The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. QPricn H.W. CONNER OF NASSAU AMD FULTON STO a amp Packsoms AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ay TER. = eeneney ay THRA Be, Breetung—Paseres, on — bead Sannes, Beoedway—ia Fare Cusurates— BOWERY THEATRE. Rowory—Tu8 Hows iy rae Waii— Jscone tL masan—Ki Hroer. NEW THEATERS, Broadway, opposite Bond at. ov ras Hove. WauLacrrs THRATRR, Rroadway—As Yoo Luce Ir— rm Yous Wira LAUEA KEENB'S FABATHR, Broatway—Masxs xv Facus—¥ suunrr. peers: BARNUWS AMBEICAN MUSEUM, — Aftern008 —Pore Prusoper— Ax Us acer Moar bees ‘Ne1on- oma canny ane Sao moras alana SUOKL2YS SBRENADERS, 685 Broadway—iriorus Prevoausnces—Loourris Boasts. 4 NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway—Mur, Becorn amp I.sst BonscKir tox Con, ole 2 Wew Vor, Thursday, May 2t, 1857. Coma pz Wituonsr’s The News. Owing to the storm the steamer George Law did Bot sail for Aspinwall yesterday. She will leave for her destination at the usual hour to-day. ‘The eteamsh'p Black Warrior arrived at this port last evening with Havana dates to the 15th inst. ‘The Spanish steamer was hourly looked for with orders for the immediate commencement of hostili- ties sgaimst Mexico. The sugar crop was expected te fall short twenty per cent as compared with last year's yield. Prices still tended upward, while freights continued dull. The Black Warrior encoun- tered beavy gales during the voyage. The steamship City of Manchester, which left Liverpool on the 6th inst., arrived at this port yes- terday. Tho news had been anticipated by the An- gie-Saxon, Arago, and Niagara. The City of Maa" chester, however, brought us full files of European papers. Our correspondent in the Bahamas, writing at Nassau, N. P., on the 6th inst, states that Mr. Mer- ritt, United States Consul, had received his exequa- tur. The hull of the British brig Wave, wrecked during April, had been sold at Long Bay, but it was aid that the property would have broaght more mo- wey at Nessan, The French brig Charles had been wrecked at Ackland’s Island. Rev. Mr. Cafers, an English missionary, who had labored for seventeen years on the island, was about to return home. We have received files of Great Salt Lake papers to the 2d of April, from which we take » number of interesting extracta. The discourses of Brigham Young and other leading elders forcibly enjom the meceasity of perfect unity of thought and action ne tom, as will te seen by our report ia another | morus multicaulis colamn. - nes Fee baer conte Ol per ax. Southern brands, however, were in light stock, PEATE srears me with @ good demand, full prices wero maintained, with a Siete Grom, o 65 ony part Erncinana, fair umount of sales. Wheat was irregular; sales of pritae Ww YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1857. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 600 2600 bales, based upon middling uplands, at about 13%. Some dealers were inclined to await the receipt of letters by the Niagara's mails before doing much. Flour was quiet and sales moderate, while there was aa easier tone in the market for common grades of State and Western, Western red were made at $1 6235, and furthor sales of Milwaukie ciub were reported at $146, The firmness of holders checked sales. Southern yellow wns held at 000. and Western mixed at 90c. a 920. Pork was steady, with gales of about 1,000 bbls. ineas at $23 49 a $25 60, part in the usual way, aad part payable on the 25th inet. In engars about 700 a 809 hhds, Cuba musoovado were sold, part iate in the aftornoon, a& very full prices, and 200 do, molado said to have been at Tc. Coflhe was steady, but quiet. Freights were irregular ¢) Great Britain, and en- gacements moderate. iKansas—Gov. Walker's Glertons Pinn of Pactiication, We have informed our readers of the promi- nent featurea of Gov. Walker’s plan for the pacification of Kansas, in the very interesting and suggestive extracts which we bave published from his introductory address to the people of the Territory, as read before the Cabinet at Washington. We shall now proceed briefly to fill in the lights and shades of the picture, of which this addreas may be considered the mere ontline- Gov. Walker first declares that the local laws mast be enforced—that the arrangements of the late pro-slavery Kansas Legislature for the elec- tion of a Convention in June, to fomm 4 State constitution, cannot be evaded ; and that the re- fasal of the free State party to participate in this forthcoming election, instead of helping their cause, will only damage it, inasmuch as the majority of those who do vote in the election will be adjudged as speaking in behalf of those who do not vote. To soften this blow, however, to the free State party, Mr. Walker says, in sub- stance, that he always has regarded the act of a Convention, in the adoption of a State constitu- tion, as but a preliminary proceeding, requiring, in every case, the ratifying vote’ of the people before it can be considered by Congress as a satisfactory application from the Territory for admission as a State into the Uniou. This, it is true, ia a mere opinion, but as the official opinion of the chief Executive officer of the Territory, approved by the President of the United States, we accept it as an opinion which is to be the law. The local Legislature providing for this June election of s State Convention has made no provision for the submission of the work of the Convention toa vote of the people. We are also pretty well satisfied that the Convention will not run the hazard of a popular vote upon a pro-elavery constitution, considering the heavy reinforcements which will have been secured to the free State settlers by the spring and sammer Northern emigrationa into Kansas. The pro- élavery party will, we apprehend, adopt the shorter course of a direct submission of their State charter to Congress, with an accompanying ap- plication for the admission of Kansas into the among the faithfal. The projected expedition to | Union as a slave State. the No@h is alluded to by Governor Young in one of his eermons. | At this point the ultimate plan of Mr. Walker comes in. Upon the serious informality referred ‘The police question in a manner subsided yester | to, the work of the pro-elavery Convention, and day os to its eventfuliness, although the interest in ‘the question has reached a high pitch. The trial of ‘Matseli was formally entered upon, but the decision reserved. Lieut. Brian, of the Ninth police district, | was dismissed by the Mayor and City Jndge. The proposition to remove from their present landing places the North river and Sound steam- ‘boats came up for consideration yesterday before a special committee of the Board of Aldermen. The resolution before the committee upon which the subject comes up directs the landing of North river steamboats at or above Canal street, aud the Sound steamboats at or shove Grand street. Messra. | Isaac Newton, of the People's line of steamboats; RB. E. Lockwood, of the Stonington line; W. Borden, | of the Fall river line, and Capt. Brooks, of the Bridgport line, appeared before the committee and | stated their objections to the resolution. We publish elsewhere 4 fall report of the proceed- | chamber at Washington of Lane and Robinson | ‘ings of the annual meeting of the Association of | as the Senators {rom Northern Kansas, and of Medieai Superintendents of Institutions for the Insane. A complete list of the public and private asylums for the insane in North America, together with the number of patients in each is appended to the report. There are in the institutions in the United States 8,462 patients, and in the asylums in the British Provinces there are 1,070 inmates. ‘The long pending suit of Fowles against Bowen, of the firm of Bowen & MeNainee—on action for | for slander, which was tried once befure and a ver- dict of #6000 rendered—was reeumed again yester- day,cn the second trial. The court was densely crowded by the mercantile community, and the case seem: to excite general interest, as much from the wealthy position of the defendant, as from the eym- pathy evtertained for the plaintiff In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Daniel Gailag her, indicted for committing a rape on Mary | Ann Conolly, was convicted of an assault with the intent to commit that offeace. He will be sentenced on Saturday. John Dorsey, a St. Domingo negro, | From Galveston, New Orleans and Mobile, ou the | South, by river and rail, the teeming products wus tried for the murder of Ann Hopkins, in Worth street. The prosecution had closed when the Coust | adpoorned, and the case will be given to the jury | this morning. in consequence of the incessant rain which pre | wailed yesterday, the celebration of the forty-first | aanivecsary of the American Sunday School Union, | which was to have taken place at tho Baptist church | in Harlem, at 3 o'clock, has been postponed until | the corresponding hour on Tuesday next. Also, the | Meeting of the friends, Ac., of the Sanday Schools, which was intended last evening, bas been de- ferred until the corresponding time on the evening | of Tnesday next, for the same reason. } ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met posterday, | and debaved the propriety of erecting a baggage | ‘house at Oestle Garden for the accommodation of the emigrants, whose goods are often stolen by runners and others. It seems that there are « large | umber of emigrants in the Garden at present, and | their inggage has been exposed to the storm for the | last two days. The Commissioners fear that if they | ona apn hed they will be responsible for foods stored in. The matter was ly | not finally | The General Synod of the Associate Reformed | Scotch Presbyterian Church commenced its session in this city last evening. There are about ove hun dred and twenty-five delegates from ali parta of the country, and there being some anti-slavery sentiment among them, a discursion of the question is ox pected. This is, we believe, the firs time that the | Bynod has been held in this city. . There has been a great increase of late in the samber of cases of endden and violent deaths re | ported at the Coroner's office. Scarcely a week rolls slong that 2 case of homicide ia not brought under the notice of one or other of the Coroners The number of suicides and accidents hes aio increased in proportion, making a melancholy catalogue ot! camualtios from week to week. Drowning cases have faleo increased of Inte; but that is not omomal at this | season of the year. it is well known that the bodies Of persons falling overboard in the winter will not a8 general thing rise to the surface until the warm Weather sets in, when the gna generated in the corpses by decomposition, produ ed by warmth, has & tendency to render them buoyant, when they rise to the eurface and are recovered, There were no Jews than a dowen cases reported at the Coroner's OTe youterday, moet of which claim public atten | the proceedings, remonstrances and counter ap- | plication of the free State party, will most pro- | bably be thrown back by Congress upon the peo- | ple of Kansas for another trial. And to soften { the asperities of the contesting parties, and to re- | duce them to peace and conciliation, we may | then look out for a new compromise | from Congress, embracing « Northern | Kansas and s Southern Kansas, a free State | and a slave State, to come into the Union Itke two lovers to their marriage—arm in arm Thus the politicians of both parties, struggling and wrangling and fighting for Congressional and Senatorial honors and the official spoils and plun- der of a new State, will be satisfied, and we may yet live to see the happy grouping in the Senate Atchison and Stringfellow as the Senators from Southern Kansas, all side by side. To secnre the consent and co-operation of the masses of both parties in and out of Kansas— pro-slavery and no slavery—to this ultimate ad- justment, the splendid imagination of Governor | Walker has furniebed us the most gorgeous pic- ture for the land speculators and stockjobbers | that the human mind could conceive. Look at it! Kaneae is to be the central State of the Union. All the vast network of the railroads of | the United States seeking a Western ourlet are to converge into and diverge out of Kansas, like the radiating lines from the setting sum, Yes, | | from Pugeta’ Sound, Astoria, San Francisco and | | San Diego, on the Pacitic, the mighty commerce | | of Asia and the islands of the Indian seas, will | | come by railroads through Kansas to the East. | of the West Indica will be poured into | Leavenworth, westward and northward bound. | From the AUantic seaboard the trade of Earope and of the solid bulk of the Union, by all the railroads east of the Mississippi, secking the Pa- cific ocean, will be diverted throagh Kansas; and, | finally, the extensive territories of the Hudson's Bay Company secking ® Sonthern market, will by other railroads inundate the populous cities of Kansas with their fare and peltries. Let this glorious vision of manifest destiny be realized, and the cities of Kansas in wealth and splendor will soon « those marble efties | of the deserts of Asia Minor, buili up from the droppings of the caravan rovtes of ancient times marble cities, the ruins of which, even at this remote dey, are the wonder and admiration of the world. Inspired by this magnificent fatare for Kansas, what is this temporary question of niggers or no niggers? Mere moonshine. At | this moment, we dare say, the black repablican city site, town lot, and land and railroad speca- | Governor Walker in the fulfilment of his grand de- signa ft them be fulfilled, and ten years | hence a Kansas claim which may be had | today for one handred dollars will com- mand one hundred thousend Leavea- \ worth will become another New York, | | | Lawrence another Boston, and Topeka a greater city than Albany. The mind of Governor Wolke has not for ten years past been concen- | trated upon Pacific railroads for nothing. All | this time, like Columims, he has baer exploring an untried ocean, and now, like Columbus, he } cries “Lend! land, hot” and woe the luxuriant islands of the tropics within his reach, Louis Napoleon, after bie cy. ip Tua, wort to work to devi some expedient to divert the mindg of the French people fron revolutionary plots ond conspiracies. As by inepiration he hit vpon the happy thought of the Credit Monitor The results have exceeded his most sanguine hopes. Stocks and stockjobbiog, and »pecuia- all eorte, have ton become the mania, the philosophers, politiciana, Bourbons, eocialists and red republicana The empire is thus secure; for the epecalators of France (thir- ty-five millions) ere pledged to keep the peace, in their joint stook adventures and affiliations of all sorta, So with Governor Walker’s land and railroed programme for the pacification of Kan- sas, It covers the whele ground. Pro-lavery or no elavery, niggers or no niggers, the Kansas dispute will be eettled by the neat Congress without war and without disanion. In the mean- time our fears of trouble have ceased, for this grand and glorious railroad combination echeme of Governor Walker has gained the confidence of the black republican stockjobbers of Wall strect, and cannot fail in Kansas, Protection agalner CommenciaL, DisHonestr —Neorssrrr or 4 Genenat Bayxnver Law.—The Independent, one of the weekly religious organs, has been for some time past in the habit of pab- lishing periodical lists of commercial failures and assignmente. Why the office of a bankrupt ga- zette should be assumed by a religious paper it is not our business to inquire, but we suppose that it comes within clerical notions of the fitness of things. Of the utility of the publication of lists of this kind there can be no two opinions, but in order that they should have a ealatary effect, they should be free from all suspicion of parttali- ty. Sach, it is alleged, is not the character of the lists published by the Independent. It ia charged against them that either through favor or bribery bankrupts’ names have been omitted, and commercial reputations shielded from the shame of exposure. If this be true, these lists are merely an instrument of private traffic, and not what they should be—a powerful means of cor- rection. Twenty years ago, in the financial revulsion which made such a clean aweep of all the rotten firms which had been trading upon other people's capital, avd which shook eo many houses of fair Teputation, we ourselves commenced the publica- tion of lists of commercial failures in the conviction that they would have a wholesome influence in the mercantile community. Their appearance in our columns created # tremendous excitement and fluttering amongst the kite flying and ehin- ning contraternity-—tolerably clear evidence of the excellent effects likely to result from them. The panic amongst these worthies became so great that it was determined at any cost to put 8 stop to the publication of these lista, and in- dictments for libel of a purely technical charac- ter were accordingly multiplied against us, and on these technicalities we were mulcted in heavy fines, and compelled to drop our catalogue of commercial sinners, Curious to say, some of thoee who made themgelves the most conspicuous in the hue and cry raised against ua, are amongst the concocters of this semi-religious, semi-com™ mercial Index Hizpurgatorius. However impartially these published lists may be got up, they are, after all, but a sorry substi- tate for what commercial expediency and public credit imperatively call for—a general bankrupt law. We made, it is true, the experiment of a couple of these laws, but being intended only for the benefit of speculators and swindlers, they were speedily repealed, and the only protection since afforded to the mercantile community is that furnished by these lists, In Europe these things are managed differently: There the severest enactments against mercantils dishonesty, with exposere through the columns of the government gazeties, tend to keep men straight. Here we not only have no express law for the purpose, but we leave to private enter- prise, or it may be private cupidity, the task of furnishing the commercial public with lists of their black sheep. Either let us have # general bankrupt law, which will meet all the shifte and contrivances of mercantile fraud, or an impar- tially prepered and authorized publication of bankrupte, which will exercise a wholesome check over the dishonestly inclined trader, through the fear of exposure. If we cannot | reach ingenions commercial rogues through the machinery of the law, we may at least place them in a eort of moral pillory. Coronrn Coxxery Acgvrrren.—We publish to-day, copies of communications from Governor King to Coroner Connery and to the counsel for Mra. Conningham, announcing the decision of the Executive on the charges prefered against the Corover for improper conduct in the Burdell in- quest, ‘These charges are held to be unproved, and are accordingly dismissed, tho Governor mouking the very sensible remark that levity and fiippancy in conducting parts of the inquest, or the course of the Coroner in causing the person of a woman to be examined with a view to dis- cover marks of violence, if any, did uot consti tute cach a wilful abuaee of authority as to call for the exe of the executive power of re- moval. On this latter point too, the Governor attaches much weight to Mra Cuoningbam's declaration that the examination was delicately conducted. In reference to the charge of undue harshness in restraining the accused parties of their free- dom, Governor King dryly intimates to their counsel thet it is qu: ble whether a more prompt and etringent exercise of that anthority by placing the parties at No. 51 Bond street in separate confinement, before xay communication could have passed between them, might not have led to the detection of the guilty. And, finally he reminds counsel that the general fitse- of the Coroner for bis office is a question which has been paseed on by the electors who chose him, Coroner Connery is, therefore, fully and com- pletely exonerated from all the serious charges alleged againet him, in reference to the manner in which he conducted the inquest at No. 31 Bond street. As to the levity or flippancy which he may have exhibited on that occasion, that docs | not constitute any offence for which he should be deprived of his office, or which could be even | lators in and out of Kansaa, are ready to join | taken into serious consideration by the Exeoutive of the State, We have no doubt that these groundless charges were got up against Coroner Connery for the parpose of diverting public attention from the real facts of the murder, and of allowing the guilty parties to cseape snepicion and detection. It has thus served to defeat the ends of justice, as well as to inflict ecrious injury on the Coroner's reputation. He owes it to himself and the public to institate proceedings for defamation of charac- ter against those who got up these charges aguinst bim. Tus Dwtier Artorxny publishes a card warning people to prepare for being robbed dur ing the interregnum of anarchy which is upoo us The District Attorney is very good and fe therty, and we are much obliged to him. Now that he baw discharged this duty does he think he could manage to find out some of the an known murderers for whom we have advertised Tewards, and try some of the 1,690 indictments Tying over in b's office of all enterprising Frenchmeo— | Progress of the Struggle between Municipal Freedom and State Centralization. ‘The delegstes whom Governor Kiog has ap- pointed; to administer the police affaire of this city under the name of Metropolitan Police Com. miseloners, seem to think that the struggle in which they are engaged as the antagonists, and the Mayor asthe defender of manicipal liberty is the very best joke in the world. They have replied to the Mayor's appeal to them to avert a collision between two sets of policemen in a letter fall of smart quips, mild jokes, and a sort of maffled Joe Millera. They evidently roared in their sleeves when they wrote it—the rogues; they would have their joke, even were it on the rains of a nation’s liberty. . Modern critics have denied that Nero fiddled when Rome was burning; but the jocu- larity of the Commissioners, when all that we hold dearest is at stake, shows us that there is nothing in human nature that readers such hard- ness of heart impossible. Some of tue republican papers intimate that the Commissioners’ letter will astonish Mayor Wood. We should rather think it would. A man would need a good deal of self-possession and coolnew not to be very much startled by @ letter which, emanating from @ body of men in high station, combines the flip- panoy of the prig with the frivolousness of the collegian. ‘That other pillar of the State—Mr. Oakey Hall—is not flippant, or frivolous, or jooose. He is merely weak. Feebleness is his forte—feeble- ness and procrastination. Like Aeron Burr, he never does today what by any posstbility he may do to-morrow. And, in this crisis, he is true to his character. He throws his mite into the pool of discord in the shape of » “card,” in- viting barglars and incendiaries to avail them- selves of the conflict of authorities at present plunging the city into anarchy. - What an act for a District Attorney! How can the party ever repay sach self sacrifice! Meanwhile, the desire among the sabstantial citizens and people of the city to see the late ects nullified, and the self-governing rights of this metropolitan city maintained at all hazarda, grows daily in strength and power. The people you meet are all of one mind; there is no differ- ence of opinion among them: all—even the usual opponents of the democratio party—agree that the Legislature has committed a shamefal usurpa- tion, that it would be disgracefal for us to re- linquish our self-government to the miserable Albany clique of politicians, and that the ques- tion must not be allowed to remain at resi— whatever be the result of tho appeal to the courta, People are beginning to feel that this contest—which the silly Commissioners treat as a joke—is really a life and death matter for all of us, and for the Queen city of America. A general inquiry—among persons who are not politicians, and who merely oppose these acta | because they see that they involve a partial disfranchisement of New York, and consequently militate against its future commercial welfare— is: Supposing that the Commissioners prevail in the courts, what can we do then? We can answer this questioa. By the charter act passed last session, it was expressly declared that the old Dongan and Mont- gomery charters were affirmed, and were not re- pealed. They are still the law of the land. By those charters, complete and full powers of self-govern- ment were granted to the people of the city— powérs which have never been relinquished, or even in part given up. It follows that by these old charters, which are still a law paramount, and which were re-affirmed even by the very Legisla- tare which is trying to disfranchise us, we are in- vested with all the powers of manicipal self-gov- ernment with which the Governor and his cliqae at Albany pretend to have been clothed by the various unconstitutional acts of last session. And it further follows that it only rests with us to assert these powers of self-government, in virtue of the old charter. We therefore suggest to the corporation of the | city the propriety of acting upon these old (and newly re-aflirmed) charters at their earliest convenience. They concede to them, as the chosen representatives of the city, a complete exercise of municipal govern- ment. Let them act upon the concession. Let them re-appoint all the police, and swear them aa “watchmen” ander the old charters; for this is evidently » part of municipal government, Let them make a contract for the building of » new City Hall; for that evidently isa city matter, over which control was granted them by the old chartera, Let them engage men to lay out the Central Park; for nothing certainly could fall more precisely under the head of municipal business than thia, Let them appoint Port War- dens; for their duties are peculiarly manicipal , In fine, let them pertorm, under and in virtue of the old charters, each and all the acts which the unconstitutional measures of last session en- trusted to the tools of the Albany clique; and when assailed let them plead the old charters and the clause re-affirming it in the charter of 1857 as their defence. That will be a@ position which will puzzle the Albany spoiismen to overthrow, Toe Qvarner ror THe Sroma or THR Conan Frincerers.—We pubtish in another column a curious and interesting erposé of that portion of the materiel of a filibustering expedi. tion which Commodore Law calls “ hardware,” | and which will serve asa guide to the manifest dostinarians for futare operations, We are ia- debted for this valuable information to a qnarrel that has eprung up between cx-Gen. Goicouria wad bis late friend ex-Minister Appleton Oak- smith, and sundry and divers of their associates It is a fight for the spoils after the style that Marcy disapproved of when his maxim was turned upon himeclf. The filibusters not gotting a chauce to pillage the Spanish camp, have turned too to pillage their own. It is a vory pretty quarrel as it stands; but the develope- ments are ouly begiaving, and we doubt not that truths, which are stranger than fiction, will yet ee the light. There are masy unwristen chap- tera on filibusteriam still in the inkstand. Go on, gealemen, let us have the whole story. The public wants more Hight. Tun Trinunn editors are to be censared for the ndiseretion and want of tact with which they make up their paper. In yesterday's number, one column contains an attack on Mayor Wood for testing the constitutionality of a law, and a final appeal to the highest court ia this State; while the very next colamn is filled with a fero- cious oneloaght ou the Sapreme Court of the United States, and Ohief Justice Taney. The Tritnne is at liberty cither to deride the decisions of courts of justice, or to hold them up to re- apect and obedicnce; but if it assumes to do both, according to ite own whim-—now assailing a man as a scoundrel because he is a Judge and decides contrary to the 7) dune view; now calling another man a raecal becanse ho ventures to impugn a judicial decision—we think common decency onght (o euggeet the ineertion of a proper inter vai between the articles Quazayreva anv THE SuGae Trape.—We are informed that several of our merchants engaged in ade with Cuba have sent orders te Havana that vessels loading with euger for them shall be sent to some of the ports on Long Island Sound, in order to avoid the deiay and expense of qua- Tantine and lighterege here It is eaid that sugars can be landed in the Connecticut ports’ and even as far off as Providence, R. L, and brought bere im propellers and schooners through the Sound, at less cost, in shorter time, and with less loss in weight than is incurred iu landing at Quarantine, in the lower bay, and bringing to the city in lighters. We are also told that last year a number of vessels bound here from Cuba were etopped by a boat cruising off Sandy Hook for the purpose, and ordered to the Sound ports to discharge. By this operation not only was there a saving of expense to the consignee, and of time, but the vemel aleo saved the fees and expenee of lying out a quarantine here. These facta present the quarantine question in a new light as to its effect upon the trade of our city. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington. BRIGHLY INTERESTING FROM THE BUSSO-OHINESE FRONTIMR—NBW AND IMPORTANT OCOMMERGIAL VIEWS—THE ENTENTS CORDIALE BETWEEN RUS SA, CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Wasumvctos, May 20, 1857. ‘The Union will publish to-morrow an interesting letter from Mr. MoOolling, written at Irkontsk, in Russian Tar- tary, on the 4th of March last. This gentleman was ap- pointed last year Consul of the United States at the Amoor river, and is now on his way to his pest. He went by the way of Moscow, where he was present at the coronation of the Emperor in August last,and there met the Gover- bor of the province, in which his Consulate les. The Governor offered him @ conveyance to the shores Of the Pacific in his suite, as he was about returning bome. Mr. MoCollins accepted the offer and was posted across Siberia to Irkontsk, on the shore of Lake Barkal, where they were obliged to winter. He took advantage of this delay to visit the Russian trad- ing town, Kiachta, through which the vast overland trade of Russia.with China is condacted. He describes this city as being in facttwo towns, one Russian and one Chinese, separated by a broad open space between them. Tho trade ia carried on by barter, and here the Chinese duty is collected. A large quantity of teas and silks are, however, emuggied acrose the frontier farther west. At Dusiness to bimself, they being considered family heir looms, and as euch descend from father toson. Mr. Mc- Collins adds that the country in that vicinity is very quict and peacefully disposed, and the Chinese merchants gave ‘very little importance t2 the stories about intestine difficul- ties in the central provinces or the attacks of outside bar- barians in the South. At Pekin everything was reported to be exceedingly quiet. At Kinchta a large dinner was given to the Consul, at which the officials anda large number of Russias and Chi- nese merchanta assisted. Mr. MoCollins made @ speech, in whi sh he explained to them the advantages of OVERATIONS AGAINST THE MORMONS—FROCEED- INGS OF THE NAVAL COURTS, BTO. ‘ Wasmorox, May 20, 1857. Not a single consular or diplomatic appointment has yet been determined on, or even considered. Tho list of ap- 4nd two hundred and fifty-five for diplomatic appoint- ments. Ons of the latter there are but twelve that can be successful. The consular appointments will be considered Bext week, as the Secretary of State—who is a model exe gutive officer—designs leaving Washington on the Ist of Juno for the West. The pressure for foreign appoiut- ments is unparalicled. A large importation arrived this evening. New Jorsey looms up considerably. Gon, KR Wright is sald to be on the slate for a foreign mitasion, ‘The President and Secretary of War are busily engaged in making arrangemonts to send a large military force to Utah. Jt has not been determined who will command them. Aa soon asthe President received the declination of Major McCullough, another di-tinguished individual was fixed upen, aad as soon as bis whereabouts is known e telegraphic despatch will acquaint him of his selection. Tn Nayal Court No. 1 the lighthouse accounts of Lieut Bartlett were examined. In Court No. 2 thero was a so vere commentary upon the action of the Retiring Board. Commander Boutwoll testified that at the samo time the Board were farloughing Lieut. Sartori he was asking the Department to permit him (Boutwell) to retain the same officer as the First Lieutenant of the sloop-of-war John Adame. In Court No. 3 Commodores Castin and Mayo, Commanders Chalard and Colbourn, Gen. Burnett, Civil Engincer; B. F. Deland, Naval Constructor, and Wm. A. | Prady, Master, were examined in favor of Com. Boarman, ] and testified to bis efficiency as nn officer. Com. Cartn’s } testimony was by depositions, which for the present are ruled out, Governor Dickinson and family will be here tomorrow, on a social visit to some friends, He has not been here for seven years. Private letters state that the crops in Alabama have bad to be planted three mes. The corn was killed by the frost. ‘Tho arrtyal to-day at Willard’s of the unique looking individual from Cahfornia with the backhorn chair for’ the Preaident, created quite a sensation. Le will present it to the President on F iday. ‘The follow ing Philadelphia appointments were made to- day —SMr. Peasants, Gencral Appraiser, rico Barry Hays; | Thomas J. Simmins and Mr. Maberry, Assismat Appraisers, | vice McGrath and Berryl, resigned. | ‘Thurlow Weed arrived here thisevening, and ia stop. “ping at Willard’s. THE GENIAL SEWEPAPKR per ATOR PRIOHAM YOUNG'S INDIAN SUPRERINTENDENCY=NAVAL KNGINERES, ETO» Wasnisuron, May 20, 1867, The Indian Buresu has received despatches from Brigham Young, gtving am account of his transactions aa Superintendent of Indian ATairs ia Utah, dated March 81, in which he says—Since my last report we bave had f time of pence and apparently of great contentment generally, aud more especially among the Indinus.”* This ie the only allasion he makes to the social aifairs of be Territory. ‘Thomas Bacon has been appointed by the President Postmaster mt Ogdensbarg, New York, vice Bald qin re- moved ‘The following candidates, on the recommendation of the Board of Kxamination, bave been sdmitted into the nary as third aecietant engineers:—Willam P, Deganno, KE. A. €. Pmplnine, Thomas Crenin, Samuel Savage, Jorph H. Warrington, of Pounsytvania; Francis J. Lovering, N. B. Litting, William R. Schley, of Maryland; Chartos C. Kid Benjamin ©, Brampton, of Now York, J. B. Houston, George 8. Bright, William 1. Walter, George T. Houston, of the District of Columbia; Eben Hoyt, of Maseachuartts; William H. King, of Virginia, and John Johnson, of Dela: ware Aretient to General Pillow, de. Menem, Tenn., May 20, 1857 General Pillow was severcty injured by a fall frou hie horse afew days since. His residence ls Helena, Arkansas, bat he is new here, Mowly recovering. ‘There was a severe hail storm at Tuscumbia, Alabama, on the 28th inat., brenking the Morbs of trees ant doing other damage. ‘Atearon, ‘The correspondent of the New bbe has traced the rumor of the rety of General Wat and CMessee unbelief ag te the House to-day, first striking out the Btate of a toan of three millions, thus defeat! ing ‘object of the bill. ; ing arrangements for the proper reception of the gu, Of the city, on the oocasion of the opening of the Obie y ‘Misetsatpp! Railway. ‘The Removai of Judge Loring. Boston, May 20, 1861. ‘Tho House to-day adopted the address from the Senate asking for the removal of Edward G. Loring from the office of Judge of Probate of Suffolk county, by a vote of 210 to 69, Recovery of Senater Butler, Avowsra, Ga., May 20, I86y. ‘The latest intelligence is to the offect that Senater Bas- Jer, of South Carolina, is rapidly recovering. Arrival of the Circassian at Boston. Bosros, May 20, 1807. ‘The screw steamship Circagsian, from Liverpool en the (Oth vie &. Johns, N. B., on the 16th and Halifax em the 10th, arrived hore at 7 o'clock this evening. ‘The Kuropa Outward Bound. Boston, May 20, 1661. The steamship Puropa ealled from here at 10 o’clesk this morning, with 133 passengers for Liverpool and & for Halifax. She takes out $1,066,000 in specie. paceaceniats atti’ Suttctt Collision on Lake Erte. Cunvunanp, May 20, ogy. A ovllixion occurred last night, off Conneaut, between the schooner Cataract and an unknown prepelior. The schooner sunk. Hor cargo consisted of coal, irom ama tone. The crew reached Conneaat in a yawi. to be placed on board the steamship Europa. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. ‘ Pumansurm, May 29, 186 road, 7; Mari Casal, T03e; Long load alrodae Penneyivania Railroad, 46. Saad ad “a ABHIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP BLACK WARRIOR. ‘The steamehip Black Warrior, J. W. Smith, commander, from New Orleans the 12th and Havana the 15th inst., hea arrived. The Black Warrior experienced heavy gaies from uerth- east to north on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th. commencoment of hostilities against Moxico, to be opemed by 4 naval attack upon Vera Cruz, The island continues very healthy. The sugar crop is nearly harvested, and will fall short of last year's crop by about twonty por cent. Prices have still an upward tendency. Stock at Havana aud Matanena 270,000 boxes. Freights nomiaal, and no prospect of an mprovomemt iis Beason. Exchange on New York, at sixty days, 2\ por coms discount. ~ . Mar, pe Whustomsr's Famewas Coscmr will be gives this evening at Niblo’s Saloon, when sho will have the assistance of Signori Morelli, Gasparoni, Rivard! and Maa- wocebi, Mr. Millet and Miss Gillie—the latter a very pro- mising amateur, As the Opera season at the Academy ts at an end, and as Mme. de Wilhorst leaves the country next week, this will be her farowel{ of her New York a@- mirers, who will doubtless rally in full force to do honor to 60 Interesting an occasion. No Orwna Laer Niowe.—After the fiaso of Mr. Ja cobs, the tenor, om Monday, Mr. Morelli obtained pormis- ston from Moswrs. Marshall and Maretzek for Briguo' to sing Kagardo to the Lacia of Mme. de Wilborst last night, the rervices of Mr. Brignoti not being required at the Pta- lado'phia Academy. Mr. Brignoli, however, declined te sing, and there was no performance of the Opera at the Academy last night. Mosars, Moreili and Brignoli puirtiste the following carde:— Signer Morell, destrous of felling his engngemests to the public, feels himself "e statement of the circa! from doing #0. On Mi >: aa originally announced, Mr. Max advance from me the sum of.two hundred Retort neereiare. tee nor ' to 0 engage’ into with Mr. Max Maretzek, and in oe Sokne Signor Morelli finds himsolf utterly unable other two representations . —T ht eee MOREL.