The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1858, Page 4

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BRU. = } PeeL’s Ussreei. sMiwerReLs _ “Pevoora inp Dasose—Wouans Bicuts Com ‘AN Oncamo Ar- Bew York, Monday, May 31, 1866, BAILS FOR EUROPE. Whe Herald—Eatuoe for Burepe—The Fallest Details of the British Outrages. ‘The Cupard mail steamship Niagara, Capt. Wickman, wil) leave Boston on Wodnesday at noon for Liverpool. ‘The Earopean mails will close in this city to-morrow afternoon, ai { half past two e’clock, to go by railroad, and at balf past four o'clock, to go by steamboat. ‘The European edition of the Amaaup, printed in French and English, will be published st ten o'clock im the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six conte. Subscriptions and edvertisements for any edition of the Naw York Haratp wil! be received at the following places pc gga ore Oo,, 47 Lad Bilt. am. meee wee Ge rot ig Millan at. “qsscart 10 Excltnge etrset, Ease Pans......Am. European Express o. 8 Place dela Bourse, Bavun.....A4m. European Express Co., 31 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Henan will combine the news received by maii and telegraph at he office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication, together with the fullest particulars relative to The News. The steamship Empire City, which left Havana on the 25th instant, arrived yesterday morning at this port, with news to the day of sailing. The sugar market was very active, and prices had ad- vanced one-fourth to half a real, bat freights remain- ed unaltered. Exchange on New York was quoted at par to one-half per cent premium. Yellow fever still lingered in the island. It was reported that the resignation of our Consul General, Mr. Blythe, was owing to the inadequacy of the salary allowed him by the government. Two hundred and fifty Asiatics had been landed at Havana from a ship which lost ninety-one of the emigrants on the passage. Our Havana correspondent states that the report of the firm action of our government with respect to the naval aggressions was received with joy in Cuba. Cuban insurance companies bad already declined to issue policies on gold coin shipped in American sailing vessels for Northern ports or the various out- ports of the island, asserting that the finding of a quantity of gold on board was a strong inducement to, and the cause assigned by, the English officers to board and capture the traders. Hon. Mr. Ryder, the new member of the British and Spanish mixed commission on the slave trade, had arrived at Ha. vana. A guard of Spanish soldiers had been sud- denly placed on board the United States mail steamer Philadelphia, to prevent her communicating with the shore at night, but Capt. Harrison disarmed them. Our correspondent alse states that the American ship Old Hickory, Captain Holmes, when on her voyage from that port to Matanzas, was brought to by a boat from a British vessel. Captain Holmes did not afford the visiting officer any aid to come on deok, so be clambered up.the chain plates and intro- duced himself, made some few inquiries, and then departed. From Kingston, Jamaica, under date of the 11th inst., we learn that the schooner Cortes had arrived in Port Royal harbor as a prize to the British gun- boat Forward. The Cortes made the third vessel seized by the “Mosquito fleet,” and the usual legal steps were being taken to insure her condemnation. Our Kingston correspondent states that the fleet of cruisers now operating #0 actively in the Gulf was sent out at the instance of the Anti- Slavery Society of Jamaica, a deputation from which body visited England in the latter end of the year 1856. It was reported that the south side of Cuba would soon be blockaded by a reinforcement of gunboats. Recent intelligence from Washington gives probability to this report. In a despatch published in yesterday's Henao it was stated that the British Minister had said that bis government would no doubt apologize for the insalts to which our flag has been lately subjected bot that it had determined to suppress the slave trade, and to accomplish that end would blockade the coast of Cuba. It is said that all the slaves taken will be located in Trinidad and Demerara, at which the people of Jamaica are displeased, as the best interests of the island are going to ruin for want of laborers. The rejection of the Jamaica immigration act by the home government !.9.! , a wide spread agitation on the island missionaries opposed the measure,"on + , its inutility and the reduction in the rave of tree wages. which would ensue from its operation. It is evident that a severe laborstruggle is at hand in the British West indies. From San Juan del Norte and Aspinwall, under dates of May 15th and 2ist, we are informed of the latest news respecting the great Nicaraguan Transit contest. Mr. Webster and Mr. Body left Aspinwall for New York, and this city will for some time to come be the scene of the operations of the envoys. When Mr. Webster was at Greytown he was attended by Colonel Vega and a few Nicaraguan soldiers, and an amasing account is given of the alarm which Mr. Miller experienced in consequence of their assertions with respect to the possession of the disputed pro- perty at Punta Arenas. In this connection we have some additional statements regarding the policy of the French agents in Central America and ite inflo- encing causes. Our correspondents at San Juan del Norte and Aspinwall, writing on the 30th of April and 21st of May, send an interesting history of the great irrup- tion made by Oolonel Kinsey at Greytown, his claim to the local government there, the hauling down of the Mosquito flag, and the arrest of Mayor Wolff by the invader. The Colonel and his friends were in turn arrested, when they capitulated through the exertions of Captain Kennedy, of the United States navy, Kinney was subseqnently sent back to Aspinwall, and his sailing from that port for Corpus Christi, Texas, is duly announced. The official papers, published at Greytown, in con nection with the affair, are given and will be found interesting By way of Havana we have reports of continued impositions in St. Domingo City apon citizens of the United States, with the representation that many may be sacrificed to negro wrath. The intelligence was derived from a Haytien passenger by the British mai! steamer A resident of St. Thomas has announced in Cube that General Santa Anna bad purchased an elegant | ready to fiud the Britleh officers more in the residence in the first named island, for which he | paid forty thousand dollars cash. This does not have the appearance of a speedy retarn to Mexico. By the arrival of the schooner William L. Rich- ardson, Captain Bayley, we have papers from Porto Rico to the 12th inst. The Captain-General was en- gaged making a tour of the island, inspecting the puolic works, laying corner stones of hospitals, opening roads, &c. The official reports stated that be found everything in a satisfactory condition. A large shipment of newly coined silver money, prin- Cipally in reals, pesetos and half dollars, had been received from Spain, and considerably relieved the previous want of smali change. Gottschalk was giving monster concerts in Porto Rico, where he had taken the largest theatre, erected a stage two hundred feet equare, and, with an army of mu- sicians, was very successful. The Bishop of Perote, lately exiled from Moxico, went passenger from Havana in the British steamer from Vera Cruz in her last trip. The Bishop was well known, but not much loved, in Havana. We have news from Jamaica dated at Kingston on the llth of May. The revenue collected by the trea- sury for the quarter ending 31st of March, amounted to $250,695. The management of the public hospital and lunatic asylam at Kingston was complained of by some persons. A new law prohibits the Receiver General from paying any claim against the treasury without a warrant from the Governor or tho Execa- tive Committee. The sugar market was very dull, and good quality was withdrawn at 20s. 9d. A missionary meeting was held last evening in Dr. Adams’ church, Madison square, to bid farewell to the Rev. Dr. Bushnell of the Gaboon, and Rev. Mr. McQueen of the Carisco mission, who leave this week for the western coast of Africa. After in- teresting addresses from the above gentlemen, and a fervent prayer for Africa, the congregation separated. ‘The cotton market was heavy on Saturday, while the sales were confined to about 500 bales, closing dull and unsettled at the previous day's quotations. The unsatis- factory character of the market induced several consider- able holders to withdraw their supplics from the market, in order to await later foreign news, or for a more favor- able turn in prices. Flour was lower, especially for common and extra grades of State and Western brands, but more active at the concession. The transactions in- cluded sales to the domestic trade and for ex- port. The wheat market was without impor. tant change, while the sales embraced arout 90,000 a 100,000 bushels. Both millers and exportora were tn the market. Corn was heavy and irregular; the chief sales were confined to Western mixed, at 62c. for common, and at 65c. for good; white and yellow were no- minal. Pork was lower, with fair sales, including mess 94 $17 25 and prime at $14 25. The sales of sugars om. braced about 760 bhds , including Cuba and Porto Rico within the range of about 5c. a6Xc. Coffee was quiet, and sales limited. Freights were steady, and grain was freely taken for Liverpool and Glaegow at 0c. a Og¢c., in bulk and bags. Some 80,000 « 90,006 bushels, chiefly wheat, were reported taken, mostly at the above figures, and 400 bales of cotton for Liverpool at 7-32d. The Sepate Discusion on the British Out. The debate in the Senate on Mr. Mason’s re- port presents a curious contrast, and to those who do not remember our political history well would eeem to prove that the opponents of the administration are more ready for action on the British outrages than are the democratic sup- porters of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Mason does not come up, in that report, to the just expectations of the country, and Hale, Seward, Douglas and Wilson on one side, and Toombs on the other, have taken a far more energetic and popular view, in appearance, than have the democratic Senators. This patriotic ebullition of national feeling, however, on the partof the black republican leaders, is not the true sentiment of their fac- tion. Their real feelings can be found in the black republican journals of the North, which are endeavouring to palliate in every possible way the course of the British government in outraging our commerce upon the sea. But it has always been the policy of these factious leaders to assert a seeming patriotism when in opposition. In 1810-12, Josiah Quincy and the other federal leaders in Congress, were continu- ally asserting that Mr. Madison could not be kicked into a war with England. Yet, no sooner was war declared than they opposed it in every possible way, thwarting the govern- ment by a factious opposition, and finally end- ing in getting up the Hartford blue-light con- vention that was so odious to the country. The same faction pursued a similar course to- ward Mr. Polk in 1846, Webster and the other opposition leaders were lond-mouthed in their patriotic speeches on Mexican insolence and Mexican outrages. Yet no sooner was war be- gun than they did all they couldto defeat ite prosecution to victory. They voted en masse against the appropriations for blankets and clo- thing for the troops, just as their predecessors bad done in 1812 against similar appropriations for the troops on the Northern frontier. Mr. Webster uttered the exaggerated statement that the war was costing us half a million a day, and that it would ruin the country, with its neces sary concommittant, onerous taxation. There is a logical reason for this hollow ex- hibition of patriotic feeling on the part of the faction in opposition. They seek to embarrass the government by it. They deal in glit- tering generalities—which they are perfect- ly free to do—for not being in adminis tration their futterances carry no responsi- Wility with them. On the other hand, ¢ odminietration can only act, without vroclaiming the action they intend to adopt. They cannot seek popularity by professing great patriotiem, and telling what they mean to do; for such a course might defeat the very ends they have in view. This is the precise position occupied by the opposition and the administra tion at the present time. One feels itself safe in the preaching of glittering generali- ties by ite leaders, while the other, loaded with the weight of responsibility for the final success of our American policy, sends its ships to sea with sealed instractions, for the purpore of interposing American cannon between our ships and British insolence, and directe our representative in London to make known to the English government the firm de- termination of this eountry, and to demand an immediate disavowal of the recent proceedings, Having taken these steps, it must wait their re- sult, as any intemperate action might involve the necessity of s retrograde step, and thereby do us a real injury. If the British cruisers should not desist from their course, we are confident that the adminis- tration would not contemplate with displeasure the arrival of the Styx, Jasper, Buzzard, and a dozen more, at some American port, prizes of war to our ships. We hope the Senate will pro- ceed to act up to the spirit of the remarks by the opposition Senators; and we shail keep their speeches on file, in order to bold them to their doctrine hereafirr, in ease any attempt is made to get up a new Hartford pro-British Conven- tion at Syracuse or elsewhere, with Fred Doug. lase (nigger) as orator-in-chief. In the mean- time we commend the speeches of Hale, Se- ward, Douglas and Wilson to the pernsal of our black republican contemporaries, who are NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY, 31, 1858, Tight than the honest common sense of the whole country. The News from Contral amertoa—Defeat of the New Granada and Nicaragua Treaties. We publish today @ voluminous corréspon- dence from almost every portion of the Ameri- can Isthmus, cootaining most interesting and important news from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and New Granada, It will be seen that eeveral sudden and un- foreseen changes have taken place in the firet named two republics, A Frepoh envoy, Mons. Beily, bas arrived there, with full instructions ‘rom Leuis Napoleon, and has not only over- thrown the Case-Yrisarri treaty, but has already settled the boundary question between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, induced these two republics to unite with Sam Salvador upon a plan of reorganizing the five Isthmus States into the old Central American republic under & French protectorate, called together a Con- grees of Presidents at Rivas, left Gen. Lamar entirely out of the programme, defeated Joe White’s agents and sent them home, tripped Commodore Vanderbilt's man with » perempto- ry open the Transit route or leave, offered sixty millions of franca, French money, to open the Transit, and held ap to the astonished gaze of the Central Americans a future of glory and power for the. nation he is going to form there, that has bewildered them complete- ly. In addition to all this, we have accouats of Col. Kinney’s new attempt to gain sovereignty at San Juan del Norte, resalting in a complete Jiasco on his part, and the triumph of Mosquito Sambo. From New Granada we learn that the Case Herran treaty has not yet been ratified, so that, as the term for its ratification and ex- change at Washington expires on the 10th of June, it must lapse by defau't unless Gen. Her- ran negotiates with Gen. Cass an extension of the term. The apparition of a French protectorate in Central America, and its sudden overthrow of the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, will take our Spanish- American protectionists quite by surprise; and the sudden overthrow of the conflicting Ameri- can interests in Nicaragua will be no doubt dis- tasteful to many. The failure of the Cass-Her- ran treaty will aleo disappoint many who had hoped that their claims against New Granada would soon be eettled. But it cannot be denied that we owe to ourselves in a great measure these results, In the first place, the thimble- rigging speculators in Transit route grants have so humbugged and mystified both our own and the Central American governments, and have exhibited so much corruption and bad faith in their pro- ceedings, that everybody has become dis- gusted with them. Then, again, the class of diplomatic representatives that we have for years been sending to those countries has been, with few exceptions, of the worst kind. Schem- ing politicians, who look upon a foreign mis- sion as the means of building up their dilapi- dated fortunes, are never good diplomatic rep- resentatives. In Central America we prepared the way for Monsieur Belly by sending out there as Com. missioner Mr. Carey Jones, who quarrelled with everybody, and pursued a course of conduct that brought us into contempt. After that the Caee-Yriearri treaty went out there when there was no diplomatic representative to support it; and though one arrived there some time later, be has been incompetent to save it. A similar course has destroyed the Case-Herran treaty. Without any American representative in Bogo- ta, it has been the object of partizan attack, and English and French intrigue against it, which have virtually killedit. A few words of proper official explanation in the right quarter might perhaps have saved both treaties, Now the work is lost, and General Cass will have it all to do over again. We have no idea that Mons. Belly can do any great things in Central Ame- rica. Hehas gone out there with a set of stockjobbing schemes from Paris, where they are as plenty as they are in Wall street, backed up with some few political ideas and instructions from Louis Napoleon, which cannot amount to much. The whole thing will fall through, and our government will have to go to work there de novo. We hope when it doos so ft will avail itself of a better class of diplomatic agents, and give little heed to the thimble rigging speculaters of Wall street. MoveMxNTs FoR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE Orrosttion Forces—Mr. Sewarp Ovr or THe Qvestion.—The movement formally set on foot at Buffalo, some two or three weeks ago, under the auspices of Millard Fillmore’s right hand man, General Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, and some of the leaders of the Seward party there, for the fusion of all the factions of the opposition forces into one general party, has been taken up in a still more practical shape at Washington. The Buffalo movement contemplated a coali- tion upon a new Buffalo platform, to be formed of the remnants of “bleeding Kansas” and the nigger agitation and the “slave oligarchy;”’ bat the new movement set on foot by the leading republicans of Congress is of a much more sen- sible character. It looks to general amalga mation of the opposition factions upon the prac- tical issues of “retrenchment and reform,” and toa dead set against the extravagances and heavy expenditures of the party now in posses- sion of the government. This is the true ground for the opposition; for thas organized, and upon a single candidate, they can surely carry the day in 1860, and perhaps as decisively as in 1840, upon the same platform. But the great difficulty is the candidate. The Seward organs and managers in these lati- tudes have trotted ont their champion, curried and rubbed down well with straw, with a pretty distinct notice to all others concerned that W. HL Seward, come what may, is, and must, and shall be their candidate for the succession. Very well. That point being settled, there is still a hope for the democracy, as in 1856; for the fusion of the opposition factions, North or South, upon W.H. Seward and his extreme nigger and corrupt lobby affiliations is utterly out of the question. With Seward in the field: there will inevitably be two or three other op- position candidates, and thas the democracy will have a fair chance to step in between them, or to carry the election into Congress. As it was the bad odor of Seward and Se- wardism that broke down General Scott in 1862, and the popular Fremont in 1856, what possible chance can there be for anion or har- mony among the opposition camps, with Seward himeelf thrast upon them as their candidate in 1860? That question must be answered before the ground can be cleared for action. It is perfectly absurd to suppose that Seward and his corrupt lobby gang can make even a re- apectable run before the people. ‘The Central Park Job. The Central Park Commiestoners will meet this evening to decide upon the plan for the Perk. Mr. Olmstesd’s design, to which the first prize was awarded, is, it appears, to be modified and amended to a certain extent, to suit the views of the majority of the Commis sioners, From the way the affairs of this Com- mission have been managed from the begin- ping, there iano reason to expect that we will ever bave euch a park as we require. The ma- jority of the Commissioners are political par- tizane, and they have been using their powers for party purposes. In point of taste and know- ledge of the work they have undertaken they are mere boobies, who know nothing.at all about laying out @ park, and they have appointed « man to carry it out who, we are told, is a good farmer ; but he is no more. He is not an engi- neer, nor a landecape gardener; he might be competent to lay out « farm of forty acres, but itis evident he is not able to lay out a park. His plan is open to a multitude of objections. Such as it is the design is not original ; butis » mere mixum gatherum of otber plans—the princi pal points in it being taken from the original one of Mr. Viele—and put together without much taste or propriety. In the first place, much of it is impracticable. For example, it is the opinion of many competent engineers that the proposed tunnelling cannot be accomplish- ed, owing to the friable nature of the rock. Again, the sunken transverse roads would be mere canals, filled with water io rainy weather, and blocked up with snow in winter. Then the main entrance should be at the oorner of Fifty-ninth street and Eigbth avenue, just where Broadway inter- sects that avenue, and where its effect would be most imposing, nota few hundred yardsfrom the corner of Fifth avenue, where it is located in this plan. It is proposed to lay the walks for pedestrians alongside of the principal carriage drive; whereas they should be far removed— but in sight of it—in order to insure comfort The smaller entrances for pedestrians should be placed directly opposite to Seventh and Sixth avenues, and not a little to the right or left of them, as they arehere. Then we havea shaded promenade of a quarter of a mile only, where there should be one the whole, or nearly the whole length of the park. In the London parks and inthe Bois de Boulogne there are places specially set apart for horsemen, on soft ground, suited for that purpoee; in the Central Park, as here designed, there is no provision for any such thing; horsemen and horsewomen, carriages and wagons will be all mixed up together in the one drive. Another great want in the plan the Commissioners have selected is that of some place of general assembling, where every one could unite, people in carriages, on horseback, and on foot—some point of junction for all the roads; and this should be at the rising ground near Manhattanville, Many other objections might be urged to this plan, but we suppose it would be only expend- ing eo many words for nothing if we were to put them forward; for the whole affair is a political job, and the partisan views of the majority will most likely be carried out, regardless of the will of the people, who are interested in having a good park, and whose money is to pay for it. It will cost millions of money, and Heaven knows how many years, to make a park of it at all under the present régime, and it is pretty clear that it will never be what is required. With the exception perhaps of Mr. Belmont and Mr. Dillon, none of the Commissioners know anything about public parks; and it iss cu- rious fact that only one of the black republican majority out of the six is a resident ef this county. Mr. Gray resides in Richmond county; Elliott in New Haven, Connecticut, Butter- worth in Westchester county; Strong in West- chester county, and Russell half the year in Newport, Rhode Island. These are the men who are to superintend the most important pub- lic work ever undertaken for the benefit of the citizens of New York. The statements of one of their own body—Mr. Fields—which were published in the Hera a few days ago, prove that partisan motives influence the majority in selecting the plan which received the first prize. When the non-partisan minority—Mesars Bel- mont, Fields, Hutchins and Dillon—discovered that the majority had fixed upon a plan in cau- cus, and that @ partisan chairman was deter- mined to rule out of order all discussion of ite defects, they naturally considered that the ori- ginal plan of Mr. Viele was withdrawn from the sham competition, knowing that it was re- solved to make the first prize a political one, and presuming that he would not accept the second, and therefore they did not vote for it, In their future action, the removal of Viele and the appointment of Olmstead as “ archi- tect-in-chief,” the majority had it all their own way, as Mr. Fields shows, by meeting at an hour when they knew that those opposed to them could not be present; bat who nevertheless took the first opportunity to record their votes against the partisan action of the black repub- liecan majority. The facts speak for themselves. The whole business is a corrupt political job— another fine specimen of Albany legislation for the government of New York, Leoistative Srecuators.—The recent in- vestigations by the Congressional Committee into the affairs of Lawrence, Stone & Co., have proved beyond peradventure what those behind the scenes knew very well before—that all the tinkerings and alterations of the tariff have been so many grand speculations by a set of lobby men, under the pretence of protecting American interests. Such men as Weed, Webb, Reynolds, Wolcott & Co., use their influence as journalists or politicians with members of Con- gress, to make such changes in the tariff as will net to the conspirators—by taking advantage of the market—a handsome fortune. This free wool scheme was one of those epeculations. In this matter, as soon as the act was passed, large numbers of buyers for New York and Boston houses bought great quantities of wool in Kurope, and sent it to this country. Under or- dinary circumstances a very large sum would have been realized from the admission of this wool free of duty; but the speculation failed— the manufacturers had no money, and the mills were nearly all closed. The conspirators all went down in the general crash ; and out comes the whole story—from which it appears that the tariff has been used like the fancy stock market with a set of unscrupulous operators who have been first on one side and then on the other, shifting about wherever they could pick up dollar, and hum. bugging both producers and consumers at the same time, Nothing can be more laugha. ble than the air of injured innocence which these old lobby Aabitués put on now they are found out. They took the money, but devoted it to the best purposes, asa thief might drop a ebilling in the poor box after stealicg a thou- sand dollara. And this bas been. going on for twenty years or mére, while the operators were continually crying out “stop thief!” in order to hide their own crimes, Weed, Webb and Gree- ley have never beeu tired of accusing us of all the crimes and corraptious in the calendar. How do they stand now upon tbe record, and where are we? Let the facts show, and let the people hereafter beware of smooth tongued tariff swindlers. A Hor To Te Secretary or THA Navy.— ‘The sudden call that has come upon us for ves- sels of war for the Home Sqnadron, and the fact that we bad eo few diaposable veasels for that eervice, and none to act as companion to the Niagara in laying the Atlantic telegraph cable, have led us to look into the whereabouts of our modest little navy. We have been sur- priced to find that one of our finest steamships, the Susquebanna, is laid up in our lower bay, and is to remain there until December. The reasons for this strange course are that she has lately come home from the West Indies with fever on board, and caanot be cleaned for use until Jack Frost comes to do it next December. She has om board a few clothes, comprising the purser’s stock, and three or four moaths’ pro- vision. The red tape roles of the department prevent these being taken out of ber, so that she can be fumigated and disinfected, because it is goverment property and can be landed only at @ government navy yard; so seven men are to aleep on her decks all summer in the lower bay of New York, the country, in the meantime, de- |-manding to see every ehip at sea. If the Secre- tary of the Navy cannot, in the present emer. gency, fird the means of doing what every ship- owner cap do with a merchant sbip, we will pro- vide him with some New Yorkers who will ua- dertake to cleanse the ship by contract, and have her sweet, sound and ready for sea in thirty days. Let the Susquehanna be discharged and disinfected at once. Tur Kansas Lecompton Exxcrion to Come OFF ON THE First ory Avaust—Aocording to the telegraphic advices from Kansas which we published yesterday, the Board of Commisaion- ers appointed under the law of Congress of May 4, convened at Lecompton on the 24th. Present—J. W. Denver, Governor; Hugh S. Walsb, Secretary; C. W. Babcock, President of the Council; George W. Dietzler, Speaker of the House, and Wm. Weir, District Attorney. The members of the Board were sworn in by Judge Cato, and the Commission organized by electing Gov. Denver President and Mr. Walsh Secretary. A cominittee of three was appoint- ed by the chair to prepare a programme for conducting the election, and report at the next meeting of the Board, which takes place on the 3let of May. On motion of Mr. Babcock, it was unanimously agreed that the election or- dered by Congress be fixed for the first Mon- day in August next. The Commission then ad- journed. Mr. Babcock, who moved the day of the elec- tion, is a free State anti-administration man, so that no complaint can be made thus far by the “bleeding Kansas” agitators of foul play on the part of the Commissioners. We have no doubt that honest rules will be provided for the elec- tion, and that it will be fairly and peaceably conducted. From all accounts, the Lecompton constitution will be rejected, and then we shall know what the free State party are driving at. In any event, it must now be manifest, even to the Hon. Massa Greeley, that “bleeding Kansas” is played out. THE LATEST NEWS. Nen-Arrival of the Indian. Riven Do Lovre, ©. E., May 30—6:30P. M. ‘The screw steamship Indian, from Liverpool on the 19th instant, with four days later news from Europe, is now fully duo, but has not yet made her appearance off this Point. Our Special Washington Despatch. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SENATOR HENDERSON—THE FOREIGN MISSIONS, ETC., BTC. Wasninoton, May 30, 1858. General Houston contemplated leaving for Texas to- morrow, but owing to the severe indisposition of his col- league, Jadge Henderson, who, tt ts expected, will not re- cover, be will probably romain uatil the end of the ses- won. A number of Senators and members called on the President and desired to know whether he intended to adbere to that portion of his message requiring all bills to be submitted to him three days before the adjourn- ment. He taformed them that such was his determins- on la regard to all important bills The administration is now engaged in arranging the slate for foreign appointments, with the view of carrying out its foreign policy. The President finds it extremely difficult to fill the Spanish and French missions. Senator Benjamin's name is mentioned in connection with the for- mer position, Robert M. MoGrow, of Maryland, it is un- derstood bas been tendered the minsion to Paraguay. Two distinguished democratic Senators, on seeing the editorial article in the Union referred tw in my despatch yesterday, equinting at a compromise with the Douglas faction, proceeded immediately to the White House to re- monstrate with the President. It is said they found Mr. Buchanan as jodignant as thoy were at the unauthorized ‘and unorthodox tone of the organ. Tt is the intention of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to press the consideration of the treaty made with the Yankton Sioux for the cession of their iarge territory, ip order to organize Dacotah, if possible, before the ad- journment. This is felt more peceasary because the out lying counties out off from Minsesota has left people there without aay proper government. ‘The House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads ‘will bave under consideration to-morrow the Tehuaatepec mail route. Dr. Bervheisel, the Mormon delegate, dose not credit the rumors that the Mormons were leaving Utah. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPRR DREPATOR. Wasuioton, May 30, 1858 Lord Napier bas not intimated that tn his opinion the Derby Ministry wil) insist on the visitation of Amorican vessels to verify their nationality, as has been stated in tho newspapers. He has never committed his govern ment by any anch declaration. A statement having appeared in various quarters intl mating that a newspaper called the Albion stands in some connection with the British legation at Washington, there {s also good authority for asserting, with confidence, that the British legation baa no correspondence or relation whatever with that or any other journal in the United Htates. The Union of this morning urges the importance of strengthening the national defences. It is persuaded that, while the administration is deeply sensible of ita duty to Protect the people from actual aggression, or in the anti. cipation of danger, there ia groes inefficiency in the pre. Parations for the contingency of a flagrant war. Excitement at Norfolk About Ranning Away Slaves, Nonvoux, May 90, 1858. An indignation meeting waa beld last night, and great excitement prevails geverally, about the running off of slaves by abolitionints, The captains of the echooners V. Mott and W. Daunenberg have been ordered to leave the city, or they will be tarred and feathered. ‘iowa, midal have been 81 : F 4 2 3 5356c. @ 4c. Otte, Tare ite Gets Sema te wheat lc. and core ’e to New Yoo, Lake ta the twenty four hours ending at noon flour, 117,000 busbels wheat, 48,000 bushels busbels Darley. Canal bushels wheat, 8,000 bushels corn Ol 8 & L the Ronzani ballet troupe heve drawn well at Burtoa’s, and the new Deseret piece at Walleck’s has made a great bit. On the first fair night thet it was played it was tm. Pessibie for a new comer to get @ view of the stage. The Academy of Music will be opened this ovoning with the “Favorita,” in which Mme. de Garxaniga, Signori Brignoli and Amodio witi sing the principal reles, and Max Maretzek wil) conduct the orchestra. With Jane we may reasonably expect some fine weather, and the Opera will undoubtedly be profitable to the artists and Gratifying to the public. The principal artists are toe well known to neod a word of introduction. We may say en passant that Brignoli is reported to be much im- proved. The French dramatic company gave ite fifth representa. tion at 686 Broadway on Fridey Iest. Three vaudevilies, “Deux Papas Trée bien,” “La Vouve aux Camélias,”’ and “Les Enfants du Délire,” wore admirably played by MM. Thierry and Fallot, M’lle Juliette and others. The house wes well attended, and many Americans appeared upon the benches. We again urge apon all persons study- ing French the propriety of visiting these representations by which they will obtain amusement and instruction at the same time. The next representation will be given em Tuesday, with ‘‘ To Bo or Not To Be,’”’ comedy im two acts and “ Le Caporal et la Payse,”’ vaudeville. A pastoral opera, written by Mr. Thomas Ward, hes been sung in private by amateurs of thiscity. It is called “Flora; or The Gipsy’s Frolic,” and the story turas upon the pranks of a Gipsy girl, who upse's a rural wed. ding and makes mischief among all the guests. The work has been received with much favor by the diletantt. Mra. D. P. Bowers has made an arrangement with Mr. Hackett, by which he will play at Laura Keone’s theatre during this week. Mr. Hackett appears this evening a Falatafl, in the “ Merry Wives of Windsor,” supported by Mrs. Bowers, Mise Anna Cruise, Mr. and Mre. Wa cott, and other favorite artists. ‘Mise Laura Keene and company will play engagements is Baltimore and Richmond, and will not again appear New York during the season. Mme. Lola Montez has been lecturing at the Broadwa; theatre during the past week to moderate audiences. W are not informed as to the tuture history: of this theatre Mr. Bateman has officially informed the public that th negotiations between him and Mr. Marshall have reeuite im nothing Perbaps the best thing that could be done wit the theatre would be to tear it down and build shopse its nite. At Wallack’s the bill for all the week will include th Dew extravaganza, “ Deseret Desorted.”’ It promises | bave an indefinite run. Blake as Brigham and the sple did scenery are the strong points of the play, and thy are very atrong. Mr. Nibio announces the present as the last week & one of the Ravels—a fact interesting alike to citizens all strangers. The talented family appear in a fine selectia of their own pieces this evening. At Burton’s theatre the Ronzeni belict company wi remain another week. The bill includes two baile, comic and serious, and the entertainment is one of tb pleasantest in town. At the Bowery Mr. Mathews’ comedy, ‘Broadway af the Bowery,” ‘The Rent Day’ and “The Clockmakes ‘Hat,’’ are the announcements for this evening. Mr. Edly, Mr. R. Johnston aad Mrs. A. Parker will play the pis- cipal parts. At the Museum ‘Rosalind Herbert,” with Miss Sum Denin as the heroine still koops the bills, and will be playd throughout this week. . The colored Operas companies, Wood’s, Bryant’s ad Peel's, are among the most popular of city entertainmeas. pany, which inclades Mr. E. L. Davenport, Mr. Setobel, and other Metropolitan favorites. The same compaay wil eppear with Miss Cushman at Niblo’s in about a fortaigt. ‘Thalberg, Strakosch, Frezzolin!, Vieuxtemps and Julia May were ali at Cincinnati last week. There is to be 8 complimentary benefit given to Mr. 3, W. Clarke at Niblo’s on Wednesday evening next. He he ‘been confined at his resideace for some time with severe Ulnees. Otty Intelligence, ‘Troms 1x 4 CoLonxp Mernovuer Orvncn.—On Saturday Inet application was made to Mayor Tiemann to detdla ed, and bence the the , socrame. “Hewever's compromte was estived cr weck it was’ agreed. thal Mr fall Exrorae tie Scypar Laws —In spite of of the Sabbatarian Committee, and the resolu Police Commissioners, and the manifesto of Eg oe) 33 ij Hy Ropers cera pare ot ME, ceusoroinces of buck vt. of the taw, and only pen OD Ld vee Superintendent of Police. Oxrmonox Frrexne held the first of thetr opem Yearly. Meetings yeaterday, in the (rchard street meeting house, ittendance waa unusually large. The Friends ? age Bee Hi