The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1857, Page 6

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The teported victories of Walker and Hen- Bingten over the Costa Ricans are confirmed by pri- ‘vate advices reccived at Aspinwall. Another attack ‘was expected abortly to take place. The arrival of the steamer Illinois at this port, with the California mails and 8 million and « half of treasure, is hourly looked tor. Advices from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, dated on April 8, one week later, say :—Perfect tranquil- Hty reigns throughout the country. Coflee, washed, 144 a 14j currency, according to quality: ceffee, un- ‘washed, 15c.8 13}c.; cotton, 16c. per Ih.; cocoa, sa- perior class, $34 75 per fancga of 140 Ibs.; inferior kinds, $25 a $30 per do. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a commn- nication was received from the Corporation Counsel, to the effect that any action of the Common Council with reference to @ reorganization of the depart- ments would not affect the constitationality or un- constitutionallty of any act of the Legislature. The Board concared with the Councilmen to donate 1,000 to the widow of Policeman Hardenbrook, who was killed while in the performance of his éaty. In the Board of Councilmen last evening, Mr. J, ©. Hunt presented a resolution asking for the appointment of a special committee to make a thorongh examination of the accounta and man. ner of doing business in the Comptroller's office, whieh was unanimously adopted; bat a scene of un- paralleled confusion ensved when it was suggested © appropriate $1,000 for clerical aid in the investi gation. Finally that portion of the proposi tion was laid upon the table. Messrs. Ottar- son, Kennard and Jones refused to vote, affirming thst the President ignored tho es- tablished rules. A special committee was ap- pointed to inquire what should be done with the re tractory members. The motion to concur with the Board of Aldermen in sppropriating $10,000 to test the legality of the Police bill was lost for want of a constitutional vote. The Board originally appropri- Sted $5,000 for that purpose. An ordiuance reor- gssizing the Law Department was unanimously sdopted without debate. ‘The application of Mrs. Canningham for letters of administration upon the estate of Dr. Burdell was taben up in the Surrogate’s Court yesterday morn- ing, per adjournmont to be pestponed, aa the criminal case will positively come on in the Oyer and Terminer Court on Moa dsy next, and be needed all the intervening time to prepare for it. Mr. Tilden earnestly opposed an Sijournment, as three or four witnesses from the country were expected to arrive at 12 o'clock, and it would be a great expense and inconvenience not to Lave them examined that day. The case wae Gnally postponed. For a report of the proceedings see another column. We give elsewhere a report of the proceedings of the New York Liquor Dealers’ Association at a meeting held last evening. The Brooklyn Liquor Dealers’ Gociety met yestorday, and selected counsel to defend any of tho members who may be prose onted for violation of the new license law. They do ont intend to take any notice of the law, uniew pro | seceted for violation of its provisions, We pabiish elsewhere acconnts of the reportel Indian massacres in Minnesota and Iowa. No doubt they are greatly exaggerated. In fact, Gen. Shields, who had proceeded to the scene of the distarbances- contradicts some of the rumors, and the correspon dent of the Bt. Pal Pioneer states that there is nek ther hostility nor 4 sign of hostility among the In. dian tribes of Minnerota. It is conjectured that thovw reports of horribie Indian maseacres have been ent on foot for the purpose of checking the tide of emi gration which is now setting weetward s0 strongly, | 6nd thereby Influencing the price of land Ubrough- ot thet region. ‘The Board of Ten Governora met yesterday, bat bo of genera! interest waa transacted. The Tetutts show 6 elight decrease in the namber of in Mates of the povilo ins'itutions, as compared with “ie examinstior. into the case of the alleged lager Merchant, which was captured « few days Rtnoe, will te commenced in the United States Com: ‘thisei omer’ a office on Thursday . Ap aposaily large number of prisoners wero dia posed of at the Court of Special Sessions yesterday, for CoMmibting pacsalts acd petty thefta A man named MoBirsffin was sent to the penitentiary for aaaault’ ine officer Bowyer. The cotton market wre more activn yesterday, with sales OF abut 6,000 bales, tucvuding & portion io Uransita, but Chinhy in store, based upon middling upiand at about PANC., With cme line reported a lige, We reter w re NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEET. mart in anawher antame regarding dotaiomcy of recogets | ing, the Commiasioncrs who are to progde over nad aecks to Ameren porte, with tie decrease Hh | these gewersl matters ahall be appointed withont ments to Faget. Flour again adennord from Re. a 00 we Jen the eiihes eth © Oar een any regard to their will, and shall hold their of- we Fine weal my ry ue ft ee fires entirely independent of them and of the Keniwoky white ski at $1.80 Mictapan red at #1 40, and | corporate authorities Southern do. at 61 4). Southers yellow core soit, from ‘There vever wae such an outrage altempted Neen et eclee eae cn en Ms | upon the rights and liberties of the citizens of ork Was More active 4, wD Kae 6 tases 3 25 0 OE wre free country. It ts antagonistic not only to tho see er ead a ates a pone ine ace | gpirit avd geotus of ell our institations, bat it is Coffe was firm; sales comprised 1,500 mate Jawa, tse | in open violation of the constitution of the State. bags Bahia and 600 Rio at full prices. Preyhte were ér ‘The principle whieb, more than any other, en- Togular, with more offhring, wt low wales. Cotton war take | gered into the framing of that instrument was for Liverpool at S*. per bale, and Wd. por pound, and i : ya pop yp Maca Fee’ "| the principle of decentralization: to make every village, town, county aod city iadependent of Gloomy Signs from the Partiic. the State in regard to their purely looal govern: Our private letters and advices from Sea Fran- | ment. So true is this, that in the addres to the cisco are not what could be called very favorable } people imued by the convention which framed or cheering. The outward signs of decay in the | the last constitution of this State, it is directly State of California are pot particularty promi- | affirmed es one of the leading features of that nent; the shipments of gold, thongh declining, instrument that it makes all important State offi- still keep up, apparently, to « respectable figure; | cers elective by the people of the State, and all we hear, mal) ‘ter mail, that “confidence is re | important olty and county officers cleetive by the viving,” end the prospects of the mercantile | people of the reepective localities And no mat- community looking bright; constant. | ter how wo may differ ne to the necessity for Ss Snasie' en tinainen beer tution tole ® change in our city government—as to and that new placers are perpetually tarning ap. | the ueceasity for divorcing pollos from poll- But tho undercurrent of fact which underrans | tice—which was the lying exouso for tho this surface of plausible fotion is of « very diffe. | cew Metrepolitaa Pollee bill—we ought rent character and bue. bot to submit tamely to « deprivation of our un- We are led to believe that the State of Califor. | questionable righta We ought to guard with nia is only just beginning to realize the reaction | gt! jealousy overy one of our municipal privi- from the unparalleled and unjustifiable legen, and to resist the elightest encroachment which followed the discovery of ite gold depo- | wpon them. Much more ought we to do eo when site. There have been several partial reactions, | thet encroachment is not a mere matter of form, bat they have been oversome by the omergy of | but when its object Is to quarter upon us a lot of the people, and the uncommon good fortune | Cuecare politicians, as commissioners, at an ex. which enabled California to provide herself with } pense to the treasary of two or three buadred almost all the necersaries of life at the coast of | thousand dollars a year. merchants on the Atlantic side, and tn foreign Just look at the consistency of these misera- countries This reaction is not of the game na- | bie, corrupt, pharissical, nigger worshipping le- ture. It eprings from natural and gislators at Albany, working ander the influence causes; it admits, we think, of uo palliative, no | o,Wm. H. Seward. They profess a great aod accommodation, no concealment. Tho time has | Conscientiousrespect for the personal and political come when the enormous gains, and stupendous | Fights of the poor African; and yet they have no results of 1852, 53, and "54 must bo made good | Tespect at all for the rights of the million citi- in the book of compensation. wens of this metropolis and subuarba They pass We are led to believe that the mines have } jolot resolutions in favor of amending the consti- been falling off in their yield for the last eighteen | tation 90 as to extend the franchise to the colored months to twq years, This is strenuously denied | Citizens of the State, and place them on « par by the California prints which are in the interest | With white men, so far as their vote goes; of the merchants; they endeavor to account for | 00d they disfranchise the enlightened citinens of the falling off in the shipments to this side by | this metropolis, and tell them that they are not telling us of the operations of the California | 8t to exercise the franchise, even for their own mint, ard of the immense quantity of coin re. | local offlcers, Could impadenco end iguorance quired for home consumption on the Pacific; bat | €0 farther? the fact is that the mines have been yielding lem | The fact is that euch of these laws as create ‘The first placers found were the best; under the | commimiomers to be appointed by the Gorernor, spur of avarice, and with the help of the vast mul- | With or without the cousent of (he Senate, are on titude which flocked to California when gold was | their face clear violations of the constitution, just discovered, the ground was pretty thoroughly | aad will, we have no doubt, be so declared by explored ; what remains to be dug will remune~ | the courte. The Legislature had just about as rate labor no more richly than digging for iron, | much right to vest the Governor with the ap- lead, or potatoes. We are given to understand | pointment of these city officers as they would that of late the yield has enormously diminished | have to vest him with the appointment of Mayor, and that » large proportion of the diggers, dis | Aldermen and Councitmen, or ss Congres would gusted with repeated fuilares, and incapable of | bave to give to the President the appointment of living on the profits of gold digging, have | oar State Canal Commimionera, The principle ts already betaken-themselves to other callings, exactly the same It therefore behooves all of our ‘We are credibly informed that real estate In | citizens who are disposed to be jeslous of their the city of San Francisco has fullen so low that | political rights and privileges, to interest them- parties who, in the heyday of California's | selves io this important struggle. The State prosperity, lent money on bond and mort- | Legislature, no more than the geaeral govern- gage on city property, have almost with- | ment, must never be allowed to asnrp rights ex- out exception become proprietors of the property | cluslvely belonging to the people of this city. pledged. Real estate—which was once regarded | We must alwayy be prepared to resist euch as the safe investment par excellence—is now | usurpation, not only by recourse to the courts, tumbling about like our railroad stocks here. | bat by recourse also to other constitutional Business is slack, and not particularly lucrative ; | means. First among these is the right of publicly hundreds of merchants are retiring, and seeking | saembling and protesting agwinst such mea- Mr. Clinton desired the case | new spheres of usefulness on this side the ocean: | sures We hope to see our best citizens bestir- @ general blight seems to have fallen on the in- dustry, the commerce, the politics and even the agriculture of the State. Colifornia will ultimately recover from the | trouble into which she is plunged. But we ap- prebend that things must grow worse, very con- siderably, before they can improve, and that very many of the men who have thanked heaven for the impulse that sent them to the Pacific will live to carse the hour in which that impulse was obeyed. This gloomy prospect will not be fore- ehadowed in the California press, The San Fran- cleeo journals Lave their masters to please, and they will not utter a word of truth until the faots themselves tell the story. They may be relied upon for a steady rehash of the old stories about new placers, enlarged yield, bright prospecta, in- creasing trade, until the final crash comes, The story of California will be that of the At- lantic States. We bave had no gold mines to Loost us up, but if we bad bad, our extravagance our overtrading, our expansion could not have been greater. And the state into which the gold has dragged California, will be no worse than the etate in which our railroads wil! leave us, when the omes for their total ruin and the explo- ston of all parties concerned with them. Tue Menterrat, Revowcrte The contest la nh the municipal authorities and citizens of w Yosk are now engaged as against the oxeen- tive and legislative departments of the State government at Albany, is no less than a veritable revolution, peacefully and legally conducted. Tho struggle which terminated in the independence of this republic originated as much from resist- ance to the efforts on the part of the home gov- ernment tocontrol the municipalties and to usurp the internal management of the cities, as from ony other cause. So, too, in Europe. The strug. glesof the great commercial cities of the Continent ogainet the despotic Laterference of the powerful barons and feudal potentatcs are matters of his- tory. The cities, too, were generally succesful in the contest; and the rule, we have no doubt, will hold ood in the case which we have now on hand. itis somewhat remarkable, however, for the citizens of the great metropolis of « republic to find themselves at this day in a conflict with the State authorities, and driven to resist by all legal and constitutional means the attacks made upon their rights and privileges. Even in deapotic countries the crown rarely ime ventures to interfere in the municipal affairs of a city or borough. ‘The corporate authorities, with the Mayor or other chief magistrate at their head, are weually recogniged aa possessing juris diction over all matters of local government within the limita of the corporation, The Mayor is the supreme head of the city gorernment, and ag ach is presumed to have more or leas control over all subordinate officers, who, on their part, are presumed to bold their office from the citi- vens, either directly by election or indtrectly by appointmen' by officers elected by the citizens Bat the nigger worshipping, spoils seeking Legis latare of 1867 undertake to overthrow these long cstabliched principles of municipel government, and to cay that the people of New York shall bave no voice in the selection of the mon to whom some of the greatest interests of the city ere to be confided. They undertake to say that the people shall be deprived of their franchise; | actors, ring themselves and getting up a tremendous public demonstration aginst tbe infamous Legia inture of 1867. Rav. Da. Betzows to Tux Canon ayy tum | Actors.—The Reverend Dr. Bellows gave bis | long promised addres on the relation of public | amusements with public morality at the Agnde- | my of Music last evening. It is reported in full | in another part of to-~day’s paper. The reverend gentleman procesded to divide his audience into two clawes—tbe religious class and the play-going class, the latter including the He then gave a smoothly written de- fence of amusements in general, on the usaal and | eafe ground that relaxation is necewary to the mental aud bodily health—theace the logical Concluaion that the wat of amusements is @ pub- lic calamity. The tage is beid to be the most complete and interesting of all amusements, bat as people do not go to the theatre for educational purposes, the instruction to be gained from it is altogether incidental. Ita tone ix dirceted by the character of the audience, and the church by separating itself from the stage hae lowered the character of the endience; and, by consequence, the theatres to perdition, hus made imelf re- @ponsible for the sins of the theatrea Bie’ ac verely exooriates pings of (he character of “Om mille,” mentioning that drama as the type of o clas, and taking the same position with re- gard to its tendency that has often been assumed in these columoa, The religions people were plainly told that the reform of this abuse was Io their own bunds, and that their narrow views had leesened the influence of the chureh in general society. If there waa to be « great gulf of sepa ration between the world and the church, the reverend gentleman, being 9 minister of Christ, and knowing that Christ wae not the light of the church alone but Of the world, would prefer to labor In the world. The very eloquent perora- tion wae addrewed to the actors and the mamgers, The lecturer clalmed for the first clam an equal position in society with other profewions, and « o mplete restora. tion to the common rights and common pro- tection of society. He urged the members of the profession to #0 regulate their conduct as to be worthy euch rights and uch protection. He called upon the managers to us their great power for the good of the Hage, aod mid truly that if the directors of (he theatres wish to place | themecives on the level of pimps they would captinae to quote the public taste as un excuse for the production of immoral plays The reve- rend gentleman conteseted tho unchristian-lke | tone of the religion prem in speaking of bin position, with the liveral rentimentsof the secular | journals, and hoped that oth would occupy tiemselves with @ calm and temperate discussion of tho fundamental principles involved in the abject. The position taken by the Rev, Mr. Bellows is not only safe one, but it is eminently Christian Ite, The clergy have too long beer wrapped up in their own cliques and their own peity affairs— they bave too long neglected (he real interests of the souls committed to their charge. Here is one of their number who finds the theatre floar- (at of the actors aad the playa The postion taken by Dr, Boilows | plainly is, that the church by quietly consigning that if they are to have s police if they arc to | behing in epite of the namalte of the church, and haves park—if they aro to have # publi¢ bulld- | believing that the all-wiee Crestor would aot al- low anythimg to exist unless ome good could bo @educed from it, he comes forward to explain the canses of the antagonism which exists between the religious and the theatrical public. He places the blame where it belongs, and it is sincerely to be desired that the reforms he advocates may soon be breught about. The theatres of this olty exercise no small amount of influence over the public morals, and every good citizen should welcome any attempt to refine, purify and ele- vate the tone of dramatic literature and the s0- cial poaltion of its exponents, Progress ov Carnouiorry mw Tas Unstrap Sratxs.—It is only a little less than balf 9 cea- tury ago that the Roman Catholic Charch in the United States had a regular organization. There were in 1808 one diocese, two bishops, eixty-eight priests, eighty churches, two cecleslastioal insti- tutions, one college, and two female academics. In 1857 there are forty-one diocesses, two apos- tolio vioarates, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-two churches and stations, nineteen hun- dred and two priests, thirty-five ecclesiastical in- stitutions, siaty-two male and oae hundred and ecventeen female religious institutions, fifty-eight Uterery institutions, &0., &e. There are no-exact statistics as to the Roman Oatholic population of the country, bat three and o half: millions ts. the beet eatimate that can be made. Daring the past five years there has been great activity among the missionaries of the church. These missiona- ries are chiefly members of the Society of Jesus, and the history of their achievements on the Pa- cific coast will form a chapter as thrilling as the record of their predecessors of the fifteenth cen- tury, who were the first white men that disturbed the surtace of the magnificent St. Lawrence, floated upon the ample bosom of Lake Saperior and met their deaths in the turgid waters of the Mississippi. In the East the rage for proselytism has been quite as great, and several illastrious converts from Protestantism and infidelity have made their confessions of faith and been received into the bosom of the church. The Puseyite echiem in the Eaglish church, which extend- ed to the Episcopalian organization hero, bas given to the Roman church msay ad- herenta, while Know Nothing persecution undoubtedly had a similar effect. In the height of the last Presidential contest, at the home of the American candidate there was held ssort of protracted mecting in » Roman Catholic cathedral, where the people were exhorted by a pumber of priests, all of whom were convertsfrom the Protestant Eplacopal church, and one was the son of a late Chancellor of the State. The Protes- tant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina lately put away his wife, and took orders in the Church of Rome. These converts from Protestantism are generally tho most fanatical of Catholics, We may take, for example, M’Master, the editor of the organ of the Archbishop of New York; Brownson, who was first an infidel, then a Unita- tian, and new fulminates every quarter the dog- ‘was of Rome in the pages of a Catholic review; and T. L. Nichols, a brand almost burned up— Deathen, agrarian, spiritualist, free thinking, free loving, vete-youreelf-e- farming, vegetable consu- ming, Red Bank republican, water-curing, homeo- pathic Tom Nichols. Also, Mrs. Mary Gove Ni- choi, who shared all the heresies of her spouse, ‘and was, withal, a devout advocate of the doctrine thai women ought to vote, to be oleoted to office, to buy and sell stocks and lots, and otherwise to do everything that the eo-called lords of creation have heretofore monopolized. The power of Mother Church to work miracles was nevor more fully demonstrated than in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Nichols; and the Archbishop of Cin- cinnat! should be canonized at once. Both these proselytes have been duly baptised They havo made to Archbishop Purcell a solemn confession of faith, which sounds like the abjarations made by Protestants in the dark days of the sixteoath century—meeck and lowly Christians, whose bearts failed them at the sight of the boot, the thamb screw, the rack or the faggot. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Nichols receive all that the Churoh re- ocives, and reject all that she rejecta. They would gladly, they eay, blot out all their previous wiokednoss If [t wore pomible; as it is not, they repent in sackoloth and ashes, and hope to show by « thorough course of penance how complete fe thelr conversion. Benedicite / Mr. and Mrs. Tom Read their confession:— de morcy of Almighty God we have been led, we ee direct aad Mmiracuivas loter- and by the bleased teachings of & Fraocts Xavier, to the renar se bumble noceptance of the ln deep bumilty aud to ber divine order, we ao- act condemn writings and ary to the pune of the holy Oxtholie Guareh, we wish t retract aud ropudute, aud, were Porte, te aioue for Tv appeers iat spiritualism bad something to do with this conversion, and wo are gravely told that tbe “epirite” have advised their friends in ‘he Seah, oo both elds of the Atlantic, to sek a@ivation in the tosom of the Roman Catholic charch. The bicrarchy will doubtless be too akrewd to give adbercnce to the spiritualut doo trines, but will aceept the strange ald that ls Ofered (hom, on the principle that there is nothing so bad thet good may not come from it Archbubop Hughes should now try his baad oo Mra Core Haaph, while Brownson and M’Master can exhort the couductors of the apiritmaliet periodicals We apprebead, bowever, that the spirits have very little t© do with the matter. These later converts, theoiogians, students, sevane, infidels, anitarians, agrariane and ffeolovers aro old soidiers.who bave fought la many a coutrwversial battle, They have been blown about to every point of the compas, and found no rest at Leet The inevitable conclusion they bare arrived at ie that ol] thelr metaphysical speculations and femrobes after the lofinite amoast to nothing— thet belng Gnive there is co uch thing for thom aa praetzation ito the Lofinite—dhat faith is theonly sheet anchor of bappinem that the Church of Rome ls founded on that rock, beid with that an- dor, and thet they can fod rest only in that haves. These new converte fight the contents of the claaich with the ardor of the true Mumuimec whose | biod faith places bime Ln the front of the battle, | Unt be may the sooner be transated to the para- die of ever beastiful hourte aad ever booming gerdena The American mind, entbuaiestia, ao tive and imagicative to the bigtest degros, with Just enongh of cultivation to be cootinaally in a tate of unreet affords the most exeetient bed fot prosely tian, sod the apread of the Roman Churoh shows that the laborer is sot idle in the vineyard. Cou sare Corverncs —The canet convention af the Theta Dette Ci Fraternity commences to-day at Onoven tiem Hall, Wooter mre. A large namber of delegate from the Southern and New England colleges will be pre Pane ‘Tes Bowes oF Soomasm.—Mr Crawford, the Srettich vo calint, will give hie first concert at Dodworth's, on Thurs day. Mr. Crewfurd & bighiy apoken of by the Engi es. THE LATEST NEWS. | sas oy ersnamet aro me Additional from California eed Wwaregua, Ree NeW OBLaANs, ETO. ‘The stramebip Empire Cty, from Havana, having ar rived op, we give afew additions: pertoaiars of Caafornia aod Libanus bows. ‘The Purser reports that the steamship Ditnots, from Aspinwall for New York, bas nearly « million and = bait of dollars io gold ou freight, aad about seventy of Col, Lockridge's force, including Geserais Wheat and Hornsby. ‘Tbe Empire City brings owe buadred of the unfurtucate Nicarsguans, while others were left behind si Aspinwall, whither they were all talfoa lo British vousels. ‘The Ilineis connected at the L-thiaue with the steamer J. L. Stephens from fan Fraackro; but as that veesel did not touch ai San Juan dei Sur, we get nothing additional of an authentic nature in regard to the position of General Walker. Private despatohes, however, #lale thal be waa woll guppiied with provitons,and Ukely to bold out at Rivas for seversd montha. From the same source we get ‘a confirmation of Walker's and Hanningson'y recently ro- ported victories over the Costa Ricans, aad a rumor dui seiphen aiteek won Mastiy enpoetes. ext day, however, the Pizarro appeared off Matanzas amd General Walker's brother, who came passenger in the Erapire City, died on Sunday. vered that the rush of water into the ship came from adg- Ex fkaator Foote, who of late bas beid « prominent post- | {cet in the blow off pipe, and had ‘bea easily remedied, on in the ranks of the American party, had gone over to Scund lncaak tae ‘SUM continues in Oa- the democrats. Be ee ee wes eae ee vy | oom) a aoew Chinese products were repidiy advaaping in the Califor en eeaen bas em cig co ia markers, Money coatined very plenty, and exchange on New The Pacitic Wagon ‘Tho Diaria de la Marina bas the following accoum of Wasaworon, April 28, 1857, ‘The War-Departmont ‘has -completed-the arrangements fon the. wagon road from Fort Defiance. o Mojavt river, | 9, At Tore Medley ent Ae pelea tome | Edward F. Beale is to be the siiperintondent, G. H. Heap, | our city, and hin tore of tg ot assistant, aad James P. Hambleton, physician. Lieut. purauit of « broker a Gharies E Thorburn has been detached from the navy, to | John Oxnard who, having received, from Mears Faas acoompany the expedition for geological surveys. Tweaty- | of $11 aod bantam Genveoes tha Sacto, tad — five camels and dromedarice are to be employed, one of Saviiest taeen ¢ cock upon the Souther Baal," otis the objects being to test their endurance and adaptability i enony iS ths cries" had eas pot bees comuniond eer Bea ‘The party will consist of about fifty picked mon, pro- crime " be consummated bore, and in order to vided with the necessary implements to break tho road ra my -o Aele rare through. They will rendezvous at New Orieans on the | way phoma A ry Chalet of Pulce wh, wi 20th of May. All the parties for the diffcrent sections of the road are now organized, with instructions to com- meace operations at the earliest practicable pertod. It is thought that the work will be finished by next Decerader.2 Affairs at Albany. THE LIQUOR DEALERS AND THE NEW LAW-—THH CASK OF JUDO MULLETT. Axsaxy, April 28, 1857. ‘The Lquor dealers in this city held a meeting Last night, ‘and 6 fund was raised and resolutions adopted to disre- gard the law, and take the Giret prosecution under it to the courts, im order to test its constitutionality. Judge Mullett, of the Fighth Judicial district, has served papers on Governor King, denying that he has resigned his seat on the bench ef the Supreme Court, and stating that the appointment of bis successor is illegal, and that he sball proceed to hold courts as heretofore. Judge Mullett charges that the papers scat to Judge Foot, of the Judiel- ary Committee of the Legislature, were improperty, and without suthority, filled up, tendoring lis resignation, and that be did not resign. ‘The Indian Troubles in Minnesota. (Caucaao, April 28, 1857. ‘The St. Paul Pioneer of the 18th instant, contains « jot- ter from General Shields, dated Faribault 16 inst., which pointedly contradicts tho rumors of Indian murders at Mankato. We have reliadje information from Blue Earth 4 “& > i i i g i E Gack Hi B i] | county that there is ne foundation for thave abourd reports. Tho letter conchides by stating thar where is neither hos- | {™i'Guetae prempe netom of tur Guict of Foon = tility Gore sign of bovliiy ainongst the Ladisa wives in the TerrHtory. TELRGRAPHIC. ‘Tho Minncestian of the Sith confirms the slacmeats ia Caanuertoy, April 28, 1858, the above telier. ‘Tho olcamub!p foated uss arrived bere, owith Havens aad Arrival of the Steamship Lebanon. Flaurax, April, 28, 1857. ‘The steamship Lebanon, from Woetwich, England, on the evening of the 11th instant, arrived here yesterday. She ‘brings @ detachment of artillery for Nova Scotia aud Canada, but no mews She will leave for Quebco to morrow. Wreck of the Schooner William Raynor. Oswroo, April 28, 1867. The schooner William Raynor, with a cargo of wheat and four, from Torento to this port, went ashore last night below the cast pier. The sea made a olean breach over the vewsel, and the deck load of four was thrown overboard. Collison on the Hudsou River, Pommowr, April 23, 1857 A sloop and a schooner, names unknown, came in colll- slom inst night on the river near Irvington, The: loop was loaded with brick sad eenk immediately, Tho crew og caped in the yaet, aud wore picked up by the echooner, which sustained but slight injury. Fire ta Philadelphia, Prmapeuiaa, Apri 28, 1867 Douredoure’s coap and candle works ca Market street, Muscovado sugar, at the latest date, was twelve and @ quarter Wo thirteen reals, with an active demand. clayed, nine aad « half reals; muscovs fe, ton and « half to eleven reals. celve tho back duce of delinquent members, The sew Hense law has had the efeet of increasing the streagt, nent lawyers legality’ of the new license, and ascertain the bewt moana of ovading ita provisions. The: ‘opiaion if possible, Al the meeting beld last night Mr. Pour W. ‘Evo, from the Exeoutive Commities, reported that communications hadt beea with the Auorney General, and also wit near the bridge over the Schuytkill, was deewoyed by | some of ihe ablest city lawyers, but the ne; — wee Loss $50,000, ins 0 not as yet in @ state that they could report. At the mec Gre earty Vals morning $64,000, insured tor $90,000. | ie or yet vd + Be Rot +4 tell ail they knew, and some plan could be deteruiaed upon for alt ‘the Liquor dealers to follow ia evading or defying what they considered an unas wad iniquitous “law. Mr. Kags urged that mows of the liquor dealers shoukl got up peuiuons for license, am had been determined upon at ae previous moeung, for by doing #0 they would recognize a law which their luveres detoanded they whould dety and ignore Col. Fuuvcn followed somewhat in the sane mesiny wheu the meeting adjourned without having deter on any partionlas Course of acuou. We learn that the Executive Commities have had @ number of conferences with a kading lawyer, and ve riews piaus have been discussed to defy or evade the obaem- fous law, and « determination Las almost boon arrived ab 0 fight Unis and all other Ucense Iawa, on An entirely Bow proud, vig: dee right (0 impose & (ax for & ligense 0 soll Nor. t was once a favorite iden among liquor dealers, thatthe State had no right to requlate the traitice im liquor Foy bo Boston Weekly Bank Statemont. Boenow, Apetl 28, 18°. ‘The footings of our bank statement for the pat wook Compared with the wook provious, are ae follows — Am't due from other banks. Ain't due to other banks Depowita.. Croulnuen PHILADELPHIA BTOOK BOARD. Prumapaenaa, April 23, LAST. Ftocks steady. Peonsytvania 6's, 84\; Morris Canal, 16%, Long Leland Railroad, 12%); Reading Railroad, 41; Veuieyivagin Rakrowd, a. Cuantastow, Apel 28, 1967. 7 Cotton quiet. Bales today 400 balew at unchanged prices, Dirw Onanams, April 28, 1867. Cotdon has advanced ie. Sales to-day 4,000 Bales, at 13%,¢. a Ite. for middling. Receipts to-day 1,200 bales. Sugar lic. Flour closed with an advancing Wadency— sale at #6 76 per bbl Mixed corn Tho. Whale corn Other articles generally unchanged. ——. Our Weshington Correspondence. Wasmwortow, Apel 27, 1a67. The Colicetorship of Now Vork-—The Attempt to Bromsonie ({ohdl—Postmastcr Proker—Compiains Again Sorters, Oe Nawy Apne. You are quite correct in the statement put forth in the Tiraace of Ube 20th inst. (Sumday) touching the efforta to “ Broasonise”’ Mr. Collector Sobel. “ Mr. Buchanan con sidors the appointment of Mr, Schell to be one of the beat be bas made” In an evening conversation with Hon. Béround Burke, very receully, and since the farce at Tam- tmaay Had about Sachoms, Sagamores, Wiskinekis and “whiskey ekius,” together with other tomfooleriea, Mr. Buchanan sai, Who othor than Schell could I have ap- Kotte nauonns although But the right to Conse io till a dispute, and some lawyers are of oak that ail known licenses Are unanestitutional om Wis niene. The new Stato law ts cepecidly objection: this bead, as it vot only imposes a heavy tax for a pecumih to reli Use liquor, but also readers tho tax waequal by mak ing it ® piiding scale of from $30 to $240, to the Caprice, OF polmacal OF persoual proferences of wn Mae ORE OM * Upon thia point it ls supposed the law could be thrown into the courts and kept there until decided by the United States authorities, Thero is evidently « moo prem pect ahead for the lawyors. YOOTING OF THE BROOKLYN LIQUOR DEALERA’ BO ouerr. ‘The scelety, rince the passage by the Legislature of Ge opecial meeting war held yesterday afernoen, to comphetp the arrangement, and thore was a very large atteadause #85 fr i i ; § i 3 Ht res Ace no man for the place but Mr. Sete aypewtincot was but a foregone conclusion. a ‘oxpressed much surprise at the course ee, after the declarations And axeurancea ome pain that we have to stato that tke , has already been twice reported to the Kxecutive, by Lieut. DeCamp and contenctort You will recollect that throe votes in hia favor as Con- that the President wou't waa, And perchance iu others ; H i 5 : i pe _ g z E i e - ~ aera sa srausis Wiss wih wns faevea te Norcationst iuiertourse, inal. tne Now Yorkers whee de> a grend omatear p* sromag nod to whieh! (he public will be admitiod. Tho eran rae receipe will be given tot h® Dramatic Fund Association. A popalar stock broker (will play Master Walter, in“ Tho Hunchback," Une main plete of the oFening, And on dW that the expansive sexton of Gree church, Ge Usher of the | leated White Bod & al) the Queens of Faahiou, will appear in io fue ‘The Fire tn Nethany, Pa. ‘TO THE RDVTOR OF THM MMRALD, thee to the burning of what was termed tho ¥'University of New York.’ * toe to mynolf by inserting (his thereby, pleat, Ape 2, 1007 emer A THAT Proprietor City > Miasteets