The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. poe Jame GORDOW BEAR BOITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFich &. W. CORNER OF FULTON Awe WAndAD ire, ‘TRRAS, awh adwance. Money soni nae eth Be ae be vibef thc conter, “Femags champs’ net reccioad ae rebeeripton Tae DAILY HERALD. ince conte (OT pe coon. THE SARELE ZARALD, coors 5 ae FD need , oF ‘armen. | the Bar opcm mony al at the of vock mend ot a ort Se IT ancien reapnee and de- VWotume XXIV... sreceeeree eae Gs IRS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street—Onitorio— ‘Tus Onxarion. NIBLO'S GABDEN, Bousxanvs. Pais THAATRE, Bowery.—Gna Warr—Tan Rap We Brostway.—La Barapera—Two ETROPOLITAN THEATRE (Late Burton's). A's van ww Love ax» Was—Faint Heart Neves Won Fain Lavy Yxt—Dauicark GRouwn. WALLAGE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tua RBivais— Boanvina Scuoon LAURS KXBNP’S THRATRE, Bo. 62% Brosdway.—in- scames Nigur's Duran. PF ccopiipag FRAMCAIB, 085 Brosdwey.~Li Gaage ve EU. MUM'S AMERICAN MOSEUM. Hrosdway.-—Aafver- mri amp Youne— wears Vavguan. 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Havas... Lansing, 21 Rue Cornellie. Gaupone ..De The contents of the Kurepean edition of the Barat wiil Sombine the newn received by mai! and telegraph at the ‘Biloe during the previous week and ap to hour the of publication. The News. The City of Baltimore from Liverpool on the 11th, and Queenstown, Ireland, on the afternoon of the 12th inst., reached this port yesterday morning, with news a day fater than that brought by the Vanderbilt, and our European files complete. Na- poleon embarked at Marseilles for the seat of war on the 11th inst. Marshal Canrobert had issued a Nery stirring ordg of the day to the portion of the army of the Alps under bis command from Aleasan- dria. He reminds the men of the former great vic- tory of the French over the Austrians on the same territory. The London Herald, government organ, lauds the Duke de Malakoff in his privaie and official charac- ter, and says that England has not a more devoted friend. The French Minister of the Interior had issued a circular to the prefects, directing them to endeavor to dispel all uneasy popular feeling that may arise from the absence of the Emperor from Paris. Cotton was quiet in Liverpool on the 12th inst., and an advance of about one-eighth of a penny over the markets of the 6th inst. At one o'clock the same day consols rated at 924 for money and 917 a 92} for the account. Trade was almost entirely suspended in Havre on account of the war. The mail from the coast of Africa had reached England, but the dates from the various ports are not given, although the mews is later. Commercial matter is exceedingly meager from all the ports at Sierra Leone. Business was depressed. The King of Jaboo, Obe, has refused to allow palm oil to pass through his country, alleging that the Ibba- dans people had annoyed him. The real reason is said to be the French emigrationacheme. The quantity of oil this year will, it is supposed, bevery low. At the Gold Coast the attention of the peo- pie was employed in the cultivation of cotton, and some of the more gentle of the native rulers were induced to embark in its production. Dr. Baikie, of the British Niger expedition, left Rabbi on the 14th March, and arrived at Oghomastro on the 27th, all well. In consequence of the stoppage of the oil trade at Badagry and Porto Novo by the King of the latter place, the English Consul was compeHed to explain to the King that he had broken his treaty by stopping the trade, and to order him to open it immediately. We have news from Australia dated at Mel- bourne on the Ist of March. The markets had not improved in that city. American flour went off at $120 per ton, an advance of $250 over the native. Wool had declined. The mining parties were well rewarded. Very alarming fires had occurred at Ballarat and Me!bourne. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester day an ordinance was passed, that “whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office of City Ins- pector, or he be prevented by sickness or any other cause from attending to the duties of his office, the Superintendent of Sanitary Inspection shall perform the duties of City Inspector during the time such inability, absence, &c., shall exist, and for that purpose shall possess all the powers conferred, and perform the duties devolving upon, the City Inspector.” A resolution was passed direct- ing the Superintendent of Sanitary Taspection im- mediately to proceed to clean the streets under the Statute of the State and ordinances of the Common Council until the Common Council otherwise order. The Mayor ent in the name of Noab A. Childs for the office of City Inspector, which was rejected by the Board. The Mayor also sent in a communica- tion on the subject of the City Inspectorship, which ‘wag referred to the committee having that matter in band. The communication will be found in an- other column. No other business of importance Was transacted. The Board of Councilmen were in session las evening, but they did not transact much important business. A petition of Charles Guidot, in refe- rence to the substitution of Belgian for Buss pave- ment in Broadway, was referred to the Committee pn Streets. He proposes to take up all the Russ pavement between the Battery and Fourteenth street, and relay in its stead the Belgian pave- Ment, at a rate not exceeding $1 18 per square yard, the stone taken up to become his property. A report of the Committee on Streets, in favor of whanging the route of the Spring street line of omni- Doses from Greenwich to Hudson street was adopt Bd. The Corporation Council, in reply to aresolution of inquiry, says that all gas companies have no Buthority to prescribe the size or quality of the tubing which the owner of 8 house may see fit to introduce, or to designate the number of burners for any specified diameter of pipe. Several reports vf committees and papers from the Aldermen wore Jaidover, An ordinance adopted by the Aldermen 40 amend the ordinance regulating the City In- spector's Department was referred. Reports of the Commitiee on Finance, in favor ef remanerating: parties for the loss of horses drowned by falling over the piers, were adopted. ‘The Board coa- curred in adopting a resolution” appropriating $6,000 to test the right of the oily to the West Jashingtou market property. mpeg i aeF sioners of Health met yesterday’ Mayor Tiemann reported on the resolution referred to him and the Comptroller in reference to the street cleaning and the removal of night soil. He fs of opinion that,as the Executive officer of the city, he has contro) over all the departments of the City Government in the absence of their respective heads, and as there is no City Inspector, he consi ders the work of street cleaning, &c., may go on as usual under his supervision. The work cancon- sequently go on under the direction of the Super- intendent of Sanitary Inspection. The Board took no action on the report of the Mayor, and the sub- ject was laid over till Wednesday. A proposition from Mr, Olney to remove the night soil from this to January was referred to the Mayor. A petition trom Mr. Frabant, complaining of the slanghter- house No. 174 East Twenty-eight street as a nui- sance, was referred Dr. Rockwell and Councilman Cornell. Dr.Gunn reported the arrival of the baris Awelia, from Rio Janeiro, in sixty days. She had yellow fever on board when there, but none since. She obtained permission to come up above Clinton street, East river, or Canal street, North river, to- day. Dr. Rockwell reported that he had attended to the nuisance at the slaughter house in Mott street, and they then adjourned till Wednesday. The Committee on Streets of the Board of Alder- men held their final public meeting yesterday in reference to the proposed widening of Nassau street. The property owners turned out in force to oppose the measure, and numerous parties were heard, pro and con, by the committee. A full re- pert of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. The wills of Emily C. Stuyvesant, Caroline N. Saltus, Rose Woodhull, Margaret McMahon, Xea- vier Keifer, David L. Dodge, A. G. Hull and 8. T. Jones were admitted to probate yesterday by the Surrogate. We understand that movements are quietly ia progress among some of our enterprising Ameri” can houses for chartering vessels for Genoa, and to load them with flour, tobacco and ram, or whis- key, for the use of the belligerent forces ix ‘The cotton market was steady yesterday, and, including sales of 1,000 bales made om Saturday aftoruoon (not bs- fore reported), amounted to about 1,250 bales, closing without further quotabie change iu prices. Flour opened firmer, and at an advance in some descriptions of abost 0c. @ 16c. per bbl, especially for Stale aud Weetern brands. As the day advanced, holders met purchasers more freely, while the market closed dui, especially for common grades. Prime to choice family extra grades were firmly held, and prices unaltered. Southern fleur was ip good request, and prices unchanged. Wheat was firm for prime to choice qualities, and dail for medium and common grades. Prims to choice Michigan white sold at $2, Kentueky do. at $210; good red Western at $175, mixed do, at $i 3, and Chicago spring at $1 18. Pork was in good de- Tound and prices firmer, with wales of new mess at $17 5° 2 $17 6234, clear at $19 75 w $22, prime mess at $17 76 x $20, thin do, at $17 76, and prime at $16 20a $15 60, aud 100 bbis., buyer thirty days, were sold at $16.— $15 75. Boef was steady avd in fair demand, Lard was aiso some firmer. Sugars and coffee were quiet and prices un- changed. Freight engagements wero moderate and rates without alteration of importance. The Siavery Question, North and South— Who Are the Agitators? Mr. Buchanan having disposed of that fruit- ful source of sectional agitation, the Kansas question, our political disturbers of the public peace, North and South, have been driven to the necessity of busting up some other and more desperate expedients upon which to keep up the excitement between the two sectious concerning Southern slavery. Thus, last autumn, at Rochester, W. H. Seward took the broad and bold anti-slavery platform that between Northern freedom and Southern slavery there is “an irrepressible conflict,” which must continue until all the States of this Uoion shall have been made “free States or slave Statts;” thus we fiad the leaders and organs of the republican party falling back upon the doctrine that it is within the power, and is the duty of Congress, to probibit in ‘the Territories “those twin relics of barbarism, po- lygamy and slavery” —eepecially slavery; thus we have had the warning dietinctly given by Mr. Seward and other chiefs of the republican camp that the Dred Scott decision indicates a perver- tion of the functions of the Supreme Court in the service of “the slave power,” which calls upon Congress for such a reconstruction of the Court as will secure its judgments hereafter in behalf of the coustitutioual principles of human free dom. These issues, raised by our Northern agitators of slavery, are met by the tire-eating agitators of the South with their demands for the repeal of all laws prohibiting the African slave trade: with their threats to reopen ibis infamons tratlic in defiance of law; with their demands for a spe- cial code of Jaws from Congress for the protec- tion of slavery in the Territories; with ail sorts of filibustering plote and plans for the exiensiou of slavery and the Southern “slave power” over all the islands of the Mexican Gulf and all the territories of the continent, from the Rio Grande to the Isthmus of Panama; and with that terri- ble old “ hue and ery,” with all its variations, ot disunion, secession and a Southern confede- racy. Upon these extreme and belligerent pro- positions we now find the Southern democracy in a most fearful state of excitement, derange- ment aud confusion, while the Northern demo- cracy are equaily distracted aud divided upon that impalpable abstraction of equatier sove- reignty. With all these uew disturbing issues and ele- ments, North and South, on the slavery question, one might suppose, at the first blush, that Seward is right in his position tbat “ there is an irrepree- sible conflict” between the two sections upon slavery, and that while the people of the North actively sympathise with this war manifesto of Seward, the people of the South, under the con- trol of the “slave power,” are ready for the experiment of the revival of the African slave trade, in defiance of the laws of Congress and the power of the federal government, or for the still more desperate experiment of secession and an independent Southern confederacy, based upon filibnstering principies, We know, however, that in reality our North- ern stavery agitators of the school of Seward have but a small party of camp followers, and that the great majority of the people of the North, with the settlement of the Kansas ques- tion agsiast slavery, are satisfied to sink the sla- very agitation in the more important practical issues of the day. We know that they care very little now about the vice distinctions between Congressional sovereignty and squatter sove- reignty in the Territories. Having a heavy ba- lance of power on their side in both houses of Congress with the admission of the new free States of California, Minnesota and Oregon, with Kansas, Nebraska and Washington close behind, the people of the North have certainly nothing to fear from the aggressions of the “slave power,” and they kuow it. Entertaining these views, we NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 24," 1859. believe that W. TI. Seward will be net aside by the republican party in 1860, or that the party iteelf will bo signally defeated should he be ne minated as its candidate, On the ether hand, we have no. doubt that the “slave power” of the South, as applied tothe three hundred and fifty thousand slave- uth, constiiutes a body of men ible and reliable, in behalf of the constitution and the Union, as can be found in the Union, not even excepting the great mercantile interest of our Northern seaboard cities. Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, we think, in his political views, may be taken as @ fair average epecimen of those Southern slave- holders who are the largest possessors of waves: And what are his views concerning his vital Southern institution of slavery? THe gives it ap that there is no margin left to slavery in our ex- isting Territories; that Mexico is forbidden ground; that Central America is out of the question ; that even Cuba would, perhaps, rather weaken than strengthen the South; that the re- vival of the African slave trade would be disas- trous if not ruinous to Soutbern slavery; and yet he maintains that it is the true policy of the South to adhere to the Union, ‘That these sentiments, more or less, prevaiy among the Southera slaveholders of all parties we have no doubt, Ti isto the vagabond poli- ticians, spoilsmen and place-hunters of the South that we must took for all these African slave trade, filibustering and secession movements. Our fellow citizens of this metropolis will not dispute the fact that the friends of law and order among us are competent to take our Corporation affairs into their own hands, if they will, and yet wecontinue to be, as we have been for many years, the victims of the ruffians, rowdies and spoilsmen who control our local electioas. So with our national offairs. The sensible masses of the people, North and South, are victimized by our restless, reckless, agitating, scheming and plotting politicians, who make the business ot parties, elections and spoils their special trade. Thus, a mere banéful of these scheming mana- gers of parties and platforme dictate or over- ride the public sentiment of the North and the South. The only remedy is in the independent action of the people. In the interval, the coun- try will be safe under the guardianship of Mr. *Buchanan’s administration; but it is still the duty of the people to provide for the euppres- sion, in 1860, of our pestilent sectional agitators. Contemptible 45 they are, they may still be powerful enough, uachecked by public opinion, to drive the country headlong to ruin with their paltry abstractions upon aiggers and slavery. * an active and successful competitor with that of Penama. The Honduras route is ro- ported practicable for @ railroad of about 170 miles, which cam he bull¢ in three years for twelve millions of dollars, The Tehuantepec reuto is reported practicable for a joint rail and water transit of ahont 17@ mites, capable of being opened in five years ata cost of ten mil- Jions of dollare, Judging by experience in the construction of the Panama railroad, and othor similar works in the tropies, we may well sup- pore that the Honduras and Tehuantepec routes are under-estimated, both in money asd time. But taking these routes ot their own estimates, and that of Panama at ite actaal cost, there is still left a margin of many millions in favor of that of Nicaragua. Here we have, then, both the object and the future means of the Walker move- ment, Its allies, we think, can he traced with equal distinctness. For the reasons above given the possession of the Nicaragua route has alwaye been a favorite object with our steamship com- modores. When the Quitman Cuba expedition was broken up, in the spring of 1855, the Nicara- gua filibuster inovement was planmed und car- ried out, with the expectation of drawing into it the enterprising and adventurous elements that Gen. Quitman had called out and concentrated, It was from its inception a stockjobbing move- ment oa the part of certain of the steamship commodores, The Nicaragua Traxsit was at that time in possession principally of Commo- dore Vanderbilt; Commodore Morgan and Com- modore Garrison holding minor interests ia it. The last named fitted out Walker with his cele~ brated fifty-six followers, from San Francisco, and sent them by sailing vessel to Nicaragua, giving recruits afterwards free passages in the steamers from California to San Juan del Sur, Not long after Walker's first success, large sales of Nicaragua Accessory Transit Company stock were made in Wall street tor future delivery, and it was evident that « big bear was at work. Vanderbilt, confident in his ability to sustain the stock, was a large purchaser. The next steamer brought the news that President Rivas had con- fiseated the property and annulled the grant of the Accessory Transit Company, and the suc- ceeding ove, that a new grant of the property and privilege had been made to an agent of Commodore Garrison. Then it leaked out that Commodore Morgan had made, aud Commodore Vanderbilt had lost, several hundred thousands of dollars in Accessory Transit Company stock operations, From this time commenced the war of the Commodores, which continued through all the Walker ight aed the long diplomatic contest that succeeded bis overthrow. His expulsion from Nicaragua was due, in fact, to the constant and great efforts of Commodore Vanderbilt against him, and to bis sbandoament by Commodores Morgan and Garrison, after Vanderbilt's agent, Spencer, bad taken the Transit route from him, rather than to the cfforts of the allied natives, Indeetd, it has been admitted by Presideat Mora, of Costa Rica, that notwithstanding Walker's straits at Rivas, the allied forces would soon have bad to give up the siege bad not Captain Davie, of the St. Marys, interfered just as he did. Since that time the Commodores have all been routed in Nicaragua, and the government of that republic is endeavoring to keep them all out, Common disaster bas led them to make peace among themselves, and some time since Commodore Garricou transferred bis flag to the Pacidic, leaving the Atlantic ocean avd Carri- bean sea to Commodore Vanderbilt—both of them respecting the rights of Commodore Mor- gan in the Gulf of Mexico, where his flag is borne by the Texas and Vera Cruz eteamship lines. For some time past the first two have been running # feeble opposition, with perhaps a little stockjobbing, to the Pacific Mail Company monopely. This sudden appearance of Walker, with three bundred men, on board of one of their fleetest steamships, at Acapulco, has an ominous look. She may have put in there to coal; for if he lands in Nicaragua sbe will have no chance 0 do eo for the return voyage. Nicaragua itsel? is exhausted, and will hardly be able to resist oun with even three buadred men. No small portion of the people, particularly in the uorta- ern section, hate their preseat government, aud all of them are w ig to obey any successful ruler rather than incur the sacrifices necessary for resistance. The inibecility of Cougress in refusing to grant tie necessary powers to the President, and the nosentity of our diplomatic represeutation in Central America, leave the field clear there. The bursting of the Fraser River bubble bas carried back to California thousands of ruined aud reckless adveuturers, giving abundant material to a new alliance be tween the ftilibusters and the Commodorea, The jong outraged interests of California will be dis- posed to look with complaisance on any effort to open the long closed Nicaragua route. Such are the clements that combine to favor a new raid upon Nicaragua Its Transit route of fers a prize worth millions of dollars in cash, and 4 saving of yeats in the time required for opening a new route. One million of dollars, backed by the good will of the people of Califor. nia, will suffice to conquer the territory and erect a new Indian empire, The Commodores are able, wealthy and not over scrupulous men. The filibusters are aa intelligent, active and enterprising class of citizens, capable of giving trouble to any and every government. A com bination of all these will give the administration much to do, and impose upon it the necessity of prompt and energetic action. Even then it may be defeated in its efforts to perform our national duties towards Nicaragua, if it is not represented by younger, more vigorous and more competent men in Central America than has been the case for some years past. We have long foreseen these reeults, und have frequently urged upon the government to prevent them by causing the route to be opened at ouce. It bas delayed, be cause it has given ear to the quibbles of Nicara- gua, and yet these very quibbliags wad delays will ruin that republic. Leadon, For some time past the shipments of apeoie from Eogland to the Continent have bees very large ; and, from this fact, it would appear that the shipments are now, or econ will be, the other way. In view, then, of the war, and the consequent demand fur our products, it dovs not seem imprebable that, should our crops realize the promise they now hold forth, we shall be importing specie from Europe instead of exporting it, as we have been hitherto doing. We may therefore have specie pouring in upon as wext fail in superabundance, _ Tae Invasion or Prepvonr anp THe Panic Amongst THe AvsTRIAns.—Masterly inao- tivity” io a military chief is as much to be admired as impotuosity, More battles have beea won by self-resiraint than by impatient ardor, Tied Wellington been animated by the hair- brained gallantry of Murat, he would never have beaten Soult in the Peniusala or Napoleon at Waterloo. In fuct, the smallest of the gifts of a great General is daring; for greater strategical mistakes are committed from the exoess of this quality than from its opposite extreme, The position of Cotnt Gyuiai, on the Pied- montese frontiers, is one difficult to reconcile with any of the usual military theories. Where so much was to be gained by a rapid advance nto the cuemy’s territory, and wheu the cir- cumstances all seemed so favorable for it, peo- ple may well feel perplexed to account for the sudden hesitancy which seized upon the Aus trian commander, The causea of it were cer- tainly not to be found in the formidable charac- ter of the resistance to be anticipated from the Sardiniaus, or the chances of encountering the French in any large force. If Count Gyulai had pushed on immediately when he crossed the frontier, after taking proper measures for the support of bis advanced divisions, he would at prescut be in possession of Alessandria and Taria. He lost, however, the golden chance which fortune placed in bis way, end now he will be compelled to fall back on bis own line of defences, and will thus tranefer the war to Lombardy, instead of making the campaign self-sustaining by levying contributions on the enemy’s territory. There is no “masterly inactivity” in this, On the contrary, the prestige lost by it is worse than the disgrace attaching to half a dozen defeats. It shows that ia entering into this war the Aus- trians have made no proper calculation ef their resources; for if at the outset they doubted their own power of carrying out a militery plan so simple and 60 advantageous, what will it be when difficulties crowd upon them and they are beset by the allies in frout aod by hordes of in- furiated revolutionists in the rear? Slow and pedantic as are Austrian tacticians in general, we are satisfied that the blame of this inaction is not to be laid to the account of Count Gyuiai. He is said to be a bold and ex- perienced officer, vot easily to be daunted by difficulties. Besides, there were no military ob- stacles sufficiently serious to prevent the accom- plishment of the plan that had been decided upon. The flooding of the plaing was only par- tial, and could not affect the roads to the extent of being impassable. The French had not had time to come up in any force, and one or two decisive blows might have been struck before their arrival. What, under these circum- stances, occurred to make the Austrian comman- der euddenly renounce the advantage of his po- sition aud recrors the Po? There is but one cov- clusion to be arrived at, and that is that disaffec- tion had begun to manifest itself amongst the Hungarian regiments, and that this, coupled with the revolts in the Ducbies and the prospect of @ general rising througbout the Peniasula, had inspired the Emperor and his advisers with a sudden panic. We cannot account for their faint-heartedpess by any other hypothesis; and it derives additional strength from the fact that Kossuth is in Sardinia, and is known to be lay- ing his plans for another revolution in Hungary. He has probably by this time opened communi- cations with his countrymen in the Austrian army, and his sppearance in the stat? of the French Emperor, which, it is said, the latter has promised bim as soon as the Confederation takes up arme against him, will immediately rekindle whatever remains of revolutionary feeling amongst the Hungarians. Thus, on all sides Austria is threatened by an accumulation of ag- sressive forces; and if, by tie end of the war, she 1 manages to hold her own, she will give proof of greater inherent strength than apy one at present believes she possesses. ty uow rests with the Mayor, and we trast that ashe has beoome eonvinged, even at the low hour, of what his duties are in regard te the preservation of public health, he will go to work vigorously, and give us clean streeta be- fore the hot weather sets in in earnest The public wil) bold him to a strict accountability im whe matter, IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Critical Condition of Affairs in MextconEx- traordinary Session of the Cabinet—tur structions to Our Minister=The New Yerk Cumom House, d&e., &e. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasuinaron, May 28, 1960, Aum extraordinary session of the Cabinet was catled af ‘am carly hour this morning, for the purpose of consider” ing the instructions which bave just been prepared fer our Minister in Mexico. The critical condition of aifaire in Mexico necessitates caution om the part of owr go ment. Mivister McLane is evidently ina quandary. tetters clearly indicate that, and be asks instructions from our government upon a number of pointa—one wheredg the right of way will be secured to the Unived State crows the iathmas of Tehuantepec, and alyo throng’. Mexican territory from the Rio Grande to Matzation aad to the port of Guaymas. Other arrangements, com mercial and poste!, the administration is dosirova of effecting, and instructions eovering them will be deapatos. ed at once. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury is resolved to reduce tee expense of collecting the revenue at New York, as be awe Cone at other ports North and South, by cutting off all the ineMoient and unnecessary officials, Ho is sige roselyed te break up and put am ond to the fecing of officinis tur ey purpose by merchants or brekers, and te tnoreass the efficiency of the custom busincas by requiring the chief officers to sce that the time and services ef the om- ployés necessary to the prompt and faithful discharge of their daily duties are devoted faithfully to the publia ver- vice, Ho says there is no good reason why goveramens employ 6s should not give their whole time to a service for which they are paid, the same as other persons om. ployed in private business are required to do; and ¢ these reforms cannot be brought about by the present chief officers of customs at New York, other remedies with be applied. Quite a number of New Yorkers are here endcavoring to persuade the Seoretary to let up ca the Custom House in New York. The Collector is ex. pected here to morrow. They cannot avert the imponé- ing storm, Seorctary Cobb is unrelenting. Lieutenant Tredwel) Moore has beeu appointed Assistant Quartermaster in the army, vice Page, deceased. Colonel Stambaugh, of Peonsyivania, bas beom ap peinted Surveyor General for Utah, ‘THR GENERAL NEWAPAPBR DISPATCH, Wastuxarow, May 28, 1659, ‘There was ap extraordinary session of the Cabinct to-day, called to consuit on busivess connected with tha State Department. It is understood they passed upen tha form of deepatches to our Ministers abroad, to be commu- micated to the courts to which they are respectively a1 credited, setting forth the neutral position of our gevera- meut im view of the pending European hostilities, Hoa. W. D. Bishop, the recently appointed Comminsioner of Patents, arrived here to-day, and entered upom ihe duties of bis office. Secretary Cass and Senor Mata this morning had a cen. ference on the subject of Mexican affairs. The Phiiadelphia Post Office question continues te ox- cite much comment, and it is now thought that John Kov- bing, Jr.,will succeed Mr. Westoott. ‘There is no doubt that immediate measures wifl be taken for protecting the goverument contractor's traing from spprebended attacks thereon by the famished Pike's Peakers. ‘The expenses of the collection of the revenue im New ‘Yorks will, at the commencement of the next quarter, be Teduced to the extent of $100,000 annually, ‘The Filibusters Agatn Under Wetgh—Is the War of the Commodores to he Reopened? We received yesterday the intelligence that General William Walker, with three hundred men, bad arrived at Acapulco from San Francis- co, on board the sicamehip Orizaba. What his designs were is unknown, but report states that his expedition is intended for Southern Mexico. It may be that the whole report is unfounded ; but even if it is so, there is something in the wind that merits ihe early atteniion of the gov- ernment. Giving the report all the credit it is entitled to, we still do not believe that Walker has any idea of landing in any part of Mexico. His intimate, Colonel Bruno Von Natzmer, appeared some fif- teen days since on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, ond then disappeared. No one seems to know where he went to. A week's later advices from Vera Cruz show that he is not there, and a fort- night later from Tehuantepec makes no mention of him. We feel pretty certain that there are partics in this city who know where Natzmer went to, and where Walker intends to go, just as they knew of the scheme of the ili-starred Omoa expedition. But on that occasion they revealed their knowledge a little too soon, and experience leads them not to make the same mistake this time. Now let us take a common sense view of the premises and probabilitics of the case in this new movement of the filibusters, It is well known that Walker is one of those men whose excessive tenacity of purpose be- comes more firm under disaster, and only beads before the opening vista of rising fortunes, He himself is wedded to Nicaragua, and confidently believes that bis fortunes and his destiny lie there. He comprebends that persistence in that idea makes him, even under adversity, a hero; while in abandoning it he becomes nothing more thnn a desperate adventurer. For this reason, wher Henningsen went to Monterey to endeavor fo make some arrangement with Vidaurri, and Natzmer went thrice to Vera Cruz on a similar errand to Zamora and La Liave, be unhesitating- iy disapproved of both plans, and refused to have anything to do with them or to countenance them. He has constantly announved his inten- tion of returning to Nicaragna, and the wreck of the Susan with the advance guard of au ex- pedition from Mobile, though it defeated for a while, only partially revealed his plans. Since then he has been constantly but silent- ly at work. His intimate friends seck n0 other career than that of following his for- tunes, though frequent opportunities have been presented to them. Suddenly, come month since, the chief and several of his principal confidante left the Atlantic States and went to California. Within a few weeks we see one of them in our streets—calm, cool and confident; then we hear of another crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepeo, and now the chief himself turns np, at the head of three bundred men, with a fine steamship under him, afloat on the broad Pacific. So much for the chief. Now, let us look for the object of the movement, its means and its allies, The American Isthmus presenta four routes for interoceanic transit—Panama, Nica- ragua, Honduras and Tehuantepec. The only reully open one of these ie Panama, across which a railroad of forty-five miles hae been built, at a Cost of shout nine millions of dollars and six years labor. Exercising an unbending monopoly, this route has constantly paid a dividend of twelve per cent, with an increasing surplas fund, on the extravagant cost of two hundred thousand dollars a mile; and the Pacific steam- ebip line running in connection with it has from the same monopoly, beea able to pay nearly seven hundred thousand dollars a year to buy off opposition, divide twenty per cent per annum to its stockholders, and still have a sur- plus of nearly one million of dollars. The grow- ing interests of our Pacific States have long com- plained of the immense taxation to which they have been subjected for the Payment of these enormous profits, and have constantly clamored for relief, Several enterprises have been started with that object, and numerous studies of routes have been made, witb the fol- lowing resulte:— ‘The Nicaragua route can be Opened by an ex- penditure of two handred anf fifty thousand dollars, and ninety days of labor, 60 as to make The Overland Mail. Br, Lous, May 22,1860 sabe California overland mail of tho 20th arrived ‘The pecdiiten mriettn ee ie pony boone Congress, an: Tepublicans eu ii the Amoricam residents of Hermosillo, Sonora, had been ordered to leave the city under pensity of daata. Die cause is assigned fur this sudden hostility te Americans, News From Pike's Peak. CAPTURE OF TRAINS, AND MURDERS BY THE STARY- ING EMIGRANTS. Sr. Lous, May 23, 1869. 4 private letter, dated Pacific City, Town, states thai a Teport bad just reached that piace that a purty of starving Pike’s Peak emigrants had atiscked aud capvired tae our ward bouna trains near O’Falion’s Biuffs, and that daring the mélée D. C. Oakes, conductor of the trains, was killed, and Mr. Grifflth, the newly appointed Posumasier at Aura’ Tle, om reue to’ take charge of his office, was hugg op the desperadoes. ‘The New Mexican Matl, Sr. Louis, May 23, 1859, ‘The New Mexican mail of the 2d inst.’ arrived at Inde pendence last vight, The overiand mails from Stockton of February and March artived at Sauta Fe on thelst, They had boem the back to the crossiug of the Colorado by tho Mohaye indians. A letier dated Fort Yuma, May 4, informs the Republé- can tbat Coiore! Hoffman has concluded a treasy wite te Mohave Indians, Anniversary Week in Boston. Boston, May 23, 1859, After along raia the weather has cleared up genialiy, and the indicatious are favorable to an unusually large Attendance ut the anniversary ineetings this week. At the businees meeting of the Peace Society this after noon, Rev. Fraucis Waylund, D. D., LL. D., was elected President in place ef Hou. W. Jay, deceased, and the other old officers were generally chosen. The Treasurer's report shows the receipts of the pant Year to bave been $4,785 15, aud the expenses $4,619 43, leaving @ balance in the Treasurer's hands of only $163 38, The society has iasued during the year about tweive million of tract pages. This evening » pod- Ne meeting was weld at Park Street, church, when Bey. Geo, B. Cheever pronounced un eloquent eulogy on the late President, The American Educational Sooiety beld their anouai meeting to-day, and elected most of their old board of officers. Zhe ‘freasurer’s report showed the receipts of the year $28,106 60; the expenditures $19,628 94; the permavent fand is $79,844, four yous men and twenty. Seven institutions have beeb widod during the year. The Young Men’s Christian Association held their annul meeting this evening. The receipts of the yoar were nearly $4,000; the expenditures $3,077, and the building fund amounts to $14,787. The Massachussetts Bible Society also held their annual meeting to-day. The receipts of the year, $28,258; the expenditures, $22,880. The following officers wore elected :—President, Hon. Sam). H. Walley; Vice-President, Rev. N, L. Frothingham; Treasuror, George R. Saumpson’ The Americas Tract Society held their aunuai mocting this afternoom. The annual report shows the receipts, $57,869; Expenaitures, $62,450; and the total assets of the Society, 165. A resolution to retire from connection with the New York Society was takea up. ene Ranb moved the adoption of the resolution, as wes Whereas, the American Tract Society tn was \ nally incorporated us a national soclety, aad aero Oy he own vote, ‘& branch of thé American Trast Be- ciety {a New York; and whereas, this nociety. at ite Iagt anaual 1. Ve greater eneray and imparted to the tract system by a retura to its origipal satus; and whereas, the experience of the year now ek fterved to confirm the Propriety of the destalog thetetores Resolved, That the vote of this society in 1825, that !t become a besmemot the Kew York Boctety, be, ‘and the sume fe hereby rescinded, and 1 society resi fee a TAN ed origwwal position aq t 4 It is to be that, should ihe relation which has ex- insted for so iong a time, and from which in past yoars 80 great ap amount of good-has resulted, be thus ter the two socicties may henceforth operate in their apheres with harmony and greatly increased usofulners ih promoting the glory of our common Lord and the aal- vation of souls. Without diecussion it was almost unanimously hoy and there being but three or four nays out of about two hun: dred gentlemen present. Another regolution, offered by the Rev. Mr. expressipg kindly feelings and sentiments towards the New York society, occasioned considerable debate, and ‘waa indefinitely postpomed by s neariy unanimous vote. Several amendments to the covstitution were adopted, this bm Frere Deoeskary by the severance from the tol resolution was adoj — Resolved, That the publication aves tae present year et an: written tract or tracts which muy be offered to the a idee, caloulnted to arouse a and concsatrate the religious sentiments of nll Christi men is Spams rts rancansn, wil moot wi aw olllcers. were then elected: —President, |. Briggs. Vice Presidents, Samuel Willeston, Hon. ren A War tw Oxp Vircrxia.—While people have been speculating about the attitude of Austria in the great was, they bave overlooked alto- gether another row, in which the combatants arc quite as important, in their own opinion. We refer to young Mr. Botis, B. B. Botts (beautiful alliteration), and Mr. Wise, Jr. The iatter bas been calling old Mr. Botts hard names io the Richmond Enguirer, and young Mr. Botts has called them all, and a great many more, back at Mr. Wise, Jr. B. B. has written what is called inthe South a fighting letter, as rede- lent of gunpowder as a fashionable lady’s hand- kerchief is of milicfleurs. Young Mr. Wise has not replied to the letter, and both the parties have left Richmond. Everything indicates fight; but several days have clapsed and not a Colt nor a saw handie, mahogany stock nor a De- ringer, nor a howitzer, nor a Dahlgren, nor a shot gun, has yet exploded in anger between these chevaliers. In the absence of news from Piedmont the eyes of the world are on Botts and Wise. In the name of the world, which is dying to know all about it, we would respect fully ask what they are about? Why don’t they fight and relieve people of their suspense. All the first families (there are no se- cond families in Virginia) are in a state of mind bordering on insanity, so intense is their interest in this affair. It cannot be for want of seconds that the duel is postponed. There are no end of meu in Richmond perfectly au fait to wll the mysteries of the code, who would help @ friend to “shoot ten paces” and a cool bit of lead with the same equanimity that would mark their manner of taking a julep or leading the “German” at Saratoga. Once again, what are Botts and Wise about ? Export anp Propas.é Import or SPecrs.— The export of specie from this country to Europe is unurually Jarge. The steamers sail- ing from here last week took out three mil- lions of dollars, The Persia, which sails to- morrow, will carry away two millions and a quarter; and the steamer which leaves here on Saturday next will take one million and a half This, it will be seen, is » heavy drain on this country, amounting to six millions and three- quarters within two weeks There is, in fact, now afloat on the ocean, on its way to Kuroper not less than eight millions and a half in apecie. But there is likely to be « change in this state of things before long ; for we learn by the new® of the City of Baltimore that the exchanges on the continent of Europe have turned in favor of Tne Conprtioy or THe SrrekTs—Tue Mayor Movino at Last.—We are glad to perceive, by the proceedings of the Health Commissioners yesterday, that Mayor Tiemann has wakened up at last to a sense of his duty with regard to cleaning the streets. He reported to the Board that after investigation he was satisfied that it was his duty to take the matter in hand. Bet, ter late than never, It is not au hour too soon, however, to eave us from pestilence. The Board of Aldermen have persistently refused to lend aay aid in ridding the city of the masses of filth aud putrefaction which, in every quarter, are Generating digoase und death. The responslbili- New 'York; Rev. Albert Barnes; Hon. Mr. Jossup, of a B. D., of Ohio; Rov. Jue Minow; Rev. TM ‘Bon, Richa Pennsylvania; Samuel C- Abken, | ia ~M. Sturtevant, ‘of Missouri.’ Washburn, of Massachusetts; Hon.jBarras Leng for Rey. Z.$ Barstow, D.D., of New Hate emp. Marder itn Barlt: 1) Vee Bunion, May 23, 1869, village, lato on Saturday night, Joun McKeon was is door by three rowdies, named Peter Dousld, Jobn Bain and Thomas Kelly, when MoDonala heart, The mud