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

4 NEW YORK. HERALD. JAMES GOF pnoN BENNETT, PROPRY oR AND EDITOR. OFTIOB N. W. COF gp oF NASSAU 2ND FULTON BTS. MS et tm ta atdewiee. HERALD. 2 cence per. wal BW ak ZELY HERATD coer, satin fat 6h conde ones per ‘annuin; the Europa ed . rtf Britaxn, An lee NS sham VOLUNT. TARY CORRESPONDENCE, eontaining merce, solicited from any quarter of the worid—4f used paid fur. Bay OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS a iGovanty Reqoisrep 70 SKAL ats LETEEXS AND PACKAGES NOTICE taken of ancnymous communications, We do Oat retern those reverted, MOB PRINTING cxeculed with neatness, cheapness and dee- ‘ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUBEMENTS THIS EVBRING. AOAPEMY OF MUSIC—Fourteenth{strest—ITaLian Crend Morus. 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Notice to Advertisers, We are compelled to call the attention of advertisers to ee nect esity of sending in thelr favors at an early hour. ‘Mine o'clock P. M. is the Jatest moment we can receive Ahem, unless they relate to deaths or something equally aa argent. We would also urge brevity in all advertise- ments. If rent in after that hour, advertisements mast take their chance of appearing under their proper heads, M they appear at a! The News. ‘The steamship America, from Liverpool, had not made her appearance off Halifax at nine o'clock Jast evening, at which hour clear weather prevailed. From the reports which we publish elsewhere, it will be seen that the sufferings of the poor Cape d> Verd Islanders have already awakened an active sympathy among our people. A meeting was yester. @ay held at the Portuguese Consulate, at which, although not a dozen persons were present alto- gether, $2,185 were collected. Another meeting was held at the Astor House, but as it was only prelimi- nary, no definite action was taken. The Coamber of Commerce will, we expect, soon hold another; and mow that the benevolence of the public is becoming aroused, New York, we have no doubt, will sustain the high reputation which she has obtained for Hberal charity towards the afflicted of other lands, as well as the poor in our midst. We have letters from Porto Praya and Porto Grande, Cape de Verds, to the 28th of March. One of our correspondents states that the inhabitants of the islands had died by thousands of starvation during the winter, and that it was estimated that ft least twenty thousand will perish by August next, unless relief be forwarded to them. The pe- Fiodical tamines to which the Cape de Verds are subject have materially retarded their commercial progress. The home government can do go little for them, and their own resources are so unrelidble, that they will probably in time be deserted by the greater part of their population. The United States sloop Jamestown was lying at Porto Praya, waiting for the St. Louis, which was down the coast. The health of the officers and crew was reported good. The sympathy which is so universally felt for General Walker and his companions in arms, is ra- pidly taking a practical direction. Last evening a spirited meeting was held in this city, to devise means for aiding the cause. The attendance was sumerous, and the audience enthusiastic. Alderman Clancy, of the Sixth ward, presided, and it was re- solved that a mass meeting of the friends of Nic. \- gua be held next Tuesday, in National Hall. 1. meeting in New Orleans on the 2Sth ult., in point of Bumbers and enthusiasm exceeded the most san- guine expectatiéns of its promoters. Hon. Pierre Soule and Colonel Parker H. French addressed the throng. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollar ‘would, it was said, ensure the complete success of the democratic party in Nicaragua, and subscrip- tions towards that sum were taken up on the spot. We publish reports of the proceedings of their meeting in our columns this morning. ‘The municipal election in Philadelphia yesterday resulted in the choice of Richard Vaux, the dew>- cratic candidate for Mayor, by @ handsome majori- ty. The Common Council will also be democratic. The day passed off without disturbance. The United States Senate yesterday was engaged in discussing the proper location of the District of Columbia Armory, and the bill making appropria- tion for the construction of harbor works on Lake Superior. Inthe House the diplomatic and con-a- lar appropriation bills were passed. The morning hour was occupied in the discussion of a bill grant- ing alternate sections of land to fowa in aid of rail- roads now in progress of construction in that State. A substitute embracing the objects above mention- ed was finally adopted, but no definite action was taken in the matter. The remainder of the session was consumed in personal explanations of a politi- cal nature. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met at Trenton yesterday, and chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention favorable to the nomina- tion of Mr. Buchanan. A democratic State Convention was held at Co- fombia, 5. C.,on Monday and Tuesday. Delegates to the Cincinnati nominating convention were se- lected, and a resolution endorsing Gen. Pierce as the * first choice of the State for President was adopted The New Hampshire Know Nothing State Coun- cil met yesterday and elected delegates to attena ‘the free sdll-American Convention to be held in this city on the 12th of June next. Resolutions repn @iating Fillmore and Donelaon were adopted unani mously. The Massachusetts Know Nothing State Council ‘met at Boston, and after organizing, split apon a resolution repudiating Fillmore and Donelson. The ‘anti-Fillmore men subsequently held consultation, and will no doubt eventually fraternize with the de- clared free soilers in the New York convention to be held next month. ‘The Legislature of Connecticut will meet in New Haven to-morrow. After the election of the Go- vernor and other State officers, which will be the first business in order, the Legislature will adjourn, and join in a grand military and civic procession. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 1,000 a 1,500 bales, without further change to notice in quotations. Holders were not offering freely, being disposed to await the result of later foreign news, now due at Halifax. Flour was heavy, and the market, espeeially common grades, declined from 124c. a 18g. per barrel. Sales of infe- rior to good Tennessee red wheat were made at $1 25 a$160,and good Southern white at $1 80. Corn was heavy, with sales of inferior at 57¢.; old mixed from wtore, 60c.; and yellow in the slip, 61c.; Southern white do., 62c. Pork was a little firmer, with sales of mess at $17 75.917 87}. Sales of sugars were gored to ebont 500 a 600 bhde. Cuba muscovado, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1856. at rates given elsewhere. Sales of 1,100 bags Rio coffee were made on private terms. In freighta en- gagements were light. To Liverpool, about 18,000 bushels corn were taken at 44d. a 54d. in bulk and bags, and about 1,300 bales of cotton, part com- pressed, at jd. a 5-16d. The great trot between Lantern and Baz, mile heats, in harness, for a stake of tea thousand dol” lars, took place yesterday afternoon over the Union Course, L. I., and resulted in the race and money being won by Lantern. Lantern walked very lame when he made his appearance on the track, and the betting was against him. The track was in capital condition, and everything favorable. Lantern won the tirst, third and fourth heats, the second being declared a dead heat by the judges. The time was the best ever made at this season of the year. For a full and detailed account, see the report in another column. The -abolitionists opened their campaign at the colored church in Prince street last night. No out side barbarians came to interrupt their proceed- ings, so they got up a little row among themselves. See our report. The Historical Society met last evening. Lieut. Strain’s paper on interoceanic communication by the American isthmus was not read, owing to his absence from ilmess. The Sufferers at the Cape de Verda, It will be seen by the reports of the meetings held yesterday at the Portugese consulate and at the Astor House, that the appeal made through our columns a few days since by Lieut. Bartlett, on behalf of the starving po- pulation of the Cape de Verds, has met with @ prompt response. As we understand the Chamber of Commerce are about to head the movement for their relief, we thiuk it as well to place before them all the facts connected with the visitation under which these poor islanders are suffering. It will probably be in the recollection of our readers that on the arrival of the Atlantic at the end of November last, we published th correspondence of Mr. Martens, Vice-Consul o! the United States at Porto Grande, with Com- modore Crabbé, Commander-in-Chief of the African squadron, communicating to him the dreadful state of destitution to which the tu- habitants of San Antonio had been reduced vy the failure of their crop, and appealing to him for aid. To these documents were ap- pended memoranda drawn up from personal observation by Lieut. Bartlett, one of the pas- sengers by the Atlantic, and to whom we were indebted for the information. From the de- tails furnished by the latter it appeared that the crop of 1855 had proved a total failure on that island, owing to the drought; and the preceding crop having been only half an average, there were at the time Lieut. Bartlett visited it at least 30,000 of the inha- bitants living on the banana stalk and the car cages of dead animals that had died or were dying of starvation. There were not of asy kind provisions for one-sixth of the probable demand before the crop of 1856 could be got in, which would not be until December, 1256. But even supposing that the supply were larger, the people were so poor that they could not buy more than one sixth of what they re- quired. The consequence was that the inha- bitants of the island were daily perishing in numbers from starvation. The Island of St. Nicholas, from which aid was expected, did not produce one-third of its usual crop, and it was anticipated that this deficiency would add at east 10,000 persons more to the aggregate of the sufferers. All the cattle had died on St. Vincent, as well as on the small islands, and it was expected that they would soon be extinct on the northern portion of the group. No aii could be hoped for from the southern island~ as they had barely sufficient for themselves. Such was the deplorable picture presented tous in November last of the condition of these poor people. At any other period it would have been sufficient to stir up the sympathies of our citizens; but, un- fortunately, just at that time we had heavy calls upon our benevolence, arising froz the ravages of the dreadful scourge which had recently visited Norfolk and Portemouth In the preesure of that calamity the claims of the poor starving islanders were overlooked, and we have heard no more of them until a second appeal from their zealous and generon- benefactor, Lieut. Bartlett, presents their con- dition in a still more aggravated and appalling light. All the anticipations formed from the data collected in November have been more than fulfilled, and the last accounts represent the population as perishing by thousands. A: we stated on Sunday last, unless proper aid be furnished to them before July at least twenty thousand human beings will have died-of star- vation between that period and Decem»-r. when the next erop will be made available, it should not also prove a failure from another drought. In the presence of such a dire visitation as this, we tee] convinced that all the kindly and generous impulses of the American heart will be stirred into activity to rescue these poor islanders from their impending fate. The sym- pathies of our people have never been appeal- ed to in vain when convinced that there was a necessity for their interference. Besides, the sufferers in this instance have a sort of tradi- tional claim to our assistance. Some five-and- twenty years ago a similar appeal was made to us on their bebalf. It was promptly and live-- ally responded to, and from all parts of the Union supplies of corn and provisions were forwarded to them. We have no doubt that the movement which has been just set on foot in New York will be very generally followed Over two thousand dollars was subscribed in this city yesterday for the purchase of provi- sions. The satisfaction of saving such a multi- tude of human beings from perishing by a dreadtel death will be an indaeement to aii to contribute something towards it, Nicorr Worsuppers—The Seward organs, We perceive, are wriggling and twisting umder the painful title which they as a party have acquired, of the nigger worshippers. The Buf- falo Express eays that other journals, in the use of this offensive name, ar o@ nly foNewing the lead of the New York Heraxn, “the most reckless and least influential of all journals.’ Yet it appears that there is no journal in the country which gives these nigger worshippers so much trouble and so much concern as this identical paper, whose influence they affect so much to despise. It pinches their corns, never- thelese, as mercilessly asa tight pair of, boots; but as it don’t hurt them why should they call hard names? What is the use, and what can be the excuse, if no harm be done by us to the Sewardites, for euch ill-mannerly slang as “most reckless,” “least influential,” “never de- cent,” “never true,’’ “mercenary powers,” and such rubbish, thrown at this journal? These nigger worshipping philosophers spoi) their care by a confession of judgment, Tux Forvre oP THE AmMenican Tract & cmTy—Tae MEETING To-DaY.—The celebre- tion of the American Tract Society’s anni- versary begins this morning at ten o'clock. ‘It is understood that the matter before the body will be the litigation of the question whether the Tract Society is to be- come a sectional or to remain @ national in- stitution. For some time the abolitionists have vainly endeavored to split the society as they have split the Baptist and Methodist churches. Foremost among the assailants has been the sect called Congregationalists, whose clergy, at a recent conference or synod, s0- lemnly declared their conviction that the society was under the control of the slave power. The charge was based, it seems, on the publication by the society of edi- tions of three books, in which certain paseages referring to slavery were said to bave been expurgated by the society. It turns out, on examination, that one of the editions assailed was reprinted verbatim from the only other edition in print—a London one--in which the alteration had originally been made; that another was revised by the author; and that the third—the memoirs of a young lady—was abridged at the desire of the subject’s mother, and thus pruned of much ex- traneous matter, including some pious ejacula- tions on the subject of West Indian emancipa- tion. This appears to be all the evidence that can be procured to sustain the charge of undue subeervience to the South, brought against the Tract Society by Beeeher’s church. It is, in fact, quite obvious that the wrath of the Congregationalists was aroused not by the Southern proclivities, but by the steady national conservatiem of the Tract Society. It was be- cause that body refused to follow the example of the Methodist and Baptist churches—refused to allow itself to be made a tool of to serve party purposes— refused to impair its useful ness by bisecting its sphere—that Beecher and his friends assailed it. The question to be decided this morning isa very simple one. By its constitution the Tract Society exists in order “to diffuse a knowlege of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of sinners, and to promote the inte- rests of vital godliness and sound morality, by the circulation of religious publications calculated to receive the approbation of all evangelical Christians.” It is impliedly res- trained from “circulating any religious pub- lication’ which cannot “receive the approba- tion of Evangelical Christians” in the South: the thing the Congregationalists wish it to do. They want to abolitionize it, and make its tracts engines of political agitation; it replies by refering to its constitution, which points out its ephere, as clearly and unmistakably beyond the pale of controversy. Nor does a reference to the dictates of com- mon sense lead to any other sonclusion. The object of tract societies is to publish and sell books cheaper than the trade can; the suppos. ed loss om their sale being made up by the contributions of the faithfal who are impressed with the belief that it behovesthe poor to read the books so published for the good of their souls, It is quite evident that the larger the society, the wider its field,and the more na- tional its character, the better will it be able to fulfil its purpose. One great society ap pealing to the benevolence of the whole coun- try will obviously effect far more than two rival sectional societies, animated with more or less bitterness toward each other, and damp- ing as well as dividing the public liberality. If the Tract Society continue united, it will absorb a large portion of the money that is set apart every year for purposes of benevo- lence, and will be able to publish many books, and give them away; ifitbe divided, it will be crippled in its means, and the mass of alms- givers, seeing the two sections wrangling about political questions, with which neither has any concern, and over the settlement of which nei- ther can exercise the least influence, will give their money to other and safer institutions, AVAILABILITY Not THE THIne.—The hand or- gan of the government at Boston, in an article on the “availability of President Pierce,” saya: “That sagacious, wiee and far-seeing doctrine of availability-as Mr. Webster derisively termed it at Marshfield in 1848~should be scouted, at least by democrats, as heretical and corrupting.” The same organ, in the same ar- ticle, goes further, and contends that “availa- bility” is not a democratic idea; but on the contrary, where a great principle is at stake, it is the policy of the democratic party to nomi- nate the man most responsible for it, in the very eyes and teeth of availability. Says this Boston organ:— A striking in of the wanly way in which this great national Re y acts may be found in the 1840 re- nomination of Mr. Van Buren. The theme of populsc clamor then was the independent treasury measure—a policy that was ridicued and denounced as measure never was before; and by aclars of men who, ifappeaied to to-day, would support the very policy they then con- demned. But thie denunciation did not deter th the demo- oratic part; ty from clingirg to Mr. Van Baren; and though @amor and availability Toreated him, yet the measure that was beld up in such indignant terms sill lives, and notbicg cou!d icduge the country to part with it. Now it strikes us that the recommendation involved in this example is the re-nomination of Mr. Pierce, even with the certainty before the party, asinthe case of Van Buren, of a crushing defeat. We may venture the opinion, however, that ehould this plan of courting a deteat for the sake of a precedent be adopted at Cincinnati, our Boston organ will soon make the discovery that as far as the spoils are con- cerned, the game for the principle is not worth the candle. Let the Cincinnati delegates bear in mind, however, that the administration has decreed @at availability is not the thing. Tue YELLow Fever.—Alarmists are at work already promising us the yellow fever this summer. It is well that people should know this is the merest trash. Whatever be the truth of the question of contagion, it ie certain that yellow fever cannot live without a constant supply of miasma, which, thank God, it cannot get here. It never prevails as an epidemic out of places in whose vicinity there are swamps or fetid pools, or other stagnant water, which the fierce dog day sun evaporates. In olden time, when the yellow fever raged here, the Collect existed; Beekman street was a sluggish stream, with occasional pools; Broad street was @ swampy arm of the sea; there was a marsh at Canal street and beyond; plenty of room 6verywhere for yellow fever. All these have disappeared now, and with them all chance of yellow fever. A Broruen.y ArPeal.—The Richmond Zn- guirer appeals to the State of South Carolina to stay in the Union, with a sly hint that her vote will be useful at Cincinnati. Looking over this appeal we are entirely satisfied that it se- cures the Palmetto chivalry to the confederacy for at leasw four yeare longer. Tur Staren Istanp Ferry.—On the let of May thie ferry was to have been sold at auc- tion. The sale was postponed, asin April, in consequence of difficulties thrown in the way by the present Ferry Company, which has ob- tained an injunction against the Comptroller, forbidding him to sell the elip and fran. chise. The injunction was based on the af- fidavit of Jacob L. Smith, who ewears that the company have new, good and proper boats, at all proper hours; that they have built convenient ferry houses, &c.—together with other matters equally interesting and en- tertaining. Shortly after the injunction was issued, the counsel for the committee allowed itto be known that he would receive evidence in rebuttal of Smith’s affidavit; in about a cou- ple of days, over one hundred gentlemencalled upon him, and made oath to statements contra- dicting that of Smith in almost eviry particu- lar. It was hoped that with these, the injunc- tion might have been dissolved in time for the ferry to be sold on the first; but the glorious delays of the law have frustrated this expecta- tion. No resource has been left for the com- mittee entrusted with the ferry matter but to meet the Ferry Company with their owk arme, and to apply for an injunction to restrain them from using the ferry until the litigation between them and the city shall have been brought to a close. The injanc- tion was applied for last week, on the aflidavit of some fifty leading Staten Islanders, and, unless cause is shown to the contrary, it will be granted on Monday next. No appre- hension need be felt by parties residing on Staten Island lest their communication with the city should be cut off. Arrangements have already been made for temporary steamers to tun in the place of the present line while the litigation is pending; should the injunotion be granted, there will not be any interruption of the regular communication between the island and the city. The committee have been driven to this mea- eure by the mode of warfare adopted by the company. It is understood that in the hands of a good lawyer an injunction case may be made to last several months, during which time the lives of parties using the boats are daily endangered and the stipulations of the lease openly evaded. Probably, when the company digecover that the ‘law’s delays” may be made to cut both ways, and they are cut off from their weekly profit of a thousand or so, they will come to terms and agree to let the case be decided on its own merits. This is all that the public desire. It may be mentioned in this connection that the Journal of Commerce was deceived when it atated that by the 26th April all the bosts of the line would be provided with life- saving apparatus. On board some of the boats there are a few wooden benches, with box seats, in which there may be anything or nothing, for all the public know; if these boxes contain buoyant material they might alto- gether sustain fifty or sixty people; that is to say one-tenth of the number that is carried on fine afternoons in this weather. But of proper life-saving seats--hour-glass stoole--such as other steamers have, there is not one belonging to the line. Tue New Fricate MerrmMac--PaTcHING HER up ALREADY.—We learn from the Baltimore Republican (administration organ) some very suggestive facts concerning the new frigate Merrimac, lately taken up to Annapolis, Md, for Congress to look at, as the perfection of naval steamship architecture. Our Baltimore cotemporary eays:—— From a gentleman who went with an excursion party frem this city, a few days since, down to the Merrimac, we learn that over forty of the crew of the vessel are con- fixed in trons for various offences it discipline, such ae Cl ne disobedience to officers, &s. It is stated that our energetic President and hie Oavinet have issued orders for this great vessel to sil, without delay, for Pa- nama, where, if reparation be not made’ for the outrages avd murders lately committed upon Americans, it is probable that her broadsides of heavy Paixbans will tring cown, ine hurry, the walls of the natives! buila. ings to the ground. ome bree (i however, will p revent her from 1g immediately to ‘the ace of der ‘tion, in consequence of defects in her boilers, which will re- quire some time to repair. “Defects in her boilers,” “some time to re- pair,” are rather damaging confessions for a new ship that has never been out of sight of land, and the crack steamer of the navy. At this rate, if Panama is to be bombarded the administration had better do it by contract than wait for the repairs of the Merrimac. Think of the boilers of a new war steamer with defects in them before she has coast- ed over five hundred miles from the place where she was built!. If Mr. Steers and company do not make a better job of the Niagara, we shall begin to despair of ever getting a respectable government steamer upon the ocean. Our present warlike admi- nistration have certainly exhibited the most ridiculous pretensions in the way of a de fensive attitude against the combined naval Powers of Europe, with which Mr. Pierce has been teaching us to believe he would be de lighted to have a “scrimmage.” Doubtless, however, his belligerent proclivities by this time, like the boilers of the Merrimac, have had defects discovered in them. Tue Prosrect Grows BricuTer.—Mr. Ha- ven, the former law partner and still the con- fidential correspondent of Mr. Fillmore, is of the opinion that according to his last advices from Europe there was a probability that the ex-President would accept the Philadelphia American nomination. ENTERTAINMENTS. — Want ct agein preveots special reference to each of the theatres and other places of ex hibition. A let of the entertainments offered for this evening will be found in the amusement directory, at the head of the editorial columpa, SrramegiP Bornacrc.—A deputation of the saloon passen- gers per steamer Edinburg, from Gissgow to this port, wailed upon Capt. Wm. Oumming, at ihe Astor House, yesterday af- ternoon, for the purpose of pressntiag him with a service of ee signed by the passengers at a general Booty Ruse Feq ,M.D., inthe name of the ergata sera oS a hls watchful attention to the eomfort ot etree: Ir satiefastion wi oletons 5 provided y the ea and pity York wetoure. Famine for their bi me ti bent tig endeavors to COPY OF ADDRESS, Frey Yon, May 6, 1886. Scie eee ro youbue emanly attention which inersh Ly my S, i oyna fea biaed be ueaally long ant tales " ie stomiort of the Passengers. In we must alio express ov ee ance ficorg of ibe ai ip tor the. ualtornn ty end beanie whi re Pare, a if uimes, experienced trom them, ond it is our earnest desire that your fuiure voyages may be attended wiih the same hepyinene and succes as the YY RUSSELL, Chairman. Joun Hicgrss, Treasurer. Wnitam Wise, Secretary. (And @ number of ths passengers.) To Capt. Wa. COMMING, steamehip Edinburg. COPY OF INSCRIPTION. ereeceoven reteaveasesseresseevecsveneesseseceeseeeses Presented, with an address, to pa capt W. COMMING, salcon passoogern 7 fteamenip Powsbure, 3 Ape mare of their esteem and Ram om 0! of bie eharac- ter oe Avestan ind s i Ww Yous, Nay i a POCA AE LED TOE TOUOLE TELE DEE AEE ZEB LATIUST BIWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Non Arrival of the America. Huurax, May 6—9 P. M. There are as yet no signs of the steamship America, now due at this port from Liverpool. Weather clear, wind north. Intereating from Washington. RENEWED RUMOR THAT GEN. PIERCE WILL CAVE IN— MOVEMENTS OF THE NEW YORE 80FTS—WHAT SICKLES WANTS TO KNOW—BUCHANAN TO BE DINED AND WINED—THE SOFTS TO BR ADMITTED AT CIN- CINNATI—WALKER’S PROSPECTS—WALBRIDGE AT THE CAPITAL, THE CENTRAL AMBRICAN QUESTION "THE NEUTRALITY LAWS, ETC., ETO. ‘Wasuinctos, May 6, 1856. Tam told from pretty good authority that Gen. Pierce will decline to be a candidate at Cincinnati. In that event, bis mantle will fall on the ‘Little Giant’s”’ shou!- ders. Douglas cannot got all of Gen. Pierce’s strength in the South, Georgia, Alabama, Floride and South Caro- lina, together with Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, which have already been instructed, would cast thelr votes in convention for Buchanan. The remaining Southern States, it is conceded, will throw their votes for Douglas. Quites number of leading New York delegates are now here. They represent three interests—the hards, the softs, and the balf-shells. Sickles and Hart arrived here yesterday, and we thus have the three interests well vepresented. Sickles, I understand, is anxious to find out which party will be admitted. But J am of opl- nion he will go home just es wise as he came, and no more #0. “01a Buck,” Iam informed, will arrive in this city on Thursday. His friends anticipate = gay time. General Pierce will invite him to dine, together with a few per. sonal friends, and portion of the Cabinet. Marcy, I understand, 1s destrous of having an interview with him before he goes to the White House; and Gen. Pierce wants him to come to the White House before he sees the old Premier. If he follows the rules ef etiquette, he will go to the White House first. But if he was to follow his own inclination, I am inclined to believe he would remain at Willard’s, and let them call on him. W. B. Astor, of your city, has engaged quarters at Willard’s hotel for himself and family, who are expected here to-morrow. The Southern delegates, with, perhaps, some few from Virginia, bave already decided upon giving the New York softs their seats in the Convention, to the exclusion ofthe hards, By this decision they are in hopes to ef- fect the renomination of General Pierce, or give to him the power of naming his successor. This question, how ever, will not be decided upon without bringing into ac- tion the worst passions of the Convention, and which will lead to the withdrawal of the hards from that body, should the softs succeed in obtaining their point. This is no conjecture, for there are many now here, belonging to the hard wirg of the party, who ate earnest in break- ing up the Convention the moment the sofis are given the advantage Upon the whole, the Cincinnati ‘“‘har- monious’’ celegates promise results not unlike those which marked the closing scene of the Know Nothings in Pennsylvanis—division and discord. It {a eaid to-day that further letters have been receiy- ed, showing beyond doubt the complicity of Engiand in the affairs of Nicaragua, ia having advised Costa Rics to no longer delay action in making war upon Walker, The happiest of men here, just now is Com, Vanderbilt, who is rich in hope that Walker’s cays are numbered in Nicaragua. He rubs his hands exultingly at the overthrow of Colonel Schlessinger; but what will be his surprise upon finding, in the course of a few days, that that ‘‘d—d stiok at the head of the government” has come to Walker’s aid by acknowledging the republic and its newly chosen Minister. A few days, it is now believed will give the ‘Commodore’ this satisfaction, Nineteen prominent New York politicians were regis- tered at Willard’s this evening. ‘The movement towards Brown or Stanton for the Vice Presi¢ency is mow being openly made. In the event of ‘the selection of a Northern man for, President, it ia ssid that one or the other will certainly be chosen for Vice— perhaps. General Walbridge, of your city, ia now here, and is faverably received by his many friends, who have the Pleasure of his acquaintance. A general wish, among these who know him best, is to have him returned to Congress, for which position, it is understood, his riends are now pressing him out, in New York. Yeur correspondent yesterday did Mr. Cobb, of Ga., irjustice. He is not a candidate for the nomination as Vice President, while the kindest relations exist between Lim and his colleagues. Several promment politicians intend leaving Washing. on to be present at Wheatland, on Thursday, when the committee appointed by the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention to inforre Mr. Buchanan of his nomina- tion to the Presidency by that Convention will perform their duty. Mr. Buchanan will be here on Saturday or Monday, and willstop a day at Baltimore. Parlors have been en- gaged at Guy’s National Hote! here. ‘The Central American imbroglio is the only question talked of in and about the Capitol and among politicians. It {s the intention now to incorporate it as one of the planks of the Cincinnati platform. Every thing with re- ference to it about the White House remains in statu quo. The Cabinet have another meeting to-morrow or next day, when it is thought the matter will be disposed of, Padre Vigille is here, bat sees noone? As yet no com- munication has passed between him and our government, He is a native of Nicaragua, and second only to the Bishop in church authoxity. There is no doubt ne will be received, Arumor prevailing here thats masa meeting is to be held in the Park, in your city, to express sympathy with, and give material aid to, Gen. Walker, has thrown old Marcy and the whole Cabinet into an indescribable state of excitement. As soon as it was whispered, Sidney Webster was sent off post haste to New York, to kesp the Custom House employés from taking any part init. The administration mow feel that they will be forced, ina stort time, to recognise ihe Nicaraguan government, and Gread any movement of the people, knowing they will meet with severe denunciation for the indirect part they have taken with Great Britain, in aid of the Costa Ricans. Gen. Quitman’s bill for the repeal of the Neutrality laws will recetve end earnest support from several eloquent gentlemen, when it again comes up. Thomas H. Dodge, Inte assistant examiner in the Patent office, has been appointed chief examiner, in place of Wm. Chauncey Langdon, resigned. Mr, Langdon retires with the highest commendations of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Patents, for the satis- factory manner in which he has discharged the important duties of bis office, An attempt to get up a meeting to-night for the pur- pose of taking measures to protest against the might of Congress in any case to review the decisions of the Gourt of Claims proved an utter failure, The Pacifis Railroad Committee will report their bill to- morrow. The second Committee of Conference on the deficiency Dill fafled to agree to-day. The water works and arny apprepriations seera to be the only impediment. The Speaker will appoint another committee to morrow. - Newspaper Publishers’ Association. Unica, May 6, 1856. A meeting of newspaper publishers, along the line be- tween Albany and Buffalo, met in this city to-day. Dale- gates were present from Albany, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Awburs, Rochester and Buffalo. An association was formed, to be called the ‘‘Asnociated Press of the State ot New York,” and the following named persons were elected cfficers for the ensuing year:—President, Geo. Dawson, Albaoy ; Secretary, Andrew Shuman, Syracuse; Treasurer, J. M. Lyon, Ution, Execative Committee—J. Butts, Ro- chester; E. H. Roberts, Utica, acd R. Wheeler, Buffalo, Breaks in the Erte Canal. Avbaxy, May 6, 1956, A breach in the canal atthe Nose, near Little Falls, willrequire at least two days to repair. Taere is ano one at the Waste Weir, at Schenectady, which will be ra- paired to morrow morning. Powder Mill Explosion and Losa of Life, PorTLA¥D, May 6, 1856, An explosion oceurred in the powder mil! at Gornam this morning, partially demolishing the buildiog,and kill. ing Alfred R, Allen, who leaves a wife and three children, But a small quantity of powder was in the mill at the time. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pai aa my 6 1856. Stocks are dull. | Penneyivaia. 6 nding Raul- road, 41 j bone paeee lerrin ati Be 13%; Pena. ry.vania 46, ex-di CHARLESTON, May 6. Cotten dull, with # declining tendensy. Sales t> day, £00 baler whe Cecitne Of & Jce. #360, WHERTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, YIRST BRSSION. Renale. WaAsmincToy, Mey 6, 1856, LOCATION OF AN ARMORY, ‘The morning hour was chiefly occupied in a 4 relative to the proper location for the Distriet of Colum! armory. IMPROVEMENTS, riations for the fae volgen g , on Lake Superior, Ne as rai? cy said ait vps ai and hea Aes was a dap; b sudden storms rendered » asbor’s Bema cessary. It was only “Se er se: kod that ‘he ir. SruaRT remarl * $25,000. There were eleven bil tor herkornon lakes surrounding the State of hitehiges, pois each oi fer only a small amount, in the aggregate, less than t! pao a propelation for the improvement of the mouti of pe jesiasippl. further debate, in which the bp ea ef om aes allsuch measures in one bili was Senate adjourned. HARBOR approy The bill m House of Representatives. Wasuincror, May 6, 1856. APPROPRIATIONS PASSED, The House passed the bills making appropriations ft onsular and diplomatic expenser. LANDS FOR RAILROADS IN 10WA. Mr. Banyert, (nigger worshipper) of New York, fron the Committee on Public Lands, reported # bill grant: alternate sections of lan4s to Iowa in aid of railroads no in progress of construction, It is said that three millions of acres have been granted to Missouri and Arkansas each. This bill will not requ more than half that quantity, and contains the usaal strictions guarding the ights of the United States, committee heve other similar bills, and d opt acticn on this, in order to ascertain the temper Rene, Houge on the subject. Mr. SreruEns, (nat.) of Ga., made an ineffectual effort ta offer an amendment extending all the rights, privileges an liabilities heretofore conterred on lowa, to Seep rl re kansar, Missouri and Kansas, for the purpose construction of s railroad from Vicksburg a tee ton, and ranting pobile Jands to the same extent, on the sam: terms, and with the same res restrictions. Mr, Bennett said this adding 1,600 miles of railroad would break down the bifl. Mr. sou (a (dem. rad Tenn., eect. the subject on| the table. agein A ieee for the 01 sina bill recommended py tee tt for the same obji Committee on Public then adopted, but the morning hour expired before ‘final PERSONAL MATTERS, acticn. Mr. McMvirey, (¢em.) of Va., complained of a portion of Mr. Perry’s recent remarks concerning himeelf. Mr. Perry, (nigger worabipper) of a explained, and] Mr. McMuLiEn declared himself satiefied. Mr. Warxins, (dem.) of Tepn.. occupied an hour in racnal explanstion, defining bia political position in ‘ennessee. ‘Mr. Sxexp, (K. N.) of Tenn., briefly replied. ‘Adjourned. Municipal Election in Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, May 6, 1856. The returns received show increased democratic ma-| jorities, and confirm the previous impression that Vaux, the democratic candidate for Mayor, will be elected. His! majority will be large, but it cannot be known with cer- tainty how grent till near daylight. The Common Coua- ef] will also be demooratic. The First ward gives 94 majority for Vanx; the Second, 328; the Third, 375; the Fourth, 1,084; the Fifth, 853; the Sixth, 208; the Seventh, 369; the Eighth, 975; the Ninth, 71; the Fleventh, 233; the Twelfth, 804; the Fif- teenth, 300; the Seventeenth, 1,232; the Twentieth, 200, ‘The Tenth ward gives 530 majority for Moore; the Four- teenth, 411; the Eighteenth, 200. With six ward ta hear from Vaux’s majority is 3,600. ‘Washington, Del., Municipal Election. ‘WaAsBINGTON, Dst., May 6, 1856. ‘The whole democratic ticket is elected in this city, by eighty majority. Connecticut Legislature. New Havun, May 6, 1856, The caucus of the opposition members of the House of Representatives, this evening made the following nom- inations:—For Speaker, Hon. Green Kendrick; for Clerks, E. B. Trumbull and Isaac H. Bromley; for State Printer, Carrington & Hoichk'ss. The Senate caucus nomiuates Hon. Leman W. Cutler, President pro tem, and 0. H. Platt, Clerk. South Carolina Demeeratic State Convention, Commavs, 8. C,, May 6, 1856. AState Convention to select delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati orga- nized in this city last evening. Hon. F. W. Pickens, who ‘was chosen permanent President, spoke at considerable length as to the reasons why South Carolina should be re- presented in the Cincinnati Convention. At the conolu- ion of Mr. P.’s remarks the meeting adjourned till Taes- day morning. On re assembling Hon. J. L. Orr spoke in favor of send- ing delegates to Cincinuati, alter which the following named gentlemen were chosen as delegates :—At large— Messrs. F, W. Pickens, A, W. McGrath and Gen. Gad- berry. First distriet-—S. H. Wilson, ©. W. Dadley; Second district—W. D. Porter, C. MeBath; Third dis- trict—J. D. Allen, B. H. Brown; Fourth district—P, 8. Brooke, C. P. Sullivan, Fifth district—James L. Orr, James Farron; Sixth district—F, J. Moses, E, G. Palmer. Resolutions were adopted sustaining the doctrine of State rights, re affirming the resolutions of the Georgia State Conven ion, and endorsing Mr, Pierce as the first choice of the State, New Jersey Democratic State Convention. Travroy, May 6, 1856, The Democratic State Convention for the selec:ion of delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati as- sembled here at 12 o’clock to-day, and organized by the @lection of Hon. William C, Alexander, President. The usual committees were appointed, and the Convention adjcurned, to convene sgain at 2 o’clock P.M. Three hundred and fifty delegutes were present. On re arsemb'ing the Convention chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention, Gen. Cook, Gen, Darey, Gen. Wright and Capt. Miskle are the Senatorial delegates. The following resolution, recommending James Bu- cbanan for the Presidency, was adopted :— itate tyivauia, whom’ they have long knows Joe san abis orp: rienced stateeman, a prudent, and intelligent lis Hua, tn every way qua ified tor t igh oes ot Eregdent cf Seca seer celta al Goes Saatoeoes re re use al 16 secure New Hampshire American State Convention, Piymovrs, N. H., May 6, 1856, The New Hampshire American State Convention assem- bled here to-day, and elected delegates to the Free Soil American Convention, to be held in New Yors, om the 12th of June. The-Council passed strong American and anti-Nebraska resolutions, endorsing the action of their delegates in seceding from the Philadelphia Convention of February last, and repudiating the nomination of Fill- tore and Donelson. The resolutions were adepted upanimonsly. United Sta jupreme Court. Wasursctox, May 6, 1856, No, 80, James W. Goulee, et al., owners of the steam- boat Autosrat, vs. Theodore Shute, executor of Marin J Shute, deceased, and Mary A Shute, owners and claim- | ants of the steamer Megnolia.—Judge McLean delivered * the opinion of the Court, affirming the decree of the Cir- ouit Court for the Eastern district of Louisiana, with conts, No, 104. Susan E. Conner, widow of Henry L. Conner, deceased, plaintiff, @ Wm. St. Jobn, Elliott Adairal, ot al, heirs of Hermg kk. Conner, decsared. Argument was concluded by Hon. John Henderron for the plaintiff, No, 106, Jcshua Moxwell, et al., plaintiffs, ve, Alexan- der H. Newbold, et al.—Argued by Mr. Lawrense for ~ plaintiff, and Hon, Caleb Cushing for defendants, Massachusetts American State Council. Boston, May 6, 185%. The Ameri:an State Council met here thie afternoon, and 149 councils were represented by 278 delegates. Om the second bellot, Hon. Sones G. Cobb, of the Governor’s Council, Fillmoreite, was elected President, receiving 153 to 116 for Lieut.-Governor Benchley, Anti Fidmoreite. The other cfticers of the council were also elected by the party opposed to repudiating Fillmore. Mr, White, of Medway, offered resolutions repudiatiog the nomination of Fillmore and declaring in favor of a representation in the bol ing American Convention. Amidst great excitement the rerolations were laid on the table by a decided majority, Mr. Fly, of Newton, offered resolutions in favor of the | American party rallying to save the State in the coming | election, allowing each member of the party to vote aa | he thinks best in Presidential matters, A long debate ensued, during which the anti-Filimore men declared that the failure to repudiate the present @ational vomi- nation would destroy the American party in Marwchu! } nets, The vancement that New Hampebire bad repg-