The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1859, Page 4

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METROPOLITAN THWATEB (Late Burton's).—Prarad: Tion—S Mowing Cais—Loan or 4 Loven. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway. —Max or tax Dar. LAURA KEENS’S THEATER, No. 624 Broadway.—Mip> Suxmse Niger's Dusan. BABNUWS AMERICAN MUSEUM |. Broadway.—After- hoon and Rvening—Unore You's Ossian. MINSTREL RUTLDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— presoriax bouos, Danone, ¢.—Ganu oF tus Laz. NTS MINSTR MEOH ANTICS’ BALL, 497 Broad- ontieene Boas, pom Gor Tix mie shod GBRORGE CHRISTY’S MINST! 444 Broadway.—Bor- Larqcns, Soncs, Dances, 4c.—Perax Pirek Perrak Popor, New York, Wednesday, May 25, 1850. BAILS FOR EUROPE. Whe New Yor’ Herald—Hdition for Europe. ‘The Cunard maii steamship Persia, Captain Jadkins, will eave this port this day for Liverpool. The Kuropean mails will close in this city at ten o’clock tnis morning. ‘The European edition of the Hznatp wit! be published at olook im the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yous Huastp will be reosived at the following placer Sombine the mews received by mail and telegraph at the Diice during the previous week and up te hour the of publication. The News. Two important failures were announced in Wall street yesterday, namely, Meyer & Stucken and Hargous Brothers. Allusion is made to these dis- asters in to-day’s money article. The failure of a large drug house in Boston, having extensive con- nections in this city and New Orleans, was also an- nounced on ’Change yesterday. The State Comptreller advertises fora loan of $350,000, redeemable in 1875, with interest at 5 per cent per annum, payable quarterly. Proposals may be for all or for any sum not less than $5,000. Pro- posals will be received until the 23d of June, and the principal must be paid in onthe 30th. The loan is to redeem so much of the Erie Railroad loan as is part due and which will be due in October next. The Police Commissioners yesterday held a se cret session, for the purpose of hearing argument on the Old Police case. Judge Beebe made a num ber of propositions—among them one that the merits of the different cases should be submitted to @ committee of the Board, by whose decision he promised to abide. The Board appeared to be stu- diously anxious that the public should know nothing of the proceedings. No action was made public, except the fact that Judge Ullshoeffer offered four resolutions, whose purport was designedly withheld, it was intimated at Judge Ullshoeffer’s request. No decision was made on the application for a new trial in the McCune case. A very interesting report of the cruise of the De at De cot oo NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1859, against Benjamin Conner, on t% adultery. Shere bas mera dees in cotton yesterday, and & rather better feeling prevailed, The transactions footed up about 2,300 bales, mcluded im which were 1,200 in transitu, and the remainder from store, closing at about 11340. por tb. for middling uplands, Flour was heavy and lower, especially for common and medium grades, while choice family brands were without alteration, Mixed brands of South- ern and inside grades of extras were casior, while choice qualities were unchanged, Whest was heavy, and prices rather easier. Among the sales were 10,600 bushels Indiana white reshipped to this market from Liverpool, which gold at $1 80 per bushel, Wostern red,on the spot, was sold at $1 76.4 $1 80, Coro was heavy, with fair sales, including damaged Western mixed at 88¢. South- ern white wag at 900, 8 923<0,, and Jersey and Southorn yellow at 4c, a 943¢c. Pork was beavy and lower, Sales of new mess wore made at $17 50 a $17 62; for clear mess $19 75; for prime mess $18 a $20, and prime at $15 37K. Owing to heavy arrivals from Cuba, the market for sugars exhibited mere heavi- ness, and cloged about 3c. lower, and on medium and common grades of New Orloans, sold by auction, the de- cline was 3<c, lower, plenty, and prices were in the main unchanged. The aug- mentgd importation within afow days was attributed to a desire te burry them forward, a0 as to avoid the opera- tion of Quarantine regulations, the season for which is ‘not far distant. stock of Rio is sot down at 20,683 bags and 76,966 bags and mats. Freight engagements were comparatively made toa fair extent, while rates were somewhat irrogular, but without change of importance. Prime grocery goods were not Coffee was quiet, and salea limited. The President Making—The Troubles of Our Pennsylvania and New York Politictans. A State Convention of the American party of Pennsylvania meets at Harrisburg to-day for the purpose of determining upon the policy of the party im the business of their October State election. A letter which, in this connection, we publish from our Harrisburg correspondent, will further enlighten the reader upon the sub- ject, including not only the difficulties of the Pennsylvania Americans, but the perplexities of the republicans and the divisions of the de- mocracy there. We dare say that the proceed- ings of this American Convention will be limited to the terms which they are to demand of the republicans in the nomination of their State ticket, &c., on the 8th of June, in reference to the spoils. Is the meantime, there is not much in reality to choose between the distractions and divisions of the democracy on the one side, and the troubles among the republican politicians on the other, in these two most important Presidential States of New York and Pennsylvania. If our New York democracy are threatened with anotber split in tke matter of choosiog their delegates to the Charleston Convention, our New York republicaus are by no means comfortable with the prospect before them of W. H. Seward as their Presidential candidate. They know that Seward will uaite against him all the old Fill- more Americans aud old lise whigs, and they have reason to fear some disastrous desertions on the part of that heavy detachment of Van Buren free soil democrats which in this State contributed so largely to swell the vote of Fremont. It appears, too, that in Pennsylvania that extraordinary fusion of the two factions of the opposition and the anti-Lecompton bolting de mocracy of last November qgpired with the oc- casion which created it, amit that the People’s party of 1858 is resolved again into the three separate factions of republicans, Americans and bolting democrats. The Chevalier Forney, as we are informed, is resolved that his “State rights democracy ” shall maintain their position as an independent organization. On the other hand, it seems that Gen. Cameron (notwith- standing ali that has been said of the entente cordiale between bim and Seward) is still en- deavoring, in his own behalf, to hold a tight rein over both the Pennsylvania republicans and Americans, Perhaps this American Convention of today may take the initiative out of the hands of Cameron, and perhaps the Republican Convention of June may result in a positive quarrel between the twe factions upon the spoils or the negro question, or upon both the hegro question and the spoils, Our correspondent, in the premises, very broadly hints that trouble is brewing among the Pennrylvania opposition elements upon the question of slavery. The Seward leaders and camp followers are resolved upon a bold and positive anti-slavery platform; but the Ameri- ground of | The Pike's United States sloop-of-war Marion on the coast of Africa is given in our paper to-day. She left Porto Praya on the 27th of January, ran to Clarence Town, Fernando Po,’and from Corisco all down the coast, visiting the principal settlements. The wea- ther was exceedingly hot, but the health of all on board remained excellent. The Marion was in the Congo river on the 6th of April, about to sail for St. Paul de Loando, Benguela and Porto Praya. William Smith O’Brien and a select party of in- vited guests visited the public institutions at Ran- dall’s and Blackwell's islands yesterday, upon invi- tation of the Ten Governors. An account of the affair is given in another column. Our Port au Prince correspondent, writing on the 3dof May,says that everything was very dull there in consequence of the lethargy prevailing after Holy Week. President Geffrard was still popular, his enemies divided, and their plans known. The fili- buster brig African was still in port taking in cargo. ‘Two Spanish war steamers lay near to her. Mar- kets without much change. Good heavy mess pork went off well, but fish and some other stocks were damaging by the hot weather. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday, the Committee on Civil Courts was directed to inquire and report upon the expediency of in. creasing the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas Courts. Nothing else of general interest transpired. The fifty-third anniversary of the Orphan Asylum Society was held at Bloomingdale yesterday. The premises were crowded with spectators, and the exercises of the children in singing and reciting were quite entertaining, and elicited considerable applause. Rev. Dr. Lathrop delivered an addresa and read the annual report. From the latter it appears that the Society's expenditures during the past year have amounted to $18,524. Allusion was made, as a circumstance worthy of special com mendation, to the fact that both the boys’ school and the primary department are under the charge of competent male and female teachers who were reared and educated in the Asylum. At the con- clusion of the exercises, Rev. Mr. Johnson, a mis- sionary recently from China, made a few remarks. It will be seen by our report of the proceedings wf the Excise Commissioners yesterday, that they have the names of six thousand persons who sell liquor without authority of law, and that three hun- dred of them are to be placed in the hands of Sheriff Kelly to-day, with the view of instituting proper legal proceedings. The argument for a new trial in the case of James Stephens, convicted of poisoning his wife,’ ‘was set down for Wednesday next before the General Term of the Supreme Court. The number of divorces granted by the Supreme Court within the last two weeks speaks fear. fally against the morality of our city, and shews that even the recent domestic tragedy in Washing- ton, which startidd the Old World and the New, has no terror for the adulterer. More, than one dozen divorces have been granted within a fort- ight, the last of which is that of Clars B. Couner caus and more moderate of the republicans are disposed to soften down the slavery issue so as to make an opening for a general opposition coalition in 1860, North and South. The reso- lutions of the Pennsylvania Republican Conven- tion of June, therefore, will go very far to deter- mine the strength or weakness of Seward in that quarter, and the consequent drift of the old line whig and American elements. In the meantime the Virginia election may operate to strenghten these Pennsylvania conservatives against Seward and his no-tlavery republican confederates and their followers. Thus it is manifest that, notwithstanding the dilapidated condition of both the New York and Pennsylvania democracy, the name, the princi- ples and the pretensions of W. H. Seward are anything but a bond of cohesion among the opposition factions of these two great States. If nominated to-day for the next Presidency, with the election to come off in August, Seward, in all probability, would lose both New York and Pennsylvania with any respectable conservative democrat opposed to him, because of the loss of that large body of opposition men who cannot be induced or dragooned into the support of that abominable programme ofa perpetual war against Southern slavery until it shall be exterminated. . We may safely conclude, then, from the pres sure of the anti-slavery republicans in favor of the nomination of Seward, and from the divisions which his name has created, and will only serve to widen in the opposition ranks in New York and Pennsylvania, that bad as are the eplits and fractures among the democracy of these two States, they are in reality not worse than those of the opposition factions. On both sides the politicians are completely befogged, and the chances of union and harmony on cither side will depend as much upon the events at Wash- ington of the year before us as upon the events of the past five years of the Kansas agitation. Thus, with the summoning of the contesting parties to the field in 1860, we may have a very great change in their relative positions and strength, and thus, under the favorable auspices of the times and of Mr. Buchanan’s vigilant and sagacious administration, the broken and dias pirited democracy may reappear in the fight a solid and united army. We do not expect much of this Harrie burg American Convention; but the very fact of such a Convention, in connection with all the other independent American movements of the day, broadly foreshadows that inevitable third party in 1860 by which the republicans, in 1856, upor the slavery issue, were defeated. Peak and Oherry Creck Gold Mince— Stampede Amongst the Rmigrants. We published yesterday a telegraphic des- patch from St. Louis anpeuncing an attack by o party of starving Pike’s Peak emi- grants on the outward bound trains, near O’Fallon’s Bloffs, in which the conductor was said to have been killed, and the newly appointed Postmaster at Auraria hung by the aseailants, We had previously received the letters, published in another column, dated May the 5th and 10th, stating that the emigrauts were returning in large bodies to the States, and that 80 great was their disappointment and irritation that they had burned down Denver City, and had threatened to serve in a similar manner Omaha, St. Joseph, Leavenworth, and the other river towns which had assisted in deluding them from their homes, It will be seen by letters of a later date, from Omaha and other places along the route, that although a check to the tide of emigration had occurred, no attempts had been made to carry out the threats attributed to the disappointed gold seekers. It is, there- fore, not improbable that this reported outrage at O’Fallon’s Bluffs belongs to a similar class of romors to those noticed by our correspondents. There are always mis- chievously disposed persons ready to amuse themselves with the apprehensions of a panic- stricken crowd; and it is to be hoped that these alleged murders have no more serious foundation. I¢ is kuown that a large proportion of the emigrants have gone out upon this tramp without any pre- vious inquiry into or adequate preparation for its difficulties. Many of them took with them little more than a gun and game bag, expecting to be able to provide for their daily wants along the route. This improvidence is the usual characteristic of the gold-hunting mania; and during the Fraser river emigration it was near producing a fearful loss of life. But for the fact that the miners were compelled to return to Victoria before the frost and snow set in, from their utter destitution of provisions and cloth- ing, they would have perished by thousands, From the accounts which have reached us, the condition of a large proportion of the Pike’s Peak emigrants ecems to be little better. Of course, under such circumstances, only a well sustained faith in the resources of the mines cou'd have enabled them to bear up against the fatigue and privations which they had to en- counter. This was wanting ; for whether through interested motives or otherwise, they have been met on the road by parties who have given such disheartening accounts of their prospects as to repel the tide of. emigration and concentrate large bodies of disappointed and exasperated idlers in the neighborhood of tbe river towns. The alarm inspired by their prox- imity, and perhaps the violent language they have used, have probably given tise to these rumors of outrages; but as far as we have been able to trace their truth, we believe they have no other basis. Although there has, no doubt, been a good deal of exaggeration and lying in the accounts given of the richness of the Pike’s Peak mines, it seems to us that the panic inspired by the re- presentation of a few tbriftless adventurers, who bad neither the means nor the courage to in- vestigate the facts for themselves, is a senseless one. The parties, we are informed, who were principally instrumental in circulating these stories never had been at the mines at all, and probably took their cue from others who were interested in preventing any addition to the number of persons actually at work. That gold ig to be found there there can be no doubt, from the weight of testimony which has been adduced in support of the fact; that it is to be found in cufficient quantities to fulfil the expectations of the immense numbers who are emigrating to’ the mines this spring, is not so certain. It will be re- collected that when Captain Marcy visited Silver creek with his troops last fall in search of cattle for the army of Utah, he detected evidences of the auriferous character of this neighborhood. The gold, however, was fousd only in small quantities on the surface of the soil, and he formed the conclusion that it could only realize a profit to the miner by the employment of expensive machinery, which, at such a remote distance from the frontiers of civilization, is of course out of the question. It may be that there are other portions of this re- gion of a richer character; but from the accounts which bave reached us fromthe Pike’s Peak mines up to the present time, it does not ap- pear to us that the mew El Dorado is to be found there. The reports on this point, however, are s0 contradictory that it is impossible to say which way the truth lies. Although we would be the last to give any encouragement to the movement which is displacing such numbers of the industrial classes from their legitimate occu- pations, we cannot help expressing our convic- tion that the discouragement which has seized upon the gold-seekers at such an advanced stage of their journey is not justified by any well au- thenticated facta. Improvements Dowx TowN—Tae Nassav Srreet Jov.—There is just now a proposition before the Corporation authorities which is one of the most outrageous swindles ever concocted between a set of unscrupulous speculators and corrupt officials. It is the projected widening of Nassau street, between Liberty and Beekman streets, by taking twenty-five fect off the wester- ly side of Nascau street. The sole argument in favor of the opening of the street is that it will be of bencfit to the pub- lic: first, by relieving Broadway of a portion of the flood that pours through it; and second, that Noseau street is not sufficiently wide to accom- tmodate the business and travel that belong to it. Now this is only a device put forth by certain speculators to gull the public and make a con- venient cloak for the bribery of the broken down politicians who lounge about City Hall. No good is to be gained by the public from any such operation, or indeed from the widening or opening of streets below the Park. The fact is, that the trade of the city has been steadily fol- towing the line of the East and North rivers up town during the past ten years, Thus, we find the great wholesale houses moving up to Church, Murray, Warren or Duane streets; the banks getting out of Wall street and closing up to- wards the Park. Within ten yoars the, population of the city and suburbs has doubled yet we find there are no more stages going to Wall street now than there were ten years ago. The great ebb and flow of city travel on foot is between Duane and Canal streets, on Broadway. The up town railroad passengers collect in greater force at Canal than at Barclay street. On the other sidea Third or Fourth avenue car leaves Park row without passengers, but picks them up along Centre street to Grand, more at the junction of Grand and the Bowery than any- where elke, Even ia the middle of the day Nas- sau street is not so much crowded now as it was five years ago; but what a marked difference we | find im the streets parallel with Broadway above the Park, In the evening lower Broadway is deserted; city life by gaslight begins really at Canal street, The same causes which have wrought this change within five years past will operate with double force“during the five years tocome, Take the Post Office out of Nassau street, and that thoroughfare is left to the printers and law book sellers, It is quite wide enough for them. Indeed, if the ordinancesin relation to the obstruction of the sidewalks were enforced it would be quite spacious enough at the present moment, The fact is that the Nassau street widening isa job like the Battery enlargement, the pro- jected street through Trinity churchyard, the Duane street{affair, and several others, some of which have beer whipped through the Corpora- tion, and others are waiting time for their odor ‘of corruption to be dissipated. Down town or up town, what are called street improvements always amount te the same thing. Some speeu- lators get hold of property near a certain street: they ean afford to buy up a round dozen of Al- dermen, who bave been had with as little cere- mony as is used in purchasing beef in the mar- ket. The speculator makes his cool hundred thousand or so at the expense of the property holders on the line of the street. The Aldermen talk very big about the convenience of the pub- lic, and so on. The public is very conveuiently plundered, and that is all the convenience that it enjoys. It is such things as these street jobs which have quadrupled our taxes in ten years, making them now equal to the whole expense of the fede- yal government in John Quincy Adams’ time. They have, through the money of the speoula- tors, corrupted our Common Council, so that public virtue is considered in the light of a re- markably good joke by ail parties at City Hall. The property holders of the city know this as well as we do, and they have the remedy in their own hands. For our own part we do not intend to submit calmly to such things. We have called the attention of the public to them, day in and day out, any time during the last five years. And we intend to keep up the fire on all such odious, flagrant and corrupt jobs as this Nassau street swindle. It is worse than useless; it is positive robbery, downright thieving, abso- lute plundering. ‘Fhe Rise and Fall of Government Pinanciers. Our commercial community were shocked yes- terday with the announcement of the failare of one of our largest, oldest and most respectable mercantile houses, which bas long been connect- ed with Mexico and the Mexican trade. It is supposed that the delay and distrust at- tending all enterprises in that revolutionary country, aud the completion of obligations on the part of its declining governments, have brought about this result te one of the most. wealthy and best managed concerns in our city. It is a well attested fact in history that the financial agents of every government rise and prosper, or decay and fall, with the advancing or receding sys- tems which they uphold. And indeed no other reeult could be expected. Extensively engaged in contracting and disseminating among the peo- ple the burthen of loans and centracts, upon which all governments have for the last hundred years relied for relief, their credit is always staked to a much larger amount than that of their private fortunes. Matters go along well, and the profits continually accrue as long as the government can comply measurably with ita obligations, and the confidence of the community continues to repose in the system. But as soon as this ceases, the tide turns, and no human power can prevent the impending ruin. Though new forms of government may be im- mediately erected out of the ruins of the old, this fact has never sufficed to save from destruc- tion the financial system and agents of the past. Such was the case with the system of govern- ment established during the Revolution by our own forefathers, When, after the first peace with England, the revolutionary form of go- vernment fell to pieces, its financial system and all the great names that supported it fell with it. The present confederation, which was soon after formed, never undertook to revive the one nor remunerate the others. The names of Robert Morris and hundreds of others still stand on the pages of our history, melancholy proofs of this great truth. A similar change took place when the French Revolution swept away the old régime. Yts financial system, with its managers and bankers, went with it. Upon their ruins rose the Directory, with its scheme of assignats and attendant prosperous and wealthy bankers. Theee, in their turn, were swept away by the ris- ing fortunes of the new empire, with its own train of agents and financiers. For a dozen years they controlled the money markets of continen- tal Europe, till in their turn [they fell before tbe rising fortunes of the coalition against Na- poleon. Their places were soon filled by the loan agents and brokers of the allied Powers, prominent among whom was old Anselm Roths- child, of Frankfort. Linking his fortunes with the new system of Germany, be rose rapidly as the public acquired confidence in its stability, and founded that great house which bas since stood at the head of the financial schemes of Germanic Europe. It has seen pass away the banking houses of the elder Bourbons, of Louis Philippe, and of the repub- lic of 1848, in France, and now looks upon the new names that figure in the finances of the French empire as parvenues in the golden art. But each must rise or fall with the political and financial scheme which each upholds. These systems have now come into open conflict with each other, and though the strife may for the present be confined to Italy, the effects of the victory must soon be felt both in Germany and France. If the Austrian power is driven out of Italy its financial scheme and its agents must ex- perience the effects of the political decay; and should Louis Napoleon be driven hack beyoud the Alps, the French bankers must, in their turn, expect to meet the effects of the consequent withdrawal of public confidence in the political scheme which they uphold, and with whose financial engagements they are 80 indissolubly connected, The invariable operation of these great causes should lead our business men to exercise cau tion in placing their reliance in the engage- ments of any of the great concerns linked with the different political schemes and governments of Europe. The present war is not a superficial one. It is a war for the reconstruction of terri- torial arrangements and of dynasties. Some of the present Powers must be remodelled and re- constructed, and in the new constructions the effete and the burthensome elements of the old will be cast aside, Through these natural re- cults the disastrous effects of a single defeat ia Italy may be brought home to the greatest or the smallest commercial house in New York by an incautious purchase of bills for remittance. It would be well for our merchants to avoid hazerding their means on names based upon Europeaa wealth, aud confine their trust to houses whose main stay for permanency is grounded in the stability of American affairs and the American system. There is no telling bow soon or which, even the loftiest, of those who are bound up in the completion of the dynastic engagements of Europe may fall and scatter ruin through their train. —_—_—_——— INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Despatches from Utah—The Government Offi- clals 8) at Vartance—Fresh Instructions to eur Minister tn Mexice—Probable Recogui- ton of the Juarez Government by England mid France—What is Thought of General Walkor’s Last Meve—Fuallure of the Mission of the New @ork Custom House Delegu ton, &e., de. OUB SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasnincton, May 24, 1859. Despatches have been received here from Governor Cumming, of Utab, to the 28th ult. Considerable exoite- ment still existed among the Mormons, and it was with great difficulty that he could keep them in subjection. The trouble or misunderstanding between Gen. Johnston and Gov. Cumming remains in sate quo, He mentions nothing about the probability of a collision between the army and citizens, although he says they were arming thomselves in case of an emergency. Despatches to Mr. McLane were before the Cabinet again to-day, and will be despatched by special bearer to-morrow for New Orleans, in time for the Ten messeo’s mail, which leaves on the let, They arc full and explicit, and are all that he asked frem the government. The English Minister here is of opinion that the British Minister im Mexico will soon, if he bas not already, recognies the Juarez government, as it is understood he has instructions to that effect, and that the Freoch Minister will follow suit. The administration is copsiderably pazzied and taken aback at the suddem turning up of filibuster Walker. They have all along been assured by the filibuster leaders here and elwewhere that be had given up ali intention of interfering furthe? with Nicaraguan affairs. Our squad- ron in those waters, however, bave full instructions what te do with him in case they catch him. It is believed hero that be contemplates landing at Sonora. The New Yorkers who came here to stave off action on the part of Secretary Cobb in reducing the force im the Custom House failed completely, They ieft this evening. Collector Schell arrived this morning, and left this evening for home. The despatch about the Cromwell steamers, lately em- ployed im the Paraguay expedition, should have read:— ‘That the purchase money for the four would amount to but $180,000 in addition to the sum which the government bas to pay for the charter—the charter money all going to- wards the price of the vessels if goverument sees fit to purcbage, under the terms of the contract. The Cromwei! Company are greatly opposed to the government’s purchas- ing, and one of the company stated they were willing to give a bonus of $20,000 if the Department would not pur- chage. The Secretary, however, bas decided that it id bet- ter for the interests of the goverument to purchase—for oven if the veesels ure not required by the mavy, they can be sold for much more than $30,000 each. But itis believed they can be usefully employed on the coast and Gulf of Mexico. THE GENRRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasiinaton, May 24, 1859. Persons leaving the United States for France, by way of Havre, must necessarily bave their passports vised by the French Consul at the port from which they saii. ‘Those for the continent by way of England, and who may go to London, will have their passports vised by the Amorican Legation, whatever may be their destination. Pergons going to the Spanish West Indies will have their paxeports vised by the Spanish Coosul at the port from which they gail, Naturalized citizons applying for pass- ports must send to the State Department their naturaliza- tion papers, which wiil be returued them together with degcription of their persons, This is all that is required. Sluce the commencement of the present administration About 14,000 passports haye been issued at the State de partment, and they are now issued at the rate of from forty to sixty a day. Colonel Steptoe, Captains Carr and Palmer and Liouten- ant Pegram have obiained leave of abséace, with permis- sion to visit Europe, Although it is probable they will observe the warlike movements, they go thither as pri- vate individuals, and not’by the order of this gevernment as a Board of Observation. The steamers Memphis and Atlanta have been put out of commission, and the Chapin has been ordered here to take the place of the Water Witch as a freight boat be- tween the Washington and Gosport navy yards, Ex Commissioner Bowlin has been suddenly called to Missouri by the severe illness of his brother. The War Department hasordered an armed escort to the trains with army supplies, from apprehended attacks by the returning Pike’s Peakers, information having been received of the necessity of such protection. Attorney General Black to-day decided the questions submitted to bim by the State Department on the claims of Captain B, W. Perkins against the Russian government. This decision settles the right of Captain Perkins to re- cover under bis contracts to furnish 150 tons of powder and 35,000 stand of arms. Some unimportant questions were net fully: disposed of, but the integrity ‘of such contracts is fully maintained. The entire amount in- volved {s about $385,000, which will probably be paid on the return of the Russian Minister, who is daily expacted from Europe. This decision has, it is cousidered, a most important bearing upon the supplying of munitions of war to foreign governments engaged in warfare. The counsel of Mr. Perkins were ex-Attorney General Cush. ing, ex-Senator Cooper and Joseph B. Stewart. The Patent Office to-day reissued to Horace H. Day, assignee of Tyer & Helm,a patent for improvement tu the manufacture of India rubber goods by means of Zumic compounds. A thorough reconneissance of all the mail routes is being made, with the view of curtailment at every point where it ts practicable without sefious detriment to the public; while in many Cases the service has been altogether dis- continued, in others the number of trips bas been reduced from daily to tri-weckly, and from tri-weekly to weekly, &c. Acting on this principle, the Post Office Departmont has, within the last two mouths, effected an annual saving of about a million and a balf of dollars, exclusive of five hundred thousand saved by the refusal of the Postmaster General to put into operation the nearly seven hundrod routes created in 1866, but for the support of which no appropriation was made. The work of curtailment is still progressing. It is not probable that the ser- vice will be curtailed on any of tho rgilroad lines. ‘The six asting midshipmen who were dismissed from the navy for being participants in the tarring and feather- ing of their comrades at the Naval Academy in April last have been reinstated to their former positions. Meeting of the Church Anti-Slavery Society. Boston, May 24, 1869. The flrat anniversary of the Church Anti-Siavery Society was held to-day—Rev. J. C, Webster presided, Addresses were made by Rev. J. N. Murdock, Rev. Mr. McCormick, of Ohio; Rev. Gilbert Haven, of Cambridge; Hon. Amasa Walker, Rev. E. 0 Haven, and others. Rev. Gilbert Haven advocated the right of the church to interfere with the system of slavery, and prevent the rendition of any fugitive from the South. Southern Ocean Steamer Movements. Cuartastox, May 23, 1859. The United States mail steamship Marion, Capt. Foster, from New York, arrived here at balf-past nine o’clock this morning. The Tobacco Premiums. Lovaviiig, Ky., May 14, 1869. The anneal private tobacco premiums were awarded to-day. The hogshead taking the first premium sold for mauufacturing for 60c. a pound; the taking the second premium sold for Bo. a pound; six hogsheads for shipping, which took the third premium, sold for 123¢c. a pound. The first and third lote were raised in (Green country, andthe second in Taylor county. The compoti- tion for the anaual State premiums comes off to-morrow, ‘The Case of Captain Van Vieit. Lxavenworts, K. T., May 24, 1869, The preferred against Captain Van Vieit, by some mule contractors during the Utah campnaiga, are xenerally regarded here in the light of persocution. ‘tt is understood that affidavits trom parties represented as having paid Van Vieit a bonus, have gone to Washington, und that they will effectually quash the case of his ac cusers. Van Vieit, it is stated, will demand a Court of Inquiry into bis official conduct. : flheca Movements of Senator Douglas. Naw Ontiaye, May 24, 2869. Souator Douglas has arrived in thisey. ete reneree eaten serennenneeth eran Affairs in Aibanye Awan, Muy 24, 1859. ‘The Comptrolier advertises for a five por cout loan of $360,000, Hropoeais are to be received till June 3, sums of not less than $5,000, ‘The $100,000 worth of Now York and Frio Railroad cer- Ufloates, reimburseble on the let of October next, will be received in payment on bids for the lous, ‘Tho Canal Board inet to-day, and will probably coatiawe im weesion for the remainder of the week, te hear appeal caBe8, ‘The Murder Case in Burlington, Bununatox, Vis, May 4, 1869, ‘Tho testimony before the jury of taquest om the bedy of John T. MeKeeu closed last eventing at about oigbt o'cleck, whee the jury retired, and after am absence of noarly aa hour returned with the following verdic ‘That Johu T. McKeen camo w his death by a blow, ta- flicted with a knife in the honds of Poter T. McDeuald, pad tht Sohn Bain, Jr., and John Kolly were accossertes e The Court baving refused to admit the prisonors te boty they were remanded to the custody of the Sheriff wai the next seasion of the Chittenden County Court. ‘The verdict is in accordance with the testimony, amd satisfactory to our citizens at large. The Court room was nee and great excitement existed during the imvosti- vat ee Arrival of the Sloep-of War Preble. 4 Nonrouk, May 24, 1869, The United States sioop-ofwar Preble, Commander Jenkins, has arrived bere after a passage of Sixty days from Montevideo. Sho left there the brig Perry, the storcebip Release and (he steamers Caledonia and Wostere- The brigs Dolphin aud Bainbridge had gous te Ayres to look after American intervets, A Mass Convention apuiatt the Fugitive Slave We & masa convention of thy Slave aot, assembled here to-day, was well attended, A very large number were present from the Reserve counties. Everything off orderly. A dociaratiee ‘was read, denouncing the Fugitive Slave law and the Dred Soott decision. Resolutions were also read. Lrg thas the Fugitive act was unconstitutional and void, and thot the Supreme Court had degenerated, and that it' was seb- servient to party politics; that the’ life tenure showd be abolished, and the judicial circuits remodelled; that the conviction of lin rescuers was di and upparalieled; that the prisoners were entitled to thor igh depart have freedom of the country rests upea great republican party. Speeches were made b; Messrs. Giddings, Chase, Wade and others. . The Missionary Suciety of the Protestant Eplacopal ‘Church of New Jersey. Buxsuxoton, N. J., May 24, 1869. cuurch of New Jersey toot atthe Oty Hal tha eveaicees uw lew m — Chancellor Williamson q i! * Rey. H. Brown proached the annual sermon. ‘The Preasurer, J. P. Bumington, reported the receipt of the year $1,447 and the expenditures $1,409. Chancellor Williamson was re-electet President. The was and a good feeling ed. large prevailed. A large number of clerical and lay delegates to the aa- aval Convention, which will meet to morrow, are io attendance. ‘The olection of a successor to the lale Bishop Doane will be the principal business. The Queen’s Birthday tn Boston. Boston, May 24, 1869, ‘The steamship Canada was decorated with fiegs and a walute was fired from her deck to-day in honor of tee birthday of Queen Victoria, Counterfeits on the Brighton Market Bank. Boston, May 24, 1868, Owing to the counterfeits circulated in New York end the Weat, the Brighton Market Bank proposes to with- draw from giroulation all its one hundred dollar bills, Eulogy on Humboidt, Boston, May 24, 1859. Professor Agassiz delivered a eulogy ov Humboldt, be fore the Society of American Arts and Sciences, at tae Atheasum, this afternoon, Markets, New ORLEANS, May 24, 1869, Cotton—fales to-day 7,000 bales at 11%¢. for mid- dling: sales of the three days 4,200 bales, against 8,600 for the same time last year. Receipts at all the Southera ports abead of last your, 681 600 bales. ‘Monink, May 23, 1869. Cotton firmer, and in improved demand. Sales te-day 1,800 bales; middling 113¢0. Cuarieston, May 23, 1859, @otton quiet. Sales to-day 280 bales, at prices’ ranging from 93¢c. to 11 3¢c, Savannan, May 23, 1859. The steamer's advices caused an udvance of ic. om cotton, but sales were quite unimportant. ALBANY, May 24—1 P.M. inactive. Wheat—No transactions except in re- Atnanr, May 24—6 P.M. Flour very dull. So sales of any consequence whatever to-day. Br FFAlO, May 24—6 P.M. Flour—Demand moderate and Maiko’ sinady: alee 1,300 bbis. at $6 a $6 75 for Stato from Western spriag wheat; $7 26 a $7 76 for extra Michigan, Iudiana and Ohio; $8 a $8 60 for double extras and favorite family brands’ Wheat dull aud no wales. Corn inactive and lowor: salve of 12,000 bushels at S0c. for unsound, 860. for sons. Oats ‘quiet. Barley steady. Whiskey ‘nomioal at 28s. Cooal freighte—53¢c. on oats, $c. on corn, 10¢. on wi +86c, oa flour, to ‘New York, Lake imports—6,000 bbis’ flour, 7,000 bushels wheat, 16,000 do. corn, 800 do, oats, Canal exporte—8,000 bbig. flour, 3,000 bushels wheat, 16,000 do. onus. Ouwnao, May 24, 1859. Flour quiet. Wheat lower, with a moderate den Fa'es 1,300 bushels at $1 35 for Milwaukee olub, including 650 bushels, white Canadian on private terms. No ourn if market, but there is a good demand for future delivery; tales, for distilling, of 10,000 bush. deliverable July. at £66. ; 6,060 bushels, the first half of August, at 623c.; aud 5,000 bushels, the lust half of August, at Gc. Oate quiet and lower; nominally at 55c. Whiskey—Saies 650. bbis, deliverable in New York in all August, at 26%, Canal freights dull and unchanged. Lake imports—-600 bbls. flour. Canal exports—5,360 bushols oata. Flour tail lot. Smith O’Brien to the Publie Institutions upon the Idands. . William Smith O’Brien visited the public institutionsa upon Randall’s and Blackwell's Isiands yesterday, The affair was arranged by the Board of Tén Governors, and the number of the party invited for the occasion waa limited. At ten o'clock some twenty goatiemen assem- bled at Bellevue Hospital, where barges from Biackwell’s Island were in waiting to convey them to the institutieas. ‘The tide was at the flood, and under the strokes of the stalwart convict rowers the barges danced over the waters like living things. About balf-past eleven o'clock the party from Bellevue arrived at Randall’s Island, and waa Soon after joined by Mr. O'Brien and T. Francis Meagher, who reached the spot from the main land opposite the isiand. Upon landing, Mr. O’Brien was fermally intre- duced to those who had agsembied, by Governor Moloney, who acted for the Board upon the’ occasion, Tne boys of the island, under the charge of their tutors, were drawa in military order upon the side ot the road, and saluted as Mr. O’Brien and the party passed them, hey bore baa- bers, upon which were inscribed: ‘* Welcome to’ Smith O'Brien,” and the natioual motto of Ireland, Erin ge ag! At the parade ground of the boys the little band wont through with a variety of evolutions, showing a remarka- ble proficiency in driil and military mancouvring. At the Conclusion of those exercises the boys were drawn up i compact order, and Mr. Smith O’Brien was introduced te them by Governor Moloney. Master Ryan, who is the orator upon all such occasions, made a very pretty 8; to the distinguished guest, alluding to the principles of liberty epringing almost spontaneously within the Ameri- can rt, and to the regard which the people of this country felt and expressed for him, who haa risen up as the exponent of those principles among the down trodden people of Ireland. He heartily welcomed him to the Island, and wished him a safe return tathiy home. Mr, O’Brigy responded briefly, urging upon the boys the necessity of seif-culture, in addition to the advantages which they enjoyed through the institutions which se kindly sheltered and protected them. No matter how low might be the origin, the boys in this land of the free found open the door of advancement if they would but use the proper means. The highest positions in the land they might reach, for there was no bar to their progress, through cloge application and careful cultivation of seit. ‘The boys listened with marked attention, and at tho close of Ld remarks greeted the speaker with a round of hearty applause. After making a tour of the various departments on the island, the party embarked on board the barges for the institutions upon Blackwell's Island. They landed at the wharf of tho Lunatic Asylum, Pong through the fomaie halls, paid their respects to‘ Mra. Buchanan ” and the other notables of the establishment, and proceeded in turn to the Worxhouse Hospitals and Penitentiary. The order and systematic arrangements in the several institu. tions were highiy commended by each of the visiters, The round of the Island being concluded, the party re- tired to the Governor’s house for rest and refreshment. Here a dinner had been prepared by the Governors, te which all sat down with appetites sharply set by a long sod rather warm tramp. John Brougham and Mr. Walcot made their appearance at this gtage of the proceedings, and were warmly welcomed. Gov, Moloney’ presided at the table, and the party embraced Smith 0! rien, T. F. Meagher, Judge O'Conner, Ex Senator McMurray, Ex- Governor Henry, Capt. McQuiggan, of the steamer Vigo, Lieut, Sweeny, U.S. A., with others, Upou the removal of the cloth, Gov. Moloney, in a few remarks, introduced the toast :—‘ The health of Ireland’s noblest and truest friend, William Smith O'Brien.”? To this sentiment Mr. O’Brien briefly responded, simply returning thanks for the compliment paid to him, an@ ‘avoiding all political allusions. Judge O'Convor spoke of the circumstances which had called them together, and concluded by cailing upon Mr. Jobn Brougham, who made a short speech, im which pum und sentiment were so blended that it was nearly impos sible to teli where each began or whore oithor left off. He kept the table in « roar for some five minutes and ‘‘re- tired gracefully. Mr. Watcor followed Mr. Brougham {na pleasant and appropriate strain, in responge to his. health being pro Mr. Surrn O’Brren then proposed “The health of the ‘Ten Governors,’’ and took occasion to express his gratifi- cation at all he had seen upon the Islanas. He alluded te the poor convicts at the Penitentiary, and recommended to the Governors to follow the dictates of that seatimens contained in Portia’s injuuction, reciting in the most feeling manner that celebrated spoech commencing ‘The quaiity of mercy 18 not strained,” Speeches were made by Mr. Meagher, McQuiggam and ex Senator Mchlurray, and at baif-past six o’clock the patty roee to embark for home. At seven o'clock all were safely landed at Rellevue, well satisiied with the day, the trip ead the occav'on,