The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1858, Page 4

4d NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. iprar seinen SP, oe BS per armim; the repens ay “tee Britaan, or 88 te ony pars. Oontinent, both oh EERE exe, wry Mle afr op Reet” senate eee ssesesesel@e BF AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Broadway—Equsersisn Exee- ‘can Noms Samia. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Kor-ca—Tiaer Rera Veste— Bianco. BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Joii0s C2s.n—Lomeen Aroun ance. ¥ THEATRE, BROADWA 4 "8 THRATRE, Broadway. opposite Bond sireot— Winn, A Harry Famuit —Tas Moasous. WALLACE’S THEA’ Broad: Baows, on ens Revises or Locksow—Two tv Tas LAURA KBENE'® THEATRE, Broadway—Sus Stoors ‘to Congusa—A Comsuoan ‘Laseox. NUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afernoon ant Tew Bais or ax Evaxun. Broad ousorr AWoorsuuneriau- tus Suen Rise ROB ANIOR BALL, (472 Broadway—Bavarr’s Minsrama —Brmorus —LOWN IF ALABAMA. lew York, Thursday, March 25, 1856. ‘The News. The steamship Fulton, which left Southampton for New York on the 10th inst., and the Niagara from Liverpool 13th inst. for Halifax, are now fully due, the former with four days and the latter witha week's later European news. The news from Washington is interesting. In the Senate yesterday quite a number of petitions, reporta and resolutions were presented. The House bill, authorizing the employment of five regiments of volunteers, was reported by the Committee on Military Affairs without amendment. It is thought that it will pass the Senate. A bill was introduced authorizing the Secretary of War to construct a line of telegraph from the frontier of Missouri or Iowa to some one of the military posts in Utah, with the view of establishing a means of rapid communica- tion with the army in that Territory. Mr. Gwin made a strong effort to have the Pacific Railroad bill taken up, but finally gave way, and the bill pro viding for the admission of Minnesota into the Union was discussed. One or two unimportant amendments were adopted, when the bill was laid aside. The Senate then went into executive ses- sion and confirmed a large number of appointments, among them that conferring the rank of Brevet Brigadier General upon Colonel Johnston, com- manding the army in Utah. The House was en- gaged in debating the Kansas question. It is regarded as certain thit the Kansas bill will pass the House. The most important matter in the Legislature yes- terday was the presentation of a report by Mr. Mather adverse to levying tolls on the railroads of the State. The report takes ground in favor of the completion of the canals, as provided for by the twelfth section of the seventh article of the consti- tution, by submitting the question of a loan for that purpose to the people at the next annual election. The amount required for the completion of the ca- nals is $5,000,000, and Mr. Mather proposes to bor- row the amount necessary, and to levy an annual tax of a quarter of a mill for a term of eighteen years to pay off the debt. Late accounts from Santa Fe state that Captain Marcy was to leave Fort Union, New Mexico, on the 26th inst. for Camp Scott with one thousand mules. Lieut. Beale, of the camel expedition, ha arrived in St. Louis. The coming election for Sachems of the Tammany Society, which takes place early in April next, is already provoking a warm contest among the dif- ferent factions of the democratic party, and meet- ings are held nightly to advance the ends of the several cliques. The friends of the present Council of Sachems held a meeting last night at the West- chester House, which was largely attended. Ex- Mayor Mickie occupied the chair. Without doing anything of note they adjourned to meet again next week. It seoms that Perdinand Arleder, the defaulting German banker, now in Eldridge street jail, was not the partner of Christian Weiss, the other defaulter, but that each did a separate business, though they both disappeared about the same time and no doubt operated together. Arleder's defalcations amounted to 400,000 guilders, and Weiss’ to 700,000 guilders. ‘There are three otber well known banking houses in Stuttgard, viz:—Hofbank, Stall & Fedener, and Jebruder Benedict, all of whom stand high. Arieder has been in business twelve years, and Weiss fifteen years. The case of Dodge vs. Wood, arising out of the Joseph Walker difficulty, was resumed yesterday in the Saperior Court, before Judge Woodruff, and stands adjourned to this morning. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, but did no business worth noting. Mr. Purdy hoped the Board would not press their claim of $20,000 against the Ten Governors until the latter had re covered from the heavy payments of $2,147 for liquor for six months. The emigration for the last three months has been 6,714, nearly 6,000 less than for the same period last year. A brutal fight took place at the corner of Broad- way and Howard streets carly last evening between two men named McCarthy and Hines, in which the former was, it is reported, dreadfully beaten. Both the combatants are said to belong to that class of society known by the term “fancy men.” There Were no police about at the time of the fight, and citizens who were diaposed to quell the disturbance were kept back by bullies armed with pistols. In- formation of the fight was sent to the Deputy Super- intendent’s office and a squad of policemen sent to the scone of disturbance, but the friends of the fighters succeeded in getting both parties away be fore their arrival. ‘The case of Daniel Cunningham, who waa com- mitted to prison to await the action of the Grand Jury upon the charge of shooting Paudeen Mo- Laughlin, wae re-opened by Coroner Gamble yenter- day, and testimony was put in in behalf of the de fendant. A decision will be rendered to-day. Patrick Mclaaghlin, alias Paudeen, was buried yesterday from Johnny Lyng’s house, corner of Houston and Crosby streets. There was a large at tendance of the friends of the deceased who mani. fested much feeling at his untimely end. The re mains were taken to Calvary C?metery. Our correspomdent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes writing on the 26th ult., says:—‘“Continued arrivals from the United States keep our markets well eup plied, consequently prices tend downward. There have been four arrivals of codfish from Newfound land, two from Halifax, and two from the French islands—eight in all—which have overstocked the market, and prices range from $3 75 to $4. The lumber market is dull. Sugar making is proveeding rapidly throughout the island, the weather being very favorable for the purpose, and the canes ripen- ing fast; but there have been no operations ag yet worth reporting in prodnce. the views of the planters beiny creatly beyond those of shippers. New sugar felis wi $3 26 to $8 60 per 100 Iba, and molasses at 1sc. per gallon. The health of the island continues wery ood.” The «eamer Empire State floated off from Matti nicoo) !'oint at six o'clock on Tuesday evening and reach: this city at one o'clock yesterday afternoon Be will be put on the balance dock gnd andergo the Movt thorough repair aad overhauling. She is not bogged or #, injured as to present any serious obsta- | clew it Oe way of making hier as good as she ever "we have reasan to believe, says the Albany Statesman, that the New York canals will be The receipts of beef cattle during the past week amotinted to 3,546 head, an increase of 939 head as compared with the receipta of the week previous. The exceedingly large supply, coupled with a very demand, caused a decline in prices of fully $c. alc. per pound, the range being 7c. a 10c., the price paid for the best only. calves were plentifal, but dull of sale at . There was only a moderate demand for veal calves. The quotations are 4}c. a 7c., according to quality, The receipts of sheep and lambs were. light, and an active demand prevailing, prices ad- vanced 28.8 Sa each, the range being $3 0 $6 50 E hogs continued to arrive freely, and met with ready sale. ‘The cotton market was active yesterday, with sales of about 5/500 bales, about 3,000 of which were in transita. Lots jon the spot were sold on the basis of 11Xc., ‘The market, however, closed with 9 better fooling, and straight parcels of middling uplands were held at Tye. The decrease in the receipts at the seaports is Row reduced to about 286,000 bales. The total decrease in exports to Europe amount to 146,000 balés compared ‘with the same period Isst year. Themajority of the crop estimators fix upon about 3,000,000 bales as the probable amount. Flour was rather more active, with a good Eastern demand, and some purchases were made for ex- port, while prices were unchanged. The small sales of ‘wheat making are referred to in another column. Southern white corn advanced about ic. per bushel, with sales at 68c., while prime yellow do. sold at 68c. a 69c. Pork was was quite steady, with sales of meee at $1670, and prime at $13 60. Lard was firm at 0c. at 10%c. for prime im bbis., and at 113;c. in kogs. Sugars wero firm and in good demand. The sales em. braced about 1,500 hogsheads, chiefly Cuba muscovados and Porto Ricos, at rates given in another column. Coffee was firm, with sales of about 1,200 a 1,300 bags Rio and a amall lot Maracaibo, at rates given elsewhere. There was rather more freight offering for Liverpool, Cotton waa taken at 3-16d., flour at Is. 6d ; grain in bulk at by4d., and in ship’s bags 6d. was asked. To other ports engagements wee moderate and unchanged. ‘the Great Lecompton Triumph in the Sen- ate—Good Prospect in the House. The passage, in the Senate, of the bill for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution, by a majority of eight, is a great and significant triumph of the administration. It is a remarkable coincidence, too, that this majority is precisely the number of. Northern votes cast for the bill. The opposition are dis- appointed and somewhat disheartened at the result, while, on the other side, it renders the passage of Lecompton through the House the very next thing to a dead certainty. We are now sanguine of the final success of the mea- sure. The most curious feature in the vote of the Senate is the presence among the black re- publicans and Douglas renegades of the names of Bell, of Tennessee, and Critten- den, of Kentucky, upon a question involv- ing a principle of vital interest to the South. We have heard a good deal of Northern servilee and doughfaces; but Southern dough- faces are a new article in the political market. We see, however, that such politi- cal mushrooms have sprung up in the Senate, and we are forewarned of a new and promising crop in the House upon this Lecompton ques- tion. Messrs, Crittenden and Bell, however, following in the wake of Walker, Douglas and Wise, have justified their defection in lengthy jeremiads upon the Lecompton programme, as a schedule of horrible outrages upon “popular sovereignty.” But, while these two distinguished Senators are thus solicitous of the “popular sovereignty” of the border ruffians and agitating vagabonds of Kansas, they seem, strangely enough, to have forgotten their obligations to the “popular sove- reignty” of Kentucky and Tennessee, according to which they were in duty bound to support the Lecompton constitution. Now, it strikes us that if the Legislature at Albany were to give one set of instructions to Mr. Seward, and the inmates of the Sing Sing State prison were to give him another and a different set of orders upon any great measure, that his preference of the Sing Sing instructions could hardly be more out of place than this remarkable preference of Messrs, Bell and Crittenden of the “popular sovereignty” of the ragamuffins of Kansas over the “sovereignty” of the respectable law and order people of Tennessee and Kentucky. Leaving Mr. Bell and Mr. Crittenden to settle their accounts at home upon this question of “popular sovereignty” as best they can, we fol- low the Lecompton bill from its remarkable triumph in the Senate to its final ordeal in the House. In that body we trust the friends of the measure will push the question promptly to a quick and decisive vote. No further discussion is needed. The whole subject, and all its facts, and all its bearings, and all its consequences, are thoroughly understood. We have had speeches, and humbug, and claptrap, and agita- tion, and ridiculous fuss and fury enough to satisfy all parties except the most rabid anti- Lecompton monomaniacs. The American peo- ple have become thoroughly disgusted with this senseless and profitless Kansas squabble, and they want a settlement, eo that Congress and the country may proceed to more important business. Let the friends of the measure, therefore, ap- ply the brakes of the previous question, and then if there be a Lecompton majority, good; and if there be an anti-lecompton majority, so be it. If the administration isto be trampled down by a conspiracy of sectional demagogues, marketable Know Nothings and factious trai- tora, why delay the work? But if the conspira- tors are to be defeated, the sooner the better. Let the enemy, at all events, be made to show their hands without further ceremony. Of all things, one side or the other, the masaes of the American people want this Kansas flammery settled and put out of the way. However the question may be settled we shall have the consoling fact before us that this Kan sas-Nebraska business will have killed off more seedy politicians and artful demagogues than any other sectional question of the last half cen. tury. We are satisfied, in this connection, what- ever may be the reconstruction of parties and party issues hereafter; that such miscaloulating philosophers as Douglas, Walker, Wise, Critten- den and Bell will be laid upon the shelf among the old party fomils of generations dead and gone. Finally, from the vote of the Senate, and from the suggestive information furnished by the Chevalier Webb of the fat Utah army contracts for horses, mules, muston, corn, pork and beans, io say nothing of whiskey, we enter- tain a very strong euepicion that Lecompton will be run the House with drums beating and colors g- Are the Canals te be Completed, and How? Statistical returns of the trade and shipping of the lake ports and of the ports of Quebec and Montreal, in Canada, for the past year, exhibit a very striking falling off in the receipts of Ca- padian produce at the lake porte of the United States and a corresponding increase in the busl- ness of the Canadian porta. Nor is this all. Other tables, equally authentic, reveal the fact that while the Canadian farmers and millers are withdrawing from our canals and railways the traffic they used to afford them, a large number of our western merchants in Illinois, Towa, Wisconsin and Michigan are importing their eupplies from Europe by way of the St. Lawrence and the Canadian railways, instead of deriving them, as they used to do, from New York or Philadelphia, by our internal lines of communication. In # word, the present ten- dency of traffic is, for some reason or other, to desert the great chaunels which connect the West with the seaboard through the State of New York and to seek those new channels which Canadian enterprise has lately opencd, in the shape of the Grand Trunk railway, and the line of Canadian stedmers to Europe. Tn anewer to inquiries as to the cause of the change, persons who should be well informed on the subject, state that the Canadians are straining every nerve to get the trade; that they are carrying produce for even less than it costs them to do it; and that many favors, such as an exemption from tolls, duties and vexatious exactions of every kind, are offered to mer- chants and shippers as an inducement to pa- tronizo the Canadian highway between the ocean and the West. ‘Tue fact, its probable causes, and its obvious Tesults demand attentive study from us im this State at the present time. The canals of New York have again reached one of those periodi- cal crises which are so familiar to those ac- quainted with their history. As was foreseen at the time the last loan was voted, the sum then obiained has proved mostinefficient for the pur- pose required; now, it seems, ‘our millions more are needed to complete the enlargement of the canals on the scale on which the work is now progressing. And the question has been raised in our State Legislature: is this money to be granted, and how? There seem to be but few persons who serious- ly propose abandoning the great work of the enlarged canals rather than spend four more millions. Common sense is too prevalent for that. The vast advantages which New York has derived from her canals, aud the great value which they cannot but prove in the future, espe- cially after they have been enlarged on the scale at present adopted, so far outweigh the comparatively small sum which it is supposed it will cost to complete the work, that no per- sons of any character are likely to oppose the additional outlay. It may be taken for granted that every one is in favor of spending four mil- lions more to finish the enlargement. The next question is, where is the money to come from? Various projects tor raising the sum required have been ventilated in the Legislature. Most of them are of the Robin Hood and Friar Tuck order. One proposes to squeeze the banks; another to filch the unclaimed deposits in savings banks; another to lay tolls on the Central and Erie railways, This last appears to command the approval of a few politicians and newspapers throughout the State. They argue that as these railways compete with the canals they should be taxed so as to give the advantage to the latter. In other words, the people of the State having one line of traffic— the canals—and the Central Company a rival line—the railroad—the people, having the power, propose to cripple the railway by taxing it so that it cannot carry on a rivalry with the canals, It is expected that this liberal and sagacious arrangement will enable the canals to support themselves, and will provide a fund out of the railway tolls for the canal enlargement. So completely has the fable of the goose that laid golden eggs been forgotten at Albany. If any more tolls are laid upon the railways of this State, New York has seen ite best days The greatness, the wealth, the prosperity, the power, and the influence of New York have been built up by the trade which has flowed through the State between the ooean and the great West. What this State is, we owe to the happy contrivance of natural channels of com- munication which our forefathers found here when they came, and which they and their descendants have ever since perseveringly la- bored to improve and extend. The policy of this State, ever since it has had a policy, has been to invite and encourage trade from all parts by liberal and favorable laws, by low freight charges, and by holding out to mer- chants and shippers in the interior and abroad sure prospect that their business could be done here more cheaply and better than it could be done elsewhere. The consequences of this policy we see in the proud pre-eminence which New York occupies as the Empire State of the Union. The consequence of the opposite policy we see in the backward and insignificant posi- tion of New Jersey, whose laws have all been framed with a view of making the most out of the merchandiee and traffic which happened to find ite way into that State. And the prospect before us, if we now begin to lay taxes on pro- duce and merchandise on our great lines of in- ternal communication, is that we shall certainly drive trade into Pennsylvania and Canada— that we shall give the Canadians a mighty help in their efforts to grasp the trade ef the West— and that we shall take the first step toward low- ering this State to the level of New Jersey. The canals must be completed. But the rail- ways must net be tolled to do it. On the contrary, both must be enabled to carry freight and produce a4 low as possible—compelled, in- deed, by law, toeemablish the lowest possible rates of freight. As to the money for the completion of the canals, that should be raised by a direct tax, in the usual manner, after submission of the question to the people. Hven if the canals of New York proved a total failure in @ commer- cial point of view, and never bein to pay their, expenses, they would prove the best investment thet we in thie State have ever made. Four millione more are & mere atom in comparison with the return they have made, are still making and will continue to make. It would be cheer- fully voted. But let us hear no more of cutting off our right arm—the railwayé—becanse some fancy that it isarival to our left—the canals It would be even much better in the end for the State to assume the payment of the whole canal debt, principle and interest, tax the peo- ple for ite payment, and reduce the tolls to the mere cost of keeping the canals in repair and paying their running expenses, The resulta of euch a policy, on the value of the property of the State, and on the trade and real estate of every town from Buffalo to New York, would justify such a step, in the coume of ten years, ah the best, though boldest step to he adopted. Tue Ba, Masgus wy New Yorx.—The “Lit- tle Napoleon” of the Opera, Mr. Ullman, has ieaued his proclamation for the first bal masgué at the Academy of Music, to take place about the middle of next month. The tailors, the modistes and the costumers have already sent out their circulars in relation to the fancy dresses to be worn on the great occasion, and patterns of the masks and dominoes are on exhibition at the Academy, The orchestra is to include one hundred and fifty performers, and Is to be di- rected by Musard, the king of the quadrilles, who has been eo often carried in triumph on the shoulders of his Parisian subjects. There Lave been masquerades before. Those at the old Park theatre were the best; but, alas, for the ravages of time, the persons who participated in the revels of that day prefer the fireside to the ballroom, and port to polkas. But even the maskersof twenty or thirty years ago received but a faint idea of the splendor of a masquerade ball after the Paris fashion. Those only who have been at the Grand Opera dur- ing the Carnival, who have seen the Rue Le- pelletier, the Boulevart des Italiens, the Pas- sage de l’Opera, and all the adjoining streets for half mile round blazing with torches, re- sounding with feux de joie. and glittering with dukes, débardeurs, ahepherdesses and coun- tesses, dressed in every variety of costame, from the period of Charlemagne up to that of Louis XV1, we any idea of the brilliancy of the scene presented. Such a bal-masgué as that of the Lundi Gras in Paris, is an event in one’s lifetime. And now we are to have a Parisian masque- rade in New York. The regulations are the same as those of the Imperial Grand Opera, only the ladies are to be masked, and they are not admitted unless attended by a gentleman who is not masked. The ladies may wear fancy costumes or the large silk cloak, covering the whole dress, and called the domino. Gentle- men may appear in fancy costumes or plain clothes, as they elect; and the same liberty is given to the ladies, so that the affair will com- bine all the best features of the bal masgué, the bal costume and the bal pare—without being ex- clusively one or the other. The regulations will prevent the admission of any improper persons, and the “best society’ may patronize the affair without soiling the hem of its domino. The novelty of the affair, the distinguished patronage already given to it, the zeal of the manager in putting it before the public, and the appearance of Musard himself to direct it, has made the ball a prominent topic of town talk. In the Fifth avenue and other fashion- able quarters it has almost swamped the ab- eorbing subject of the religious revivals; and the young demoiselles are dying to have Lent over, so that they may be free to settle the vexed questions as to costumes or dominoes ; to decide what pattern of mask they shall adopt, and to select the victims for the batteries of wit which they.intend to deploy under cover. These are all grave questions, and it is cheering to know that they are being debated with proper regard to their weight and importance, The excitement about the bal masqué has spread beyond New York. The people in Bos ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other places in the interior, being quite well aware that the bal masqué is @ metropolitan luxury, and there- fore that they cannot hope to have one, are making arrangements to come here and share in it. Washington will send a great diplomatic delegation, and the members of Congress, having saved the country, will rest from their labors and refresh themselves with the gay scene at the Academy. The prospect is that the bal masgué will be the most novel, curious, unique, amusing, exciting and piquant affair ever gotten up in this metropolis. Everybody is on the qui vive for it. It is the newest topic of the day, and will for the time wipe out everything else, even the prayer meetings. Srorracs or THE ALMsHousE Grog BiLL.— The Governors of the Almshouse have resolved to stop their own grog. The proceeding will be classed hy some side by side with the disin- terested self denial of Timoleon and Washing- ton; while to others it will merely appear that the Governors, like prudent, sensible men of the world, have desired to enforce upon themselves a season of fasting and abstinence, in order to get over the effects of their recent debauches, According to the official returns, we find the consumption of the last six months to have been :—~ 9908, say 908 bottles. 568, eay 50 dozen. 101, say 33 gallons. }, BAY 100 boxes. Patriotic as the motives of the Governors un- doubtedly were, one cannot wonder, really, at their desiring, for their own good, to return to % cold water régime after such a six months work as this. And what must be thought of the ap- petite of that Governor who stood out alone against his colleagues, and refused to have bis grog cut off? Gargantua must have been a fool to him. In a short while, the Governors will have re- Covered their health, and spirits, and appetites, and then no doubt the consumption of brandy, wine, whiskey and segars will be renewed, They will in all probability be paid for as drags and medicines for suffering patients. We all know the medical properties of brandy, wine and whiskey; segars too are useful in asthma. But it will be difficult, hereafter, for the Go- vernors to entertain their friends on the liberal seale of bygone days, They can hardly, for instance, give the State Legislature another dinner and make the members as tipsy on bad champagne sa they did tho temperance leaders and Probibitory Liquor law mena couple of years ago. Tre Mayor anv THe Porice Commissionres, —It appears that the entente cordiale which ought to exist between the Police Commissioners and the Mayor is in serious danger of coming toa sudden end. The Police Commisioners, it is said, disapprove of the very thorough reforms which the Mayor has undertaken, consider that enough has been done in the way of annoying gambling houses, disorderly bouses, lottery offi. ces and other illegal resorts, and desire that no more descents of the police may take place. With this view it is understood that they are about to withdraw from the Mayor the police squad on which be has relied for the execution of bis plans of refarm and purification. It has always been whispered that the gam bling houses, fashionable brothels and other such establishments, existed with the connivance and under the protection of the police. This action of the Commissioners will confirm the belief. It well serves to illustrate the trae character of the Metropolitan Police act. And it will teach the people of this city that about the only honest magistrate wo have ia the Mayor, and that it is the duty of all honest people to sup- port him. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1858. ¥, Eororean Buonpers azour tax Unrrep’ Srates.—Some of our country cotemporaries are copying a letter which bas appeared in a German paper denouncing tle United States and their instititions, and declaring that all the financial enterprises of this country are swin- dies, and that no State, railroad, corporation or individual pays interest on “the money he or they borrow in Europe. This German paper has been hoaxed by.some European schemer who wants to bring on\the market some enter- prise with whioh he fears that our railroads and State loans will compete to his ruin. With the exception of a single city in the Weet, we believe that there were no defaults in the payment of the interest on our city and State loans this year; and with very few tri- fling exceptions all the railroad coupons were also paid at maturity. This took place imme- diately after the most terrible revulsion this country ever knew. Where is the country where creditors suffered less? Certainly of all others Germany is the last which should re- proach us; itis to the soundness and produc- tiveness of our enterprises that the balk of the German aristocracy are enabled to eat beef every day. But for the investments they have. here, they would only have beef on Sundays, and sauerkrant the rest of the week. Orenrxa Lerrers.—There is some talk fn some papers about the opening of letters ad- dressed to gift enterprise swindles by the orders of the Mayor, and some ignorant persons com- pare the act to the violation of private rights by European despotisms. There is no analogy whatever between the cases. In continental Europe a man’s letters are given to him on sight of his passport, and the government, if it choose, assumes the privilege of opening and reading all his correspondence. In New York, the Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the parties to whom the letters are addressed, and with the of their Post Office ticket, obtains the letters in order to return the money forwarded to the party forwarding it. To blame him for this is absurd. g® Hes Chevalier Forney got that $100 donation? Why don’t he acknowledge the charitable act? THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Our Special Washi: Despatch. PROSPECTS OF THE KANSAS BILL IN THE HOUSE— COL. JOHNSTON APPOINTED TO A BRIGADIER-GRNE- RALSBIP—-DESPATCHES FROM THE ARMY IN UTAH— THE VOLUNTEER BILL IN THE BENATE—CHBVALIER WEBB’S HORSES AND CORN ROMANCE EXPOSED, ETC. ‘Wasmxcron, March 24, 1858, ‘The Kansas bill will probably not get to the House be- fore Monday next. Everything looks favarable in that body for tte passage. It has gained strength within the last two or three days. Mr. Horace F. Clark, of New York city, who has been counted as against the Kansas bill, will vote for it on its final passage. ‘There was a settled dotermination, as their action to- day indicated, on the part of many Southern men not to pass the Minnesota bill until the House had disposed of the Kansas bill. They may yot defeat it, but I hardly wink they will. ‘The Senate in executive segsion to-day teok up the no- mination of Colonel Johnston, commanding the army in- Utah, as Brevet Brigadier General. There was a good deal of opposition by a fow Senators, chiefly on the ground that he was a colonel of but three years standing, while there were many older in thatrank. Gen. Houston opposed the appoimtment on the ground that Johnston waa incompetent and unfit for the position. But the exigen- cles of Johnston's situation, and the necessity of such a command, prevailed, and he was confirmed by « large vote. Alarge batch of unimportant appointments was also confirmed. Additional despatches from tho Utah army up to the 5th of February Lave arrived. They contain nothing of any consequence not slready published in the HxRaLp a fow days ago. Colonel Johnston urges the forwarding of ammunition and supplies for his command; also, requesta ‘a sufficient escort to be provided for the purpose of pre- venting any attack that might be made by the Mormons. No news whatever from the East had arrived at Camp Scott since the 12th of October last. The troops remained in good spirits. ‘The Volunteer bill will be taken up in the Senate to- morrow. The committee's amendments are immaterial, and will not hazard the success of the bill. ‘The Investigating Commitice on the Philadelphia Post Office affair meet to morrow. They have subponaed Mr. Campbell, the late Postmaster General, Mr. Allibone and Jobn Oakford, who are now here ready to testify. Tam authorized to state that all reports alloging that the Secretary of War has made contracts with any parties for horses er corn for the Utah army are without the slightest foundation. TUS GENERAL NEWHPAPER DESPATCH, Wastiyotow, March 24, 1868. ‘The President bas directed the Socrotary of the Navy to place on Bile the applications from naval officers affected by the action of the Rotiring Board, for reinstatement. ‘They will be considered in order as filed for six woeks or two months to come. ‘The House was so mach interested in the speech of Mr. Clark of New York, to-day, that they gave unanimous consent to him to continue his remarks beyond the hour. The amendments of (he Senate’s Committee on Military Affairs to the House Volunteer bill, are comparatively un- important as to its general features, but affect the Quar- tormastor’s department. There is little or no doubt of its passage. : All the speeches in the House yesterday and today were reed from manuscript. ‘The Turkish Admiral and suite are dining with the Pre- ident this evening. THIRTY-¥IFTH CONGRESS, ‘FIRST SRSSION. the Postmaster General, in compliance with a resolution, stating the expense of the separating and distributing offices to be $68,000, PEETIONS PREAKNTED. By Mr Sxwann, (opp.) of N. ¥.—From the citizens of — , infavor of giving pensions to the soldiers of From Mr. 0. Beebe, for aid to publish an analysis of American law. From the citizens of New York for a general rolicf Inw. From Mr. Whitney, of the navy, to amend the pension bounty laws. . Mr. Doourrun, fopre), of Wis —From citizens of , fora law. By Mr. Sune, (adm.) of La—From merchants of New Orleans, against » 1 Board. By Mr. Derxke, (opp.) of Wis.—From the I. of Wiscoorin, for a law to secure to the State the proceeds of the public lands. rsoa, for payment for building the caplil bulling of terson, Tacompton! algo for indemalty under the contract. By Mr. T, (Opp.) of Md.—-A memorial from the Numiamatic Society of Peansylvania, to establish « medal department iy the mint. All of the dove were appropriately referred aD} REPORTA. Against binding in a book orm the obituaries of Sons, tors Boll, Rusk and Butler. ‘Against Mary Revnor, W. Russell, Captain Moiellan, Martin Hobbard, Captain Wainwright and J. W. Brown, for firearms. RRSOLOTIONS, Py Mr. Hester, (adm.) of Va.—For the correspondence with Chile respecting the seleure of the bark Macedonian dy the Peruvians. ty Mr. Foor, (opp.) of Vt—From the Committee on Comm ree, to inquire into the expediency of appropriating $7,000 tor flaihg the Custom House and Post Office at Bur lington, Vi. UTAM APVATRA A resolution waa mbtoitted py unanimous consent to the Judiciary Cotmmittes, instructing thom to inquire into the expediency of suspending the Territorial inva of Utan during tbe present difficulties, and to report in lea of augh, thas suspended, such temporary laws as the ox! 7 yg begat FR VOUONTERN ARMY itt Mr. Iverson, (adm.) of Ga., from the} Committers on Military Affairs, reported re baw Se renee aekior aie te bil aninoriaina the nitomt to call into the service of the United States four ditional regiments of volunteers. ana . ., from the Committes on the Pe ) oper ‘without amendment tne Mr. CLanx, (adm.) of Mo., replied to Mr. Blair, whe be said ought first to set free his own slaves before accuning slaveholders of being an oligarchy to strike dowm free savor, Such a course must have a most disastrous effest where slavery exists. He adverted to the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. Be Sey Geen) Me. ears nace ot Me analian te reply to Mr. ?g agsault, and reminded wig oe interns Masur esday sarang compten and exlousion of fx wg i fle ce Are this i athe eal Mr. Kivaorx, (opp.) of Ind., opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave Biato, becaure tn audition tome .) of Mass., said if Kansas had been ka constitution, the present diti- culties would not exist. The arms of the federal govers- ment instead of protecting the poopie from crime and disorder, have been employed to sustain the minority until the executive power, instead of Tespected and as loved ag a friend, is slighted and an and an oppressor. He spoke of the Injasticn, ond ak. tyranny on the free State men, crowed by an attempt People, and this moment of communication with Halifax this evening there ‘were, however, no signs of the steamship Niagara, now fully duo, with a wook’s later news from Europe. —— News from New Mexico. Sr. Lovis, March 24, 1888. The Santa Fe mail arrived at Independence on the 284 instant. Capt. Marcy was to leave Fort Union for Utah om the ‘25th inst., with a thousand head of mules. Lieut. Beale came passenger from Santa Fe. He loft Los Angelos, California, January 10, with twouty two men and mules, having sent the camois back from the Colorado river. He adhered strictly to the thirty. Ann parallel of latitude, which he pronounces to be the best natural route for a railroad in the world. He shortened Whipple's route five hundred miles, used no tents all the way from Los Angelos, slept comfortably every night, and found not over three inches of snow at any point. While on the route he discovered no relics of ancient civilia- ton, but met a tribe of Indians hitherto anknown. He says that white men could travel the route in parties of five as safely as twenty. —-—— The Rebellion in Sonora, &ec. Wasmrxatos, March 24, 1858, A tettor by the overland mail, via Fl Paso and San An- tonlo, to Lieut, Mowry, dated Arizona, Feb, 7, states that Gen, Gandara, the leader of the rebellion at Sonora, has boen entirely successful, having defeated the government twoope in several battles. Atthe last acconnts Gandars bad surrounded Peschiera, the Governor, #0 as to cut off ail hopes of escape. Gandara had also ordered all the Other letters say that the Fort Yuma and Fl Paso wagon: road was progressing finely. The people of Rio Grande were much interested in the success of the Arizona bill to admit them as a Territory. The Indians were troublesome in the Mesilla Valley, ‘and a general atiack was feared. Nine Indians had been killed. Street Altercation in Philadelphia. Partapeirnia, March 24, 1868. A street altercation took place at noon today between Wm. Rice, of tho Pennsylvanian, and Mr. Magraw, State Treasurer. The cause of the diMculty is supposed to be political differences. No serious injury resulted to either party. Gen. Jim Lane’s ly to Gov. Denver. x Lovrs, March 24, 1856. Democrat publishes @ card from J. H. Lane in of Governor ‘The water in the sures cight and « half Lake Na river hero foot at the p \. esterday the steamship ty Zea aft. Her bottom is out, aod abows three hundred barrels of the cargo, with her anchors and rigging, will be saved. Tt ia doubtful if anything clse will be recovered. —_—_—_————_. Sailing of the Cannda from Boston, Bowron, Maroh 24—2 P. Me Thee royal mail ateamship Canada, for Hal fax, will eal about a two o'clock. She carries twenty one passengers for Halil Liverpool. She also takea about $20,000 in apscie, ‘The Augusta at Savanneh, Bavannan March 28, 1866. ‘The United States mail steamship Augusta, from New York, arrived here today at 41’. M. Sne hoad winds all the way. All weil. Fire in Georgia, SAVANNA, Maroh 24, 1868. ‘The Court House and ali the reogrda of lee county,