The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARUH 16, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. SANMES GORDON BENNBT®P EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ee THEATRE. Broadway—Tar Usveree or ema? is usraanis oF Ine Kasi. BOWERY THEATRE, Bewery—Jowarnan Buavronp— Mexner Mavreavens, ‘TON’S NEW bing iy | Bosetwreg, epnesie fat Prige—Wanren, One iD <-— -haga WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway—Lmononr, on rms ‘Wous's Ows. LAURA KBENE’S THEATRE 624 Broadway—Tue Buck Beox —Txx Evves, on tee Starve Brive. AMERICAN THEATRE. Cnambers street—Moprnx Insa- wirr—Bisck Bvep Susen ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth .—Itauam Ormna— Be Yeovarons—Map SceNe FROM LUCIA DI LamMBRMOOR, BARNUM'’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afer es Rosny ror a8 Ouiver. Grening—Rora OsKusy— asp Maus Wits. @BO. CHRIFTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELA, 444 Broad- way—Erniorian Prevoxmarces—New Year Calis, BUCKLEY'S SERENA 8, 585 Broadway—Erworan Pumrormsnces—Ockan IetecRarn, SROHARICS HALL, 2 Brondway—Necno Mxxovios, Qe Snaxerseiax Recbisce—sy BuYanr's MINSTRELS New York, Monday, March 16, 1857. ‘er comfort, as the case may be with them, by tae perusal of our special telegraphic despatch from Washington. In anticipation of the action of the ministration on the New York appointments dur- img the present week, the politicians from this State heave invaded the capital in swarms, each clique weging with untiring energy and zeal the claims of ‘this or that candidate for place and patronage. Is is understood that Mr. Buchanan is favorable to ‘the reinstatement of Mr. Barclay, late British Consul at this port. Governor Geary has resigned the Governorship of Kansas Territory. Elsewhere in to-day’s paper may be found a clear and complete analysis of the new tariff act, which goes into operation on the Ist of July next. Basi" mess men will find it an invaluable document, as i's arrangement is such that they can ascertain at a glance the amount of duty eollected under the old, ‘and that imposed by the new tariff, upon any de- eeription of merchandise. The steamer George Law is due at this port from Aspinwall, with the semi-monthly mails and ship- ment of treasure from California. The European mails of the steamer Americ: reached this city from Boston yesterday morning, but our files contain little news in addition to that telegraphed from Halifax. It was said in Madrid that the ten or fifteen thousand Spanish troops about te be sent to Mexico would certainly capture and eecupy Vera Cruz. The English Parliament had not yet decided on Mr. Cobden’s resolution against the policy of the war in China. During the debate the action of the United States officials and naval force at Canton was cited as an authority, both by the government and opposition members. It was expected by a portion of the English press tha: ‘the |Dallas-Clarendon treaty would be amended iu the American Senate. The retarns of the British Board of Trade were very favorable. The Anglo Persian and Sound Dues treaties were not yet per- fec'ed. By an arrival at this port we have Buenos Ayres advices to the Ist ult. They contain no local news. The shipping intelligence is given under our mari- time heading. The brig T. M. Mayhew, Captain Hall, arrived at this port yesterday from Bermuda, with news from the West India Islands. The dates are—St. Thomas 2ist, Barbadoes 9th, Demarara 7th February, Ber- manda 6th inst. There were a number of so-called Walker's men at St. Thomas who had availed them- selves of British protection to desert their colors. The St. Thomas Times says:—‘ Most of them are en- tirely dependent upon charity for their dal!y bread; ‘and all are without means of receiving passage to At Barbadoes a quarantine of seven and four cea days, according to circumstances, had been im o-ed ‘wpon vessels armving from Demarara. This ac- tion was deemed necessary in consequence of the arrival of a schooner from the last named port, on board of which one man had diced of cholera. A grand entertainment had been given by the officers of the British ship of war Brilliant to the officers of the steam frigate Merrimac. Oom- modore Pendergrast returned the compliment, when the élite of the colony, to the number of three hun- red, participated in the festivities. Demarara was still scourged by the cholera, but the epidemic had not increased in virulence. Owing te the absence of medical attendance the mortality ‘was greater in the country than in the towns. The 11th alt. was set apart as a day of fasting and prayer on account of the sickness. @iThe news from Barbadoes is unimportant. The Legislature convened on the 2d inst., when Mr. Alex- ander Ewing was re-elected Speaker. The case of Lieut. Meade was still under investi- gation on Saturday by the Naval Board of Inquiry. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week 13th.inst. amounted to $914,325, showing a decrease of $451,012, as com pared with the corresponding week in 1956. On Saturday the sales of cotton emoraced about 6,000» 6,000 bales, about bal! of which wae in transite. It was ‘Understood that lots sold in trazsitz were at easier rates, ‘While that sold in store indicated pe materia change in prises. The news roce:ved by telegraph from the South fend 8 sosiaining infvence upon the market. Floar 000. fipeed dull and transactions were limited. and the mar et closed si lower rates. Wheat was quiet, and we Gould only hear of small sale of Iilinew white, at $1 62. Corn was steady, with moderate sales of Western mixed 1 72)s0. a 750., while pew Srutbern white and yellow ‘were at? 160 , aad old Southern yellow and whiic Mt Téc, 800, asked. Pobk was firm and active, with ales of new mess, on the spot, at $44 96, and 2.000 Chie to arrive were sold at 924. Sugars were firmer, and the market closed stan advance of an yc per ib, with enles f 700 & 800 hhds. Cubs muscovado, 60 do. Porto Ric , ‘end 600 do. molado, at prices given in another column. Advices reoetved by the Empire City from Havana, stad ‘Wal, owing to bad weather and other oauses, the crop ‘wou id prove materially short, and thet shipmen(s fir the ‘United States had been suspended, and that in the face @f aplavorabie advices from this cyuntry. Oetlee conti oed firm, and among the transactions were sales of 1,000 bags Rio at lic & like Freghts were inactive, and rates without change of moment. A Case or Orrictat, Piactarism—On the 20th of August, 1856, we published in the columns of the Heravo an article on “ The Coffee Trade—Its Production and Consumption over the World.” It was illustrated by some elabo- rate statistics and interesting tabular statements. We have recently examined “A Report of the Commercial Relations of the United States with all Foreign Nations,’ which has been published by the State Department at Washington, under the authority of a resolution of Congress, and on turning to page 651 we find that the whole of it, and nearly all of the page following it, in- cluding two tables—one giving the production ‘and the other the consumption of coffee over the world—were taken from the article of the Hernan, above referred to, and that without the el ightert credit or acknowledgment, Our Relations with Engiand. The ratification—if such a word can be used— of the amended Dallas-Clarendoa treaty leaves us as deep as ever in the mire of diplomacy in reference to Central America. It is surmised by newspaper correspondents and politicians that England cannot fail to accept the amended trea- ty; in a word, that she is quite willing we should dictate terms to her. These conjectures must go for what they may be worth. There is every reason indeed to believe that Great Britain is sincerely anxious for a settlement of the Cen- tral American question. The pendency of the dis- pute cannot but be troublesome and expensive. But whether the British anxiety for a settlement will lead the government of Lord Palmerston to accept the terms which the United States Senate choore to dictate—whether that government will be prepared to make a new treaty, after witness ing the rejection of one which was abundantly atisfactory to Mr. Dallas—is not so clear. So far as the American people and their opin- one are concerned, their desire for an adjustment of this irritating quarrel is as lively as England’s. They would give more than a trifle to wash their hands of the whole affair, and deprive the politicians of the material for political capital which it affords. They cannot—being so much more deeply interested in the country under debate than Great Bri- tain—deal with the question in as off hand a manner as England can. - But they can and they do most earnestly desire to see Cen- tral America and its troubles forever removed from the arena of our disputes with our great customer across the water. Perhaps it would be better for the interests of both countries if Eogland would refase to ratify the amended Dallas treaty. It is, at best, a mere offshoot from the Clayton- Bulwer absurdity, and is marked by all the faults of that stockjobbing deed. It errsin its very principle, in sanction. ing a negotiation between England and the United States in respect to Central America; and it errs in its details in implicating this country in an entangling alliance respecting third Powers. There should be no treaty respecting Nicaraguan territory with any Power but Nicaragua; and no treaty respecting Honduras territory with any Power but Honduras. If it be necessary to make any treaties er bargains with England in refer- ence to her station at Belize tnen let us make them; and make them as full and as friendly and as careful as may be required. But to negotiate or treat with England about Nicaragua and Hon duras is to fly in the face of the plainest rules of law and common sense. It strikes us that Great Britain agi the United States are in the position of a hopeless insolvent, who, fearing to meet his creditors face to face, spends his time in dodging them, and trying by shaves and renewals, and immense sacrifices to postpone for a short while the evil day. We have made a foolish treaty. We let stockjobbers trick us into ratifying the Clayton-Bulwer contract, which never was in- tended to fulfil any other purpose than to help tell canal stock in London. Having done this we have never had a moment's peace since. It has been an endless source of annoyance, and a fruitful spring of bitterness; and now at length wehave gone to work to get rid of it. But how? Will it be believed that we have actually plunged deeper into the mire—with a new treaty on the same plan as the Clayton-Bulwer one—a sort of sequel or complement or appendix to that stockjobbers’ contract, and plainly calculated to prolong and aggravate the very troubles to which it had given rise? It would be far better in every sense, far more likely to conduce to the world’s peace, and far more practical just to do away with both treaties at a blow, and treat for the future respecting Central America with Powers which are really Central American. Whe Dred Scott Decision—The Republicans tn | Counell at Albany. ccording to our latest political advices from Albany the republican members of our Legisla- tare, under the guidance of W. H. Seward and Thurlow Weed, have had, and still have, the Dred Scott decision under serious consideration, in reference to the future course of the republi- can party upon that important and comprehen- sive subject. It is generally believed that this decision of the Supreme Court, though it embodies no general principles in relation to the African race that have not been practically in force in this country for the last seventy years, will, nevertheless, create a more intense sectional excitement, political and moral, among the anti-slavery people of the North than anything in the history of the vexed and perilous question of Southern slavery. Hence the importance of a careful consideration of «1+ subject, and a judicious appropriation of the Dred Scott decision as the future war cry of the republican party. First, in this decision the Supreme Court, ac- cording to our Albany republicans, claims and exercises “the power behind the throne greater than the throne iteelf.” It assumes the right to control both the executive and the legislative branches of the general government, as well as the governments of the several States. It takes the form of an absolute despotism, lying behind our republican institutions, and possessed of the most comprehensive and compulsory powers of an overshadowing cen- tralization. This extraordinary anomaly in our popular form of government, they say, is without example in its sweeping supremacy aud assump- tions since the darkness of the middle ages, when the Pope and bis holy conclave assumed and ex- excised the power of giving laws to kings and kingdoms, and of giving to the favorites of the Holy Father a fee simple to principalities, islands, empires and continents. Be this ae it may be, an absolute or limited power, exercised by the Supreme Court in the Dred Seott case, the decision thereupon is the law for the executive, the law for Congress, the Jaw for the States, and the law for the people, till set aside and superseded in a constitutiona' way, or by a more violent revolution. The re publicans of our Legislature, impressed with thi- fact, and with the tremendous issues, for good or for evil, that lie before them, according to their wisdom or their folly in the premises, are natu- rally enough divided in opinion as to the course they shall pursue. One set are in favor of planting the party upon the doctrines of Jefferson and the views of Judge M’Lean and Judge Curtis, both in regard to the powers of the government and the jurisdiction of the court, and of making these + doctrines and views their platform henceforth in all national and State elections. Another set re- commend the direct policy of State resistance to the Federal Court, on the ground that thie Dred Scott decision invades the constitutional sancti- ties of State sovereignty and State rights, and upon the ground that those invasions should be repelled by the acte required from our Legisla ture and our local courte to vindicate the sove- reignty of theState. This policy, hewever, com- prebends the question of nullification—a thing which, according to the ex.erience of South Caro- Jina, is caleolated rather to destroy than to ad- vance the prospects of any political party. There isa third ect in the Legislature, how- ever, who are of the opinion that the day for compromises, reservations, and half-way mea- sures of any kind upon slavery, has passed away, and that the crisis, demands the full and despe- rate remedy of nullification, revolution and die union, whatever may be the extent of the dis asters of the chaos, anarchy, and fire and sword that may follow to the North, to the South, to the State, te society, and civilization. This ex- treme red republican faction of treason and revo- Jution declare that the “slave oligarchy” and the “slave power,”’ if euccessful in fastening this Dred Scott decision upon the North, will have clinched the last rivet required to complete the enslavement of the Northern States to their slave- holding Southern masters. Between such conflieting views as these it ap- pears the republicans at Albany are from day to day in caucus, deliberating what to do. They seem to understand the vast and far reaching responsibilities of their situation; for, consider- ing the overwhelming ascendency of the repub- lican party in our Legislature and State, they rightly calculate that the policy which they may adopt will presently beeome the platform of the whole republican party of the North. We await the solution of this great problem with no small degree of interest, for the subject matter involved comprehends the key to the succession, and to the general government, for perhaps twenty yearsto come. GreeLzy’s Txovsanp Doutar Arram Ex- PLAINED.—-We have been brooding over the thousand dollar story which has disturbed the repose of our cotemporary the Honorable Massa Greeley, as his friends the niggers call him, and we think we have reached the truth of the affair, pretty accurately. In consequence of the dis- cussions, inquiries, inuendoes, and eo forth of the newspapers, Mr. Jobn Stryker of Rome, who was the principal witness on this thousand dollar business before the Investigating Committee, has come out over his own signature and published in the Albany Argus the tollowing statement:— Roma, Marsh 13, 1857. GmuTi1MoN—] bave read in your paper from time to lime allusions to Mr. Horace Greeley, ip connection with the recent investigation a: W. ton, abd as the test! mony gtvep by me before ihe Committee was all that has ary reference to bim, it must bave formed the busis of your strictures. I to state that my testimony is reported very incorrectly, containing errors both of omis tion and commission, which do Mr. Greeley great ia- justios. The has ony been seen by me withis the lest two days. Hoe was never employed by me or avy other person, to my knowledge or belief, to aid a bill bs fore Congress for wettiement of a <i between the input departments at Washington and the Sta‘e of Jows, in re. serence to the extent of a grant of land ceded to lows in 2€46, tor the improvement of the Desmoines river. But as 1 Krew bim to be friend y to the bill, aad a 60 8 friend of our treasurer and other members of our compacy, | thougtt Dim & proper ccstodian of a draft wich | drew ob our treasorer for $1.00 io his favor, to be paid to a gerUeman iben in Wesbirgton and who wes in no way copeected with either branch of Congress, for his services toxid in the pareage of the vil). I lett Washington th) next day, after sen: the drafi, in the morning train ape aid not reo Mi ocley. ibis draft wag not to be peid wiibout further oR OB the bill, out | aid not state ies ibe peyment depended on its passage. I had no otber conpection with 't being absent at the West more tab & month. and ¢id not know what disposition wat mace of \t No improper meane to procure the passage of the bill were designed by me, Bone were or would bave bees authorised € the company, and | bad no sas picton of such a thing any quarter I have never tuppored, nor do I believe, that Mr. Greeley ever had auy interest im the draft, and do not doubt that when he re celved the $1,00¢ from the treasurer, he paid it over ia god faith to @ person whom be wes authorized to reorive it. JOHN STRYKER This puts a somewhat new face upon the evi- dence of Stryker, although that evidence was re ported by the committee to have been given unde oath, and this is merely a newspaper communica- tion to the Argus. Nevertheless we will try to solve the mystery. It seems that Stryker sent the draft, in a letter, enclosed to the Hon. O. B. Matteson, the Fra Diavolo of the Forty Thieves in Congress. Matteson, looking at the draft, and finding that it was to be paid at New York, and probably wishing to hide his personal con- nection with the affair, went to Greeley and eaid:— “Mr. Greeley, will you take this draft on Mr. Alva Hunt to New York; and when another draft may be sent from Washington for a like sum will you have the kindness to get this cashed, and pay the second one with the proceeds?” “Oh! yes,” said the philosopher, euspecting nothing, “I will take the draft.” Accordingly Greeley went to New York with the draft in his pocket He was waked up'trom a reverie one day by a telegraphic derpatch, advising him ofa draftbeing drawn on him, according to the instructions from Matteson. In a day or two Greeley received this second draft, drawn by Mr. Chase, an ex- member of Congress, one of the most prominent members of the lobby, and one of the Forty Thieves. Mr. Greeley calls on Alva Hunt, gets the $1,000, and pays the other draft in favor of Chase with the same. Such are the simple facts of the transaction, from which it seems that Greeley played stool pigeon to Matteson, who was the real receiver of $1,000 from Stryker, and who probably divided it between himeelf and Chase, as thieves generally do. This is the whole affair; and the gem of the whole transaction is that Greeley, who got none of the money, appears a member of the Forty Thieves, while Matteton and Chase divide the plunder between them. We appeal to the Hon. Masta Greeley if we have not stated the truth. Come, be honest for once ; and confess, when you are about it, that if other persons behaved to you with the same uncharitableness and hostility that you display to your opponents this thousand dollar matter would never have been explained to the world. Tur Prorosee Common Scroot, Law.—There is a bill at present before our State Legislature, which, among the number of remarkable charges it contemplates making in our common school system, proposes to increase the number of mem- bers of the Board of Education from forty-four to eighty-eight, giving each ward a representation of four instead of two in that body. The friends of thie measure are, they tell us, actuated solely by the desire to purify the system by removing its many defects, but their real object is too ap- parent to escape detection. The movement is similar in character to that by which it is at tempted to re-organize the city government, so as to place in the bands of a few designing men the whole control of the Police Department, and to render the recent election by the people a nul- lity. There are, as our readers are aware, two par- ties after every election—the ins and the oute— the latter being composed of disappointed and direontented office seekers, who are always ready and anxious to revenge themselves for their defeat. In this instance it is the outs of New York who bave procured the presentation of the propored law, and who are endeavoring tbrough their political partizans in the Legisla- ture to carry it through that body. The motive by which they are actuated ir euflicient to create Aietrnet in the bill, which a consideration of come of ita principal features wholly fails to remove. It was supposed that the charter which increased the number of members in our municipal Legis lature would be followed by beneficial changes in the city government; but the result has proved very different, and there is eertainly no reason to believe that the Board of Education will be im- proved by a similar process, Interesting from Wall Street—The New Nica- ‘Transit Scheme, ragua We some time since informed our readers that negotiations were going on here to get up a new Transit Company for operations in Nicaragua and Wall street, and prepared them for the grand announcement that was to be made by the specu- latore, We now learn that the plan is laid and preparations are being made to carry it out. By the treaty between Costa Rica and the Rivas government of Niearagua, of which we poke some time since, the former Power comes into possession of the south bank of the San Juan river, and of joint riverine rights with Nicaragua, and obtains the proper authority to join in a new grant of the right of transit. The commissioners, who heve been some time in oar city, acting under authority from Presidents Mora and Rivas, have negotiated a grant of + line of traneit which differs a little from the old line, in order to bring the route more definitely within the territory of Costa Rica. After ascend- ing the San Juan river the new route, instead o/ continuing across the lake to Virgin Bay and from thence to San Juan del Sur, crosses the lake to the river Sapoa, and the road will run thence to Salinas Bay, on the Pacific, which is said to be » fine deep harbor, a few miles south of San Juan delSur. For the right to enter jointly in this new grant Costa Rica agreed to make a loan ot four hundred thousand dollars to the Rivas government of Nicaragua, and to negotiate the sale of the loan herself. The exclusive control over this new line ot transit bas been sold for an ample consideration to certain parties in this city, who are to provide all the means for the immediate opening of the route with river and ocean steamships and the necestary land carriage. In order not to show too plainly to the public who of our steamship commodores are in the new arrangement, the grant will be held in trust by a new name in th Nicaragua fights—that of Mr. Simeon Draper— and the outsiders will be called upon to come un and take a hand without fear. Our old friends Vanderbilt, Law, Garrison, Morgan and Joe White, are not mentioned in the programme at all Who of them is in, and how deeply, is left for the future to develope. But there is one important fact in this new ar- rapgement which must strike every one. Walker, Henningsen, Lockridge, and the bone and sinew that have been so long doing battle ia Nicaragua, are left out of the new plan. and are as completely ignored as though they had no existence. In the face of recent advices from Nicaragua this seems to be a great error. Events there are biding the chances of war, and it is a little premature thus to wipe out Walker and his “filibustering gang” on paper before they are demolished in fact. Yet good may come out of it, after all; for if those speculators that have so loag made a tool of Walker and led him into nu- merous follies, now range themselves on the side of his opponents, they must stand or fall with the opposition to him. If he succeeds, and establishes & government based on something better than a mere transit route speculation, he will command much more respect from the world, and support from a better class of men, than has hitherto been awarded to him. Our advice to all parties is to have patience and wait a little longer. Weare on the eve of receiving fifteen or twenty days later news from Lockridge and his party, and perhaps even from Walker himself. In the meantime the new com- pany might send to Mr. Soulé a retainer, and learn what chance they will have under the new Nicaraguan code that he has prepared. While they are waiting for these things they may tell us what part Commodore Law plays in the new programme, and whether Commodore Vanderbilt isa filibuster. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Very Interesting from the National Capital. SPRCIAL DREPATCH TO THS HERALD, LORD NAPIER’S ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT—EX- CONSUL BARCLAY TO BE REINSTATRD— TREMENDOUS DEMONSTRATION OF THE HUNGRY NEW YORK OF. FICE S8BKERS— DESPERATE FIGHT FOR THE LOVES AND FIBUES—MANIFESTO OF JOHN COCHRAXE— HEADS AND TAILS OF THE CLIQUES— WHO IS TO Be COLLECTOR OF TBE \—RESIGNATION OF GOV. GRARY OF KANSAS—ANNBXATION OF LOWER CALI- FORKIA AND SONORA. BTC., BTC. Wasmvaton, March 16, 1867. The British Minister wi!l probably be preseated to the President to-morrow. His address will be of the most the prosperity of the United States. Indeed, it ts so ‘marked in ite cordiality that tt will doubtiees excite at o ur. COCEBAN’s yo) = Undeasignod oseents from expres. wy @f the nine demonratio sion of expediency by seven reocetatives clont from the Suite of New Fors te avecessor to the | ay whether to be in ducted Immedia ely or in formre. In bis it te inex pedient for aay number of the New delegation to tobmit such ad in the absence of the deterates, Rrastue Corning, of and of Jobo Kelly and Wm B moms, @ York, benefit of whose judgment ie pot . He unites with his cotloag' Of the administration, inclusive of appointmenis im Now York, be determined as ita earliest convenience. JOAN COOBRANE. week. It is quite certain that Collector Redfleld will not leave before the 8b of June, It is believed that all the otbers will be supplanted as their com- missions exvire. Fowler, I think, will bo reap- pointed. The rotation rule ie rejected at the South aud West. There is but one city member (Clark) that I oan leary, who ts for Schell for Collector. It is understood that Sickles aud Haskin are against him, and for Butterworth. Others will remain quiet till the delegation are all here, when an attempt wili’ no donot be made to rally upon some man who represents a policy by which the party in New York may de rescaed from the cancer of cliquism whieh aifliois 11, aud be restored to the party of the Union. It is quite uncertain who this man may be, The contest will be exottiag, and especial ly s0 as Mayor Wood has arrived upon tae fleid. Mr. Buchanan has « frieadiy feeling towards Sottell, aad ‘would appoint him Collector of New York, if Mr. 3. covid succeed in uniting in his favor the very formidable oppo sition now against bim. Bat it ie unimelr this can 09 done, for every day makes the figh; more bitter, Not ‘withstanding all tne street gossip, 1 do not believe Mr. Bebe)! will succeed in securing the Ooliec‘orship; and I draw my conclusions {rom a bigh source. Ha will ua doubtedly be tendered ission as an equivalent, ani ‘the Collectorship will probably be given toa moroban’. ‘The following is the latest intelligence in regard to tas leading New York office seekers :—For Collector of the Port, Augustus Schell is at present the only mau pressed, if we except a slight pressure by Sickies and Haskin for Mr. Butterworth. Of the delega- tion three are for Schell, viz.: Taylor, Searing and Olar«. On the other hand, there is s most formidable opposition to him on the part of Cochrane, Maclay, Ward, Kelly, Corning, Mayor Wood, W. Cassidy, Sanford E, Caurch, Dean Richmond, &o. ; and this opposition is the more dan- gerous as they now express no preference for auy one else. ‘The names of Isaac Townsend, Royal Phelps, Brower and Moses Taylor are mentioned; but as yet mo papers have been placed on file in their bebalf. If Scheil is ce feated then they will make @ selection. Mr. Rodfield’s commission does not expire tlil Oecember, but he bas tendered his resignation, to take effect on the 30th of June. For Surveyor of the Port the following have fi'ed ap- piications:—W. H. Ludlow, Ray Tompkins, Tacker of the News, Anson G. Herrick, John Wheeler, and Captain William Wiley. Cochraue’s commission expires on the 20th of March. He alone endorses Wheeler. _ Naval Officer—Brodbead’s commisvion expires next December, He wants to go to the Hague. A. Birdsoll saya he has the written recommendation of his father-in- law, Daniel 8. Dickinson Samuel Fowler also claims to have Dickinson’s endorsement for the same office, anda pretty fight is brewing. There are no applications for District Attorney, John McKeon’s office. His commission has yet two years to run, For the Post Office, the whole Congressional delogs tion have united in signing = paper in favor of Isaxc V Fowler belong recommissioned. Mayor Wood is dewa on him, and there is also « strong outside preesure against him. Young Beach, of the Sun, opposes Fowler on the ground that he unfairly gave the advertising of the list of uncalled for letters to the Haat. Isaiah Rynders, J. B. Bensal and Coventry Waddell are up for United States Marshal; but the latter would com- promise upoh any good crumb. lunderstand that a caucus of the New York delegation wili be held to morrow evening at Willard’s, whens voto will be taken, and the geatiemen receiving the highest umber of votes for Collector, Postmaster, Surveyor, & , wil: be presented to the President, This is seidto bave the concurrence of the members elect, who are ai! on the ground. Mr. Buchanan has declared that he will make no po Hitoal removals, but that, unless in vory urgent cases, be will not recommission any one after his commission expires. ‘The crowd is again increasing. The vews of rotation bat alarmed many an office holding patrio: for his head, aud excited many an office seeking one tothe prey. They aro now pitching into each other in a style that illustrates both their destructiveness and their greed of place. ‘The foreign appointments will not come up probably ‘or @ month, as it is intended rst to dispose of the do mestic offices. It ie not true that Elisha Whittlesey resigned. 80 he informs moe. ‘Senator Siidell’s influence with Mr. Buchanan ‘s not 20 strong as it was supposed it would be, greatly to the die gost of himself and friends. Butas he isa shrewd mao he bites his thumb im silence. 4 large number of the citizens of Ohio, now im this city, beid © meeting this afternoon, at Brown's Hotel, aad adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of the inte Hoa. D. T. Disney, Messrs. Bart, Pugh, Campbell, Hen- drickson and Trevitt were appointed a committee to ac cowpeny bis remains to Ciacianat!. A distinguished Pennsylvania office holder wae present ea to Mr. Buchanan yesterday by several prominent democratic friends, with @ request that he soould be re- ‘appointed. ‘The reply was emphatic, that the North and West de- manded rotation in office, and that would be the rale of tction, Ia the South it was different. This was a poser. Major Ben MoOulloob, of Texas, has been tendered the Governorship of Uiab, but declines. ‘The President received late last evening a telegraphic despatch from Governor Geary, dated 81. Louis, inform- tog bim that be bad resigned the Governorabip of Kansas, totake effect the last of this month. He dose noi state the reasons which have induced him to pursue this course, but the President is perfectly aware what they are, He has enoountered difficulties and embarrassments ever wince he had the row with Judge Lecompte, and he asked General Pierce to remove him. He promised wo do it, but never did; at least Governor Geary performs all the func tons of bis office in that Territory. Governor Geary will be bere ina few days, when the administration will urge upom him to change his miad and go beok; and if he de- sires tt Lecompte and every other office holder in the Territory who has thrown any embarrassments in his way will be removed. . ‘There has been no determination yot as to who snail be Assistast Secretary of State. For the present, Gene. ral Thomas wii! continue to hold the position, but it ts in- tended to fill it ultimately in 0 different quarter, not yet named. ‘The State Department bas as yet received no informe ion from Commissioner Morse, who went to Bogota to settle and arrange our difficulties with New Granada. ‘The Plate Department expects some important despatches from England to morrow, which arrived by the last steamer. Gen. Case is busy overhauling the Daties-Olarendon treaty, with ite amendments. The Cabinet wii! decide ext week what course they will pursue with refere-ce to tt, If they conclude to send it to England, tt will have to be there by the inst of April, as the six months wil have expired, which is the tme for exchanging ratit cations. ‘The allusion im the inaugural to the purchase of terri tory by the United States, will receive an carly solution im all probility, in the acquisition of Lower Cahfornia and Bonora. Under the peculiar position of affairs now in Mexico there le no doubt those possessions could easily be purchased, and whilst they are an expense to Mexico they would be of immense importance to the Untied States. Mr. Buchanan’s policy im thie rerpeot is deo\dea, and the purchase, if within reseonable bounds, will be mode. ‘The rumor that Marcy will receive the mission to Hog and ie abeurd, He will got nothing from this adminis ‘tration. Murder tn Boston. Boston, March 14, 1857. Mr, Waldo Woods, of this city, wae found morta/ly wounded at the south part of the ofty this morning, and ‘after being taken to the station house died, The mur A Church Burned at Providence. Paovipanos, March 16, 1867. Grace church (Bishop Ciark’s), in this city, took fre om Saturday afternoon, from the air box of one of the furnaces, and was demeged to the amount of $6,000. ‘The damage is fully covered by insurance. Whe Southerner at Charieston, CuaRinetom, March 14, 1867. ‘The steamship Southerner, Captain Murray, from New York, arrived bere this (Saturday) morning, at eigh® o’clock. Dramatic and M@uscal Matters, Mr. Thalberg gave last week two concerts at Niblo’o Garden and two matinecs at Dodworth’s, with his usua> success, This week closes his concerts in New York, On tocay and Thursday he gives his last matinees ab Dodworth’s, at both of which M’mo D’Angri will sing, To-night Mr. Thalderg and M’ms D’Angri will sing as Niblo’s Garden for the benefit of the German Society, aud on Thursday he gives his jarewe!! concert st Brook- lyn. Mr. Thalberg commences a series of matines ip Boston nextweek. We presume the admirers of Mr, Thalberg, which include the whole public, wil} seize upon the present opportunities fo enjoy bip delightful playing, as they are ime inst, AB error was made last weck in stating that the faniasia upon “Home Sweet Home’’ wae the only ‘work of Thuiberg’s since bis arrival here, He bas com- pored a ‘Souvenir d’4morique,’’ concert walizes, whick bave been jstued by bis publisher, Breusing, sud wild dovbtless find a place on every piano. Atthe Opers at the Academy, «‘La Figlia del Regi- mento” bas drawn threo full hopses, thanks me. de Wilhorst’s charming acting and singing in Maria. We hear it stated that Mr. Strakosch will continue bis season, which has been altogether successfal, and thet possiply we may have Mme. de Wilborst in the “Traviata.” Thio evening the ‘‘Trovatore”’ is announced for the last time, ‘with Parodi, Tberini, Morelliand Mme. Patti Strakosch, end the mad scene {rom ‘‘Lucia,” with Mme. de Wil- borst as Lucia. ‘The grand concert and opera to-night at Niblo’s Gar- den, in aid of the German Soolety, is worth » dollar ol” any One’s money, coin or city notes. The first partis concert by Thalberg ani D’Apgri. The United Singing Societies will give the grand cnorus from William Tell, wherein numerous Swiss peasants conjere ail the other Swist peasants to refrain from the nations! amuse- ments of hunting the wild chamois, dodging the avalancho and waking Neucbatel cheese, and come down upon the invaders of their righis, &o, Then there is the first act of the “Fidelio” of Beethoven, with Johannsen, who 's verp good im it. There will be s grand orchestra under Berg- map, and we trust that the German Society will make ® g00d thing of it, The announcements at the theatres this evening are vnvsually interesting. At the Broapway THEATRE an extrsorcinery nO~ velty ip the shape of an orients! spectacle, “The Usurper of Siam, or the Flephaat of Ino Kami.” The piece will be done with athe st tention to the details of scenery and costume for which the Broadway is celebrated, and in addition, the ele~ phantine sters, Victoria and Albert, will make their debut, playing important parts in the change of the ad- ministration, the overthrow of the,usurper, and the in~ suguration of the true Prince. Seeing the elepbent wild doubtless be a more fasbionapie amusement than ever. At Bvaron’s Tamaras ‘Wat Tyler” has proved entirely farce of “One Thousand Milliners Wented.” Mr. Burton ‘will play im the farce; Mr. Wallack, Jun , in the tragedy. At Lavra Kemya’s Tasatrs ‘The Black Boot” bas con- aiderably avgmented the receipts of the box boot, and 1) ie announced this evening for the fourth performance. A bew burlesque by Charles Selby, called ‘Tae Elves, or the Statue Brido,”’ transferred for Celeste from « Freneb ballet ,which was conveyed from a German legead is an- nocnced, with new scencry, dresses, and a cest which includes Miss Keene and nearly every member of tho company. At WALLACK’s THEATRE We are to have to night a new five act tregedy, ‘i «cpore, or the World’s Own,” '» whic Miss Heron plays the principal part This piece bas been written for Miss Herov, by » lady of the provincial town of Boston, where, not baving much foreign commerce to attend to they pay ® good deal of attention to literaturs, By ail accounts # large proportion of the population of the modern Atbens bas arrived here to see the play, so thad ‘full bouse ts inevitable, At the Bowmny Tumarue the audience wil) be glea to bail the return of the manager, Mr. John Brougham, who, iliuminating Broadway for some time, sbeds the igh? cf bis countenance on his own boards ae Dan Macra‘sey, im “Jonathan Bradford.’ ‘Ernest Maltravers’’ is the afterpicoe. At the Axmuicay Tuxares a new local piece by T. W Meigbam, called ‘Modern Josanity,”’ ie up for this even- ing, with Mr. K. L. Davenport and Mrs. Frort in the princtpal parts. The afterpiece is ‘“Biack-eyed Susan,” with the tame artists. Atthe Moescx “Ruth Oakley,” having been entirely svccessful, will be given this evening, with a captial farce, The Coronxy Ormma—‘‘Neow Year Calla’ ot Wood's, “The Ucean Telegraph” at Buckley's, and plenty of fun ‘at Mechanics’ Hall, form capital lot, from which the lovers of the African opera can select. Ireus —On Friday Mr. W, A. Moore, the stage maneger of Nibio’s Garden, bas a benefit at that house fils list Of artista includes Madame D’Angri, Miss Susan Pyne, Mr. Brougham, Mr, Lester, Mra Hoey, and otner favorite Kimball brings out ‘‘Neighbor Jackwood,’’ an adaptation of = thoroughly American novel by the scther, Mr. ‘Trowbridge, of Boston. Mr. Bourcioault and Miss Agnes Roberteon are playing at the Bos'on theatre. Borton um- derlines a new comedy andafarce. The play by 0. 8, Leland, accepted at Wailack’s, ie & ome act comedy adapted from the French. Miss Laura Keene announces for Tuesday « translation of ‘ Use Femme qui detente ton Mari,’’ under the title of a “Wicked Wife.’ No less then four translations of this play, which ise posthumous work by the late Madame de Girardin, were made fer the Lonécm Weatres. They say that Dumas’ “Qeestion @’ Argent” won't ¢o for Amerioa—it is too moral! Mr, re 5 355s Pazrzamiys Comme From.—Teo towns peppermint, from wh the ou ext by =