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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. G@PPICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cash in adoaner, THE DAILY HERALD. 2 cents per oo PHE opy. 87 per annim. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at 6, cents per ory, or 3 Be aamum: the European edition $4 per annum, to Sata Britain, or $5 to any part of the Continent, both VOLUNT. ¥ CORBRSPONDENOCE, ont we 4. LETTERS AND PACKAGES oS, NO NOTICE taken 0 anonymous communications. Wedo et return thoer oaeaed, JOB PRINTING scccuted with neatnese, cheapness and. des- wD VER TISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVARING. A@ADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street —WriiiaM Tet, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Irevanp aND Ame- Pade—Tuenriky Gare—IRIsH AssURaNCE axD YANKEE Mo° eer. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Tr N Fe pXTBLOS GARDEN. y—Tnr, Coxsonen—Frsniv at BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Scnceon or Panis—Tue Baensx Honse—Benei's Davertan. BURTON'S TERATKS, Chambers siree:—Ly Cuaer— ‘Wma’s Tie. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Yonexrsoon-Tar Bronet. BAURA KERNE'S VARIETIES, Broaiway—Tue Mansur Braxr- Swiss Cortase BEOADWAY VARIETIs Brosdway—Tar Gowen Vaamni~Maip oF Mcmsri THE JUVENILE COMEDIANS. WOOD'A MINSTRELS, 444 Brosdway—Ermiorun Per PORMANCES—NiCARAGUA STATE SECRETS, BROOKLYN ATHEN £UM, Broskiyn—Lrrrrary Ap Mv- Sotearan BY 488 HLOISE BLIDGEY 40D MK. AND ad. Piva ~~ wew York, Wednesday, April 23, 1856. Lhe News. We publish in another column a despatch from Provincetown, stating that a bottle had been picked up on the beach containing a note purport- img to come from Captain Eldridge, of the steam- abip Pacific. It announces that the steamer was on the Grand Banks, dismasted, out of order, and re- quired assistance immediately. We resollect that for monthe, and even years, alter the disappearance ef the President, bottles were picked up here and there, enclosing similar communications to the one received yesterday from Provincetown. Although such a bottle may have been picked up, and although saeh a note as was said to have been found in it may have been written by Captain EMridge, we have our doubts of its authenticity, and look upon jt asone of those heartless affuirs that occasionally develope themselves in an excitable community and %o an anxious public. The steamship Arabia now in her eleventh day, had not arrived at Halifax at the time of our going to press. The vews by her will be one week later. But little of importance transpired in Congress yesterday. The Senate passsd the Honse bil] amend- img ‘the Bounty Land law. In the House the Defi- ciency Appiopriation bill was considered, and nearly all the Senate’s amendments rejected. Reports fa- vorable to the improvements of various harbors and rivers, and for the erection of puvlic buildings at Perth Amboy, Toledo, Ogdensburg and Uleveland were presented, and referred to the Committee of ‘the Whole. Memorials praying that the provisions ef the cteamboat law be applied to ferryboata were zeferred to the Committee on Commerce. The Missouri Know Nothing State Convention met at St. Louis on the 17th inst., and made the fol- Jowing nominations for State officers :—Gen. R. C. Bwing for Governor; Hon. Wm. Newland for Lieutenant Governor; Col. Thos. A. Harris for Secretary of State; Thos. C. Fletcher for Register ef Lands, and S. M. Grant for Auditor of Pubtie Ae- eounts; J. F. St. James for Attorney General; Col. ‘Thos. T. Frame for Treasurer; E. C. Davis for Super- imtendent of Public Schools; and T. J.C. Fagg, H. M. Woodsard,and E. A. Lewis for Commissioners *@ Public Works. Resolutions endorsing thg nomi. nation of Fillmore and Donelson were unanimously adopted. The mai! steamship Quaker City, Captain Shu- Seldt, from Mobile and Havana, arrived here yester- day afternoon, at 2 o'clock, in four days and two hours from the latter port. She left Mobile on the Ath instant, at noon, arrived at Havana on the Vth, remained there twenty-four hours, and left on the 18th at noon. She experienced very heavy weather from the latitude of Charleston up. There ig no news of importance from Hayana. Onur cor- respondent, writing on the 18th inst., states that ene of the Diago family had, whilst out bunting, accidentally shot the overseer of a neighboring plantation, who was cruising in pursuit of runaway negroes. Paul Julien and Patti had again drawn- @hunders of applause atthe Tacon. Monart and Go dard had promised immense balloon successes. The British ship Powerful was the only foreign war vessel im port. A good deal of opposition cavil was carried on between two purties interested in the repairing and coaling of vessels at Regla as to which should enjoy a sort of monopoly of that trade and its pro- fits. Senor Loriano, late editor of the Prensa, was buried with military honors on the 15th instant. A megro murdered an old man, in cold blood, on the 13th instant; another negro had murdered hic children and then committed snicide ; ‘4 jealous hover had stabbed his supposed rive’ and crime of every class was rife on the islan” ‘, «to an extent sel- do led previously. ™ sat eae pi aba ane Leon and Just quar- ments were beir- ~cided. The military detach. one in reliné -s Marched from station to station, _«we of the other, The hotels were nearly ardenerei: The Alashouse Governors were to have met yes. terday, but adjourned for want of « quorum, several of the Governors being out of town. After the next meeting it is the intention of the members of the Board to meet at the various institutions under their control, first at Bellevue, then at Randall's Island, and so on unti! all the departments are visited—an arrangement that gives them an opportunity to note the condition they are kept in, and to see to their immediate neve will b tinned anti! co the Board of whemselyes official, charge of the emigrant p rs on Ward's Island, in the event of the Emi, on Commission be pankrupt, the members individually strongly obj to doing so, om the ground that they have now more institutions under their charge than they can weil manage, and additional responsibility might possi- bly interfere with the good they are now doing. From the report of the Warden it appears there are now ut a little over 6,000 persons onder charge of the Governors—a falling off of nearly 500 since last Jamary. Every week shows a decline. ‘The testimony in the case of Giles against Comp. troller Flagg was concinded yesterday. € ‘ounsel will commence summing up this morning, and the case may be submitted to the jury before the ad- journment of the court to-day. : The cotton market was active yesterday, and the wales embraced between 7,000 and 9,000 bales, chiefly in transitu, while prices closed firm. Flour was rather more active, with a good demand for the British provinces. while prices were without change of importance. e wheat was scarce, while in- ferior lots were neglected and nominal. Corn was without change of moment, and prices ranged from 62c. a 63c. for mixed, and (4c. a 65¢. for white and yellow—the former slightly mixed. Rye was ,. at $1518 12) for new + two on- ough pressed taking quiet. Pork sold, in lots : ; mees, and old do. at #17, Lard was firmer, while bacon was in good demand, to arrive. The sales of sugars were confined to 400 or 500 hhds., at steady prices. € was firm, with light sales. Fair en gagements of freights were making for Liverpool, London and Glasgow, at steady rates—while to the Continent engagements were light, and rates some what poguial, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1856. A New Article of Fuith—The Origtaatien of the Nebraska Bill » Testef Democracy and a Possport to the Presidency. It is now about four weeks since the demo cracy gave birth to a new idea, that of making the origin of am set of Congress—an origin which claims the equivocal paternity of Gene- rel Pierce-~a test not only of orthodoxy, but an exclusive passport to Presidential no- mination. The Nebraska bill—so abused and villified by the nigger worshippers—that le- gislative messure which claims ite origin in the constitution, which embodies the princi- ples of popular sovereignty and secures to the people of the Territories equality of position and rights with people of the States—is now a Patent discovery, and belongs exclusively to Mr. Pierce. By him and by cthers it is claim- ed as something new, just how or why we are at a loss to conjecture. It is theirs, and they alone are entitled to the credit of its introduc- tion into Congress. Whether, in all past time, the democracy has acted in defiance of the covenants of the organic law, and having now returned to that compact, exact peculiar re- wards on that account, or whether the consti- tution has heretofore beea a sealed book, and ‘s just now opened to the Solons of the party, doth not distinctly appear. The Nebraska bill itself is based on the principle of popular sove- Teignty; but its originality in that re spect is not so obvious. If the idea is but two years old, how can it have been taken from the constitution, which is seventy- five years old? If the principles lay at the foundation of the government, how can their introduction imto the act of 1854 be considered a discovery redounding to the peculiar honor of General Pierce and entitling that fuaction- ary to popular rewards? Great pains and labors were endured and undertaken, a few weeks ago, to maintai that Mr. Buchanan only approved the priuci- ples of the Nebraska bill, and particular stress was laid on the negative weakness of that gen. tleman, thet it was not known that he approved the policy of embodying those principles into the territorial legislation of 1854. He wasnot a member of the legislature then, and we have no means of or interest in knowing whether he did or did not advise General Pierce or Mr. Douglas to repeal the Missouri compromise. If he is to be convicted of heresy for not hav- ing done so—if the democratic fold is to be nar- rowed down to those who did—we have no he- sitation in advising the corporal’s guard en- tertaining such views to put Mr. Pierce in no- mination at once. Sueh a proceeding will indeed be altogether original. It will then be understood that sustaining a principle is proof of heresy unless it can be distinctly shown that he who supports it was a party to its introduc- tion into the national legislature. The difference between building up a political hierarchy and building up a political cause may be described thus: The former con- centrates and appropriates all the credit and honor upon individuals. It canonizea men— it consecrates their labors, makes saints of their dead, and apostles and prophets of their living, It gives them power as 8 payment, and sub- mission as a right. The latter equslizes all the citizens of the State, assures to each indi- vidual rewards according to his merits, dis- inction according to his services, and public confidence and honor according to his ability and integrity. We leave the reader to deter- mine to which of these estates the Nebraska ex- tlusives belong. In this country legislation is conducted, or ought to be, by the chart of the constitution. There is no arbitary or compulsive power to be exercised; there is, therefore, no injustice equal to that which exacts instantaneous or concomitant submission to an approval of legislative projects. It is enough that a law is endoreed, after its introduction and discus- sion; toexact more is only another way of impeaching and condemning the whole sys- tem of free inquiry and judgment. The ori- gin of State and Territorial rights is in the constitution; and he who lays claims to their discovery at this late hour, ia either a shallow empiric or an ignorant pretender. We care nothing at all what may have been the opin- ions of this or that man in January, 1554, about the policy of introducing into Congress what is called the Nebraska bill. If the act wee constitutional it was not original; if it re pealed the Mis:ouri Compromise, which was legietution without the warrant of the compact of union, it was at best the performance of a duty thirty-four years delayed, during nearly all of whica time pows: Wa in the hands of the democratic party, It is enough that the 1 Territorial legislation of 1850 and 1854, iden- tical as they are in epirit if not in letter, has met the approval of the country. Time hae been had tor careful inquiay-Aanvesti- gation and judgment, and that appreval alone is, therefore, a proper test of the erthodoxy of individuals. The origin of the measure can confer no honor upon the men of this age, and it is the last act of folly and weakness to set it up as a claim to individual preferment on the the one side, or as a species of penal statute, by which statesmen are to be convicted of non- participation or of non-approval of its intro- duction into Congress. Ifin that act wisdom and boldness were evinced, in ite subsequent endorsement by the country, in its adoption as & course of fundamental legislation—relating to the rights of @ portion of the people of the United Statee—ite originators should fiad their sufficient reward. It arguee little patriotism and less sagacity to attempt to turn the mat- ter to personal account, and to use it asa weapon of injury to others. Tie Narcranizarion Question in Concress. —In the United States Senate on Monday the bill originally introduced by Mr. Adams, 6f Mississippi, for a general modification upon Kuow Nothing principles, of the naturalization laws, was reported back from the Committee on the Judiciary, with a recommendation that the said bill be rejected. This, we presume, as far aa any action of Congress upon the sub- ject is concerned, is equivalent to an indefinite postponement. From all existing indications it will be at least twenty-one years before we shall have a twenty-one years naturalization Jaw. The Russian war and the late Know Nothing stampede against the “Dutch and Irish’ having blowa over, aad having @ good pros- pect before us for cheap bread and plenty of work, we nay 800n expect an increase in the emigration from Europe to our shores, if tho home eurplus of Celts and Teutons be not ex- hausted, At all evente, the fear of a twenty one years probation, and other Know Nothing disabilities, need no longer be entertained. We are all at present swallowed up in the great nigger question, Come along. Tue Canapian Rarroan Trovsue.—We made allusion the other day to the fail- ure of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Further information states that the company has been unable to pay the interest on its debentures, amounting toa trifle over $12,000,- 000; that it has fallen back on the Province which guarantees the payment of the interest, and that the Provincial government, thus driven to take measures for the preservation of ita own credit, has proposed to raise money by increasing the tariff an average of 25 per cent. We have received and published else- where the resolutions moved by Mr. Inspector General Cayley, in the Canadian House, with this view. The event will, it isto be hoped, prove a leseon to people not only in Canada, butin the United States also. The British contractors, who have now failed, went to Canada som2 few yeara ago, under the auspices of Mr. Fran- cis Hincks, now Governor General of the Lee. ward Islands. They were represented by him to the Canadians as men of inexhaustible means; they were, he said, the real controllers of the London market; they could, of them- selves, and with their own means alone, build the railroad; their influence was equal to their means; and it was & happy thing for Cana da that they had been induced to smile upoa its distant shores, and employ a por- tiom of their idle means and super- fluous energy in developing its resources. This was what Mr. Hincks told the Canadians, and they, unhappily for themselves, believed. A contract was made with these Englishmen for Tue Sickies TestrMontaL.—We are told that this affair, to which we alluded the other day, is progressiog. Subscription papers have been left at aM the station houses in the city—all sorts of donations sare received, from the cap- tain’s “ten” down to the doorman’s “half ;”’ and in due time we shail have all the usual humbug of correspondence between a com- mittee of the donors and the recipient—e large amount of their plate in some Broadway win- dow—numerous small boys flattening their moses sgainat the glaes and spelling out the inscription—broiled chicken, champagne and mutual admiration speeches at Delmonico’s— coffee—long reports im the Sunday papers— headaches--and @ big bill tor somebody to pay. We took occasion the other day to enter our protest against this testimonial, and we re- fer to it again to state our position so plainly that it cannot be misunderstood. We take it for granted that this testimonial is a bona Jide affair. We do not believe that there is any truth in the insinuations of some of the papers that Mr. Sickles has imitated the stale trick of itinerant stage players, who buy a gold watch and have it presented to them in every city and town in the Union. We think that some of the police have made a mistake, nataral to men who always mix up personalities with sys- tema We believe, as we have said before, that Mr. Sickles did his duty in usiag all the tricks called “parliamentary,” to block the wheels of legislation, avd thereby kill the bill. We do not say that the personnel of the police is @ good one, and do not think that Mr. Sickles intended to defend the men now in the department; but what we do believe is that building the road. known, they got the best of the bargain. Mr. Hincks proposed that the Province should pro- vide halt the capital required, and guarantee the bonds of the road. In their simplicity the Provincials agreed. The contract was signed, the road begun, and everything promised well. But after one or two minor sections of road had been bought at enormous prices, and a few miles built, all of a sudden the supplies of money from London ceased. The Canadians, who had never dared even to think of the Lon- don capitalists without emotion and respect, were surprised; but they said nothing; and preeently, when the Londoners said that they were a little short, owing to the war, and would thank the Province to let them have a couple of millions in advance, the money was voted without question. Next year, same dilemma; the two millions were gone, and no money. The Province, with the feelings of Jeames when he lent money to the Earl of Bareacres, rushed forward again, said that the contractors couldn’t be expected to raise money while the war lasted, and voted $3,600,000 in a lump to help the contractors. This gone, back come the Londoners, hungrier than ever. This time, they say nothing about the war. Consi- dering that peace is re-established, they wisely confine their revelations to a general astate- ment that the “company’s financial affairs are embarrassed,” ond they ask the Province to pay the interest on the bonds they guaranteed, hinting not obscurely at the necessity of abandoning the road altogether unless the Province guarantee interest on the whole ex- penditure. The government, somewhat awa- kened by this time, sees that there is nothing for them, as endorsers, to do, but to pay up; and therefore propose to add one million of dollarsin round figures to the burthen of the people of Canada for the fiscal year 1856-7. The ultimate question—as to what is to be done with the contractors and the road—is as yet Kept back. We can tell the Canadians what would be done here. The State would at once proceed to take the property as the only return itcan ever get for its advances. It would then discuss the shareholders, who must be liable to some extent. Without any particular knowledge of the transaction, it may safely be assumed that shrewd business men like Francis Hincks and the English con- tractors were not such fools as to embark in this enterprize, and really lose money in the simple straightforward way they say they have done. The whole affair needs a thorough and searching examination. If there has beem any fraud—and we are bound to say that if the transaction had taken place in the Western States we ehould consider it our duty to point out the uncommonly suspicious charac- ter of the whole proceeding—the guilty par- ties should at onze be held to account and jus- tice done. The government of Canada owes to the people not to allow them to be syindled, Neither high standing in London, nor elevated statien broad, should shield the authors of the railway from the most thorough trial. Come at Last—Tue Raiss—Tue Srreets— Corrorarion Economy.—The general protract- ed rains required to sweep from the woods and the mountains of the interior the heavy accumulation of the winter’s snow, have ceme at last. The result will be floods and inunda- tions; but not to the extent which we had rea- As they were so rich and so influential and so great in every way, while the Province was poor and comparatively un- Mr. Sickles was of the opizion that the present, system deserves a fair trial, which it has not yet had. Therefore Mr. Sickles spoke and worked to prevent apy change, He spoke for the people, not for the police; and from the Police a8 individuals he is entitled to no ro- ward. Therefore we think we discharge a public duty in denouncing the testimonial movement. Now let us give a word of advice to both parties. The police should remember that ex- cellent proverb in relation to the danger of indulging in demonstrations of rejoicing be- fore getting out of the woods, Rumors of an extra session are taking definite form and co- lor every day. In the event of the Legislature again coming together, it is probable that the majority of the Senate, irritated by the fass made here over Mr. Sickles, would at once give his seat to Mr. Barr. Then if Mr. Sickles was really the only Palladium for the police they would be without their Achilles—on goes the bill and off go their heads. Add to this the impropriety of taking money out of the pockets of men who support large families on seven hundred a year, and we think on the whole that Mr. Sickles would do well to put astop to this business. It has gone quite far enough. Tue Prick or Frouor—Tue Frour TRapeE— It has seldom happened, if ever before, in the flour trade, when such @ wide margin has pre- vailed between choice extra brands and infe- rior or common grades. To an outsider the | difference no doubt appears inexplicable. A few words will likely tend to explain the “‘Yeason why the first grade of flour referred to sells at $10 25, and inferior to good common State at $6%$625—a difference of $4 per barrel. The supply of choice extra brands of flour from the last crop of wheat has been limited, and chiefly derived from Southern mills, or from St. Louis, with some parcels from Upper Canada and southern parts of Ohio and Indi- ana. The Genesee valley, which has hitherto supplied this market with large quan- tities of choice extra flour, including such brands as Hiram Smyth’s, has this year sup- plied little or none, for the reason that about harvest time the seycre wet weather caused the wheat to grow or sprout in the fields, and to render it unfit for the manufacture of prime extra flour. The Michigan grown wheat, toa great extent, shared the same fate, and cut off prime extra flour from that source. Hence, bakers and families were compelled to pur- chase the extra brands from the points above stated, and especially from the South and St. Louis. Much of the flour sold in this market as extra Genesee is said to have been ground from Upper Canada good white wheat at the Rochester mills. Hence the continued li- mited supplies for choice extras in this market has kept up prices. Haxall, Gallego and Rich- mond mille, mostly taken for export to tropi- cal climates, as it keeps better than any, and enters very little inte domestic con- sumption, sells now at $1050. The brands of St. Louis known as the Four Aces, and Franklin mille, with choice Georgetown and Crenshaw’s Richmond City Mills, are the Kinds at present used by those who desire a choice article, and range in prices from $9 873 8 $10 25; while medium to good State and Western extras range from $6 50 a $7 50, and common, fancy and ordinary extra South- ern at $7 50 a $8 75, The great bulk of flour sold in this market eon to fear two months ago would inaugurate the opening of spring; but in the disappear- ance of the snow from the face of the con- tinent, the long continued Arctic chill which has pervaded the air will be broken, and the last remnants of old winter will be blown away. We have no complaint to utter con- cerning the rains of the last three days. Oo the contrary, they heve washed off into the docks an immense amount of the winter’s stock of dirt from our filthy streets. A closing up tropical shower of six or eight hours duration would etill be an advantage to the health of our people, and to the city treasury. To be eure, if we depend upon the rains to clean our streets, we shall still have to remove their de- posits from the docks; but dredging and flat boats appear to be cheaper than street sweep- ing and horses and carts. There is, thus, our readers will perceive, a nice discriminating sense of economy among our city authorities, after all. We honor them for it. Mr. Becttanay’s RecerrionA Terry Warsixc.—Mr. Buchanan, in the Arago, is ex- pected here ina day or two, His reception by our city fathers will, we bave reason to think, be quite a spectacle. Everybody will be at liberty to look on; but let the adminis. tration forces at the Custom House beware of mingling in with the dispensation of the honors to the dangerous riya) of the White House candidate for the succession, Let the clerks of the Customs and the Post Ofiice fol- low the example of the Washingtou Union in the observance of a etrict neutrality coucern- ing Mr. Buchanan. Even before calling upom him at his hotel they bad better consult Mr. ! Cochrane. under the name of inferior and common State, at$6a$625,is not deemed fit for domestic consumption, either by bakers or families, and is almost wholly bought up for export to Eu- rope or to the British provinces, where it must be mixed with a better quality of native grown flour before it is fit for use. No baker in this city would improve his business by furnishing hie customers with bread made from it. Whence is supplied the immense quantity of flour known as common State sold in this market ? a ae The wheat from which it is producod is chiefly known as Upper Lake, and is mostly grown in Illinois and parts of Wisconsin and North- erp Indiana, and especially on the prairies of Tllinois, where the desire prevails to produce quantity, regardless of quality. Labor being scarce, machinery is brought to lend its aid to the fullest extent. It is cut by patent reapers, which take in much other growth besides wheat. It is then threshed by machines in the fields, and afterwards shipped eastward; and from the want of due care in the preparation of the land before planting, the berries are small and light. This wheat is converted into flour chiefly at Oswego, Black Rock and Lock- port, in this State, where many of the miilers pursue the «ame course as the growers, and en- deavor to manufacture the largest quantity, with little regard to yuality. They do all they can by machinery. Their barrels are nearly all made—staver, heads, &c.—by machinery, and often roughly and badly hooped with split poles, sent forward to New York, and sold as common State flour, and thence shipped to Eng- land and France, where American flour is often te toing the poorest in the world. So ahure badly are most of the barrels put together that in tramait to Europe they sometimes, it is said part their boops and are reduced to bulk. The buyers or exporters on this side, it is said, when complaints come back, to excuse themselves, ley the fault on American inspectors, who, it is reported, in some instances have branded, the flour for a higher grade than its quality justified. The contrast between flour thus made from imperfect and cheap wheat, and carelessly put up for market, with that made at the South and at St. Louis and other points, from well grown, carefully cut and selected wheat, in neat, strong, well made and well secured bar- rele, must be very great, and accounts for the wide difference in prices. It is estimated that one-half or more of ali! the flour sold in this market the past season has belonged to the class of common brands, Mr. Dickmsoy, THE New York Harps AND THE Crxcrynatt Coxvention.—The little hard shell organ of thia city startles us occasionally with & bit of very interesting political news. The Jast contribution of this kind was made yester- day ina very interesting leader upon “ Mr. Dickingon, and the Electoral vote of New York.” We are thus informed that the hard shell papers of the rural districts have de- clared themselves, ‘with one accord, in favor of the nomination of Mr. Dickinson bythe Cin- cinpati Convention.” Our little hard ‘shell neighbor says:— No wan acquainted with the politics of this State, with {te divirions and subsivisions of parties, thelr affialties, hoetilitivs and nice balaaces, can deny thas Mr. Dickwne son would receive, if nominatea at Cincianati, the vote of every man who would have voted for Mr. Buchsnan, Mr. Douglas, Mz, Hunter or any other prominent canii- date; while focal consi¢erati ns, his persons] popularity and his unexseptioraply natloval record, would bring back to the ranks of the democracy more than fifty thou- sand democrats who have temporarily taken refuge else- where, not beceaze they repudiated the democratis faith, he because they hatea Pierce and desired to vote ayainst nina, All this may be trae—nobody can question, apy way, the soundness of Mr. Dickin- scn’s principles, nor the nationality of his antecedents. But it is in that paren- thetical observation, “if nominated at Cin- cinnati,’ where the shoe pinches. “If neminated.” That’sall; but that’s everything. It is with the 296 delegates at Cincinnati, of which Mr. Pierce is said to have secured nearly ahundred, that Mr. Dickinson has to deal. How can he or his friends expect to carry, in any contingency, the imperative two-thirds of such @ convention? The thing is impossible. Our little hard shell cotemporary speaks ambiguously of some “ fifty thousand demo- crats who have temporarily taken a refuge elsewhere,” on account of their hostility to Mr. Pierce, who would come back into the demo- cratic ranks with Mr. Dickinson as their no- minee. These are the “fifty thousand” hards, more or less, who for a year or two have been co-overating with the American party in our State elections. But will not this fact be used againat and against Mr. Dickinson, with telling e! at Cincinnati? We fear it will; and that the only alternative to the poor hards isto confess, repent, promise to be good boys for the future, and take what the convention may choore to give them, trusting to luck “yet once more” for @ share of the spoils. Lacrr Brer Forever.—We notice that the Legislature of Pennsylvania has just passed an act requiring the Board of Licensers and the Court of Quarter Sessions to license beer houses, at fifty dollars each. The law of Pennsylvania, paseed about two years since, prohibited the sale of all spirituous, vinous and malt liquors by the glass or in lesg.quan- tities than one quart. The act wag a totally inoperative in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Allegheny and other cities, and this is made an amendment to the prohibitory law, which was much milder than the enactments lately blown to pieces in Maine and New York. La- ger bier is said to be a nice drink when it is fresh from the tap. There is certainly o very great deal of it sold and drank here and else- where, and very few of its patrons ever get drunk, beat their wives, or kick up rows and get in the station house. It was first a Ger- man beverage exclusively, but the peculiarly cormopolitan feature of the American charac- ter, which causes the ladies to follow French fashions with such remarkable servility, has made lager bier an American drink. If peo- ple must have anything but cold water outside and in, we think that lager bier is a benevolent institution. Swi lager. ‘Tur Gerv.aw OrERA.—Madame Von Berkel and sister, the grime donne of the German Opera troupe, have arrived in this city. They are said to be good lyric artista, and will give the public a taste of their quality very shortly. Meantime Max Maretzek gives us ‘ Martha,” at the Aca- @emy, on Saturday. AcaDENY oF Mus! * William Tell’ to-night—La Grange, Bertucca Maretzek, Boleione, Morelli, Amodio, Coletti and Arnoldi in the cast, with M’lles Franck and Tilman in the incidental ballet, . Go ! Personal Intelligence. We learn from Toronto, that the Hon, Mr. Ro#s has re- signed his seat in the Canadiam Cabinet, on the ground of the Ministry having lost the confidence of the liberals. Re maintains, it is said, that they (the Cabinet) should have resigned on the Duval affair. The Petersburg (Va.) papers haviog observed the fact that Mayor Wood is to deliver au address in Richinond, in behalf of the Mount Vernon Assosiation, suggest to the Library Committee of Petersburg, the propriety of inviting the distinguished gentleman to repeat his lee- ture in Petersburg. A meeting of citizens wae Leid, on the 2ist inrt., at Jones? Hotel, Philadel; hie, for ‘he purpose of adopting measures necessary to give the Hor. Jamee Pushanan & becoming welcome to Lis mat've Sta‘. ‘The Albany Aryus of yesterday rays that the Jon. M. Watson has Boon eontined for some time with infiamna- tion of the lungs. He i now slowly resovering, but it will provably be some tims before he will be abie to re- sume the arduous dutien of ihe berch. Com. William J. MoUluncy, at his own request, will be relieved from the command of thre Navy Yard at Ports- mouth, Va., and be succeeded by Com, Elie A. F. Laval- lette. Thus,! with the late Com, MoKeever, three peintees from Pennsylvania bave been made in succes- sion to that yard, ARRIVALS, From Charleston, in thefsteamship Nashville—Mrs , two ehlidren and servant 8 Alisire, Morphy. 8 Won drum, Capt WH Barnes, J 14 Matt, dr; 'D Batt iady and child; Ww na and lady; Mra MC Wilson, Miss Wilson, A Bost wick, Capt W Ayan, OC Drake, Miss Blake, Mra AG Parkor, JR Hamilton, 8; ¥ Kelly, F M Ray and indy; WS Has: ie, J New'and, }, D Boliktnap, H yward and Jamily; Ye Gilchrist and nelees Rey Dr she; lady; L 8 O Swift, J two Misses 8 ier, Misa Cx Meee TWaiket, BG Grocer, HB Slevens and’ indy? Miss Gill Mobile and Havana, in the steamship Quaker City—J graham, & indy UH Levy, Hauser, § Buy J Allen, child and servant; kine ia Haboock and chili’ Mis Kelsey, ree children ard servants Gilbert, Mrs M Fredric ant child; J Wooley, 8 Castro and two ra Butterfield and chi'd, and 68 in the steerage. Bel Mee Oh errns Win therpe, MM Haboock and child; Mes Pepper, W ‘i ‘J Spencer, © L Cunningham and family, C dpe) Coane ny Tu 8 gle me, Loper, J M Pioabra, F Vinajeras, 8 B Mussey, HS Killingion, W McKinnon, sas kateinclad Savannah, in the senmeblp Alabama—~MraJ Atwater, davuvier axe iindt, Mrs 1 8 Nathaas snd child, 8 Livingaon and lady, M Wilkie, indy, infant and servant; Hon Chs Spald- ing, TW. Townsend, F'B Wesson, K Wygatt, Jr; br AJ} Crowell, John Rourke, J Pikeman, Henry Vincent, J J O'liri én, Mise Robb, Mrs Lormis, Gen Jno A Dix, D B Dearborn, 4 Hi Tins. BO Wheeler, Thos Baltze!, Jr: Antonio Joseph, Noah Phillipe. HB Ely, Thos Trigg, Miss’ Keil, Mr Spalding, Dr Wooster and Indy, A M Henderson snd iady. Mra Gregory, Miss Gregory, M Gregory, M I) Treanor. WG Cocbran, HA Smythe, M Livingston, nurve and infant; Misa Taylor, Mr Terry ntd two children, A Christie, Indy and nurse: WF Christie, TA Gill and lady, T Foley. H Gillilsnd, Mrs # Ruy. yell, Miss B Marler—and 167 in the steerage, From Rio Janeiro, in ship Brewster—Mr Bertram and family, Perm Marceilles, in orig Move Mre J kisue,w, valida’ We aly 2BEE LaAtESTt NEW Si BY MAGNETW: AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Suspicions Story Regardng the Pacifice PRovixceny, April 22, 1856. A bottle was picked up on the beaca a! this place com taining @ piece of paper with ihe following writing upon’ it:— Of Grand Banks in steamer Pacific: masta gone; steamer out of order; send assistance immediaely. The above presents on its face unmistakeab) evidence of being a hoax. Nen~Arrival of the Arabia, Hauax, April 22.8 P.M. The steamship Arsbis, now in her elevenb day out, has not yet been nea o of at ‘hia port. [Owing to the storm, the Eastern wires weked with difficulty, and the above is cur latest desptch from Halifax.) Interesting trom Washington ATTEMPT TO SMOTHER THE RUCHANAN RCEPTION IN NEW YORK—NO FIGHT BETWREN LNE AND DOVGLAS— ANOTHER FXBIBITION OF TH STEAM FRIGATE MERKIMAC, ETO, ETO. Wasninaroy, April 2 1856, Quite 8 number of New York bard shell pliticiang have been here, importnving Mr. Buchanan’s fends not to permit him to stop in your elty and accept te hospi- talities of the sott spell office holders, but te golirest ta Wheatland, This course, I understand, wil) be rged on Mr, Buebapan. The report that Gen. Lone was about to aallenge Judge Douglas is all “‘bosh”—a regular ‘cook #8 bull’? story. Gen, Houston pestpored his speech on the Naw) Board until to-morrow, owing to the indisposition of &. Clay. ton, who was anable to be in the Senate, To-day’s Union bas an article showing that nether it nor Mr, Giddings’ paper—the Ashtabula Sentine!-fayore the nomination of Col. * emoct for the Presidency Mr. Dobbin is issuing sp:cial invitations to Ul the members of both houses ot Congress, to visit, om Saurday next, his chef d'euvre, the splendid new steamerMerri- mac. The party on Sa‘uroay last was for the demoratic rabble; the next is confired to the Congressional risto- crecy. Fach card issued contains an introduction o the commander of the Merrimac, Capt. Pendergrast The Merrimac will soon leave on a six months’ eruise, p test her machinery, uncer contract, She visits the waera of France and England, The last steamer brought despatches addressed y the Spanish Mixister of Foreign Relations to our Miniser at Madrid, in reply to the demands made at differenttimes for redress in the matter cf firiug intoand detsinig the steamer Eldorado by the Spanith man.of-war Ferriano. The Spanish government most decidedly bat courtously refuses to comply with the wishes of our goverment, and the Minister argues that, according to the law € na- tions the commanter of the Ferrolano: did nothing more than the peculiar circumstances at that time i the neighborhood of Havana justified. SHIRTY-cu 1 #si CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Benate. Wasnincton, Apri) 22, 1856 CIRCUIT COURT OF CALIFORNIA, The bill to alter and amend the act establishing he Circuit Court of the United States in California rag passed. THE BOUNTY LAND LAW. The House bill amenoa'ery of the Bounty Land lawof 1855 was passed- The object of the bill {s to provide or the admission of parole tes‘imony ia all cases where no records of evidence exist. and to allow the time occu, in travelling to and fom the place of muster to beine eluded in the period of service. Adjourned. House of Hepresentatives, WasuinaTox, April 22, 1866. RELIEF OF CAPTAIN GRAHAM AND OTHERS. Mr. WHEELER presented the memorial of Capt. Joha. Graham and others, for relief, in consequence of the in juries received resulting trom the detention of the steamer United States, charged with being fitted out for the Kin- ney expedition. THE DEFICIRNCY APPROPRIATION BILL ‘was considere¢, and the greater portion of the Senate's amendments thereto rejected. Among the sqjandmenta adopted was ihe cne syoropriating $30,000 tor the par- chase of see id cuttings to be cistributed throughout oe country by the sgricuitural department of the Patent ice, nae Seah meen a eine e House a joint resolution tu over ta, Wisconsin the remaining part of the $10,000 heretofore + ppropriated for the improvement of the harbor of She- )oygan, to be expended for that purpose under direction of the State, IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS—PROPOSED PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Mesers. Wasuerrn of id. and Wank, from the commit- ee to which the suhjects were referred, reported about ity bills for the imprcvement of various rivers and her- nies for Pcat Office and Custom House purposes at Perth Amboy, Toledo, Ogdensburg and Cleveland. The bills were referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. SAFETY OF FERRYHOAT PASSENGERS. Messrs. Frorexcr and Tyson presented memorials front citizens of Pennsvivanla and New Jersey, praying, in view of the recent calami:y on the Delaware, that the tended to ferry rcvisionr of the stesmdcat law be ex ats. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Adjourned, Unitea Strtes Supreme Court. Wasuincron, April 22, 1856, No, 92.—The United States, appellants, vs. Cruse Cer- vantes, Argument was continued by Wm. Carey Jones for appellee, and Attorney General Cushing for appel- Jants. The Massachusetts Pronibitory Law, : Boston, April 22, 1856. Tn the Senate to-day the majority and minority reporte upon the Liquor law came up—the latter being in the form of a bill in effect restoring the license system—when. on motion of Mr. White, of Norfolk, the whole matter ‘was indefinitely postponed, by a nearly unanimous vote, This leaves the Liquor law unchanged, Pennsylvania Legislature Adjourned. HarrissurG, April 22, 1866. The supplement to the Erie and Northeast Railroad pild parsed both Houses. ‘At noon, the Legislature adjourned sine-dis. Philadelphia and Mr. Buchanan. Priapuiria, April 22, 1856, A public reception is to be given to Mr. Buchanan by the authorities and citizens of Philadelphia. From New Orleans. HEAVY DEFALCATION——STEAMBOAT BURNED. New Orreans, April 21, 1856, Dr. Labatte, late City Attorney, isa defaulter to the amount of $300,000, The steamboat S. F. Trabue was burned at her wharf oppouite the city, last night, and is a total loss. Firat Reilroad Train across the Mississippi, ‘Wasmctos, April 22, 1866. A private despatch from Rock Island, (I.) says the firat pessenge: train of cars passed over the bridge, across ‘the Mississipp!, at that point, this morning. This bridga perfects the railroad cownection between Chicago and? Towa City. The event was celebrated by the ringing of bells and other demonstrations, Navigation of the Mississippt. Cmcago, April 22, 1666. ‘The Mississippi river is open and free from ice ta St. Paul's, ANOTHER Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHiLapevrma, April 22, 1856. Stocks dull, Pennsylvania 6’, 88%; Reading Rit., 45%; Long Island, 1476; Mortis Canal, 44g; Penn. RR., 034. New Ont. April 19, 1866, Cotton—Bales to-day 14,500 ales. Middiing {s quoted at lO3c. a 105;0, Arpany, April 22, 1856, The eales of wheat to-day (white C; 1) were mad@ at $1 bed bushel. Oats quoted at 42c, from the atore- house, Cloverseed is r 17 Ke, for medium. Brooklyn City News, ReooyEny ov More Goons Svrrosep To nx Sto.ey.—The officers attached to the Chiet’s staff of this city made another rcizure, yesterday, of goods supposed to be stolen, which they traced tos farm house in Springfield, near Jamaica, Queen’s county, They there found a large amount of property secreted about the premises, all new and valuable goods, consisting of 6 pieces of black cloth, (numbered 15,755); 8 pieces black silk handkerchie’s; 6 yellow Turk ratin, (num)erod 404); 20 pleces damask; 1 shawl, crimson and black; 1 piece black Turk satin; 2 pieces rilk. plaid and scripe; 2 pieces black vesting bro- cade; 1 piece red and green damask. The occupants of the farm. house, father and son, were absent in New York at the time, with a load of potatoes, Pay, were arrested wad brought to the oflice of the Chief of Police. ‘They strenuously asserted their innocence, and referred to reveral firms fm New York, where, they said, they ES chased the goods. The police are under the impression that with the receivers in Tenth street, wre? op and naw y 4: ae ve bas wun Ob waels eanertbeny, tf ————