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NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Fermm Cnauretaa— Fisk 68 Maba—Raort, ROWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Tax Targx Fast Mex— Srrcree Barwrcroom. BURTOA’S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond sirect— Ricwagp Il].—Taumrine Leaaoy. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Hamiar—Two 1s ‘THe Mouning. LAURA KEENR’S THEATRE, Broadway—!.owsns or ‘ras Fours7—Tux Evves. BARNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afternoon Joan or Arc. :—~Tus Baive or ax Evesino—sera- Mare Maintenanon. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and SE Brosdway—Grorca Guzorr & Woor’s Muvsreeis—Tux Siatcn Rive, MECHANIOS HALL, 412 Broadway—Bry ant’s MinerRat "ae BONGI—SawPUST ACROBATS. , Fulton strect—Kraiorian CamPneit MiNsTEais. BROSELYN MUSICAL H. EoyrertauMents py Matr. P New York, Friday, April 9, 1858, The News. ‘The America, from Liverpool, had not arrived at Halifax at a late hour last night. She is fully due, and will bring three days later news. The Deficiency bill was rejected yesterday in the House by a vote of 106 yeas to 124 nays. The House decided to adhere to its amendment of the Kansas bill by a vote of 119 yeas to 111 nays. Pend- ing ® motion to reconsider the vote rejecting the Deficiency bill, the Honse adjourned. There issome probability that the bill may be reconsidered to- day and passed in such form as not to cripple the operations of the army in Utah. Accounts from St. Louis speak of a great rise in the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers. Whole cotton plantations are said to be under water, and the town of Napoleon submerged in some places to the depth of ten feet. But few places will escape inun- dation between the mouth of White river and the Touisians tine. The levee on the east side of the Mississippi had not given way. The Registry bill was defeated in the Assembly yesterday. It will come xp in the Senate on Satur- day. . ‘Phe bill authorizing a loan of $3,800,000 at six per cent, subject to a vote of the people for the enlarge- ment of the Erie canal, was ordered to a third read- ing in the Assembly. The bill declaring the use of balance docks in the city of New York legal, was passed. Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, was as- saulled yesterday near the door of his office by a person who bad formerly been a clerk in the de- partment and wished to be reinstated. On the non- iance of Mr. Thompson with his request some harsh language was used towards that gentleman, and as he turned to go to his office Besancon struck him and then attempted to draw a revolver. The Secretary seized him, and in the struggle Besancon fell to the ground and dislocated his left shoulder. The parties were thon separated and Besancon sent to the infirmary. The bill for the restoration of officers dropped by the Naval Retiring Board was passed yesterday by the Senate, as was also the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. Among the bills reported to the Senate yesterday was one from the Committee on ‘Territories, in favor of the admission of Arizona A Pacific Railroad bill was reported by Mr. Gwin, bat the consideration of it was deferred until to-day. After listening to a speech from Mr. Slidell, on the resolution granting a medal to Commodore Pauld ing, the Senate adjourned. The Kansas Constitutional Convention adjourned on the Sd inst. Foreigners who have declared their \atentions to become naturalized, and also negroes, are allowed to vote on the question of the adoption of the constitution by the people. At the first elec- tion r ita vote is to be taken on granting ani- versal suffrage. Several of the delegates signed the constitution under protest on account of its giving the right of suffrage to negroes. Our special letters from Venezuela, dated at Ca- racas on the 17th and Lagnayra on the 20th of March, published this morning, furnish an interesting history of the great popular movement in that re- public which has resulted in the deposition from power of the Mouagas dynasty. The people were most enthusiastic in their joy at the formation of the provisional government which, as will be seen from the biographical sketches given, is composed of good patriots and men of exalted character. General Castro's proclamation calling on the troops of Monagas to surrender, in order to prevent a bloody civil war, evinces much good feeling combined with the most fervid protestations of love of country. It ie asserted that the Monagus family have, daring « few years, remitted five millions of dollars to Hurope for safe investment and as a provision against revo- lutionary contingencies. Advices from Rio Janeiro, dated the 26th of February, report the floar market es much changed, with six thousand nine hundred and ninety-five barrels on hand. Gallegos sold at $21.40. Coffee was firm, bot little doing in the article; one hun- dred and twenty thousand begs on hand. Fears were entertained at St. Johns, N. on ac coant of the non-arrival at that port of the brig Bloomer, thet she had been wrecked. The Bloomer is said vo have bad on board the brother of Cyrus M. Field, Captain Ripley, and about twenty men who were engaged in the mining operations of the New- foundland Telegraph Company. There seems to be some doubt whether there are two Nova Scotia ves- sels of the name of Bloomer. A Nova Scotia vessel of that name arrived here on the 30th ult. from ‘Turks Islands, and her consignees know of no other. ‘The brig first mentioned is reported to have left Boston on the 28th of February. A cutter ie about being sent from Halifax to ascertein the facts in the case. The Mercer House caucus of the members of the ‘Tammany Society met last nigh tand issued a lung address to the democracy, which will be found else where. The Mercer House people promise to clear all the politicians out of the Old Wigwam, and make the society attend to ite legitimate duties, aca merely benevolent organization. The Board of Supervisors last evening adopted a report in favor of payyng the $20,000 passed in 1857 for the purchase of lotsand erection of a building for the New York Juvenile Asylum. A resolution to fit ap the Surrogate’s office at an expense of $2,000 was also adopted. A resolution to pay for fitting ap the Court room occasioned some debate, bat some modification was finally pased. ‘The Board of Aldermen met last evening. His Honor the Mayor sent in a communicatidh to the Board stating that he had been informed that a large amoant of real estate belonging to the city was in the hands of parties who had no legal claim to it. ‘The Mayor requested that the matter be referred to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for investi- ‘ation, and that such legal action be taken as would st subserve the interests of the city. The Board referred i: to the Commissioners of the Binking Fund, ia aecordance with the Mayor's suggestions. A resolution was adopted allowing the Third Avenue Raifroad (o pave on the line of their kK in Chat- ham street with iron instead of poet y The resolu- tion directing the Comptroller to advertise for a North river market site was referred to the Com- mittee on Markets, There was not a quorum of the Board of Council- men present at their meeting last evoning, and consequently aa adjournment took place til! next Monday afternoon. At the Police Commissioners’ meeting yesterday, several officers were dismissed the force on various charges. Mayor Tiemann subivitted a report of the doings of his police squad, showing that in three months they have made 1,146 arneats, and restored stolen property to the amount of over $8,000, besides performing a large amount of promiscuous duty. D. Appleton & Co. were allowed to present the Fifth ward police with one hundred and fifty volumes of books for use in the station house. ‘The police are waking up at last, and are paying their respects to the burglars. No leasthan five cases were reported yesterday, in every one of which the perpetrators were taken into custody. The examination into the alleged conspiracy of Smith and Fitzpatrick, who are charged with de- frauding the city treasury of $10,000, was continued yesterday before the Recorder. Counsel for the pro- secution called Charles Devlin, who, after bemg sworn, waa asked if he had seen a certain check, which question Was overruled by his Honor, as the check was not connected with the alleged fraud. Counsel then offered to prove that Mr. Devlin re- ceived a check from Fitzpatrick or Smith, after which counsel for the accused movea to discharge them, on the ground of the insufficiency of the evi- dence, The argument will be resumed this after- hoon. The trial of Oscar M. Thomas, alias Mason Thomas, alias Mason Spaulding, for kidnapping a colored man, named George Anderson, was commenced yes- terday in the Court of General Sessions, On the the 14th of January the accused met Anderson, who is idiotic, in this city, and inveigled him to Rich- mond, Va.,and sold him asa slave. The trial will be resumed this morning. John Hides, a native of England, in destitute cir- cumstances, aged 50 years, committed suicide at his residence, No. i? Crosby street, by taking a large dose of landanum, on Wednesday evening. An in- quest was held upon the body of deceased yesterday, when a verdict of “ Death by suicide” was rendered by the jury. During the temporary absence of the cashier the Grafton Bank, at Grafton, Maas., was entered, on Wednesday, and $12,000 stolen, seven thousand of which was in bills of the denomination of $100. The first cargo of white oak and yellow pine tim- ber, amounting in value to upwands of $50,000, was shipped last Saturday on board the American skip W.8. Lindsay, from New York to Venice, for the construction of a naval dry dock for the Austrian government. At Bahia, on the 2d of March, floar sold at from #19 for Baltimore extra to $22 for Haxall and Gal- legos. The arrivals of coffee were very limited. Sugars were in good demand. Nothing doing in freights. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 4,000 bales, chiefly to spinners, on the basis of about 12c. for middling uplands, 12‘\c. for middling Florida’s, 123/c. for Mobile do., and 123gc. for Now Orleans aod Texas do. ‘The flour market was dull, while sales were to a mode. rate @xtent, and prices without change of moment, Sales of wheat wero confined to « lot of Southern white (common) at $130, Michigan do, at $125, and Chicago spring, part bere, at $1, but chictly to arrive, at p. t. Corn was firmer, with sales of white, to arrive and in store, at Toc. @ 75c., and yellow, on the spot, at 76c. Rye sold at 69¢. for Northern. Pork was again higher, with sales of mess at $17 60 a $17 65, and prime at $1425 « $1450. Lard was tirm, with sales at 103. » 10%c. i Sugars were firm and active, with sales of about 1,900 hhde. and 100 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Freights were inactive and dull, and (ogagements light. ‘The Dotngs of Congress Yesterday—Kansas— ‘The Defielency Bill. In the House of Representatives yesterday the Deficiency bill, covering appropriations (chiefly for the army) to the extent of some nine or ten millions of dollars, was defeated by the decisive vote of 124 to 106. Then the Kan- sas bill, with the vote of the Senate disagreeing to the substitute bill of the House, was taken up; and the question being put upon the mo- tion to “adhere” to the Crittenden-Montgomery bill, it was decided in the affirmative—yeas 119, nays 111. This vote to “adhere ” settles the question in the House, for it binds the action of that body to the bill which it has adopted. As the late vote of the Senate, however, was not to “ ad- here” to their bill, but to “disagree” with the Houre, the Senate may yet recede and adopt the House bill. According to the parliamentary authorities before us, however, it must be adopted precisely as passed by the House, that body having precluded itself, in ite vote to “adhere,” from accepting any modification of its amendment of the original bill. The exact rules in this case of the two houses may, per- haps, admit of « larger latitude to the Senate ; but we apprehend that short of their absolute acceptance of the House bill, both bills must fall to the ground. We should not, however, be in the least de- gree surprised were the Senate to accept the House bill for the sake of putting an end to this profitiess contest. The passage in the Se- nate the other day, by an almost unanimoux vote, of the bill for the admission of Minnesota we interpret as a very significant movement in this direction. It cuts off the project of uniting Kansas and Minnesota in one bill; and in doing this we may reasonably conclude that the Se- nate is ready for the only remaining alterna- tive, which i the Crittenden-Montgomery bill. | It embodies the only important principle of the , Lecompton bill, pure and simple; and as the | practical results of either bill, or any other bill, in Kansas will be the same, why should not } the Senate accept the House proposition, and | settle the question at once? Wuerr arp ALL THE Deroranres!—Daring | last theatrical season, the town was kept ina | continual flurry by dfbuuntes, old and young, | handsome and agly, successful and ansucces+ fui, dramatic and operatic, comic and tragic. Now they have all mysteriously disappeared, and the new crop has failed altogether. proha- bly from some unknown cause, like the mur- rain among the cattle, the potato rot or the deadly fungus that haa destroyed the product of the continental vineyards. One lady, “a blue” of the Miss Nancy-Japonica weak-ten school of literature, has, however, re- solved not to plunge at once into the sea that hae ewallowed up so many victims: but first to wet her toes by a sub row début at one of the theatres ap town. Sbe has only taken the fever in « mild form. “Tae Reconp.”’—Greeley is publishing “the record’ of the Northern democrate voting for Lecompton in Congress; but why omit the black republican list? Nigger plain, or nigger fricaseed, is it not still a nigger? A Case or Dysrwpsta—Giddings going home with the Lecompton constitation in his stomach NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1888, ‘The Disicultics of the Administration—The | Immediate Absogation of the Clayten-Bul- | no “concessions” therefore to be made to Eag- weer Treaty—Eaforcement of the Benros |) 15,4, It is @ portion of our policy that she Demoraltaation of Congress, ‘The well tried snd approved abilities ef Mr: Buchanan a a statesman secured pis election to the Presidency, in spite of the deplorable con- dition to which the democratic party wae re- duced in 1856 by the follies, imbecilities and blunders of poor Pierce. Not only, however, was Mr. Buchanan thus clected against an ag- gregate opposition majority of over three hun- dred thousand in the Union, but, from the divi- sion of the epposition forces in the North, and from their weakness in the South, he had the good—or, rather, bad—fortune to secure a de- oisive party majority in both houses of his first Congress. Thus fully authorized to proceed to business, the new President appointed an abie, united and conservative cabinet, and issued an inaugural, indicating the landmarks of his general policy, which commanded at once the general approba- tion of the country. He next proceeded to the regulation of the turbulent border ruffian fac- tions of Kansas, in a way which ati] further en- listed the public confidence, though very much to the disgust of the disorganizing anti-via- very ultras of the North and pro-slavery mal- contents of the South. Thus, for a short time, the path befora Mr. Buchanan appeared to be smooth, level and inviting. But with the assembling of the new Congress at Washington this pleasing aspect of things was instantly changed. Instead of a disciplined and decisive working majority in each house, the democracy in both, with the reading of the annual mes- sage, betrayed the worst symptoms of factious demoralization. The administration, instead of being second- ed by a united Congressional party, upon great principles and great measures, was met upon the very threshold by the most discerdant, factious, disorderly and unscrupulous body of plotting politicians and would-be Presidents that have ever assembled together at Washing- ton to make laws for the American people. We have two great parties in the country—or three, if we may include the rump of the Know Nothing party—but neither of these parties, nor the administration can be said to have a representative party in Congrese. Democrats, republicans, Know Nothings, in the Senate and in the House they bave all been cut up into lit- tle sectional factions or local cliques; and in- stead of administration and opposition leaders we have sectional conspirators, rebellibus dema- gogues and paltry echemers and huck- sters for the spoils and plunder of the succes- sion. Thus the political gamblers which make up the governing elements of all parties in the present Congress have reduced the two houses pretty much to the level of the present wrang- lifg, squabbling and fighting factions of Tam- many Hall. The maicrial difference between the two places is the difference between the spoils and plunder of the next Presidency, and the small potato offices of the New York Custom House. Upon every prominent measure of the ad- ministration, thus far, we have seen this pre- dominant spirit of a disorganizing sectionalism, or a factious opposition in some shape or other, brought into play. First, upon the Lecompton constitution, we find Mr. Senator Douglas and his associate renegades abandoning his own favorite bantling, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and going over bag and baggage to the black republican camp. Failing to rule the adminis- tration, Mr. Douglas will at least have his re- venge. Next, upon the filibuster question and the Utah army bill, we find the Southern fire eaters among the most intractable and in- consistent of filibusters, In the one case they are ready to involve the coantry in al! the perils of a general war; in the other they are 20 very squeamish that they cannot vote a few regiments of troops to restore law and order among the Mormons and Indians for fear of creating an army dangerous to the liberties of the country. Such are the stultifications of our hair-splitting fire eaters of the South. But our black republican holy alliance of the North has placed itself in the tighiest box of stultification. They have, for « quarter of a century, been fighting the anti-slavery battle of “no more slave States—no more slave Territo- ries,” and yet they have voled, over and over again, to admit Kansas under a pro-slavery con- stitution, which they have denounced as the mot infamous outrage ever attempted to be thrust upon a free people. And why have they thus eaten up their own words and trampled their principles and platform into the dust? Simply to gain a delusive victory over the ad- ministration. They have made consistency, principle, and even their intense hatred of the “slave power,” secondary to their hatred of Mr. Buchanan. And such are the difficulties and | the factions with which the administration has to deal in Congress. Whatis the prospect? It is anything but encouraging to the peace and | prosperity of the country, the solvency of the } government, or the safety of the Union. Tue Hee axp Cry Avovt mm Preronasr oF Laxps ny tae Govensment.— Whenever the general government finds it necessary to pur chase lands for military or other purposes, or to dispose of those no longer needed, there is | always a bue and cry raised by the speculators | who have been disappointed in making some pickings out ef the operation. These clamorers do not heéitate to impute fraud and corruption | to honorable men—even those filling some of | the highest offices of the government. We all | remember the howl about the Fort Snelling reservation, when the Secretary of War sold it | to an individual for « sum since shown to have been its full value, and the highest which, owing to the operations of a conspiracy of speculators in that neighborhood, it could poasi- bly bring. A similar cry was got up about the case of Willett’s Point and other places; and now the same game is being played relative te the purchase of land at New Bedford. Our Washington correspondent gives, in another column, « simple history of this affair, exhibit- ing exactly the mode in which the speculators go to work to cheat the government, and when they do not ewcceed in so doing turn round and abuse it. It is notorious that the federal government is always compelled to pay too much for lands. When it is whispered that any public work is about to be undertaken, cunning operators are as boay a& bees, endeavoring to make a shave off the government. When an appropriation of $500,000 was made by Congress for a Post Office in New York, all the parties here who owned available sites put up the price of their property at once, so that the government found they would have to pay for the ground alone every dollar which had been appropriated for the whole building and lot. This is the way it works; and when the “operators” are disap- pointed, they retaliate by raising the cry of “Stop thief’ Dectrine. We understand that the Committees on For- eign Relations of Congress purpose immedi- ately introducing resolutions authorizing the President to give the mecessary notice for the abrogation of the Ciayton-Bulwer treaty. Tais is in accordance with the euggestion of the President in hia Message at the opening of the session. He then stated that the interpretation put upon tbat instrument by the British gov- ernment was of euch an extraordinary charac- ter, so irreconcilable with the whole tenor, scope and object of the convention, aa ander- stood by this country, that its speedy abroga- tion was the wisest course which could be adopted as preliminary to recommencing an adjustment upon a satisfactory basis. The difficulty between the government of the United States and Great Britain as to the inter- pretation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is simply that the United States regard it as meaning what the language purports—namely, an instrument by which Engiand and the United States solemnty agree not to colonize or exercise any jurisdiction whatever over any portion of Central America, This is the lan- guage of the treaty, and the object was to put an end to the British pretensions in connection with the Mosquito protectorate, and to limit her rights in Honduras to the cutting of wood, without any right in consequence to colonise there or exercise sovereignty. England, on the other hand, has assumed the ground that so far from putting an end to those pretensions, it in fact confirms them, but prevents for the future any further acquisitions. To get over these difficulties a treaty was signed in London in October, 1856, by Mr. Dallas and Lord Claren- don, which was submitted to the Senate. It was found to be so objectionable that it only passed that body after numerous amendments, princi- pally having in view an acknowledgment of the complete sovereignty of the different States of Central America and abolishing altogether the British protectorate over the Mosquito In- dians. An amendment was also inserted by which the sovereignty of the Bay Islands and Ruatan was recognized as existing wholly in Honduras—the treaty as it was sent from Lon-, don erecting those islands, in fact, into a State outside of Honduras and subject to British in- fluences and control. All these amendments were agreed to by England, with the excep- tion of that referring to the Bay Islands. The Britieh government rejected this amend- ment, and the treaty fell through. An attempt was immediately made by the British Minister to re-open negotiations and enter into a new treaty, precisely similar to the one just rejected, provided that the unqualified recognition of the sovereignty of Honduras over the Bay Islands should not go into effect until Honduras had concluded and ratified a treaty with Great Britain upon certain conditions, not communi- cated to our government. Of course Mr. Bu- chanan declined to enter into any blindfold ar- rangement of the character suggested. Had he consented to the arrangement it would have practically given England an indefinite tenure over those islands, for Honduras has since re- fused to ratify the treaty in question. Thus matters now stand; and in order to get rid of all complications growing out of a continuation of the discussion as to the meaning of the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, its abrogation -is undoubtedly he wisest and best course to pursue. The language of that treaty is not susceptible of the interpretation which England seeks to give it; and even if it were capable of being tortured into such a meaning, it would | only demonstrate that by a trick our govern- ment had been induced to sign a document ex- actly the reverse of that intended— that it had been swindled. We do not understand the necessity or pro- priety of entering into negotiations with Eag- land as to the affairs of Central America. If we desire to make treaties with the States of Central America, they should be made directly with those Powers, and not through the inter- vention ef European governments. The mis- take in the first instance arose from recognizing England at all as a party to the matter, The policy of the United States is fixed and just as regards not only Central America, but the whole continent, We do not detire to make any commercial conventions on this continent which shall be exclusively for our benefit. On the contrary, we desire that the whole world shail participate equally with us in all such commerce. If a route to the Pacific, either by canal or railroad, is constract- ed across the Isthinus, we want it open to all—eatisiied with whatever advantages we may derive trom the energy and enterprise of our citizens. At the same time, we cannot permit any Ruropean nation to acquire any ad- ditional sovereignty on this side of the Atlantic, Our safety demands that upon this point we should be inflexible. if a transfer of the seve- reignty of Cuba is effected, it can only be to the United States; if a change is made in either Mexico or Central America, self preser vation requires it must be in the same direction. We cannot depart from this policy. As well might the United States desire to purchase dr | ' acquire the Channel Islands, as for England | or any othey European Power to seck } further foothold on our borders. The subject | is not open for argument. ‘This is the practical | solution of the Monroe doctrine, and it will be | maintained at al) hazards and against all Euro. pean combinations. It is for these reasons, principally, that we re- | gard any negotiations between the United States | and England on the subject of Central America asa waste of time. Every treaty which Eng- | land has made with us in connection with Cen- tral America has been with a view of tricking us inte an acknowledgment of some concession by which she will have a right or an excuse to interfere. It was supposed the Clayton-Bulwer treaty put an end to this, but to our sstonish- ment no sooner was it ratified than it was as sumed as in fact a recognition of all thove pre- tensions on the part of England— protectorates, possestory rights, de —which for years we had denied. A second treaty is made in London and sent here, filled with “man traps” and “foot falls,” but as soon as the Senate amond- ed it 80 #8 to avoid all fulure misconstruction, England at once rejects her own bantling. A third attempt to get the President into « trap met, ae we-have secu, with no better success. Lord Napier, nothing daunted, is, we are as sured, again at work demanding “concessions.” He will not succeed. The United States have no “concessions” to make on the subject. We deprecate and refuse any conventions or treaties with Central America by which the United States shall enjoy superior privileges to any other country in the commerce of those States or the traasit of the Isthmus, There are ehonld enjoy in common with ourselves and all other countaies equal privileges, But when it comes to the question of sovereignty or acqui- sition of the soil, then we deny utterly and ir- revocably the right of England or any other European Power to interfere in the slightest. AM the treaties in the world, tortured into a meaning at variance with this fixed, settled po- icy of eelf-preservation on thespart of the United States, would be regarded by the whole American people as waste paper; and the ingenuity of the British government is wholly thrown away in attempting to either wheedle or bully us into negotiations looking to a dif- ferent result. Let Congress and the President do their duty—abrogate the treaty—proclaim the policy of throwing open the commerce of the Isthmus and Central America to the whole world, but at the same time guarding against European acquisition, either in the shape of protectorates or sovereignty on this continent, and they will be sustained by the united voice of the country, ‘Tue Revoivtion iw Veneaxia—We publish in another column some additional details of the revolutionary movement in Venezuela which has led to the resignation of President Monagas and the complete overthrow of the despotism established by himself and family. We say family because Madame Monagas and her son- in-law, the Italian banker Guiseppi, appear to have been the ruling powers behind the throne, the President himself being a mere puppet in -their hands, Some idea may be formed of the unscrupulousness of this clique from the fact that whilst thousands of the public revenue were being annually sent out of the country, to be invested in the foreign funds for their benefit, the public salaries, pensions and other State obligations were all allowed to fall into arrear. The shameless cupidity and recklessness of these people, and their utter indifference to the interesis of the country, were such. that even those who had been instrumental in placing them in’power became thoroughly disgusted with them and conspired to effect their downfall. The ex-President, like Rosas, has feathered his neat too well to render his expulsion from Venezuela a matter of much concern to him. He and his family have evidently been anticipating and preparing for this event, and we therefore shall probably soon sce them here, on their way to Europe, to enjoy the fruits of their long tenure of a usurped and much abused power. We wish that we could congratulate the Ve- nezuelans onthe full reeultsto which an im- portant political change of this sort should lead. We cannot forget, however, that General Castro and most of the men associated with him in the new Cabinet were, until within a recent period, the creatures and partizans of the Monagas, whose rule has been confessedly the most cor- rupt and dieastrous which the republic has ever endured. It was only when these men saw the loaves and fishes divided amongst the family connections of the Monagas, and the revenues of the country sent abroad for a prospective object, in which they could enjoy no share, that they rose in arms against a sys- tem which the honest portion of the community had long since condemned. Whether the force of public opinion will keep them in the straight path of duty to which their pre- sent professions would seem to bind them, is of course extremely doubtful. As they have tasted of the public plunder, it is difficult to at- tach much value to their pledges of good go- vernment and retrenchment. Their late move- ment, though aided by the liberal party, can- not be said to emanate strictly from the latter; sud, therefore, it is impossible to predict with anything like certainty, how far their manage- ment of the public affairs may prove accept- able to the great hody of the Venezuelan people. Judging from the history of parties in the republic, we should say that the administration of General Castro will only be tolerated as paving the way for the return of Gene- ral Paez or some other good man, with whom are identified all who are really sound and patriotic amongst its public men. The Veneguolans are a sensible and practical people, and it is not likely that they will con- tentedly submit to the substitution of one tyran- nical oligarchy for another. Unless, therefore,, General Castro and his associates outbid in the liberality and honesty of their measures the an- ticipations based on the known patriotism of their rivals, we may soon expect to see the pre- sent revolution followed by another, which will reeall to the supreme power the men who have been so long exiled for their proved devotion to their country. Tinkerine Tm Liquor Law.—We hear that there is a proposition at Albany to make still another alteration in the law about the sale of liquor. Since 1855 the liquor question has been a constant subject for legislation, and numerous small politicians have made a good thing out of its agitation. They smashed up the old moral suasion tectotallers, and went in ; for legal suasion with the spirits. They have made so many laws on the subject that they are all inoperative, and the swe of liquor in this city is as free as that of dry goods. We have twelve thousand grog shops, in which probably thirty millions of dollars per annum are spent. There grog shops are the main springs of the deluge of poverty, mjsery, destitution, rows, murders, fights, and crime of all kinds, which has spread over the city. The respectable hotels and restaurants are generally licensed, but the objectionable rowdy rum holes are left perfectly free. This is « serious matter, and concerns the city particularly. The Legislature knows nothing about it: but some measures should be taken by the city authorities to regn- lute, if they cannot repress, the nuisance. There is no city in the world where 80 much alcoholic poieon is sold as in New York; and likewise no city where there has been so much preaching. teaching and law making on the subject. The fact is that the howling, canting, political temperance men don’t care sixpence about the merits of the question, and only used it to ride into place. The evil is now worse than before they attempted to reform it. Derear or tHe Reowrey Law —As pre dicted by our Albany correspondent, the Regis- try law has been defeated in the Assembly by a close vote. Undoubtedly it was killed, as before, by its own friends, For three years the attention of the people has been directed to the necestity of some check apon the abuse of the tight of suffrage, not only in this city but all over the State, and not only by one party but by all, When the defunct Koow Nothing party had the control of the State government they held out the Registry law as a pet reform meaeure, but never bad the courage to put it through. » The republicans have always dodged the question in the same way; and while ostea- sibly ewpporting the bill they really labor te defeat it, 60 as to have an open question for the next election. The theory of a Registry law ia & good one. Suffrage in this city is not only uni- vereal but indiscriminate; and thus the balance of power is placed in the hands of the strong- est hitters and hardest swearera. There should be for this city something like the Boston cheok list of voters, which is made up ten days before the election, Under this law illegal vating is almost impossible. However, as things are now managed by the politicians, we never expect te see any needed reforms carried out. They are generally introduced either as a blind for some private axe grinding or as a political dodge to dazzle the eyes of green voters. If the re- publicans and Americans will not pass the Registry law now, it is quite certain that they never intend to do it, and that all their talc about it was bosh. Sivver Pate ror Joun Cacnoun.—As our black republicans in Congress have at last dis- covered that the Lecompton constitution, after all, isthe real balm of Gilead for “bleeding Kansas,” why don’t they order at once a ser- vice of silver plate for John Calhoun, and a new bowie knife for Jack Henderson? THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The House Adheres to the Crittenden Kansas Bill DEFEAT OF THE DEFICIENCY BILL. Attack on the Secretary of the Interior, ‘&o., &0., &. Our Special Washington Despatch. ‘THE KANSAS BILL-—MESSAGR FROM THE PRES{DENT ON THE DEFIW(ENCY BILL—OVERLANP MAIL ROUTES TO THE PACIFIC—PROCLAMATION TO THE MOR MONS, ETC. ‘Wasuincrox, April 8, 1858, ‘Tho administration party in the Senate and House etitt ave strong Lopes of passing the Lecompton bill. The Senate will strike out the Crittenden amendment and in- sist upon the Tecompton bill, and will ask a committes of conference. The House will accode to their wish. The republicans proper, however, will vote against it; but Faglish, Groesbeck, Pendleton, Underwood and McKibben. will vote with the democrats for a conference committee, which will carry it. There is hope that from the indica- tions of wavering with two or three of the doubtful demo- crate to-day that a sufficient number will recede or ab- stain from voting, and that the bill may be ultimately carried. The opposition to the Deficiency bill in the House by’ democrats through which the bill was defeated, has eur- prised peoplo, especially as each of the appropriations, when voted upon soparately., received s large majority im ite favor. The fact isfthe axes of some of these patriotic gextlemen have pot been allowed on the adminis ‘tration grindstone. Some of the Kentuckians are dis- gusted because a certain number of Kentucky mules have not been taken for the Utah expedition, and so on with other mombors who bave been disappointed in other things, or who are holding out a sop to their conati- tuencies. Ido not doubt but the Deficiency bill will pass to-morrow. The friends of many of the republicans are interested in its paseage. The main question of recon- sitoration is the first in order at one o’clock to-morrow. Unless speedy action is take nin the House the Prosi- dent wil: communicate a special message to Congress upom. the subject, and throw the responsability of defeating the expedition to Utah upon Corgress,and the country will hold them to » rigid accountability for their action. The House Post Office Committee will decide on Monday the queetion which has been submitted to them, whether Wells, Fargo & Co. shall take the overland route to Cali- fornia designed by the Postmaster General or the one selected by themselves. The same commities have Mddressed a letter to the Postmaster General to inform them what new routes for ocean mail service im his Judgment ought to bo established. The committee will when they get the above information take immediate ac- tion tn reference to this service. ‘The President bas sent by the hands of « special agent, Mr. Cross, I believe, @ proclamation to tho people of Utah. The commesader of the forces is to promulgate it at the earliest day when be can do so with effect, and if possible to spead it widely before the misguided people of the Territory come in serious conflict with the army. The President Jaims an amnesty, if the people will returm to their jianee to the laws of the United States. On the other hand, he assures them that it is impossible te escape punishment if they do resist, for that the whole power of the country, if necessary, will be brought to re- duce them to subjection. & There are rumors running deep among certain lending men here of a possibility, and some say @ necessity, of a change in the Cabinet. They say there must be more Vigor and jess cirowmlocution iv high places. In the impeachment case of Judge Watrous subponas were sent to Texas about ten deys ago for witnesses. As the witnesses cannot arrive here before the middle of May, it ig not likely that the case will reach the Sonate bofcre next session, even supposing the House find « bill of impeachment before adjournment. About sixteen wit- hetses have Leon sent for. THE GRNER AL NEWAPAPEN DRAPATON Wastrwcron, April 8, 1858. The vote im the House on adhering to its substitute for the Kansas bill i# the same as that of a week ago on ite ‘adoption, with the exception that Messts, Marshall and Bowie did not vot, having paired off. Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, was a prominent sgent in bringing together and ce ‘menting the elements of opposition wo the bill, and rally- ing them on the Crittenden-Montgomery platform. It is thought that the vote on rejecting the Defictenoy bill will be reconsidered to-morrow, and the bill passed in such a form as not to cripple the movements of the Utah expedition. Additional volunteor regiments have been offered to the War Department, but none bave been accepted. There is much competition for the preferment. The bill reported by Mr. Wileon for a telegraph to the army in Utah comes up on Monday noon. The Hon. Amon Kendal) the publisher of the Philadel- Phin Ledger, and other parties interested in the Morse tala- graph lines, haying assailed the veracity of tho telograph- fe report of the proceedings of the Senate of the Slst alt. wherein It waa stated that the managers of the Morse linew Wad memorialived Congyees for * protection against com: potiog telegraph lines!’ —their objection being to the phrase “‘protection’—the reporter of the Associated Press _ deems it proper to quote the following extract verbation from said memorial —< Tt is against the oppression of that power,”’ (alluding to the Atlantic and American Telegrapts Companies.) “componed na itis, in part of forcign ole~ ments, that the memorialists ask protection.” We havo no mai! to-night from points south of Peters- burg, Va. Assault on the Seerctary of the Intertor. Wastixctos, April 8, 1868. Some months ago the clerical force in the Peasen Office waa reduced, about thirty of the clerks wore dis. charged; and among them was l'eter Besancon. Bosan~ con applied soveral times to be restored, bat the head of the department did not gratify him in this particalar, ‘This morning he made another application with no better success, On meeting tho Secretary in the ball, near to the door of his office, Besancon indulged in harsh ex~ pressions im rolation to those who had dismissed and die - paraged him, and was told py the Secretary he would ‘not hear his officers |, and could have no fur. ther conversation with him on the subject. As Socrotary ‘Thompeon turned to enter his room Besancon struck him blow on the back of the neck. Mr. Thompson turned round, and seeing Besancon drawing & pistol from beneath hig ‘vost, be rushed upon him and clasped him round the arme. Besancon turned at the same moment and fell om bis face, beneath the woight of the Secretary, his lof elbow striking the floor with such force as to throw the shoulder joint completely ont of piace, Other partiog hastily approached, and took the revolver ont of Besans con's right hand, whem the Secretary released him. Ha War conveyed imke Au adjacent room, where Dr, Riot,