The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFicx N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 6T3. Red TERMS, cash tm aadoance, Money vend by mail will be at the Wiel of the sender. Postage amps nob ‘aa subscription 4 , hoe conta per copy, $7 per arenver "Till DAILY WERALD, toe er copy, per mae THE WEE! HERALD, every Saturday, at six conte per Re peg y) an Edition every Wee ~d es conte dor 4, $A pe om 0 Pt ade postage, the Seteonh gare oe Comat Oke tat Pa ‘ents Pea PAMILY HARALD, eve Wednesday, at four conts per Ne RT eo anomynoracrapnden, Weds a return rejected commundcutions. .Ne. 70 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Broadway.—Afernoon—SwEET- Teovcnns. Antony 4p CLEO- BROADWAY THEATRE, mares ano WivEs—-SoDDBs PATRA—SUDDEN THOUGHTS. GARDEN, Broadway.—Ormous PEarORMaxcEs~ Farr SrEctacts oF CinpsRsiis. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ovz Encuisa Covsix— Fuisky Copsien—Haxpsone Jack. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tum VETERAN , 02, PAANCE 4D ALGERIA. NE’'S THEATER. No. 494 Broadway.—Ovm abANES Goon Ste asp Ses. Peri Wurre, THRATRE FRANCAIS, 58 Broadway—Las Parwrenss Anwes DE Ricuxuize—La Coupe SENSIDLE. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSHUM, Broadway.—After- noon and Kvening—Hakvest Hour. MINSTREL BUILDING, 62 and 863 Brosdw > ~ sure Songs, Dances, £0.~Mysric Sri. i. , : S, MECHANICS’ H <1 1, 437 Broad- » March 12, 185% "New York, Saturdi The News. The screw steamship North Briton arrived at Portland, Me., yesterday morning, with files from Eurepe dated to the 23d ult. Her news is not so Jate as that by the Arabia, but some of the extracts are interesting. The Italian exiles sailed from Ca- diz on the 19th ult. in an American ship. Russia will resist any attempt to prevent the union of the Danubian Principalities by, it is said, force if ne- cessary. No foreign representations as to the do- mestic government of the States of the church will be received at Rome. M. Felix Belly left S ampton for Nicaragua on the 17th ult., mence at his canalization of the Isthmus. The State Senate was yesterday again engaged in discussing the Mandeville case. In the Assem- bly the Judiciary Committee reported against the repeal of the act creating the office of City Judge, thus foiling the efforts of the enemies of Judge Russell to oust him from the place he has filled so acceptably to all save the thieves and ruffians of the city. The Army Appropriation bill, and the bill authorizing the trial of the Quarantine rioters in any county in the Second Judicial district, were passed. ; An officer long connected with the law depart- ment of the federal government has published an argument to show that the revenues of the Post Office Department can be applied after June next to pay for the transportation of the mails, and other postal expenses, notwithstanding the failure of the Appropriation bill in Congress. It is reported that the trial of Mr. Sickles, at Washington, will not take place until week after next, the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court de- clining to give his case precedence of others. The testimony in the alleged wife poisoning case yesterday in the Oyer and Terminer was 1 inci- pally chemical. Professor Doremus was for a long time on the witness stand, and gave a most inter- esting and minute analytical disquisition of the process of testing the presence of arsenical acid in the human body, at the same time illustrating his remarks by references to well executed diagrams of the apparata, which were prepared by Dr. Henry. It is impossible, in a newspaper report, to do full justice to the chemical learning displayed on this occasion. There were some few members of the faculty present, but had many of the members of the Academy of Medicine been preseut, they would have been pleased and instructed. The award of $308,400 of Central Park Fund stock was made yesterday at 2 P.M. Nearlya million was tendered; all the bids over 101 were successful. The official award will be found in the money article. We have files from Turks Islands dated on the 19th ult. The Royal Gazelle says:—Our market continues dull, and there is no prospect of improve- ment at present. Advices from New York quote salt at 174c., four months. The price with us is nominal, say 7c.a 8c. Mr. Winter, United States Consul, had arrived in the ship Marathon from Philadelphia, bringing forty mechanics and labor- ers for the purpose of commencing the settlement at West Caicos, with the view of cultivating the one hundred acres of saline leased by Mr. Winter from the government. We have files from the West Indies, dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 17th ult., but the papers contain little news. The proprietors and attorneys of several estates in Westmoreland had applied to the authorities for a large number of immigrants. The applications had been favorably received. The Colonial Standard of the 17th ult. remarks:—Cotton cultivation would be highly profitable in this conn- try, if labor could be secured at the reqnisite mo- ment. We know no other method of acquiring this security than by establishing an adequate number of immigrants on the properties. There had been some heavy rains from the southeast, and Kingston was not as healthy as usual. The Haytien exiles in Jamaica, about to return home after eleven years banishment, had issued an address ending thus:— “O, Kingston, hospitable city! thou wiit be for the Haytien emigration of 1948 the object of our praise and the subject of our thanksgiving! On our return to our country, we shall entreat the blessings of our fellow citizens on thee.” ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, and the ralcs reached about 4,500 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 12%¢. for middling oplands. Flour was more active, and Prices for common and medium grades of State and Woat- ern were better, Southern flour was in good demand, and Bales freely made at full prices. Wheat was firmer, with fair sales, and closed at a docided advance for good lots of Western red and white. Southern and Kentucky wore algo held with greater firmnesa, Corn was also firmer, with moderate eales. Pork was better and more active, The eales embraced new mees at $18, old do. at $17 6236, and prime at $13 25. Beef was Grm and in good demand, Lard was heavy. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 700 bhds. New Oricane and Cuba, at ratoe given in another column. Coffoo was firmly held; holders demanded prices above the views of buyers, which checked sales, There ‘was & movement in naval stores yesterday, Spirits of turpentine was quite active, with free sales on the spot and to arrive at an advance. The market closed with sales at 62340. for that in ebipping order, while 63c, wa asked. Rosin and crude turpentine were algo in good de. mand, with tolerably free sales. Freight engagements ‘were moccrate, and rates without change of moment. Ameug the shipments were 650 bales of compressed cotton for Liverpool at 3-101. , and 1,200 bbls. rosin at 1s. 6d. Tur Prorosey Baxxrvrr Law.—Congreas, in the last session, gave this the go-by; but it will nevertheless be worked out in the noxt Con- gress, There are nearly thirty thousand active men who were broken down in the last revul- sion, aad they will never leave off the pursuit of a new bankrupt law. We hope they may suc- ceed. Hens We Ane, Tarr We Anv.—A fow months ago the filibuster heroes were fighting valiantly in Nicaragua, and all around Central America. Now they are fighting in the barrooms of New York and Washington, where it is much rafer to do battle, and besides, there ts more Erog. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1859. ————— ‘The Satanic Party in Politice—First Sigolfi- cant Movement under Seward’s Rochester Manifesto. Our readers are aware that the infamous aboli- tion manifesto of W. H. Seward, promulgated to the world at Rochester last autumn, involved the revolutionary declaration that there is “an irrepressible conflict” going on between North- ern freedom and Southern slavery, and that it “must go on until all the States of this Union shall have been made either free States or slave States.” It will also be remembered that daring the late session of Congress several of the re- publican members of the House boldly endorsed the sentiments of this Rochester speech of Mr. Seward, and substantially declared that active hostility to Southern slavery and the “slave power” would be the paramount and controlling issue with the republican party in 1860, In thie connection the flaming abolition re- port of the New York Tribune, which we trans- fer to our columns this morning, of the late sale of some four hundred and thirty-six slaves of the great Butler estate, at Savannah, Georgia, gives us a clue to the contemplated plan of operations. It is, in pursuance of this “irrepressible con- flict” proclaimed by Seward, the desperate and diabolical plan of an extensive and energetic abolition crusade among the clave States, It is asystem of operations which must necessarily comprehend, among the tobacco, rice, cot- .fon and sugar plantations of the South, an extensive distribution of abolition spies and emissaries. These spies and emissaries, taking this Savanvah pioneer as an average specimen, will be keen to select out, and eager to exaggerate in the darkest colorings, all the events and peculiarities of plantation life, South- ern institutions and Southern society, best calou- lated to inflame and widen that anti-slavery sen- timent upon which the present republican party came into existence. ihe Kansas agitation bas done its worst—it isexhausted. We hear no more of “bleeding Kansas.” But the scope of the anti-slavery tactics which that Kansas-Nebraska bill brought into play in that Territory against the “slave power” is just beginning to be developed. That disastrous political Kansas experiment has not only placed Kansas in the occupation of the most intensely anti-slavery population in the Union, but it came within an inch of the abso- lute annihilation of the democratic party in 1856. The party was only saved through the nomination of Mr. Buchanan, whose hands were clean of any contact with that Kansas-Nebraska bill. But the mischief which that measure thus failed to effect among the democracy in ’56 has since, to a great extent, been effected by treacher- ous leaders of the party upon this and other sectional issues, so that now this late great na- tional organization is torn to pieces. It has ceased to exhibit any signs of useful vitality in the North, and in the South it is reduced to a pro-slavery faction as intensely sectional as the republican party itself. It isnot surprising, then, that Seward and his party confederates should desire to keep alive this state of things, for it is only through a purely sectional contest that he can hope to reach the Presidency. Hence this Rochester manifesto; hence the endorsement of this manifesto by re- publican leaders in Congress; hence this elabo- rate and highly colored abolition report of this late great sale of slaves at Savannah. Kansas has done wonders for this Northern republican party, Dred Scott has done something, Southern Walker filibustering and African slave trading have done something for it; but, as of Kansas, we may say of Dred Scott, the filibusters and the slave traders, that they are substantially played out as political scarecrows. The game, then, on the part of Seward and his partisans, is to trans fer their anti-slavery Kansas ‘plan of operations from the conquered field of Kansas to the larger field of the Southern slave States, The astonishing success of that mischievous abolition book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ revealed 80 conspicuously the dangerous fact that the pre- vajling moral and religious sentiment of the North is opposed to the institution of Southern slavery, that unscrupulous politicians could not fail thus to discover the uses to which this sen- timent might be applied. But if a work of fic- tion could accomplish so much, what may not be done in the political task of exasperating the South against the North, and the North against the South, through a succession of reports of slave auctions, slave whippings, slave burnings, slave tortures, and sufferiogs, and wrongs, and cruel separations, with the names, dates, places and details, all given as positive vouchers of the truth of these reports? The war, then, is to be carried into the slave States. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is to give way to spies and emissaries among the towns and plantations of the South and their reports and specifications of the practical workings of slavery. That these things will keep alive and influence the Northern anti-slavery sentiment no man can doubt. On the other hand, the Southern ultra pro-slavery leaders of the demo- cratic party have brought themselves to that pass of a counter fanaticism which has rendered them rather desirous of precipitating than of averting a dissolutiou of the Union. Thus Sew- ard and Toombs play into each other's hands ; and thus, between the nigger-worshippers of the North and the nigger-drivers of the South, we may seriously count upon a political struggle in 1860 which will strand us upon the rocks of dis- union, unless saved through the timely interven- tion of a new constitutional and mational party. We denounce this new black republicaa move- ment in the slavery agitation as treasonable, dia- bolical and revolutionary. Right or wrong, the Southern institution of slavery is there, and any violent or incendiary efforts to uproot it can only result in the most fearful disasters to both races. Slavery is a local institution, and a social and domestic institution, which we of the North are under the most solemn treaty stipulations to respect at all times, and even to protect, when necessary. How desperate and infamous, | then, must be these Northern Seward poli- Ucians, who, reckless of constitutional obli- gations, good fellowship, and the decencies of neighborly and social intercourse, would throw @ gang of spics and informers among our South- ern brethren, to subserve the ends of party, indit ferent whether the consequences may be a servile insurrection, dissolution, or civil war, All this, however, does not excuse the sec- | tional, fire-eating, secession politicians of the South, who, for some twenty years past, pave sought every occasion to foment and exasperate, between the two sections, this old, unprofitable | and mischievous quarrel over slavery. And thus it is, that while a great aud fanatical anti-slavery party overshadows the North, an equaily fanati- | cal pro-slavery party overshadows the South, and cach cupplics the other the munitions of war Between these two extremes, in Virginia and in Kentucky there has lately ariken a new conserva tive party, upon conetitutional issues aod on & broad national footing, which may prove com- petent to save the country in 1860. Accordingly, we look upon the approaching Virginia election a8 involving contingencies of the highest moment to the peace of the Union; and we believe that a victory to the new opposition party there in May will be the inauguration of a national union party movement, capable of controlling the next Presidential election, in behalf of the great con- servative body of the American people, North and South, European War and American Trade—What are the Causes that may Depress or Incite our Commerce t Our financial and commercial circles are great- ly perplexed and troubled with the probabilities of a general war in Europe and the prospects of American trade, and the most conflicting deduc- tions are drawn therefrom, according to the standpoint of the several observers. These who grant to Europe the lead in every- thing—in morals, politics, philosophy and money—argue that iftwoor three of the Eu- ropean dynasties get at loggerheade with each other the United States will be incontinently used up, and that we shall have another revul- sion and collapse generally. On the other hand, there is a set of minor observers of events, inca- pable of rising to generalisations, who, seeing the crowd of merchants now thronging our streets, the large importations that crowd our stores and warehouses, and the briskness of the present spring trade, are equally sanguine that we are already entering upon one of those eras of speculation that is to make everybody’s fortune, and leave every man, at the end of a few years, with a brown stone house on the Fifth avenue, and a coach and pair of grays in the Central Park. The error of both these ob- servers arises from the limited circle from which they derive their facts, and their own inability to make a general deduction. Exch draws its con- clusion from a particular and partial observation of the field before us. That Europe is drifting into war, to suit and further the interests of Louis Napoleon, there is no doubt. But further than this no man can foresee. The phases which it may take are so various, and the complications of cause and effect upon the political and material interests of the world are so numerous, that no man can possi- bly acquire sufficient data to enable him to prog- nosticate the results, A few points may be set down as having been already elucidated. The days of the “Orders in Council,” and of the “Berlin and Milan Decrees,” cannot be repro- duced to vex and harrass our commerce on the ocean. Cotton now disputes with consols the hoor of being the barometer of the commercial and financial world, showing that in more senses than one the star of empire holds its westward course. Commercial revulsions in the United States have an increasing power over monetary affairs in Europe ; while, at the same time, both political and financial dis- turbances there have a decreasing power over business matters on this side of the ocean. These, with other minor points, have been clearly proved during the Crimean war and the time that has subsequently clapsed. As for the general prospects of business in this country, it is evident that our trade now stands on a healthy basis. The financial revul- sion of 180/ was the throes of property seeking its true owners. The fever of speculation had so covered it with obligations, and at such fictitious valuations, thatno man could really tell what he owned, or what was the extent of his liabili- ties. Yet this revulsion, according to the tables which we published some time since, swept away only about five per cent of our business men, all over the country, while it left the property and material wealth—at reduced values it is true but relieved from much of their obligations—in the hands of their real owners. Without the ad- vent ofany great depressing or inciting elements, trade will go on with its natural, slow develope- ment, hastened, so far ns regards ourselves, by the further increase brought by European immi- gration. This element of our growth is far more important than many are willing to concede. The statistics of the last ten years show that in that time four millions of immigrants have reached our shores, bring- ing on average of one hundred dollars each with them, Thus, while this immense mass is added to the number of our producers and consumers, four hundred millions of dollars were added, by their coming, to the accumulated wealth of the country. But we must go on with this natural slow pace of increasing trade for some years yet. Its basis is too sound to admit of much disturbance from any depressing cause, however great; while the era of prosperous speculation and rapidly rising prices must wait for some great stimulant outside of the usual circles of commerce. Such are to be found only in changes of political rela- tions between large communities—as, for instance, the admission of Cuba or Mexico to the Union, or in the opening to American energy and enter- prise of rich and unused regions, as was the case with California. Such events as these ex- tend the boundaries of the republic of trade, and bring new vigor to its hopes, new life to its circulation, and new energy to its enterprises ; and the results are seen in the rise of apecula- lation, the rapid increase of wealth, the sudden extension of public and private. works, and a general buoyancy of feeling, that never spring from the natural and gradual developement of the existing elements of trade. Tix Stickies TRaGepy—Tie Ortsions OF THE Rexiarovs Press—The religious newspapers all seem to agree about the recent tragedy in Wash- ington. We have heretofore published the opin- ions of several of them. The following 4s the verdict of the New York Observer ; — ‘The daily press is discussing the right and wrong of the affair, some defending one party and others condemning; but the Christian judgment is, that a scoundrel died like & og by the hand of a murderer. There is no need of mine- tng @ matter, or writing long columns to determine which was the most guilty, The wretch deserved God’s wrath and curze, and bas it. It was not the right of man, of a w wholesome. <a eeneneenammannntany Newsparers anp Linets.—According to the records of the courts, there are libels prevailing against four or five lending journals of this city, claiming damages to the amount of three or four hundred thousand dollars, The parties bringing these suits are the managers of lotteries, the managers of railroads, the managers of banks, and members of Congress, Wt have no doubt the newspapers will beat them all in the long run, and that five cents will pay all the damages when the accounts are squared up, Pourrictans, Eves Riaut!—Watch the Vir- ginia and Kentucky State elections, If the op- position carry those elections, look out for the ecrtainty of political revolution in the Middle States and gleewhere, ‘There is a simple announcement in the news by the last European steamer to the effect that Mr. Cunard, the founder of the Cunard steam- ships, is about to receive frem the hands ofthe Queen the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom. The circumstance is one of many of a similar nature; and, by contrast, they should put our people and our government to the blush. While the Br tich government, sur- rounded as it is by absurd conventionalities and hampered by antique prejudices, is quick to dis- cern and ready to reward the special services of its subjects in the arts, or literature, or com- merce, or anything that tends towards the pro- grees and developement of the world, we, boast- ing of our youth, our strength, our independence of old forms and ceremonies, our admitted supe- riority in many of the useful arts, and our valu- able contributions to the scientific world, either allow our representative men to languish in obscurity, or push them out of the paths that they have made towards the fame and fortune to which their labors entitle them. Let us take a few cxamples, and commence with the one just now the most prominent: Mr. Cunard is a shrewd British merchant, who be- lieves in the feasability of ocean steam naviga- tion, There is no great rick about it, as steam vessels of not the best reputation have made the | Atlantic voyage in safety. To make all sure as to the financial result of the Cuuard scheme, the British government grants to the steamship owners a handsome subsidy over and above the usual re- compense for mail service. The Cunard line is well managed. During sixteen years its voyages have been made with commendable regularity. Tt possesses. the confidence of the mercantile and the travelling community, In a business point of view it pays, With that circum- stance our government and our people would have rested the case. Provided Congress had given Mr. Cunard a subsidy, and pro- vided some rival in the carrying trade had not used all means, fuir or foul, until the originator of the line had been broken down, every one would have said: we have patroaized his line, and filled his pockets—that is enough. On the other hand, the British people point with commendable pride to the Cunard ships as a British institution—a thing to be quoted, and upheld, and defended, in season and out of season, like the British constitution, and the British Museum, and the British Parliament, aud all other matters that our English eousins especially delight to honor. This public feeling, reacting upon the government, makes Mr. Cunard, the man of steamships and of trade, a Baronet, It is the old feudal aristecracy taking the man of the hour by the hand and lead- ing him to the steps of the throne, the Herald-King-at-Arms quartering the sanguine- ous band upon the peaceful shield of commerce. It is not much, perhaps, in our view, for Mr. Cunard to be a Baronet; but it is a great deal in England, and is a most significant mark of recog- nition for special services, Now, what have we done for our European steamship proprietor, Mr. Collins? He estab- lished, in the face of difficulties which Mr. Cu- nard never encountered, a line of ocean steamers. They were unequalled in the previous history of naval architecture. They were larger, swifter, more commodious and more beautiful than the Cunard ships. Thoy made for American ships a world-wide reputation. Englishmen were foreed to acknowledge these facts. We were, after our manner, proud of them. We wrote poetry about them. We wrangled with the English on questions of time, and model, and machinery. In fact, we did everything but pay forthem. Congress gave a subsidy, and then, through the efforts of Philadelphian and other provincial jealousies, withdrew it, and refused to pay a portion of the mail money. What would be said in England if the member for Bristol, or Portsmouth, or South- ampton, or Hull, or even London, should oppose the mail grant to the Cunard ships because their point of arrival and departure is Liverpool? We can fancy the storm of ridicule that would descend upon the head of such an ass even from his own constituents. Well, that was the first blow for Mr. Collins. Subsequently, rival proprictors of steamships undermined and under- bid him. He was thrust aside, after years of toil, and his ships laid up torot. His services to the republic are matters of history ; others reap the profits and he suffers the losses accruing from them. A few more instances: Joseph Paxton, a gar- dener employed by the Duke of Devonshire, was knighted for his plan of the Crystal Palace. Waa anything ever done for George Steers, who modelled the exquisitely beautiful hulls of the Niagara and the Adriatic? All the principal European governments have honored Commander Maury for his important contributions to the science of navigation. We first placed him on the retired list of the navy, cutting down his pay toa miserable twelve hundred a year, and then tardily restored him. The British govern- ment knighted Mr. Bright, one of the engineers of the Atlantic telegraphic expedition, and rewarded in the same manner every pereon who took part in that epecial service. Has Congress ever done anything for Hudson, or Everett, or Morse? On the contrary, some objections were raised to Captain Hudson’s receiving a medal tendered by the British government, and it was left for the Emperor of the French to recognise the services of an American electrician. Contrast the re- wards of the English government to Wellington, Nelson, Napier, Havelock, Raglan and Camp- bell, with our shabby treatment of Scott and Stewart. We could cite many more examples not, only of republican ingratitude but of positive mean- ness; but these are enough for our purpose. That is, to show that between the politicians quarreling for the epoils, and a want of proper appreciation and mercantile honor amang our people, our best men are often forced to the wall. Leé some one to-day initiate a new enter- prise or produce a new and valuable invention; straightway, on every side, spring up countless imitators. The new man’s ideas are stolen, his work counterfeited, and then, by a degree of sub- lime audacity altogether unprecedented, it is claimed wholly, and he is deprived of even the credit, to say nothing of the profit of his labors. Let some one establish a journal upon a new and definite plan, as we may say, without egotiem, the Hera was commenced, and he is visited with torrents of abuse; all the dogs are loosened upon him—crush him,“turn him out, extinguich him, crucify him. But if he shall have perseverance enough to live through all this, he finds that his bitterest opponents are his most abject and servile imitators. And so ft has been with nearly all onc representative men. They have either been neglected alto. gether, or else bullied and lied out of the credit that belongs to them, while the people haye fallen down and worshipped at the shrines of charlatans and pretenders. And as for our statesmen—God save the mark!—they have quietly pocketed the spoils, rewarded their friends, fomented sectional discords in order to feather their own nests, and allowed art, litera- ture, mech nies and commerce to take care of themselves, And that they have taken care of themselves, and on the whole very well, in the face of all obstacles, is the highest tribute that can be paid to the individual skill, enterprise and perseverance of our people. It is that which has saved us from going to pieces long ago; and we should foster, cherish and defend it, from motives of self-preservation if for none other. Trabe or THE WoRLD wit Jaran.—In another column will be found a copy of the new treaty concluded between the governments of the Netherlands and Japan on the 18th of August last.’ By the additional articles to the treaty of 1856, agreed upon between the two countries in October, 1857, certain concessions were made to Holland which wére at the time thought advanta- geous; but the privileges granted by the new treaty are of a much more liberal character. The main points in which the-two documents differ are these:—By the treaty of 1857 the ex- port of the precious metals was prohibited either in coin or in bullion, and a duty of thirty-five per cent imposed on the value of all goods sold. By the new treaty all Japanese coin, excepting copper, and all foreign coins and foreign un- coined gold and silver, may be freely exported. A duty of five per cent will be payable on all articles used in the construction, rigging, repair- ing or outfit of ships, on whaling gear, salt pro- visions, bread and breadstuffy, live animals, coal, timber for the construction of houses, rice paddy, steam engines, zinc, lead, tin and raw silk. A communication received subsequently to the signing of the treaty, from the Governor of Na- gasaki, includes in this category all kinds of woollen and cotton goods. On intoxicating liquors, and all other articles not included in the above list, a duty of twenty per cent will have to be paid, Foreigners residing in Japan are allowed to employ Japanese as servants or in any other lawful capacity, and the Japancse government undertakes to appoint capable teach- ers for natives of other countries desiring to learn the arts and sciences of Japan. With the exception of this latter clause, it will be seen that these provisions of the new Dutch -treaty are identical with those embraced in the English one, which was in its turn based upon that concluded by our own Minister. Thus each successive negotiation of the different govera; ments with Japan has resulted in the concession by the latter of some enlargement of the privi- leges already granted to foreign commerce. As each treaty contains a favored nation clause, all become entitled to an equal participation in the advantages secured by the others, so that whe- ther the Dutch, the Phglish, the Russians or the French, gain additional concessions, we have no cause for jealousy. Whatever benefits one will bencfit all, and none more than the nation which, after ages@f jealous exclusiveness, is at last be- coming sensible to the policy of free commercial intercourse with the reat of the wOHd. Danueren Guys anp Ririep Cannoy.—The probability of war has created in Europe a great interest in improved artillery, and it is announced that both in England and France experiments, conducted with great secresy, are being made with rifled cannon which carry a ball with ac- curacy to a distance of ten miles, There is, no doubt, some exaggeration in the latter part of this statement; but the maia fact is true. These experiments, however, are not con- fined to France and England, but are pursued with equal activity in the United States and Russia. The greatest improvements in firearms of all kinds have been made in this couutry, and the fact arises from two causes—the greater ac- tivity of mechanical invention among us, and the familiar use of arms by all classes of our people, which opens a wide market to improvements, without depending upon the government for their adoption. But it is in the improvements of artillery that we have startled all the nations of Hurope. The Dahlgren cannon, now so extensively used in our naval service, is popularly said to hit, nineteen times out of twenty, a target of the sizeofa man at a distance of six miles; and the statement is not far from the truth. Such a weapon as that gives to its possessor a vast power over an an- tagonist who has it not, and European ingenuity has been for years largely stimulated to beat it. These improvements in weapons are rapidly changing the character of warfare, increasing, as they do, the power of destruction. Should a naval war break out, what with steam power, Dahlgren guns and rifled cannon, it would be the most destructive war ever kpown, and would necessarily be of short duration from that single fact. Tar Orera at Crvcinnatt.—The new Opera House was announced to be opened on the 16th inst, by the Strakosch company. Tho date, however, may be changed, as ono of the prime donné, Mme. de Wilhorst, is at present in New York, and is seriously ill. TaraTer Francas.—The third representation of tho season will be given this evening. The principal picce is one of the Dejazet comedies, ‘‘Les Premiers Armes de Richelieu,” in which the new soubrette, Mile. Sen, will make her début. The theatre is very popular already. Intelligence. Business was ‘dull at the police courts yesterday, and but few cases of any moment were disposed of. Joho J. Lilly was brought before Justice Quackenbush on a charge of false pretenses, preferred against him by Mary Flaherty. The defendant, it is all represented that he was-one of the clerks ai the Third District Greil Court, and in that way defrauded the girl out of $175. Held to answer, Joseph Perry, « sailor, was before Jus- tice bend with having assaulted and robbed a shi mate, James Selt, while the latter was ina ‘drink. ing 8 in Oak street. About $45 was taken from tho complainant's peraon. Committed for examination. Jas, Porter was arrested on cl of ee. entering the junk shop of James McArdle, 89 West Seventecnth street, and was committed for trial by Justice Quacken- bush. The Eleventh precinct police surprised a couple of butter thieves on Thursday night, and recovered about $20 worth of stolen property, ———= Personal Intelit ees Married, at Calcutta, India, Dec. 20, Marie Jessie Cle- mence Elizabeth, only ter of Mr, and Madame Gaal- and of the late Hon, T. H. The Washington Star eays:—‘‘We hoar that the connec- tion of J. n Henry, Keq., the nephew of President Buchanan, and up to this (ime his private secretary, with public affairs here, is to terminate next week, when he removes to the city of New York, where be designs prac- ticing law.”” Mr. Francis Gouldy, who was 80 foarfully assanited by his son in October Inst, has so far recovered tuat he is able to go out, ‘he will never fully recover his for- mer health. ¢ other sufferers from the Gouldy tragedy have recovered. Mrs. Jano Ermina Locko, aa author of somo repute, died in Ashburcham, Maes, on the 12th inst She has contributed largely t our poriotical literature, and pub Uehed, several years since, a small volume of poetry. Among her unpublished manuscript 16 a carefuliy pro- pared statistical essay upon paupersémn in Masgachusetts, Dr, Shumard has received the appointment of State Geologiat of Texas. He has, in the Inst twelve years, tuken a leading part in the geological xarveya of Lowa, Minnceota, Wisconsin, Miseouri, Nobraska and Oregon, ARRIVALS, From San Franciseo, in the entp Corocot~J W Poabody and Indy, Misa Pearl, J 8 Loe From Printed, in the brig Ortoian—€ bark Gen Jone + TT, to the brig O tH Talpes, late of “J % Koalgat, From Fost 8 THE LATEST NEWS. Our ‘Washington Despatch. DESPATCHKS FROM OUR MINIBTERS AT Fa/KIB, LON> DON AND MADRID—THE MISSION TO BOGOTA, ETO, Wasuuvaron, March 11, 1869, Despatches were received this morning at the State Department, by the Arabia from London and Paria, and also from Minister Dodge, at Madrid. Mr. Preston, our new Minister to Spain, had not yot reached Madrid, bub ‘was shortly expected. The excitement occasioned by the President's Message regarding Ouba, had nearly subsided, and Mr. Preston would experience no difficulty in being received. The unsettled condition of affairs throughoas Europe had partially supplanted the Cuba question. Prous ‘Messrs. Dallas and Mason assurances were reocived thas the sentiments of Great Britain and France towards the United States were amicable and satisfactory, Hon. George W. Jones has signified his intention, ama ‘will probably notify the President to-morrow, of bis de- clension of the mission to Bogota. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DISPATCH, SEMI-OFFICIAL OPINION 43 TO THE APPROPRIATION OF THE POST OFFICE REVENUFS TO THE POSTAL SERVICE—THE TRIAL OF MR. SICKLES, BTC. ‘Wasminctow, Marob 11, 1960. Hon. R. H. Gillett, long connected with the law depart- ment of the government, has published an argument te show that the revenues of the Post Office establishment can be applied after June next to pay for transporting the mail, and other expenses of tho department, notwithstamd- ing the failure of the Post Office Appropriation bill. ‘The trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles will not probably take place until the week after next, the Grand Jury not being inclined to give his case precedence over othors. Genoral Denver proposes to return to California by the next steamer, and this involves his resignation as Com- missioner of Indian Affairs. ~ The Supreme Court to-day announced decisions in seven- teen cases, but did not deliver the opinions of time. The Court then adjourned until Decomber next, having cleared less than balf the calendar. A statement made up at the Treasury Department. shows that the circulation of the banks throughout the country in 1866 was nearly two hundred and fifteen mil- lions; in 1867 one hundred and fifty millions, and in 1858 one hundred and ninety-three millions and a third. ‘The remains of the late Postmaster General were sent to Tennessee this afternoon, in charge of Justice Catron and Senators Nicholson and Johnson and Goloncl Savage, of that State, the offer of Adams’ Express Company having been accepted AFFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Sonate. Atsany, March Ti, 186y, The bill to increase the capital stock of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad was reported favorably; also the bill to incorporate the St. Joseph’s Asylum, New York. Mr. Pratt’s bill to incorporate the South Pacifio Ameri- can Mail Steamshiy Company was introduced. Mr. Scueit (dem.) introduced a bill to amend the char- ter of the American Commercial Industrial Company granted last year, by cxtending the power of the com. pany Hat all and Territories, as well as Central ‘To provide for the payment of the deficiency in the re. le 1° eflcienc; . venus of the city of Brookiyn: r To amend tho charter of sige de College. Mr. Exy (dom.) introduced a bill to legalize the acts of the New York Common Council in opening Duaue and other streets. Mr. W. A. Wareisr (fer, moved that a final vote on the alleged vacancy in Mr. deville’s seat be taken on See evening at nine o’cleck, without delay or de- Mr. Spnvora (dem.) mbdved to strike out the words, “without delay or debtae.’” aie Maragr (dem.) moved to lay the resolution on the Motion lost, by 18 to 16. Mr. Servota rose to debate the amendment. Mr. W. A. WHERLER raised the point of order, that the question was not debateable. The Preswenr ruled the point well taken. Mr. SPINoLA ap} from the decision of the chat, but efter a warm skirmish he withdrew the appeal, and a eins. the Senate proceeded to debate tuc resolu- The debate continued at considerable length on the mo- tion to take the final vote in relation to Mr. Mandeville’s seat on Wednesday evening at nine o’clock. Amendment after amendment was Pr for an extension of the time, and voted down by the republicans in a solid body, the matter takinga party shape. ‘The ayes and nays were called on every vote. Mr. Jouxson (Am.) voted with the republicans, and Mr. O. B. Wageter steadily with the democrats. 4 Rear final vote was agreed to be taken at forty-five minutes past nine on Wednesday evening. EVENING SESSION. Mr. Suir (dem.) iutroduced a bill to appoint Commis- sioners of Record Richmond county. On motion of Mr. MaruEr (dem.) the Metropolitan Po- lice bill was made the special order for Thursday next, at noon. Mr. Lartrs (rep.) moved for a reconsidoration of the Vote fixing the hour for the final vote on Mr. Mande- vitle’s seat, in order to clinch the matter, and expressed the hope that it would be voted down. The Senate refused to reconsider the vote. Mr. Noxow (rep.) called up the resolution to creates Grinding Committee. Laid on the table. The bills to provide for roports in pardon cases, to amend the St. David’s Benevolent Society charter, and to amend the law relative to principals and factors, were ordered to a third reading. Mr. W. A. Waustsr introduced a bill to amend the law to prevent the erection of unsafe buildings in New York. Several bills of no general interest were considered ia Committee of the Whole till the adjournment. Assembly. Atsany, March 11, 1869. The following is the continuation of the Assembiy report from last night:— The adjournment of the’ Aseembly did not take place until five o’clock this morning, The debate on the Annual Apprepriation bill was vory spirited, and a resolute fight was made by Messrs. C, 8. Spencer, Duryea and others, to secure appropriations for the several charitable institutions of the State. The bill ‘was thus opposed at every stage, amendment after amend- ment Log Ay anew At3 A. M. the committee rose, but only to renew the fight ip the House. ‘When the r regumod the chair every amendmeat offered in the Committee ot the Whole was again proposed and the ayes and noes demanded, In the end the bi!l was ordered to a third reading, with the following material alterations:—Tke sums of a for the New York Hospital an4 $80,000 for other hospitala of the State were both stricken out, | ‘ote of 44 to 30, On motion of Mr. Morris, of Yo’ s© sum of $10,000 for the Pilot Commi ‘Was Strick: o out, and the sam of $85,000 for the Orphan Asylums of the State inserted. The State Prison pectors’ travelling fees were raised from $1,200 to $2,700 per annum. The bill wan reading. ‘ve engrossed for a third YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. ‘Mr. Monnis, (rep.) from the Judiciary Committee, re- ported against amending the Assembly apportionment act, by giving Broome county two and Lexington county bes ean a of Bi » Bue, roome county, the tion of the reyors damauded @ bearing’ (er atone ie House, and protested acainst the disposal of the question by the standing commit te After debate the report was referred to the Committee of the Whole House for consideration. Tho bill to repeal the act ee, the office of City Judge of sat ‘was reported unfavorably, and the wurrent resolutions amending the constitutios so as to disfranchise persons guilty of infamous crimes or bribe- ry, were reported by the special committee, and roferred: to,lne Committee of the Whole. foe ' Commissioners 1 ¢ House Sas uavarcs mee estan ma den property. 1e sul —_— the city, and the Commissioners, as tenants of the ity, are made parties in defence of the suii now pending, The Commissioners have made arrangements to hold pos- soasion uniter Ue diy Cite wntll the question ef Wile is de cided. Mr. St. Joux (rep.) introduced a resolution asking the opinion of the Attorney General, whether the Stato is re- sponsible for to contractors when their contracts are suspended by the State or ita officers. The bill to incorporate the Brooklyn Academy of Musia wos BVENING SESSION. BILLA PASSED. PASSED, To authorize the incorpor ation of relijious aocietios. The annual tax Vill, imposing a tax of ouo nad one. To To mill. vide for the pr. of : Cotes. Weinting of tho caicndars of Kings Count ie co aioe te Savings Bank charter. in relation to } ineanenngueat vente, elation to the collection of de-» To authorize the indictment of the Quarantine them: diaries in any cour sty of the Second Judicial district, The Ts.w bill, as the special order, was takem z and Leet pied hope meyer of the session, and W e committee, "Wien the 3p valtor eeu med the chair— Mr. SamrAnv (rep.) moved that the House disagree with the report of the committee, and order the bill to be om: Brossed for 7. third reading. bearers (rep ) opposed the motion, and {1 was with- ‘Tho bit” -morrow aa fori my mao the special order for to-mol Ady ourned at 19.80 P.M. Our Aloany Correspondence. Aunaxy, Mavoh 10, 1859. Appropriation: for Charitable Institutions—Claims Before the Legisloture—Regulations for the Port of New York The Washington Market Land, de Thoro is always « jealousy existiag with the rival mem. bers of tho Cegisiaturs, whe: na appropriation of |