The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1856, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENYETT, PROPRICTOR 489 HBITOR. PPTILE W. W. CORNER OP WASSAG AND FOGYOR Pre, Weimme XXI cance Oe FS AMUBEMENTS fulS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRY, Broadway—VYuoun Tae Tartar Cataract oF tue Gs rKh WIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Prceno——Tae Tine, on Weaura axp Povemvy, AURTOWS THEATRE, Chambers street—Fortsxio—Tnar Bussey Bany-Uncear Parvare Areains, LAURA KRENHS VARISTIES, Broedway—Camnis— BovesTy WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Owmice Besson. BROADWAY VARINTI4S, 472 Brosdwar--Bisce Kyap gesax—-Prarection—By rie JoveniLe Comsimans. Broadway—fus Rivaus—To WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—?eaiorian Peu- Foamaxces—Harry Man, on Treaty wirs Jaray. BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 639 Broad. wey—KrGno Muxsrkexsy —Covrr oF Ice-Bung. ODKON HALL, Wills: QeMpxER, THE Great W soarg—THe MORAVIANS AND THER ARMS. Wew Yorm, Monday, Marcm 17, 1856. The News. We give on the first page of today’s paper fall particulars of a fearful accident which occurred on the Delaware river on Saturday evening. One of the Camden and Philadelphia ferry boats took fire when in the middle of the stream; the flames spread with great rapidity; the boat became un- manage ble; the passengers, about one hundred in number, panic stricken, leaped into the water to escape a terrible death by burning. Many of them were picked up, but some thirty were drowned. Up to four o’clock yesterday afternoon fifteen of the bodies of the victims had been recovered. In our account is included a list of the dead, injured and missing, together with statements of the sur- viving passengers and the testimony taken before the Coroner's jury. It is conceded that this awful sacrifice of human life is attributable to the fact that the ferry boat was entirely destitute of small boats and life preservers; and it appears, more- over, that the laws of the United States do not require such vessels to carry them. Congress should remedy this defect without delay. It is a gubject that demands immediate attention. Commodore Vanderbilt notifies the public that the steamers of the Accessory Transit Company are withdrawn until our government can inquire into the late proceedings of the Nicaraguan authoritie:, in seizing the property of the compary and annul- ling their charter. Our correspondent at Honolulu, writing on the 1st alt., gives a very interesting account of the state of trade and general aspect of affairs in the Sand- wich Islands. The evident desire of masters of whaleships to seek other ports for the purpose of supplying themselves with provisions, ec , had ren- dered business very dull. Two hundred and sixteen sail had arrived during the past fall season, and the catch of each averaged one thousand bar- rels of oil and nine thousand pounds of bone. It is estimated that the whalemen expend $300,000 annuglly at the islands. The policy of ow:} ers sending resident agents out was much Goubted. Freights wefe quite brisk. The King Aid not mind politics, byt employed himself in hunting, fishing and boxing with the redoubtable Yankee Sullivan, and had become an accomplished amateur in the manly art. Some excellent “shonlder hitting” was displayed by the native “short boyr9 at the polls during the late election, at which a ticket half native and half foreign was chosen. The French Plenipotentiary had been badly beaten by his Chancelier, who was sent to France for trial. The volcanic lava from Hawaii had flowed to within five miles of the town of Hilo, the destruction of which was certain. Fasting and prayer were ob- served by the inhabitants; but most of them would soon leave the locality, their supplications having proved of no avail against the voleano. The lava had penetrated an arm of the Wailuku river, and rendered the water so hot that a man was scalded to death by plunging into it. The United States Mail steamship Hermann, Cap- tain Higgins, from Bremen 23d and Southhamp- ton 27th February, arrived at this port yeaterday morning. Her news has been anticipated by the Arabia. We publish to-day a fall and thrilling account of the loss of the bark Julia Ann—noticed in Sunday's Heratp—given by her commander, Captain Pond. ‘The incidents attending the catastrophe are faith- fally detailed, and will be found fall of melancholy interest. The manly conduct of the captain, officers and crew of the bark, from the moment of t ‘¢ peril- ous shipwreck till the final rescue, cannot be suffi- ciently commended, and deserve some substantial recognition. Advices dated at Monrovia, Liberia, on January 24, say:—Busine s very dull on account of the war just broke out bet nthe natives and Ameri- cans at a place called Sinoe. Over four hundred volnnteers were to leave on the 25th for the scene of the difficulty. We give elsewhere an account of the visit on Sa- turday to some of the tenant houses of New York of the Legislative committee recently appointed to look into the condition of our tenant houses and those occupying them. In one of these buildings they found two hundred and sixty families. The abodes of rag pickers were taken in this circuit. The report will be found interesting, as showing how coinpact are oar tenant houses of human beings, and the attendant squalor, filth, and consequent wretchedness. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the weck ending 14th inst., amounted to $1, re The sales of cotton were large on Saturday, hav- ing reached about 7,500 a 8,000 bales, and the market closed with greater firmness. The private advices from Europe, combined with reports from the South showing firm markets in that direction, imparted greater buoyancy to the article here. The sales made were chiefly in transitu. Flour was dall, and closed with a tendency to lower prices. The sales of wheat were limited. Sales of Michigan white were made at $1 75. Canadian white was held at #195 a $190 bid. A small sale of Tennessee prime red was reported at $1 72, Corn was without change of moment. Mixed and white Southern sold at 65¢. a 68c.,and prime yellow at 71 i Pork was firmer, with sales of meas at $15 and prime at $14 50. Sugars were sold to a fair extent, including about 600 a 800 hhds. of Cuba, Porto Rico, and New Orleans, at steady prices. Coffee was firm, but quiet. Freights were dull, and engage- ments light. Some cotton was engaged for Liver: pool at 6-16d., part compressed. Freepom or THE Press iy Nicanacva—We learn from a California paper that on one oc- ession recently the Walker troops did not re- ceive their usual weekly literary paudlwnm—L! Nicorauguense—for the excellent reason that it was not issued—the corps editorial and typo- graphical having been overcome either by the climate or aguardiente. Whereupon General Walker sent word to the office that, in case the paper was not issued by sunset the next day, he should send a file of soldiers to arrest the editors, printers and all. Great activity pre- vailed in the office after the reception of this hint, and the paper was “rushed up” just in time. The file of soldiers arrived just in sea- von to see the forms locked up. ‘This isa regular Napoleonic feat, with the difference thatthe French Emperor sends files of eoldiers to stop the press, while the dicta- Eee En nen SEES eee eS 1 -v of Central America uses his forse to pet it @ 1g. Greut country, that Nicaragua. Ther- ™ meter st eighty all the time. Nothing bat Pouce, peenty, Orange groves, volcanoes asd pretty Women, The Ferment in Walt Strect—Nicaragua and the Nicaragua Transit Oempany. Wall street, taken by surprise at the resent news trom Nicaragua, is full of rumors concera- ing the actual state of things there in reference tothe affairs of the Transit Company. It is evi- dent enough that the government de facto has wudertaken to abrogate and annul the act in- corporating the Transit concern. It isequally clear that a new company has been incorpo- rated, with exclusive rights of conveyance from ocean toocean. It seems aleo certain that the parties to the Accessory Company are not parties to the new movement. We have already published the decree of the Autocrat of all Nicaragua “wiping out” the Transit Company; we now give the retaliatory non-intercourse decree of the Autocrat of all Wall street, stopping for the present all steam communication with the rebels in Central America. Here it is:— The Nicaragua line ia withdrawn for the present, in centequence of the cifiguliies in| that country growing out of the extraordinary conduct of General Walker, seizing or taking by force ibe property of American itizens. Ideem ita duty I owo to the public, to the country and to the Transit Company, to remain quiet, by letting the ships of the company lsy at their wharve}, until our government has suflicieat time to examine and look into the outrage comumiived upon their property. In the mean time, as Ido not consider passengers or the property of American citizens safe on the transit of the Isthmus, I canuct be instrumental in inducing either to take the paseage. C. VANDERBILT. Mancni 17, 1866. Now, it is exceedingly important that the motive which hes moved the Walker govern- ment to the extraordinary proceedings we have chronicled should be understood. They mean, certainly, no friendship to the old concern; and they indicate special triendship to the new. It is ramored in the street, and to a great extent credited, that General Walker has re- ceived from California material aid; and that, in accordance with arrangements made with the parties advancing means, he hag transferred to them precisely the corporate franchiees which had been previously granted to the Transit Company. Whether his pro- ceedings are legal or illegal, whether they in- volve a great wrong or not to the old corpo- ration, cannot be fully determined without possessing more knowledge of the circum- stances than we are in possession of. It is al- leged that the Transit Company has failed to comply with its obligations to the State to pay, and to do and perform certain asts; and that the forfeiture hasbeen worked by reason thereof. It is asserted in the street that the sgents of the Walker government labored with Mr. Vanderbilt very recently to obtain from bim, on behalf of the company, a very amall six months credit to the government, and without success. The pretension now set up, that the company could not safely discharge its corporate obligations because of the revo- lutionary character of the government, is not fully justified by the declaration of its agente in this city a few weeks ago, that they looked wholly to that revolutionary government for existence and for powers of action, and to no other. The Wall street reporters go back a little, and ailirm that the company’s delinquencies did not commence with the accession of Pa- tricio Rivas to power, and that the company has treated the existing government no worse than they treated the old one. As early as the 12th of November last the Supreme government of Nicaragua issued a decree authorizing the agents ot the State to pledge its credit to those who might negotiate itsbonds. In pursuance of this decree Senor Don Eduardo J. C, Kewen was appointed special agent in San Francisco, to issue bor q for the purpose of obtaining means to relieve the financial necessities of the republic. The following is a copy of one of the bonds:— QUeee nee eer een ee rt Onesie OID NNnene reso ne re” a : j No, — § Bend of Was REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA, Nicaray --One ot the ‘Transit sieamers, &c.} Fn Virtud de un Decreto pasado ¥ ay- robado e! dia doce de Novembre del ano de 1586, apoderando e' Senor Don Eau ardo J. C. Kewen de la ciudad de San Pranciaco, A, ite Financial de ia Re- publicn de ti ‘alifornia; El Gobierno Supremo de Ni. caragua se compromit’ a pagar el dis primero de Eneroda Iso nates @ le orden del r—— ——, la canti- toad hae hoe con el pyete e clento el ano por el Va Kecibido, °° axsapeaslnind Para el pago de Dicha Suma la buena fe det Estado queda con este empenada, o* (Signatnre. & BitsRcisco pe Cacsronnta, [Ragle hee Pinwweist det dia de de 165, with olive Supreme ranch } #* Nicaragua. OLORILLIEL ODL ELODIE LE DOETIOLOLOLIBIDG DEDEDE DE, It is said that General Walker has deriv r $250,000 from the negotiation of these bon in San Francisco; and if so—and it is neitt improbable nor extravagant—it is worthy note whether the revocation of the Accessory Transit charter was not, in fact, made on t' conclusion of that financial operation. Certe parties residing in California are kaown to ha: § aided General Walker in all his “missivaa a movements;” and it is hardly likely that th b clung to him when he could not help them, a: @ abandoned him when he could. Meanwhile] technically considered, the Transit Comnary may have laid itself liable to even very ex- treme measures, under the belief that the sd | vernment could not get along without their aid. The folly of such a reliance is sufficiently exbibited in what has occurred, which certain. ly would not have taken place had the com. pany been more scrupulous regarding their obligations to the State. Now, it is easy to see who is to suffer in this affair, but not quite so easy to determine who is to be benefitted. The blow has been a se- vere one to the stockholders of the company; and it is almost absolutely certain that to ef- fect a revival of their corporate existence it will be necessary to eject the whole Walker colonization from Central America, Private letters from responsible parties indicate the policy of the Rivas administration as utterly hostile to the company which has already ceased to have a legal existence in that State; and the California party, ascendant in the per- eon of Mr. Randolph, are crowing lustily over the exit of the old concern and their sudden in- duction into the new one, Those who have enjoyed extraordinary facili- ties for knowing what is going on, have for four weeks expressed a conviction that a crisis had arrived in the affairs of the Transit Com- pany which required all the skill and meek- nees of ite managers to overcome. Three dif. ferent parties, it is anid, have left the city for San Juan del Norte with certain projects bear- ing directly and indirectly upon this matter, They are there now. Meantime, the whole case is suggestive to capitalists who pro pose to take great riske in hopes of great eos. Stesereasesceeevases 5 ; 3 3 3 3 z 3 ry 3 Qrrecrececersresrsecesrnoceseneee Profits, A solid government is necessary to the euccers of every enterprise, It is as Becersary to keep corpcrations in order a3 to secure them against eruptions. Companies like thet of the Accesscry Transit can live only in an atmosphere of “law aod order,” The practical operation of this movement involves, most likely, a collision of the sharp men of Sen Francisco and New York, and ite eftect, from present appearances, will be to transfer the direction and control of the Ni- caragua Transit route from the latter to the former eity. If we consider it in this light, and consult the rival interests of prominent persons of the two cities, regardless of those of individual stockholders, which are seldom consulted in such operations; we shall be far more likely to arrive at the trath of the whole matter. Tne American Screntiric Association — America has never seen such a gathering of savante as Albany will witness in August next. The annual meeting of the American Scientitic Acesociation will take place imthat city during the third week of August, and invitations have eady been extended to most of the distinguished savants of Europe. Some of these have accepted. Others have apparently declined the invitation on the ground of expense—scientific men being, as a rule, by no means the richest in any community. To ob- viate this difficulty, the association have ad- Gressed letters to the various transatlantic steamer and packet companies, inquiring whether one or more free passages could be Placed at the disposal of scientific men from Europe, in order to enable them to attend the meeting in August. The association itself is too poor to be able to defray the expense. Answers have been received from several companies. Mr. E. Cunard, of the Cunard line, writes to say that he “places at the dis- posal of the committee for any of the gentle- men named a free passage (or two, if required) from and to England in any one of the Cun id steamebips.” Mr. OC. H. Sand, of the Bremen line, “ will feel happy to give a free passage in the Washington and Hermann to any four of the distinguished guests.” Mr. Mortimer Livingston “will most cheerfully give free passages to any persons named by the commit- tee whore convenience may be consulted by making the voyage in any one of the steamers under his control.” Mr. E.0. Morgan, of the London line of packets, will give four free paseages, and Mr. Cornelius Grinnell, of the Liverpool line, one, to any person named by the committee. Mr. McSymon, of the Glas- gow line, “has forwarded the committee’s letter to hie directors at Glasgow, who, he has nota doubt, will look on it favorably.” No reply from the Collins line has yet been made public. This is very gratifying. It will evidently be in the power of the committee to invite over a score of the most learned men of Europe to Albany, and enable them to make the trip and return without expending acent. Even should the hotel keepers be likely to evince less libe- rality than the steamship companies, the ancient Knickerbocker hospitality has not yet died out, Nor will the proceedings in August be un- worthy the attendance. The State Museum of Natural History is to be inaugurated, and Wm. H. Seward is to deliver a lec- ture on the occasion. A like ceremony will take place at the Dudley Observatory—an institution which promises to be of signal ser- vice to;the maritime and railroad interests of the State—and Edward Everett will deliver an oration. Altogether, men of science will have @ gocd time, Tue Governor or Virainia Pottina Hn SELF RicuT oN THE Recorp.—A few days ago we published one of Governor Wise’s peculiar letters, which was first sent to the Union. The Governor indulges in some expressions which are not known to Walker, Webster, or any other lexicographer, and we don’t wonder that he puzzled the printers. He sends the follow- ing to the Richmond Enquirer :— To THE Eprtors oF THE ENQUIRER -— RicMoxp, Va., March 11, 1856. GrNTLEMEN—I am obliged to you for ae my let. ter of the 3d inetant to the Union, and I will be stiil more obliged it you will correct a typographical error of that paper, not yours. It printed the last sentence thus :— ‘Yney can put up better with pure Africans—wool, flat vose, odor, ébon-rkin and gizzard, foot and all.” &c. Jc should re ‘They can put up better with pure Afri- caps--wool, nose, odor, ebo ekin and gizzard, foot and all,” &. Yours truly, &., HENRY A.’ WISE. The printers were puzzled again, and the Governor was obliged to suspend the business of the State and correct his correction, as follows—— To Tur Eprrors OF THE ENQUIRER:~= Ricumonp, Va., March 12, 1856, GEXTIMEN=I regret to have to correct a correstioa. In my note to you of the 11th, 1 asked to have the word el ut for epon-skin. In the Enquirer of this morning, it reads ebo-skin. Don’t Virginians at this day know what an ‘“‘ebo-shin” is? Do leave such mistakes to Know Nothings! Your ‘riend, HENRY A. WISE. We trust itis all right now, and that old Vir- ginia and its Governor, with his ebo-shinued negroes are placed right before the world id the Cincinnati Convention which may take up thi tender part of the nigger question. There taigkt be some difference of opinion as to the propriety of the Governor of the dignified State of Virginia continually rushing iato print to correct slang terms about nigger’s anatomy, but that isa matter of taste—some- thing that Governor Wise knows nothing about. ABOLITION PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION.—Gerrit Smith and Lewis Tappan (white men), and Dr. James M’Cune Smith (colored man), and others have issued a circular asking for names to be affixed to a call for a mass convention, to be held at Syracuse on the 20th May next, “to nomivate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States—not merely anti-slavery candidates, but thorough aboli- tion candidates.” From this movement, there- fore, we may surely count upon a separute abolition ticket, so that from present appear- ances we ehall have this list in the field by probably the middle of June:— 1, The national democratic ticket. 2. The South American conservative ticket. 3. The North American anti-Nebraska ticket. 4, The Seward Nicaer Worsnirrens’ ticket. 5, The regular Simon Pure abolition ticket. In 1852 William Goodell, as the candidate of this last party, got some 72 votes out of up- wards of 500,000 cast in New York. The reason was that Seward’s programme was more ac- ceptable to the mass of the abolitionists as a practical movement. We dare say they still believe, with Seward, that before slavery can be reached in the States it must be expelled from the Territories. Still the Simon Pare abolition ticket serves very well the purposes of the holy alliance. Gerrit Smith and the black Douglass are outsiders, but stil) faithtul allies of the arch-agitator. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1856. Goverxmenr Deravuirens --It seems nat at last some eteps are beiog taken to co! ect the moneye due to the government by the various defaulters hitherto unpunished. When Mr. Gatbrie was placed at the bead of the Trea- eury Department, it was fonod that no less a som than $132,521,704 69 waa dne to the De- pertmept A portion of this had been due for maby years, a8 many as twenty in some in- stances— the defalcation having occurred in the years 1837-’38. These old defaulters availed themselves of the act of 1841, and went through the Bankrupt Court, surrendering the whole of their property. This surrender has been impliedly construed by the Secretaries of the Treasury subsequent to 1841 as a compro- mise which released the defaniters from further prosecution by the government, Mr. Gutbrie has taken a different view. According to law, no statute of limitations or statate ot bankruptcy can be pleaded against the government. The Treasury Department was expressly relieved from the operation of the law of 1841; at least this is the doctrine set up by the law officers of the administration, and approved by Secretary Guthrie. On the strength of it, Mr. Gutbrie has directed legal proceedings to be instituted against all the old defaulters, and the case is now under con- sideration by Judge Betta. At the ame time efforts were made to re- cover the balances due by defaulters eudse- quent to 1841, So vigorously was the matter prosecuted, that up to the present time nearly thirty millions of dollars have been settled, leaving one hundred millions yet due to the government. The circumstance, and the whole proceeding reflect credit on Secretary Gutasie; who, it may here be said, though a member of one of the most justly contemptible adminis- trations ever established in this country, has earned some claims to the regard and esteem of the public. It is disgraceful to his prede- cessors that so large a sum should be yet due to the United States; it only shows what class of men fill the government offices, and how little the interests of the country are cared for. Tre Fart. or Barnum.—The author of that book glorifying himself as a millionaire from the arts and appliances of obtaining money upon false pretences, is, according to his own statements in court, completely crushed out, All the profits of all his Feejee mer- maids, 611 his woolly horses, Greenland whales, Joyce Heths, negroes turning white, Ton Thumbs, and monsters and impostures of all kinds, including the reported $70,000'received by the copyright of that book, are all swept away, Hindoo palace, elephants and all, by the late invincible showman’s remorseless 13- signees. It is @ case eminently adapted to “point a moral or adorn a tale.” But if the world has heretofore looked on with admiration and astonishment at Barnum’s ebrewdness, talents and successes, it will now learn with equal surprise the astounding fact that all his splendid enterprises and their gold- en returns of twenty years, have been swal- lowed up in a single confidence speculation in Yankee clocks—a Yankee clock speculation in which the great financier has fully eclipsed the folly, credulity and carelessness of any confi- dence case we ever heard of. The history of the great showman is thus, however, consis- tently wound up. The poison of that demoraliz- ing book is thus effectively rendered innocu- ous. Itcan dono further harm. The forfeit is paid. He has made a clear atonement, and sacrificed all, He is entitled to credit for it The public, therefore, may now freely sympa- thise with Barnum as the victim of misplaced confidence in Yankee clocks; and the whole community will be pleased to learn that in spirit he is not broken down, but that he has yet the will and the activity required to start with the world again in a less ostentatious, but more honorable business career than that which has made him a Jeremy Diddler, a mountebank, a millionaire and a bankrupt. GRAND BALL TO RE GIVEN AT THE ACADEMY OF Music In AD oF THE NURSERY.—On Thursday, 27th inst., a grand ball tor the benefit of the Nureery will be given at the Acade- my of Music. This is one of the best of our benevolent in- stitutions, and will, we trust, meet with that liberai sup: port and encouragement which it deserves. At the ball given last year over ten thousand dollars were realized, and that, too, during a period of great financial depres. sion, If 90 much could be done for the Nursery at such a time, what ought to be done for it now thst business has revived and the city presents au aspect of increasing prosperity? Tho Nursery has now been in existence about two years, and during that time has done s great deal of good. It is under the direction of the following ladies, ‘and derives ita support from private contributions: = Mrs. Wm. H. Aspinwall, = Mrs. J. Mrs. J. J. As‘or, Mi Mrs. Wm. Mrs. . Astor, Mrs. ena E. Anderson, a Mra. Mra. C. Di Mrs. A. Le Barbier, Mrs. Albert Mathews, Mrs, Wickham Hoffman, = Mrs. A. B. Mott, Mrs. J. Hadson, Mra. ©, 0’Conor, Mrs, J. A. Iselin, Mrs, 3. P-non, Mrs. L. C. Jones, Mrs. W. H. Paine, Mrs. Wm. H. Jones, Mrs. Walacn Pell, Mrs. J. C, Peters, . G. T. Strong, Mrs. Edwin . Mra. 8. H. Fates ry Mrs, Wm. Rhimelancer, Mrs. C. E. Strong, ‘The Nursery was e:tablished for the support and care of the children of wet aurses and mothers who 4-¢ ea- gaged all day atoutdoor work. According to the ruies, the charge per day for each child is st per cen‘ on the mother’s daily wages, five per cent for the second child, and four percent for the third. No child is admi: 6d who is over six years of age or under six weeks, and .: mother is required to bring, on application, a certificate of good character, and also @ certificate fcom her em- ployer, showing the rate of wages she recetves. The institution is opened at634 A. M., and closed at 134 P. M. Lance ARmyat ov Mais—Twrety Hovks is THe Post Ornce —From half past six P. M., of Friday, until turee o’clock P. M., om Saturday, the arrival of mails at the Post Office was extraordinary. first came the Arabia's maila; then the Southern. These were assorted by 9 o'clock Friday night. At about o’clock at night in came all the back mails from the West, with eight days maiis from Chicago, four from Cleveland, Cinetnnatl, Buffalo, Detrot, St. Louis, &e., &e. The assorting was kept up all vight, and continued unti! 11 o'clock Saturday, with- out intermission, when upon the heel of this labor the mails by the George Law from California were received, aa well as a heavy mail by the Hudson River Railroad. Hoxor 10 4 Coantest Leaver.— We call the attention of our readers to an advertisement in another column, with reference to a grand reception bail, to be given im honor of the distinguished English exile, John Frost, Req., ex- Mayor of Newport, Mammothshire, Wales, who was trans- ported in 1840 for life to Van Dieman’s Land for high treason, ne Ne LeCTURE ON SHAKERISM.—Mr. Evans, the able elder of the community of Shakers, who made quite » little breere by his Tabernacie lecture a tew weeks ago, will give another at the same place on Tuesday. It will be curtous and worth hearing. Dean or an Anmy Orrrorr—Capt. Benjamin H, Arthur, First iment of infantry, died at Fort Chadbourne, Texas, Tab. 1, of peumonia! BP L42tast waws. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. SPECULATIONS KEGsKDING THE DEMOCRATIC NA- TIONAL OONVENTION—KANBSAB AFFAIRS—REPORT- BD SETTLEMENT OF THE DIPFICULTY BETWEEN GEN. WALKER AND OOL. KINNEY, ETC. Wasnrvetox, March 26, 1856. The Cincinnati Convention is the great theme of oo- verration bere. Many delegates are in the city for the f comparing notes. A nomination is regarded t to sa election. The Ohio delegates present will carry @ mejority of thet State, and that Buchavan and Pierce will get some vo es. One of the delegates at large, from Tennesste, says that State will vote a6 @ unit. Sve wil claim the nomina*ion for ths fouth--for Gevernor Johnyon--bu‘ will be easisfied with Pierce or Buchanan. Things are becoming Private intelligencs from Kansas sta‘es that the free State Legisiature adjourned over from Topeka to Law- rence, the latter being fortified, and the members tearing arrest if unprotecto’. General Lane and Governor Reeder are the prominent cazaidates for the United States Senate. Prets!ent Pierce bas authorized a member of Congress to devy that he ever offered G.verno; Reeder another appointment to resign the Governorehip of Kansas. ‘A private let‘er from « Ligh official at Granada says | the best understanding exists between General Walker and Colonel Kinney, who have entered into « writen agreement, but the preci-e cbjec: of which he could not learn. We take pleasure in removing any injurious. impres- sions whieh may have arisen against Mr. Chariea Mabon, of tnis city, in consequence ot the affray at the National Hotel on Suncay last, by stating that we have seen let- tera trom every gentiemen present at the encounter, and from others scquainted with the circumstances, waich ccmpletely exonerate Mc. Mahon trom biame—his action in the matter being solely in self-defence. We have also seen a very complimentary letter from the lady boarders of the National, inviting him to continue his visite. Mr. Mahon bad no acqusintence with Mr. Stuart, and bas even yet to speak the first word to bim. Markets. sari aro ae 15, 1856 The cotton market is dull and sales small, at slightly easier prices. Wool—Market very firm, with stcck much reductd: ssles 91,500 Ibs. Printing cloths— Sales for the week, 30,900 pieces. NEw ORLEANS, March 15, 1856. Cotton—Under the infiyence of the Arabia’s news the transactions have been large, being estimated at 17,000 Dales, at a slight improvemest on lower grades. We quote Orleans midoling at 93(c. to 934c., the market cloring with an active demand. Receipts of cotton at port in acvance of last year’s receipts at this time, 431,000 bales. Stcck in port estimated at 201,000 ales. Freighte of cotton to Liverpool, %4. Cortee—Prices are Ke. aw rather higher; we quote Rio at Arrival of the Hermann. ‘The United States mail steamship Hermann, Captain Higgins, from Bremen, arrived yesterday morning. \¢ Hermann Jeft Bremen on the morning of the 234 ‘ult., and arrived at Southamp‘on on the 25tn, trom which port rhe sailed for New York, on the 27th February, with ninety passengers and 700 tons freight, a considerable portion of which is goods from the unfortunate steamer Belgique. ‘The Ruropean news has been anticipated by the arrival of the Arabia at Halifax. The Hermann took the Southern route and met no ice. She encountered a» severe gale to the westward of the Banks. Captain Higgins was presented with a highly compli- mentary address, signed by all the passengers, in which they bear testimony to the great attention to their com- fort as wellas to the nautical skill evinced by him duriog the voyage. Tue Nicaragua Commissionmrs.—The decree of Presi- dent Rivas annuling the charter ot the Accessory Tran- sit Company names three commirsioners to Ax the value ofthe property seized and wind up the concern. We give a little account of three of these gentlemen:— Senor Don Edmund Randolph was among the early emigrants to California, and in 1850, in connection with Messrs. Nogent and Crittenden, he established the San Francisoo Herald. Mr. Randolph is a native of Virginia, and is connected with the Randolph. By profession he is a lawyer, and isa man of decided ability, although, like most Virginians, he is considered somewhat impusett- cable. He and Walker have long been upon intimate terms, and the General once fought a duel on Randolph’s acoourt. Walker was assistanteditor of the San Fran- cisco Herald at the period when Randolph was one of the proprietors of that journal. In California Mr. Rendotph was an independent democrat, and was al ways considered an honorable, upright man. Mr. Randolph is the head of the new company. He is a poor man. Senor Don Col. E. J.C. Kewen emigrated from Missis. sippi to California in 1849, and upon the formation of a State government there was elected Attorney General. He married a daughter of Dr. Thomas J. White—but this incidentally, for we do not see any counection it can have with the affairs of the Nicaragaa Transit Company. In 1851, Col. Kewen was # candidate for representative to Congress on the whig ticket, and was beaten, of course. He has written pcetry and pubiished it, a circumstance which shows more than ordinary b:avery. In politics he is a whig Know Nothing, and in religion slightly Metho- distic. It may be rexembered that his brother, Achilles Kewen, was killed at Rivas, in Nicaragua, whilst fighting under Gen. Walker. Senor Don George F. Alden, the third named of the commissioners, was lately a resident of this city, and one of the Clerks cf the Supreme Court. He was a promia-at hard shell democrat, and once a member of the \ew York Legislature. He ran on the county ticket of the par'y at the last election as a candidate for Judge of the Marize Court, and was beaten. He is a young man of respectable abilities, but not rich in money. City Politics. MOVEMENTS AMONG THE CITY POLITICIANS. Previous to the nomination of Franklin Pierce for be Presidency by the Baltimore Convention, in 1852, thee ‘was an organization in this city, oompsed of active aai well known politicians, calling itself! the Bachenan Gene ral Committee, the members of which, as th» name ind!- cates, were actively working for the nomication of ‘Old Buck” for the Presicency. For obvious reasons, the mames of Sos ghrp gl moter ile See were kept secret, an organization was toge- ther by ‘nysteriove advertisements inthe Heraty that no ore could understand but the tnitiated. ‘This organization. we understand, has been restiscitated for the coming campaign, and hes enrolled amongst its members very many tufluential city politicians, Nay, more, several Custom House officers are in ths. move- ment, and hence the secresy that is observed, ao that the news may not reach the ears of the ‘‘por A har boon opened with all the Leni corresponcence has all the leadti politicians of the country, sounding them on the subject of the Presidency, and by the last steamer a letter was received from Mr. Buchanan hinself, {n which that gen- tleman avewered guardedly all the delicate questions put to him, and gave the committees some excelient advice as ‘to its fature course. ‘The Buchanan General Committee met on Friday night, but what they did was, of course, known only to tnoss behind the curtain. Police Inteiligence. Ax Op Trick Wet, PLayep.—On Saturday afterooon, an ingenious but well known trick was perpetrated upon a simple minded domestic, named Mary Strain, by a smart female thief, who, we regret to say, has not yet fallen into the hands of the polioe. Mary, who is in the employ- went of Mrs. Maine, mantilla and drese maker, of No. 2 Milligan place, wes sent by her mistress to the residence of one of our merchants in eon avenue, with two costly silk dresses, which the young Indies of the afore. ‘aid mansion hac ordered to be made and sent to their residence. On her = the innocent girl met a woman, who represented herself as a domestic of the lady in Madison avenue, who bad been sent post hante after the dresves. She intimated that che oung Iadies of the house were quite annoyed at the Untises ot the dressmaker, and acted the part of the domestic to such perfection, that poor Mary was easily induced to with the valuable apparel. returned home, rejoicing that her bramty, Aye made so much shorter by the singular accident that brought her in con- tact with the domestic of the Madison avenue lady. Upon relatirg the story to Mrs. Maine, thai laay auspect- ed tnat Mary had been made the victim of some decep- tion, ana accordingly sent her back to the Madison ave- nue folks, for the purpose of ascertainiog whether all was right or vot. Mary war completely dumbfounded when she learned that the dresses were not in the pos. session of the rightful owners, but had been carried off before her eyes by a smart female thief. CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES. Amerchant, named R. D. Goodwin, was arrested on Saturday afternoon, by Sergeant Van Cleef, of the Secon District Police Court, on a of false pretences, pre- ferred against him’ by Wm. Canfield, It appears there bas been a civil sult between those par- ties relative to the possession of certain property which Mr. Canfield bas now into a criminat ¢m laint. The accused was it before Justice Fian. reau, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, where tae mogistrate heid him to bail in the sum of $1,000 to answer the complaint, Bail being forthe»ming, the ac- cused was released from arrest. Resionation oF Anuy Orricens.—The resigna- tions of oa Thomas R. McConnell, Fourth [ow So and Lieutensnt Edwin F, Towosend, Taird til Jery, have been accepted by the President, to take effect March 11, 1856. ST. PATRICK’S DAY- military Parade—The Usual Procession Post- puned. Tn consequenee of the 17th of March occurring duriag Holy Week, the lrish societies bave deemed it dest to postpone the celebration of the birth of St. Patrisk unti the 24th instant, when, as we judge from the arrange- ments mace, the annual return of the natal day of Ire- Jaud’s patron saint will be observed with even more than the usual eclat. ‘The Irish military regiments, however, will not wait until the 24th inst., but will parade to-day as will be seen by the annexed orders :— NINTH BRGIMENT N. Y. 8. MILITIA~-REGIMENTAL OR- DERS NO. 3, Dew Yor, March 10, 1855. axqhis regiment will parade in avervosts, for lngpecdon aad ry Kegimen'al tite will be formed in La Fayetse place, the Tight on Great Jones s'ree’, at 0 o'clock A. M. precisely. ‘Abe Fie d and ttaff aill report 10 the ‘on the: parade ground, Byorderol LUCIUS PITKIN, Coone. P. Patox, Adj". The 69th Regiment, Colonel Ryan, will muster to-day fer parade at the City Armory, corner of White end Elm streets, atl o’clock P.M. Thence the line of march wil} be down Centre street vo the eust gate of the Park, cross- tng the Vark and up Broadway to Twenty-third street, parsing throvgh Twenty-third street, First avenue and Houston street, to the Bowery; down the Bowery and Grand street to the City Armory, and cismias, SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT, NEW YORK STATE MILITIA— ORDERS NO. 20. rik Heavavaruas. New Your, March regiment will parad uniformed on Monday, 17th day of shareh inst Commandante, non-commissioned Staff and Bend Master Wrul report to the Adjuiant, at the City Armory corner of & i and White streets, ai 1 o’ciock P. M. precisely. Fieid and btaft cfllcers will report to the Commandant at the seme time and place. Company K will reeeive and escort the: covors to and fre ‘Abomss Lyreb having been duly appointed and commis- sioned 8 Kng’neer in this regiment, be will be obeyed and reapected accordingly Bel} fa appointed 1st Color Sergeant, vice Tracy; he whl be res ea Lieutenunt Guirlan wiltreport torMuty to Ceptain Butlers ‘company ue and Lieutenant Keating will assume command ag a recruiting officer, out is not reaeved from duty in co! pany # only whilst on acvual dutv in company C. There will be « meeting of the oflicers of the regiment, at the Armory, on Friday evening, 14th instant at § o'clock. ‘There will be a dril: of this regiment, at the City Armory, oa Tuesday, the 26th instant, at 8 o'clock P. af., in (all uaiioroy and without arms. y Kiordap snd Lieutenant MeKeon will conduct thie orThie regiment ul. perade, July aallormed snd equipped, re wul parade, ‘un! at on #riday. the 98h instant, atthe Gly armory; the line Wil 6 formed at'8 o’clooh A. M., preci ely, Field and Staff offisers will repo 8, 186 equipped, dismounted, to the Com- oe ay 7 the parade ground, minutes before 8 Non commissioned Staff will report to the Adju‘ant, at the tame time and place. vercoats may be worn by companies ing them, bus to appear in over- no part of @ company will be perm cata. ‘A Court of Appeals from fines for delinquencies and ded- cieneies atthe perades herein ordered will beheld in April, of which oue notice will be giver bereafter, and Commandants wil) call the atten:ion of devnquents in their respective com- mands to the eitiing of the Oourt of Ay on Friday, tha 14th instant, ae ordered in Urder No. 19. By ot Joun MoUartax, Asjutant, JAMES R, RYAN, Colonel, We uncerstand the Ninth Regiment, Colonel Pitkin, 4 will form in Lafayette place in the forenoon, and will © march thence to the City Armory, to Join with the Sixty- ninth and Seventy-fifth regiments. ‘It will be seen from this that the real Simon Pure St. Patrick’s day will be duly observed after all. There are a great many contradictory acsounte afloat as to St. Patrick’s real birthplace. Indeed, some auda- cious sceptics argue that no such persom ever existed, and that his eaintehip was myth. hey argue that the firet detailed account of him waa written in the 12th century, by Jocelins, a Cistercian monk, eight centuries after (St, Patrick was said to have flourished, axd all the intervening histories were monk- ish fables. The nawe Patrick, they say, is a corruption of Patricus or Patrician, a person of rank and education among the Romans; and in the minds of the seai-bar- Derous irich the designation eventually came to be signi- ficant of civilization and refinement; and when the new religion was preached, by an easy , the edu- cator, the refiner, was individualized and called Patricus, or Patrick. Bat this course of argument has been deem- ed monstrous heresy by all good [rishmen, who produce a letter written by St. Patrick bimself to one Corotic, a Welsh prince, in which he says he was born in Bonaven Tabruniw, Scotiand, and that his father’s name was Cal- povrpias, But to’ this {t may be objected, that though . Patrick was a wise child, his parentage was as doubt- ful a matter as other wen’s, and one’s birthplace in known from his. i+) cvideuce, which is, of course, inad~ missible in apy hi-t ry. The fact is that St. Patrick was # kind of an ancient Matsell, whose nativity is as yet un- decided, and will, doubtless, remain so aa long as there are two Irishmen left to fight about it. Usher and Tillemont both egree in fixing St. Patrick’s birth in the year 372; tke former writer, however, states that he died in 492, while the latter seys 455 was the true date. It was Pope Celestine who canonized St. Patrick. The legendary tale that St. Patrick banished ail the yencmous ae from Ireland is ¢iscredited, from the fact that Solinus, who flourished two centuries before St. Patrick, mentious that no vipers were ever seen there; end the same circumstance is noted by Isadore, Bede, Donahue and others. It is certeinly true that no reptiles will jive in that country, and those that have been in- troduced sickened and soon after their arrival. So much for St. Patrick’s dsy and its observance this year. City intelligence. Tne PoLck TRLEGRAPH.— It is announced that the polive telegraph, that connects the different station houses throughout the city with the Chief’s office in the Park, is to be improved, and the apparatus simplified, so as to make it more usefnl. Heretofore it has been employed to convey slarms of fire tothe City Hall, and restore sost hersea and d. keys to their pestis but ft iss question whether it paid the cost of its construction. Hereatter, itis understood, crimes, casualties, arrests anda more perfect report of fires will, be tranamitted to the Chief’s office, to be recorded there. This should have been done ego. The fact is, the police telegraph, especially at night, bas been attended to in an facompetent mauner.. Crime and robberies of all kindsare done under cover of the night, and the head office of the pubic business of this great city shoud be as well attended then as in the daytime. Yet, incredible as it may ap- pear, there are only two patrolmen on duty at the Caief’s Office from 7 P, M. to 6 A. M., and they have sole charge aie during those hours, and attend aoe a . Naturally eno Ling - nistlon—theee who have page ren or bave been robbed—find their way to the Chief’a office curing the night, and find to their astonishment no aw party on duty, andthe place in every respect in’ to an ordinary police station. All this should be thoror reformed, ight pg pats the power and competent to perform the duties, of a police captain should be ap- pointed on iy bes night, and a complete record of everything of interest that transpires, for the benetit of the public, aad which, of course, should be free to the press. Mayor Wood should give the matter his isame- diate attention. Yew Yor« Prison Association. —The annual meeting of the New York Prison Association was held yesterday a? 4?P. M., at No. 15 Centre street, to elect officers for the ensuirg year. The following were the officers chosen :~ President—Francis R. Tiilon. Vice Presidents. N. Havens, James H, Titus, Jcha H. Griscom, Jobn D. Russ. Co renuniding Secreary—Jobn Stanton Gould. Re ling Secredary—Jas. C. Holden. Treasurer—Henry A. Oakley. Finance Committee—Mr. C. Gitoan, Chas. Clayion New- fee, Henry P. Marshall, 0, P. Woodtord, Henry A. Oak- ley. Committees on Detentions of Prisoners, Prison Disctp- ine and Discharged Convicts were electel. A New Fearcre iy THE Pustic Scnoows,—Hereatter there will be what are known as reception days in the public schools, when the public are invited and expected to attend, to witness the proficiency of the scholars im their respective studies. They are to occur monthly, and ladies and gentlemen who have children at these beneficent institutions will, no doubt, be present ia large numbers. The effects atiting from these public examinations cannot but be to and pupils. RE-ORGANIZING THE Fre Derantugst,—A convention is now in secret session every Saturday evening, at the Chief Engineer’s office, drawing up « series of laws to Properly reform and re-organize the New York Fire De- partment. The following named gentiemen constitute the personnel of the Convention :-— Aldermen—Tucker, V¢ Clancy, I Renard eer Tauih, JL: Smith: Pies: Oeesescnera pentativen’Baae (ose 30) bea or eanoe 8 Bis (Engi cee 9 poi ay 38), Slower ‘a Foray (Pngine 14), and Williams (ogine 1). — It is found thst there are a number of conflicting ko 4 nances now governing the Fire Department. These codifying, and an ordinance will be Pk clearly de- fining the righ's, powers and mode of of the en- gineere, forewen aad members of compenies; regulating story of the rales to and, in fact, setting forth every’ necessary for the government ‘and guidance of firemen. The lavors of the conventio it is suapored, wid continue over six months. ud Branine ov « STRAW Bev.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, the alarm of fire in the Seventh Dis- triet. was oocasioned by a straw bed: taking fire, j welling house, No. 5 Catherine aifs. Mis. Seteute seems placed a lighted candle too near the straw mat- ars falling asleep, the eandie burnt down and fired |. The flames were extinguished of water. Damage about $10. 0 iacranss eee Acawest oy Boar Tan STEAMSHIP EDivnoRG.—On Satar- day about 5 o'clock, John R. Urie, a seamau, aged 23 fell from the maintopsail yard on desk, aad was Tistabely kilted. "Ho was buried co Sunday, in the Dateh Reformed church buryfng ground, at Quarantine, Brooklyn City News. A Gna. IN Boys’ Cromims.—A young female, who goo# by the name of Margaret Stanly, was arrested in Fulton street on Saterday evening for xppearing in male attire. She wan in company with two of the opposite sex, who gallanted her up avd down the street for some length of ime, when, being observed by cfficer Barr, of the Firat Giatrict police, he put a stop to the fun by taking the ‘emale into custody. She was very tidely dressed, with