The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1858, Page 8

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Broadway—Tuz F2orsx Lacs —~Ammuioans In Panis—Ronaet Macarnn. \URA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broa¢way—Tas 1. aPibee Tene Lawyas. eer AMERIOAN Brosdway-- Afternoon BIRT or bara Vurta: Wroniage-Buios or 1x Mvememe WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 583 sa Cone Bae ERINOR, $51 and £68 Brondway—Remortax HALL, €73 Bry, 44 BROADWAY—Marr. Pam's Camrssu, Mivernsu— miatortan MaLobing axb KccusTuictties. Daexey SDeeen, QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, May 13, 1858, The News. We give the proceedings of some half dozen anni- versary meetings in our columns this morning, The most important report is that of the thirty-third suniversary meeting of the American Tract Society, held yesterday in the Dutch Reformed chirch, La- fayette place. From the differences which have existed for several years past between the anti- slavery and conservative members of the society, apon the question of the expediency of circulating abolition tracts throughout the slave States, and | especially one on the “duties of masters to their élaves,” the result of yesterday's deliberations has been awaited with intense interest by Christians aad poliitcians of all creeds and parties, from one eud of the country to the other. As early as seven o'clock in the morning the members of the society and their favored friends had taken seats in the church. The ques- tion at issue in due time came up for discussion. Bishop Mcilvaine, Dr. Thompson, Mr. Cheever, Mr. Bacon, Judge Jessup and others took part in the debate, which was at times as noisy and otherwise indecorous as the fag end of the Congressional fight on the Kansas bill. Finally, after various amend- ments were proposed by the anti-slavery section and lost, the society approved the special report of the Sxecutive Committee by a large majority, thus re- scinding the resolution passed at the last annual meeting authorizing the distribution of incendiary tracts throughout the South, and sustaining the committee in their policy. ‘The last act of the radical abolitionists’ extrava- g@anzas at Mozart Hall was performed yesterday. We give a full account of the scenes and incidents elsewhere. Bat little of importance occurred in Congress yes- terday. In the Senate, Messrs. Rice and Shields, the new Senators from Minnesota, were sworn and took their seats. Mr. Harlan presented a petition from people of Minnesota, containing charges of cor- ruption against Mr. Rice, in connection with land sales in the Territory. Mr. Rice pronounced the charges utterly false, and demanded an investiga- tion. Mr. Harlan accordingly offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to in- quire into the facts. The discussion of the bil) to repeal the fishing bounties was renewed, but no de- finite action was taken on the subject. The session of the House was devoted to Territorial business. A bill establishing a Territorial government in Nevada was reported, and several unimportant bills relating to Territories were passed. We have news from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 2d | inst., broaght by the British steamer Saladin, which arrived at this port yesterday. The Saladin is bound for Liverpool, and touched here to land the officers and crew, sixty-one in number, of the frigate Sua- quelauua, who were left at Kingston sick with yel low fever. Twenty-two of the sick died im the hos- pital at Kingston. Their sames may be found else- where. The balance were discharged cured on the 17th and 20th of last month. We have com- plete files of Kingston papers down to the latest dste. The emigration question occupied a large share of public attention. On the 23d ult. a meeting was held to consider the practicability of inducing fugitive and free negroes from our Southern States to settle in Jamaica. It was well attended, and quite a nam- | ber of influential citizens participated in the pro ceedings. Measures were adopted to bring the snb- ject before the Legislature, with the view of estab lishing a fund in aid of the project, and it was deemed probable that a delegate would be sent to the United States to promote the enterprive. We have received an important letter from our Me: correspondent at Tampico, . in whieh, writiag at intervale from # h to the 25th of April, be gives a graphic description of the sad scenes enacted in and around that city during its , siege by General Garza, The circumstances attend ing the firing on and eeizare by Garza of the Ameri can vessels Virginia Antoinette, Aurelia P. Howe. George E. Prescott, Nathan J. Stetson, and General ‘Toylor, are given in detail, and the necessity of ob- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1858—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Captain Hox ea gives of the circumstances attending the firing into his vessel by the British war steamer Styx. According to his narrative, the affair was an uncalied for aggreasion by the British man-of.war upon an American merchant vessel. The brig Winthrop arrived at this port yesterday from Carthagena, bringing as passengers several members of the scientific corps sent out to survey the proposed line of interoceanic canal acroas the Isthmus of Darien. ‘The schooner L, P, Pharo, which arrived at Phila- delphia yesterday, reports coming in collision, on the night of the 20th ult., off Barnegat, with the schooner Pedee, bound from Cienfuegos for New York. The Pedee sunk, but the crew were rescued by the Pharo and taken to Philadelphia. The trial of Thomas N. Carr, charged with libel- ling Richard Busteed, Counsel to the Corporation, was commenced yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, and will be resumed this morning. A re- port of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. The steamship City of Baltimore arrived from Liverpool yesterday afternoon, with the European mails to the 28th ult. and five hundred and forty- four passengers. The news has been anticipated by the Vanderbilt and Persia. The Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, held their anniversary meeting at the Great Wigwam last evening. The following persons were duly in- stalled as Sachems and other officers for the ensu- ing year:—Andrew H. Mickle, Elijah F. Purdy, Ed- ward Cooper, Thos. Dunlap, Geo. E. Baldwin, E. L. Donnelly, Joseph Marsh, W. D. Kennedy, Wm. C. Conner, Patrick Henry, Caspar C. Childs, Secre- tary; Isaiah W. Brown, Treasurer; Geo. L. Messerve, Sagamore, and R. D. Letter, Wiskinkie. The re- maining Sachems, Isaac V. Fowler, Emanuel B. Hart and Thomas B. Tappen, wilt be installed on Monday evening next. The receipts of beef cattle at the yards in this city during the past week amounted to 3,389 head: against 3,063 for the week previous. The demand yesterday was very moderate, at a decline in prices of tully one cent per pound on the current rates of last week. The quotations are 7c. a 9c. per pound. The quality of the stock offered was unusnally good. Cows and calves were in limited supply, and with a limited demand prices declined to $20 a $60, but few, however, bringing more than $40. Other de- scriptions of stock participated in the general de- pression, both of demand and prices. ‘The cotton market yesterday was beavy, owing mainly to accounts of increased receipts in the Southern ports. The sales embraced about 500 a 600 bales, with the turn of the market in favor of the buyer. The deficiency of the receipts in the Southern ports, compared with last year, bas been reduced to 4,000 bales. The increase in exports to Great Britain amounts to 144,000 bales; the decrease to France, 32,000, and to other foreign ports to 70,000, showing @ total decrease in exports of 42,000 bales. Flour was steady, and fresh ground State rather firmer, while quotations were without change of moment. The sales were made to a fair extent, including some lots for export. Wheat was lower and active. The sales embraced about 30,000 a 40,000 bushels at rates. given in another column. Corn was less buoyant. Sales of white were made at 7ic.a 78c.,, and yellow at 73c. a 75c. Pork was in modo- rate demand, with sales of mess at $18, and prime at $14 50. Sugars were firm, | while | henceforth the opposition in Congress to the | or that indivi | unless some | tage for the party. They know that, to a very taining redress fervently urged on our Cabinet. Lieut. | Almy, in command of the United States steamer mm, had been in negotiation with Garza, but it feared that the wily Mexican would overreach him in his policy. Garza having obtained a fresh supply of shot, shells, and twenty-four pounder guns from Vera Cruz, fired on the city daily with deadly eftect, more especially to the unprotected and neu tral portion of its inhabitants. The idea of an Ame- rican protectorate over Mexico found favor with all the well informed of the people of Tampico. Our correspondent at Barbadoes, writing on the Ith alt., says:—“Sagar making proceeds rapidiy throughout the island in the continued dry weather, but there is nothing doing in produce worth noting The planters will not sell good sugar under #4 per 100 Ihs., and prefer shipping to the United States and England on their own account to selling here at Prices offering $9 50 a $9 76. Molasses sells freely at Loc. per gallon. The market is overstocked with @state supplies, and little doing in them. Flour, Discuit, butter, fish and salted meats are in fair supply, but the consumption during the dry weather da 60 great that the next arrivals with supplies will pay remuneratively. Salmon, mackerel and corn meal are soarce and high. The health of the island Se good. Symptoms of rict prevail pretty exten sively among the colored laboring classes, but the vigilance of the police and military Is enfficient to | put down at once any open manifestation of disor. | der. All is quiet at Antigua.’ Lacias Schaster was tried yesterday in the United tates Cireuit Court, before Judge Ingersoll, for the fecond time, on a charge of passing counterfeit | Proaey on a hotel keeper in Newburg, and acquitted. | We poblish in another columa the version which ! the sales embraced about 7000800 bhds. at rates given in another place. Coffoe was firm, with sales of about 600 mats Java at 18c., and 600 do. Rio at 9%. a Xe. The stock of Rio in this market amounts to about 16,686 bags, 4,638 mate Java, and « total of bags and mats of ail kinds to 41,109. Freights continued to rule frm and were more active. To l.iverpoo! about 150,000 bushels grain were engaged (50,000 of which was taken as a cargo by one ship), at rates ranging from 8d. a 8 \¢d. in bulk, and at 9d. in ship's bags, with flour and rosin at 2s, 6d, Wheat to Glasgow was taken in ship's bags at 9d., and tierce beef to London at 5s. a $8. 6d. The Next Presidency—State of Political Par- Ges and Factions. How stand the political parties and factions of the day in reference to 1860! Since the pas- sage of the Kansas bill the violent hostility to the administration which had previously marked) the course of the opposition elements and the anti-Lecompton democracy has almost wholly disappeared. Nor is it likely, whatever may be the issue upon the Lecompton constitution. that the exhausted Kansas agitation can ever be revived again as a great sectional or party issue. Should the people of Kansas accept the Lecompton programme, that will be the ending of the whole matter; should they reject it, and, in the regular way apply for admission under another constitution, they will be admitted as readily as Minnesota. There seems to be at Washington a common understanding to this effect; and hence the remarkable armistice which has followed the adoption of the English com- promise among all parties and factions in Con- gress in reference to the administration, But this armistice is not altogether due to the removal from Congress of the Kansas imbroglio. Another matter has entered very deeply into the calculations ef the party wire workers and pipelayers at Washington. They are evidently beginning to comprehend the fact that Mr. Buchanan does not stand in the way of any aspi- rant for the next Presidency, or, at all events, that it ie no longer their policy to persist in the an- profitable work of breaking down his adminis- tration. He will not be in the field for the suc- cession; nor is it probable that he will under- take, like Old Hickory, to anoint or appoint his successor. We may, therefore, assume that general policy of the administration will be limited ‘o the neculiar objections of this faction | to this or that particular bill, and startling administrative coup Wat sho rally a deliberate and orga- nized resistanc. The bulk of the democracy will undoubtedly endeavor to shape the leading measures of Mr. Buchanan to the best advan- great extent, the acts and facts connected with his administration will be among the control- ing issues of the Presidential campaign; and they know, too, that their only hope against ab- solute annibilation in 1860 is » harmonious or- ganization around the President. But the great difficulty with the democracy is an obstacle which even Mr. Buchanan in 1856 was not able to overcome, and which the wisest administration of the government on his part will hardly be competent to remedy, That difficulty lies in the ominous minority to which the democratic party has been reduced in the popular vote of the Union. This minority has existed since 1836, and has never been over- come except in the election of poor Pierce. In 1256, with Harrison, Webster, White and Man- gum allin the field, the distracted opposition were yet strong enough to command a popular majority in the field. and in 1837 they rolled up & very handsome majority in both sections. In 1840 this majority had accumulated to such an extent that it crushed to pieces the administra tion of Van Buren as with the force of an ava- lanche. In 1844 the diversion of 15,000 oppo- sition anti-slavery votes in New York gave the election to Mr. Polk by some five thousand pla- tality in the decisive vote of the Empire State. in 1848 Gen. Taylor was elected over Gen. Case; nor is it certain that the latter would have carried New York with Martin Van Buren out of the way, while it is certain that without the outside aid of Van Buren as the free soil candidate, Cass would have lost Ohio. In 1852 | the heavy popular vote cast for Pierce was not #0 much ia favor of the democracy a« ia oppo- sition to the pernicions disunion principles of W. H. Seward, which the people suspected to be identified with the election of Gen. Scott. Be- sides, Gen. Scott had been a Native Americas, and his repudiation of nativeism, while it gain- ed him nothing from the “lovely Germaz ac- cent or the sweet Irish brogue,” alienated the natives—an undeveloped balance of power at that day, but the strength of which we can now understand. The firet year of poor Pierce's administration disclosed the delusive, hollow and evanescent character of the tremendous popular vote by which he was elected; the second year left him hard aground; before the end of the third his crazy craft was embedded in the sand and filled with water; and with the expiration of the fourth it was broken to pieces, and the spoils divided among the wreckers. So demo- ralized, crippled and digjointed did he leave the democracy, that in 1856, notwithstanding the solid national popularity of Mr. Buchanan, -and the malignant divisions of the opposition forces, their aggregate popular majority in the Presidential vote was nearly three hundred and eighty thousand. This, too, with an opposition candidate whe, in most of the slave States, was run merely to save appearances. In the elections which have since occurred we have seen nothing to justify the impression that, North or South, the democracy have made any positive or substantial reduction of this opposition majority. True, our New York elec- tion last November went for the democratic State ticket by a handsome plurality, but then there were over one hundred thousand voters who remained at home. In a word, since 1836 the democratic party, upon the popular vote of the Union, has been a minority party, and the only majority President they have had since that day was elected by opposition votes. By good management on the part of the democracy, and by the bad management of the opposition, the former have repeatedly contrived to win with the odds against them; but such an achievement as the election of Mr. Buchanan can hardly be ex- pected twice in succession. The election of 1856, on the other hand, suffi- ciently admonishes fhe republican party that a sectional platform will not unite the opposition forces, and that with two or three candidates in the field they can be very nicely defeated. The opposition, then, in 1860, to be sure of success, must assume the attitude of a great homogeneous national party, North and South, and rally upon a single candidate throughout the Union,” as in 1840, and the result will probably be the same. In this view it is easy to understand that neither Mr. Seward, nor Mr. Doug- las, nor Mr. Banks, nor even Colonel Fremont, will answer the purpose, but that some new man, with no sectional or factious grudges against him, must be brought out upon the course. Who that man is to be may appear at the appointed time. Let it suf- fice for the present that all great political revo- lutions calminate in bringing new men to the surface, and in burying old men, old systems, platforms, principles, measures, cliques and parties. The old whig party was destroyed upon the rock of slavery, the ephemeral Know Nothing party perished among the quicksands of the nig- ger agitation, and among the shoals and breakers of slavery the democratio party has been re- duced toa mere hulk, depending for its safety upon chance and secident. And as all these parties have thus been destroyed or lett in a sink- ing condition from too much tampering with the slavery question, the party that henceforth would be successful must stand upon other issues, of a more practical, conservative and national character than the narrow platform of the suppression or extension of slavery. Hence, we repeat that none of the old political can- didates or party hacks identified as the slavery agitating leaders of either section will answer the purposes of the opposition in 1860. Their candidate must bea man whose hands are as clean of this business as were the hands of Mr. Buchanan in 1856 of the odor of the Kansas- Nebraska bill. \ Fovaxciat, Fravns axp OCrneat Prosxev- rioxs. We published yesterday an account of an alleged frand of a stupendous character, and the arrest of the principal party concerned in it, a person of some prominence in the financial world. This is but the beginning ot the dis- closures of this kind which are sure to follow the late revulsion. The crisis being past, the reactionary period has come; and reaction al- ways brings to light frauds of large magnitude in the management of railroads, banks, insu- rance companies and other corporations. It was so te the extent of some hundreds of millions after the crisis of 1857, and we have no doubt that every month for years to come will de- velope some new fraud. of so startling a charap- ter that criminal prosecutions will be likely to follow in many cases. The extraordi- nary expansion and wild speculation which cbaracterized our method of transacting busi- ness for some time were fruitful sources of fraud. The faster men made money the more eager they became to accumulate; and from the loose manner in which many corporations were conducted. the temptations and the facilities for fraud were equally great. The criminal prose- cution of Mr. Dwight. now pending, will strike terror into the hearts of many a smart operator throughout the country. The Ohio Life and Trust Company, whoee failure brought rain to 80 many thousand housebolds, wil), we presume, be the next subject for criminal proceedings. It is time that the commercial atmosphere should be purged, and there is no better instrument for effecting that purpose than « criminal prosecution now and then vigor- ously and successfully carried out—such as those in England, which sent Sir John Dean Paul and his confederates into penal servitade, and the directors of the Royal British Bank to vegetate in the county prisons. It is not only in commercial transactions that these gigantic swindles exist. The fraude and forgeries in the city treasury—the Finance and Street Departments which are being every day developed by the committees of the Com- mon Council, are assuming a fearful shape. Three millions would not cover the frauds already discovered; and as the system has been going on for years, this unfortunate city mast bea victim to the amount of some twenty mil- lions altogether. There rogueries have been perpetrated by the collusion of the different executive officers of the departments and bureaus, whose operations have been greatly facilitated by the incompetency of their clerks; for it is a fact, and a shameful one, that there fe not © good accountant in any of the public offices. The plunder of the city treasury p- pears to have reached a climax; and from the ostare of the information now in possession of the investigating committees, we should not be surprised to hear before fong that some twenty or thirty persous—heads of bureaus and others— were gent before the Grand Jury for indictment. ‘The sooner the better! Mextco—Her Evita and thetr re The recent advices from Mexico leave things there in very nearly the same state as exhibited in the full reports which we received by the Jast steamer, It is till a doubtful question whether Juarez or Zuloaga will succumb, or whether both of them will fall, to be succeeded by Santa Anua, or Osollos, or some new man, A temporary enthusiasm in favor of the con- stitutional government has been created in Vera Cruz by the arrival there of Presideat Juarez and his Cabinet from New Orleans, and of troops for the defence of the city and castle from Osjaca. But it is doubtful whether the advent of the President and his Cabinet at the true scene of conflict between the two govern- ments, which is the revenue giving port of Vera Cruz, has not in reality weakened the cause of the constitutionalists, The supreme govern- ment has brought with it nothing but poverty and the prestige of the defeats of Celaya, Gua- daisjara and Colima, while it deprives La Liave and Zamcrra of the first place in the defence of the State, which they had previously held. Both of these have demonstrated themselves to be men of energy and decision of purpose, while those who have come to displace them in the public eye, if not in fact, have shown a want of these very qualities. But whatever may be the turn of the present struggle—whether it be Juarez, or Zuloaga, or Santa Anna, or Osollos, or anybody else that achieves power—the ultimate result must be fhe same. Mexico, asa federated republic, is broken to pieces, and can never be reconsti- tuted as a nation except through aid from this country. Her public men are divided into cliques, none of which can be said to possess a unity of purpose; her army is corrupt to the core; her administration of justice is rotten; her revenue system is a vicious one, and its col- lection is made more for the benefit of the Cus- tom House officers than for the State, and she is both a bankrupt and a defaulter. Whatever man or systemsucceeds the present must follow the descending path of the past, unless support both moral and material is obtained from the United States. Many of her public men affect to have hope in foreign immigration, but this is futile. The time was when the world looked with conf- dence to the new republics of Spanish America, and both capital and colonists flowed to them; but thirty years of misgovernment and turmoil have stopped this, and their present and pros- pective state of anarchy are not likely to re- create it. Mexico cannot be colonized by an industrious population until her government is colonized by honest statesmen. For this she must look to our government. No European intervention would be permitted for a single moment in Mexico, Washington alone can be the source whence the inspiration of the new order of things in Mexico must come; and we have already suggested, some days since, and we now repeat the course which should be pursued to bring it about. As soon as Mexico has an administration that we can treat with, let her appoint commissioners to come to Washington to arrange the conditions on which we can lend her our assistance to carry out such reforms as the liberal party may deem necessary to the national regeneration and to the estab- lishment of her institutions upon a sound re- publican and independent basis. If she does this she may soon enter upon a new career of national progperity and progress. If she neg- lects it, the process of disintegration now going on there will continue, until she becomes a prey to private filibuster enterprises, that will be in- vited in by desperate adventurers among her own leaders, and which no power in our govern- ment or any other can prevent from crossing our borders. How widespread this spfrit of mili- tary adventure is among our people is wit- nessed in the fact that tenders of over 50,000 men are now in possession of the President, to fill the two new regiments of volunteers for the Uteh war. And it is not the Southern fire-eaters and Western frontiersmen alone that seck this service, Puritan New England stands close alongside the hoosier West and the corn crack- ing South in the wish to send out a regiment from every city and acompany from every town and village to participate in the rough and ready service of a soldier's life. [a this there is a lesson for Europe as well as for Mexico. Wuo Oncaxizgn tax Pasic!—We now see by the proceedings which are pending against some of the Wall street financiers and specula- tors, who were the real authors of the recent panic. The defalcations committed during the years 1856 and 1857 by bankers, brokers, and others placed in positions of commercial trust, are in process of developement, and explain satisfactorily the causes of the sudden inter- ruption of commercial confidence which led to the tremendous commercial revulsion through which we have just passed. It was by these men, and by no others, that the panic was origi- nated. They hoped to find in it security, but it has brought to them only detection and shame. Goverxwent Laxp Coyrracts—Tue Fort Wier axp Fort Sweitixe Perctases.—The Fort Willett purchase is, it seems, likely to cre- ate quite as much of a fase as that of the Fort Snelling reservation. In this instance, however, the government is the buyer, and not the seller. The complaint against it is that it has given more for the Fort Willett site than it is really worth. This may be the case, and yet the bar. gain may still be an advantageous one. Were the land bought for the purpose of raising turnips and potatoes, the price given for it might possibly | be deemed excessive. But when the govern- | ment enters the market as @ buyer of real es | tate, it stands in a different position from that | of any other purchaser. Once it is known that it requires a particular spot for a particular purpoee, the value of the site is proportionately enbanced, Owners of real estate are perfectly justified in obtaining for their property the highest value which the government competi- tion attaches to it. Either the government can do without if, or it mnst have it; and if its ne- cessities compel it to buy, there is no reason why it should be placed in a more favorable po- sition than any private purchaser having the same atrong interest in the property. The case of the Fort Snelling reservation is « very differ- ent one, and must not be judged of by the same rules. In this instance the government was the vendor, and the conditions under which the land should have been sold were fixed by law. The purchasers, to far from obtaining the reservation at a depreciated value, paid for it about « thirteenth more than the amount of the etatutory estimate, Whilst, therefore, in the Fort Willett case there is no just ground for complaint, in that of the Fort Snelling reder- vation there is » fair claim for a remissica of price on the part of government. The pur- chasers in the latter eentract are, it will be ad- mitted, fairly entitled to have the excess over the legal price of the land refunded to them. Tuvrtow WeED at THE ConFsssIovaL.— Thurlow Weed’s conscience ecems to be prick- ing him. He gave us the other day a half con- feasion in relation to the $5,000 check which he is understood to have received out of the $87,000 expended by Lawrence, Stone and Company; he now volunteers some further light on the subject. Hear him :— Here we differ from Mr. Thurlow Weed. We do not think that “financial operations of po- litical parties are in their nature confidential.” Quite the contrary. Such operations, like all other movements of public political parties, ought to be public, and open to every eye. Concealment and confidential arrangements in such affairs are contrary to the very essence of our institutions. Our political parties exist in order to transact the public business; the idea that the managers of these parties shall have secrets from the public they are serving is mon- strous. Andif party managers have no right to keep secrets from their employers—the public—on any subject, they have least of all that right in connection with their pecuniary transactions. It isan offence in the eye of the law to use money for the purchase of votes or political offices; the party which does so, aud afterwards pretends that it was a confidential affair with which the public have no right to in- terfere, is as likely to meet with sympathy as a forger who pretended that he committed for- gery confidentially, or a confidential thief. It seems even that Mr. Thurlow Weed might be compelled by legal preseure to tell what he knows about the use of money by the political parties whose secrets he pessesses, The law obliges every man to reveal crime. Mr. Weed very properly says tliat this is no answer to the charge brought against him with respect to the $5,000. And he goes on to say that if the money he received came from Law- rence, Stone and Company it was without his knowledge. Just so. People who bribe and | | public land surveyed, parties receiving in fact lands in people who take bribes don’t do business on the principles which obtain in Washington market. A delicate reserve and confidential circumiocu- tion usually envelops the transaction. Mr. A, the briber, doesn’t vulgarly hand a check to Mr. B, the bribed, but passes it through the hands of C, who passes it to B, in payment for an uncommonly good segar. Thus B is able to say in the language of Mr. Weed, that “if the amount received from a political friend, Xc., came from Mr. A, it was without his knowledge.” ‘We can fancy Matteson, after Greeley had handed him the $1,000 check which the Des. moines Improvement Company entrusted to the latter to be given to Matteson on certain con- Ungencies, declaring that “if the $1,000 re- ceived from a political friend, &c., came from the Deemoines Improvement Company, it was without his (Matteson’s) knowledge,” Thurlow Weed must find some better excuse, or judgment will go against him on the facts. Tue Tract Soctery.—This body, and the worthy people who are affiliated with or friendly te it, have been much dis- turbed during the last three days by the con- test pending between the pro-slavery and the enti-slavery parties in the society. For some years there has been a feud between the two factions; the one contending that the society, if it did not openly denounce slavery as sinful and immoral, would at least not mutilate tracts by British authors containing reflections on the subject of slavery; the other holding that It was the first duty of the society and the first con- dition of its usefulness that it should have nothing whatever to do with slavery in any shape; that it should publish no tracts which were either wholly or in part deemed objec- tionable by the slavery men of the South, and that whatever was said in the tracts respecting the relative duties of masters and servants should be so said as to leave the reader in the dark as to whether {t applied to volantary or involuntary servitude. On these issues the war has been waged for several years, each season increasing the asperity of the contest, until the two factions, as will be seen by the report of yesterday's proceedings, became quite as bitter and almost as abusive as political office seekers on the eve of an election. There can be but little difficulty in deciding where the truth lies between the two disputants. Tt would be a very satisfactory thing indeed if the inetitutions of all sections of the country permitted the same tracts and books of all kinds to circulate throughout. But of the fact that those institutions do differ, and that the differences are so decided and marked that the tracts which are good in one place are not suitable in another, there can be no reasonable question. And to try by argument and oratory to satisfy both sections that they ought to ase the same class of tracts is as hopeful a task as it would be to try to convince the people of Maine and the people of Florida that they onght to wear the same kind of clothing. The only sensible thing that can be done with the Tract Society is to split it, as the Methodist Book Concern and the other book rapidly before inflammation has prooecded tee far for the safe use of the knife? LL Tue Apwission or Mixnesora—Tax Ovvosr- tiOw Voges or tux Hoves,—' mem- bers of the House of Representatives voted the other day against the final passage of the bill for the admiseion of Minnesota, and the list im- clades Joshua R. Giddings, Sherman of Ohio, Blair of Missouri, and other black republicans; Smith and Garnett of Virginia, and other fire- eating democrats, and all the Southern Know Nothings. This is eurious mixture, and forci- bly illustrates the utter tmpossibftity of satisty- ing the sectional factioniats of Comgress witt anything in the shape of » mew State-applying for admission into the Union; for no c#we more perfectly free from all legitimate objections than that of Minnesota has ever beeu presented to any Congress. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Ws Despetch. DESPATCHES FROM THE UTAH ARMY—SENWPOR RiOw, OF MINNESOTA, IN TROUBLE ALRRADY-~arrotr- MENTS CONFIRMED—THB PACIFIC RAILEDAD PRO- JECT TO BE REVIVED—AFFAIRS IN MEXIGO, ETC. ‘Wasurnctom, May 12, 1858. Despatches have been received at the War Department from General Johnston, of the army of Utah. The despatches are dated the 10th of March, at which time the troops were in good health, General Johnston was informed that the Mormons threatened his communica- tions. One of the despatches announces that no official uait had reached Camp Scott since last September, and, Judging from this circumstance, Geueral Johastoa feared that Brigbam Young had either cut him off from direst correspondence with Washington, or that the couriers aud messengers employed had deceived him, On presenting the oredentiais of the Minnesota Seuatore to-day, an exciting scene occurred. Mr. Harian, of Iowa, read documents and affidavits accusing Senator Rice of embezzlement while in Iowa, and spoke for some time on them. A spicy debate followed, but the Sevator was finally sworn, Mr. Phillips, of Pennsylvania, presents to- morrow the credentials of the Minnesota members of the House. Objections will be made by republicans, and will probably cause a lengthy debate. The following California appointments were contirmed:— Soiomon, Marshal, and Torre, Attorney of the Northern district; Collectors Downez at San Pedro; Suthorlaad at Sacramento, and Lester at San Joaquin; Kane, Appraiser at San Francisco; Roman, Appraiser General. Alse Horner as Assistant Surgeon, and Gervin as Chief Engi- neer of the Navy. The New York appointments wore not acted on. ‘The special committee on the Pacific Railroad met this mormipg. A motion was made to postpone action unté next session, inasmuch ag the Senate had decided to post- pone the matior. This was voted dowu, and a propositioa adopted to mature a bill. They meet again on Saturday, when the majority of the committee will be ready to re- port. ‘The confused reports as to land companies’ schemes and expeditions to Northern Mexico seem to have their founda-’ tion in au extensive system of grants made by General Comonfort for the purpose and in consideration of having payment for making surveys. A despatch bas been received at the Mexican | egation expressing the probability of Osollos being Presidemt of Mexico, It is stated on reliable authority that Zamorra, Governor of Vera Cruz, had formally applied to our ge- vernment for assistance to establish order in Mexico. Oscanyan is appointed dragoman at Constantinople, net cougal, as reported. Mr. Brown is likely to remain thera for the present. ‘THE GENERAL NEWAPAPRR DRAPATCH, Wasnixctoy, May 12, 1858. The Turkish Vice Admiral has respectfully declined the tender of the President of a passage home in the steamer Wabash, wishing to prolong his stay beyond the timeet ber departure. The Committees on Naval Affairs of the Senate and House of Kepresentaives held a joint meeting this morn- ing, the general sentiment of which was favorable to aa increase of the compensation of naval officers of alt grades. The chairman of each committee was requested to submit a bill for that purpose, and then if it should be approved, to press its passage, if not at this, at the next session of Congress. It is stated on good authority that nothing has beom elitited by the Investigating Committee to show that the Secretary of War was in any way Concerned, in compli- city or collusion, in the purchase of Willewt’s Point for fortification purposes. It appears from the official report sent to the Senate to- day in reply to Mr. Broderick’s resolution, that $200,000 are agreed to be given on the perfection of the title fer Linre Poiat, on the north side of the entrance of the bay ef San Francisco, for a fortification. The number of warrants issued during the moath of April, under the bounty act of March, 1855, is 1,200. Te ‘satisty the total number of warrants igsued it will require 28,000,000 of acres. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, ‘FIRST BESAION. Senate. Wasniveroy, May 12, 1868, A COSTLY FORTIFICATION BITR AT MAN FRANCO. A communication was received from the Secretary of War relative to the proposed purchase of the site of = fer- tification for the protection of the barbor of Saa Fran- cieco. Mr. Frevenvay, (opp.) of Me., objected to the price de- manded ($200,000), and thought the necessity not ee ur Mr. Broverick, (opp.) of Cal., dectared that the whote ranche was not worth $7,000. Referred to the Military REPEAL OF THR FIQEING HOUNTTES, , (adm) of Ca,, prevented credcatals Mr. Rice as Senator from. Mianesota. publishing religious bodies were split some | hy years ago. The settlement of the question yes- terday ie only a temporary arrangement. It can't last. Let there be, therefore, a Tract So- ciety North and a Tract Society South, and let each issue the tracts required for consumption in its particular locality. The members of the two concerns need be none the less friends for being separated: and thie perpetual bone of dis- cord between them would thas be removed. The time must come when the Bible Society and all the other religions concerns which cele- brate their anniversaries here in May, will be divided by the slavery question. It is all per- vading and paramount. The preachers North and South have taken beld of it, and Brown low on the one side and Beecher on the other preach about nothing else. What can be ex- pected but that religions ostablishments so di- vided must be severed intwaint And ought it not to be the best wish of every Christian man tq see the separation effected quietly and im, and iin . This, he said, waa bi) fir @ppearence iu this Body, and be felt that he was pia {a en embarrassing position. He had never recel, oa on