The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1856, Page 4

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New York, Sunday, March 23, 1856. Netlee to the Public. Advertisers are requested to condense their business (peltecs into as few words as possible. Space is valuable, ‘and our columas sre crowded. Economy im words is @ronemy in mone News. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday are gaminteresting. The Senate adopted the Assembly yesolution to adjourn sine die on the 9th of April. Some very interesting news from China will be found in our columns this morning. The extracts from our files are dated to the 15th of January, and ear Shanghai correspondent writes on the 8th of the same month. Four American sailors, who deserted nearly two years since from the whaler Two Bro- thers, of New Bedford, had arrived in Shanghai, and were objects of no little curiosity. Taey had been sent under government escort from the coast ef Corea through Manchuria to the Great Wall, and thence through Peking to Shanghai. During their ride (on horseback) they passed through many beautiful and populous cities, but the ladies were all carefully shut up until their departure. At Hong Kong the natives have such a dread of the horrors of the Cuban slave (apprentice) trade that they almost murdered a man lately, whom they suspected of being engaged as an agent for its pro- motion by either the Spaniards or the English. A very spirited regatta, in which boats belonging to the French, American and English ships of war ontended, took place tately av mong revuy. A Vout ‘of the United States ship Macedonian won the only yace in which our sailors appeared. The French and English refused a challenge for another trial. Commodore Abbott's body was put on board the Ma- eedonian at Victoria, for transportation to the United States, with a grand funeral ceremony and great of- ficial pomp. Doctor Parker, the new Commissioner of the United States at Hong Kong, had denounced the coolie trade. Mr. Silas E. Burrows, of San Francisco, had appeared as his own counsel, in the Vice Admiralty Court at Hong Kong, in the case of the ship Australia, late Rob Roy. Trade at Shang- hai was very active during the past year. The en- trance to the port had been regularly buoyed, and the light ship on the north bank made secure. The rebels still held Nanking, but a plague had broken out in the city and nearly one hundred thousand persons were swept away. Onur files from Turks Islands are to the 25th ult. Governor Inglis had returned to the seat of govern- ment, after an absence of eleven months. Wasa- ington’s birthday was duly honored. The Roya! Standard of Feb. 28, says: Owing to the unusually fine weather for the season, which has prevailed for several weeks past, the annual operation of clean:- ing salt pans, repairing breaches and making im- provements is going on with mach spirit. On the whole, the entire ponds of the colony have not been in a better condition at thie early period, than at present, fora series of years past. About 10,000 bushels have been raked in all. We have news from Pernambuco to the 24th ult. prevalence of the cholera. The epiie’ was chiefly among the negroes. Several fata! case= of yellow fever had occwred among the shipping in port. Rey. Thomas Finch Hobdsy Bridge, Archdeacon of Newfoundland and Labrador, died at St. Johns, RN. F., on the 29th ult., in the forty-ninth year of his age. His funeral took place on the 4th inst. with imposing ceremonies. Late accounts from Florida state that an attack had been made by the Indians on the settlers on the Alafia, about thirty miles east of Tampa. Four men, one woman and three children were killed and sealped, their houses were burnt, and all the ont. rages and barbarities that savages could invent were committed. Most of the men of the settlement had volunteered to protect their more exposed neighbors, helieving their own families comparatively safe. There was an animated election held yesterday at the Corn Exchange, corner of Broad and South streets, for trustees to serve for the coming year. There were two tickets in the field—the regular comprising most of the old board, and the opposition made up of new names. The split grew out of the contention regarding the agitation for reform or change in the present mode of flour inspection Prominent on the latter ticket were Messrs. Herrick, Sage & Co. The opposition prevailed and elected their men. There were 361 deaths in the city last week, as we learn from the City Inspector's report, namely: 64 men, 65 women, 128 boys and 101 girls, showing @ decrease of Glonthe mortality of the week pre- vious. Of the whole number 12 died of bronchitis, 46 of consumption, 23 of inflammation of the lungs, 3 of apoplexy, 6 of congestion of the brain, 9 of inflammation of the brain, 14 of dropsy in the head, 4 of diarrhea, 4 of dysentery, 8 of inflammation of the bowels, 4 of erysipelas, 5 of disease of the heart, 6 of typhoid fever, 3 of smallpox, 36 of con- vulsions (infantile), 11 of croup, 6 of debility (in- fantile), 29 of scarlet fever, 3 of hooping cough, 20 of marasmus (infantile), and 3 of measles. There were also 4 premature births, 24 cases of stillborn, and 7 deaths from violent causes. The following ia the classification of diseases :—Bones, joints, &c., 6; brain and nerves, 81; generative organs, 6; heart and blood vessels, 8; lungs, throat, &c., 101; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 40; stillborn and prema- ture births, 28; stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 60; uncertain seat and general fevers, 26; urinary organs, 2; old age, 3. The nativity table gives 254 natives of the United States, 65 of Ire- land, 26 of Germany, 7 of England, and the balance ot various European countries. Sales of cotton yesterday were pretty freely made, chiefly in transitu. The market closed firm. Flour was hess freely offered, and the long run of purchasers upon common brands, has considerably reduced the quantity offering for sale, and holders stood out for full prices, at which sales were more freely made. The stock im this market was estimated by some well informed perrons at 150,999 bbis., of ali kinds, Prime wheat was in good milling demand. Cana- dian white was held at an advance, say $1 95. The article brought $1 92 day before yesterday, while white Southern sold yesterday at $1 81 a $1 90, and inferior Tennessee red at $1 60 a $1 65. Corn was dull, with sales of mixed at 63c.° 65c., and white at @6c. a 68}c.; prime yellow, fer contract delivery, was sold at 69c.a 70c. Rye was lower, and sold at $1 12a $1.13. Pork was inactive, at $15 87 for mess, and at $14 87 a $15 for prime. Rump pork sold at $14. There was a good demand for refuse pork at full prices, which is said to be purchased for conversion, to a great extent, into prime mess for the French market, and that large quantities, probably of low grades, have thus been manufactured. The balance of.a cargo of Rio coffee was sold yesterday at 1ljc. The range of the mar ket was from llc. to 12c. Sugars were quiet, with” out change in prices. The increase of tonnage had a tendency to check freight engagements. Cotton was engaged for Liverpool at 9-32d. a 5-16d. How are our Dficalties with England to be Settled !—No Arbitrations for Us. As our readere are already aware, Lord Pal- merston took occasion to say, in reply to Mr. Cobden’s interpellations on the subject of the differences with the United States relative to Central America, that although he regarded the English position on that question a sound one, yet that he had offered to submit the whole matter to the arbitration of a third party. This announcement was received with cheers, and had the effect which it was no doubt designed to produce, of making Parlia- ment and the English people believe that,” while the British government was earnestly and honorably seeking an adjustment of the question, the United States, on the other hand, was as obstinately bent on prolonging the quarrel for political purposee, or with the de- sign of forcing a war on Great Britain. It also had the effect of creating a similar im- pression on the Continent, as was immediately evinced by the tone and language of the French and Germen press. Now, it isa fact that no allusion is made to any proposition of the kind named by Lord Palmerston in the correspondence, which comes down to Mr. Buchanan’s note of Octo- ber 4, 1855. That note was a formal wind- ing up in Europe of the whole correspon- dence, which then ended in what is called a “dead lock”; both parties distinctly pro- claiming opposing and irreconcilable con- structions of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty. The proposition mentioned by Lord Palmerston was made public here subsequent to the pre- sentation of the President’s meszage to Con- gress, and had not reached Europe at the last accounts. It is impossible, however, to believe that it was meant in good faith; on the contra- ry, the political antecedents of Palmerston war- rant usin the opinion that it was ouly a piece of political finesse, to avoid meeting a difficult issue beforg Parliament, and to place the United States in a false position before the world. To a certain extent the play has been successful; for although it seems ne anawer to the proposition had yet been received from the United States, you Luca Palmerston well knows that the Ameri- can government can never accede to his pro- posal; and however much people at home or abroad may be taken with the apparent fair- ness of the ofter, 6 moment’s reflection will convince them that it is delusive and dishonest. In the first place, what Power could be named as arbiter which would not be open to imperative objections from one or both of the principals? France, Austria, Sardinia, Hol- land, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Russia would be “peremptorily challenged” by either the United States or Great Britain, for reasons obvious to the least intelligent reader There remains only Prussia, which Power would not be likely to decide against the pre- tensions ot England, whose good will the pros pect of peace makes her ludicrously anxious tv conciliate. In fact, there is not a Statein Earope, not openly hostile to the United States, which is not in some such position in respect to England and the alliance as to re - der it incapable of rendering an impartial 4 cision. But even if this were not the case, and even though we had lost the remembrance of the results of previous “arbitrations” into which we have been inveigled, still the United States could not accede to the Palmerstoniam propo sal, for the patent reason that the subject is not one which, in its nature, is capable of be ing settled by arbitration. The Clayton and Bulwer treaty or conven- tion was notoriously desigaed to terminate all British jurisdiction and pretensions in Central America, so as to secure a free transit between the seas, which should not be overawed by the presence or interrupted by the pretensious either of the great contracting Powers. 1 this end the American negotiator was willing renounce for himself and his country any {. ture advantages which the proximity of the United States and ite preponderating iaterett in that quarter of the world might tempt o: authorize it to claim or sesure, The policy of the American negotiator, in this resy:o. may well be doubted; and the ability o the treaty making power to bind th. United States in this respect, may well be d- nied to it under the constitution, The only ground upon which the treaty was accep‘ed was that of the relief which it would afford to the Central American States, of which we are the natural protectors, and as terminating pretensions which might and may yet end in collisions between the United States and Great Britain. That such was the under- standing of the British government is evident from the fact of its expressly stipulating that the establishment of Belize, or British Hondu- rae, on the coast of Yucatan, should not fail within the provisions of the treaty. If that treaty was designed to recognise and ratify British pretensions, as Lord Clarendon now pretends, why should this exception be made? Did the British government wish to exclude its pretensions in Belize from the advantages of a recognition by the United States? Of course not; and the new construction is altogether an afterthought, and a dishonest and shame- les attempt to evade solemn treaty obliga- tions. Under these circumstances, the proposal for arbitration implies that Great Britain hopes to gain by the accidents of that arbitration what she has fairly lost by treaty stipulations. It is the proposal of the convicted criminal to NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1856. ee A een ene ee a ERO nN eee Edi, pliance with the treaty, or te <ffect ite abroga- tion, We have seid this is a question which in its nature does not admit of arbitration. If the treaty do: cot mean what we claim it does mean; if i: does not accomplish the purpose for which it was negotiated, and the sole object for which we consented to waive all of our interests, present or prospective, in Cen tral America, then we will not have the treaty atall. We have made a fair bargain for @ epecific object, and taken upon ourselves re- ciprocel obligations ¢o secure it. If the object -of our bargain be net secured, then our obliga- tions cease, and it-only remains for us to can- cel it, and to adopt as a principle for fatur> action, never to deal with knaves. Our position is easily illustrated: Farmer Jones agreed to buy a horse from his neighbor Smith. But instead of a horse Smith brought a mule; and since Jones, who only wants a horse, demurred to take the mule, Palmerston- ian Smith (who, according to his own account of himself, is the most honorable man in the world,) gravely proposed to leave the question toJenkins, a Dutch tailor, who didn’t know the difference between the two animals. The sequel of the story runs that Jones refused the arbitration, and Smith becoming insolent, he kicked him out of the stable. Sreampoats AND Ferries,—The Mayor has dis- covered that the steamers and ferryboats ply- ing to New York are unprovided with sufficient life-saving apparatus, and that such an acci- dent as the one which occurred at Philadelphia dest week may occur at apy moment in the Hudson or the East river. Two policemen were detailed to walk round the wharves, and board every steamer, incog., in ord.r to ascertain what and how many boats she carried. Eighteen steamers, plying to vari- ous ports at some distance from the city, were visited. Of these only five—the Bay State, the New World, the C. Vanderbilt, the Tra- veller, and the Commonwealth—appear to 02 adequately provided with boats. The Bay State has six life boats; the Commonwealth four life boats and tworow boats, the C. Van- derbilt has three metallic life boats and two row boats ; and the New World and Traveller two life and two row boats each. Many of the others have three boats; some—which ought to be better provided, as the Keyport and New Haven--only two. Twenty-nine ferry boats were boarded, being in some instances one out of six, in othersone out of two or three of the boats running. The Fulton, South and Hamilton avenue ferry boats carried two life boats each; but all the others only one--and that in many instances, as on the Staten Island ferry, a small, wretched row beat, stowed away 20 as to be wholly use- less in the event of accident. Many of these boats carry five hundred passen- gers on a trip. To expect them to carry life boats enough to rescue this number would perhaps be unreasonable, though ten of Fran- vis's lifo beats wonld do it. But there is nothing unreasonable in expecting them to carry life preserving stools enough to save every passenger. These stools are common enough, and cheap eneugh: they would not take up room which could be better employed; on the contrary, the want of ait¢ing accommo- dation is an old subject of comp tat on board of all our ferry boats, and f&qy would cer- tainly answer the purpose. Mr. Mayor, you took the trouble to see how life is exposed on board steamers and ferries : is the matter torest there? Is 2 knowledge of the evil to precede an effort for remedy, or not? Will nothing be done till a boat load o/ people are drowned? The Common Councii has the power to compel the use of life saving stools. Will it use it or not? A Srrcia. Jury has been struck in the case of Giles against Flagg, to decide who is the rightful Comptroller of the city. It meets to- morrow morning, at ten, and is composed o1 the following pergons:— Auchinclors, Hugh, Jr., commission merchant, No. 115 Breadway; Bancroft, George, historian, No. '17 West Twenty-first street; Gray, Juhn A. C., merehent, No. 33 Verey street; Grinreil, Henry, merchant, No. 17 Bon+ stree: ; Ga‘lalin, James, bank president, No. 56 Wet Eevensh street; Hurry, Edmuni, architect, No. 11 Weert Thirty first street; Jones, Edward, gentleman, No. 245 Mercer street; King, James @., Jr., banker, No. 46 Bar clay street; Macomber, Edward, banker, No. 275 Fifth eae, Gobilel, gentleman, No. 14 Lafayeti. tt, Henry H., merchant, No, 184 Fifth avenue; , Richard A., secretary, No, 82 East Twenty-fourta street; Phelps, Anton, Jr., merchant, No, 30 East Fif- teenih street; Randolph, Anson D. F., bookeeller, No. 67 Bedford street; Allen, George F., itonfounder, No. 94 Ninth street; Stout, Aquila G., president, &e.. No 84 fers, ECward W.,’ merchant, No. 23 Cla tterbury, Louis, 22 Irviag Jace; Pehon, Theodére, meret an’ ‘h aveaue; Nano, Frederick A., merchant, No. 30 Lafayette place: Deuglas, Farl, merchant, No. est Twenty-third street: Jaffray, Edward J. merchant, No. 47 Second ave: vue: Deforest, William W., merehant, No. 268 Fifth ay2- nue; Derr, Albert C., retired, No, 91 Wall street. This is a good jury. We hope they will do their work well and thoroughly, and that if such a thing be at all possible, they may give a blow to the wholesale corruption existing in our city politics. A Boyxr Bovcug ror Francis P, Buarr — Fred. Douglass, colored maa, is one of the shining lights among the Niccer Worsutprers, and will doubtless run on the Seward, Greeley and Blair ticket next fall. Fred prints a paper, which is one of the organs of the party. In the last number, after informing us that the American eagle thirsts for the blood of the slave, (bad taste on the part of the American eagle,) he winds up as follows:— No wonder that this nation is a ‘hissing and a by- word.” Ite “democracy” is a flegrant lie, i # “repuy i- ceuism” » diegraceful eham, and its lovers (?) of ‘Jo mestic ‘ragguillty” the basest tyrants whose footprints ever curse@ the green earth of God. When wii the peo- pie learn to “co juacly”” When will they cease to pres- titute the constitution for the sake of the gratification of robbery and wrong’ If not pecdily, God wili certainly enter into judgment with the nation. Her iniqnities have reacted thé ear of heaven, The day of retribution isatband. We call upon all true lovers of iloerty to wrest the constitution from its present “interpre‘ery,”” drive out the buyers ard sellers who the judi- cial tempig, and “proclaim liberty thronghou; all the land ind. il thb tohabitante thereat This is the last new plank in the Pittsburg platform. Queer place for Blair, of Jackson's organ, isn’t it? Tux Wisn is Faruer to rae Toovent.—The Washington Union has a sort of clinical lecture on the “ Condition and Prospects of the Demo. cratic Party.” On the whole, the patient shows a pretty fair diagnosis. He has suffered some from Know Nothingism, but— With a tisket nominated after a canvass cha-acterized by a gratifying absence of all personal acrimony and crimination amongst the aspirants and their friends, we shall open the contes! with every assurance of e triamph- ant rerult, “ Absence of all personal acrimony” is pret- toss coppers with the Judge as to whether he shall go to prison or run at large. To us the proposition of Palmerston appears both impertinent and insulting, and fully jus- tifies the imputations of bad faith which have been made against English foreign Poliey. It should be refused as @ base attempt to com- pound a felony, at the same time that mea- surée should hg taken to gaagt a rigorque com. ty good, but not half so rich as the perora- tion:-- Ovr confidence reste upon the knowledge that the de- moeracy is a unit as to the great principies involved in the con’ ‘and that so far its harmony is unmarred b; sonal rivalries for the nomination, and upon the sliding conviction that the democracy thus united is in- vit a That is the best joke we have read in a month. The Union is getting to be a rival to Punch. The democracy a “unit!” How about New ork: Where's Dickinson? ‘Ihe Political Convention Systom—What Has tt Bonet It has raised up a power between the consti- tution and the people utterly subversive of the spirit of the one and of the righte of the other. ¥¢ bas substituted the decisions of intriguing politicians in the place of the anbiassed judg- ment of the nation. it hee paralyzed and discouraged all high disinterested public sentiment, making pet'y manegement its chief qualification for political preferment, and closing the door against pa- triotiem, statesmanship and personal indepen- denoe. It hae offered the highest rewards of the na- tion te him who would most successfully con- ceal his real epintons before the election, and most shameleedly disregard them after. It hae closed the executive office against true merit, and filled public places, at home and abroad, with incompetent men, who re- ceive their appointments as a reward of parti- zen services, It has substantially transferred from the President to Senators and members of Con: gress the whole appointing power, even drag- ging the national judiciary into the vortex of its usurpations and subjecting it to the de- graded standard of its morals, It has generated irresponsibility and reck- lessness in the national legislature, increased our expenditures, demoralized public agente, squandered the public money, degraded the government, and weakened the bonds of the federal Union. It bas peneioned the press and raised up, through its instrumentality, a venal public sentiment destructive alike of the integrity of the general administration and the harmony and well being of the republic. It has given power to men without political virtue or patriotism, who, failing to accom plish their own ambitious ends, have become traitors to their country, seek- ing its overthrow, as a punishment for their imaginary grievances. For this purpose they have sown the seeds of sectional bitter- nese, arrayed the North against the South, and filled the nation with wranglings, conten- tions and strifes, It bas yearly thrown off masses of political debris from various party organizations, and these have been collected and reformed into cliques and cabals, even so far that it is doubt- ful if there is honest public sentiment enough to save the Union from disruption and an- archy. It has raised up everwhere in the nation combinations of mercenary speculators and sleight of hand political gamblers, who have quartered themeelves on the public treasury and fattened on the earnings of the people. It has legalized robbery by boldly proclaim ing that to the “victors belong the spoils of the vanquished”—a license which has been re- ceived as a warrant for every species of pecu- lation and knavery, as is shown by the frighi- ful increase of the public burdens without any corresponding necessity. It has annually augmented the expenditarce of the treasury from twenty to sixty millions of dollars, without materially enlarging the army or navy, leaving our seaboard defence- lees, our harbors in ruins, or commerce neg- lected, our frontiers devastated by Indian wars, our postal service insufficient and insecure, our interests abroad paralyzed, and our confidence in the public administration impaired, if not wholly lost. It has discredited the democratic principles which lay at the foundation of the republic, insomuch that large numbers seri- ously deny the right of the people to govern themselves, and seek to establish the relations of sovereign and subject between the States and the Territories—a legitimate fruit of the assumption of conventions to control and bind the masees in filling the public offices. It has constructed platforms and compro- misez, withdrawing attention from the constit: tion, the only chart to be recognized in our po litical navigation, until the wisest heads in the country have become bewildered by the laby rinths into which we have been drawn, creation such conflicting attractions that the shi; compass will hardly traverse, and the stoutesi heart trembles with fear. It has sought the rejection of Texas and California from the federal Union, throwi>¢ its whole power into the balance against those projects, and was defeated only by the sponta neous rising of the people and the rejection of Mr. Van Beren and his associates in 1844. It has prevented the people of the United States from adopting, at an earlier day, th principles of free trade, and thus subjected the great producing classes to an onerous tax for many ycars, collected for the benefit of spe- cial branches of American industry. It has degraded our diplomatic service Lj reducing it to a system of compensations—‘ » bit of white stone here, and a bit of black stone there’—a mere floom to carry off the waste funds of the people-- rewards bestowed for services rendered in the canvass, and not for duties performed by our representatives abroad —an evil which pervades the whole public administration. It has given special prominence and power to political egitators, fanatics and traitors, and has built up temples of idolatry, in which Niccer Worsuip has become a frightful ele- ment of disturbance and of political. s.c'2l and religious demoralization. It has converted a system of government based upon principles of popular sovereignty and of pure representation, into a scheme fir personal compensation and advantages, under the operation of which merit is proscribed. long and faithful service an objection, and integrity ridiculed. It is a combination of politicians to rule the people of the United States, to possess them- selyes of the public offices, to crush out faith- ful public servants, to exalt low intrigues, to make great men out of small ones, and small men of great ones. Franklin Pierce is President, who was nominated by the Democratic Na- tional Convention at Baltimore in 1852. NapoLroxic ALLIANCE witht Enciayp.—In his epeech before the Council of State, the other day. the Emperor of France spoke of acts and “sentiments” “which were of a na- ture to strengthen the alliance between the two nations.” Language, in the mouth of men £o well trained to weigh it as Napoleon, commonly means more than appears on the surface. What were the “ sentiments” which were to strengthen the British alliance’? Is it true, after all, that the old idea of a mayriage between Louis Napoleon's heir and a Princess Royal of England has not been abandoned? Let no man venture positively to reply in the negative, Missionakizs yor Truk Morwons.—The reli- gious press par excellence—the New York 0b- server-—calls the Mormons “wretched polyga- mists and fanatics,” and wants to send mis- sionaries to them. Whereupon the New York organ of the Latter Day Saints—the Mormon-- waxes wroth, and talks to the Observer in this style:-— ‘Wiil the e/ iter pleae send men with brains—men who know the Bible, and who will live or die by i:? Now don’tiall into s mistake, and send us the missionaries ard colporteurs that visit the deathbed of harlots and debau to torment them with the horrors of hel. You should bnow, Mr. Foitor, that the people in Ucah have heard all the granny tales that these missiazaries and colporteurs rejail—tbey ere stereotyped in every country where your bastard Coristianity has been intro- duced. Should you send us such men as Mr. Allen, of the Calcutta mi j—men vith some degree of con- ecienee and br: what will become cf them? It Mr. , from rubbin, ss benighted Hindooe, got his epaned to perceive that polyguiny was n <aly'e lewis, hohe pee itive Christian doctrine ani practice, we ¢x- t that a missiouery expeditior to Utah would make im ery out in all sincerity, ‘Surely our monogamic e inherited lies, vanity, and things in whic’ profit: Betore the Observer sends out the mission to Utah, it would be well enough to ‘ry and con- vert the editor of the Mormon. He is a hard case. Comritimentary To Bors or Tuem.--The Alabama State Sentinel comes out against the renomination of Mr. Pierce, and threatens that if he should be the nominee of the coavention, it will support Fiilmore as a “lesser evil” Kansas Movements iv THe Souru.—Read the report eleewhere in this paper of the Kancas emigrant aid meeting in Chareston, S.C. CHEB LAPHEST MAWS. SY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. THE NICARAGUA TRANSIT COMPANY’S DIFFICULTY —THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINED NOT TO INTER- FERE—THE KANSAS INVESTIGATION, ETO. Wasnixoroy, March 22, 1856. Mesers. White and Vanderbilt were closeted with At- torney General Cushing for some time to-dsy, and were urgirg our government to aid them in thelr difficulties with General Walker. Mr. Marcy on a previous occasion peremptorily refused to do anything, and Mr. Cushing stated to them in plain terms to-day, that they could ex- pect nothing from our government. It appears the subject has been before the Cabinet. The administration are of opinion that White and Vanderbilt aided and con- nived at filibustering expeditions to Nicaragua; therefore they have no sympathy with them, and are determined not to interfere. There is a tremendous pressure om Speaker Banks in reference to the appointment of commissioners to go to Kansas, Mr. Dunn’s friends are urging him with great yehemence{while, on the other hand, some of the North- ern republicans are doiog everything in their power to defeat him. The snnouncement will not be made unti! Monday. Governor Reeder left to-day for his heme at Faston, and will go from thence early next week to Kan- sas, with;the Commissioners. The Kansas free State con- stitution arrived here to-day, and was put into the hands of General Case. He will present it to the Senate on Monday. Letters have been received from Mr. Buchanan an_ nouncing his intention to leave Havre inthe Arago on the 9th of April. News from Kansas. Sr, Lovis, March 22, 1856, The Topeka correspondence of the Democrat, to the 13th inet., says that the Free State Assembly would adjourn on the 15th, until July. Launch of the Minnehaha, Boston, March 22, 1950. ‘The new three deck sbip, of 1,800 tons, named Miune- haha, was succe:sfally launched from the yard of her builder, Donald McKay, Fsq., at noon to-day. A colla- tion followed the launch, at which were persent General Jobn §, Tyler, Professor Longfellow, and others, who made short addresses. Mrs. Barrow also repeated passages from “Hiawatha.” The whole affair passed off very pleasantly and agreeably. Marine Disasters. BRIG HORATIO AND SCHOONER CALIFORNIA IN DIS- TRESS, ETO. Norroix, March 22, 1856. ‘The brig Horatio, fifty deys from Key West, bound to Providence, has put im here leaking and with loss-of eails. The schooner California, forty-seven days from Booth- bey, has also put in here with loss of sails, rigging, &c. The schooner Silver Clould, from Mingo Islands, with ‘8 cargo of guano, bound to Philadelphia, put in here to- day, leaking badly. The Steamer Knoxville. SavaNNAH, March 21, 1856. The Knoxville, which was detained here by bad wea- ther, left for New York at six o'clock on Thursday morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PaiLapELPHia, March 22, 1856. Stocks are higher. Penna. State 5’s, 83%; Reading Ratlrond, 46; Long Irland, 153(; Morris Canal, 143¢; Penn- sylvania Railroad, 45%. New ORiEANS, March 21, 1856. Cotton—Improvirg; sales to-day 18,000 bales. We quote middling at 9c. a 93¢¢, Sales of the week, 50,000 bales. Receipts this year up to pahomes time, in ex- cess of thore of last year, 460, bales. Stock on hand, 805,760 bales. Rio coffee—Sales of the week, 20,. 000 tags; stcck in port, 42,000 bags. Lard has declined to 9c. Mess pork, $15 60, and prices tending downward. Freights—Cotton ‘to Liverpool, 11-16d. Prow PERNaMevt By the arrival of the ship Shoot- ing Star, from Pernambuco, we have reosived advices from there to Feb. 24. The cholera was prevailing t= such an alarming extent as to seriously interfere with all business. Deaths fcom the epidemic were chiefly blacks. There had beem several cases of yellow fever among the shipping, most of them proving fatal. Naval Intelligence. ‘The United States propeller Despatch was taken into the Navy Yard dry dock on Friday night last, after which it was discovered that she had broken one of the fans of her propeller. Mr. Gay, the principal engineer, states that a new pattern could not be procured, and comse- quently eke will be taken out and placed in one of the sectional docks on the New York side, so that the new steam frigate Niagara may be admitted into the naval éry dock on Monday (to-morrow) at 11 o’elock A. M. Coroners’ Inquests. Fatal ACCIDENT ON THE Hopson RiveR Raw.ROAD.—An in- quest was held yesterday at 21 West Thirty-first street, upon the body ofa laborer named John H. Laherman, who was instantly killed on the Hudson River Railroad by being run over by a locomotive on Friday afternoon. Deceased, is appeared, was at work upon the road, near Toiriy first street, when he was struck by an engine and almost instantly killed. The deceased was a native of Germany, and was 21 years of age, Verdict in accord- ance with the absve facts. Deata FROM Eatin Poisonous SavsaGEs.—Another case of death from eating diseased meats came under the ob- servation of the Coroner on Friday evening. A man nam. ed Thomas Mahoney died very suddenly at his residence in West Sixteenth street, on the day in question, Coro- ner Connery, on being notified of the fact, proceeded to icence of deceased and held an inquest on the body, it was shown that death was caused by eating dis- eased or p ous sausages, A post mortem examina- tion was made by Dr. Finnell, who found tubérculous de- postie in both lunge; the heart was healthy, and ths ‘tomach contained a bloody flufd, and portions of undi- ested eausege meat; the mucus membrane was entirely Injected; the brain, liver, kidneys and other organs were ina healthy condition. Dr. Finnell, after « miaute in- vestigation of the stomach and its contents, anid deceas- d came to his death from “eombined effects of in- temperance and ade jausage meat.” The jury re- turned a verdict in accordance with the doctor’s opinion, and further said, ‘‘We caution the public against the use of seasoned meats, without careful inquiry how such meats are prepared.” Susprcrous Cases.—An inquest was held on Friday, at No, 678 Heuston street, upon the bocy of a woman named Mary Halbert, who was found dead in her room, at the above house, The police, on hearing of the case, pod that the deceased had been Ler ey ely & post examination ma¢e upon the body of that death had been caused by deli ,- ceased was 40 yearn of age, and was a native of Englaad. An inquest was also heid upon the of a female in- fant, which was found by the First Ice, at the Battery enlargement. woman named 'y .Wagler was arrested on suspicion of infanticide, but as no evi cence vey 9 be oe Cg Re ge leg was charge the woman from » The jury in this care rendered a verdict of ‘Death from uskaows causes.” erent ck ture, which adjourned sine diz on —The a ine the 10th inst., ‘prevalent ® law making all the cities and towns of the responsible to the ownors of property destroyed by mobs, The Haster Ho‘idays. Sunday, end its obrervance, which is out Chrietendom, is in commemrition of Christ’s 1esurrestion from the dead aud sion to Paradise. Faster ia so called trom the Saxon word oster, — to rise, or, a8 some writers suppose, from one of the i Sexon goddersen, called Easter, who was worshippe! at this season of the year. Easter Sunday ia the grand high festival of the church; and in Europe, especisiiy the Romen Catholic potion of it, great rejotcinge are had in honor of the Redeswer’s | resurrestion. So overjoyr, in “he minds of the vu'gsr, is all vature at the reture of Kater, that it {9 ax,,posed the sun dances at ite tiring io the morning. We we very much afralé that but ‘ew of our readers will be able to verity the truth of this belief to-day, as early rising is not a marked pecaiiazity of New Yorkers. Sir Thomas Brown bas some quaint thoughts on the | subject of ihe sun’s dancing. He says:— We shall not, I hope, disparage the resurrection of 01 Redeemer if we ray that (0 sun duto uot dance on 1 1d willingly sesent to say ye* we cannot conceive therein any | more than s tropical expresses». Whether eny euch motion there was on ths cay wherein Christ arised, Scripture hath not revealed, waich bath been puaccual | in other records concerning soliry miracles; and the Areopagite that was amezd et br eclipse, took not notice ‘f this; and, if metapboriss! expression go so far, we | ct ey. athetical exultation, may be bold to affirm, not ouly that one sun danc: two more that dey; that liynt appsared at bis and darkness at his death and yet light at both that darkness was a light unto the Geniles, illuminsted | that obseurity, That was the first time the sun set | above the horizon; that though there were derkne<s | above the earth, yet tbere was igat benea‘h it, mor dare we ssy that hell was dark ft he were in it. To-day there will be interestirg services in the Rowsn Catholic and Episcopalian churches. In many countries ot Europe they ceck the altars and churches with fl »wers, | to typify the renewai of ji/e in plants as an emblem of the resurrection. The game of ogg breaking is also indalged im, and in Russia, we are told, it 1s customary for ti people to go around with oolo ed pasche eggs in their hands challenging their neighbors to a trial of the strength of their several eggs. The broken egg is of * course the spoil ot the conqueror. The universal saluta- tion in the morning 1s ‘Christ is risen.’? The egg with the Egyptians and Jews was a type of the creation, as it represented undeveloped jife. Easter is « besutifuily significant holiday, as emblema- tic of the renewal of the evid-noes of life in all nature, and, no doubt, to-day millions of pious souls will hail ite return with thankegiving and praise and prayer. The Disputed v LETTER FROM JUDGE COWLES TO THE BAR OF NEW YORK. I cannot permit the extraordinary letter of Mr. Pea- bedy, bearing date tne 17th inst., (addressed to Judges Roovevett and Clerke,) to pass without notice. Many, I think mest, of your number regarded the votes cast by election at our Novewber election to fill the vacansy. . caused by Judge Morzis’ death as void, from want of time under any statute for the Secre'ary of State to give no- tice of an election to fijl it. The Governor was so ad- vised, and sotbought. He regarced it his duty to fill the vacancy by appointment, and was pleased to tender such appointment to me. My determination to decline it was inged into # conciusion to accept, by reason 61 the re- quest signed by meny of your number that T would do so. did accept it. In doing se, however, I announced my determination to propose to Mr. Davies, who claimed to 3 elected to the vacancy, an immediate and amicable submission to the Courts ci the question w the Governor bad power to appoint, or the people to elect. I made such proposition to Mr. Davies, and assured him Iwould, by every means in my power, facili:ate the earliest posible cecisicn upon the question by the Court of Appeals, thinking that in every respect, toth as re- garded the public interesta as well ‘as ourselves, a judi- cial cetermination of so tmportant a question of constitu- tional law was absolutely necessary, whoever might hold. Mr. Davies fuby acquiesced in hese views, and w consultation with bis counsel, determined upon pu’ the matter in the shape of a quo warranto against myself as defendant. It was dene. Up to that od Mr. Teeboty at not, so faras] am aware, ever dreamed that he or could have any claims to the office. Indeed, he was at that moment upon ihe bench filling a vacancy to continue until January, 1856, (caused by the resignation of my remaining term, that I might accept the Governor’s sp; tment,) a course on bis part, aa T suppose; La nt with any idea that he was en'it'ed to py election in the place Judge Mori's. Mr. Bavies and on gel through our counsel, agceed upon pleadings, which we supposed would fuliy abd faicly, present the question whether the Governor the power to appoint, or whether he was elected by the people. We then suppcsed we had done so. aay ioterent (merely personas) ta having! €lisrmnued, for reat (mere! emit onvthat alone rested may clam j ‘Now, bad Mr. Peabody at this time supposed himself entitled to the cffice, he bad oniy, by the proper applics- tion, to bring himself in as a that suit. He could bave done so at any time it went to the Court of Appeals, and, in my judgment, after the decision there. He did not do so, or attempt it. And here let me say, it is utterly untrue that there ever existed between Mr. Davies and mysel‘ any, the slightest, uoderntanding, ° express or implied, honorable or otherwise, that either party should omit'the doing of any and every act which cou'd of right be done by either one in the progress of the suit, had it been in character as hostile ae it was friendly. All the understacding Mr. Davies ard myself ever had was, that we would both expedite the suit to the earl ‘est possible judicial determination by the eourt of last re- sort. And Mr. O’Conor, in intimating in his letter to Mr. Peabocy, dated the Slet January last, to the contrary, ‘was misinformed, if he sup) other’ But to resume :—Until the case reached the Vourt of Appeals, it was held that the Governor had the power of appointment. The Court ot Appeals, by & vote of five to ree, reversed the judgment and determined that the Governor not such power—that if a vacancy oc- curred, no matter how soon, before » general e'ection, all the electors who knew of the vacancy could vote to fill it, amd that no notice from the Secretary of State ‘was necessary. ‘This decision was anncuuced on the 19th of January, about a month only after the suit commenced. ‘The Court gave me twenty cays to anawer over. I went into court on Monday, the 2ist, simply toreceive the verdict of a jury then out, and retired from the bench, performing no further judicial acts than settling bills of exceptions, and caves alrendy tried, &¢, with full determination not to resume my place upon the bench, even pep ubtend twenty days; and this for the reason that as the Court of Appeals had determined that the Gov vernor had not power to appoint, I could have no claime to hep oe in soy rset of the case, At this point Mr. Peabedy, so far as my information goes, for the first time sup himself to be entitled to claim by virtue of tbe election. His claim was this :— ‘That if the Court of Appeals was right in their interpre- tation of the constitutional provi-ion which controlled the case as between Mr. Davies and myself, it followed as ‘ a bcbg fled thet F bgeremend that at the November election @ were two vacancies in fact—one for five jears, created by the death of Ju Morris; the other r about five weeks up to the lst Jenusry, 1859, caused bs the death cf Judge Edwards. That at such elestion 'r. Davies’ ballots were printed thus:—“For Justice Supreme Court, to fill » vacancy, Henry E. Davies;”” while his own were written thus:—‘'For Justice Sa- preme Court, to fill the vacancy for the residue of the un- expired term caused by the ceath of Robert H. Morris, Charles A. Peabody.” ‘That, consequent, Mr. Davies? ballots, about 18,000 in number, were void for not desig- nating which vacancy the olectors intended, while own of about 6,000 were the on!y ones which did #0 desig- nate the particular vacancy—therefore, he was Judge, not Davies, Upen this, Mr. Peabody desired me to put im an anawer setting up these facts—by which answer Mr. Davies would be kept out of the seat. And then he (Mr-° Peabody) would ak to be made a to the suit join‘ly with me, and thus try the question and himeelf. weea Mr. Davies You will perceive, gentlemen, that in such litigati 1 could bave no turther interest than such as oy con- mon to every eitizen of the State; for if the Governor could not appoint, under no circumstances eoald J claim. ras Teasons urged upon me for answering wereof a two- ster: — 1. To aid Mr. Peabody in settling his claim wita Mr. 2. A duty I owe to the public not to allow the wron ka to be seated, which it was said by anewering I could lo. I maturely considered the whole subject, and declined for these reasonn to answer over:— First—I could bave no personal interest in the eontro- versy. Seeond—I could not put in an answer and allow ths suit to Reese further in my name, without seeming to the world to be still grasping at the place, which would putme tn a fale position in the eye of the public, and compromise, not myself alone, but the dignity of the office itself. Tbird—If I did put in an‘answer, I was still determined not again to aamume a place upon the bench, pending the litigation between Mr. body and Mr. Davies, since j could not regard it either as Ley aon! proper after thi Court af Apgrale had once cecided that the power of ap. pointing did not vest in the Governor, it I woul not myself act pending thatlitigation, I had not, as it reemed to me, @ right to so conduct as to prevent an: one from acting, to the obstruction of the public busi- ess. ry th—It seemed to me most proger that 7 tions arising between Mesars Devieg and Peavod and in which they aloze were inter should be settled by. a sult in which they alone should be the parties. And the sexe remedies which were open as between Mr. Davies and myself were aio open to both of these gentle- then were for declint answer. my reasons for declining to . It ie not true, ax stated in Mr. Peabsdy’s Totter, that my Jeet. sion in that regard was “in compliance with the vrget request of Mr. Davies and of Mr. Davies’ counsel.” No such reason controled me, I wae im, Mr. herd toact. I was not importaned Ey hr Davige not Upon these facta, gentlemen, I noutee upon the character ot Mr, Peabody's exteadrdly nary letter. Portions of it seem to have no other objeot than that of deliberate lodigoity towards my- self, ‘To those portions I choose here to make no reply. ‘i ote Ig ‘eppolntment I pelieved the Governor bed mined otherwise. 1 bow to its mandate, not with- out hesitation, bat with no forlinge aes” ae wore it oibaewing I mould emulate no ais seek, over # retreat from a ‘eeable ee ee ‘upon say, Nicooan ‘tore vi were perso: himself gee | his reputation as a man, happened to differ from views