The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OPFFION N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 81s. TERMS, cash in advance. Money sent by matl will be at the eta Decale” Petaas’ daes ae seed ‘as subscription TH DAILY HERALD too cents per copy, $1 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, cocry Satarlay 1 sie ene Sopy, oF $8 per annum; the Buropean kdition every Wednenlay, at wiz cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, Or $5 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage; the dition on the Sth and 2th of each month at wiz cents Per copy, or $120 per ram. THE FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents por oF BE per annum f MOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing importans ews, solic from any quarger of the world; Y wed, will be paid Jor, pay U0 Forma CORRESPONDENTS ARE Pauticusak.yY Requasrap TO Seat al. Larreas amp Pack- 4685 sexe Us NO NOTICE taken ff anonymous correspondence, We do not Peburn rejected commudicitions JOB PRINTING, Jrecuted with neatness, cheapness and de- spatch, a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Wairs Horse Parrssa—Wivow or Trax MiLi—IRise AssoRANCR amp Yax- xa Mopssty. BOWERY THEAT! SEAR —] Peg 5 id RB, Rowers. wi Buur—Don Casan WINTER G. EN, ~ a ABD) Broadway, opposite Bond stree.- WALLAOE’S ol x. THEATRE, Broadway.—Romance or 4 Poor guawea KEENE'S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Coueen NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Drep—A Taiz or Two Ciriss —Youna Ausmca. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—Jaanis Deans—Dox Casam pe Bazax—Livina Cpriosires, £0. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Buriesquns, Sones, Dances, £0.—Tus Staancen. NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Cunurr’s Mur- Srxmis ox Sonos, Danons, Buuuesaues, 40.—Tux Toovixs. NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Boxcs, Dances, BukLesquss, £0. ONDERDONK HALL, 405 Grand street.—Hayrr Min- Srauis wx Soncs, Dancas, BuaLEsques, £0.—Bat Masqua. METROPOLITAN HALL. Jersey City.—Woop’s Mur. Brees o Erwortan Sones, Daxogs, &c.—New Yaan Cais, New York, Monday, April 2, 1860. MAILS FUR EUROPE. The Now York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Canada, Captain Lang, will leave Boston on Wednesday for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city ths af- ternoon, at bal!-past one o'clock, to go by railroad, and at four o'clock, to go by steamboat. ‘The Evxorgan Sorrow ov THe Heratp will be published ft tem o’clook in the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Hxravp will be received at the following places Lorvon,,,. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. Lansing, Starr & Co., 74 King William street. ‘The contents of the Eurorman Eornon ov tas Heratp ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at tne office during the previous week and up to the hour of Publication. The News. The Bavaria, which left Southampton on the 18th ult., arrived at this port last evening. The dates by this arrival are one day later than the accounts previously received, and the news, which we pub- lish elsewhere, is interesting, especivlly so far as re- lates to the question of the annexation of Savoy to France. It will be seen that Switzerland strongly protests against this measure, but that Piedmont and France have settled the question to their satis- faction. There is no commercial news by ,this ar- rival, Our St. Domingo correspondent, writing from St. Domingo City on the 6th ultimo, says the decree Baer ssing the new tariff declares all descriptions of machinery, books, furniture, bricks, tiles and sol- diers’ clothing free of duty; watches and jewelry of all kinds, as well as fabrics of gold and silver and precious stones, are subject to an ad valorem duty of five per cent; all other articles are subject to a duty of thirty per cent ad valorem. The government have several emigration schemes under consideration, and are anxious that the call may be responded to by some enterprising settlers from the United States. There were no American vessels in port. The Adeline Sprague and the Helen Jane sailed for New York on the 6th ultimo. The election for State officers in Connecticut takes place to-day. We publish in another column lists of the names of the candidates put in nomina- tion by both the democratic and the republican parties, and the vote cast at the last election, to- gether with letters from our correspondents, so that our readers may be informed of the position of affairs there on the very eve of the battle. The slow coach Washington papers annouce, what has already been made known to the public through the columns of the Hera, that informa- tion has been received at the Department of [State that the Cass-Herran treaty between the United States and New Granada, providing for the adjust” ment and payment of our citizens on account of injuries received in the Panama riots in 1856, has been ratified by the New Granadian government. The jury in the case of James Shepard, tried in the General Sessions for arson in the first degree, were confined yesterday, and there appears te be no probability of their agreeing upon a verdict, They will be brought into Court this morning, and if Judge Russell finds that it is not likely they can agree by further confinement, they will be discharged from the farther consideration of the case. She- pard will then be placed a third time on trial for his life. The holders of the unpaid bonds and coupons of the city of Milwaukee had a meeting on Saturday evening at the Brevoort House. There was a nu- merous attendance, and a large share of the bonds represented. The bondholders express confidence of final satisfactory adjustment of the securities. A committee was appointed to prepare for a future meeting. A full report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. The letter of our Albany correspondent, publish- ed in another column, contains interesting informa- tion relative to the Metropolitan Police bill, and va- rious other measures now before the Legislature af- fecting the citizens of the metropolis. The citizens aforesaid may congratulate themselves that the hundred days of the Legislative session expire on Wednesday, the 11th inst. Only ten days remain. But what an immense amount of mischief may be done in that brief space of time ! Jane McNally, who jumped from the fourth story window of the tenement house No. 90 West Forty- fifth street, during the fire on the morning of the 28th ult., died yesterday at the New York Hospital, from the effects of her injuries. Rey. Mr. Corbett, of the Greene street Methodist church, delivered a lecture last evening of rather an extraordinary character. The lecture was ad- vertised to be delivered to “thieves and harlote.” A report of Rev. Mr. Corbett’s address, and a de- scription of the audience, may be found in another column. ‘The cotton market on Saturday was without quotable hango, while the sales embraced about 300 a 400 bales, closing om the basis of 11 cents for middling uplands, Flotir was held above the views of buyers, which check- ed sales. Tore was little or nothing done for export at present quotations. The market for State and Western brands closed at steady prices. Southern flour was held with much firmness, while sales were moderate, but at full prices. Wheat was inactive, the enhanced views of holders not being met by purchasers. Corn was more freely offered, and closed at easier rates. Pork was sustained by a better feoling, and a show should that calamity befall the country they WEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1860. Of more Grmness was exhibited. Now mess sold at $17 ‘76 a $18, and new prime at $14 25 a $14 3734. Sugars continued firm and in good demand, with sales of about 700 bhde, and 600 boxes at full prices. The stock om- braced about 20,769 bhds and 12,544 boxes; 4,684 hhds. molado, and 56,461 bags. Coffee was quiet, but firmly held, while no sales of moment were reported, The stock embraces 5,026 bags Rio, 6,210 do. Bahia, 2,476 Maracal- bo, 3,050 Ceylon, 1,250 Porto Rico, and 26,604 mats Java, and 1,622 mata and 360 bags Singapore. Total, 47,354 bags, and 28,186 mats. Freights wore steady, with fair engagements, chiefly to English porta. litical sect, whose fundamental principles caa- Dot be: recor with the existence of the Confederation of Ameriéan States, cotablished by the heroism and godlike wisdom ef the best and greatest men of whom human story leaves any record. —_————____ Can Hicks ann Jackatow pe Convicrep oF Munper!—The arrest of the alleged plrates, Hicks and Jackslow, has created a most pro- found sensation in the community, and much Speculation has been excited by the very sin- gular circumstance, that although there is every reason to believe that five persons. have been murdered, not one of the bodies has ,been found. It has been held asa sound theory at common law, that there can be no conviction for murder unless a sufficient portion of the re- mains of the victim sball be found and duly identified. This is what is called, legally, the body of the crime, and is taken, like many of our common law maxims, from the Roman codé. There can be no question as to the general validity of this maxim; but it will not answer to apply it literally. The exception which will most readily occur to the mind is that of a murder on the high seas, where there might ex- ist indisputable proof that a murder had beer committed, and yet the recovery of the body be a matter of impossibility. In all such oases the United States Judges have advised the jury that the finding of the body is not indispensa- ble. In the cases of Hicks and Jaokalow, the crime, if any, was committed, tech- nically, on the high seas, and the United States has jurisdiction. Ie order to convict them, or either of them, of murder) there must be, if the bodies are not found, some clear and irresistible proof that the per’ sons on board the vessels are actually dead- There is not such proof now. The circum- stances are strongly against both the arrested parties, but there is as yet no such evidence as is required to convict in a capital case. As to the point which has been raised, that, according to law, there could be no conviction for murder in any case unless the body was found, we have only to say that in all criminal cases the jury, being the judges of the law and the fact, might convict upon secondary evi- dence which would prove, first, that a murder was really committed; second, that the priso- ner at the bar did it, and third, that the dead body was absolutely seen by a credible wit- ness. That such a case might happen is not impossible on land, and very probable on the high seas. __ The Connecticut Hilection Te-day. This election comes off to-day, and by intel- ligence from all parts of Connecticut we leara that the greatest excitement prevails, and that Dever was a State election so contested before. The canvass has been conducted with all the zeal and energy of a Presidential election. Stump orators from other States, toroblight proceasions, bands of music, illuminations and bonfires, the roar of cannon and the various appliances which are put in requisition when the great political organizations of the day are contending for the control of the Federal go- vernment, its spoils and honors, together with the victory on some exciting party question which divides the country—in fact, from the absence of any local issue, from the near ap- proach of the Presidential election, from the preparations which are being made for it in every State, from the recent agitation of the great issue which it is to decide, above all from the influence which the Connecticut election is likely to produee in favor of or against repub- licanism in the Northern States, and its conse- quent effect upon the Presidential election—it partakes of the nature of that struggle, and may be regarded as part of it—the first battle in the campaign of 1860. This accounts for the ex- citement of the people, and the deep interest which they take in the contest—an interest which is largely shared by the State and the city of New York; for Connecticut is our nearest neighbor to the North, and such is its intimate intercourse with us that both States may be regarded almost as one people. The interest of New York city, moreover, would be affected in a peculiar degree’ by whatever would affect the interests of Connec- ticut; for it is the commercial entrepot be- tween that State and the South. New York, indeed, has more to lose or gain by the solution of the question which now agitates the public mind than any city th the Union; butit is bound up in a special manner with Connecti- cut. Those who so wantonly risk the perpetuity of our federal republic by an insane crusade against the South have Ifttle appreciation of what they would lose by the change which they are doing their utmost to precipitate. But Tae Gripmoy Bits ar ALBANY—Mors Ciry Ramways.—The taxpayers of this city, who have been comforting themselves with the re- flection that the monstrous railway robbery scheme would be killed by the Governor's veto, will be a little startled at the alarming probability that the bills will pass over the veto by a constitutional majority of two-thirds. For George Law’s great gridiron there were twenty votes in the Senate; only two more Senators are to be coaxed or bribed into voting for the measure to secure its triumph. In the Assembly six bills have passed, and each has received an average of ninety votes—four more than are required to pass a bill over a veto. So the city will be thoroughly gridirened ina year or two. We have now six railways com- pleted in our streets—the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth avenue, and the Hudson River roads. The Ninth avenue road is begun, but not finished. The new city rail- roads will be eight in number, viz:—The Se- venth avenue, Fourteenth street, Tenth avenue, avenue B, avenue C, South and West street, Barclay street and Houston street; so that a public highway on this island without a rail- road through it will be a novelty. The lobby has had—thanks to the apathy of New York faxpayers—a splendid thing of it during this session. The Gridiron Legislature will figure largely in the annals of corruption. It beats Wisconsin out and out. Sprivkiine THE SrReets.—Our streets were never more in want of the Croton than last week. As the water which is used for sprinkling them is paid for by families, we can see no rea- son why they should be debarred from using it atthe period when itis most wanted. For- merly our streets were lit by the almanac— that is to say, when the almanac promised moonlight the gas was not lit. If the alma- nac happened to lie our citizens were ex-* posed to all the perils of streets plunged in Cimmerian darkness, and had to take the chances of highway robbery or assassination. The Croton Board appears to act pretty much on the same system. The two months in the year in which we suffer most from dust are March and April. During this period an in- calculable amount of damage is done by it te goods exposed forsale, and to property of all kinds, to say nothing of the physical ail- ments and discomforts which it occasions. Notwithstanding these facts, the Croton Board forbids by its regulations the water to be used for sprinkling purposes. We hope that it will be induced to abandon this abominable plan of doing business, and give us water for sprinkling the streets when it is really wanted—if not, we strongly recommend the sufferers to avail themselves of that principle of law which provides compen- sation for injuries occasioned by neglect on the part of public companies or officials, and to bring suits against the Board for damage done to crinoline and eyesight. The shower last night was a special interposition of Provi- dence. would soon find out their error—find it out when it would be too late for repentance. Leaving out of the question the horrors of civil war, and all the disastrous consequences which must follow in its train, Connecticut would suffer severely, in common with every State, by a dissolution of the Union; but she would suffer more than others in consequence of her peculiar connection with the South, through the city of New York. In her manu- facturing interests, cotton and woollen, her tanneries and iron works, her carriages and clocks, and other “notions,” she would re- ceive a heavy blow, from whose stunning ef- fects she would reel like a drunken man, and perhaps never recover her prosperity again. It may be said that Connecticut would still manufacture and prosper, even if the Union were dissolved. But the dissolution of the Union would set the South to manufacturing for itself, and deprive Connecticut of the best market for her goods. The tariffs and custom houses, and obstructions to commerce between the States, would cramp every energy, as the system does now in the petty States of Italy, and es it did in Germany until the Customs Union partially removed the evil. And what would Connecticut be if severed from the Union? A little petty State, like the duchy of Parma or Modena, liable to be swallowed up by any of her larger neighbors, or by any foreign Power. Her population in 1850 was 370,792, and ought to be now about 480,000— less than half a million. The area of the State is 4,750 square miles—the smallest in the Union next to Rhode Island and Delaware. But, in virtue of the Constitution and the Union, she is part and parcel of a mighty federal republic, with thirty-three millions of population and an area of 3,400,000 square miles. Her strength is thus rendered equal to that of the largest State in the Union, or to any State on this continent or in Europe. She is protected from domestic treason and exter- nal violence, and without expense is secure against the world in arms. But loose the last ligament which holds the United States toge- ther, and what security has Connecticut against deadly intestine feuds which would consume her vitals, or against the aggressions of stronger States, to which she must at once suc- comb and be their slave, or waste her blood and treasure in perhaps fruitless and unavail- ing war! If history is philosophy teaching by example, Connecticut ought to profit by its lessons. All classes of her citizens are interested, be- cause all have a share in the glory, protection and mutual advantages of the Union, which is now endangered by fanaticism, and because all classes in Connecticut are affected by the pros- perity or adversity of hermanufactures. They will do well, therefore, to pause before they disturb the existing order of things for any visionary Utopian ideas about blacks in the Southern States, for whose political or social status they are no more responsible, either morally, religiously or politically, than they are for the condition of the inhabitants of Kamtschatka or Hindostan. The safest maxim in politics is, to let well enough alone. For this reason, therefore, we hope the people of “the Charter Oak” State will this day prove to the world that they 80 value their precious rights and liberties, and the prosperity and security they enjoy under the constitution of the United States, that they will vote down the mad attempt to break up the political system inaugurated by our an- cestors. If Connecticut votes for republicanism it votes for the programme of Helper, Spooner, Seward and John Brown. And the end of that it needs no prophet to predict—no ghost to tell: But we trust that if no other consideration will influence its decision, its historical reminis- cences, the active part it took in the Revolu- tionary struggle which resulted in the Union, the great names which it has givem to the brightest pages in our history, and, lastly, its State pride and self respect, as one of the im- mortal Thirteen, will be sufficient to induce it to spurn the novel doctrines of an upstart po- Summer Travet To Evrore.—From present indications it would seem as if there would be an unusually large migration of Americans to Europe this season. Seven steamers from here and one from Portland left for European ports last.week, all crowded with passengers. One noticeable fact is the large number of steerage passengers which several of these vessels have taken out. The great ma- jority of these are probably emigrants who have been doing pretty well here, and who return to the old country either to pay ashort visit to their friends, or to settle down in their native places on the savings which they have accumulated. Amongst the regular pleasure tourists, the general tendency this year, with those who can afford it, is in fa- vor of transatlantic travel. The prospect of a peaceful settlement of affairs on the Continent will induce many to take this trip who last year were deterred from it by the warlike ap- pearance of things. To counterbalance this efflux of fashionables and people of leisure, we shall be inundated with the crowds of cock- neys and flunkeys who will come in the train of the Prince of Wales. There ean be no “royal progress” without a large following, so that it would seem as if the Atlantic would be, this season, in both directions, the grand high- way of summer travel. ———— Waflors’ Rights and the Hespital Contract System im Havana. We have received a number of communica- tions and circulars complaining of the neglect and evils that attend our seamen in the harbor of Havana, arising from the hospital contract system practised in that port. Ifa tenth part of what has been stated to us be true, the matter ia one that calls for the early attention of the government, and the ad- ministration should at once instruct our Con- sul, General Helm, to Isy the evil before the Coptain General of Cuba, with a request that he will take measures to put a stop to it. During the sickly season the yellow fever of Havana is a terrible enemy to our sailors, and one would suppose that the natural chances of recovery would be quite sufficient risk for them to run, without the addition of the under- taker’s interest thereto, in such a way as to establish a premium for the death of the pa- tient. Though this may not be the object, it seems to be the practical result of the present hospital contract system for seamen practised in Havana. ' The system of hospital contract in practice there assumes to eperate asa sort of mutual insurance against the expenses of sickness, when, in fact, it does not subserve the purposes ofa just economy. On the arrival of every vessel the captain is beset by the hospital runners, who offer to contract for hospital at- tendance on the captain and crew during the time the vessel lies in port, at the commutation rate of four or six dollars per head, in which is included bed, diet, medicine, nurse, physician, and all, If there is no sickness, this is all profit to the hospital; but during the sickly season the expenses of the establishment have to be met in another way. The contract price covers the expenre of treatment, but it does not include the interment, and, for the burial of the corpse in the private cemetery of the hospital twenty- five dollars and a half moreare charged to, and must be paid by, theship. The operation of the business will be best understood by one of the cases which have been reported to us. The brig E—— arrived at Havana, with a crew of seven persons, all told, during the sickly sea- son, and contracted for hospital attendance at the commutation price of six dollars a head. She remained in port over two months, and all of the crew were taken with the fever except the captain and cook. They were taken to the hospital with the following results:— One died after 9 days attendance. One «93 8 “ Onecured‘* 7 « pf One died “ 18 « « On « OW “ Total........68 days attendance. For this the hospital received the contract price on seven persons at $6, + $42 Burial of four corpses, 102 ‘Total hospital bill, The gist of the a private cemetery by the hospital, where the interments are made without form or rites of any kind. Christian and heretic, Jew and Gen- tile, are all huddled into the same trench—not only without shroud or coffin, but with so little respect that it is, asserted the negroes who perform the last duties to the remains of what was a man, strip from the body the remnants of clothing to sell them for segars or rum, and not unfrequently quarrel among themselves for the garments. Whether this be true or not, the impropriety of hav- ing private cemeteries attached to hospi- tals, which are licensed to charge heavily for the interment of pationts, whore oure brings no profit to the establishment, must strike every one. Our sailors run risks enough in the sickly harbor of Havana, without having such odda as those we are exposing added against thelr chance of recovery; and we are not so abundant in able seamen that we can afford to kill them off in order to support com- peting hospitals in Havana, The remedy to be applied is to have the hospital burial grounds suppressed by the government, and the interments made either in the public cemeteries—the proper authorities receiving the fees therefor—or in some properly at- tended cemetery for seamen, for interment in which the hospitals should not be allowed to make any charge. Such a burial ground, with the establishment of a small fee, in so sickly a place as Havana, would abundantly support a clergyman for the purpose of performing the last sad rites to humanity, and caring for the decent interment of its remains. We commend the subject to the early attention of Gen. Cass, as the fever season is near at hand. Tae Protest or Martn—ComPnications OF THE CapTuRED STEAMERS QUESTION.— We learn by telegraph from New Orleans that Commander Marin, of the recently cap- tured steamers, signing as an Admiral in the Mexican navy, has published a protest against the capture of these steamers by Captain Turner. The point of his protest lies in the statement that neither the Saratoga, Indianola nor Wave showed their flags when they approached him, so that he could not know who they were, and, supposing them to be towing armed boats to attack him, he attempted to escape; that two shots were first fired at him, which he returned; and that when he recognized the Saratoga he ordered the firing to cease. This statement conflicts so materially with the official report of Captain Turner that it looks very much like an afterthought, prepared specially for his defence by some pleader in New Orleans. Captain Turner says he sent an officer to bring Captain Marin, and ‘“‘as soon as he reached my cabin Iasked him how he had dared to fire upon my vessels. He replied, unhesitatingly, and in the presence of a witness, that when he observed my vessels steering into the harbor he had informed his crew that he was sure they were American vessels of war, and positively had forbidden them to fire, but that it was a mixed crew of various nations, having been but re- cently taken on board, and not being yet properly disciplined, he found it impossible to control them.” Between the two statements of Commander Marin, we cannot but accept the firat one, as detailed by Captain Turner, made when the impression of events was fresh upon him, and before he had consulted counsel as to the best defence that could be set up for his outrageous proceedings. We incline to believe that his views of mari- time usage and law have experienced a mate- rial change between the time when he trod his deck, flushed with the hope of wearing his broad pennant as an admiral of the Mexican navy, and that when he found bimeelf an in- mate of the parish prison of New Orleans, charged before the District Court of the United ) States with an act of piracy. It will ne doubt be clearly set forth,"in the testimony to be ad- duced, whether the Saratoga, Indianola and Wave showed their flags when approaching him, and if two shots were fired at him or not before he opened fire. In this trial several complicat- ed points will be involved, from the fact that the resistance to inquiry was perpetrated un- der the claimed protection of two flags— those of Mexico and Spain—and that the ships were fitted out in aSpaniah port. Itis a well established principle of international law, that the levying of, and the fitting out of armed cruisers, is an exclusive prerogative of sover- eignty, which no foreign Power can lawfully exercise in the territory of another State with- out its express permission. Perhaps Senor Marin bas infringed both the laws of Spain and Mexico in this outfitting, and as the offence and capture both took place in a Mexican harbor, the government of that republic may demand that the ships and prisoners be delivered to them for trial and punishment. If President Juarez advances the claim of sovereign juris- diction, public comity may require that the trial be transferred to Vera Cruz. Tae Distance Between THE ATLANTIC AND THE Paciric Curntarep to Eigat Days.—Com- mencipg with to-morrow the distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific will be lessened to little more than a week. Telegrams can be sent over the wires to St. Joseph, on the Missouri river, from whence they will be con- veyed by a pony express to the telegraph line at Placerville, which will transmit them at once to Sacramento and San Francisco. The distance run by express will be gradually lessened at both sides, and if the appropriation sought by the American Telegraph Company be granted by Congress, we shall shortly be able to communicate with San Francisco in the course of a few hours. Thus science is gradu- ally annihilating space and beating down the barriers that separate the interests of commu- nities. Oventne oF THE CaNALs.—There has been no announcement as yet of the period when the State Canals will open. We see that the Welland Canal opens to-day; and in the course of the next few weeks it will send off a large amount of Western produce to Europe. Seven or ten days start, at the present season, is, for canal navigation, a very important mat- ter, and tells largely on the tolls. We have re- ceived a letter from a correspondent, inquiring whether the influence of the Central Railroad Board has not had something to do with delay- ing the opening of the State canals. The writer must have a curious idea of the honesty of the Canal Commissioners to put such a question. And yet we should not be surprised if many others labored under the same impresaion—it is so difficult to account for the motives which govern public officials in arrangements in which rival interests are involved. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Affairs in Nicaragua—The Proposed Mo- Aificationms of the Tariff—Progress of the Investigating Committees—Tne Ups and Downs of the Democratic Presidemtial Aspirants, &o., ce. OVE SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. ‘Wasnincton, April 1, 1860. AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA—MORE TROUBLE AMONG THE TRANSIT ‘ROUTE SPECULATORS. Advices just received by the government from Nicara- gua, repreeent that there is considerable strife and bad feeling going on there among the rival interests for the ‘transit routes. It aleo appeere tat Iicaragua was rather indisposed to carry out the convention recently entered into between that government and Great Britain for the final settlement of the Moequito and Nicaragua imbroglio. Mr. Wyke, the British Minister, bad pretty plainly indicated what the go- vernment might expect should it allow the treaty to be defeated. Mr. Dimitry, our Minister, does not keep our govern- ment overstocked with information in regard to affairs there. He has not yet informed the State Department as to the exact provisions of the English treaty, or whether. it is the same project which was submitted by England to our government. THE TARIFF MODIFICATIONS. A strong effort will be made during the coming week to pase @ Tariff bill that will be satisfactory to Pennsylvania, and a large number of prominent citizens are here from that State, urging the passage of Mr. Morrill’s bill, al- ready reported, which is said to be satisfactory to the great interests of that State. Henry C. Carey and Dr. Edder, of Philadelphia, are among those who are laboring to procure the result indicated. There is a prospect that the bill will pass the House; but the Senate may fight it, on the ground that the democracy are hardly ready to change from ad valorem to specific duties, thereby aban- doning their old doctrine. It is hardly possible to carry the measure in a hurry, as a large nnmber of buncombe speeches are already written, and must be made by their authors, or they will not be clothed with the requisite record to be candidates for re-election. It is eaid that the resolution adopted by the New Jersey Democratic Convention, relating to the revenue and dis. bursing system of the federal goverment, was meant to endorse the iron policy inaugurated by Mr. Guthrie while Secretary of the Treasury. Batch No. 2 of the New Jersey Legislature is here. They are accompanied by the agent of the Camden and Amboy Railroad corporation, and rumor says sald corporation deadheads them here and back. ‘They have been busy night and day in making an inside and outside examination of all the peculiar institutions of this “City of Magnificent Distances,” and have been highly tickled. ‘HE RECENT PROTEST OF THE PRESIDENT. The House Judiciary Committee moots to-morrow, and will take up the consideration of the President’s protest, referred to them on Thursday last. The committee is composed almost entirely, with two exceptions, of ene- mies of the President, and but very little favor or fair- ness may therefore be anticipated from them. They in- tend to carry things with a high hand. ‘THB CHARGES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION. Mr. Covode’s committee meets again to-morrow, and has notified Collector Schell that they desire to interrogate him further regarding the money contributed in the campaign of 1856. If the committee pursue this matter further, and persiat that names of con- tributors should be made known, the democrats will follow it up by calling upon the black republican leaders in New York, who are known to have contributed largely for the Fremont campaign, and which was sent into Pennsylva- nia and other States to buy up a number of sickly news- paper editors belonging to the Fillntere party. Thus this Investigating Committee may recoil upon its inventors. ‘There has not been a tittle of evidence elicited thus far before either Haskin’s, King’s, or Covode’s committeos which can be tortured into proof against the President or his Cabinet. Constant insinuations are being thrown out that wonderful and startling developements will soon be made, implicating the adminis- tration, but in every instance they fall to the ground. Haskin, Covode and the whole gang of black republicans, will be utterly routed in this matter. ‘The only way in which they can injure the Preaident is to find ready witnesses willing to swear to any and every- thing, without regard to truth. THE PRINTING INVESTIGATION. ‘The absurdity of the statement telegraphed to the coun. try, that Mr. Ford, the House printer, is not willing to answer questions relative to arrangements which he made with partios.before his clection, is shown by the published evidence taken before Mr. Haakin’s committee. He de- clares that he made no promises to country editors, or to the lobby; beyond what is indicated in his evidence, and he ought to have the benefit of the fact, ‘THK ALLEGED OCRRUPTIONS IN THR NAVY DEPARTMENT. The Committes on Exponditures in the Navy Depart meat are prop, Wing (0 cater upon tion of the inve: ‘tigation of the all Davy, a8 commen ‘ed last year by of which Mr, Sherm ‘2 was chairman. 4 fack that Mr, Shorma.? isa meinber oft. ., pretty \ ‘committee, and the eua ccasor of Mr. Ready, who signed the minority report last y ear, is chairman of it. Thelive- oak transactions exposed \y the oommittes last year wift be further investigated, m Wy facts having occurred te | warrant such aoourse. Coah ‘acts for coaland machinery, ‘and the packing of the various yards with mon for eleo- tioneering purposes, will also be | examined. ot Tho sub-committee appointed &Y the House Committee to examine and settle the details of the Se- nate Pacific Telegraph Dill, had a p Totracted session om | Saturday, but failed to arrive at amy" conclusion. They’, will undoubtedly amend it in some reapects, cither im — throwing it open to competition, reduck" the time, and cutting down the appropriation from fifty’ thousand del- © lars, e@ California has passed the bill gi’ing the first telegraph company connecting the Atlantic with the Pa- cific sixty thousand dollars, THE PRGDENTLAL QUESTION. ‘The Presidential cauldron is boiling, and ecarcelyaday passes that does not change the fortames of those who are > most prominent for the nomination at Charleston. For the last few days Hunter stock has been very buoyant, and it ts said that nearly all the Southern States will com- centrate upon him. The coming week will probably place Jo. Lane, who is looked upon favorably by the adminis- tration, in the ascendency. The friends of Dougias are very sanguine, and are bettiug their moaey freely upon ‘his nomination at Charleston. ‘THE ADMISSION OF KANAS. In response to the report of the House Committee on Territories, which asserts tho general principle that the ‘acceptance or rejection of a petition for the admission of a State rests entirely in the discretion of Congress at the time of such application, Mr. Clark, of Missouri, ef the minority, will present the following points:—The constitution of Kansas was not formed and presented to Congress in accordance with law (meaning the English Dill), but in derogation thereof; that it does not appear that there is within her limits a sufficient population as required by law; and further, the proposed area em- braces the Cherokee Indian Territory, which Congress, im 1854, formally decided should constitute no part of the Territory of Kansas, but will be excluded from its bound- aries. These reasons form the ground of the opposition on the demooratic side to the admission of Kansas under the Wyandot constitution. 2 acer a Our Albany Correspondence. Aupany, March 31, 1860, The Metropolitan Police Bill—The Persons Favoring #s Passage—Bills Passed the Senate—General Appropria- tion Bik—Otty Railroads, dc. It will be seen by my report of the action of the Senate that the new Metropolitan Police bill is gradually moving along towards its passage. I have in my former comma- cation given much of the detail in regard to the origin of this bill, and how some of the unsophisticated Senators from. the rural districts wore taken to Gotham to seo the sights. The events of the past week and the attendance of a squad of Police Captains in the lobby have brought to ing about with his pocket full of circulars marked ‘‘con- fidential,’”’ and signed by a batch of chairmen of republi- Programme more important parties behind the brouck’s movements are only in part Nor are the republicans the only movers in this schemo. ‘There is a strong retinue of wire pullers from the Tam- ie Al gt Mop ag” ets tum possible upon re; us the republicans ‘with one ‘hand and the Ma the upon a few persons, is for objects besides Managing the police of your city. The entire crew are advocating the billas } taking off the mask under which they are now work- the as other subordinates, is known to other those who make them and those made Senators Imagine tnt i, Biay ace Aes MP HEB Toe 1g Over these no knows about them, but it so that" their ppd deal larger than their fancy ietoglt es sa coasting th toe Gomi teat oer ee elves equally ignorant of their condition ; and if they would cover up their tri no one about Albany would ever dream they had any heads. ‘The discussion in the Senate upon this the time been tame. There was a little spice last im the shape of personalities, but that soon died away the whole matter became decidedly tame. “They were dig- cussing the bill nearly-all the morning ecasion to-day several amendments offered by different Senators. some two hours discussion it was ordered to a third read- ing, the firal vote to be taken on Monday evening at eight o'clock. The Senate passed a number of bills this morning of more or legs importance, among which was one to provide for @ police court in the city of New York, orang the Comptroller, Police Commissioners and the Bosrd of Su; }, and the two Police Justices ‘until the expiration of the term of ofllce troller of tbe city of New York, xow in ofloe, was elected, but er. Bec. A. D. 1860. A number other bills were passed by that body, mostly’ of little importance. ‘s J Ce Red 589 fod for vam bata of the New York ani passed House this with Dut little or no opposition, in the ‘preston firms thse it | passed the Senate. The Standing Committee made a number of reports, Dill to confirm Law’s is plenty of time for the passage of them before the Legislature adjourns im th Ap) 8. ys Howse was considering the General vill all the morning. The bill was yey wit . Gover renewod his motion in relation to the dnicty’ three blind reterred to a few dayssince. Tne motion favored by Measra. Gover, Jacqnea and Dickiuso, opposed by Morara, ler and Conkling. Tho tion waz, howerer, ‘Thus it seoms that Mi 5 lose.