The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GO ON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TER: cash in aideance. Money sont by mail will be at the Wisk of the sender, Postage saps not received as subscription Tle DAILY HERALD too conts per copy . 3 per ann, THE WEEKLY HERABD, coory Saturday, at six conte per oF $8.per canning: the Buropeun Bilition every Walnewlay, Gr cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of treat Britain, Sone ann zort ay the Continent oth to include postage; the Qalifornia Kidition on the 5th and With gf each month at she conte per ‘or $1 80) per annum. ‘THY FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per |. oF $2 per annwen VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmportant free, solicited from any quarter of the world; ¥ used, will be Iiberally paid for. Ba JOR FOREIGN CORKESPONDENTS ARE Parricocan.y Kequestep TO Beat at Larreus any Pack a8 SENT US. A0NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspowlence. « We do not mr communications. 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ONLERDONK BALL, 405 Grand street—Harrt Mix- weanis of Bones, Dances, Bueesques, dc.—DOWN Im ALA- Bama NEWARK THEATRE, Newark.—Woop’s MinsTReis 1x Eruiortan Sonos, Daxces, &c. New York, Friday, March 30, 1860. The News. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 22d instant state that Miramon, after bombarding that city for seve- ral days, had abandoned the siege on the 21st, and withdrawn towards the capital. One of the bombs fired during the siege burst on the American Con- Bulate. After the capture of Marin’s steamers by thé Saratoga, Miramon sent a decree to the capital confiscating all American property and ordering Americans out of the country. Elsewhere is given some interesting official cor. respondence from Captain Jarvis, commanding the Gulf squadron, relative to the capture of the Mexi- tan steamers Marquez and Miramon. The proceedings of the House of Representatives yesterday were enlivened by a debate on a message received from the Presidentin relation to the course of action pursued by the Investigating Committee of that body. The debate was very animated, and the position of the President defended with much ability by Mr. Bocock, of Virginia. The city railroad bills were finally passed by the Assembly yesterday, and will now go to the Senate for their consideration. The Pro Rata tolls bill was ordered to a third reading in the Senate, and to-day the bill will come up on its passage. The steamship Ariel, from Aspinwall, arrived lastaight. She brings dates from Aspinwall to the 2ist inst. Our Panama correspondent states that gn arrival at Panama, from Buemmventura brings tidings of the suppression of the revolution in Cauca. Genera] Mosquera, with 6,000 men, had de- Teated Carillo in two engagements and had taken his whole force. It is said about 300 were killed: We give his letter in another column. The steamship Quaker City arrived at this port yesterday from Havana, which port she left on the 25th. Considerable commercial activity prevailed generally, but freights had somewhat declined in rates, with less business doing. The capture of the Mexican steamers by the Saratoga had caused a sensation in Havana. Advices from California to the 10th instant by the overland mail have been received. Business at San Francisco was rather dull. A large fire oc- curred at Tehama on the night of the 9th, which destroyed the flouring mills at that place. A de- structive fire had also occurred at Sacramente on the 8th. The Oregon gold mines were proving very productive. The accounts from the Washoe Bilver mines is of the same character as previously reported. Provisions were scarce in Carson Valley, and flour was selling at twenty-five cents per pound. Our correspondent at Belize (Honduras) states that the people of the Bay Islands are gtill in a state of excitement and dissatisfaction on account of the treaty, and descriggs them as making every preparation to resist Honduras and prevent her taking possession. A letter from Madrid, dated March 5, to I’ Agence d' Havas, says the Spanish government had decided on taking Tangier and holding it until at least they could be assured of the conclusion of an honorable peace. It is asserted that the United States and Danish Consuls at Tangier, together with M. Drummond Hay, constitute a triumvirate hostile to Spain and her projects; but the assertion may have originated from a protest on the part of those gentlemen against the occupation of that port by Spain. Gen. Almonte, of Mexico, was re- ceived by the Queen of Spain on the 2d inst. as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Miramon govern- ment at Madrid. Albert W. Hicks, alias Johnson, of oyster sloop notoriety, was committed yesterday by Commis. sioner White on charges of murder and robbery at sea—either punishable with death. The testimony yesterday went further in establishing his identity as having been engaged on the sloop E. A. John- ton on her last trip; his name was found on the sloop’s articles. The watch found on his person was identified by a watchmaker, from his business record, as that left with him twelve months ago to be cleaned fora Mr. Burr. The details of the ex amination will be found in another column. The further examination of Jackalow, the China- man, charged with the murders on the Spray, will be resumed this morning, the examination of the case having been postponed from Wednesday until Friday, in consequence of the absence of material testimony. The question of jurisdiction will also be settled. The probabilities, however, are that he will be sent to Trenton for trial. Additional interesting incidents to this shocking tragedy are given elsewhere. The third trial of James Shepard, charged with &rson in the first degree, was commenced yester. Gay in the General Sessions, before Judge Russell. ‘The testimony, so far, is precisely the same as was given at the former trials, the most important point Sgainst the aceused being his statement, months before the fire, when he exhibited a policy of insu Fance, and said that there would be a nice fire some @ay and his wife would be burned up. Her charred Yemains were found in the ruins. The court held fan evening session, and will continue to do so until the case is closed. The Board of Councilmen adjourned last evening till Monday, in consequence of a quorum not being present at the call of theroll. The tariff of charges for despatches to California by the overland pony express and telegraph from Virginia City has been arranged. The total ex- pense of a message not exceeding ten words, from Bay telegraph station inthe Atlantic States, will be 'x codars and ninety cents. Each wordabove that sumber will cost twenty cents the ontire distance. The money will be refunded in case the message fails to reach its destination in advance of any other mode of communication. A lecture was delivered last evening by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at the Tabernacle in Brook- lyn, on the subject of “ How to Save the Union.” The leoture lasted nearly two hours, and was well attended. The cotton market was hoavy yesterday, while the rales embraced about 800 bales, closing within the range of quotations given in another column. Flour was heavy, but in fair demand from the home trade, while sales were moderate for State and Western. Southern flour was more firmly held, while sales were fair. Wheat was in active. Lower and inferior qualities were neglected. The chief sales were confined to 1,000 bushels prime white Kentucky, at $1 70, and of 3,600 bushels white at $1 57. Pork was less buoyant and galos fair. Included in the transactions now meas brought $17 8734 & $17 95, and new prime $14 18% a $14 82. Beef, bacon and cut meats were in good demand, with sales at full prices. Sugars were active and firm, with sales of about 1,600 hhds., 500 boxes and 150 hhds molado ‘and 3,000 bags Brazil, at rates given elsewhere. Coflee was firm, and St. Domingo changed -hands freely, includ. ing purchases for export at 12c. The sales reached about 4,000 bags, with 400 bags Rio, at ldc. a 14%(c., and 100 do. Jamaica at 18c. Freights were steady, witha fair amount of engagements. Important from Mexico—Retreat of Mi- ramon. The important intelligence which we publish to-day is decisive in regard to the fate of Vera Cruz, and the Juarez government in Mexico, as well as to the propriety of the course pursued by Commodore Turner in cap- turing the Miramon steamers at Anton Lizardo. It will be seen by the official despatches, which we publish in another column, that our gallant naval officers were perfectly justifiable in the course they pursued towards the two corsair steamers. These having passed the castle anf? the shipping without showing any flag or sign of nationality, Commodore Turner sent the Saratoga, in tow of the two small steamers Wave and Indianola, to examine into their character. Instead of showing their flag, or waiting ‘o be hailed, they endeavored to es- cape, and on being intimated, by a shot across their bows, to stop, they did not obey it, but fired on the two steamers that were sent after them. The conflict was sharp, but the gallant tars did their duty well, and the result is already known. Miramon has failed, too, in his attack on the city of Vera Cruz, and after six days bombard- ment, in which he inflicted no great injury on the town, he gave up the attempt to take it, and returned to the capital. He has no doubt been impelled to this course by the combina- tion of circumstances which deprive him of the supplies of war material and p- ovisions oa board the two captured steamer + the dieccvery and suppression of the conspiracy in his favor within the city, and the danger to the capital from the constitutional forces, which had gather- ed round it on the departure of his army for Vera Cruz. His second failure to take the great seaport of the republic cannot but have a depressing influence on the party which sus- tains him, and the sacrifices made in the at- tempt must materially weaken the resources at hiscommand. But what will produce a still stronger impression in the interior of Mexico, and among the partisans of the Church, is the conviction of the fact that the vindictive and insulting course which they have pursued with impunity towards American citizens, and the official representatives of this country, at a dis tance from the seaboard, has not been wit- nessed without feeling by the President, and that if theyshould succeed in becoming mas- ters of Mexico, they will have to render an account to the United States for the outrages they have heaped upon us. Another fact that is made patent in the faifure of Miramon before Vera Cruz is the strength of the constitutional government of President Juarez in the hearts of the people of Mexico. While a rich and corrupt church is prodigal of its resources to supporta mer- cenary army, it cannot conquer the deep and inveterate hatred of the masses, and whenever its bayonets are withdrawn from one section to act against another, the abandoned country returns to its allegiance to the consti- tution, and numerous bands of undisciplined but enthusiastic volunteers spring up, as has been the case in the immediate vicinity of the capital in the present instance. This great fact, which the President had long ago ascer- tained through reliable sources, formed the basis of his recognition of and negotiation with President Juarez. The treaty which has been so long ‘pending in the Senate sprang from this fact, and its ratification will be the initiation of the pacification of the neighboring republic, and ofa great and important trade with us. We only require peace in Mexico, and regular mail communicatfon with her ports, so that the operations of commerce and exchanges can be transacted with certainty and despatch, to convert ten millions of people, now torn and distracted with civil war, into profitable customers for every article which American ingenuity and industry offer to man. In return, the great mining interests of Mexi- co, under the guarantee of our friendship and the influence of our enterprise, will pour into our channels of circulation a tide of precious metals far surpassing what the limited popula- tion of California has ever been able to pro- duce. Now that events have taken the turn in Mexico which we have all along foreseen they would, it is to be hoped that the Senate will take up the Mexican treaty, and by its early ratification confer peace on that republic, and give anew impulse to trade and manufactures in the North as well as in the South. Covnrerrert Cents.—It would be desirable if some means could be found of doing away with the copper cents which are still in circu- lation. They defeat the object of the new cur- Trency, and are a source of great trouble and inconvenience to individuals. Besides this, they afford to counterfeiters the means of car- rying on their frauds without risk of detection. At the present moment the city is flooded with these counterfeit cents, which are principally coined in Canada, and produce to the operators handsome returns, Intrinsically the copper cent is not worth more than sixty per cent— the price of old copper. Accepted, however, at the full value, as it unfortunately still is, it gives to the counterfeiter a profit of fram twen- ty-four to thirty per cent, exclusive of the ex- penses of minting, conveyance, &c. Asit would be impossible for the government to withdraw the old coinage from circulation without heavy logs, the remedy must be sought elsewhere. If the public will only combine to refuse receiv- ing copper cents when tendered in payment, they will be driven as rapidly from oirculation as were the old Mexican shillings, NEW YORK The Printing Plunder In Congress—Mr. Hackin'’s Report, We have already givea the material portions of the evidence adduced before the Committee of Public Expenditures, under a resolution of the House instructing said committee to inquire and report fully as to the public printing. This investigation has been conducted by the chairman of the committee, Mr. Haskin, and the honorable gentleman deserves the thanks of the country for the thorough way in which his work bas been done. It is quite true that Mr. Haskin’s committee did not ascertain any facts which were not previously stated in the press; that he failed altogether in adducing anything against the President and Cabinet, (one of the main partisan objects of the inves- tigation,) and that he damaged the party to which he has gone rather more than that which he recently left; but if the member for West- chester made a blunder as a politician, he has more than retrieved it in the service which he has rendered the country as a public man. * The facts as to this monstrous piece of cor- ruption, the printing job, have now become part of the history of the country. The evi- dence makes a thick pamphlet of over one hun- dred pages, and is as rich a recerd of rascality and cool, deliberate swindling as the Newgate Calendar or the Pirate’s Own Book. It should be printed in yellow covers by all means. The principal witness before the committee was Mr. Cornelius Wendell, who, although not elected Printer to either the Thirty-fifth or Thirty- sixth Congress, yet was the de facto Printer of the first, and incidentally of the last. Wen- dell paid to Steedman, the Printer elected by the last House, thirty-four thousand dollars bonus for the job. The newly elected Printer had nothing whatever to dd with the work, but he divided the bonus with a gang of hungry country editors like himself. Each of these suckers had a few votes in his pocket; and although the combination was known to mem- bers as well then as now, it was carried into effect, and the country was swindled out of the sum paid to Steedman & Co. That much for the House under democratic rule. The organization of the Houge is now in other hands, but the same game is carried on. Look at the scene a few weeks ago. Washing- ton is full of broken-down country editors and lame ducks, of politicians who have come from the North, the East and the West, to have a little dash at the printing job. There they all are, grunting and fighting like so many pigs waiting ‘c be fed. One Defrees, who edits a sickly paper in Indiana, inhumanly deserts his oantling, and it incontinently yields up ithe ghost. Once Defrees actually gets into the trough, and the savory mess steams under his nose, when, owing to the shocking ingratitude of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, in favor of whose father Defrees “first wrote against General Jackson,” it was sud- denly taken away. Now comes. a monster porker, with three or four little sharp-nosed, weazen-faced Yankee suckers in his wake. He is acorn-fed Ohio boar of the ponderous or- der. His grunt is a splendid bass. With one turn of his snout away goes Defrees in the dirt, and the Chevalier Tom Ford is astride of the trough, with his paws and his nose deep in the Apician dish. Before he has had time to serve out a ration to the little squealers about him, the Chevalier is driven away, but finally suc- ceeds in getting back again, and quietly feeding at his supreme leisure. Defrees was to give one-half of his profits to help the republican cause in the doubtful States, and made such a bargain with Kilgore, a member from Pennsylvania. This was to be spent for “documents.” Defrees was very par- ticular about that stipulation, and we give him the benefit of it. “Documents” are good things. Twenty thousand dollars for “docu- ments” would be as effective in Pennsylvania as that other twenty thousand with which Tom Ford didn’t carry the Keystone State for Fre- mont. Now, ag to Tom Ford. The Chevalier was as jolly as a well fed porker ought tobe. He made jokes, this funny Tom Ford. He, if elected, was to help Defrees, and also & man named Moran, from Philadelphia (once publisher of a sickly daily); Pangborn, of the Boston Atlas, (a shabby concern, far gone in consumption, and only kept alive by inhaling official pap,) and one or two more sufferers, including the Republic and Zra, Wash- ington papers since deceased. Ford’s bon mot was, that he was a soldier, and “took care of the wounded.” So these fellows make the printing money a hospital fund, and the House of Representatives a hotel for the sick, the lame, the blind and halt politicians from every two-penny country newspaper office in the Union. According to Ford, men come to Washington without sufficient money to pay their tavern bills, and ask Congress to give them work which requires at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash capital to start with. Is not that sublime effrontery? All the evidence goes to show that the House paystwo dollars for every dollar’s worth of work done, and that the extra dolar is divided among small potato editors from the provinces. The Senate is little better off. That distin- guished military journalist, General George Washington Bowman, is the printer de jure; but being also the responsible editor of that won- derful journal, the Constitution, he cannot at- tend to the first named job, and he hands it over to that long-euffering patriot, William C. Rives, who pays the martial Senate Print- er one-third of the receipts, amount- ing, say, to forty thousand dollars for each Congress; Rives prints the debates as well, in a fossil concern called the Globe, the motto of which ought to be, “the world is plundered too much.” According to his own account, Rives ought to have starved to death long ago. He has been working for the govern- ment for less than nothing at all during twenty- five years, more or less. To be sure, printers say, and prove in figures, that he made at least one hundred thousand dollars out of the Thir- ty-fifth Congress, which, by strict economy, the old gentleman might manage to exist upon. The summing up of all this sworn evidence is that the printing of the Thirty-third, Thirty- fe and Thirty-fifth Congresses cost = rellttinree and a half millions of dollars, of which one million and three-quarters went into the troughs for the pigs. It was clear, positive straight-out plunder and prize money for politi- cal pirates. Such is a) brief abstract of the information which the Haskin committee has laid before the country. Mr. Haskin’s report is generally creditable. His remarks as to the Washington and New York journals are quite true. He does not make out his case against the Presi- HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1860. Aent, not having a solitary fact to go upon; but he does prove that both great panties are so utterly demoralized that it will mot do to leave the printing of Congress in the hands of either one or the other. If any- thing, Mr. Haskin’s new friends are the worse of the two, the black republicans being a little more hungry than the democrats. For all these reasons the Haskin investiga- tion will damage both parties, but it will work great public good, by hastening the time when the printing for the government shall be done by an executive bureau, with its officers held strictly accountable for every dollar disbursed. Mr. Rives should be relieved at once from his unprofitable job of printing the debates, which should be reported in a daily paper attached to the bureau. Under euch an order of things the work would be done decently and at half the price paid at present, the country editors would be obliged to earn an honest living, Mr. Rives would no longer be obliged to sacrifice himeelf for the public good, and the Washing- ton journals, instead of being miserable hangers-on to the government, and sycophan- tic toadies to the powers of the day, might pos- sibly become newspapers in the real sense of the term. Now they are not within a thousand miles of it, nor ever have they been. The Washington paper is o disgrace to the country and a reproach to the civi- lization and progress of the age. It lends itself to the plunder of the people whom it should defend; it isa gazette of cor- ruption and bribery, and all sorts of rascality. It has not one bold, manly, independent thought, action or principle. It apologizes for mendacity, and finds ready excuses for pecula- tion. It isno more to be compared to a real live journal than a puddle to the noble Hudson. Sweep away, then, the printing job, and we shall have anew era in the developement of the art preservative of all arts,so far as the federal capital is concerned. Let Congress act at once. f Tue Rvrat Eprror Rampant.—Several of the republican penny trumpets in Connecticut, whose conductors are shaking violently in their shoes over the remarkably slim chances of their faction in the coming election, are very loud in their abuee of this journal and its conductor. Bennett is declared to be a great scoundrel, and Buchanar no better. Bennett’s offence is that he has endeavored to “manage” the Connecti- cut election so as to bring about a triumph for the Union, the constitution and the laws over treason, fanaticism, Sewardism, Wendell Phil- lipsism, John Brownism, and 7ribune-ism gene- rally. The New York merchants who have contributed to the election fund are “merce- nary wretches” and “low-lived capitalists.” The President is alluded to in language equally refined, choice and elegant. Now, all this rigmarole amounts to nothing, so far as the parties mentioned are individually concerned. The fact that Bennett, under any circumstances, could manage an election in an adjoining State, affords the strongest proof of the inefficiency of the press of that State, and further evidence of that tremendous power which the enemies of the Hzraxp accord to this journal. Bennett is Talleyrand, Louis Napo- leon, Metternich, Rothschild and Mephistophiles rolled into one man. The Admirable Crichton, according to these philosophers, was a fool to the editor of the Heratp, who regulates the affairs of the lumbermen of Maine, the manu- facturers of Connecticut, the merchants of New York, the cotton planters of the South, the miners of California, the land and railway opera- tors of the West, as well as the federal govern- ment at Washington, as one would do a job of printing, “with neatness, accuracy and des- patch.” So we are obliged to the rural editor for his compliments; but at the same time we must discharge our duty to the public, and reprove him and his breed, (they are nearly all alike,) for the use of coarse language, which they pick up in low grogshops. The rural editor repre- sents that class of persons into whose hands by some inscrutable dispensation of Divine Provi- dence pens have been put, only to show how far ignorance and stupidity may degrade an honorable profession—one that should be ex- clusively confined to scholars and gentlemen. ‘The rural editor has not the slightest concep- tion of the heavy responsibility which rests upon the conductor of a free press. He never conducts a free press. His press is prostituted to the service of a clique of small country poli- ticians, who use the editor as they emoke a segar. He makes up the news for his pa- per entirely from the metropolitan journals, and often abuses in one column the journal from which he has stolen in the next. Once or twice in a year the poor fellow’s masters give him a little money, and he comes to the me- tropolis on a mixed tour of business and pleasure. His business is begging for adver- tisements among the “mercenary wretches” and “ low-lived capitalists” of New York, and his pleasure is an exploring expedition through the Five Points, Church or Mercer street, and generally bringing up “drunk and disorderly” in the station house. It is very rare that the rural editor sees the inside of a géntleman’s house in this city. He generally goes away with his souvenirs of the slums, and describes New York as a Sodom, and his little village as a Paradise. If, however, some good natured per- son, in a moment of extreme tenderness, invites the rural editor to dinner, he immediately writes a full and particular account of the house, its inmates, what they eat, drink and wear, how much plate they have, and, in fact, every detail that can be gathered by active exercise of sharp inquisitorial faculties. At home the rural editor generally sub- sists upon eleemosynary contributions, and his highest literary achievement is the concoction of a puff for a new tavern or ap elaborate description of the town pump. So long as he can get his iquor free, and occasionally pocket a bit of the spoils tossed to him by some sympathetic Politician, he is as happy as any old nigger on a Southern plantation, and about as brilliant. The Connecticut editors generally may con- sider themeelves Brady-typed in this sketch. Next to the political parson, the political rural editor is the greatest httmbug of the day; and the very best things that the Chevalier Barnum could get to make a new run to his Museum would be fine specimens of the Connecticut edi- tor and the Connecticut parson. They would, however, need a deal of watching to keep them out of the station house. PEST Personal Intelligence. Honorable Thos. Corwin, of Obio, is stopping at the Astor House, Tax One Cunt Fensiace Br.t—Anauaents tuat Our Bora Ways.—The Union Ferry mo- nopolists have been thrown into a great state of alarm and indignation by a report that at the secret meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen, on Monday night, the sum of twen- ty thonsand dollars was appropriated to carry through the One Cent Ferriage bill. The state- ment may or may not be true; but if it be so, we can perfectly understand the virtuous sen- sitiveness of the directors and their employés. As long as the efforts of the Brooklyn people were confined to petitions and remonstrances, the monopolists did not condescend to notice, much less to answer them. The reclamations of a community composed of three hundred thousand persons were not of sufficient impor- tance in their eyes to extract from them any official evidence in reply. They were satisfied to fight the battle vicariously through the counsel for the Sinking Fund Commissioners, and to keep shady during the legal contest which preceded the appeal to the Legislature. Before the Assembly committee they pursued a similar course; but if they did not make their voices heard, they employed silent arguments, the force of which told in the most remarkable manner on the majority of the committee. They are now naturally alarmed lest their oppo- nents should have learned a lesson from their proceedings, and adpted a similar mode of persuasion. There would be nothing astonishing in the fact if they had, seeing that there is but one influence that can now make itself felt at Albany. We do not believe, however, that it is contemplated on the part of the Brooklyn delegation to employ money in any but a le- gitimate way for the furtherance of a measure which is based on considerations of justice and public policy. If money has been voted, it has been voted far the defrayal of the expenses attending the prosecution of the case before the Court of Appeals, and of the counsel and witnesses who appeared before the Assembly committee. The outcry raised by the monopo- lists at the bare report of such an appropria- tion shows that, impenetrable as they are to public censure, they are thin-skinned enough when there is any chance of their own weapons being turned against them. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. ONE WEEK’S LATER NEWS. Abandonment of the Siege of Vera Cruz. RETREAT OF MIRAMON ON THE CAPITAL. Americans Ordered to Leave the Country. THEIR PROPERTY CONFISCATED BY MIRAMON. THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT OFF VERA CRUZ. Official Despatches from Commodore Jarvis and Commander Turner. Graphic Deseription of the Running Fighting of the Steamers, kes Key &e. We are indebted to Messrs. Voigt & Millington, of this city, for the following brief but remarkably compre- hensive despatch received yesterday by them from Vera Cruz, by the way of New Orleans :— Vera Crvz, March 21, 1860, To Voicr & Miunerox, of New York:— Our place was severely bombarded for six days, but neither we nor our friends complain of any loes of pro- perty. The enemy has returned to the capital. BREHM & RUBCKE, Vera Cruz, ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Naw Ontzans, March 29, 1860. The steamer Wave, from Vera Cruz 22d, has put into Berwick Bay short of coal. She comes here for supplies and ammunition. The bombardment continued till the morning of the ‘17th, when Miramon attacked the city, but after a half hour’s combat was repulsed with considerable loss, TherSWere from two to five hundred women and chil- dren in the Castle. ‘The bombardment was resumed the same day with renewed vigor, doing much damage. One bomb burst in the American Consulate, which seemed an especial mark far Miramon. Another assault was attempted on the night of the 19th, but was quickly repulsed. Caryajal’s force captured a convoy of fifteen wagons, Joaded with munitions and provisions, and from two to four hundred dollars in specie, near Jalapa, destined for Miramon’s army, and dispersed the guard of 700 men. ‘Miramon raised the siege on the 2st, and withdrew to- ward the capital. Crry or Mexico, March 18, 1860, After the capture of Marin’s steamers, Miramon sent a & decree to the capita! confiscating all American property and ordering Americans sent out of the country. THE PRIZE STEAMERS LIBELLED. New Orteays, March 29, 1860, The prize steamers Miramon and Marquez were libelled by the United States Marshal. Tho.prisoners are being examined. OFFICIAL REPORT OF COMMODORE JARVIS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. CAPTAIN JARVIS TO SECRETARY TOUCEY. Usrrep States Sar bye Orr Vera Crvz, March 8, 1860. Sim—I had the honor of forwarding a communication to you on the 8d inst. by the English mail steamer, in which to effect an I stated the English governsnent were 7°98 t have made any counter proposition. oe hed tnt. Gen, Miraasoa having arrived at Mendel in, I sent Commander Turner, with the permission of this government, to with him. I herewith en- close Commander ‘Turner's report to me. On the 4th inst. this government withdrew the exequa tor from Mr. B. B. J. Tryman, American Consul, for good and substantial-reasons they say. The whole of the facts, I presume, will be reported to the State Department by the legation here. At the request of the Sccretary of Legation I have given Lieut. Melere, of the marine corps, permission to accept, for the time being, of an appoint- ment from him of Vice Consol, which I trust will meet your approbation. On the 6th inst. two vessels, apparently men-of-war, appeared at anchor off Antigua, a emall piace about fourteen miles to the northward of this, without any colors flying. After laying there some time they got un- der way, and proceeded to the routhward and eastward. They paid no attention to the flags on board of the men" of-war, nor to the castle, from which a gun was fired to call their attention to the fact. They treated al! with con Kempt, end procgeded fo Anton Ligardo, wherg thoy cams — __ 7 to anchor. Under these circumstances, I felt tt my duly, to ascertain who they were. I therefore sent the United State § ship Saratoga, Commander Turner, upon that duty. As the .Wind was diroctly ahead, I availed myeelf of the offer of ty’ #mall steamers to take him in tow. Wor fur- ther particu. 8 Of the unfortunate occerrence tha teok place afterwm ds, I must refer you to Commander Tur- ner’s report. 1 Wo not see how it was possible for Com- mander Turner to @ otherwise than he did, and I think that be and the other célloers deserve great eredit for their promptueas in defending their fing. I shall send the two steamers to New Orleans ag s00n a8 possible,and 1 have ordered Commander Jenke's, of the Preble, whe-.\~, will accompany them with the prisoners, after delivering the steamers to the United States Marshal, to take the prize crews on board bis vessel and proceed to Pensacola for provisions. Thave been under the necessity of employing a part of the engineers, firemen, &c., belonging to the two steam- ers, to convey them to New Orleans, and I have directed Com. Jenkens to pay them for the time they may be em- \ Ployed at the same rate as is paid-for their grade in the navy of the United States. ‘This place is.at the present time closely beseged. On the night of the 6th inst. they attempted to caary it by o storm, but were beaten off, and, from present appear- ances, I think the same result will occur should they again attqmpt it. From all I cam leara, they have as many troops in the city as the besieging party. Tam, very respectfally, your obedient servant, tus JOS. R. JARVIS, Captaia, gp Hon. Isaac ‘Tévcry, Secretary of the Navy, Washiogton.. COMMANDER TURNER 70 CAPTAIN Janvis. OW - Unrrep States Sur Saratoca, Orv Vexa Caz, Mexico, March 4, 1860. 7 To Carrary Jos. R. Jaxvis, Commanding United States; sbip Savannah :— Sm—I have the honor to inform you that, in obedience to your instructions, 1 proceeded yesterday to the head- quarters of General Miramon, at tho town of Meadellim, about four leagues distant. Immediately on my arrival I despatched a messenger to him to announce my presence in the town, and to say that having in charge a comms. nication from yourself, I should be glad to know at what 9 hour he would be pleased to receive me. I was informed im reply that he would see me at once, without loss of time. Irepaired to his lodgings, where I was received by him, accompanied by Gen. Robles and Mr. Dios, his Minister of Justice. I informed him that I had been in- structed by you to say tohim that having been sent to this coast for the exclusive purpose of affording protection to the persons and property of American citizens, as the senior officer present you had felt yourself. bound, at the oarliest moment of his appearance before Vera Cruz, to ascertain from him distinctly what were his intentions in respect to the per- gong and property of American citizens in that city, im the event of his‘taking it. He replied, without hesitation, that asin the case of ali” foreigners he should respect them, and should afford to both American citizens and their property all the protec’ tion which it was in his power to give. * 1 then said, ‘Having received this assurance, sir, 1 am further instructed by Capt. Jarvis, to say that in your at- tack upon the city, and in the event of your gaining pos- session of it, he will cause to be hoisted at the flagstaff of of each house covering American citizens and property the flag of the United States, in order that as far as it was possible they and it might be preserved from danger and damage by bombardment, and to insure to the occupan “of those residences that reapect on the part of your troopa with which you have yourself expreesed your determingy tion to regard them.” He replied, that he concurred ff the wisdom and neces- sity of such an arrangement, and should bear it in mind, and hoped it would be effectual in preserving them from harm and injury. Tremarked, in conclusion, that I was happy to take, back such a reply as could not fail to be satisfactory to my commanding officer; and thus ended the official p of our intercourse. In his deportment towards me General Miramon grave and reserved, but respectful and courteous. the other hand, General Robles received and treated with the utmost cordiality and kindness during my enti interview. On leaving I said to him that I desired to main in the town until the cool of the evening for my re turn, and that I had several communications from in Vora Cruz to members of their families who had taki refuge in Meadelline, which I should like to deliver. H replied, ““Go where you please, stay as long as you lik and deliver what you have to whomsoever you like.”| With which I took leave of him. T have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your o dient servant, T. TURNER, Commander. ‘Unrrep States Suir Sararoca, Orr Vera Orvz, Mexico, March 8, 1860. To. Capt. Jos. R. Jarvis, Commanding United States 8 Savannah:— Sir—On the morning of the 6th inst. two large ers appeared off the harbor of Vera Cruz, without any being hoisted, although a gun was fired from the C and the Mexican flag run upat the same time to them to do 80. They were evidently confederates, as they never hove to for some time, communicating with with the Spanish vessels of war at Sacrificios, which out a boat to them, they stood down in the d Anton Lizardo. You directed me immediately to p my ship in tow of two American steamers here, the Wi and Indianola, which were placed at your disposal, follow them, to ascertain their character, where th were from, of what nation, whore they fitted out and was their object upon this coast, and to report to you th result of these inquiries with all possible despatch. In obedience to these orders, I left hore about set, in tow of those vesrels, on board of of which I placed. detachment of ab thirty-five men and marines in case they might go shoal water, where my ship, with her large draft, cou not follow and communicate with them. The detachme ‘on board of the Wave was commanded by Licut. Joel Kennard, of the Savannah, accompanied by Midshipm Whittle, of the Preble. That of the Indianola was co manded by Lieut. Bryson, of the Preble, accompanied Mr. Joseph Miller, of the samo veesel; Lieut. Hayes, the marine guard of the Savannah, au Licut. Meiere,| the marine guard of this ship. I proceedea down coast, making Anton Lizardo, fifteen miles distant, wh LT expected to find them about midnight. Two large yj sels were reported at anckor at Anton Lizardo. I std irectly for them. I had directed my pilot to anchor immediately between tho two vesscls. At the mom when I had nearly reached this point, and the tow Doth the little steamers being ahead of me, they hai and reported that the larger steamer of the two qwnder way and endeavoring to escape through southern passage. I hailed, and ordered them to pu him and get on board him if possible, as I was ordered communicate with the senior officer, who I supposed on board of this vesrel. At the same moment I fi shot abead of him to bring him to. Assoon as they close to him, which was but a few moments, to my treme astonishment he opened a beavy fire of great and musketry upon them, and it was reported to me same time that the other steamer was slipping her I immediately gave him a broadside, as hed not the motest doubt of his being in complicity with and wi the orders of the officer of the other steamer, and I afraid be would go to his assistance, in which case I. have been obliged to recall my vessel or to have nessed their captare and destruction; and as he had audacity to dre into me without any provocation t I was determined to seize him if I could. He ran up Spanish flag as soon as I fired. In the meantime larger steamer was hotly engaged with the fore board my two little steamers in a running fight. 1 be could not get out of the southern passage, he in Giately changed his couree, put his head to the north and passed inside of me to gain the northern p 4 to keep out of the way of my guns, followed by sels, warmly engaged with him all the time. He dently too fast for and was gaining upon them; as h ebead of them I got a gun to bear upon him an away his smoke stack. 1 found néw that it was it ble to fire without danger to my vessels, as they all together. The chase was continued, and in the of the hot fire on either side I not but adm vhig moment, the daring gallantry’of these fine fel] contending with such a superior force. They o upon and grappled with him, in spite of his effe shake them off. Finding it impossible ‘to I suppose he ran his vessel on at all events, preesed closely by thom, grounded, which I was not aware of at the ‘They were then distant about a mile from may ahi my anxiety was intense for their safety. Lcouwld them bo posible ald. My three largest cutters “board, and before I could have manned my boats totbem the affsir would have been, ended. I wa, however, kept Jong in suspense, for almost immedi Peard three cheers, and was jgformod that the Voarding ber over the bows, which could be di by our glasses, Trew return to thg Beamer at auchor clos9