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Our files do not contain any news of importance that was not given in the telegraphic summary of the intelligence published on Sunday and Monday. ‘The shipping news is given under the appropriate head. The news from Washington this morning is im- portant. The attempt to change the Senate’s pro- gramme on the admission of Kansas failed in the Senatorial caucus. The bill providing for the ad. mission of Kansas was taken up im the Senate on motion of the Chairman of the Territorial Commit- tee, who defended the positions taken in support of the Lecompton constitution by the majority. He gave notice that he would today present a substi. tute, whereby Kansas and Minnesota should be ad- mitted together, as in the case of the admission of Florida and Towa. It is believed the bill will pass both houses by sati*factory majorities. In the House little of importance occurred, save the an- nouncement of the select committee on the Matteson expuision resolutions. The committee consists of Messrs. Seward and Bishop, democrats, and Mesars Harris, Grow and Curtis, opposition. Mr. Harris was, however, excused from serving. The Senate in executive session yesterday con- firmed a large number of appointments made during ‘thg recess of Congress. The qnestion of the com firmation of the appointment of Mr. Isaac Cook as Postmaster of Chicago in place of Mr. Price, a par- tisan of Senator Douglas, created an angry discus- sion. It is reported that Mr. Dougias charged Cook with grave offences against morality. Mr. Cook was appointed Postmaster of Chicago in 1853, at the solicitation of Mr. Douglas ; but he at this time pre- fers to support the administration, and hence the opposition of his former patron. The subject was laid aside in order to afford an opportunity for rebut- ting the allegations preferred, and perhaps to render more complete the eventual defeat of Mr. Douglas. Hon. George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, was ex- amined before the Turitf Investigating Committee yesterday. He testified that he did receive money from Wolcott in aid of the passage of the Tariff act. bat denied that he had employed any of it to influ- ence members of Congress. Wolcott swore very positively that he had not spent any of the funds in prociring the passage of the Tariffact. The veraci- ty of one or the other is likely to suffer some before the investigation is over. Nothing of importance occurred in the State Senate yesterday. In the Assembly notice was given of a bill to prohibit the deposit of mortgages ass basis for banking, and of a joint resolution pro- vidiug for the appointment of ex-President Fillmore, ex-Governor Seymour and B. F. Batler, as Commis- sioners to treat with New Jersey for the removal of Quarantine to Sandy Hook. Neither of these propo- sitions are likely to pass. An interesting letter from Utah, published else where, written by a person high in the counsels of the Mormon leaders, and addressed to Senator Hoas- fon, will enlighten our readers as to the designs of The Sainte and their means of resistance to the feneral government. The Tammany Society met last night and passed resolutions endorsing the Lecompton constitntion and the course of the administration on the Kansas question. These resolutions were ordered to be properly authenticated and sent on to Washington ‘to the members of Congress from this city. The suits against the city in the present unsettled state of affairs are multiplying, and the costs for law expenses will amount to an alarming sum before the tax levy is agreed upon or Comptroller Flagg relaxes his opposition to the authority that awards payment. We understand that the Corporation Counsel received notices yesterday of uo less than twenty new suits which have been commenced against the city for salaries. A lengthy communication was received in the Board of Aldermen last evening from Mr. Conover ‘on the subject of numerous frauds in the Street De partment detailing, seriatim thirty different cases. Frauds secu to have been the order of the evening. ‘The allegations of frauds in the regulation of Fifty fecond street and the opening of Canal street were also on the tapis. A resolution wax adopted aatho- rising the Corporation Counsel to memorialize the Legislature to repeal the act of the last Legislature which appointed commissioners for the erection of & new City Hall. A discussion arose on the Mayor's veto of the proposition to pay the Common Coancil, but the motion to adhere to the former action of the Roard was lost for want of a constitutional vote. Bevcral important amendments to the tax levy for ‘185s were made, amongst which was the addition of $100,000 for the rebuilding of the hospital on Black- well’ Ieland. The Aldetmanic Committee on Railroads held a meeting yesterday to hear parties «peak in reference to the propriety of permitting the Mudson River Roiroad Company to run their cars on Eleventh Avenue, below Fifty-ninth treet when locomotives fre attached to them. Only one person spoke upon the subject, however, and what he said wegt to ghow detrimental to life and property in the neighbor. | hood. The committee promised to review the testi- | mony already in their possession in relation to this | matter, and from that to make their report in accor- | dance with their convictions. | A suit has been commenced in the Second District Court by Frederick W. Secor, for services us Clerk of the First Judicial District. The piaintiff was appointed by the late Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and on demanding posseasion of the office and books the old clerk refused to vacate. Mr. Secor tendered his services, and demanded his pay. The decision of Judge Sweeney has not yet been given. The Excise Commissioners met for the first time yesterday after their receas—present, Commission- ers Haskett and Holmes. No applications for li- cense had been made during their recess, and there being nothing to do the Board adjourned until to-day at one o'clock. The October term of the Court of General Ses- sions was commenced yesterday, Judge Russell pre- siding. The District Attorney, who went South some time since to recruit his health, has returned, and was present in Court. A quorum of grand jurors could not be obtained, and those who answer- ed to their names were discharged till this morning. George Brown, convicted of grand larceny, was sen- tenced by the Recorder to two years and three months imprisonment in the State prison, his Honor observing that, although the evidence against the prisoner was very slight, his duty to the community would not allow him to suspend judgment. Francis Ranskoll was convicted of an assault and bat on Wm. Krumick,and was remanded for sentence, after which the Court adjourned. The Brooklyn Common Council last evening adopt ed unanimously a preamble declaring the Fire De- partment of that city an expensive, demoralizing and disgraceful institution, and passed a resolution appointing a committee to make inquiries witha view to a reorganization of the department upon the paid system, as practised in Boston, Cincinnati and other cities. The Brooklyn Board of Supervisors yesterday adopted? by a vote of seventeen to three, a resolution to petition the Legislature to repeal the Metropolitan Police law. A resolution ia favor of memorializing the Legislature to abolish the Brooklyn City Court was adopted by a vote of eleven toseven. A slmilar resolution was also adopted by the Brooklyn Com- mon Council. By the brig Foster, which arrived yesterday, we have news from St. Thomas to the 12th of February. Capt. Crowell reporte the island as quite healthy and but little sickness in port. There was nothing doing in freights, and the prospects were very discour- aging. ‘We have news from the west coast of Mexico, dated at Acapulco on the 12th of February. Gen, Alvarez having, for some reasons not explained, undertaken to regulate the rights of medical practi- tioners in that city, issued an order vesting Drs. Billings and Smith—Americans and graduates of schools in Mississippi and Kentucky—with the privi- lege of an exclusive practice and drug trade. Under this order an attempt was made to close the doors of a French doctor and of a druggist named Browne, from Buffalo, N.Y. The two last named gentlemen refused to obey, under treaty rights, and thus the curious combination of martial law, diplomacy, physiology and chemistry made up by the old war- rior, waa likely to produce serious results. The French ship Esilda had arrived from Callao for a cargo of logwood, having failed to get a load of guano, there being one hundred and fifty clearances ahead of her at Callao, where she would have to lay for a year before filling up. The European news by the America imparted greater firmness and animation to the cotton market yesterday, and the sales embraced about 3,000 bales, closing firm at full 34¢. per Ib. advance. We now quote middling up lands at 1234c., and middling Gulf do, at 12%;¢. The market for flour was du!l; and, with both a light domestic and export demand, salee were limited, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was more firmly held, while sales ‘were unimportant. A small lot of prime Southern white sold st $1 45. Corn was easier, but more active, with sales of prime Southern yeliow at 6c , and white at 68c. a 69c., and Jersey yellow at 67c. Pork was easier and sales mode- rate at $16 30 a $16 35 for mess and at $13 a $13 10 for prime. For stocks we refer to another column. Sugars were steady and in fair demand, with sales of 800 a 1,000 hhde, at prices given in another column. For stocks we refer also to another piace. Coffee was heavy and sales limited. Freights for British ports were more active, and to Liver- pool atou: 40,000 a 50,000 bushels of corn were engaged, im bnik and begs, at 444. @ Sd. with provisions, flour, &e , at about previous rates. ‘The Mormon Rebellion and the Schemmg Sectional Politicians at Washington. The late defeat of the Army bill, intended for the suppression of the Mormon rebellion and the extinguishment oi the scandalous abomina- tions of the saintly community of Brigham Young, throws « heavy weight of responsibility upon the shoulders of the scheming sectional and factions politicians of the United States Senate who combined to reject the just and sea- sonable recommendat‘ons of the President. The Mormon community are in a state of open rebellion—-formally proclaimed and or- ganized by their civil and military authorities. The news which we published yesterday, direct from Sait Lake, leaves no doubt upon the sub- ject, The message of Brigham Young, the Gov- ernor, to the Territorial Legislature, aud the re- solutions of both branches of the Legislature | endorsing the message, practically amount to a | declaration of war, aud narrow down the issue to a trial of military strength between the government of the United States and the high priest and supreme dictator of Mormondom. Fully apprised of this condition of things, and fully aware of the prevailing sentiment of all classes of the American people, Mr. Buchanan, in his annual message, applied to Congress for a reinforcement of the army to the extent of four or five thousand men. He had evidence enough before bim to know that this reinforcement would be indispensable to the early and complete subjugation or expul- sion of the rebellious Mormons. In pursuance of the President's appeal, the appropriate committee brought forward their bill to secure this proposed increase of the army; and yet in the United States Senate, which is nearly two-thirds democratic, this bill, in every shape ond form, has fallen to the ground. What can be the meaning of this, has now, therefore, become the great question. We way the great question, for the Kansas ques- tion, principle and facts, we may pronounce to be substantially eettled. The principle of “ popular sovereignty” in reference to slavery will result in making Kaneas a free State, what- ever may be the abstractions of her Lecompton constitution. The facts in regard to election frauds, forgerios and swindles, may be safely left to the settlement of the people of Kansas themeelves. The simple ceremony of admitting Kansas a* a State is all that is needed to re- move this bone of contention from Congress and from the political agitators of the country, and that act will be shortly done. The Mormon rebellion, then, becomes the paramount question of the day, and the politi- cal cof-iderations, interests and contingencies in this connection, enggested by the defeat of the aforesaid Army bill, cannot be disregarded. An isolated community of perhaps seventy-five thousand souls have set ap a little pricetly kingdom of their own in a distant Territory of the United States. Their peculiar institution is polygamy, with all {ts attem@aat atominetions NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1858, that the running of locomotives on the avenue is | iu their worst excesses. They recognise no law | The Reported Reopening of the Slave Trade Vut the law of the bold imposter who is their chief. They have au organized band of aecret sseassins, whose duty it is to cut off all intrusive Gentilee, after the fashion of the Thugs of | India. They have become a living scandal to the country, and are at last in open arms against its authorities. They are difficult of access. A thousand miles of desert plains and mouatains have to be crossed to reach them, The supplies for the eubsistence, through this long desert jeurney, of the emall army force of Col. Johns- ton, eome twenty-five bundred men, have swal- lowed up milliozs of dollars, and where is this army detachment? Arrested, and compelled to winter in the mountains by the guerriNa opera- ‘ions of the Mormons, inflicting a direct army logs of over @ million of dollars in the destruc- tion of its baggage trains, and in the ecizare of ita horses, mules and cattle. And the worst part of the journey to Salt Lake City has yet to be made by Col. Johnston, when the epring opens. But then he may anticipate guer- itla obstacles of every kind in the numerous varrow and dangerous defiles he will be com- pelled to pass. Without a seasonable reinforce- ment of men, munitions and provisions, his force will probably be exterminated before finishing half the distance of the two hundred and fifty miles of mountain chasms, torrents and preci- pices that lie between him and the Great Salt Lake. Common prudence, therefore, and the argument of economy should have had their weight in the prompt ordering by Congress of the army reinforcements requested by the Pre- ident. But the bill has failed, and it may now be too late, not only for the anticipated subjugation or expulsion of the Mormons this next summer, but even for the rescue of Col. Johnston's command. Not only has this consideration, however, been blinked by the sectional ultras of the Senate, North and South, but in theif course upon this Army Dill they have betrayed, if not a positive sympathy with, at least a criminal indifference to this Mormon rebellion. Yt is a disunion movement of the most brazen-faced description. If such a precedent may be winked at as a trifling affair, we may next expect to be told, should the reckless demagogues of some Southern State eet themselves up as an independent power, that it is not the business of Congress to aid the President in reducing them to submission. We apprehend that some such State rights notion as this may have influenced the action of some of our fire-eating Southern Senators upon this ques- tion of reinforcing our Utah army corps. At all events, it is a most remarkable circum- stance that this Army bill owes its defeat to the janction against it of the black republican ultras of the North and the fire-eating malcon- tents of the South; and the least that can be said of this opposition is, that it was inspired by the most comsemptible and factious hostility to the administration. The public sentiment of the whole country calls for the speediest possi- ble abatement of this great moral nuisance of Mormondom. It is adisgrace to our institutions, a disgrace to the government, and a living re- proach to the American people so long as it lasts. But when this moral ulcer has ripened into open revolution, there is no excuse for any longer delay in ite extirpation. Here is a revolutionary movement in the most emphatic shape—the first positive disunion movement, in fact, within the limits of the Union since the organization of the govern- ment. The disunien movement of 1912 of the New England federalists was projected in view of contingencies which never came to pass; the South Carolina tariff nullification movement of 1832-33 was suppressed before if came to a ‘head; and the secession movements in South Carokina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, of 1851, on account of the admission of the whole of California asa free State, were all quietly extinguished by the sensible body of the people of thoee States, one after another. Lastly, the Southern military marth upon Washington, threatened by Gov. Wise and others, in the event of Fremont’s election, was happily ar- rested by the election of Mr. Buchanan. This Mogmon rebellion stands alone in our history as the only regularly drganized and positive disunion conspiracy upon the calendar, As adisunion movemement of the most re- pulsive description, it should be put down with the utmost prompfitude. The indifference of the Northern and Southern ultras of the Senate to this view of the subject betrays the lament- able fact that with them a factious and disor- | ganizing policy towards the Administration is considered of higher importance than the su- premacy of the government or even the moral and political integrity of the Union itself. And thus it is that we regard the defeat of the Army bill in the Senate as more significant of dan- gerous sectional and factions demoralizations | than any proceeding in Congress of the last twenty years. Tim Fresca Crrsis—The new government | which Napoleon has just established is more | like @ Council of War than a civil administra | tion. All the most important poste are given to soldiers, and soldiers remarkable for their | strenuous and merciless energy. The new | Minister of the Interior, General Expinasse, is | to perform, it seems, duties varying between those expected of a police agent in disguise and | a valet de place. He is to see the Emperor at | least once a day, and to take with him what | measures the safety of the government may require. He is to communicate directly with the military chiefe of Paris. | In a word, Paris may be considered as being | in a state of siege. Private, far more decidedly | than public letters, give us an animated pic- ture of the terror which has begun to pervade all classes of society, in view of a revolution. As the dread twenty-fourth of February ap- proaches, the decennnial aniversary of the over- throw of the government of Louis Philippe, both parties—Bonapartists and republicans, and stilmore clearly than either, the neutral masses —seem to foresee an approaching contest of fearful magnitude. On the one side, the Em- peror is organizing his forces for & severe fight, and making everything ready in the shape of laws and instruments to execute them; on the other, the people—as the Presse too soon and too ably told us—are ready on their side for o movement. The great mass of the people are very much frightened indeed, and are trying to arrange theit business in such a way that they could not be ruined or injured by a sudden re- volution. The newe from Paris of the last daye of February will be worth reading. Rien Mosorotirs.-The gas companies, the ferry companies and the railroad companies of ) this metropolis alone probably yield a revenue to the momopolists of nearly two millions a year f Why chould this be, while the taxes are so bigh? at the South. According 4o @ telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, published in the Hxraip of Satur- day Jast, an editorial had appeared in the New Orleans Delta of the eame date, stating that the slave trade in the South had been reopened, end that?a regular depot has been established on Pearl river, in Mississippi, where cargoes have been received and the negroes sold and put to work. It is further stated that the ves- sels engaged in the trade generally use the French flag, for the reason that the British cruisers on the African coast will not trouble them. The announcement of this fact may strike those who are not conversant with the subject a8 something new; and will, no doubt, create considerable alarm among those who are op- posed to the revival of the slave trade. Whether there is or is not any truth in the statement of the Delta, it will furnish a text for innumerable articles from the sbolition press, and for ferocious diatribes from the abolition end black republican orators and preachers of all denominations. In view of the statement, and of what may be expected to follow from its pub- lication, it is as well to look at the facts in the case. In the first place, then, it isnotorious to all who are at all informed upon the subject that the” slave trade has existed in this country for years past; that it wasand is carried on chiefly by North- ern citizens of the United States; that Northern capitalists have invested more extensively in it than the citizens of any other portion of the Union, and consequently are more deeply inter- ested in its maintenance and success. The ves- sels which have been employed in the transpor- tation of slaves have been fitted out mainly in New York, Boston, Portland and Bristol, but of these New York is the favorite point for the operations of the dealers. Within the last twenty years over fifty slavers were cap- tured and brought into this port, near- ly all of which were equipped and fitted out with Northern capital. The number of vessels captured and condemued, however, bears but a very emall proportion to the number fitted out from the ports we have named. The slave fleet which leaves New York, Boston and other Eastern seaports in the course of a single year consists of about forty vessels of various sizes, ranging from one hundred to five hua- dred tons, and capable of carrying from four hundred to six hundred slaves each. Every slaver is manned by crews of from fifteen to twenty-five men, including the captain and of- ficers, making a total for the whole fleet of about a thousand men. The whole of the capi- tal invested does not probably exceed four mil- lions of dollars, upon which a profit of some- thing like eleven millions is realized. Here, then, in this array of facts we have abundant proof that the slave trade has existed, does at present exist, and is maintained chiefly by Northern men and Northern capital. The reports of the Mixed Commission at Havana present still further evidence on this head; but there is no want of proof while the records of the United States Courts in this city can be pre- sented. There is another fact which may be stated in this connection. The landing of slaves along our Southern coast can be effected with little or no difficulty, and without danger of detection, as there is no Mixed Commission, like that of Cuba, in the South, and no one suffi- ciently interested in the matter to furnish the information to the proper authorities. The laws of the United States have declared the slave trade to be piracy, and punishable as such; but, for the reasons stated, slaves may be landed with impunity on the Southern coast uatil some action is taken to put a stop to it. In conclusion, we may state, as announced in our telegraphic report from Washington yester- day, that the English Minister has addressed a letter to Secretary Cass in relation to the rapid increase of the African slave trade, and suggest- ing the propriety of adopting more de- cisive measures for its suppression. The English plan is stated to be the in- crease of the African squadron; but expe- rience has proved that the employment of a naval force is entirely inadequate, and that for all practical purposes it might as well be with- drawn. The annexation of Cuba to the United States would do more for the suppression of the trade than anything else that could be sug- gested. The policy of our government, how- ever, will, we presume, be fully set forth in the reply of General Cass to the letter of the British Minister. Northern Fire-Keters upon Kansas. A belligerent cotemporary, who seems to | have been indulging in a Rip Van Winkle sleep for a couple of years or so, has just waked up to the probability of a desperate blood and murder conflict in Kansas, Our cotemporary is a general as well as an editor, chevalier, minis- | ter and the lord knows what beside; hence it is | but natural that he should take the warlike view of most subjects which he treats. But he is very savage indeed just now. He says that the President is acting “ rashly and wickedly ;” that “he knows that the people of Kansas will resist with arms,” rather than submit to the Le- compton constitution; that the people of the North in a body “ will aid them in driving from their soil the foot of the oppressor;” that “ sub- | miesion would be the death knell of our liber- ties;” that “ Mr. Buchanan has not nerve enough for such a crisis;” that “he dare not attempt to enforce” the Lecompton constitution; but that | he is so “unscrupulous” that he may iry it after all, in which case the people of the North, led by the doughty General in person, “ would rally to the support of the Kansas men, and ren- der their resistance successful;” that they “ ought not to stand by and see them crushed;” that “a dreadful state of things” is impending; and that the only part fit for a patriot at this juncture is to shoulder the musket and report to the Gerleral for orders. From these quotations it will be perceived that the slambers of our worthy cotemporary may have commenced some couple of years since, and that he has not been long enough awake to realize that anything has taken place in Kansas since then. He evidently fancies that the situation is the same as it was when, on the floor of the Philadelphia Convention, the bel- ligerent General declared his readiness to march then and there, with sword or with lance, on foot or on horseback, against the South or in- deed against anybody else who happened at that moment to be in his way. It must be a relief to his over-chafed mind to peruse the cali, quiet, business like letters from Kanens which we have lately been publishing; and to learn from them bow very far from the truth is the crazy notion that the pegple of Kaneas are disposed to embark in a civil war about the Lecompton constitution, or indeed about anything else. He will ascertain by a garefal study pf (bore valuable pnd relighlg a EE comtmamications that the peopie of Kansas, 60 far from being exercised on the subject of their constitution or anything else in the pe.'itical world, are a8 tired of the political squabble 94 any of us; and that the great bulk of the rank and file of the fire State party are ready and determined to accept the Lecompton constitution if Congress admits the State under it, and to take the earliest opportunity, according to their conve- nience, to amend whatever is unsuitable or de- fective tyerein. There are of course a few sur- viving pelitical leaders to whom the late contest has beesi beef and bread; they may continue to shriek for some time to come, but no one is listening to them. Not only have the rank and file of the free State party given up all thought of politics and devoted their whole attention to the subject of their private business, but the bulk of the politicians, too, have jilted the slavery question. From the letter we publish this morning from Kansas, and from the extracts which it contains from one of the most noted organs of the free State party, it will be seen that the political leaders-of that party have entirely forgot- ten their old love in their ardent attention to the seat of government question. So disgrace- ful a scene of corrupt legislation as is pictured in these extracts we hardly remember to have seen before; yet the picture is drawn by a friend and partisan of the leading parties. In a word, considerations of land speculation and corner lots—the Minneola land scheme— have usurped the place formerly occupied by the slavery question in the minds of all those inhabitants of Kansas who are not exclusively engaged with their pri- vate affairs. There is not a State or a Territory in the Union where people are quieter and take less interest in general politics than Kansas. As to getting up a civil war there—persuading the people to appeal to arms to resist the Lecompton consfitution—pouring in Northern sympathizers in order to render their resistance to the administration powerful, the idea is palpably absurd and ridiculous; it would be hailed with roars of laughter by the people of Kansas themselves. Belligerent articles read well, and with the temper of our cotemporary such productions are natural. But, asa general rule, before pro- claiming a war, our cotemporary, as a military man, must be aware that there must be two parties to fight. The misfortune with regard to the future Kansas war is that there is nobody to fight against the administration; unless perhaps Jim Lane and the few of his friends, headed by the General-Chevalier himself, undertake the contest. Would this pay? We put it to our cotemporary as a military man—Would it pay? On foot or on horseback? With the sword or with the lance? Tur Late Ivptana Democratic State Con- VENTION AND ITS New Party Humsve.—One of our morning cotemporaries make a great pa- rade of the anti-Lecompton proceedings of the late Douglas Democratic State Convention of Indiana, and gives us very flatly to understand that the said Convention have initiated a move- ment which will result in a new Northern demo- cratic party. Fudge. A weak device to fright- en off the Northern supporters of the Lecomp- ton constitution in Congress. Suppose a party were to be organized upon the anti-Lecompton “popular sovereignty” plank of Mr. Douglas, what would become of it with the quiet settle- ment of the Kansas trouble by her admission as a State? The only plank of the party would be gone. It is too late for a Douglas-Kansas de- mocratic party; but if he wishes a “popular so- vereignty” party of his own, his only chance now is Utah and the Mormons, Let him fall back upon the “popular sovereignty” of Utah, which allows five, ten, fifty or a hundred wives to each man; for it is the Little Giant's last re- maining chance with “popular sovereignty.” Tue Lorrery Bustess.—It is estimated that lottery tickets are secretly sold illegdlly in this city to the amount of nearly $750,000 a year. Tux Orexa—Oraio.—ahit pera, which has been rarely performed tn this city, and never before last naght at the Academy, wa: there produced with the following distri- bution — It would be rather late in the day to musical and dramatic, of Otello. To an andience acquaint ed with the grand tragedy on which it is founded, it seems more like a travestie than an attempt at musical inter. Pretation of the great master’s creation. The music, how- ever, is well enough, and if one could divest himself of the remembrance of the English play, the opera would be popular. As it is, however, it cannot be. The ensemble of the opera last night was generally good. Mme. La Grange looked beautifully ind sang care fully, artistically and admirably asever. Tiberini had in Otello an up bill part, but seemed quite equal to the work, though obliged to sing nearly all the time ‘at the top of his voice. Formes was properly dignified, and quite the ideal of © heavy father. He was in excel- lent voice, as he proved by his fine execution of his music in the first act. The house was well attended This evening—a cheap night—when “ L’ Italiana in Algeri,”” in which LAngri has made quite « furore, will be repeated ; and on Wednesday—regular night—'‘ Rebart le Diable,’’ with ail the artists in the cast. Bewton’s Taratke—Ma. K. 1. Davanrort.—This ad- mirable actor commenced an engagement last evening here, and waa enthusiastically greeted by « full house, He played Hamlet, and was supported by a very good cast, inclading Mra, Davenport as Ophelia. Mr. Daven- port looka like the ideal Hamlet, and in artistic finish has few equals on the English stage. His Hamlet is without biemish, and possesses many positive beauties for the stodent of Shakapere. We are very glad to hear that Mr. Duvepor'ycngngrment bere te protnged. Awanp oF tae Woon Puires.—The prizes offered by Dr. James R. Wood, surgeon of Hellevue Hospital, for the best specimen of surgical anatomy furnished by the stu. dents of the three medical colleges of this city, wore awarded yesterday, in the amphitheatre of the hospital, by Dr. Mott, acting in bebalf of the Commission appointed we on & — of the specimens offered in comy andience was composed mostly of merical students. The first prize of $50 was warded to George F. Sbrady, a graduate of the Twenty-thira etrect college, the second, of $25, was awarded to ( E. Post, of the Fourteenth street college, and a son of Post, of this city. Dr. Mott spoke in the bighest torms of com- mendation of the manner in which the apecimens bad been prepared, and said that in some respects they were un equalied, so far as he knew, Dr. Francis also made an interesting address, He was followed by Prot. Smith and &. Ly im brief remarks, atter which the company ispersed, Personal Intelligence, ARRIVALS. From Savannah, in the gteamahip Augnata—Kliag Ross, ein and A W A Shepard, KO Clark, Mra Dessent irs Dixey, infant apd nurse: land, Jr: LJ Wyeth, © H Kikemen, Theophilus C Mitehell, aod 19 in steerage. Mr. Preston and lady, Rev W Clemens sod ind; From Buenos Ayres, tn the bark Kentueky—Capt Mailard, Indy and three children; HWarvberg, a Pimet iO La 4d Me- Kenna, Onto © Muller, © Parkhurst, Ni From Corisco, west coast of Afvica, In the ship Atlantic y: Inte of the bark Gipsey, and lady. DEPARTURES. For Hangburg, in the steamabip Horvaala—Mre Caroline Gennert, Mr. Hager, Mr Brodusem, J Seba Leon, Mr y ©, B Rosen, Mr Hofman, G 0 H Os A Lip has Wagnér and indy, Mra Verio and family, © it apt Yon ™ enn James t Bacon, 5 1 Pina Tact Mae Niere fore, Misa. Loulge Obl ad sei Reintiys tohn Vani aba datahwer, © Kus, Bem a ria J er & 80D Jamburmer, one eevmen t) Kink, WV Bouiey J Pagzi and cl ld, re HE Vom Borrien @ clemen. J Dominick, A Brea Eel Mos nie ccnp & ee “a J ra A rina Yikewameker. &F Riseru, Nt eral, ai Yaw va 2 Wome THE LATEST NEWS. Arrrrrrrrrers INTERESTING FROM WASHINGT#A. anes Testimony of Hon. George Ashmun before the Lawrence, Stone & Co. Committee. Sean Wolcott Paid him Money on the Twiff Question. MINNESOVA AND KANSAS BHLL IN THE SENATE, Outrages of the Free State Mien ta Fierce Diseucsion in the Semate on the Gi eago Postmastership. Annan ‘New Quarantine Removal Scheme in the Legs lature, do, deo. &e, Affairs at the National Capital, THE PROGRAMME FOR THE ADMISSION OF KANES AND MINNESOTA—THE $87,000 INVESTIGATION— THE TRUTH COMING OUT—FIERCE FIGHT OVm THE CHICAGO POST MASTERSHIP—THE SPRING CAI- PAIGN AGAINST THE MORMONS—THE NEW ATLAJ- TIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION, ETC. ‘% Wasurraron, March 1, 1858. The caucus of demoeratic senators held at the Capit this morning for the purpose of reconsidering the pe- gramme as laid down on Saturday for their action win regard to the admission of Kaneas and Minnesota, s- solved to adhere to that programme. Minnesota wit not, therefore, be taken up first and alone, as some of te more accommodating and compromising Senators who het this caucus called, desired. ‘The caucus determined to move, as a substitute for te Kansas bill, a bill for the admisaion of both Kansas ef Minnesota, similar to the bill admitting Florida and low. ‘This amendment will be presented to-morrow by Senate Green. The substitute Mil is drawn up so as to naw both of the Territories conjointly throughout, 6o that if tis republicans vote against the admission of Kansas tay must also exclude Minnesota. This is precisely the moo pointed out by the Hrratp. There is no doubt of th passage of the bill by the Senate by a majority of ter; whilst it is confidently believed that it will pass the Hous by at least as many. The majority in the Senate do nd purpose forcing a vote on the bill admitting thetwo nev States, but will give a reasonable time for debate. A vow iaJexpected about the last of next week. George Ashmun was examined before the Tariff In vestigating Committee this morning. He informe the Committee in the beginning that he should tes tify under protest. When asked whether he bal received any money to aid in the passage of th Tariff bill, he informed the Committee that he dit receive money from Walcott for services rendered in paz- sing that bill; but he denied using any of it to influence members. He, too, isa regular “know nothing.”’ Wol- cott ewore that he had never used money to aid inthe paa- sage of the tariff. Ashmun says that Wolcott paid him money for that purpose. Here is flat contradiction. Cai! Thurlow Weed—he can doubtless unravel the matter. Bubpeenaes bave gone north this evening toybriug certain New York editors before the Committees. They, too, will doubtless dodge the question propounded. The Senate were in executive session for a long time to- day, and bad under consideration the confirmation of Mr. Isaac Cook, the Chicago Postmaster. Senator Douglas opened the ball againet him, and attacked right and left. ‘The Little Giant was portectly furious. He chafyod him with all sorts of crimes, none of which, however, wik stand fire. Senator Fitch ably defended Cook from the cbarges made by Mr. Dougias, and I understand handled the Little Giant rather roughly. Without coming to any vote, after a two hours’ session the Senate adjourned. ‘The friends of the administration could easily baye con- firmed the nomination of Cook, but Judge Douglas de- clared on his word of honor that Cook was personally and polttically dishonest, and a man of neither the ability nor character for any position under the government. Under these circumstances the nomination was permitted to lie over, so as to investigate their truth. It is very possible Mr. Douglas’ friends may endeavor to imduce the belief that this postponement is aa evidence of & want of support to the President in the course which he bas seen proper to adopt towards the Douglas office holders; but such is not the fact. The post- ponement was simply in consequence of the grave per- sonal charges preferred by Judge Douglas against Cook. This is « curious case, as serving to illustrate the posi- tion of Judge Douglas and his friends with the adminis. tration and in the Senate. Cook was formerly Postmaster of Chicago, appointed in 1853 at the instance of Judge Douglas, who was his intimate personal and political friend. At the expiratien of his commission, in 1867, Mr. Price, the present incumbent, wes appointed also by the influence of Mr. Douglas. Cook is not with Mr. Dougias in his defection from the democratic party, but is a Orm administration man; hence his nomination over Price, who is removed, and hence the bitter chagrin ef Douglas. How are the mighty fatien! Judge Dougias’ influence is gone. Whilat the Secretary of War is making arrangements for the concentration of all the regular troops who can be spared for the Utah campaign, it is believed that Congress will yet grant the increase to the army which has been asked for. The Secretary thinks he can send into the field about six thousand men with the present force. The Dill will pass the House in some shape, wud again come up in the Senate, when it is not improbable it will be amend ed in proper shape. The government does uot desire a volunteer force, and if Congress sees fit to insist upon it, the volunteers will be detailed for garrison duty. Despatches were received this morning at the State De. partment from Centra! America. They contain nothing of general interest. It was not positively known at the sal! ing of the steamer whether the Yriearri treaty had beea ratified or not, but it was generally conceded that it woul¢ be. From intelligence received the government hore have no doubt of its ratification. Tt ws understood that the steam frigate Niagara will sail from New York this week to aid in laying the telegrayh cable. Her muster roll embraces four hundred and wa men. The greatest care has been taken by the Nary De partment to make her eflictent in her men and in hor ar- rangements for the work. THE ORNKRAL NEWSPAPER DRSPATOH Wasmioros, March 1, 1954 It ts calculated by prominent democrats that the Kanaee and Minnesota bills combined will pass the Senate by #ix or eight and the House by abovt fifteen majority The Senate in executive » today confirmed « large number of appointments made during the recess Mr. Samuel Medary was to day confirmed by ths Sonate a8 Postmaster at Columbus. Dr. Wm. Jones has been nomingyed Postmaster of Washington, in place of Barrott, whose commission bas expired. ‘The Matteson Investigating Committes wili holt their firet meeting om Wednesday. Important from eas. THREATENED ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL WHITFORD —MURDERS AND INCRNDIARISM ON THE MISSOURE BORDER, ETC. Wamenoton, March 1, 1868. Gen, Whitfield, in @ letter received today, says that Gen. Lane's party has served upon him a notice to quit Kansas threatening that unless he shall 40 90, that he (Lane) will sasaseinate him. Gen. W. adds that he has sent his family out of the Territory, but that he Liunseif will remain. Gon. W. also says that house burnings anv murders are frequent. In the county opposite St. Joseph, Missouri, Mr. Form and his family have been driven out, and several persons living there kilied; also, one in the county av¥®- The Pennsylvania Democracy on Lecouitons Hanrincra, March 1 1869 The Pauphin County Democratic Convention to tay passed resolutions endorsing the admiasion of Kanaaa ato the Union under the Lecoinpton constitation. ‘The Maryland Legtslatare on Fecompton. Bartsmoee, Marl 1, 1495. The Maryland [eginiature w day reject series ax Pesolutions evstaining Mr Buchsonn oo tre Kanone ques tion, by 44 nays to 1 yea, TAC democrats \oted againat it on sccount of the amen/meet made by the American members. News trom tha (CuAaL@ TON, ‘The steampbip laabel, from Hates Honig 0, Sig MALT AL Mie 290 emda see ty ob. 8, 1804 y West Poy