The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1859, Page 7

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"The Canard mail steamsh!p Europa, Captain Leitch, will Jeave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at half-past eleven o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The European edition of the Hxarp will be published as Sen o'clock im the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, mix cents. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hmrarp will sorabing the ews received by mail and telegraph at the effice during the previous week and up to hour the of pedicasion. The News. By the arrival of the stea ip City of Washing- ton from Liverpool, and the St. Louis from Aspin- wall, at this port yesterday, we have important news from all parts of Europe, also from our Pacific possessions, Central America, New Granada, the South Pacific States, and the Society Islands. The news by the City of Washington is to the 13th inst., four days later than the advices pre- viously received. On the 12th the London money market was steady and tolerably firm, consols closing at 95 a 954. After very serious fluctuations, there was on the same day an advance on the Paris bourse. American securities were quiet but steady. Cotton in Liverpool was firm, at one-sixteenth to one-eighth of a penny decline in prices. Flour had slightly improved. With respect to the Italian question, the general tenor of the news is decidedly more warlike, am the pro- babilities of a settlement of the difficulty by diplomacy became daily miore indistinct. Austria was marching large bodies of troops to the Sardi- nian frontier, and they were taking up, gradually, the best strategical positions. Napoleon had called for one hundred thousand French conscripts in addition to the present army, and at the same time had addressed an important State paper to the smaller German Powers, promising them a security from danger if his new Italian policy succeed. The Sardinian armaments were continued very actively. Underlying all this, there were circulating in finan- cial and trading circles some strong rumors of a peaceful issue of the crisis. The English Parlia- ment would soon be dissolved; but prior to that event Lord Derby's sovernment would make a statement of the actus) position of Pngland’s fo- reign relations. The Galway steamship Prince Albert had put back leaking very badly, after hav- ing been out many days for St. Johns, N. F. Tho St- Louis brought $1,7' in treasure. The advices from San Francisco are to the 5th instant., and are quite interesting. as willbe seen by the letter of our correspondent, published in another columa. Gen. Wm. Walker and Colonel Natzmer had arrived, and it was supposed that Sonora would, perhaps, soon claim their attention. The markets were very dull, owing to heavy arrivals of goods from all quarters. ‘The news from the South Pacific Siates is impor- tant. In Chile the government troops had been signally defeated by the insurgents of Coquimbo, after a severe battle, attended with much less of life on both sides. Government had re- voked the exequatvr of the United States Consul, My. Trivett, at Valparaiso, owing to ‘gn official difficulty arising out of his sheltering and preventing the arrest of some insurgents in his house. A number of leading party men had been arrested, and others exiled to Europe and Magel- Yan. Trade had improved in Valparaiso. On the 22d of March an earthquah Qui- to, in Ecuador, and destroyed the larger portion of it, killing nearly three thousand persons and de- stroying property to the amount of three millions of dolars. Guayaquil was still blockaded by the Pernvian war vessels, and the admiral threatened to bombard it soon. Bolivian troops had fought and beaten the insurgents. Ex-President Cordova had appeared on the frontiers with a large force. Our advices from Tahiti state that there had been aconilict of authority between the government of Queen Pomare and the French Governor, which re- sulted in a violent tumult of the natives. On the 3d of February the Queen and some of her chiefs were taken into custody and imprisoned by the French officers. Peace was restored between the high treaty parties on the Sth of February, when the Qneen dismissed some of her mi were hostile to the French and acknow! full power of the Napoleon protectorate. Papers from Hayti of the 9th inst. state that the new plan of selling the government fifth of coffee atpuction, in Port au Prince, and appropriating the proceeds to the payment of the French loan—de- tailed in the Iisna.p of the 5th inst-—gave general satisfaction. The developement of the agricnl- tural resources of the country engaged the atten tion of the government. Our correspondent in Port au Prince, writing on the J2th, says that that port was unusually heslthy, but that smallpox pre vailed slightly at Jacmel. Provisions were plenty in the Jacmel market, with a slight decline in cof- | fee. At Portau Prince flour was abundant and jow. Pork and codfish higher: the first at $4 and currency at $2 64, with the Haytien dollay im- | proving in value. From Nicaragua we have interesting intelligence respecting the treaty negotiated by Minister Lamar, and the movements of the Europeen diplo mats. Fall particulars are given in the letters o oor correspondents, to which we refer our readers. Our New Granada news is dated at Bogota the Ui of March, and at Panama and Aspinwall the (he Legislatare was in session, but An eminent diplomat had been appointed Minister to Chile and Peru. A tevolutionary outhreak had occurred in the State of Santander. Financial difficulties had sprung up with England. We have Turks Island papers to April 2. They Contain no news. The weather was favorable for galt raking; there had heen a slight improvement in the demand, but no change in price. The mail bag from Havana by the Quaker City, which arrived on Wednesday, the 20th instant, was yestesday found at the public store in Broad street, where it had been sent as a bag containing segars: On opening the bag, the whole mail was found un’ der the segars. We trust that ihe cause of this neg. Ject wi be promptly ferreted out and the culpa \le party properly dealt with, according to law. Mr. Brady occupied the attention of the Court yesterday in the Sickles case in an elaborate plea for the prisoner, We give # portion of his address to-day, ita extreme length, and the press of impor- tant news and advertisements, preventing its,publi- cation in full. Daring the severe blow of Saturday night last the British brig Enterprise went ashore on the rocks | near Horton’s Point, Long Isiand 8 und, and bilg- | ed. The schooner Alhambra, of Boston, also went | ashore at Bridgehampton, Long Island, about the same time. ‘The St. George's Society of this city celebrated jts seventy-third anniversary yesterday. Bishop Southgate preached the anniversary sermon at St. Matthew's church. He lauded England as the peacemaker of Earope, attributing the Peace Con- gress about to be held to the mission of Lord Cow- ley at Vienna. We give a sketch of his sermon in another column. In the evening the Society cele- brated the anniversary by a grand banquet at the Astor House, to our report of which we refer our readers. James Higgins, indicted with the brothers Glass for the murder of William Decker, in Elm street, in January last, was yesterday tried in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Davies. The jury rendered a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree against the prisoner. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, but transacted no business of importance. The Police Commissioners sent in an application for a steam- boat for harbor police purposes, It was refprred to the proper committee. In the Board of Aldermen last evening 2 resofu- tion was adopted providing for a joint special com” mittee to examine into the neeessity of re-district- ing the city into convenient election districts. Aldermen Boole, Stephens and Darragh were ap- pointed said committee on the part of the Alder men. The resolution appropriating $1,950 for the expenses of the Albany Lobby Committee, was adopted. The Board adjourned to Thursday next The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and after adopting a few unimportant re. ports, a resolution appropriating $5,000 for the ex- penses af the Sanitary Convention was adopted. Judge Wright gave his decision yesterday upon an application made to him for a writ of error in the case of Mary Hartung, sentenced to be hung for poisoning her husband, granting the said writ. The Judge granted it upon the third point made by the prisoner's counsel, and published In the Hzranp of yesterday—that is, because of the Court allowing Professor Porter to testify as to the capacity of Dr. Rheinhart to testify from a certain basis. Im- mediately upon the rendition of his Honor’s opinion the prisoner's counsel started with it for Albany, whither he will arrive barely in time to save his client from present death, as she was to suffer the extreme penalty of the law to-morrow. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,400 baies, 900 of which were made in transitu, and the re- mainder from store, closing tamely, on the basis of about 123g cents per pound for middling uplands; all the sales were made before the Washington’s news was received; after it came to hand no gales transpired. Flour was heavy for eome grades of State and Western, while good to choice extras remained the same; Southern was in good demand and more buoyant, with more doing, including sales for shipment to Rio and the West Indies. Wheat was heavy and gales limited, at $1 40 a $1 45 for Western red, and at 923Zc. for No. 2 Chicago spring. Corn was heavy, with eales of yellow Jersey and Southern yellow at 85c. a S6c., Western mixed at 81c. a $2c., and Southern white at 830. a84c. The foreign news was received at too latean hour in the day for its effect, if any is to result from it, to be felt upon the mrrket fer breadstaffs. Pork was active Dut unsettled, with sales of new mess at $16 8734, check on the day, and $17 1234 in the usual way, and primo at $12 75 a $12 87. Beef and lard were firm. Sugars were tolerably active, with sales of about 1,400 bhds., at rates given in another column, Coffee was firmly held, but was quiet. Freight engagements were moderate and rates ir- regular, though without change of importance, The Financial and Commercial Reaction ot 1859, and its Bearings upon the Great Con- test of 1960. The existing demoralizations and divisions of the democratic party are exceedingly deplorable. The epiit in Pennsylvania, the rebellion in Louisiana, the party rivalries and jealousies and discensions in Virginia; the despair of the faith- fal regulars of the North, the impracticable de- mands of the pro-slavery fire-eaters of the South, and the general disorganization of the whole de- mocratic camp, would seem to justify the belief that in 1860 we shall have the last struggle, the final overthrow, and the permanent dissolution of the late great democratic party. With the intestine feuds and distractions ex- isting in the party, and intensified as they are by the jealousies of rival aspirants, local and sectional, for the succession, it may well perplex the shrewdest politicians: among them to chalk out the line of reconciliation, reunion and suc- cess. But it appears that at length the great task of a party compromise has been undertaken at Washington, in the shape of some half-way adjustment between Mr. Douglas and his North- ern followers amd the Southern fire-eaters with reference to slavery in the Territories. It is supposed, too, that they have hit upon the basis of an agreement which will answer the purpose. Still the opposition are incredulous, and believe that the democracy must inevitably go into the Presidential battle hopelessly divided upon slavery and the tariff, and come out of it com- pletely routed and dispersed and disbanded. But while these democratic tinkers at Wash- ington are tinkering away at the slavery ques- tion, and while the opposition are flattering themselves with the conceit that between “squat- ter sovereignty” and a Congressional slave code for the Territories, and between a protective tariff and free trade, an exhausted treasury, an accumulating public debt, and a suffering peo- ple, the case of the disordered democracy is utterly hopeless, there are some other at work which promise to the whole face of our po- We refer to the great finan- and commercial reaction which has set in, a reaction which, from present appearances, | peace or war in Europe. will, within the next lve months, produce the most astonishing tical reeulte and changes in reference to the xt Presidency. New York city is not only the great commer- cial and financial centre of this continent— | the great metropolis of the country in regard to | the arta and scienees, religion, literature, fash- \ ion, music, amusements and rowdyism—but it is | also the real political centre of the Union. And | thus it is that at this very time, while our nar- | row-tighted politicians on all sides are makiog their plans and calculations upon the slavery agitation, an exhausted treasury, and the neces- sities for a new tariff law, we may discover in the increased and still increasing importa and exports to and from this metropolis the ele- ments of an impending goneral political reaction and revolution. According to the returns of our Custom Touse of the last two months, we may anticipate that with the expiration of the next fiscal year, end- ing June 30, 1860, a large proportion of the public debt resulting from the collapse of 1857 will be paid off, and that a surplus of ten, fifteca, twenty millions or more per annum will be thrown into the treasury from the customs, as compared with the current federal expenditures. Look abroad over the country. Our manufic- tures and business operations of all kinds jt | a] a are reviving a8 by magic. From ll sides, and in all avocations, we hear of workingmen rising for higher wages, The prospect of the a.)roaching barvest of breadstutls aue provisions, East and West, is most glorious; #4 from the South we are assured that the cotton crop will be equal to a gain of many millions ot dolia’s. Nor is this all. From California, Frser River, P ke’s Peak, Australia, &e,, we may aoti- cipate increased supplies of gold to the exteat of several millions. We are relieved from “the brakes” of the fate revulsion; we are again under a full pressure of steam, and will soon be whizzing along at sixty milesan hour, A downward reaction may ccme— must come; bnt the Presidential contest will find us in the full career of prosperity, and the administration and the democracy will command all its political advantages. The new Corgress will discover that the necessity for a new tariff has ceased to exist; that no more loans or Treasury notes will be wanted; that the necessities for the heavy Utah, Kansas, Paraguay and Io- dian war appropriations of the last Congress have sraeed; that, while the government expenies car » be reduced to the extent of many mii ~ 0 new flood of imports are rolling in the mours ten Mr. Cobb a the rate of a million, agi rom Tuut to two fuillionsaweek. aS; This general reaction will place the administre- tion in a commanding position to free the coun- try, and ought to rally the democracy of all fac- tions around it. There will be no necessity for tinkering the’ tariff; and,\jin the general furore of speculation and money making, the nigger agi- tation will be stifled. Thus it was that the flush times of 1852, resulting from the California gold Uiscoveries, had a potential inflacnce In tie Nant overthrow of the old whig party. In 1840, under Van Buren’s administration, the democracy were almost annihilated, because the country then was still suffering from the terrible revulsion 0” 1837, But now we have recovered from the general crash of 1857, aud this reaction, by the year of our Lord 1860, will give the administration a lift which will lift the democracy again into power, if they have only the good _sensejto rally around the administration. The News from Europe—The War Immi- nent=The "Liberal Propaganda Eegun in Germany. The steamship City of Washington’ brings us fonr days later news from fEurape. * From” the c T the adviceagt isfevident that auurs ure vowdly drawing’to a crisis,"and even yune she axt Seamer may bring us accounts of the outhrenk or a war which, beginning between Austria wud Sardinia, will at oncefinvolve France. ‘and possi- oiy the whole of Europe, in thejsturmony be1uce the end is seen. There are statements that at ,the latest fmo- ment pacific indications were evident; but we have sought in vain to find them, and canjbut believe that they are more stock jobbing rumors, Not only had no advance been made for the Cor- gress of European Powers on the Italian ‘ques- tion, but the expectation of its mecting was? al- ready fading from the minds“of men.WMilitary armaments continue to be prepared on{thejsame large scale, and with even greater £activity than before. The Ticino’) bristles gwith bayonets at every point. Marquis §Da Siglio, the counterpart in statesmanshipTof Count Cavour, has been sent on an explanatory mission to London, and some of the, journals seem to think that aman of his weight of cha- racter would accept only a peace mission. To us, on the contrary, it seemsia though he had been sent to impress upon the court of St. James the imminency of the crisis that! is urging Sar- dinia forward. In France the signs of war are still more evi- dent. The conscription of 190,000 men has been called out at once:fa fleet of gunboats has been ordered to sca from Cherbourg, bearing immense rifled armaments; «nd one of the French journals significantly states that they are not bcuad to Cochin Chiaa; the Memorial Diplomatiqve, the Austriam peace organjin Paris, had been suppressed; in all] the Eprovincial French journals the war spirit is constantly fanned. Seventeen of ihe Neapolitan exiles had arrived at Paris on their way to Piedmont, form- ing a striking contrast with the fact that a few years since Leuis Napoleon would not permit Kossuth to land at Marseilles; and the Moniteur, the Emperor's official organ, has a plain spoken article on the subsidence of the anti-Napoleonic sp'ritin Germany, teminding the Confederation of what Louis Napoleon has done in its behalf and in behalf of national sentiments everywhere, in Spain, in Switzerland, in Germany, Holstein, in Nap'e’, and in che Danubian Princi- palitiese—and distinc! ly statiog that what Ffance “intends to make respeste1 in Itwly she will re- spect herself in Germany. The entire language of the artic'e in the Moni- teur breathes of war, and appeals almost directly to the revolutionary feeling of Germany and of all Europe. It says that the policy of France is based on “ the happiness of poples,” and “dis- owns all ambition for conque«ts;” that the Em” peror has protected constitutional rights in Spain, endeavored to induce the Neapolitan government to introduce reforms, protected order based on satisfied national interests in the Principalities, and inspired moderate views everywhere; and it closes the article with a significant allusion to commerce, industry and progresa, promoting civilization. With such doctrines proclaimed in France, Italy in a fever heat of revolution, and a reform discussion before the people of England, Europe is on the eve of grea hanges than are involved in the simple driving of Austria out of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. Aa appeal | by Louis Napoleon to the unitary tendencies of | a national Germany, the principle of which has becn aiready established in the great commercial union of the Zollvercin, is the beginning of a propaganda that will set Germany in a blaze, as a similar one has already done for Italy. Virncmta Exterrnise-—Tne Berorean Steam- sure Lins Reviven—It will be remembered that certain enterprising parties in Virginia undertook, about two years ago, to get up a ri- val steamship line to run between the port of Norfolk and St. Nazaire, an inland town in France, and for that purpose Hon. W. Ballard Preston proceeded to Europe to make the neces sary arrangements. Since tien the matter scems to have pretty much died out; but we perecive by the Richmond Enquirer that Mr. Lacontour, a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Norfolk, has been reviving it. It appears that he has ad- dressed « long communication to the French Emperor, urging the importance of encouraging the establishment of a Jiné of steamships between France and Virginia, and among other reasons adduced to prove the importance of the enter- prise, he puts forth the following, which is too tich to be lost. He says:— Another considoration, siro, that wil imprees your rind deeply aad touch your heart, militates in behalf of the St. Nazaire and Nortoik Nao,’ The New York ilno, near the banks of Mowfoundiand, is ercumbored ‘with enter td the conten! fags fit ares inormnt cause of wrecks, which neither the strength of the steam- ere nor the skill of their crews can prevent. What amount Of living stock and wealth have in that peritous peth- way! . lens than two ago, bad to pay a pain- ful tribute, and the Cunard Company, in a very recent case, bad two of their most beautiful nese of those almost fogs. . This is the first intimation we have had that “the ice of the Hudson” obstracts navigation on the banks of Newfoundland. With reference to the collisions referred to, they happened nearly in mid ocean, and were no more brought about by the dangerous navigation of our coast than was the burning of the Austria. Our friends in the Old Dominion should study geography a little more before they undertake to rival New York in the establishment of Atlantic steamehip lines by wrecking New York steam- ers in mid-ocean and charging the disasters to the dangers of our shores, and by converting an inland town in France into a seaport, The News from Nicaragua—Change of Front in the Central American Imbroglio. ‘We have two days later news from Nicaragua, with some interesting particulars in regard to the new treaty which Gen. Lamar has negotiated with Senor Zeledon, Secretary of State for Nica- ragua, all of which will ‘be found elsewhere in our columns, From the tenor of our letters from Managua it would seem that quite a change has taken place in the policy of the Nicaraguan govern- ment towards this country. The new treaty has, however, a hitch in it, and we do not very well see how our government can permit it to stand. This is contained in the stipulation providiag that the United States government shall obey the laws of nations in its policy towards Nicara- gua, and enforce its own laws against the fitting out of filibustering expeditions here. This is, in fact, a diplomatic reassertion of the false accusa- tions against us contained in the infamous Mora- Martinez manifesto, and which we thought had been retracted and apologised for. Besides, such accusations, and such a treaty stipulation, come with a peculiarly bad grace from a government which on two occasions has been saved from overthrow by the action of our forces against the filibusters. The admis- sion of such a clause in a treaty with any of the Spanish-American governments will do incaleu- lable injury to bur moral influence in all of those countries, Beyond that we kuow of nothing in its character that should be unacceptable to us, and it may possibly be accepted by the Presi- dent on receipt of the present advices from Gen. Lamar, with the simple excision of the para- graph above referred to. In other respects Nicaragua seems to be mak- ing very fair progress in the establishment of order. A general amnesty, permitting all poli- tical exiles to return, has been granted, a postal treaty made with England, the policy of en- couraging immigration by grants of public land adopted, and a disposition evinced to have the Transit route opencd. We hope these steps in- dicate a new order of things there, and we may add to them that she is already showing an in. disposition to give Mons. Belly full sway over her interests, and declines the European propo- sition to abolish privateering until the United States shall have accepted it. We shall begin to entertain hopes of secing Nicaragua joining heartily in the American policy of subjecting political theories to the’demands of peace, com- merce and social developement. A Tunratesep Anristic Innvprron.—One re- markable peculiarity of our American way o! doing business is overdoing it. if one man makes a fortune selling cough lozenges, or some similar nostrum, straightway some fifty other people go to work and make medicine enough to physic ten times our population if they were all ill at once. So with almost everything else, par- ticularly and especially co with Opera business, which has some peculiar fascination that re- conciles men to be ruined, nay, seduces them to embrace failure and to be jocular over defeat. We have at this moment in this city no less than three German Opera managers—Ullman, who shortly vacates the Academy for a short Pic- colomini season, and Strakosch and Maretzek. Connected with them are as many as twelve prime donne—Italian, French, German and Ameri- can—all magnificent in every way; @ score or 50 of tenors; as many or more baritones, bacsos, and any quantity of small fry, with attachés and camp followers enough to make a French army battalion on a war footing. Well, this isa great deal, but it is nothing at all to what is to come. According to all ap- pearances, the Emperor of the French keeps the European slate, as Weed keeps the political slate at Albany, and it appears that he has “war” written on that slate in very large and indellible letters. With a war in Italy and Germany we should have a general exodus of the artists to this country, as the children of Israe! fled out of Egypt tothe land of Canaan. They must come to the United States, because, like Mr. Webster. in the days of Captain Tyler, they would have nowhere else to go. Again, we are going to have flush times for a couple of years at least, and the Opera will flourish all over the country. Even the smaller provincial towns are getting fond enough of the Opera to be willing to pay for it, and that is saying a great deal. The managers are preparing for their most engaging season, and they all intend to ship fresh artistic invoices. The war will increage the supply, and #0 a prima donna must follow the rule of trade, like pork and potatoes, and @ame down in her price. Without much doubt, this will be the effect of the war upon Opera and other art mat- ters, and we shall get the best from Burope at the European prices, which have been sometimes fifty per cent lower than ours. The managers will alt be on hand early in the season, and the public will have much curiosity to see the new arrivals.’ Excocracise News Anour Westary Ewiara- tion. When commenting on the prospects of employment presented to laborers and others in our Atlantic cities, in a recent issue of the Her- ano, we said :—“ To all who are in want of em- ployment we would suggest to go West, where they will have a better chance of obtaining it than here. The tide of emigration is tending in that direction in great force; and where the people go in numbers, whether to colonize, to farm, or to prospect for gold, trade must spring np, and the demand for labor must increase.”’ In connection with this suggestion, a gentleman in Minois, Judge Breese, formerly United States Senator, gends us the following communication, which entirely bears out our view on the subject of Western emigration :— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERATD. Cantrix, ([11.,) April 19, 1859. ‘The enclosed, cnt from your paper, manifests your usual good fense, especially the closing sentenoo, Thoro is a reat demand for tal here, especially female labor, yase help. For a plain cook, washer and ironer, mine dollare per month are paid, and ight for chambermaids in emall families. Good practical farmers aro much wanted. If you know of a fo farmer who baa a working faxily (Sootch, Engtish or Welsh preforrod), you can say to them This intelligence, as well as the liberal offer made in the letter, will no doubt prove very cheerful to many in these quarters who may feel embarrassed with reference to procuring profita- ble employment. To all such we repeat the ad. vice to go West by all means. Now is the favor- able time for travel; the lakes and rivers are all open, and a rich virgin soil awaits the hand of the agriculturist, the reward of whose enterprise and industry will be commensurate with his labors, Removat oF QvARANTINE—Sanitiry Mea- SURES FoR THE Crry.—We give in another column the bill tor the removal of Quarantine, which passed the Legislature last week, and under which authority the Quarantine Com- ; missioners are now preparing to act. The Com- missioners of Emigration held a special meeting yesterday with reference to the subject. In this connection we would remark that the members of the National Quarantine and Sanitary Con- vention will meet in this ciiy to-morrow, this being their third annual session, Last year they assembled at Baltimore, when a committee of medical men was appointed to report upon seve- ral important points; among others, upon the subject of disinfectants, their character, effects and benefits in connection with sanitary mea- sures; upon the importance of an ample supply of water, an adequate sewerage, and the proper disposal of the offal of cities, and upon the impor- tance and economy of sanitary measures to cities, All these measures materially affect the con- dition of this city, and we hope the committee will be able te present an intelligent report thereon. The Quarantine bill suthorizes the Com- missioners to expend an appropriation of $50,000, in addition to the funds now in hand, to carry out the provisions of the law of 1857 for the re- moval of Quarantine from Staten Island, and to provide suitable accommodations for the sick in some other locality. Itis hardly necessary to urge upon the Commissioners the importance of speedy action in this regard, in view of the ap- proach of summer, with its dangers of infectious diseases arriving here from foreign ports. Tas Somep Linen oF THe Unrrep Srates.— We perceive that some of the English journals have reproduced the account of “the great slave auction in Georgia,” which was so conspicuously paraded in the columns of our republican papers some time ago. We are much given in this country to washing our dirty linen before the public, and some of our republican organs al- ways take care that the unsavory operation shall not escape the eyes of the entire world. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON, Our Special Washington Despatch. Wasmixato, April 25, 1859. Jerez had an interview with tho Secretary of State to- day, in regard to the amendment of the treaty now under consideration. Gen. Cass informed him that matter was before the President, and that nothing decisive would be known until the next arrival from Nicaragua. The Pro- sident is decidedly averse to the amendment, but will await thearrival of our Minister, who is shortly expected. ‘The President gave a diplomatic dinner today to the new British Minister, at whict Count Sartiges and olber distinguished gucets were present. Horrible Steamboat Disaster=: Reported Lost. Cincnwatt, April 25, 1859. Aspecial despatch to the Commercial says the steamer St. Nicholas, from St. Louis for New Orleans, exploded last night near Helena, Arkansas, and that seventy-fvo Lives were lost. ‘The National Medical Convention. Lovisvitie, April 26, 1859. Arrangemente have been made by most of the railroads to ransport delegates to the National Medical Convention, to be held in Louisville, May 9, at half tho usual fare. Tho convention promises to be of ‘t interest. ‘The Boston School Committee and the Bible. Bostos, April 25, 1859. The School Committeo this afternoon, by a vote of 21 to 20, laid on the table a resolution changing the rule £0 that the teachers should read from the Bible, instead of the scholars, in the regular public school exercizes. Maine Politics. Avausta, Mo., April 25, 1858 ‘The Democratic State Committee of Maine have issued ‘a call for a Convention on the 30th of June, to nominate candidates for Stato officer and to chovuse four delegates to the Charleston National Convention. Escape of Prisoners at Norfolk. Noryvorx, April 26, 1869. ‘The crew of the ship Flying Dragon escaped from the jail today, where they were conned on tho charge of mutiny. venty Lives Election tn Boston. Boston, April 25, 1859. At the epecial election to-day Otis Clapp was elected to the Board of Aldermen, to fill the vacancy. ‘The vote on accepting tho act of Legislature rolative to | the improvement of Back Bay lands, and securing the Public Garden forever to the city was nearly unanimous in favor of the measure. Marine Disaster. Grovcmrm, Mass., April 26, 1869. The bark Corinthian, from New York, bound to Machias, Me., while lying at anchor in this harbor yesterday morn. ing, during the blow, dragged ashore on Mactern Point, but was gotten off without damage. ‘The British bark Cora Lian, from Boston for St. John, N. B., also dragged ashore at the same time on Eastern Point, where she remains. A steamer has gone to her negistance from Beaton. Fires at Detroit. Dermorr, April 25, 1859. ‘The machine shop, four locoractives, and about two thou- eand cords of wood, at Windsor, belonging to the Great Western Railway, were destroyed by fire on Sundey morning. The loss is estimated at $70,000. Nine tenements anda large furniture manufactory, at the corner of Brush and Geraliot streeta, and two build- ings at the corner of Hastings and Franfilin streets, in this city, were burned last evening. Loss $20,000; partly in- sured, All these {ires were the work of incendiaries. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK RGARD, Vinrapenenia, April 25, 1859. Stocks were inactive. Penneylvania fives, 924; Reading Railroad, 26%%; Morris Canal, long Isiand Rais road, 1217; Pennsylvania Railroad, 41/4. Citamueston, April 23, 1859. Cotton.—-The sales of the last two days foot up 5,000 bales, the market closing with a declining tendency. Good’ middlings, 1210, a 1 midiliing fair, 12 1 1. siete Monrun, April 22, 1959. Cotton.—Sales to-day 3,500 bales at L2%40. for middiing. ‘Thoteales of the week add up 10,250 bales, and the ro- coipts 7,000 against 7,500 for ‘he Corresponding week last your. Roceipts ahead of last year, 185,000 bales; stock, 85,000 Freights.—Cotton to Liverpool 3-16d. « . ring exchange, 108% a 109. a as BP IN © ai, Apel 23,19 Cotton—Little onquiry ; enles to day 100 bates » changed prices. Savawnair, April 28, 1860. Cotton—Sales to-day 900 bales, the market closing with a decline of 0. a 4c. Barrtone, Apel! 26, 1859, Flour active. Grain unchanged. White wheat, $1 704 $1 76; red, $1 45 a $1 60, white corn, Thc. T8e.: yol Jow, 800, a'8lc, Whiskey firm, Provisions doll. Bacon— Sides and shoulders, 7c. a 9c. Pritannionia, Aprit 2 Flour very doll; euperfine $6 12!. Wheat active; red $1 50 a $1 68; white $1 6 2 $1 66, Corn fh yellow 880. © 80. Provisions active; moss pork $18 60; lard firm at 2c. a 19¢, Whiskey frm at Ko. BEWS FROM-CEBTRAL NEEL: © The New freaty Between Nicaragua and the United States. Beported Change in the Policy of the Nicaraguan Government. Movements of Monsieur Belly ani Sir Gore Ouseley, &, &e., ‘The eteamer Columbus, from San Jose de Geatemna, and intermediate ports, arrived at Panama on the 6% \nstant, with the following cargo:—1,075 ceroons indigy ‘45 do. cochineal, 1,591 bags coffee, 85 do. rice, 4,40 hites, 35 bales deer skins, 170 do. sugar, 36 cases balsam, Yo have dates from San Jose de Guatemala to the 2641 Manh; Acajulta (Salvador), 27th; Libortad (Salvador), 28th La Union, April 1; Realejo (Nicaragua), 2d, asf PuntaArenas (Costa Rica), 3d. The news is unimportam, Our\ies from Guatemala are barren of news. Tht countr) is prosperous and tranquil, and the improve ments ® the puvlic roads from the principsl interiot towns t the Pacifle ts conducted with considerabk energy. The onl} nows from Salvador is that a portion of thi garrison ofthe city of San Salvador revolted on the nigh of the 4th o March against the government of Genera Ramos; but be latter succeeded in quelling the outbreak, after killing mo four of the mutineers, On the Sth, four moro of themwere shot on the public plaza, Every thingwas quiet when the Columbus left. M, Felix Bely was at San Jose de Costa Rica on the 24 ingt., endeavoing to prevail upon Prosident Moro to go te Nicaragua and jse his influence with that government im behalf of his Beliy’s) canal project. Presijent M. ls known to take igreat interest in the proposed work, and it was thought lp would assist at its inaguration, which ig soon to take piag, T. O'Gorman Sabon had algo arrived at San José de Costa Rica, on bujness, it was supposed, connected with Sir W. Goro Ousety’s mission in Central America, though it is stated his buspesa concerns the canal project. Sir William GoreOuseley was engaged in giving enter- tainments to the Preident and Cabinet, and quietly nego. tating @ treaty. Ber Hritannic Majesty’s steamship Vixen saileg from Pama for Punta Arenas on the %2 inatant, with the obyct of bringing down Sir William Gore Ouseley. The French frigate Andromede, Rear Admiral Bou- varde, was at Punta Anus on the 2d instant. The cap- tain of the frigate had \een despatched to the orpital by the Admiral on some official business, the osture of which was not known, The coffee crop, which is unusually large—amounting to about 140,000 quintale-had nearly all been shipped. Prices were atill Ligh, Our Managu, Correspondence. Manacva, March 27, 1899. ‘The New Treaties in Nicariqua— Activity Among the Ntca-| vagua Diplomats and Sytesmen—The way Business Done in Congress—The Oyeley Treaty—Gen. Lamar to be Out Done—Senor Zeleton, the Minuster for Afairs, a Smart Fallow—The Lamar Treaty Protects thel United States from Nicarigua Filibusters—A Po Treaty with England—The Swdinian Treaty—Nicarag Refuses to give up Privateering—She Sticks to the United} States on This Point—Chang in the Policy of the Gover ment—General Amnesty for Political nces— Ano! Version of the Decatur Affair—The Dit of \icaraqua— The Tramsit Route and Diffcultics—M. ly in Water, dc., de. Since the last departure of the steamer Columbus wo Isave bad exolting times here. The foroign relations hava principally occupied our attention, aud there will pearly an end of our writing you any more, as avanly cardinal matters of interest have beea disposed of. Ni only the treaty with England and Sardiaia have been con. cluded, but algo an American treaty. General Lamar bh been able to make a treaty somewhat similar to the Yrisarri and Zoledon-Ouscley treaty. Our worthy depu: ties and senators have been quite busy. It will not bq ovt of the way to Ist you know a little about parties represented in Congress here. Although Jast war was carried on between the democrats and legiti mists, there was, in fact, no difference in their po opinion. It is the same now. Nominally, tho late Den cratic party has two repreeentatives in ether Chamber and the government party elght and nine: making Senators and eleven Deprties. But, it is strange to they all fight on thoir own hook. It is quite ofvem thal matters proposed by a government man are sustained b the so-called opposition party, and finally upset by very party that propoeed it. The truth is, that in no parties exist; they have little or no _knowladgo of Par| Hamentary tricks, and when a bill is about passing, some times they vote right against what they just have b speaking for in defence, But let us comé back to work cf the Nicaraguan Congress. Circumsances forced them to pass afew, but very important, ills, TI presont Congress is like ours at Washington, everything done in the last fortnight. After the passing of the Zeoton Ouscley weaty, & William loft for Costa Rica, aad General Lamar made mind up to get a treaty anyhow, if it was only sub ratis. He went to work with Mr. Zeledon, who, by the way] isaamart old fellow,and who was, with the Zeledon| Ouselcy treaty fresh on his mind, quite a stroag party deal with. The article about landing the troops was ar} ranged satisfactorily; but another one, which was put the Zeledon-Ouseley treaty, was the greatest obstacte; reads about this way, “Her Britannic Majesty agrees prevent the fitting out of any ilegal expeditions agai Nicaragna.”” ‘This article, of course, was put in the Faglish not to guard ogainet English filtbusters, but to have ready for the United States. General Lamar opposed as being one that his nation could not sign, as if was an insult to hig nation, and, in fact, it an article which was ali a one-sided affair favor of Nicaragua, and no reciprocity about ag overy article in a treaty ought to be. Me. quietly told him that he was most willing to make ever; thing suitable, and to establish reciprocity. Nicaragu would also agree not to allow any filibustoring the United States. As to reciprocity, there was none the treaty at all, as all the fayors in regard to commero and navigation are one-sided for the United States, a bas no Commerce and not one versel, excepting the barges from the time of Montezuma. The deni) of G Jamar respecting the signing of the article prohibi fillbustering against Nicaragua from the territory of United States, was considered, coming from him, as official voice of the White House—-tbat it was the and programme of the United States, not only to to but oven to animate filibustering. At last the great ob stacle was overcome, by the United States promising use all their influcnce, and, according to the laws of country, to stop filibusters. If, therefore, by next of Congroes the] Neutrality Laws aro repsaled evory A buster can be fitted out open!y. So much about the American treaty. It was signed and delivered on the —— of this month, and ed the two houses in two days, Mr. Perez, the Seere of General Jorez, left with it for Washington yesterda; to take the English steamer for Aspinwall, A postal treaty with England has been passed. All to tors betweon English and Nicaraguan porte shall pay si pence, and Nicaragua shall not charge more thao conte on each Englieb letter for inland mail, Tals is ther a one-sided affair for England, but as it only lasts fo one year, and they had no treaty at all, it was acco; without much discuseion. The abortion of a postal d cree that made me pay three dollars for a semi-montl Je of your paper, has been upset, and a more liberal cubetitated, The Sardinian treaty algo loaves Nicaragua ratified thi ‘ime with several modifications, People are bound make them; if you would give them ible they would obliged to make some modifications on it. ‘This trent} anked of Nicaragua to relinguiah the right of private ing. Sho haa refused it, saying in tho treaty that will relinquieh it ax soon as the United States will do po. ‘Thero seems to be a porfect cuango—and a vory salu one—in the Cabinet and the govornment in gencral. seems as if they are convinced that the former excinsiy policy will not do any longer. They are ready to Nicaragua open for the exploration of the world. It true that the flibustera havo found a great deal ault that such a policy bas not beon adopted long ‘They have issued a docree of gencral amnesty to all Nic raguane for all former political offonces, even if they h been interested in Walker's success. Tadre Vigil, who went as minigtor to tho United States by the Rivas-W kor government, has beon recalk«l to come homo. step is ono Of great convpniones, because it is all non to believe that Walker and his friends havo any eym, th in this country—the best proof of this we have ee &. latoly, ‘On the second of this month the whole couatry wi get in a otate of alarm, A sailing vosqel had been seq