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WERY THRATRE, Bowery.—-BrLraecon—Madio thourn un ‘GaL—Wisanp Sarr. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Varerax ; (2, RANCE AND ALGRRIA. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Awsnicam Covsin—IuiusTRaTIONS OF THE INGTON. MERICAN MUSEUM, — Afer- Louise—Don’r Jup@s BY APPEARANCES. Broadway.—OUB ‘Lire or Wasu- STREL BUILDING, 661 and 563 Broa!wij— Blmoriar Sonam Dance, 40~MYer10 SPELL BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ HALL, 437 Broad- way—Nucuo Songs axp Buniesques—Hs Woop ss AN Actor. ACADEMY OF MUSIQ. Fourteenth street.—Hon. EowaR> Evsnart’s Onation ox Wasuincton. New York, Friday, March 4, 1858. The News. The Thirty-Gfth Congress expires at noon to-day, and we therefore give elsewhere a résumé of the work performed during the session, together with a list of the acts passed. The proceed- ings of yesterday are appended thereto, from which it will be seen that the proposition to revive the Treasury Note law was passed in the Senate by a vote of thirty to twenty-two. It appears, how- ever, from our special daspatch, that the House refused to act upon the subject, unless it was coupled with a modification of the tariff. Unless, therefore, the House recede from their position be- fore noon to-day, which is scarcely probable, an extra session of Congress is inevitable. In the State Senate yesterday the majority of the Committee on Towns and Villages made a report adverse to all special bills for railroads in cities, and recommending the passage of a general law allowing the construction of such roads when the assent of the corporations is given, and compensa- tion has been made to owners of property on the Toute. By the arrival of the overland mail we have ad- vices from San Francisco to the 7th ult., two days Jater than those received by way of the Isthmus. Business was brisk, with a large demand for mer- chandise from the interior. The ship Granite, from this port, had arrived at San Francisco. By an arrival at Philadelphia we have news from Porto Cabello, Venezuela, to the 14th ult. Tran- quility prevailed throughout the republic. The Capital had been removed to Caracas. The Bird's Island dispute had been settled, but upon what terms has not been made public. The health of General Paez was improving. Colonel Charles H. Sandford diéd at Venezuela on the 7th ult., from yellow fever, after a week's illness. Colonel Sand- ford was the son of Major General Sandford, of this city. He accompanied General Paez to Venezuela, where the inhabitants, animated bya desire to evince their appreciation of the civilities paid to the General while in the United States, bestowed marked attention upon him. Our correspondent in St. Thomas states that the question of the annexation of Cuba to the United States was looked on very favorably by the people They also hoped that the King of Denmark would sell us St. Thomas, in order to improve their con- dition. Faustin Soulouque was expected from Ja- maica, and General Santa Anna still enjoyed his in- door pursuits, going out very rarely. We have files from the West Indies dated at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, on the 11th ult. Light showers had been pretty frequent during a fort- night. Preparations for crop were everywhere in active progress. A good soaking rain, however, ‘was generally wanted for the young canes. The public health was generally good. The market continued overstocked with breadstuffs, and no prospect of higher rates immediately. Bank bills on New York, at ten days, were at $ per cent pre- minum; thirty days, at par. Her Britannic Majesty's ship Indus, Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, sailed out of the bay on the 6th ult., accompanied by the Styx and Atlanta, for Trinidad. Assistant Surgeon Ro- bert E. Kerr, R. N., of her Britannic Majesty's brig Atlanta, died on the night of the 4th ult. on board the vessel, from the effects of an overdose of laudanum, taken whilst suffering from a severe at- tack of toothache. Advices from St. Kitts, of the 24th of January, state that a smart shock of earthquake was felt there that day. No damage done. The weather continued very favorable for the planters, who were expecting to reap a fair crop this year. From St. Lucia, under date of the 29th of Janua- ry, we learn that reaping operations began imme- diately on the close of the holidays, and the mills on nearly all the estates were in full play in the last week of January. ‘The planters entered upon the new cropping season with fair prospects. A despatch from St. Louis reports the defeat by the Apacha Indians of a detachment of the Mount- ed Rifles, commanded by Lieut. Lazalle, at Dog Canon. The troops sustained a loss of three killed and six wounded. Among the latter is Lieut. La- valle, who received a wound in the lungs which it ‘was supposed would prove mortal. The anti-Tammany General Committee met last night at Mozart Hall, Broadway. The chairman addressed the meeting in regard to the causes which caused their separation from the Tammany Committee; and in order to effect a more thorough mustering of their members, to combat their oppo- nents, a plan was submitted for the organization of district associations, and to allow all democrats who favor their cause to enrol their names. The form of a constitution for the government of the district associations was adopted. At noon yesterday we were visited with another Bnow storm, which made the walking everything but agreeable. At dark there were two or three inches of snow on the ground. The city railroad cars experienced some difficulty in keeping up the regular trips, and in numerous instances the horses before the cars came to a dead stop, and the unfor- tunate passengers who had already paid their fares were obliged either to wait until the horses got ready to start, or get out and go on foot. During the evening the weather moderated, and it alter- nately snowed and rained, and the snow was con- verted into a disagreeable slush. Owing to the inclemency of the weather and the prevailing snow storm, the meeting of the <meri- can Geographical and Statistical Society, together with Dr. Thompson’s annual address, was post- poned until next week. Charles Henne, Simon Fernell and Lewis Oder- sen, who were arrested on Wednesday night, at the Gonstantine Hotel, in William street, where some $8,000 worth of jewelry was recovered, supposed to have been stolen, were yesterday brought be- fore Justice Welsh, and committed, ia default of bail, to answer. rely moving sear, sven. ene meeting yesterday commu- wesycan’ was received from the Provisional Trus- tees of the Central Park Observatory, asking for a conference with the Chamber in reference to uniting the projects for a Central Park and Mercan- tile Observatories. R. B. Minturn prosented a me- morial from the Underwriters and a number of New York merchants, to the Legislature, asking for modifications to the Quarantine laws, and that the Health Officer should receive a stated salary in lieu of fees. Mr. R. Phelps presented a memorial from the Underwriters, asking the co-operation of the Chamber in asking the federal government to re- move obstructions at the mouth of the Mississippi river. é The leases of the basements of Fulton, Centre, Washington, Essex and Franklin markets were sold at suction yesterday afternoon, in the Gover- nor’s room, at the City Hall. The leases run for 2 term of five years. The bidding was brisk. Most of the leases were purchased by the present occu- pants. The leases of several houses and lots owned: by the Corporation in various parts of the city, were also disposed of in a similar manner. The trial of the case of the bark Laurens has been commenced at New London. It is a proceed. ing in the name of the government to obtain the forfeiture of said bark, lying in the harbor of New London, on the ground that she was fitting out for a slave voyage, in violation of the acts of 1794 and 1818. Mr. James W. Hannum, of Boston, alleges that he is the true and sole owner of the Laurens, denies all the allegations of the libel, and demands that the bark shall be restored to him. The cotton market was again firmor yesterday, with sales of about 4,000 bales, 2,000 of which were in tran- situ. Flour was firm, with a fair amount of sales; South- ern brands were active and firmer, including some sales for export and on speculation. Wheat continued firm, with free sales, at full prices for white; winter red was better, while spring, and especially inferior quality, was heavy. Corn was in rather better request, with fair sales and rather firmer rates for good sound lots, Pork was active, with sales of new mess at $17 8734 a $18; old do. $17 60, and prime at $13 15a $13 25. Sales of some mess were made, deliverable in five months after the lat of April, at $18. Sugars were active; the sales comprised 1,500 bhds, 3,000 bags Manila, and 2,500 do, Babia, anda small lot of Havana boxes, on terms given in another column, Coffee was active, and the saies embraced about 18,000 bags Rio, and small lots of Maracaibo and Laguay- ra, on terms stated elsewhere. Freight engagements were moderate and rates unchanged. The Coming War. In making their commercial or political ar- rangements for the future, our citizens would do well to take into their calculations the war agita- tion which is now shaking Europe, and which, ere long, will be succeeded by the dread reality itself, destined to convulse the continent and its islands to such an extent and such a degree as the world has not witnessed since Bona- parte, nearly half a century ago, played his sub- lime part and made his exit from the stage. The premonitory tremblings and rumblings of the earthquake are already felt and heard. The combustible materials beneath the surface are beginning to come into collision, and soon the terrible upheaving and the grand explosion will astonish the age. The present Emperor of the French will fol- low the réle of bis uncle, under altered circum- stances, with a new generation, but with almost the same enthusiasm which had before conquered nearly all Europe. Popular liberty has made great progress since then among the nations of Europe, including England, whose old decayed aristocracy, enlisted in the cause of the Coburgs, is every day retiring before the assaults of the fresh and vigorous democracy; and the doetrina of “legitimacy ” or the kingly right of heredi- tary descent, by which the crowned conspirators of the Congress of Vienna got rid of Napoleon L, who was the choice of the people, is no longer available to dethrone and banish into exile the nephew, who holds his throne by the same title as the uncle. The first act of the drama has been performed inthe Crimea, by which Napoleon IIL. has re- duced two of the great Powers of Europe—Rus- sia and England—to the second place in the scale of nations. His next move—and it is a bold one—is to bring down to the same level the only remaining first rate Power, Austria. The second act of the drama will open in Italy, the scene of the first brilliant triumphs of the elder Napoleon. Other fields, in rapid succession, will receive “the red rain which makes the harvest grow.” Already the parvenu is the first poten- tate in Europe. He will soon be something less or something more. If he has less of genius and of the highest order of talents for a great general which distinguished the hero of Auster- litz, he excels him in tact and the art of diplo- macy. In the coming struggle he has secured the neutrality of Russia, and probably the active sympathy of England, even to the removal of her present Prime Minister from office. The tread of his battalions will soon shake the plains of Lombardy and Venice, the fair garden of Italy, and the opening roarof the new cannon which he is now casting at Vincennes will spee- dily reverberate from the Alps and the Appe- nines in the awakened ear of Europe. His posi- tion, which he so clearly defines, is the yery same as that of Napoleon I. He stands midway between revolution and anarchy, and levelling proletarian sans-culottism on the one side, and exclusive class privileges of hereditary nobility and the diving right ofkings on the other. Heis the great champion and exemplar of national in- dependence and of democracy suited to the times and to the atmosphere of Europe. He contends for the right of every nation to choose its own rulers and adopt ite own form of government. And this grand essential of human freedom is denied to a large portion of the Italian people. Aus- trian oppression is driving them to revolu- tion, and to extremes beyond the principles of moderate democracy. To prevent this sweeping revolution, and the anarchy consequent upon it, is the avowed design of Napoleon. He will an- ticipate the stroke by striking the first blow himself, He will therefore appear in a highly favorable light to the nations of Earope—the friend alike of freedom and order. This isa grand stroke, worthy of the actor of the coup d'etat, Every steamer now, therefore, that comes from Europe, will henceforth be looked for with great anxiety; and those who are engaged in commer- cial or political affairs, or who contemplate such transactions in the future, will act uowisely if they do not, in making their arrangements, take into account the tempest of war which is about to sweep the Italian peninsula and the whole Continent of Europe. Tux New Oprositiox Movement mm Vin- Guis—Tae Ricwwonp Enquirer Berocony.— Speaking of the new opposition organization in Virginia, the Richmond Bnguirer says that this organization is an old affair; that it was not commenced in Virginia, but that “the work was begun long ago, and in quite a different quarter, and the late convention was the mere echo of a sound that originated nearly one year ago on the shores of Lake Eric, In the city of Buffalo, under the supervision of the Buffalo Express—a republican paper—this work of reorganization was begun, for the. ‘purpose of strengthening | the republican cause.’”” ceedingly bold misrepresentation of the true had about as much connection with this afore- eaid coalition movement of Mr. Clapp as with the late movements of the Rithmond Enquirer against the leading measures) of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, and no more. The aimple truth is that this new Virginia organization is ‘an independent affair, and that its policy on the slavery question is not Jess hos- tile to the fire-eating, nigger-driving and filibus- tering Southern democracy than to the anti- slavery heresies of the Northern §eward republicans, Nor is the object of this Virginia opposition movement a fusion with the republi- can party; but it aims at the organization between the two existing demoralized and sectionalized parties of the day, of a great constitutional Union party, South apd ‘North. Hence, we have no objection in the world to the defeat of the demoralized democracy of Virginia in the approaching State election there—a de- feat which may be accomplished; for we believe that such a defeat would be the inauguration of a wholesome general revolution, involving the overthrow of the secession nigger-drivers of the South and the disunion nigger-worshippers of the North. ~ Our National Prosperity—Immigration its the immigration to this country from European sources has amounted in fifteen years to over four millions of gouls. its surplus population to increase and multip'y in the broad prairies of the Western World. From the banks of the silver Arno to where the Nor‘h- ern ocean breaks against Icelandic coasts, from the vine-clad borders of the sunny Rhine and Galway’s land-locked bay, from busy Liverpool Glasgow, the flood of immigration has steadily new homes, new friends and a new career. policy can hardly be overrated. Those who seck for the causes of the material prosperity of the United States, the wonderful increase of its wealth and resources, the surprising celerity with which towns and cities spring up on our waysides, the rapid rise in the prices of city lots, town sites and Western lands, the continual ac- cession of new States and Territories knocking uuttses are fond of accrediting our present proud ‘ position to internal causes. They tell us that the acquisition of California was the start- ing point of our they say, you have, in ten years, five hundred of Bordeaux.. You wear French cloth, drink French wine, and wear an English watch; your wife is adorned with the lace of a peeress and the jewels of a queen. With the influx of gold values were altered. What was before bought for a dollar, now costs five. Land, the most sensitive of all values, was acted upon first—gold was the stimulant. ing in the least degree to disparage the verity conclusions. We fought the Mexican war acquired under the treaty of Guadalupe was made up of people from almost every country under the sun. Foreigners worked the mines, cold the goods, chartered the ships, exchanged the gold. Many immigrants came to San Fran” cisco and failed in their auriferous researches. They sought new fields; they found, in other sec- tions of the Union, that the plough, the loom and the anvil were as productive as the spade, the pick and the rocker. There was gold in the wheat field, in the tobacco plantation» or the vineyard, as well as in the quartz bearing bosom of the Sierra Nevada. Meantime the tide of emigration flowed New York, filling up Missouri, Minnesota, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1859. - ; | appealing to old religious prejutices thisparty| THE LATEST NEWS. gained a momentary ascendancy ‘n certain sec- * / IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. | tions, But the country, when put dpon its se- cond thought, declared against the restrictfve Refusal of the House to Take up the Loan Bill—Commencement of the Con- under the immediate management of Mr. Clapp, policy. It is clearly our interest, so long as we bave Jands to be eccupied, aud so long as our territory grows more rapidly than our popula- This statement of the case involves an cx- position of the Virginia opposition movement. | tion, to invite all the world to cast in their lot Sreseional Saturnalia—An Ex: ‘The affiliations in this State layt fall between the | with us. By such a course only can our institu- tra Session Inevitable, republicans and Americans were gotten up en- | ‘ons be thoroughly tested, and our future, what- &e., &., kw. tirely for the local purposes of those elections; | ever it may be, thoroughly and properly deve- —_ and the late Virginia opposition ‘convention | loped. . Our Special Washington REFUSAL OF THE HOUSE TO rt ais ae Te BILL—AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS REGARDED AS INEVITABLE, ETC. ‘Tho President, as usual-on the last night ot the session, is at the Capitoh ‘There is a good deal of excitement, and the Pennsylvania members and republicans declare they will stand firm in resisting the reissue of Treasury notes or @ loan unless accompanied by modifications of the tariff. If they hold out there must be an extra session, George Taylor has made two unsuccessful motions to ave the Seaman resolutions taken up, Almost everything but the naked appropriation bills, cut down to the lowest sums, will fall through. The Oa- lifornia and Havro steamer lobby are in despair, As yet but few members are intoxicated, but before ‘Morning there is promise of the old Bacchanalian scenes which were avoided last session by the adoption of the President’s recommendation to present the Wills for his signature the day before the close, ‘The refusal of the House to suspend the rules sp as to ake upthe Treasury Note bill is regarded as rahdoring ‘an extra session inevitable. Mr. Letcher and some other advocates of the reissue declare they regard the Congress ‘a8 expiring at twelve o'clock to-night, and will not remain: after that hour. This of course adds strength to the oppo- sition, ‘The President left the Capitol immediately after hear- ing of the refusal of the House to take up the Loan bill. . It is thought that after the adjournment of Congress the administration will initiate a new foreign policy of a very decided character—one that will have an effect on our foreign relations for some years to come. It is urged upon the President by the statesmen of the country that our in- tercourse with the other nations of the world has of Ito years been so imbecile and wavering that a new line of cofduct is necestary to give to American diplomacy more emphasis and power. To acquire an influence and respect abroad, the President, I learn, is strongly disposed to adopt the recommendations and revolutionize his for- eign appointments, displacing the old school of ignorant do-nething agents and appointing men to thelr places who not only comprehend the necessities of the country ‘but understand the politics, manners and language of the people to whom they may be sent. If the President carries out this newly developed plan it will produce most important results for the interests of the United States, The Logic of the Horrible, The recent lamentable affair in has called forth from a portion of the com- ments which will go far to prove that all the de- pravity of the country is not confined to the politicians, but that the journalists are respon- sible for a good share of it. The leading’ jour- nals generally confined. themselves to giving the facts in the case, and deploring the ocour- rence as most unfortunate, shocking and lamenta- ble from every point of view. The drift of pub- lic opinion was promulgated, so far as it could be ascertained; and there the matter was rested until such time as its full details shall be eliui- nated in a court of law. But unbappily for the dignity of the Ameri- can press, this reserve was not universal. Some small, pitiful penny-a-linera could not let so fine an opportunity for ventilating their peculiar hobbies pass by without elaborate exploitations. The Evening Post led off with a lengthy and marked apology for seduction, upon the remark- ably lucid and purely logical premises that two wrongs make a right. The Zimes joined isgue with the Poston equally absurd grounds, and de- fends assassination. The Post abuses Mr. Sickles, and labors to find an excuse for the conduct of Mr. Key. The argument of the Post is, that Mr. Key should not be punished, because of some allegations which it makes against the previous character of the husband of his victim. The Zimes replies in a lengthy justi- fication of ifs idea, that, under the circumstances of the case, assassination was perfectly justifiable. The Post becomes as furious as an enraged Arab, and makes the quarrel personal, by charging that the course of the Zimes was actuated by personal considerations of a discreditable character. The Times, with an air of offended dignity which would be amusing were the matter less serious in its essentials, abuses the Post in set terms, re- news its apologies for the assassin, and adds a still more remarkable one for adultery, on the ground that the crime of breaking the marriage vows is as ancient as the matrimonial tie itself. We are given to understand that conjugal infl- delity is quite common with high and low. Erotic literature is cited to show that we are not so bad as the Roman patricians, and a coarse jest of some stupid member of Parliament upon the Divorce bill is bropght in to point the argument. Finally, there is an appeal to public sympathy in this particular case. Curiously enough, the Times eo far lost its temper as to stultify itself, and to abuse the Post for defending adultery in the fimst instance, end then falling into the same line of argument. The Post rejoins with “€x- tracts from the religious papers, and repeats its personal denunciation of the Times writer. The whole controversy is disgusting in the extreme. The fact is that all these scribblers have lost sight of the true view of the case, and have used its prominent features to air their vulgar per- sonal squabbles, at the expense of common de- cency. Here we have a terrible umay—a moat. heart-sickening tragedy: two happy homes deso- lated—one man cut off in the prime of life, and another transferred from the national councils to hon ition Cause, Call We see by some recent official statistics taat All Christendom has sent or mighty London, or old Marseilles or thrifty ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuinaton, March 3, 1859, It is not regarded here that the tenor of the despatohes from the Paraguay expedition is such as to warrant the conclusion that war between the United States and Para- guay is inevitable, though it is presumed that such an ‘inference has been drawn from articles in the Seminario, published at Asuncion, which are to be taken with large allowance for Spanish hyperbole and Paraguayan bravado. The Indian Bureau has received no information from government agents tending to confirm the reports of difi- culties with the Mohave Indians in New Mexico. ‘The Postmaster General’s physieians to-night pronounce him out of danger. A large number of the republicans did not vote on the resolution of thanks to the Speaker, on the ground that he did not vote on a similar resolution to Mr. Banks, two years ago, The two Southern men who to-night voted against the resolution are Mr. Smith, of Virginia, and Mr. McRae, of Mississippi. ‘The President and members of the Cabinet are at the Capitol in the Vice President’s room to-night, attending to business in connection with Congress. ‘The Navy Dill, as passed, legalizes the order of the Seo- retary of the Navy, in giving rank to engineers and their assistants after the manner of surgeons and pursers, com- manders and executive officers to have precedence. poured, with the course of empire, westward. The sturdy Irish laborer joins hands with the canny Scot, the bustling, mercurial Frenchman shares his sea-tossed couch with the steady, indus trious German; for the time their separate na- tionalities are merged by the mutual ties that bind them together—adventurous seekers for The value of this element in our national for admission to the family table, may find them chiefly in foreign immigration. It stimulates trade, encourages native enterprise, opens new and fertile lands, and by constant contributions of fresh blood keeps the whole body. politic in healthy and glowing circulation. We will put the propusttion punntionlivt Jour-' Two Days Later from California, ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND CALIFORNIA MAIL. Sr. Lovis, March 3, 1859. The California mail arrived here to-day, with California dates of the 7th ult. There were no through passengers. The steamship Hermann had been sold by the United Stateu DMarcbal for £40,000 tn Captain Gonrga Wright. The steamship Uncle Sam was advertised to leave San Francisco on the 7th ult, for the Colorado river, with from five to six hundred troops to operate against the Mohave rapid progress. Here, millions of dollars in solid cash added to your | 9 prisoner's cell, detained upon a capital charge. | Indians. real wealth. With this you have been the best | y¢ isasad story of sin and shame and blood. | Business at San Francisco was brisk, with » largo de- customer to the magasins .of Paris, ther manu- | 4}] decent people are shocked by it. The cir- | ™&2¢ ‘rom the interior. factories of Lyons or Manchester, the vineyards re carry with them a great and solemn tame Granite, from New York, had arrived at San moral lesson. Comment is almost superfluous in such cases—controversy in the most odious taste, to say the least of it; but not with the people of the Post and the Times. They hammer away at it in the most unconcerned manner, and will never be tired of spinning out their petty spites and dreamy platitudes. Between the pro- fessed apologists for assassination and the defend- ers of seduction, it would be hard to say which is the most contemptible. Deeply regretting the disgrace which they inflict upon the press of the country, we leave them to the obscurity from which they can only emerge by such disgraceful controversies as that upon the Washington tra- gedy. Mr. Bucuanan anp THE Democratic Party.— A Washington letter to the Worcester (Mass.) Spy is going the rounds of the opposition press, with a great flourish of trumpets, inasmuch as the letter purports to give the facts of a recent familiar conversation between the writer and Mr. Buchanan, in which the President is represented as having expressed a very poor opinion of the democratic party of these latter days. He is thus stated to have said that “the party is disorgan- ized and split up into all sorts of factions;” that itis “incapable of adhesion, or of carrying any measure as a party;” that he, the President, “without the aid of the black republicans, could not have carried through any measure at the present session;” “that if he had a republican Congress he could get along better than he docs with the factious, unmanageable democrats, who, the moment he proposes a measure for the honor and glory of his country, raise embarrassing questions,” and that “g republican Congress would feel some degree of responsibility resting upon it, and would act with reason.” Such are the declarations ‘attributed in the aforesaid correspondence to Mr. Buchanan, con- cerning the democratic party. He may, and he may not, have expressed them; but whether he did or did not, they are perfectly true. The democratic party is “disorganized and split up into all sorts of factions,” and so much has it been thus split up in Congress, that, practically, upon every great measure, it has been reduced to an impotent-minority. Thus, every important administration bill passed at the long session and at the short session of this Congress has been passed through the assistance of patri- otic men on the opposition side. It is equally true that a republican Congress would be pre- ferable to this defunct democratic Congress, be- cause “a republican Congress would feel some degree of responsibility, and would act with rea- eon.” If the President, therefore, did utter the views thus attributed to him, he simply uttered the truth, the force of which, upon every point made, he has no doubt fully appreciated for the last twelve months or more. From the Plains. FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS—UNITED STATES TROOPS DEFEATED. Sr. Lous, March 3, 1859. Capt. Skillman, from El Paso, reports that a band of Apache Indians, having stolen a number of horses and mules from near San Elizario, pursuit was made by a de- tachment of the Mounted Rifles from Fort Bliss, under Lieut. Lazelle. The Indians were overtaken at Dog Canon, about one hundred and sixty miles distant, where an en- gagement took place, resulting in the withdrawal of our troops, with the loss of three killed and and six wounded. Among the latter is Lieut. Lazelle, who received a wound in the lungs, which it is supposed will prove mortal. About a dozen Indians were killed. The troops numbered twenty-two; the Isians about two-hundred. Such is the argument: Now, without intend- of its statements, we de dissent in part from ite mainly with foreign troops—German and Irish immigrants. The population of the new territory News from Santa Fe. Sr. Louis, March 8, 1869. ‘The Santa Fe Gaselle of the Sth ult. says that the expo- dition under Lieut. Beale would leave Albuquerque for the West on the Ist of March. The commissioners to run the boundary between Texas and New Mexico were at Fort Blise, and designed to commence operations on the 15th of February. (ol. Bonneville had detailed one hundred troops to act as their escort. Kansas News. Sr. Louis, March 8, 1859, Messrs. Harrison, Campbell and Jefferies, the parties to the recent kidnapping casey and who were before Judge Lecompte on a writ of habeas corpus, were dis- charged yosterday. Death of Col. Charles H. Sandford, of New York. Pur.apmtrmia, March 8, 1859. The bark White Wing, from Puerto Cabello on the 14th ult., has arrived here, and reports the death, on the 7th, of Col. Charles H. Sandford, of New York, who accompa- nid General Paes to Venezuela, at Valencia. Methodist Conference. ‘Witusamsrort, Pa., March 2, 1869. ‘The East Baltimore Conference commenced its session in this place to-day at 9 A. M., Bishop Scott, of Wilmington, presiding, and ¥ ey. Dr. Sargent, of Baltimore, officiating as secretary. One hundred and sixty preachers answered to their names. The seasion promises to be one of despatch and harmony. Death of Rev. Dr. Carnahan. Newark, March 3, 1869. The Rev. Dr. Carnahan, formerly President of Prince- ton College, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Wil- liam K. McDonald, Eaq., in this city, this morning, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. steadily westward from Iowa, Nebraska, Kangas, following the course of the Santa Fe near to the Mexican boun- dary, exploring the Red River of the North, or scaling the Rocky Mountains, to settle finally at the mouth of the Columbia, where the mill- race and the steamboat paddle have destroyed one of Bryant's finest similies, These four mil- lions of laberers, chiefly of the Northern races, mainly Germans and Irish, have opened the new country for us, made the roads, felled the trees, planted the vine—and we are now gathering the harvest. Each immigrant brought with him an average sum of, say twenty-five dollars, which gives us one hundred millions in cash, absolutely invested and circulated. At least one-half of the California gold went out of the country; much was hidden and hoarded; more manufactured into Jewelry or keepsakes, or kept for specimens. Another view: each of these laborers was worth, at a moderate calculation, one thousand dollars, 6 labor goes in this country—probably more; and thus we have four thousand millions of dol- lars value of material wealth added to our country, ard positively in our land, ‘not to be taken away to help European bankers out of their troubles, but to be returned to us with compound interest, in the production of the great staples, in improvements in mechanical works and the fine arts, and in all those external evidences of progress which make up thé sum of national prosperity. This grand army of peacc—this four mil- lions—in itself a nation, equal to two Londons, A Woman to be Hung. Atpany, March 8, 1859. Mrs. Hartung is sentenced to be executed on the 27th of April, It Is understood that no further attempt will he made to continue the matter before the courts, but her friends will ask Governor Morgan fot commutation of the punishment. Pmaparrma, March 8, 1869, ‘A fire broke out at one o'clock this morning, destroying two large buildings on Second street, below Dock, and a court of small houses in the rear. A dozen families or more are rendered houseless, There were some narrow escapes, and a barkeeper ina lager bier saloon, which was destroyed, was severely burped. The loss is estimated A republican Con- } at $20,000, is silently winning « great victory. Its march | gress can thus have no fears for Mr, Buchanan, ‘Weather Repert. is steady, though noiseless. Upon its pathway | whatever may be the terrors of the wrangling Bautmeorn, March $, 1008, hang the angels of plenty, of civilization, of | democracy; and if he bas thus freely expressed PR Say hang SF naiahasabemmamasanis had moral progress. Yet there is not wanting a certain party in this country who would prevent, and who have to some extent discouraged, immigration. By his mind concerning them, he has only “ vindl- cated the truth of history.” He can do without this factions democratic party and its fuctions leaders, Let them help themselves, if they can. Powsaperrma, March 8, 1869. Tt commenced snowing bere at ten o'clock this morning. Wind cast. Weather clear and ¢old duri gti hays 5 ove ier ol Oa) luring the ; this even! Indications of snow ’ ad AFFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPITAL Our Special Albany Despatch. THE INVESTIGATING RAILROADS I NEW YX olry, a Aupany, March 3, 1860, If the well known matters of the notorious lobby were Confined strictly outside the Senate chambor—if the com- maittees of investigation would confine themselves to the examination of witnesses brought before them—and if members of those committees would abstain from continu: Would be saved, and devoted to some of the important measures of a public character. ‘To-day another day has been consumed in unnecessary, unprofitable and useless: debate. Senator Brandreth opened the ball, in rising to question of privilege, charging that Senator 0, B. Wheeler bad yesterday, no doubt unintentionally, misrepre- sented him. This interruption was im the midst of very important business, vis.: receiving re, ports from standing committees. After Dr. had fully, no doubt, exonerated himself from all insinus- | {Hone of Senator 0. B, Wheeler, then Senator Ames, of the lobby investigating committee, presented ® resolution di- Teoting both committecs—numbers one and two—to re- Port proceedings to-morrow morning so far as they have progressed, ‘Mr. Antes is a minority member on the lobby Committee, but as a majority of it did not ask to make ‘any report at present, several Senators, believing that a majority could report in part or in full at any time they ippowe tears piece ame Papen on the way for Hon. Joha fi ‘of Williscast bt in the New York Qustom House, Senate having soem and experienced.an immense amount of buncombe in this ther. It is perceived that papers and persons, in various parts of the State, imagine that Senator W. A. Wheeler, of Franklin county, is chairman of he Lobby Investigating Committee. isa mistake: it is Senator Osmer B. Wheeler, of Orange county, who is the chairman, ‘The question whether the Legislature shall grant the construction of any more horse railroads in the of of New York, may now be considered as finally settled, application of Messrs. Kelsey, Strong and others, for privi- lege to construct a railroad through the Seventh avenue and other streets, was referred to the Committee on Cities ‘Senator Halsted,’ i E 5 i ity ses Air Hal 87°F E3 ee artieiessst i : i g z bts H Ss td ae gg Re ooence over oly. there sa. great feling of commnaorston for for tah ats it 2 ae ee by egied gh gy sentence to imprisonment for life. —at THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOR. OURIOUS TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE INVESTI- GATING COMMITTRE—IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANAL BOARD, ETC. between Mr, Eaton and Mr. Murphy he was concealed in &@ room adjoining Mr. Murphy’s, occupied by Recorder Paddock aga law office; he heard Mr. Murphy ask Mr. Eaton if he (Eaton) had not offered him several sums of money to suppress the investigation; he heard Mr. Eaton say “Yes; Mr. Murphy asked if he had not refused them all; Mr. Eaton replied ‘Yee’ to this also; while there he heard a boy come in, and Mr. Murphy say, “Is that a love letter?! The witness was severely cross-examined, and stated after fi ‘The bill to consolidate all the laws relating to! who ytato prisons was debated in Committee of the Whole and pro- gress reported upon it; also the bili to regulate theassesg- ment and payment of taxes on unemoumber oq ogi og. 5 Mr. Hawsrnan (rep.) made a general re Committee on Cities and Villages, against posi hora owners of property on the line of the railroad. commends the of @ general iaw allowing tho struction of city, raifroads, won ¥ con. coat earae onan se anwont of the corpo. owners. on route Mr. Fxx (dem.) submitted &° critten Soventh Avenue Railroad, on alow the negeasity for the road waslaly qos sound that no pudite A Intments the Governor, By Holt the GdOM ve al oon eet the Senate: Mancu 2, 1860. Norantms Ponisc.—QV sens—Angustus Geist Tiesovay Treadwell, of | a oh Jobn D. Townsend, ot Astoria Van Bergen, of Vr ji, Brush, of Jamaica; Peter Kings—James ( ridley, Wm. Lamonby, Gubert R, Lind sey. Jr, James A. Van brunt, Rodolph ue, Baward Seyinocr, THOT Aas Warren Noble, John + of rooklye Now York —Chas, Uwards, N. B. Montfort, Abrabam