The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1860, Page 4

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NINTH STREET, one door east of Broadway.—So.ouon’s EMYLE New York, Monday, February 27, 1860. The News. The steamship Baltic, from Aspinwall Feb. 19, with the passengers which left San Francisco on the 6th, arrived at this port early yesterday morn- ing. By her we have intelligence from California, Central and South America, the South Pacific, New Granada, British Columbia and Washington Territory. The Baltic brought $1,393,579 in spe- cie, and among her passengers was the Hon. M. 8: Latham, the newly elected Senator from Califor- nia. Public opision in San Francisco was very strong against the United States in reference to the Almaden mine suit, as it was believed that im- proper influences had been used at Washington to prevent justice being done. The hostilities carried op against the Indians in the northern part of Cali- fornia had been conducted in the most barbarous manner, and hundreds of Indians—men, women and ehildren—had been slaughtered in cold blood by the volunteers. Benchley & Co., prominent hard- ‘Ware merchants in San Francisco, had failed. The reported discovery of silver mines in Napa county is said to be exaggerated, but the prospecting had brought to light valuable quicksilver deposits. Forbestown, Butte county, was entiroly destroyed by fire on January 28. A bill to release the surottes on the bond of Henry Butes, late State treasurer, had passed both houses of the Legislature. The Snimation in trade at San Francisco in the firet fortnight of the year had died out, and extreme @ulness is reported in nearly every department of mercantile business. From Washington Territory we have dates to January 30. At a meeting held on the 234, at which a number of the members of the Legislative Assembly were present, General W. 8. Harney was nominated for the Presidency of the United States. Captain Maloncy’s company, Fourth infantry, had marched against the Chehalis Indians. A report had reached Townsend that an express had arrived from the Boundary Commission on Similkimoen, for assistance, as a)! their instruments and animals had been lost in the snow; it was also stated that the soldiers and men were making from $20 to $50 a day by mining, but little confidence was placed in the report. The news from Centra! America is interesting. Mr. Wyke, the English Minister in Nicaragua, had negotiated atre»ty with Martinez, having for its object the gradual extinction of the Mosquito pro- tectorate; the King to be taken as a pensioner on the civil list of Nicaragua. Mora had completely failed to effect a return to Costa Rica, and his for- mer friends were making allegiance to the new government. Very great hopes were entertained in San Juan del Norte that the Anglo-American {Croskey & Co.) Transit route would soon be opened. There were large shipments of coffee to Europe from Costa Rica, but the prospects of the Present crop were not encouraging. From New Granada we learn that the report of & revolution in Bogota, brought by the last steamer, was unfounded. Very great excitement prevailed, however, amongst the different States, nd a secession of as many as five of them from the Union was anticipated. Panama, it was thought, would remain neutral if called to aid either side. The Courts Martial on the United Btates ship Cyane were drawing to a close, and we Publish the decisions in some of the cases. The Craces gold excitement had nearly died out. Our advices from the South Pacific inform us of the conclusion of a treaty of peace between Peru and Ecuador, and the return of a large number of Peruvian troops home. The treaty contains thirty- two articles. Ecuador cedes a large portion of her territory to Peru, and the fifth article declares void the grant made to the British creditors of the lands in the territories of Quijos and Canelas, and states that they are to be indemnified by the grant of other lands, the exclusive property of Ecuadér, Chile was quiet, and trade had improved. The news is not important in other respects. We have news from the Sandwich Islands dated to the 7th of January. The King has returned to Honolula from Labaina. The birthday of the Queen was duly celebrated on the 2d ultimo. Elec- tions for members of the Legislature had taken Place in the islands. A Rassian war steamer had arrived at Honolulu from Japan. H. Bingham, a wheat grower, of Makawao, had been murdered by Batives. Our correspondent at Acapulco, Mexico, far- nishes us with the particulars of the shooting of the first mate of the ship John Cottle, of this port, by the captain, a short time before her arrival at that place. The United States Consul was to ex- amine the witnesses, and would send the captain home for trial. The liberals had taken Oaxaca, and driven Cobos from the State. Private letters from Tubac, Arizona, dated February 3, state that the report was current there that Governor Peschiera had been hanged, although net much confidence was placed in it. The writer says it is mot improba- ble, a8 Sonora is fully ripe for another Yevolution. Advices from the Rio Grande por- tion of Arizona state that the feeling of the People is very generally in favor ofa provisional government for Arizona in case Congress does not organize the Territory, and that a convention, to be held at Tucsan, will be called for that pur- Pose. It is not thought that a judicial district will meet the wants of the Territory, and any farther connection with New Mexico is intolerable. The expedition north of the Gila found a fine country, well wooded, besides much mineral wealth. Quicksilver specimens were bronght ig, The NEW YORK ) HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 27, 1960. ' Apuches were badly whipped by the ranging party, with considerable loss, Tie ne«s from Mexico and Chins, with the testi- mony before the John Brown Investigating Gom- mittee on Saturday, contained in our epecial des pated from Washiagton this morning, will be found of an isteresting character. We published yesterday, in our account of the wreck of the Hoogariin, what purported to be a tele- graphic despatch received from Boston by the Phi ladelphia Dulletin, containing a correct list of the cabin passengers of the uufortuuate vessel which left Liverpool on the 8th of February. The list 1s vot only false in every respect, but the names which they tgied to palm upon the public as genuine are taken out of the list of passengera who sailed in the Hungarian from Portiand for Liver- pool on the 25th of January. There is not one name on the list contalned in the despatoh that is not in the list of the 25th. The effect of a thing of this kind is very injurious, as it unnecessarily alarms those who may have connections with the persons whose names are given, and who are supposed to be lost, but iT'weakens the confidence that should exist between the press and the people. From Albany we learn that the friends of the Pro Rata bill he!da meeting on Saturday night, at which it was determined to make a number of Mmportant changes init. It was agreed to amend the bill so that all freight carried less than. ono hun- drediand fifty miles shall not be subjected to Pro Rata, and to arrange a sliding scale for all goods transported short distances, Coroner's inquests were held yesterday on the body of an unknown man found drowned in the North river; on the body of William Seireiter, who was killed by falling through a hatchway at No. 25 Cedar street on Saturday; on Henry Mooney, who was found floating at the foot of pier No. 7 East river, and on Edward Quigley, an iofant three months old, whose death was occasioned by swal- lowing a liniment containing croton oil, adminis- tered to him by his mother by mistake. The steamship Jura, from Liverpoo) February 11, arrived at this port last evening. She briags no later news. The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 1.000 bales, closing tamely on the basisof 113j¢ allo. for midd)ing Uplands. Flour was firmer, and ia more active request for State and Western brands. Southern flour was also firm and in good request. Wheat was in good demand, with more doing, including prime white Michi gan and Canadian white, in store, at $160, Chicago spring at $1 20a $1 21, Milwaukee club at $123, extra Iowa at $1 25, and red Southern $1 85. Rye was firm at 87c.a 88c. Corn was steady at 80c.a8lc. for Jersey and Southern yellow, and at 8lc. a 83c. for Southern white Pork was firm, and tolerably active, with sales of new mees at $18 40 a $18 50, and of new_prime at $14 873,, ‘and clear at $19 60. Beef was firm and in good request. Sugars were steady, and including 90 hhds. meiaco, and 60 do. New Orleans, with Cubas, the saies reached about 644 hhis. and about 346 boxes. Cofleo was firm, with tales of 2,332 bags Rio 12}¢c., and 600 do. Santos at 13c., 76.40, Maracaibo and 600 mats Singapore on p.t. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were firm. The News by the Baltic-End of the Con- tral American Imbroglio, The Central American imbroglio seems to be in a fair way of adjustment, if not by our live diplomatists, by those from elsewhere, or by its own weight, Our correspondence both from San Juan del Norte and from Panama, received yesterday by the Baltic, advises us that Mr. Wyke, the British Minister in Central America, has jast negotiated a treaty with Nicaragua, by which the Mosquito Protectorate is finally abandoned by England to its rightful owner, the republic of Nicaragua, stipulating for his breechesless Majesty of Blewfields an annual subsidy of five thousand dollars for ten years, after which time the entire Mosquito territory returns to the unquestioned sovereignty of Nicaragua. This finally settles the Central American puz- zie, and does away with that batch of contra- dictions known as the Claytén-Bulwer treaty. A few weeks ago we published the treaty made by this same British Minister with Honduras, by which the Bay Islands were returned to that republic unconditionally, and a short time be- fore that we gave to the world the treaty made by the same gentleman with Guatemala, set- tling definitely the boundaries between its ter- ritory and that of British Honduras. By these operations England succeeds in washing her hands of those mongrel communi- ties, the Bay Islands and Mosquitia, of which she has long been heartily sick, and would have got rid long ago had she found an honorable manner of getting out of the scrape. With these retrocessions she gives up the folly of desiring to obtain an exclusively British route of transit across the American isthmus. Experience bas taught her that her interesta are best cared for in these transisthmus mat- ters by American hands, and the results of the Panama route and our policy regarding it have proved that it is both cheaper and better for her to let us manage these matters for her. We think this entente cordiale between England and ourselves in regard to Spanish-American mat- ters will be found in the end to be moat profitable to all parties. The next knot to be untied is the Mexican knot. Mr. Wyke, the British negotiator in Central America, has re- cently been promoted to the post of Minister to Mexico, in place of Mr. Otway, and it is to be‘hoped that his good sense will be able to disentangle the snarl that his predecessor has helped to form in the neighboring confederacy: The calm perseverance and wise policy of Mr. Buchanan have at last swept away the en- tanglements that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty had thrown around the Central American question, and which for ten years have seriously inter- fered with the developement of those republics. The result has, we trust, laid the foundation of an entente cordiale between this country and England, and, indeed, with all other European nations, which will contribute materially to bring the weak and irresponsible governments south of us to a sense of their duties to foreiga nations and to themselves, and contribute in some measure towards bringing about a stable condition of affairs among them. Tue Brooxtys Fernres Brt.—Citess, At- texp!—On Wednesday next the Committee on Commerce of the Assembly of this State will hear parties for and against the ferry com- pany, at Albany, Let all who have an interest in the question, therefore, attend and give the benefit of their testimony. The bill reducing the ferriage to one cent has passed the Senate. Tt rests with the people now to bring sach a pressure of public opinion, facts and arga- ments on the Assembly as to coerce it to adopt the measure. It will bea great boon to thou- eands, while it can do no injury to any one, un- less it can be deemed a public or private iajury toreduce the inordinate profitsof a soulless corporation to something like a reasonable figure. The ferry company have their agents at the Capitol, and they have the services of the lobby, for they have plenty of money, which they have made from rich and poor, and they can afford to sport some of it in the struggle to retain their privileges, It is neceseary, therefore, to be up and doing to de- feat their machinations. Doortttic om ¢he Constita fon, Mr. Doolittle, Caited States Senator from Wis cousin, mode @ curions speech in Congress on Friday. His Siate has wullified the Fugitive Slave Jaw of Congress, founded on the section in the constitution which provides for the ren- ditios of fugitive: staves to their owners, and nullified it, too, in thefare of the decision of the Supreme Conrt of the United States. Mr. Dyolitte contends that this is all right, because the authority of the Supreme Court of Wiscon- sin ie equal to the authority of the Supreme Court of the Uuited States, Thisis only in keep- ing with the contumacy of Hyatt, who proposes to overthrow the authority of the United States Senate by the decision of a Judge of a State court. It is also of a piece with the higher law doctrine ef William H. Seward, the chief- tain of the republican party, When Mr. Doolittle says that the Supreme Court in Wisconsin is just as good as the Supreme Court of the United States, he means that it is a great deal better; for if it oan make null and void the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, then it must be above the Supreme Court of the United States; and we don't see why the Supreme Court of Minnesota sbould not olaimthe same paramount anthority, and the Supreme Court of every other State, little and great, in the Union. The result would be, that the Supreme Court of the United States, instituted by the constitution us the court of dernier resort—the final and high- est tribunal, the ultimate arbiter of the laws— would not be supreie at all, but be the lowest court in the land. There cannot be two highest courts, with co-ordinate authority, “Order is Heaven's first law.” One is and must be greater than the rest. In England the British Par- liament is called “omnipotent,” because it knows no superior legislative power, and can make what laws it pleases—it is not restrained by any written constitution; and the highest judicial power is the House of Lords, which, though a legislative body corresponding to the United States Senate, interprets exiting laws, not by the standard of a constitution, but by the intention of the legislature. In our federation of States the case is entirely different. The legislative power of Congress and of the several State Legislatures is defined and limited; Congress cannot make what laws it pleases, nor can State Legislatures. They are restrained by the constitution—the instrument of Union; and the highest expounder of the constitution, who is to arbitrate between Congress and the seve- ral States, is the Supreme Court of the United States. According to Mr. Doolittle, the State of Wisconsin—one of the parties. to the suit— bas a8 good a right to finally decide the case as the lawful and constitutional Judge to whose special jurisdiction it belongs. Doolittle’s doctrine would lead to anarchy aad “confu- sion worse confounded.” If every State has a right to interpret the constitution for itself, and to resist the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, of what value is that court? If every one can do that which is right in his own eyes there is really no law nor court nor government at all; and to this complexion we fear it will come at last. Mr. Doolittle quotes the Supreme Court of Georgia as declaring iteelf equal to the Supreme Court of the United States,, Two wrongs cannot make a right. The fact of the Supreme (Court of Georgia, or any other State Court, making such a declaration, is no proof that such is the fundamental law of the Union. The highest court of a State defining its own powers in relation to the powers of Congress, is virtually a party de- ciding itsown cause. Tho Supreme Court of the United States is the high court of all the States in their combined capacity, and conse- quently its authority must be greater than that of the court of any one State. The language of the constitution of the, United States on the question is unmistakeable. Article VI, clause 2d, reads as follows:— “This constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance ther ft and the et , shall be the su preme iaw of the lan ee im every State eball be bound thereby; anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the coutrary notwithstanding.”” The Fugitive Slave law is made in pursuance of the constitution, and is, theretore, the su- preme law of the land, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin are bound by it. The constitution has established the Supreme Court of the United States as the proper tribu- nal to judge of the constitutionality of the laws of Congress, and to interpret the constitution itself. From that tribunal there isno appeal. “Yes,” says Mr. Doolittle, our moderm Black- stone, there isan appeal, “When a State and the United States differ, there is no common umpire but the people.” But how are the people to decide unless they break up the constitution, their own work, and resolve themselves into a state of anarchy. This is nothing else than revolution, the goal which the republican party are struggling to reach. He says his opinion was once different from what it isnow. No doubt of it, for he and his party have become abolitionized. about equal to his facts. It is evident that the policy of the republican party is to overthrow the whole authority of the federal government, whether in Congress, in the Executive, or in the Judiciary, and thus to break up the glorious Union established by the blood and wisdom of our ancestors. Avotuer Antr-Stavery Lecturer Aone Us.— All the republican journals and immense pla- cards in the streets announce that Mr. Lin- coln, of Illinois, is to deliver a lecture this evening in this city. It is but one of the anti- slavery course. Phillips and Giddings and Cas- sius Clay have delivered their campaign stump speeches, and now comes Abraham Lincoln, the antagonfst of Douglas in Hlinois for United States Senator in 1858. He is a man after Seward’s own heart, and Douglas says that he is the real author of the higher law. He isthe representative of the Weet,and one of the rivals of Mr. Seward for the nomination at Chicago. He makes his bid for the nomination thisevening, at the Cooper Institute. Mr. Seward makes his bid at the Capitol in Washington on Wednes- day next. In their revolutionary ideas they are both well matched, and either of them will suit the party which is now organized for the overthrow of the constitution, I¢ Lincoln can- Dot succeed for himeelf, he hopes to contribute to the success of Seward, whose lieutenant he is. This lecture system is one of the means and appliances by which the republican party are working themselves into power. They an- nounce lectures in large cities, which tarn out to be nothing else than stump campaign epeecbes. Another method is the circulation of revolutionary documents, euch as the Com- peadium of Helper’s Impending Crisis. Now, all this time the democracy, and the conservative elements of the country generally, appear to be sleeping, while the enemy is sowing the seeds of revolution, which be expects will bring forth a pleatiful crop next fall, The democrats are quarreling with each pther, iastead of organiz- ing a system of lectures or distributing docu- wents as antidotes to the republican poison, especially in the Middle States, where the bat- tle is to be fought, and lost or won. The chil- dren of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children pf light. Tam Cuarteston Puatrorm i THe UNITED Srates Senats.—To-day, as we learn from our Washington news, the resolutions agreed upon in the democratic Senatorial caucus as embody- ing the demooratic oreed upon the slavery question will be reported to the United States Senate. This will probably be the beginning of a grand row, and some think it will end in the final bolt of Mr. Douglas from the demooratic party, It will be seen that our correspondent states that Mr. Douglas and his friends opposed the resolutions in caucus, which is very likely, for if they are sound on the slavery question, and cover the whole ground, they must necessarily cut at his equatier covereignty; and this is just the disad- vantageous ground on which Mr. Douglas is placed by the issue which is now forced on the country by the republican party, and must be accepted and met squarely and broadly, and without equivocation or mental recervation, or quirk of apy kind. No pdtched-up compro- mise will answer anylonger. The time is gone by for that. Tho anti-slavery parties, whether lurking in the democracy or outside of it, must be completely overthrown, or they will over- throw the constitution and dissolve the Union. Hence the position of Mr. Douglas, as @ candidate for the Presidency, becomes one of extreme difficulty in this election, and he does not want to wait on Providence till 1864, He thinks a bird in hand worth two in the bush. His porition is to be assailed indirectly, if not directly, by the resolutions in the Senate, and he Is prepared to give battle, defending his po- sition to the last, or fighting his way out of it to safer ground. We are informed, indeed, by his organ at Chicago, quoted by our correspond- ent, that, “so odious is the proposed platform to Senator Douglas that he will feel ia honor bound to denounce it in advance, or, at least, not to go before the Charleston Convention as a candidate.” This looks exceedingly like a bolt, and like the réle of Martin Van Buren in 1848, played over again by another actor in 1860, A lively time may be expected in the Senate this week, and perhaps every week up to the time of the meeting of the Charleston Convention. With the Southern States, “to be or not to be—that is the question.” With Mr. Douglas, to be or not to be is also the question. To reconcile his aspirations with their interests is a task which the Senator will find it very hard to accomplish. Even. if his ambitious rivals were out of the way it would be a labor of Hercules. But with every one of them ready to cut his throat, what can the champion of aquatter sovereignty do against such oddest We shall see. TeRRELe Toms mw Jersey—Ratiway Rows anp REsExtions Iurenpnve.—The Empire of New Jersey is always in hot water. For a peaceful, Prosperous, steady going, industrious State, our neighbors across the river have more small troubles than any other people on the face. of the earth. The peculiar way in which they manage their affairs has given them a very unenviable notoriety all over the country. Their railway tax upon travellers, and similar sharp practice, have made them the target for gibes and jokes and eneers without number. Foreigners seriously think that New Jersey has been sold out.and out to the Camden and Am- boy Company, and that Commodore Stockton is a sort of Louis Napoleon on the half shell in that State. Latterly, however, there has been growing up a spirit of insubordination among the hitherto docile Jerseymen. People have been heard to speak irreverently of the Cam- den and Amboy, and some faint doubts (like those about the Pope) have been expressed as to the infallibility of Commodore Stockton. The Camden and Amboy people have still nine years’ lease of their monopoly, which some rach innovators desire to abolish at the earlieat possible moment. The whole matter is to come up in the Legislature this week, when great times may be looked for, ‘The secret of the difficulty seems to be a dif- ference between the two railroad companies— the New Jersey Transportation and the Cam- den and Amboy. The New Jersey road, under a distinct corporation, extends from Jersey City to New Brunswick—thirty miles. Beyond New Brunewick, the road to Philadelphia is under tbe control of the Camden and Amboy Com- pany. The New Jersey Transportation Com- pany carries paseengers to Brunswick for sixty cente, while the Camden and Amboy road, from Brunswick, charges $2 25 to Philadelphia. Now, if it charged the same as the Transporta- tion road per mile, passengers could be put down in Philadelphia at two cents per mile, or at $1 80 per head; but as itis, the Camden and Amboy road charges so much that it now costs $285 per head. The New Jersey Company offer, if the Camden and Amboy monopoly be abolished, to run hourly trains to Philadelphia, and reduce the fare to two dollars. As every- body in Jersey is directly interested one way or another in the conflicting railroads, the peo- ple are very much excited on the subject. They have even stopped pitching into New York about the Hudson river flats or the awful wickedness and immorality of the metropolis. It is tobe hoped that the feeling against the Camden and Amboy Railway will have the re- sult of throwing open the State to fair competi- tion in the building of railways, as well as in other pursuits, Meantime, Mr. E. A. Stevens is pressing forward a bill to authorize a railway which he intends to build from Hoboken to Newark. The lobby must have a lively time of it; but we trust that the result will be disas- trous to the Camden and Amboy—a tumble- down concern, the equipments of which would disgrace the backwoods of Maine. Let us have @ new road to Philadelphia. Got at Prxe’s Peax.—Accounts of increas- quantities of gold being found at Pike’s Peak continue to be received, and will have the effect of stimulating emigration to that section of the far West. We have just learned by tele- graph that new diggings have been discovered. In truth, the resources of the United States are only beginning to be explored, and untold mines of wealth atill lie concealed beneath the eurface of her virgin soil. ‘Tue Revs anv Tus Eurugor or rus Faxwou.— Ever since the coup d’éat, now more than seven years ago, there has been a knot of French, Italian, Polish and Hungarian repub- licans of the rose-colored school, continually abusing the Emperor of the French. They have made speech after speech against him, hurled anathemas on bis head, written poetry ut him, drunk to his speedy downfall in oceans of wine and beer, and, while they quaffed the festive absinthe, cursed him as @ usurper, a teaitor, a parvenu and an imbecile. They have always celebrated the anniversaries of the French revolutions; and as there have been a goodly number of them, the Gallio patriots have not bad long to wait for the recurrence of one of their sanguine holidays. Of all the days in the calendar they liked the 24th of February the best. The revolution of °48, of which the Reds made such a mess, broke out on that day, and it was considered as an especially appro- priate time to polish off the man who was ele- vated to power through that outbreak. At firet the American public sympathized to a certain. extent with the Reds; afterwards it became tiresome, and few people thought anything about the meetings. They were kept up, however, until the present year, when none have taken place. ‘The glorious 24th of February goes off without one shout for the universal republic, or one huzza for the “solidarity of the peoples.” On the contrary, in some of the French colonies, Cuyenne for one, there are to be fétes in honor of the Emperor on that day. As Cayenne is the place to which the French state prisoners have been sent, the proceeding above named may be considered as the warmest possMle proof of the change which has come over the minds of all men as to the policy and character and acts of the Emperor. He has silenced the Reds, and changed their colors to a pale green and yellow melancholy. When a Red republi- can orator has nothing to say, things in that line of business must be in a dreadfully bad condition. Louis Napoleon has beaten those philosophers at their own game. Sometimes he is more red than the reddest of them all. A wonderfully clever man is the Emperor of the French, as everybody says now. Even the Red republicans and the Chevalier Webb have found it out at last. Corrvprion IN THE STATE Prison aT AUBURN.— A select committee has been appointed by one branch of the Legislature at Albany to inquire into certain corruptions and misappropriations of the publie money connected with the State Prison at Auburn. By all means let there be an investigation. Where there is smoke there is fire at bottom. The Legislature cannot go wrong in stumbling in the dark upon any one of our institutions.. It will find corruption in them all. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. The Charleston Platform Fore- shadowed in Congress. The Southern Senators Proceeding to Throw Douglas Overboard. SIGNIFICANT SIGNS OF A BOLT, Keo key Be Action of the Senatorial Caucus. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. ‘Wasmaron, Feb. 25, 1860. ‘The democratic Senatorial caucus met at twelve to-day, upwards of thirty Senators being present, Senator Green, of Missouri, reported from the special committees a series Of resolutions, seven in number, embodying the principles of those introduced into the Senate by Sonator Davis, of Mississippi. Quite @ protracted debate ensued, in which « large number of Senators participated. Many Senators, especially those whose prociivities are with Senator Douglas, were opposed to adopting any resolutions whatever, as they might be consitered as the Platform for the democratic party. It was distinctly avowed by the friends of the resolutions that their only object was to harmonize the conilicting views contained inthe four or five sets of resolutions pow under consideration in the Senate. They were finally adopted by a large majority, and were placed in the hands of Senator Davis, who will report them to the Senate on Monday. Mr. Douglas was present, aad participated in the digcus- sion. He is understood to have dissented from the views contained in the resolutions. The following are Senator Davis’ reeolutions, which formed the basis of those adopted in caucus:— }. Resolved, That, in the adontion of the federal constitution, the States adopting the sume acted severally am teoe and inde pendent sovereiguiirs, delegating a portion of thelr powers to be exercised by the federal governmen for the increased security of each agadnst dan ie voll as foreign; and that any totermeddiing by any one or re states, o- by a combins- Senay present whiner, poilioal, ror ligion wine on an xt, Ww oral OF 8. Siow to tne disturbance br subversion, iain rilasiog” of the ccnatituiton, insulting 10 the States so interfered with, endan gers their d peace nod tranquiliits—objects for which the constitution was formed-and, by pecsesary consequence, serves to weaken and destroy the Union fiseif. 2 Besolved, That negro slavery. as {t exists in fifteen States of this Union, composes an im) t portion of their domestic institutions, tnberited from toele ancestors and eoiatin; Adoption of the constitution, by which it in recogni7 stung an important element of apporuiosmect of .owere mong the States; and that no change of opinion or feeling on tbe pact of the ron slaveholding Staice of the Coie n in relation to this institution can justify them or their citizens in open and aystematic sticks thereon, with a view to tts overthrow; and that all attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual aud so lemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the States respectively on entering into the cavstitational compact whieb formed the Union, and are & manifest breach of And a violation of the most solemn obligations. 8 Resolved, That the Union of these States ‘equality of rights and prit itis ly the duty of States{n thelr soverel its menbore, and. thet 68 among Its members, and tha the Seawte which represents the capacity, to resist all attempts to cis- tlon to persna er prorerty, #0 as, in the Bo: equal secured to those of every other State. 4, Kesolved, That neither Congress nor « Territorial Legiale- ture, whether by direct legislation or legislation of an indirect and unfrieotly nature, possesses the power to anpul or impalr the opnatitutionalright of ‘any eitizou of the United States take bis slave p fate common ow of the fe wo Territories; but it is government there to afford for that as other ‘ales of property the neadtul uid at eny time prove that rotection; and if ox judiciary does not mer to insure adequate, proveévizn, It will then me the du reas 10 8: a 3 iO. Kesoived. List the lahabliauts of an crganises Territory y ben they rightfully form # constitution to be admitted as & Rtate into the Union, msy then, for the first time—ike the people of a State when forming « wow conatitu- —decide for themselves whether r'avery, aa x domestic in within thelr jueta- ® Btate “they THE LATEST DESPATOR. ‘Wasmneron, Sunday Evening, Feb. 26, 1860. ‘The utter repudiation by the Senatorial caucus of the aquatter sovereignty doctrines of Senator Dougias, and the adoption of the non-intervention doctrize of Seuator Davis and the administration, are indicative of what the Charleston Convention intend doing. The course pursued by the caucus does pot satisfy cither extreme wing. Sena- tor Brown, of Miss., who favors a slave code for the Ter- ritories, Intends to denounce its action; while Senator Dougias and bis friends, whose pet is squatter sovereign: ty, will do the@amo thing. Semater Dou mime. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDEN Wasnryarox, Feb. 24, 1860. ‘The Chicago Timer, Mr. Douglas’ home organ, which correctly foreshadowed ite master’s bok from the admi- n'stration of Mr, Buchanan in 1867, is now very clearly noulying the country, in advance, that Senator Douglag AL tetas Staaten teases nccTES will pot able thy decision of the Obarluston Convention, Unless the platform made to suit bim, He may gothrougts the democratic exercites and evolutions to make himeef hot absolutely, physically impassable; but as soon as ais Sbances for a reguiar oonAvation are deolining, be will either frighten the Southern fire-eaters into submissiog, or run as a third, Incependeut candidate, as advised @ fow days ago by his friend Cheyalicr Forney, tm the Philadelphia Press. In & Long article Of the Chicago Times, published on the 16th inst., denunelatory of “Mr. Bright's Commities,!” and so beaded, the foliowing remarkable passages ocour of which it would perhaps be well if some Senator ix Congress were to ask Mr. Douglas fora fatiefactory ox- planation :— Mr. it's committee is a tafaraous Sed. igtrded tay dora a Weta I Splatformfor tbe Charleston Convention go ! in the mouth of every honest demoorat, Whatever the members of that commitice want to tao fare in favor We an cate sane We have that thas Union will be at Charieston, with susie heartiness as to give mich prospect of cusonse tn Mospen- s honera- umber of the Times as tbat from whose editorial columas we have just quoted, goes even farther, and pronounces the whole proceedings of the Senate committee as an and againg a majority of the democratic party, unless he ia nomieated by the Charleston Convention, with him equatter sovereignty recognized as Orthodox. ‘Mr. Douglas, who has evidently inspired both thoWash- ington correepondence and the editorial article above quoted from the Chicago Times, says to the Charleston Convention, in so many words:—‘ Take me, or I am re- solved to kill your man!’ Affairs in M.xico—Movements of Mira- mon—Interesting from China—The Pa- cific Railroad—Theo Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Bili—The Pestal Service Be- tweem the Atlantic and Pacific Statee— Important Testimony Before the Joha Brown Investigating Committee, &e. OUR SPEOLAL WASHENGTON DESPATCH. ‘Wasurxatoy, Feb, 26, 1860, AFPAIRS IN MEXIOO—THE MOVEMENTS OF MIRAMON, Advices bave been received here from the city of Mexi- co to the 9th instant. Miramon had not left the city en his expedition to Vera Cruz. He had proceeded wast some thirty milesto a piace called Toluca, and had des- patched one of his officers with fifteep hundred men te Tiascala, and was expected to returo to the ciiy inafew days, when he would join the forces at Tlascaia, and pro- ceed at once on bis expedition against Vora Cruz, where he is expected to arrive about the lst of March. Thore i= no truth in the statement that he had got as far as Na- tional Bridge, on bis way to Vera Cruz. The liberal party will be fully prepared for him when he arrires, and are not at all apprehensive of the ultimate result, INTERESTING FROM CHINA. Mr. Reed, late Minister to China, is here, conferring with the government in relation to aifairs in China, Ad- vices have just been received, with recent dates, from Shanghae and Canton. Gicat preparetioas were im pre- grees by the Chinege in fortifying and strengthening them- solves at tho mouth of the Peiho, aad other points where attacks are liable to be made by the English and French expeditions. The same letter states that they bag adopted many of the improvements in the art of war, which bave undoubtedly been suggested to them, not only by Ruasia, but by English and French engineers, who aro said to be in the socret empioy of that government. The Chineso seem disposed to cultivate friendly mtercourse with Americans,and to render covery facility in their Power to carry out stipulations with our people. Trade ‘was in « highly flourishing condition, notwithstanding an- ticipated troubles growing out of the war. THE SENATE PRINTING INVESTIGATING OOMMITTHE, The Senate Printing Investigating Committee is collect- ing a mass of fs ing the printing corruptions ef the last Congress, And also the bargains already made by Bowman, who bas been elected Senate Printer. It ap- pears that Bowman only pays Jewett, of the Know Nothing Buffalo paper, fifty cents on the dollar for printing the Post Office blanks, Bowman pocketing the other half for nothing. This iseven worse than his agreement with Blair & Rives, when he gets one third of the sum paid by government as his share. Bowman, finding Heartt, the Superintendent of Printing, too honest # man to suit his purposes, is endeavoring to have him removed. Heart refuses to put the government to the extra expense of €e- livering the paper for the Post Office blanks in Buffalo, um- der Bowman’s fifty cent arrangement, and hence the au ‘Rico, of the Pennsylvanian, wrote you a letter fome time ago, denying that he received any pap for the support of his newspaper. The fact has appeared before the Investigating Committee that he (Rice) was nominally the contractor for printing the Post Office dlanks, employed by the late Postmaster General, but that he employed a printer in your city, Mr. Joseph T. Crowell, who testified that he was paid but 56 conts ea the dollar for executing the work. The total amount of this work is about $40,000 a year, and under Bowman’s arrangement this nets him $20,000 profit—for doing nothing. Crowell refused to execute the work for Bowman for 50 cents, and Jewett was, there- upon, employed. ‘TDE TESTIMONY BEFORE THR JOUN BROWN INVESTIGATING COM ‘MITTES. When Mr. Stearns was testifying bofore the Senate Brown Raid Committee on Friday, Mr. Collamor asked bim if be approved of the transaction at Harper's Feery, to which be answered that he should have disapproved of it if be bad known of it at the time, but that he had siaos changed bis opinion. He said he believed John Brown te be the representative man of this century, as Washingtom was of the Inst. He said he believed the affair at Hae- per’s Ferry and the capacity for self-government sbown by the Italians in 1859, to be the great events of the age~one will free Europe, and the other America. Mr. Stearns said he wished toinclude im his testimony a copy of bis letter to John Brown dated Bogston , Mey 7,157, as evidence of his intention In sending arms to Kausaz. He wished also to say tnat Jobn Brown fent a message to him by his counsel, Mr. Hoyt, that ne (Brows) cid not desire that any attempt should be made to rescue him. Brown informed him that, although he bad not passed bis word, his relations with Mr. Avis, bis” jailor, were euch that he would not escape from the jaa if be bad an opportunity. The following is the letter re- »v 5 — ferred to by Mr. Stearns | Nov. , 1857, My Dear Frrexp—Your most wetoume letter of ths 16th ult. came to band on Saturcay. Im very gind to learm that after your bard pilgrimage you are in more com- - fortable quarters, with means to meet prescut ox- | ponses. me bear from yau a8 often as you i ivipg your impressions of passing events in Kansas. ve written Whitman, to whom I shall enclose this, that, in my opinion, the tree State party sbould wait for their opponents’ moves and checkmate them as they are developed. Do not atteck*them, but if they attack you give them Jessie, and Fremont besides Yoo know bow to do it But I think both im Kauses and in Congress, if we let the democratic party try te pay their game, we sbal! fod that they will do them- selves more harm than we can dothem. Mrs Stearms Joins me in the beartiest respect for you, and the hope ubat seon you will turn up in our borhood. We ere , all well, verte ny eel the troable that now sweeps over the land. ‘our friend, ps 70 OS oe To Joun Brows, Topeka. Horace White, of Chicage, Secretary of the Nations Kangas Aid Society, is here as & witness before the Sonmte | Brown Rald Committee. He will testify tomorrow, an@ , will explain why the Sharp’s rifles, for warded to Kansas, in 1857, were stopped in Iowa. : ‘THE HOUSE PRINTING. i ‘Tho question of printing will probably be terminated tm the House to-morrow. Ljeutenant Governor Thomes H. Ford, of Ohio, have more strength than many imagine, Ball and frees, and, perhaps, Seaton, of the Intelligencer, will ‘be candidates, Glossbrenner will be run by the crats, but will love his American strength, which will divided among the other candidates, There is a to-night that Defrecs and Ball will unite their against Ford. But it is doubiful if such a movement wi . AYPOUNTMENTS BY THR DOORKENPER, =~ ‘The Doorkeepor of the House has appointed James M. Lovering, of Exetor, N. H., superintendent of the folding room. Mr. Levering bas been three times elected a mem