The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1856, Page 4

MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD, = cee REET DEmrEnEEanCEITSAEDAERRDR RENNES CET id 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMBS GORDON BENNER, FROPRITTOR aND EDITOR. OPrics » W. OAH OF KES8A0 AND FOLTON @ré TZ AMB, veh im vioanen. e ¥ HERAL W BRELY HER. 9+ 7 copy, 81 per ances eopy. oF 93 por annum; the bi tn ulision, 34 por annum, 40 ner 7 Sree Brin wr ala prt Eon he “atest 9 FOLUNTaRY CORRESPONDE NOR, eee ate 3 BER as see tel eotiex Soanmrglnmary te FB Ar0uiaxcy dnqoeerep 10 at. Larrea 2p Pace. S . , ATO NOTICE iaten of amonynuns «2 .memications, We do et rear howe rected. FOR PRINTING exccwiad with noainess, deapnese and dee *(DVERTISEMENTS ronmecd eory day. AMUSEMERTA THIS SVENING, ACADEMY OF BUSIO, Fourteenth sreet—Dor Giovanni. BAOAOWAY THEATER. Proadway—Tas Wanvenise Mavernsz, Pravom 450 Annus. 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Single copies, Mm wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and sivertisements for any edition of the Waw Yor« Arnaxp wil be recsived at the folowing places im Burope:— expon— Am. & Eurcpean Fxoress Co,, 17 and 18 Cornhill. Pams— do. do. 8 Piave de la Bourse. LaverPoot— do. do. 7 Rumford stree:, Iaverroot—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Berit ‘willembrace the news received by mail and telegraph at ‘fhe office during the previous week, and to the hour of yablication. = : . The News, ‘The canals of this State will probably be open d for navigation about the first of May. In anticipa- tion of the opening, the Canal Board have publish- ed the rates of toll on all the New York canals, which are to take effect on the commencement of na- vigation. The rates will be found in fall in another eolumn. The South Carolinians are rushing for Kansas. A second company of twenty-eight emigrants left Charleston on the 27th ultimo for the Territory, and a company from Edgefield, under Captain Ball, was ‘te leave on the lst instant, for Columbus, Ga., there to join Major Buford, who heads formidable exp2- @ition. Abbeville is moving, her citizens having gubscribeda large sum of money to fit out emi- grants, twelve of whom have proposed going. Near. ly every district in the State is endeavoring to raise and equip a company. The effortsof the Emigrant Aad Societies of the abolitionists are likely to be eompletely neutralized by such energetic exertions in the South. In another column we give the particulars of the @evastating fire at Galena, on the morning of the Sist ult. Thirty-two buildings were destroyed, in- volving a loss estimated at three hundred thousand dollars. ‘The launching of the new steamship Adriatic, of the Collins line, from the shipyard foot of Seveuth street, will take place at ten o'clock this forenoon, according to previous announcement. All the me- ohbanical preparations are completed, and seats and other desirable arrangements have been made, on as liberal a scale as possible, for ladies and other members of families who may be present to witness ‘the event. The bark Achilles, which sailed from Boston co the 5th of March for Philadelphia, and about the safety of which serious fears have been entertained, arrived in the Delaware yesterday. She had been blown across the Gulf stream. The ice has not entirely given way in the North. At Montreal, Caneda, and St. John’s, New Brons- wick, navigatior still closed. The harbors of Mil- waukie and Chicago are open. river is open as far as Dubuque, and the Illinois to Lasealle. The Missouri river is falling rapidly. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending April 4 amount- ed to $1,816,522. The amount of imports for the corresponding week in 1855 was $764,546. On Satarday the sales of cotton reached about 8,000 bales, the market closing firm. Included in » the transactions was a line of 1,200 bales strict middlings, at10jc. The reports received by tele- graph from New Orleans and Charleston indicate increased firmness in those markets, with free sales. Flour was dull for common grades, and the transac. tions in all kinds were to a moderate extent Prime white Canadian and Southern white wheat gold at $1 94 a $1 95, and a small lot of good South- vem red, on the wharf at $172}. Corn was lower. ‘The sales of mixed, white and yellow, sound, were to a fair extent, at 624c.a 66c. Rye was dull. Pork was a trifle bette ness sold at $16 50 a $16 & and prime at $15 75. Owing to the news by the Asia being favorable, bacon was firmer with a speculative demaud, and large sales, deliverable in May, seller's option, were made, part at Sjec. for short middiles, ri) in; shoulders and hams were also.frmer, while lard was steady. Sagars were steady with moderate sales. Coffee sold to the ex- tent of abont 2,500 bags Rio at steady prices. Freighis were without change in rates of impor tance, wuile engagements were moderate for Eng- Nish and rench ports. Very Geterestinc.—In the last nuuber of the Boston)Lilcrator, the saintly William Lloyd Garrison takes the Rev. Theodore Parker and the very Rey. Henry Ward Boeeher roundiy 4o task for ibeir enthusiastic labora in the oollection of rifles for the defense of “freedom in Kaneas.” Garrison particularly e@monishes brother Beecher of the example apateachings of the divine founder of Chris @ianity, and quotes largely from the No Tes + to prove that the belligerent Prosbyte professor is off the track. Brothir is surely in a bad way when the very ead and front of ail the revolutionary, sedi- Gous, infidel, socialistic and amalgamution ination: of the North becomes ashamed of Bim, and (eels compelled to refresh bis me mory with the true doctrines of Christianity Ané ia this 4nstance Garrison istight. There are no rifles in Now Testament. Soarch the Scriptures, brother Beevher Ur ar ALi ¥.—The Cdings of the Le ture, as the seseion dri coming interesting, They are tinkering up a new temperance bill, the general railroad act, the school bill, the Mauhattan Park bill, and to-morrow the special order in the Ass’™- bly is our city tax bill That's interesting. | | banks of the Walla-Walla. to a ciore, are be- | the Frinsh Aho'ttten Sectety on Tarkts! Slavery and the Stave Trade—Serribie ine- cloeores oF Lard Strattont de Reaciti¥e and General @titaws, We call the attention of our jatelligent readers to the publication, im sasther part of this paper, of an address from the Loadon British and Foreign Acti-Slavery Society to Lord Palmeratoo, praying, (while the Allies Dave the business of the fuuigation aad clsaas- ing of Turkey in their bam@s,) “her Majesty's government to use its uierost intluence tor the immediate extinction of the abominable insti- tutions of Turkish slavery and slave trading.” Te impress upon the British Premier the imperious Christian necessity for a sweeping reformation concereing these abominations, this abolition committee furnish him with a lengthy extract from a letter of Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe upon the sudject, the horri- ble disclosures ef which would almost seem to justify the extirpation, root and branch, of the whole Turkish race from the face of the earth. Yet the British Miaister at Coastantinople en- deavors to pelliate these shocking Oriental monstrosities by saying that “there are per- sons who distinguish between slaverg in the East and slavery in the West,” and that “the distinction is not wholly uafoanded,” for, says his lordship. “‘anlike the negro in America, the elave in Turkey is rather a domestic ser- vant than a field drudge or beast of burden, He is not ostensioly ill-treated. If a mile, he rises occasionaily to posts of profit and honor; ita female, ease, and even luxury may be her portion in the harem of some court favorite or opulent tunctionary.”’ Cool, that, isn’t it? But even this far-fetched sneer at American black slavery becomes worse than contempti- ble, with the accompanying declaratiou of his lordship that the Turkish slave, white or black, is ‘too often an instrament of vice and crime’—that “his life is at his owner's mercy,” and that, “if a Christian, his children are born to slavery, as if to re: concile those who never can be parents to the mutilation which deprived them of that hope.” Note, in this connection, also, the ter- rible testimony of the brave General Williams concerning the Turkish army of Kars; and then, if the most prejudiced of our readers against Russia does not find in these astound- ing facts a justification of her policy towards Turkey, nothing will convince him. General Williams is bold enough to say that if England does not repress this Turkisn “slave traffic by astringent treaty, Russia will accomplish it by her arms; that is, if peace leave her in possession of Georgia.” And Ryssia, as the Eastern advanced guard of Christianity and civilization will be right in doing it, should the Allies fail in vindicatiag their al- leged policy in hebalf of humanity and the enlightened spirit of the niaeteenth centur)§ It were better for humanity, for Christianity, for civilization and for consistency tocede the whole of the Turkish dominions uncondition- ally to Russia than to permit her revolting Ori- ental and Mahometan vices and crimes longer to darken the earth. We shall see whether my Lord Palmerston, in this matter, will shelter himself behind the shameless palliations of his Minister at Con- stantinople of slavery in Turkey as com- pared with slavery in America, We shall see, in the forthcoming reconstruction of the insti- tutions of Turkey by the Allies, whether they have really been engaged in a war for civili- zation or for the preservation of the balance of an effete and hideous Eastern barbarism, sgainst the unquestionable ameliorating influ- ences of Ruesian expansion. We shall see whether my Lord Palmerston’s ultra anti- slavery doctrines as applied to the Western hemisphere, are founded upon principle, or upon the hypocritical pretences of shifting po- licy. He must do something for the sake of appearances, something in the shape, at, least, ofan earnest effort for the abolition of the Moslem slavery and slave trade of Turkey, and the fearful crimes with which they sre identified; or in reference to the Aic. io slavery of these United States and even or Cuba, let him forever hereafter hold his peace. It will require a mighty work of reform to ele- vate the morals, the religion and the civiliz.- tion of Turkey ‘to the level of these things amopg our Southern slaves. It is time, how- ever, to begin the work. We must see, thea what my Lord Palmerston is going to do for liberty, and humanity, and all that, in Turkey, before we can permit him agaia to indulge i: his crocodile tears over the evils of African slayery in the West. Generar Woon ix Orecos.—We publish this day an interesting letter from General Worl to the Governor of Washington Territory The letter throws some new light upon 1 \¢ Indian war in Oregon and Washington, e 4 to our mind fally justifies General Wool in his course, while it further shows that it was left to a stern eld soldier to set an example of hn- manity to beardless civilians thirsting for Indian blood. We would direct particular at- tention to the paragraph in the General's let- ter relating to the Chief Peu peu-mox mox, who, it seems, was murdered by the volunteers in the most barbarous manner when he offered peace proposals, and promised restitution if it were shown that auy of his young men bad barmed the whites. Ae General Woul very truly saye, such conduet may have carsed feelings difficult to overcome. As we understand the matter, the people of Oregon have wantonly forced the frie dly tribes of Indians into a hostile attitude; the: Gencral Wool is now maligned because }+ doce not follow the barbarous example set by the volunteers as above mentioned and com- mence a war of extermination for whivh, if it were just or necessary, he has not sufficient force. With an enlightened and bamane spirit quite ie contrast to the barbarity of the civil authorities, General Wool seeks to make peace with the friendly Indians, and punish, but not exterminate, those who are hostile. We fear that the civil authorities on the Pacific have alittle of that leaven of Puritanism which made the breed of the Pilyrim fathers to love God, and kili or cheat the Indians according to their own consciences. The same tactics which made the Connecticut valley flow with the beef blood of the infant colony two hun- dred years ago, seem now to be in vogue on the | * gnator Dongics and Popular Sovereignty— A Thi. d Diss neation, The constitution threatens to be a eubject of iofivite eects, like the Bible, ana by and By, at ne rate we are going on, we may expect the advent of some new political Swedenborg, to maiptain that it isa work not intended at all to be construed in its literal sense, but requires tue iltumivation of another seer to enable the people to understand it. Senator Dougias in fis Kansas report dis closes a new phace of the arcana of that com- pact touching the powers of Congress over the Territories, and it is thie: The authority to a4- mit new States confers the incidental power to organize Territorial governments, The latter is regarded as a needful preparation for such admission, and a justification of Congress in acting without special constitutional authority. In other words, Mr. Douglas concedes that there is no direct grant of power in the organic law, but he deduces it trom the povision that “new States may be admitted by the Congress into the Union,” that body being authorized “to make-all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers;” that of organizing Terri- torial governments, as a kind of preparatory school—a species of elementary instruction and preparation— being one of those laws, Gen. Cass and Mr. Douglas, then, start toge- ther and come out together; but they reach the final conclusion by two distinct routes: for while the latter insists upon the right of Con- gress to legislate for the Territories as an inci- dent of the power to admit new States, he is equally explicit with the former in denying the authority of the federal legislature to im- pose any restrictions upon the people which might not be imposed on their admission into the Union. lt is thu#seen that the principle of popular sovereignty is in no sense impaired or denied by Mr. Douglas; on the other hand, if Congress is limited oa the subject to the pro- vision of the constitution authorizing tke a4- mission of new States, that body.is cervain- ly restricted to the conditions of such admission, and they refer only to the form of government in a general sense. And precisely at this point we encounter diffi- culties in receiving Mr. Donglas’s theory. He calls Territorial organizations a state of prepa- ration, and that is nowhere recognized in the compact of union, Absolute equality of all the people is the very foundation upon which the republic rests. The power to admit new States is complete in itself, Congress being di- rected only to eee that they are republican in form; and this is a provision made for the pro- tection of the members of the tederal Union, and clearly implies that the States to be formed should not be restricted in the exercise of their rights of choosing their own peculiar organiza- tions. Now, the right to organize Territorial governments, as claimed by Mr. Douglas, is far more enlarged than that conveyed to Congress touching the admission of new States; for that body undertakes to prescribe not only the form of the organization, but actually appoints its executive officers. If, then, the authority of Congress is made to rest upon the provision of the compact noted by Mr. Douglas, it is time to consider the present government of Kansas asin fact a usurpation, in so far as it autho- rizes the appointment and assumesthe exercise of executive functions in that Territory; for he asserts the right of the people to absolute freedom in all matters relating to the domestic policy of the Territories—precisely the rights which appertain to the States of the Usion— and he cannot enlarge the powers of the fede- ral legislature beyond the simple authority to admit new States. There iscertainly a broad difference between the action of Congress and the duties of that body in reference to the constitution on the admission of new States, and its acwoa ia the establishment of Territorial governments. Ti many respects, indeed, the latter is in conflict with the former; and this conflict is hardly re moved by the plea that certain preparation of the people is necessary to enable them to ex- ercise the powers of a sovereign State. For the necessity of such preparation, by Mr. Douglas’ own showing, is dependent upon numbers and not upon actual qualifications. He signifies his readiness to receive, for instance, Kansas into the Union whenever she shall have attained a certain number of inhabitants, and not when she shall be “prepared’’ and qualified to ex_: cise the powers of an independent State. When the constitution was adopted, it will be recollected, there was * ee attachment to the system of State ignty, and a strong prejudice against what was feared as too great consolidation in the general government. The history of France’was a noted example of the gradual obliteration of the State and the fatal influence of the federal system. Indeed, notbing was eo much feared as consolidation, and nothing so closely guarded as the freedoin of the people and the sovereignty ot the States; hence the specific reservation in the orgauic law, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor proni- bited by.it to the States, are reserved to (ue States respectively, or to the people.” If, then, Mr. Douglas’ construction of the constitution is correct, we are required to take the back track, and leave, for instance, the people of Kaneas to settle their own matters in their own way. By it Robinson and his party have the rightful organization, and Co- vernor Shannon is a usurper. We do not ob- ject so much to the manner in which Mr. Doug- jas applies his construction as to the princi- ple involved in it, which is the theoretical abandonment of the whole doctrine of po- pular sovereignty. Meanwhile, with or with- out Congressional action in Kansas and in all the Territories, the people will have their own way; and while Congress is engnged in the fruitless discussion of the subject, and seek- ing to locate its constitutional power upon this and that provision of the compact, the former are at work making States and prepar- ing them for admission into the federal union. Tur Oncan Keeps tr Ur.—The general im- pression on both sides of the water is, thet there wili not only be peace in Europe, but peace between Jobn Bull and Brother Jonathan. The Washington Union, however, of Saturday, | in a lengthy article on Prussia, says that “the | arrogance of the British pross is becoming every day more offensive and Intolerable,” Coxores —Another | string of Buncombe speeches, we presume, will be commenced to- day in the House of Representatives on the | | all the flat and stale sessions at Washington for Deficiency bill--a few loose items extra of four or five millions. At this rate, Scorctary And all about Prussia. Nothing of the Sonad Dues—nothing of Crampton (where is Cramp- ton?)—nothing of Central America —nothiag, That organ will be the death of the adminia- tration. Gutbrie will have a deficiency to report befor: the adjournment of this flattest and stalest of the leet twenty-five years, Goop News rrom Comayniraw—The New- ark Advertiser gives us the plesaing intellig ence that the first ehad was taken at QCommunipew on Friday Jast. Mocxt Versow Nor ror Sate—The follow- img letter, eaye the South Oarolina Spartan, addressed by the owner, John A. Washington, to Mra. M.S. Wofford, ef that village, brings out the startilng fact, after all that has beem done by the ladies of the South, and the greater labor and means they are still willing to bestow upon the movement, that Mount Ver non isnot for sale. Howis thie? What isthe explanation? At the instance of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association of Richmond, Ed- ward Everett delivered his great oration on Washington, in the Capitol of Virginia, realiz- ing for the fands of the organization over $800, and it is to be repeated at various points in Virginia and elsewhere, for the same pur- pose. In addition, stimulated by the advent of Mr. Everett in the Old Dominion, the Legisla- ture of Virginia passed @ bill incorporating the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association of the Union, and yet patriotic ladies, ready aud able to stimulate the sacred purpose, are told “that Mount Vernon is not for sale:’’— Mount Veaxox, March 14, 1866, To Mrs, Maria 8, Worrorp:— Manam—I_bave received letter of March 6th, ren g the purchase of Mount Vernon by toe ladies of different parts of the United Staves, Te ply, I respectfully inform you that Mount Vernon is mt for sale, lam, most repeal Tee, obedient servan:, JOHN A. WASHINGTON, “Not for sale!’ Coming from the proprietor of the property this announcement is decisive. The question next recurs, what isto be done with this money collected by the patriotic ladies of our country for the purchase of Mount Vernon? We think it may still be judiciously appropriated to the designated object. Mr. Washington is not arich man. The estate of Mount Vernon is but a small estate compared with its dimensions while in the possession of the “Father of his Couatry;” and the soil, since his day, having lost his methodi- cal and careful cultivation, has become com- paratively unproductive. The present proprie- tor of Mount Vernon, therefore, cannot afford to keep the mansion, the tomb, the garden, ant the surrounding grounds in that state of pre- servation and order in which the Americau people, and pilgrims from the world over, would desire to find them. Besides, the con- stant stream of visiters to Mount Vernoa im- poses s considerable tax upon the time of the proprietor—consuming, in fact, nearly all his time in the ordinary hospitalities due to strangers, These facts will account for the lamentable evidences of disorder and decay which confront the visiter to the home and the grave of Washington upon every hand. And there things should not be. The moneys, therefore, that have been raised by our fair and patriotic American ladies for the purchase of Mount Vernon, may, with the consent of the proprietor, be appropriated to the rescue of the homestead, the tomb, the garden, and the adjacent fields and woods, from the progressive dilapidation and spolia- tions which otherwise threaten the speedy de- struction of every relic of the locality, as Washington left it. Sharing in the feelings of the ladies interested in this Mount Veraon movement, to which Mr. Everett has lent such effective aid, we throw out these suggestioas for their consideration. If the present proprie- tor, after a deliberate reconsideration of the subject, is not disposed to sell the estate, and has not the means required to keep its hallowed souvenirs in a becoming state of neatness and order, Virginia, or the general government, or the American people—especially the ladies —thould come to his relief. Insenctions.—It is time something should be done by the Legislature to settle or to restrain the power of the Judges to grant injunctions. As the law now stands, or rather, to speak more correctly, as it is interpreted by the Judges, they seem to possess the pewer of stop- ping apy work or impeding the fulfilment of any contract, by a mere injanction, based on no inquiry intothe merits of the case. When the Mayor is forced by the necessity of the city and the clamor of the people to call for pro- posals for cleaning Broadway, and award tie work to a contractor, up starts a gentleman with e bushel of law texts, who gets an injunctioa against the Mayor and Comptroller and every one else, forbiddding them to pay the man who cleaned the streets, or to have anything todo with him. No doubt, when the matter is inquired into, it will appear that all wis rightly done; but in the meantime, greviou: delay is caused, and injury inflicted. On the other hand, some one obtained an injunc- tion against Mr. Ebling, forbidding Mr. Flazg peying any bills of the Street Commissioner, Hence, if me clean the streets at all, h@ is compelled to go on the credit system for work performed. It is well under- stood that the usual object of an injunc- tion is to obtain delay; that when te party enjoined is ready, and comes into court, the case is sure to be put off from day to diy and from week to week, until the applicant for the injunction has obtained his ends, whatever they are; whereupon, he pays the costs, and all is said. There is something wrong here. In case we mentioned the other day, the Staten Island Ferry Company having held posession of the slip at the foot of Wuiteball street for ten months, without any leace from the city, prevented the Comptroller selling the lease by an injunction. This injunction was granted upon an affidavit, in which it-was stated that the boats of the company (iu .ud- ing the ever-sinking Columbus,) were excel- lent, safe and suitable; that they had run re- gularly, and that the company had built ferry houses at the ferry landings. Now, every 0. who ever visits this ferry knows how untrue all this is, The company knows it too, and does not intend to try to prove itis not. But by the aid of the injanction it will obtain several weeks’ delay. Either the law ehould prohibit the granting of injunctions on ex parte evidence, except in a few very rare and exceptional cases, or else the Judges should use the great power they possess with the utmost discretion. Prorgssor SILLIMAN Resvkep.—A writer in the Charleston Mercury, in a letter addressed to Professor Silliman, of Yale College, admin- isters a justly deserved rebuke upon that dis- tinguished eavan, for his folly and stupidity as exhibited at the late New Haven meeting jn behalf of a collection of rifles for the abolition disturbers of the peace of Kansas, Had the learned Professor iseued a circular poritively declaring that Yale College hence- forth would be closed to students from the South, it would scarcely have placed him in more damaging and ridiculous position than his eilly, fanatical epeech, and his subscription of a rifle at that New Haven meeting. Never did man of science make a more absurd expo- riment in the chemistry of fanaticism. AenicuTuRsL—Foreien Srxeps.—We pud- lish this morning an interesting letter from the Patent Office to the Congressional Commit- tee en Agriculture, briefly reviewing what has beem done in the way of naturalizing foreiga herbe and plants in the United States. Every- body knows that some years ago, on the repre- sentation of the Patent Office, instructions were sent to our representatives abroad, and to the naval officers on foreign stations, to collect seeds and bulbs and cuttings of foreign growth, and to send them home for trial here, The plan bas been in operation but a short while, and the appropriations made for it have been small; but the results, as given in Mr. Brown's report, are already very gratifying. Most far- mers are acquainted with the “Mediterranean wheat,” which ripens, in great abundance, ear- lier than our common varieties; a few years ago it was unknown here. From France we have obtained two Chinese plants, which the enterprise of French agriculturists domiciliat ed sometime since on French soil—the “ Chi- nese yam”—a very fair substitute for the po- tato, and the “Chinese sugar cane,” one acre of which produces twenty-five tons of fodder of the most nutritious and excellent kind. Another good forage crop has been obtained from the “chufa,” a plant of Spanish origin; and yet a third from the Moha de Hongrie, from France. Cuttings of foreign plum trees have been imported in large quantities, and engraft- ed upon the common plum with such success that we may shortly expect to produce all our own dried prunes. It is now proposed to im- port more largely than.heretofore, in fact, to obtain from abroad every plant, herb or tree which has been cultivated successfully any- where. For this, larger appropriations than usual will be necessary. That Congress ought to grant them there can be no question. Ovr ror Frankiin Prerce.—The Boston Post is out in a formidable three-decker of an arti- cle in favor of the re-nomination of,Franklio Pierce for the Presidency, upon “vital consti- tutional principles.” But the most “vital” of those “principles” to our administration co- temporary is left out of the argument, to wit, the Boston Naval office. Go to. Call in the next witness. Gues vs. Fuacc.—This case has been post- poned to the 2lstof April. The evidence and the pleadings thus far afford a striking illus- tration of the intallibility of our ballot boxes, f£BEB LATHAST NNW SS, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Interesting from W: RELIZF FOR THE HEIRS OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE ALBANY AND PORPOISE—DESPATCAES FROM ENGLAND—FRAUDS ON THES PENSION OFFICE MOUNT VERNON TO BE A NUNNERY, ETC., ETC. Wasninaron, April 6, 1856. Senator Fish’a very liberal,bill for the widows, orphans and heirs of the officers, seamen and marines lost in the war ships Albany and Porpoise, ascords five years’ pension and one year’s pay—squares Parser White’s account, he and his bcoks and strong box haviog gone to the bottom of the ocean—gives full lieutenant’s pay to the passed midshipmen of the Porpoise—and fixes as the date of the Joss of the vessels the 18th of April, 1855, for the Albany, which disappeared in the Carribean Sea; and the 20th of June, 1855, for the Porpoise, which has never been heard from in the EastIndies. The bill passed the Senate in five minutes from the time of ita introduction. Capt. Ingrabam bas arrived from South Carolina, and taken charge of the Bureau of Ordnance. His nomina- tion still pends in the Senate, awaiting action on the pro- motions from the Retiring Board. Capt. McCluney, date in command ef the Powhstsn frigate, in the East In¢ier, has been ordered to the com. mand of-the Gosport Navy Yard, vacated by ths death of the gallant M’Keever, who lived through the horrors of the pestilence at Portsmouth last summer. Despatches brought by the Asia’s mail were received at the State Department last evening, and Mr. Marcy took » cursory giance at them to-day, by way of amuse- ment. It is understood our government expects nothing definite with reference te our diffisulties until Lord Cla- rendon returns to England, from the Peace Conference. It is said that Judge Minot retires from the Pension Of- fice, and that the present able chief clerk will be appoint- ed Commissioner. Government officers here are now on the track of some individuals who have been for some time practising extea- sive frauds on the Pension Office. Mr. Washington, the present incumbent of Mount Ver- non, stated a short tume since that the place was not for sale, The reason of this, it is understood, 1s that nogofl- ations are now going on with certain Catholic clergyuen to purebase {t for nunnery. Arrival of the Marion at Charleston. Caanuaston, April 5, 1856. The United States steamship Merion, Cast. W. Foster, oper New York, arrived here at 7 o’cloek this (Saturday) morning. Markets. PROVIDENCE. April 5, 185°. Cotton has been in active demand, at full pricea—:he marketa closing with a firm ‘eeling. Wool—Market very firm, without chenge in prices; sales, 134,500 Ibs. Priat- ing ‘cloths—Market without change. Prices firm snd stock light; sales, 60,900 picoes, Monttx, April Our cotton market hes advanced during the past week, with sales of 15,000 bales. Middling is quoted 95,2. a 9%. Stock on hand, 95,360 bales. New Orteays, April 6, 1856. Cotton firm. Ssles to-aay, 4,000 bales. 5, 1856, ~ Our Albany Correspoadence. Aunayy, April 6, 1856. Senator Sickles to be Deprived of his Seat in the Senate. It is now generally conceded that Senator Sickles is soon to be ousted from his seat in the Senate. The com- mittee having the case in hand are Mesars, Ram- sey and Bale; toe two firmer Seward nigger worshippers; the latter, Fillmore Know Nothing; but all bitter ana un- relenting whigs. They bave the matter in charge since the early part of the session, and the arguments on the demurrer closed several weeks since; and now, at the heel of the session to decide in favor of Mr. Barr, with- ont having taken a word of testimony, will be an act which is unpresedented in the annals even of whig legisia- tion in the State of New York. LAUNCH OF THE COLLINS SrraMSHIP ADRIATIC.—The mag- nificent steamship Adriatic, four thousand one hundred tons burthen, will be launched this morning at high wa- ter, about eleven o’clock, from the yard of Messrs. James and George Steers, foot of Seventh street, East river. ‘The staging surrounding the mammoth steamer has boon in process 6f removal for the past three days, and her fine proportions are now to be seen to advantage, She is worthy # visit from all persons interested in naval archi tecture, It was stated in the announcement of the feungb, from Mr. Steers’ shipyard, of the steamer Adriatic, as published on Saturday morning last, that the alx feet square speci- men of her (the Adriatie’s) water tight bulk heads, was then to be reen and examined at the yard. This was an error. It was built, and had been at the yard for some time; but it is understood that a few days ago it was con- veyed to the depot of the company, at the foot of Canal street, where the vessels ot the line are berthed, and where it was doemed the bes! plase for exhibition ty thore most interested. The yard was thronged yesterday with visiters, many of whom were dosiroas of an oppor tonity to examize this bulk head, which shows the im portance in the osilmation of the communtiy of sain eppendeges to steamers and all passonger vowels. As, on the oocenion of (he Munch, to-day, many will perhaps be disappointed in reepe :t to roeing this, it may be well two state that the bulkheads of the vessel. of which this in the exact copy, are to be constructed ef solid oxk planks, three inches thiok, placed diagonally agzias? each other, with layers cf piteh and felt berween tham, makiog & total thickness of six inches of planktag, th bolted and shored In the most wabrtar tial ineaner, cn A Lox axp Rarip Voyace.—The ship Boston Light, Capt, Collagan, from Shangbao, which arrived here on the 26th ult., was absent for fourteen months aod twenty-six days, and has sailed during that period, as per log, 46,820 miles, or about double the cireumference of the earth, and, in addition, bas received and discharged two cargoes, Onpt. Collagen has favored i neat nd well executed chart of his re. which exal bits at OT asaaed the immense distance fine ship has traversed. ‘The Board cf Aldermen commence their April cession this evening, when the report of the Committee on the Location of the new Post Office, is expected to be made.- There are several other important matters before ether comm!tiees, and as the Aldermen heve had» cessation from their evening sessions for some time past, it is ex~ pected that many reports will be ready for presentation. The Board of Councilmen commences its April sessions to-night. The report of the Committee on Cleaning the- Streets was made, at the last meeting of the Board, the special order for this evouing. The Brondway Rallrosd grant, wb ch occupied most of the time of the Board last month, having been divposed of, it is to be hoped that. this matter of cleanicg the streete may rective tha prompt attention which its importance demands. Spring is upon us, and the filth of onr streets, which has been nuisance curing the coid weather, will, unless removed, breed pestilence as warm weather approaches, Amother subject which cemacds immeciate action on the part of the Boara is the propost for the gale of the Brick ehureh, property, which has been scopted by the Board of Alder- men, and maw awaita the action of this Board. ‘The April Term ui the Law Courts. . ‘Though reverai important cases bave been before the: courts during the past week the term nominally some mences to-day, it being the first Mondsy in the month. In the Supreme Court Circaft the suit for the disputed: Comptrollership is still antiaished, but is adjourned ta- the 2ist inst, In the Special Term only ten causes wil ‘be placed on the day docket, and when they are disposed of the Court will hear avy cases In their order on the ca- lender which mey be-ready. No cause will be reserved: ‘unless counsel shall be actually engaged, and none will ‘be apecia'ly set down for any day; but if not ready when. called, must be passed. ‘The General Term coes not rit this month. ‘The Coart of Oyer and Terminer will open this moraing formally, pursuan to adjcuroment, for the mow trial of Baker, charged with the homicide of William Poole; bat aa the Attorney General, who is associated with Mr. A. Oakey Hall for the prosecution, is otherwise engaged, the trial will be postpoued tor another week, and the Court: adjourned till Moncay next. ‘The Superior Court tris] calendar contains 1,544 causes, On the list for to-day is the suit of E. P, Fry against Mr.. Bennett for alleged libel, the former verdict having been nullified by the jeneral Yerm granting a mew trial. ‘There is also om the calendar for this day a sult for slan- der brought by Mr. Richard G. Fowles against Mr. Homry ©. Bowen, of the firm of Bowen and McNamee, which on the former trial created very great interest amongst the church going portion of upper-tendom as well as im the mercantile community in this city and in the Southern and Western States, whe:e both parties are well known. Mr. Fowles was a sales- man and purchaser for the firm of Bowen & McNamee, and in 1851 left them to.go to the house of G. W. Wood, in Cincinnati, taking with him trom one of the partners of Bowen & McNamee, a most complimentary letter of re- commendation. One of the partners of-the Cincinnati house subsequenty came on to New York on business, where be was tola by Bowen that Fowles was ‘‘dishonest and a notorious liar.” The accusations against him were so strong, that through the written advice of Mr. Bowen, the police were set to watch Mr. Fowles in Cincisnati, and ‘hhis trunks were searched, but found to contain nathing except his own books and clothing. The jury on the for. mer tria] awarded Mr. Fowles $6,000 damages. The re. hearing, which is anxiously looked for, will doubtless be reached in a day or two, On the month’s calendar there are no Jess than fiftye- three actions sgainst railroad companies, seventy-eight- against insurance compavies, thirty-six agetast the city government, and forty-six against various other corpo- rate bodies, The Court of Gommon Pleas will held two triad branches; their calendars are also pretty heavy. ‘The Marine Court will also be in session, and will hold two courts for triala, This Court is daily becoming of more importancc; some very interesting oases are dis- pored of here. The juriscistion, however, is limited to five hundred dollars. The trial of the parties arrested on the Northera Light,. en the 24thof last December, charged with setting om foot a military expedition to Nicaragus, is set down for the present term of the United States District Court, which opens to-day. With the excep\ion of John Creigh- ‘ton, Francis B. O’Kee‘e aud Joseph R. Malé editor ot the El Nicaraguence, a'l the parties are in New York, and, it # understood, ready to bave their trial proceeded with.. Mesers. 0’Keefe and Ma!é were dischargedjfrom bail oo their own recognizances to appear at trial. In botu eases their physicians testified that the state of thei: health was such that they could not live unless permic- ted to go to a Southern climate, It was further intimat- 0d to them, on their departure, by the United States Dis- rict Attorney, that they need not trouble themselves te come back. Mr. Creighton, under bail ef $2,000, ‘was prevented from returning from Nicaragua, whither he went three steamers since, by missing the last return steamer. A.J. Morrison and Wm. 8. Lyster have, since their arrests, been to Nicaragua, and now bold csmmis- sions in Gen. Walker’s army. Those in New Yurk wait- ng trial are George B. Hall, Addison Farasworth, Charles Walters, and D. 8. Dillirgham, private Secretary of Col. French. They have engaged as counsel Ogden Hoffman, Francis B. Cutting, Wm. West, Alfred A. Phillips and Thomas Van Buren, Capt. Tinklepaugh, at present of the Orizaba, and formerly of the Northern Light, and Mr. Fowler, first engineer of the Northern Light, to- gether with Joseph L. White, Eaq., counsel for the Acces- sory Transit Company, are also to ve tried this term om charge of having resisted tho United States authorities at the time of the detention of the Northern Light. ‘The time allowed by law for;the owaers of the slaver Falmouth, to put in their c’a'm of ownership, expices to- ay. The vessel still lies at the Navy Yard, where she was taken subsequently to her seizure, some three weeks singe. Unless she is claimed to-day, which is wholly im- probable, an order will be made in the Uaite? Srates Court to advertise her at sale at public auction. This notice extends fifteen days. The vessel is valued at $6,000. Her cargo, of which an offi:ial inven‘ery has Deen published in the Henarp, showing that she was un- questionab’y designed for s slaver, is estimated at $2,000. ‘The proceeds of the sale go half to her eapters and the remainder to the goverument. ‘The April term of the Court of Sessions commences ta- day, before Judge Capron. There are no cases of speciad interest to be tried before this Court at the present term.. ‘The prisos calendar only shows five murder cases, and three of these are connected with the Poole homicide, and will be tried before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Of the other two, that of Martin Karas, indicted for the mur- der of William Ruff, at a lager bier saloon in William street, on the night of January first, is set down for this day. The following is the list of crimes en the April calen- éar:— ow S 1 36 18 4 1 1 1 4 = Sl emperors Life Preservers for Ferry Boats and Other Passenger Vessels. A number of ingenious and valuable life preservors have from time to time been shown to us by their inventors, but we have almost invariably declined noticing them, direst ing their owners to apply toour ferry companies and stexm- boat proprietors as the parties most interested. We have been informed, however, that in every case they have re- sused to look at these inventions, and have u‘terly ng. lected to take any precautions against those acsidente te- which all steamboats are liable, The recent terrible disaster on the Delaware, by which about fifty lives wore lost, is a warning which we trust wil}: not be allowed to pass unneeded. We have now before us the mode] of a very ingenious Iife preserver which is wo-- ‘thy the attention offerry companies and other pariios con- cerned insuch matters. Tt is madelikea stool, the xoat or- top of which is an air-tight box. On the {nner sides and at. the end of each log is » box-like projestion, alsoair-tight ‘The legs are attached to the seat by hinges and ps‘eat springs, which render them capable of being thrown. back or drawn together. By means of those contrivances the stool can be clasped around the body like an ordinary life preserver, and is thus mace to subserve foe same end. This invention ts called the ‘ life Preserving seat.” The life raft, another invention for the asme pur- pose, is also particularly worthy of notice. It in made in this manner :—Two tudor, eightoom insles ia diameter, are bent together at the ends, forming a sort ofoval orsegar thaped frame, sixteen feet long, and abcut five fet at its greatest width. This Is divide! into eight air tight compartments, exch independent ot the other, Spread between the tubes is a stout net-work, af- fording « safe place for ehikiren and females, The frame work or tubes are made principally of rattan and canvass, and from their great elasticity are incapable of being stove. The reft in well sapplied with life lines, mam ropen, paddies, kc. It contains 75 eudic feet of air, and