The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1857, Page 4

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CHAISTY 4ND WOOD'S MINeTRELS, 444 Broad- qy Biscorsan Paavonmances—Masournspe Batt, _ BUO™: SERENADERS, 685 Broadway—Ermsorian iebernnier Monon 30-Dae Kase” clk EROHANIC® HALL, 473 Broadwsy—Nveno Muccocse. qx er Bar ars Mestaeea, ey sew York, Friday, February 27, 1857. —S———S——_—_—_—_— Whe News, ‘We have news from Kansas of bloody work, brief particulars of which are given in a despatch under ‘the telegraphic head. It appears that Gov. Geary re- fused to appoint a man named Sherrod to the office of sheriff, whereupon the latter grossly insulted the former. A public meeting was subsequently held ‘0 express opinions regarding the affair, at which a fight occured, and during the fray Sherrod killed ® man named Shepherd. The Governor's Secretary, ‘My. Jones, then s10t Sherrod, killing bim instantly. It is just possible that the matter has been greatly magnified, though for what object it is difficult to iscover. The difficulty which has been brewing for some time past between Mesers. Wright of Tennesee, and Sherman, of Ohio, members of the House of Mepre- sentatives, reached a crisis yesterday. The facts ere detailed under the telegraphic head. At one time it was thought a duel must certainly result from the affair, but at last accounts su:h a contin- gency was likely to be avoided. The proceedings of Congress yesterday are im- portant. The Senate passed a bill directing the Postmaster General and the President to make a eontract fora line of telegraph between Washing- ton end San Francisco, This, ia conneciion with ‘the wagon road, will do very well for some years, as a substitute for a railroad to the Pacific. A bill was weported from the Post Office Committee authoriz- ‘img the establishment of lines of mail steamers be- ween New York and Para, touching at the inter. mediate ports; also a line from Panama to Valpa- q@aiso. A bill was likewise introduced providing for asteam revenue cutter in the Pacitic. The Senate ‘entered upon an elaborate discussion of the House ‘Pariff bill, the session continuing up to a late hour dast night. The House yesterday very sensibly dropped all other business, and passed the Miscellaneous, Army, Navy, Fortification and Ocean Mail Steamer appro- priation bills. The Senate's amendments to the In- dian Appropriation bill were also acted on, and the proposition to invest the $8,000,000 held in trast for the Indians in safe State stocks, was laid on the table by a majority of five. The case of Mr. Gilbert com- ing vp, the Hovse adjourned on motion of Mr. Orr, of the Investigating Committee. The new tresty with Mexico, about which the Washington journals have been so befogged, reached ‘the eapital on Wednesday, and has already engaged the particular attention of thé government. Ad- @itional information respecting the provisions of the treaty may be found in the letters of our corres- pondents at Mexico and our Washington despatches. We give in another column more interesting ra- mors and facts relative to the Bond street tragedy. It bas been reported that Governor King has sent Written directions to the District Attorney, Mr. Hall, requiring him to take the necessary legal mea sures for the removal of Dr. Connery from his office as Coroner. The charges upon which the Governor has proceeded in this matter, have, it is said, been @rawn up by Mr. Clinton, counsel of Mrs Cunning- ham, and are based upon the course of conduct he pursued in the investigation of the circumstances Mending the death of Dr. Harvey Bariell. The Coroner is, it appears, to be impeached on the ground of ineompetency and improper conduct; but he is determined to contest to the last the power ‘and authority of the Governor, and for that purpose bas already engaged counsel. The case will pro- bably come before the proper court in the course of ‘three or four days. Eewhere we publish additional news from Cuba, A credit mobilier of twelve millions capital has been ~ established. A careful study of the condition of sugar crop by competent persons has led to the ‘belief that the crop will not exceed, and perhaps may not eqnal, the yield of last year. The tobaceo plants in some portions of the island have saffered greatly from drought. Sweet potatoes, plaintains, apd in fact oll kinds of vegetables, have been nearly destroyed by the severe cold of the season. Our correspondent s*ates that three or four cargoes of megroes have been recently landed. A Peruvian ship bad also landed two hundred and niaety-five eoolier, the remainder of six hundred embarked in China having perished of dyrentery while on the pasroge—a terrible mortality, truly. According to news from 8t. Domingo Clty, dated December 30, that republic was on the eve of new and serious disturbances, in consequence of the threatening position taken by ex-President General Savtana in the district of Seibo. Amongst the com- munity of Neyba, province of Azusa, an armed in- surrection bad brekam out, and menaced to set the whole courtry in conflagration. The Gaceta Oficial ef St Domingo, under date of December 30, publisty. e@o decree by whieh martial law is proclamed throughout the whole territory of the republic, and all crimes and delinqnencies committed after the publication rhal! Le@punisbed according to the mili- wary penal code. The letters of cur correspondent at Havana given in another coluwn contain « fall report of the pro ceedings whichsovk place in that city in order to 40 boner to the nomains of the late Dr. Kane. The affair wae condnctod with every demonstration of weapect for the fame o! the deceased, and was par. ticipated ix by all cleases, the Captain General tak- ing an onuseal'y prominen: part. The Geographical Society met last evening, whea appropriate ewlogics upon Dr. Kane were pro mounced by President King, Dr. Hawks, Dr. Francis and others. The Postmaster 2t Port Stanley (Cansda), na ned flenderson, bas suddenly left hat place, supposed for the United States. He is believed to bea de terior to @ copsideraile amount Officers are in Surevit of the fogitive, Tie Navel Cavrt of Inquiry at Wasidagton i+ now eg eed with the cose of Lieut. R. W. Meade, the « oS Pepwinglon baving been postponed fe wwale Ne ovvival of w en, The Hadeo.* River Dallroad, which bis beea com- pelcd to turpend operations Leoween (odson aud Aibeny sp tt damage receteod & the { bsthes dus, “bt oy g. Naw eon river is aga is so tender that the steamers’ which leave for | Albany apprehend no serious @ifficnity in reaching | their destination. The Sound boata are all, we be- Keve, makiyg their regular trips, loaded down with freight, Jarye quantities of which has accumulated during the close of navigation. In the Supreme Court yesterday further pro- ceedings in the Lemon slave care were postponed, by consent of counsel on both sides, till the first Monday in May next. A very curious and exciting scene happened yes terday in the United States Commissioner's Court, before which the case of the alleged frauds on the Northern Railroad of France is undergoing iavesti- gation. In the course of the proceedings the Consul General of France produced a paper, which was seized upon by Mr. Busteed, who refused to retarn it to its owner, although dire:ted to do s9 by the Commissioner. The Commissioner thereayon ad- journed the Court forthwith. A detailed account of the affair may be found elsewhere. The investigation into the complaints against the Union Ferry Company was continued yesterday by the Committee on Ferries of the Board of Alder- men. Several prominent citizens gave additional details of mismanagement, and a former President of the South Ferry Company gave an interesting comparison between the former and present methods of conducting business. ‘The farcical inquiry into the affairs of the filibns- ters was continued yesterday, but nothmg of im- portance was elicited. The patience of all parties interested appears to be nearly exhausted. Oxiton con'taued firm yesterday, with sales of a rout 3,5¢@ bales. Flour again fell off about 60. per barrel, especially on common grades, with rather more dolog at the deoline. Wheat was rather more active, with ssies of common to good Soutnern white at $1 70 a $1 728 $1 75, red do. at $1 67, and Mis-ourl red ai $! 546 81 58, Corn was in fair request, with snics of Western m'xed, to store, at 7Cc. a 7130, and Southern yellow at 13340 a 780, Pork opened «ith much spirit, aud sold a: $23 508 $24, and closed heavy at the inside figure; among the sales were 200 bbis. clear pork at $25, 100 do. prime mers at $22. Sugars were activ. of about 1,000 # 1,100 hhds. 4,300 boxes in bond, for At rates given tn anoiher column. Coffie was quiet today, while prices were steady. Freights wore heavy, and some 20,000 bushels corn, in bulk, were taken for Liverpool at 41;4.; 4,000 a 6,000 Dbis. flour at 1s.61. « 1s.94 , and cotton at 632d, a 3.164, The New Administration—The Cabinet Made up at Last. The Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, it seems. is made up at last, although we are not yet autho- Titatively informed of its definite classification. According to our Washington despatch of this morning, which comes from a reliable and well informed source, J. Glancy Jones, of Penusylva- nia, is, and all the time has been, decided upon tor the office of Postmaster Generai. The new Cabinet will, therefore, be composed of the fol- lowing individuals, and probably under the fol- . Lewis Cags, Michigan Howell Cobb, Ga. Jacob Thompson, Miss. .J.Glaney Jones, Penn Attorney General.. . Isaac Toucey, Conn This has the look of a homogeneous Cabinet, and particularly sound and harmonious upon the great disturbing issue of slavery, Sach is the happy consequence of going to work in the right way. Between Pierce’s method of choosing a Cabinet and that of his successor, there is as great a difference as between ducks known as red- necks and genuine canvass-backs. Poor Pierce ooked to the party and to the various ultra factions and cliques of the party, and hese he attempted to work up into a specimen of Cabinet mosaic, upon the dema- gogue’s idea that no administration can be held together except by ‘the cohesive power of the public plunder.” The plan adopted by Mr. Bu- chanan was, first to settle upon the principles and general policy of his administration, and then to thape his Cabinet accordingly. He has commenced, too, exactly where poor Pierce should have commenced, upon the basis of the Union and conservative principles embodied in the compromise acts of 1850, and has given us the strongest possible embodiment of those pria- ciples in bis Cabinet selections, General Cass has been objected to as somewhat too old and infirm for the laborious duties which will devolve upon the Premier; and Mr. Cobb, it is generally agreed, from his more vigorous health, strength and elasticity, was the man for the State Department. This, we are assured, was the opinion also of Mr. Buchanan; but it was overruled by @ party combination against Mc. Cobb as Premier, which could not very well be disregarded by a President disposed to cultivate to almott any reasonable extent the peace of the family. With General Cass, however, as Secre- tary of State, instead of Mr. Cobb, the Southern ultras have secured more than they bargained for; inasmach as their man and their plan was Robert J. Walker, a wandering stockjobber, a fire-cater and -a filibuster ‘with all the modern improvements.” These appointments of Cass and Cobb, therefore, constitute a most important act and a great victory over the filibusters and the secession and abolition disunionists at the very outset. It appeare, notwithstanding all the various rumors of this man, that man aad the other, for Postmaster General, with which the cabinets of the Waehington Cabinet makers have been garnished of late, that there never has been any difficulty whatever with Mr. Buchanan upon the subject, but that J.Glancy Jones has been his man from the beginning. All thove other move- ments and flying rumors concerning this office, may doubtless be traced to the efforts of Colonel Forney’s friends to crowd him into the Cabinet after his defeat for the Senate. Mr. Jones is a conservative of the school of Mr. Buchanan him- tel, wos the particular champion of “Old Back" in Congress last «pring, his especial working man at the Cincinnati Convention, and is the representative of “Old Berks,” the county which in the turning point of the last October election, led the way. Such are the party claims of Mr. Jones; It, in addition to these, we are assured that he is capable, faithful and indastrious, and @ talented and energetic man of busines We are entirely prepared to believe that he will prove a vast improvement upon our Postmaster Campbell. ‘The other members of the new Oabinet are more generally known. In the aggregate they form a very decided expression of the conserva. tive Union principles of Mr. Buchanan, and a very empbatic act of defiance and open war ogainet all eccession and disumion disorganizers end agitators, North and Sonth. No doubt, from the North sod the South, the baffled disunion cliques, within and without the party camp, will Procerd at once to their work of calumniation, misteprceentation and rebellion; no doubt there will be a violent war waged against the new ad- winistration from the beginning to the end: but o¢ Mr. Buchanan las set ont on the right track, and a8 the mnrser of the poopie are also for the J the netitntion. he bee nothing to YORK WEALD, Concesstons Granted—The Power of the Almighty Dollar Invoked. Our ietiers from Mexico, publehed this morn- ing in another column, give the full particulars of the new treaty made by Mr. Forsyth with the Mexican government, by which it will be seen that the termeof the new arrangement differ from those given a fortnight since from Washing- ton, and conform exactly to the version of our correspondent, published on the 17th inst. The points of the treaty are :—let. Reciprocity on the frontier ; 2d. A reduction of twenty per cent in the duties on our producte; 3d. A postal convention ; 4th. An appropriation of three mil- lions of dollars to pay the claims of our citizens upon Mexieo, which are to be examined by a commission ; and lastly, an appropriation from the remaining twelve millions to pay the English convertional debt. The fifteen millions which President Comonfort desires to obtain by this treaty are to be in the form of a loan, which thall be guaranteed by the United States, That the guarantee of the United States to a ‘oan tothe government of Mexico would enable -her to obtain the money immediately, there caa be no doubt, Our stockjobvera in Wall street would jomp a* it like buugry trout at a June fly, and this would enable the present government of Mexico to pass safely through the crisis that now attends it. President Comonfort, in his liberal reforme, is harassed on all sides by the power and intrigues of the clergy, and if he does not receive some extraneous assistance, will be forced to suc- cumb and give place to the insatiate greed of Santa Anna or the heartless ambition of the cbureh. . In adopting the course he has taken he has evinced much good sense and a thorough appreciation of the difficulties which eurrousd him. Had he imitated Santa Anna, and told another slice of Mexican territory, he would irretrievably have met the fate that fell to Santa Anna, New taxes and contribations were out of the question inthe present exnaa:t- ¢d condition of the country, and the reveauy that might accrue from a recoustructed tariff must wait the slow growth of commerce. The church property, which has been abundantly for- ieited by the numerous rebellions instigated aod fostered by the clergy, he does not feel himself strong enough to seize. Io hie dilemma, and in view of the dark fu‘ure that looms up for Mexi- co, bis only resource was to apply to his rich neighbor, whose worst complaint ie a fullaess of the chest. Here was new ground for diplomacy. We have long been endeavoring to obtain from Mexi- co some excision of her prohibitive tariff and postal laws, but without avail. She bas strong- ly resisted all our endeavors at negotia- tion until now, when one of our pros pecters has struck the new placer, and she is disposed to be liberal with us if we will be liberal with her. She offers us what we want in return for what we can easily spare. The markets of her seven millions of in- habitants will be at once thrown open to our trade if we will open our purse strings or endorse her notes, now that she is short on her bank account. ‘The advantages which such an arrangement will give us in our intercourse with her are beyond cal- culation, whether taken in an indastrial or a politi- cal point of view. But to Mexico they will accrue largely. Stability will be conferred upon her government, and it will be encouraged to con- tinue the course of liberal reform it has entered upon. The Powers of Earope, which are con- tinually interfering in her domestic policy, will be more cautious and abstemious in their med- dling, and when we have once acquired an in- terest in her prosperity and progress, England, France and Spain will change their tone towards her, and perhaps evince a desire to help her along too. We approve, therefore, of this new priaci- ple in American diplomacy, and recommend its immediate adoption. Let the new treaty be ra- tified and all its provisions sworn to upon the true faith of the almighty dollar. Crvm. War Broxe Oct ar Last my Wase- INGTON AND Kansas.—We publish an account in the Henaxp of this morning of a bloody fracas in Kansas, which occurred on or about the 19th inst., in which two lives were sacrificed. We also publish an account of a melee, loss sangul- nary indeed, as yet, but equally deplorable, which occurred yesterday in thé House between two honorable members of that body. Now, what is all this but civil war, on a small scale? And what does it portend but that, when individuals in high places set the example, the contagion will spread and fn- noculate the masees? Civil ware in all ages have begun in this manner; first, by partial and individual rencontres, and then by the hostile meeting of gradually greater numbers We should not ray this of any private quarrels be- tween man and man; but there lies at the bottom of these events one same great ferment ing cause and principle. Pro and anti-slavery principles, in both cases, lie at the root of these lamentable scenes and contentions. These an- tagonistic elements show themselves struggling for the mastery, Irreconcileable in their hate, and ready to ruth to the most bloody extremities, There individual skirmishes are like the fights which occur between ibe advance posts and Pickets of two great hostile armies which yet remain unseen and at rome distance from each other. If the malignant causes and eenseless, wanton agitations which first called up thie evil epirit in the land, when a smal! party of violent men clamorously called for dis- union or submission to them, If tot put down by @ high band and a firm purpose, to what shall we come? What will be the end of these begin. nings? e confidently look to Mr. Bachanan to fave the Union, as Jackson, by his iron stead- fastness and fearless action, once saved it in similar dangers. It is the same party of nullifiers, fire-eaters and disunionists who now endanger the Union by ultra and extravagant slavery extension projects. If thwarted in their echemes they are determined upon disunion, and we question muoh if their schemes are not put forth for no other object whatever than to pro- mete rebellion and dieunion, by giving to thema color and a pretext. The people of this country, in every State, are too much attached to the Union to give overt or conscious aid or counte- nance to there disturbers of the Jeff. Davis school. If they are speedily put down, they will bocome extinct asa party; but if courted and feared—if & temporizing policy is pureued towards them, they will flourigh more than ever, and the coun- try will never be free from slavery agitation til! they gain their enda. These fire-eaters are the Teal abotitionists—the end of their work is to ruin and destroy the South. We thiak Mr. Ba- chanen will know bow to manage mattera, Al- ready bis prodent course gives some hope and promire of bia future setion, Down with civil WANS Cede FRITVAY Taw Forry Tateves IN THE Jars,—When Ali Baba, finding the forty thieves in the oil jars, dexterously poured boiting oil on them and boil- ed them all, we are led to believe that the first who felt the contact of the boiling liquid, beld his peace like a very Spartan, and suffered martyr- dom witbout uttering a groan. Our forty thieves do not possess equal fortitude; when Mr. Gilbert's case came up on Wednesday, they howled and squealed in concert, until the House in self-de- fence put them down. They were warned beforehand that defence of the accused would obviously be translated as complicity in the crime; but this did not deter heroes of the calibre of Mr. Bennett, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Wachbura, Mr. Colfax, &c., from standing forth to protect Mr. Gilbert from the just sentence of the Committee. And they mast take the consequences, So far as we are able to judge, Mr. Gilbert has been dealt with fairly and justly; the Committee have nothing to reproach themselves with, eo far as he is concerned: no de- nial of justice has been substantially charged upon them; it is therefore allowable to assum} that the gentlemen who thrust themselves for- ward in this conjuncture to screen him from the natural consequences of his conduct, had better Teasons for doing so than the mere impalsza of private friendship. There may be persons among those we have named who are innocent, and whom it would be an injustice tocondemn. But it must be admit- ted even by their friends that they have placed themselves ina most unfortunate position, Here ig a man of the character and standing of Rever- dy Johnson who testiftes that he hears of an or- ganization of thirty to forty members all pledged to each other to serve as banditti, and to give no gratuitous vote on a railroad or patent bill; and here on the other band are gentlemen, who, when an evidently corrupt member is called to account for his corruption, and threatened with the pun- ishment of the House, gratuitously step forward, undertake his detence, and promise to justify his acts. What is the natural inference? What can it be save that the forty thieves, fecling theic haunts menaced by the Committee, seek to defend even such outworks as the conduct of Mr. Gil- bert? We know that in this city when a notori- ous thief is apprehended, all the other thieves will strain heaven and earth to get on the jary in order to secure his acquittal; we hope that the members of ihe republican party who stood up to speak for Mr. Gilbert had a better and a higher motive. The cession draws rapidly to a close, but very few working days are left, and we may be pretty sure that little or nothing will be done during the balance of the session. Mr. Johason’s shame- ful disclosure will remain a naked assertion, it from no other reason, trom want of time to fol- Yow up the trail which events and the Committee have pointed out. But one thing msy be said confidently. It Congress were under the contro} of Mr. Mateell, and he were apprised that thirty or forty organized thieves existed in that body, we apprehend that even the short balance of the seteion would suffice to bring one or two of them at least to shame and detection. And it may aleo be taken for granted that the first trail which he would deem it hie duty to follow up, would be the evidences of sympathy with the culprits al- ready apprehended, and the appearances of a de- sireto quench the inquiry which might be or which have been exhibited by members. Toe Frexco Rep Rerveucays MakinG A Nicur or rm my Briessep New Yorx.—-Toe amiable and highly intelligent patriots of the French nation who do this city the favor to make it the sewer into which their com- munist notions are poured, held their usual yearly meeting on Tuesday last, in fit commemo- ration of the monstrous blunder of February, 1848. It has been ueual with these eminent statesmen and political economists to beguile their exile and testify their gratitude to the coun- try which grants them a home by giving utter- ance, on these festive occasions, to mild wishes for the comprehensive extermination of the ruling classes in Europe, or for the invention of some such expeditious machine of death asa “ steam guillotine ;” these being the formulas by which, io the opinion of M. Baron, Vogeli, Turfert and others, the existing rocial system of Europe is to be purified of i's stains, and be rendered worthy of the age and the French nation. They were not faithless this February to their traditional practice. A speaker, who spoke as if he had the globe under his feet, expressed his intention not only of exterminating crowned heads through- out the world, but of blotting out of all lan- guages the very names of king and emperor; and the speaker of the evening devoted no small por- tion of bis time to what looked very like a jastifi- cation of the mad monk Verger for the assassina- tion of the Archbishop of Paris. Those sentiments were received, we are told, with vociferous ap- plause by the aseembled guests. It is to be hoped that these patriots are bet- ter acquainted with the Frenchmen of whom they discoursed than they seem to be with the Americans wi they introduced to thelr aa- dience. Ot , if they know as little of the Emperor as Mr. Langen Swartz knows of Mr. Bennett, whom he describes as having been a guest of the Emperor's and indebted to him for his son’s‘admission to the Polytechnic scheol, we fear their tacts cannot be more trustworthy than their theories. One thing is quite certain. Such men are bet- ter here than in their own country. We live here in a sort of fire-proof, bomb-proof country, where you may light bonfires, fire off squite, and play any incendiary prank, in the very midst of tociety, without doing the least harm. All that is needed to demolish the worst incendiaries is a column of the Herat in the hands of a aktl- ful reporter. Give them air, and they expire di- rectly. So whenever treason is plotted, or non- rente brewed, we just let in plenty of air and daylight on the plotters, and they straightway become harmlers as sucking doves, If these amiuble children of the Gaelic cock were still in their native France, they would forever be contriving conspiracies to overthrow the gov- erpment and get up street fights; the govera- ment, instead of exposing their absurdity, would be employing a legion of policemen to watch and guard them; and some day an out- break would take place, and heads would be broken, and perbaps a revolution would take place. As to object or aim, bless you, they have none in the world; if they carried their point, they could no more than repeat the mise. table fiasco they made in 1848; if they were beaten, they would have much to sulfur, and wonld involve many innocent person: in their troubles; whether beaten or victorious, they could not do any good to their country and could not help doing it some harm. It ie there men who have #0 far diseredited the *#®BRUARY 27, 1857.) a » qpen, or at least the ice remaining | The New Treaty with Mcxteo—Commereial eensible men who love her have seen rather with pleasure than with pain the strong solid govern- j ment of 9 despot supersede the abortive efforts of the republicans; and have half forgiven the Em- peror for the errore of his ascent to power by the judgment with which he bas used it and the nerve with which he has kept it in his grasp. One uch man as this is worth to a country a whole myriad of theatrical socialists—whether you call him President, King, Minister, or Emperor. _ THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE, CIVIL WAR IN WASHINGTON AND KANSAS, ANOTHER FRACAS IN CONGRESS, BLOODY NEWS FROM KANSAS. THE COMPOSITION OF THE NEW CABINET. A TELEGRAPH LINE TO THE PACIFIC. of the Ay iation Bills in ee Interesting Debate on the Tariff in the Senate. ARRIVAL OF THE MEXICAN TREATY, ec. &o., deo. NON-ARRIVAL OF THS ¥1AGARA—THE EUROPA OUT- WARD BOUND. Haurax, Feb. 25—11:30 P. M. ‘The steamahtp Niagara, row im her thirteenth day out, has not been signalled. ‘The Europa, from Boston, has just arrived here en roue fer Liverpool. ‘the weather is clear with a light breeze from the zorth- west, Bloody News from Kansas. SERIOUS DIFFICULTY BSTWEEN GOV. GEARY AND JUD@E SHERKOD—MRB. SHEPPERD AND JUD SHER- ROD SHOT. Br. Louis, Feb. 25, 1887, ‘Tne Jeffereon City correspondent of the St. Louls Demo creat learns from the passengers from Kansas to night that serious dificulty had arisen between Governor Geary and Jad, erred, growing out of the refusal of tbe former to appoint the latter Sherif, as destred by the Legislature. Sherrod had avowed his intention to kil! the Governor, and meeting him shortly afterward in the street spit in his face. Geary did not resent this, but nis friends got up an indignation meeting on Tharsday, the 19th, which Sheriff Jones, Judge Sherrod and others at tempted to break up, when a conflict ensued, in which Sherrod shot Mr. Shepperd, one of Gov. Geary’s friends, four times, killing bim, and wounding two others. Mr. Jones, the Governor’s secretary, thn shot Sherrod, the ‘Dall passing through bis bead and killing bim instantiy. Very great excitement existed at Lecompton, and a general Sight was anticipated that night. Governor Geary’s reaiience was guarded by United States troops. « Mr. Sterrod or Sherrard is the mam who was a>- pointed by the Court t All the vacancy cocasioned by Sheriff Jones’ recignation, ana to whom Governor Geary Tefosed to grant © commission, on the ground of babitua! drunkenness. The Westport correspondent the Repedlicom saya that Sherrod did mot spit in Governor's face, but called him « liar, scoundrel, The remainder of the report ts roborated, nor is it contradicted, We look ‘rom Lecompton to-night. THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE EIFFICUL TY— NO DUEL EXPECTED. Wasnrvetos, Feb. 25, 1857. ‘The fracas in the House to-cay is the theme of nume- Tous speculatons to night. Some confidently predict a vel, but the betier opinion eeems to be that there will be mo fight, as each party claims the onus to be upon the other. What are the hots? A fow dayesince Mr. Barris, of Illinois, during @ sprech be mate, rcored most unmerolfully the memorable Kan™ sas Committee, and eaid the labors of thet committes hed among other things caused the rejection of Presideat Pierce by the democratic party. Mr. Wright, of Tennes- see, ip response to this, said, inan under tone—‘‘That’s ale!’ A report of this remark appearing in the official paper the next day, Mr. Saermen, of Onio, called the attention ofthe Abuse to 1\, and wished Mr. Wright to say ‘whathe chose relative to that remark, and whether ho ‘Was Or was mot correctly reported. Mr. Wright replied that he meant by it no disrespoot to the House; he be Revec at the time, and now believes the statemont made by that geallemen untrue, Mr Sherman rejoined that he bad supposed ft was only necessary to cail the atten. tion of the member, wits whom his relations had been kindly, to the remark which bad beoa read, to call forth frcm bie a manly retraction; busin this he found himself Until be relieved bimself trom the imputation cast upoa ‘That wee all be bed to eny. closed scene the first, and opinions differed os © what woud be the result of the quarrel, Soon after the mesiing of the Bouse [this morsing Mr. Wright passed over to the seat of . J, Morriaon Harrie, of Marylama, who site near Mr, Shermas, and read to Mr. Harris « note ho was boldiog imbis hand. After the conclusion of his interview, and latter instently struck at Mr. Sherman, bet was caught by Mr. Harrie and prevented from following up bis blows. Is to enid that Mr. Sherman endesvored to draw = wea- pos, but of what kind Mr. Harris coyld moteay. Mr. (Berman says that Mr. Wright's iook was menacing and insalting. and that caused him to throw the wafere, As each party contends the cous ie upon the other, the probability is we shall have no duel, Gen J, Wat- son Wedd, | understand, was consulted by Mr. Shermao, Mr. Wright ts of a diminutive size, and very youthful ia appearence. Mr. Sherman \s tall and woll proportionsd. The Incoming Administration. TBE NEW CARIFET— 4. GLARCY JONES POSTMASTER GENBRAL—THE DALLA®-CLARENDON TREATY, ETO. ‘Wasnrsotos, Feb. 26, 1887. ‘The Cabinet ls sow searly all arranged. J. Giancy Jones is Postmaster General, and has been from the first, potwitbetandirg all the mj et!ficstion om the subject. His was the very fret eppoimtment settled upon by Mr. Ba Mon. Renee all the subsequent conflicting reports tn re- ference jo this «Mice, But Mr. Buchanan bas nover ‘wavered for a momen’, hie mind having been fixed upoe Jones ond & Cabinet testimonial to the tremendous eld Qcunty of Berke, with ber 7,000 majority, and bis friends having exhausted thetr efforts, may now, perhaps, be resigned to hear the worsl, doxbt the President elect will take care of Forsey in Own way—but Forney must be patient. The whole country is on the qui vive to agoertain the ‘views of Mr. Buchanan on the Dallas O'arendon treaty. ‘What wiil Mr. Gass cot ie the consiaei inquiry among Politicians bere. 1 have before stated that Mr. Buchanas end Mr. Cras are both opposed intoio to the Dallas Clarendon treaty as i) at prevent stands, Mr. Ones op- Posed Na confirmation by ihe Penate, sor did he rappow Jor ® moment {i would be confirmed; bat on the other band, be was <cqnally oppeted to ite rejection “What,” inquired Mr. Onee, “would be the re- wo of fe rejection? A dectaration of war was one course which might be adopted, but Of this no one dreamed. A re- of the whole sod nt bed been er folly, The only Sbioh sould ba reagonebly followed, would Ese Ae Se eee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ae Which would neceesartly iead to constant con! ad irri tation between the two countries,” M) 35 WAS UD- Willjog to cut off any opportunity to amend the treaty \bus by rejeoting tt. His polioy was peace and good will wito all the of the earth, and be would not wound the characteristic priae of England by an unceremonious rejection of ® treaty whiob she might, if properly ap- proached, be perfeotly willing to alter so as to meet the: ‘wishes \f the American Senate, Sach, we have no doubt, are the viows of Mr, Bu- chanan. He mey be opposed to tho treaty as it stands, Dut its ratifoation, wich certain modidoations, will proba- bly be one of the very firet measures of bis administra. tion, He has as yet expressed no opinion on the subject, Decause he is not yet invested with the authority to speak. But the late deslarations by General Uses in the: Benate, in connection wih his appointment as Premier, are generally considered as indicating the drift of the wind. Is fo understood thet General Cass has, with the con- sent of Mr, Buchanan, written to his son Major Cass, now chargé at Rome, to resign bis post and returt bone im. mediately. It is the intention of General Cass to appoint: Major Cass Agsistant Secretary of State. Affairs at Washington. SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD. ABRIVAL OF TUR NEW MEXICAN TREATY—VHE TBLE~ G@BAPH BILL SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT, BTC. Wasarctoa, Feb. 24, 1857, ‘The treaty negotiatea by our Ministor at Mexico arrived: . here yesterday evening, and this morning wae submitied to our government, The treaty is not porfoct, but there is authority here to perfect it. There are three or four parts to this treaty—sommerotal, postal, and the satis- faction of American claims, Those who are authorised to- speak, say that there te no cession of territory and Preference of individual claims against Mexico. It saya. mothing of Tehuantepec, or of Sonora, or Lower Caltfor- nia; but the fifteen millions which the Mexican govera- ment are desirous of getting, look to cession of territory om their part, and parties here are authorised to parfoot- that part of the treaty which it is said is imperfect, pro- vided our government accept the proposition. ‘The Mexican government desire immediate action, and it ip thought the treaty will be communicated to the Senate in a day or two. Mr. Marcy profemed to be entirely ignoraut of the: treaty previous to its arrival. ‘The President has signed the Submarine Telograph bill, and the parties are now making the arrangements and completing the contract with the government. ‘Tne proceedings of Oongresa to day bave beem im- Portant and interesting. T.e Senate, after tho transac: Won of the morning business, took up the (aril question, . and the debate continasd during the day, and will con- tinue most of the night. Mr. Hunter contended that the- people demanded a reduction of the duties on imports, otherwise the specie currency would be locked up in- public vaults, whileoank papsr would flood the country as a ciroulating medium, to be followed by another de- structive financial crisis. The debate in tho Sonate has. beem marked by great ability. The House, by some unaccountable influonce, umani- monusly agreed to tabe out of the Committee of the Whole all the appropria.jon bilis and put them pon their pas- sage. This was evicently brought about by a fear thas ‘the [rial of the parties accuse by the Corraption Oom- mittee might deieat all those bii's, if they should not bo- firat disposed of. If the resolution should be adopted ordering these gentlemen to be tried at the bar of the. House, | understand ‘bat all four will reeign at once. The Seorctary of War communivated to Congress ®. mass of papers relative to the camel, iis Lavite, uses, capabilities and adepration to our country. ‘The Presiden: has appoinkcc the following gentiomon. visiters to attend the annual examination at West Point, June 1, 1867:—Hon, Samuel H. Biake, of Maine; Oolone Bepj. #. Butler, of Marsachusetis; Hon. Henry OC, Deming, of Connecticut; General N. 8. Elderkin, of New ‘York; General Conrad Shumer, of Pennsy!vania; Pro- fessor Campbell Morfis, of Maryland; Colonel W. D. Kennedy, of North Carolina; Colonel John 4. Strother, of Georgia; George W. Hook, Eq, of Ohio; Colonel 8. @. Derussy, @ Louisiana; Dr. Edward U. Bryan, of ‘Missisaippi; Robert B Lindsay, Brq, of Alavama; Mey. J. Phelps, of Iowa; Protessor Daniel Rood, of Wisconsia; Mojor Wm. H. Oba:e, of Florida, ‘The city ts fall of New York politicians, Mathow Hale Bmith tsa candidate for United States Disirict Attorney for the Southern district of New York. ‘HR GENERAL DISPATCH. TRE APPROPRIATION BILLE—MR. SUMNER IN THB 83> AfE—THS TREATY WITH MEXICO. Wasminato, Feb. 26, 1857. ‘The House took summary action to day on ali the re- maining general appropriation bills upon its caleadar, ip order to proceed unlaterrupiedly on the reports of the Corruption Ccmmittee, which come up to morrow. Noth. {pg whatever was Cone with them to-day. Mr, Semper was in bis seat in the Sonste about half an hour to-day, and was warmly welcomed by hie friende. ‘The following ‘s raid to bo a correct version of tas new Mexioaz treaty:—it contemplates a loan of $15,060,000, of which $3,(¢0, Commission, The remainder of the loaa is uorestricied. ‘Twenty per cent of ihe Mexican customs receipta is to Deappropriated for its prepayment, The tresty also coptempiates @ joint postal arrangement via Tehuantepec ‘as well as the transit of teat route, There is no stipulay tion for the cession of any territory, Neliuer Congress or the President have authority to contract a loan, THIRTY-FOURTA CONGauSE GBLOND BBBUOS. Senate. Wasmnctox, Feb. 2, 1857. 108 INDIANA SERATOREMIP, ‘Mr. Toouns, (dem ) of Ga , remarked thai bo was pre- PES Pare earn, ene nee ate. Of the important matiere of fact alleged by relative to the maxser in which the wee be hy is Accortaiament i hee i i fh; i | i ii i i £ ai + i i g i f H f i i i il : i at i] ite ? A Hy Hit ‘| el i? tht iF i ! | i i 5 i : i si F ai f HL i =. 5 { | 5 | | lL fF | i i : t F i i E i ft z r 3f const, mans oc 2S oh ‘same par on ihe Fay ciatitea te arsac res ayn or a Orleans, New York and tabrorate, nee PRY COUNT ROUEE aT NOETOY. Mr. Winton, of Mase., introduce £100,000 for a cevrt hawee at Boston,” *PPTepriatlag, THRER ITE TO BAY FRANCO), At Bok, d Teaee, WOM the Ovmmivwe on ae Pad