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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. SPFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND PULTON STS, : BEE ETE aeons = in ‘AL “si conte per ¥ HERALD, every Saturday, & 6% Oy oper edition, cunmam, sf Groat se SS amy part cy the Continent, Dou bad 5 . . CORRESPONDENCE, containing is en sed no ae Fe ee a te MONO DIOR talon of anonymone communications, We do AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Smixvt Macias — ‘Wipew Beporr- —Baian O'LYEN, HIBLYS G4RDEN, Broadway—Freqenman’s Digan — @ocorsns—Kze Grows any Waurre Waunion. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Jean Rewy—Tom Cnin- eins Loe. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers erect—Evn Grxrvs— | Be Coury. WALLACHS THEATRE, Breedway—Tae Srnancen— @arrain or rew Waren. LAURA KBENH'S YARIEISES, Drosdway—Mansue Baarr—Novarry. BROADWAN VARIETI£S, 472 Bresdwav—Parst Heart Bevex Won Fara Lary—Seacry ave tre Bearet—By rap Joverne Comertaxs. WOOD'S MIN@TRELS, 444 Brostway—-Brmorian Pea. ponmarcre—Micakegus PTATE AECKETS. ACADEMY HALL, No 663 Sroefway—EntenTaINwert py Gan. Jou Troms Avp UR. VaLennve. esday, April 29, 1856. Rew Yerm, T Mails tor Kuarepe. NEWYORK BERALD—HBITION POR BCROPS. WBF Caasrd mail steamship Atrios, Oapt. Shannon, will leave this city to-morrow, at noca, for Liverpool. Tee Excopean mails wil) close in this city at balf-pest ten-0’e\oek to mor-ow morning. The BERAw (printed ia Eaglish and French) will be pablished at ten o’clock im the morniog. Single copies, da wroppers, mxpence. Subveriptione and advertisements tor any edition of the gaew Yori Hens will be received at the following places Europe: — KAm. & Furopesn Expres Co., 17 and 16 Coruhiil. do bis ‘do. 6 Place de la Bourse, Lavmoo— do. do. 7 Ramford street. iavmnrvo:—John Hater, 12 Exchange street, East. Fhe contents of ihe European edition of the Hmnatp wi embrace the news received by mail and wieraph at the office during the previcus week, and to the hour of pediication. The News. In the United Staves Senate yesterday a bill was imtroduced to inconporave the Atlantic end Pacific Dion Railroad Company. Mr. Hamlin, who pre- sented it, said that it had been sent to him by a gen- tleman he did not know, who proposed thet it should be offered as a substitute for all other Pacific Rail- vead bills. Much amusement was caused by the reading of a letter from the author of the bill, styling ‘it the most important one offered in Congress since the adoption of the constitation, and prophesying ‘the success of the party first adopting it in the com- img Presidential campaign Mr. Brown, of Miss., spoke on the Kansas question, and Mr. Bell defended Lieut. Maury from the derogation implied by the ac- tion of the Naval Retiring Board. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Nichols, of Ohio, made a per- sonal explanation in reference to his vote for Banks as Speaker, called for by a speech recently made by Giddings.at Hamilton, Ohio. The Senate’s bill re" funding duties on goods, wares, &c., was taken up, and the Speaker’s decision that the bill did not make an appropriation, and did not require to be re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole, sustained. Our special despatch from Washington farnishes us with the position and platform of General Sam Houston. It is definitely settled that he will be an independent candidate, and we may expect a gene ral scrub race. A fierce war is said te be going on between the Buchanan and Pierce partisans, and that the President, if he cannot obtain the nomina- tion bimeelf, will use his influence in favor of a Southern candidate. Mr. Buchanan ia expected in Washington shortly. A bdillisto be presented to the House of Representatives to introduce the ap- prentice system into the Merchant Marine eervice. In care the promotions occasioned by the Naval Re- tiring Board are sonfirmed by the Senate, an effort will be made to reduce the number of captains in the Navy to thirty, commanders to thirty, and ieutenants to two hundred. Several delegates from Texas to the Cincinnati Convention are in Washing- ton, who will give their first vote to Pierce, and then go for Douglas. A Washington correspondent furnishes us with the report of Mr. J. A. Smith, late Indian Agent in Arkansas, to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The report, for which Mr. Smith was removed from his office by Gen. Pierce, will be found rich and entertaining. We have received late East Indian files which contain some interesting news items. On the 4th of February the unfortunate King of Oude was waited on by a delegation of Lritish officers repre senting the Eas: India Company, and requested to sign a deed of abdication. His Myjesty firmly re- fused, but asserted that Le would proceed to ng- Jand avd place his crown at the feet of tae Queen, from whose predecessors his ancestors had received it, and proclaim atthe same time the robberies of the company. In one week after this the Commi sioner of Delhi seized, under order, he property of the King, discharged bis servants, and proclaim- ed the English rule,as preliminary to a general plun- der of the whole royal family of Oude. At Lacknow another King was about to sign away his kingdom, but his efficers prevented him. A cargo of Ameri- can apples were on gale in Singapore. Rey. Mr. Dall, a Boston Unitarian missionary, bad had a lite- rary tilt with Baboo Hurchunder Dutt, a native writer at Calcutta. A number of canals and other water worke were being put in operation in ‘he in- terior. At @ meeting of the Harbor Commissioners yes- turday, was suggested by several to compel steamboats landing at the East river piers to land above Corlear’s Hook, and those landing on the North river to stop above Hammond street. It was claimed that all the lower piers of the city are now wanted to accommodate large vessels arriving at this port. It was given in evidence that owners of piers along West street delayed dredging their slips, in hopes of a street being ultimately built ex. terior to West street. From want of proper dredg- ing of these slips, it was stated the city did not re- ceive one-third the wharfage it otherwise would. A special session of the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen was called yesterday, on the occasion of the death of Robert Kelly, City Chamberlain. Both Boards passed resolutions highly complimenta- ry to the character of Mr. Kelly, and ressived to at tend hia funera) to-day. The “Brick Church,” erected in 1767, and in which the Rev. Dr. Spring has officiated for the last half century, is to be sold at auction, with the pro perty adjoining it, on the 14th day of May next, no bid to be lower than 5,000. The award of Bishop Simpson in the case of the John street Methodist church, was yesterday con- firmed in the Supreme Court. Under the award of the Bishop the trustees are authorized ‘o effect a sale of the Jobn street property, and invest the pro- ceeds of the same in ‘an edifice or edifices aad land for the same,” in the upper part of the city. The Coun*ilmen’s Committee on Railroads, at a mecting yesterday, arranged, at an early day, to witness a public trial of a new invention to prevent persons being run over by city railroad cars. It was stated that last year thirty-seven lives were thus Jost. The new association composed of the Sons of Cape Cod met last evening at the Astor House, and made choice of its permanent officers. 3B, B, Crock- er, Eeq., ie the President. Among the Vice Presi dents is E. K. Collins, Esq. An interesting case of a mother claiming her child that she had voluntarily given sway for the purpose of adoption, came up before Judge Roose~ velt, in the Supreme Court, yesterday. A report uf the case will be found in our paper. Anarrangement, which goes into effect en the Ist of May, has just been concluded between Mr. Campbell, our Postmaster General, and the Post- master General of Great Britain, providing for the registration of valuable Fetters to and from Great Britain. The registration on Rtters te that country will be five cents, making the rate ona single letter, when registered, twenty-nine cents. At a special election held in Boston yesterday, J, ‘M. Wrightman was elected Alderman, and Henry Alline Register of Deeds. Both were on the peo- wle's ticket. The sales “of cottom yester@ay embraced about 2,500@ 3,000 bales, at-full prices—the masket clos ing firm. Flour'was dull, aed common with me dium grades were lower. Inferior to common end good State sold at $525 a $562}. Wheat was easier ami more active; white Southern eeM et$i 85, and Tennessee red at $1 50 a $1 624 0 $1 72}. Corn was in fair activity,.and rather firmer, without change in quotations. Rye sold at T2hc. for com- mon Southern, 80c. for‘Pennsylvania emd S4c. a 85c. for Northern. Pork was higher, with sales of mess at $18 75.0 $19. Sugars were toleratly active, with sales 8 @90.2 900 hhds., included in which were 500 a 600 Porte Ricoin bond. Coffee was in fair request, with sales of 1,560 bags Rio and about 900 de. La- guyrs at terms stated in another column. Ship- owners and agents for freight to Liverpool asked higher rates, which bad a tendency to check enj gagements. Kanses and the Nigger Wershippers—Their Devices to Heep up the Excitement—Ano: ther Morgan Wanted. The Kansas imbroglio constitutes the active business capital of the nigger worshippers for | the Presidential campaign, and thus it becomes @ prime necessity with them to inflame and keep up an overwhelming sectional excitement. Their labore to this end, during the last aix morths, have been incessant. been unscrupulous as to the means or agente employed, ingenious in their devices, and, toa much greater extent than was necessary, have they been successful in their nefarious policy | of a violent, engrossing and embittered politi- cal agitation. But they have, also, signally failed in every great coup d état which they have attempted with the view of precipitating the North and South into that most desperate of ail criminal excesses, the crime of civil war. Since last autumn, throughout the North, by the Seward coalition organs, by the nigger worshipping crators of Congress, by mission- aries from Kansas, by Kaneas relief meetings, by abolition newspaper correspondents in Kan- sas, by preachersin the bar room, and preach- ers in the pulpit from Kansas, along the whole route to New York and Boston, there has been kept up the most fearful “ hue and cry” for | immediate help to the free soil and abolition Kaneae emigranie, leet they be slaughtered, innocent lambs, one and all, by the bloody “ border roffians.”” We dare say that some of the managers in this notable programme for the deliverance of Kansas, have made a good thing of it from the contributions of cash, rifles, ammunition, dc., for the cause; for otherwiee the clamor and cackling which we have bad ever their “financial and material aid,” here, there, and everywhere, have been somewhat of an imposition upon the com mopity. Since the last winter's armietice at Law rence, the leaders of the ‘‘free State” ino cente in Kansas have made themeelyes a most despicable notoriety in their devices to bring about @ collision which would array the Norta and South in arms against each other. The Lene and Robinson philanthropists tried it io that Topeka Convention, that Topeka consti- tution, and in that experimental free State moveable Legislature, with its two Senators elect to Congress, and that doubly botched and eparious memorial for the admission ef “tree Kansas,” ag a sovereign State, into the Union. Against these barefaced and insulting provecatione the Southern rights party is Kansas, in Missouri, in the South and in Con grese, bave bebaved with remarkable modera tion. The forbearance at the seat of war, of the so called “border ruffians” has been espe- cially judicious and sensible. And for the sake of Northern and Southern rights and the peace of the country, we desire to see this forbear. ance maintained, and these abolition agitators of discord, bloodshed and disunion disappoint ed of their seditious designs. The last card of the anti-slavery agitating Kanras clique is a personal quarrel with the head of the committee responsible for the Ne- bracka bill, This affair, too, from the evidence and papers before us, seems to have been ma naged in bebalf of the “cause of freedom” iu avery bungling and slipshod fashion—they have made, in fact, a miserable botch of it from beginning to end. Finally, “ cause of freedom” and the shrieks of freedom,” in and out of Kansas, in behalf of Kansas, have become @ humbug anda bore. The commu nity at large has become thoroughly disgusted with a] this rubbish and flammery about Kan sas. A “free State” martyr is wanted—a Mor- gan of scme sort— to sanctify the cause, to stir up its supporters and to revive the drooping agitation. Who responds? Who will consent to sacrifice himeelf for the deliverance of Kan sae? Almost anybody will “be a good enough Morgan till after the election.” Inquire of Thurlow Weed. the TREMENDOUS RaLLY FOR FREEDOM aT THe TABERNACLE TO-NIGHT.—A public call, signed by between two and three thousand names of our anti-slavery fusioniste, of all parties, has been issued for a public meeting at the Taber- nacle thie evening, at half-past seven, of all “opposed to the meaeures ard policy of the pre- Sent national administration for the extension of slavery over territory embraced within the compact of the Missouri Compromise, and in favor of repairing the mischiefe arising from the violation of good faith in its repeal, and of restoring the action and porition of the federal government on the subject of slavery to the principles of Wathington and Jefferson,” tor the purpose of hearing the report of the dele- gates to the Pittsburg Convention, and of taking measures for an organized expression of their opinions at the next Presidential eleo- tion. Prominent among the signers of this oall are Benjamin F, Butler, W. C. Bryant, (poet of the ost,) John A. King, R. Emmet, A. Oakey Hall end others, from which it will be seen that the affair ia to be an omnium gatherum. A lot of inguished speakers are expected,” of course; and there may be some disclosures up- on the Presidential topic very interesting to those democrats, hard and soft, flattering be- tween wind and water. thir) ers om the other side of the water look They have | Commercial Prespects in Europe. It je pot without apprehension that sound torwsrd to the prospects of peace. The war wh'ch has just ended, lasted two years, and cannot have cost less, in material of war, am- munition, soldiers’ pay, clothing, provisions. butting, &., than twelve or fifteen hundred million dollars. This is independent of the men who have been killed. It is estimated that half a millien of men have been put under ground from various causes connected with the war, since hostilities broke out. These men can hardly be valued in money. But if we say thet, over and above the cost of their liv- ing, they were worth in round terms an ave- | rage of one thousand dollars @ piece, we can. | This adds five hun- | not be far over the truth. dred millions to the bil Again, a vast amount of shipping, labor of various kinds, intellect and material have been consumed in the war instead of being turned to profitable account, Hence the money which these various produc- tive agents would have earned has been lost. Let us estimate this ata hundred millions, in order to be within the mark. Finally, trade has been curtailed in consequence of the war. There has been little or no export of hides, tallow, timber or corn from Russia; nor has there been any consumption there of British, French or American products. And though been curtailed, both in France and England, and that a rational and reasonable opportuni- ty of making money has been lost. Let us set down theee losees at the moderate figure, for the two years, of twenty-five millions. The cost of war will then foot up as follows :— Cost of material, ammunition, £9 $1,200,000,000 ‘Value of 500,006 men nilled, 500,000,000 Loss from diversion of produc 100,000,000 Loas from curtailment of trade. 25,000,000 Sundries, 609........ Total... ss oe rect, the question arises, how can France, England, Russia, Sardinia and Turkey afford to throw away eighteen hundred millions in two years? The two latter may be scored out, for they cannot at any time obtain any money except with the endorsement of a richer Power; and the debt is confined to the three remaining Powers. How can England, France and Rus sia afford to lose six hundred millions in two years? The answer is very simple. They cannotaf- ford to loge such a eum without severe suffer- ing. The richest of the three, in one respect, is England. Her credit stands highest; her trade is the most extensive; her citizens pos ers the most individual wealth. She could borrow twice her share without difficulty. But, on the other hand, her debt is far larger than that of France or Russia; she owes a hundred where they owe one. Measurably, of course, her resources are curtailed. As for France and Russia, itis eald to be a matter of doubt whether they will be able to pay the war bills at all or not, It is well understood that Rus- eia’s consent to make concessions for the sake of peace, om the one hand, and France’s eager acceptance of the clive branch on the other, both sprung from the same motive—a financial incapacity to carry on the war. It may well be wondered, then, how Europe is going to raise the eighteen hundred millions which the two last years sport has cost her. Grand efforts there can benone. Had the war continued and either side pressed the other hard, patriotiem might have loosed the bonds of interest, and brought men forward to give what they had for their country. But nothing of the kind can be expected now. The enor- mous eum we have mentioned must be written off by the nationg, in cold blood ; we shall see. six months hence, how their concerns can stand euch a loge. On our part, we regard the state of Europe with upmingled alarm. During the war, every nerve was strained on both sides to conceal ite effects and to keep up an appearance of ease and prosperity. The end was partially attain- ed, at what cost we can only guess. But to suppose that the mischief of war was wholly and permanently averted oy these devices is quite unwarrantable. If Europe is really as rich as the friends of the Crédit Mobilier pre- tend, she may etand the shock ; if she is not, we apprehend that, as in this country after the peace of 1615, the first twelve months of the new régime under the treaty of Paris will be one of the most disastrous she has ever known. Finst Errecrs or te Cuvrca Property Law. —The Reman Catholic Bishop of Hartford, Rey. Mr. O’Rielly, is believed to have taken paseage by the steamship Pacific, and the Con- necticut papers have fallen into the error of stating that in case of his death the church property in Connecticut would be confiscated to the use of the State. The law in Connecti- cutis the same as thatin thisState. It is made “the duty of the Treasarer of the State of Con- necticut, upon being satisfied of the due incor- poration of the congregation or society who have occupied euch real estate, to convey such real estate, and all the right, title and interest of the State of Connecticut, to said corpora tion.’ (Laws of 55, chapter 57, section 5.) This would be done here in case Archbishop Hughes should die. The State simply acts as a rort of trustee to pass the property over to the rightful ownere, the congregation, when the right to hold it is secured by law. There's no confiscation about it. Tue Sewarp Coarition TickeT—Con, Fre- mont Loomine up.—The following confidential letter from Hon. Daniel Mace, of Indiana, (nigger worshipper,) to a friend in that State, furnishes on behalf of his party some very practical hinte upon the important subject dis- cuseed:-— Hovse or Rerrxsentatives, April 2, 1866, Ivar Sm—'Co lcok at things here one way the cause of republiosniem seems gloOmy—and the other way cheer- ing, Hf the cla Miners harmonize av Ciaciunati (which now reems impofsible), bring out a goed ticket, and our friende make a failure &t Philacelphia, all in lost for the resent. If, on he contrary, the old liners nominate rierce or Dovgian, and we bring out @ new but true man (Col. Frewon? is that map), we will aweep the couatry. Men of every shade cf anti-siavery sentiment can unite thout the charge o! being insonsistent t participated in any of troubles existing ¢ Know Nothings per se ana the repndiicans, J can go for bim. Agsin, the Yourg Ame- p rica cf (be country will go for him; and further, he isa exclusively dential candidate, amd not on the State a the blockade of the two Russian outlets pre. vented the war producing its usual conse- quences upon the trade of the open seas, there isno doubt that commercial operations have 10,000,000 $1,835,000,000 Every one will admit that this is a moderate estimate; several have appeared in foreign journals, which set down the aggregate cost to the five belligerent Powers—independently of the lores thrown upon Prussia and Austria by the state of war upon the frontiers—at a far higher figure. One, which is apparently based on pretty fair authority, assumes that the total amount expended by France and Russia alone does not fall far short of two thousand mil- liong. Aseuming, however, that ours is cor- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1856, ‘election, our on the strenyth of our Preai- ticket, So all must see the full force of having the right It will never de to go into the contest and be called ‘upon to defend the acts and speeches of old stages. We ees fave a ae a Dyno) be bn a . man operation. Tat clkemes wil ieat your May convention, and a: abe wi visit jette and make aspeech, if invited. whole neart is in the Kansas free State movement, DAN. MACE. This plan makes short work of all such old stagers as Seward, Hale, Chase, Wilson, Sum- ner, Wade and Giddings. It looks very much esif Fremont were to be the man, and we shouldn’t wonder if,in order to have a fall Rocky Mountain ticket, they were to nominate Kit Carson to run with bim for Vice President. Kit can track an Indian or smell an “Ebo- shin” as far as Fremont. See BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELSGRAPHS, From Washington, POSITION OF GEN. SAM BOUSTON—WAR BETWEEN THE PIERCE AND BUCHANAN MEN—COL. FRE- MONT’S MARIPOSA GRANT—DEFEAT OP THE BILL TO REFUND DUTIES—THE APPRENTICE S¥STEM— THE NOMINATIONS OF THE NAVAL RBTIRING BOARD—DELEGATES FEBOM TEXAS TO THE CIN CINNATI CONVENTION, ETC. ‘Wasnineroy, April 28, 1858, The rews of which I made menticn in my despatoh & day or two since, in reference to Genersl Hous- ton, I am now able to disclose. He has received let. ters from all parts of the Union—diemocrats and whigs— urging upoa him to become @ national candidate for the Presidency, regardless of conventions; (he people are get- ting tired and disgusted with conventions. It is known that he is opposed to the domes ic and foreign policy of the preren! dynasty, since the repudis‘ion of the Missouri Compromise, which he regarded as the bulwark of the South and a bond of peace between the two sections ot the Union. Further, beregards the action of the Naval Board, as well as the action of theSecretary and the Pre- rident, in striking down two hun ired and one officers, aad many of them the most efficient and gallant officers in the Navy, and retaining a large proportion who had never distinguished themselves or done anything worthy of ad- miration—he regards it asa comepirsey against the indi viduals who are disrated, managed by miserable ea. bals, who wished to advance themselves and their friends. In taking the field, therefore, as an {adependent candi- date, he will carry it (the action of the Naval Board) as one of the issues in ths coming contest. He has gone home, and will be absent feur or five weeks. On his re- turn we may expect the entire programme for the coming contest. That he will run as an independent candidate ia now definitely settled. Therefore look out fer a genera) Forub race. and Buchanan men, and it waxes hotter every day. Ir i+ no vncommon thing to hear the Pieree men denounse, in unmeasured terms, the Bushanan men, and vice wrsa, Pierce is evidently loving ground every day, and he is aware of the fac!. He informed a friend of his from the South, who is a delegate tothe Cincinnati Convention, that it was his wish that his friends in the Convention, in care he could not succeed, should go for a Southern man. “But,” said he, ‘if you cannot do that, throw your strength for Mr. Douglas.” Douglas looms up immensely sinee the publication of his reply to Col. Lane’s letter. Old Buck is expected here shortly, when I anticipate we sball have seme gay times. Marcy, I uoderstand, ie very friendly to Old Back, and has expressed himself so on various occas! Mark that. Soare some of the Teading ¢ffice holders in your eity. Forney, you know, is Buchanan’s fogleman, and he has been in your city, and formed one of the party, with Postmaster Fowler, Dillon and Sanders, at the famous New York Hotel din- ners, Curious, very. There is s concerted action on the part of a number of newspaper correspondents—and it all emanates trom one quarter—to insinuate that the great Mariposa grant of Jand in California is worthless, I am informed by anum- ber of gentlemen of high respec‘ability, recently from California, that the people there look upon it, and coant upon it, a millions which will come in jast in time for the Presidential contest. Not long since Fremont was of- fered for one half of the grant, by an English company io Liverpool, five millions of dollars. Would you believe that he refused to take it? They say he did. Wul the Presidency be offered to him in the sameway? Nous verrons. Tae bill to refund duties on goods, &c., destroyed by fire, was kneeked into a oosked hat to-day by the action ofthe House. It will hardly be reached this session, and if reached, cannot pasa, Mr. PELTON, from the Committee on Commerce, in the House, will report a biil tc-morrow for the establishment of the apprentice tem in the merchant marin - vice. This is @ bill of great importance, especially to New York. lunéers‘and in the evert of the nominations in the Berate being confirmed, there will be a bill offered 10 the Houre to reduce the number of Captains in the Navy to 30; Commanders to 30, and Lieutenants to 200, Quite ® racy correspondence {s now going on between two distinguished cfficers, memtera of the Navy Retiring Beard, It eppears tbat one of the immortal fiftesa has been taken to task by one of his brothers for lettiog out some recrete, Scmerich developementa may be expect- ed coon. feveral Texas delegates to the Cincinnati Convention are here. They wil cast their first vote for Pierce, and then a‘rike for Dougias. If the nominaticn gies South, then Rusk is their choice. Messrs. Shaw and Swisher, of Texas, are here sup-rin- tending the filing and examloatina of claims on the Texas yond. ‘ A long correspondence is in progress between the Post master General and the Panama Railroad Company, rela- tive to the compensation for carrying mails across the Isthmus. M. Sertiges will shortly return to his éiplomatic funo- tions in Washington, the rumor tha! a change is about to be made in the French Legation being unfounded. United States Supreme Court. WaAsHINGTON, April 28, 1856. No. %6,—Argument concluded by Hon. John Henderson for the appellant. No, 95.—Jorathan Crockett et al, appellants, va, Steam- boat Inane Newton, her tackle, &. Isaac Newton, clai- mant, No. 6t,— Augustus Lord, appellant vs. Steamboat Isaac Newton, her tackle, &. Daniel Drew, claimant. Noe. ¢5 and 97.— Argued by Mr. Benedict for appellant. More Raltwaye for Canada, Toronto, April 28, 1856. A p:cject is on foot to obta'n from the Canadian Par, Mament a charter for s line ot railway from Quebec, on the north shore, to the St. Lawrence to Montreal, thence through the valley of the Ottawa river, vis Bytown or Ottawa City, Pembroke, &c., to Bay. fhe pro- ject was conceived by Hon. Joeeph Cauchon, Commis. stoner General of the crown lands, and contemplates a grant of three millicn acres of public Jands to aid in eonttruction of the road, Opening of the Philipsburg Bank. Easton, Pa., April 28, 1856. ‘The Commissfoners of the Philipsburg Bank opened their books to-day. The rush for stock was very great. The President cf the Flemington Bank, after taking seven hundred and fifty rhares, was prevented from taking more, in consequence of a rumor that he was purchas- ing for the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, who wish {o bave the bank under their control. From Boston, Boetox, April 28, 1866. At a special election held to-day to choose an Alder- man te im a vacancy, J. M, Whitman was elected. Harry Alline was also chosen Register of Deeds. the + uccessfal candidates were on the pie’a ticket. In the Serate to-day leave 10 withdraw was reported on all the petitions for new bank charters and increase of benk capital. The Southern Mall—Hanging, dc. Bartimors, April 27, 1866. The New Orleans papers of Tuesday tast have arrived, They ccntain be the disaster to the steamboat Cuba, on the bama river, Fifteen passengéts are known to be lost, it is believed that many more per- inh’d. The accident occurred at night, when the pas- sevgern were asleep. James M’Combs was hung at Columbia, S.C., on Fri- Asy last. Hi execution wasn horrible affeir, ‘The ert- mina), rome how of other, go! his hands loose and grasp. ed the rope, and with great difficulty his death wan ac- com plished. Lake a nC April 28, 1856, ‘The ice in the straits of Mackina: munication between the lakes, within ten miles of Beaver lela think the straits will not be navigable before the 10 b of May. There is a fierce war new going on between the Pierce Benate. Wasmnatoy, April 28, 1858. PACIFIC NATIONAL UNION RAILROAD. Mr. Hamu introduced a bill to incorporate the Atlan- tic and Pacific National Union Railroad Company. He eaid the bill had been sent to nim by an individual whom he did not ! now, with the request that it should be of- ‘ered as a substitute for all other Pacific railroad bills; but as he did not think proper to do that, he introduced it as @ separate bill, and moved its reference to tne Paci- fic Railroad Special Committee. He read some extracts from a letter accompanying the bil’, in which its author says it is the most important ‘bill ever presented in Congress since the adoption of the American constitution, and whatever party shall first adopt it will be sure to succeed in the Presidential cam- im The reading of the extracts occasioned much ughter. Me. WEIR (dem.) of Cal., thought there was no need or reeriek the bill, as the committee has alreajy re- rted, bart ‘kRaL Sevatorns—Oh yes, let it go. Xr. Werxr—Well, if be sence it there, I will pl my- self that none of the commitzee will ever read tt. (Laugh- or.) THE KANSAS QUESTION. Mr. Brows, (dem.) of Miss., argued that the right of sovereignty over tho Territories hed not been delegated to Congress. He said he should always vote for the ad- mission of any State with sufficient popuiation to entitle it to one representative in Congress. ’wkhout inquiring whether its constitution permitved or excluded slavery. Mr. Sruarr, (dem.) of Mich., moved to take up the River and Harbor bill. Rejected. THE NAVAL RETIRING BOARD. Mr. Brut, (nat.) of Tonn., defeaded Lieut Maury from the derogation implied by the action of the Naval Board. Adjourned, House of Representatives. Wasmncron, April 28, 1856, FERSONAL EXPLANATION, Mr. Nicnors, (K. N. dem.) of Ohio, made a personal explanation respecting his vote for Mr. Banks as Speaker. It was called forth by a recent speech by his colleague at Hamilton, Ohio. He denied that the printing and bind- {ng question influenced his vote against his colleague and for Mr, Banks, Mr. CamPuBLL, (nigger worshipper, of Obio, disavowed havirg intended to cart the least imputation on Mr. Ni- chols’ integrity, but at the same time he believed the printing questfon delayed the orgasization of the Huse, Mr, Reavy, (K. N.) of Tenn., asked questions of Mr. Campbell in reference to what the latter had said at Hamilton about South Americans, in connection with the speakership. Mr. CAMPBELL replied that no formal proposition was made by members of that party, but i was suggested to him privately, by persons not pretending to represent it, that if ke would consent to endorre the 12th section of the Philadelphia platform, the probability was that he would acquire strength for the Speakerthip from that uarter, "ir. Moray, of N. Y., objected to turther expianation, and the Senate’s bill to remit duties on goods, wares and merchandise destroyed by fire, was taken up. REFUNDING DUTIES ON GOODS. The House reconsidered its action overruling the des!- sion of the Ohair, that the bill did not make an appro- pristion, and was not, therefore, required to be referred to the Committee of the Whoie, The decision of the Chair was them sustained, by five rarjority, bil yecial ord nm the Stat t the Union. The Senate bill amendatory of the act establishing the Cirevit Court of California passed, Adjourned. Arrival of the Southerner at Charleston. CHARLESTON, April 26, 1866. The United States msil steamship Southerner, Capt. Thomas Ewen, arrived here this (Saturday) morning, at six o’ci0ck, Markets. PHILADSLPHIA STOOK BOARD. Puraperais, April 28, 1856. Btocks steady. 14%; Penntyivanin Railroad, 4634. ALBANY. Apri! 28, 1856, Salea cf 380 bushels of two rowed bark dy railway, at $1-30, Ciover seed is dull, at 15340. a 16e, for medium. Berton’s THEATRE—TuHE Evi, Gxxrvs,—This comedy, lately produced at tae Haymarket theatre, London, was It is the work of Mr. Bayle Bernard, a writer faverably known to the public, The comedy, which is in three pretty long cts, is purely English. The scene transpires at the presented last night for the first time in America. country house of Mr. Cooley, (Brad:ey,) a retired East adian merchant, who is what is conventionally called a felf-made man, and who is desirous of contracting an aristocratic marriage for his ward Clara, (Mrs, Charles Howard.) He has ali the abject servility Orak which is so distinguishing and disgusting a trait in the character of the middle class of Engliah, and is ocnstantly in fear that some early freaks will be dis- covered. His chief fear is of Tom Ripstone, (Barton,) a hearty, genial, eensible fellow, the early friend of the parvenu, Tom is hisevil genius, and insists upon doing him ‘8 great deal of good, while Cooley thinks tha: his old friena is his bitterest enemy. This feeling continues to the eni of the piece, the plot being very thin, and spun out to an almost interminable length. wholesome moral lesson, and is, on that soore only, worthy of commendation. it is exceedingly dull at times, and was only saved by excellent acting. Mr. Burton was exceedingly good, and saved the play. He has carried off many a bad piese triumphantly, and ‘Was never more victorious than on this occasien. The other parts, which are incomplete sketches, wore wel! done, Mrs, Howard and Mr. Moore being particularly gsod. Mr. Burton was called out when the curtain fell, and announced the play for repetition. BroapwaY THEATRE.—Mr. and Mis. Barney Williams commenced the third week of their eogagement last sight, and Mrs. Williams appeared in a new one act piece by Mr. H. G, Plunkett, founded on the celebrated Bedott Papers. Mrs, Williams played the poetic Widow Bedott very well, and the piece was quite successful, The house was full. ‘Tur TuEaTRES, &c.—The excessive pressure of adver- tisements and news this morning, excludes the customa- ry notices of the various places of amusement; however; by referring to the directory at the head of the editorial page, it will be observed that the entertafaments offered for this evening at each establishment, are of such an attractive and diversified charscter as to render extended notices entirely unnecessary. Tue MANDATTANVILIE BrikHEaD.—The following is a copy of the list of bids in the Street Coramissioner’s oftice fer the above work:— Fawin B vghton., William H. Adams., Issac Henrick. Ehlis Edmonds, Jacob Sharpe David Hunt. E. B, Tuttle We publish that there were only two bids, intends to do the work. Mr. Adams states that he ‘Tue Case OF DR. Simons, or THE ARMY.—We publish, from a defence of Dr. Simons by Mr. Lambert Gittings, in the Baltimore American ct the lat inst., the two follo wing opinions of two distinguished lawyers, ex-Chancellor Johnson, of Maryland, and ex-Attorney General of the Unived States, J. Nelson:— Bartimorg, Mareh 22, 1856, DmaR 8iR—I have read and considered with great care & copy of the record of the proceedings of the Court Mar- tial in the case of Assistant Surgeon Simons, lately held at Fort Riley, ard am clearly of opinion that ‘the findings of the Court, in so far as they were miverse to the cused, were erroneous. In my judgment, the neveral charges and specifications were not only not sustained by the evidence, but the defence to them, each and all, war singularly triumphant. Instead of condemnation and « ismissal from the service, the accused was entitled to a Tompt and hi norable acquittal. Iam, dear rir, yours respecttally, Laaiart Grerincs, Esq. J. JOHNSON. BauriMore, March 8, 1866, Dyar Sin—In reply to your note of the 34 {natant, T have to ray, that I have examined the record of the oro. ceedings of the Court Martial held at Fort Riley, in the cave of Assistant Surgecn Simons, and after a careful enalysia of the testimony applicable to the various charges and specidcations upon which he was tried, am clear in the conviction that he is not only not shown tobe ity of any one of them, but that his vindi: uron them all is full and complete. The reasons far epinion, as you are aware, were submitted by me to the Rp td who, atter mature deliberation, has arrived at a different conclurton, and given effect tos Anding which, in my judgment, does very great injustice to « brave meritorious officer. It is proper to add that in what i Baye done touching th e, Ihave acted as the friend, and not as the counse! Dr. Simons. Tam, very respectfully, dear sir, your obedient sorvant, ‘Lamaert Grrtmcs, JOHN NELSON, @Mronarics Scarce IN NASHVILiR, Tenn.—-We learn that master builders in this city are unable to take ail the contracts offered them for this reason, on account of the scarcity of journeyman earpenters, kc. Thongh the price is quite aa large, if not larger, than usual, the unprecedented extent of the improvements in progress ook pre jected har absorbed ali for the season. Our con. temporaries in other citier would perhaps do their me chanies, who are, perhaps, sranting, employment, 8 good ‘wurn by calling their attention to the fact. Butldore are paying 92 per day.—Nashuite Whig, April 22, and afteran unsuccessful motion to make the it was sent to the Committee of the Penurylvenia State 6’s, 8334; Reading Railroad, 4534; Lorg Island Railroad, 1434; Morris Cana’, , to arrive from New York, at $1 20, and 2,000 bushels four rowed The comedy inculcates a Obituary. ROBERT KELLY, CITY CHAMBERLAIN, Died at his residence in Sixteenth street, on Sunday, the 27th inst., of congestion of the brain, Mr. Kelly wasa native of this city, His father was engeged in the mer-- cantile business, im which he amassed a large fortune, leaving his establishment to his two sone, Robert and: Witham, who were equally successful, and who both re- tired on large fortunes. Robert was a graduate of Colum- via College, and was regarded as one of the best classical scholars of that institution. He was also a man of exten- sive general information, and « firm friend of the cause of public education. He wasone of the trustees of the New York, Madison and Rochester Universities, andan ac. tive and earnest advocate of our free school system, which. fu greatly iudebted to him for the high position to whieh: it has attained. He was elected first President of the Board of Education, the duties of which he discharged: with untiring zeal. He did not, however, confine his at{ tention to this one subject; he was also an active and’ zealous supporter of the principles of the democratic: party, although never elected to any high public office. In 1853, he was a candidate for the office of State — troller, but was defeated. Last summer, he was a] ed to the office of City Chamberlain by Mayor Wood, of which he was an incumbent up to the period of his de- cease, He was elected a delega‘e at large to the Cincin- nati Convestion the soft shell section cf the: party. Mr. Kelly deeply interested several benevolent institutions in this the Asylum for Juvenile Delinquen's wae largely ¢d to him not only for its success but for ite existence. It was while attending am examivation of this institution at Ranéall’s Island that he contrasted a serere cold, resulted in the disease of which he died. Almost evesy ebaritable enterprise started in this city received from Dim encouragement and support. In private life he was 's, and all who knew rity of character, his respected by a large circle of fries him bear ones to his in generosity, the sinserity of his ip and his =a inde) fence. Mr. Kelly lea wife and s young interesting family to mourn bis ‘The funeral takes place from Dr. Hutton’s church half three o’elock yesterday, as® mark of respect for 4 Im both branches of the Commom Council resolutions: appropriate to the event and expressive of condolence- with frienda cf the deceasei, were passed. Themem- bers are to attend the funera) in a body. The Mayor will. also be in attendance. The Democratic Genera) Committee, the Young Men’s Committee and the Tammany Society met Jast evening- and adopted similar resolntions; acd im respect for the: memory of the deceased, tre members are to wear & baége of mourning for thirty cays. Supreme Court—Special Term, Before Hon. Judge Roosevelt. A RELIGIOUS CORPORATION AWARD. Arnit 28,—In the Matter of the Application of the First’ Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New York.—Thiw ‘was a motion to confirm the award of the referee, (the Rev. Mr. Simpson,) who decided that the legally elected trustees of thie religious corporation were, and are, Ben- jamin W. Benson, William R. Martin, Seeley Brown, Wright Gillies, Ealey Maliss, Lewis B. Loder, Elliott E. Lapham, William A, Odell and Samuel Gleyne, and that: they do now legally compore the board of trustees of said religious corporation. The referee further awards that the injunction granted by Mr. Justice Cowles against’ the said Bepjamin W. Benson and his associates, restrain- ing the sale of said church property, ought to be, and is hereby, vaca:ed and dissolved. The referee farther awards that the saia trustees, ora majority of them, are at liber- ty to proceed, under the order of sale of the 10th of May, 1855, to effectuate a sale of John Street Chureh edifice: and of the rea} estate connected therewith, and to apply sie ae ace an sale, a8 vel a8 oy other availa! jun¢a of waid religious corporation, toward procuring @ new chureh edifice or edifices and land for the same, in the upper part ot the ctty of New York, for the use of said religious corporation, according to the permission: granites pans ane Cae of here He re et the costs be pa: the respective except out of the proceeds of the sal of Abe heal setate ie thee ste and fees, and $250 for costs and fees of the op- bert The former award made by the same re- is of December, 1855, is hereby vacated and made void. Roossve1t, Justice,—The counsel employed by the tiee hd authority by virtue of their undiapn: a8 such, to re’er ‘he matters in controversy, relating to the church in ques'.on, to a referee, arbitrateror Ard there can be no pretence, there is pong Bishop Simpson, the incividual chosen, was no? @. Tespect @ suitable person to be selected for tuat office. Whether the submission to his “decision,” consented to: on the 24 o April, is to be ceemed an order of the Court, orsn agreement cf the parties, it could in neither caso’ be revoked without the like consent or the leave of the evurt. Asan order of Court, the rules of prastice admit of no such revocation. As an agreement of parties to statute ofarbitrations, the cause having been finally sub- mitted, presents an obstacle still more ible. (See. +8.) ‘The parties waiv-d all further hearing; they hed skeady appeared betore the referee, and they admitted ty their couceel in open Court, that the mattera involved: intl pire ‘ng suits had not only been submitted to him, bat ‘fully examined and heard by him.”? I do not oon- rider tbat the arbitrator or the referee has passed upon eny matter rot submit’ed to him, or omitted to pass upon any material mst ter which was submitted, Whether a ices of trusteeship of a corporation. can be so submitted, may admit of argument. The quee- tion in this care—one of the questions 1 mean— more of ae ae alleged disturbance in office —s mere private, perso: jurazion, not requiring for ite determination the presence ot the yrs vim tp No Judgment of ouster was asked for or rendered. An in- junction egainst the alleg-d disturbers was the only re- medy required, anc is io effect on thie point the only one awarded. Upon the whole, I consider the order of the re‘eree as a juat and proper one to be entered. Sufferers by famine at the Cape | u Talands. wee ae TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The famine in the Cape deVerd Islands has already swept. off nearly twice as many of the inhabitants as were cat down by the pestilence at Norfo'k and Portemonth during the yellow fever of last year, and still the work of death gees on, and will continue, until it counts up its vietims. by tens of thousands, unless aid is sent there, and that Heine There is —_ of charity in the world to re- lieve the sufferers; it orly requires tome kind hearta to direct ita flow. The governments of the United States, of Frglend snd of France may be moved in the matter; and in the meantime, there are in our cities individuale whe will feel wiliing to aid by immediate Focceiaty donations. Aconference will be cailed 2t No. 13 Iusurance Bafld- ingr, at sn early day of this week, to determize upom measures to be edopted, of which due notice will be- given in the city papers, E. MERIAM, Moxpay, A. M., April 28, 1856, Court Calendar—This Day. BuPREME CoveT—(ircuit.—Nos, 363, 364, 26, 342. 387, 400, 402, 413, 416, 203, 396, 401, 411, 416, 422 to 449. 1g COURT pecial term: —Now, 141, 142, 149, 167, 2¢8, 220. 271, 253, 14, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 120, 121, ScrREME Count— General Term—To morrow is the last éay for filing notes ef i Merit Appreciated, a: Sinued throng to RSPENCARID’S. His hats ate universall acknowledged to excel in veanty of style, excellence of mate a, avd bop erieety Of manntectare. Price ‘Call ani i jor yoursel’, at jAgeeu screet, tages af- tarda by thls entatitavaeent a blige inap gc Striking Novelty In Soft Hats—Genin’s La- teat ats le,—Tbe most splendid so’t hat of the season is GENIN’S. Oriental. Ita color ig ashes of roses; tts make, style and qua- Wy elegant hevond alt comparison, ‘there can’ be no ques wih Soy gentlemen of taste that the Oriental takes the lead softhat ever imported os manufactured In this ehape of the bat is varied to suit different ‘At Genin’s wil be tourd precise'y the etyle of bat suitable to barhood, youth and middie age. Bold, wholesale azd retail, at Genin’s, 4 Broncway, op St. Paul’ The Postman’s Knocks are Joy-inspiring When we expect a letter trom fhe one we love beat and the of KBOX vy inapiring when they are worn upon the crowded thorovgbfare. How ere could they be, w! are the moat beaut u sever manufactured? 3 ‘mal of every oe thet wears them, Sold at $4 each at the cerner of Broadway and Fultcn street. Rhourands of Children Cy ier for soboal require to be furnished witt hate apd caps. At BAN- TA’B will be fourd an immense vartety of these fab: suited fo thetr different agen, ingluding many entire rew hats and cays in felt, brid, Leghorn and straw, suluble the prerent and the approaching seaon, unrivalled in post cheapness with anv tn thie marnet WM. B a 106 Canal mreet, corner of Wooster street, New Patent Ventilating Hat.—Any Gentle~ man that weare a toupee or wig or subject to exoserive 5 £ Piration, headache, dizziness of the head, or | the hair, Wt'l ind the greatest relief in wearing one of our patent ven- tillaung hats; the wind b'ows freely through the , in whet- ever direction the wearer is movicg—thus making it the coolest b r offered (o gentiemen subject to the asove gotone at 21 ra siseet corner Of Duane un ] we open our new at a roadway, three doors Onristy's minstrels, SELLER & CO, Photographic Portraits, for $1 and $3; by the superior negstive process Lamprstypes nd $l1—the finest specimens of art in market, J ictures taken, with Bolmes’ double camera, 280 Broad way. D. Devin & Co. beg to state that thar mholevaie and retail! depertments are now completely stocgh wih thelr late and elegant ‘spring and summer olouh vod thelr clstam deparaent wi ord lepartment with the im eulings. Conlngs, £e., at ON09 and 500 Broad Alfred Munroe & Co, Invites all of genteel apparel to val their eutbiahmest any trnaee bape, burinees conta Bankes soc ad le Begoming, to % genemar’s wardrobes mate in. Sr feabiomable stvio, trom the finest and most desirable maverials. Farenls and fuatdiare, would do well to examine thelr 1°R@ aseortim ing before purehasl “ALFRED MUNKOM & CO.vi41 Broadway. C. Bell & Co, No. 3 Catherine street, are offering to the Indien an elegant assortment of rich’ dees gts eA S, ane, 50; lawn bonnets, 108. to La |. Be s? i " ‘mantilla terus cut in the latest ntyien | MGUe> Waist and Innumerable Vests, from §1 50 to $3; Fresh sock Of new gorda, whey wil becmnae Us order at low re Prices, at CLANK eB, 16 Wiliam street. i No. 762 Broadway—The only areete ae wil! restore gray hair to ite youthful Duldsorn. ts LOVERS waphone Gall and he will refot thors who have been cured of graynees and baldness, Beware of a countertelt article. Pim; "a Be Bedstead Yearly saven ts price in rent intently SFitorate abd Petal also on qua iy bd cus payenents, s1 68 Whitest, Wid door a i