The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1859, Page 4

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We bavo been driven to this necessity by an extraordinary pressure ‘on our columns by advertisements, which our readers may have observed during the last few weeks, and which is every day increasing, because the cause is increasing, ‘and is likely to increase stillfurther, Circulation brings advertisements. Our columns are so crowded that we are compelied to publish triple shects in order to give our readers all the news. This great increase of advertise- ments is a proof of the revival of business in all de- partments of trade and commerce. Advertisers, if they desire to have their alvertisements appear in the proper place, are particularly requested to hand them in by nine o'clock in the evening. MAILS FOR EUROPE. fhe New York Herald—Edition for Europe. 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De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘Tho contents of the European edition of the Heratn will e@ombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to bour the of publication. ke iu’ MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. The United States mail steamship Mlinois, Captain McGowan, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o'clock to morrow afternoon. The New Yous Wemty Hexatp—California edition— Pontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o'clock in tho morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cent. Agonta will please send im their ord: Bible. The News. The steamship Indian, which left Liverpool on the 23d ult., is due at Portland, with four days la- ter news. We have accounts from St. Domingo to the Ist vlt., but they are of little interest. It was believed that the British West India mail steamers were about to establish a central depot at Angalina, in the bay of Samana, and projects of internal im- provement in connection therewith w under @iscussion. The 27th of February, the sixteenth apnjyersary of Dominican independence, was cele. brated with great parade, and the session of the Dominican Congress was opened with much cere” mony. The discovery at a railroad depot at Albany ofa soap box containing human remams, has given rise to the supposition thataclue to the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Captain Brennan, in July last, from Staten Island, has been found. The af- fair is now in course of investigation. Such par- ticulars as have transpired in regard to it are given in another column. About half past seven o'clock last evening, as the ferry boat Brooklyn was ere ¢ from Brook. lyn to New York, a raft with two men upon it was perceived drifting in the East river. The ferry boat was immediately stopped, and after some delay the small boat was lowered, with one of the deck hands—Mr. Job White—who succeeded in rescuing the two meen from their perijous situation on the raft at the risk of his life, as on his return to the ferry boat the little skiff capsized under the guard of the steamer. The rescued men gave their names as Henry Canon and Charles McDonald. They stated that they were sailors; but as their statements re- lative to their being on the raft were very contra dictory, \t was generally believed that they were escaped Coavicts from Blackwell's Island, and they were accordingly detained by the police. i The arsexet table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in ‘his city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, the variation of wind currents, and the state of the weather at three periods duringeach day, via: at 9 A.M., and 3 and 9 o’tlock P. M.:— Saturday—Morning, overcast; afternoon, blowing fresh. Sunday—Morning, overcast; afternoon, clear ; night, cleat, night, clear. Monday—Morning, cloar; afternoon, cloudy; night, over. cast. Toseday—Morning, overcast, with light rain; afternoon, heavy rain; night, clear. Wodnesday—Morning, cloudy; afternoon, clear; night, clear. ‘Derotey —eaing, clear; afternoon and night, clear and blowing free! Friday —Clear all day and blowing fresh. Saturday—Morning, clear. The new Unitarian church corner of Broadway and Thirty-second street, was formally ope = or rs aa carly as poe- | religions service yesterday. The ;astor, Rev. Mr. Frothingham, preached tke sermon on the occas vu», and Drs. Bellows aid Csgood, and Rev. Mr. Longfellow, assiscd in the exercises. See our report. George W. Jones, of Iowa, has accepted the mission to New Granada, and the President has vected him to repa'rto Wasiir gton without delay to receive b's instructions. . itish steamslip Prince Albert, Capt. Wa- sailed from this port on the 3d ult. for Ga way, was spoken» t 3th, in 1 titude 44.03, ind longitude 41.40, under sail, having lost her pro- peller. During the past week there were 46 admissions to the City Hospital, 47 discharged, and 8 deaths. Remaining April 1—Males, 179; females, 40. To- tal, 219, The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 8,000 bales, ovly about 600 or 700 of which were sold in sore. The market closed heavy and casier for lots in transitu, wt ile parcels from store were without quotable change, though less buoyact. Flour was in better re quest, especially State and Western common brands, while be bigher and extra grade: continued firm, Southern brands were in fair demand, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was in boiter request, with more firmness on the part of holders, though sales w moderate. Corn con- toued besvy, with sales of Northern at 87}¢c. a 88c., and yellow Jersey and Southern at 87c. a 89¢., and choice white Southern at 98c. Pork was more buoyant, with fair sales at $17 76 for new mess, and $17 30 for old do,, and $1260 a $1275 for prime, with sales of mess, seller’s option, deliverable, from April 20to June 1, at $17 76. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 1,200 ubds, Cuba and New Orleans, at prices given in another column, Coffee was steady, with moderate sales of Rio, Maracaibo and Java. Freight engagements were mode- rate, and rates unchanged. The public tea sale held on Saturday drew a good and spirited company. Nearly all the lots on the catalogue wore disposed of, sustaining the prices of previous gales, ‘The bulk consisted of greens of medium to fair and good grades. Our Political Parties—Progress of the New Oppesition Movement in the South, The judicious movement for the reorganization of the opposition elements of the South, which was inaugurated in Virginia only a few weeks ago, appears to “run like the cholera.” It has revived the late sleep'ng energies of the old whigs of Kentucky, and, as our readers will per- ceive from the newspaper extracts on the subject elsewhere in these columns, the contagion has *“ yekindled the whig fires” in Tennessee, Louisi- anaand Alibama. The good example of th Virginia opposition movement in clearing their -kirts of “the least and last remains’ of the mummeries, bigotries and puerile trash and clap- irap of Know Nothingism, has thus operated like magic in paving the way fora harmonious and homogencous reconstruction of the con- servative opposi‘ion clements, rot only of the whole South, but of the whole Union. The opposition members of the Louisiana Legislature, in their adress to their partisans of the State, refir encouragingly to the demo- ralized and disorganized condition of the na- tional democracy, and to the “disbanded state’ of the party as “found in the recent abortiv session of Congress, where, with a majorityTin both branches of that body, it was found impos- sible to harmon ze its discordant elements, ob- structing thereby the most necessary legislation, and readering an extra session highly probable, it not certain.” And is there not here abundant matter of encouragement to the Union loving and constitutional opposition elements of all the country to organize and take the field for 1860, as an independent party? The republican party, on the abolition platform of W. H. Seward@’s Rochester manifesto, stands in the attitude of an aggressive, coercive, sec- tional, disunion party. The shattered and de- moralized democratic party, substantially re- duced to the limits of the Southern States, is just as intensely sectional the other way, if we are to be guided by the movements and mani- festos of its Southern ultra managers in Con- gress, and among our Southern people. The administration of Mr. Buchanan, sig- nalized as it has been by a domestic and foreign policy eminently calculated to establish peace and harmony at home, and respect, influence and power abroad, has thus been deserted, op- posed and denounced by the Southern leaders and organs of the sectionalized democracy upon evry important public question, foreign and domestic, from the promulgation of the Presi- dent’s inaugural down to the pr t day. Thus the successes of his administration upon the Mormon question, the Kansas question, the fili- bustering question, and other important issues, are due to the patriotic support of the conser- vatives of the opposition side; while the failure of those bold, sagacious and timely recommen- dations in regard to Mexican and Central Ame- rican affuirs, and in relation to Cuba, the trea- sury, the tariff, the Pacific railroad, and the general financial embarrassments of the coun- try, bankrupts, banks, corporations, &c., may be justly charged to the Southern Congressional caucus managers for the Charleston Convention. Nor will it avail with these disorganizers of the democracy, and these factious enemies of the administration, concerning the failure of the appropriations for the Post Office department, to lay the blame upon the shoulders of Mr. Grow and his republican associates of the House. The Southern democratic leaders of the Senate stand equally guilty in regard to the defeat of those bills ; nay, we apprehend that the spirit of hds- tility to the administration which instigated the course of Mr. Grow on these Post Office bills will compare favorably with the factions and treacherous proceedings of those prominent South- | ern democrats who made themselves so conspicu- ous in the defeat of these measures. Nor have these disaffections and demoralizations of the demo- cracy been limited to the newspaper organs and | Congressional leaders and Presidential cliques of | the party. The same troubles have crippled the unity and efficiency of the administration in the | Cabinet; and but for the charitable considerations |‘of the President in bebalf of the poor, crippled | and imploring party, he would doubtless have | given a wholetome lesson or two to all the disor. | ganizers concerned in the call of an extra session, | in the reconstruction of bis Cabinet, and in the | positive repudiation of all the faithless sectional leaders and newspaper organs of the party, from | Washington to the extremities of the Union. | As matters now stand, Mr. Buchanan has no longer anything to fear or to expect from the disordered and impotent democratic party. The policy of his administration is national, conser- vative, just and fair to all sections. The policy of the Southern ultra dictators of the party is sectional, dirorganizing and revolutionary, Thus detached from the administration into a hostile sectional movement, the Southern democracy may be justly repudiated by all conservative | men ax equally dangerous to the peace of the | Union as the Northern party of the Rochester | manifesto. Between these two sectional oryani- zations, however, there is an ample margin for a new and independent national party. These hew movements of the whigs of the South, in this view, we accept as the beginnings of the good wrk in bohalf of thig new and independent NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1859. Union movement for 1860. Let it be followed up to-day by the conervatives of Connecticut in decisive action against the sectional anti-slavery party of the Nortb, and the result will strengthen the hands of the Union opposition party of Vir- ginia against the sectional pro-elavery party of the South. For the interim to the Presidential succession we stand by the constitutional and national ad- | minis'ration » Mr. Buchanan, sgainst bo'h the s.ctic nalized parties of the day; but in reference to the succession we can discover no security to th’ government, no safety to the Union, except through the saving intervention of a new na- tiona! Union party in the election of our next President. Terrible New Cannon—The Great Guns of Europe—Eng!and’s Peacemaker. The new cannon, recen ly invented in France and England, are creating considerable excite- ment just now, especially as Europe is thought to be on the eve of a great war. The re- cent improvements are of such a decided character as may well excite extraordinary in- terest, not only in those countries, but on this side of the Atlantic. The experimental trials are truly astonishing. The London Times as- sores vs that with these “arms of precision” there will be few chances of escape in battle, and that modern warfare will be so completely revolutionized that “it seems hard to say how armics ere in future to be manceavred.” The weapon which is producing this sensation is the rifled cannon. We lesrn by the Persia that General Peel, the British Secretary of War, made an astounding statement to the House of Commons of the success of the Armstrong gun—a breech-loading wrought iron rifled piece—which had been tested under the eye of the government, and whose performances he had himself seen. The great advantages of this gun were its extreme lightness, the extent of its range and its accuracy. An Armstrong cannon throwing a projectile of 18lbs. weighed only one-third as much as the ordinary 18- pounder, It was adapted both for shot and ‘shell for land and sea, Its destructive effects excecded anything which had hitherto been witnessed, and it was impossible for any one to predict what would, be the effect of the general introduction of that weapon into the British army. A 32- pounder, with a charge of 5lbs. of powder, at- tained a range of over five miles and a quarter, and could hit an object at 1,000 yards every shot, which! an ordinary gun could only hit once in fifty-seven times; while at 3,000 yards its accuracy was as seven to one compared with that of common artillery at 1,000 yards. As to its durability, he had seen the gun fired 1,300 times without the slightest inju- rious effect. The manufacture of some of the larger of these guns was now being proceeded with by Sir YW. Armstrong’s late partners. It was also the tion of the government to make some of them at Woolwich, under the direction of that gentleman; and when they had got some of the largest size, they would be tried against masonry and earthwork, till which was done it was impossible to say exactly what effect they would produce upon fortifications, One thing he might predict, and that was that sooner or later they would supersede the whole existing arma- ment of the country. So well they may, when the greatest range which we know upon good authority ever to have been obtained in Eng- land, or in Europe, was three and a quarter miles and in this country three and one-third miles. Such guns will also diminish the fre- quency of war, the effects of the new arm being tremendous. In reply to a question, Gen. Peel further said that $367,500 had been applied by the government to the manufacture of this terrible weapon, and measures had been taken to turn out as many as possible in the shortest possible time. The French papers throw doubt on the pro- mises made in behalf of this gun, because the British government are making such a mystery about its construction, and shrewdly refer to the failure in the Crimea of the Lancaster gun, also a rifled cannon, which had cost the government an enormous sum, and to which wonderful range and precision had been attributed at the time of its experiments. One of the Paris journalista thinks the Armstrong gun is merely a bugbear to frighten other Powers and compel them to keep peace. ri Since the miserable failure of the Lancaster, the government gave Mr. Whitworth $100,000 to produce a rifled cannon. The London Times declared the problem had been solved. But it seems its :olution remains for Mr. Armstrong, to whom another $100,000 has been given by the government, besides the honor of knighthood. The Mechanics’ Magazine says the Napoleon gun cannot compare with the British invention. That, however, remains to be proved by service on the field. ‘ The succces of the Minie rifle at the siege of Sebastopol suggested a newidea to the Em- peror of the French. “The queen of weapons,” as the London Zimes truly remarked, “saved the fight.” This set the astute mind of Napoleon to work. He saw that rifled cannon, if practica- ble, would be as much superior to smooth-bored pieces as the Minie rifle proved superior to the ordinary musket in accuracy, range and de-» structive effects. The desideratum is produced and he isnow a day’s march ahead of the British’ governs ent and every other Power in Europe Napoleon’s rifled cannon, manufactured at Vincennes, is already an accomplished fact, and the gun has been distributed to the Imperial Goord. Of its accuracy a Paris correspondent says, that at 8 yards (nearly two miles), “it can strike a single man on horseback, and at that distance would destroy a body of cavalry or infantry.” The gun, like our Columbiad or Dahlgren, ia both for shot and shell, and is loaded at the muzzle, Napoleon having rejected as an impossi- bility what the English are now trying to ac- complish—a good breech-loading rifle cannon— long after science and repeated failures have ex- ploded the idea. The English government has contributed but little to the improvement of fire- arms. The lrench government is always ahcad of it. It was ahead in the case of the Paixhans gun, by which the naval sbell system was developed in 1825; in the case of the Minie rifle, which was brought into use by the French in 1849, was af terwards adopted by the English, and is soon destined to supersede the old musket in all the armies of the world. It is now equally in ad- vance with the new rifled cannon, The I’rench gun is actually in service—the English has yet to be made. And what is more, the French has been tried on masonry, and is found terrible ; the new twelve-pounder can effect a breach ina fortification at double the distance, and with half the number of strokes, by which the old twenty- four-pounder could accomplish the same object. The British governmont is at last roused, and Great preparations are being made to excel if not to outetri» France in the new weapon. The Armstrong gun is said to have jerormed wond 1s, and the fast-loadi»g Warry cannon is more than a match for it, projecting shells at a fate of twenty per minute. The latter inventor undertakes to throw a ball five miles, and Capt, Norton says be will ignite at 2,000 yards any combustible substance with a sholl contain- ing his “liqn’d fre,” projected from a rifle can- non, In fact, he is ready to burn the fleets and cities of the enemy like magic. No doubt there is much exaggeration in these accounts; but still there is some truth in them, particularly the rifled cannon. By the Minie rifle, smooth-bored artillery was ehorn of its strength, and that was unfavorable to great Powers vnd strong governments, and held out hopes to revolution, democracy and weak nationalities. To regain the ascendancy of cannon is the aim of Napoleon, and this is also an object of solicitude with the English go- vernment, The invention of artillery revolu- tionized the art of war throughout the world. The recent invention of the Minie rifle has begun a greater revolution, which will be completed as soon as rifled cannon become the armament ot the great Powers. Leorstative Arracks oN Our Municrpat Sys- teM.—The republican Legislature at Albany has been using all the power vested in it by the peo- ple to subvert the municipal governments in the State. By the enactment of the Metropolitan Police law, the sundry commissions to manage concerns which pertain to our local interests, amendments of the charter, and so forth, they have already shorn our city government and the people who created it of half their power, and concentrated vast influence in the hands of their own party. In the same way they have been legislating for Troy, Brook- lyn and other cities, and we now see that they have struck at the city government of Alba- ny, by handing over the police and fire depart- ments to five commissioners, of whom it is pretty certain three will be republicans. This is a desperate game for party aggran- dizement, and a most dangerous one for State and country. Cities and their local governments are to the State what the States are to the fede- ral Union, Our municipal system is the very life and mainstay of our liberties. To strike at that is to imperil all we hold dear; to uproot it is to bring chaos, if not dissolution. Do the le- gislators at Albany know what they are doing, or-are they wickedly designing to bring about these results for mere party purposes? If it is true that the Court of Appeals has de- cided in favor of the old police, and against the present Police Commissioners—as we have no doubt it is—the consolation at least remains that we have the courts yet to resort to for the pro- tection of our rights against the flagitious as- saults of the Legislature. A poor consolation it is in an enlightened country like this, and in the nineteenth century, Tux: Siccies Trra.—This day commences, at Washington, the trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for the killing of the late Phillip Barton Key, Prosecuting Attorney for the District of Co- lumbia. The peculiar nature of the case—the fact of the accused being a member of Congress, and having veen formerly Secretary of Legation at the British metropolis, where he and his wife were so well known as to call forth in his behalf an editorial article of great sympathy from one of the leading London jour- nals—the fact of the killing having been done in -a public square, in open day, before several witnesses, and without at- tempt at disguise or concealment—the pri- soner’s immediate surrender of himself to the authorities—the intolerable provocation which incited to the deed of blood, and the whole train of circumstances which led to the denouement of this domestic tragedy—combine to take it out of the ordinary catalogue of criminal trials, and to render it one of the causes c¢lebres of history. In view, therefore, of the interest which our readers will take in the case, we have made arrange- ments to have the trial fully reported every day by telegraph. Tae Work or tue Lratstarerr.—But ten working days now remain before the Legislature will close its session, according to the rule, and there is still a large mass of business to be done. The unusual excitement which exists in reference to the twenty railroads proposed to be chartered in this city and Brooklyn will probably cause a considerable portion of that time to be occupied with the subject. We publish in another column a continuation of the list of bills passed up to this time, together with those still to be acted upon. It will be seen that the acts passed and acted upon by the Executive number eighty-seven, while there are now before the Committee of the Whole one hundred and sixty more, and fifty-seven still in the hands of committees. It is not likely that all the business will be finished this session, though a desperate rush is being made by the lobby to hurry through before adjournment the business in which that ravenous institution bas the most interest. Raroap Compacts, Scnemes snp Squan- nirs.—For some time past the four great rail- roads connecting the Atlantic shore with the West and its great interior seas—the New York Central, the Erie, the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads—have been concocting plans whereby they could arrange the prices of freight and travel on the several roads, so as not to conflict with each other’s inte- rests. For this purpose they have held seve- ral conventions at different points: at Wash- ington, Baltimore, Buffalo, in this city, and elsewhere; at cach of which certain com- pacts and arrangements were entered into, only to be broken the very next week. They could not keep fuith with each other, even to make money off the public—a fact which is great- ly to the interest of said public. The more these corporations quarrel among themselves and de- feat their own echemes, the better for those who have to patronize the railroads. Ayotuen Increase or THE State Dent.—-A few days ago a bill passed the Senate at Albany tubmitting the question to the people in refi- rence to a loan of two millions-and a half to pay off the floating canal debt, and we perceive that a further loan is now proposed, amounting to half a million more, to pay the interest on the State debt. Here are four millions accumulating on the present indebtedness of the State, which will bring it up to nearly thirty-five millions. If we have to borrow this year to pay interest, what shall we do next year? Borrow again, of course, a still larger sum; and so it will go on from year to year, until, before we know where we are, the State will be, like our railroad corporations, @ dishonored bankrupt. So much for the boau- tiful legislation of the Albany Solons, Kansas Arvams—Prognawae ror 4 New Sratze Consrirutioy—On the 28th ult. the people of Kansas voted on the proposition to call a new constitutional convention, and from the report of the election at Leavenworth there can be no doubt that the question has been de- cided in the sffirmative by a large majority, According to this decision the people of Kansas will next, on the 7th of June, elect their dele- gates to the Constitutional Convention, and on the 5th of July the Convention will meet in Wyaxcotte City, Leavenworth county. The next step will be the acceptance or rejection of the constitution which may thus be “framed, and the election for this purpose is appointed for Tues- day, the 4th of October. Lastly, upon the safe presumption that the constitution will be ratified, the people under the State charter thus adopted will, on the 6th of December, proceed to ,elect their State officers and organic State Legislature. We bave no doubt that this programme will be smoothly carried through, and that the ad- mission of the new State will thus become one of the first public acts of the next Congress, in- cluding the addition of two out-and-out anti- slavery free soil members to the Senate, as the closing interpretation, for the benefit of the Southern politicians of the Kansas-Nebraeka bill. Thus endcth the first decisive lesson of this terri- torial experiment of “popular sovercignty,” and the second is not far off. An Iwsecre Facriovs Conargss. — The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian closes an article on Central American affairs with this well deserved condemnation of the late demoralized democratic Congress, to wit:—“It is thus that an imbecile factious Congress has dragged into the mud the national honor, by denying the administration the powers asked for and necessary to protect our national rights and interests, and to vindi- cate our national character.” Very good. But if the democratic newspaper press generally, in- cluding the organs of the party at Washington, had spoken thus frankly and truthfully of this late “imbecile factious Congress” in season, they might have shamed it into discipline and good behavior. The Pennsylvanian is beginning to comprehend the fact that the New York Heratp has all along said nothing in condemnation of this late “factious and imbecile’ Congress that was not strictly just and true. Tue Coxyecticut E.xcrion comes off to-dav. It will be a hard fight, and the loss or gain of a republican member of Congress or two may be determined by the state of the weather. The de- mocracy, like “Mother Carcy’s chickens,” rejoice in storms; the republicans, like porpoises, turn up in the largest “schools” when the seas are calm and the @y-is. warm, though they are not so fearful of a spring drizzle as were the “old line whigs” in their day. We wait the result with some interest, because we are not without the hope of a rebuke to the sectional republican party which wil! spoil their calculations. INTERESTING FROM WASIHNGTON, The Approaching Trial of Mr. Sickles—Judi- clous Course of the President Respecting the Prosecution—Demeanor of Mr. Sickles— Despatches from Utah—The Army in Good Condition and the Mormons Peaceable—Gen. Jones Accepts the Mission to New Granada, OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasmarox, April 3, 1859. ‘The trial of Mr. Sickles begins to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, and the doepest interest prevails here as to what may ensue. The general opinion is that Mr. Sickles will be acquitted, whilst others are in doubt. Scandal moogers anticipate a great treat from the piquant rove- lations that are expected; but the taste and discretion of the Court will probably protect public decency from needless violation, It appears that application was made yesterday tothe President by Messrs. Carlisle and Bradley, for authority to give their legal aid to the prose. cution; but the President expresecd his surprise at this singular attempt to draw bim into an interference with the usual course of justice. It is supposed that after this rebuff ihese gentlemen will not urge themselves upon | the prosecuting attorney, who is abundantly able to manage the case, as he is a lawyer of ability amd expe- rience. Numbers continue to arrive from Now York and other cities to attend the trial. As the trial approaches Mr. Sickles grows calmer; but it is said he fears more the ordeal of listening to the evidence of bis wife's infidelity in open court than even the verdict of the jury. ‘The prosecution and the defence are, up to this moment, ignorant of the mode of procedure that either will adopt. They stand like two combatants, fully armed, but not knowing where tre attack will be made. ‘the War De, artment have received a heavy mail from Uteh with late dates, General Johnston writes en. couragingly in regard to Mormon aflairs, as also docs Governor Cumming. Brigham Young conducts himself in a becoming manner, and shows every symptom of truco penitence. The « inter haz not been vory severe, and tho army is in a healt®y condition. George W. Jones, of Iowa, who was offered the Bogota mission but declined it, telegraphed the President yester- day withdrawing his declension and saying he would ac- cept it. The President replied, notifying him to report himeelf immediately at the State Department. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasmeroy, April 3, 1859. The President has issued his proclamation for extensive sales of public lands in Kansas and Nebraska during July, August and September next. Secretary Cobb, by direction of the President, is Acting Attorney General during Judge Black’s temporary ab- sence. ‘The Union of this morning reiterates that the dangerous controverey which has so long existed between the Bri- tish and United States governments in regard to the true construction of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is now in pro- cess of satisfactory adjustment. Charles A. Appleton, of Maine, committed suicide by drowning bimself to-day. He has been subject to {its of mental derangement. His brother, Hon, John Appleton, Assistant Secretary of State, took charge of the remains, ‘The New Mexican Mail, &. Sr. Lovrs, April 2, 1869, ‘The New Mexican mail of the 13th ultimo reached Inde- pendence this evening. The Gazetie ofiice at Santa Fe was almost totally de- stroyed by fire on the 12th ult. The tire was the work of an incendiary. “ The Kiowa Indians had been driven from the mail sta- tion at Pawnee Fork, and were otherwise troublesom ‘The people of New Mexico were desirous of annexation to Jefferson Territory. A Leavenworth despatch says that information has been received from Washington that the government designs Placing several companies of cavalry along the route to Denver City, for the protection of emigrants. The School Money Question In Newark. Newark, N, J., April 2, 1859. ‘The Common Council of this city, at a meeting last even- ng, refused, by @ vote of 11 to 11, to appropriate one- third of the proceeds of a fund for the support of orphan cbildren to a Roman Catholic orphan ‘sym. A resoiu- tion to give it to the new Orphan Asylum and Foster Home, each « Protestant institution, was also defeated by the tame voto. Henry A. Whitney was re-elected Chief of Police by a vote of 12 to 7, Burning of the Steamboat Augusta. Avausta, Ga., April 2, 1859. The steamboat Augusta was burnt last night, forty miles below, on the Savannah river. engineer, Henry Day, and three Negroes, were drowned. cargo, consisting of seven hundred and eighty bales of cotton, five hundred and forty barrols it eur and other produce, was also consumed, The boatemd cargo are a total loss; both aro partly insured in New York. Fire at New Orleans. New Orvaans, April 1, 1859. Half of the Planters’ cotton press was destroyed by fire this morning, Five thousand bales of cotton wero ulao consumed. Loss $800,000; well insured, Highway Robbe: Fort EDWARD, NY. AMr. Hamilton, of Moreau, while Fasting bridge at Glon’s Falls last might, was knogk robbed of $450. The robbers escaped, » April 2, 1860. over tho down and a ey ae EE Non-Arrival of the Indian. Porrtanp, Me., April 3-10 P, M. The stoamehip Indian ie now about due, with four days later European intelligence, but up to this hour thore are vo signs of her, The weather is very thick and rainy, and there ts but little chance of hor making hee appearance before morning. pot Affairs Boston, THE COCHITUATE WATER BREAK, BT. Bowron, A\ 1859. ‘The Crobituate water break is s0 far’ mented thas water rgiin flows ‘hrough one pipe to the reservoir. Bind yurchase of the Hancock House is virtually de- The Suffolk Flour Mille, occupying a build length and three stories high, ph lh ty Baar tage ed morning, with about 8,000 barrels of flour and a number of bags of flour and grain. The fire was prova- bly the work of an incendiary, The mills were insured for $50,000, mostly in thi city. During the fire a marine, named Walter Bassett, under the influence of rum, made @ murderous assaul! on = woman named Abby Nelson, with a knife, stabbu har near the lungs, from which she will probably die. Uttioer Jeliigon, in arresting Bassett, was also severely wounded. At the election in Fall River to-day, Mr, Blaisdell was chosen Mayor. The trial of ‘Dr. David R. Brown for causing tho death of Susan Caroline Webster by ill practice, hag re- sulted in his conviction. The punis! it for the offence is from seven to twenty years imprisonment. Unica, April 2, 1860, MICA, Monsieur Carlingcourt, accompanied by two gentlemen passengers, made a fine balloon ascension from this city today. Th Fr ee ea ce as iste metanles ‘watere Sad etek nomny Ia, itchfleld, Merkl- Naxrucksr, April 2, 1869, ‘The schooner Hartford, of Bangor, Teague, from Bostom for South Carolina, came ashore yesterday forenoon. The crew were saved, and the vessel will probably be got. off, ton Motte ve igre uate ee for Nor ‘a, came re ‘e Crew saved: Vetee! tight, is ‘The schooner Sarah Eaton, of Calais, from St. Johns, N. B., for Providence, struck on Nantucket Bar y: ae and bilged. She will probably prove a Lake Navigation. CoLLInawoon, April 2, 1859: ‘The propeller Hunter, the Grst vessel of the season for Chicago, sails this afternoon, with a full freight and twea- ty passengers. Morkets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Purtapecpaa, April 2, 1859. Stecks dull, Ivania State 5's, 93; Reading Railroad, 2537; Morris Canal, 493¢; Long Ibland Railroad, New Ortxans, April 1, 1859. 11; Penasyivania Raiiroad, 44. ‘The sales of cotton to-day were 600 bales only, aud rices are pominal. This stute of atfairs was owing wa raise despatch to the Picayune that the President has re- ceived despatches from Europe that hostilities have com- menced. Middling, 11%%c. a 12c.; sales of the week 87,- 000 bales; receipts do. 88,500 bales, against 45,500 in oor- respondipg week last year; exports 65,600 bales; total this geagcn 1,250,000 bales; stock 410,000 bales; increased ro- ceipts at this port 204,300 bales; do. at all the ports 791,- 600 bales. Sugar"dull: fully fair Gyo. Mess'pork $17 26. Goilee steady: prime 11c.; sales of the week 3,700 bags; imports 6,250 bags; stock 20,000 bags, against 9,250 bags lust year, Freights—Cotton te Liverpool 7-16d. Mots, Aprti 1, 1859. Cotton—Sales to day light and prices uomiual: sales of the week, 10,760 bales; receipts of the week, 8,500 bales, against 11,760 in correspoving week last year. I[ncreas: receipts at this port, 182,000 bales, Stock, 136,600 baiea, Puriapgiraia, April 2, 1859. Flour unchanged. Wheat steady; yellow corn 8Tc. Whiskey dull at 283¢c. a 29¢. Crvcrsxamt, April 2, 1859. Flour dull at lower and irregular prices: sales of 1,000 bbis, at $5 45; stock on hand, 66,000 bbls. Whiskey dull at 242, Provisions inactive at nominal prices. 'The April Session of the Common Council. ‘The Board of Aldermen are still disinclined to accept avy nominee of the Mayor for the office of City In. spector. Rather than displace Mr. Morton they have re- fused to ect on the nomination of Elijah F. Purdy Itis protab’e there will not be a quorum this evening, as many of the members have gone on to Albany to remon- strate against a further invasion of the city’s right by the con'«mplated passage of a charter now before the Legislature, In the Board of Councilmen the proceedings, no doubt, will be interesting. The resolution adopted at a special meeting of the Aldermen on Friday, inviting tho Coun- cilmen to unite with them in remonstrating against tho proposed amendments to the city charter, will be brought up for concurrence. The reports of the majority and..mi- nority committees in reference to the respectivo claims of Messrs. Frear and McAdam to a se@ in tho Board will <ause considerable debate. ‘The April Term of the Law Courts, ‘This being the first Monday of the month, the term commences in the various Law Courts, and, judging from he ler gth of the calendars, the prospect of a busy month "is apparent, The Court of Oyer and Terminer, at which udge Devies w.!l preside, has several murder cases to dispose of; but if each lasts as long as did that of Stephens, there will be no chance of a gencra! jail delivery before the summer weather sets in. There wili be two branches of the Supreme Court Cir- cuit for jury trials of civil actions, at which Judges Emott and Allen, Justices from neighboring counties, will pre- side. Judge Sutherland will preside at special term for the hearing of issues of law. Judge Roosevelt (P J.) will hold special term and chambers. It is probable he may havo a motion up be- fore him which will re-elicit the facts of the Dean and Boker affair. It appears that a case is pending at the suit of Harry Bertholf against Mr. Boker for expenses incurred in the beard and maintenanco of Mr. Boker’s daughter, Mary Ann Dean, also for acting as ages for Mr. Boker in procuring a guitablo school for h’s son-inlaw, John Dean. The motion is to strike out part of an answer, and it is expected that some domestic scenes which bave not yet transpired will bo broug \t to light. In the - uperior Court there will be an extra trial calen- dar, in addition to the usual one, and two branches for jury trials will be held, besides the regular special term and cha» bers. There will be two jury trial branches in the Common Pleas. It is thought that the suit against the liquor dealers will be reached this term. The case of Kiwin Forrest, the American tragedian, against N. P. Willis, poet and newspaper proprietor, for libel, in which tha plaintiff claims $20,000 damages, is on the calendar for this day. In the Marine Court two branches will be held for trials, The United states Circuit Court will be opened to day, but the District Court term does not commence yatil to- morrow. The Court of General Sessions algo opens this morning, Recorder Barnard presiding. As tho District Attorney has caused the most important criminal indictments to be sent to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and as the City Prison is crowded t> its utmost capacity with persons charged with felonious assaults, burglaries and other mi- nor offences, the present term will be devoted to “clear- ing the prison.”’ Those individuals who have been com- mitted by the police magistrates within the last three weeks, charged with homicide, will be indicted as soon as the Grand Jury is empannelled, and many of them will be tried, if possible, before the term closes. There are over ten complaints preforred against a notorious burglar named Michael Corcoran, who will be indicted and tried. The case of Joreph Alexander, charged with receiving an immense quantity of goods, knowing them to have boon stolen, will be taken up during the woek, as will also that of Henry Kamak, indicted for arson In the first degree. Hoboken City News. Democratic Cry Nostwanions.—Tho delegates to the Hoboken Democratic (ity Convention to nominate mani cipal officers met at the City Hotel on Saturaay evening. The following nominations were made:—For Mayor, Wm. H. Gelston; Treasurer, Jacob Besson; City Clerk, Samael W. Carey; Collector, Wm. Childs; Collector of Arrears, F. W. Bobnstedt; Superintendent of Schools, Seba Bogert; Superintendent of Poor, cor Wood; Street Commission- er, John Kennedy; Pound Keeper, Adam Bonner, It is understood that Franklin B. Carpenter will recoive the opposition nomination for Mayor. Buxxep To Deati.—Coroner Bohusted’ held an inquest on Saturday on the body of a servant girl named Johanna Duffy, whose death was caused by her clothing being set on fire by the explosion of a fluid lamp. Deceased resided in the family of Josiah Taylor, corner of Fifth and Garden. treets. On Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Taylor wont out to call upon a sick friend, leaving Johanna and thoir ttle boy at home. Upon return’ late In the eveni they were very much alarmed to ind the house full St smoke. Mr Taylor went up stairs for his aud found him in bed fast a leep, Upon further search the girl was found in the cellur deat, her garments having all beon burnod off by the explosion of the lamp, and a quantity of straw bad also been on fire. The jury rendered a ver- dict of «Death by the accidental explosion of a camphene Fe ."’ Deceased is supposed to have relatives in New ‘ork, An Agen Svtcipe.—Captain John H. Weber, an aged man of 80 years, committed suicide at Bollovua, Towa, by cutting his throat with a razor, on the 7th inst, At an early day he was United States Land Agent at Gale: ba, and had been agent for the tudson’s Bay Company. Tt is said that he was the first whivc man who looked on Great Salt Lake. Ho was an fofidel, and for many yoars declared his dotermination:to take hig own life,