The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ZaMES GORDON BESNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘@PVeCe ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON GTS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broad way—Heune rue HUNTER, on sus Fouusr Fras xp raz Daxon Honse. WIBLO’B GARDEN, Broadway —Sacuet Manat sce—Tuxee Onsnn Pas- Six Kine. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Worrmn’s Tas —Jumey Lixo. LAURA KEENE’S VARIETIES, Broadway—Two Loves ano 4 Lare—Noverty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Giwe or Lire—Po- 6s-BON-7A5, BROADWAY VARIETIEA, 472 Broadway—Biick Erno oman Wisormne faeereae ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Brosdway—Rrnt: voumances—Harry Man, on Treaty wits Jaran. BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- way—Nxcro Minerasisy—Coorr or Ice-Burc. ATHEN ZUM, No. 664 Broadway—Panonamic Porous oo @mna ann Javan. sin @MY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Broadway—Comrun amp Fansweu Bunarit Congaat to Pack to New York, Monday, Barch 3, 1856. Pas The News. ‘The Baltic is mow in her twelfth day out from ‘Miwerpool. She brings advices from Europe to the ‘20th ult. Advices from South America, by way of England, are dated at Buenos Ayres on 2d; Montevideo, 5th; Blo Janeiro, 15th; Bahia, 19th; and Pernambuco, 22a of January. Specie and diamonds valued at 280,000 had been recefved in England. Things were @all and gloomy in Buenos Ayres. Flores had again invaded the country. He landed at Las Pie. @ras, with four or five other chiefs, and on Christ- mas day arrived at Arroyo del Medio, the boundary Mme between Sante Fe and Buenos Ayres. After halting here some time and measuring the force they would have to encounter, the party leaders gaddenly broke up and dispersed, Flores shaping his course South, in the direction of Pergamino. A strong force was about to attack the Indians in the South. Trade was much depressed, owing to the ‘war movements and preparations. Articles of daily eongumption were heavy. Large contracts for hides had been made. Shipping trade transactions were few and not remunerative, The money market in Buenos Ayres oscillated very much daily. In Monte- video anarchy, confusion and social disorder prevailed im every form. Cholera had disappeared from Rio Ja- neiro. Business prospects were lighter, and trade was expected to revive there soon. Interesting statistics of the impasts and exports during the year 1855 are given. the Bahia markets dry goods, flour and fish Wbundant. Coffee was in good demand, and cocoa eag@rly sought for. In Pernambuco there had been heavy sales made during January. Flour moved off slowly; sugar was looking up a little; eharters for freight were very heavy. Our Havana correspondent, writing on the 25th ef February, announces the landing, from the Bri- tieh ship Australia, of three hundred and fifty-eight africans, who are called apprentices, but are in reality slaves, uncared for and hopeless. The un- fortanates were shipped by a company chartered im Madrid. The British arbitrator in the mixed Spanish commission, organized under the slavery suppression treaty, had also arrived. The officers of the United States sloop-of-war Cyane had been entertained at the palace previous to sail- img on a cruise. The steamship Pelago got ashore a few days before, in the bay of Neuvitas, when, after an altercation, the engineer shot the captain and killed him. The second mate immediately discharged a pistol and killed the enginecr. Robberies and murders were still rife in the island. The Archbishop of Santiago was reco- vering from the wounds inflicted on him lately by an assassin. There had been some gaand military fetes in Havana, and a description of the light ar- tillery of the island is given. The peace news from Europe was well received. Sugars had, however, advanced. The city of Havana was healthy. Our correspondence from Albany, published else- where, is very copious and more than ordinarily in- teresting, as it presents a most complete resumé of all the matters which engage the attention of the executive government, or are transpiring before the Legislature. Only one town in the State has paid anything into the treasury of the mill and a quarter tax, and the Comptroller has been forced to borrow money from day to day in order that the govern- ment might be enabied to’go on. Members had been liberally supplying themselves to some hun- dreds of volumes of the colonial history, printed at the expense of the State. An exciting debate took place in the Assembly on the question of referring the New York Tax bill to a select committee, composed of two city and three country members. After Mesers. Anthon, Duganne, Baily and others had spoken, the matter was referred to the Committee on Cities and Villages. It was proposed to erect a monument to the memory of Tom Paine, in his character of a propagandist of revolution, but the motion was lost. About twenty pages of the Canal Commissioners’ re- port are wanting. They contain important tables, giving the cost of repairing the works. A full re- port of the speeches of Messrs. Anthon and Mallory on the Tax bill reference are given with the report of the Select Committee of the House, recom. mending the repeal of the present Prohihitory Liquor law. The appeal of Major Cocks to the Commanderin-Chief from the action of General Hall in causing his arrest, has brought forth the im- portant military decision that brigade majors are responsible to the Commanderin-Chief alone. A spicy correspondence between General Sandford and the Adjutant General in relation to this matter is given. The canal claimants and lobby men were exceedingly active. Details of their manceuvres are reported. Mr. Rielly, of New York, has proposed a new bill for the regulation of our city gas companies, whilst other members have proposed measures for the purpose of creating another city park here; abolishing the business of pawnbroking; regulating the carriage of gunpowder; regulating savings banks, insurance deposits, and establishing an hospital for Jews in New York. It will be seen bya report, given in another ~eolumn, of the Committee om Ordinances of the Beard of Aldermen, held on Saturday afterncon, cthat the subject of a new contract to remove the offal.of the city, augurs fair for a considerable pre- @imimary squabble at least. It is to be hoped it will +-mot meach in durance the Reynolds contract liti- The ‘rig Linden, from New Orleans, for New ‘ork, with a cargo of sugar and molasses, went on 1 hore, about one mile north of Squan inlet, at two ‘dlock.onSunday morning. The crew were saved. ‘A. ‘leat accounts she had nine feet of water in her. + Whe Delaware river is now navigable, after an emt wigo of ice since the lst of January. There were yesterday about one hundred and fifty vessels fn the #ondstead at the Delaware Breakwater, wait- ing ste wmto tow them up to the city. At Baltimore navigat $n was resumed yesterday. ‘The va tae Of foreign goods imported at Boston during ti week ending Feb. 29 amounted to ig ei o C cotton were active Saturday, and the market close... Srm. The transactions embraced about 3,000 tu Ves. Flour and grain were without change of mom ent, while traneactions were light, as dealers were Waiting steamer’s letters. Pork, owing to the larg ¥ stock on the iet instant, fell off, and mesa gold at $16 31a $16 374, closing dull at the former figure. Lard was dull, at 10jc. for fair to good. A fair business was done in sugars and coffee, at firm rates. Freights were unchanged, while engagements were moderate, a8 shippers were wait- ing the receipt of private letters. ‘The Evils of the Mearse Dectrine-Yhe Ba lance of Power and Non-Intervention, Perhaps no political dogma has ever per- formed so little beneficial service or given birth to more errors than what we denominate the Monroe doctrine. It originated with the fifth President of the United States, who avow- ed it to be the permanent policy of the federal Union to prevent, if need be, by force, Buro- pean colonization on this continent. I: is true, we have quibbled a little amongst ourselves about the object and extent or scope of that declaration—a work of folly, for the avowal iteelf was but an irresponsible speech from an individual who had many equals in his day and who has been succeeded by superiors. The declaration itself, however, was well enough— it was no more, perhaps, than a fair expression of the popular mind of this country. It meant non-intervention, and was of course as significant in what it did not as what it did ex- press. We exacted by it that European gov- ernments should not intermeddle in American affairs, and we conceded by this exaction that we would not intermeddle in European affaira, Thus we undertook in respect to this con- cession an impoesible and very absurd work. We might have the physical power to carry out the declaration so far as this continent is concerned ; but it was neither wise or possible to avoid intervening in affairs on the other side of the water. From the moment our gov- ernment became organized, we gave unmistake- able signs of commercial enterprise—of general maritime energy. We became at once con- nected with all the States of Christendom in the operations of trade; and it is but fair to claim that we have been largely instrumental in removing the shackles of international inter- course, and of binding nations together by the ties of interest and of friendly brotherhood. We have done as much, and perhaps more, to discredit the savage remedies of war, by exalt- ing the avocations and securing the profits of industry, as apy other people. The fruits of this policy are seen in the rapid extension of our commerce, in the removal of restrictions upon navigation by all the maritime govern- ments of the world; in the prosperity of indas- try, in prolonged peace between States; in the unpopularity of war, which signifies the increasing power of the people in the control of public affairs. The doctrine of political end territorial ex- emption on this side of the water was all well enough then, unless it was made to interdict the expression of American ideas in the con- cerns of Europe. We have, by our enterprise and by the interests of commerce, which may be denominated an international institution, diawing to itself the right to be heard in the councils of nations, fairly won the privilege of being recognized and regarded in those coun- cils. Mr. Marcy’s reasoning on the Sound dues, in his despatch on the balance of power in Europe, is a contradiction in itself. The United States must now, or very soon, take a deep interest in the balance of power, as it is called, because it isa part of the great mari- time movement of the world; and, adjusted in one way or another, it isto be seriously pre- judicial or favorable to the commerce of our people. Mr. Marcy, in this respect, has fallen far short of that enlightened statesmanship which ought to distinguish the presiding officer of our foreign affairs, He seems wholly to bave forgotten or overlooked the great fact which is exhibited all over the world at the present moment, that maritime affairs and in- terests are winning control, to a considerable extent, over the deliberations of governments, Commerce is an institution which has only been distinctly recognized as a power in the State within the last fifty years; and it not only has shown that it ought to be heard in the manage- ment of public concerns, but has made itself felt whenever its interests have been sacrificed or its rights violated. The government of the United States, des- pite the Monroe doctrine, has on several occa- sions directly interfered in the affairs of Eu- rope, in behalf of American commerce. The very birth of the American government gave rise toa war between England and France, in- volving the European doctrines concerning the rightsof neutrals. The United States at once asserted the principle that ‘ free ships make free goods;” and in 1785 we negotiated a treaty with Prussia, recognizing it; and previously, in 1780, the Empress Catharine IL. of Russia, had communicated to the different belligerent and neutral Powers the famous declaration of neutrality, which was at the time assented to by France, Spain and this government, as bel- ligerents; and Denmark, Sweden, Prussia, Hol- land, the Emperor ef Germany, Portugal and Naples, as neutral Powers. England refused still to admit this innovation, and appealed to the” principles generally acknowledged as the law of nations, being the only law between Powers when no treaties subsist.’ Our nego- tiations and wars with the Algerines—our de- cided attitude upon the Sound dues, are inter- ventions in the face of Mr. Marcy’s elaboruis argument to prove the non-intervention of our government in European matters. The em- bargo and non-intercourse which preceded the war of 1812, were remedies applied to the se- ries of hareh and illegal measures adopted by England and by Napoleon agminst the com- merce of the United States. Even at so early a period as the commencement of the present century the whole powers of our then feeble ad- ministration were directed to securing the free- dom of the seas, as the great highway of na- tions, and as the means of commercial inter- course of civilized States. The pretensions of England to control the Nau Seas, and every- where to exercise an absolute supremacy over the ocean, was promptly rejected by this government, in obedience to the demands of its commerce. The impressment of our seamen and the violation of our flag were resisted by war, and followed by their practical abandon- ment by our great maritime rival. All these things signalize our intervention in European affairs, and they evince a settled purpose by the American people, on all proper occasions to demand a hearing when any great move ment affecting States is contemplated. Oar policy must needs cover all the grounds upon which we have material interests. Our influ. ence must be exerted on all occasions involving the legal rights of our people; and it is ob- vious, from a single glance at the trade of the world, and much more by a tolerable foresight of the future, that our citizens, our ships and our property are to be found on all the oceans, and in nearly all the ports of the globe. When the laws of commerce have been violated we have exacted restitution and the payment ot damages. Both France and England aré espe- cia) examples of submission to the demands pf NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1856. our government in this respect. In truth, our whole career ass nation has been signalized by intervention in European affairs, We have secured essential modifications in what has been received as the public law of nations; and this is the highest possible example of in- tervention. All experience and all rational caloulations concerning the future, alike teach us that we cannot subsist as a Power without constant interference with the concerns of na- tions. The idea of non-intervention is no more rational than would be that ef non-communion. Interoouree itself signifies a right to be heard; and as ap adjustment of international balances cannot be made without involving the material interests of our people, it is something more than folly for our public men to be interposing disclaimers of all right of European interfe- rence. Mr. Marcy’s letter on the Kozsta affair, though it effeéted its object, should have been based upon the commercial laws of nations. On that foundation the position of the Pierce Gabinet would have been not only unassail- able, but must have laid the foundation of im- portant changes in the future intercourse of States. By the policy we have pursued our very in- dependence becomes subserviency—the aseer- tion of the lesser right is followed by the sacri- fice of the greater. Besides, our great maritime rival is a European State, full of ambition, of power and of unscrupulous designs. She has controlled the world by her commerce and its nayal adjuncts, and it now remains to be seen whether we will contest her supremacy or not. Tuey Doy’r Lixe Ir.—The Seward anti- slavery organs find the American nomination of Mr. Fillmore a bitter dose. The Albany Journal opens the campaign against him in a regular broadside of rockets and musketry. An important element in the estimates of the Sewardites has been taken away. They virtu- ally confess now that they had counted upon such proceedings at Philadelphia as would end in the absorption of the bulk of the Know No- things into the Seward alliance; and that, upon this basis they had founded their hopes of electing a Northern sectional Presidential ticket. They were willing to concede to the Know Nothings all their anti-Irish Catholic and anti-alien prejudices and principles, Arch- bishop Hughes to the countrary notwithstand- ing, provided that these Know Nothings would only bow down to the same common idol of ne- gro freedom with Master Seward’s Niacer Wor- SHIPPING conspirators. But the selection of Fillmore flings the defiance of the national Know Nothings, at least, into the teeth of Sewardism, and touches the arch-agitator in his tenderest point. Seward’s organs accord- ingly declere that this Philadelphia nomina tion is but a factiows diversion of @ perverse faction for the success of the democratic party. It may be 80; but at all events it is a move- ment which clips the wings of the abolition Holy Alliance, and reduces it to its natural dimensions. Derence or THE GuLF Trape.—It is under- stood that in lieu of the Fortification bill re- ported by the Military Committee of the Se- pate on Wednesday, and which was recommit- ted to them, the committee will report an amended bill to-day, embracing all fortifica tions now in progress of construction; while the Finance Committee will report an appro priation for such new works as the War De- partment has deemed necessary to the nationa defence. We perceive that attention was specially called to the Tortugas. The importance o this position is not generally known. Facing the Moro Castle, on the north side of Florida Straits, and possessing one of the most capa- cious harbors in the world, it as completely commands the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico as Gibraltar does the Mediterranean. The mouth of the Mississippi is here and not at the Balize. A fortification of the first class ishere in course of conetruction. Some three hun. dred thousand dollars has been expended on it, and yet its isolated position, nearly one hun- dred miles from the shores of Florida, and its destitution of all means of defence, will, in the event of hostilities with any maritime power, render this strategetic and important position an easy prey to any petty pirate or priva- teer. , The work should be at once completed. Mr. Gurnrm a Harry May.—Secretary Guthrie has some twenty-three millions sur- plus in the Treasury, of the care of which he haa become quite exhausted. A new Gadsden treaty, a new Texas claim, a Pacific railroad, or anything that would ease him ot this sur- plus cash, would be a great relief tohim. He has also been devising, for a year or two, a modification of the tariff for the reduction of the revenues from that source,so as to diminisi the accumulation of any further surplusage upon his hands. We think, therefore, that with the preparations going forward in both houses of Congress for a brush with England—pre parations in the form of bills for war steamers, bilis for new fortifications, bills for furbishing up all our old army muskets, and applications from the President for confidential appropria- tions for the contingencies of war, Mr. Secretary Guthrie will soon be a happy man. From present appearances, at the adjournment of Congress, he will be able to clap his hands together in exultation, crying slond:—My iron boxes are all empty, and now with an easy conscience, and without fear of thieves or burglars, I can lie down at night and sleep till ten o’clock in the morning. What a bore it is to be bothered with so much dormant specie that is not our own. Let Congress act for the relief of Mr. Guthrie. Twenty-three idle mil- lions put afloat for war steamers fortifications, fire arma, &c., would give quite an impulse to business all ovyer-the country. Let Mr. Guth- rie, then, be relieved. Wuere Do tue Niccer Worsuirrers Ger THEIR SupriiEs.—We learn from competent au- thority that many Euporean politicians hope to hasten the dissolution of the American Union by assisting in the triumph of the Nia- Ger Worsuirrino Presidential ticket, and the leaders of the party are in active correspon- dence on the subject. Their supplies will come from abroad. The only hope for the Union is in the patriotiem of the masses. Tue Crisis Cominc.—The coming contest for the Presidency will be the great crisis for the Union and the constitution. There is no- thing but the nigger question to fight about, and the war on that subject may be, as an Ohio delegate to the Know Nothing Convention said, a war “to the knife, The ball isopened, Who can predict the result ? Some or Tue Own Jackson Mex—Hene THEY Go anv Tuerz Tuxy Go.—The revulsions, re- volutions, collapses and re-constructions of the political parties of the country since the palmy days of Old Hickory, have made a regu- lar slaughter house destruction of some of the most conspicuous of the old Jackson men when Jackson was a living power in the land. A few examples by way of illustration will suf- fice for our present purpose. Martin Van Bu- ren, Thomas H. Benton, C. C. Cambreleng, Ben- jamin F. Butler, Francis P. Blair, John M. Niles, and a host of others who occupied the highest seats in the democratic synagogue under Jack- son, have strayed off into the camp of the Sew- ard NicceR Worsuirrers, and are now among the active leaders of this seditious Northern crusade against the peace of the South and of the Union. On the other hand, Andrew Jack- son Donelson, (Jackson’s adopted son and pri- vate secretary,) and an army of hard shell Jackson democrats, imluding forty odd thou- sand in the State af New York, have been acting for a year or two with the Know No- things. The antislavery gang were drawn off in 1848 by Van Buren in the first place, and their desertion has been confirmed by the pre- sent administration. The Doneleon, or hard shell deserters, were driven into the Know Nothing ranks by the free seil Van Buren spoils policy of Pierce and Marcy. Another democratic nomination of Van Buren or Pierce, and where will the party be? Let the sachems of Tammany Hall hold an early meet- @e upon the subject, and give us the result. Tue Porr oF PuiLapELPHia—Imuportant Cor RECTION.—In a brief editorial, the other day, upon the raising of the blockade of our ice- bound fresh water seaports, we suggested that on the 27th ultimo a passage was opened up to Philadelphia, A Philadelphia despatch, on the other hand, dated March 1, 43 P. M. states that “several steamers this morning have succeeded in effecting a passage to Marcus Hook, whence a passage to sea is uninterrupt- ed.” Also that ‘the steamer H. B. Beach, of New York, and several oyster boats, have suc- ceeded in reaching the city this forenoon, and that before Monday (i. ¢., to-day), the detained fleet at the Breakwater and intermediate ports will reach the city. The property now afloat (that is to say, ice-bound,) is now over two mil- lions in the Delaware, all of which is safe.” It thug appears that the first opening in the late ice blockade, between Philadelphia and the ocean, was on the Ist of March, but that the regular resumption of navigation there, it was expected, would not be achieved till to-day. After being thus hermetically sealed for two long months, we are rejoiced to hear that ‘‘the navigation of the Delaware, after this winter, will never be chronicled again as obstructed by ice.” Meantime, the merchants of the inte- rior who have become wearied of waiting for the expected incoming ships at Phiiadelphia, have only to come over to New York, where they will find the latest European importations in store, and ready for immediate tranship- ment North, South, East or West. ProGREss OF THE STREET CLEANING.—The work goes bravely, though slowly, on. Broadway, below Fulton street, Maiden lane, Cortlandt and other streets in the lower part of the city, have been cleaned by the mer- chants, aided a. very little by Commissioner Ebling, who engineers matters in such a way asto get a maximum of his work performed with a minimum of effort on his part. But while this way of doing business is, no doubt, very satisfactory to Commissioner Eb- ling, it is not so agreeable to the public. There isa very prevalent, and, we must say, very natural, delusion abroad among our citi- zens, that the payment by them of $6,500,000 per year to the city treasury entitles them to clean streets at least ; and that to ask them to pay more for having special work performed argues gross mismanagement on the part of some of the heads of departments. Meanwhile, the city remains in a shameful condition; and our only hope is, that drench- ing rain will visit us and beat off the debris of the winter’s storms from the streets, unless, indeed, some one should turn up and help us in this our extremity. Tae Evropean Press.—It is a curious fact that the independent press has grown and prospered alike in England and the Vaited States; andin a late article in the Edinburg Review we see many points to prove this. The increase in advertising and circulation of the London Zimes precisely corresponds with that of the New York Heratp. Both journals have worked a revolution in journalism, the effect of which is immensely beneficial to the people. Formerly the official journals were the richest and the most powerful. Now they are the poorest and the weakest. This would have been equally true with regard to the French press, had it not been muzzled by censorship and cenfused by revolutions, The independent newspaper is the poor man’s best library. Enouisu Inrricues 1x Cutna.—The British diplomats in the East have long had an eye on China. As the London Times correspondent said about Oude, it will “pay splendidly.” iog- land will undoubtedly stir up the Chinese in- surrection, using it to further the schemes of British filibusters, and the tattoo of Her Majes- ty’s drums will be heard in the streets of Pekin. There’s filibustering on a grand scale for you! Cuba and Central America sink into utter in- significance when compared with the Celestial Empire. Let the Brother of the Sun and Uncle of the Moon look out for his revenues. China “will pay splendidly.” Errect or THE Eastern Wak on Litera- TuRE.—The war is generally popular with the English press, because it increases the circula- tion of the newspapers. The book tnade lan- guishes, and if peace does not come soon, the poets will be obliged to lay down the lyre and take up the sword. As in our Mexican war, the scene of combat is too far off to affect com- mercial matters; but it gives a great impulse to newspapers, and in laying the basis of a terrible revolution in Western Europe during the next season of peace. ENGLAND 15 AGAINST A tion of the English press that, as John Bull has got a fleet’ and nothing for it to do, he would be glad to go to war with us, is absurd. England is against o war with the United State—that is, the great conservative middle claes is against it--the head and tail, the Court and the mob favor a war. So we shall find it here—the sdministration and the Tammany democracy having lost everything like honor, favor a war. While the great commercial and agricultural interests of the country—the only sources of the vitality, the honor, the glory and prosperity of the republic—cry out for peace. es | Tux Great Question m 1856.—The great question in the coming contest is not whether Buchanan, Fillmore, Fremont, Banks, Seward, or any other man, will be elected President; not whether the democrats, the Nicczr WorsuiP- pers or the Know Nothings will succeed, but it is a wider and more important question than either of these. It is what party, movement or series of measures will best preserve the constitution and the Union, and advance the solid interests of the country. That party which will develope the resources of the coun- try, give us a sound and strong foreign policy, and administer the government in accordance with the ideas of its founders is the only true American party. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From W: He MR. CRAMPTON AND THE ARBITRATION CASE, ETO. ‘Wasuxaton, March 2,§1856. Mr. Crampton has written a note to the editor of the National Intelligencer, stating that he was not instructed by Lord Clarendon to submit @ proposition to arbitra’e the Central American question, but only to inform Mr. Marcy that euch a propesal had been made to Mr. Bu- chanan. It was erroneously stated a few days since, that Mr. Williame had sold out the contract for the House binding to Mr. Farnham. He has formed s partnership with Mr. Farnham for the execution of the work, and will remain identified with it to its completion. Navigation Resumed at Philadelphia and Baltimore. THE DELAWARE RIVER OPEN—SHIPPING INTELLI- GRNCE, ETO, PHILADELPHIA, March 2—43¢ P. M. ‘The navigation of the Delaware is at last open, after an embargo by ice since the first of January last. The steamtug Baltic, Oaptain Kirby, came up from Newcastle last evening, bringing in tow the bark Caro- line Ellons, from New Orleans, The city ice boat, Capt. Kelly, and several tugs proceeded down this morning, and will tow up the fleet detained at Breakwater and in- termediate harbors. ‘The following vessels, which have been wind bound at Delaware Breakwater, went to sea yesterday:—Schooners Maryland, Music, May Clinton, Sherwood, Father and Son, Elmira Caroline, Typhenia, E. Hotchkiss, H. W. God- trey, A. Baker, Alice and Mary, John G. Wright, Joseph and Franklin, R. H. Douglass, George F. Brown, Peness- sett, Jobn G. Ferris, F. De Row, George Luff, Cumber- land, Lochiel, Mary H. Mifflin, J. West, C. 8. Watson, W. P. Phillips, and L. Hopkins. The schooner West Dennis, two ships, six barks, four- teen brigs, and about one hundred sail of schooners are in the roadstead, awaiting steam to be towed to the city. if THE HARBOR AT BALTIMORE NAVIGABLE. Baurimorz, March 2, 1856. The Norfolk steamer arrived here at noon to-day, after @ passage of eighteen hours. A large number of vessels are beating up the bay. The Wheeling river is clear of ise; no damage done. Mayoralty Nominations. Unica, March 1, 1856. The democrats to-night nominated John Hinman for Mayor, and the nigger worshippera Alick Hubbell. Markets. Provipescs, R. I., Marsh 1, 1866. Cotton has been in moderate demand during the week, and sold at unchanged prices. Wool—The market has been firm and active atan advance. Sales for the week, ‘77,400 lbs, Printing cloths—Prices firm and stock light. Sales, 4,400 pieces. Cuanuesroy, March 1, 1856. Our cotton market has advanced 3c., and with sales to-day of 2,500 ba! ———___ The Condition of the Streets. IMPROVEMENT IN CORTLANDT, BROADWAY AND OTHER DOWN TOWN STREETS—WHO DESERVES THE OREDIT ? Some of the streets inthe lower part of the city are gradually becoming passable; but if any one supposes this desirable state of things is at all due to the Commis- sioner of Streets and Lamps, who has an office somewhere up towards Essex market, he is decidedly mistaken, It is the business and tke duty of the Commissiorer to clean the streets, but what of that? The people pay from three to four hundred thousand dollars annually for do- ing the work, but what of that? Let them pay it, and then let them clean their own streets. This is nothing more than what they have done be- fore, are doing now, and can do again. Cortlandt street has been put in good travelling condition at an ex- pense of about $500, the whole of which has been paid out of the private pockets of the merchants ana hotel keepers in the street. The same thing has been done ia Dey and Liberty streets, Broadway is now clear, from Verey street to Bowhng Green. The Commissioner of Streets, after a great deal of out- side pressure, and after the expenditure of three or four hundred dollars by private individuals, was finally per- wuaded to pay the remaining expense of cleaning this portion of Broadway ; but we understand he declares he shall do nothing further in that street. So that long barricade of mud and ice, which extends, with the exception of now and then a block, from Park place to Union square, is bound to remain there until thawed out by the sun, unless removed at the expense of individuals on the line of the street. Genim, Knox, ani the other residents of that block have cleared Broadway between Fulton and Vesey streets; A. T. Stewart & Co., from Chambers to Reade; the proprietors of the Si. Nicholas Hotel, with Tiffany & Co,, and some others, from opposite the St. Nicholas, up to Prince street. With theve exceptions, and a small space in the vicinity of the Broadway theatre, that portion below Fulton street before spoken of, and the whole of Broadway to Union square, remains, and, for aught we see, is likely to remain in statu quo—that is to say, with a ridge of mud and {ce; varying from five to ten feet in height, in the middle of the street, and a narrow carriage way on each side. Now, the whole of this obstruction might be removed, and the street put in good order, as we have before de- monstrated in this paper, at an expense not exceeding $6,000. Will the Commissioner of Streets do it? His Department has been under no expense for sweeping th» streets for the last two or three months, and there must be @ large surplus on hand. Will he devote the small sum of $6,000 to cleaning Broadway? We pause for a reply. Bau. AT THE ACADEMY or Music.—There is to be a ball given at the Academy of Music on the 27th inst., for the benefit of the ‘Nursery for the Children of the Poor.’’ Four thousand tickets are issued, azd are to be sold at two dollars each. It will be the most attractive ball of the season. Half of the tickets af® already sold. The Academy on that evening will present s brilliant appear- ance, softened and mellowed by charity, the prime object its managers have in view. Naval Intelligence. The Norfolk Herald of the 26th inst. says that the crew of the steam frigate Powhatan were to be paid off on that day. The United States sloop-of-war Levant, Commander Smith, sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 5th of January for China. Coroners’ Anqaests, Svicie By Takina Poson,—Coroner Gamble held an inquest yesterday, at No. 309 Houston street, on the body of Arthur Beanish, a German, 30 years of age, who committed suicide by taking cyanuret of pottasium. De- ceased lost his wife about five months since, and hes been depressed in spirits from that time—he was a ma- 1 chinist, and worked every dey at his trade. Yesterday morning, about one o’clock, he was seen to drink some- thing out of a glass, in his bedroom, and he was dead in fifteen minutes afterwards, Dr. O'Hanlon made « post mortem examination of the body, and the jury returned a verdict that deceased came to his death by suicide, by taking cyanuret of potash, ScatpeD To DeatH.—Coroner Gamble hold an inquest yesterday, at No, 195 Eleventh street, upon the body of ‘a child, six Bg of age, named Elena Roberts, who came to her death from scalda, acsidentally received on the 18th mat. by the upsetting of @ vessel of hot water upon her. Verdict—*‘Accidental death.” Borngp 10 Dearn.—An inquest was also held at No. 221 West Twenty-fourth street, upon the body ofa child, two ears cf age, named Anne Henry, who died from burns Xieidentally Feseived by her clothes catching fire at the stove, Yerdiet in accordanee with the above facts, March Sesalum of the Common Council. } ‘The Board of Aldermen mest this evening, having only finished their February session on Thursday last. The public attention i» anziously set upon their movements” ‘with respect to the erection of the new City Hall;andas the matter has been referred to a special committee of five, is is to be hoped that this great desideratum—the want of & suitable place for the transaction of law business—wil} be put ina fair way of being supplied. It is new over two years since the old building was burned down, and & yesr since the Board of Councilmen adopted a plan for & buildivg inthe Park, and yet the Aldermen seem to bé insensible to the wants and wishes of their constituenta, ‘and continue inactive. In fact, they cannot boast of having done much business since the first of January;. they have not as yet concurred to appropriate $15,000 for” cleaning the streets, which are still left in « filthy and impassable state; they have concurred with the other: Board to apply to the Legislature for Mberty to raise $170,000 to build an iron market in Tompkine square, the- upper portion of which is to be used as an armory and: drill room; they have remonstrated against the sale of he State Arsenal, and have concurred in asking for am ordinance to raise money to pay the awards made to owners of property in the Central park; they have com firmed and made several fat city appointments, and per- petrated some long speeches, which we believe is about: all the value they have given the city for the last two months, ‘We have received the subjoined note of inquiry, and we call upon the Commcn Council to answer our correspon> dent. We are unable to detine their acts er to answer for their contractors, When the matter came up before the Board, Alderman Tucker was the only man alive to the necessity of the appropriation, and the subject was refare red toa committee, who may sleep onit. Wehope it mi} be acted upon by the Board this evening:— 70 THE EDITOR OF TRE HERALD. with he $15,000 gPented to clear off the siree's foe ana snow? Wed stldismpet he unos, ad so Wh he bere of the money. ‘A CITIZEN, ‘The March sessions of the Board of Councilmen com- mence this evening. The most important business likely to come before the Board this month is, first, the appro- priaticn for a new City Hall, and second, a concurrence with the Board of Aldermen in the proposal for the sale of the Brick chureh property. It will berecollected that the church, two years since, proposed to unite with the Corporation in the sale of that property upom terms the most favorable to the city. On the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund this proposition was accepted, and passed the Board of Aldermen. The subject now awaits the action of the Board of Council- men, The church has been advised by the highest legal counsel that they can dispose of their property to muck better advantage than by uniting with the Corporation om the terms proposed; yet we understand that they are willing to adhere to their original proposition... They cannot, however, be reasonably expected to wait much longer for the action of the civil authorities, and. it is ta be hoped that the Board of Councilmen will take up the subject at the earliest moment. The March Term of the Law Courts. A great number of cases have been disposed of during the past month, though not many of publie importance, ‘The Judges now sit unti) four o’clock, and the calendars are run down with rapidity, yet there still remain a vast amount of cases to be disposed of, The trial of the ne- gro, for scuttling the Eudora Imogene—from which the captain and crew mysteriously disappeared, and not @ vestige ef whom has since been found—will, in all probes bility, be commenced this term in the United States Cire euit Court. Inthe State Courts, the causes are of the usual description of civil actions for damages for breach of contract, for debt and for injuries to property an@ person, : ‘The unsettled state of the constitution of the Supreme Court Bench, in consequence of the protracted dispute Ddetween Judges Davies and Peabody for the seat, 19 a matter of grave complaint amongst the lawyers and liti- gantse. Several important cases have been postponed, as the suitors object to go before « court which is legally composed of three judges only, but where four persist im sitting; and they deem it more prudent to “bide their time” than to run the risk of being obliged to argue their cases again de novo before a perfectly con- stitated tribunal. Thus the matter of the new reservoir, he long pending Carroll will case, and others of im- portance, have gone over from the February term be- cause of the doubtful authority ot the Judges of the ourt of General Term then presiding. If not for the sake. of the large number of suitors who suffer from pecaniary embarrassment until their causes are heard and adjuai- cated upon, we hope that for the honor of the Judiciary this disputed Judgeship may be fairly vested and legally adjusted without further delsy. ‘The case of the people at the relation of Chas.J. War- ren against Coleman & Steteon, arising out of the Pro- hibitcry Liquor law, was submitted to the general verm without argument. The points ot Judge Capron for the respondents, the people, set forth that the Court erred in admitting the answer of the witness Cowen to the question, ‘‘Where are the best brandies made?” The Court erred in deciding that to make ont the offence: By ike datenants was aot wittin ine excopton oSatatnod a the oi Swan nates art erred in degiding thai liquor Imported under the 6 Cor er in deci juor under lawaand treaties of te United Btates is not io the prohibiton, but may be sold by any citizen, in ahy quantity, and on that grond aequitting the ts, If the exception in the frat ‘hall be interpreted to Include opiy importers’ sales, then the Court erred in edjudg- ing the defendants “Not guilty.” silthough tbe liquor sold was ae that the complainant fi j If the statute is restrictive, as dis! from probil lo ed the sng i to regulate traffle in intoxicating liquors, Seed ebony ta fiom Nae enti pate fortetare ‘nulsanee and should be adjudged uncon’ jutional. On the part of Messrs. Coleman & Stetson, Mr. John E. Develin submitted points, amcngst which were that the incompetency of the witness to testify as to where the dest brandies are made could have been shown on cross- examination. The seventeenth section of the Prohibitory law provides that “ proof of thé sale of liquor sball be sufficient to sustain an unlawiul sale.” But this evi- dently refers to the sale of Jiquor prohibited to be sold by the act. They contend— That the law is unconstitutional, and tha’ the Legislature is supreme but not an absoiute power. Ithas no right to enact tbat what haa always been Known as property not thenceforth be property; it has no right to change the which property has heretofore been put; because that pi thould continue such, and may be used as it always jay og Airect violation of hee, art 1, of tbe Constitution & ths Buster ee. 10 of art, 1 of Constitution of United States.) bp The Court will not act upon this case until the question before the Court of Appeals is adjudicated. In the case of Deputy Sheriff Carlin, convicted at the sessions for malfearance, Mr. Clinton submitted, on the part of the accused, on moving for s new trial, that— ‘The indictment must charge the crime with certainty precision, and must contain a complete description rr noe anc statement of tmported liquor, and the Court shall ast negath plete L. i calvemul in bade will constitute the crime; a beat poutvaly, fiat is, the Tndietsent ‘ast stim that ihe Sih and seh ctroumelances, we pager ‘nor an; count aes Rae eee ee aes br wears Login ol in the indicunent, the defendant, as Deput; bad @ legal right to deliver the prope: replevin’’ to plainuff in the action, sut to his Hability in a Setractect ‘and not the Deputy, is Mable for the We hope the decisions of the General Term will not be affected by the doubtful constitution of the Court. The March term of the Court of Sessions opens to-day Judge Capron will continue to preside over this court until the lst of April. District Attorney Hall looks hale and hearty; and having just returned from the Pittsburg Convention, he 1s well posted up and prepared to prose- cute roguery in ali its forma, The bail cases will be tried first, and at the head of hese stands the indictment for bribery against Joseph + Ebling, the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps. Thie ase having been tried at the January term, its perticu- ars are fresh in the minds of all. The jury failed to agree at that trial, having, as was reported, stood six for conviction and six for acquittal. The other bail casos: ikely to be tried this term are those of Alderman Hoaly —also for bribery—and of James Irving, for assault and battery upon Samuel Suydam. The gamblers are not kely to exercise the scruples of Judge Capron, or make their appearance in the court room during the term. We sre informed that no arrests have been made upon the bench warrants issued against Pa: Hearne and others, ‘The prison cases, 60 called, present,s calendar of eighty- six names, which is much smaller than usnal. The following is « list of the crimes now it the Tombs, for which we are indebted to a Wadena, the Clerk of the Prison :— Burglary, Rape... ‘Witnesses Receiving stolen goods, Bastardy, Grand lar Forgery Robbery Murd Total Of the murder cares, three ont of the seven are con-