The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1858, Page 2

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDIVOR AND PROPRIETOR. Anes OF FW M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU STS. Beles Pe Kolgs AT ‘Hetiote, as Dow norte mtirnent bet? ILY MERALD, sory Wotncotng, at four comsaper 209,07 88 cr anew DENCE eed Nom oat reso, he wos used tl ie eal rely. Bee aeeet eae te Picecoes FO NOTTUR taken of anonymous communications We de net bes certs! erith maaan, cheapmen and de CWotume XXIU AMUSEMENTS THIS BYBNING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteeath street—Itauuas Orse.—La ‘maviare. BROADWAY TH*YATRR, Broadway—Lagrons pr Lows ‘Monvas os Gattanvar. Fo ay + @ASDER, Breadwar—Goversci—Tioxr Bors 'ats— ASPEOVSL. BOWERY THRATER Sowery—La Tove vs Nesis— ‘Waxvesiso Bors—Paoria’s Lawren—Kuss uw ten ase BURTOaS THRATER Srocdwey. upprane Sond ton ) Brrecars—A Paetea'’s ussien-Tas Vaiss w. FHEATR* drostwev—Aw Oscamo ar Teron Daves ov Bawsay Youua. {AURA KEENWS THRATER Rroseway—Kur on Cune—Mansune—Virgimis Rowe. 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Bubsoriptions and advertisements for »ny edition of the Maw Youx Hamat will be received at the following piaces tn Barope— a Loupon.. ..Bamson, Low, Son & Co., 47 Ledgate Hill. 5t King Wutiam ot, 4m. ’ Lrverroo:..am. Eurovean Exvress 0o., 9 Chapel cl street Esat. Panss...... Am. Europese Exoreas Oo. 8 Place dela Bourse. Bavidh..... Am. European Express Co., 21 Bue Corveiiie. ‘The contents of the Ruropean edition of the Hana will combine the bews recerved by mail aud telegraph at (the office during the previous week, and up to the bour of publication, legether with the latest particulars relative to the outrages of the British cruisers MALS FOR THE PICIFIC. New York Hera:d—Ualitornia Edition. ‘The United Ststes mai! steamship Moses Taylor, Captain McGowan, will leave this port to morrow afternoon, at two @’clo*k, for Aepin wall ‘The wails for Ca'tfornia and other paris of the Pacific wili close at one o'clock to m row afternoon. ‘Tee New Yorx Weextr Hamatn—Caltfornia edition— eonthining the latest mteliigence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o'clock in the morning. ingle copies, in wrap pore, reacy for mailing, six conte. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos- Bible. ane News. The most important and startling feature of this morning's news is the account of a revolution which broke out at New Orleans yesterday. The citizens at an early hoar in the day seized upon the deposi- taries of the public arms, took possession of a public square, and put into working operation the machinery of Vigilance Committee. Subsequently the Committee issued a proclamation, setting forth their design of superseding the manicipal authori- ties, and warning all evil disposed persons to leave the cityfor die. During the afternoon barricades were erected in the streets, and preparations made for forcibly resisting whatever armed opposition might be attempted by the authorities. It was ex- pected that a collision would occur during the night. In the editorial columns we give a brief account of the causes of the popular outbreak. A despatch from St. Louis states that a messenger, who left Camp Scott on the 6th ult., arrived at Leavenworth on the lst inst., with intelligence that Governor Cumming had been expelled from Balt Lake City by the Mormons, who were in arms, de- termined to resist the United States troops. It was expected the army would move towards Salt Lake about the end of May. The troops are reported as living on mule meat. The intelligence is said to be based upon anthority entirely unquestionable. No Official information of the sort, however, had been received at Fort Leavenworth; and when we consi- der that the courier reports the streams upon his route as very high, that the outward bound parties encountered heavy snow storms, and that notwith- standing he was but twenty-five days in making the trip. whereas the previous couriers occapied thirty- three days in the journey, we may reasonably enter- tain a doubt as to the accuracy of the information. The subject of the British aggreasions was again brought up in both branches of Congress yesterday. In the Senate Mr. Douglas introduced a bill to re Vive and put in force an act passed in March, 1839, du- ring the pendency of the Northeastern boundary trou- bie, with slight verbal modifications to meet the ex- isting exigency. The bill places the military and naval forces and ten millions of dollar tecetyor with fifty thousand volunteers, at the ¢ President, to resist the pretensions of ( and authorizes him to send a special am) u-ader wo England if he deems it necessary. Inthe House Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, presented a preamble and reso lution setting forth that the acts of the British cruis- ers are in direct violation of international law, and requiring the President to issue orders for the arrest of the offenders, The House, by a vote of 154 to 53, suspended the rules, received the proposition, and referred * the Committee on Foreign Relations. Both houses of Congress have agreed to ex- tend the present session of Congress, but have not decided as to the precise day for the final adjournment. It is probable, however, that the session will be prolonged until news is received from England of the effect prodaced there by the wate of feeling here in regard to the British out rages ‘The Senate held an executive session yesterday and confirmed a large number of appointments, ‘among them that of Mr. Hart, Surveyor of the Port of New York. The appointments of Messrs. Schell and Sanders were deferred. The steamship Cahawba arrived at this port about one o'clock this morning, from Havana 30th ult. Our correspondent mentions additional instances of British outrages to our vessels on the Cuban const, and also the arrest of the officer whe searched the American vessels at Sagua la Grande. He was to be sent to Jamaica. The sugar market at Ha vana had improved. We publish elsewhere interesting letters from our correspondents in Mexico, detailing the progress of faire in that unhappy republic. By way of New Orleans we have news from Tampico to the 224 ult. Videurri had retreated to Monterey to await the srrival of munitions said to be on the way from New York. It is reported that Salonga had ised a de- Cree superseding the civil courts by military triba- Tale Reports have been pat in circulation from Wash . ington tbat England and France have obtained con- trol of the Nicaragua Transit route, through the ex- ertion of their agents in Central America, There is vo foundation in tact for this rumor. The last nd- vices from Nicaragua contained nothing that would warrant the assertion atluded to. Late accounts from Texas state that a desperate battle bad been fought in the northern part of the State between a party of rangers, under Capt. Ford, avd a large body of Camanche Indians. The fight continued five or six hours, and terminated in the defeat of the Indians, seventy-six of whom were killed, several wounded and eevonteen taken pri- soners, while of Capt. Ford's company only two were killed and two wounded. From a report published in another column it will be eeen that an important movement is on foot designed to effect a reunion of the Masonic frater- nity, and to restore harmony and mutual good feel- ing to that body. The stockholders of the Erie Railroad held a meet" ing last evening. Mr. Moran, the President of the Company, read the semi-annual statement of the affairs of the read, from which it appears that the receipta of the past six months are $400,064 less than the expenditures. The deficit is attributable in a great degree to the general depression of busi- Lees, growing out of the late financial revulsion The Protestant Convention, a body composed of delegates from the various Protestant held a meeting last evening to confer as to the means proper to be taken to restore the Bible to the common schools. A report of the proceedings may be found in another colamn. The Long Island College Hospital was inangu- rated last evening by a dinner at the Athenwam, Brooklyn, at which upwards of two hundred gen- tlemen were present. Addresses were delivered by Archbishop Hughes, Rev. Dr. Vinton, Rev. Dr. Storrs, Rev. Dr. Farley, and other leading members of the church, and the company evinced much sympathy in the objects of the institution. The Tammany General Committee met at the Old Wigwam last night, and passed a series of resolutions on the British outrages, which will be found in our advertising columns. It was resolved to unite with the Tammany Society in the observance of the Fourth of July, after which the society adjourned. The outrage resolutions called forth a warm debate. The Regular (democratic) General Committee met last night est their headquarters. No. 163 Bowery. There was not a large attendance, and the only business transacted was the payment of dues. if The examination of Henry Dwight on a charge of perjury, before Judge Russell, was closed yesterday by the examination of two witnesses for the defence and the summing up on both sides by Oakey Hall and Mr. Stoughton. The Judge wil render his deci- sion on Friday next, at twelve o'clock. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening epme of the members made their appear- ance, but a majority being off to the regatta, the Board, for want of 8 quorum, stood adjourned to Monday vext at five o'clock. The Chamber of Commerce met yesterday, but did no business beyond admitting several new mem- bers and passing resolutions expressive of regret at the death of Anson G. Phelps. It was announced that the new rooms for the Chamber would be for- mally opened next week, with appropriate ceremo- nies. The committee on streets of the Board of Council- men met yesterday to hear parties in reference to the extension of Albany street through Trinity churchyard to Broadway. Edward Young spoke against extending the street for some time, bat nothing new was developed by his arguments. As the entire of the members of the committee were not in attendance, an adjournment took place till to-day, when the final meeting is expected to be held in relation to this well discussed subject. The Board of Firemen and Engineers held a meet- ing last evening at the Firemen’s Hall. The only bual- ness of importance transacted was the unanimous election of Assistant Engineer James N. Wenman, Se- cretary, and David Theall, Collector, Mr. Alcott pre- sented a resolution returning a vote of thanks to the Chief Engineer and Assistants for aiding in doing away with runners; it was, however, tabled on a vote of eighty-six in the affirmative, andsix in the negative. A resolution was also offered that the Board elect a Vice President, but this was laid over in accordance with the rules, after which they ad- journed. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced @bout 1,2008 1,400 bales, closing on the basis of about 11%c. Owing to the reduction in the rates of freights, the prices of Soar in ‘the main were well sustained tu the face of tmcreased ar- rivals. The trazeactions were toa fair extent, including purchases for home use ad for export. Wheat was higher and more active, with sales of about 60,000 « 70,008 bushels, at prices given im another columa. Corn ‘was aleo higher, with fair salee, at prices given in another place. Pork wes rather heavy, with sales of mose at $17 © 0 $17 66, and prime at $1420. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 700 8 760 bogsheads, at rates given elsewbere. The sales of coffee embraced a cargo of Mio, at p. t, and 200 bags Maracaibo at llc Freights were unchanged, while engagements were moderate. ‘The War Proceedings in Congres, So much has been said in the Senate and elsewhere about the imminence of a war with England that one might have supposed, when the time came for action, that the measures taken would be suitable to the occasion and worthy of the highest Legislature in the coun- try. This reasonable expectation, however, is not confirmed by the legislation thus far pro- posed. The only practical measure which has grown out of the war fever is the bill in the Se nate which we have published, conferring upon the President the right of making special re- prisals upon the property of foreigners. There bas been so much hocus-pocussing and blunder- ing on the subject that it may be necessary to | stete epecifically what the bill amounts to. It wply suthorizes the President in the eveat of «claim by a citizen against a foreigner being adjudged sound by one of our courts, to send oat a war ship and collect the amount of the claim. This is what is called special reprisals in time of peace; ® memorable illustration of the system will occur to all who remember how Oliver Cromwell in bis day avenged an injared Eng- lish merchant, and paid him in fall out of the proceeds of the sale of a ship belonging to the same country as the person who had wronged him. The bill now before the Senate contem- plates asimilar course of action by Mr. Bu- chanan. The first objection to euch a measure is that it is not needed. The right of special reprisals is one of these natural rights of defensive retalia- tion which are taken for granted, and belong naturally to every executive. The President no more needs a law to authorize special repri- sale than private individual needs a law to jnstify his knocking a man down who spite in his face. In both cases the right is nataral. This right, in the President of the United States, has been fully recognized by Chief Jus- tice Marshall and other eminent juriste; for the Senate now to enaet that it existe is mere waste of time. Whatever retaliation or reprisals are required or called for by the insolence or bad faith of the nations contemplated in Mr. Ma- son's bill, may be undertaken any day Mr. Buchanan pleases, without the least word from Congress, In the second place, the bill is absard, be- Cause, in the words of ite framer, Mr. Mason, ft does not inclade Great Britain, but only some paltry republics of Central and South America. Now, whatever scores we have to settle with the Central and South American republics, it is NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1868, clear enough that their case is not so preesing st thie time as that of Great Britain, whose sbipe of war are at this very moment our commerce. Why then should the President be autborized, at this juncture, to adopt a new and more stringent method ef acting with them, and the much more urgent case of the Britich aggressions be negleoted? And wby should we propote to apply one rule to the sual] and weak governments of this continent and another to the atrong and energetio govern ment of England? Does Mr. Mason vindicate euch a cowardly system as thist In our opinion, if we are going to be brave and decided, let us be 0 to all the world—tu England as well as to Central America. Let us be as vigorous in dealing with the greatest em pire of Europe as we would be with the weakest of the Guatemalan States. To bluster, as some of Senator Mason’s colleagues did « few days since, and then to turn round and offer us a bill to suthorize reprisals against the State of New Granada, really seems to be trifling with the common sense of the nation. It may well be questioned—in view of the exhibition which the Senute has made of itsslf, and of the corruptions which the late investiga- tions have ehewn to pervade the Houee of Represeatatives—whether the country woald not be far safer, if tho power of settling all our questions of foreign policy were committed Gnally, for a limited time, into the hands of the President. It is quite evident that we canaot expect euergetic or harmonious or persevering action from Congress; and recent events de- stroy the confidence which many felt in the wis- dcm apd moderation of that body. We are neither sate from sudden trouble, nor can we rely upon the country’s honor being promptly vindicated, so long as the war making power rests in the hands of Congress alone. If, on adjourning, the Congress were to dele- gate to the President, for sad during the period of the adjournment, the powers which were con. ferred upon them by clause 10, section 8 of the constitution, and were at the same time to di- rect bim to aeeume the management of all the tangled questions of our foreign relations, as well with Great Britain as with the rest of the world, the chances are that by the time Con- gress met everything would be comfortably and satisfactorily arranged. As it is, Mr. Bu- chanan is fettered by the imbecility and cor- ruption which mark the conduct of Congress. The country would be far safer and our disputes fer more quietly settled if the war making power were in the hands of the President than will ever be the case so long as it remains where the constitution placed it—in the hands of Congress. A Vion.axce Comurrres =v New OrnLeans— PRoNUNclAMIENTO aGaInstT THE Kyow No- TuING8.—It will be seen by our telegraphic re- port, and the fall particulars gathered from the New Orleans papers, which we publish in an- other column, that the Crescent City is the scene of a wild excitement, and that a pronun- Giamiento to overthrow the Know Nothing rule has taken place there. The antecedents that have led to this result are briefly as follows:—At the municipal eleo- tion in June, 1856, the Know Nothings came into power in New Orleans, having used during the preceding canvass and at the polls the same system of intimidation upon the naturaliz- ed voters that characterised the city elections in Baltimore and Louisville in that year, and which were unsuccessfully attempted in Cincin- nati, when the German population there armed themselves. A band of men called “Thugs” were employed by the dark lantern lodges, and not only were many persons of opposite politica severely beaten before the elections, but several were killed and many hundreds were driven from the polls. In the subsequent city elections this rystem of thugging was carried to such an extent that last year only @ little over 4,000 votes were cast out of about 12,000 registered voters, These proceedings were palpable and well known to the citizens, but the Know No- things having obtained possession of all the municipal offices and elected their own men as City Judges, there calledRecorders, it is alleged that no conviction of « Know Nothing “Thug” could be obtained. The result of this state of things has been that an independent movement was started about a week or ten days since, and Major G. T. Beau- regard, late of the Topographical Engincers, and one of the most gallant officers in the Ame- rican army during the Mexican war, was tender- ed the nomination for Mayor by a large num- ber of persons, comprising many of the most prominent citizens of all political opinions. Mejor Beauregard has accepted this nomination in a manly letter, which will be found in our columns. From our telegraphic advices yeater- day we learn that the independent party has appointed a Vigilance Committee, which has taken possession of the State arsenal and the several city armorice, except one of the latter, which is in possession of the Know Nothing Common Council. This committee has issued a cool and determined proclamation, superseding the Know Nothing manicipal police officers in the exercise of their misused power, and an- nouncing that it will dispense justice, and that the “Thugs” must leave or perish. The election will take place on the 7th inst, and from the energetic manner in which the citizens have gone to work we think it will be a quiet one, and that there will be no bloodshed. Wore Stavery axp Brack Staverr—Tae Maetrxo or Extxemxs.—We publish this morn- ing an interesting letter from our correspondent at St. Petersburg, in which some curious state- ments will be found in reference to the progress of the Emperor’s measures for the emancipation of the serfs. It seems that in carrying out thie scheme some obstacles have been encountered ins quarter where they were least expected. The serfs do not think that the contemplated reform will benefit their condition, and accord- ingly evidences of discontent and agitation have manifested themselves in various parts of the Empire. What a lesson for the abolitionists in our own country! In vain has it been de- monstrated to them that the condition of the Southern slave is infinitely preferable to that of his colored brethren at the North. Were a wholesale measure of emancipation proposed to-morrow for the negro population of the South, it is probable that it would lead to just the same amount of trouble and dissatisfaction amongst them that the Emperor Alexander's emancipation projects have produced amongst the Russian serfa, War Arovmenrs._Our pious, white choker and long-faced cotemporaries of the Dvening Post an Courier and Enquirer, roll ap the whites of their eyes in holy horror at the idea of a war with England. They think it would be barba rous, inhuman and demoralizing to the last de- eree to go to war in defence of the freedom of the high seas, and tn resistance to theaudacious aseumptions of British cruisers of the right of search. But such were the arguments of the old Puritanical bluc lighta against the war of 1812; and yet the country lived through it, and came out of it with “drums beating and colors flying.” Our valiant cotemporaries of the Post end Courier, if they bad their way, would probs- proclivities of the Chevalier Webb. steamebip lobby jobs, patent lobby jobs and “free wool” lobby jobs bave token all the military staroh out of Chevalier Webb, i England, and the present commercial and finan- cial condition of the country, whioh may be gra- phically described in the popalar expression “low water mark,” afford one of the most ouri- ous and complicated questions of the day for. statesmen to solve. Every branch of iadustrial labor is at its mini- mum of production; consumption of everything is at its lowest point; our internal trade is largely reduced; and the ourrent enterprises of our merchants in foreign trade have mot been for years 80 limited as they are to-day. In conse- quence of this condition of affaira, two results are pressing themselves upon the attention of our political economists, First, the national revenue has become seriously diminished, aud calls either for new imposts to meet the wants of administration, or for a general revision of the national budget, and extensive curtailment. Seoond, the aecumulation of specie to a hither. to unknown extent in the vaults of the banks at the great centres of trade, whioh indicates both & deficient demand for the purposes of commerce, and a great increase in the aggregate wealth of the country. Therecan be no doubt that in the aggregate the country was never richer than it isat the present moment. Yet adventure is checked on every side, individual oredit is largely impaired, and confidence in the result of new undertakings is diminished, to the degree of seriously affecting the general enterprise of the country. from this state of things, the na- tural result of a wild spirit of extravagance for the last few years and its consequent revulsion, is necessarily gradual and slow. The produc- tive and commercial classes of the country may be likened to an immense army marshalled in ita separate divisions of the heavy infantry of cotton, grain, sugar and tebacco growers; the artillery of manufacturers of all kinds; the cavalry of domestic and foreign traders; the skirmishers and guerillas of speculators ; the sappers and miners of public works builders, and the camp followers and hangers on that cluster around every brigade. Each of these divisions hurries on the great march of pro- gress, keeping time with the bury hum of in- dustry; every one striving for and believing that it is entitled to the position of honor in the front rank in the estimation of the country, and each is anxious to outdo its fellows in achieve- ment. Yet one general policy guides all theee divisions of the great army of industry and trade, and all of them advance with a common direction and a common aim. One of the greatest results of the revulsion plus production, and thus stimulating industry. ‘The counsels of those who wished that all our efforts should be turned ina contrary direc- that instead of fostering foreign repress it by protective sys and stimulate home industry and home consumption, were set aside. The recent de- velopements of a bitter, antagonistic feeling to our political and material progress on the part of the British Cabinet have brought into sud- den existence, in the minds of the people, the momentous question whether it is not our policy and our interest, in marshalling again our in- dustrial army, to change our plan of campaiga, and try the assault for preponderance in the As we have said, in our commercial and finan- cial interests we are now “ at low water mark.”” It isin our own hands to determine in what direction the current shall be turned, and where it shall expend its force. Shall we or- ganize our national march under the old and well known plans of free trade with foreign nations? or shall we make a complete change in the plan of campaign, and look to the dimi- nution of our contributions to European com- munities, and direct our attention to greater home developement, the accession to our pro- tective union of Cuba, Mexico and Central America, and the establishment of a great Ame- riean world, based entirely upon American in- terests and guided by an exclusively American policy? ‘This is one of the really great questions of the day, though the politicians at Washington do not seem to comprehend it. They have got hold of some parts of it, and each is nibbling away at his little piece of string, believing that if he ean cut that, he will free the American lion from the net that now binds his strong limba, Mr. Boyce wants direct taxation; Mr. Sherman wishes for economy in the general expenditure; ® dozen others desire protection, each for his individual brigade of our grand industrial army; Mr. Houston hankers for Mexico; Mr. Clingman clamors for Central America; the great North. west demands Cuba; the administration wants revenue; and yet no man, on either floor of Congress, has risen to a national contemplation of what all these claims signify. They are too busy healing dissensions in the democratic ranke, and endeavoring to marshal the rumps of the opposition factions into a grand party bent on power or plunder. But events may decide our policy, and our plan of campaign for the next ten or twenty years, before the politicians come tocomprehend the great events that are passing, and whither the country is drifting. Should the British Cabinet insist upon exercising the right of earch, and upon holding us, instead of Spain, reaponsible for the continuance of the slave trade, we shall be carried into a naval war with Great Britain; and the whole course and policy of our recovery from the pre- seatt industrial depreesion will be changed. In order to carry on that war the government would have to resort to lom, ln» greater de- gree than it is uow forced to do, it fe teue, But we have the accumulated and wnecuployed capi- tal to lend, and its employment would be imme- diately directed to every branch of domestic labor, giving them life and action. An exclu- sively American policy in poiitios and industry would be established, which would continae to guide our national march lovg sfver the war it- self should cease. If the Britich government recedes from its high banded claims, our industrial recovery will probably pursue its couree in the old channels, and be gradual in its developement, This will necesaitate an immediate revision of the whole policy of the administration, and its reconstruc- tion upom the diminished revenues which it must look forward to for two or three years to come. Every division of our industrial army has come to a halt; and betore it can again take up ite line of march the council of war at Washington must decide upon the plan of cam- paign. If they are not able todo it the country will not be long in recegnizing the need of new leaders, Tas Eveeiasrina Merux on 4 New Tacr.— ‘The everlsating Meriam, of Brooklyn Heights, is somewhat like Monsieur Tonson. Just as we are congratulating ourselves that we have at last got rid of him, loi and behold, it is “ Monsieur Tonson come again!” In this instance he has abandoned his “equilibrio,” his “heated terms,” his “cycles,” and his Australian earth- quakes, to fulminate his prognostics on the war question. He deprecates the idea of a war with England, and dwells gloomily upon the sug- gestive facts of the war of 1812, strangely over- looking the important little fact that since that day we have grown from a comparatively weak Power to a Power which in its resources for war, offensive and defensive, is the firet upon the globe—Eagland herself not excepted. The only difference with regard to a war upon the sea is, that our resources are not developed, while those of England are, and almost to her fallest capacity; but within a few mouths we could have a thousand war!ike cruisers afloat. Will the everlasting Meriam put this idea into his pipe apd smoke it, and be good enough to attend to his official duties hereafter as clerk of the weather? It is, perhaps, to his strange neglect of this business for the last two months that we may cbarge the late rains of forty days and forty nights. Let Master Meriam attend to his thermometers, barometers, wind and rain gauges, clouds, hail storms and earthquakes, and there are other parties who will look after the war question. Tux Money Question iv Our Partr Pou- tics.—When the financial revulsion of the last year was precipitated upon us with all its crush- ing consequences, we predioted, from the inevi- table reeults that would foliow to the govern- ment, that the money question would soon overshadow and supersede the nigger question in our naticnal politics. The fulfilment of this prediction is already beginning to be manifest. The largely decreased receipts and the heavily increased expenditures of the federal treasury, during the last nine months, distinctly fore- shadow such a financial strain upon the govern- ment resources of cash and credit as cannot fail to make the money question a very if not the paramount, issue of the Presidential election of 1860. Oar readers will have remarked, too, how in- geniously these receipts and tures of Mr. Bachanan’s administration been taken up and bharped upon by some of the leading repub- licans of both branches of Congress, Nor will it materially improve the position of the demo- cratic party upon this point to plead the plea that these reduced receipts and increased ex- penses have resulted from causes over which Mr. Buchanan had no more control and for which he is not a whit more reeponsible than the President of Mexico. This is the trath ; but the masses of the people, upon political affairs, do not care to go back to primary causes. The administration and the dominant party under which any depressing national events may take place is pretty sure to be held responsible for them. This was strikingly exhibited in the tremendous defeat of Van Buren in 1840. For the financial disasters and drawbacks of Van Buren’s administration General Jackson was, according to the strict rules of justice, the re- sponsible man; but it was enough that Van Buren was Old Hickory’s anointed successor, and the recognized head of the dominant par- ty; and co it will be in 1860 if the opposition factions can only be united upon the principles of common sense. But while the opposition forces combined can at apy moment qommand an overwhelming majority of the Union against the dismantled democracy, the great obstacle with the opposition is the difficulty of reconcil- ing the sections, and factions, and cliques into which they are cut up upon any one candidate or any common platform. For example, according to the tone of our Seward and Fillmore organs, the attempt of Mr. Fillmore’s right hand man at Buffalo, Gene- ral Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, to bring about a fusion of the republicans and Know Nothings of this State upon the nigger ques tion, for our fall election, has fizzled out. Ao- cordingly, until we shall have had some more vatisfactory manifestation of the tendencies of the opposition factions to a coalition, we shall consider that the field is at least as inviting to the democracy as it was in 1856. Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer. Before Judge Strong and Associates. TRE MURDUR TRIALS—fHR TRIAL OF LALLY Pos: PONED—RBYNOLDS TO BA TRIAD. ordered for Monday next. The are the pames of the geotiemon sworn as bg Sn by Ad — ry repont, Samuel F. Bertine, L. A. Moore, Patrick Cunningham, Mosea Wood, Patrick Fox, Faward Burcbam, James Do William M. Mo’ van . Brewster Vi |, 8. B. Gerriman, Thomas McGlynn, John Williamson, Jeremiah Quaid, Thomas Sul- ivan, Lowis N Robert H. Burdell, John W. Martun, Garret G. Bergen, Robert Woodruff, Loomis Bal: lard, Wm. Halsey Waived EXAMINATION AND GAVE Bart.—Jalia Brown, the keepor of a house of iI] fame in Greene strect, New York, wan brought before Justice Cornwell yesterday, for ox- Smipation on the charge of attempting to abduct s pamed Kivina } Mrs. Brown, hed spent await ‘action A N. Norris, of New York, became airs.” Brown's peourity. | THE LATEST News. ets MPoRTASt F 182 FROM UTAG, ioncameikiaainiiliaias Very Quick Trip from Uteh—Reperted Wx- Paulsen of Governor Cumming tro salt Lake Uny—Trevps Ordered to advance. Se. Loum, June 3, 1858, A Geapetch from Leavenworth, dated we Ist, eeys that Uwteltngence from Cam» soott to the Git of Moy bad been re- Ovtved at tbe fort. On that day tero Mormwme came into tee Capp from dalt Lake Oty, baving deepatoties from Gov erncr Cumming (or Secretary Cace, The troops were ox. Pecled to move towurds the valley by tbe end of May. Nothing wes kcown at tne camp at the dato mentioned of DY Precedings wishin the city. The foregving came by meil to the fw Tho exprossman who brought it gup- plies the following additional partioular.:— He left Fort Laramie on the 18th of May. At Fest Kearney the commanding officer directed bim te in- form @ol. Monroe that be had information that Governor Cumming had been oxgeliod from Salt Lake City, and that the Mormoes wore {a arma, determined to resist the army to the last, and re. questing Colonel Monres to pash on a4 spredily 04 posite, ‘This communication, it (s understood, was received ai Fert Kearney through the mail brought by this messenger, te whom it was committed probabiy for iack of time Cel. ‘Boffman’s command wes met seventy-five miles beread Fort Laramie. They had oncountered enow two to three foot deop, and hed lost many anima's. All the streams ‘Wore very bigh. The peace cmmissioners bad passed Fort Laramie; they were obliged to ewim the Platte at Uthat post. Bt is reported teat tne troops at Jams Soot ‘wore living on-mule meat. No offic’! information bad been received a4 the fort, but the authority faraishing Uhis intelligence te regerded as unquestionable. ‘The fourth cotuma, under Col. Morrison, marobed this Morning, and the Oth and sixta columas are in readiness to move, and wilt be pushed forward immediately. It ts unders.cod that Gen Harney wil take the about the 10th of June. A despstoh from Leavenworth dated the Sist ult. sagw that no further outbreak bad occurred at Fort Soott. A detachment of troops was there to be replaced by compa nies from the Second infantry. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE NEW YORK APPOINTMENTs—THS WASHINGTON PRESS sNDTAE BRITINE OUTRAGSS—A NEW 80GB FOR THB OOSAN POSTAL S#RVIOG- Tas SR0RE- TARY OF WAK AND THB INVESTIGATIONS OF CO GRESS, RTO. : Wasmvcrow, June 3, 1868. Aboat eighty nowtnations of appointments were oea- firmed in executive seasion te day of Collectors, Marabals, ‘Surveyors, Indian Agente, Consuls and Justices—mostiy usimportant sprointmests. Mr. Hart, Surveyor of the Port of New York, wes confirmed. Messrs. Schell and Sanders were deferred. They expect to be broaght up tomorrow. Mr. Schell will probably be confirmed, and Mr. Senders my slip in as George IIL. did into Heaven. Several Indian treaties were under consideration, but deferred. Upon consultation with each other, the demooratic Be- nators have resolved to extend the session if possible ti after government receives intelligence from Kagiand with refereace to the difticulty about the British cruisers. It ia believed such in'elligence may arrive by the 14th inst, Senators bope te beable to induce the House te accede to this, and therefore will not probably act epen the House amendment for exterding the session tl Thursday before Saturday or Monday morning. All the New York Commodores are here, and interne- cine war of confiiciing interests keeps Washington im a State of excitement. Vanderbit and Webster hold, it is said, by s contrect with Nicaragua and Costa Rics, pesses- sion of the Trenstt route, and of the river and lake to which they have already acquired ali the title of Gar- First—That the Post Office Department should be meée to pay its own way, as far as the same can be dose with Proper regard to the postal wants of the country, aad ‘without materially increasing the preseat rates of postage. Ser0nd—To that end the franking privilege should be abolished, or materially abridged, and the general rule should be that ali mail matter passing Chrough the mail, other than upon the immediate business of the Post Oflee Department, should be charged with postage. ‘Third—The printing of the department should be re- stricted, and especially as to printing advertisements in ‘more thaa one newspaper in Washingt City. Fourth—The ocean mail service to foreign countries thould ealy be catablished where It is nesded for postal Purposes, and where postage mail matter to be carried would be sufficient, or very nearly 80, to defray exyenses. Fitth—Ocean routes shoul¢ be estabilshed by dangress im substantially the same manner ‘hat the service new is on lend, and contracts for carryicg the mail oa such routes: should be made with the lowest responaibie bidders after advertisement. ‘Sixth—No power should be allowed the Postmaster General to contract for ocean service except on routes established by Congress, and thea only to the lowest re- wponsible bidder after edvertisoment. Seventh—If ines are to be eetablished mainly with the ‘view of encouraging commerce, or providing veasels euit- able for war purposes, and where poxtal service would ‘fn incident rather than the object, they should be to and devolved upon the Navy Department, aad Rot the Post (fflce Department, Eghth—Stringent provisions should be adopted te pre- ‘yout mail matter Deiug carried outside of the United States mails. The Judiciary Committee on Judge Watrous’ case, afer © most searching, expensive and prolonged imrestisation, are equally divided aa to their report. ‘The Washington Press this evening is out in 6 most ee- Vore manner on tho British outrages to our vessels. ‘The committes on the Fort @nelling case, in (te dectston Yesterday, by nearly # two-third vote exonersting the Secretary of War, haa effectaally sapped the foundation ef Combined hostility om the part of the opposition te able government officer. The Willett’s Point case, other cases concoted to damage him, will eed in smoke, Mr. Haskin, the promineat New York member of the Dougias faction in the House, stands alone in the Wil- lett’s Point Committes for « vote of censure. ‘The House bas amended the Senate joint resolution te the that and strong feeling in the Senate against the House amendment. The extension of the seasion of Congress has been caused THR GENERAL NRWHPAPRR DEHPATOR. Wasmacton, Jane 8, 1858, ‘The departments have not yet received apytning of- ial confirmatory of deapstches from Washington and Augusta, Georgia, to the effoct thats British cruiser had fired into an American vessel and killed aman, Thore ia great excitement here about it. The Union this morning Publishes a despatoh from Augusta, and has a short lead- Ing editorial headed “The firet gun fired.” Lord Napier has been to the departments for information, and has tole- to the British Consw! at Savannah. The House Select Committee, of which Mr. Florence ia chairman, appointed to investigate certain charges in com nection with the sale of the banking house of the Bank of Pennay)vania for Post Office purposes, have brought thetr labors ton clone. They say nothing appears to justify even suspicion that Mr, Campbell, late Postmaster General, was at all interested, save in the honest dis. charge of his official duty, and tha no improper or cor- rupt Influences, in the judgment of the Committee, ope. Fated on any officer of the government in any transac. tion connected with the purchase and sale of that pro. perty, excepting there which attach to John Miller, late Postmaster of Philadelphia, who received the total sum ‘of $25,000, paid him at different times by Mr, Auibome,