The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1859, Page 4

a ty 4 NEW YORK HERALD. —e, ? JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. QUr208 ¥. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 16,. 1859. Put in their places. During the strike in December, uropean Ques-| more unhealthy then the eondition of 1857, the men were promised, if they would goto Between the | thot Senge! And peas a work again, they should receive, from and after Our Viente occtiapemib ti Aa Hi favorable specimen of numerous str which i b Maroh, 1868, one dollar por ay; whic protsiee tha letter which we putilah in another ool mgr misems is left festering till it is exhaled by a company has not fulfilled, but,on the contrary, , warm sun, and taken into the human eystem ore. threatened to make 0 still farther refnstion in the us the Austrian view of the questions that now through the lungs—the poison thus becoming a ‘The Austrian View of the Course upon this “uba question, but that these opinions of Mr. Brown commenced when the administration put forth the strong arm of the law and snuffed out Walker and his filibusters in Central America. That is the offence of Mr. Buchanan, which none of the filibustering advo- THE LATEST NEWs. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON eee en The Post Office Deficiency---Meeting } nn TE | Pte tetmony adduced yerterdny on eno | Coes ad confederates of Walker an‘irgive. | {Svu' nancies ard te, facies econ | Hull aure of dieses and death of the Cabinet. ony adduced ye: on ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. James Stephens, for the alleged poisoning of his The anti-Glibustering policy of the administra- poy Lae the exigencies of his situation, The political hacks of all parties who are ea- Heating tion, thus made manifest in to Central . trusted with public duties are ao shameless that SROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Asronr axp Ciao | Wife, was painfully interesting. When the prose- , thus is bent upon war. the tthe > PRET: AN EXTRA SESSION DECIDED UPON. ATi —POKTURES FROLIC. cution closed their case with some further medical | America, will apply to Cuba, But if Spain Med The revelations of this letter are remarkable, | “'? ne peeaie moon for apt earri [SL's GARDEN, Afternoon and Brening— | €Vidence, the defence was interposed. Waiving afor- | not sell the island, and it the administration wil =, | Or something worse nothing. In the \ eeeemrsans maiucnaae Paines ianraakn—Oneas mal opening, they called the daughter of the prison- | not seize it, Mr. Brown says he would repeal the from we Det = seats gi ar iS ae of keeping the streets clean, the duty devolves | MR. SICKLES INDICTED FOR MURDER Spann: — | 0% child of seven years of age) to the witness | outratity laws and let loose the filibusters. But eave tsp gc that singe | 0 the City Inspector. But owing to the obsti- pede: ADOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Ovs, Regittcous, | stand; she was interrogated by the Court as to her tele ko hace nomeaeen. SA thee ne press . wom nacy of the Mayor and the Beard of Aldermen, we have no City Inspector. The Board of Alder- Tho Case of i Deere Before the men will not confirm his nominee, and he will "y the death of Nicholas the views of the Czar as to the state of Europe have been essentially modi- knowledge of the nature of an oath, and having an swered satisfactorily was sworn. It was a strange sight to see that little child kiss the Holy Evangelist WALLAOK’S THKATEE, Broadway—Tas Varsean ; OR, trality laws to be repealed? Not by Wnascs a™D ALGERIA the democracy in the next Congress, for the int oun fied. In his view Austria, and not Tykey, is taagn . The fi it e &e. &. he. LARS RENO THEA reeca Ware amid the solem silence of the crowded court, mst in sweppotr will ay pomp “the sick man;” and the proposition to divide pat x apo post 7 Pes : spares scam MUSEUM. Broadway.—after- | and the administration of the oath jarred on eve! Possession opposition, t been made to unwil! i sale Our Special Washington Despaten, noon aa] Evening Bveuing—Hanvast Howe. ear when Mr. Vandervoort, the Clerk, said to sid administration to seize the island, in the event of acto henno " oe arising: Has with desperation to the office till a suce: is land, but to gladly-consenting France and Sardi- nia. The statesmen of Austria confidently be- lieve that before the peace of Paris was arranged a secret treaty was negotiated between Russia, France and Sardinia, by which Austria was to be virtually dismembered. Russia takes the five millions of Austrian Sclaves with their territory; Sardinia annexes Lombardo-Venetia; and France drives the Bourbon remnant out of Italy, dis- mantling at the same time the only military mon- archy capable of disputing with her the rule of the Continent. There isa verisimilitude in these statements that render them worthy of consideration on this side of the Atlantic, They prove, when taken in cennection with other revelations of English court intrigues and Napoleonic schemes which we have frequently laid bare, how selfish and how active are the dynastic schemes which agi- tate Europe. The Coburg interest in England; the Napoleonic family, marshalled in France by the keenest and most unscrupulous brain in Eu- rope; the worn-out house of Hapsburg, govern- ing Austria and Italy; and the Romanoff, rising, giant-like, over Hastern Europe and Northern Asia—these are the governing families of the greater portion of the civilized world, training and arming the most brutal class of the popula- tion to keep all others down, and suppressing every free emotion, every rising aspiration of en- lightened manhood. Their busy strife with each other, hounding the nations on to war, for the purpoee of despoiling ‘each other and increasing their own tributary milliens, is an instructive commentary upon their venal vituperation of American extension, where each new annexation elevates a young State to the dignity and free- dom of gelf-government, under the fraternal gua- rantee of all. Our Vienna correspondent, however, lays bare the cancer that is cating into the vitality of all these selfish dynasties. The necessity of main- taining millions of brutal soldiers, for the pur- pose of keeping the people down and prosecuting their schemes against each other, is working out the final result. From 1816 to 1848, the era of peace in Europe, the national debt of Austria increased from 300,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 florins, or five-fold; since then it has risen to 2,500,000,000, and she is bankrupt at that. A ‘Wasmarox, March 15, 1869. ‘The Cabinet had a protracted session to-day, and ba@ ‘ander consideration the exhibit gubmitted by the Peat Office Department. It is very elaborate, and covers a vast deal of ground, presenting tho actual condition of the department in all its ramifications, There will be a de- floiency on the 80th of June vf four million three hundred thousand doilars, After di matters, and going through with « minute examination of the figuros, the Cabinet were unami- mous in opinion that an extra seasion of Cougress would bo necessary. There are other matters, however, that will have to be considered, aft the whole subject was post- Pponed until Thursday, when definate action will be had os to the time of calling the session. The President at pre- sent favors the middle of August, and it is highly preba- ble that will be the time fixed. ‘The Grand Jory found a true bill today against Mr. Sickles for murder. They hada long discussion in the Jury room as to what ought to bo done with Mr. Batter- worth, What course they will pursue is not known. ‘Two of them are known to be in favor of indicting him as particeps criminis. : The Secretary of State recently submitted to the Atter- ney General the question whether the Chinese coolie trade, as carried on by American ships, comes within the laws for the suppression of the slave trade, The Attorney General decides that it does not come within said laws, In regard to the question submitted by the Secretary of War, whether assistant professors at West Point Military Academy are entitled to the quarters of captains, the At. torney Genoral desides they are entitled to the same quar- tors as captains. The Attorney General to-day, under the provision of @ law recently passed, appointed A, B, McCalmont, of Poun- sylvania, Assistant Attorney General. It is understood that Sim. Johngon, connected with the Union newspaper, will be appointed Consul at London, im place of Mr. Campbell, and that Mr. Eames, late Minister to Venezuela, takes charge of the Union, Hon. G. W. Jones has declined the Bogota mission. Tne President will make the appointment next week, Ho has & Now York man of great experience in his mind. Me. Jones returns to Iowa to attend to his business of farming and lead mining. ‘The statement in one of the New York Papers about Mr. MeTane, Minister to Moxico, being favorable to Miramom and having been appointed by influences opposed to the liberal government, I am authorized to Say is not correct. ‘The administration would be pleased to see the success of the constitutional party, and will be gratified if that party Prove itself strong enough to establish a firm government in Mexico. Additional news has arrived hore coufirming the statement of Miramon having sustained a repulse. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has informed the succeas- ful bidders for the late five per cent loan they need make no further deposits for stock unless they choose until called for, the government not requiring the money at present. It is thought no demand will be made before midsummer. “The evidence that you shall give in this case between the people of theState of Nw York and James Stephens, the prisoner at the bar, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.” The child gave her testi- mony calmly and unmoved, but child-like. We re- er to our report of the proceedings. The counsel do not seem to be very amiable with one another. Indeed some counsel at the New York bar seem to think it is more incumbent on them to fight with the opposing lawyers than to watch the merits of heir respective clients. The Board of Ten Governors held their regular weekly meeting last evening. The ordinary requi- sitions and minutes were read and affirmed, after which a number of communications from wardens and ferry masters were received, read, and vari- ously disposed of. Neptune Engine company, of Hartford, Conn., stated their intention of present- ing a banner to the children on Randall's Island on Monday, next. The matter was referred to the proper committee. The sum of $225 was appro- priated to cover the roof of the male prison in Centre street with india rubber roofing, to be war- ranted against leakage for five years. The Super- intendent of Out Door Poor was directed to stop donations to pensioners on the 1st of April next, and all exterior relief was denied, except in cases of sickness, old age, and other ex- treme cases. The clerks, yard keepers, &c., in connection with the out door poor, are to be informed that after the Ist of April next their services will not be required. A letter from Timothy Daly, the Warden of Bellevue Hos- pital, showed that Dr. Barker had called on him and received liquor for the use of a patient that could not exist without it. The effect of the stimulus was unfortunate, as the bad whiskey resulted in death. The Guestion submitted for the Governors to re- solve was, at whose door the death of the patient conld be charged? The matter has been referred. The proposition of Governor Smith, to the effect that arrangements be made with institutions willing to receive the children at nurse, was unanimously agreed to. The weekly returns showed a number of 9,495 admitted and remaining in the institutions since the Sth inst. By various causes 1,504 haye been removed, leaving 7,991, being a decrease of 76 on last return. The North German Lloyd's steamship Weser, which was obliged to return to Cork for repairs in December last, on her first voyage from Bremen to this port, was advertised to leave Cork for New York on or about the Ist of March, and is conse quently now due. a refusal on the part of Spain to sell it? Con- gress is the war making department of the go- vernment, and the comparatively trifling military diseretion asked by the President of this late democratic Congress, in reference to Mexico aud Central America, having been refused, is it likely that the next, with an opposition House, will grant him the necessary power to seize the island ofCuba? Nay, more: the thirty million bill of Mr. Slidell having been suffocated in a democra- tic Senate at the late session, how is the bill to be passed at the next Congress? Lastly, in the abeence of such a bill, how is the first plan of negotiations for the purchase of the island to be attempted ? Assuming, however, that Mr. Brown ignores the next Congress, and is looking entirely to the campaign of 1860, is he not a little too fast in setting aside the administration? In regard to Cuba, as in relation to almost everything else, inasmuch as this late democratic Congress has done nothing, is it not perfectly clear that every- thing to be done or to be left undone depends entirely upon the administration, in the absence of Congress? Does not good faith thus suggest to every loyal democrat the sound policy of awaiting the develepements of the admi- nistration? The critical complications of European affairs, and of the affairs of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, and the shiftings and driftings of our political parties at home, within the next year or two, may bring about, under the auspices of Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration, all that we could de sire in reference to our naval and commercial ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico. Why not, then, stand fast to the administration? Why, of all men, should any democratic member of Con- gress arraign Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cass for that “proverbial timidity of old age,” when it was the “timidity,” or something worse, of this late democratic Congress, that defeated all the bold and masterly recommendations of the Presi- dent touching Mexico, Central America, and Cuba, too? Ina word, Tammany Mall, on account of the spoils of the Custom House, Post Office, &c., is compelled to stand by the administration. Otherwise the Sachems may have wandered off appointed; and he pretends to do the business, but in euch a manner as to render the whole thing a farce. Thus, between the three parties, human life is trifled with, and the city is victim- ized. The mortality is greatly increasing, which can be only attributed to the filth of the streets, and there is every prospect of the evil being aggravated as the rays of the vernal sun in- crease in power. The Board of Health ought to look to the matter at once, a8 no one else seems disposed to doe. Should an epidemic break out now the mortality would be terrible. Woops BUILD! 661 and 665 Broadway— Bemorus ‘Dances, Ran Siuene bree ‘ANTS’ MINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ HAIL, 427 Broad- wens Sones azo Brerusquas—Joanny Rosca. Bew York, Wednesday, March 16, 1850. Whe New York Herald—Edition for Europe. The Cunard mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch, will Wave this port this afternoon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at one o’clock. ‘tunis efternoon. ‘The European edition of the Hxratp will be published at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, Bix cents. Single rate of letter postage between the United States and Wurtemberg, via Bremen or Hamburg mail, will in future be fifteen cents the single rate, pre-payment op- tional. 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Itis true that the law passed some two years ago, authorizing the removal of Quarantine, remains unrepealed, and the new commissioners appointed by Gov. Morgan are empowered to act under it; but as nothing has been done in the interval towards carrying out the intentions of that law, it would seem that a more definite bill is required to meet the present emergency. Tf, as stated by the Boards of Health of this city and Brooklyn, and as we have always main- tained, the danger from the spread of pestilence arises from vessels and cargoes coming from yel- low fever ports during the summer, then it should be made imperative that such vessels and cargoes shall undergo their Quarantine in the outer bay, below the Narrowa. Differences may occur between physicians as to whether hos- pitals, dwellings, passengers and patients are dangerous, but no such difference exists as to the danger of infected cargoes and vessels, They ‘The News. Our special despatch from Washington states that the Cabinet yesterday held a consultation upon the financial statement recently prepared relative to the condition of the Post Office Department. Itis ascertained that the Department will, at the end of the present fiscal year—30th June—be four anda half million dollars in arrears. It was decided una- nimously that an extra session of Congress is neces- sary, but the time of its mecting was not fixed upon. That question will be decided in a day or two, and it is believed that Congress will be called to meet about the middle of August. The Grand Jury of Washington have found a true bill of indictment against Daniel E. Sickles for mur- der. The jury have not yet decided respecting Mr Butterworth’s complicity in the homicide of Key. The steamship City of Washington, which left Liverpool on the 2d inst., is fully due at this port, with news from Europe By an arrival at this port from Buenos have late news from the Paraguay expedition. The vessels comprising the escort of Commissioner Bowlin were at Rosario on the Sth of January, where they would take in coal. It was expected that the Commissioner would reach the Paraguayan capital about the 18th of Jaunary. Much diversity of opinion prevailed as to whether a settlement would be brought about by negotiation or a resort to force. We have accounts from Caracas, Venezue- la, to the 20th ult. The seat of government had again been permanently ‘located at Caracas, and the ministers had resigned. Considera- ble difficulty had been experienced in the formation of a new Ministry, those named havingy it is reportel, refused to accept office unless the political refugees are allowed to return. The country is represented as being ina very critical state. Conspiracies were forming in every section of the republic to overthrow the government, and serious disturbances, if not blood- shed, were anticipated ere long. We have news from Hayti dated on the 26th ult., one week later. An insurrection against the new government had occurred at Jeremie. Gen. Delice Lesperance, Governor of the Department, had ap- parently accepted the republic, bat his adhesion was feigned. He,on the 10th of February, took possession of a fort that commanded the town, and thence sent agents to incite the people. Delice, when found out, asked and obtained the protection of the French Consul, with whom he remained until his departure for the capital. Delice awaited, with two accomplices, a trial at Port au Prince. A deputation would shortly depart for Europe, to notify officially the governments of England, France and Spain of the establishment of the new Haytien republic. An attempt was made by the mob to break into and destroy the house of M. Salomon, the ex-Minister of Finance under Sonlouque. The President managed to quell the excitement, and M. Salomon sought refuge on the British ship Basilisk. Capt. Phayre, of the Basilisk, was presented on the 4th ult. to President Geffrard by Mr. Byron, Eng- lish Vice Consul. He alluded in sneering terms tothe late government. Geffrard’s reply was dig- nified. We have files from Bermuda to the &th inst. ‘The ball at the Government House was not well attended, owing to inclement weather. The local intelligence is entirely unimportant. We have Georgetown, British Guiana, papers to the 26th of February. The Royal Gazetie alludes to rumors to the effect that Governor Wodehousag is about to leave the colony, having been prorated a lucrative office in the Fast Indies, and that Ker Baillie Hamilton, Governor of Antigua and the Leeward Islands, is to assume the government of British Guiana. The weather was showery and produce came in slowly, and there being much shipping in the harbor, freights continued low. The steamer Toro, at rgetown from Porto Rico, re- ports that the vessel captured off that coast in the early part of February, was the bark Majestic, and that she had 1,080 young Africans on beard when she left the River Congo for Cuba. The American captain made his escape in a British achooner, and the Spanish captain and owner escaped to St. Thomas. The vessel was visited by the authorities of Porto Rico, and 982 of the slaves were landed at Hamacao. Of the rest some were taken on board a Spanish man-of-war which was in the neigh- | borhood, and the remainder, who were too sick to be removed, were left on board the slaver, in charge of the authorities in the neighborhood. ‘The abandonment of the vessel, the flight of the captain and the owner, and the taking of the young Hlaves into Porto Rico, have much the appearance of collusion. We have accounts from Porto Rico to the 28th ) alt, An American built bark, with a cargo of ne- | groes from the African coast, went ashore near Humacoa about the 15th ult. Her officers, it was reported, had proceeded to St. Thomas in boats: Professor Morse and daughter were at Guayama. ‘The laborers on the New York and Erie Railroad at the freight depot at Piermont refuse to work until the company pay them two months back pay at the rate of one dollar per day for each man. ‘They also say if the company will not comply with their demands, that they will, on the company's paying them all their back pay—two and a half months at ninety cents per day—-not interfere with any set of men the company may think proper to steamers, left last night for Albany, with thirty-five barges and canal boats—the first upward tow of the season. rate. Pork was rather jirmer, with sales of new mess at $18 40a $18 50, old do. at $17 75 a $17 8737 at $13 252 $13 50. Beef and lard were firm. Owing toa better export demand, with favorable advices from the South, the market for rice was firmer, with increased sales. The transactions in sugars embraced about 500 hhds., at rates given in another place, Coffee was firm, with limited sales, Freight engagements wero moderate at unchanged rates. Among the shipments to Liverpool were 1,000 bales of cotton at 3-16d., and 4,500 bbls. rosin at lz, 6d.; and 1,000 do. to London at p. t. The steamboat Austin, of Austin’s line of The sales of cotton yesterday. up to the Close of *Change embraced only 300 a 400 bales, closing quictly and with- out change in prices. After ‘Change was over considera. ble sales were reported, the particulars of which we could not fully trace. Dealers were disposed to await the re- ceipt of later foreign news, due at this port. The heavy fall of rain in the forenoon tended to check sales of flour, which, however, was unchanged, and the demand {air. Wheat and corn were both firm, while sales were modo- and prime The Tammany Cuba Meeting=Speech of Mr. Senator Brown. The Tammany Hall Cuba demonstration of Monday night was a remarkable affair; the spirit which pervaded the assemblage of “the un terrified” was remarkable—the drift of the speeches was remarkable—and the fire-eating fill- bustering speech of Mr. Senator Brown, of Mis- sissippi, was particularly remarkable. The democracy, after the tremendous damages which they have suffered from that disastrous ex- periment for Southern capital—that Kansas-Ne- braska bill—se redaced to the necessity of some new and popula shibboleth for 1860; for in de- fault of it, they are gone—gone, as Mr. Webster raid, “hook and line, Lob and sinker.” Tammany Hall understands thix and the Sachems, from the workings of the lato Cuba discussion in Con- gress, have resolved that “Cuba” shall be the war cry of the “anterrified' for the succession, The idea is a good one; Cyba is a popular word—the annexation of Cuba, the general de- sire, and the “manifest destiny” « Cuba is uni- vereally understood. But we fear Yat Mr. Sena- tor Brown carries too much steam, avd that bis hot-headed and unrestrained impetuisity has somewhat overdone the intent of this ‘lammany demonstration, in redacing it from @gret na- tional party affair to a conventicle of jj. busters. The epeech of Mr. Cochrane was seasonabh and judicious; the resolutions of the evening were evidently well considered; but the speech of Mr. Senator Brown made something of a bur- lesque of the whole affair. Let us examine brief. ly a point or two of this flibustering speech. Mr. Brown, in reference to the acquisition of Cuba, says: bd Three modes have been preposed—first, by purohase, that I regard as the most honorable; second by conquest, and thati regard as the most certain (applause); third, from the agency of the mysterions operation of that power np known tical nomenclature by the name of tiltbus- we that I regard as the most provable (laughter) ; hether by one or the othor, or by all of these agen- bined, aay again that Cuba must and ghall be the power dors not exist on carth to in in disposed to well the island, I for red to pay fpr it. America is young, » Vigorous, prosperous, rich, and etands prepared pay “pain one hundred millions, and if that is not enough to pay ber two hundred millions of dollare audymore: and be not digposed to eel, then my next proposition is {© [ropese an investigation for the settlement of present and past difticultios. For the purpose of having Indemni- ty for tho past and security for the future—if Spain be in. disposed 10 tell—I would seize Cuba (applause), secre It as indemuity for the past, and then negotiate for futnre seourity. If we can't nerve the government up to that pointe the greverbia Umidity of old age, which pre any on Mr. Buchanan and General Gass, can’t brought to that point—if they will not 4 The most remarkable feature of this extract is that in which Mr. Brown «peaks of “the pro- verbial timidity of old age, which presses hoavily on Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cass,” and “which can’t be brought to that point”—that is to say, the point ot teizing Cuba in the event of Spain's refusal to sell it. Now, we apprehend that Mr. Brown's impressions of the “ timidity” of Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cavs are not due to their ere this among the filibusters. But, as the mat- ter stands, Mr. Brown, in throwing over the ad- ministration, spoke neither for Tammany nor the democratic party, and was as much out of place with his late speech in the Old Wigwam as would have been Gen. Walker himself. Mr. Fowler, the next time, should be a little more careful in the eclection of his orators. Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, is not the man for Tammany Hall. Trans-ArLantic STEAM Naviaatroy.—One of the most unerring indications of the activity which will pervade all branches of our foreign and domestic trade for some time to come, is the multiplication of the steamers placed on the trans-Atlantic lines. It is this interest which always feels the first impulse of the revival of business after a period of commercial collapse, asit is always the first to feel the effects of the shock which leads to it No sooner does com- mercial confidence receive a check than there is a falling off in importations and in immigration, for what affects the one has necessarily a consi- derable influence on the other. When, therefore, we find the trans-Atlantic lines adding to the number of their vessels, or increasing the num- ber of their trips, the fact may be taken as con- clusive cvidence of the improved state of things generally. Their arrangements are, it is true, taken in advance of the demands made on their resources; but as they iavolve a large outlay, they are are rarely entered into except upon caleula- tions based almost upon a certainty. Af we are to judge from the preparations that are being made to mect the wants of our trans- Atlantic trade during the spring, we may count upon a year of unprecedented activity and pros- perity in all branches of home industry. The Galway linc, which in opening up new channels of communication is also creating fresh markets for Irish manufactures as well as for our own staples, will receive the subsidy which was alone wanting to guarantee its success. Its rervice will be carried on fortnightly, alternating between New York and Boston via St. Johns, N. F. The Quebec liue is to be a weekly one, but until the St. Lawrence opens it runs its vessels fortnightly, commencing March 9. We understand that it is intended to place two ferew steamers on the line between Glasgow and Quebec, the shortness of the run rendering this route a highly advantageous one. The Cunard screws will also he kept regularly employed in the trans-Atlantic trade, as the freights are found ‘o pay well, and to warrant their continn- fice. The old Philadelphia line has not a8 yet made any change in its fortnightly Fetvke, but it is at times se overrun with cargo that extra trips are talked of. South- ampton will benefit laygely by the activity which has%een imparted to trans-Atlantic steam navigation, 1 all the screw steamers from Ham- burg, aswell as Bremen, intend to make it a port of call, and Will thus establish a weokly line from that point alae. Whilst on the sulyject of these steamers, tye tray mention that the Weser, which was obliged to put into Cork from stress of weather, was advertised to Icave that port for New York on the Ist, ana consequently may be daily expected here. With we Vanderbilt line, which recommences its trips on the 234 of next monta, it will be scen that during tho ensuing spring and summer scarcely a day will Dass without the arrival or departure of one or other of' the vessels of these different companics. To support such a number of lines a large increase in our foreign and domestic trade will be re- quired, and it is a cheering sign that all who are connected with these enterprises speak confident- ly of the prospects which the commerce of the country for the next two yeara holds ont to them; and with such prospects before us, what has Congress done to enable Americans to enter into this great and important traffic in competition with the merchants of Hurope? Nothing absolutely nothing. like state of things exists in France, and with nearly every other Continental Power. The famous statu quo established by the treaty of Vi- enna in 1815 could not fe maintained by any other means. Contending military monarchies were balanced against each other, and the civil- ized world was cut up to suit a few thieving dy- nasties. But other laws than treaties drawn with the sword govern the growth of civilization, and they have rendered impossible the statu quo of Vienna. The world has outgrown the treatics of 1815, and two of the great military monarchies— France and Austria—are about to contend for the mastery. Two others, of equal propor- tions, are urging them on, caring very little which destroys the other. If one sinks, three only are left; and if two are destroyed, then the Coburg and the Romanoff only remain. England pretends to desire peace; but no Power knows better than she the fallacy of such ahope. The popular mind of England has been skilfully played on by Louis Napoleon now, just asit was before the Russian war, and it is per- fectly willing to see Austria drubbed. She may not be drawn into the conflict, as is also the case with Russia, but she does not wish to sec it stopped. Louis Napoleon is playing the same chord that Palmerston played upon so many years, in which he gained much popular applause. Te was the liberal, par excellence, out of England just as Louis Napoleon now is beyond the confines of France; and both are in fact perfect Marplots for reform both at home and abroad. John Bull has been gulled by these humbugs, and to-day be- lieves in the Palmerstonian policy and promises as strongly as ever. ‘The Continental war is, therefore, a double ne- cessity. Growing military monarchies must con- tend for the mastership on the one hand, and on the other endeavor to avert the coming upheay- ing of the overtaxed multitudes, by converting their ire into international hatreds. The mighty mass of cach national debt must be extended over 4 greater space of territory, or give way to the extension of its antagonists, European ministers of finance are now shinning it among the Jews to find the means of averting a complete bank- ruptey and break up. But all these struggles only tend to hasten the coming of the true end, which is the prevalence in Europe of the Ameri-- can theory: that political science must be subor- dinate to and guided by social developement. ‘This theory will tear down all the old and costly paraphernalia of kingcraft, erase the barriers be- tween producers and consumers, destroy the ter- Titorial divisions of dynastic treaties, and recon- #truct Europe, socially, politically and morally. Tue Fray ann Unamartuy Conprtioy ov tue Struers.—The heavy rain of yesterday and the night before has done in an imperfect man- ner what our well paid public officers ought to have done completely long since—it has cleaned the streets to some extent, washing away the filth from the high ground, and diluting the ac- eumulations of stagnant water and mire which settle <in thé lower situations and there remain for want of a proper system of drainage. Never within our recollection have the streets heen #0 absolutely dirty as they are now, while the expense for keeping them clean, and for other objects of city government, which are car- tied out with equal efficiency, has quadrupled within a few years. It seems that the more the Citizens pay their public servants, and the more aqune these servants are, the less work is @Mdepartments, and more particularl, in the cleansing of our streets. Were not New York 60 highly ferapod by nature for cleanliness, and were it built on wat like Philadelphia, our People would be decimatea by disease, It ought to be the cleanest, whereas it i« the filthiest, city in the United States, because there is none other half so neglected. Take, fur example, the Tenth avenue—the route of the Hudson River Rail road--and what can be more abominable or are and always have been a source of danger. It was an infected veseel or its cargo, and not its passengers, which in 1855 carried yellow fever into Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, and in like manner, from the same source, were Charles- ton and New Orleans decimated by the pestilence during the past summer. But while the State authorities should protect the public health by a suitable location of Quaran- tine, and the appointment of an efficient and cx- perienced Health Officer, it is their duty, also, to protect commerce from the burdens of Quaran- tine restrictions, by furnishing such facilities for discharging, storing and speedily disinfecting cargoes, as may be necessary and convenient. It is conceded that half the burdens—the deten- tions and expenses—of our Quarantine can be saved by the erection of a wherf and warchouse in the lower bay; and that is all the Quarantine we require. For the want of such a construction it has been estimated that our shipping trade lost last summer nearly half a million of dollars. We trust, therefore, that the Legislature will not adjourn without making such necessary provision for the safety of the public health and the inte- rests of commerce as the present system of Quarantine demands. Our New Orleans Correspondence. Naw Onixans, March 6, 1859. The Departure of Gen. Walker for California—Filibuster- ing Transferred to the Pacific, de. Gen. Walker and Don Bruno Van Natzmer left this city on the steamship Philadelphia, which sailed yostorday morning. They aro en route to California, Jt was the in- tention, as J informed you, to leave here very soon with an expedition for Nicaragua, but it is said the General received letters from California which all bim there, This transfers tho whole filibuster movements to the Pa- cific, whero we are to look for further developements. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DRSPATCH, Wastinctox, March 15, 1869. For several hours this morning, the President and Post- Master Goneral were in consultation with the principal officers of the Post Office Department relative to the condi- tion of its aflairs, which were subsequently considered by the Cabinet. Owing to the magnitude of the subject, and the various important questions in connection with it, no couclusion a# to an extra session of Congress was attained, but it is said this will be determined before the departure of the next California steamer. According to the exhibit there will be by the first of June a doficit of nearly four millions anda hah. An extra session will be called under the pressure of absolute necessity. a The understanding here ig that the British frigate Cara- oa will land Lord Lyons at Annapolis, and there await Lord Napier’s convenience to return in that vessel to Europe. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has notified the success- ful bidders for the late loan, that they need not make any further deposits, unless they choose, government not at Present requiring money. It is thought in financial cir- cles that no call for instalments will be made before mid- summer, Ex-Senator Jones, of Iowa, to-day formally resigned the appointment of Minister to Bogota. Several candidates have already signified their willingness to serve thelr country in that capacity. ‘The Circuit Court has been applied to for a settloment of the question of who is Mayor of our immediate neighbor, Georgetown. Two gontlemen claim that honor, and have been sworn into office, Judge Vespasian Ellie died here yesterday, aged 59, of dropsy. He formerly representod this country in a diplo- matic capacity, and has been long connected with the press, A complaint has been lodged at the State Department, against the British Consul at Galveston. In November the American ship Thomas Watson, of New York, cloared with a cargo of cotton for Liverpool. The Consul refused tocertify to the clean bill of health given by the Collector of that port, in consequence of which the vessel was de- tained twenty-five days, and narrowly secaped ship- wreck, The allegation is that the Consul was actuated by a feeling of petty malice or revenge, owing to the attach. ment of the British schooner Commorce by the owners of the Wateon, for damage done in port during a norther by the former, which was consigned to the British Consul. ‘The owner of the Watson has preferred a claim of tom thousand dollars against the British government, AFFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Our Spectal Albany Despatch, THR NEW YORK HEALTH BILL—A NKW CHARTER FOR NEW YORK—NEW LAW OF LIBEL—rHk Me TROPOLITAN YOLICB LAW+~-BROOKLYN SKWie- AGE, ETC. Avotnee TesrmMosial. FROM THE Brisn Goverweyt,— On the 14th ot November last Capt. Henry B. Lunt, of the ship Amelia, of Charleston, rescued the officers and crew of the British brig Orwell, which was in a sinking condi- tion. In consequence of the gallant and humane conduct exhibited by Captain Lunt on that occasion, the British government has sent him a magnificent silver mounted telescope through their Minister at Washington, Lord Napier, who has forwarded it, accompanied by a very ap- propriate letter. The telescope is in a beautiful ma- hogany case, and no doubt ia highly prized by Captain Lunt, Tae Havana Ovxra—Rerorn or mim Manerazex Cox- rany.—According to a telegraphic despatch from Charles- ton, Mr. Maretzek, with his artists, arrived there from Havana on Monday. The company will all bo in Now York within the presont week, and from rumors in musical circles it seems probable that Mr. Maretzek will give a short seagon at Burton’s, Our Havana correspondent, under date of March ‘9, kende some account of the close of the scason there:—On. Wednesday evening, 2d inst. , Gazzaniga took her benefit at the Villanueva theatre. The opera waa"‘Sappbo;”’ the house ‘was crowded to excers. Gazzaniga received many valuable Presents, On the next evening Sbrig lin took his bencfit; the opera was “Martha,” but the house was not fall, owing probably to there being a reception at the Palace on that evening. On Leeson Radhegins J La Gassier took her benefit. Not a seat could be procured for two days pre- viously. The performances wore: first act of “Don Pas. quale,”’ agcene in the Polacca in “I Puritani,”’ the first and second acts of “Martha,” and the Spanish “duoLa Jota de los Torreros,”” sang by the Gassiers, husband and wife, La Gassier comes from Biscay, In Spain, and the Bis- cayans felt it their duty to seo that her benofit was a substantial one. Not only was every seat and place into which a human being could be crammod in the occupied, but a subscription, which amounted to between $16,000 and 615,000, was taken up amo them, with which were purchased many costly gifts which wers duly presented to her, After the opera, in a splendid carriage drawn by cight white horses, she was conveyed to the villa of the Marquis de Palatino, at the Cerro (dis- Ainany, March 15, 1859. Senator Ely’s bill, in relation to tho Public health of the city of New York, was taken up for consideration in the Senate this morning. It constitutes the Mayor, Prosident of the Board of Aldermen, President of the Board of Councilmen, President of the Board of Supervisors, the Health Commissioner, the Resident Physician and the Health Officer of the port of New York the Board of Health. Fefore any discussion was had, Senator Noxon, Tepresenting the constituency of Syracuse and Onondagn ! coumty, come three hundred miles from the city of New Yorle, the locality where the new Board of Health is pro- Poeed to be established, rose and introduced a sub- stitute, providing that the Mayor, Prosidents of the Aldermen, Counciimen, Supervisors, Chamber of Commerce, together with the City Comptroller, and one member from each of the following bodies, to be chosom by them every two years, viz:—Colloge of Physicians and Surgeons, University of tho State of New York, University of the city of New York, Medical College, and American natitution of Architects, As the latter proposition comes from ono of the leaders of the minority, it has undoubted- been considered adopted in prefe- rence to the board re er Fly. Cannot the Teast matter bo asked A. {4 Doped Kanal York, through their iver, but it must go through a: Mtical ordeal? im the mame of common pose ham tho “Amoricag Institution of Architects’ to do with the tant about three miles from the city). The equipage was | health itary condition of the city of Now York? Is accompawiod by scores of young gentlemen, cach beariny heres really in every ‘fence’ ‘largo wax torch, At this ville © magnificsat supper had | A Dil had beon qrtictly through the committee of been prepared, of which a large of Pretty speoehe wero made att Bp compliments yan Next evening, 6th inst. M. Gassior took his On the evening of the 7th inst, our own Miss We Phillips took ber benefit at the Villanueva theatre. The two firet acts of “Mactha’ were ropre- sented, She also sang a duo from “Semiramide” with Senor Gavsier, and another with Mme. Gassier. Tho Captain General, the Marquesa and their three daughtors, were present. nesta partook. | he Senate, making provision for a new or amended char- ie ler of the city of New York. It provided that Henry i Selden, ton Fish and Charles O'Conor should be con- atitutod a commitioe to frame a chartor. Tt wns then to vo submitted to tho voters of the olty of New York as a whole, fad ifapproved by a majority, then it should be sent to the iro for confirmation. As there is a great amount: of Unkering with tbat charter by mere adventnrere-—| persons ignorant of the real wants and desires of the jae ras was supposed that no hy Sy would show teelf against the persons named in the bill. But when came up for a third roading in the Senate this morning, Senutor Ely was found to be tho only ono of tho city dele- Gation who voted for it, The republicans who had voted for the bill, eta tho hesitancy of the Now York Senators, changed their votes, and thus the bill was Jort. Upon being intorrogated, Mr. Schell stated that he did not desire to vote for « Dill to reviee the charter of the etty of Now York, which provided that 4 majority of the rovisore should ‘be offere. to the democracy, who held 60 largo a majority in that city. The bill was loa, and Senabor Diven, republican, moved & ies seed Noxrt Rrven Passencme Boars.—The following boats will form the different Hnea of paetonger steamers be. tween this city, Albany and Troy, during the spring and summer'— ‘ Morano! ine-sKeateroocker and Were. Troy line—Francis Skiddy and Hendrik Hudson, ‘The fare will continue tho same as season pear, by ach line—to wit, one dtoliar,