denied to England and the United States. The foreign news yesterday had the effect of strengthening the market for cotton. The sales embraced about 4,600 bales, closing at an advance of one-eighth of a cent. Flour opened firm, but after the receipt of the news it became heavy, and elored at 12}¢. per bbl. lower for common brands, Wheat waa quiet, and prices were nominal. Corn sold at 70c. a 73c. a 74c, for ail kinds. Pork was active, with sales of 2,000 bbls., including mess at $16 25a $16 37}, and prime at 814 25 a $14 37}. Sagars were firm, with a moderate stock. Coffee was firm, but sales were moderate. Freights weve unchanged and engagements light. We publish elsewhere the diplomatic correspon- dence relative to the offer to submit to arbitration the interpretation of the terms of the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, made by Great Britain to our govern- ment. ‘These documents were transmitted to the Senate yesterday, and gave rise to a spirited debate, in which Messrs. Mason, Pearce and Seward partici- pated. We alo give a letter from Hon. John M. Clayton, in which it sets forth the relations which that gentleman and Sir Henry Bulwer sustain towards each other, and in which Mr. Clayton ani- madverts upon the conduct of persons who have pot regarded bis course on Central American affairs as eutirely free from blame. Nothing of importance occurred in the State Senate yesterday. In the Assembly the special committee on the prohibitory liquor law made a report. They urge a repeal of the law, and recom- mend a return to the old system of licensing the sale of intoxicating Leverages, sugges‘ing, however, ‘one or two stringent provisions in respect to habi- tual drunkards. The committee stood as follows:— For the repeal, Messrs. Glover, Matteson and Fowler; against it, Mr. Dudley. Upon the reception of the report Mr. Greene, of Herkimer, moved it be laid on the table, but the motion was negatived by a majority of twenty-four, and the bil! was referred. The bill will undoubtedly pass the Assembly. The minority report sustaining the law will be presented in a few days. The Know Nothings held a Fillmore aad Donel- son ratification meeting at the Tabernacle last evening. The house was about two-thirds fall. Hon. J.N. Reynolds presided, and Andrew J. Do- nelson, the candidate for the Vice Presidency, read a speech. The meeting was respectably enthusi- astic; but the speeches, which we report elsewhore, were not brilliant. The effectaal blockake by ice of the Fast river and Sound for some weeks past, and the consequent stoppage of navigation, has kept back a great emount of the farm production of the East which sre usually brought to this city in ves sels during the entire winter. This is particularly the oase with potatoes, which, owing to the high rates of freight, are seldom bronght in by the rail- reada We learn that the quantity of potatoes stor ed in the cellars of the farmers of Vermont, New Hampshire, and portions of Connecticut, is uacom- monly iarge; and now that the navigation to the East is again opened, they will begin to tind their way to this market through the usual sloop chan- nels, and we may, therefore, soom iosk for a better quality of the article, at a mach cheaper rate. By reference to our retail market prices, given elsewhere, it will be seem that meat hes advanced in price, and now rates ata high figure. It is difficult ‘to give a satisfactory reason tor the enhanced price, especially as we find butchers willing to sell meat to hotel proprietors and public institutions at a much cheaper rate than they will tothe public. For in” stance, the follewing table will shew what the Com- aiasioners of Emigration pay for meat of the best qeality for their institutions, and what the retail ‘cestomers are asked:— Com. of Em, —-Redaikers pay ‘pay per Ud. per Be 6 12 6 4 $ i 94 7" ls 10 18 8 18825 30 ps 6 n 8 9al2 8 12 expectatomake money. Veni- gon is selling for twelve cents per pound, and is con- sequently cheaper than beef. Poultry and game rate high, as indeed do all kinds of produce. The prices this spring show a large advance on those of last spring. The ice in the Western rivers is rapidly breaking up. The Ohio is now navigable from Ciacinnati down. ‘We have received a copy of the address of the Nigger Worshippers’ Convention, lately held at Pittsburg. It is as long as the moral law. We can- net find room for it today. Oar Relations with England—fhe Whoie Case of Mnlistments ana Central America. We gave yesterday the elaborate correspon- dence between the authorities of Great Britain and the United States on the subject of the ea- listment difficulties, and to-day lay before cur readers the able argument of Mr. Cushing upon the legal questions involved therein. A few days sgo we published, in extexso, the diplo- matic pspers touching the Central American differences, the debates in the British Parlia- ment, and the discussions of the London press, and the very complete discussions in the United States Senate on the same subject. From these papers we dedrue— 1. Tbat the British government undertook, through its Minister and Consuls, a system of enlistments in this country, knowing it to be a violation of our laws and an infraction of our sovereignty. 2. That such enlistments, if permitted by our government, made us, in fact, a party to the Russian war, and wholly released the bel- ligerent States from their obligations to treat us as neutrals. 3. That the British government, Ministers and Coneuls were guilty of shameless dupli- city, because, as early as the 21st of April, 1854, Mr. Crampton, in obedience to instrac- tions from his goverament, informed Mr. Marcy that the United States would be re- spected asa neutral in the war, and we were aeked strictly to enforce our laws against all infractions touching our obligations as a neu- tral State. 4. That our government, after full know- edge bad reached the State Department of the violation of our laws and sovereignty, in the matter of enlistments, which is shown to have been as early as the 9th of August, 1855, by the correspondence between the President and the Attorney General, by omitting to dis- mies the offending officials of her Majesty’s government, became, in fact, a party to those violations, and is responsible for the con- sequences, 5. That the Clayton-Balwer treaty was a work of special pleading, in which it was not posible for the United States to gain suy- thing ; and bas involved, in its resnits, a seri- ous complication of our relations with Great Britain. 6. That the avowal of Lord Clarendon that he had offered to submit the differences arising upon the construction of the treaty to the decision of a friendly Power, was a dis- graceful effort to prejudice the governments of Europe against the United States, as itnow appears that Mr. Crampton laid before Mr. Marcy that proposition, in an indefinite form, for the first time, on Wednesday evening last. We are thus presented with the material points of the great controversy which has arisen between us and the British government If there ever was a case when forbearance ceased to be a virtue it is to be found in the conduct of the President and Mr. Marcy ia this matter of enlistments. If evera good cause was endangered by bad management, by time serving delays, by hesitating, indecisive ac- tion, it iscertainly seen in the manner in which those who have violated our laws have been treated by the American government. As with individuals, so it is with States, an omission to punish is taken as a license for renewed offences against the laws. The statutes must be enforced as the only su.c- guard of the citizen and the only means of protecting the honor of the commonwealth. In the present instance, as early as March of last year, the State Department avows that ¢ had knowledge that the government of her Majesty had established in all the princip:l cities of the Union stations for the enlistment of men for the Russian war. Onthe 6thif August following Mr. Pierce submitted the legal questions involved in such acts to @ Attorney General, calling his special attenti.n to the case of Mr. Crampton and the offending Consuls, Mr. Marcy impeaches the statement of Lord Clarendon, who aeserts his ignorance about the period alluded to, of the alleged conduct of his agents in this country, proving conclusively that his lordship has been guilty of either extreme forgetfulness, ignorance or duplicity, How, then, can the President and Mr. Marcy deny that, at least six months ago, they were fully cognizant of the violations of our laws, the shameless infraction of our sove- reignty, and of the particular parties or instru- mente in euch violations? There can be no reason at all, then, to doubt, in the first place, the existence of the acts complained of; that that they were done by the order of the British government, with @ full knowledge of their ilegality, by the agents of the British Cabinet, and that they were brought to the notice of Mr. Pierce and Mr. Marcy with all their de tails, individualities and criminalities, during she summer of 1855, What, ihen, was the duty of the Washington Cabinet in such a state of things? To dismiss the offending officials at once. By refusing todo so, and by permitting those persons to hold further relations with the State “Depart- ment, we cither adopted their crimes as our own or became actual parties to the violation of eur own laws There is no getting rid of this comclusion. “The officials were either guilty or not guilty; if the former, it was be- neath the government to hold farther relations with them; if the latter, we should have ceased te agitate the question involved im the alleged infraction, Crimes of a national charac- ter amst involve individual agencies.” We were not requiced to look beyond the per- eons for reaponsible parties. They enjoyed no’ exemption from the effects of guilt save that | which the statutes ef nations conferred upon; them, and these refer to the punishment and, not to the body of the offence. So tar es this govermment was concerned it devolved upon: its agents to vindicate the outraged laws ef the country; and if the comities of States exempt ed the offenders, or-either of them, from the’ operations of ourpenal statutes, the duty of enforcing such remedies as were in our pewer, was still more imperious and overwhelming, These remedies were dismissals, prompt and decided; but they were not resorted to. The offenders, with ample proof of their complicity end guilt in the handsef the State Department, were treated with all che consideration due to the Ministers and Consuls of Russia, whose cights, with our own, were indirectly violated. We thus insist that our government is in- ferentially a party to the infraction of our lews. There is no difference, in moral guilt, between a wrong door and an officer who per- mits a public statute te be violated without exencising his powers to bring the offender to justice. The very extent of guilt and outrage which Mr. Marcy is able te fasten upon Lord Ciarendon’s administration only increases his | responsibility for non-action when the evi- dence thereof was brought to his knowled; ¢ Itis in vain that he pleads his unsuspecting nature and the “confidential relations” sub- sisting between himself and Mr. Crampton, and hie profound regret at being com- pelled to believe he had been de- ceived; these disclaimers are wholly J aside by his exbsequent conduct ia refusing to exercise his powers of dismissal, which, in fact, were his only adequate remedy. It ie natural indeed that her Mejesty’s government, seeing the impunity with which its agents could disregard our righte—even after their gailt had been judicially determined—should apply other than conciliatory means to briag the matter to aconclusion. Instead, then, of sending an apology, she sent to our waters a powerful fleet to menace our unprotected sea board. Her conduct was that of an insolent bully, who, conscious of his strength, adds ineult to injury, menace to crime. And when this signal of the pacific policy of the British government had been despatched, aad was found to have had little effect upon this goverpment, the subject was brought to the notice of the official London press, aud the power of Lord Palmerston’s offensive means were declared to be amply sufficient to “sweep us from the seas and to lay our seaboard at the mercy of the powerful fleets of her Majesty.” Meanwhile, in view of these extraordinary demonstrations, what was the American Cabi- net doing to vindicate the outraged honor of our sovereignty and laws? To the fleets of England we returned Mr. Marcy’s des- patch of December 28, vindicating the policy of the American Cabinet, and fixing the guilt of the agents of Great Britain in the enlist- ments referred to. Was this the proper reme dy to be applied by an injured government? Gen. Cass avows distinctly that Mr. Crampton and his associates should have been seni home. The views of such a man are entitled to weight. He is without a rival in this coua- try in all that relates to the rights and inter course of States, With the amplest ability to maintain a good cauee in argument, he is suf- ficiently practical to know when arguments should cease and action commence. All the evils which have resulted from this enlistment affair epring from the neglect of our own government to apply at the proper time the proper remedy. By refusing to make that application, it relieved the offenders from that moral accountability which is au essential in the enforcement of criminal statutes. It is impossible to raise the guilty to the rank of respectability, and, at the same time, to con - vict him of criminal conduct. In regard to the Central American contro- versy we have little to add to previously ex- pressed opinions. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was one of those mistakes which a people are supposed to meke who change their rulers once in four years, and too often put into the high- est offices men of questionable intelligence and sagacity. Itwas something more than a stupid blunder; it was an impeachment of the Monroe doctrine, which, to say the least of it, bad the merit of boldness, dignity and firm- ness. If the principle of that famous dogma had been adopted asthe settled determination of the Arherican people, then the Clayton treaty was @ surrender of that principle. We avowe* a purpose of preventing colonization on this continent; it is manifest that if we carried out this idea it was all we claimed. In the face of it, Mess. Bulwer and Clayton entered into» negotiation, and also a treaty, under which the latter alleges Great Britain agreed to abandon her projects in Central America; but the former, with his government, understands it to bea compact by which the United States, in some measure, agree to the occupancy of important places in that region by her Majes- ty’s subjects. The convention, however, has been executed by both parties, and should now he enforced according to its legal tenor and effect. The constractioa put upon it by the London Cabinet is so offensive to ita owa anguage as to amount almost to insult. The two States agreed not to “occupy” or co lonize in Ceatral America; now, how it is pos- sible to give effect to this renunciation, at the same time claiming that a continuance of pos session is not occupation, we are wholly unable to comprehend. Occupancy has nothing to do with antecedents in this case. If Great Britain held rights, and had incurred obliga- tions in Central America dependent upon con- tinued possession, afterwards agreeing that she would not occupy any portion of that country, she was left to settle her delinquen- cies as best she might, and ought not to be per- mitted to plead the existence of previous en- gagements in avoidance, or as constructive of those made afterwards. But notwithstanding all our mistakes and blunders, both in reapect to enlistments and the Clayton-Bulwer convention, we still have a duty to perform. We are required to vindi- cate the national honor and to enforce the obligations of the treaty. In regard to the former point, the conduct of the British go- to relieve us from our ownerrore. Her fleet ‘despatched to these waters as a visible sign of power and token of what might be expected if we dared-to do justice to our effended com- amonwealth, and to demand the fulfilment of treaty obligations; the insolence of her official prees, the doplicity of her stateomen, the cen- -duct of her agents in this country, all point the govermmont at Washington to inflexible ‘firmness ae the only means of meeting the just demands of:the people of the United States. ‘fhe Sows trom Huvepe. The America, at Halifax, brings no news of she missing steamer Pacific. She had been twenty-four days out from Livenpool when the America saited, and is now consequently thirty- eeven daysout. Let usetill hope that some socident hasbappened to her machinery; that ehe attempted to make New York under can- vas, and that, like all sailiog vessels, she is de- luyed by the adverse weather. The news from Europe is wholly unimportant. Yesterday there were in Wali etreet all sorte of rumors; it was said that the Peace Confer- ences had broken up; that war with Fogland was imminent; that “private letters” were falt | of evil tidinge; and om the strength thereof, | speculators gambied no doubt profitably. The truth, as it will be found in our telegraph de- y i spateh elsewhere, is as re-assuring ae could | have been anticipeted. The funds, which the feverish excitement consequent upon the ac- ceptance of the Austrian propositions had raised to the almost unparalleled price of 91, had.quietly eubsided, and ruled at the more reasonable, though atill high figure of 90 1-4. The demand for cotton was rather on the in- crease, with a rise of an eighth; while bread- stuffs, as was to be expected from the prospest of peace, had slightly declined. There was seme talk of a new loaa— doubtless in.order to. wind up the war account, and capitalists were gathering én their funds to take advantage of it. The Peace Conference must have met last week in Paris, That its issue would be favapable to peace was so confidently expected by all that the war is universally spoken of asa thing of the past. Though the govern- ments speak of the war preparations being still continued, it is evident that they are prorecuéed in @ lex manner, and that the whole people of Europe would be taken by surprice, nay, would burst into outcry, if the Conferences terminated like those at Vienna. As to war with this country, there seems to be no apprehension in England. There had been a debate in the British Parliament, ot which particulars have not reached us; bat it is plain the British people will not do without their cotton and flour for the sake of gratify- ing the personal feelings of Lord Clarendon or Mr. Marcy. Being self-confessedly in the wrong, they will undoubtedly do the right thing in the end, and settle the difficulty. Prooress oF City Taxation.—Between six and seven millions of taxes are required to be raised from the hard earnings of our citizens for the year 1856. To this sum are to be added several large amounts for the purpose of sewering the Central Park, and otherwise rendering it eligible for the use and benefit of the people. Besides these demands upen us, we are in want of large public edi- fices, which can hardly cost less than seven millions of dollars. The great reservoir is also to be undertaken this year, the cost of which cannot be accurately estimated. All these out- lays superadded to the ordinary expenses of the city government must make a formidable and onerous total, and it behooves our city fathers to take the utmost care that no portion of the people’s money is profusely or unneces- sarily expended. The expense of laying out the Park and making it available should be thrown upon succeeding generations, who are to have the benefit of ite establisament. So ought that of the great reservoir. But the in- terest upon the capital required for these works will from this year make a part of our annual expenses. As to the propriety of erecting an expensive City Hall at the present time, there are dit- ferent opinions. Should six or eight millions be expended now to erect an edifice in the Park, it is pretty certain that in the course or a very few years, before indeed it will have been completed, the rapidly growing popula- tion in the upper part of the island will require an equal, if not a larger expenditure, for the accommodation of the city government in some situation nearer the centre of population. It may, therefore, be a question, whether it is not better to get along with our defective accom- moéations' for a year or two longer, until the public mind becomes settled as to the proper place to locate the new City Hall, rather than expore the city to double taxation for the same purpose at a later period. The antagonism between the up and down town interests have for two years defeated all the plans that have been presented. Last year a echeme was arrested by the inaction of the Board of Aldermen which would have cost the city at least cight millions of dollars. This year new plans are pressed upon the city govern- ment, which will cost the city not less than six millions. Let all these schemes be held insus- pense until the public mind becomes satisfied where the new edifice should be located for the convenience of the people fer centuries to come. A new impetus is about to be given to the growth of the city by the opening of the Central Park. Itis now evident that a very few years will witness the occupation of both sides of that splendid reservation by a dense and opulent population. Business, too, is augmenting #0 rapidly that it must expand it- self along the two rivers and through the cen- tral wards much above the Park. If we have not at present foresight enough to fix upon the point where the official centre of the city is ul- timately to be, let us wait till new develope- ments rhall settle that question, rather than prematurely enter upon the useless expenditure of millions to be drawn a second time from the people’s pockets within a few years to repair an error of location. Tuawep Ovt.—We are delighted to state that on Wednesday last, the day of our last snow storm, the ice blockade of the port of Baltimore was raised, and that four steamers from New York, one from Boston and ono from | Charleston went up and went in; and that on the same day immenre fields of ice were act in motion down the Delaware, from above New- castle, which saves the expenditure of any more money for gunpowder in blowing open a track to Philadelphia. Thus, the shipment of goods from New York, for the spring trade, to our sister cities, need no longer be by the Jer- sey railroads. Welcome, thrice welcome, the yernment bas been euch #8, to a great extent, grooming spring. fH2@2 48887 WAWw ss. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, BPnopesed Repodl of the Prebibitery Idquor ‘haw. Reo de, ae REW ‘YORK 12 aISLATURE. fonate. Auoany, Feb. 29, 2856, PREITIONS. Against the establishmeat of an Insurance Department ¢ Sete government. For the wid of the Deaf and Dum) Asylum in New York. BILLS REPORTED FAVORABLY. ‘Relative to ‘he punishment o: criminal within the ‘Eigbth Judicis) disiriet. Authorising the Supervisoxs of King’s county to creates Joan for the purpose of completing the penitentiary butld- ain thas coupty. In relation to the keeping of,gunpowder, &s., in New York. Rela ing to insurances in this State by foreign corpora- tions in New York ‘nt 8 ri eee To aid the New York Juvenile Asylum. To restrain banks of deposit acting as ravings banks. To app int a commistion vo locate a second State lune- the arylum. To amend the act relative to mutual insurance com- the husband the bear of the deceased wite, and Mr. WAspworet gave notice of « bill to bridge or tun- nel the Niagara ziver at Buffalo, ‘PILIA INTRODUCED. By Mr. Noxos— Amending the geoeral railroad law. By Mr. Ferpon—To amend the act relative to the care of rvant chi dsen. Mr. UrtaM—or an appropriation for the Rochester ‘Uxoversity. BILIS PASSED. To amend the eharter cf Hem ostead, Queen’s county. To form @ sommission for the pur, of equalizing the State tax. This bi/l authorises the appointwent of three commissions to vimt the various counties and re- past an equalized assessment; the supervisors to act upoa the made; the commissioners to be appoigted by he Governor and Senate. The vote on the passage 52004 $8 ayes Gamayn. A communica ion was received from the Commissfon- ers of Emigration, in reply to the Senate resolution call- ing for iptormation. The Bark Committee made » report, in reply to the Senate resolution, an to the policy of paying interest on eposits ot foreign ix stitutions in banks in this State. Assembly. ALBANY, Feb. 20, 1856, PETITIONS. From the New York Cyoographical Society for relief. To bridge the Niagara river. Against the Aloany bridge. REPORTS. By Mr. Oprta—Favorabty for an, speropeiaton to en lsrae the Ir eks on the Chemung Cunal. By Mr. Wittiaxs—!o amend the act relative to the rale of chureh property. By Mr. Srixot:—To amend the charter of Brooklyn. By Mr. WARNER—To incorporate the Yorkville (New York) library. By Mr, ANTHOY—Favorably on the Senate’s bill insor- porating the New York and Philadeiphia Steam Naviga- tion Company, By Mr. E. T. Woone—To open River street, Brooklyn, REPEAL OF THE PROUMITORY LAW—REPORT OF ‘TH MAJORITY ' O¥ THE CoMMITTEH IN 1T3 FAVOR, ‘The majority ot the ecmmittee to woom was referrod the bill to repeal the Prohibitory Liquor law of laa: ses- sion, consisting of Mesars. Glover, Ustieeon and Fowler, reported in favor of the zepeal, ina weitten report and by bill. In the revort the Committee take general ground egainst the legislation that seeks to dictate to man woat he thalleat or drink, oc to restrain his app Jaws, The question of corstitutiozality ws not upon, other than in a brief paragraph, which declares that tbe ecniiic'ing opinions 4s to the constitutionaiity of the Jaw, entertained by eminent legal authorities, should be considered av sufficient reason for not pressing 14 en- torcement. The bil! submitted re-enacts the ola excise iaw, with gowe alterations and advidons, and repea's tne Jaw af last seesion. The Supervisors and Jastices ot the Peace are made Comaissioners of Excise, and the price of Heenses is fixed at not less than tep, nor more than one hurdred dollars. Licenses for liquor to de drank on tae premises are confined to taverns or inns; and to those of gocd character, as under the old faw, and debts mate by .etailwg drinks, except to lodgers, are not recovera- bic. The fines are for selling in quantities less than five galicna, witbou' lisense, $25. For selling liquor, to be dreik on the premites, without license, $25. For selling to apprentices or servants, witbou'a master’s consent, or to uivors, $10. ‘Lhe followirg sections are new:— See. 21. Obliges every officer of the law to arrest all psons found ectoally viclating any provisions of ibe act, and to take them before a magistrate, who shall requize from them « bond tor $100, with two suraties, to appear and answer a court, or commit them to jail, nn- eas they shall elect to be tried by tre magistrate. It shail also be the duty of anct officers to arrest all iatoxi- cated persone, who shall be cox fined until sober, and then mse 10 tesiy as to where they procared their tiquor; vhe selling Liquor to intoxicated persons being punisuable by ten collars fine, and imprisonment for ten days in deiaust of payment. kor negiect of these duties, the offi- cers are fined $50. ‘Sec 23. Impores the fine of $10 on perscns who sell or give liquor to int xieated people. ‘Sec. 24. Upon the compiaint of » husband or wife, paren: cr guar or overseers of the poor, before & ogietrate, that person is en habitual drunkard, the megis'rate sball issue an order to all liquor dealera not to supply the party compiained against with liquor for six mothe; and a violation of the order subjects tue vio- lawr to $60 penalty, to g> to the poor, Sec, 25, Impores $25 fine forjselling or giving away of liquor by a licensed dealer on Sundays, except in cases of sickness, or to actual travellers cr boarders at a tavern. cee. 34. Provides thet the act shall not affect tue mode of gianting licenses specified in any act of insorporation of any ci'y, town or village. The following provitios Sec. $8. Requizes Grand urder the act, and also all cases where persons shall have adul eraved liquors, or sold them whea aduiterated, which are ‘eclared misdemeauors, punishadle by fine of $100 and three months imprisonment. Sec. 39. If overseers of ths poor neglect to prosecate for apy penal'y provided by the act, for ten days ater ecmpluint, any person may prosecute in their name, after giviog security to the magistrate fur paymen; of costs, should he fail te jucgment, Sec, 40. Tke term magi inciudes Justises of the Peace, Peliew Justices, County and City Jadges and Re- corderr, who are reqvired to bold special courts for the trial of offences under the act, and to exercise fall au- thority, as do Courts of Spectal Sessions as now consti- tuted: See. 42. Requires the District Attorney to provecute without deley any dond given in pursuance of section twenty-one, after tLe same sha 1 have been estrested. See. 43. Repea s the for the prevention of intem. Perance, pauperists and crime, passed April 9, 1855, ‘The report was gned by # mejority of the committee. Mr. GREEVE moved tbat the report be laid on the ta- b’e util the minority should report. bine and pays were called for, and the motion to Jay on the table lost, by ayes 45, nays 69. This was con- eicered as @ teat of the question, and ensures the pas- sage of the bill. e new:— juries fo present all offences Othe Virginia ocratic State Convention. &X-GOVERNOR IN A FIERY FURNACE— ® COMES OUT UNSCATHED. Ricumonn, Feb. 29, 1856, The Convention met at 11 o’clock to-day. Mr. Wnty, from tthe Committee on Organization, re. ported a neries of resolutions, appointing Committees of Correspondence and Vigilance, recommending jach elec- toral district to appoint two delegates and two alternates to the Cncinrati Vonvention, ard asking the members of this Convention to contribute one dollar each to defray aspeenel, . Jonnsor, of Alexandria, asked if the Hon. Wi'liam Smith was entitled to a reat on the floor. He was 4 caa- cidate ot the Know Nothing party at the last election, ndalso proposed as @ cancidate for the Speakership of bod House ot Representatives by two Know Nothing mem- 8. fidenee cf the Cemocratic party, and at this moment nis name can be ren upon a Know Nothing ticket, which {¢ neeersury, can be produ Out of four hundred and ninety-seven democratic votes cast in my county and town, he got rixty-rix. He wished the Convention .o ce cl¢e whether such a man was entitled toa seat here. He thought it ought to be purged of all impurities. He moved that he be not entitled to a seat. Here there were loud cheers ai ies ot ‘‘Saatth,’? ‘ Smith.” Mr, Smith cawe forward. Mr. Jackson, Aucitor of the State—Lam « registered member of this Convention, it he is not. (Great con‘u. ston. A Drtrcate—I rise to preserve order hare—I move that the sutject be reterrea +o the deiegation from Mr. Saitth’s cisuict, (Ciies of “Hear pim?—“hear him’'—noar bim.”’) Mr. Cox. of Petersburg—If Mr. Smith is not a domo ¢rat, I om ot. Toe previous question was aalied, Dut not suatained The Pursipent—[t is not for me to know whetouc Mr. Smith isn member of this Convention or not. If pot, we capnot hear him. Iwill put the question whether he sbeli be beard or not? ‘The question was cecided in the efirmative, ant Mr Swim aecended the platform and made a long speecn tn derence of his position. He said be never quicted the de mocratic perty, but refused to make wac upon ths Know Nothings, seeing no good rewul that could follow, Ae was always & strict constructioniat, aad he thought it impreper to war upon thore who maintained such toc uloe, nd were of the same fleh and biood with him. He denied baving ever attacked the democratic party, o: having joired the Know Nothings. and belisye: that there would be but one party in thé South, and that the eemceratic party. His chie! crime was refusing to xup ort the vomination of the Stauuton Convevtion egainst Bic vredettetions. Mr, JACKSON. Mr. fsnTe— Yes, Mr. Jackron—It is well kvowa that many Know Noth- i] Them:relves democrats. Task the gentlemen it he ts a democrat, in contradistinction with the nomina- tions mace at Philad «iphia, vm——I yaid there were but two porties in thts z bo democratic and black repnsiican, The question is answered in the position [hold in regard to to them. (Cries of ‘No, no, no,’’ and great confasi on.) Mr. Svr7Hi—I could not think ‘for one instau* of voting for the t hijade)phia nominees. enovgh? Mr, Tyrer, of Farquar county—Should Mr. Wise receive the nomination of the Cincinnati ¢gnvention, will Mr. L interrupt the gentleman? T suppore that is distinct He was now regarded as ® man unworthy tne con. . requires great in- doeeman’ tor me to enarifice my conscience, bi dodging won't fo. (Oration) Mr. Sum ‘ 1 I stand here able to look God’ Convention. Mr. Dovatass wi hdrew his remarks. Mr. Tytzn—Since be bas avowed himself a ready sup- poner ef the pomiaation ot tb + Cincinnati Conver and 3 move he se unanimously admitted to » scat on thie. oor, Mr, Trnerox, of Alezand-is, ssid he made war upon Mr. ‘Smith at an election ip his distriot, when he weered os ths neminee of the democratic party. When he 1 fought, and Twould have done it if had regu! Mr, Jounsoy—I heve proof strong as Holy Writ Mr. Smith was s candidate before the Winchester Convention for [nomination before Flournoy’a. nomivation. He assailed the dewoc atic nommee, but +tterwards was silert, fioding bis chances were lost, Im: reply to Mr, Smith’s remark thet voted fer a Know No- ‘thing, I sey I voted for Mr. Baroour, knowing he could. nd because I looked upom him as an honest. hgh minced open end manly itician, Tre- ard Mr. Smith in fer different light. b ioreom him aa an insidious enemy to the cemoc atic party, and I voted. egainst bim at last election, and would do 0 again. (Ap-- jlause.) Three years ego he was op) to convent knowing he was not likely to get a nomination. I believe be was guilty of corruption when Governor of Virginia, Mr. Satu explained «hat on the occasion to whieh the gentleman referred he #rote a letter saying that conven- Hons were necessary sometimes, but they were justifiable only when the people thought them necessary, He ready to bow in aubmi-rion to them. Pe After some remarks from Messrs. Willock, of Alexan- aria, and Lee, of Orange Co., touching on Mr. Smith's” course, the question on the motion to refuse him a seat was put und deeided in the negative. The Convention adjourned 1111 seven o’clock began Shy om: it in Centsal Bank tes ‘Tennessee. UIBVILLE, Feb. 29, 1856. The notes of the “entral Bank of Tennessee, at Nash- vile, are refused by the other Nashville banks. The- bank is said to be owned in New York. fhe At:orney General of the State has been directed to examine into its ccndition. Their recent issues are payable at Dan- Gricge, Jefferson county, Tenuessee. Business Atal ot Nowfolk. . Nonrork, Feb. 28, 1856. ‘There 16 greet demand fir costing vento ec tate the heavy supply of corn, which is daily arriving, to North. erp ports, e storehouses are filled, and a quan- tity te afloat, A heavy lumber merchant of Hyde county, N. C., is re~ ported to have tailed. Liabilities over ait @ millions assets very iarge. Assauit upon an Editor. Cincaco. Feb. 29, 1856. Thomas Hayne, Umted States Dis rict Attorney, at- tacked Charles L. Wilson. editor of the Chicago Journal, in the street yesternsy striking him a severe biow in the face. Mr. Wilson returned the blow, knocking Hayne through the window of the Siate Bank. ‘he difficulty was occasioned by the comments in the Journal on the political course of Hayne. ‘The Ohio and Misaissipp! Railroad. CurcaGo, Feb. 29, 1856. The injunction applied for to restrain the Ohio and’ Mississippi Railrcad trom jaying tracks across the dyke: ta bloody Island, opposite St. Louis, has been The Circuit Court, at Belleville, this week, ded that the track might be constructed immediately. The Catastrophe in Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, ». 29, 1856. Workmen have been ergagea through the night remov- ing the ruins of the warehouse of Messrs. Busby & Co. ‘Two bedies have been exhumed—chat of Joseph Muller, car sgent, and Mark Donohue, measurer, Another body in still aniong the Navigation of the Western Rivers, q Waeenina, Va., Feb. 20, 1856. Navigation has been resamed from Uineinnati down.. There are prospects of the ive breakicg here to-morrow. The Vailey and Monorgabela rivers are breaking up; the. water is very high at seme points; at Brownsville it is 16 feet and yising. Wheeling creek i4 gorged at ita mouth, large bodies of ice having besome wedged in, damming up the stream. We expect damage trom the high water, but ag yet ail fs wa‘e. Marine Disasters. Norroix, Va., Feb. 29, 18568. The Bremen brig Boaver, from New Ocieans far Mar- seliles, put in with loss of rails and foremast sprung. The trig Falson, before reported, will go on the ways without Gischerging. Telegraph Communication § Cuicaco, Feb. 29, 1855. Ail the telegraph cables croseing the ‘Missiaaippi river have been rarried away by ihe breaking up of the ice. Moraets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 20, 1856. Stocke are dull. Quotations a foliows:—Pennsylvania 5's, 84%; Rendirg Railroad, 40; Long Inland, 165;5 Moi ris (anal, 143;5 Yennsylvania fattroad, 45 PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. otber descriptions in demand at former rat Nuw OxLEANS, Feb. 29, 1856. Seles of cotton to-day 8,500 bales, at a dechne of ie. Mi*dling quoted at 9c. a 9c. York unsettled. Flour rather better, Cranteston, Feb. 28, 1856. The cotton sales here for the week’ amount to 8,000: bales. Good middling 94 9Xe. 45,000 bales. Rice is active, de. ART AND ARTIST8 IN New York.—A large number of ladies avd gentlemen assembled at Rev. Dr. Magoon’s, last Thursday night, to spend a social evening end look over his collection. Weir, Durand, Huntington, Elliot, Gray, Church, Kensett, White, Baker, Hart, Richards, Hall, Hicks, Cropsey, Cast'ear, Mignot, Ranney, Chappel, Lockwood, Johnson, Shattuck, Coleman, Oddie, Doughty and Mré. Spencer could view their own ehoice pro- ductions arranged together, while many {ellow-artists Joined with them in their cordial appreciation. The dcetor hes @ rich eollection of water color drawings, by eminent German, French, and English masters, which he liberally employs with regard to the uses and advance- ment of refined art. In this instance, invitations were imised to artists, and the occasion was a very happy one. The Know Nothing National Convention. TO THE BDITOR OF THB HERALD. In your abstract of the peokalaen! ot the. Neriooal Convention, at\Philadelpbin, your reporter ‘hae fail into an error with reterence to the vote of Michigan. He representa that the delegation voted for George Law aud subsequently cuanged to Fillmore. The delegation froma that tate made no change, and the finel record of their vote stands for Law. 8. T. LYONS ‘Senatorial delegate from Mi . Porvuuation F VickssurG.—According to a re~ cent enumeration of the population of thia city, it a yess that there sae 4,643 inhabitants, whites 3,187, lacks 1,424, The New York Weekly Herald. THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE UNITED BTATES AND GREAT BRITAIN ON THE FO- REIGN ENLISTMENT QUESTION—NEWS FROM EU- ROPR, TAE SOUTH PACIFIC, CENTRAL AMERICA, OREGON, CALIFORNIA, ETC., BTC. ‘Tox Werxir Heraxp will be published at eleven o'cloclt this morning, Its contents wili embrace the Diplomatic Cor- respordence between the governments of the United States and Greet #rilain in relation to the enlistment question; news from Kurope, the Bouth Paerfic, Central America, Californis, Cregon, &c.; Congressional and Legislative proceedings; Rdi~ torials, Financial and Commercial Intelligence; Latest News by Telegraph; together with « variety of local and miscellane~ ous mailer, Single cepies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, can be hed at the counter, Price sixpence, Novel, Sriiiant, Original, strikingly Kle- partand remarkably eben) ‘ K NUR erEe style of Fit wilt be ready on Thursday even- ing, the 2Suh inet. Krox’s spring style of hat isa novelty that must command ion. admiration, Krox’s spring style of bat i briillanv’ in manufacture caatis onique’’ in coreeption, Knox's Gige? style of bat, “* ‘ly elegant,” is eoid at. tLe ecor omicai price of four dollarr. Knox's spring stsje ot hat will be ready at the aforemen- Foved (ime st Knox’s popular establishment, corner of Broad- yay and Fulton sieet, ard all will negnowiedge it worthy of BOX, Spring Styic, for 1556, Now Ready, at the New Bat Company's, 146 and 148 Nassau street. Best quality three dol.ars only. Thepubdito are invited to call, We'sell ~ singe hat at who eeale price. all and see, Genin will issue his Spring Style of: tlemen’s hats for 1256 on Eeraraby, Meta 1 chiral 214 Broadway, opposite St. Paul’s Church. Fe pryben tel Spring pel of Gentiemen’s Hata Wii be irene aturday, March 1. If Broad- Way, coeund door from ‘Uuene urver™” “teerooms O01 Remember, for Your Sprit: . eps i” ‘pring Hat, You Must. Remember, bie peice is but four dollars. Kemember, (hat his bats ave unapproachablein beauty, style and dorabiiit, his extalishment is on the corner of Broads Rewer ver, way and Fuiton s'rest, ets the language of the ghost of Hamlet's father, “Remem- A Case of Paris Hats, for Gentlemen, Jast received by GENIN, 214 B roadway. Opposite 8, Paul's church,