The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. 3AEEBS GORDON BENNET®, PP@PRIETOR AND EDITOR, ‘OPY.0R %. “4. CORNER OF WASSAU AND FULTON Ord, Peers = ort Brain, or 0 eos par ete Consens WD RRESPONDENCE, containing me ee eee ones Fee og . IEICE taken of anonymone communications, We do rejected. WAY THEATRE, Broadway-—Youna AmENCA— panto Downxu,- Owerom or Tee Countay. GARDEN, Broadwsy—Youxe HENOLER ON THB ule herecterers ‘AND Fuemka—Mareia, BOWERY THEATRE, Boewery—Macerra -Tws Devn’s ern. DURTON’S THEATRE, Uhambere ‘Tus Live or an wreet— or WALLACE'S THEI, Breadway--Tweurrh Nicer— Waw Yers’s Day. a) LAUBA EXSNW#S VARIERCES. Sroadway—Jare Erne wae Onrnan ‘or Lowvon My *Vire’s Mimnon. WAY VAR 472 Brosdway—Pre racTion or nus Woon & Wass Jovexue Somsecann wmmot Tus BALL, 996 Eroadway—Famceivs sy THE CEL panne Kaan Froure somes, Wr Wan, Lovaury, ac. WEBLO’ 4 TALOO! “Brosdway—GRaNp Oorcext sy Tre pres id Beamon Sescre BUOKLTY’S HALL, 539 Broa@way —Dionstrs oF rng Ber- was Or Bexwen Hus axp THE ComPLAGRaTION oF CRamurs- Bown—VeNTnoqueta— Farry Lanp, £c. 8, s44 Srmoman Mun. | uxvous MoNKuY. BROADWAY 4EHEN ZUM, No. 684 Broadway -New anv @eeanres Pinoais OF THe Tour or BuRoPE. BORAELDORF GALLERY, 497 Beondway—Varrusia Pasgancs at P:arcauT—Maatrapom oy Huss, de, New York, Menday, May 26, 1856. ‘The News. Whe Baltic,.from Liverpool I4th inst., for this port, had sot made-her appearance off Sanéy Hook @p toa late hour last night. ‘The warlike news from Kansas which we: publish ‘e-day, and which we have commented on et length ‘wm the editorial co?umns, will-doubtiess create an in- tense sensation throughout the country. The des- aruction of the town of Lawrence, and the q@emolition of the hotel! and printing office at Kansas City, involving the loss of a num- eer of lives, together with several assassinations eommitted by straggling parties of the helligerents, o'far mark the reign of terror in the Territory. When it will end it is not safe to conjecture at present, but the alacrity with which the towns- people of Lawrence evacuated their stronghold indi- ates that.the rauk and file of the free State forces fm Kaneas are not disposed to follow to extremes ‘the advice of leaders who are first te plan a cam- paign, but are conveniently absent on important fusiness when the time for action arrives. The settlers of Kansas are, for the most part, sensible en, who will not suffer themselves to be made food for powder to gratify the treasenable ambition of demagogues. Great anxiety was felt in the city last night for the safety of some two hundred persons who went en an.excursion to the Fishing Banks yesterday, in the steamboat Robert L. Stevens. By adespatch from Sandy Hock we are informed that the steamer ame in collision with a vessel, thereby damaging her machinery so as to render it nearly if not quite useless. At dark she was drifting off Long Branch, with signals of distress flying. A gale of wind from ~ the northwest prevailed at the time, and fears were entertained that she would be blown off shore. The owners of steamtugs were notified of the condition ef the R. L Stevens, and without doubt assistance was despatched to her relief. The assault on Senator Sumner appears to have pretty thoroughly stirred up the people of Massa- chusetts. On Saturday evening a mass meeting of citizens, irrespective of party, was held in Faneuil Hall, Boston. Gov. Gardner, a political opponent of Sumner, presided, and made a speech warmly espousing his cause. A «cries of resolutions appro- priate to the object of the meeting was adopted. Similar meetings were also held in Lowell and Worcester, and meetings of a like character have been or will be held in other parts of the Stat». Many of the clergy of Boston yesterday, in their pulpits, made the sudject the theme of their pet'- tions. One result may be confidently predictedasa consequence of the attack on the Massachusetts Se- nator, and that is his re-election to the United States Benate, an event scarcely probably under other cir- cumstances. From Texas we learn that a terrific hurricane had passed over a portion of Dallas county. Its course was from north to south, a distance of sixteen miles, extending from east to west two or three bandred yards, The tract over which it swept was completely devastated. Nine persons were killed, and a great number wounded. The loss of stock of all kinds was very serious. We have Pernambuco dates to the Ist inst. The weather was excessively hot, and had been dry for six months. The city was quite unhealthy from yellow fever, which was not only fatal to natives but badly so to foreigners. Sugar was scarce, and the supplies from the interior came in slowly» causing holders to demand an advance. The Philadelphia Guano Company despatched on Saturday to Leguayra and Puerto Cabello the bark Keaac R. Davis, whose cargo consisted principally of stores, such as flour, beef, pork, clothing and agricultural implements for the working of the in- exhanstible deposits of guano on the islands on the Venezuelan coast. She also took out 157 laborers, who are to remain for two years at $20 per month and found. The islands above alluded to are being worked to great advantage by the said company, aad their charter extends over al! for ninety-nine years from June 12, 1854. Already 300,491 tons have arrived at New Orleans, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia. On Friday evening an election for two Assistaxt Engineers.cf the Fire Department for the two new ‘ap-town districts was held in the various engise ‘and hose company houses throughout the city, and om Saturday.<vening the retarns were counted at ‘the Chief's offic, in Elizabeth street. They sum up as follows :—First ,Aistrict—G. J. Rach, of Engine Co. No. 7, 2,296 votee; Thomas Maxwell, of Engine Co. No. 87,.537 votes. Second district—John Bryce, of Hose Go. No. 42, 1,110 votes; David J. Baker, of Engine Co. No. 15,107 votes. G.J. Rach and John Bryce, ther@‘ore, arex:he Engineers elect. The value.of foreign goods imported at the port of Roaton during the week ending 23d instant amounted,to $1,638,780. Total for the correspond- ing weak dest year, $692,724. ‘The gales of cetten.on Saturday were confined to about 1400 hales; tue market closed firm. Flour continued firm andin good demand, both for do- meetic use and for export, ané in some cases a farther advance of 64c. a 124¢c. per barrel was real- ized. Wheat was again active, anéat firmer prices. Corn, aleo, was firm, with sales of prime Virginia yell ow at 60c.,and North Carolina white at 63¢ ; common sound shipping lots were m57c.a 59c. Pork was firmer; mess sold at ¢18, and cased with a tendency to higher rates. Lard was better. The salesof engars amo ated to about 3,100 hhdsx; the market closed about jc. per Ib. higher than it was at the same time of the , tevious week. Coffee wes steady, with more doing. The sales of ali kinds footed up abo’ 200 bags, i eluded in which were 1,000 bags Bahia at Ofc Freig hts were steady. To | Liverpool about 3.500 bushes gra."0 W-te taken at | bd. 0 640, aud about 5,000 bbls. flow @t 24 per bhi. | NEW YOR HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1856. ‘The War Begun—ecessity for Action. indefinite debates fn regard to the action of The corruptions of political parties have | the Naval Retir’ mg Board; then, again, inflam- produced their usual effect. We have had pre- | matory harap nes on Kansas and the nigger monitory symptoms of the result for some time. | qnestion, ip serepersed with offensive psrsonali- The scenes of turbulence at Washington, end- | ties, and « gding with a scene disgraceful to ing with an seeault upon a United States Sens- | any delit ,rative body. But as for any basi tor in the Senate, were unmistakeable. Civil | nees ip, furtherance of the intereata of the war has been declared in the West, and blood country, there was none done. It was appa has begun to flow. Such is, ascording to the rent!'y one of the last things to which that teaching of history, the natural reaaltof cor- | grr ve and reverend body thought of devoting ruption and profligasy among political lead- | it seis, ere, These scandals it was which, frat break- How wasit in the House of Representatives, ing out in the pre-eonsular governments, and ', the members of which hold their positions di- rendering the very{name of avthority a by-, rectly from the people? Why, two months of word forall that waa infamous, were 0’yn | the session were consumed in the struggle ar transferred to the Forum and to the Sacged | to whether a democrat, a nigger worshipper, or Way: and in the brief space of three g?,nera- tione destroyed the old Romana repu'slic to make way for military desgotism. Arid it was these same phenomena —tke same ope profliga- cy among politicians ~tke same turbaleace and recklese disregard of law, producing the same results—which led the conservative masses of the French people to e.ccept cheerfully a des- potic Emperor us the ‘ieast of the evils among which they had to ¢troose. ‘Whe telegraph isYorms us that a battle was fought at Lawren<¢;on Wednesday last, thatthe city was destroyed, and much life lost on both sides. It is stated that the hote. and printiag |] office at Kamens City were also destroyed, and \] that “a few” tives were lost there. Other colli- |] sions between the two factions into which the peopie of Kansas are divided are mentioned; and if ever s portion of what we hear be true, it can be-sesumed without doubt that war exists in he Territory of Kansas. It may be assumed furthermore that in the present fe- verish stete of the public mind, the attitude assumed by both sections of the country will rather tend to aggravate than to arrest the mischief. Both factions in Kansas will be more likely to receive reinforcements of exas- perated belligerents than to find the country meetthem with a uniform expression of die approval. Such are the consequences of the presen’ organization of political parties, and the man- ner in which that organization is carried out. Such is the net result of the labora of the two or three hundred thousand politicians who manage the principal political parties, and who, being mostly briefless barristers, equa lly remarkable for want of scruple and principle and a superficial kind of talent, have assumed, since the deaths of Clay, Calhoun and Web- eter put an end to the second generation of great American statesmen, to destroy the grand old organizations called whig and de- mocratic, and replace them by parties whoze distinguishing characteristic was the driving or worshiping of niggers. By wretched seo- tional divisions, framed on no great p¥inciple of public good, on no measure of broad ge- neral utility, on no grand political purpose; but relying wholly on local prejudices, and border feuds for support, and jooking to the twofold aime of firat eecuring the government spoils for this or that clique, and, secondly, of hastening a general political convulsion, and precipitating the total ruin of the republic. Is it not time now for the conservative citi- zene of the republic to begin to think of themselves, of their children, and posterity? Is it not time now to think of those hopes which men have cherished so fondly for this young nation ; hopes which have not a ghost of a chance of being realized if civil war con- tinuee? As to the blame, why, every one can see that it lies equally with both parties—niggor drivers on the one hand, nigger worshippers on the other. It lies with the leaders of both, who have been preparing for years for the disasters now upon us, and who expect to make their fortune by them—with the hordes of unscrupulous and unprincipled politicians now travelling to Cincinnati, to practice ajug- gle there—with the crowd of hungry office- seekers who will shortly flock to Philadelphia, there to breathe incendiarism aod strife, and to do what in them lies to render themselves as dangerous and destructive to the United States as the Marats and the Dantons snd the Cotlot d’Herbois of the old French republic, the senators of the later Roman republic, or the oligarchy of Athens. For the people at large the question is sim- ply whether these politicians—these two hun dred thousand hungry lawyers—are to be allowed to ruin the country or not. Thia is what the business people, the merchanta of this metropolitan city, the solid farmers, and the manufacturers throughout the country, have got to decide before next winter. Civil war has already broken out. If it be not nipped in the bud, before another four years have passed over it will have reached the heart of the republic, and our trade will be ruined, and our national progress thrown back a quarter of a century, or per- haps arrested forever, by the unscrupulous jug- gies and the violeat fanaticism of the late poli- tical movements both North and Sonth. Tur Gac Law 1n Conoress.—The history of the Thirty-fourth Congress of the United Btates—so far as already developed—is one which reflects no credit upon our country. In it pertisanship in its lowest form has usurped the place of honorable and proper legislation ; and imbecility, extravagance and corruption have superseded those elements of public vir tue and morality without which republics can. not long exist. If the examples that have been eet ia Washington were to find an extensive imitation throughout the country, then indeed would the virtues and sacrifices of those who founded our government have been manifested and made in vain. But while the popa- lar mind remains uncorrupted, and while there is an independent press to expose and denounce the acts of our unworthy representatives, the history of such a Congress as the present can have no worse effect than to reflect temporary disoredit on our government and to subtract some millions of dollars, more or lese, from the natienal treasury. Fortunate indeed will it be if, even at such expense, the people of the United States will at length learn their true interests, and resolve never egain to entrust the high and sacred duties of legislation to such bands as those into which they have now unfortunately fallen, Over six monthe of the present session have elapeed, and what bas Congress done? In the Senate the time has been spent in long, wordy and vapid speeches ou subjects that were not ody. Now two day speeches on Central American | suljecte, which only served to envelope them | @ wore impenetrable fog than they were left in even by that masterpiece of stupidity, the Cleyton-Balwer treaty; then interminable and a Know Nothiag ehould occupy the Speaker’: seat, And as if it were to make up for the publio time so squandered, the dominant party has ever since unvaryingly sbut off all debate on the propositions and bills on which the House has been called to vote. This has bees done by the means of a parliamentary proor dure technically known as the previous question. No matter how important tte proposition is, whetser it be in ref- rence to an appropriation bill cover- ing miliions of dollars, or to a grant of millions of acres of public lands to railroed speculators, or to a pension of eight dollas & month tothe widow of a Revolutionary «0.- dier, the mode of practice is the same. The member introducing it moves the previous question, and, if he gets a majority of the mem bers to support his motion, the previous ques tion is declared seconded, and al} debates and amendments are precluded. {t is an easy matter in euch @ body to matage a thing like that. There are few of te mem- bers who have not some little scleme of their own—for building Custom. Houses, ee tablishing marine hospitals, making grants to corporations, or something of the kind—to effect; and as this is the sim- plest and easiest mode of attahing their” ends, they very naturally lend thei support to the establishment of the principle Acd so the gag law ie enforced; but their scheme suc- ceeda. Freedom of speech is detied; but the national treasury is depleted. ‘The very life and essence of a deliberative bdy is choked out; but the lobby is triumphmt. The mea. ture to which it is applied nay be such as, though its prieciple might conmand the sup- port of the msjority, would ned emendment in its details; but even the joor privilege of buggesting amendments is ienied, and the House is called upon to votetor or against it, with all its imperfections. What a pretty system of ligislation that is: Under it we have already lad several appro- priation bills passed, and tte public domsina despoiled to the extent of sone eight millions of acres. By it an unbounded prospec of public plun- der has been opened up, and the tew honest men who eet their faces againé it—almost all old members—-have no means of exposing ite nefariousness to the country. In a word, the arbitrary rules of the previow question, as it cperates in the House of Reoresentatives, is as openly at variance with the principle of free discussion which underlie: the idea of a parliamentary body as is the fat of any des potiem known among men. it remained for the Thirty-fourth Congress to develope and utilize this hitherto unknown or unused dactique and under its cover the treasury has been robbed, and the lobby enriched. If the voice of the few honest representa- tives who happen to find their way into Con- gress ie to be thus etifled, then the national Legislature is a sbam and a cheat, and repub- licanism a stupendous failure. But if the peo- ple of the United States would perpetuate the government which the fathers of the Revolu- tion reared and fostered, they will exercise mucb more care in the selection of the persons into whose hands they confide the sacred and responsible duties of legislation, and look to it that their agents are men who will not subor- dinate the public interests to their own per- sonal aggrandizement, nor bring reproach up- onthe name of American representatives. In fine, they must eeud men to Congress who feel that they have a higher aim and mission than the attsinment of spoils, the advancement of party, the etifling of discursion, or the obtain- ing notoriety by foul mouthed abuse, or the resort to brute torce. Let us have reform in Congrees, and down with the geg law! Lanxp Jopgs.— More land jobs are before Con- gress, and twelve millions more acres, worth some fifty millions of dollars, are asked for by the unecrupuious politicians and lobby agents, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroeds. The promoters of these schemes pretend to be Western men, but they are ueuslly from Wall street or from Boston— mere speculators—whose sole object is to sell ecrip, which they get for nothing, for a hand- some eum, on the strength of the government donations of lacds, Half the roads they pro- ject are never built. Others only ruin estab- lished roads snd are ‘themse)lves ruined in re- turn. But the grand objection to the dona- tion of alternate sections to railroade—which fairly meets the plausible fallacy that the State ought to grant them, for it loses nothing, as the remaining sections are doubled in valne by the operation--is that the land system of the United States is framed upon the principle of giving every man who wants Jand as much as be can ure at one dollarand a quarter an acre. This generous system has contributed very largely to the growth of the country; and ¢ would be a rainous thing for it tobe neutral- ized by the torced increase in the value of pub lic lands caused by the railway encouragement land joba. PRESIDENTIAL = AVAILABILITY.—The Evening Post and other journals of the same way of thinking, were earcastic and facetious upon the HeraLp ond those organs of opinion whic conridered the cardidatesbip of George Law 88 a matter to be seriously chronicled. They thought it was ridiculous and laughable that @ enccesstul adventurer and speculator, who had epent his life in building railroads and wteemers, as George Law had, should be in contemplation for the Office of President. And jet there same jcurnals are now busily en. geged in advocating the claims of Colonel Fiemcnt, who, though be may have received @ tather better education than George Law, is still nothing more than @ gucceseful adven. at the time properly or regularly before the | turer end epeculator. There is one point of view in which Gol. Fremont may be eaid to be three times es availa*le a candidate ae Lar. Since the deciaion in the Mariposa case, he is worth twenty-four million %; Law i¢ suid to be worth only eight. Is this th’e test which was applied by the Post? ‘The Demoralizution of Pariies—Ihe Juggie at Cincinnati. A representative government like ours ie necessarily the moet perfect or imperfect, just as it maintains the purity of the elective sye- tem, which constitutes its vital power for good orevil. It is manifest that honesty in this respect is wholly unavailable unless its labors are permitted to control the bases of political action. When the foundations are laid in fraud and deception, such as is assured oy the present tactics of parties, it is morally impos- sible that results shall follow of a different character. It has been noticed by the country, without exciting any special comment, that at leasta hundred delegates appointed to the Cincinnati Convention avow friendship for Mr. Pierce, and express a wish to renomizate him, while not one-tenth of that number are honest in de- siring such a reeult. Mr. Pierce is nominally supported by the democratic members of the Senate, but it is safe todeclare that he has not one sincere friend in that body. He is sustain- ed by his party in the House of Representa- tives; but not ten members either desire or ex- pect his renomination. He is supported, too, by thousands of office holders, all over the Union; but they go to Cincinnati to enact a treachery towards him such as he has enacted towards those who elevated him to power. His example for evil is thus introduced into the party, and the spectacle is exhibited of a grand system of false pretences. The process is go- ing on by which a magnificent cheat is to be effected at Cincinnati. Mr. Pierce ‘is a candi- date with plenty of delegates, but no friends. States have instructed their representatives to support him— they have promised to do a0; but they will abandon him and support another. This is the shocking condition of demoraliza- tion in which we find ourselves. It has become the law of conventions to deceive. Public con- fidence is not only impaired in their integrity and virtue, but the people are becoming con- vinced that there is a fatal atmosphere of fraud around them—an inevitable tendency to deception in all they do. This state of affairs turely requires a remedy. In a government based upon the popular will it is certainly im- portant that its action should be guided by patriotiem and sound sense. If the fountain is corrupt it is in vain that we seek to purify the countless rivalets which flow from it. Primary action inan elective system will al- ways indicate the character of the government springing from it. If fraud and misrepresen- tation, false promises and pretences, enter in- to the conventions organized avowedly for the purpose of concentrating public opinion, what are we to expect at the elections? If they do not thus take away the liberty of selecting proper persons to represent us, at least they effect euch @ perfect combination of the office holders and seekers, political stock jobbers and tools, as practically to deny to the people the privileges of tHe elective franchise. For instance, more than a hundred men, de- legated to Cincinnati, professing friendship for Gen. Pierce, and rampant sticklers for popular sovereignty, will take their seats in the Con- vention on the 2d of June, deliberately deter- mined to set aside their man and nominate some one else. Convinced they may be of his weakness, distrusting his honor as 8 man, hav- ing no faith in his integrity as an officer, know- ing him and appreciating him; notwithstand- ing their instructions, they will give him no actual support. And why is thie? The truth may be told in ® few words. They have sustained him in Con- grees and through the country. They have de- ceived their constituents in regard to his cha- tacter, and now, when the hour comes to test their sincerity, they are required to deceive them again, in order to save their party from utter ruin. Is thisour boasted free system? Is this the way that we are to prove a repub- lic a blessed gift to man—the noblest of all human inetitutions? Are we required onve in four years to re-enact, on @ national scale, such 8 grand system of deception and fraud? is this popular eoverelgnty—free inquiry aud judgment? Was it so with the fathers of the republic ? But again: Let us euppoze Mr. Pierce is over- laughed. What next? Are we then to return in triumph to the Constitution as our guide, and to the fair, unbiassed judgment of the de- legates for a selection? Who believes it? The Cincinnati Convention will be com- poeed of men four-fifths of whom have some personal objects to accomplish. It will be a meeting of offizeholders and expectants, ready snd determined to make the best bargain they can for their own individual benefit. Half of them and more will be cheated. Nine tenths of those who nominated Mr. Pierce were so cheated. This fact, only four years’ old, will sharpen the appetites and passions of the present members, especially the outs, and it will be fortunate if they are more successful this time. The first work will be to kill off the prominent men, and this will be easy enough, because the friends of each will proscribe the others, for this reason : that they will tear proscription by the nominee for not having joined his ranks at an earlier day. Thus delegates end candidates will become mixed up ins spoils scramble. What good can come of such proceedings? And yet such are the blessed works of the convention sys tem! Parties are well enough. Those who support the Conetitution and the Union consti- tute a party. The honest and patriotic voters ot the country—the millions who care nothing for cffice, and who desire only that the govern- ment shall be justly administered—constitute a party. The caucus system is the curse of such men, of euch parties. The democracy for twenty years have been striving to do their duty to the country, but they have been foiled at each recurring Presidential election. They bave committed great errore— have borne heavy loads ; but the greatest of these have been en- gendered by local snd national conventions. The intention and epirit of the men are well enough—they would do little wrong, have little difficulty in gaining and holding power, if they were not periodically burthened with the reeponsibility of their caucus managers, The Cincinnati Convention, as constituted, threatens to be even more disgraceful and de- moralizing than any of ita predecessors, It is constituted, avowedly, for the purpores of de- ception. The members of that body will take their seats intending to cheat and defrand their nominal constituency in nine cases out of ten. They ere eupported in this determination by their party friends in both branches of Con- gress, The condition of the country, agitated by violent strifes, and requiring the calm aztion of all patriots, will not be thought of for a | moment, Extreme, North and South, will meet to concur on the besis of securing ends of personal interest. The character of the gov- ernment and the disturbed condition of the people will not be thought of. Principles will amount to nothing— the question will be, Who can we nominate and use? REVIVAL IN THE Exports oF BREADSTUFFS TO Evrore.—About the time. it became evident that peace would be re-established in Europe, our exports of breadstuffs began to diminish. After a fall and winter trade of great activity the exports were checked much sooner than usual: for the then season of the year, and during the months of March and April were in a great degree suspended, although freights ruled very low. The belief seemed to prevail on the other side that what they had received from us, with their domestic supplies, would be suf ficient to carry them through to their next harvest. They also expected an increase of imports from the Black Sea and from the Baltic ports, which has not been realized becauee Germany has been a large importer 0 grain from us, while the growth of grain was interfered with in the Principalities by the war, and in Southern Russia it was either con- sumed by the Emperor’s troops or more or less destroyed by the Allies. Under these circum- stances they find that their supplies are in- adequate to carry them through to the coming harvest, and recently almost every steamer, in the face of fine weatherin England, brings out accountsof an advance in flour and grain, and aleo brings orders for this market. The conse- quence has been an advance here, with the revival of the export demand at an unusually late period of the season. This is all the bet- ter for us, as we have a large surplus on hand to meet it. It was feared, a month since, that when our cotton exports were over for the season we abould have a hard time of it ; that we would have no other large exports of produce going forward to pay for the heavy importations made within the past four or five months, and that we should be drained of epecie to meet the difference. This revival in the export of breadatuffs is, therefore, an op- portune occurrence, To form some idea ot this revival we may state that within the past two weeks we have shipped from this port alone te ports in Great Britain about 300,000 bushels of grain, half or more of which was wheat, at an average value of not less than one dollar a bushel for both, combined making $300,000, and about 50,000 to 60,000 barrels of flour, at an average cost of about six dollars ® barrel, making from $300,000 to $360,000, or a total in value for the two weeks, of from $600,000 to $660,000. These shipments must tell to some extent against the value of foreign exchange, and tend to check the ex- port of specie. Should this revival of exports continue for two months it must prove of great advantage to the country. Now is the time for forwarders and holders to sell off. Between this and the middle of July, or lst of August, will be their last chance. Owing to the im- menee supplies of Indian corn the advance in it has not, and probably cannot, keep pace with wheat ; yet sound corn must continue to be freely shipped. Tse Moprrn Carvatry or SovurH CaRoLina. —For the last twenty or thirty years we have heard a great dea) of the chivalry of South Carolina. Certainly, during the life of that great statesman John OC. Calhoun, the public men and the politicians of South Carolina were always high minded, noble and disinterested, whatever errors of judgment their feelings led them to commit. Their high morality and their intellectual character commanded the re- spect of all; while at the same time, the South Carolinian in private intercouse was a finished gentleman, if there were any in the country: Some marked change must have taken place in that State. We see, for instance, that every public jour- nal in the State, with the exception of two, sustains the administration of General Pierce. If the spirit of John C. Calhoun could be in- yoked by some of the spiritual media, what would the pure and exalted shade of that great man eay to euch a spectacle as South Carolina supporting the reprobate, degradeda dministra- tion of Pierce! Political chivalry must at all events bave winged its flight from that ancient and honored State. Where has it gone? It we were bound to specify a place, we should point out the furthest corner of the State of Michigan and the heart of the democratic party there, where the democracy had re- cently the manliness, by public resolution, to “ thank God that the administration of Frank- lin Pierce was drawing to a close.” THE LATHST NAWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Accident to the Steamer Robert L. Stevens. Sanpy Hoox, May 25—9 P, M. ‘The steamer Robert L. Stevens, while om an excursion to the Fishing Banks to-day, was run into by # schooner off Lorg Branch, about 5 P. M. The steamer is now drifting with the {tide, ber machinery being badly da- maged. She has nearly 200 passengers on board. At dark she was about three miles off Long Branch, with signals of distress flying at ba'f mast. The steam tugs have besn notified, and will probably go to her assistance. Ineeresting trom W: THE FRENCH MINISTER'S EFFORTS IN THE CRAMPTON CASE— PACIFIC EISPOSITION OF THE FRENOH GOV- ERNMENT—EFPROT OF THE REPORT OF THE MILI- TARY COMMISSION—THE PRESIDENTIAL OONTEST —THE APPROACHING OONVENTIONS— GOS6IP AMONG THE POLITICIANS, ETO., ETO.,BTO. Wasunoton, May 26, 1856. ‘The rather abrupt termination of Mr. Sartiges’, (@ French Minister) interviews with the Secretary of Stat§ in behalf of Mr. Crampton, ft would seem, was owing to other causes than those attributed by @ portion of the press. From Saturday last this gentleman had been ‘using his influence, as ambassador of France, with Mr. Marcy, to get his admission of the sufficieney of Lord Clarendon’s apology fer his errors and those of Mr. Crampton inthe enlistment case. In his last interview the Minister represented that the continuance of peace- ful relations betweem England and the United States wa the earnest wish of his master, the Emperor, wa0, since his secession to the throne of Franve, had personally, and through his representatives, evine- ed on every possible occasion # friendship to the Union, Mr. Marey is said te have expressed eatisfaction at the assurance given, and remarked that it did not oor- respond with other official statements which the United States had received from parties of reputable standing in their own country. The Minwter promptly interposed, and denied in the firmest manner the truth of any report adveree to the one which he had just made, fhe scene at this moment, according to representation, must have been one of interest; for Mr. Marcy, rising from bis neat, excused his absence for # moment, when he returned from an adjoining room with an original despateh in his hand asdreesed to the Secretary of War, Mr. Davie, which he opeced, and, by permission of M, Sart'ga, com- menced reading extrasta therefrom. “Now,” raid Mr, Marcy, closing the document, “what I have just read to youis from @ report of an army commis. sion which was sent out by this government for the bene- fit of nelence; snd am I to understand from the free as- surance that you have given, that his Majesty, the Ban” peror, was ignorant of the larguage used by his War Secretary to the efficers of this mission, to whom he not only declined extenaing the courtesies solicited, Dbutadded to the refural an expression hoping ‘that when they next met it might be st the cannon’s mouth?”’’ Mr, Marcy coatinued: ‘This language is further corroborated by a deepatch to this department from our Minivter at Paris. But,’ sald Mr. Marcy, ‘your assurances of friend- ship st this time will no doubt be most scceptable to the Presideut, to whom I shall communicate the facts you have just made known tome.”” Mr, Sertiges took his departure at the close of Mr. Marcy’s last sentence, and bas not since presented him- selfas the advocate of Lord Clarendon or Mr. Cramp- ton, This, in all probability, was the only time and place when the insulting language of the French War Minister, Marchal Vaillant, to our officers, could have: received notice, as the official position ot the parties to whom it was prononnosd would not have justified the Uni'ed States in noticing it by communication direct te- the French government. Although I have full eonf- dence in the correctress of what I have here stated, yet itisdue to M. Sartiges to say, that he declares the re- port exaggerated. One thing, however, 1s certain, that ot was the introduction of Marshal Vaillant’s langusge- that induced the hasty flight from the State Depart- ment of the French Minister. ‘Washington is likely to be & dull place for the next two or three weeks. Cincinnati draws off the first in- atalment, although the abolitionists hold their ‘Na- fonal’’ Convention in Syracuse on Wednesday next—aix" days before the democrats meet in Cincinnatt. Members of Congress and others are already leaving for Ohio. It is thought that there will hardly be a quorum left in. Congress by Wednesday. s from Kansas has produced « sensation, but the Presidential nominations will absorb it; and as Kan- sae offaire will enter iargely into the campaign, the siege wrence can be talked over in Cincinnati as well ae in hington. The capital is of course full of political gossip. It is in~ teresting, and true for the time, but the result in con-_ vention will upset many well laid plans. ‘Very extensive arrangements are made in Cincinnat? for the reception of delegates. Splendid suites of rooms are engaged for ‘headquarters’ of the different \sec- tions, and large sums of money will be spent in cham- pagne dinners. The plan of the ‘Dover Club’? dinners at the New York Hotel will be carried out, but on.a more extensive and magnificent scale. Of course the field of operations is larger. The Bucharan forces will be on hand; but several of the leaders, such as Governor Wise, of Virginia, and Mayor Wood, of New York, will not be in Cineinnatt. Forney will be the master spirit there. Messrs. Sickles and Sanders, of New York, will also be there. The Pierce insite and outside delegates pretend to: great strength. They will, however, humbug him. Some are for Douglas, some for Hunter and some for Buchanan. As they are generally office holders, they go for the strong- est men. As they are apparently for Pierce, they think they can easily sell out without much damage to oon- science. Col. Greene, of the Boston Post, and Naval. Officer of that port, is the head Pierce leader to be om duty in Cincinnati. Senator Douglas’ friends are full of hope. They count on their strength in the Northwest, and expect, after thie first ballot, to obtain Pierce’s Southern vote. This, how- ever, will not give them a two-third vote. But there in nothing like hope unless it be the nomination, Among the other candidates talked of by the democrata are Hunter and Wise, of Virginia; Judge Nelson, of New York; Rusk, of Texas; Brown, of Tennessee; Toucey, of Connecticut; Gutbrie, of Kentucky; Davis, of Mississipp!; Bigler, of California, asan offset to Fremont; Bright, of _Jpétana; ane even Marey, of your Btate, v The Nigger Worshippers’ Convention, which is to meet’ in Philadelphia on the 17th proximo, is not lost sight of in the excitement among the democra's, There are a number of candidates to be brought before that body. Once Seward was the orly maa; now there are # dozen pa- triota on the slate. Benidee Seward, there are Chase and McLean, of Ohio; Fremont, of South Caroline, California, and New York; Hell, of Tennessee; Houston, of Texas; Wilson, Sumner and Banks, of Maseachusetts; Johnston, of Pennsylvania; Stockton, of New Jersey (you reeqliest his recent letter); Benton, of Missouri, —_ “There are two sides in the nigger worshipping ranks. One is composed of the seceders from the eld democratic party—the Van Barens, Bentons, Blairs, Chases, and Banks, with the Ztening Post and Albany Argys and Adas for New York organs. The other side embraces the remains of the old whig party—the Sewards, Johnstons, ‘Weeds, Greeleys, sad other small fry, with the Al- pany Evening Journal and the Tribune and Times for ergans. According to the gossipshere, the first party want Fremont for their candidate. Several months ago he was thought of, and Banks and others begun quietiy to talk him up in select circles. Banks was included im the programme for Vice Fresi¢ent. Fremont was to haif from California, and Banks trom Massachusette—the ex- treme West and East. This plan was to be kept quiet, and mentioned only in whispers in secluded places, until the election of Speaker, and the settlement of the Mariposa claim, worth probably thirty millicns of doliars—if yor: only dig deep enough. These two points sesomplished, the great plan was broken to the public first at the Pittaburg Convention, and now you will find Fremont the prominent man of that section of the party, and sketches in the dif: ferent newspapers of bis wonderful Ite passed in the snow- Grilts of the Rocky Mountains. Some here think it only a scheme to bring forward Old Bullion, his father-in-law. We shall see. But if thie plan don’t work, Gov. Chase, of Ohio, is to be the man. The democratic nigger worshippers won’t have Seward; they say that he and his friends are too mueh mixed up in the railroad, patent and other speculating schemes before Congress to stand any chance with the people. This is probably gossip enough for one day. The Abo-~ lition Convention in Syracuse next Wednesday, and the Know Nothing Convention in New York, om the 12th Proximo, sre not deemed here of any importance. Our city {s filled with delegates to Cincinnati from el tections of the country, and the friends of the respective candidates are laying their plans of operation. The gene- ral impresmon is, that Pierce will have s plurality on the- first ballot. 1 am informed to-day, by a delegate to Cincinnati, who. has recently had am interview with Gen. Pierce, at the- White House, that he told him that rotation im the dis- pensation of patronage was # cardinal principle with, him, and that if re-nominated and elected, it wae his purpose to make an entire change in his Cabinet, Some twenty thousand ecples of a pamphlet, neatly printed, with yellow cover, containing upwards of fifty Pages, were received here lest evening. It is entitled’ ‘ The Softs of New York the True Democracy.” Itis am answer to one gotten up by the hards, which has been: circulated extensively in the South. Senator Weller gave a dinner yesterday to the Caltfor- nians now in Washington. Speeches were made by Judge Douglas, Col. Joe Lane, and others, Major Ben. McCulloch, the distinguished Texan ranger, is Bow stopping at Brown’s. ‘The Sumner Fracas. INDIGNATION MERSING IN BOSTON— THE ASSAULT ON> SENATOR SUMNER DENOUNCED. Boston, May 25, 1866, An indignation meeting was held in Faneuil Hall last’ evening, composed of citizens, irrespective of party. Ht ‘was one of the largest gatherings that has ascembled ta- this city for many years, thousands of people beiug un- able to gain admittance. ‘Tae meeting wes called to order by William B. Spooner,, Eeq., who stated that it was not the demonstration ef any political party,and he should be ashamed of onr citi- zens should they seize upon such am occasion to manu- facture political capital. The question is, ‘Shall oar Tepresentatives in Congress be allowed to express them- selves ina strictly parliamentary manner without being. subjected to eutraget”’ Shouts cf “They shall,”’ “they shall,’ from all parte of the hall. Mr. Spooner then read a list of officers:—For President, his Exeellency, Gov. Gardner. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Then followed the names of ferty Vice Presi- dents, the most prominent of whom were—Lieut. Gov. Benehley, Hon. E. ©, Baker, Hon. Charles A. Phelps, Mayor Rice, Hon. Samuel H. Walley, Peleg W. Chandler, ex-Gov. Boutwell, Hon. C, C, Hazewell, Amos A. Law- renee, J. W. Paige, Ezra Lincoln, Hom, Danieh Warren, Dra. J. V. C. Smith, and N, B, Shurtlfff, Hon. Nathan Hale, Professor C. 0, Felton, Rev. Lyman Beech @r and Charles 0. Rogers; Secretaries, A. Lawrence, Charles Hale and B. F, Russell. The officers, as organ- ized, were unanimously confirmed. The meeting wee opened with an appropriate prayer by Rev, Rollin H Neale. Governor Ganpyme, on taking the cbair, said this was not ® personal oration, We come here, as citizens of Marsachusetts, simply and solely because a Senator of Marsachusetts has been assaulted with a grosmness and brutality which history, until now, has never had writ- ten upon her pages. This was not a party meeting; if se,