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The Conference Committee's report was agreed to in both branches—in the Senate by a ma fity of eight, and in the House by @ majority of nine, We refer to the report of the proceedings for an sccount of the closing scenes upon this eventful question, a record of the votes, and the Kansas bill iteelt, Annexed is a recapitulation of the votes in both houses: — Yeu. Nays. Majority. Becate.. a) _ Beuss. . ut 102 9 Rroators not voting (incioding Preeileat pro tom. 10 A presemtaivee not votg (iuciudicg Speaker). a The Senate yesterday receded from Its amend- ment to the Deficiency bill without debate, and the bil! will, therefore, doubtless, be sent to the Presi. Gent without delay. Gen. Houston's resolution re- lative to the establishment of a protectorate over Mexico was, after some little debate, laid on the tavle ‘There ie considerable agitation in Washington with reference to the Yrisarri treaty. It meets wit! much opposition, and it is said it will not be rati Led unless the transit monopoly is abolished. The Brooklyn Common Council last evening adopt- e2 a report abolishing the voluntary Fire Department system, and substitating a paid one in its place. ‘The vote stood eighteen in favor of the report to nine Bcuinst it The vote which was cast by the firemen on Thurs- Gay night for Assistant Engiucer of the Fire Depart ment was oanvassed last night at the Chiefs office in Xizabeth street. The following was the result: Mr. Hackett, was declared Avsistant Engineer in place of Noah L. Farnham, resigned The case of Tuckerman , the mail robber, @as dis posed of at New Haven, yesterday. After a portion of the evidence of the government had been pat in, the accused retracted bis plea of not guilty, the de fence was abandoned, and the jury rendered a ver. Gict of guilty on four counts. The prisoner will be teotenced on Tuesday. The State claims to own the portion of Washing ton Market ground west of West street, and @ lease is claimed to ke held by Messrs. Brennan and Taylor Of aii the made ground on that portion of the Market between Vesey and Dey streets. The dealers have been notified to quitor to pay their rents to the new lessees, though the city has collected the rents, amounting to over 860,000 per annum, for & number of years. The marketmen held a meeting yesterday afterncon, and a: pointed » committee to investigate the matter and report, of which we give full details in another column. The lawyers will probably have 6 good time over the affair The Committee ou Sewers of the Board of Coun. cilmca met yesterday and agreed to report in favor of constructing sewers from Sixteenth to Twenty fourth street through Eleventh avenue; from Hous ton to Bleecker street, throagh Crosby street: from Troy to Jane street, throngh Greenwich avenue: and from Stanton to Rivington street, through the same street. We have files from Bermuda to the Jith of April. We are assured by the papers that there ix no doubt Of the potato crop this season fa!'ing considerably short of the quantity rained last year, owing to the injurious effects of the late severe southerly gale. The Britiah sloop of war Devastation, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, arrived the morning of the Mth from Havana. The Bishop of Newfound land bad administered the rite of coufirmation to O75 person: in Bermuda. The proceedings of the Court Martial upon Gen, ‘Twiggs, commander of Texas Military Department were concluded ye@erday. The letter upon which the charge againwt General Twiggs was based, was pablished in the Henein some time since. It con- tained & criticism upon an order issued by the Secre tary of War. The question at issue is, therefore simply one of discipline, inasmach as it involves the point whether @ subordinate officer can be allowed to bring into disrepute the acts of his superior. The cotton market was lees ypuwe ane closed dull, with pales of about 600 bales on the basis of for woidéling oplaute Che f ur market yeterday displayed fone activity, wbOe | wer aod mediom grades of State an Wosers wore about be per barrel lower, Good extra @retes were without chacge of moment Ib quotations Wheat s0l4 w the exteot of about 26,000 barhels, at rates gives wanothrecoluma Thesupyly of corn was larger and the market lover, White Southern gold at POs © Mc, and prilow at The & The Rye wae beary and lower, with eaine of Northere at 660. Pork wax rm, bot prices comed rather irregular and unsettiod, (while sales were pretty freely made, inciading mess ay 818 TE a $19, an? prime at BIB He SIEGO. Sugars wars Jobe active and eales confined to about 300 bhds , at orcas Given chewhere The stock amounts to abot 22,500 bhds ,3,000 do, molado, 16,826 boxes and 16,173 bees Coffee was firm, with gales of 3,100 bags 200 mats Java st full prices. The atock of Ric ip the market Amounts to 14,900 bags, and of all kinda to $1,943, and 10.710 mata vave Freighta were firm, with more doing Grein was taken to Liverpool at 634 ia bulk, aod at 54. for wheat in ship’s bags, with flour atis. 04 The Question Settied- Tne Net Resalts to the Seuth of the Kansas Blunder, The queetion is settled. The English Kansas compromise has passed both houses, and awaits only the signature of the Presi dent to become a law. The final vote of the House was 111 to 102—members absent, or bot voting, 21; and in the Senate 30 to 22—mem- bere absent, 10. (See our Congress reports, ia- cluding the bill.) Having fully expressed onr views upon this adjuetment, asa fair and catis- factory bill, we may now puss to the inqniry, what bave been, what are, and what are likely to be the net results to the South from this great Kansas blunder? Ta'leyrand haa said that among stateemen and politicians a blunder is worse than a crime; and tothe statesmen and politicians of the South this truth hae been most forcibly illus- trated in the net resulta of the repeal of the Miseouri compromise. The “Southern equality” contrivance of that Kansas-Nebraaka bill was attractive, but, like the wooden horse which the foclish Trojans permitted to be introduced within their gates, it has proved to be fall of srmed enemies, and in full co-operation with the besieging army outeide. The original Territorial bill introduced into the Senate by Mr. Douglas, in 1854, provided but for one Territory—Nebraska—and involved not the remotest idea of an obliteration of the Miesouri dividing line between the Territories which that line conceded to slavery and those from which it excluded slavery. The pro- gramme of Mr. Douglas was to let that line stand untouched, as it had stood for thirty odd yeare. Bat, in a passing discussion of the ori- ginal Nebraska bill, Mr. Dixon, a whig Senator from Kentucky, in a spirit of mischief, most likely, threw out the hint of the repeal of the Missouri compromise as an act of justice to the South, and from that moment, we dare say, some of the leading Southern fire-eaters resolv- ed to make that repeal the shibboleth of the democratic party. Their plan of operations was soon arrangea. The Nebraska bill was recommitted to the Committee on Territories. The Southern ultras met together; sod being, doubtless, assured by Mr. Senator Atchison that if the rich territory just back of Missouri were opened to slavery it could be readily converted by the Missourians into a slave State, it was resolved that the thing should be done. It would give the South two more members of the Senate; acd Mr. Atchison, as one of them. would be amply re paid for the loss of his position in Missouri Next, the co-operation of Mr. Donglas was se- cured, in view of the power of the Sonth to command the democratic Presidential nomina- tion of 1856, Next, if we mistake not, ona quiet Sabbath afternoon, a Southern committee of three waited upon poor Pierce, and with the same inducements speedily made him an en- thusiastic ally to this new device as a party movement and as a test of party allegiance. The necessary preliminaries being thus happily arranged. Mr. Douglas, in lieu of bis original bill for the single Territory of Nebraska, reported a bill for two Territories—Nebraska and Kansas —involving the repeal of the Missouri com promire line. The bill was passed, and thus the long standing interdict against slavery north of the parallel of 36 degrees 30 minutes was wiped out. The object of this act was declared to be “not to legisiate slavery into these Territories nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfi free to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, sub- ject only to the constitution of the United States.” With this invitation, under ordinary circum stances western tier of Missouri slavehold- ing counties flanking the eastern side of Kuosas would have been competent to make Kansas a tlave State without the slightest difficulty. But the parties in thie movement had not counted upon the tremendous and terrible uprising of the North which instantly followed this work of repeal. And what, we repeat, bave been the net results! First, the complete overthrow and demoralization of the Northern democracy Second, the stern necessity to the South o casting both Douglas and Pierce overboard in 1856, and the nomination of a man whose hands were perfectly clean of any contact with that Kansas-Nebrarka bill. Third, the narrowest pos sible escape of the remnant of the national de- mocracy from sbsolute annihilation in the late Presidential election. Fourth, the loss of Kanes to the uth, aft.* the most dreadfvl and desperate str co the prize between the contending fac * ich the history of border rufanism, political vcity or sectional fanaticism in any country cu. furnish. not ex- cepting the fights of the half savage revolution ary factions of the South American States for political power and plunder Nor do these losses to the South stop with the losses of their Northern allies, nor with the ge- neral demoralization of the democracy, nor with the loss of Kansas. The law which hae wiped out the Missouri line, and left the Terri tories on the north side enbject to “ popular sovereignty,” has also left the Territories on the south side, down to the Mexican boundary, sub- ject to the same laws of emigration. In a word, the act intended to open the Territories north | of 36:30 to the South has opened the whole un- organized ntry south of that line to the North, and with all the chances in favor of an ultimate Northern occupation, from Kansas southweeterly, arougd to the Gulfof California The results of the Kansas struggle have thrown Missouri, ac a eave State, upon ber beam end, The emancipation agita tion thue started throughout ber length and breadth must result in making her a free State The Northern waves of emigration are rolling in upon ber from every side, and she mast soover or later, succumb to the pressure. Sach are strong the net results of that dexperate ex periment of » few trad'ng Southern fire eaters ood Northern Presidential demagopues, * ar the Koneat Nebraska bill. Within four yours that blunder hae robbed the Sonth of a degres of power and prestige, and has given to the North the meane and the epirit of propayan diem ebich otherwise might not hare * complished aithin half a century. But eronwd of this. We congratulate ou: venders upon the passage of the English adjret- ment {1 retties the question In Congress, and Clears the rack for the practical business of the session We sre coniident, too, that It will wet- is thie all own NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1868. tle the question in Kansas, from the belief that the hongry politicians there will accept Le compton in consideration of the public lands and cther epoils and plunder with which the preecription is eweetened, Tux Mormon Camraran—SraNs or THE Warr Fratnen—Some curions communica- tions have recently made their appearance in ore or two of the New York papers, which seek to establish the weak and de- fenceless condition of the Mormona, and their reluctance to confront the United States troops. We do not exactly appreciate the ob- ject of these etatemente, but we must be excused for expressing our doubts of their accuracy. For months, nay, for a year or two past, all the letters, newspapers and speeches which have reached us from Salt Lake City have been full of menecee and evidences of preparation for a conflict with the government; a wmititary organization of a most formidable chsracter has, we know, been eet on foot; the advance of our troops through the Plains have heen constantly impeded by the efforts of a skilfully disciplined outlying band, which car- ried off our cattle and cut off our supplies, and all the evidences of a carefully prepared plan of campaign have been unpleasantly forced upon our attention. So firmly do we believe ia all these indications, that notwithstanding the assertions of these verdant letter writers, we are satisfied that the first collision that takes place between the Mormons and the United States troops will be a very serious one, and unless our «wn preparations are completed before that time, may be of doubtful success to the emall force under General Johnston. The exact position of affairs between the general government and the Mormons may be thas stated: Col. Kane, who has long been on intimate terms with that people, and is regarded hy them as a friend, has left for Salt Lake City hy way of California, invested with a sort of semi- official character. What are the nature of his in- structions, whether he bas any at all, or whether the government bas merely accepted his offers to bring about an accommodation, we are una- ble to state. The two regularly appointed com- miseioners—Major McCulloch and Governor Powell—are now on their way to join General Jobnston, According to the advices from Fort Leavenworth of the 25th ef April, they had iaken their departure on their joint mission. Pre- viously an express mersenger had been des- patched to Gen. Johnston, ordering him to stay his advance and to act strictly on the defensive until the commissioners joined his camp. It is thought that these instructions will have reached him in time to prevent « collision. Should these arrangements not be marred by unforesern delays, it may confidently be calon- lated that by the middie of June next there will be in Salt Lake valley about 6,000 United States troops, as well disciplined and supplied as any force that has ever been sent into the field. Should Brigham Young and his follow- ers be insane enough to reject the conditions thet will be submitted to them by the commis- sioners, then there can be no doubt that this gallant little army will specdily bring them to terms. Had not al! the conditions of military prudence been observed in this expedition we wight by and by have another result to record. From the preparations which the Mormons bave been making, there can be no doubt that they are in a position to give any small force that migbdt enter their valley a warm reception. It will be different, however, when they discover that the genrral government bas put forth this strength against them, and that to resist ite power must be utter sannibilation. We must not, bowever, the less give them credit for the inclination to carry out the menaces to which their leaders have so continually yiven utter- ance. It is curions that we should only Sear re- ports of their defeuceless and peaceable dispo- tion when the preparations of the government hare left them not a shadow of hope in the coptest which they have so recklessly pro- voked. Tur Transtt Rorvte—Ir Svor.o ee Orexen at Oxcy.-We publish today a brief history of the facta in connection with all the squabbles, diplomacy and lobbying abont the possession of the Transit route across the Isthmus, which hav’ occupied so much attention for a year or more, together with the last agreement entered into be- tween Senor Yrisarri. the Nicaraguan Minister at Warbington, and the agents of the original Atlantic end Pacific Ship Canal Company, Steb- bine & White. These ge men claim that they are in possession of the contract to open the reute, duly ratified by the Executive and Legi« lature of Nicaragua, and delivered to them by the Nicarsguan Minister Plenipo'ontiary, Yri- ri. This history will be found very intercet- for it puts the whole matter in a outebell. We hope that the quarrels between the New York commodores and all the other interested parties, will now cease, and that the route may | be opened without delay, for the public benefit. he connection between the two oceans has been obstructed, at a great inconvenience, ever since Walker and bis filibusters broke up the operations of the Accessory Transit Company it appears that the new arrangement, which we publish eleewhere, declares that company ex- tinet, and confirms to the old canal company al’ the rights and privileges they originally possessed——treleares them from the obligation of constructing a canal, substituting in its plece a railroad from Virgin Bay to the Pacific They are allowed until January next, if abxo- lutely necessary, to open the route; but with the proviso that it must be put in opera tion at the earlicet powible date within that period. Our own government, as well a« that of Nicaragua, should insist that the Transit route be opened without undue delay. It ehould not be left to the speculators and financiers of Wall street to decide when that great highway te our Pacific shores shall be made available. Tue Fort Sxeiuine Srreviation ann THR Spcretary oF Wan.—The great olfect of the terrible hue and cry of the opposition organs ast the Fort Snelling speculation at length appears upon the surface. It is to make a break nto the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan in securing he removal of the Secretary of War. So far as Mr. Richard Schell and Mr. Mather and others were concerned in the Fort Snelling purchase, it was in a legitimate business operation. They expected to make money by it; but since the late revulsion, their purchase would, perbape, not #ell for what ft cost them. The outory, how ever, is against Secretary Floyd, for ectling at a ruinons sacrifice to the government, and it is rumored that Senators Bright and Stidell are urging on the prosecution, from a desire to re- move Mr. Floyd from the Cabinet. We regard this report, however, as only 5 wenk device of the enemy to sow dissensions and discord in the Cabinet. But it is not likely that the trick will succeed; for while the members of the Cabinet stick to the President, the opposition may de- pend upon it he will stick to them. ‘The Yrisarri Treaty—Its True Character and Intent, The Caas-Yrisarri treaty—-a copy of which we published exclusively the other day—has drawn forth eome curious strictures from our contemporaries. Some are unable to define its exact character, whilet others maintain that it establishes an absolute protectorate over Nica- ragua. We confess we can neither understand the confusion of ideas which creates doubt as to the one, nor the exaggeration which eug. geats the other interpretation. To us nothing can be clearer or more distinct than the provisions of this document. It is neither more nor Jees than a treaty of commerce and amity between the two countries—such as it is con- tinually the custom to accord to favored nations—with the addition of certain rights of transit, which it was confeseedly in our power to extort, and which it was as confes sedly the intercet of the Nicaraguan government to grant. The protectorate cannot, therefore, be said to be in any senses political one, be- cause it impoees on the United States no obli- gations connected with Nicaragua beyond the vindication of the rights of American citizens, as established by the treaty, and the mainte- nance of the freedom of the Transit route for their ure, for the twenty years agreed upon. Nicaragua may be involved in disputes with other Powers which may lead to forfeiture of terri- tory, or forced concessions of another charac: ter, but in no case can the United States be call- ed upon to intervene so Jong as the Transit route continues open to its citizens, and the other privileges conceded by this treaty are re- spected. To define accurately the character of the righta conferred by the Yriearri treaty, it is a qualified protectorate, extending merely to the commercial concessions made to American citi- zens, and to their liberty of transit across the Nicaraguan territory. Beyond this, it add« nothing to the duties, obligations or powers of intervention on the part of our government. It is not so much to the right derived under this treaty, ae to the political significance of the document itself that we attach importance. The privileges obtained under it we could at any time have enforced by a slight display of ener- gy. But as this country, in its dealings with weaker States, bas always exbibited the for- bearance and moderation which are to be ex pected from a nation guided by correct political principles, it has not suited ue to compel con- cessions which an appeal to the good sense of the government in question was in the end cer- tain to obtain. It is to thie feeling of magna. nimity that the European Powers have hitherto owed the opportunities which they bave found of interfering in the political affairs of our continent. ‘The importance of the Yriearri treaty is de- rived from the fact that it inangurates a new policy on the part of the Central and South American governments. It is the long delayed but natural response of the latter to the great political axiom generally recognized in this country ander the title of the Monroe doctrine. This doctrine, at first doubtfully advanced, but now admitted to be a cardinal point of our po- litical creed, is by the Yrisarri treaty virtually established as one of the main principles of South American policy. The concession of this principle, however qualified it may be in expres- sion, is a great advantage gained to this coun- try. It disposes forever of the pretensions raised under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and facilitates the abrogation of that foolish and troublesome instrument. Fur- thermore, it renders impossible any en- gagements of a simiiar character. either with our own or with the South American go- vernmenta It ir, in short. es distinct an acknowledgment as anything can be of the tutelary position which the United States is ox- pected to hold towards those States. Some ten years since, under the administra- tion of Mr. Polk, a similar treaty was ebtained by Mr. Hise, our Minister to Guatemala, bat was not ratified by the United States Sevate, owing to the predominance of British inflaence in that body. It is to be boped that the Yrisarri convention will not encounter the same impedimenta. There never waa a period at which it was more necessary to gaard against British ipfluence than at the present. The efforts made by Lord Napter to ingratiate him- elf with all classes of politicians fa this coun try, the mysterious and double headod mission of Sir Gore Onseley, and the extraordinary ex- pense gone to by both dipiomati+te to render their manrions agreeable to Washington states men, all point to some present object of impor- tance to be gained in connection with British diplomacy. From the quertiona at present at isene, it may fairly be inferred that that object has reference to our Central American policy It ls to be hoped that Lord Napier’s gre in- ners and Lady Oureley’s presentations will not ensure for the Yrivarri treaty in the Senate the same fate that attended the Mise convertion. Wrexry Jocnsarisw ty New York —Every few years there is a revolution in public taste in reference to weekly journalism in this city. We bave seen three or four distinct species of werkly journals grow up, become immensriy popular, and then die out ae suddenly ae they reve. Some ten years ago, the popular style of weekly journaliem was @hat may be called the nineompoop order of literature, intended for silly women and cbildrep. This was very suc- creefol for a time; but efter 8 while it was aup- planted by a new clase of journals which were devoted to s sort of Five Points literature. Se veral of these attained s great circulation and were greatly read in the country parts, doubt- leee to the injury of the public morala After these eprang up the anti-slavery and philoeophic weeklies, of which the New York Tribune was the head and type. This, like the others, ob: tained at one time great popularity among the wonk minfed portion of the people of the raral dirtricta in the North—the class, by the way, which subscriber to bogus lotteries and gift en terprises, Latterly note achanee in the public taste, The people of the country parts bave tired of the Fouricriem and sham philosophy of the Tribune, and while the conservative portion of them are eecking reading mutter eleewhere, thore who adbere to the anti-slavery doctrines ore eulveribing to the Weekly Independent, which jx ae violent against slavery as the Tribune, bat which is decently acd religiously conducted, and bas never been known to advocate free Jove, or tnfidelity, or nemaseination One enrions feature of thie weekly journaliem ie that it does not thrive in the great cities Nene of the reveral classes of weeklies which we have mentioned have ever had any patron- age to epeak of in New York. They have de- ae rived their eustenapoe wholly from the rural districts, The common sense of metropolitan masses demands a paper like the Huratp; im the rural districta, far away from aay intelleo- tual centre, these ephemeral weeklies each flad for a time a circle of admirers. Tnx Centra Parx.—We notice that the Commissioners of the Central Park give out that, after an examination of thirty-three plaas, whioh were laid before them for laying out the Park, they have selected four for prizés. A description of the plan which drew the highest prize (which was sent in by Messrs. Olmstead and Vaux) has been published; but it is impos- sible to make head or tail of it, and should the Commissioners resolve to adopt it, the public will be left in the dark until the work is done and the money gone. There seems to be some talk of @ composite plan for layiag out the Park, which would embody the best features of the four plans selected for prizes; but this is mere rumor as yet. The only thing that appears to be certain is that the Park is to be turned to political accoust by the black republicans, in whose control the act of the Legislature placed it. Care has been taken that seven out of the eleven Commissioners are strong republicans, the remaining four, only, being democrats. To what extent political opinions are going to in- fluence the action of the Commissioners we may judge from the fact that it is told us that the plans selected for prizes were so selected in every instafce by a strict party vote, the seven republicans voting in a body against the mi- nority of four. We have no comment to make on the ab- surdity of governing the laying out of a park with a view to principles of national politics, Nor need we enlarge upon the brazer imp? dence of these black republicans, who aasume to direct, for their own party purposes, one of the moet important public works in a decidedly de- mecratic city. These scandals have become too common to require especial comment. But we do think that, in view of the enor- mous expenditare which may be made on the Central Park witbin the next few years, the in- dications already apparent that this expendi- ture is to be prostituted to political party uses are positively alarming. According to Mr. Olmstead’ plan, the amount required to lay out the park would be $1,500,000. Experience jus- tifles the prediction that the actual outlay would be nearer five than one and a half mil- lion. This money, it now appears, is to be— like the canals—used as corruption fund for the republican party until the workisdone. It may be that so brazen a ecandal will not be tamely endured. Later rrom Venezvsia—Parz Ixvirep To Return.—We publish today two weeks later news frem Venezuela. Gen. Castro, who is now at the head of affsirs there, has invited Gen. Paez and several other leading exiles to return to the country. We give bis letter in another column. Not only has be invited Paez to return in general terms, but he has sent a special commission to wait apon him in New York, requesting him to come back to hisnative land, from which be has been eo long expatriat- ed. This commission will probably be in this city in a few daye; but it is very likely, consi- dering the turn affairs have now taken in Vene- wuela, that Gen. Paez will have left for that country before the commissioners inviting his return arrive here. There is very little doubt thut he will be s candidate, and probably a sue- cesstul one, for the next presidency of that re- public Prestoentiar, Asrmrants..We find the fol- lowing fn the Washington correzpondence of the Charleston Mereury.— ‘The combiration between Seward, Douglas and Crittoa- bas cavsed e> mveh @arm among thoet who are look the succesa:ce that twas desmed of prime impor Kaoner out of the politiont arena. if by nook iteruid be Cone. Fer it's believed that Mr, \ epcoubtedly be chosen by the uc‘te* back & Americans as ther cac¢idate for the vext y, ucder the euppesitive thas about tho matter belr friecda, funda ere rights men will fy the tr srome talk among the * of making Crittenden their champion the contest is near enough for arrange- ments to be already in progress for that end. The Know Nothings eee in the chance more hope y have had for scme time back. Bat sent to this arrangement hes not been obtained, it be readily grant He will not quietly submit, this time, to be d and «ibowed off the track. Nor can the arity of Colonel Fremons be overlooked. With the masses he is probably stronger than any of the three candidates meationed; the poli ticlans would of course try to overlook bim, but he may not be so easily got rid of as they suppere. One thing may safcig be predicted. If Seward becomes President we sba!l sce ac administra on more corrupt (ban any that ever ruled the country. Seward himself bas always voted, on principle, for every corrupt scheme; how weil his followers imitate him we may learn from the example of Matteson. Brooklyn Cty News, Comvos Covsen—Fivai Ar o » Fine Davantarey Onviva: Cf tle present Board of Al‘erm next. Last evening the Bonrd held a Gra! meeting the matter of the report of the Srecial Gomraitter on Reorpariaation of the Fire Department an¢ in favor cf the establishment of e paid department was taken up Hardiy Sty ciscussion wrk pisre, Dut the time was taken up i motions to be excused from voting, on whien né Daye wore taken, Dmtiots to @tjour:, Ac., watil the previous question orvered and the vote takes, rewulting as follows Ayes Aldermen Osabow, Ruseell, towber, Porson, Marvin, Cierke, Cowe, Over, Shaw Fite an, Wales, Vail, Banoot, mc#abon, Raiphe, Ke@ileisch, Suydam, Jon kine tS re- Nays —Altermer Dorion, Dobe Delveehio, Hedeca, Sparer, Regart, Calaban oer) Abst 7 Not Voting — Aid O'Netl, MeNames, decd, Serith, Sbyver, B ise, Palmer, Seneie Yeu Browt, © + ke war extente) to thé Precident, HR Aino, resola 6 of the re ed ne die Vetted States Circuit Court. CHARGE OF Mens ‘ONTER ON THE HIGH BMas, Betore Hon Jucge Gal! Arr 30 —To the care of the Ur' ed Staten againat Capt Groen, of tho abip AZ, charged with tho manslanghter Of Mveeman, by compelling bim to do duty while ine weak ciate and by other craeiting, as reported tn pester. day's Kanai, the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty ALLPOED PRAT OULENT INVOTORS ‘The Conted States vs. Pour Cases of Mantas, marked J. & 17. Maks ~Vhe go0%w in question were reized by the Conector for beng uocervalued in the neotoe Itap peared that the mantiliaa @are purchased (on France ate Were tranchipped t thie city for our market at the New York artim Hoo te merchanta ip that bast aed MoKenne, of ¢ strest—and goods were property invoiced. fo + Collector dimenied, and this puit waa brought for eof the mantiian Verdict againat the United sintee and for the clenmants. ree, alter which the boord acy Coart, Crasce op Ooont Room —The ye Mai I o- of by) Will be held during the mons of May in the Aoard visors’ room, No. IT, in ube Recond atory of the ou Oty Hab THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON Passage of the English Conference Kansas Bill, MOBE PICKWICKIAN SCENRS IN THE HOUGE, Developements Regarding the Mica. ragua Treaty, &o., to. do. Oar Special Wi Despatoh, THE VICTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN Coat GBFES—WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE RBOUBANT DEMOOCRATS— PROPOSED INORBASS OF TUR MAVY— OPPOSITION TO THE YRISARRI TREATY, BTO., ETO Wasaincron, April 30, 1866. ‘The victory which the President has obtained im the passage of the Kapeas bill piaces the demooratic opponents of that measure in an unpleasant position. They are new regarded bere as essentially out of the party, and as euch ‘moust affiliate with the republicans er consent to romain on probation. a It is believed that but for the approacting Seuatoria election in Tiinois Judge Deuglas, lke Gov. Walker, ‘would have come round aad supported the bill. As ene Of tho ableet men in the Senate, with scarcely an equal at @ debater, the position he bas placed himeeit in is regard. ed with regret by all his former political associates; bei the gulf is now impassable. The moet vigorous policy will be pursued in throwing out of office all those wha bave exerted themselves in opposition to the administra. ton. The President is determined his political friends alone shall be entrusted with office; and the determination will be carried out to the fullest extent. The difficulty between Messrs. Haskin and Cox io the House bas been amicably arranged. But two Southern democrats voted against the Kansas bill, The others voted as I stated they would in my des patch yeeterday. ‘The resi business of the session will commence aex week, The Old Soldiers’ bill bas ro chance of muccess, Tbe Frenct epoliation lobby is here in strength. The patent lobby has thinned out since the unfavorabie opin. tons of the committees have been ascertained. A large number of democratic senators and members bave united in requesting the President to confor on Judge Loring, of Massachusetts, the position of Judge of tee Court of Claims here, vice Gilenrist, who died yestorday, The appointment will, doubtless, be conferred on Mr. Loring, a8 & rebuke to the fanaticiem of Massachusetts = removing bim from office for doing his duty as a United Btates officer. ‘Tha Committee on Naval Affairs of both houses wil probably agree next week upon reporting a bill for the construction of five screw steam sloops.of war, drawing Bot more than fourteen feet. A steamer of very light draft will also be recommended for China. These are the ascertained views of the majority of both commiticos, ‘They meet om Wednesday to finally determine upon the wubject. The ships are all to be buiit at the goverpmem yards; but the machinery, with the exception of one om: gine, which is to be built in the aavy yard here, will be given out by contract. The committee have agreed to recommend that fall steam power shall be given to the frigate Fraekiin, at Portemouth, N. H. She will be the largest steamer in the aavy, baving greater capacity than the Niagara. The Yrisarri treaty will meet with considerable oppeai- tion in the Renate, not against the principles ir volved, but because of the charges which are rife as to the corrupt practices which it is alleged have boon evoked to carry tt out. If one half of the rumors are true, Transit stock has been largely distributed here. Of course thore is no im- putation against any mombers of our goverment, but Prominent senators co not hesitate to cenounve the im- merge speculations which have beer smurgiod into the treaty, whilst otbers say they will not vote for the treaty vupless it is amended eo as throw the Transit route open to competitors instead of giving it to @ monoiooy. ‘The opposition comes from leading eimiuistration soma. torn, who will insist upom amending it, so x to throw overboard all the adventurors who ecek to convert it inte wetock speculation. [tis stated, on the sathority of « member of the Cabinet, that the Yrisarri treaty as pub- Usbed acd seu! from Nicaragua is nots correct copy of that instrumert, ciffering in mary essoutial partiouiars and omismons trom tho official doszment, Ransom Gillett, formerly of New York, wan confirmed to-day aa solicitor of the Court of Claims, vice Montgomery Bisir, removed. ‘The General Land (foe received by the last mall from California plats for the followirg privete olaias, vit— Plat of the ‘Boga’ rancho, Gaally confirmed to Thomas © Lerkin, situate in tewnsliip 22, north of range 5, and towpeb!ps 1°, 20, 21 and 22, north of range 4, east of the Mocnt Diablo meridian, lying on the Rio de les Plumes, or Feather rrver, aad its north and west branche, contaia ing 22.001 acres, plat of a part of the rancho ‘‘Iastoria de las Porregas,”’ finally confirmed to Martin Marpby, Jr., sitoate in township 6, south of ranges land 2, weet of fame me ©, aod cootaiving 4,804 ecres, plat of the ‘So'tn” rancho, foally confirmed to Roca laatro ote, situate (p township 10, peuth of range 2, and towunbips 16 ap’ 11, e0uth of range 2, weet of the same meridica, bounded north by the “Les Uvas’’ and ‘ Les ages” ren chee, ent enet by “Tas Animas’ rancho, containing 8 876 acres plats of surveys of the axdermentionsd ips bave been received at the Geoeral Land Office the Surveyor General cf Cal!fornia —Toensbipa 21, Porth of rarge 4 townshige 21 2B, and OT, north of range 5; townsbips 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 ant 28, north of range 6, townebips 21, 22, 2%, 24 and 25, perth of range 7; townelipe 21, 22 anc 23, north of range 8, townebipe 21, 22 aad 03, corth of raoge 0; town- sbip 21, corth of ranges 10 and 11—all eset of Han Bernar- Cino moridine, and Containing epwarde of 900,000 acres ‘The Genera! Land OMfes is also iz receipt of the follow spproved towneh!p plate of surveys from the of General of Waskington Territory —Piat of town ship 6, north of range 2, weet of Willamette moridian; plat of townebip 8, north ef ranges 3 aud 4, wast of Wil Jemrtte meridian; pist of township 21, north of range 1, exst of Willamette meridian; plat of townehin 21, north of rang weet of Willamette meridian, plat of town ebip 22 of range 1, east of Willamette meridian, and cortaiz.ag upwards of TO ,000 acess TOF ORNRRAL SEWHPAPRR ORATOR Wastiwotow, April 30, 1868 A Comorratic caucus of the House members was held tocight to conaider Mr Quitraan’s proporition, that it \ unwee, impolitic and unjust to existing “tates to pre iy OF hastily admit new States, thereby undaly wimuleting the cccupaticn of distant vacant Territories by foreed and t al migration, tor political, partinan and Srctional purposes, producing strife and discord betwrem Cif Portions of the Union, and leading to corrumt Priitica! combirations in Congress, and providiag that a0 bew States shalt be admitted into the Usies unui it is cod, by a census taken by the avthority of Com- green, that the Territory asking adminaton coutaina ® po- eo aMicient for a representative to Ooogrese, ner unt!) the people have been authorized by Congress to hold 4 convention to frame « constitation and present the same to Congress. Owing to the thinness of the meeting a com- Mitte was apprintad te report oo the proposition nert Tuesday, when It is supposed action tll be takea om ft. The forling tow ard it was generally favorable. ‘The Nevy Department bas despatches from Commodore Ten wo board the flag eb'p Sen Jeciuio, at Mania telend, Loron, February 20. He reports the San Jacintonad Portemouth off that city, and expected to be joioed by the Minnesota and Miesieeipp! by the last of that month Be oft the Minsiseipp! at Hong Kong, about t» tave ber depar fore with @ communication from the s¢merican Minister. fn conformity with instructions from Mr. Reed, Commo core Tetwali bad chartered the screw rtenmnr Antelope, ‘and ebe waa to be devoted solely to the uses of Mr. Resd’s miae.on Mr Reed wishes to touch at Mania on his way to Abanghee, and of this arrangement Commo vre Te:oai) ap- proves, oa ft will give him an onporuanty to display © larger force off that city than he will be able to do agan for some time, for be eupposes the squadron will pecemarily be tn the vicinity of the operations of the the allies at the aorta otter March. ‘The whole Freneh force was in the viciaity of Cantor, at whic place all was orderly aod quiet, Com. modore Tatnai! bad no cflicin! information of the tutended movements of the allies Commander Gillis bas beon ordered to the command of rendervous at Ph! iadelphia Dresidet has commen cated to the Scate the cor aeeor The