The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1858, Page 4

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The arrangements for this purpose have been made so as to ensure the prompt transmission of the supplies across the plains, and an escort sufficiently strong to prevent any success ful attack from the Mormons has been de- tailed. Orders have also been sent to Capt. Marcy, at Santa Fe, to make arrangements before he sets out on his return to Camp Scott with the animals purchased for the army, to repel the Mormon party which it is understood has been directed to oppose his march and steal his horses and mules. From all the indications it appears evident that the spring campaign will be prosecuted with vigor, and with every reasonable prospect of success. Accounts from Santa Fe announce the arrival of Capt. Marcy at that place, from Camp Scott, on the 2a of February, after a tedions trip, attended with the loss of a large number of mules. He would im- mediately attend to the procurement of horses and supplies for the army of Utah, and there was good reason to believe that he would be able to put Col. Jobnston in possession of the means of transporta- tion to Salt Lake City in the spring. The grand rally of the New York democracy in support of the Kansas policy of the administration, filled Mozart Hall last evening, and was a most suc cessful demonstration. The speeches, resolutions, letters, songs and enthusiasm, were all indicative of a determination to sustain the President at all hazards. Addtesses were delivered by ex-Gov. Jones, of Tennessee; Hon. Mr. Hughes, of Indiana: Mr. Bilboa, of Tennessee, and others. We give else where a detailed report of the proceedings. In the Senate yesterday the bill appropriating $400,000 to carry out the Sound dues treaty was pasted. Bills amendatory of the patent laws, and of the law regulating the carrying of passengers in steamships and other vessels, were introduced. The last mentioned bill doubtless is in reference to al- leged outrages committed on the persons of young female passengers on board emigrant ships—a matter that was brought to the attention of Congress by the New York Emigration Commissioners not long since. Gen. Honston presented a bill providing for the em- ployment of a regiment of mounted volunteers on the Texas frontier, and also authorizing the Presi dent to raise four regiments of volunteers, It is said that the President will shortly send & message to Congress urging an Mcrease of the regular army by the addition of new regiments, as suggested in his annual message. The resolutions of Mr. Dougias calling for information respecting the Kansas question, &c., were taken up, and Senator 1. delivered a speech denouncing Mr. Calhoun, whom he charged with keeping back the re turns of the election. He was cut off in the midst of his remarks by the announcement of the special order, the admission of Kansas. Mr. Col- amer concluded his speech in opposition to the wlicy of the sdministration on the Kansas joestion. Mr. Pugh gave notice that he should yropese an amendment to the bill providing for the timiesion of Kansas and Minnesota, when it Ahould be presented, to the effect that the people may alter or abolish their form of government in such manner as they fhay think proper, so that it be republican and in accordance with the constitution. Mr. Seward obtained the floor and the Senate ad. journed. In the House the motion to reconsider the vote referring to the Committee of the Whole the bill authorizing the President to reinstate officers of the navy affected by the decisions of the Naval Retiring Board, wan discussed till the adjournment, without final action being taken. Nothing of special importance occurred in the Legislature yesterday. The Senate was engaged on the bill prohibiting public officers from receiving free passes on railroads. In the Assembly the Brook- Jpn Assessment bill was referred to a joint commit tee of conference. In discussing this subject Mr. Dayton, of Kings county, stated that he had been informed by a brother member that $10,000 were to be paid to secure the passage of the bill, $5,000 of which was to go into the pocket of one member of the Legislature. The statement, however, did not create any surprise, nor did the House take any ac- tion with regard to it We have interesting news from South America The dates are:—Huenos Ayres 2d, Montevideo 5th, Rio Janeiro 4th, Bahia isth, and Pernambuco 21st of January. Montevideo was threatened not only with a civil war, bot also with an insurrection of the colored population againet the white. In conse quence of the disordered state of affairs, the govern- ment had requested the representatives of foreign Powers who had naval forces in the river Plate to land troops for the security of foreigners. The re- quest was complied with, and the French, English, Brazilian, Spanish and American naval commanders fent on shore of marines. Our Commodore, At the woilcitation of the other foreign commanders, had taken tbe command in-chief of the foreign forces, and published a manifesto promising aid and NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1858, need of them. The other South American States of their military and political leaders will permit. At Bahia travaactions in coffee and cotton were nominal. For sugar the demand was brisk and prices had improved. Dry hides had been sold at 260 reis per pound. Freights were flat. Coffee had fallen 600 to 700 reis at Rio. About 350,000 bags were on hand. Sugars had declined. Trade was very dull st Pernambuco. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after. noon. A communication was received from the Corporation Counsel relative -to the defence of the glass ballot box suit, He considers himself the le- gal adviser of the Board, and their appointment of any other counsel as contrary to law. The Committee on Annual Taxes reported a resolution that the es- timates of the Board of Education for 1858 be confirmed, with a modification reducing the item of arrearages for 1854 from $125,000 to $100,000. The resolution was laid over. A petition was presented from the Collins Steamship Company, asking for the remission of taxes to the amount of $17,618. The petition stated that the company had never declared a divi- dend and was now insolvent. Reports were pre- sented in favor of erecting a county jail on Fifty- first street, between Third and Lexington avenues, and relative to furnishing accommodations for the Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts. An appropriation of $2,125 forthe purchase of boats for the river police was agreed to. The committee on the subject reported the names of the Hrap and some other morning papers as the mediums for publishing the official proceedings of the Board. Several members moved amendments by adding to the list certain papers which they deemed “ the most important and influential” in the city, and after numerous little puffs for their various little pets nearly the whole of the New York press was included. The report was ultimately referred back to the committee. In the Board of Councilmen last evening a resolu- tion was adopted directing the Second Avenue Railroad Company to place their rails from Forty- ninth street to Sixty-second street in the centre of the avenue. The report of the Committee on Lands and Places, concurring with the Aldermen, rescinding ® resolution to purchase land on Ward’s Island, was adopted. After considerable debate, a motion in favor of submitting the claims of Haron & Clarke against the Corporation, for grading Eighty-sixth street, to arbitrators, was adopted. Mr. Genet offered a preamble and resolutions, to which an ordinance was appended, directing the Harlem Railroad Com- pany to take up their tracks on the Fourth avenue, in consequence of their continugl viola tion of the Corporation ordinances. The ordi nance is to take effect on the Ist of July. The Board concurred with the Aldermen jm recom- mending the Legislature to repeal the law appoint- ing three commissioners to erect a new City Hall; also with the other branch of the Common Council in the amendments suggested by the Committee of Conference on the tax levy for 1858, and then ad- journed to Friday. The Committee on Markets of the Board of Coun- cilmen held a meeting yesterday to hear arguments in reference to the encumbered state of the side- walks in the neighborhood of Washington market. From the statements of the farmers who spoke be- fore the committee it would appear that they are often very roughly handled when they come to the city for the purpose of selling their produce, on account of having no proper accommodations for their wagons, which they are consequently obliged to stop with in the streets for the purpose of selling their contents. The City Inspector appeared before the committee and recommended the building of a new | m rket, but did not say much to throw light upon the question before the committee. The Committee on Streets of the Board of Alder. men met yesterday and heard persons in reference to the extension of Albany street, but adjourned till next Tuesday without taking any action. The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, when the plans for the new Island Hospital, in place of the one recently burned, were submitted. The resigna- tion of Harman Eldridge, the warden of Randall's Island, was received and accepted. This will be an opening for another eligible democrat. There are now 8,151 persons under the care of the Governors; an increase of 1,456 as compared with last year. The Excise Commissioners held another meeting yesterday. Hon. Daniel Ullman appeared before them, asking for licences for three different parties for the purpose, as he said, of testing the validity of the Bxcise law. The licenses were granted—one being for a sum of $250, another for $150, and the third for $80. No other business of importance was transacted, and the Board adjourned tl] to-morrow afterncon. The Grand Jury for the ensuing term of the Court of General Sessions was empannelled yesterday, when Judge Rassell delivered a brief charge referring to the statutes to which the law required him to direct the attention of the Grand Inquest. John H. Wat. son, charged with committing a felonious assault upon John Huntington, was convicted of an assault and battery, dnd remanded for sentence. Hugh Smith, charged with attempting to take the life of Edwin 8. Collins, by shooting him with a pistol, was convicted of a simple assault, and remsndeg. The son of the accused swore that he fired the p¥tol to save his father’s life, charging Collins with seducing his sister, in which he was corroborated by other witnesses. The young girl, the alleged victim of Collins, cannot be found since the occurrence. Col- lins positively denies the charge, and stated that he knew nothing of her whereabouts. The examination in the case of Mary Morris alias Wilson and three others, charged with having con spired to rob J. F. Langley, a Virginian, the parti- culars of which were recently made public, took | place yesterday before Justice Brennan, at the Essex Market Police Court. The proceedings, of which we give a report elsewhere, especially the evidence of the complainant, were of an interesting character. The examination will be continued to-day. It is hardly probable that the prosecution will be able to make out a case. The annual commencement of the New York Medical College took place last evening in the lecture room of the college, in presence of a large number of spectators of both sexes. Dr. H. H. Green aa- nounced the names of the graduates and delivered the diplomas, accompanied by the customary onth, | The list numbers thirty-three names, besides three others upon whom the honorary degree was be- stowed. Dr. Fordyce Barker delivered the valedic- tory address. Cotton was again better yesterday, and more active, The sales embraced about 6,000 bales, a considerable por tion of which was in transita. The market closed at about 12140. per Ib. for middling uplands, and at 120. « 12)g¢ for middling Gulfe. There was rather more tone in the flour market, and fair to good State and Western extra brands were firmer, while commen grades were un changed. bere waa a fair export demand for Southern, which was steady. Wheat was firmly held, and the chief eale was confined to Tennessee white at $1 40 afloat. Corn was steady, with aaies of sound yellow and white at 676 a 66c. 0 69, Pork was firmer, with sales of moss chiefly at $1640, and prime at $19. Among the sales of iard Were 250 kegs at Tic, Sugars were steady, with eales of about 700 bhds. at prices given in another column. Coffee was quiet and sales limited. Beyond engagements of corn for Liverpool, shipments were light and rates go nerally uncharged. Tue Littie Giaxt Gorse Down Heut.—Ace cording to the latest accountsfrom Washington Senator Douglas is full of fire and fury and op- position to the administration on all pointe. Senator Douglas is fast travelling the same road which Senator Hale took some time since. Senator Hale first appeared upon the political stage ae a democrat from New Hampshire and & statesman; he is now a joker, a teller of anecdotes, and a good black republica’ tor Douglas will be the John P. Hi protection to whatever strangers might be in ' Northwest in less thaa (wo moulus, ‘ { @ppear to be as peaceable as the restless dispositions | | i} The State of Affalzs in Central America, The advices brought by the last mail from Central America have but few points of in rest. They indicate a state of no good feeling ‘y- ‘ween the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but in the other States affairs have settled cown into their quiet routine, and a spirit of «nterprise is being gradually awakened. For- iunately, neither of the two above named repub- lice were in a position to wadertake a war, and 1o the bitter questions between them were hiding the effect of time. There is one evident point, however, in the news which confirms the views hitherto taken by the HxraLp of the condition of public affairs there. Every question of any importance was delayed in its discussion and determination until the arrival at Managua of the Hon. M. B. Lamar, our minister to Nicaragua. The ac- ceptance of the Yrisarri treaty, the rejection of the late treaty with Costa Rica, the ratifica- tion of a new contract for opening the Transit route, and many of the questions of a purely domestic character, were all held back until the opinion of our government should have been ascertained through Mr. Lamar. ‘This gentleman wag on his way from San Juan del Norte to Managua, and was daily expected at Granada at our last advices. The stopping of the steamers upon the river and lake had ma- terially contributed to delay his arrival. The condition of all the questions here perti- nent to Central America are exhibiting the same state of delay. Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley is at Washington doing nothing, and without the porsibility of doing anything until Mr. Lamar reports to our government. The dead letter of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is, in truth, as great an impediment to him as it is to our own diplo- matic agents. Monsieur Belly has not made his appearance here or in Central America. The transit route enterprise, and several other in- dustrial undertakings that have already been planned for operation in Nggaragua, are in the same state of anticipation, all waiting the pre- sence of the American Minister at Managua and his conferences with that government. In all this there is the germ of a proper and advantageous policy in American affairs. In leaving to the representative of our government the undivided field of diplomatic in- tercourse in Nicaragua, all questions will be sooner cettled, and in a manner just and beneficial to all. In accepting a controll- ing influence in the counsels of any of the Central American States, we strive for no exclusive ad- vantages. Freedom of intercourse and a scru- pulous protection to all interests is the great axiom of our policy, and is the only thing we shall strive for in Central America or anywhere else. If these cannot be obtained without the establishment of a stable government—and this can only be hoped for, either in Mexico or Cen- tral America, by the establishment of our direct influence—then we are bound by our duty to the whole world to extend it. As these views begin to dawn upon the interests of Europe, her states- men as well as ours will acquiesce in the neces- sity of abrogating the Clayton Bulwer treaty—a view which the instincts of the people have al- ready led them to accept. Kerr Coon.—With the first regular set-to in the House of Representatives upon the Lecomp- ton constitution a miscellaneous scrimmage of the border ruffian order took place on the floor, and this was rapidly followed up by a most alarming schedule of bar room quarrels, chal- lenges, duels and rumored duels in embryo. But with the armistice which followed upon Kansas, law and order were happily restored in the federal city. Now, however, Lecompton is up again, and we would accordingly admonish all parties concerned, who are liable to violent | excitements upon the nigger question, or con- | cerning Jobn Calhoun, Jack Henderson or Gen. Jim Lane, to keep cool. Avoid as much as possible all belligerent personalities, and re trench, a8 much as possible, in the drinking of the detestable brandy and execrable rotgut whiskey with which the bar rooms and ram holes of Pennsylvania avenue are said to | abound. It is as dangerous in Washington as in Lecompton to mix up too much alcohol with this Kansas medicine of ‘popular sovereignty.” It inevitably leads to combustion, explosions, pugilistics and civil war, Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives, keep cool. Commissioner Nyw’s House anp Lor Again. It almost brings tears itito our eyes to per- ceive that, if Captain Squires is rightly in- formed, Commissioner Nye is going to lose that house and lot after all. Wedo hope he will not abandon the thing without another trial. Mr. Nye, we understand, is the special counsel of several policemen who have been brought up before the criminal courts on charges of various kinds; he should on no ac- count give up his claim to that house and lot. | ' Perhaps he may follow the example of on emi- nent ex-State Senator, who, having earaed the gratitude of the policemen by resisting | throughout a session a bill to deprive them of | their vocation, was presented by them with a | service of plate. The story getting into the | newspapers, the Senator went round, making much noise, and disclaimed in the most empha- | tic manner any knowledge of what the police- | men were doing, and any intention to accept the plate; which, however, he subsequently, at what eacrifice of feeling may be conjectured, concluded to take and to keep. The public seem to think that General Nye’s house and lot are destined to the same fate as that service of plate, and that the Commissioner will yet get his comfortable homestead. If he does, we sin- cerely hope he will not lose sight of the ear- riages and horses, and yacht. es Tue Brack Rervnticans axp tae Morwons— 1856 anv 1858.—In 1856 a special edict tor the expulsion of Mormon polygamy was made one of the main pillars of the black republican platform for the Presidency, the other front pil- lar being hostility to the slavery-extending pro- gramme of Mr. Douglas and the Southern al- tras. This was in 1856; but in 1858 we find Mr. Douglas, the Southern ultras and the Black Republicans cheek by jowl in their work of sympathy with the Mormons in the defeat of the Army bill. This is almost as funny as that Mr. Seward, the great anti-slavery expounder of the North, should, upon this Army bill, stand with Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, and Ca- meron of Pennsylvania, the most conspicuous among the supporters of the administration. Swamren at Last.—We seo that the country papers say the Frening Mirror of this city has ceased to appear, having been killed by the dull times. This is probably the fact. During the last ten years it has exhausted some fifty to sixty thoueand dollars, and sent its editor round the country, far and wide, lecturing on the im- portance of credit. This is not the only news } = og which is likely to be swamped about these Canavian Avvams.—The message of the Gov- ernor of Canada, of which we published a tele- graphic summary & few days since, reflects a etate of things which is highly creditable to the Canadian people. No dissensions of consequence eeem to disturb the even tenor of their way ; the old conflicts of race and religion and politi- cal rights seem to have died out—the message is wholly devoted to such matters as bankruptcy lawe, fitheries, public lands, ocean steamers, railways and trade. With the exception of the disputed title to the territory now ruled by the Hudeon’s Bay Company, and of the rivalry among the chief cities for the seat of govern- ment, there really seems to be no subject upon which the Canadians can reasonably enjoy the luxury of a Parliamentary quarrel. A country is in a very happy state when this can be said of it. We notice however in some of the colonial papers indications of one or two possibly ap- proaching events which may impart life and in- terest to the public affairs of Canada. In the course of last year the government of Nova Scotia appointed two commissioners, Messrs. Jobnston, the Attorney General of the Province, and Mr. Adams G. Archibald, te confer with the government of Great Britain respecting the proposed confedemtion of all the British Ameri- can colonies. The result of their conference is given in the subjoined letter :— Hausrax, Fob. 6, 1858, Sin—We have the honor to report for the information’ of hus Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, that, in pursu: ance of the instructions we have received from the Pro- vincial government, we brought the subject of the union of the North American colonies under the notice of the Colonial Secretary during our recent mission to London. In our interview which we had with Mr. Labouchere this question was freely discussed. He informed us that her Majesty's government had no desire to interfere with the determination to which the colonies themselves might come on a point so immediately affecting their own interests; and that if they ebould be of opinion that union would advance their prosperity, the ernment would oppose po obstacle to their wishes. declaration of the freedom of the colonies to decide this important ques- tion for themselves seemed to be all that could be de- sired from the government. We therefore consider that the question had been brought tos point at which tho next step must be taken af present pressed oa the cousigeration of the perial " “sbi J. W. JOHNSTO government, p ADAMS G. ARCHIBALD. ‘To the Hon. the Provincial Secretary. Of course, the knowledge that the British government would interpose no obstacle to the union of the provinces, combined with the approaching completion of the Great Trunk Railroad from Port Sarina, Lake Huron, to Halifax, N.S., is calculated to produce a de- cided effect in, at all events, drawiag public attention to the scheme. Many years ago it was popular, and might have commanded the suffrages of a majority of the people of all the provinces had there existed any means of com- munication between Quebec and Halifax in winter, without passing through the United States. The Trunk Railroad has now obviated that difficulty. : We have noticed in many Canadian papers a suggestion that a son of the Queen of England should be crowned King of Canada, and that the colony should be erected into a regular kingdom. The notion seems to have come from England, and to have spread through the medium of some British army officers, who proba- bably acted under instructions It is quite natural that the Queen should de- sire to provide her younger children with thrones ; she is well known to be as eminent as amother as she is as a sovereign; and it cannot be denied that a Canadian throne would be a very comfortable settlement in life for any young man. But whether the Canadians could stand a court of the European pattern, with enormously expensive appendages of all kinds, is a very different thing. The democratic spirit is quite as general and as hearty among the na- tive population of Canada as it is here; and it is not very probable that this part, at least, of the Canadian people would rejoice at the pros- pect of an imported monarchy. Indeed, the at- tempt to force upon them a prince of the blood, as Otho was forced upon Greece, would be very likely to awaken them to the serious thought of annexation to thiscountry. Their experience in the township of Elgin has cured them of their old nigger mania, and they would cer- t#inly have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the change. TxoveLe AMonG THE New York Orrick Bro- oars AGAtw.—The office beggars of New York give more trouble to the administration than those of all the rest of the country put together. Our Tammany and anti-Tammany factions are even more troublesome than the patriotic party spoilemen of the Northwest, who are just now in a high fermentation on account of the Kansas bolt of Douglas. It seems that all the Con- gressionai delegation of this city, excepting Mr. Horace F. Clark, recently waited in a body upon Mr. Cobb and insisted that he should guillotine | a list of Custom House appointments lately made by Collector Schell. This Congressional committee protested that good faith to the su- preme law of Tammany Hall required that Mr. Schell should confine his appointments to the regularly organized inside Tammany organiza- tion; but that, shocking to relate, he had pre- sumptuously selected these subordinates in | question without much regard to the exclusive | pretensions of this inside Tammany faction. Of course, Mr. Cobb was in a fog, and the President had too much business on hand of a larger calibre to pay any attention to these dirty little spoils squabbles of our sublime democracy. In this dilemma we would suggest to Mr. Cebb that, without some practical objections on the score of fitness, capacity, &c., these appointees of Mr. Schell will do very well, #0 far as the purposes of the administration are concerned. It is fair to conclude that, as the responsible head of our Custom House, the Col- lector, in view of a creditable discharge of his official duties, may be relied upon in the selec- tion of his subordinates. We would next sug- gest to our city delegation in Congress that a faithful discharge of their legislative duties will be satisfactory to their constituents; and that in mixing themselves up among the wrangling cliques of our paltry office beggars they are engaged in a very small business, As for the idea that a little exclusive com- mittee of Tammany Hall commands the whole body of the faithful of this metropolis, it is per- fectly absurd. The democratic church militant of this city has become too large, and fat, and bloated, and has too many big men, and too many small potatoes in it, to be managed by either one or two special committees. And what if there be three, or half a dozen supreme councils, #0 that they are all “sound upon the goose question ?’’—that is to say, the great test of the Lecompton constitution. Thus the democra- tic Lecompton meeting held last night at Mozart Hall, under the auspices of the Witter Committee, was as orthodox as will be the assemblage of to- morrow evening in old Tammany, under the authority of the Sweeney committee; and who will dare toray that the administration Lecomp- tou dinner, which is also be given to-morrow evening by the Central Murphy Club, will not also be a genuine democratic affair? The old Sachems of Tammany had better recognise the fact at once that “the unterrified” of this great metropolis have grown too large for their old Tammany breeches, and must have room for the free exercise of their limbs, It is the policy, then, of the administration first to confirm the appointments of Mr. Schell, as the best that can be made under the circum- stances—insiders and outsiders of gold Tam- many inclusive; and secondly, to leave the disappointed office beggars to settle their troubles among themselves, In any event, the disappointed to the appointed will be as ten to one, and perhaps even twenty to one. Thirdly, we would again admonish our democratic mem- bers of Congress to stick to Lecompton and their legislative duties, and they will have enough to do. It will be time enough for them, any how, to take Mr. Collector Schell’s office into their keeping when he shall have been found incompetent to fill it. Tus Tantrr InvEstTiGATION aT WasHInatox.— The Committee of Investigation seems at last to be bringing out some facts upon this matter. According to the testimony of the last witness examined, the $87,000 in question passed out of the hands of the Middlesex Company into those of Mr. Wolcott, and out of the hands of Wolcott into those of Ashmun. Ashmun denies that any portion of it was conveyed to members of Con- gress for the purpose of bribing them, or for any other purpose. If 80, who received the money? Where is it? While the committee is busy inquiring into this matter, they should send to this region for certain witnesses who are connected with an obscure paper that is published in this city. Ex-Governor Raymond and ex-stock broker Weeley profess in their journal to know that a sum of $200,000 was contributed by the facto- ries and operatives in New England for the pur- pose of buying up the Washington lobby. Ex- stock broker Wesley was formerly a great epera- tor in stocks here, but broke down in the course of the revulsion last yoar. He was also, and is still, concerned in the old Brick Church specula- tion. Ex-Governor Raymond has also specu- lated largely with the political parties of the country; he was first a whig, then a black re- publican, then a little of a know nothing, then somewhat of a democrat. Both of these are intelligent men; they profess to know a great deal. Let the committee subpena them to Washington at once. Tux Stock Gamptiwe Manta.—The mania for speculating in stocks rather gains than loses ground. Itjs transpiring that as large fortunes have been made on the rise as on the fall. Men are pointed out who have realized $100,000 by buying this or that stock while it was depress- ed; others, who have made their twenty or twenty-five thousand in the course of a week. Every one who buys stocks now-a-days makes money; it must be so so long as the banks are £0 full of money and trade is so dull. The police ought to take a walk down to the offices of the principal brokers and watch the faces which throng them between twelve and two. A knowledge of them might hereafter prove aclue to the discovery of a defalcatien or an embezzlement. Avarice is so general in this community that in times like the present, when it seems hardly possible not to make money by buying stocks, it is hard to find people who have not some interest in the stock market. Even the ladies are buying, {nd dressing them- selves out of their profits. THE LATEST NEWS. ‘The Utah Expedition. DESPATCHES FROM COL. JOHNSTON AND COL. COOK— SANITARY CONDITION OF TPE ARMY—ARRANGE- MENTS FOR FORWARDING SUPPLIES, ETC. Wasiinctox, March 2, 1858 The War Department has received despatches from Col. Johnaton dated January 4. Colonel Johnston, in tas letters to Genoral Scott, says that no incident of any military importance has trans- pired since his last communication, and that the troops are in excellent healfh and spirits, He expresses fears that he has not suflicient draught animals. The greater number of the soldiers who have been on the sick list were rendered unfit for duty by being frost bitten, For this reason Col. Johnson recom- monds that each man be supplied with a pair of buffalo overshoes, Col. Jobnston calls attention to the groat length of the line of communication of the army, and the necessity of providing the means for de- fending the supplies which must be sent for- ward early in the spring, more especially that portion liable to be attacked by the Mormons. Colonel J. commends highly the fieldworks thrown up around Fort Bridger, and has seut the drawing of them to the War Department. Colonel Cook, writing from Henry's Fork on the Slat of December, says that he found little grass and shelter at that piace. The weather was moderating, and be had no doubt be would be able to remain there six weeks. By some mistake the despatcties from Col. Johnston for the commanding officers at Forts Laramie, Kearny and Leavenworth were sent to the hesiquarters at Now York. Col. Johnston's letter to Lynde bad not reached him, but Gen. Scott Mys that enough is known from Major Lynde’s letter of December 2 to leave ‘150 doubt as to the insufficiency of the present moans at Fort Laramie for transmitting three months’ supplies to Colonel Johnston’s command. As it is @ matter of abso- Jute necessity that supplies should reach bim by the Ist of June, measures for that purpose have been taken by General Scott. His order dated February 28 directs that @ train to consist of st least two hundred and six mule wagons eball be organized with the utmost despatch at Fort Leavenworth, to go im mediately with Colonel Hoffman to Fort Laramie, and to transport from thence to Colonel Johnston's command in Utah commissary stores, men’s shoes, and such other suppiies as may be known to be much needed. Two extra mules, to provide for casualties, are to be taken for each wagon. The wagons and mules, and everything for this wain will be the best that can be got together at Fort Leavenworth of within convenient reach of it. Seven companies of cavalry and infantry will act as an escort beyond Fort Laramie. The train will start as carly aa the 1@th of March. In an order dated March 1, to the commanding officer at Fort Leavenworth, Gen. Scott directs that the following ‘be nent to Gon, Garland in New Mexico, by express: — Colone! Johnston reports that the Mormons intend inter cepting Captain Marcy on his retara with the mules and horses he was ordered to obtain in your dopartment. Notify the captain of this, and see ho is strongly eacorted on bia return march, and well provided with whatever he may require and you can spare, The above orders from Gen. Scott were sent by tele. graph to Boonville, and from thence they are to go to their places of destination by oxpreas. Captain Marcy is expected to leave New Mexico about the 20th of March News from New Mexico, ARRIVAL OF CAPT. MARCY AT SANTA FR, RTC. Sr. Louis, March 2, 1868, ‘The Santa Fe mail has arrived, but the gonoral news brought by it is of an unimportant description. Capt. Maroy reached the viomity of Santa Fe on the 2d of February. Hla trip had been long, and attended with the lows of ® large number of mules and with gront hardship. He would immediately proceed to make pur chases, and the presumption was that his expedition would be entirely successful in putting Col, Johnston in Porwersion of the means of transportation to Sait Take mach earlier in the spring than horses and supplies could reach him from the States. Mr. Hockaday, the United States District Attorney of v . en route tor Washington, wih gueesement Yetchea He denies that the troops he docurred between Sarreyor Kelly's pae- bave been put on “A aumoully had I ty and some Mexicans, near Albuquerque. Two of the iat- tor wore killed. Col. Harley, Indian agent, and Judge Watts are passen- gers by the mail train. ‘The Now Mexican Legislature would adjourn on the 4h of February. -__ Affairs in Wi FORTHCOMING MBSSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT ON THS INCREASK OF THE ARMY—STRUGGLES OF THE NBW YORE POLITICIANS—THE CHICAGO POSTMAS- TERSHIP —MOVEMENT FOR 4 BANKRUPT LAW—NEW NRWSPAPER REGULATIONS, RTO. .. Wastvoron, March 2, 1858, ‘The Army bill, which was made the special order fer to morrow, will be taken up inthe House and strema- ously urged by the Military Committee. They have pre- sented two reports—one by Mr. Faulkner for three re- giments of regulars, and one by General Quitman for five regiments of volunteers. The House will, it is be- Meved, adopt one or the other of these propositions, 2 io eaid that the President will send « special message te Congress upon this subject, urging the additional menta asked for in his message. : The New York democratic politicians now present im Washington aro greatly exercised about the demonstra- tlon to be made in your city to-night and on the 4th inet. by the two organizations of the party. They are ondes- voring to muster all the force they can, in the way of speakers among promiment members of Congress, im order to give éclat to the proceedings and to impress the administration in their favor. ‘The Senate were in executive session again to-day for nearly threo hours, and had up the Chicago Postmaster case. The charges preferred by Senator Douglas were considered and discussed at great length, and many of them refuted by documents procured at the Post Office and Treasury Departmente. Without coming to any de- termination, waiting for additional evidence, the Sonate adjourned. It will probably be disposed of to-morrow. It is life or death with Douglas. Thore seemsto be lit- Ue doubt of Mr. Cook’s confirmation. The Senate confirmed the following Virginia appoing- ments to day:—W. H. Custis, Collector at Yorktown; J. 8 Parker, Collector at Cherrystone; C. C. Robinson, Naval Officer at Norfolk; A. J. Denby, Surveyor at Norfolk; W. Shandy, Surveyor st Richmond, and H. Hanoook, Colles tor at Wasbington. Gen. Wendell P. Smith, late special mail agent for New ngiand, bas been appointed local agent at Portland, with authority to act as special agent within the State; and 'W. B. Sayles, lato Postmaster at Providence, has been appointed special agent for New England. learn this evening that a movement ison foot fora general bankrupt law, which will probably develope “itself in the Senate to-morrow. Information has been received from Aspinwall by the Moses Taylor, that the commanders of her Britanaic Majesty’s veesels of war on the West India station have received orders from the British government to captare and treat as pirates Gen. Walker and all or any other filibusters, wherever they may find them. This, it is said, they would have done before, but they were afraid of creating an ill feeling and much jealousy in the United States against the British government. Now they have no fear of any such consequences, and are only praying to have an opportunity of emulating the conduct of Com- modore Paulding. ‘The understrappers of the Pierce administration are stilt active in their hostility to the quiet settlement of the claim of Ramsey and Carmick on their abrogated mail contract. You remember that two years ago Congress directed the First Comptroller to settle and adjust the amount due to the contractors, and quite recently the Secretary of the Treasury bas written to the Comptroller that he must pro- coed in the business. As the act of Congress was predicated, or rather accom- panied, by a report from the Senate Committee on the Post Office Department, which report pitched into Postmaster Genera) Campbell without mercy for breach of faith, for misrepresentations, &c., you can well under- stand the old grudge against the settlement. Hence it ia asserted that the contractors claim several millions of dollars damages, in order to prejudice their equitable and honest demand. But as the Senate report insinuates pretty plainly that there were a good many lies told and written against thoee persons, it is natural to suppose some more can be manufactured from the same source. The facts are simply these:~ The mail contract was for $424,000 an- nually, for four years, out of which $160,000 per annum went to the Pacific Steamship Company; so that the whole four years tervice would only have amounted to one million of dollars. As the contract was annulled by the Post Cffice Department befere the service commenced, the contractors claim only their outlay and a reasonable com- pensation for their time, trouble, &c. Mr. Whittlesey’s repert on the case contains an item account of the ex Penses they incurred, amounting to $113,127 54. Tho Amount of damages beyond that sum will cortainly not deplete the Treasury, especially as the Comptroller bas to adjust it, It is enid that the Senats Post (tice Committee will soon make a call upon the Execative to know why the law has not been executed. T learn from the Post Office Department that new regu- lations have been adopted by the respective Post Office Departments of this country and Great Britain for the treatment of nowspapers in the mails, found to contain writing or any enclosure, the object being to check the fraudulent practice referred to, which is now Prevailing in both countrias to a much greater extent than formerly. These regulations prescribe that newspapers posted in the United States for the United Kingdom, or vice wersa, if found to contain writing or any enclosure, shall, at the option of the despatching country, cither be stopped and sent to the Dead Letter office, or be forwarded, charged with full letter postage, United States and British gom- bined; and if the writing or enclosure be detected in the country to which such newspapers are sent, a like course shell be adopted. The Postmaster General has therofore instructed the respective Unfled States exchange offices to forward all newspapers addressed to Great Britain found tocontain writing or any enclosure, charged with full letter rate of postage; and postmasters throughout the country are particularly enjoined to scrutinize such papers: closely with a view to detect frauds of this character. of climate, soil and products. He opposed the Lecomptan ‘copettution as outrageous, and looked upon the preseat Congressional tatervention as the vileat tyranny and a authority—that of Governor Walker aud Secretary Stan- ton. ‘The meeting is still in session Anti-Lecompton Meeting at Harrisburg, Hannuanore, Pa., Maroh 2, 1868, ‘An anti-Lecompton meeting was hel here this ovening. Resolutions were adopted condemning the President's Kansas policy, and appianding the sentiments contained in Governor Packer's inaugural address, The meeting was addressed by John W. Forney and others, ‘The Quarrels of the Connecticut Democracy. Hartrorp, Conn. , March 2, 1868, Mr, JohnjC. Palmer, the leading delegato olectedyt thee. moeratic cancus on Friday night last, comes out ina card in this evening’s Jimed, in which he charges the editor with misrepresentiag hia views and says distinctly thathe aus- taina Douglas and is opposed to forcing the Leompton constitution on Kansas. Tho united delegation from this clty occupy the same position of hostility to that measure of the administration. Mayoralty Election tn Troy. Trot, March 2, 1858, The election for Mayor was held to day, ani resulted in & mejority of four hundred and fy for Arba Reed, de. mocrat, over A. Watkyns, fusion Thore was a fusion