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It is now definitively known that no extra session wf Congress will be called. The fact was officially pronmigated yesterday, ina telegraphic despatch from the Postmaster General addressed to Senator Gwin, who sailed yesterday for California. A cir cular from the Post Office Department, advising contraetors and others of the policy to be pursued towards claimants, will be made public in a day or two. No business of general local interest was trans- acted in either branch of the Legislature yesterday. We publish this morning copious details of intel- ligence from the city of Mexico to the 19th ult., and from Vera Crvz to the 9th instant, two weeks later than the accounts previously received, to- gether with letters from Monterey to the 3d inst. ‘The political news is of great interest and impor- tance, as it shows the general success of the liberal arms, both on the Gulf and Pacific slopes, and the probability is that that party will not only sustain itcelf, but will ultimately triumph. The California overland mail which left San Fran cisco on the 25th ult., has arrived at St. Lonis. The dates are days later than those received by way of the Isthmus, but they contain nothing of im- portance. Woe give a few particulars of the stwke on the Erie Railroad at Piermont. All was quiet there yesterday afternoon. The old laborers think that they will be put to work again on the return of Mr Moran from the Buffalo Convention. President MeSpedon and seven other members of the Board of Aldermen only being present last even- ing, the Board did not organize for want of a quo- rum. Jt is understood that the members remained away to avoid acting upon 2 nomination for City Inspector, in place of Mr. Morton, which the Mayor intended to send in. Elijah F’. Purdy is said to be the person selected, Dr. r having withdrawn his name as a candidate. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and after disposing of some routine pa- pers adopted a resolution presented by Mr. Ottas- fon, requesting the Mayor to convene the Board of Health to take into consideration the best mode of cleaning the streets and other matters pertaining to the health of city. The report of the special committee on repairing the City Hall was called up for adoption and Jost for want of a constitutional vote, and subseqnently laid on the table. The weekly meeting of the Board of Supervisors took place yesterday afternoon. A communication from Comptroller Haws, enclosing a copy of a let- Foste ter from James Kelly, the Receiver of Taxes, show- ing the amount of uncollected taxes on the 4th of January last—the day on which he assumed the daties of his office—was read. The recapitulation, date showing the amonnt of unpaid taxes at the above mentioned, was as follow: ‘Taxes on rel estate for 1858.. . Personal taxes unpaid from 1843 to 1858... arrears of the Croton Board for Total...... see ees 82,768.61 The communication was referred to a committee and ordered to be printed. The delinquents named in the Comptroller's document are chiofly incorpo- rated companies, comprising several insurance com- panies, steamship companies, &o. A resolution di- rewing the Committee on Printing and Stationery to inquire if any of the judgments obtained against the city in the tax levy at Albany, Wefore the Le- gislature, belong properly to the county, was adopted. They agreed to pay the bill of John Ward, amounting to $47 40, for disinterring the remains of Sophia Stephens Supervisor Tweed offer- ed a resolution to the effect that the President of the Board be authorized to apply to the Legisla- ture for the insertion of $20,000 in the tax levy to purchase a site for a new county jail. The resoln- tion was passed unanimously, and tue Koard then adjourned till next Monday. The Republican Central Committee met last evening and adopted resolutions denouncing the Sovpreme Court for its decision in the Dred Scott ease, etigmatizing the Judges as criminals, aud ap- plauding the Personal Liberty bill now before the Legislature. In fact, the committee’s resolutions developed a degree of ultra abolitionism that would hhave warmed the heart of the most rabid follower of Garrison or Giddings, At a meeting of the officors of the new Highland Regiment last evening Brigadier General Ewen Btated that he had received information personally from Adjutant General Townsend that the orders for the completion of the organization of the corps would be ready within a fortnight, and that he would come down to this city from Albany and dnspect and muster the regiment into service. Col. Thomas L. Kane, of Philadelphia, delivered B lecture last evening before the Historical Socicty of this city on “The Executive of Utah.” The lec- farer went into minnie details of the journey of Governor Cumming from Camp Scott to Great | Falt Lake City at the tiuc when the Mormons lad taken every disposition to oppode the entrance of | The the United States troops, thereby showing his great devotion to the government he represented, and determination to fulfil hia duties, The leoturer spoke in the highest terms of Governor Cumming, as an officer of the United States and as a private gentleman, to whose labors the country unquestion- ably owed much in the settlement of the whole difficulty. Ihe Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, delivered a lecture last evening in Clinton Hall, Astor place, before the Young Men's Christian Union, The theme was: “The Higher Law—the only proper basis of human government;” and in developing that proposition Mr. Giddings indulged in his fa- vorite topic--abuse of the institution of slavery. The testimony in the Stephens alleged wife poi- soning case was concluded yesterday, so far as the defence is concerned. It is expected thatthe pros- ecution will bring forward some rebutting evidence. See our report in another part of the Hsxaup. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday’ Thomas Tynon, charged with stabbing Alexander Davis in a house of ill fame in Thomas street, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth de- gree. He will be sentenced by the City Judge on Satu cay. The damage to the Hudson River Railroad by tho late storm has been repaired, and trains are run- ning as usual, The Belgian screw steamer Gustave Pastor, Capt. Ubdohde, from Palermo, arrived at this port yes- terday, after « passage of thirty-theee days. She brines a full cargo of new fruit, principally orangegh She is built of iron, and is bark rigged, having dou- ble topsails on fore and main masts. She has also a new and peculiar arrangement connected with her whereby itcan be hoisted above deck, and the screw hole closed by an iron batch. It is sim- ple in its construction, and is very easily worked. She lies at anchor in the North r ver. Captain Brevoor, of the schooner Amy Chase, which reached th’s port from Porto Cabello on the night of the 19th inst., has handed us late files of Venezuelan papers. The province of Cora and two others were in a state of revolt. A rising in Caracas had been suppressed by the government troops. Three hundred soldiers had been marched on Co Produce was in good supply, but at higher rates. The United States mail steamship Star of the West, Captain A. P. Gray, sailed for Aspinwall yes- terday afternoon, with the California mails and pas- sengers. She took outa large freight and a corres- ponding number of passengers, the latter availing themselves of the low rates of fare. Cotton was quite active yesterday, and the sales footed up about 6,000 bales, nearly all of which were made in ‘transitu , comprising in part New Orleans middling at 11Xc., with freight at 15-324. There were only a few hundred bales sold from store, which closed firm on the basis of 1234c. for middling uplands. Inferior and unin. spected grades of Western and State flour were dall, while good to extra brands were firm. Tho sales wert fair, chiefly to the domestic trade. Wheat was in fair demand, with moderate sales at full prices. Corn wag less buoyant and shles were lees active. Pork was heavy, with sales of new mess at $18 25 a $18 $734, old do. at $17 76, and prime at $15 10a $13 123;. Beof and lard were steady. Sugars were active and prices sustained, with salos of about 1,400 hhds., comprising New Orleans, Cubs and Porto Rico, and 2,000 bags Pernambuco, at rates given in anothor column, Coffee was quiet. Moderately tuir freight engagements were made without change in raters’ No Extra Session—The President and the Democratic Party. The President has given way to the exigencies of the democratic party, and determined to call no extra session of Congress. In doing this he has exhibited a greater mag- napimity than his own party, judging it by its late antecedents, will ever give him credit for, and bas undertaken a personal responsibility which will make him and his administration the objects of continual attack and misrepresentation from this time forth. His course should entitle him to the honest and ardent support of every democratic politician, and we shall not have to wait long to see if they correspond to the unsclf ishness he has exhibited. In order to save the party from defeat in the organization of the next House of Representatives, which would carry with it the shaping of legislation for the next two years, and bring as great a danger to the elec- toral campaign of 1860 as the skill of Speaker Banks gave to that of 1856, Mr. Buchanan has determined to place himself and his Cabinet in the breach, and to save the democratic party from the destruction which the factious proceed- ings of some of its own members had made immi- nent. When the black republicans, rendered despe- rate in their unavailing efforts to defeat the other appropriation b lls, fastened upon the Post Office appropriation as a last resort, and, raising a point of Congressional etiquette, got some of the drunken fire-eaters to follow them, and threw out the bill, the danger might still have@been averted but for the folly of Senators Mason and Toombs. They fell into line with the nigger- worshippers, or into their trap, and, from motives which they only can explain, threw the game for the next two years into the hands of Seward. Mason started the movement for defeating the conference, and Tocmbs kept it up, speaking until the hammer of the President of the Senate de- ecended at the hour of twelve, and the session was closed. The Post Office Department was left largely in arrears, and no provision made for it after the 30th of June. In this state of things but two courses remained open for the President. Te must cither call an extra session of Congress, where a partially represented party, in the face of the full ranks of their opponents, nrust incur a defeat preliminary to the next great political campaign, or he must assume the responsibility ofendeavoring to carry on the most popular aud important service branch of the government with such inadequate means as he can rake and scrape together. In choosing the latter horn of the dilemma the President subjects himself to an amount of abuse and obloquy the extent of which can hardly be foreseen. He must curtail the opera- tions of the Department in the newly opened and little used routes in order to save from em- barrasement the great working routes of com- merce and intercommunication. He must put off the payments to contractors by delaying the quarterly settlements of accounts until after the next meeting of Congress. He must diminish the number of employés in every possible way. No new routes can be opened, no new contracts for conveying maile can be made, and even the expenditure of the insufficient funds accraing from postages must be Gisbureed under the lia- bility of the most wholesale accusations against him. Whatever obloquy the administration sus- tains in pursuing this course will rebound upon the party in whose behalf it has been adopted, and its members should at once prepare to sus- tain the President and the Cabinct. The obliga- tion is personal on Senators Mason and Toombs, for to them clings the odium of defeating tho appropriation. No one can blame Grow and the | black republicans, for their courso was in pur- suit of their openly avowed policy. Let us tec if these gentlemen are willing to accept the | odium of their own partieang, and defend the | administration for relieving their party from the inevitable «suite of teir fuctious wad Sulish Gouzse, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH jews from MexicomHer Present Evils and Onsy Cure. The full details of the news from Mexico which we givein our correspondence published in another column, chows some improvement in the aspect of affairs for the constitutional party. In the northern and northwestern States the liberal leaders—Degollado, Quiroga aad Zara- gorza—bad re-ocoupied nearly the entire extent of country from which they were driven by Mire- mon in the campaign of last December. This operation scems to have been effected with little resistance, the only fight of any consequence having been made by Col, Miramon, a brother of the President, who was defeated in the State of Zacatecas and compelled to retire to San Luis Potosi. Gen, Degollado is reported to have again entered Guanajuato, and as belng about to effect a junction with the frontier forces uoder Quiroga and Zaragoza, when the combined forces of tho liberals im the northwest would amount to nearly ten thousand men, The prio- cipal chstacles to the march of this body on the city of Mexico were: the city of Queretaro, held by Gen, Mejia, and San Luis Potosi, sow held by the brother of the President, who would me- nace their left flank. Our advices from Monterey state tbat Viduarri wes making great exertions to fit out another army to operate against Sen Luis in conjunction with Garza, and that th comniand would be given to Colonel Zuazua, said to be the only military antagonist tho fiery and thus far. victorious young Presi- dent has any respect for, But the campaign in the east against Vera Cruz is the one that is attracting the entire at- tention of Mexico, Our information is very seanty ae to ihe position of Miramon’s forcea, and we bave no advices as to where he is. portion of his troops, under Cobos, attacked the constitutional forces at the raviae of Jamapa, and are reported to have beea repulsed with con- eiderable loss; but there is no evidence that they constituted the main body of the conservative army, or that Miramon was with then. The last advices we have of him—dated somefifteen days previous to the latest dates—stated that he was at Orizaba; and the fact that Jamapa lies to the right of the road between Orizabo and Vera Cruz, and lies in a line of march cifher on Vera Cruz or Alvarado, leads us to suppose that the main attack is deecending by some other route, The state of neglect in which the Church party has left the northern and northwestern portions of the republic, concentrating all their efforts and all their hopes on Miramon’s attack on Vera Cruz, shows how completely their hopes confide in this young soldier, and how much his future career depends upon the success of his present campaign. In connec- tion with his views and policy, the report of the toasts given at a political and diplomatic banquet before he left Mexico (published in another column) bave great significance. At Vera Cruz the constitutionalists exhibit confident hopes of triumph in the impending crisiz. The most ardent desires of recognition by cur government are, however, expressed, as being, if not necessary to sccure their success, at least a dezirable moral support and stimulus for their forces. Our Vera Cruz correspondent dis- cusses this question with great truthfulness and acumen, and frankly acknowledges that if, be- sides the moral support of recognition by our government, President Juarez does not also receive from this country the material support of both men snd money, he cannot confer stability on hisrule. Even if he triumphs now, it will be overthrown in a short period by some revolution. We have for some time entertained the samecon- victions. Mexico can never again enjoy aconsti- tuted government through her own efforta The popular impulse is towards a free goverpment, but not one of exaggerated lil like that advocated by many of the partigans of Suarez, who, in their zealous radicalism, refuse to confer upon the executive branch of the govern- ment even the power neceseary to enforpe the laws in a state of peace, and much less that re- quisite to reconstruct society and govemment from the anarchical elements into which Mexico has disintegrated. Against this popular impulse are arrayed the Church, which is the onlyyreally organised element now existing in an society, and the remnant of the old army, which possesses nearly all of military science disci, pline known in the repubfic. If these fou- dal clements, fighting for “religion and privi- leges,” as their war cry epigrammatically ren- ders their doctrines, should triumph now, they, too, will soon be overthrown again, and fevolu- tion and anarchy become reinstated inthe re- public. Liberal Mexicans hold that colomization by foreign elements affords the only hoge of a stable and peaceful rule. But before ign colonists will migrate to Mexico, her govern- ment, and the army that sustaing it, must be colonized by elements that carry with them liberal views, honesty, and a staunch loyalty that shall inspire confidence in all parties, Tux Porsce Cosmmssioners ox SteNOGRAPHY anb Tue Enouish Lanavace.—The defence of the Police Commissioners to the,charges brought against them in the report of the Senate Com- mittee, and in the evidence on which the report was founded, is the most singular, and at the same time the “most lame and impotent,” ever yet offered by officials accused of public wrong They have addressed a memorial to the Legisla- tre, and all that they can say for themselves is that the evidence “was not taken down in the Englich language,” and that after being decipher- ed out of a foreign tongue it was published in a New York journal, meaning the Hera, It is very doubtful if any document emanating from the Commissioners is, in strict parlance, Bag- lish, for their knowledge of the language is ex- ceedingly limited. But it is the first time that we have ever heard that the notes of stenographers for an American newspaper are taken ina foreign language. Perhaps the sovans of the commission could inform usin what language our reporter's notes wore taken—Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Chinese, Irish or Hebrew? We had supposed his shorthand was written in his mother tongue--the English language, But pre- bably the Commizsioncrs know better. Supposing, however, the evidence had been taken in some forcign Janguoge and translated into English, would that mildate against the facts which it contained? The Commissioners might as well refuse to believe the truths of the English Bible because it was written in Hebrew and Greek and has becn translated into tho Anglo-Saxon tongue. Akin to this great point which the learned Commissioners make in their defence is another, viz.: that the evidence was published in the New Youk Heraco! Admire- ble reasoning! Does the publication of any- thing render it the lees true? So much for the logic, education and intelligcace of the Police Commissioners, and their wonderful knowledge of stenogrephy, the Kogtish lacguege and forcign tonguce. A, 22, 1859. THE LATEST NEWS. No Katra Sesalaon of Congress to be Calked— Official Despatches from Mexico, &. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH, Wasmagrow, March 21, 1850. ‘The Preeident to-day authorized a telegraphic despatch to be sent to Sonater Gwin, informing him there would bo Ro extra seesion of Congress, and algo the policy the Post Office Department intend to adopt. Annexed is the des- pateb:— Bee. WG ‘Wastuneron, March 21, 1869. ‘There will be no extra session of Congress, I shall, to- morrow, oxplain the whole matter by a circular. J. HOLT. Post master General Holt has been engaged to-day pre- pariog a etutement, or circular, which is to be sent to all contractors and others having claims against the Depart: ment. It will be submitted to the Cabinet to-morrow, and if adopted, as it probably will be, it will be mado Pubile at once. ‘The State Department received this morning des- patches from? Mr, Churchill, dircet from Vora Cruz, He states that the Juarce government is gaining strength and stability every day, and that it will be able to bold out against Miramon, ever though he should take Vora Cruz, which, howover, there is no possibility of his doing. He eucgests the propriety of recognizing the Juarez govern- ment, and thinks it a good stroke of policy. Our yovern- ment will not at present take Mr. Churchill's advice. ‘They intend to wait until they hear something definite from Mr, McLane. Senor Mata had a long interview with the Secretary of State before leaving here,and learned what course the administration intend to pursue, He will remain in New Orieans for the presont, ‘Tuk GRNERAL NEWEPAPER YSPATCE, ‘Wasaincron, March 21, 1859. Ad official telegraphic despatch was sont to New Yori, to go out by the California steamer, that thero will be no ox- tra eeasion. There is much speculation as to how the service of the Post Qffice will be maintained, In quarters usually best informed on such subjecta it is said the law authorizing contracts will continue to be carried out, em- bracing the issuing of ‘Treasury warrants, as usual ; but ag there is no money to pay them, they will, lu the hands of contractors, serve as the basis of loans. It is not known that any other evidences or certificates of indebt- edness will be issued. In reply to a note of Goorge Mattingly, dated to day, the Postmaster Genera! informs him that Coogress has, for the first time eines the organtifation of the govern- ment, failed to muke provisiou for the Post Office Depart- ment, Ho adds—“Had all the members of the next Con- gross been clected, the President might, on tho 4th of March, have called an extra session, and the omizsions of the Inte Congress been supplied; but it was impossible to do eo without disfranchtsing fifteen of the sovereign States. Ths was most unfortunate. Thore ought to be no time when a full Congress could not be convened, ‘and it is hoped such 8 slate of aleirs may never egain cecur. Had the bill which failed made provision ouly for the fiscal year commencing July 1, there would have been obviously bo necessity for an extra session, The deficiency on the Sth of June will amount to $4,386,351, nearly $760,000 of which being an unpaid balance accumulating on the Stst of December and 28th of February, and wi can and will be paid by the department within sixty days from tbis date. The payment of the principal part will be made within thirty days. The Postmaster Gencral makes theso statoments to show that it would bo impossible to convene Congress in time to meet the great bulk of the respousibilities without virtually excluding from Congress the representatives of soveral of the sovereign States. {m the judgment of the President the lesser evil was to wait until the first Monday in Decomber, when Congross will be full, Contracts can never be repudiated; after the amounts due shall be ascertained, they become debts which must be paid. On this the contractors, if thoy desire, cun borrow money, and the lender could have no better tecurity. Provision should be made for the paymont of the interest, which would amount to less than $200,000. A system of retrenchment, go far as practicable, is now an imperative duty. By the act of 1858 Congress estab_ lished s@ hundred and nincty-flve new post routes, tho eorvice of which includes the St. Paul and Puget’s sound route, established in 1856, but not yet put in operation. Tt bas been estimated that these require an annual appro- priation of $604,488 over and above the receipts accruing therefrom, Not a dollar has beon appropriated for this purpose, and ag a consequence, though the contracts for those routes have been advertised and proposals received, they cannot be put in operation until provision shall be mace for them by Iaw.’? No action whatever has yct been taken on the subject of the Boston Post Office, hence ali speculations as to what will be done in the premises are unreliable, The Secretary of tho Navy has ordered the Engincer in- Chief to require the contractors for the machinery of the sloop-of-war Lancaster to place on it Silver's marine governor, The Grand Jury has under consideration the case of Peter 8. Duval, of Philadelphia, which was certified to the District Attorney for the District of Columbia by order of the House, at the instance of the Special Committee, to examine the accounts of Mr. Seaman, ex-Superintondent of Public Printing. It involves the charge of perjury, Colonel Florence's health is nearly restored. ‘The California Overland Mail. St. Lovis, March 21, 1859. ‘The Overland Mall, with San Francisco dates of Februa- ry 26th, bas arrived. ‘The defeat of the Pacific Ratlroad bill in Congress occa- sioned much diseatisfaction in San Francisco. The Legislature had indefinitely postponed the bill to di- vide the into Congressional districts. The oxpedition against the Mohavo Indians is rapidly progressing. Thero had been ious rains in the interior, and the miners were doing well. Business was quiet. Arrived at San Francisco, ship Visurgis, from Poston; bark Carrie Leland, from Australia. Sailed, ships Fanny Fisher, Sydney, N. 3. W.; Sea Serpent, Hong Kong. San ary Fights with the Camanches. pi = Sr, Lovrs, March 21, 1859. A despatch from Leavenworth to the’ Democraf nays n severo fight bas eccurred, near Fort Arbuckle, betweon fifty troops and fifty Wachita Indians under Lieutenant Powell, and a large party of Camanches, in which two Camanches were killed and two soldiers wounded. An- otber fight occurred between Lieutenant Stanley's com- mand of fifty troops and the Camanches, in which eight of the latter and one of the former weme killed. Captain Carr and fifty men hayo left Fort Washita for tho seat of war. It is stated that tho Caranches number upwards of three thousand. Another battle is anticipated, The Divided Democracy of Pennsylvania, PHILADRLPHIA, 21, 1859. Mr. Fornoy’s Press contains a cail for anothor Demo- cratic Convention at Harrisburg, on the 12th of April, to vindicate Governor Packer from the assault of the receat Siate Convention at federal dictation, to ro.assert the prin- ciple of popular sovereignty, and to’ vindicate democratic principles. ‘The Supposed Slave Bark Laurens. New Tlavew, March 21, 1859. The triat of the cage of the bark Laurens, seizod at New London on suapicion of boing intended for the slave trado terminated in this city this forenoon, before the United States Instrict Court. Judge Charles A. Ingorsoll doctded that the evidence was not sufficient to prove that tho bark ‘was a slaver, but that there was probable cause to justify the Collector of New London in making the seizure and arrests, Adoption of the New Canadian Tariff. Tonosto, 0. W., March 19, 1859. The new tariff was carried through tho Committeo last nicht, with afew alterations, consented to by the Inspector General, the most importand of which are, that the now duty on tea and green coffeo does not come into effect until tho let of January, 1860—tho rate then to be fifteen por cent ad valorem; and the new duty on sugar commences on the Ist of July next—the fate to be thirty or forty per cent, according to quality. Death of Ex-United States Senator Smith. Inmiaxavous, Ind, , March 21, 1869, Hon, 0. H. Smith, an old resident of thie city, and ex- United States Senator, died on Saturday night. The Hudson River Ratlroad. ALHANY, March 21, 1859. ‘The Hudson River Railroad despatched a pasgonger train Leace at ten o'clock this morning. The Catholic Childyen and the Pablic Schools of Boston, Bostoy, March 21, 1859. At a mecting of the School Committee this afternoon a Communication from Bishop Fitzpatrick was read, stating, in temperate language, the ohjections entertained by Catholic parents to recitations from the Biblgin the schools. 10 subject, after debato, was indofinil poned. The excitement among the Catholic pupiis of the rehvols appears to be dying out. Fire In St, John, N. h 21, 1869, % N.B. Soven houses in Portland, a suburb of this city, were |p vnona fire yeetorday morning, They were partial- iy insured, Riot tn the Auburn Prison, ALBANY, March 21, 1869. ‘Thero was a riot in the Anburn prison on Saturday, in which Mr. Kirkpatrick, the Warden, shot three men. The Great Western Railway Disaster. Hamiaox, March 21, 1869, yy the disaster on the Gront , on Friday night, #evernl t ao thought they wilt rocover ny be cepaiced by to morrow, eo that ius CAG Le TUM pm Ubinl, Bix perrons wore keith Western Ratiwny, near Du where SEW YORK LEGISLATIRE. Benate. Auaant, “March 21, 1869. Mr. George D. Lamont, Senator elect from the Twonty- Bint district, appeared and took the oath of office. A number of petitions wore presented, asking reforms . iw matters relating W taxation in the city of New York. ‘BILIS REPORTED FAVORARLY, ‘To Barter the New York Observatory. ‘To charter the South Pacific Mali Steamship Company. BILLS PASSED. To amend tho act relative to the collection of demands against vessels, vi ‘To empower the Courts of Sessions to extend their terms. Mr. Larun (rep.) moved a reeolution declaring tbat Henry C. Wetmore is cotitled to the seat of the Eleventh Senatorial district, and authorizing bim to take his scat immediutoly after taking the oag of office. Mr. Lavin spoke in favor of the resoiution. Mr. Lariay’s resolution was ist, and a new special com- mittec, consisting of Messra. Lailin, Lamont and Scott, was sppo to consider and report on Mr. Wetmore’s Claim to a Beat. * The Registry Law bill was postponed till four o'clock to- morrow afternoon. ‘The evoning scesicn was passed in the consideration of the gencral orders, Assembly. ‘Ataany, March 21, 1869, ‘The attendance this morning was very light, and the ‘businees mainly unimportant. ‘The Attorney General sent in his report, giving an opl- nion in favor of the constitutionality of the proposed bill creating a loaa for the Albany and Susquehanna Pail- Mr. Haxz (rep.) moved for a more specific inquiry on the eame subject, BIA PABSED. To reduce the capital of the Mohawk Bank of Schenec- y. ‘To amend the charter of the People's college. qe change the tame and jocality of tue Niagara Rivor Dk. Tbe Personal Liberty bill was mece the epecial order for Tuesday. Mr. Mitzex (rep.) moved to instruct the committee to mako ® report on the Railroad Tariff Regulation bill. Ad Mr. Ruruxkroxp (dem.) called up tho resolution inquir- ing of the Attorney General relative to the title of the State to tbe lands under water in New York. Adopted. Mr. Touxson (dem.) moved to abolish the Grinding Commitice, and réfor bil’s from the general to the epecial order list By voto of the House, Laid over, Mr, ToMuNson called up the resolutions for a report re- lative to the capacity and value of the caual boats now in use, and relative to the amount outstanding of the Canal Commissioners’ drafts, and whether it is the intention of the Commiesioners to issue any more. Adopted. Under unfinished business the question came up, on the motion of Mr. Opdyke, to restore the enacting’ clause siricken ont in Comunittéo of the Whole to the bills re- leasing unearned premiums of insurance companics from taxation. Adopted, 40 to 26, The General Canal Appropriation bill was gone through with in Committee of the Whole. of the Nova Scotian. Poxttanp, March 21—12 P. M. There are yct no signs of the steamship Nova Scotian, now in her thirteenth day from Liverpoo!, and about due, Non-Arr! ‘The Spring Floods and Freshets. FRESUBT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. Srrcrienp, Mass., March 21, 1859. Heavy rains on Friday and Saturday, in the Upper Con- necticut valley, caused a greater flood on Saturday and Sunday than that of last Wednesday. The river here was over twenty feet abovo low water mark on Sunday, and ovor twenty-six foct at E . The bridges at Charles. town and Walpolo, N. H., were carried off. The Sultivan Railroad bridge at Boliows Falls was damaged and ronder- ed impassable. Tho flood is nearly as high as that of 1854, which was tho highost over known. All tho low- lands and meadows in valley were overflowed, and many houses flooded. The water is now receding. ‘Winra Raver Juncrion, Vt., March 21, 1869. Tho freshet hes been unusually severe in this region. Thrce large highway bridges across the Connecticut river between bere and Bollows Falls were carried off on Saturday. ‘Tho Sullivan Railroad bridge, at Bellows Falls, was also considerably injured. * Some slight delay to trains bas occurred on the Passumpsic, Sullivan Northern railroads; but there will, Fa yem A be no furtber interruptions to travel. The river is now fallin, Bron and the ice is all out. The weathor is clear an THE FRESHET IN THR YENOBSCOT. BANcor, March 21—10 A, M. The jam of ice ut thie place remaains in the same posi- tion as last night. The weather is cold and the freshet ony subsiding. The ice may remain as it is for some lays. Conviction for Murder. Mowrretikx, Vt., March 21, 1859. The trial of Ariel Martin for the murder of Luclus Ainsworth in July last has resulted in a verdict of guilty. Fire at Darien, Ga, SAVANNAH, March 21, 1869. The fine residence of J. H. Grant, at Darien, Ga., was recently destroyed by fire. The Bark Kirkland. Battimone, Merch 21, 1859. The bark Kirkland, reported ashore at Cove Point, was got off safely and reached here to-day. Southern Ocean Steamship Movements. Caarieston, March 20, 1859. The United States mail steamship Nashville, Capt. Mar- ray, from New York, arrived hore at cight o'clock Satur- day’ night. Sho had very rough weather. . Savanwan, March 21, 1859, The United States mail steamship Star of the South ar- rived at her wharf at eight o'clock this morning. She met with strong head winds. All well. Markets, New Ortkans, March 18, 185: The tales of cotton to-day were 9,600 bales, at'112;c. a 11 £40. for middling. The sales of the week sum up $0,000 bales, and the receipts of the same time 87,000 bales, against 68,000 in the eame week of last year. The in- crease in the receipts at this to date is 236,000 bales, and at all the ports 836,000 bales. Stock in port 488, bales, Sterling exchange 10834 a 109 per cent. Freights unchanged, @ Moni, March 18, 1859, le to-day 2,000 bates at 11% c. w 11%c. for middling. The eales of the week add up 19,500 baies, and the roootp ts 14,600 bales, against 16,500 for the corres. ding we ear. Receipts to date ahead of at year 186,000 bales. Stock 154,600 bates, Mone, March 19, 1859, Coiton—Tho gales to-day foot up 2,000 bales, the mar- ket closing unchanged. 12, March 21, 1850. Monn Cotton unchanged. Sales to day 2,000 bales. Chartestox, March 21,1859, Cotton—Sales to-day 1,400 bales, at prices ranging from 10c, a 12%¢. Savannan, March 21, 1859. Cotton—Sales to day 750 bales, the markot closing with- out change in prices. Avovsta, March 21, 1869. Thore was a large speculative inquiry for cotton to-day. The sales to-day add up 2,600 bales. Civerwnati, March 21, 1859. Flour dull and unchanged. Whiskey in good demand at 21Xc. Provisions—Nothing doing. Faruer DayMan in Repty 10 Ancunistor Huanes.—We have received a lottor from Rey. Mr. Dayman in reply to that of Archbishop Hughes which we published in Sun- day’s isaue. Its length will not permtt of its insertion to- day. Personal Intelligence. Mr. George W. Riggs, the Washington banker, arrived in thie city last Saturday, 1t issurmised that his business is in some way connected with the United States govern- ment@oan, Suit Against the San Francisco Vigilance Committee. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. A Before Judgo Daly. ‘The care of James R. Malony againat James Dows and others, members of the San Francisco Vigilance Commit- tee, came up yesterday before Judge Daly, after repeated postponements. The complaint of the plaintif! sets forth the formation of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee and tho various preliminary acts of blood and violence which caused tho Governor of the State to direct the en- roliment of all good citizens to resist the committee; that the plaintiff joined the militia agreeably to the order of the Governor, parig oe the 19th of June, 1856, a quantity of arms under his charge for their use; that on the 21st of Juno, 1866, the committee caused the plaintiff, then on board the schooner Julia, in San Pablo bay, to be soizod and imprisoned for five hours, and sul juently to be kept a clceo prisoner from Juno il to July 5, 1866; that on the latter named day the committee carried off, abducted and kidnay tho plaintif™ it him on board the steamer John 1, Stephens, giving \him to understand that ho was banished from California, never to return, under penalty of death; that he bas thus been unlawfalty kept mn settling his business, at the love of many thousand dollars, after having euffored at the hands of the commit- tee the tormonts of public exporure and tho foar of having 1° jury were om William A. za, Robert ey dJohneon, Senne D. Deon, Henry Ha Bul, be 2 A, Kibgsiand, Samnei 13 voter, Geo. H. Ean} Herrin iam Harrie, Dedrick Sturke, All hn, Halsted. Meeere. F. B. Cutting and Goo, Bowman appeared for tho plaiptiff, and Mesere. les O'Conor and Jamos W. Cio- rard for tbe defendant, Mr. Suet on the case for the plaintiff, forth tae points of tho complaint, and the lojury which ft was claimed had been done to Mr. ey. Mr. Bowman offered the deposition of W. H. Harvey in evidence, but objection being made by tho ‘defence to the greater portion of it, the Court rer tome only thot ortion proviog that Mr. Maloney been for a year aval Storekeeper at San Francisco. Mr. Bowman then offered tho deposition of James Y. McDuily. Mr. Cutting said they intended to prove that Mr. Dows was a member of the Vigilance Committee, Mr. Gerard, for the defence, objected, on the ground that it did not make bes difference whether tho defendant was & member of the Vigilance Committee or not, and upon the Court admitting the questions, took an exception. A recess War taken, allor which counsel were heard as to how much the depositions would be admissible, The Court was understood to decide that, so much of the gots of the Vigilance Committes ex portalued to the specie in jury of th Hii, ont fo Inueh Of their amertions ax © Meat € haw of mliged (Omineslon we le ojutiee to the piairtd!, ‘The ease war adyurned tlt to day, ead will probab'y Oceepy the Valance of the week, ct, Police Inteiligence. THE LATE ABDUO."ON CASE—A MYSTHRY EXPLAIKED, A btatement bes been published to the effect tnet a young lady named Ham 2b McKinney was sometime since, Seduced and rent to Baklyn from Now York by the ‘author of her wronge, for nh Purpose of having an abor- on procured. The girl is repacecated to be about ninetoon years of age, with a youthful, \'andsome face, aud long ourly ringlets. Some three woa's sluce @ female was conveyed to the Long Island College Hospital from No. 16 Woodbuil street, Brooklyn. Hor nam’ Was stated to be Henoab McKinney, but it subsequently *ypeared that ber name was Hannah Hickey. She had bee 2 employed ase servant at No, 10 Woodhull street for seva” months, and then was engaged by Mrs. King, who lives at No. 16 Wood- hull street, where abe stayed three months. Having boa taken sick, Mra, King called her family phy ‘cian, and Inboring, as it appeared, under great bodily pain. One of tho attachés of the institution noticed the driver and fol- , lowed him. The driver’s name was ascertained to bo ‘Whalen, and ho stated that ho took the woman from Ne. that Hickey hed been a servant there, taken sick, and that the best thing that could be done waa to foci boepiees Tho Indy of the gave ber a bame; said that sho attended to hor duties yoara of Sap, Se ee oo re) of a very compact, strong form. The supposition wes ‘bat the injuries had beon tnflicted by herself’; there was, in fact, every indication that such was the caso. The circumstances haying been published, tho friende of @ young lady who resided in Now York (and who bears the Fame name of the deceased), mado inquiries of Coro ner Horton regardtog the matter. They informed the Core- ner that she bad been abducted by a man who bad so- duced ber for the purpose of baviog an abortion pro- cured; that she had been taken wo Brookiyn for that purpose, and they wiehed to ascertain whether the wo- man who died at the hospital was the samo person or nt. ‘The Coroner gavo a full description of the woman, aad after examining a daguerreotype they showed him, im- , formed them pogitively that it was not the same person. The woman upon whom be held aa inquest was a raw, strovg Irish woman, advanoed in years, and had resided with two families in’ Woodhull strect for ten months pro- viovg to her decease, while the female they roprecented a8 missing WO8 young, Of dolicato appearance aud haad- somo. There was no’ similarity in any one particular ex- cept the name. Whatever may bave become of the New York girl, it is certaim that sbe is not the one who died at the Long Island College Hospital. Tho Coroner ig ready to Bive all necessary information to those who feol inter- ested. ‘The story published in somo of the Sunday nows- papers, to the effect that the. woman Hickey was carelessly lett on the sidewalk in frent of the hospital by Thomas Whealan, the driver cf tho carriage, is, we aro requos:cd to stato, Wholly without foundation, Tho driver waited until the nurses of tne institution camo out, and even aided in conveying do- ceased within the walis of tho grounds. Ho had no knowledge of the deceased further than he was hired @ convey her to the hospital by Mrs. King, hor employor. No clue has yet been obtained to the whereabouts of Han- rah McKinney, vor have any decided steps been taken by Lor relatives fer her recovery. Toapoctor Dowling, of the Sixth precinct, speaking in relation to this matter, says that he neither arrested or discharged the Pear! strect brush mercbant referred to in yesterday's Herawp. A brothor of the missing girl applied to bim for relief, whem he told him that the police had no power to arrest the merchant, and that the only way to effect the recovery of bis siater was to obtain a writ of babeas corpus. ma- king 1t incumbent upon tho suspected party to produce the body of the missing girl or give a eatisfactory account of her absence. Thug tho myetery in regard to one of those women bas been clearod up, but the public will have to « remain in suspense a fow days longer before the mystery attached to the second one can be fully unraveiled. SHOCKING OUTRAGE UPON 4 WOMAN. Bridget Kennedy, a middle aged woman, lately rcsid- ing at No. 10 Mulberry strect, died at the New York Nospital yesterday morning from the offects of injuries received on Thursday night at the bands of a couple of the Doud Rabbit gang. The story of deccased’s wrongs, as she related it to the authorities at the Hospital before her death, was briefly as follows:—On Friday evening, as Geecased was passing through Malborry street, near Bayard, she was sot upon by two mon whose object she Dolioved was toravich her. Bridget struggled bravely with the ruitians, and in her attempt to get out of their hands broke hor Jeg. Tho police found her im ‘an ipsepsible condition, and conveyed her to the Hospita!, where she was attended with duo care up to the moment of her death. A day or two previous to hor death the physicisy in attendance informed her that she was in a very critlcal condition, and that it would be necessary to smputate the broken limb in ordor to gave her life. To this operation she wou!d not listen for a mo ment, preferring rather to die than to submit to the loss of her leg. Two mon named Patrick McCauley and ‘Ibowas Doty were arrested by policeman Gilgan on sus- Hcion of being itnplicated in ‘the assault upon dec:ased, and are now Jocked up in the Tombs to await tho action of the Coroner. The ipqueat will bo commenced at the Now York Hospital this morning by Coroner Jackman. Policoman Gilgan states that Mrs. Kennedy was some- ‘what intoxicated at the time of the occurrence. . Arrest at Isvaxricpr.—On Sunday night the atteation f tho Thirteenth precinct police was called to cries of an infant, which, upon examination, proved to emanate from @ privy in the rear of a tenoment house adjoining the sta- tion house, Measures wore immodiately adopted for the purpose of rescuing the babe, and after a deal of trouble the little one was brought to the surface, It waa supposed at first that life was extinct, but upon placing the infant under a bydrant it revived, and up to fax ac- counts 1t was well. The child was an extraordinary one for its age, being no less than sixteen pounds ia weight. Tho police subsequently discovered the mother of the infant in the persen of a Gorman woman living in the neighborhood, but she denied her guilt in a strenuous oe the proof of her maternity was unmia- Josoph Rankin and Archibald Dick got into a fight at tho foot of Thirty-fourth street on Sunday night, when the lattor was stabbed in the neck and severely wounded with ® penknife in the hands of his adversary. "Rankin was ar- rested and taken to the Second District Police Court, whera he was committed for examination, Plerco Nelson was arrested by policeman Bulmer, of the fifth precinct, on the charge of passing a counterfeit two doliar bill on tho Manufacturers’ Bank of Rochester, at the store of John Keecher, No. 25 West Broadway. Held for exainination. Nelson is 32 years of ago and lives at No. 802 Grecawich strect. Letter from Dr. Thompson, of Quarantine. er of this date I find pub! race ofa ibeeting held at Richmond on Saiurday last fn which as bar ig ing hataen I rege pec are ae ae me: aieer . ‘Thai from e of my re-ap jeent to ine Health Officer I have beon ‘opposed to the removal of Qua- rantine. sbipptog trees ofthe porta posing sa the fooatiea soe, rantine at Bandy Hooke Gs “a %. That T selected and recommended Seguine's Polat as a Joeation for Quarantine and a ter wards opposed ii. 4. That I oppcsed making land in the lower bay for Quaran- tne purporam 6 Hiatt recen, 4 at Fatoryville, tn Richmond ‘gotten tip by me. ‘and every one of these charges T J Hert, untrue and without the eliphtest fodndauon, Itis's tes knows to every one who has ever beard mo speak 11} the eubject (unt both be ore and since eng reappolaiment Thave beens warm and earnest advocate of the removal of Quarautine atthe earliest practicable period. It isa fact equ that I never selected or recommended Seguine’ cation for a permanent Quarnutine, Nor did fev ‘ for tbat purpose tt was ki bare n ine ay. respect. In regard to the faceting ie, it is sufticfent to say that it was called without Gini Howeee! leap tompking and ones woe, Kay To for granted that th Saou m0 Whoare jgzorant of the previoi torious Mesera. ‘Bowne and Tompkths with the Quarantiae di alt and Mr. Weed with the emigrant busloess, {have deemed hep ap a he into am ndmiselon of th truth, et THOMPSON. QusRantis®, March 31, 1809, Note from Frank Leslie. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE HERALD. New York March 21, 1859. Daan Atn—T observe in a letter from your correspondent in Washington the following paragraph:— ‘tbe iilnsiretions of the scenes nnd places pee on Sickles tragedy. which the proprietora of your “illustrated Paporm’ prim offon a credulous public, are miserable and in- ihe. ‘uintentionally T veltere, reflects ch is the only one known aa the iilusteations of the Waahia, in my paper were drawn on the 1, Hat, Pea, Surves or ot the fr friends of Mr. Hickles, and fart iar with overy tearee te the melantboly event, who have. personally exprewed ie oe hone pablinbed may pasar. Hed veer coon ogee , correspon tad the distinction heteen the actual anit ie ike ites “fancy sketshon” made in New ¥ aber, ‘ork, ang} Putte ia plotage pa of thls city, he would have Gorignased the paper pub ig tae nrdiles, nnd. would not have confounded them with the Mutat? Newspaper. Yours, very respectfully. FRANK LVSLIG. The Police Investigations, TO THS LVITOR OF THE nERALD. New Youn, March 21, 1669. va report in your paper. the Hnatn, of the 1th Hing the amidavit of © 2 a pt George W. Ditks, stating 1 wna di wir, T distinet Vo, wit, in {n‘the ¢sew of the pul done me, nstme. Leatnot sso any other in to try and nualeiotny tofure me and I will also enden hi 3 VOWS The MLB Meruxd or Ginpgw.—A mocting of about forty of the members of this trade took placo last evening at Mo- wart Hall, The Chairman, Michaci Crosby, stated tho ob- ject of tho meeting to be tho formation of a trade aaso- clation, in order to regulate the wages of all the lve mombors of the trade in this city. When this was announced every one present, with the exception of two or three, cprotled ther names as members of the now werooiation, ‘They then passed a resolution to the eect OF eects Weer hour, ead adjonened tll m Ly tine aD the LEW, apes se for mat Tnown that {never hn 'any oo colina) hte ioe tanats bWoueg eval oo of quoter meting a | woe | { ie } { ~e 2S Seas *,