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4 NEW YORK HERALD. sAUBS GORD AMOBWWENTS THIS EVENTVO, ot. —Musase’s Mari. as. DEMY OF MUSIC, rourteouth nif ‘ong 0 OLocn- D' Avent, Fonuns, WERY THEATRE, Koy —Ls TOUR DE Nasie—Nicx ortus Woon Prnare or rae teas. —_— BUBTOMS THEATER Srosawey, opposiie Bond strent—— Musamp Haui—Mows Mavcre- THis House 10 BB 5OLD—THE Kawrecnian’s Ter to N ORw Un UBLS. WALLAGK'S TH nu—Two wx txm Mow LAURA KERNE'S THKATKX, Bromiway—Biiscus oF Baasprwis AMERICAN But: Broadway—Afernoen DEST AES RSet WOOD'S BULLDINGS. $6: sea 663 Broadway—Eratorian Boras, Dayons, Ac —Tus Simos Bivs, MECHANIUS HALL 413 broadway—Brranv’e Naoto Songs amp Busissgues—St any THE STORM. BROADWAY-—Marr. Paat’s Camrexii Miverreva— pentorian Mavoore. avd Daxcas—Dausny's Dusan, Tee Sow York Heraid—Edition for surope. ‘The steamship Kangaroo, Capt. Jefirey, will leave this port te day for Liverpool. ‘The Europeas mails will etose in this city at half-past wa o'clock this morning. ‘The Buropeas edition of the Hanan, printed in French end English, will be published at tom o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six conta. Sabsoriptions end advertisements for amy edition of the New Youn Hums.p will be received at the following places An Europe — will combine the Bows received by mail and telegraph at tao office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication. The News. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Mason presented the credentials of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, as Senator from North Carolina, in place of Asa Biggs, who has been appointed to a Jndgeship. The Senate then adjourned, in consequence of the death of Senator Evans, of South Carolina, ! suddenly of dis. ease of the heart on Thu evening. We give elsewhere a sketch of Mr. Evans’ public life and ser vices. Inthe House Mr. Clingman announced his promotion to the Senate, and delivered a brief and appropriate valedictory address to his associates. ‘The Minnesota bill was postponed till Tuesday next, and the Honse adjourned. Mr. E.K. Dunbar arrived in Washington yester- day from Arizona. He represent the condition of affairs in the Territory as deplorable in the extreme, and brings a memorial from the citizens of Santa Cruz Valley urgently praying Congress for relief. He Confirms the great value of the late silver discoveries in the interior of the Territory. Colonel Sayles, charged with important duties in Arizona Territory, connected with the Post Office Interior and Treasury Departments, left Washing- ton yoaterday, It is reported that he has cuufideu tial communications with regard to Sonora. By way of New Orleans we have Havana dates to the 3d inst. The sugar market continued dull. The action of the British cruisers on the coast of Cuba in boarding and detaining American vessels had cre- ated much excitement and indignation among Ame- rican shipmasters at Havana, and it was reported that some of them had resolved to resist amy attempt to search their vessels. ‘The Special Committee of the Board of Council- men to whom was referred the subject of the right of the State to claim and dispose of the land west of Washington market, held a meeting yesterday. A large number of parties who oceupy sheds and stands on the disputed territory were present, and made a variety of statements before the committee, for the purpose of showing that the present State lessees have no legal claim upon the premises. The committee announced that they would report in favor of having the occupants of the stands and sheds supported py the city authorities in the legal proceedings which they intend to institute in order to test the legality of the authority by which the State lessees claim possesston of the land. The trial of Pamaza Cox, charged with arson in the third degree, in having set fire to her house in Twentyvighth street, with intent to defraud the Goodhve Fire tasurance Company, was concluded im the General Sessions yesterday, but up to a late hour last evening the jury had not agreed upon a verdict ‘The cotton market was somewhat leas buoyant yester- day, while prices were unchanged The sales embraced adout 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of about 12\o. for raidding uplands. Flour was heavy, and prices unsettlod en difficult to quote. Inferior or “bogus” State and Western brands were sold as low as $3 90, while common to good do. wold at $4.8 $4 10, and extra at $4.25 » $4 20; ‘extra round hoop Ohio was at $4 26.094 45; Canadian was Gull, while Southern was in fair demand at prices ‘without change of moment. Wheat was dull and sasier, ‘with smal) ealee for city milling. Corn was active, with free eaice of New Orleans mixed, at 640. a 65¢., and Southern yellow at TSc. Pork was firmly held, with fair sales, inchading mors at $15 97 ky « $18 50, andjof prime at $14 76.0816 Sugars were Grm and active, with cales of about 1,600 hhds. Cuba and Porto Rico at prices given in axother column. Coffee was firm and quiet. The previous advance in freighta was sustained and fair ongagementa made To California, heavy goods were taken at co. per td and measurement goods at 27 Ke. a 30e. per foot. ‘The Kansas Settiement-—The Reunion of the Democracy. Sinoe the settlement of the Kansas question in Congress it is manifest that the several frag- ments of the democratic party are gravitating toward the administration ae their common cen- tre. The trouble which broke up the democracy in 1854, and which has kept them in a demoral- ized and disorganized condition ever since, being now dieposed of, nothing remains to pre- vent the rapid reunion of the scattered ele ments of the party. Already, with a very few exceptions, the democratic leaders and organs in the factious movement against the Kaneas policy of Mr. Puchanan have given in their ad- hesion to the English compromise ; and the re- action thus commenced will most probably culminate in the complete consolidation of the party in good season for the Presidential elec- tion. In this view of the matter, however, mach may depend upon the future course of such men as Gov. Wire and Mr. Senator Douglas. With regard to the latter, he may in 1899, like Silas Wright in 1844, turn the scales in favor of the democracy; or he may, perhaps, like Martin Van Buren in 1848, defeat the regu- lar party nomination by the simple act of sacri- ficing himself for the profitless object of » per- tonal revenge ; or he may, by standing out too loog, discover, when beyond reparation, that like Captain Tyler he bas arrived at the dock with his trunks and bandboxes too late for the ciesmboat. We ray that the discordant factions of the democracy, with the settlement of this Kansaa imbroglio in Congress, are coming together again, with every proepect of a complete re union within the next eighteen months. We have bad within the last ten years two very re- markable examples of the nps and downs of Political parties upon the slavery question, which will go very far to sustain this opinion. In 1848 the Presidential contest turned upon the slavery agitation in connection with our vast territorial acquisitions from Mexico, and the democracy were defeated by the divisions thus created in their ranks, But in 1850, in the celebrated Compromise measures of Henry Clay, all these threatening complications of the slavery question were happily adjusted. And what were the consequences in 1852? Thecom- plete reunion of all the factions and fragments of the democracy, North and South, and such reinforcements from the floating materials of the country, that poor Pierce was elected almost by acclamation, and the whig party was extin- guished. In 1854 the terrible Kansas-Nebraska bill of Mr. Douglas reopened the breach in the North- ern democratic camp, and made sacha rup- tore in the ranks that but for the intervention of Fillmore, and the treachery of the Sew- ard managers, Fremont would have been elected by the eolid vote of the North: ern States. As it was, the result would still have been accomplished against any other democratic candidate than Mr. Buchanan. The “favorite son of Pennsylvania”—a tried and experienced statesman, and a candidate whose hands were perfectly clean of any contact with that Kansas-Nebraska bill—Mr. Buchanan was the only man, perhaps, of the democratic party,, that could have carried in 1856 a solitary Northern State, notwithstanding the fact that the opposition forces were divived into two par- ties and upon two candidates. But the overwhelming Kansas agitation of that day subsided with the Presidential election into a dead calm; and if there have followed a few spasmodic revivals of this Northern excite- ment, they must necessarily cease altogether with the final settlement of the question. So far, too, as Congress is concerned, the question is substantially settled. The people of Kansas may reject the Lecompton constitution; but if they do, they know the alternative. They must wait for admission until they have acquired the fall ratio of population for one representative in Congress. It has been said that they will have this population before the end of the present year; but, in any event, as the destiny of Kansas is fixed, and as the matter of her State constitution has been submitted to her people, nothing is left of this business upon which any general agitation can be revived. Lecompton or no Lecompton, before the year 1860 Kansas will be in the Union a free State, from stem to stern. The American people know this, and it is not likely, therefore, that they will follow the hue and cry of the Kansas shriekers any longer upon the nice distinctions between this, thatand the other bill of Congress. We conclude, therefore, that in 1860 as in 1852, the democratic party will have recovered from its intestine feuds and divisions upon the slavery question, and will be once more a com- pact and powerful national party. But should there bo no union of the Northern factions, the party in the South will at least be united as in 1856. In that event, with two or three North- ern candidates in the field, the most that can be accomplished by them will be to throw the election into the House of Representatives, where the South, under the constitutional law for an election there, will certainly hold the balance of power. But with the democracy of the South presenting a solid front in 1860, will it not be their policy, as in 1856, to cast about them for the man capable of commanding the balance of power in the North? Undoubtedly. Cannot Mr. Douglas, then, for example, dis- cover that if he would rise in the future, he must appropriate the present golden oppor- 1 nity, not to prevent, but to facilitate the re- anion and consolidation of his party? THis only alternative is the fate of Martin Van Buren. Tue New Nicanaovan Treaty at Wasntne- tox —One of the organs of the lobby at Wash- ton—The State-—is opposing the confirmation of the new Nicaraguan treaty negotiated by Gen. Cass, because there happens to be connected with it a steamboat contract between the Nica- ragu©a government and some speculators in New York. Now, the Nicaraguan treaty is one and the steamboat contract is another and very distinct affair. We have said, and mean to say nothing in favor of the latter. It is a matter of the most supreme indifference to us whether it be rejected or confirmed. But the treaty we look upon in a very different light; we believe it to bea good and advantageous one, and to be founded on correct international principles. We are, therefore, of opinion that it should be ac cepted by the United States Senate asthe basis of the relations which it is desirable should henceforth exist between the two republics. We repeat that we care nothing about the | fate of this steamboat contract; but the corrapt and ecbeming lobby organs at Washington, in | their stupidity, charge us with being participa- tors in the disiribution of its stock, because | we happen to have expressed an opinion in favor of the treaty. The impudence, folly and dis- honesty of this accusation are only to be eqnal- led by the notorions character of the Waehing. ton lobby peculators themselves. We have now been over thirty years actively | engaged in newspaper industry and enterprise in | this metropolis, and we have never participated in any lobby speculations, distribution of stock or gratuities of any kind, by companies or indi- viduals, daring that long period. Those who are purchased or purchasable by stocks, like the lobby men at Washington, always imagine that others are moved by the same corrupt motives as themselves. There never was a greater mis- take, in our regard, than this, There has never been anything either in the course or ciroum- stances of the Hrraty which would go to justi- fy such an impertinent and calumnious supposi- tion. We are placed above all such corrupt temp- tations by the magnificent patronage so gene- rously extended to us by the people of this metropolis and of the surrounding country. Our aggregate income in one year rising to nearly ® million of dollars, puts us beyond the necessity of seeking steamboat stock and other lobby per- quisites, or of living on the drippings of the Con- gressional printing jobs and other fat of the Exe- cutive departments, as the lobby journals and ae. in the habit of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1858. The Lart Four Montas’ Trae. We published on Thorsday moraing in the ap- propriate column the etatistios of the trade or this port for the past four months. We now propose to make a few remarks upon the les- eons they teach. During the past four months—January, Feb- tuary, March and April—New York took from foreign countries less than one-half the quantity of goods which che took during the same months of last year. The diminution of imports ac- tually exceeds forty-six millions for the four montbs, as the following figures show :— Imports for firet four months of 1866... 1,929,140 De. do. 1867. “tateas eae De. do, 1868. « 40,213,489 At this rate of diminution, our importation for the year would fall short of that of last year by over $120,000,000, all of which would be so much saved to the country. Laastjyear, it will be remembered, the difference between our imports and exports was but a couple of mil- lions of dollars; this year, at this rate, it would be over a hundred millions in our favor. ‘This supposes that our exports are not going to fall off. At present the only thing which looks like a falling off in this quarter is the low price of breadstofis. Should this continue, as it seemingly must, the amount placed to our credit by our sales of breadstuffs would be less than it was last year. Perhaps however the quantity taken may be larger. Certain it is that in every other point of view the prospect is favorable for as abundant an ex- port as we had last year. Our exports from this port for the month of April were the largest we ever hed in that month. For the first four. months of the year they are behind those of last year and the year previous, as shown by the following table; but there were obvious causes for this, and it is pretty certain that the slight difference against this year will soon be overcome:— Exports of first four months of 1856.. Do. do. 186) Do, do, 1858. ‘There is now rapidly coming forward the un- usually large surplus of Jast year's crop of breadstuffs; which the revulsion induced the farmers to hold back, and the near prospect of another good crop now compels them to eend to market at any sacrifice. This will increase our exports. And the promising prospect of a revival in the foreign demand for cotton will Jeave us as bare of that staple as anyone need desire. The movement in specie appears large for the past four months. The three years compare as follows:— Export of specie for first four months of 1866, . $6,110,608 Do. do. do. 1867... 8,689,442 Do. do. do, 1858.. 9,976,019 But it must be borne in mind that thisyear, in consequence of the revulsion, we shipped specie at a season when, im ordinary times, the cotton bills amply suffice for the demands of re- mitters. Our specie export for the ten months which have elapsed of the current United States fiscal year only exceeds that of the cor- responding period of the previous fiscal year by about ® million of dollars; though the former includes all the enormous shipments which were caused by the revulsion. At pre- sent, as every one knows, the specie drain to Europe has ceased. Now and then there is a fitful speculation in exchange, and a half threat that gold will go abroad; but every one who studies the tables given above must see that this is impossible. We regard the fact, on the whole, as unsatisfactory; the most so of any that the horizon presents. If we could get rid of come ten or twelve millions of the idle gold which is lying in our bank coffers, it might give an impetus to trade. On the whole, the commercial scene promises well. In a commercial point of view the coun- try never was so strong as it is now. The same thing may be eaid individually of the bulk of the surviving mercantile firms; they have re- duced their liabilities to a mere nominal figure, and are prepared to start afresh on a solid basis. Even those who have lost money are compara- tively stronger than they were before they lost it: as, now, they can lose nothing, having no out- standing claims, whereas, then, they might have lost even more than they have. Notwithstand- ing this strength, however, there is no reason to suppose that the year will be otherwise than very dull. It is apparent that nothing will in- duce the merchants to embark in fresh specula- tions at present; merchandise of the most ne- cessary kind is now every day below the cost of importation withont attracting attention from purcheers, Until it is seen how the West is going to settle last year’sdebts, there will be but little inclination on the port of merchants bere to help create new ones. What business is done this year is likely to be quiet, limited, and safe. No one can expect to make much money; but a very sound foundation can be laid for a fresh era of excitement and commercial activity next year. Of all parties, capitalists and banks are likely to suffer the most. Money promises to be plentiful here in June at three and four per cent; and it seems quite certain that except in the stock market there will be no employment for the whole of what we have, even at those low rates. Tue Mayor's Canter Cocnert.—As might have been expected, the meeting of the heads of departments, which the Mayor called at his office on Thursday, resulted in nothing at all. If the Mayor, or any one else, is verdant enough to suppose that the heads of departments, acting almost independently as they do now, will make personal sacrifices to serve the interests of the | city, they are quite mistaken. The Mayor, no- tuated doubtless by a desire to do a good thing, advises the heads of the departments as to their duties. But their ideas and those of the Mayor are not exactly similar. When a man takes office under this city government he does not expect honor: he only looks out for the profite, What is it worth ? is the question. How much patronage is there attached to it ’—and the bet- ter the chance for the spoils the more ardent ie the pureuit of the game. This explains the long Street Commiesioner’s quarrel; it was only a fight about © certain amount of money which was to go into the pocket of the successful liti gator. Through all the departments the same vein of corruption extends, It is the natural consequence of the bydra-headed, irresponsible system which was inaugurated by the charter of 1849. The Mayor may hold as many cabinet councils as there are daysin the week, but unti the heads of departments are compelled to obey his direction under pain of instant removal the city will be no better off. What is wanted is an entire reorganization of oll the depart- ments—Finance, Law, Fire Department, Schools, Croton Aqueduct, Streets, Police, &c—under one responsible head, that head to be the Mayor of the city. When that is done, and not till then, we may expect to find some relief for this miserab); erned city. In the mean- time the Mayor an “4 and his f talk ead be followed by us in this country with regard to the most outrageous of the ewindlers who precipitated the revulsion last fall. Strahan and his partners, when last heard of, were croseing the ocean in a convict ehip, in compa- ny with robbers, murderers and burglars, on their way to his place of punishment; the di- rectors of the British Bank are now moving, without the least prospect of success, for a new trial to relieve them from the disgraceful sen- tence Jately passed upon them for the frauds committed upon their depositors and the pub- lic. The acts committed by these parties were not one whit more criminal in themselves or or more injurious to the public than those of the managers of several of our leading finan- cial concerns—such, for instance, as those of the managers of the Ohio Life and Trust Com- pany. The failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Com- pany was not one of those disasters which may occur to any financial or commercial house. There was no known ceuse for the accident. The managers could not, or at least did not tell where the money had gone. Two millions of paid up capital and probably as much more in deposits and credits of one kind and another vanished suddenly like smoke— leaving Fo little behind that it is even said that the directors have been inconvenienced. Thou- sands of innocent persons, widows, orphans, and people in moderate circumstances, lost all they had in a single day, and have not the poor satis- faction even of knowing where their money went. Thus far their complaints and their in- dignation have not elicited one single word of explanation or reply from the managers. The only public utterance from them has been mutual accusations of the New York officials by those of Cincinnati, and vice versa. Now if the words “financial frauds” mean anything, they must surely apply to a case like this—where people are robbed of enormous sums without the least attempt being made to explain or justify the spoliation. If there be any use at all in laws against frand, these laws should be brought to bear here. A more flagrant case— one of more marked aggravation, as well in re- spect of the victims as of the manner in which they were victimized—has probably never been known before. This community owes it to itself to make an example of the managers of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, in the interest of commercial honor and probity. What have they done with the money which the widow and the orphan in- trusted to their care? It is gone, they say— then where? Who hastakenit? These ques- tions must be answered; the safety and honor of this community require that the subject be pur- sued until they are. We call, again, upon every person who was stockholder in or @ creditor of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, to go before the present Grand Jury—who are intelligent enough and willing enough to lend their aid to the purification of the atmosphere of Wall street—and to lay before them all the facts they know in relation to the failure of the concern. There may yet be come remains of its enormous wealth hidden away somewhere, which a thorough legal examination would bring to light. Even if there are not, it will be satisfactory to ascertain what became of the lost millions. But a higher motive onght to operate than these—namely, the duty which we all owe to society to aid in arresting and punishing fraud. The arrest, trial and punish- ment of some prominent financiers for the frauds which must have ruined the Ohio Life and Trust Company, would operate admirably on the pulse and conscience of Wall street, and would secure us against other failures of the same kind, at least until they were forgotten. So we repeat our appeal to all sufferers by the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust. Come for- ward, gentlemen, and make your complaints to the Grand Jury. Sovrmers Coxmerciat. Coyvenrtoxs.—The time is approaching when the good natured public is to suffer from a periodical attack of conventions of all sorte—conventions to divert the trade of New York to the mouth of old Tar river—conventions to raise funds for the hea- then in the South Seas—conventions to give Mrs. Lucy Stone the opportunity to meet at the polls the friends of the late lamented William Poole—conventions to hear labored scientific treatises over which every one goes to sleep, and soon. The orators at the Southern Commercial Conventions are perhaps the greatest bores of all, as they are possessed of the greatest amount of wind and endurance. These assemblages are composed chiefly of village orators who pant to sce themeclves in the newspapers, and who make speeches by the yard, as they sell dry goods in Broadway. They are always going to start a line of European steamers, but never get up anything but subscription. The subscri- bers never pay, and the steamers never appear. ‘The conventions, North and South, are all alike, They are simply gatherings of idle people, who talk a great deal, cat a great deal, drink a great deal, and have a good time generally. The Southern orators argue against the prosperity | of the North, the women’s rights declaimers | are in favor of putting down everything but | petticoat influence, and the scientific pedants treat us to elaborate accounts of the origin of | the boomerang and the battledoor. They are | amusing enough, but not half so absurd as the | gravity with which their proceedings are dis- cuseed hy people who are certainly old enough to know better. Tus Corroration Fravps.—The report of the city joint Committee of Accounts, which we published in yesterday’s paper, bears evidence to the justice of the strictures which we have pasecd from time to time on the efficiency of Comptroller Flagg. This report shows that the accounts of the city are kept in 80 loose, disor- derly, and unbusiness-like a manner that so far from its being a wonder that the city was rob- bed, it would have been very wonderful indeed if it had not been robbed. Last year, the Comp- troller was censured for his careless plan of keeping accounts, and the imminent risk of his carelessness costing the city money was pointed out to him; but with his usual obstinacy, Mr. Flagg refused, doggedly, to make any altera- tion or improvement in his office, and the con- sequence is the enormous frauds and losses wifich the city is now suffering. It seems that the accounts are so kept that the city is not always debited with moneys acta- ally paid in for taxes, nor credited with the payments it makes itself; that accounts are copied so carelessly that $106 may become $160, and 60 on; that papers may be stolen without difficulty; apd generally tha the Fraxcian Fratos—Tux Omo Livre anv Txust Company —The example which has been made, in England, of the dishonest bankers, Strahan, Paul & Bates, and the dishonest direc- tors of the British Bank should without delay archives and papers are in such disorder that even the most important papers cacnot always be found. Comptroller Flagg’s friends may say what they like of him; but certainly he is costing the city more by his imbecitity and car lesaness than the greatest rogue in the Fivo Points would do in his place. Grumeimas or THE JEALous.—Weeley, the little broken down etock gambler of Wall street, and his associate, Raymond, the 1Mtle broken political villain of the whig party, are grum- bling because in our edition of ‘Ihursday last we exhibited seventy-two columns of paid adver- tisemente, amounting to three thousand dollars for that day alone, and presenting an issue un- parellelled in the history of the newspaper press of this country. These two broken down ad- venturers talk as if Bonner was the ovly adver- tiser in the Heratp of that day. There were nevertheless between six and seven hundred other paid advertisements in the same isaue, forming, in addition to the news, sixteen pages of closely printed matter, and all sold for only two cents, There is no parallel to this state of things but the occasional flush of advertisements exhibited by the London 7imes. If this great republic and this mighty metropolis go on in- creasing in the same ratio, the New York Hr- RALp will soon reach a daily circulation of from one bundred to one hundred and fifty thousand copies, and an average income of a million or a million anda half of dollars. As we stand now our aggregate income is nearly double that of half the German Principalities, and more than double the annual taxation of one-third of the States of this Union. Our annual receipts are, it is true, far inferior to the amount of taxation paid by our city for the eupport of a bad government; but the reason of this is that our municipal administration is carried on bya set of rascals and scoundrels, belonging to every party, whereas the New York Heraxp is con- ducted by scholars and gentlemen, who have some regard for their responsibilities. In fact, the Heratp is the only institution in the coun- try which is administered with honesty, con- scientiousness and straightforwardness. All others, Congressional, legislative, financial, edu- cational and sectarian (the Tract and other re ligious societies included) seem to be character- ized by fraud, corruption and rascality—every- thing, in ehort, but justice and pure piety. Mvcn Apo Anovr Nomma—The Medical Convention at Washington and the Scientific Association at Baltimore. THE LATEST NEWS. Affairs in Washington. THE OLAYTON-BULWER TREATY. Wasminctow, May 7, 1868. Although the House by eleven majority ordered the resolution proposing the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to be engrossed fora third reading, the vote on setting it aside by ten majority, to take up the Minnesota bill, is regarded as a decided expression against the former meessure. This motion was made by a momber of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who is against the resolution, which is now on the Speaker's table, diffi. cult to be reached, and may be regarded as killed by in- discretion. The resolution was, it is eaid, reported without consultation with the President, and has no precedent since 1798, when the United States abrorated the treaty with France. The administration is opposed to the reso- Jution at this time, because it would embarrass the mego- tiations now pending for tho settlement of the differences between the Unite@ States and Great Britain, and force upon the President an agzrossive policy unfavorable to {he peace of the two countries and disastrous to the settle ment of the Central American question, THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DERPATCH. Wastuncron, May 7, 1858, Colonel! Sayles, of Rhode Isiaud, and Mr. Anstin, his private secretary, have just left this city for Arizona via San Antonio and San Diego. Mr. Sayles is charged with important duties connected with the Post Office. Interior and Treasury Departments in that Territory, and it is said that be has confidential communications with refer. ence to Sonora. In company with Mr. Sayles ts Professor Pierce, marine engineer, and geologist, and S. Barton, civil engineer, who go out in the employ of the Lopez Land and Mining Company, to place in operation the mines of that company, taking with them the most ap- proved appliances for silver mining. Mr. ©. BE. Dupbar bas juet arrived from Arizona. He cenfirms the great value of the late silver operations ia the centre of the Territory. He represents the condition of the Territory as distreseing in the extreme, and brings the proceedings of public meoting held by the citizens of Santa Oruz Valloy, addromned to Congress, praying urgently for relief, The memorial bas been placed in the hands of Lieutenant Mowry, Delegate from Arizona, ‘The Kansas bill will be officially despatched to morrow to Governor Denver, with instructions designed to secure & fair vote on the proposition to be submitted to the people. ‘The eatimate fer the three yoluntecr regiments for Cighteen months is said to amount to $4,600,000. They ‘wil! positively not be called (ato sorvice until the appro Priations are made. Senator Evans had dined with bis colleague, Mr, Ham. mond, and left for home about ton o’olock last night, ap- parently enjoying his usual good health. Hoe was attacked with disease of the heart. or apoplery, upon reaching his lodgings, and died a short time thereafter. His funeral takes place to-morrow from the Senate chamber. He was aged seventy one years. Lieutenant General Scott has arrived here in pursuance of the orders of the Secretary of War. THIRTY-FIFTH OCONGIUES, WIRAT SRASION. Senate. Wasmnwatox, May 7, 1868, THR NEW SENATOR FROM NORTH CAROLINA, Mr, Masow, (adm.) of Va., presonted the credontints of Mr. Clingman as Senator from North Carolina, in place of Mr. Biggs. DEATH OF SENATOR EVANS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA Tn consequence of the death of Senator Evans, of South Carolina, the Senate immodiately adjoursed Howse of Representatives. Wastiscton, May 7, 1858, VALEDICTORY OF MR. CLINE WAN. Mr. Cuvoman, (ndm.) of N. ©., said ho,hadt the honor to receive a commission from the Governor of North Caro. Na to fill « position in the Senate. He bad written hima letter of resignation of his seat as amember of the House, to take effect to day. In severing his connection with gen. tlemen here, he bogged leave to remark that, during a service of some dozen years, he may have given offence either by objecting to business out of order, or by words in debate; but in this he was actuated by no feclings of personal unkindnoms, but governed by a duty, He parted with his associates hero in Mrnadehiy, and with many regrets. | consent, at tne motion of Me Sevens, at ot Carte vole on the Minnesota bill was picrech'v "i Tuesday. DRATR OF RENATOR EVANS, Po motion of Mr. Bownam, (adm.) of S. C., the House (0 reason waa stated therefor, but it was in consequen death of Senator Evans of som Caraing ‘whieh irred very suddenly iat night. Fe was in his gent Senate, yesterday, and apparently in good health. Gossip from the Capital. Wasmivatow, May 6, 1868. Spicy Letter from Jenkins, Junior—Which Relates how the Banker's Daughter Loved the Attache— How the Stern Pa- rient Opposed the True Lovere—How he Warned Romeo off the Premises— How the Parient went forth to Sup with ver- tain Paters Conscriptus— How the Maiden Received the Lo- Dario while Plutus Caroused— With the Terrible Denowe- ment, and various other Wonderful things. Fashionable society haa absolutely been shaken to ia contre by the dikcovery of a very strong flirtation between An attaché of the Spanish fembasny and Mine Tash, the only danghtor and betrees of one of the richest bankers in the Cnfon—a gentoman who han ofer helped our metual Uncle when be fond Mine gor 6 fey pilin, Fy ee merecr leas. Now Miss Dash will come intos matter Of five millions, and is considered, therefore, rather @ Food thing by the marriageabis young fellows sbout town. More particutwriy was she affected by = youth at- tached to the Spanish embassy, which youth, lke na- merous other bive blooded bidalgos, bas an extensive prea ne ig rather short of what is vulgarly called “i It coors that the lady favored the youth, and made am appointment to meet him one fine afternoen in the Pronl- dent's equare. Ho wes on band, and seeing a lady issue from the banker's mansion, naturally supposed her te ve the ‘‘dientical” jewel of bis heart, But ehe wavnt ghe ‘was the niece of the financier, and being of a vestal turn of mind sbe informed Old Money Bags how this son of a Southern clime bad followed her on vilest thoughts te- tent, whereupon Old Finances waxed wroth, and straight- way called the bidalgo @ puppy dog, to which hidaige re- turved the uppleasant expression “liar.”” ‘Mere was an awkward predicament; and tho real lady in the cane fearing ® duel, wrote a note to Hidalgo, re- questing him to meet her by moonlight at the “back garden gate.”’ Whereby bo went, and it was looked. ‘Then he tried the front door, and as old Plutus bad gene to take a cool bottle with a senator, be, the lovyer, was admitted, Whether the claret wasn’t good, or was tee good, or what, I don’t know, but the banker returned earty, guarded by two senators, and found the gentleman: from Spain and the young lady titeatite, Them thare was 8 jolly row. Young lady wanted to oxplain—papa ‘wouldn't bear it; young lady twined alabaster arms roend Pop's shirt collar—no use. Servants called and ordered to put ont young Spain right off Out he went, expedited, thoy say, by the canes of the conscript fathers, and helped onward by a “blow from the fect from vebind, producing a slight concussion, which might ‘be compared to the shock of an earthquake.’” Next day eame challenges to all tho oid fogies, whe ‘unanimously declined the honor. All the young men about the embassies are in an awful state of mind about it, Mr. Howard de Bull, Junior, of the British staff, says “pon bis soul be really mever did, you know, and what can afellow expect, for instance, you see, if this sort of thing, you know, is goingon, youses, Allthe fellews must stand by each other, you seo, aod call the old ceck out, one by one, you know.” Mr. de Bull’s opinion ts shared genewally by the budding diplomats, ema IT am shocked to say that they have unanimously ‘agreed not to borrow any more meney from the banker, nor to eat his dinners unless he does the equare thing about the girl and Young Spain. As for the young ladies, they are al) delighted with the eaclandre, the town is 80 dull, and the people wheare mixed op ln the affair, are such good friends toeverybody that everybody is dolightod at their Little griefs. ‘What do you think’ Wo've got a pow-wow of docters bere, including a good many from New York. What wok you are in, Your moptality bill will be lighter this week than usual, They say that the democrats who bolted Lecompton are anxious to get back to Abrabam's bosom. Not yet, genwemen. Congress lately voted a million for the Washington water works. There is a contractor bero for each dellar of the appropriation. Hope they'll have a good time. Yours, in lavender, JENKINS, Junior. United States Supreme Court. Wasmivaron, May 7, 1858. No, 226. The city of New Orleans vs. Myra Glark Gainos.-- Motion to dismiss the writ of orror argued om both sides, No. 168, Wm. Holcomb vs. John MoKusick ot al— Argument concluded for defendants. Baltimore and St. Thomas, Between Portiand and [iverpool, and Between New York and Gluckstadt. ‘You at the same time request to be furnished with any transmarine ifi ne after a full consideration of the subject of our mai! service, I have felt constrained, by a just and Censary ecopomy, to forbear the recommendation of new Lnes of communication with foreign countries. cannot resist the conviction that, in the present pres- trated condition of our commerce, and went dimina- ion of our revenues, it \s the true policy of the depart- ment to content iteelf with keeping up existing lines oaly On the moat economice! principles, unless Congress, in tte wisdom, shall otherwise direct. The hone may wall bo in¢uiged that this unpropitions state of things may soon og away, when posta: and commercial connections may formed which it would be highly injudicious at the present moment to Maugurate. All which is submitted. AARON V. BROWN, Hon. Ws. H. Exeter, Chairman Committee om Pest ‘Offices and Post Roads, House of Reprerentaiives. Appointments by the President, by and with the Advice ani Consent of the Senate. Feward G. Toring, of Marsachusetta, to be Judge of tee Court of Claims, vice Jobn J, Gilchrist, deceased. W. Beiden, of Ohio, to be Attorney of the United ‘States for the porthern district of that State. Matthew Johnson, of Obio, to be Marshal of the United States for the northern district of that Stale. Jobn Boston, Collector of the Ourtoms for the district of Savannad, in the State of Georgia, his former commiasion having expired. James F. Godfrey, to be Surveyor of the Customs for the district of Savannab, in the State of Georgia, his late commission having expired. Joun P. © Mather, to the district of New London. Tonnecticut. Jobp R Redman, to be © ‘setor of the Customs for the district of Pesobscot, in the State of Maine. ‘William B. Dameron, to be Surveyor of tho Customs fer the district of San Francisco, California yy Biake, of Florida, to be Register of the Land ot William T. Galloway, of Wisconsin, to be Register of tha vem joway, y Land Office at Kau Clare, Wisconsin. Noel Byron Boyden, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of the Public Moneys at Kau Claire, Wisconsin. gseynat Metiaha, Wisconsis, vice Rewumin H Moores, org |, Wisconsin, vice Benjamin H. Moores, tee goed. James D. Roymert, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of Pub- lic Moneys at Hudson, Wisconsin. News from Havana. New Oninaye, May 7, 1888. ‘The steamship Biack Warrior, from New York 27th ult. via Havana Sd inst., bas arrived at this port. The news by the Hlack Warrior is of some interest. There was considerable excitement at Havana in conse- quence of the insults offered to and the detentions of American vessels by English cruisers, and some of the American captains in port are eald to have determined te resist any attempt to board and anarch them. ‘The sugar market was generally dull. ‘The Salt Lake Mall. Sr. Lows, May 7, 1868. ‘The weekly Salt Lake mail under the new contract leit St. Joseph, Mo., on Saturday inet, with about 800 pounds of mail matter and several passe: cers. The line connects ot Salt Lake with one for Shasta City, California. The sar- vice to Salt Lake w ' be performed in twenty-two days, ‘and thence to Sharta in twelve days. Arrest and Suicide of a Potsoner. Onmeren, Orange county, N. ¥., May 7, 1868. Mrs. Phebe Woetlake, a widow Indy residing in this place, was yesterday arrested en suspicion of poisoning neveral persona in the village, and last night destroyed herself by taking arsenic. Before the suicide she con- feened that she had administered poison at different times to a Mr, Fielder, who died about two works since very cuddenly. She also confessed that she administered pot- son to Mr. J. B. Tushill,® merchant, who has recovered and is doing well. Mrs, Charles Tuthil) and « Mrs, Der- tick are now very unwoll, with every symptoms of hav- Ing boon poisoned; and as Mrs. Westlake had lately sent them some preserves which they had eaton, it is eupponed that they were also intended by her a; victims. Destractive Fire. Maonasreevitir, May 7, 1858. A block of four stores and three dweiling houses wae destroyed by fire in this place thia morning. The fire te sipposed to bave originated from lucifer matches that ‘Wore mored in the upper loft of one of the stores. The loss will probably amount to $20,000, very iittle of which {a covered by insurance, Firemen's Row in Philadelphia. Pmaneremia, May 7, 1868. During an alarm of fire this morning the Shiifier Hose Onmpany amnanited the Moyamensing Hose Company Copsured thetr carriage, broke Mt in pieces, aad plished,