The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BEANETT, KDITOR AND Proraieros OFTICE N. W. CORNED OF FULTON AND WARRAT STS news, solicited from any gua fally prasd for. waren Powsaes ¢ ed Brovrsren te Seat att Serres INO NOTICK taken of anonymous commuttications, We do not STISEMENTS renewed reery day; advertinemente aA, FAMILY ABKALD, and én va Oe AMUSEVENTS TO MORROW EVENING. AOADKMY OF MUSIC, Fourtecath.ot.—itatian Orzus— Tar Du vanors. RROADWAM THEATRE, Rroadwa; ieaay Reporacu§e, we Numa ‘Kevesreian Exes: —- ROWPARY THEATRE, Bowoery—llores, tas iwiss Pareior —Bursaon ov Faanon, IPS THRATIE, Broadway. onpestic Road wtreet— Wantue, A Harty Fax Tes WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosiwey—Jessiz Brown, on ex Revizr or Lucemow—Marnien Kacemion. LAURA KEENER THRATRE Brosdway—Joma Basproap—Vuises Lawran—To Passnts and Oval AMERICAN NUSEUN, Brosdway—Aflernooo Tax Bus or a» Fvexina. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 563 sad SS Broatway--Groras Ounurr & Woons Minsrasie—Tue Fierce Rips, BARNUM'S ead Brening— MEOH ANTOS’ HALL, 478 Broatway—Burany’s MinsTRELS —Eraoriax SomGs—DOWN LF Alanana. New York, Sunday, March 21, 1855, To Paper Makers. Proposals and specimens will be received at tho New Yorx Himaip office for one thousand reams of printing paper per week, 52 by 46, woight, 60 pounds Cash always on delivery. The steamship Arabia, which left Liverpool on the Cth inst., arrived at her dock at Jersoy City at ten o'clock yesterday morning. The news is three days later than that brought by the North Ameri- can to Portland, but doe« not contain any point of special importance. The London money market wasrather dull, owing in # great measure to a @on- @mued depression on the Paris Bourse. The latest quotations for consols on the 5th inst. were 96j 4 96% for money, and 96] for 8th of April. The Bank of England returns for the week ending with the Sd inst. show a slight fulling off in ballion— £5,986—for the first time since the abatement of the money panic. American securities had a slow sale, but the prices were unchanged. In the Liverpool market on the 5th in-., cotton was fuctuating, finally Closing at from one-+ixteenth to one-eizhth of a peany per pound over the quotations brought out by the Canada. Medium grades of flour were unsaleable in Liverpool, and the rates were merely nominal. Good coffee had advanced in price in London, but inferior sorts were heavy. Su,at was steady at previously reported prices. The political news from [ugland is unimpor- tant. Lord Derby was consolidating bis min- istry, All the members of his government who had vacated their seats in Parliament by taking office, were reelected without opposition, in cach instance where an election was held. addresses to their constituents they urged the neces sity of an intimate aud friendly allieace with France, whilst the hovor and dignity of Encland was at the same time upheld, purticularly as regarded the re fugee question. No date had been uemed for the execution of the State convicts in Paris, but crowds of people re- mained in the streets for two nights, watching for the event, lest it should be hurried over at early dawn. Political arrests were made daily in Paris and the departments. It was said that the English note demanding an explanation of the objectionable terms used by Count Walewski, which Lord Derby promised, had not reached Paris. Count Walewski is said to have received a letter of the Earl of Malmes. bury, bot containing hing of the kind A Italian Const a! Convention was being beid in London, at which many eminent men at tended as delegates. The official opposition to the payment of the Stade Dues tolls was being organized in Hamburg by the United States Consul and others. Advices from Constantinople say that the city of Corinth bad been destroyed by an earthquake; but only thirty persons were killed. A very disastrous fire had ocourred in Constantinople and another at Adrianopie. We have news from Anstralia dated at Syduey on the 15th and at Melbourne on the 16th of January. Heavy stocks of imports continued to depress the Melbourne markets. Nivhvias Rierdan of that city had failed for $1,000,000. Hallarat gold sold at £3 17s. 6d. The harvest promised to be moSt abundant. An Education bill had passed the Victoria Assembly, ‘one clause of which renders the instruction of chil drev compulsory. Gold valued at $950,000 had been landed in England from the colony, and ships on the passage had $2,500,000 on board for Great Britain. ‘The aggregate shipmente of gold from Australia during the past year amounted to upwards of fifty- five millious of dollars. By the arrival at this port yesterday of the brig Alma, we have Nassau, N.P., papers to the 6th inst., but they contain no news of interest. Nothing of general local importance occurred in either branch of the Legislature yesterday. According to the report of the City Inspector, the humber of deaths in the city during the past week was 464, being a decrease of 51 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. The following lable exhibits the number of deaths daring the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguish- ing the eexes:~ Mon. Women. Boys. Girls. Total Week ending March 15... 91 = 173 lie 616 Week ending March 20.. .101 ™ 16 i” Rial Among the principal causes of death were the fol- lowing — —- Week ending — mare i March 20 . 6 ; Prware 2 2 eo “2 ay mM is i Pa » % a * ” Measice.... oy ” Breseaina ; a 8 % There were also 8 deaths of apoplexy, 7 of con preation of the brain, 7 of congestion of the lungs, 5 of hooping cough, 7 of inflammation of the bowels, 5 of palay, € of teething, 12 of smallpox, 9 premature Varths, 26 #tillborn, and 10 from violent causes. “he following is « classification of the diseases, and mber of deaths in each class of disease during hs — doen Ae March 12. March 20, 2 ‘Sere a fave a 6 Unaary see ble wt " d with the corres ‘Total. lcd The number of deaths, compen as fo toh = pooding weeks in 1866 and 1857, at Wetk ending March 22, 1866. bey Week ending March 21, 1867. i Week ending March 13. 1868. * Vaited “to oie iad natives of th “Stand, ‘The nativity table gives 34° A fistes, 04 of Ireland, 30 of Germany, In the | | Gof Acotiand, 2 of France, and 1 each of Italy, Wales aod the West Indies, and 1 unknown. Another of those bloody and fatal affrays for | which New York has unhappily become prominent { occurred at @ dance house in Howard atreet, at an | early hour yesterday morning. The actors in tho | aflray were Paudeen McLanghiin, of Stanwix Hall notoricty, and 3 man named Daniel Cunningham. ‘The circumstances are detailed elsewhere in to-day’s paper. Suffice it to state in this place, that accord: ing to our narrative of the facts, Paudeen committed an unprovoked assault upon Cunningham, and that the latter, during the melee, drew a pistol and dix charged its contents into the chest of his antagonist. Paudeen was conveyed to the City Hospital, where his wound was attended to, but at twelve o'clock last night it was not expected that he would live till morning. Cunningham surrendered himself to the police, and i now in prison, waiting the course of events. Both honses of Congress yesterday hammered away lustily, in a sort of “anvil chorus,” on the Kansas question, Four speeches were delivered in the Senate and ten in the House, aud the catalogue ia yet far from being exhausted. It is- hardly proba- ble that the question on the Kansas bill will be taken. in the Senate on Monday, as eome half dosew neua- tors have expressed 8 wish to discuss the subject. Among the news from Washington we publish a letter by Mr. John Calhoun, of Kansas, declaring his decision with regard 'to the returns of the elec tion from the Delaware Crossing precinct. ‘Thia de- cision in effect gives the control of the Legialature of Kansas chosen funder theflecompton consetitntjon, to the free State party. The letter also gives the names of all the senators and representatives to whom certificutes of election will be issued. The argument in the case of Jacob H. Mott, charged with defrauding tho Union Bauk, was heard by the Recorder yesterday afternoon. Ho promised to render his decision on Tuesday next. The Recorder delivered a verbal opinion yester- day in the case of George Middleton, against whom acharge of conspiracy to take the Ilfe of Marcus Cicero Stanley was preferred. The Recorder stated that tho evidence was Sasufficient to hold him, and the defendant wasaccordingly discharged. The pre- limiuary examination of William A. Hardenbrook, charged with libelling Judge Thompson, waa post- pened till Monday at twelve o'clock. Three sacks, containing mutilated remains of a human body, were discovered yesterday morning on the beach at Gowanus. The preliminary examina- tion by the Coroner led to the supposition that the remains were those of a subject Spon which some surgeon had been operating for scientific purposes. A further investigation of the affair will, however, be made to-day. - The March term of the Court of General Sessions closed yesterday. A number of prisoners were dis- posed of, but the cases possessed no features of in- ber sgl market was heavy yesterday, owing to the charscter of the Puropean news received by the Arabia, combined with the low rates of exchange and incraasing receipts at the Southern ports. Tho sales ombraced about 80¢ & 900 bales, on the basis of 114;0. for middting, and 11Xc. 01176. for strict middling upiands showing adeciine on the two grades of fully c.@ ic. After the circulars and letters received by the Arabia were read, holcers of flour deceme firmer, and especially for the lower grades, while sales were more freely made. Wheat was rather more freely dealt in. The sales embraced white Genesee at $120; red Indiana at $1 20; Delaware Ted @t $120; white Kentucky at $1 40; and Obio do. at $1 25. Gorn solid loa fair extent at 65c. a 66c. for white, and at 670. & (8c. for yellow. There was itcreased ac- ‘uVity ip pork, with tree sales, part to arrive, at $16 656 $.6 75 for moss and $13 60 for prime, part at seller's op- tion, Uiirty days. There was an active movement in evgar and moiasees, and eales of both were freely mado: and generally at firm prices. Coffee was firm, with mode- rate sales, Freights were unchanged, aud engagements moderate. There was rather more offering for California. The ship Inrigo, recently taken up, was about baif full, at ‘30 cente per foot measurement. The Fiying Dragon has completed ber cargo. ‘The Lecompton Constitution—Southern Prin- i ciples and Southern Treachery. For some dayspast the black republican or- gans and Washington correspondents have been boasting over the defeat of the Lecompton con- stitution in the House of Representatives as 4 foregone conclusion, @ fixed fact, an inevitable certainty. They tell us that they are sure of it —from circumstances, however, which they are not at liberty to explain. But we are not so sure of it, by a longshot. We are sure of one thing, and thatis, that if the Lecompton pro- gramme be defeated In the House it will be by the treachery of Southern men to Southern principles, Southern institutions, and Southern consistency. Of late years a new class of politicians hascome into the foreground in the Southern States— a class of ranting, roaring, fire eating, Bom- bastes Furioso demagogues. Generally they are without landed property, without niggers, and without any fixed or solid interest in the community; but upon the slightest pretext affecting the integrity of Southern institutions, they are ready to tear the Union to pieces, and to scatter its fragments to the winds. Accord ing to the census of 1850, there are some 347,000 slaveholders in the Southern States, owning each from one to a thousand ne groes. As a general rule, where the hard master is found among them it is in the owner of one, two or three, or half a dozen slaves; while, on the other hand, the owner of 4 thonsand—like Goy. Aiken, of South Carolina. for examplo—is very apt to be found exercising over bis large establishment the paternal gov- ernment of patriarch. It is also a remarkable fact that while our most boisterous blood and thunder Southern politicians are unsubstantial men, or only possessed of slave property enough to swear by, that the large «lavebolders, as « clase, are conservative, law abiding and quict Union loving clitizena Formerly the interests and the pringiples of this latter clase were faithfully represented and Teflected by their representatives at Waehing- ton; but in these degenerate days this class of men has been superseded by the roaring, cla- morous, inconstant and unreliable demagogues we have described. We had some evidence of this in the tremendous secession furore and seces- sion conventions which followed the admission of California, and in the quiet manner in which all this disunion fuss and fury were put down by the solid sensible masses of the South- ern people. We had a still more striking illus- tration of the utter recklessness and demorali- zation of these modern Southern politicians in the campaign of 1856; but now, upon this Le- compton constitution, following the most terrible threats of secession and disunion, we are admonished to prepare for a epecimen of Southern stultification, demoralization and treachery without a parallel in the history of shuffling and juggling politiciana In this work of party debasement and de- moralization the Virginia politicians and edi- tore oceupy the front rank. After all their promises, professions and protestations in ro- gard to thie Lecompton constitution—if we may jodge from the signiffmant backing out of the Richmond Enguwirer—their sympathies are rather with Wise, Douglas, Walker and Seward than with the administration and the great Principle of Southern rights involved in the Kansas iue. But what else than bad faith and treachery could be expected from a set of un- scrupulous politicians and party editors whose | tion. NE W YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1858, public conduct for years past has been churac terized by vulgar abure, blackguardism, bru- tality, drinking, emokiag, chewing, spitting, quarreling, fighting, stabbing and shooting? We know that from the prestige, the princi- | ple and the ultimate issues involved in this Kaneas question, the almost universal sen- timent of the South is in favor of the Lecompton coustitution; and yet we know that if it is to te defeated it will be defeated by the treachery of Southern men, The demo- erats of the North who have chosen the side of the administration, have proved their readiness to aacrifice themselves upon the broad question of good faith with the South. What, then, will be the consequences to the men of the South, should this magnanimity of their Northern friends be met by Southern treachery and abandonment? Can Northern men have any faith in Southern professions and protestations hereafter? No. While, therefore, the defeat or the passage of the Lecompton constitution will not materially affect the stability of the admia- istration, the failure of the bill through Southern Wweachery will at least be fatal to this new race of Southern vagabond politicians and ranting -demagoguce, Myxico Oxck More ry tHe HaANps oF THE Porr —It is evident that Mexico is preparing to relapee into the bands of the Pope, provided the Zuloaga government can hold its own. That can be done, for a time, it is to be presumed, if the Church will consent to pay, but not other- wise. It aeema posible that the poor Church in Mexico may find that between Zuloaga and Co- meonfort it hae, efter all, a mere Hobson's cboice. If it allows Comonfort to rule, he will strip it by act of Congress; if Zuloaga is set up and maintained, he must be largely supplied with money. In either event, the coffers of the Church seem certain to suffer. Whether Senor Zuloaga really knows the tem- per of the Mexican people or no may be a matter of dispute; but if it be true that their “attachment to the Holy Apostolic See is their first and most sacred duty;’’ that they are “as wwuch deveted to the Pope’s person as to the faith;”’ that they received the re-establishment of the Church claims with ‘‘the most enthusiastic and truly national acclamations,” it will be a pretty long time before they are fit for a stable and quiet national existence. No nation can pros- per in a pesceful, orderiy manner, with a strong safe government, so long as the chief power and wealth of the country are in the hands of an ecclesiastical corporation, without any sympathy for the progress of the country, and without any regard for anything but its own secta@ian inte- resis. If the Mexicans have yet to learn this les- eon, it will cost them something. . Even if the church difficulty were settled, however, it by no means follows that the Mexi- cans would be fit for orderly self-government. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe that neither the settlement of the church ques- tion nor any other local reform could cure the radical evils of Mexico; but that Mexico will never know peace and tranquillity till it pases under Anglo-Saxon control. Swixpume Operations iv New Yors.—The exposure of the swindling gift enterprise of C. E. Todd & Co., in yesterday's Hera, will, we trust, do something toward opening the eyes of the rural public who are the support of such establishments. It is perhaps not generally known in the city that New York isfull of these gift enterprises, and other lottery concerns, under various names, in which greenhorns are informed that by buying a chance, a pencil, or & book, they are likely to be presented with a gift of far greater value than their investment. The originators of these enterprises are too wary to use the city papers mueh in advertising their affairs; but the country papers throughout the North, South and West are full of their ad- | vertisements, Tt ought not to be necessary to inform any person of common sense that no concern can poreibly givea mana book worth fifty cents and a gold chain even worth only $1 for the sum of 26 cents, and that any one who adver- tises that he will do this intends todefraud. No honest man of business mixes up his transactions with lottery schemes; it is fair to infer that any one who does mix in such schemes is not a sate individual to deal with on any terms, When our country friends want a pencil or a book or # chain or a watch let them go to the largest and oldest establishment in the city for the sale of euch articles, and let them buy what they want there. In this way they will get the worth of their money. Trying to get more than their money’ worth will infallibly lead to their being defrauded. Not many days since a curious lawsuit in one of our coutte shed a singular light on the gift enterprise system. A gift enterprise had en- trusted to an exprese company a parcel contain- ing © one thousand gold rings” to be distributed as prizes in their enterprise. The rings were lort on the way, and the express company was sued for the value, the rings being modestly dollar a piece. In their answer the express company offered to replace the lost rings by others, similar in every respect and made by the same proprietor, which rings, the answer stated, could be laid down in this city at a cost of two cents a piece. The gift enterprise with- | drew the suit. Newspors.—One of the most curious results of the millenium on which we are said to be en- tering is the new view which is taken of their official responsibilities by our civic authorities and police superintendenta. Instead of endea- voring to put a top to the Sunday amusements of the burgiars, thieves and assassins who in- fest the metropolis, the new revelation has, it seems, directed a wholesale crusade against the poor boys who earn @ livelihood by vending newspapers. At the rateat which we are pro- gressing the massacre of the Innocents will sen be out-Heroded. According to Superintendent Tallmadge newsboye have no right to live, al- though criminals may thrive and flourish. The godless and graceles portion of the community are not likely to coincide in this doctrine, and we fear that newspapers will be bought and sold with a# much sinful persistence ae ever. If the newsboys will only wash their faces, put on their Sabbath attire, and perambulate the streets without crying their wares or splitting the ears of the elect, we can promise them that their trade will suffer no diminution, and that they may enap their fingers at Superintendent Tall- madge and hie saintly cohort. Attention to thie suggestion cannot but improve their physi- cal condition, whilet at the eame time it wl elevate them in the moral scale, and rendor them a gratifying feature in the new reforma- estimated by the gift enterprise proprietors at a | | Reiorocs Revivars—Tar War Aoarest tie | Rowprism Acaty Ramrant—Anoruxe Poow | Casx.—The affray which took place yester- day morning between Patrick McLaughlin, the well known “ Paudeen” of the Poole murder, and a man named Cunningham, suggests some bumiliating reflections in connection with the administration of justice in this city. These twe worthies, it appears, got into a quarrel at a house in Howard etreet, and McLaughlin, #hilst endea- voring to pull Cunningham over the bar, was shot by the latter, and at last accounts was expected to live but a few hours, In the incidents of such an affair it is not, of course, to be expected that we should take any more tender interest than we should feel in the spectacle of a combat between two enraged members ef the brute creation. When desperate rowdies of this sort take it into their heads to slay each other, we lock upon it that society is largely the gainer by their extermina- tion. But ae in the indulgence of their detesta- ble passions the lives of innocent people are eocasionally sacrificed, and as, besides, the occur- ence of such conflicts is in itself an evidence of the utter inefficiency of our police and criminal systems, we cannot pase them by without seizing the opportunity of ngain enforcing the necessity of some attempt at a reform ia both. It is now three years eince the Stanwix Hali tragedy shocked the public mind of our city, and drew attention to the fact that the most. atrocious deeds of blood could be committed with impunity in the immediate neighborhood of the police, and in the midst of a crowded population. The feelings of indignation and horror which that affair elicited induced the be- lief that the example that would be made of the principals would exercise a wholesome influence in checking deeds of violence. Has that antici- pation been fulfilled’ Unfortunately, so far from Baker and his accomplices being made amenable to justice, they are etill at large, free to commit further offences against the peace of the city, or, as in the case of this man McLaugh- lin, to pay, at the hands of their own coafede- rates, the penalty which the law is powerless to exact from them. Whilst it may be admitted that the retribution in the present case is a just one, it is not the less a re proach to the administration of justice that these parties should be left at large to wreak vengeance upon each other, or to sacrifice the lives of peaceable citizens in their drunken quarrels, asin the case of the late Alderman Smith. Had examples been made of the men whose culpability deserved punishment in the Poole murder, it is certain we should have been spared the numerous scenes of a similar charac- ter which have since contributed to heap dis- gTace upon our community. Whilst we have never hesitated to blame the indifference of police magistrates and judges for producing this state of things, we are bound to eay that the juries of our city are also in some degree responsible for it. Were the reluctance of jurors to convict based entirely upon consci- entious scruples, we should not have a word to say against their conduct; but unhappily there is but too much reason to believe that outside. influences are frequently brought to bear upon their decisions. Whilst such things are possi- ble, of course no legislative measure can ever accomplish a thorough reform. It is only toa more elevated condition of the public morals, and a more perfect understanding of our duties as citizens, that we must look for the cure or the prevention of the evils of which we com- plein. Bang Manacemenr ry New Yorr—Tuy Wann Sreeer Banxs axp Tur Faro Banxs.—Every now and then we hear of a defalcation, more or less important, in some of the Wall street banks. A young gentleman has been operating too’ much in fancy stock, or has kept too many horses, yachts and mistresses, or bas been too familiar with the knights of the green cloth, and to make up his deficient cash account he quietly plunders the bank. Within the last two years some half dozen bookkeepers and tellera of different banks have been exposed and ruined, How many cases have been hushed up by the friends of the guilty parties no one can tell, but a great many, without doubt, as the bank officers are always anxious to keep their affairs from the public eye. They are nearly all in the same box, and don’t care to lift the lid any oftener than it is absolutely necessary, Under all these circumstances we are forced to the conclusion that the system of bank man agement in Wall street is all wrong, and that it presents @ most unfavorable contrast to the management of the faro banks in Broadway and elsewhere. The faro banks are the only financiab institutions here that are free from the fingers of defaulters, A clerk or teller in Wall street robe the bank and runs away. | After a short time he reappears in Broadway, | calm asa summer morning. In England they bave a way of punishing not only clerks bul bank directors when they steal: here, on the contrary, the person of any one connected with & bank seems to be as sacred as the Egyptian bull, the mighty Apis. But whoever heard of ® faro banker that defaulted’ They keep everything fair and sqoare, settling day by day. Then why not take a shining light among them and send him down to Wall street to regu- late matters among the banks! There's Mr. Pat Hearne, who has retired from business and } ds enjoying his of. cum dig. on a fine evtate in the | country, only coming to town occasionally. | i He would be precisely the person to settle the affairs of the Wall street banks, and put them fair and equare on their legs. Mr. Pat Hearne never suspended payments, was always right in his balances, and his oysters und champagne were of the most nnexceptionable quality. His wines and canvass back ducks were as choice as any that they give in Wall street om the occa sion of the election of « new board of directors, and at hie bank every day was a /éte, while in Wall «treet there is more swearing than feasting. Tt in quite true that some of the Wall street men are pious church members and political reformers—so are many of the faro bankers. Were they not, with the Wall street men, the chief supporters of Mayor Tiemann during the last municipal election canvass! So we must again call upon the Wall «treet bankers to send for Mr. Pat Hearne; he is the best man for them, and, with a good prayer or two, he will, no doubt, be able to straighten out all their af- faire restore the public confidence, which has been ewhat ehaken by the recent defal cations. More Count Manriais wy rae Anwy.—We see that another court martial is to meet at New- port Barracke, Kentucky, in April, to try Gene- ral Twiggs on « charge of disrespect to the War Department. These officers of the army sem to be getting a6 quarreleome as the politicians What doce it mean? Can they not reserve their pugnacions qualities for seme public enemy! Gut Esreryxsxs anv Coonrey Epirors.— Among other lottery echemes got up to fleece the unwary are concerns called gift enterprises, in which speculative individuals, sllured by flam- ing advertisements and puffs, can, on payment of five dollars, be furnished with a plated peucil case or chain, value seventy-five cents. We published an account yesterday of the way these institutions are conducted; and from the letters found ameng the property of the proprietor of the establishment in Broome street, it appears that the annual receipts on the sale of tickets could not be less than about $75,000. It appears, also, that country editors are the mainstay of these institutions—{uat these gen- tlemen, who seem wholly to mistake their avo- cation, are in the habit of pufflag the gift enterprises and forwarding their interests, as far as their own influence extends among the few handred readors of their papers. One of these country editors hints to the proprietors of the Broome street concern that if they send him on a chain the prize will be noticed “ editorially” in his little beet. Another is exercised most virtuously because the enterprise man has uot" kept his word of houor by sending him “a ebance” which he promised him ia retarn for ® puff, and threaten to take back all he said in favor of the establishment and warn the public against it unless “the tokens that it is all right” —meaning the “ chance”—ere not at once forth- coming. Among the editorial puffers of this scheme we also find a member of the Penusyl- vania Leyislature—one of the very men who make laws against lotteries. This is a whole- some exposure of these confidence men of the country press. They have been actually de- tected in palming off on their unfortunate readers as a profitable investment the purchase of tickets in a concern which has been proved to be neither more nor less than a swindling operation, just as gross as a mock auction or a patent safe game. We hope our country friends will be warned by this exposé not to take the advice of these disintercated gentry in investing their little savings. Mr. Bucuanan ror 1860.—We perceive that some of our exchanges are beginning to speak of the nomination of Mr. Buchanan in 1860, for a second term, as a very probable event. And should he maintain throughout his present term, the pluck, courage, firmness and conser- vative consistency which he has thus far exhi- bited, why should he not be made in 1860 the rallying point for the re-union of the democracy, North and South? It was just such qualities that secured the re-election of Gen. Jackson. New questions, new measures and new princi- ples, of commanding importance, will soon over- shadow the Kansas squabble, and thus, by 1860, the adininistration and its party may be placed upon a platform which will secure the re-nomi- nation of Mr. Buchanan by acclamation. Let us wait and see. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON, Our Special Was! Despatch. TROUBLE AMONG THR OPPOSITION CABALS—PROS- PRCT OF THE COALITION TUMBLING TO PIECKS— JOHN CALHOUN'’S LETTER ON THE KANSAS BLEC- TION—THE LBGISLATURE GIVEN TO TH FREE STATE MEN— MBAICAN AND NICARAGUAN AFF AIMS, si Wasieoton, March 20, 1858. A caucus of anti L2comptoaites, both Senate and House, was cal'ed to meet last evening, in the Capitol, aud also one for to night, both of which, however, were post- poned until next week. There seems to besome difficulty Detween the apt lecompton democrats and biack repub- licans; at least some of the former refuse wo meet with the latior in cageus. Tho" South Americans bad an {nforma! caucus this morning. They, too, manifest an inharmonious spirit on the Kansas question. They wil! meet egain on Monday, when the lines will be drawn, aud it will be known how they stand on that queetion. They are now about equally divided. T understand to-day that it is the intention of the demo- cratic senators to disconnect the Kansas and Minnesota buls, and let them be voted on separately. It & understood that the extraordinary labors of the opposition party in the House, in being in session om Satur- day and remaining in session so late at night, is with the determination to press the Kansas busioess through at an early day, while, according to their calculation, the admi- niatration party is unprepared and somewhat demoralized. ‘They wish to try the issue at such @ timo, or, failing in ‘this, fall back upon their former policy of embarrassing and delaying the question. But before they can reach a vote Une rupporters of the administration will have rallied and presented an impregnable froat. The sensation items sent tothe pros of the country from Washington, to the effect that a special agent to be sent to Mexico by our government, and that wo are about to acquire more territory from that republis, have no foundation in truth. The State Department knows no. thing of such movements, Our government is ready to acquire territory from Mexico when Mexico is prepared to dispose of any, but dors not think this can be done to tho present unsettled condition of that country; and, in fact, would hardly know which or what goverament or party in Mexico to treat with ‘The Stato Department has no information up to this date about the Yrisarri treaty, and believes that Mr Yrisarri has not, or he would bave communicated it. ‘The Court Martial for the trial of Gon. Twiggs, to moot at Newport barracks, Kentucky, on April 28, is composed of Gen. Jesup, Gon. Smith, Gen. Charchill, Gen, Harney, Col. Mansfield, Col. Pympton, Col. Garduer, Col. R. &. Lee, Col. Fauntleroy, Col. Craig, Col. Charles Thomas, and Lieut. Col. Crittenden. Judge Advocate, Maj. Lee. The following is Mr Calhoun’s letter on the Kansas eloc- on, to which reference has heretofore been made:— Wasmsoron Crry, March 19, 1858. As there has been great anxiety to learn the result of the lato election for members of the State Tegialature, un- der the Kanaas 0 patitution now before Congress, | think it proper to state that recent information, through Gover- ‘bor Denver and others, leaves no doubt that the returned vote from the Delaware Crossing precinct, in Leavenworth county, should be rejected, and that certificates of elec. tion should be tarued without reference the vote of the Precinet. A month ago I waa put in possession of & newspaper containing what purported to be the afidarite of the jedges of election at that precinct, and. im a communication to the Union, | immodiately stated that, if the facts coutsined in said aiidavita were Prewanted te me in an autbentioand reliable form, | ahould be governed by them in determining thd result of the election in Leavenworth county. Although I have not re- cetved any reply Yo my letter to Gov. Denver, yot from va rious sources of information I am lefi in no doubt as to the stat smente of the judges of election at that precinct; and T shall, therefore, issue the certificates of election to the per- gone bavmg the highost number of votes in Leavenworth county, irrespective of the Delaware Crossing precinct. 1 Togret to add that this decision will give the coutrol of Kansas to the party which | view as the enemy of the peace and good order, the constitution and laws of the Union. To the following porsons, elected in the several Senatorial and representative districts of Kansas, certil- cates of election will accordingly issuo . ern aT. First District—Doniphaa county— ———— Tennant. Second Ihistrict—atchison county—J. |. Herrford. xan Inetrict—Doniphan and Atch'son counties —R. S Fourth Matrict—Leavenworth county—D. Vaughn, ©. Sparks, ©. Chadwick, Fitth Petiot—Brown, Nemaha snd Pottow ottamie coun. therm A. J , Marshall, Dickson and Washing- ton countiee—imory Hinting. . Seventh Datrict—Jefforson and Ca:houn connties—A. C Fighth Ditrict—Jobneon county—A. Paine and I & ‘Wilkinson. Ninth Dietrict—Lykina, Andersom and Fy anklin comntion ~-H. H. Williams, i t--Linn county--C A. Hamilton Spoveuth Pomrietsawerbes and MoGee conntice— Blake Lite. Twelfth District—Douglaa ocunty--R. Morrow and W. 8. Honeifield. Thirtecwth Diverter onaty . Fourteced Drsteitt——Dore and A‘lea courties JP. Cox. Fillecuk. Disteict—Rachardeon, Davis aad Wise cvunies —B P. Teoaard, WOU OF MaPuniaT ATTY m8. Beal sod ike, Renee couaty— Wh “ Necced Dinirit—Atchison coun Filiot, J. P, Wheeler acd J. & Caurce. 1 Srhaesa - Third District—Leavenworth county—W. Kep, J. W. Morris, C. J. Pak, J.B. Noww: ‘Gray, G. W. Gard- ner, W, Penuach and PR Orr cucled — Diswict—Brown end Nemaha couties—E. M. rel. Filth Dietrict—Calhoua and Pottowattomie counties— 7 Sista Disiclot Jem uxt ici —Jefermon couaty—How, le Seal ira Sera wats 8 et Eighth Diate\cs—Riley county—N. Ninth District—Jonoeon county—W. J. Sharradt, Cox, H.W deoos aud 3B Wiley, ot Ae ‘Tenth Pistrict—Lykins county—C. A. Foster. arene Intrich—Lyan county—J. K. Mosey ead J, i. ow. ‘Twolfth District—Beurbon county—W.T. Campbell and C Simms. sng District—MMcGee, Dorm and Allen counies— Yourteenth District—Deusins’ couuty—E. S. Lowman, J. E. ewart, $'T. Shoro, J. Gardner and H. Wake@el4. ‘Deeriot—Anderson and Frank!tn connties— Perry Fuller. a District—Shawnee county—J. L. Doiman end Seventecath Distriot—Weller aud Coffee countios—Alion Kighteenth District—Woodson and ‘Wilson counjjes—a. Nineteenth District—Breckearxige aud Richardson cown- tes—E. B. Swaliow. ‘Twentieth District—Devis, Wise, Butier wad Hunter oounties—K. Ro MoCurdy. J. CALHOUN, ‘THR GENURAL, NEWHPAPER BRIPATOH. RECEPTION OF THE TURKISH ADMIAAL &Y THB PRRGIDENT. ‘Wasarxaron, March 20, 1858. ‘The interview between the Presidemt and the Turkish Admiral yesterday, was very brief, but of an inte- resting character. The only persons present were the Pre- sident and his private secretary, the Secrotary of State, the Admiral and his suite, J, Hosford Smith, Hon. J. M. Cross, and E. H. Carmick, Fsq., of New York. The visitors were rocetved by the President at 2 o'clock, having first been formally introduced to the Secretary of State, The President aid that it gave him great plenrare to offor tho hand of friendship and hospitality to auch « die- tinguished officer of the Ottoman empire. He assured him of a kind and friendly greeting from all true Amoricans, wherover be and his suite might go. He spoke of the friendiy relations existing between tho two governments, and did not doubs but this interchange of courtesies would 0 far to strengthen them. The Admiral, in reply, oxpressed his gratitude for the kind feeling and honor shown himscif and travelling com- panions by the chief of so great @ nation. Ho had boen directed, be said, by his imperial master to be guided by the advice and direction of the President of the United States, aud he desired to offer a souvenir in testimony of the high regard entertained by his imperial master. During the interview Mr. Carmick informed the Admi- ral that the Secrotary of State was a veteran soldier as Well a8 @statesmau—ihat nearly fifty yoars ago he bed inet and conquered the armies of Britain in the far West, and ever since had beon prominent in the counoils of the nation, The Admiral expressed mach gratification with meetivg one who had long buen known by reputation im Turkey. ‘The President then invited the Admiral, his snl: amd those present to dine with himon Wedoesdsy next. acé tho interview was terminated. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Beannte, Wasurvaton, March 20, 133. OCR RELATIONS WITH CHLWA. Mr. Barazp, (adm.) of Del., from the Committes on Foreign Alfairs, eubmitted a report and resolutions rela tive to matters between the United States and Crina. ‘Laid on the table. Mr. Wraow, (opp.) of Mass., announced his intention te speak on the Kansas question this evening. State of Kansas four were from Virginia sione, while ealy Gve ‘wore from all the New Bugis 4 Staten’ facts, be contonded, furnished sulicisat sertion concern: . Bext referrod to the Lacompten combatting the President's arguments as ality, and iy that the slavery question had ever submitted, Even if it had been, Mr. Foot continued, as slavery already existed there by virtue of the consti tuticn of United States, as is contended by the Pree. dent, how could the people have voted itout? They could not vote against the constitution, and all they could do ‘Was to retrain from voting, as the most em; way to express thoir condemnation of the swindle. Alluding to the removal of the various Governors of Kansas for akempts to deal fairly with the people, be anid they were uot dishonored by such a removal; the American people would cheriah memory of their good deads, and, pogo He would moot a reward for their fideli- p AL, andj In conctusion, he affirmed thas will of the people wae cloarly expressed on the 4th o€ That vote had January, and ought not to be di Let Cougress beware the sanction aud authority of law how they disregard it PERCH OF ME. SIMMONS, Mr. Sowmows, (opp.) of I. I., said be had no to wnat Maa i : ye HH a i oF i é bp i il i i z ; : | admiasion of Kansas constitution, which, if not liked by the ene be changed at any time; agitation would thus be localized. ‘The Senate then took @ recess till reven o'clock. EVENING SRSSION. ‘The Senate reassembled at coven o'clock P. M.—Five senators present. Mr. Toure made some facetious remarks touchiag the . Brows, (adm.) of Misa., complain: in former speeeh Mr Wilson had done im inustios tributing to him diminion sentiment the Siatos more, and that there when he would advocat? dissolution. Mr. Wisow, of Maas. , explained. Mr. Buona opp.) of Cal, hoped tho Senate rn. Were several who desired