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Cot onee ‘Means of satiefying the populations ane. prey Sasqsithe, den here if was debated veh an end was Dest allained by constituting a ge} Fe'e Kiogdom of the wot or a portion of tbe Tocrated previers It riber believed that whea the pre- upation with which the aseembins hed celiberated ould have ceased, ane the prinei»ie of non itervention ured, apd the mines of the iababitants were univer- eal'y oomp'sed, t were now boin reasonable and Hberal ayvice W copenit again, and upon & more extensive and Bel Beale, the national will » WEO celimMate authority as legitimate oply when ‘bnged upon reason, justice, and the will and copsent of the peoples—we have deemed it arvieable to oonvenc ‘With us the free citizens, to giv: proof whieb shall place the rights of the people snd of the uation upon a Bore Fond fooung Tcap assever that whatever may be your vote, the Kreg +nd his government are determined to respect it, and to caute it to be rerpected, Hence, in virtue of the full powers we tsyie of the Emilia—To you fall and perfect liberty fa young Letevery citizen consult bis own mind, and, fa the :ame 0 God, who rules over a ae net im the reetitude of Bis conscience and in the plentitade of Bie liberty, let him choose of the two propositions that whieb be shall esteem of most benoit to bis country. ‘Woen ye have recorded your vote my mitnioa will be at sp eud, and I spall j yfully rerign the power which your Must copfides in me You gave me a cl oar right, 'n your virtue; I have exerted it with Grmness; Dave ruled wiih public opinion, not witn factions; I have geverned with the sole soope of attatuing the object of Jour voter; bonesty and frankness alone ek od me iu wy pobtics ‘ARINI. Botocra, March 1, 1860. Lombardy and Switzerland—The Canton of Ticias, Sao ntapearys of the Lonon Chronicle, March 9 } Geteury Seige te mate ee oo Maat od H freed from that yoke, five years afterwards, in 1803, it was erected into the separate cavton of Ticino. But that Pohitical arraugement, effected without their consent, aud ‘without thetr being even con<ulted, did not extioguisa the predilection of tbe Ticisese for Itsiy. That predilection is even now a8 warm as ever, as I sausted myself @uring s short sojourn in the canton last summer. Were it put to the vote, there can be no doubt what- ever but toe population would prooounce en masse for again becoming Italian. Observed the Unione very re- eeatls — = “They must restore to us the canton of Ticino and the valleys of Mesoicina and Poschiavo, which were dismem- ‘Dered from Lombardy. * * * The predilestions of the g@snton are towards Waly, by material interests, tradi- tions, laxguege, race and cstoms. The Austrian block- ade (in 1864, on account of the suppression of the Capu- chiv convents,) proved that virality ia the Oanton of ‘Tic'no consicte srlely in relations with Italy, and not wita Swi-zerlaud, trom which it is separated by the Alps. If ‘We are taikeo 10 00 the question of Savoy, Piedmont moat demand that the 200,00v Italians of toe Canton of Ticino Must likewise be coosnite1. The majority woald very Surely be for union with Ttaly. * * * And Switzer- Jand, if she wishes to be logical, whilst she is demanding ‘QD avgmentation of territory on the Lake in, cannot Pretend to retain an Italian province taat desires to be re- ‘united to the mother courtry.”” Add tw this that the of the Canton of Ticini is Iindiepevrable to Lombardy to cover her on the side of the Alps, where she is perfectly open to invasion from Ger- many, and you will at once understand the very great in- terest tbat was from the first day attached to this new question. £ France cannot on thie but range herself on the side of Italy, firat from love of justice, and algo on account of the Ihttle affection borne to ber by the German Sqias, that is toeay, by four-fifthe of the Confederation. A little inci- dent, the authenticity of which I can guarantec, will give te some idea of the feeling. In June last, the laties of rhe organized & committee to send aid to the wounded of the Austrian army ia Italy. Quavtiti-s of articles were forwarded by their means, and particularly several enor- ogee dua gt BM hes mous bales of bapa: Suey one : sl oy ladies | Berne for the Austrian wounded, on Gonarticy that’ la uover to be Used for the Preach wounded.” A‘e: tLe battle of Magenta, I read the following pas- ptt epee writen by bis pen: ‘iota then ee ge ed gE unre for the triumph of the think that our German brethren ts of Frepchmen !’” e note of what! have written, for things cannot 3 ‘main os they are. Terrible Aceident—Fifteen to Twenty Persons Kiliea. Hive Park, Pa., March 26, 1860. A terrible accident oecarred at Chitvenden’s Shaft, four mile: beiow here, this afternoon. The pumps broke ‘whi ¢ the workmen were being howted up. An explosion of fire demp fc |, When filteea to twenty of them ‘were killed, and many were seriously wounded. The en- gies and boiler house were blown to pieces. These are al) the particulars as yet received. Less of the Steamer, Arkansas ‘Traveller, Mrururs, March 26, 1860. ‘The steamer Arkansus Traveller, bound from New Or- Jeans to Fort Smith, sunk on Wednestay, near Van Ba- rep, Arkanses, and an unknown passenger was lost. The ‘Do. t avd carg» are a total loss. A barge from Cairo. in tow of the steamer Philadelphia, has sunk just above this place. Loss $25,000. The Carstang-Sanw Care. Lous, March 26, 1860. ‘The defence in the Carstang Shaw case closed to day. Kancy Wilbur, of Charleston, testified this morning to haviog seen Jobn P. Sesman and Mise Carstang in together, ava at another time lying on the floor of her abop with Mr. Seaman partially undressed. The court ‘will bold three sessions dauy bereafter, io order to flaish the case this week. The rebutting testimony will com. mence to-morrow. The “Contempt” Cese of the Pittsburg City Councils. Pui.apgirHia, March 26, 1860. ‘The members of the counciis of litisburg appeared be- fore the Supreme Coart to day to answer to a peremptory Mendamus, commancing them to make provision for the payment of the interest upon the bonds, issuéd by Pittsburg ‘as a subscription to the Chartreux Valley Ruilraad Com- y. +The retorn made by the mebers of the Select Coun- Gil ptetes that the ordinance was Jaying @ tax of four quarter mills om March 19. and sent to the Com- men Council for concnrrence. Five members of the Cxmmon Council return a willingness to vote for the bet say they bave had no opportupity. The mejonty of said Council being opposed to assessment, BO action could be bad, and no provision had been made for assessment. The return from the members who refused to obey the mandamos, states that they are not advised of the amount of interest doe, and havo mo record or means of acerteining the eamount; that acting ‘upon tbe several oaths of office, tury canvot in conscience undertake to levy and assess @ tax oa the'r constituents against their own judgment, and without the content of ‘the peope they represent; that they cannot in any way @ontiol the action of the o9-orainate branch of the city government, and bave found it necessary, in the exercise Of their trust, to differ with said branch, and that they cannot obey the mandate of the Court, except under gueh circumstances as would deprive them at the exercise of their free judgment in the premises. undersigned, professing however their entire qillingness and ca: best desire, in case theze opinions are supposed to ‘De inconsistent with their duties under the writ, to sur- render their trust to their constituents, to be delegated spew at their pleasure, to such persous as may coasci- entiovsly accept of it, upon such terme as may enable ‘them to conform to the order of the Court in the premises. ‘Various answers were filed. but no action was had by ‘the Court. Sympathy for the Massachusetts Strikers iam Newark, N. J. Newark, March 26, 1860. About one thousand persons assembied here this even- Wg to express their sympathy with the Lynn strikers. Resolutions of sympathy and encouragement were unani- mousy d. The meeting was presided over by ex. ‘tor Wright, and spesebes were made by General ‘Bbeodore Runyon, C. L. C Gifford, President of the Se- mate; P. D. Moore. of this city, and Mr. Draper, of Lynn. ‘The latter gsve a general bi of the strikes, their enases, and what they hoped to accomplish. pero Bot? wun erro cm sme jarkets. PHILADELPHIA 8TOCK BOARD. PaLapmraia, 26, 1860. Stocks quiet. Pevnsylvania State é's, 93:(; ‘Reading Railroad, 20%; Morris Canal, 51%; Long’ Iataatt Railroad, 11%; Pennsytvania R: » 889g. Sight exchange on New York at par. March 24, 1860, Cotton—Sales to-day ee tay irregular, but market generally unchan; 0 : ie wa. Flour firm st $575 Wheat active at $1 60 0 $1 65 for Wained stty, bei doll Waekey dallattac, ‘viaions steady, * pinay tc Fiegr very dull. eat Corn down. Oats steady. Provisions quiet. jal. wards, y: q at $540 a $6 60. 5 30K0 Meeks bank held at $17 33. Bacon bold. at Me w aXe. City Inmtellige: A Fatse Rerort Comrec.8) —A ie yesterday count Space so EA goose merchant of this city —a nili!}msire—bad been tak- © to the insane arylnm, The scswemeet isterally untoand- 4,00 tbe gentleman referred if I ig xcellent health, ppd altending to Duaipese ge usnal. ch was published ‘om a malicious or KEW YOR INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Important Report of the Public Printing. The Irrepressible Conflict in the House. THE SEVENTH REGIMENT COLORS, ae, &o,, &o. Our Special Washingtom Dispatch. ‘Wasuinaton, March 26, } 860. CONGRESSIONAL ABOLITION OP SLAVERY. ‘The “ irrepressible nigger ” loomed up in the house to- day, in the form of a resolution ollered by Mr. Blake, of Of the Oberlin District of Ubio. It was a very good plat- form @ man coming from that locality upon which to gain his re-election, but what was fun to him was death tooth- er, and the resolution was defeated by a vote of sixty yeas to a hundred nays—many republicans votiog against it as being an impracticable and unpolitic proposition. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. The Select Committee on the Patifc Railroad held a meeting at ten this morning. A mo tion was made to reconsider the vote whereby the committee agreed to report in favor of constructing butone road, This proposition was discussed at conside reble length, consuming nearly the whol time of the meeting. Mr. Cartis, the Chairman of the Select Com mittee, presented a bill designed to carry out the views of the committee favoring one road. It provides for com- Mmencing at two points om ths borders of the Western States; one line proceeding from the western line of a free, and another from the western line of a slave Stato— 4 ¢, starting with two converging lines, onc from Iowa and the other from Missouri, and uniting within two hundred miles, thence proceeding by the nearest and best route to the bay of San Franciaco, or to the navi gable waters of the Sacramento river. Lands equal to three sections on each side are to be appropriated in alter nate sections, and bonds are to be advanced as the work Proceeds from each end, and growing larger as the work becomes more expensive towards the middle portion of the line. The bill is well guarded, and provision is made to secure the reimbu-sement of the bonds in trans Portation service, at fair rates. The bond issues are Umited to sixty millions, and the land is the smallest smount ever appropriated to aid railroats in New ‘States and Territories. The entire length of line thus re quired will not exceed two thousand miles of railroad, and if sixty millions will secure sufficient means to build the road, it is considered as securing a great work for a comparatively small sum The object in moving to re- Coneider the vote of the committee agreeing to one route was to procure a report in favor of two, which would em. brace the extreme Southern road vis El Paso, Without taking apy final action the committee adjourned to meet again to-night. PROGRESS OF THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, Judge Birch, of Missouri was before Mr. Covode’s com miitee this mornlog, and avowed his readiness to substan- tate all he had charged against the Commissioner of the Geneneral Land Office, and the Secretary of the Interior in bis public letter to the President in the fail of 1858, and lefta pamphlet copy thereof with the committee. Ho 's0 furnished the committec with the names of witnesses tm Misscuri who will corroborate ani sustain him upon every material issue in controversy, and they are to be summoned, The witnesses to be summoned from Missouri are Henry Whitt:ngton, John T. Hughes and Edward M. Samuel, all former Receivers of public Money, and Charles Ingles and M. Jef. Thompson, attorneys and land agents. COLORS FOR THE SEVENTH REGHMENT. ‘The colors ordered by the Corporation of Washington for the Seventh regiment of New York have been ordered regardless of expense. The Mayor has had the good tense to take the painting out of the bands of those who paint such banners,and has invited a young aatist bearing the honored name of Washington, and a descendant of the Father of his country, to execute the work of the Governor Black, of Nebraska, isin town. He reports forty thousand inhabitants in the Territory, and says ‘vhere is no particular desire for a State organization. ‘THE LETTER OF MR. BATES. Edward Bates’ letter, published in the Hrratp of Satur- day, has been much discussed to day by the republicans, and is commended for its general franknees. His friends ‘astert that he announced the same doctrines to a caucus of the Legislature of Missouri in 1850, when Mr. Guier was nominated to the Senate of the United States. RETURN OF MR PRESTON. Mr. Preston, Minister to Spain, has received permiasion toreturn home for a few months, as soon as the matters which have been under negotiation for some months reia- ‘ive to the claims held by our citizens against that gov- ernment, are satisfactorily adjusted. The last intelligevce from there indicated a spzedy arrangement. He haspro- ably left Macrid ere this. His presence here is urgently required in settling his father-in.law’s estate. ‘MEXICAN AFFAIRS. The despatches due at the Navy Department this morn- ipg. from Capt. Jarvis, did not arrive, They will probably reach here to-morrow morning. The despatches, together with instructions to our officers in the Gulf, in compliance ‘with Senator Hale’s resolution, will be immediately com- municated to the Senate. The President was engaged with the Secretary of State for severat bours today, on business connected with Mexican affairs, The recent eventa in the Gulf occasion mach solicitude in oflicial quarters, as it is foared’they may complicate us with the foreign Powers having large interests in that country. Nothing materially diiferent from the pewepaper accounts has reached the govern- ment. Private letters were received this morning aad several this evening, with dates from Vera Cruz to the 5th, the day before the siege had commenced. One of the letters was from Lerdo, and he writes confidently of the Juarez party being able to repel the advances of Miramon. They were aware of his approach to the city, and were hourly expecting the attack, but entertained no fears as to the final result. The Savy Department received this evening Vera Cruz papers dated on the 7th. They contained nothing of importance in regard to the operations then going on. ‘COURT DRESS OF MINISTERS. ‘Tre President will communicate to morrow, in compli, ance with the callfrom the Senate, all correspondence ia possession of government in regard to Court cress, going back as far as that worn by our Minister at the treaty of Ghent, which, according to representations on file at tho Department, was not only vofy elaborate, but decided!y wniqve. It also imclades the correspen- dence of our Ministers, and other officials abroad, growing out of the Marcy circalar. Seme of this correspondence is decid-dly rich and racy. THE PUBLIC STOKES, ‘The contract system at the public stores, No. 12 Broad street, is in « fair way of being thoronghly ventilacd To day Mr. Cochrane introduced and had passed a search ing resolotion of inquiry reepecting it, and on motion of Mr. Barr & special commitice of five was authorized to investigate the subject. PACIFIC RAITROAD PROJECTS. Mr. Cochrane introduced the memorial of Edward Larved, of New York, for a mew scheme fora Pacific Railroad. All railroad companies in the country to be interested; their present and prospective mail pay to be fanded for thirty years by government stock for one hun- ¢érea million doilars—no land grant bonds to be redeemed by sale of lands within thirty years. This makes about twenty schemes which are on foot for railroads to the Pacific. ‘The black republicans are very much alarmed abou the Connecticut election. Requisitions have been sent here for all the available force that can be spared. Some of their best and most conservative speakers left this morning for Connecticut. ‘The Senate, in executive session to-day, confirmed a number of unimportant nominations. The President sent in the name of Thomas C. Jenkins, of Maryland, as Consul to Demarara. ‘No action was had upon either the Nicaragua or Mexican treaties. ‘The President to-day sent in the name of George M. ‘Wharton, United States District Attorney for Philadelphia, vice Van Dyke, removed. ‘ ‘The House has been officially informed that the Presi- dent has signed the bill providing for the protection of female passengers, ‘Mr. Draper, & representative of the New Fogland strikers, is to lecture here on Thursday. ‘My despatch recording the absance of Horace F. Clark in the House sipce that body excused him from voting, probably had some ipftuence in producing his appearance bere to-day; but, aufortanately for htm, when he rose to ‘vote on Biake’s Irrepressible Nigger resolution, objection was made from the South side, with which he indicated be should vote, and he couldn’t make his record. From the action of the republicans in the House te-day, they propose that the duty which the Covode select com- mittee intended to assume in investigating certain alleged corruptions of Mather, McIntire, Bixby, and others of Now York, sball be transferred to a select committee of which Mr. Bickles, whose seat is in contest, is by courtesy to be chairman, be having to dsy moved a resolution to that efiect in the Honse, which was carried, not being seri- ously objected to, THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. IRS? SESSION. Senate. ‘Wasurvoron, March 26, 1960. The Caum laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, giving the number of in- mates in the Marine Hospitals from 1854 to 1859. Re- ferred. RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC. Mr, Gwin, (dem.) of Cai., moved to take up the bill to facilitate communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States. Agreed to. Mr. Davis, (dem,) of Miss., moved to strike out the Proviso permitting tbe government toconnect tbe military posts with the overland mail line by another telegraph line, to be used for government porpoess. Not wo Mr. Laraam, (dem) of Cal., moved an additional section, that the materials to build the line be conveyed by the government, when itcan be done without additional ex penee or inconvenience. Not agreed to. Mr. Gav (rep) of Jpn, agen an amendment tha’ the ‘elearaph mpany or its agents will not toter(ers with the right to locate a railroad hereafter, by the pre snnplien of olh tha lends tn hat route, Agreed to. . Mason, (dem ) of Va., moved an amendment, that bo payment be made to said line by the government till 1 )8 iD Operation, and that it cease w' the contractors fail in their contract. os was read a third time and passed. Yeas 28; iJ ibe Consular Appropriation bill was taken up. ‘The Committro’s amendments were considered, with the following reault:— ‘The appropriation for a Minister to Paraguay was not agreed to. be ‘appropriation in the bill of $228,000 for the rellef spd protection of American seamen was so amended as to provide that $175,000 of that amount be used in the fis aly ar euding the 30th of June, 1860. ‘Ibe appropriation of $10,000 for acknowledging the ser- vices of masters and crows of foreign veescls in citizens of the United States from shipwrecks, was ag) wo The appropriation of $10,000 for expenses incurred un- der the instructions from the Secretary of State in wee ing home from foreign countries persons charged wi crgne, and expenses incident thereto, was agreed to. APPROPRIATIONS. The ay jation of four thousand dollars to enable the Secretary of State to defray the cost of a prison ship at “Canton, China, from the ist of Junuary, 1854, to the 1st of January, 1857, and compensation of the Marshal of the Consular Court at Canton from January, 1854, to Decem- ber 16, 1857, was agreed to. Mr. Hunts: ‘m.) of Vo., then moved an amendment “ppropriating em thousana collars for a Minister to Parsguay. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., advocated the necessity of @ Minister as tending to develope commercial intercourse wirh that country, Mr. Bexjamix, (Gem.) of La., hoped the amendment would vot pass, abd thought there was necessity for re- trenchment in the diplomatic service. After farther diecuasion the amendment was rejected and tbe bill passed. The bijl to authorize the sale of public arms to the several States and Territories, and to the ap. poiptment of superintendents of the national armories, was taken up. Kaha read a third time and passed. Yeas 28, vays The bill supplemental to the act to authorize protection to citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano was taken up, discussed at length, and postponed Biz0 ‘morrow. iis fie ir. ANTHOSY presented = memorial for constructing a railroad to the Pacific, by the various railroad companies wready existing. The joint resolution from the House for the relief of the mail contractors was received and passed. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. House of Representatives. Wasuinaton, March 26, 1860. Mr. CLarx B. Cocrrane, (rep.) of N. Y., appeared and took his seat for the first time since the organization of the House. . Mr. Taaysr, (rep) of Mass., introduced s bill with- drawing the protection of Congress from non-resident landholders in the several States and Territories. INFERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. < of N. ¥., introduced « bill mak. pg an appropriakRh’L° id provement of the Butialo harbor’ sip sMiny.sng a; improvement of the 8t. Clair Flats. THE TARIFF. Mr. Frorzxcs, (dem.) of Pa., introduced a bill to fix and the outy en Mr. wv, (A. L. dem ) of Pa., introduced a bill to eatablish an assay office at Atchison, The above bills were all appropriately referred. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. Mr. Brake, (rep.) of Obto, introduced a Dill to repeal the Fugitive Slavo law of 1850. Referred to the Judiciary Commitee. STEAM ON THE DELAWARE. Op motion of Mr. Wiirkty, (dem.) of Del., the Commit. tee on Commerce was inttructed to inquire into the ex- pediency of reporting a bili making an appropriation for & Steam revexue cutter for the Delaware river. THE PACIFIC RAULROAD. Mr. Curtis, (rep.) of Jowa, introduced a Pacific Rail- road bill. Referred to a Select Committee, PROTECTION TO PROPERTY IN TERRITORIES. Mr. Garwert, (dem.), of Va., introduced a bill enabling citiz ns of the United States to carry their property freely and without molestation into the Territory of Kansas. Referrea to the Judiciary Committee. TRE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Mr. Morsn, (rep.), of Maine. introduced a resolution de- claring that more citicient measures should be taken for the tuppression of the African slave trade, which ts rapidly on the increase; and es it is a crime against human nature and oppoged to the moral sentiment of mankind, the Pre- sicemt be requested to open negotiations with the leading Powers of Europe, with the view of declaring {t piracy by international Jaw. Referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Among the resoltions adopted were, one calling for in- formation n relation to the Reciprocity Treaty, and whether Canada has violated its spirit: one requesting the Secreta- ry of the Treasury to furnish all the information in his possession in regard to contracts for keeping publicstores, and whether any member of Congress, directly or re- metely, bas @ pecuniary interest therein; one providing for a select committee to inquire into the tobacco trade, with the view of a removal of the restrictions of foreign pations; apd ore icquiring into the moneys paid for trans- portation for the army of Utah. Mr. McQuzey, (dem.) of 8 ©., offered a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the Committee of Ways aud Meas to inquire, end report if they see fit, a measure relieving the shoemakere of Massachusetts from the tyran- ny of the capitalists of that State, by repealing the duties on leatber and other imported articles which entered into the shoemaking busivess. Mr. VaLLanpiGuaM, (dem.) of Ohio, offered a resolution, which was adopted, calirg for the correspondence rela tive to the Swiss treaty, and the cieabilities therein upon. Hebrew citizens of the United States; a former resolution on the came subject not having been answered, and addi- tiopal correspondence having since taken place. Algo, & resolution inquiring into the cruelties alleged to be practiced on board American merchaut vesseis. AROLITION OF SLAVERY RY CONGRESS. - Mr. Braxx, (rep ) of Ohio, vifere4 the following pream- ble and resolution :— Whereas, The chatteling of mankind and the holding of persons as property is contrary to natural justice and the fondsmental principles of our political eystem, and is no- toriousty @ reproach to our country throughout the civi- ligzd world, and @ serious hindrance to the progrera of republican Uiberty throughout the nations of the earth; therefore Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary be and the some are hereby instructed to inquire into the expe- diency of reporting & bill giving freedom to every human being, and interdicting slavery wherever has the conetstotional power to legislate on the subject. ‘The question was stated on the passage of the resolution. ‘The preamble was reserved for a separate vote. The yeas and pays were called on the democratic side. Mr. Kivuscer, (rep ) of Pa., objected to the resolution. Mr. Pimps eaid ove gentleman had responded to ‘the call, therefore the objection came too late. Mr, Morsus, (rep.) of Pa., called for the reading of the rerolution. Mr. Vaitaypicna™ made the point that the unanimous consent was necertary atthe present stage of the pro- coedings. ‘The SreakeR said be could not hear a word, so great was the confysion. Mr. Sickies, (dem.) of N. Y., wanted the resolutlons. again read. Objections were made from the democratic side. ‘Mr. Kuixcer insisted that he bad to the reso- solution before the Clerk commenced the roll. Srmaxsr— You are too late. pe cre cries from the democratic side, “call the Mr. Brae was nnderstood as wicbing to withdraw his Proposition, but the democrats said it could not now be cone. Joux Cocurang, (dem .) of N. ¥., asked for the enforce- ment of the rule which prohibits members from gather- ‘ing at the Clork’s desk. ro soprst see 51d decided as coming too late. Mr. Borxert, (¢em.) of Ky.—I hope the proposition will be read. Mr. Fionexce, (dem.) of Pa.—By all means. Mr. Davmeor, (dem.) of La., objected. A dozen of mere membera on both sides endeavored to pees attention of the Speaker. Much confusion epeuved. Finally, the proposition was again read, and the resolu- tion rejected, yeas 60, — 1€6, as follows :— ‘Vris—Meeern, AC a . Bhir shane. Brayion, Butenoh, Derteaimey Berean but erfield, Cerey, Carter, ‘ling, Curtis, Delano, «nell, E¢gerton, Fdwares, iot, F,aEk, Gooch. Grow. Guriey, Bile, ¥. Hrchivg, Kellogg heb... Lerejeg. MeKoan, Morrit’ olla, Painier, Peter we, Rice ek, rman. . aacpan, Toweking, Train, Vandoren, Weldren We pkg ph AY v8— Me 1A arilon. a, patios, tts ge ACE Briggs, Bristow, Enrch, Burret, Campbell, Chari Me., K HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1860.—TRIPLE Mopton, Cebb, John Cochrane, Cooper, Cox Craig of *f Crige of ®. G, Crawford, Curry, Davis of Md., DOe 4 6° ied, Davinof Mies ie Jeneve Donn Kdmundeon, & + idse, Florenee, Fouke, Fru eb, Garnett. Gartreli. Giimer, ion, Herdeman, ' Hirie’ of Mi, Harsie of | °% 10D, Bie) men Hii}, Hiccman, Homan, Houwon, Hug ¢* Jerkira Jones, Keitt Kenyoo, Kupkel, Lam Leachof N C., Leabe, Logan, Love, Mallory, Mar- Hin of Ob Martin of mi MoPbereon, Meobue, Mies, Muls'u, Milward, Montgomery, Moore Moore of Ale, Morris of Pa., Morris o: JL, Midis 4, Nixoa, | ANcelh, Fhelpa Porter, Pryor, Pugh, Quarles, Rea: Miges, | nebinsop OF Jl). Kuflip, bet waite, Rect, Bere, ©, Rims, ingleton, Fmith of Va, Stsliwortt, Stevenson, Ste | of Md, | Stckes Yay'or, Thaver Thomas, Trimble. Unde word, Val: | wndighamn, Writely, Wirsiow, Woodson, Wright—l 1 Mr. Bocock, (sem.) of Va., rising to a queetion of priv! lege, offered arceolution that Messre. Kilgore and Wash- burne (of Me.) being in the House, but refusing to vote cn the resolution just defeated, (the rules requiring mem- hers present to vote,) be, and they are entitled to receive, and do hereby receive the censure of the House. Mr. Grow, (rep) of Pa, sai1 the Speaker must submit for the decisicn of the House whether this was a question | of privilege. Mr, Coirax, (rep.) of Indiana, was glad to find the g¢Ltk man on the other ide to observant of the rules, but be detired to nek why he did not exercise a like vigiiance heretofore, when bis (Bocock’s) y friends infringed the rules and were inatructed to take their seats. Mr. Kucors, (rep) of Ind, said no gentleman more abxieus to avert a vote of censure than himee! He was desiroun of casting his vote, but not to place him- telf jp ap awkward position, Jony Cocimae, inquired whether the abstract question of slavery was now under discussion. ‘The Svexrn replied in the pegative, Mr. Sierman, (rep ) of Obio, appealed to Mr. Kilgero to yield the floor vo bim. Mr. Hr, (8. A.) of Ga., wante¢ to know whether in con- ection with this resolution of censure the subject of the Presidential election would be in order for discussion, Mr. NiBLAck, (dem ) of Ind., hoped his collesgue would be permitted to speak to the resolution. This courtesy wae certain'y due to bim Mr. Kircorr was glad his colleague bad such a high per- fopal regsro for him. While he was perfectly willing to ipatruct an trquiry on the subject of introducine slavery, be covld not vote for instructing th: committee to report a dill gizing freedom to every bu- tan being, because that would reach convicts, and he was the last to add to democratic strength by turning them loote, especially at [this time when their votes are of such service in the campaign. (laugbter.) He was jo favor of preventing the extension Of slavery to the Territories, while there was no power to interfere with it in the States, Mr. Barxspare, (dem ) of Mies., asked him whether be believed Congress has the power to interdict the inter- State and elave trade, ard to Abolish slavery at the aock jaros, arsenals, &c., of the United Mr. Kircors, That is not a question before the Hovee. ‘£vfticient unto the cay is the evil thereof.” Mr. Bocock withdrew his reroluvoo. POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION. Mr. Corrax, by request of the Post Office Department, introduced a joint resolution for the convenience of that department, appropriating ia part the accruing revenues, tor the payment of contractors for carrying the mails Guring the quarter ending March 31 next, Passed, THe PUBLIC PRINTING. Mr. Basxix, (4. L oem of N. ¥.) from the Com- miitee on Public Expenditures, made a report on the eubject of the public printing, concluding with resolutious requiriug @ practical printer only to be elected by either bourse, Heis also to execute the binding and to give bonds in the sum of $23,000, forty per cent 0 ve de- aucted from the prices now allowed by law. [Extracts from this report we give in another column of this morning's Bxraip } The consideration of the subject was postponed till Thureday next. THR DEMCENCY RIL Mr. Suxrman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reportec a bill supplying cefictenctes for the year ending with July next, and a bill for the pay ment of sundry civil expentes of the government for the next fiscal year. ‘The House went wwto committee, and the army appro- priation bill was taken up, Mr, SenGwick, after some prefatory remarks, said, in r lation to the republican party :—Sir, ths republican at this time presents an important and living issue. svccerstu) it ie to establish peculiar reform in tho admi- nietration of the goverpment of the country, and will re- vive and secure the policy on which it was founded and on which its usefulness depends, and on which its histori- cal character stands. The republican party is established to oppose tyranny and despotism in every shape at a and at home no less than in foreign lands, it is 4 to promote the universal prevalence of Uberty and to recognise and uphold the fullest and most perfect equality of humen rights and human freedom. But the party here, baying uo power to control the tyrapny and despotiem of torcign States, its duty at home i8, if it remains true to its own mission, its own faith and principles, by all constitutional mean-, by all lawful aod peaceiul methods, to check the extension of slavery in this republic and to prohibit its continuance under federal authority. We, however, claim no right by federal legisiation to interfere with the constituiion of slavery where it exists in a State under the eanc- sion of that State’s municipal laws and regulations, 20 long as they refrain from unjustly interfering abridging by legislation the rights and privileges se- cured to us by constitutional guarantees. it we claim the right and will exercise that right whenever and wher- ever justice, the public interest and our common safety Cemancs to restrict and limit slavery within the bounda- ries of those States where it at present cxists, by giving to the constitution such a liberal construction as those STOPRRBRRAR SPEARS Aa.the common law demands, The ciples, of progress Regd education sabieess Of Jost prin. those idess and sentiments, and legislate with regard t> them just as far as sound discretion allows, and just as tar as the power of the constitution will admit. This Policy of the republican party is assailed by other partica hostile to it upon Mpa! yer od The extremes in the North say that the Federal constitution upbolds and sanctions slavery, that it recognizes the prin: of man roldin: preperty in man, and that this principle was the original design intended by the framers of the coustitution, and thet it was to be administered to secur: tbat end, and that all the departments of government under it have been controlled and directed for that purpose, the executive, the judiciary and the legislative. They eay further, that tis whole policy should be directed im accordance with such de sign; and they declare that as long as we confine ourselves to constitutional resistanee to slavery we can do nothing to limit ii or repel its encroachments. They say our only Dope our only chance of success, therefore, lhe over- brow of the government and the subversion of the Con- stitution. Buti reply to them that the republican party will not and necd not resort to such measures. The ex- tremiste of the other or Southern section hold precizely similar views in some respects as to the character and'ob- ject of the republican party, and they say ‘that that party is a stanoing menace to their pecculiar fostitution of slavery, They deciare farther, that in the event of the republican party coming in to the administra- ben of the government, although called to power by the will of tho majority constitutionally expreased, that they are to be resisted by force of arms, and, if need be, by w violent diesolution of the government and the Volo weelf. Again, the extreme abotitionste, in Chrirtian charity, advice us io cissoive our organization, because, they, Fay, we are impotent and incapable of good; while ogee, on the other band, the oligarchists, with equal clearress and perepionity, denounce net ang demand onr overthrow, because, they say, we are powerful and capable of inflicting great mixchlef. ‘With regard to the other greut party in the republic, it may well be saic of it th tit retains but the name of the great principle which it would repreeent Tho name, the ensdow, may be there but the substance is not. Tne liv ing principio which erst suztained democracy has long since departed. The iden of true democracy is very somirable, indeed, when we regard it as an embodiment of freedom; when we look at it in contradistinction to tyranny ond Cespotizm, the antipotce of monarchics and obhgarchier, and as the trne principle of a representative government’ of 8 whole people Jn the true and bonest conception of the term democracy represents agoverrment administered for the benfit of all, not a zo- verpment for tbe bencfit and glory of one king or deepot, nota government for the benefit of the privilecea few, not for the aggrandizementof a nobility or an ariatocra. cy, but a government which eecures equality of civil rights and privileges toevery member of the community, how ever poor he may be, or however humbel may be his rigin. ‘The people onder rach a form of government are proper inwgivere. They represent the majesty of the and const.tution in themsetee, Not that each indi- al inherits eqrai capacity and genius with all around Yim, not that each bas ‘derived benetit from the clrewrstances of fortune snd education, nt that cach is equel to the enjoyment of civil rights, and is to be controlled and governed by just and equal laws, Bot what ie the ebaracter of the democratic party of our dsyr—of that who seeks to control and govern this great and free republic? Ite choeen leaders deride and ridicule the icea of equality of human rights; they ecotff at the very principle by which our independence was achieved and upon which our noblest inetitutions rest. They stand as the representatives. no; ofn free netion, but of a party SHEET. efvernment. ‘The repndiican party fen nenaseity of the times, and therefore no relt-conetituted leader bas power to proclaim its dissolution or to surrender one iota of iv principles: and if the party could be betraye* into the Villairy of such @ surrender, or foto any essential arate Ment of ite joet demands, another party atrooger radical and more virtuous avd more successful io sion would ris» vpon ite roins The republican p not, apd never bas been, the aesaitant of the just rights of the South. It is true the party has been called into ex'stence by the very necessity which existed to check the growth and extensioa of slavery, to prevent the revival of the African slave trade and to preserve the ancient pobey of the government and secare } ibe old and cherished safeguaros of personal liberty, trial by jury, babeas corpus act, the freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of conscience, and the right of petition, which canpot co-exist with slavery. In the early bistory of the country the universal and prevailing sentiment of the marses of the people, particularty at the close of the Revolutionary war, a1. the atoption of the act of indepndence, was to favor of Wherty. Domestic slavery was then considered @ great moral and political evil, an ingitn tien then oxiating to be sure, but at war with all the peoples’ notions of human rights snd be principles of their grorious Constiution, aud wo abolished as soon as could be without violeutly omebing existing intereste, These were the sentiments of the peo ple of thore cays, These were the sentiments of th: men who drew up the act of independence, and which instrument agserts tn unmistakable terms the eqrality ot civil rights to all classes, wihout distinetion—the toatien able right of every man to liberty avd freedom = The constituiion, though domestic slavery was an inetituiton of the country the time it war Acopted, no where guarantees for the extension of slavery, por was any such gunranter over intenced, but on the contrary it does, ip expres+ terms, sanction and recommend measures for its virtua) exonetion. Before the adoption of the constitation, the orcinunce of 1787 bad excluded slavery from alt the Terri tories that might be acquired by os Thus It will be seen that here wes po express power, and no power that conld be implied, provided by the constitution authorizing the acquisition by conquest or purchase of additional f Titories; and 1 say that the act itself adopted and sanctioned by the government after the coneutntion was jormed, seitled wpon ihe people of this country through Congress, the right and power to prohibit alavery from extending into the Territories of the Union; and this law wasacted upon, and {t was only at last disturbed after the acquisition of Florida and Miseourt, events pot contemplated at first. The acquisition of these ferritori 8 reopened tbe question of slavery in tha Territories, wien had been settled in 1787. At the atoption of the coosti tuticn ail the Sfates in the Union, except Massachusetts, were slave States, and that State had just aboliehed it as inconsistent with tb bill of righge; aod after that abolition focieties were formed in all the other States, South as well as North, and the ore- minent men of both sections became members of them for the further abolition of slavery. ‘Thess sucie- ties had three objects in view. Firet, the exppression of the slave trade, the abolition of rlavery in tho Stater, anu the general liberation ofthe negro population In thse cays the South combined with the North in condemnation, ery Ib an strong and decided terms as did ever Lloyd rigor , and the other great aholiionits of tne present cay. Foremost tn bortiity to slavery, wero «ime of the brightest statesmen and "pbiluothropistes of the South, and particularly of Virgiotn. Tucker a professor, ‘snd one of the judges in the general court of Virginia, publisued’ a dissertation — up im rlavery,in which he denounced in the strongest term the unjust and cruelelave coics. In ten years after the formation of the government thre had been more ban ten thousand slayes manumrted in Virginia ant M.rylang alone. The African slave trude was protibited by the general government at the earliest day ailowed by the covetituuion, and reveral of the States themtelves no being within constitutional restrictions took an eariier tlep open the subject tban the general government. 11 was thought that there measures would reguit in the emancipation of all siayes at no remoto day, that the system wss undermined by the simple force of public opinion, which had already the African slave trake, and tbat thus itself would cie cut. It was believed that the the States themselves would see that slavery was at war with 6 nations of free government ana in conflict with all democratic theories and principles of government, demo- ralizig and impoverishing in avy community, as tt un. questiopably js Ten years after the atrican slave trade was abolished ana declared piracy, efforts wo abolian flavery iteelf ceased, beravse tt was thought ua- necessary to continue the agitation of the question; not because anybody in thove days was convinced that it was a just and Christian system, the hignest degree of civilization that moscrns have discoveres. Jn the meantime the Territory of Louigiana came into the Unior, apd it was then we first beard the dortrine of se- ceteion announced as the wav for the agitation of the tlayery question, and for which the secrasioninta were at that time called to order by Southern mec, aod the lea dere of it barely eecaped the cevsure of Congress. Town aroee the discussion on the maritime rights which give rise to the war of 1812, and again, the subject of sia- very was withdrawn from public attention for — time. and very little intercourse was mesintained between the North and South. In 1819 the ques- tion of slavery was again bronght before the public mind by the claim of Missouri to be admitted into the Union aga slave State. The question again came promt- pently up, and it was discovered that during the interval of peace slavery bad been eteatily and earnestly em- Joyed in extending its boundaries and deepening its Foundaticns; and the eyents which occurred aboot thie time contributed eseentially to make these efforts anc ceseful. I refer to the invention of ae alabor gaving machine. Then ‘ollowed the admis sion of Miecouri under the well Drovgy woove by 0 prime of Hfe, full of vigor mua wnequaved wnility, abou this time Wobdster mace himself known as the advocate Then were heard threats of diseolution as violently uttered as now; and the ex: treme men of the day, following the example of Quincey in 1811, tm popvlar Convention prociaimed the dactrine of secession. Before this the people of the South became particularly anxious for the colonization of the free ne- groes in their States and borders, for the blacks were be- comings dangerous clement in their midst, and this led of freedom in the Territores. to the scheme of colonization; and the N¢ bad so such dangerops element to concilinted, inthe hope that they would assist in the echeme. It was at this time thet Landy started a journal called the Genius of Unirwrial Emancipation, and called to his support a young man who was then preaching in the churches of Boston the principle of slavery abohtion. ‘This young liberator soon saw that the scheme of coion!- zation was Janus headed, and that the South wanted new and increased guarat ties for the perpetnation of slavery. The Sonth was carrying on the slave trade in the States, a trade not stigmatized by law, but marked, nevertheless, by every atrocious and voliing leature which dietinguisbed the foreign ve trade. In fact,the traffic carried on between the States was more cruel and more atrocious than the ober, for it tore asunder whole fumiliesund destroyed the moet sacred social ties. All the evt's of the system was dis. cloned to the ey+s of the young avostle of liberty and emane!pation, and he publizhed ip bis paper the evilx of atrocities perpetrated by both Southern and Northorn men, particularly thoee of the North who engaged in the treffic of slaves. The consequence was that the churches m which he bal before preached were closed agoinst him. He then annovneed bis inten tion to preach on Boston Common, beneath the wide canopy of Heaven, but the people wore unwilling to be distur bed on the question of slavery But this man, gentle, loving. peaceful, truthful, joxt bat inflexible, was resolved not to be put down, neither North nor South; and the rerult wer that he pub)lisbed a paper, the first number of which I boid ip my hand, in which be epnounced his creed. Im, he said, inearnest. I wilt not equivocate, I will notexcuse. J will not retreat a ingle incb, and I will and must be heard. That waa the first number of the Liberator, publiehed in 1831, by Wa. Lioyd Garrison, Itecemeto meas if that man Garrison had been ¢ent by Heaven, in answer to the petition of the oppressed open pon earth. Mr. Sedgwick reviewed snd condemned the Jaws of South Carolina and Louisiana and other Southern States, by which, under pretext of \ofrirgement, many free negroes of Massachusetts were impri#oned, and white men travelling with colored ser. vents were pot to great inconvenience; and instanced the cave of Mr. Sewell, of Boston, who was compolied to seek otection from the laws of South Carolina on board a Britieh man-of-war, at the time stationed at Charleston. Pe denounced the hypocrisy of Northern merchants and tracers of former years, who for the rake of pecuviary profit would check all attempts to interfere with slavery in the South. At the preeent ¢ay slavery only holis ‘te provnd by violence and superior force It finds no support ia right or jortice or in ebristianity. It com meroed dy instituting cruel mnagnres, by using the basoat wane, an to this day proceeds through bloodshed, throveh rapine and by the mercilese and revolting prac. tice of ecliipg its captives and procuring others throngh all the t orrors of the stave ehip and the micdle pageage, avery step marked with ferocity snd boodehed. The system wae at war with every sentiment of honor; was at war with every principle of that bigher Jaw whore seat ie the borom of God, and whose voice is the har. apxions to reverse the old precept of our common law in favor of hberty,and to strike out the golden rule from the teachings of Christianity, fo that tuey a cpprers the many for the enrichment of the few. is demceratic party is oppored to all progress and advanco- ment. Instead of seeking ald and sympathy for honest cficrts.to emancipate the elavce, they demand perpetual vement, and insist that the duty and sole purpose of government fe to extend and perpetuate the vilest system of human bondage upon which the sun of heaven ever tbons. And ff any man differs with them, if a man inrists upon liberty of conscience, upon the ition of an honorable regard for popular sovereignty, if he claims a right to reriet the extension and phen Wwery in our widst, that man must be whipped like a speniel or Kicked bke 9 cur ont of modern democracy. is ts the party which nowadays coneiders its honor tarnished by the mere extetence republican organization. of tha organization whore existence is a standing menace to the Scuth, whose suceers, obtained through the ballot box through tbe voices of the majority of the people, by al’ Coxstitvtional and Iegel means is to be resisted by the word if reed be. And why i: the republican party so bated and fearcd? Tt is because they are to th extersicn of slavery, to the re-opening 40 the African efave trade, which all civilized nation? have cereunced af accurred, bat which modern demo- cracy demands. They talk of the African slave trade a3 a traffic which cugbt to be ened; but I eay it day in operation with all ite old attrocities and former horrors. It war said that slave ships were con stantly fitted out in Northern ports. Iam not 4 to deny the aszertion, because I honestly might detect evidences of that vile traffic at any time Northern commercial cities, aye, and hear it ad’ Northern congervative churches. (Laughter from demo- cratic benches.) But that D0 the character of the traffic. The government at and its representatives abroad, claim protection for traffic by reeisting the right of search, and thus the chief inetroment in the continuance of the African slave trede is the American flag. Now, for ay part I care not who is engaged in this slave traffic, by whom it is advocated, by whom supported, or by what party slave vessels are fit- ted out; ery tr pended ut this 1 say, that every matte Northern man, who (vighg?2 It i, onptit 6 be from the yardarm of the versel be dishovors, and the American flag should not fur a single moment preserve him from bis well merited fate. These 1 know will be called treason by and by, if the democratic party obtein again the power Of the meny of the world. | tate emphatically here that no 161m of constitutional Iaw, bowever solemnly agreed to, however bigh may be its claim to authority, intended to recognire or authorize such a ryrtem of ovtrage ypon buman righte, is of any ¢ffectto bond the conscience or control the conduct of any citizen of any government un- der heaven. Such a system is founded upon tyranny and power, pot upon few. It stan: holly upon the law of brute force, and its ablest advocates admitted upon this floor in debate tbat there was vot even the form of Jaw in tho slave States, of municipal law, to enetain ft. It is wholly wRbovut support, and no Coubt ere long another Spartacus will rise up in its midat to contest with sufficient means the question of superior force. The very weakness of slavery was shown in the denunciations sgainrt the right of petition. Mr. Sedgwick war proceeding with the subject of the right of prays to Congress when the hammer fell, his hour aving expired. RAVIGATION OF THR WARLEW RIVER. Mr. Sickies presented the following reeolation:-— Resolved, That the President of the United States be acd be is hereby requested to transmit to the House all information in the posrersion of the officer in charge of the coast survey, showing the practicabinty of rendering the Harlem river navigable for commercial purposes, ana the expepee thereof. FORRIGN GOODS AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK. The following is Mr. J. Cochrane’s resolution relative to labor bertowed on and taxes levied on the port of New York, and which was Resolved, That the of the he ip sentatives foreign goods and texed with imports at the port of New York, and how the rame is |, whether by laborers employed by 4, the government or by laborers in the employ of tors under covenant with the government for the termence of the esme, together with the date of any con- act or contracts that may have been thus executed and de. irered, the ne, deg theyéto, and the conditions thereof, the chject bd purpore of the cong and the epson tberefor: “bat is the prerent condition of asid doniract oF contracts: who is now interested in the tame, and expecially if bé has reason to suppose that any member or members of Cengrets that now bes, or at any time has had any direct or remote or contingent pecuniary interett therein. And suppressed - the cotton spinning Jenny and its in‘roduetion into the South known compromise the eloquence of Clay, then in the lorth who fear were 3 further, that the raid eeoretary be directed to farnish the Hovse aforesaid avy information in his possession the eflect fas odueed, or that may be produced, by & - for the performance of such labor at 2 Upon the interest of the 1 upon of the importers and upon these of the laboring And further, whether the expenses of performing labor can be redvoed below the present prices paid, gether with apy other and further intormation touokin, ‘the subject of these See nae io bis opinion may ether requisite or useful. ‘The committee roge and the House adjourned. He i E ' a HEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL Charter Am Propriation Bill in the Agsembly—The Brookiyn Water Bil, dec. OUR SPRCIAL ALBANY DESPATCH. Avuany, March 26, 1860. The soft portions of the New York democracy have en- geged quarters at Charleston at the rate of fivedollars per head per day, commencing on the 15th day of April. The ‘agreement is that eighty persons shali pay that sum per Oay, commencing on the fitieenth day of April, whether the person is there at that time or not. It will hardly be expected that more than five or six of the leaders will reach Charleston before the 20h, if they do until the 2Ist; should they be in session only One week the sum really paid per Cay wii be ten doliars per day, This being the best that they could do, circulars have been ad- dreseed to the dciegates in this State, and all that have answered bave consented to stand the tariffag above mentioned. This ia only for lodging and meals, and they are to be stowed away four deep at that, extras mot in- cluded, but to be provided for out of the contingent fumd— for the good of the country—the xoft democracy im par- ticular. There is yet no small amount of excitement in political circles bere in regard to the quertion of tolling railroads. ‘The friends of the Senate bili wore busy ail day yesterday. Senstors Hammond and Hillhouse were at work with ereat diligence; the precise result of their labors did not tarspire. The conference committee will not meet unti? to-morrow; there is, therefore, po reason to judge what will be the result of the gonference, farther than judging trm the individval opinions of those forming the two CD Mittees. The Sepate committee is composed of two in favor of the Senate dill and one for the House bill, mhilet the Hovre committee ail votea for tue House bill on its origibal passage, and against concurring in the Senate ee Deer Should, there ore, the question be considered wm jomt of the two cummitiees, and decided by & yore, there is DO question in regard to the result, ‘or it wl be six jm favor of the House dill and two lor Wee Senate, The friends of the Seoate bill are Gevimmned, if porsidle, to Dave the question con- sioered separately by the two commillers, and whatever vote there may be taken in the commitee, tayo W1skep by each commitiee separate, avd on!y encb biliar may be thus agreea upon be reported, It ys. there- Jore, UbGer the Movements of the parties here, impossibie to tell the precie reault. Both sides are sanguine of victo vy, but one oF tbe other must be «ieappoinied, From the bert ipformation that T can get, there will either be no toll Dill at wll, OF elge the Sepaie bii!, wick the half cunt extva tare on the Centra) road strickeD out, wit pars | cenree po hope, as matiors now swad,for the Houte Dit) patting the Sepate ; peithes cap the Sepate bill, with tbe halt cent tare m it, ever pase tbe Assemoly, The re- pubiicene will therefore be compelled to take tbe commu tation bit of the Senate, with iho above amendment, or nove this winter. Yet, in this there may be some singu There have stiop, and ss er, that itis ike tebieg which way it blow to-morrow to precict the fiaal resuit. expected by some of the managers that the charter amenemenis would be aavanced lowards their peeeoge in tbe Assembly to day; bur it appears that the Iactious Opposition of Copover abd a few of the more ultra, grub-all republicans, wili post matter for some days Conover bes been put this year at the bead of the Fe publican Cer } Committee of this city, and desires to sigpahze bis sway by & sweeping partsan onslaught cn the demecracy bow ib tbe city departments, His special hobby is the Street Department, the ecene of his former Wale ar Street Commissioner. It appears that any change: in the charter which shall not piace this office under the contro! of the republicans, must encounter his opposition. ‘The otber and more subtle kader of the repad- ean city interesta in the lobby, ia Merwin R. Brewer. The charter as it stends in the bill reported to the Assembly, was adjusted, if not devised by him, ‘upen the plaveibie ground of dividing tho executive duties of the municipal government, strictly according to the spheres of the three executive elective heads by the charter. Thus the Comptroller bas the vast power of appoipting the Tax Commissioners, the Receivers, Col- lectors apd Ate<ssors of all taxes apd revenues, as well as the Chamberlain and the Croton Board—a clr- ‘cuit Of all the fiecal affairs of the Corporation county. ‘The pay rolls of this enumeration has a Net of ¢flices end employ more Inbor than all the rest of the city Duresur, particularly in view of the fact that the work on streets is Low mainly in charge of the Croton Board rather than the Street Depariment. The. Dill which was ttarted here to cot up the Law Department has Jong since been smothered, and the policy arrangea by Brewer will even gather under Judge Bronson ever) straggling Sregmen ‘of power which may have been ¢ivertea from bis office, duriog Burteea’s term. But the ph 1p which a change is reasonably cemanded as a pub- ie necestity , is the disorganization by the Aldermen of the executive cepartments Un thir ground the Croton Board ‘es transierred wo the republicans by means of Haws, because the aldermen bave kept it without being organized under the law sicce 1857. Tho markets, assessors, Kc, aro Paced upon the eame schedule and'as a complete foll to SDY ipvidiour partisen constr uction of tbe act, the Mayor ie included with ibe other two be: a6 to the indepen- Gent and rerporsible exercise of what power is leftto him under the charter. Under this programme it is apticipa- populace who supported the Mayor will be ind the power of the republicans plausibly apd vastly egrancized, wi-hout the danger of a new police or Street Department war. On motion of Mr. Flagler, the special order of third reaoing of bills was leid on the table in the Assembly, and the general appropriation bill was taken uo aad con- sidered in the Committe of the Whole, Mr. Millington, of Herkimer county, in the chair. Several minor amend - ments were made to the bill,ruch as receiving the amounts iated for tbe different puble depart- ments, 101 ‘aries, stationery, rents, &c ; Dut po amend- mente of apy public nature to the bill as reported by the Committee of Ways and Moans—excepting inserting a Clavee appropriating $30,000 tor the oraining of the Ca- yoga marebes, the amount to be collected trom the lands which are improved by this draiving, and alao inereasing the appropriation to the New York Deaf and Dumb Insti- tution from $33.600 to $87,(00, The committee went threvgh with nearly one-balf of the bil, when the s- tembly took @ recess until 7 P.M. This has been one of the duilest cays of the session. The lobby is almost dererted, and everyboay am cool a8 cucu th 58 in an ice hovse. The Brooklyn Water bill, which has already had os May lives as a cat, wos reported to the jrem the Select Committee, amenced by ator Spwwola, BVIL the appemtment of ‘the Commissioners to the Go- vernor, instead of the Mayor of Brookiyn, ae heretofore. The report wes oppored by Senator diner. The dill €T, On the call of the yeanand nays, was ordered bird reading. This isa xood move for the republi- it will give them the patronage of tha; portion of D governtent. 'e Senate was considering bills in the Committee of the Whole most of the evening, mostly, however, of a lo- cal nature. Hon. A. B. Willisfps, Sevator of Wayne county, is de- tained at home by a serious attack of erysipelas in the head, He was taken sick on the way home with family. ‘There is very little probability of his retarn this vessiop. Senator Wiliams bas supported the Pro Rata and Assembly Toll bills. His absence, therefore, loses one vote to those measures. jar develope ments withiu twenty four bour been 10 frequent en charges on thie q\ WEW YORK LEGISLATURR. Senate. ALBayy, March 26, 1860. Tho Assembly bill, declaring for and confirming the location of the Schuyler County Buildings at Havana, was reported favorably and without amendment made the special order for to-morrow evening. The biil to provide for the payment of Croton water at Sing Sing wan ordered to a third reading. ‘Mr. Srvoia again reported the Dill to amend the Brook- lyn Water act, which was recommended motion Mr. Gardter fast week. Lhe r Mr. GanbINkn moved to Jay the report on the table, and tbe bill ordered to be engrossed for & third reatea Mr. Dawmonn reported a Dill to amend the excise which was taken up in Committee of the Whole, but reading one section the committee rose without any progress. a RESIDENT presen’ ® comwmunication frem District t alew Bed New York relative to bills courts of that city and protestin; against the Of a Police Jstive’s ‘Attorney. Mr. ittxnox introduced a Bill to provide for the of ipeane convicts from Utica Asylam to the Wits ete sie the @ bill to regul the sale of poisons i & motion to reconsider was Jaid on the ‘able. tn The bill to divide Allegban: tricts wag reported for the contidersilon of me eiede ‘The PRExIDENT announced the following Grinding mittee Messrs. Ferry, Ketcham, Colvin, Moat: kemery, Rote. Gore ‘and j cia ir. RAMEAY luced a bill to regulate appeals from and in the Marine Court in New York. The remainder of the session was consumed by cenai- eration of private bills in Committee of the "Whole, Assembly, Atnaxy, March 96, 1960, ‘The Aseembly has been engaged all the debating the Annual Appropriation bill. 5 liv I morning ia Mr. Wrnerer moved to refer the bill for protection » } egainet unsafe buildings in N ise ioe #8 in New York to the first Oommit- ir. FLaGian moved to make the Persoval Liberty pe Te! ‘er of the eeesion was copsumed in ing the Appropriation bill, with the prospect P ge] Personal Mt WK Hep. Horace Maynard and Hon. T. A R Nelson, bow Of Tenneesec, are stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Hon. Jorish Quincy, Jr., of Boston, and Hen. J. Robins son, of Maine, are at te FiNh Avenue Hotel, * Senses