The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1856, Page 4

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Yhe Collins mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. Eldridge, wl leave this port to-morrow, at noon, for Liverpooi. She European mails will close in this city at half-past ten @elock to-morrow morning. The Hxasip (printed in English and French) will be piblished at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, Bm wrapvers, sixpence. Bubecriptions and advertisements for any editien of the Sew Youx HERALD will be received at the following places wm Barope:— — Jo,, 1 I a a Laymrooi— <o. do. 7 Rumford street, Lavmrpoo.—Jobn Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. ‘The contents of the Furopeah edition of the Hvaay willembrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of padlicazion. «he News. Fhe steamship Washington, from Southampton 2th ultimo, for New York, and the Cambria, from Léverpool 29th ultimo, for Halifax, are now fully @ue, and their arrival may be looked for at any mo- ment. The first named brings four days and the lat- ter one week's later advices from Europe. The North river is open. The steamer P.G. Coffin, from Hudeon, reached Albany at an early hour yes- terday morning. Her captain reports that he en- countered no ice on the passage. The Coffin was followed by the South America, which left this city en Wednesday evening, with freight and passengers, reaching Albany about eleven o'clock next day, Phere was no obstruction of a serious nature below Hudson. Navigation is now fairly open, and we may look for an augmentation to our already exten- sive epring trade. In the United States Senate yesterday the de- bate on the motion to print the memorial of the members of the free State Legislatare of Kansas was resumed. The discussion was participated in by Mesers. Hamlin, Hale and Seward, in the affirma- tive, Messrs. Mazon, Butler, Douglas, Yulee, Bayard, Pugh, Crittenden, Benjamin, Rusk and Stuart taking the negative side of the question. General Cass, although in favor of the mo tion, disclaimed any sympathy with the senti- ments set forth in the memorial. After a gene eral diseussion upon the merits of the Kansas con- troversy, in the course of which the subject was re- viewed from every conceivable point, the motion to refer the document to the Committee on Territo- ries prevailed by a vote of thirty-two to -three, Messrs. Hamlin, Seward and Sumner voting against the reference, thus putting an extinguisher upon the hopes of the Topeka schemers. At this stage of tthe proceedings a question was raised as to the gen- uineness of the memorial, and upon inquiry it was found to be a spurious prodaction. Whereupon the vote to refer was reconsidered, and (en. Casa re- furned the document to Col. Lane, of Kansas, from whom he had received it. In the House the report of the Committee on Elections, declaring P. B. Fouke not duly elected from the Tenth Congres sional district of Illinois, and confirming the ele:- tion of Samuel 8. Marshall, the sitting mem r from the Ninth district of Illinois, was adopted. ‘The Senate’s amendments to the Deficiency bill were then taken up, and discussed antil the adjourn- ment. Our correspondent in St. Domingo City, writing on 15th of March, confirms the reports which had previously reached us from other sources, of the im- mense joxses sustained by the Haytien army in the battles of Santom‘, Cambronal, and Sabana Larga, when on its march to invade the Dominicans. The intrepidity of the Dominican troops, their rapid movements, and excellent use of the musket and small sword, enabled them to completely rout Sou- Rouque’s force, when he had General La Fleur and many thousands of his men killed. General Santana had entered the capita! at the head of his triumphant army, amidst popular rejoicing and a Te Deum. The Dominican Senate was about to ratify a treaty of commerce and extradition with the United States, identical with that of General Cazneau, uvtwith- standing the opposition of the representatives of France, Spain and Engiand. Elsewhere we publish details of the news from Vera Cruz to the 26th ult., relative to the reported surrender of the Puebla revolutionists on the 22d to the government forces under Comonfort. The va- rious accounts of the capitulation are conflicting, bat it was believed that a general pardon was granted to those who consented to recognize the anthority of the government. The communication between Vera Cruz and the capital had been opened. The anniversary dinner of the’ Dramatic Fand Association took place at the Metropolitan Hotel Yast evening. We give a full report of the sayings and doings in another column. Governor Clark hae not a+ vet issued a call for aa extra session of the Legislature. A narrow escape irom deata was made at the gountry residence of Capt. Ezra Nye, near ieving- ton, N. J., on Wednesday morning, as we leara fom the Newark Advertiser. The tamily had just re turned for the summer, and fives were kindled in the furnace for the first time, but an obstruction in the chimney diverted the noxious gases to the apart: ment in which his two daughters had retired. Mr Nye, fortunately, rove unusually early in the meorn- ing, and in attempting to arowse the young ladies she became so alarmed at their silence, that she pro- ured the door to be forced open, and found both ia an insemsible condition. Medical ail was imme- diately sent for, and meanwhile Capt. Nye, acou- tomed to emergencies, promptiy applied restorative hy which the patiemte wore lwought back to com sciousnes*, and are now nearly, if not quite, restored to health. The schooner Maryland, recently seized in Hamp- ton Roads for an alleged violation of the laws of Virginia, has been searched, but no fugitive slaves found on board. Capt. Speight was tiken to Nor folk on Monday evening; but as it was thought that ‘the conrt there had no jurisdiction In the case, he vas conveyed back to Hampton on Tuesday, to be tried. Meantime the vesse! is held in onstody unt! security can be given for the payment of the penal: ty of five hundred dollars incurred by the captain in consequence of his refusal to have the schooner wearched. She belongs to persons in this city, and % je said her owners intend totest the validity of the law. The colton market war ex ited yesterday, any $$ the trensactions reached about 12,000 bales, about 9,000 of which were made in transitu, based upon q@iddling uplands at 10f¢ ; Florida and Mobile do. at about 10jc., and New Orleans do. at 10}c. a lle. The sales were the largest of any made in any one day the present season. Flour was dull, with- out change of moment in prices, Wheat was scarce and firm, and prime lots wanted for milling. A lot of common Southern red sold at $1 61. Corn was active and rather firmer. Sound mixed, yellow and white, ranged from 62c. a 65c. a 66c. Rye sold at 95c.a 98c. Pork was active. The sales embraced 1,200 bbls. of mess at $16 25 a $16 374. Prime was. at $15 50. Shoulders and hams seld to the extent of 200,000 Ibs., at rates given in another column. Lard was active, at 9i¢.a 10c. Among the sales of coffee were 2,000 mats of Java at l4jco. Rio was firm. Sugars were active, with sales of 1,700 hhds., chiefly Cuba muscovado, with lots of Porto Rico and New Orleans, at prices given under another head. Molasses was also active, with sales of about 1,000 bbls. New Orleans, with some hogshead of Cu- ba and Porto Rico, at full prices. To Liverpool 38,000 bushels of grain were engaged at 5}d. a 53d. a 6d. in bulk and bags, and 1,000 bbls. rosin at 2s. 6d. Oil to London was taken at 30s. Rates to other ports were unchanged. General Moving Day—Speculation in House Rents. The first of May is rapidly approaching, and our housekeepers are a'ready engaged im preparing tor the social revolution which it always produces in New York. The revo. lution this year wil] not, however, it we may judge from the number of bills displayed, be so wide spread as on former moving days Those who are in search of new houses wouli do well to read the long list of advertisements under the head of “ Tenant’s Register,” which is published every morning in the Heratp. In fact the system of advertising houses has be- come more general since its advantages have been realized by landlords, and is often a saving of time and money for tenants. It might, however, be made still more so if those who advertice would state the rent, the num- ber of rooms, the conveniences, and the hours at which the houses can be seen. In regard to rent, itis particularly essential that it should be stated, as that, after all, is the most impor tant consideration with those who are in search of dwellings. With many itis the principal inducement to a change of residence, and if they are obliged to pay more, they expect the advantage will still be on their side so far as the conveniences and accommodations are con- cerned. The rents this year are exorbitantly high, notwithstanding the predictions which were made last year that they would be reduced at least twenty per cent. Houses that were let Jast May for four hundred gollars cannot now be hed for less than four handred and fifty and five hundred; but the rents of stores remain about the same. The practice of sub-letting is, toa great extent, the cause of much of the ex- tortion to which a large portion of our house- keeping population have to submit, and those who occupy parts of houses are more sub- ject to it than any other. Speculation in the renting of houses is as extensively’ carried on as any other kind of specula- tion, and is one of the worst frauds for which the law has no penalties. We have heard of numerous instances in which as much as one hundred and fifty dollars have been realized yearly by agents on a house, the annual rent of which, as received by the owner, does not exceed three hundred. But this is not all. There are hundreds of families who, by prac- ticing the same system on a smaller scale, are enabled to live almost rent free. This is done in the following manner:—One family rents a three story house for five hundred dollars, and after selecting the best part for their own use they let the remainder to one or two families for two-thirds, and sometimes three-fourths the amount paid by themselves. In this way they make others pay their rent for them. Those who suffer most by this system are the mechanics and laborers. For two or three rooms they are obliged to pay more in pronyr- tion than is paid by the occupants of som. of the finest houses in the city. In the case o: large tenant houses this is particularly trae Landlords, it is true, might do a great desl towards putting a stop to this system of specn- lation, but in many instances they are the speculators. They are not always, however, the gainers, for it not unfrequently happens feat the tenants turn anti-renters, and move without giving them either the stipulated no- tice or the rent. Thus, extortion on the one side is met with dishonesty on the other, and as long as the opportunity exists so long will they be practised. Tu Intse News.—A new Irish paper ng just started by Mr. Thomas Francis Meaghe-, some time & political exile in Australia, more recently a resident of the United Statea, and public lecturer. Mr. Meagher brings peoui.ar qualifications to bear upon his new business, He posesses literary and oratorical talent of a high order; and—without reference to his political career before be arrived in the United States—-appears to have more judgment and discretion than have usually been found in his political associates. He enjoys already an extensive popularity among the people of his ow» cla § and isso favorably regarded by all partis that no objection was made when, ti oth § day, the courta admitted him to the bar u-fore his naturalization. Under these circumstances it is fair to expeot that Mr. Meagher will pro- duce # journal superior to the average ran of Irish papers. With the warnings he has Lefora him—eepecially the pregnant example of Join Mitchell, who ran through an unexampled poya- larity in six months, all for the want of a little common sense—Mr. Meagher ought not to fail. The number of the Ves before us promises pretty well. At the same time there are two polats to which it is well that Mr. Meagher's attention should be drawa. The law of this land declares that no man shall exeroise the smallest privilege of the citizen—the suffrage —until be has been five years a resident; and further enacts that no man shs!l be competent to help make the laws till he has been seven years acitizen. The spirit which prompted these restrictions stil! pervades the country; and yet we see foreign- ers assume within a few weeks after their landing, not only to control the eleotions, bat to make the laws and to see to their exeoution. The consequence is obvious, Know Nothing- iem was a political necessity, Again, out of all the various foreigners stranded on our shores—Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, Poles, &c.—one race, and one only, claims a duplicate existence, as Americans and as foreigners. Frenchmen, Englishmen, Ger- mane are content with being one thing or the NEW YORK APLALD, FRIDAY, APRIL ll, 1856. other: Trichmea reek to ©. both, Honce the folee poritiovsin which th ey have been placed; Bence the evepicions of disloyalty which have at times fallen upon *’nem; hence no smalt por- tion of their turbwWexce, and mush of their iv- stability. It is Wolly impossible to belong to two countries, Mr. Meagber will render his countrymen a signal service if he can teach them thie lesson. How 18 Justice ADMINISTERED IN New York? —Questions of no smell importance are eng- gested by the frequent use by the Governor of the State of the power of pardoning eondem2- ed criminals It is not necessary to allude to particular cases, or even, for that matter, to particular Governors; the broad fact is plain enough that it is fast becoming rarer for even the worst class of criminals to serve out their time in prieop, and that, in practice, asentence of a court of justice almost invariably means lesa than it saye. Men are sentenced to jail for murder, areon, rape, robbery, theft, riot, and all such offences; with infinite labor and at great expense a conviction is obtained against them; they go to jail, and society is purged if not avenged; but before the circam- stances of their case have grown dim in the memory, down from Albany come letters or telegraph saying that the Governor has exer- cieed the pardoning power, in deference to the earnest solicitations of their friends, and that they are at large oncemore. This is not a so- litary or an exceptional case. It is the gone- ral, well nigh the universal rule. A man moet in fact be very friendless and very unlucky indeed if he serves out his time in prison in the State of New York in the times in which we live. That such was not the intention of those who transterred to the State Governor the old m> narchical “prerogative of grace” is quite ob- vious. Past generations had their faulte; but they had too much sense to declare the penalty for an offence to be five years imprisonment, and to imply or admit, at the same time, that by an abnormal executive interference, that pe- riod should be systematically shortened to three. This pleasant inconsistency is of our own inventing. No man moves in Assembly or Senate that the penalties imposed upon crimes and misdemeanors by the Criminal Code be alleviated. We keep the law asit is for the sake of nullifying it. We hold it in terro rem over the malefactor’s head; but at the same time we comfort him with the daily epec- tacle of its authoritative violation. In one breath we threaten the murderer with ten years’ rigorous confinement; in the end we show him how invariably this term is cut down by the Governor. Is there any sense in this? If the Governors are to continue to pardon as they do, shall we not manfully go to the root of the evil, and reform our laws? If they are too severe—and nothing elee can justify the re- gular exercise of the pardoning power—had we not better take in hand the defect our- selves, and amend it, instead of trusting to in- dividual Governors? It is fast becoming more and more difficult to condemn a criminal in this city. In the state of the jury law it requires uncommon vi- gilance, and at the same time uncommon good fortune on the part of the public prosecutor to empanel a jury that will convict on on any evidence. Some of the best legal minds are driven by the fact into a total disbelief in the practical merits of the jury system; others believe that the adoption of the French plan of deciding by a majority of votes would ob- viate the evil; others agaia contend that much might be done were the judges to con. fine themselves more strictly to their province —the law—and to confine the jury strictly to theirs— the facts. Without stopping to examine any of these opinions, it is notorious that the most barefaced and inexcusable malefactors can hardly be convicted and sentenced in New York. This, surely, is burthen enough for any community to bear. Now, if in addition ® this, it is to be a settied principle that the Governor shall exercise a general supervisory power over the decisions of courts of justice, and that that power shall always be exerted on behalf of the criminal, the burthen will be too great to bear. The pardoning power is in itself a oontra- diction and a violation of the judicial system. It was created to be used only in very rare oases and under a penal code which was cha- racterised by excessive severity. It was in- tended, for instance, for the case of a maa who, having been sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for having yielded to temptation and forged, or to passion and killed, had led an exemplary life for some ten years in oon- finement. To restore euch a man to society ‘wes evidently good and wise; but to pardoa every scamp who is sentenced to prison in New York because his lawyer and his friends ask for his pardon, is to stultify the whole administratin of justice. Tap Srreses Acary.—in this climate of e-§ tremes we no sooner get rid of one trouble than we must be prepared to undergo the in- fiction of another. A few weeks since our streets presented an uncomfortably faithful representation of the Arctic regions. They now offer seme equally unpleasant poiats of resemblance to the great Lybian Desert. The shifting sands of our thoroughfares, unless ar- rested by those mythical personages, the city authorities, bid fair to produce amongst us the Egyptian opthalmia. As this malady is neither very agreeable nor very sightly, we empect | that it will create quite a revolt smougst eur | Broadway belles. We should not be surprised | if Mr. Comasissioner Ebling were ealled to se- vere aocount for the damage thet may be ia- flicted by his inattention to the comsequencos of this disagreeable visitation. Dusting and feathering at the hands of our female popala- tion could not be too severe a puaishment for his aegleot. Some time sinee a resolution was adopted at one of the Boards that the streets should be regularly watered during the apring and summer. What is the difioulty that pre- vente this proposltion from being oarried oat’ Have the funds a Mr. Ebling’s disposal been used up in his memorable snow-oleariag ef- forts in Broadway’ Is there any soaroity of Croton water’ It used to be said of a perfu- mer who lived on the quay of one of our large cities, that although he had more water run- ning by his house and more soap in his store than any other man in the Union, he was the dirtiest fellow living. Mr. Ebling is, we fear, bent on gaining the same unenviable reputa- tion for New York. If our city fathers oan- not devise some means of ridding us of these pet plagues of the Street Commissioner, we shall be compelled to call another meeting of = the sovereign people in the Park. Wr. Brevawan axp Tim Mrssovrt Compro- mise.—Ip the extract from Mr. Bachanan’s let- ter to Senator Slidell, lately published in the newepapers, the distinguished Pennsylvanian | seysof the Missouri compromise line :—' It is wel} known how I Jabored, in company with Southern mep, to have thie line extended to the Pacific Ocean.” Yer, we are conversant with the case—we remember it well; and the reasons for the co- operation of the whole South in tue movement indicated were of the moet convincing kind. By ranning the Missouri compromiee line to the Pacific Ocean there would have been an end of the controversy; the South would have secured the southern half of California —not the gold mines, but a fine territory adapted to cotton, tobacco, the olive and the vine. This would have given the South, alco, an offset to the free State of California in the Senate, which to Southern men was the vital issue; but ail motions to this end were over and over again rejected. Furthermoré, the Missouri line as a boundary between the two sections would heve given Kansas, Nebraska, and a vast empire besides, to the North, without fur- ther dispute, while to the South it would have secured all future annexations from Mexico— a consideration which was not overlooked at Washington. But the democratic party was divided. The popular sovereignty doctrine upon which they had fought the battle for Gen. Cass two years before, proved also the stronger side. And so the South were borne down upon the admission of California—the Missouri compromise was declared a humbug and none were more active in kicking it out o1 Congress than Seward and his free soil co- Jaborers in both houses. Now the South and My. Buchanan insist that as Seward and the whole North would have itso in 1850, they should stand by the same principle of repeal as embodied in the subsequent Kansas-Nebras ka bill. While upon this subject we have had our at- tention called to the files of the New Yoru Hx- RALD of 1854, and to the following extract of a letter from our London correspondent, publish- ed in our Sunday issue of June 18, of that year. The extract is as follows, and we are satisfied that the authority fer it was Mr. Buchanan himeelf :— Considerable has been said about Mr. Bachanan’s opi- ni-ns on the Nebraska bill. It may be condensed into a very few sentences, as given [in behalf of Mr. Buchanan) to a friend:—‘‘I do not see what earthly it ean a0 the South if it 8; and had { been coneuited upon it, previous to ita being introduced, I'should have advised against th Hency of introd ything that would, by SEY, Bk fuze 0 am jon on the subject of slavery, and by se doing disturb the peace of North and South, without erderiog geod to either; ye: were I in the Senate, now that the introduced, and making so much trouble, I should vote for it. At the same time I am opposed to introducing anything taat wil, embitter the feeli of cne section of country against the other.” ese sentiments Mr. B. has ex renee to those who have conversed with him om the subject. If we are not mistaken, General Cass held the same cpinions in the outset, as to the ex- pediency of the measure. The administration certainly did, if the columns of the Washing- ton Union may be cited as evidence. But the free soil necessities of Mr. Pierce were para- mount, and hence the bold plunge of the Kan- sas-Nebraska bil]. It would clear him of his free soil associations in New York; but they are with him still, and where is he? Lonpon, May 30, 1854. * * * * * A Vore or Tuaxxs TO SENATOR SICKLES.— Our fellow citizens of this metropolis who prefer law and order to anarchy and ruffian- ism, who prefer our present police system to the system of barefaced corruption from which we have so narrowly escaped, owe a vote of thanks to Senator Sickles for his effective agency in the defeat of that notorious bill. He killed it by killing time, upon repeated motions and ten minute speeches ; and never did any public agent better devote his time to the solid interests of his constituents. We have escaped the plunder jobbers and the short boys for the present; and if Gover- nor Clark sticks to hfs word we are free for a twelvemonth, at least, from their threatened scheme of rowdyiem and spoliation. But is the Governor reliable? We apprehend tht the appliances brought to bear upon his ani- able, weak and vascillating mind will shake his fortitude upon the only conspicuously creditable act of his official career, and thst the danger is that the unsatiated spoilsmen that cluster about him will induce him ye: to call an extra session. We admonish him to beware. The people are satisfied with the position he has taken, and want no extra ses sion. A hundred days out of three hundred and sixty-five is margin enough for the law | tinkering required at Albany. Miss Kimperty’s READING oF Hiawataa.—Long‘ellow’s poem was read on Wednesday evening, at Hope Chapel, | for the second time, by Miss Kimberly. From the num- | ber of public readings which have already been giv 1 of | Hiawatha in this and other cities, and the tavor with | which it has been generally received, it would seem to be | one of the most popular productions which have been published recently in this country. This, however, is not a just criterion of its popularity, and ia, sfter all, but poor t at of its merits. The reading of it in private is a very different thing, and makes its rather dull and prosy affair. Wednesday night, we understand, was Miss Kimborly’s eighth reading, and she will read it »uin this evening | Mies Julia Bennett Barrow 1s giving read ‘ngs of the same | poem in the New England States, and it has been real | four times in Philaceiphia, twice ia this city and once | in Brooklyn by Miss Clara Darling, who is entitled te the | eredit of having first read it before a public audiens} | A large audience awembled on Wednesday evening, at | | | Hope Gbapel, to hear Miss Kimberly, and altboug! -he had a somewhat dificult subject to make iateresting, ber sue- qoan was proved by the frequent applause of her andisnes. Some passages were dxivered with fine effect, and Mis Kimberly sustained the reputation which abe has ob- tained, throughout the reading of the whole pos, which occupied sbout an hour and a haif altogether. Waren: Tica COMPARTMENTS IN OCEAN @reAacERs,—A¥i be reference to many late mewspaper meticen regarding the | as | additional safety of ocean steamera, from being esmrtruc:. | ed im weter-tight compartments, we presume ft ix noi generally known thet in Great Britein all iroa ste,moce are buis under government inspection, and that the iro | pates forming the compartments must legaliy be of the | seme size and thickness as the corresponding plate. 4 | the ship’s sides—ao that they are just as strong an tas huil of the ship—and in the event of amy secident, the filling with water of ome or more ef these compartments | would beve no mere eflect on the buoyancy of the rose! then taking {n #9 much more sddidonal cange. As wo lately noticed in a leading article the steamers belonging to the Glaegow and New York Steamship Compaay are aM built with these compartments, and may be consider- of as Gtied with every possible preventive against acci- demta of any kind. Superior Court. Before Hua. Juags Slossoa. THE NEW YORK HOTEL—THE GALE SET AStOn. Arm. 10.— Edward Griffin vs. Curtis Judson ana Hiram | Oranston and George Slator.—The Court rendered an ola- borate decision in this ease, in which he states thet.the | sate of the New York Hotel to Cranston must be set aside | as void, and also the mortgage and agreement for services, and there must be @ referee to take and state the ac counts of a! up to and including the Sth of December, 1! and of transactions of maid Cracston im the conducting of aid hotel since that time as re- ceiver; a receiver must be appointed, and the plaintiff have judgment for his debt and for any sarplas may or may not, on Accoun'ing, be found to LT 4 to maid Jodeon. | of what had heretofore been BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPH, From Halifax. NON-ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA~- THE CANADA OUI- WARD BOUND. Haupax, April 10—11 P. M. There is no appeararce of the Cam! as yet. Astrong northwest wind 19 blowizg and the weather is clear. The steamship Cansda, from Boston, bas just arrived here. wrom Washington. THE CITY ELECTION BILL—TESTIMONIALS TO RES- CUERS OF SHIPWRECKED AMERICAN SEAMEN RE- OOMMENDED—THE STEAM FRIGATE MERRIMAC, ETC. Wasuincton, April 10, 1856. The District Committee are ready to report back the city eleo'ien bill, and I under and it is more objecticn- ab’e then at first. The Know Nothings intend to fight it to the last. It will carry, notwithstanding. Despatches fiom the American Minis‘erat Naples mea- ticn in terms of high commendation the eminent servises o! Vincerzo D’Abardo and Ospt. Gorzsles, {a rescuing from shipwreck the American vesse!s Parana and Golden Rule. ‘the Minister suggests that emall gold medals, with suitable devices and ioscriptions be presented to them, and says that such testimonials will be valued by ‘these <flicers tayond the decorations so commonly be- stowed by royalty, and not only strengthen the re- lations of good uncerstanding between the two countries, but what is of more importance, might, by encoursging similar acts, prove the means of saving the lives and property of American citizens. - If tue Presi- dent wakes the recommendation, our Minister thtnta the presenta may thus be advantageously bestowed. The document to-day was transmitted to the House. ‘The Committee on Electiors in the Honre have decided that Mr. Fuller, of Maine, the sitticg member, was duly elected over Mr. Milliken, agd recommended that the lat- ter receive per diem and mileage from the commencement of the session. wl ‘The steamship Merrimac has been ordered to Anapolis with a view to her examination by members of Congress, as well as to afford means of instrustion to the acting midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Her guns are of heavier calebre than those of any other vessel tn the world. The recent protest (in bebalf of Colonel Sloo) ag?‘ust payment to Messrs. Law, Roberts & Co., for carrying the mails across the lethmuso! Panama, will have no effect on theransportation of mails by the usual mode of con- yveyance, The quarterly compensation has been paid as heretofore. Tne State Legislature. Atpany, April 10-1} P. M. Governor Clark has not issued a call for an extra ses- sion of the Legislature, nor is there say {adication that be intends doing so. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. VIRGT SESSION, Senate. Wasnineton, April 10, 1856. The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion to print the memorial of the members of the Free Siate Le- INTERESTING DERATE ON KANSAS AFFAIRS, gislature of Kansas. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., opposed the proposition, saying that the momorial emanated from men who are in rebellion against the laws of the country. Mr. SawaRp, (nigger worshipper) of N. Y., regarded it ‘8s a comparatively unimportant question whether the memorial be printed or not, as he had already seen it in journals circulating many thousands of copies. It would, therefere, be reaa by the world, at any rate. Hs thought {t would be proper to print it asa matter of courtesy. Mr. Boru, (dem.) of S.C., reiterated his former ob- jections vo the motion. Mr. Hamu, (dem.) of Me., desired that the memorial be printed for own information, so that he might act eplorstantingly on the admission of Karsas under the eet State constitution. He thought a striking paral- could be found in the treatment that Senators were inclined to bestow on this memorial—by laying it on the table or rejecting it—by lookiog ut the conduct of Lord North when itions from the North American colontes were laid before the British Parliament. Mr. Burixn replied, if those petitions were brought forward in violaiion of parliamentary ruies, Lord North did bie Cuty in opposing them. If the motion to print this Kancas memoriai should prevail, he should regard it as the greatest piece of contempt ever offered to the South. Mr. Hats, (nigger worshipper) of N. H., read the oon- cluding patagraph of the memorial, to ‘show that the memor ts contemplated no rebellion, but merely asked the admission of Kansas asa State into the son- federscy, cn equal terms with other States which pre- ceded her. He believed the refusal to admit Kansas as @ State would leave her a State out of the Union, and quoted the case cf the admission of Missouri to prove that rosition. Mr. Dovaias, (dem.) of Hl. replied, saying this was nota parallel case. Congress had passed a law authoriz ing the people of Missouri to form a constitutional and State government, preparatory to her admission into the Union. In the present instance, the proceediigs of the Topeka Ccnvention were not only unauthorized by Con- grees, but were revolutionary and rebellious. He could not rec gnise Kansas ase State, ertherin or out of the Union, in consequence of what they bad done without authority of law. Mr. YuLER, (dem ) of Fia., said under the rules of the Senate the memorial could not be printed, and as unani- mous ecreent was required to suspend the rules, he should dewand they be adhered to. The Cauir decided tbat the motion to print must go to the Committee on Printiz gE. Mr. Burier was unwilling that the memorial should bes hari dem.) of Mich., explained, i ting r. jem.) of ., explained, in presen’ the canta be Py, mo means endorsed its statement He had always made it a principie to present every jeti- tion he was asked to present. It was not for him to {n- vestigate the justice or injustice of the allegations in the mi , that being the duty of the Committee on Ter- ritories, to which it wae referred. Mr. Bayarp, (dem.) of Del, thought that men who were in direct an‘agonixm with the laws of the iana nad no claim to be heard by petiion. Mr. Mason submitted a resolution rescinding the reter- ence of the memorial to the Committee on Lerritories. Meesra. TRUMBULL and Bayarp then entered in:o gene. ral questions concerning Kansas matters Mr. Pucn, (dem.) of Obio, sald he had carefully ex- amined the document, and did not believe it was an ori- ginal paper. The signatures are all in the same hand- writing, and there are many erasures and interlineations. Mr. DAN, (KN) of Ky., should vote ag.iast the resolution, with the view to ruppress all designs to Gisturb the amin of this country and the peace of its cilizens. This discussion did no oa He wanted to know if the publication in the New heagll s~ g-3 was iien- tical with the document prevented here, with ita erasures and interlineations. Mr, Skwakb could not teil, not having compared tue two, He thought such criticisms were unworthy the great question involved, and would better become a croas- examination of witnesses ia a county court. ir. CRITTENDEN was proud of « lawyer, and would ae be a professional lawyer than a profes-ional paii- cian. Mr. SEWARD disolaimed any imputation en the legal Goasrea was the criticisms oa chirography to which verted. Mr. Bensamy, (dem.) of Ta., believed the document to be an impudent forgery. and even if sot, the men whose names are | toitare now fagitives from justice, and why should further notioa be taken of this insolent memorial’ Im the course of his remarks be strongly condemned Protessor Silliman as having sacri- legiousiy desecrated the house of God by appeals to tae people of Comrecticut for money and arms to carry on open war agsupst the government. It is desire for power more than for freedom which instigates such lawless and revolutionary proceedings. The game is not worth the candle. Let the obscure paper nl Mr. Rvax, (cem.) of Texas, spoke of sacred sooundrels who di ‘the pulpit in connection with Kansas af- faire, He did not the memorial had ever been in Kanras; be thought it was bet eros re-hash of much on that subject. Mr. Srvart, (dem.) of Mish., unzerstood that Mr. Cass would mase a statement in regard to the genulnencss of this paper; and that the letter was not himsel! satiafie. on this subject. Air. Burixe beMeved thet Mr. Cass mortal from honceable ts his tht of petition; but when voices he had a different It, ais it,”’ in violation of the be y memorial was bran: age freud ania forgery. He (Butler) believed thet if Christ should come to the earth, with all his purity ef principles, be would be banished the confedcraay by those fanatiss, as varies Genes from the wer. the money cha; and sellers ves; yet money cha come here clatai fo hove tbe pully odors zi Mr. Care said that within a few minutes he had had a interview with the persun who handed him the mom>ria! to present, ard it was onl; for hia t: that be (Gass) waa not salsGed thal the popes wes nee Benate, ted the me- ears, beteving in cried out ‘: Priat It was inst rial, said he had per to Mr. Cass or ized him to say paper—he did not sey phy=-bu! he saw a momorial, of whi stence and text, rigned by all the ment) provisional Legislature, and this is a ONBATY resort to sm extaibi courage, it will be time enougk for him to tauat me wii bas is ot Fras mn ir, MASON no one stood up to vindicate Mr. asa fair and honorable man. It Sam iy papiaanne company he keeps, the company is koown by the man who reprerenta it. Mr. Hamuy, in explanation, said he had not taken the paper into his hands; battby ita having been presented by ‘Mr, Cass, he bad reason to regard it as genuine; but pedo ‘appearing as such, he would vote | ite cep'ion. The vote by which the memorial was referred to tl Committee on Territories was reconsidered by the foll ing vote:— righ Brown, Butler,’ Guus, Urivenden.boege, You Bright, Brown, Butler, M Douglad Kvane, Fitzpatrick, Geyer, Hamiin, H . Iareo Ferd joeerseleiie nay gages Senge td Yalee—32. Stuart, Toncey, Trumbull, Weller. Naye—Meeer?, Harlan, |, Sumner—3, The memorial beirg thus brought again before the S nate, Mr. Cass asked and obtained leave to withdraw tt, tf return the same to Colonel Lane, Adjourned. House of Representatives. Wasurxaron, April 10, 1856. CONTRSTED SEATS, ETC, The House discussei the resolution of the Com on Elections ceclaring Mr. P. B. Fouke mot duly from the Tenth Congressional district of and o vote the resolution was adopted, only pets te The resolution declaring Samuel 8. Marshall, ait member, from the Ninth district of oor fA elec’ ih Mr. Fouke over Mr. Turney,{was then pyased. Bot! Mr. Torney were allowed nie ‘and per diem to date. ’s amendments to the Deflicleney Approp: considered. The Connecticut State Election. New Haves, April, 10, 1856, The popular vote in this State, with all the returns {} but those from Hartland, is—Ingham, 32,620; 25,934; Welles, 6,815, and Rockwell, 1,223. The who vote is over 2,000 larger than last year. The Senate 13 opposition to 8 democrats, giving Catler to theo position, who appears to be elected by 1 majori'y. The Know Nothing Party in Wiconsia. FILLMORE REPUDIATED—BANKS NOMINATED FO} PRESIDENT. Miwauaye, April 10, 1866, ‘Ihe American State Council in stesion, ih this ci bave repudiated the nominatien of Mr. Fillmore, passed resolutions recommending Mr. Banks as the Am rican candidate for the Presidency. Brom the West. THE KANSAS (@MMISSION—TABATY WITH THE INDIANS. ‘St. Louis, April 10, 1856, Messrs, Howard and Sherman, of the Kansas . gating Committee, amd Governor Reeder, arrived hei yesterday, en rowe for Kansas. Private advices from the Plains state that Gen. Hernt had met all the representatives of the Indian tribes the Sicux eountry, with the exception of two, and definite terms of peace had been agreed upon. From Boston, COTTON DESTROYED BY FIRE—FA&T DAY. Boston, April 10, 1866, A fire on Lewis Wharf to-day destroyed four hi pales of cotton, and damegedfseveral wooden buildin ‘The cotton was owned by Messrs. Goddard & Prite whose logs is about $15,000, The Governor’s proclamation for # fast was universally observed in this city to-day, and in quite variety of ways; the churches and theatres bemg op and many places of business clored. The houses of pul lic worship were respectabiy attended, and the places of amusement liberally patronized, afternom ar evening. United States Supreme Court. Wasurvarox, April 10, 1856, No. 12!. Mary Ann Connor alias Van Nees vs. Seml, Peughs, lessee.—Jus‘ice Grier delivered the opinion the Court, dismissing the case with costa. Nos. 77 and 18, Argued by Wm. Carey Jones, Eay., the claimants. No. 79. Wm. Thomas et al. owners of the bark ve. Jas. W. Osborne.—Argument commenced by Geo. Brown, Eaq., for the sppellants, and continued by Thomas for the appellee. Reinforcements for General Walker. New Onzzays, April 10, 1856. Two hundred recruits left here this morning in tl steamship Charles s!o-gan for San Juan, to jein G Walker’s forces. Gneral Hornsby was among the sengers. Destructive Fire at Lancaster, Pa: Lancaster, Pa., April 10, 1896. The county poorhouse and a number of barns aq stables, in this piace, were destroyed by fire this ing. Thirty-six horned cattle and four horses were sumed. The loss is heavy. From Bangor. THE WEATHER—TWO MEN DROWNED. Baycor, Me., April 10, 1856, The warm weather of the last three days has rende1 ‘the ice very thin. Two men were drowned to-day by its giving way they were crossing the river on foot. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, April 10. 1856, Pevnaylvania Fives, 84; Reading Railroad, 46; Lo Inland, 1634; Morris Canal, 1434; Penn. Railroad, 45%. BALTIMORE CATTLE . Battimong, April 10, 1866. Beef has advanced. 450 head of beeves were offered the cattle market to-day, of which 100 were driven and the remainder at $9 = Sil net, a ae Hoge scarce and improving. a New Orteans, April 9, 1856, Cotton firm, with an upward tendency. Sales to — 9%) 16,500 bales. Quotations for middling, Sugar is quo‘ed at 75¢c., lard at 9¢,; mess ivg, and seliing for $16 50. Bacon sides, 91¢. a 93d shoulders, 7340. Cotton freights to Liverpool, 13-82 Sterling exebange, 85; premium. a From Albany. LIST OF ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE—185 (Continued from the Herald of Apri 9. 364, For the relief of Sally Chamberlain Carr. 125. To amend an act to incorporate the village of C ton, passed Mey 18, 1845, relative to strest and high taxes levied (n said vi a 136. To vest in the trustees of the of Un Springs the title, use and occupation of the island be fs lake opposite said village. 37. Further to amend an act entitled ‘An act cir of Rocventer," passed april 1, 1006, asd ineuer cs rr, e acts amendatory theres. 188. For the relief of Ebenezer Seeley. 139. For the reiiel of Eugene Courtney, 140, Authoiizing Andrew B. Hod, to construct bulkkead and pisis at Crane’s Neck , in the town wal, To authorise tho cppralal and + To authorize the appraisal ai at of damages to George Folte.” ee 142. To authorize the directors of the Morish Plas Road Company to regulate the rates of tolls on said ro 148. Relative to lands situated in the county of Qu Gevised by John Jackson to Elizabeth F; , wife Eugene B, Frankiin, and her descendants, 44. For the relief of Ei e Chappell. 145, To amend chapter thirty ot the laws of eight handred ana fifty three, being an act to consolidate ro Gistrict efghteen hundred and in the town. Ledyard and county of Cayuga, and to provide for ion of » pathmaster. 146, For the relief of Newton Chappell. 147. To amend c! 90 of the es of 1853, relatt to the Acrora road rict. There are ull the bills signed up to 2 o'clock yesterds igen” sixty-four in the hands of the Governor yet w| rigned. APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR. BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THS SEVATH. Mei A —— , the expenditure of in moneys e triot—. \polles more, Robert B. Minturn, z “ ‘i Notaries Puniuc—Kings.—Thomas Cot William D vigne, J. 8, Marcellus, Julius R. Pome: brouck, John Bramerd, Wiliam He Beatin, Willan Waring, Eliphalet A. Thurston, Willism N. Cler dore, ¥. Jackece, Jarvia N. ‘Take, William Rish ey jacobs, Tnaac Abel C. Wi Frederick W. inrkey Therdore Minaal era Luawig, Alber: B. Gapwoll, Richard J. ‘Todd, Sanu £ Haris, Wiliam is Wetagbere SGaate Welsh Sane 5 mn H, Taylor, 8! 7. Williama, James A’ Whitiocks ne? few York—Cberies Nanc, Stephen E Burwel William F. n D. Law, James B. Williams, ‘Witliase v1 jah H. Riker, Robert A. Adame, Lorenso M. nold, Joseph B. Nones. Elise Dusenbury, Horatio Simo: Mores M. Vail, Ferdinand Fenneberg, William @. 3 ling, Augustus ’R. MaDonough, George L. Walton, Ue W. Wright, FAward P. Clark, ‘James {.. Dayton, Hon Sameer kaze Trederiet L. ‘Weiter nee cn ’ » Lawe, . Vultee, Jr., Wiil John ¥. Carr, Hornto Sherwood, Henry ¥. avaty Ge Walsh, Jaen C. Rive, George ¥. Macy, John Adriano Wm. A. Timpson, Lasac H. Witbeck, N. Wm. Bust H. Siatbuck, Arobibald { th, Jiruh Bull, Daniel W. Clark, Nathantel B. Hoxi Doége, E. H. Wallon, Malootm Campbell, Allen ©. Was ington, Jobn Neflson, Samuel F. Ball, lease Van W Jeremiah Dodge, Jr., 5. M. Gui Henry Cameron, Ji PRESHET IN THE N RIVER. The effect of the three days is alr seen along our 4 iver has risen a’ reveral feet; a portion of the dock is inundated, and water during the morning bas risen at the rateof abou ope inch per hour, A westerly wind has prevaile| suring the morning, which has to check the ri ft in So ennsay daring te wnat ma aetna na 1@ COD! Decora! beup the river sucin tall ‘all shall have diseppra: from the earth.—Alany Journal, april 10