The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1857, Page 4

meg ry. pe conan, Searek Ate esse ge PEF moans totth nentnees, chenpness and der ‘APY ERTIEENEITS renewed every day. Welume XXII ary, THEATRE Broadway—Faveros, on ras — BIBLO'S GARDEN, Rroadway— An Tum Mux svas—IMasis 4 Quaree—Magto Thor. eben SY PABATRR. Bowerv— Deus G: or Guyoa— Tas or Buoop—Porw as. ‘a my Javoss _quatoins New THEATRE, Bros@way. opposite Bond ot something like @ definite opinion upon their I © Di LAURA KEEWER THEA’ Rroadway—D pistuoan-Lirtun Toosemnine Vansorte — AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Breadway—Afterncoa end Greskagherouson Juoewoon baw | OHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad. Punvoamaroms—Werro. Besbsce by Deranvanowrenn Hew Vor, Saturday, May 1857. ‘The News. We have additional cetails of news from the city of Mexico to the 5th, and from Vera Crus to the sth inst: The reported execution of Col. Crabbe snd hia party of filibusters in Sonora is confirmed. Orders bad been issucd to bring them to the capital for trial, with the view of saving their lives if pos- sible. The stubborn resistance of the expeditionists to the large military force sent against them, how- ever, doubtless induced the Mexican oommander to infliet summary punishment upon the invaders. Letters etate that a party of five hundred filibusters had gathered in the Gadsden Purchase, and con- templated a hostile demonstration upon con- to revolutionize the country was detected on the 2%h ult. The aseassination of the President and an atta>k on the city formed the basis of the plan of the conspirators. The leaders of the plot were arrested, and it was expected that they would be beheaded. It is said that Captain Nogueira, a protegé of Comonfort’s, was the person selected to commit the act of assassination, and that ex-Minis- ter Aquilar was implicated in the affair. Advices from Tampico to the 9th instant state that the city, the State of Temaulipas and the whole of Nor:hern Mexico was tranquil, Ex-Governor Garza had not | returned from the capital, nor had his party made | any movement im his favor. The authority of j Geveral Morena continued unquestioned. The pa- | pers were discussing the new constitation, the ap- | preaching election, the misunderstanding with Eng- land acd the difficulty with Spain. The crops of all kinds were promising, and it was expected that the harvest would be the largest ever known. By way of New Orleans we have Havana dates to | the 19h inst. The general news is of little interest. | Sagar was firm at previous rates, while molasses, | with an active market, had reached so high a price | that speculators were afraid to touch it. | Intelligence from Rio Janeiro to the 4th ult. has yellow fever was declining in the harbor, but that other column. There was also more dang in coffee; about 8,000 bags of Rio were sold by auction, 800 do. to the trade, with 2,000 mats of Java, 300 bags St. Domingo, and 100 do. Laguayra, at rates given in another place. Freights were without change of moment; 10,000 bushels of wheat, in bulk, were engaged for Liverpool at cd., and 600 balos He, 142 | of cotton a! 35. a 3d. 6d. ber bale, er emenge RESETS ‘The United States Mall Service—Postmaster General Brown's Western Ideas, Although three months have not yet elapsed since the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan, and very little has been done to test the quality of the several members of the Cabinet, we may still, with an exception or two, ventare upon respective merita, according to their acte. In connection with the pending delicate, dif_i- cult and important isues affecting our foreign relations, we think that thus far Gen. Cass has proved himself eminently qualified to meet the great responsibilities of his post and the high ex- pectations of the country ; and we are confident, too, from ‘the sound judgment and wise discretion which he bas exhibited upon the Central American, Chinese and Mexican questions, that, es the guardian of the honor and dignity of the coumtry, without any apprehensions concerning the external peace of the country, he may be | safely trusted for the future. Of Mr. Cobb, the Secretary of the Treasury, we think it may be said that he has already shown himeelf a faithful agent of the law—a careful disciplinarian— zealous for the good conduct and good order of his department and for a good report of his stewardship, as the accounting officer of the | people's money. i Of Mr. Toucey we have had to complaia that | he has, in a recent transaction, exhibited a litte | too much of the conceited martinet for this day of | Progrees and common sense; but we still believe him capable of doing much to restore harmony, order and efficiency in the present discordant and | demoralized United States Navy. Mr. Black, the | Attorney General, in a recent opinion or two, has perhaps permitted his zeal to ourran his discre- tion; but as he is an approved expounder of the Isw, and has been only zealous in behalf of the | public interests, we may pronounce him a safe bargain in exchange for his “illustrious prede- | cessor.” We fear, however, that Mr. Brown, of Tennes- eee, the Postmaster General, notwithstanding his extensive reputation as a statesman of great ta- lente, much experience and matured wisdom, has entered upon the duties of his office rather as a Western than asa national man. Retrenchment, we know, was the Alpha and Omega of that vigilant oid watch dog of the public money, the Hon. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY "26," 1807. to the Sing. | Conporation debt of ferty oc lars to aye ‘on come poor devil of » ceatrector whe ‘ep; ears, knows nothing of the financial affairs of the city, and cannot ¢ell whether the great city val force has been ordered to the Isthmus of Pa- as Jy, Fark Ss —” thought it would come to this. nama is looke@ upon as a matter of course, aad ——_———_ both ministerial and opposition journalscomment | THE Francu Exrraprrion Case.—The death upoa the New Granada difficulties with us in a | in prison of one of the unfortunate yeung men, kindly spirit and with an expremed confidence in | Grelet, implicated in tho transaption by which the proper action of our government, Central | Baron Rothechild and the Northern Railroad of America has eunk into ailence, and even Lord | France were victimized to the extent of over a Palmerston’s acknowledged organ calmly ex- | million of dollars, has given additional interest preeses its doubt as to whether the Clayton-Bul- | to this important‘extradition case. This judicial wer treaty bas not ceased to exist, and contem- j murder of one declared by the Supreme Court of plates our permanent occupation of the isthmus | this State to be guiltless of the offence imputed with come guarantee of neutrality similar to that | to him, and who was most unfairly and im- hoped for from that instrument, propetiy tbeld in prison, because he would China is the all-absorbiog theme, aud not with- | not engage to divest hiniself of his legal remedy out great reason. Looking at the movements of | for false imprisonment, attracts much sympathy the several parties in this-dispute from a dis- | even toward those as to whose criminality in the tance, and beyond the inflaences of local and na- | matter of these French frauds there is no doubt. tional prejudice, the probable future of the allied | The United States Commissioner, before whom French and English forces in Agia looms up be- | the case was brought, has now heard all the evi- fore us full of doubt and possible disaster. The | dence and arguments that could be brought to military operations of these Powersin theCrimea | bear upon it, and will probably render his de- brings to us a forcible lesson. There the cam- | ciaion in the course of afew days. This will be paign against Sebastopol was conducted in utter | done in the form, not 20 mach of ‘a judgment as violation of one of the greatest axioms in war. | of a report to the State Departmentat Washing- Military science tells us that whenen army ia the | ton of the legal value of the testimony offered, field and a fortified city are to be operated | whether it is sufficient to justify placing these against, the army must first be destroyed or | partics on trial in a criminal court, and whether Prestige poasible results of the Chinese difficulty all other quéstions eeem to have saak into insignificance in the public estimation of Hag- land. The anoouncement that an American ns- |, Me In vidw of the. | driven in, and the fortress then be The | the crime for which they could be eo placed on leaguered. allied operations in the Crimea were conducted | trial is embraced within the provisions of the ex- in direct opposition to this principle. The Ras. sian army held the field and the fortress, and had Russia possessed equal facilities for bringiag her resources into action to those poeseased by the allies in their fleets of steamers and an open ocean the reeuit might have been far different. Yet notwithstanding the immense resources of Eng- Jand and France, their armies were never able to take the field and drive the Russians from Simpheropol, but could only sit down before the town and expend their countlees supplies of powder and bail. The whole world is aware how the English army during this eiege famished, and thousands of her soldiers died from lack of the plenty that wae near at hand. France done eomewhat better, but only because the Frenchman is a cook by instinct, and can adapt himself to circumstances with far greater facility than the Eoglishman. | The theory of French military operations is to live upon the country around the theatre of | action. It was this error that drove Napoleon from Spain. While he had no organized system | of supply for bis legions, Wellington was ran- sacking every approachable corner of the globe to provision his armies. The orders in council were disregarded by him, and hundreds of American merchants and shipowners | Cave Johnson; but retrenchment is not always economy. If in his anxiety for the sixpence at his fect the man loses the golden eagle that lies a few yards farther on, he has not made much by | the operation. This brings us to our specifica- heen received. Our correspondent states that the | tions sgainst Mr. Brown. The Postmaster General has the discretion of about twenty persons died each day in the city of | contracting for the term of one year for the the disease. | transportation of the mails by certain lines of At- Onur files from the Babamas to the 9th inst. state antic steamers. In pursuance of this authority that Gov. Bayley was indisposed. It wasfearedthat Mr. Brown has recently made the following con- the asit raking at Turks Islands had been seriously tracts, to wit:— interrupted by beavy rains. The preseedings of both Boards of Police Com- | missioners yesterday related mainly (v dismissals of their respective partisans from municipal service. ‘The Albany Board had also ander consideration the | extraordinary project of s “volunteer police torce.”’ | Two men were, by the connivance of Gray, the warden of the city prison, billetted on the part of | —_ the Board at the Tombs. An absurd account of a conspiracy against the safety of that institution and its precious contents was the excuse. } Judge Clerke yesterday rendered a decision upon | the application for an injunction restraining the | Qusraatine Commissioners from erecting hospital buildings at Seguine’s Point. The motion was de- | nied. We continue in another column our report of the proceedings in the case of Fowles against Mr. Bow: | €a, of the firm of Bowen, McNamee & Co.,a sait | For tbe vans} | For the transportation of the mails by the New York and Bremen line (Vanberbilt’s), the com- pensation of the postages amounting to about... .$) Late contract of old line, cash... .. 6... 66.6 cae « $83,000 portation of the mails by the New ‘York and Havre line the postagos equal to adout.. . Now Mr.Brown may plume himself upon the idea that here arc the eavings of $144,000 upon the expensive ocean mail transportation of the East which may be wisely devoted to the extension of the mail facilities of the West. But this is of that sort of economy which the old wo- | men call “penny wise nd pound fool- ish.” We had hoped to find in Mr. Brown, | and hope yet to find in him, a statesman above are still living upon the profits of their sapplies to him. It was the flour and grain of the United States that drove Napoleon from the Spanish pe- ninsula and finally consigned him to St. He- lena This history, at least, is philosophy teaching by example. If the armies of Western Europe relied upon us to feed them onto victory in Spain and in the Crimea, what may not be their fate on the distant chores of China? Land and naval forces adequate to act against an empire of three hun- dred millions of people must be sent there if Eng- land hopes to succeed. The brunt of the conflict must fail upon her, for Louis Napoleon has no other interest in the matter than to be allowed | full swing in the diplomacy of Europe in return | for his co-operation, and there is no reason to suppose that there will bea French column to | take the Chinese Malakoff. The Pacific ocean must be ransacked for supplies for these forces, and Australia, Chile and California will be called upon. New York may yet have to come to the rescue, through her Panama road, to save the allies in China from hunger. But what part will China play in this great | drama? The events of the opium war are no criterion by which to judge that which may come. England has taught the Chinese something of the art of war already, as ancient Rome was taught Vought to recover damages for alleged slander. | the narrow and contracted ideas of your mere | — that is by practice. Evidences of this are pal- ‘The mercantile community are highly excited upon this subject, and the court room was yesterday crowded with spectators. The Coroner's jury called to investigate the facts connected with the death of young Grelet, who died on Thursday in Eldridge street jail, in their verdiot pronounce the building unsuitable for a | county prison, and call upon the authorities to take | some action in regard to the matter. We give else- | where the testimony elicited, which fully sustains the verdict, together with an account of the funeral The firet application for tavernkeepers’ license, | under the new law, was made before the Excise | Commissioners yesterday, by Mr. Peter Gilsey, the | well known tobacco merchant. Henry A. Kerr, | Eeq., of 746 Broadway, made the first application for storekecper's license. Being unaware of the | fact that the certificate of freebolders is not needed for such @ license, he procured the signatures to his petition of large number of well koown citizens, | among whom were Wm. B. Astor, Esq., and others of similar prominence. The third Commissionor is to be appointed today in place of Mr. Haws, re. signed, anda meeting of the Board of Excise will | be held in the Court of Common Pleas this morning. | ‘The Commissioners have received altogether not | over a dozen applications for license. Toe Associate Reformed Presbyterian church | General Synod was engaged yesterday in discussing the basis of union overtured to them by the assw- ciase synod last year, and reported upon by the va- | rious Presbyteries to this synod. Our report else- | where contains an abstract of the basis proposed and « sketch of the debate. A remolution proposed by Gen. A. ©. Niven, of Newburg, N. Y., involving & discussion of the slavery question, is yet to be acted upon. The proceedings in the Court of General Seasions | yesterday were interesting Angalleged extensive | forger, named Koliman, having’ three aliases, was discharged for want of sufficient evidence to convict him. Catherine Clark and Aaron Panl were tried fer robbing Wm. lynch of $80 in gold. Paul was convicted end sent to the State prison for twelve years and three months, and the girl was acquitted The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Lnstitates for the Insane, in accordance with an invitation received from the authorities of the Bloomingdale Lanatic Asylum, visited that in stitation yesterday. From there they were conveyed in omnibases prepared by Dr. James B. Richards to his private echool for idiotic children, situated in 13 1st street, Harlem. The Association, after duly examining this institation, retarned to the Metro- politan Hotel and held an evening session, chiefly relating to business matters. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of bout 2,000 bales, based upon middling uplands at I4c ‘fund middling Now Orleans at 140. Flour was compara. Uvely quiet, with moderate males, chiefly to the domestic trade, without change in prices, Wheat wae irregular, While the demand was good, expecially for the higher frades; enles Of Cansdian white wore mado at $1 80, mixed M& Louis at $1 16, and prime white Mligois was re- ported at $1 80, Corn was firiner, with sales of Western Mixed im sore at Vic. 8020, aferwards held at Me ; Bouthern yellow was held at 03.0 05, and white do. at 00. 0M%c. Prime Northern rye void at #105. Pork was Western politician, stumping it for Bancombe and | for Congress. The West owes everything to the East, The railroads of the West, the most im- portant mail facilities which any country could possess, bave been mostly built by Eastern and European cspital, or from land grants secured by Eastern votes in Congress, Thus the Lllinois Central Railroad secured a grant of lands worth at this day thirty millions of dollars, and five years hence it will be worth fifty mulions. Taking all the land grants to ell the Western railroads together the sum wifl probably reach the magni. ficent figure of $150,000,000. In comparison with such mail facilities as these how emall the allowances to our Atlantic ocean steamers, and how beggarly appears that small economy which thus seeks to “save at the epigot while pouring out at the bung hole!” We call the attention respectfally of the Postmas- ter General to this striking view of Eastern and Western mail facilities afforded by the government; and to the very important fact that the more ex- tended and liberal our intercourse with Europe the more will the East be enabled to contribute to the mail facilities, the population and the wealth of the West. Look into the subject, Mr. Brown and extend your vision from the boundaries of Tennessee to the interests of the whole country; and ite mail faciities with the four quarters of the globe, Tus Exrravagance or tue AGr.—Prices have risen from twenty-five to thirty per cent within the past two or three years, and from all appearances it seems that there is no prospect of a diminution. The hotel keepers, acting upon the state of their books, have held a meeting and agreed to raise their prices from $2 50 to $34 day. No doubt the advance is justified by the increase in the market value of rents, meat, vegetables, groceries and labor. We must expect that the advance will be general. It will not be confined to hotels, but will spread through every class of society, and every ephcre of labor. Every person who con- | sumes, that Is to say, every person living, will be pable to us. When, in 1840, the Chinese saw the “red devils” coming in fire-ships and knocking their forts about their heads, they got up an imi- tation of the steam frigates, A hull was built, wheels were put upon it,a chimney erected, » fire lighted to create o great smoke, and men | were set to work in the hold to turn the crank. But John Chinaman found that this would not do, 80 he has gone to work buying and building small steamers, several of which, powerfully armed, have been for some time running in the Chinese sen under various foreiga flags, but owned mostly by Chinamen, and engaged in convoying fleets of Chinese junks against the pirates, One | of these craft sailed from here only a few days | since, but her armament of eight inch shell guns | was shipped to China months ago. | A similar revolution has been going on in the | Chinese land forces, When the English were going up one of the rivers of China in 1840, we are told tbat the imperial army went up a high hill and came down it throwing somersets, in full view of the invaders, thinking that their prowess | and agility in this accomplishment would frighten the enemy and induce them to go away. No sooner was peace with the outside barbarians set- tled, than the native population, secing that the imperial forces would run away, broke out into rebellion, and tor ten years the two parties have been practising war upon each other. All ac- counts from China tell us that the Chineso have bebaved much better in their recent encounters than they did in the last war ‘These truths are full of suggestion to England: Her power over the millions of Hindostan and Eastern Asia is founded wholly upon her military prestige. Should this be broken, what vast | events may not result to her. In India we are tradition treaty existing between France and the United States. The report of the Commissioner we may or may not be able to present to our readers in an official form. It will probably be referred by the State Department to the Attorney General; and then we shall have, we hope, a tull, fair, lumi- nous and rational interpretation of the treaty as applicable to this case. Taking it for granted that Mr. Black is a gen- tleman of clear views and sound legal learniog, we can entertain but one idea of the view which he will take of the law and facts in this extradi- tion proceeding. The treaty by which France and the United States mutually agreed to surren- der fugitive criminals specifies in a plain, unmis- takeable manner the crimes to which they deem- ed it worth while to make it apply. Besides murder, rape, arsen, and those offences of the highest grade, an additional section of the treaty—and that which is relied on in this case—embraces the crimes of burglary, specifying it as the breakiag into a dwelling house for the purpose of stealing, forgery, and rob- bery by means of violence or intimidation. Well, at the first blush any one cansee that the crime with which those Frenchmen, now in Eldridge street prison, are charged does not come in contiguity even with any in this category. Granted that they improperly made use of Baron Rothschild’s shares for the purpose of speculation, that is a simple misappropriation of funds placed in their charge. It is hardly what could be called a thett. Certainly it does not touch upon the boundarics of burglary, forgery, or robbery with violence or intimidation. Their offence, there- fore, is not embraced within the provisions of the treaty; and it is on that ground, and that alone, that we have advocated their being placed at liberty. Even the numerous counsel engaged for the prosecution have eeen and appreciated the difficulty under which they labored in their attempts to gratify Mr. Baron Rothschild’s desires to have these men extradited. They have comprehended the fact that a breach of con- fidence on the part of employs was never re- garded by those who framed and ratified the treaty as an offence for which it was at all neces- sary or politic to render up accused parties. But as the great millionaire will have these men, right or wrong, they go to work and make vain, futile and ridiculous efforte to distort facts and | law from their true significancy. For instance, they strive to make it appear that sometime withia the space of four or five years the safe or armoire in which these sbares were kept was forced open, and that such effraction constitutes the legal crime of burglary. Nonsense! A lad who was only « week in the office of a Pennsylvania lawyer would know better than that, Besides, they have not the facts on which to sustain the legal theory. Then, again, to bring it within the Claes of forgeries they attempt to make it appear that certain figures were altered so as to cover up the evidence of fraud. Well, they failed in that; and even if they had succeeded they would be far from establishing the crime of forgery. But, argues a French philosopher, in a brief directed to Mr. McKeon, they are guilty of mental for- gery, inasmuch as they concealed the fact that the shares, supposed to be snug and secure within the safe, were not there at all. Weil, this offence of mental forgery completely outridicales Huntington's defence of “mental insanity,” and shows with what recklessness and pertiascity these gamblers on the Bourse are hunting down their victims. We incline to the belief, however, that Rothe child and the Northern Railroad of France will not find in the Commissioner—or if they find in him that they will not find in the Attorney Gene- ral of the United States—a facile instrament for the accomplishment of their purpose in the face of the facts and of the law. Great stockjobbing corporations which carry on their business in such a slovenly manner as that a few employés can embezzle $1,000,000 worth of stock, and that the coupons on such embezzled stock can be paid double for four or five years without dis- covery, do not certainly deserve any extraordi- nary stretching of the law in theirfavor. It may have been designedly, and with a view to make commercial firma observe a cautious and intelli- gent supervision of their affairs, that the framers of the treaty declined to make it apply to of- already told of conspiracies among the Sepoy troops. Ava is burning like a voleano beneath the feet of her small force there, Throughout Malaysia the Chinese colonists are in communica- tion with the triads of China, and are conspiring against her. Within the empire imperialists and rebels are burying their feuds and uniting against the common enemy, obeying the law that rales affected by the advance in the value of articles of consumption, and will be required to increase hie annual income, or deprive himself of some necesearies or luxuries. Thus the tailors, shoe- makers, bricklayers, printers, hatmakers, black- smiths, carpenters, glaziers, plambers, and me- chanics ard laborers of every class and kind must be expected to strike shortly for higher wages It cannot be supposed that these men will bear, alone, the increased burthen of the en- hanced cost of necessaries ; they will insist upon sharing it with their employers, and the latter however unwilling, will be obliged to yield Meanwhile the West is every day becoming in- solvent, and the crash which the present high prices foreshadow is slowly approaching wa, nevery nation. There is nothing like a foreign war to quell intestine difficulties Well may England, therefore, contemplate with doubt her courte in China. Her military prestige there is involved in it, and on this restsher Eastern empire with its thousand ramifications among her indas- trial millions at home, Comprnotien Fiace Fouxn Ovr—The Cor- poration has at length ascertained that the Comptroller is no accountant, that he knows nothing of the system by which the books are kept fences euch as that alleged against theee French fugitives. If not, and if it be desirable to en- courage that laxity of discipline by which Roths- child and this railroad company were victimized, let the treaty be reviewed and altered in that sense. But while it is as it is, we ask to see it interpreted in accordance with its letter and spirit. Diatixeves ts THR Metroroiis.—During the past few days we have had several distinguished political and literary arrivals in this city. Kx- President Pierce has been here withia the week; Pierre Soulé appeared In Broadway aday or two since; ex-Secretary Marcy is still here, and Che valier Wikoff is also, we believe, in this metro- polis. These are all distinguished men in their seve ral lines, bat the moat prominent of the groap are ex President Pierce and the Chevalier Wikoff. in bis own office, that all the flonncial affairs of | Pierce, according to the black republican organs, the city are in a moet wretched condition, confa- | hasbeen residing at the splendid mansion of Mr. sion worse confounded, and that Flagg has only | Fich, formerly a Senator in Congress. Mr. Fish made a reputation by refusing to pay an honest | resides in Stuyvesant square—a rogular old right, unquestionable, Pith avenue being occupied solely by pareenues amd Gareaparilis men. Mr. Pierce, it is said, finds more congenial amociations with the anti-dlavery distinguiés and black republican leaders than with ‘the old,‘rough, rowdy democrats who beid him up in their arme during his perilous Presidential career. It is even stated that Pierce and Marcy have gene ever to the black republicans, bag and baggage, ecrip and scrippage. There are cer- tainly strong reasons for belleving in thisremark- able detour of the distinguished associates. Marcy, the pungent Of Secretary, dined with some of the black republican magnates and financiers at the Yacht Club House, Hoboken, the other. day, and a fice time they had of it, too. Marcy has been into some stockjobbing operations in Wall street, and he is published as applicant for and holder of a large number of chares of the stock of the Michigan and Southern Indiana Railway. It is reported that this corporation intend to sead him to Europe as its financial agent to sell its bonds. ‘Whether or not he will meet with the esme euc- ‘ceas in selling railway bonds in London asin cutting up Clarendon diplomatically remains to be seen. fact is, however, that the entire Marcy end Vea Buren party—including Flagg and the whole family—are considered as having abandoned the administration of Mr. Buchanan, and gone over bag and baggage to the anti- slavery and black republican forces, Tax Mowrora Srrvecrs.—Certain anti- tlavery newspapers, which have espoused the cause of Governor King in his endeavor to destroy the liberties and to usurp the gov- ernment of the city, now threaten the Mayor and the Corporation that, if they persist in their defence of the public rights that have been com- mitted to their trust, they will be met and sub- dued by the armed force of the State militis. ‘The threat is a fit accompaniment and climax to the course pursued by Governor King and his friends in and out of the Legislature, from the beginning of the contest, Audacity which could deliberately vote away the franchise of a city like New York might well culminate in threats of murder, bloodshed and rapine. Like robbers, baffied in their nefarious schemes, and cheated of their plunder, the black republican nominees of Governor King think to throw us off our guard and to bully the Mayor and the Corporation out of their manly stand in defence of our sacred Il- bertics, by menacing them and us with armed men, no doubt brought up from the rural districts, ‘They will find that they have misunderstood their men. They will find that threats of force and bloodshed will only confirm the Mayor and the people of the city in a firm resolve to resist to the last and under any and every circumstance the infamous attempt of the Legislature of 1857 to disfranchise New York and to transfer its gov- ernment to the clique of politicians in force at Albany. They will find that they had better, for their own sake, have evinced more judgment and discretion, and less temper. We feel that neither the Mayor nor the people need any exhortation from us to keep them firm to their parpose. There is, we feel convinced, too much quiet courage in the one and the other to admit of any apprehension in the matter. Nor is there any question but the issue of a conflict, like the reeonsibility of its occasion, would fall heavily on the party which has invaded our municipal rights, in order to advance their own sordid and base party purposes. We are not atraid of the eoidiers: let them come. Resting securely on the broad basis of the old Montgomerie and Dongan charters, reaffirmed as they are by the charter of this very year, the Mayor and the Corporation claim for the city a full, free aud complete system of self government, and an unabridged scheme of municipal liberty. Self government and municipal liberty were guarantied to us by thoee old charters, and have never been taken away from us; it is the duty, the imperative, essential daty of the Mayor and the Corporation to defend and protect them against all awailants. They have the right, and it is their bounden obligation to preserve to us that old liberty which we have now enjoyed for near’ hundred years, and of which no one till this infamous Legislature came ever attempted to deprive ua, When, therefore, the agents of the usurpation of Goveruor King and his Legislature attempt to toke away that liberty, they should be resisted; if in the courts, with sound counsel; if inthe corporation offices, with coolness and politeness; if in the etreets, with the bayonet and cartridger rammed home, There should be no fooling or child's play about 4 matter on which municipal freedom depends. The Montgomerie ard Dongan charters are the bower anchor of our Corporation, and the sooner they act upon them and reorganize the police and other departmentg so 24 to bring them within the purview of their provisions, the better it will be for them and for us. THE LATEST NEWS. Affairs tn Washington. THK GOVRRNORSHIF OF UTA! POST AGAIN DR CLINED—PROGBEDINGS NAVAL COURTS THE BOARD OF NAVAL EXAMINERS, BTC. Wasmworaw, May 22, 1967. My \aformaat wns slightly in error in naming (he ind Vidual tendered the Governorship of Utah. It was Gol. Cummins, the present General Superintendent of Indian Affairs west of the Mississippi, instead of Governor Wright. Gol. Cummins telegraphed Secretary Thompaon yeaterday, decliaing the position. Tho administration are again at sea on this subject, ‘The Cabinet had a short session w-day, but nothing of importance transpired. The applicants for foreign mis. Sons present a ghastly appearance today, it baving been ascertained to a dead certainty that not more than seven Or eight appointments are at present to be made—onby those where there are vacancion. ‘The proceedings in the Courts of [uquiry were unusually interesting today, and in Court $0 1 quite ® crowd of Apectators wore present. Yesterday Lieutenant Bartlett's treasury accounts were closely scrutinized, bat parsed the ordeal to the apparent satisfaction of the Court day G. W. Revero, formerly of the Navy, was recalled. He handed to the Court an anonymous note he had received rough the Post offles, addressed to him at Willard’s Ho ei, telling bim to ‘‘Beware—that his testimony would be assailed by the government and his own private affairs ex. posed. Beware! Thishe believed was intended to in Umidate him as a witness. The note was apread upon the record, and the witness proceeded to testify that he had served with Bartlett on the Portsmouth, was one of those Who examined fis meas accounts, and was perfectly aati fied with their correctmess, Captain Montgomery, who commanded the Portemovth, was next introduced, and testified to the efficlency and 004 character of Bartlett, He never received any official report that Bartlett bad misused the mess funda of the officers, He authorized Lieut. B. to carry on board the Portsmouth the library, about which so much complaint had been made, Captain Watson proved the identity of the meen accounts, and having been appointed the Auditor to examine them, he was satisfied they wore all correct. Next came the gallant Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, who wns asked the following question — Is Mr. Bartlett physically, mentally, professionally and morally, Ot for the naval servioe ? ‘The Commodore responded — [consider Mr. Rartlost ominoatly qualified for tne post rz Me. es Leste Joes to know By what standard to s = aaval a to be. by. ifthe ouneré SSoreee areas Hore the witness was stopped by the Court, as pout casting @ reflection upom the “ Star Chamber ;” but jum derstand the Commodore intended adding : —Be the one by which Iam to judge, thea Lieut, Bart. ‘tet 1s pre-eminently qualitied. Commander Ringgold testifies to-morrow. In Lieut, Carter’s trial, before Court No. 20, the govern ‘ment, I learn, will atternpt to make out @ case of “ inte. poranoe ;"’ but not the first instance of drunkencas saa yet been proven, although some doze ollicers of tigh rank have testified. All give the defendant a five chane- ter. Captain Adams, a member of Court No. 1, was ihe only witness who sald Carter’s character for sobriety waa not good ; but witaess knew mo one fact to support the charge, A lotter from Mr. Cushing, late Charyé @’ Afaire at Eoundor, was read, stating the high estimation in which the defendant was held by the citizens there whilt com- manding tho Massachusets. Anumer of leading New York politicians arrived thie evening, among whom was Mosers. Cochran and Russell, members of Congress elect. Im Court No. 3 Commodore Boarman called Purser Watson, and introduced the depositions of Commander Elisha Peck and Commodore Stephen Cassin. Thao twe last witnesses depose to the highest moritof the defindat, ‘The Judge Advocate called Commodore Storer, Capt. Gel- fridge and Commander Stoddard, who testified against bis Professional skill. Tho Judge Advocate then éatered inte ‘an allegation to prove that some rosebushes and plaste had been removed from tho Navy’ Yard at Bookiys, Here is’ gentleman of unimpeachable moral character, now holdipg the rank of post captain in the Navy, brought up on his examination before the Court to anawor insinuations of the most unworthy character. There we spirit at work in these investigations which ought to be rebuked, and the Secretary of the Navy should ste to it that these examinations are not improperly extended for personal or unwortby objects. ‘The Seorctary of the Navy has appointed asa Board of ‘Visl:ers to witness the approaching annual examination of the midsbipmen attached to tho Naval Academy at An- napolis, Md., consisting of the following officers, viz— Captains Pendegrast, Lowndes and Wilkes, and Command- ers Kennedy and Thos. J. Page. This examination com- mences on the first Monday in June next. There have been.no troops whatever ordered to Utal, nor are there any in that Territory. Col. Stoptoe’s passage. through was the last appearance of our military there. Recently the question has arisen before the Postmaser General whether 8 Deputy Postmaster can be compelled to obey a summons to appear in Court with a valuable or other lotter that rests in his office addressed to another party. The Postmaster Genoral, under a decision of the Attorney General's office, decided that hé cannot logaliy do a0. THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, TREMENDOUS RUSH FOR THE FORBIGN APPOmrT- MENTS, ETO. Wasmiycton, May $2, 1847. The number of applications for foreign appointmvats, particularly for Consulates, continue to increase. Krery day brings bither both individuals and letters strongly re- commendatory for these offices. The President has de- clared to his friends that the business greatly embarrmses: ‘him, particularly as he cannot gratify one in ten of thy ap- plicants. No doubt the appointments will be made gradually, he baving the entire summer before hin for that purpose. None will, it is positively stated, be rum- marily reclled, and the utmost will be observed towarda the present incumbents. programow haa caused much dsappointment to those who anticipated an during the month. It is not true that Governor other person, has been selected for i Utah. The diffoulty existe in Gnding « man sultalle for the a ‘The Marshal for the District of Columbia has i Naw Ontains, May 22 1867, The steamship Cahawba, from New York via Hsvana om the 10th inet., has arrived at this port Sugars wore firm, and the stock at Havana aa Matan. ras was cetimated at two husadred and ninety thousand doxes. Molasses was active, and priees 60 thi apeen- ape ead berg eiven oe eee “Ficctale ul ‘The news by the Cabawba is ualmportant. She brings to California or Nicaragua advices. , Subecriptions for the Pacific Railread. Waamtnotoy, May 22 1857. The subscription books of the Pacific Railroad at New Orleans were to be closed on Satur last. The subsorip- tions had been Liberal. = Providence Municipal Klection. Provipesce, R. 1., May 2%, 1887. alts our aoe a br was again : choice. Stephen vi ‘Toomas Boyle 682, tad Henry 3. Burroughs 1,088 voles The General Assembly of the Presbyterian ‘Charen. Cuavecann, May 22, 1867. At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian cher sh 1 over oxpenditures of $700, & comm was then read from the Trusteos of the Second church citizens to the Assembly relative to the use of tobacco im the building. 7 Destitution in Michigan. Dermorr, May 22, 1867. Additional information from the norwern counties ja this @ante fully confirm the previogs acc uote of desuta Yon existing there Contrtpations for the rolief of auf. forers, from thia city aad interior, are bein, me ceived and forwarded by the executive omnicef’ tae oy Massachusetts Legisiative Bid for Bowron, May 22, 1857, By a vote of 4 yeas to 157 nays the House refused this morning to concur with the Senate in its amendmont tothe Kansas resolves, making the appropriation for the aid of setilers in that Territory condagemt upon the optnion of the Supreme Court—that it is constitutional. Adjournment of ~ Pennsylvania Legtste- jure. ree ae Haxnamcan, May 22, 867. eleven o'clock to-day. Tae Bevate 7 eS Pasey, tho republican and American candidate, ston ot Byes nate May 22, 1 ‘A portion of the pyrotechnic works of ‘Mears. tovey te \o., in Cambridge street, were destreyed this afwernoca by ‘explosion. Only one man was injured, and he ust Fatal Affray at Cape Coa, Boston ‘2, 1857. An alfray oosurred in West Dennis teahy anton Capt. ee eee on aan Small, Leo well citizens of Cape Ond, over seventy years ‘The latter died from the injaries he received. Oro call has been arrested, and will examined for the alleged bomicide om Tuceday next Movements of Gov. Walker, Gov. Walk ived here yectoreay, cas eh ogame nov or arriv > this morning for Kansas. = Critical Condition of — Butler, of 8. ©. ij tn the abdomen. The Kuropa Oatward Hound. Haurax, May 22, 1967. The steamship Europa arrived here from Bosto 1 at half. Past 7 o'clock this morning, after @ ‘and pailed again at 20 minutes to 0 for Liverpool. calm and raining very Oaree ey 2-6 P. Flour steady ; salen 700 bbis. at $6 60 & $7 25 for Onwogo and $787% for mediom grades Canadian, Wheat un- to day—3,000_ bhis. pero Canal ex; wheat, Exports to "90,000 buabels, at $1 8 for Chicago conse ieiwaatin club. Gorn quiet, “Frenghs flour, lake im} Be ceo tarhols wheat, 480 tons Ss ale rent places of amusement. A press of Interseung news, renders @ more extended notice imposaibie,