The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1856, Page 4

4 JAMES GORDON KENNETT, PROFRIZIOB AND EDT708. QyvIC8 +. % CORNER OF NASHAU AND FULTON BTS. reicatk helacatnctasninnd 1 caek 1) . re Hi HERS 2, Lae Duihey THe ekian. oer Basar amu; the Buropech edison, $4 per annum, 10 Petron Geel Brain, i 98 way part cf ihe Constant, DXA Seunehale " DENCE, containing impore- VOL ON TARY CORRESPONDENCE, cetesing ing Sere fil for, wa oh, Ponkic’ COMRESTONDERTS ARE Pacnceliny Reevesren r0SRA. 42 LEPMAES AND PACKAGES SRO" NOTICE taken ©/ anonymous communication. We do NUN PRINTING actcuted with weutnces, cRenpnase and dew \y ERTISEMENTS renewed every diy. Ne. WS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVSRING. —_ SOADBNY OF MUSIC, Pourteenth sireet—Ir, Taovarous, \¥ TRRATR®, Browdway—Rony O'Mons—iv's Lyi Coury ea OL. up Cusrom OF THE WI8L0'S 6 ASDEN, Broadwny—Tuy Oorscmrs—Pisrry Bawsaet—Axp GNOME, BOWERY Deny Os THE PORTOWS THEATRE, ‘Yuar Busesap Biax—Waxtep Orr Tuevsare e—Bee SOMKMEN Ok, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Bresdway—Horsvucen -Love amp Onaniry, BRAVEA EEENT'S VARIETIDS, Broadway—Tes Maneex Baanr Swise OOrrAce FRE. Bowery—Yus Tanks Gc wwemrs— Foarumo— Chambers stree!—' ee the 4 adie, hence the sales were confined y exter®.y in acne NEW YORK HERALD. | *, about 2,000 bales, the market closing quite. gra at 1]jc. for strict middling uplands. Ploy, wap quite duil for common grades, while pri¢.es were easicr. Common Michigan and good com gon State ranged from #5 756 a $6. Other lower were also dull, with a tendency to lower rv’ tes, while the higher and choice grades of extray, were but little affected. Good common to fair 89 uthern wheat sold at $l 76a $1 80. Corn was her .vy, with eales of all Kinds at 60c. a Glc. a 63¢., wit? , g small lot of white, delivered, reported at 634c. P ye was nomina} at 9c. a %5c. Pork was about We same for mess, with rather more doing. Lard’ wag more active and fira- er. Sugars were seady and active. The salen em- braced about 1,700 hd ,. chiefly Cuba muscovado, with 120 do. Porto Riv o, at prices given in another column. Coffee was? teady, and in fair demand. The sale embraced sb it 2,100 bage Laguyara, at rates given in another 7 Jace. Freighte to English porte were to 8 fair eF tent, without change of moment in yates. State ¢s’olitical Parties ta the Country. Tee careful etudent cf American politics muss fave been struck by the ‘“dissolviag views” presented te hie mind in the movement of parties within the laet twemty-ive years Wwe mean by party @ distinct platform or Waste of principle—positive, endorsed and aderied measures of legislative policy—cer taim defimite rules ef political economy—we 4 EEDADIAY V ARISTING, 472 Broatway—Trw @ocpen | B&VE now three political orgapizatione— three saeER—| Mir Musstex—ey Tes Severe Comm. rs. WOOT’? MI¥STRELS semmances—Ricanadva Grats Buon: New York, @riday, #pril 25, Bed. Movie tor Burope. WSW YORK BERALD—EDTTION FOR WCROTE. Fhe Collin: mail cteaaskip Beltic, Capt. @cmztosk, wil)! wave ibe port to-morrow, at noon, for pool. The furvopesn maile will cicve to this city at balf-pect’ fam o'clock to moricw morning. The mma printed in Fegiich and P-ench) will te | 107s pablisued atten o'cleca in ibe mornicg. Single copies, dm wre ppert, empeace. @BRosziptions sad aavertisements ior any edition ct the Raw Vonr Hxnst will be received a! the following pisces te Forore — Towbow—Am. & Darcpese Expreee Co.. 17 Fane— de. Lavunce:— a ford Asvaaroo.—lchn Sumer, 12 Buchange etrees, Last. ‘The ecc‘snte ef tho Buropean edition of the Swnap ‘WM emtrece the news yeceived ty msl and teleqzaph a: the cfice during ibe previcus week, and to the hear of do. pebbeawen. Further ‘particulars from Nicaragua infone us sets of men—sil of which are as distinct from 444 Broatway—Eemorven Per | the cld whig and democratic parties as is the dynasty of Napoleon from that of Victorie of England. The cl& whig party is a fossil, and there is so little left of it as to create a donbt whether it ever had a body orasozl I: was &n apparition—a epecies of ghost, haunting tke democracy, and cocasionally frightening that respectable old family out of the White bat unlike that of Bauquo’s, it is new down. Indeed, the old whig party——it is e re- verentia! way of speaking of it—existed on the basis of a anion of the money, the manufac- turlog, aud through ikese the commer: terests of the country, to which was added that of internal imyrovemente by the general gov- ernment. Succeseful in controlling natioual segislation. is was destined to effact an entire overtbrow of the desacctacy. Vailing in this, its fate was sealed, ite life extingzished, .ad its body disecived into its originsi elemenia It wae @ politioal experiment, aad it failed. It ‘that Parker H. French had -qoarrelled with Genzral | Worked on ite feise principles till it believed Walker and left San Juan for Aspinwail. walled on charges o? treason and cowardice. The London Court Journal of the Sth of April publishes the following:-—-Upwards of 7,000 men of ‘the Crimean army are ander orders to proveed direc’ to Canada, with a view to the protection of the frontier in'the event of hostilities with the United Btates. At the City Hall yesterday the Hon. James Ba. wbanan received several thousand of onr citizens, Is was stated'thet Walker had 700men marching to meet the Costa Ricans, who were expected to invade Micaragua. Col. Schlessinger had been court mar- in their justice, which is more than can be eaid of most politicians in this couniry. The demceratic party, on the other hand— we mean the old Jackson party—desived its cohesive and propulsive power from the nega- tive basis of opposing the sckemes and the constitutional doctrines of the whigs. Tacir chief merit wae in their maxim thata State Was the least governed was the best go- verned. They ixsicted upon the mie that laws do not make money, bus effect dietridaticn be b tween capita! and labor; avd hence, that high who were anxious to pay their respects to him. }| protective tariff, national banks, grand schemes Mayor Wood, on behalf of the Common Council, of internal improvement by the genera! go presented him with the resolutions recently passed | yernment, and all kindred projects of the dy tat body tendering him the hospitalities of the wity, accompanied witha few appropriate remarks, % which Mr. Buchanap responded in the most ele quent terms. Among those present on the occasion Were many of our leading and most enterprising sitizens. A report wil! be found eleowhere in cur per. In the Common Council of Philadelphia yesterday afternoon a resolution tendering the use of Indepen- @ence Hall to Mr. Buchanan gave rise to a poli- tacal debate of the most rabid character, and was fimally.defeated by a vote of 330.20. In the Select Geunci! a resolution of a similar character wae pre vented and rejected. This act of disrespect to Mr. Buchanan caused much excitemen: among the citi- wens of Philadelphia. In the United States Senate yesterday ao resola- ‘won was adopted calling on the Secretary of State Yor information relative to the extent to which the transportation of laberers is.now being carried on from the continent of Asia or any Asiatic islands, to ~America, with other particulars relative to the traf fc. Mr. Hale spoke on the Three Million Arma- ment bil], which was jaid aside, and Gen. Eouston sesumed bie remarks condemning the actier of the Naval Retiring Board. In the House of Represen- satives Mr. Pelton, from the Committee on Com- merce, reported the Senate's bil] remitting or ze. fanding te duties paid on ali goods, wares or mer- chandise, in original packages, destroyed by fire, which, alter an ineffectagi effort to prese it, was re- ferred 40 the Committee of the Whole. The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up, and Mr. Ritchie, of Pa., argued the constitutional right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territo- view, as well as other mattere. Our despatch from Washington states that there will be no alteration of the tariff during the present session of Congress. The announcement that Capt. Ingraham had been confirmed by the Senate as chief of the Ordnance Bureau, ie pronounced premature. ‘The report that Judge Douglas had been challenged ie contradicted. Mr. Sage, from the 13th Con- Mressional district of this State, has delegated his right to nominate a cadet to the West Point Military Academy to the Board of Education of the city of Troy. Important despatches in relation to oar affairs with England bad been received at the State Departanent. The Board of Addermen were occupied for three hhoare and a half last evening in acting upon a few papers and making several long and cninteresting epeeches. In the cate of the contested Comptrollership, the gory, after being out a very short time yesterday, re- varned a verdict in fasor of the presen’ incamben?, Azarian C. Plage. The empannelling o; the jaryin the case of Baker, charged with the homicide of Poole, was not com- Pleted yesterday. At five o'clock the additional panel was exhausted, when ont of 205 who answered % thelr ames, only six were selected as competent jnrers, making altogether eleven. The court sd- Jjourned,and it is hoped thet some of the absentees who were called on a fine of $25 each will attend early thie morning and assist in the completion of ‘the jury and save their own fines. Two daye have now been consumed in getting eleven qualitied men to sit in thie case. Dr. Charles C. Cobel, indicted for procuring an abortion upon the person of Catherine De Breuxen, resulting in her death, in February“last, wae wquit- ted at the Court of Sessions yesterday. The deposi- tion of the deceased, taken before Coroner Perry, wae railed ont by the Court on account of its infor- mality, and there being no other evidence, the pro- secution abandoned the case, and the jury rendered # formal verdict as above. In the case of Morreli D, Bowen against the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, for alleged uegligence, by which the plaintiff received personal iwjury, the jury yesterday returned a verdict of $500 for the plaintif. ‘flee directors and superintendent of the Camden Ferry Company, the officers of the steamboat New Jersey, {recently burned at Philadelphia,) and the ins; ectore of machinery and boilers, nave all been arrested by the Sheriif of Camdea city, and held to hail in the sam 1” #3,000 each. ‘The French stean*ship Alma, arrived at this port yesterday from Havre, Whence she sailed April 2, was compelled on her p.**8g¢ to put into Fayal to repair some slight damage *o her machinery. There was some disposition “mong dealers in eot- ton to await the receipt of priv.* letters due hy whigs, were so many devices of capital to gain undue advantege of labor. Democracy wasa species of brake on the car of State, holding it back to meet contingencies of necessity aed danger. It had a liking for the people, end alway: canonized their frontier expicits—it bed an immense appetite for neighboring ter- ritories—was dimetistied with pressxt boua- daries--fond of “foreign travel” and addicted to fighting and trading with weak border States. In this spirit it has swallowed Pieridae, Lozisians, Texas, New Mexico and Califeraia, and is now showing signe of rapacious hunger for mere, But the course and the menof the pariy dave wonderfully changed. The old sysiem, save that of the name and the spirit of tezrite conquest, wick may he enid to be commoa thoroughly obliterated ae if it i. The motive and the prin- ciple of action are gone. There is nobody io fight om the old issues, and this of itself has operated a a relezee to eli the eworn subjects ofthe party. They have not scattered off like the whigs, but they have actually done woree: they have suffered their camp to be eur prised by ite own traitors, and their troops to be commanded vy the least worthy of the number. Genera! Pierce isthe chief of the party now! He commands ite forces and gives character to ite name. He has succeed. ed to ite estates, lives on its favors and dire peuéces its honors, Wao will say, after sui- veying the present eondition of public affairs, that the old Jackson democracy still lives in the vigor of ite manhood, the integrity of its life and the power of its energies? It is e mase of demoralization, corruption and folly, de- tested by honest men and mourned over by patriots; it is supported by knaves, but only as knaves know how ‘o sustair «sinking dynasty. Out of the wreck of the democracy there is springing up everywhere in the country 2 ho- mocgenecus national sentiment, which now finds ite expression in an earnest effort to re- deem the country slike from the curse of the Pierce policy of nigger driving and the Sew- ard policy of nigger worshipping. Neither of these extremes belongs to the old democracy. No such ferce abstractions entered into iis creed and eervice. It was nota party made bv demagogues and supported by madmen- 9 was not & party for the North or for the South —it was a great union orgsnization, looking solely to the constitution as the charter of its existence and the guide of ite policy. If we had no other evidence of its prostitution, it ix enough to prove how complete has been its abandonment of a true !ife of virtue, to re- gerd ite present chiefe. We have, then, a mew democratic party—a great Protestant organization, seeking to rid iteelf of the errors of its past life, and to com- mand public coafidence and sympathy by good works in the future. We have the bleck republicans, or negro worshippers, aa offshoot of the Pierce democrasy, seeking to break up the Union on ascount of the existence of American slavery. We have, too, the Kuow Nothing or American party, which hea sprung into existence, entangted in the moshes of former political associa- tions—now vigorous, powerful! and tri umph- ant; now weak, enervated and tallen—un- certain of ita adherents, divided in princi- ple, broken and disjoiated in conncil—<no: asting ite candidate, repudiating its candidate, betrayed and ehattercd, recovered and ro-or- ganized, and at last a great party, national in sentiment, conrageous and determined in ac- tion. The Know Wothings came together in a whirlwind, in the midst of which it was impor sible to distinguish the fine particles of gold from the mica which glistened and decejred the zealous crowd. The elements having lost some of their rapid motions, the appligaiion of NEW YORK GERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1856, a little equstituticcal mercary has attracted ike precious material to itself, and left the Dalance in the hands of the nigger worshippers. The Know Nothings, it ie true, commenzed their political career by prosoribing Cat?olice and foreigners—bound by oathe ip secret lodges—ard yet the party se it wow stands, winnowed af ite migger wersb’ppers, is » Bationa) one; and that idea, Xa the preesn+ temper ef the country, may exercise a pow- erful inficence in removimg them from the palpable errore of their organization, and constitute @ nuclecs @7ound which will be gathered © great and predomizant party. Taeir strength now lies more in the possi- bie errore of the ether parties than im ikeir They can easily find release frem their exira-judicial oaths and from their native exclusivesess; andithas renovated and raised up to the dignity of true Awericens, liberal, mational-—more na tions] than either of the cther orgaoizetioas— they may drifi into the aecendefcy—iato the wo position amé merits. Presidency. It is obvicus trom this analysis that we are coming cpon strange political fortcnes, Ths aanihflation of the old parties brings with it s necessity for the organization of new caves Those whe sullenly adhere to past errors and parties—who will not see the aitered atate of things, and sdapi themselves to the times— will sarely wake up to fnd how much better it iste adbere to settled principles than io the fortunes of men. Mr. Pierce’e Diplomats in. Europe—The Very Latest News. Now thatthe Russian war is over, we have been casting about for the latest news from Mr. Pierce’s Earopean diplomats, because, COM> sidering the new order of thiage about to be initiated all over the Old World, we shall re- quire cur representatives there to be looking > the interests ef the New World, especially in the re-construction of maritime cheoks aud balazcee of power, and upon the subject of re- \igious liberty and the rights of Americana si citizens abroad, &c. Firsi, then, we are happy to report that Mr. Dallas bas made quite a favorable first impres- sion upon the Court of St. James, and is deci- Gediy of the opinion that there will be none- cetsity for a war between the two countries, neither about Crampton, mor the Moequito King, nor the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, ror Cen- tral America. Second. It gives us pleasure to state that the kealth of Mr. Mason, at Paris, continues to improve, and that he is quietly awaiting in- structions from Marcy in reference to anything that may be deemed of sufficient moment for ective negotiation with the French govern- mext, Sebastcpol has givem car representa tive at the Tufleries a good resting spell, acd hence, with tke restoration of peace we find him reinvigorated in mind amd voéy, and/ sxious for something to do. Third, Of Mr. Dodge, at Madrid, we have heard little or nothirg since the intelligence of the part ke wae made to play in the Carni- val, As far 2e we can understand his position in reference to the Spanish government, he is net doing much in the way of diplomacy upon any subject, but is waiting a more convenient opportanity. By common consent negotie- tiens for the purchase cf Cuba seem to have been indefinitely postponed. Fourth. Of our ambasaadors, Mr. Vroom, at Berlin, and Mr. Jackson at Vienne, we have no information, except that they are sometimes vigible om Court occasions, merely to remind German royalty that there is such a thing a3 American democracy in the werld, and that General Pierce is the President of the United States Fifth. From Mr. August Belmont at the Hague, we have nothing of the least interest. We presume, however, that he has not lost sight of the main chanee in the various loans made and projected to supply the exhausted coffers of the European belligerents with the surplus cash of the Rothechilda,) We have high European suthority for seying that Bel- mont drivesa splendid turn out, gives excel- lent dinners, and psys not the slightest respect +o Marcy’s circulars on feather breeches, Sixth. From Robert Dale Owen, at Naples,’ there has beer nothing new since his last as- cent of Mount Vesuvius, It is eaid, however, that he has collected a vast amount of useful intormation on socialism and the ‘fundamen- tal errors” of modern society from his official associations with King Bomba and the Neapo- litens, Seventh. Mr. Cass, from all accounts, has satisied himeelf at Rome with playing the part ef a anob with more money than brains, Highth. We are net positively certain whether Mr. Seymour, our Minister at St. Petersburg, is dead or alive, or bas been ex- iled to Siberia. Possibly he msy “turn uy 8% with the raiaing of the blockade and the re- sumption of the navigation of the Baltic. Ninth. Mr. Spence, our representative at Constantinople, has been usefully exerting himself, of late, in bebalf of civil and religious liberty in the Turkish dominions, Tenth. Mr. Daniel, late editor of the Rich- mond Examiner, our Charge at Turin, has prov- ed himself an able, faithful and industrious minieter; popular with the King and the chiefs of his democratic policy, and quite o card with al! Americans passing through Sardinia. Eleventh. Mr. Roger A. Pryor, writing edi- tor of the Richmond Enquirer, assigned to Greece, has returned, after travelling all over Earope and talking largely as the President’s confidence man, at every American legation and contulate, in bebalfof Mr. Pierce as the inevitable Cincinnati nomination. This may Save been part of his travelling programme. Whe knows? Twelfth. Of Mr. Fay, im Switzerland, and Mr. O'Sullivan, at Lisbon, we have very little ‘ntormation. The last we heard of O’Sul- livan was that he wes in Paris, engaged in playing a game of chess with some professional player. Thirteenth. Mr. Seibels, at Bruasels, Mr. Schroeder at Stockholm, and Mr. Bedinger at Copenhagen, are getting on ‘as well as could be expected,” and perbaps better than we ex- pect. We know that Mr. Bedinger, having carried the Sound dues to an ultimatum on our part, is waiting the signal fora compro- mise, or a bombardment of Copenhagen by our six new war steamers. Lastly. With the ratification of the peace of Enrope Marcy will probably stir up his whole diplomatic corps over the water with a new programme on coats and breeches, and new in- structions om the relations between European diplomacy and the abstract science ot Ameri- can democracy, according to the Jnaugural and the Koszta letter. A lime Pum yrs Avour Tur Preswwey- TAL BLEcTiC“,— Phe potiticiane have now nar- rowed dwn the issue in the comtng canvass to the slavery question. Every true lover of kis coantry must be aware that the sectional eamity which the agitation of thie question engeaders isthe only source from which ths United States have to fear apy dazger. The politicians who love the epeils, and care nothing for the con find their account in keeping cp this agitation. The maxim of Jeffereon—that error ie no longer dangerous when troth and reason are! to combat it—dcea not apply to this que! because in each section truth isnot lett free te combat error. The South ismisinformed about the state of feeling st the North, and the North ie equally ignorant as to the rea) posi- tion and opiniones of ouz Scuihern fellow-citi- zeus, .Thie state of thixgs,so far from im Proving with the progzess of education snd the diffesion of information, is getting worse, the passions of radical men in both sections being artfally inflamed by partiean leaders. There is, however, 8 greai coneervative power ta the ranks of the voters; and ia the next Preeidential election thie power will have an cpportanity to exticgzish slavery agitation, feree ao it may seem tobe. Hew can this be dome? Simply by « great popular revolution, sach se took place in Massachusetis two years since. We sutt have a new party, which hati be the parsy ofthe peorle. Ard why? Letus fee. Of the two parties yet to come into the field, the democratic organization is generally eap- posed to have the brightect prospects, The de- mooratic party is too much under the influence of pro-slavery sentiments; and it ie boldly avowed that the mext battle is to be fougkt entirely upon tke xegro issue. Thousarzds of voters who have heretofore scted with the democracy, will say this is too wench; and they willbe rigkt. The great vic. tories of the demccracy—-ihe election of Mr. Jefferson and the second triumph of General Jackeon--were not won upon any sectional issue. When the democratic party makes its pro-slavery sentiment its only distinctive prin. ciple, the democratic party then becomes as sectional as tke abolitionists themselves, and it ceases to be eniitled to the support of honest and true men, Nerth orSouth. The party calling iteelf repablican, which has been organized ont of & mass of floating materisl—old whige, dis- appointed democrats and disgusted Know No- thinge—is equally ander tke control of the nig- ger worshipping or anti-slavery sentiment. If either of these parties have more than a tem- porary existence, the republic will be ruined by enmity between the sections, insurrection, dis- upion and civil war. The administration of Mr. Pierce came into power with a pledge, in black and white,to put down slavery agitation, and that administration was the first to open it. Since the Kansce act was sprung upon the country in 1853, we have had nothing but nig- gers, Diggers, niggers, from morning till night. Every act of government has been colored with £2 especial effort to secure the support of the ex- treme pro-slavery party; and if the democratic party shall win in the next election, we shall have @ repetition of the same farce for four years more. But if the intelligent conserva- tive voters—and we believe they amount to a very large majority--should resolve to abandon both these parties, and form s national organi- zation, which shall announce a sound American policy, ignoring the extremes above noticed, it would effectually demolish the agitators and leaders of the two sectional parties, and de- molish political nigger driving and political nigger worshipping forever. All the branches of this new Ameriean party should abandon all other issues except that of freeing the country from the evils of sectional disputes, if they can. They should unite upon one candidate ard one principle—union in opposition to sec- tional estrangement. Let there be « radical and thorough-going revolution of this kiad, and ite grand and good effects would scon @ made manifest. We will be bound that sucn a movement, if properly directed, would secure three-fourths of the votes that will be cx § next November. relief for osr whole Atlantic coast. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Farther Particulars me MARTIALLED, ETC. New Onweaxs, April 22, 1856. quarrel with Walker. It ie reported that Walker had 7 and_usrelisbie, of treason aad cowardice. ninety men, including the missing. “Brom Washington. CEIVED, BTC., ETC. Wasrtyctox, Ap:il 24, 1856, ly appear. goods destroyed by fire. cost. id L, Orr, of Scuth Carolina, the tariff during the present sersion of Congress. tion of his promotion by the Retiring Board. untrue, the ether foot. 8 cadet to the West Point Military Academy. patches touching our relations with England, Bemate. Wasewroron, April 24, 1856. THB COOLIB TRADE. New Yore Firry Years Aco.—We have a copy of “Hutchin’s Improved Almanac” for 9207, which contains the subjeined census:— \SHUMERATION oF THE InuABrrANTS oF THE City OF NEW YORK FoR 1806, {Taken by niles a Couneil.} White in- "e0 Of Col ing this traffic. } “re et Faas Total. THE THREE MILIUON ARMAMENT BILL 106 119 104 162 Parl Mr. Hain, (nigger worshipper) of N, H., stated that 7 87 68 143 9,234 | the expenses fie government now, in» time of pro- 3 858 «438 «85-146 121340 | found peace, in $10,000,000 more than during any year of oo 165263 BMY 8.261 | the Mexican war. While it required but two millions 27420 3 «6140-70. a’ 776 | Snmuslly to keep Washington’s administration, sixty 1,026 — — 11 100 2,915 | millions are necerrary to sustain that of Mr. Pierce. He eee | id not know but he was wrong to state these Total.36,384 36,378 864 1,006 818 1,230 75,770 fete, on it mal ee Z cent to go into an- other war, more economical, ken by order of Congrese in (laughter’) ie The bill was laid aside, and Mr. Hovston, (K. N.) of Texas, resumed his remarkr condemnatory of the action of the Naval Retiring Board. Adjourned. House of Representatives. Wasuivoros, April 24, 1856. per cent, DAMN sefigevtss\eosdestzerbesesessax6 seseseee 76,770 | *BCKY, & port of delivery. PERSONS WHO RETIRED FROM THE Ciry DURING THB MALIG- Mr. Purrox , (nigger worshipper) of N. ¥., from the Nabi FEVER iN 1805. Committee on Commerce, reported, without amendment, destroyed by fire. Af er an ineffectual effort to oe te the Committee of the Whole on the State of the ion. fe soos Appropriation bill was conniitutional ght ot Con “4 seeees 26,996 | the Territories, on the subject of slavery as well as other The increase of white population in this city | MA!ter, and that Congress might reject as well as admit Adjourned. American Tobacco in Foreign Countrics, Wasmnctoy, April 24, 1856. It appears from offical documents just prepared that the duties on American tobacco, in various foreiga coun- tries, are as follows:—Bremen, 3; of one per cent per pound; Great Britaim, 72 cents per pound and 6 per oon additional; Holland, 28 conts per 221 pounds; Belgium, $1 86 per 221 pounds; Sweden, 5 5-6 cents per pound Norway, 434 cents per pound. In Franoe, Spain, Portu- gal, Austria and Sardinia tobacoo is a government mo- nopoly. The following statement exhibits the quantities o American tobacco exported from the United States to the countries designated, with the duties paid thereon during the commercial year of 1855:—. during the past five years bms been in about the seme ratio as in the five years between 1801 and 1806. The white population has in- creased twice as rapidly in fitty years as the colored. It might be considered remarkable that the city should increase in population no faster than it did half a century ago; but it must be remembered that during that half century Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Jersey City, with s population of three hundred thousand or more, have been built up by the growth of New York. When the above census was taken Murray street was the limit of up town. There is also in the above enumeration a bit na $16, ta of advice for the Street Commissioner. It will 000 18,207,408 be noticed that nearly one half the popula 009 ae t4 tion deserted the city during the malignant fe- fo} 4,000,000 ver of 1805. If we should have a pestilence 000 a this spring, for the want of a few thousand 000 798,008 dollars and a little energy, and our population should be depleted to the same extent as in 1805, millions would not repair the logs, 008 —_ o French government for monopoly. + Annual revenue to Spanish government. ia Coast Revier SteaMer.—The British war steamer Tartar, in her recent searching adven- tare for the Pacific, relieved “the American ship James Badger, from Calcutta for London, leaking bedly. Captain Dunlop, of the,Tar- The Burning of the Ferry Boat New Jersey. Pumapecraia, April 24, 1866. Yesterday, the directors and the Superintendent of the Camden Ferry Company, and the officers of the steam- boat New Jersey, with the Inspectors of Boflers and Ma- chinery, were all arrested by the Sheriff of the city of Camden, ed releared op bail, in the pum of $9,000 eagh, tur, pumped out the filing vessel, and pat a midshipman sad eight wea on bosrd te bring Ber inte pers” Thus, in all probability, a ship's crew and o valuable vessel and cargo Rave been eaved, which would otherwise have deen lost. This incident comes to usin sea son, 26 @ telling argument in favor of the coasting relief steamer proposed in Congress for service in thie neighborhood. If, instead of one euch vessel, Congress were to appro- priate, dtring the winter season, all the avail- able efficient steamers of the government in cruising off and on the entire length of our At- laztic seaboard. and up into the region of the icebergs to the northeast of us, we doubt not that the saving of life and property would most amply indemnify the experiment. A lar ge proportion of the wrecks upon our coast take place in November and December, so that if anything ie to be done by Congress, it should be done thie session, in time to prepare for the cpening storme of next winter. We hope the member charged with that one steamer will en- deavor to extend his bi] to @ general system of | MB. BUCHARAN—7ER 00" THE LATAST NEWS. QUARREEL BETWEEN FRENCH AND WALEER—THE FORCE OF WALEBR—OOL. SCHLESSENGER COURT Col. French hee left Sem Juan for Aspinwall, owing tos men marching to meet the Costa Ricans who ware ex- pected to invade Nicaragua. The accounts are meagre ol. Schlessinger hac beom court martialed on charges The result of Schlessinge:’s engegement with the Costa Ricans is stated to be « loss of GEN. HOUSTON’S SPEECH—PROMISED DISCLOSURB— BIOGRAPHY OF MR. OBR, OF SOUTH CAROLINA— TRE TARIFF— CAPT. IsGRAHAM—JUDGE DOUGLAS NOT CHALLENGED—IMPORTANT DESPATOHES RE- Gen. Housten Enished bis speech to-day. He occupied three hours yevterday asd three to-day. He leaves Sa- turday for Texac; before leaving, however, he intends, I sm informed, to zake come disclosures which will short- The lo>by membere received a severe blow to-day in the House, in the defeat of the bill refunding duties on A company is new being formed of gentlemen from the North, of weslth and influence, who propose that a dill, be introduced in a day or two, that will bring a suffi- clent supply of water lato this city for thirteen hundred thousand dollars, sbout half what the present worke will ‘The Democratic Review for April, vhich will be out on Mondsy, will contain s well written biography of James It is determined that there shall be no alteration of Tke announcement that Captain Ingraham had been confirmed by the Senate as Chief of the Ordaance Bureau ig premature. He has not been confirmed. His nomina- tion was cesigned ss a trap to catch the Sonate om the action of the Naval Retiring Board. To be eligible he must be @ post captain, and his posttion as such depends upon the action of this Board. Therefore his confirma- tion as head of the Ordnance Bureau would be a reoogni- The report that Judge Douglas hed been chailesged is A correspondence may have passed between varties, which, when published, will place the boot en Mr. Sage, representative of the Thirteenth Congrea- stonal district of New York, bas resigned to the Board of Eaucation of the eity of Troy his privilege of nominating It has been officially ascertained that forging and counterfeiting of certificates or warrants for bounty land, to defraud both the public and the governmient, has been extensively carried on, amd doubts have arisen whether this 1s an offence for which punishment can be inflicted under existing laws. The Pension and Land bureaus have prepared a bill which is now before the House Judici- ary Committee, declaring suck acta felony, to be punished by ® fine not exceeding $5,000 and imprisonment with hard labor, mot exceeding ten years, at the discretion of the Court. The last steamer brought no important official dew On motion ef Mr. Brxyauay, (whig) of La., a resolation was adopted calling on the Secretary of State for informa- tion relative to the extent to which the trazsportation ef laberers is now being carried on from the continent of Asia, or any Asiatic islancs, to America; whether such Inborers be bound laborers, coolies, or apprentices; also to skow the manner in which they are treated on the pas- sage and after their arrival, together with any statistics he may posess, showing a sacrifice of haman life attend- The House passed the bill creating Columbus, Ken- the Senate’s bill remitting or refunding the duties paidion all goods, wares or merchandize in original packages it, the bill was re- Prem Phuiedely'~ —_ COUNCIL, ETC., BEC.- ‘im peweins, April 44% P.M. Tn the Comm", Qounsil thie afternoon, « resolution ‘was offere®, cendering (he use of Independence Hall to Mr; Buchanan, which led to a hested political debate of the ‘mest rabid and vielent cvaracier, including aspersions. on President Pierse, his fainting on the field of Mexioo, &e. The resolution war finally defeated by a vote of 30. wo 20. In the Select Counell a reecluiion of similar import was presented, which was also rejected bya vote ef 15 toll. This great disrespect to the distinguished Penn- sylvanian causte much angry fecling amongst a) classes of our citizens, Great prepsrations are boing made by our citizens, however, for the reception of Mr. Bachaman, who will reach this city about ncoa to morrow. The late foreign mews bos touched flour and grain deslere sorely, Produce of every kind is declining, amd money more stringent, Still, no failures are sppre- bended. Weather very fine, Ther meter, at 3 P. M., 71. Tho Arable at sHostene Boston, April 24, 1856. ‘The royal mail steamship Arevia arrived here about & e’ciock this evenipg. Hez mails will be despatched in the: earley train to-morrow, vinjNew Haven, due in New Yorks at 5 o’olock ?. M. ‘The papers contaic very li'i!# additional mee to that contained Inthe Halifex despsich. Paris, April 1L—Evening. The state of Parms in nct much improved. Dr. Mojuli, government offiser, han been assassinated at Milan, and that city in in a state of great excitement, There is reason to believe that the Neapolitan govern- ment intend +o reduce the export duty om corm sti} far- ther, by at least one-haif. Sixty thougar d men {4 to bein arma in Arabia, and Mecea and Jed¢ab, complete insarreciion. The new Governor, just appototed, trom Constantinople, iv the cause of the revolt, Banus, Apri! 12~P. M. It ia reported here tha the s!lics are to commence the evacuation of Tarkey with'n iorty deys after the ratid- cation of the treaty of peace, and that all the troops are. to have qattted within siz months. This is no! credited in the best informed sices. A letter {rom Constantincyle, dated the dist ultino, saya: At Niccmadia a collirion had taken place between they Turks ard Chiisiiius The lacter, assisted by the Foglish who were tempt, after 70, made an 8! the publication of the ‘| Hut’: Hermayon,” to place bells in their churches. Immed: ly upon this demonstratipa the Turks mace sn indiscrimina‘e attask upon all Chris~ tians, mot excepting the E-giikh. Thirty of the Chris- tiana were killed or wouncad; but the English, in exas- peration, laid hands upon the Governor, with some two hundred Turks pesides, despatched him to Constantinople. ue Later fram Fanta Fe. Sr, Lous, April 23, 1856, ‘The Santa Fe me!] axrived at Independence yenlerday- ‘The snow had disappeared, and the roads were in good condition. Vegetation waa golvg forward rapuily. Gov. Merriwether and the govercment officers had reached their poste. United States Supreme Court, Wasnixatox, April 25, 2656. No, 00.~Argument wse concluded by Hou. Reverdy Johnson for the plauntiffe. No, 94.—-United States, appallanta, va, Joan Manuel Vaca- _ and Juan Felipe Pens. Argument by Attorney General Cushing for appellants, and Wm. Carey Jones for ap- pelleen. No, 96.—Gustavas T. Beauregard, heir and executer of Madame Emile T. Poultney, appeliant, ve. the City af’ New Orleans. Argued by Hon. John Henderecn for ap- pellant. Whig City Convention at Phitadelphia. PRILADELPHLA, April 24, 1856, The Whig City Convention met to-day, and the caudi- @ates for Mayor and Sisitor deelined nominations. An address was adopted witndrav ing the eandidates, and the Convention adjourned sine die. , ———— Death of Bocscha, the Barpist. PunavELrms, April 24, 1856, 4 letter hae been received in thie city stating that: Charles Bocsha, the distixguished larpist, died at Aus tralia, January 7. He was travelling wth Madame Anna Bishop. —______ ‘Western Sceadstum, Boveato, April 24, 1863. The Milwaukie America adds St. Louis ama Montreal’ ‘to its Ust of places reporting the stock of flour and wheat on hand, published s few days since, and with these a@- ditions the aggregates now sre:—Wheat, 1,760,638 bush. els; flour, 386,425 barrels. Steamboat Explosion, Mowtcomrry, Ala. April 23, 1866, The steamboat Cuba, plying on the Alabama river, was destroyed om Sunday last by che explosion of her boiler. Several passengers were killed. Theboat was so muck shattered by the explosion that ake sunk. phi etiacsennbanalleant cai Navigation of the St. Lawrence. ‘Monrnnar, April 24, 1666, Our harbor is clear of ice, and three steamers are in: port from Baucherviile. The weather is wart, but the ice atill Lolds at Lauoraie. a Arrival of the James Adger. - Cuanuzeton, April 22, 3880, The United States mail steamship James Adge?, Oapt,. Turner, arrived here this (Tnesday) morning at 6 o’elock, posse oar ieee bro: ate Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. April 24, 1866, Stocks active. Pennsylvania Stave 6's, 835¢; RR, 45%; Long Island RR, 1434; Morris Gina tase Penn. Kak, 46%. fe Naw Omuaaye, April 22, 1966, Cotton sales to-day only bales—operators waiting the Arabia's advices. sag “ALBANY, April 24, 1856, The markets are very dull; clo ) pam aes Imited; quetations 176.0173. 2 peel ha AcaDEMY or Musio—‘Witiam TE11.”—Despite of the demonstrations of Jupiter Pluvius, and the uneenal attrac— tions presented by the mansgers of the different places Of amusement, the Aesdemy of Music was filled on Wed- nesday night by an audience more than ‘Usually apprecia-- tive and lenient. The attraction consisted in the repre- sentation of Rossini’s grand opera, “William Tell,” whieh ‘was revived with an aimost entirely new cast, M’me Le Grange representing the character played by Steffanoni, and Morelli and Amodfo in the parts in whieh Badiali and Roceo have proved so acceptable to the ope- Ta going community. It would be instituting compari- sons to say that the piece is improved with the new cast, but the reputation of the artists who appeared was fally sustained by their performances last evening, Ia Grange, of course, was unexceptionable. M’me Bertuccia Maret- zek, aa Albert, was highly effective and deserving. Mo- Telli, as the hero, aequitted himself most ereditably, and the other leading [characters were well sustained. The second act was only rendered tolerable by the efforts of Morelli, Boleioni and Colet'i, afier the exit of M’me La Grange, the chorus manifesting © remarkable want of Unamimity in the delivery of iw part. In consequence of the continued hoarseness of Signor Morelli, it has {been found impossible to repeat ‘ William Tell” this evening, im Hen of which opera ‘Il Trovatore’’ will be given. pan renee tatrasiviey MLE SARAH FELIX, sister of M’lle Rachel, hae arrived in town frem the South. It is proposed by some of our French residents to give her a benefit st Nibio’s on Sa- urday of next week. There is also an on dit that there will shortly be few representations of French comic opera at the same house, nee Tue MontaGNanpe In Towx.—The celebrated French singers, who have an European fame under the name of the Montegnards du Béarn, have just arrived in town. They sing simple ballads without accompaniments, ——$——— ‘Mus Cammon and Mr, Fairclongh gave « reading from Shakapere and other dramatic poew, at Hope Chapel, on Wednesday. It was well attended, and very satisfagtory, peieinihe’ <cikebtehaecntes det Pollee Intell gence, Fie axp Stannixa AFFRAY.— Yesterday afternoon & fight ocourred at the zrocery store, corner of West Broad- way and Reade street, between two men named Michaé? Moroney and George Clark, in which the former received: @ severe wound in the side with been ured by the latter. It is maid teat ae, pd rated Clark by taking a coat away from him, and this it was that led to the quarrel. The wounded men was conveyed to the ao tor medical attendance, while Ba was commit for examination by Justice Oon- CHARGE OF Malicious Misciimr.—A young man, aamed George Cooper, was taken into custody yesterday by offcer Harper, of the Tenth ward police, on charge of throwing vitriol upon the bedclothes and some wearing ap- parel of dirs. Maria Colby, of No. 17 Ludlow street. The. Accused, it in elleged, inthe absence of complataant, on.