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The steamship Africa, which left Liverpool on the 25th ult., reached her dock at Jersey City yes- terday evening, bringing news from Europe three days later than that telegraphed from Halifax after the arrival of the North American, and pub- lished in the Hzxaxp last Thursday morning. Money was in steady demand in the London discount market, and first claes bills were readily negotiated at two and a half per cent. The bullion in the Bank of England was increased £124,628. On the 24th ultimo consols closed at 96] a 97 for the account. American securities were in active demand. The prices of cotton had receded one-sixteenth to one-eighth of a penny im Liverpoel. The sales of five days were 45,860 bales, including 3,300 for speculation and 4,400 for export. The market closed for the Christmas holidays on the 23d with a dull feeling. Flour was neglected and prices nominal, but the general tone of the corn trade was steady. President Buchanan's Message produced a very marked sensation in England. It is commented on at great length by the London press. The portions of it which relate to Cuba, Central America and Mexico were, as anticipated here, disapproved of. The effect of the document on the Mexican stocks in the London market was not very decided. A very important debate took place in the Senate of the Spanish Cortes on the subject of the present state of the relations of that country towards Mexi- co, on the occasion of presenting a reply to the speech from the throne. General Prim moved an amendment to the address inj reply as far as it re- a e a report of bis re- defence of Ministers. ike Constantine, of Russia, had visited » Pari nd great interest was attached po! ns of other countries. tionists had had a complete tri and the plan of the Czar would be risdietic paliti The New York and Liverpool packet ship Isaac Wright was burned in the Mersey on the 234 ult. She had over two hundred passengers on board, all of whom were rescued, butl ost their clothing and other baggag A special meeting of the European and Ameri- can Steam Company had been held in London. The proceedings of the company with Messrs. Croskey & Co. were detailed, and it appeared that the ac- counts showing a balance of £34,000 due to the company, of which £30,000 has been paid, are under arbitration. Complaints were made in London that the late rapid ran of the Prince Albert to Galway, was not fairly computed by the owners, and that it was not so quick as asserted. Lientenant Higginson, of the British navy, famous for his opposition to the Atlantic cable, was com! mitted to Newgate for assaulting Alderman Salo- mon’s in London. A number of the Trish revolutionists were held for trial qn charge of sedition. We have advices from China dated at Hong Kong onthe 15th of November. The tariff was regulated and settled, but the details of the arragement are not given. Canton was quiet. The British had obtained fresh victories in India. The steamship Quaker City, of the Tehuantepec line, arrived at New Orleans on Saturday evening. She brought news from the city of Mexico to the 26th ultimo. President Zuloaga had been deposed by the forces under Gen. Robles, formerly Minister to the United States, and had taken refuge in the house of the English Minister. Gen. Robles had announced himself as the head of the conservatives, and had sent commissioners to Vera Cruz to treat with Gen. Juarez for a union with the liberals. The Quaker City also brought the California maile to the 20th ultimo, containing accounts one week later than those received by the overland mail. The ‘news, however, is unimportant. The semi-monthly shipment of specie by the Panama steamer on the 20th amounted to $2,209,000, of which $1,366,000 wa for New York, $100,000 for New Orleans and the balance for England. Business at San Francisco was dull,and the markets unchanged. The only arri vals from Atlantic ports during the fortnight pre- ceding the 20th ult., were the ship Henty Drigham and bark J. Godfrey. Our correspondent at St. Jago de Cubo, writing on the 27th ult., says:—I write to inform you of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1859. island. The poorer classes and slave population are vana within a month. reinforced. The mercury touched a lower point yesterday 9 degrees soon after the sun rose. sve thatthe Corporation ordinances are observed. bales, including about 500 intransitu. The market closed without change in prices. The flour market exhibited increased animation and firmness, with some speculative feeling. The sales were more frecly made, and closed at a slight improvement in State and Western brands; Southern tlour was also in good demand at steady prices. Wheat was in better request, with rather more doing. Corn was qae',#bile prices were unchanged. Pork was dull and lower for immediate delivery; new mess was sold ata $17 85, and old at $16 90, and new prime at $13 25 a $13 85, and forspring delivery at $13 26 a $13.50. Lard was firm. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 400 a 500 bhds. New Orleans at 63/c. a 734c., and about 300 a 400 boxes, part at Tigc. a Siyc. and part at p.t. « offee was quiet. The stock of Rio was much reduced; 400 bags Maracaibo were sold at p.t. Freights were inactive and engagements light, while rates were unchanged. ‘The News from Mexico—Overthrow of the Zuloaga Government. The announcement of the deposition of General Zuloaga and the substitution of General Robles as President is not an event of as much impor- tance as at first sight it would appear. It alters in no way the positions of the two parties which gaining head amongst their opponente. true character and bearing of this event, it will be necessary for us to reespitulate the political cecurrences of the last eighteen months. It will be recollected that when Gen. Comonfort was driven from Mexico, Gen, Robles was Minis- ter from that country at Washington. On Mr. Forsyth recognizing Zuloaga, Robles consented to remain as the representative of the new go- vernment, a step to which his antecedents and leanings by no means indisposed him. In the meanwhile, Juarez, the constitutional President, determined that his claims should not be ignored here, and he accordingly despatched as his Minister to Washington Senor Mata, an energetic and accomplished gentleman. Our go- vernment having previously and before the over- throw of Comonfort acknowledged Robles, could not recognise, of course, the new envoy of Juarez. Finding that his presence could not for the. moment be of any utility here, Senor Mata returned to Mexico for further and fuller powers and instructions. Meanwhile, General Robles became ambitious of occupying the Presidential chair of Mexico, and he also took his departure for that distracted republic. After long delay and much difficulty, he succeeded in reaching the interior, where he joined Echeagaray, and immediately began plotting to be placed at the head of the government. Afterwards he proceeded to the capital, and there he bas remained ever since, intriguing to undermine the power of the man whom he has just succeeded in supplanting. This was the less difficult from the fact that Zulo- aga was the creature of necessity rather than of choice with the church party, his moral habits not being such as to reflect much credit upon them. As soon as Juarez found that Robles had left the ground clear, and that the improved prospects of his party justified the hope of recognition by our government, he sent back Senor Mata to Wash- ington, where he now is, and where, diplomatical- ly and otherwise, he has managed to render the most important services to his party. The announcement that Gen. Robles has sent commissioners to Vera Cruz to treat with Presi- dent Juarez for a union with the liberals will, no doubt, lead to the inference in the minds of many that the obstacles to a compromise be- tween the two extreme sections of Mexican poli- ticians are about to be removed, and that there is « probability of their contributing to the forma- tion of a stable administration. There is no such prospect, we fear, in store for the people of that unhappy country. They will have to pass through many more phases of political oppres- sion and suffering before they can hope to real- ize the blessings of cither paternal rule or self government. Whether the liberal party under Juarez will have disinterestedness enough to disappoint this anticipation it would be impossible, of course, for any one to predict. The professions of Mexican politicians have so inva- iably been belied by their acts that it requires a consistent course of conduct and a readiness to make personal sacrifices—a virtue never hereto- fore witnessed in them—to inspire any great faith in their promises, That Robles and the church party are increda- lous as to the honesty of their opponents, and should believe in their willingness to enter into a corrupt compromiee, is of course nataral. Prof- ligate as they are themselves, it is impossible for them to suppose that there is honesty enough amongst their rivals to resist their offers. And | so it would probably prove were the liberals in the same straits as those in which the conserva tives now find themselves, As the half loaf is better than no bread, Juarez, and such men as are acting with him from motives of mere perso- nel ambition, might under such circumstances be inclined to divide the public spoils with their opponents. But, unfortunately for the church party, whilst they have been daily losing ground, and forfeiting the little hold which they had over the ignorant portion of the masses by their acts, the Iiberals have been strengthening themselves both at home and abroad. Guided by the advice of able military leaders, they have been avoiding, as much as possible, straggling collisions with their adversaries, and have been gradually con centrating their forces for an advance upon the capital, With this view supplies of arms and ammunition are being constantly forwarded to them from the ports of New Orlea: Mobile and New York, whilst at the same time their troops, the very unsettled state of the inhabitants of this ready and willing for a change of government, and would join any party to accomplish their object. The authorities and their minions watch every move of the American citizens now on the island, aided and assisted by French and English emissaries. It is a well known and established fact that the army is disaflected, and do you nut be surprised if a French army of 20,000 troops should land at Ha- Thave just learned that the garrisons of St. Salvador and Manzanillo have been than it has done before this season, and marked Later in the day the weather moderated, and at noon the mer cury stood at 24 degrees at the Henan office. This cold snap will soon fill the rivers and bay with masses of floating ice, and will, moreover, start the ice gatherers at Rockland lake and elsewhere, who will commence to lay in the store for next summer's consumption. There is no danger of any failure of he crop of ice this year. In the city this cold weather is most acceptable, as it has hardened the mud and snow into ice, and made the streets passa- ble in more senses than one. The only difficulty is n people not obeying the city. ordinances, which require them to sprinkle their slippery sidewalks with ashes, As the police will not see this matter attended to, it is to be hoped that our citizens will orm a committee of the whole on this matter and The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 2,500 are struggling for the supreme power, and can only be said to benefit the liberals by exposing the divisions and discouragement which are daily In order that our readers may understand the to poiats indicated in the plan of operations. | bave sought by every poss'ble device to destroy This movement, is fixed to take place his administration, that they 1'ght rise upon its early in the spring, will be of the most formid- ruins. able and orushing character, and as care will be | Borver Ruvrinwm Acatw Rampant my Kan- taken to secure Vera Cruz and the other ports | sas, ann A Batcu’or New Tsrerronies on aguinst surprise during the advance, the cause of | yy... y¢ appears that in Southern Kansas the church party may be looked upon as hope- | the free State border rufflans have lately less, Torn as they are by internal dissensions, | poxen out into the wildest excesses—earrying and baving no means of receiving aid from their marauding incursions even into Missouri, foreign sources, their annihilation as a party and involving the burning of houses and the seems certain. stealing of negroes, horses and cattle. At Fort Itis to the conviction of this fact that may be Scott, in Kansas, the notorious free State cham- ascribed the downfall of Zuloaga and the offer pion, Captain Montgomery, bas signalized his of Robles to treat with the liberals. There is prowess in the rescue of a prisoner from the no doubt that the priests, to ‘save a portion of | boas of justice, and in killing or wounding seve- the church property, would now be glad to agree | 141 individuals who had the boldness to resist his -to the half measures of confiscation which were armed invasion of the village. Of course 2 initiated by Comonfort. But as the incom- general border excitement bas thus been revived; pletences of those measures formed the principal the Governor of Kansas is again calling out the ground of the latter’s overthrow, and as the decla- oe ‘i is fol! ps, and the Governor of Missouri is following ration of a thorough reform of ecclesiastical abuses his example. What will be the upshot of these forms the bond and covenant of the league of new Kansas disorders it is impossible to conjec- which Juarez is the head, it is impossible, without ture; but doubtless the desperate and despica- treason on the part of the constitutional leaders, | 114 free soil “Kansas bleeding” politicians are that any compromise short of unconditional sub- at the bottom of all these ruffiauly movements, mission can be agreed upon. The days, there- In thie meantime we perceive that the repub- fore, of clerical sway in Mexioo, it is to be hoped, icans ot Congress have resolved to hold the ad- are numbered. mission of Oregon subject to the English Kansas Mr. Dougias Opens Fire on James Buchan- | restriction, and this movement, we may rest assur- an—The Split in the Democratic Party. ed, will be supplied by the Kansas border ruffians From the extraordinary article on “James | with all the neceseary stimulants for a new agi- Buchanan,” which we transfer to this paper from tation. At the same time there is quite a the Chicago Times (the Wome organ of Mr. | gang of Territorial delegates from Dacotah, Douglas), our readers will perceive that our Colona, Nevada, Arizona, and we know opinions concerning the irremediable shipwreck } not how many other unogganized Territories, at of the democratic party on the rock of the slavery Washington, or on the way there, in view of the question are fully sustained. With the receipt | chances of a Congressional recognition and their of the news at Chicago of the re-election of Mr. pay and mileage. It has been given out that the Douglas to the Senate, the journal in question House Committee on the subject are disposed to frankly declares that an “unwillingness to em- provide Territorial governmentr this session for barrass a political contest in which our friends Dacotab (north of Nebraska) and Arizona had a deep personal interest has for many months (down on the Mexican frontier, a region known restrained us from that free and candid expres- as the Gadsden Purchase); but if anything of the sion of our judgment of the acts of the adminis- | sort should be seriously attempted, we apprehend tration of Mr. Buchanan that we would Ike to that between Congressional sovereignty and have given our readers;” but that at length “the squatter sovereignty the experiment will fall action of the Legislature yesterday has removed through. In the same way, most likely, “ bleed- the last possible excuse for silence on our part,” ing Kansas” will operate to the defeat of the ad- and so that hitherto masked battery is opened | miscion of Oregon. in the most spiteful broadside upon James Bu- Thus far the original Kansas-Nebraska blun- chanan. der of Douglas and Pierce; and from the subse- as beh aed blind a ze hae be quent Kansas border ruffian rascalities of despe- sees hecins aa petthicak me: rate vagabonds and reckless politicians, North rence to its coarse and vulgar abuse of the Presi- A 8 hb e. a and South, a new brood of Territorial chickens dent; but this abuse, with the intelligent Tt are in process of hatching, from which we can mu exreree ae ape he only anticipate a new outbreak among the chasm which now separates the administration and wrangling factions and sectional parties of Con- the centre and the right wing of the democracy athe eoant Such are the beauties of from Mr. Donglas and his followers, The pith { Sts tne Ue county: Bue rad and substance of this Chicago manifesto may be ican i ghancared ah abstained ced found in these particular allusions to Mr. glues mara Buchanan, to wit:—“He has told them Tue SourHeRN Press oN THE AFRICAN SLAVE (the [llinois people) that if they re- | Tranz—S.avery IN Missourt, &c.—We publish elected Douglas they should not be represented | today a chapter of extracts from our Southern at Charleston ; and Douglas, having been re- exchanges, from which our readers will perceive elected, it remains to be seen whether the royal | the essential soundness of the Southern public edict will be carried out. The man who pro- | mind on the policy of the revival of the African claimed it, the men who instigated it, and those | slave trade. We have no doubt that these views who confirm it by their action, may never hope | faithfully represent the opinions of the great to hear the approving voice of the American | body of the Southern slaveholders and non- people. They may triumph at Charleston in the | slaveholders upon this question, and we accord- Convention, but God help them before the people.” ingly hope that we shall not soon hear of an- Does this look like peace? Is it not the most | other African adventure into Georgia, Alabama, unmistakeable declaration of war against the ad- | or any other Southern State, like that of the ministration, and the party supporting it, that | mysterious yacht Wanderer. The world’s de- could be expressed in so many words? Can its | mands for cotton of late years have operated to meaning be reduced to anything less than this— | raise the prices of negroes in the cotton States that should Mr. Douglas be overslaughed at the | to an average which is very tempting to the Af Charleston Convention he will bolt, as Van | rican trader; but as the only safety of the South Buren did in 1848, and defeat the democratic | is in a rigid adhesion to the federal constitution, nomination by carrying off the Northern tailo | and the laws of Congress enacted under its au- the party? Ithas all along been supposed among | thority, we are glad to see that “the policy ” of the hopeful politicians of the party camp that | the South in this matter is so correctly under- the remarkable forbearance of Mr. Douglas to” | stood among the leading organs of Southern pub- wards the administration during the late Illinois | }j¢ opinion. canvass betrayed a controlling desire for peace | Yyom the extract from the St. Louis Democrat We now see, however, that this forbearance was | jt appears that the high prices of slaves farther simply a stroke of policy. Had Mr. Douglas | South are rapidly carrying off in that direc- been defeated in Illinois, the way was then left | tion the slave population of Missouri. And open for a comparatively easy reconciliation | thus, from the pressure of free white labor with “James Buchanan ;” but the great object of | upon her shgres, and from the superior cash a re-election to the Senate being fully accom- | value of her Pack slave labor in the cotton and plished, the mask is thrown off and the flag of sugar States, Missouri at no distant day must rebellion is run up to this northwest wind- become a free State; and in due season Dela- “ There is no peace,” and there will be no peace | ware, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky will fol- henceforward among the broken fragments of | jow in the same direction, under the fundamental the democracy, to the eud of the chapter. Jaws of climate, products and compensation: From the readiness displayed by the Mlinois | ‘pyese are the fixed and natural laws of slavery; Legislature to give the earliest possible con- | jt under them, and under the saving compro- firmation of the success of Douglas before mises of the constitution in favor of State sove- that people, and from the manifestations of reignty, slavery, even when reduced to the limits sympathy in his behalf in his late journey | of the ¢otton zone, will be competent to main- from Chicago to New Orleans, and from tain itself, But, North and South, our mis New York to Washington, it would be folly to | cijevons and disorganizing sectional politicians deny that this man has not the controlling balance | aro at work. ‘They ure driving us headlong to of power of the democratic party at his command, | the shoals and rocks of disunion, and it is high demoralized, disorganized and reduced in } timo for the sober, conservative body of the strength as that party bas become in these latter | American people to wake up from their lazy days. But there is a singular spirit of enthu- | groams of security and bestir themselves to save siasm and devotion apparent among the followers | tye government and the country. of Douglas for which we cannot account upon any theory of personal popularity, The secret lies in the fact that Mr. Douglas is the apostle of a shallow but plausible dogma which affords a convenient shelter for that anti-slavery senti- ment which, since 1844, has been sapping and mining the defences of the Northern democracy. And then, again, there is a host of disappointed office seekers and office expectants who have found in this rebellion of Mr. Douglas a very convenient pretext for joining in ‘the movement. There is nothing, then, very sur- prising in this declaration of the Chicago Times, that the managers of the national democracy “may triumph at Charleston, but God help them before the people.” [t ig but a logical consequenge of the course deliberat- ed upon by Mr. Douglas from the moment of his failure at Cincinnati; and if in stealing the anti-slavery thunder of the republi- cans, he has revolted against his previous ultra Southern pro-slavery policy, aud has thus ruled himself out of the Charleston Convention, he has at least, like Van Buren, secured the footing of a “great revenge.” The prospect for the broken rank and file of the national democratic party is thus gloomy enough; but we care very little for that. The party has run to seed, and sooner or later, like a field of dead vines, weeds and rubbish, it must be removed from the ground. But this state of things does not, in any important degree, inter- fere with the administration. Its general policy, foreign and domestic, has thus far been success ful in Congress, in spite of a factious and impo- tent democra'ic majority; and we dare say that whatever may be the party complexion of the next Congress, Mr. Buchanan will find it at least as favorable to the great measures of his administration os the present. And, as with the expiration of his present term he will close his political career, he will not hénceforward be very seriously troubled with the quarrels and . Axoruzr Book Jos ror Coxanress.—We have received from Washington the copy of a petition to the Senate and House of Representa- tives from the publisher of a biographical and historical account of one of the early filibusters. The petitioner thinks it is a great work, of course, and suggests that Congress ought to be patriotic enough to buy ten thousand copies of it at one dollar and a half per copy—making the neat little sum of fifteen, thousand dollars hard cash. The petitioner don’t desire to make any profit out of Congress (who ever did’) and he will generously let the books go at cost, stecl and wood pictures thrown in. The petition closes with the néive remark that by passing this bill “you (Congress) will confer a benefit gn your constituents.” How a benefit on any one except the petitioner, we really cannot see. We also learn from a correspondent at Washington that there is a strong lobby at work to put this sweet little thing through. The printing of ex- pensive books, under the authority of Congress, is, as our readers are aware, knocked in the head for the present, and the lobby will now take the smallest favors with the humblest grati- tude. This is one of the small favors; and by the following extract, even the crinoline lobby has been hard at work to enconrage literature. Our correspondent says :-- T-was introduced this morning to a beautiful lady, and had hurdly passed the compliments of the day before she exclaimed, “ Oh, Mr. M., you will give this potition your ald. Tknow you will. Won't you? And she handed me the following, a copy of which she yave me Ww read and give her an answer by dinner time. This correspondent thinks the bill will pasa, We hope not. It would be criminal in the pre- sent condition of the public finances to throw money away for a purpose for which there is no legal warrant, and if would fortify a precedent which never ought to have been established. The book in question may be well enough, but that is no matter, Congress has no power to spend our money for books to be sent to small politicians from all sections of the country, are advancing | squabbles of treacherous ' ders and cliques, that | and sold to second hand booksellers, We shall keep a sharp lookout for the vote on this bill, if it ever comes to one, which we much doubt. Tur Nationa AgnioutruraL Conyunrios.— There met in Washington on the 3d iust., at the call of the Commissioner of Patents, a body of men calling themselves 4 National Agricultural Convention, or the Advisory Board of Agrical- ture of the Patent Office. Their proceedings during the first days of their session we have al- ready laid before our readers, and in the impres- sion of to-day present reports of their proceedings on the 6th and 7th inst. The Convention is sup- posed to be composed of practical agriculturists. The intention of Commissioner Holt in caliiug it together was, doubtless, to extend the usefulaess of the agricultural department of the Patent Office. A real national agricultural conven- tion, which would annually assemble in consulta- tion the most experienced husbandmen from all parts of the Union, and also men of competent scientific attainments, to interchange views, ex- tend their knowledge, and make those improve ments or discoveries which might be known to one or mere members common to all, and thus scatter them abroad through all the States, might be of paramount importance in the developement of the agricultural resources of our vast domain ; but, having read the proceedings of the present assembly at Washington, we are of opinion that, for a National Agricultural Convention, it don’t amount to much. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. NEWS OF THE DOWNFALL OF ZULOAGA IN MEXICO— THE —CON- SPIRACY OF THE DOUGLAS FACTION TO HEAD Or¥ NEW PLAN FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE NATIO! PENNSYLVANIANS ON THE TARIFF QUESTION ‘THE PRESIDENT, ETC. Wasuncton, Jan, 9, 1859. The news received here from Mexico, via Coatza. coalcos, by the Quaker City, that Gen. Robles had deposed Gen. Zuloaga, and was at the head of the conservative party in the city of Mexico, and had sent commissioners to Juarez, isdoubted by parties well acquainted with Moxi- can affairs, From circumstances heretofore developed, it is, however, probably true. Mr. Faulkner is prepared to bring forward a pian for the military defence of the country. So far as regards his policy of national foundries, his plan is comprehensive, and [contemplates ultimately the erection of three establishments for the manufacture of cannon—one on the Atlantic seaboard, one in thé Mississippl valley, at some convenient point to the Gulf of Mexico and the Northern lakes, and the third on the Pacific Coast. His idea is that the Gulf—our Mediterranean sea—relies for its supplies by the Mississippi, and that transportation during war by seaboard would incur too much risk. He proposes, how- ever, at this time to establish but one foundry; the site to be selected by the President, upon a report from a Board of Army and Navy Officers, either upon the Atlantic coast or in the valley of the Mississippi. ‘The Pennsylvania democratic dolegation met last night and bad under consideration the question of tho tariff. ‘Their object in meeting was to secure unity of action upon this question, and, if possible, carry out tho policy of the President’s Message in regard to specific duties. Sena- tor Bigler presided. After an interchange of views they appointed a committee, composed of four,persons—namely, Messrs. Jones, Reily, Dewart and Montgomery—to attend to the business and call the delegation together when ne- ceseary. The Pennsylvania delegation willbe a unit on the question of the tariff, and will exercise great influence over other sections of the country. It is rumored that a movement is on foot on the part of Douglas’ friends in the Senate and House to oppose the administration, both in its forcign and domestic policy, by withholding appropriations, &c. A leading Southern Senator is mentioned as being connected with this move- ment. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuinatoy, Jan. 9, 1859. ‘The House Committee on Public Lands have acted ad- versely on the bills referred to them proposing a grant of land to California, Kansas and Nebraska for railroad purposes. K The delegate and several other friends of the organiza- tion of a territorial government for Colona are desirous of being heard on the subject, and it is probable that the House Committee on Territories will re-open the matter for that purpose. A Post Oflice has been established at Gila City, Arizona, and H. Burch appointed Postmaster. A recent letter from that Territory says the people have put into opera- tion a judicial system of their own, to continue in force until one shall be established by the authority of the United States. Several trials have already taken place, Account of the Wreck of the Filibuster Schooner Susan. Wasmatoy, Jan. 9, 1859. The Mobile Mercury contains the statement of Captain Maury of the schooner Susan. He says the Susan was driven on the Honduras coast by adverse winds. On the 16th, at three o’clock in the morning, saw breakers under her lee bow. The helmsman mistook the order, and the Susan, under eight knots headway, went upon a sunken coral reef, bilged and broke intwo. The foremast was cut away, and the mainmast went by the board. At daybreak # raft was commenced, and after six days labor it was completed, and the filibusters reached a small island. Capt. Maury and Col. Frank Anderson went to Belize ina mall boat, where a charter was arranged for the brig Kate, but Capt. Goodspeed refused to sail with fOlibusters, Capt. Bates, of the Amorican bark Honduras, offered some of the leaders a froe passage to New York, which they declined. Governor Seymour, bearing of their predicament, in- vited Capt. Maury to call, and avked the particulars of his voyage, and especially what had been done with Liout. Whyte, He then said, if they could do no better, he would send them to the United States in the six gun steamsloop Basilisk. As they had violated no law of Eng- land, he regarded them simply as shipwrecked United States citizens. He did not inquire into their original in- tentions. He gave Capt. Maury one hour to decide, Governor Seymour went himself to the reef, and told the “boys” they were in the sacred character of guests, and then leaving gent them on to Mobile. ‘The Mobile papers call for a demonstration in honor of the Basilisk. ‘'The Loss of the Ship Margaret ‘Tyson. ProyincerowN, Mass., Jan. 9, 1869. ‘The bark Azor, at this port, from Fayal 15th ult., reports having brought home Wm. Kennedy, the man picked up at sea by the schooner Oread, from the house of the ship Margaret Tyson, Captain Morris, from New York for San Francisco, before reported lost. He states that the ship capsized in a gale on a Saturday night—does not know the date, latitude or longitude—and lay on her beam ends until Sunday morning, when she was settling yery fast, Captain Morris then called all the men aft and told them to look out for themselves, as he should go down in the ship; she soon had every appearance of sinking. ‘The ship bad six boats, three of which wore stove by the drifting spars about the deck. Two wore stove along- fide, and the sixth was launched in safety. Five of ghe Crew jumped into her, but she was capsized soon after by a heavy sea; four of the men got on hor bottom, and the fiith—the man saved—caught a rope hanging from the ship and hauled himself on board again, Me then strip- ped off part of bis clothes and swam to the ship's house, which had become detached from the wreck, He found two of the crew on lit, and was soon after joined by two more, who bad been floating on portions of tho wreck. At this time the ship had entirely disappeared. Two men soon died from exposure. The third man becamo delirious on the ninth day and jumpod overboard, ‘The fourth died two days before Kennedy was picked up, He says that he canght seven smal! fish with his hands, and occasionally caught water when it rained, He accounts for his being seventeen days on the wreck from the fact that the last man who died told him that they had passed three Sundays on the wreck, Ho does not know what date the ship was lost. He is an Irishman and not very intelligent. Letters from the cap- tain of the schooner Dread state that it was in longitude 40 that he picked up Kennedy. Kennedy's statement is not very straightforward, but it may be accounted for partly from bis ignorance amd partly from not having recovered froin bis eufferings gat, Detection of a Mail Robber at Troy. ‘Trov, Jan, ty 1850, Jobn Mart; of Mechanicsville, Saratoga county, bA® ns been detected by mail agent Holbrook in robbing the matla at Mechanicsville Post Olice. Ho was arroated last bight and commited to the Troy jail, His depredations haye been extensive. Reseue of the Crew of the Schooner Worcester. Wasuinotos, Jan. 9, 1859. ‘The Charleston Courier of yesterday reports the arrival there of James K, Adamson, the second mate, and four seamen of the schocuer Worcester, lost, Death of Mrs. Fisher, Daughter of Dr. Lewis, of Boston. Bostow, Jan. 9, 1859. Mrs. Warren Fisher, daughter: of Dr. Winslow Lewis, died this morning from injuries receivea on Wednesday last. On the day mentioned Mrs. Fisher was shopping in Daniele & Co.'s store in Summer street, and was inspect- ing some goods in the back part of the building, which ie lighted aloue by boavy glass plates. While she was thus occupied, an avalanche of snow and ico fell from the roof of the store, and striking upon the glass, broke a number Of the panes into innumerable pieces, ono of which, Pointed and keen as a razdr, penetrated the lady’s right side between bér hip and lower rib, cutting through cloth- ing and flesh and inflicting a frigntful wound, and to suck. depth that a portion of her intestines protruded. The hemorrhage wus fearful, but no time was lost in sending her to the doctor's residence, where sho remained tilt death put an ond to her sufferings, What makes the acoi- dent stili more distressing, the lady was within a fow weeks of her confinement. pt CO Markets. 1, Jan. 8, 1860. Cotte inchanged He today ee Other otton ut ged: sales to. bales, articles generally unchanged. rer New Orceans, Jan. 7, 1859. The sales of cotton to-day were 8,500 bales, at unchanged rates, though the lower grades were easier: middling, 113¢c. a 11}gc. Sules of the week foot up 59,008 bales, the receipts 63,000 bales, and the exports 21,000 bales, making the total exports here to date 623,500 bales. ‘The receipts at this port are now 242,000 bales ahead of last year, and the stock in port is 424,000. Sugar steady. Flour steady. Corn advanced: small sales at $1: market now bare. Wheat quiet at 95c. Lard, in barrels, 11c. Coffeo firm and unchanged: sales of thé week 91,000 bugs; stock 29,600 bags, aguinst 182,000 bags at samo ‘time last year. Mouitx, Jan. 7, 1869. The sales of cotton to-day were 3,500 bales, without particular change in rates, except a turn in favor of the bayer. Sales of the week 26,000 bales. Receipts of the week 32,000 bales, against 18,600 jn the samo weok last year. Increased receipts at this port 162,000 bales. Stock 162,000 bales, Crvcixnati, Jan. 8, 1869. Flour firm: superfine, $4 75 a $5, Whiskey firm at 28c, Hoge nominal. Mess pork $17. Bacon—Shoulders 6c., and sides 83¢c. ‘Tue Orrice or Crry Lysrscror.. Mayor’s nomination for this office will probably be taken up by the Aldermea to-night. It is reported that Mr. Tiemann bad two candi- dates in view—Dr. W. W. Sanger and Dr. S. Conant Fos- ter.* Dr. Sanger is now the Resident Physician at Black- well’s Island, and the author of the ‘ History of Prostitu- tion,”’ and we believe is a physician of experience. There are two Dr. Fosters in town—Dr. Joel and Dr. 8, Conant. ‘The latter is the gentleman up for the office of City Inspec- tor—it is said he has received the nomination. He graduat- edat Cambridge, is about forty years of age, is a physician of standing in this city, and is now Vice President of the Academy of Medicine. The Aldermen are desirous of keeping Mr. Morton, the present Inspector, in office. ‘Tar Premacerc, Fort W. AND CHICAGO RattroaD— Express Ling Acency.—The above line of railroad bas just been opened to Chicago, and promises to be a valuable addition to our means of communication and trade with the Western States. Adams’ Express Company, of this city, will forward packages regularly over this route by the passenger trains, and engage to deliver them in Chi- cago forty hours after their shipment here. The company has, very judiciously, placed this branch of the business of the road under the direct supervision and management of Mr. George H. Burns, a gentleman in every way quali- fied to conduct it. Mr. Burns’ experience, energy and probity give promise that this express agency will be car- ried on with regularity and fidelity, Our Washington Correspondence. ‘Wasusaton, Jan. 7, 1869. Arrival of ‘Senator Douglas—He prefers abanquet to a re- ception—Nothing heard from Messrs. Slide and Jones— The Agricultural Convention—Jolin Cochrane on the Reve- nue Laws—The Little Democratic Organ and Federal Pop, de., de. Senator Douglas arrived boro last evening. John W. Forney accompanied the Senator from Philadelphia. Mr. Douglas was warmly welcomed by his friends ut the dopot, from which he was immediately conveyed in a coach to his father-in-law’s residence. A subscription paper was circulated yesterday afternoon among his personal frienas, and two thousand dollars were subscribed for the pur- pose of giving him a grand reception; but the Senator pre- erred to go to his futher-in-law’s in a more quiet way. The money, it is said, will be used for the purpose of giving the “enator a grand banquet in honor of his re-elec- tion as United States Senator from Illinois. Mr. Douglas’ house was thronged with politicians up to twelve o'clock at night, but we did not observe the cards of Messrs. Slidell and Jones, who, it is said, have néatly prepared notes of invitation for the Senator to meet them at some quiet spot somewhere on the continent, for the purpose of experi- bby he each other with ‘ villainous galtpetre”” and. lead. ere will be no duel between Douglas and Messrs. Jones and Slidell. When these gentlemen come to the “<pint,”’ their friends will stepjtorward and amicably adjust the pending difliculticse—or cise put the trio under bonds to keep the peace—and wo ings add, that if such should bo the case, the bonds would be heavy enough to keep these gentlemen in their seats in the new Senate chamber. The Agricultural Convention, which is now in session here at the Patent Office, like the famous *¢ Southern Com- wercial Convention,” which meets annually at some Southern city, is not what it was cracked up to be. The calling of thie * Agricuitaral Convention’ at Wash- ington isa political move, and the object in view is to establish an Agricultural Department, with a Secrctary or Commissioner, with subordinate agents, whose office it will be to travel over the country for the purpose of col- lecting information upon matters they may have no knowledge of, but who are to have their mileage and sala- ry paid out of the public treasury. The Hon. John Cochrane got the floor yesterday, and made an able speech relat ‘to his bill to codify the reve- nue laws, As goon as members found that the bill “ip no wise affected the collection districts of the United States,’’ or the revenue office holders. hey seemed to be much pleased, and it was agreod that the bill bo takem up for consideration next Thursday. Mr. Cochrane has devoted a great deal of time to. this bill, and it will undoubtedly meet the approval of our merchanta throughout the country; but had the bill pro- vided for a less clerical force under the Collectors of the several districts, im all probability it would have beem killed by 2 multiplicity of amendments. Mr, Cochrane is not oaly considered one of the tnest debaters in the House, but one of the hardest committee workers, and his bill shows that he ia entitled to be called such. I understand that the small democratic organ in New York has said very litte against Tammany lately, as it was wont to do every day a short time since, or very little in fa~ vor of the ‘outside organization’: known as the “regulars,” The fact is that the day for establishing a party paper, to be supported by government patronage, has gone by- Mr. Bue averred ag much to the Tammany braves when they were here, and the City Register of Now York, and Mr. Purser, and Connolly and others, heard the President compliment the Himatp on its indepondens course, and bi him further say that the Haran hag been a prop to his administration. The hotels ure getting filled np, and the indications aro that we are to have a lively time hore this winter after all. n and Politics. THE IRON MERCHANTS OPPOSED TO MAKING THR QUESTION A POLITICAL ONE—THE ANTAGONISTIO POSITION OF THE VRESIDENT AND THR SECRETARY. TO THE KDITOR OF THE MERALD. New York, Jan. 5, 1869. The speech of ex-Senator Cooper before the ‘Secret Convention of Iron Masters in Philadelphia,” (as it is called by the newspapers), and your oditorial remarks thereon in to-day’s isgue, will be read with great interest by the iron masters north of Pennsylvania, who have re- frained from taking any part in secret movements, if any Buch there be. As the able ex-Senator has done me the honor to quote rather extensively from one of my “papers on irom,” it may not be improper for me to state that the groat body of iron masters in New Jersey, New York and New Eng- land, desire nothing so much as to rover their business from all connection with party politics. I do not believe that any judicious iron master can be induced to lend his aid or influence to the organization of a party upon so nar- row ana selfish @ basis. The apparently antagonistic po- sition of the President and the Secretary of the Larne 4 on the subject of specific and ad valorem duties Is in it ‘© moat favorable evidence that the question is ina fair-way: of being decided on ite mits, and without reference to future political iesues. Having bad an interview with the Secretary of the Treasury, 1am entirely satisfled of his sineore desire to have the ‘duties on iron arranged upor the only proper basis of equal justice to consumers and. roducers; and I trust that this desirable resalt will not defeated by any effort to make tho iron question again the foot ball of party politics, As the tariff now stands thore cannot be a doubt, on a, fair investigation of the facts, that the present policy ks unwise and prejudicial to the best interests of the coun try; but {t is folly to expect that the evil can be cured Subjeoting the tron trade to the incurable mischief of a political contest. I have no doubt that moderate ¢] duties on iron will increase the revenue and contribute to the stability of the trade and to steadiness in the prices, henetitting consumers and producers alike, to ‘all of whom the violent fluctuations in price are na groat evil. Rav if such dutios are imposed for political consideyatonn, and not from a conviction of their Justice and general ad- vantage, they cannot be of long duration, and the trom trade will soon be subjected to another of those financial earthquakes which Lavg wlready several times almost destroyed ite vitality, ADAM 8, HEWITT, ' 4 ‘ y