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Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six centa. Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos- Bible. ‘ORK Tae News. In Congress yesterday tue Senate passed the bill providing for the adjudication of claims against Paraguay. Bills for the organization of Arizona NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, | euch additional word is thirty instead of twenty | cents. Owing to a decline in the receipts of cotton at New Or- leans, the market exhibited more tone yesterday, while | the sales embraced about 1,500 bales, closing with more firmness on the basis of quotations given in another oo- ; lump. The receipts at the ports since the lst September just beve now reached about 3,996,000 against 3,260,000 ; bales in 1859, 2,442,000 in 1958, and 2,622,000 | im 1857, The exports in the samo period have | Teached 2,699,000 against 1,964,000 in 1859, 1,611,000 in | 1568, and 1,621,000 in 1657. The stock on hand amounts to 977,000 against 817,000 in 1859, 780,000 in 1858, and 637,000 in 1857. The amount already reccived at the ports exceeds in amount any crop ever before grown in this country, Flour was in better reqnest, with feir sales and at better prices for moet deveriptions, Wheat was firm, with small sales Prime white Western and Canadiag at $1 63. Corn was tolerably active, and without further change of moment in prices, Pork was in fair demand at steady prices, f new moss at $17 8734; old do, at $1750; new 4 Were in fair request, with sales of about 600 hhds, and 150 boxeR, at rates given in another place. Coffed was eteady, with a fair amount of engagements. The Connecticus Election the Foreran- ner of the Great Contest. The recent canvass in Connecticut and its results prove conciugively* that the political | campaign upon which we are about entering will be ove of ihe greatest as well as one of the most hotly contested the country has ever experjenced, and it may also be one of the most momentous in its consequences. An abstract idea, productive of no good to any one, and fruitful of evil to all, has: been agitated by fanatics, and urged on by political demagogues, till it has become a mania with the people of the Northern States, among whom it is now raging with all the virulence of a moral epidemic. It springs from the old Puritan stock, and is characterized with alt the self-sanctification, the idiosyncrasy and to live in England under a government which ed to Holland, in search what they . called religious ‘freedom. Becom- ing disgusted there, because the people were tolerated in their peculiar manner of amuting themselves on the canals on Sundays, they crossed the ocean and founded in the wilderness of New England a government after their own hearts. Through a syllogism pecu- liar to themselves, which declared that the ot the Saints, and that they were the Saints, they entered with self-satisfaction into possession of their new domain. The Indians were sub dued and exterminated, the Quakers were sub- sequently driven out with Roger Williams, the Baptists and afterwards the Methodists were ‘declared to be heretics that should be ducked out of their irreligious belief, and the witches were executed, while the Rev. Cottom Mather stood by and saw the devil whispering at the ear of the victims when on the scaffold. No- thing that ¢id not bow before their intolerance whity brown of free soilism. The other has absorbed all the conservative elements, no matter by what names they have been hitherto known. There is no longer a third party. There is no room or scope for it. In Rhode Island, for instance, the conservative candidate for Governor formerly belonged to the Know Nothing party. Among his warmest supporters are the Catholic Irish, who, ignoring a dead issue, will vote for him to-day as the best man for the time, and against disunion and revolu- tionary republicanism, Conservative Gain in Connecticut. The republican journals claim the result of the Connecticut election as a great victory; but it is like that which Pyrrhus obtained over the Romans, causing him to exclaim, “Another such victory and we are undone!” Consider- 2 a $14 3124; and old do, at $12 75, Sugars | ing that this battle was fought in one of the New England States, the cradle of the anti- firm, nnd 600 bags Porto Rico sold at 14c, Freights were | Slavery fanaticism, the land of Blue Laws, and that it is the first time the anti-slavery issue, pure and simple, has been presented to the country, there is no great room for glorifica- tion on the part of the black republicans, nor for depression on the part of the democracy. Viewing it asa test whether the anti-slavery sentiment is advancing” or receding at the Nofth, we must consider it rather a republican defeat than a victory. The New York Zribune had calculated upon a majority of 2,000; but instead of that, the majority is not 600, though there is a great increase upon the total vote of last year’s election. Instead of the republican cause making progress, if has lost ground in Connecticut. Last year, out of a taller vote, the republican majority was they could not rule, the early Puritans migrat. There are 16: earth was ihe Lord’s, that’ He had given it te been four or fivi 1,870. ° THis year, out of a larger vote, it is not one-third the number. There is thus a con- servative gain of about 1,300. The republican majority is so small that it the intolerance of that peculiar sect. Refusing may easily be overcome in the Presidential election, and there isplenty of time yet to doit. 8 towns in the State; ‘wo or three votes gained in each would change the majori- ty into a minority. Every year the republican majority in Connecticut is growing small by degrees and beautifully less. Before the year 1860 has expired, if the diminution go on in’ the same ratio, the majority will become less than nothing. There isno ground, therefore, for anything like despondency as to the future of Connecticut. Had the republican majority e thousand, or even greater than it was last year, the case would be diffe- rent. But its diminution to so small a figure shows that enlightened and liberal principles are making steady progress in the State, and that there is every reason to hope that it will vote on the right side in the Presidential election. Then we ought to take into consideration the fact that though the vote was a large one, it does not, by any means, exhaust the conserva- tive strength. According to the natural growth and Colorado Territories were reported. A bill was reported providing for the expenses of the Japanese embassy on their arrival in this country. After acting upon several unimportant matters, the Homestead bill was taken up, and Mr. Wilkin- gon made a speech on the subject. The entire ses- sion’of the House was occupied in an animated 4e- Date on the bill for the suppression of polygamy in Utah Territory, but no final action was taken. In the State Senate yesterday several bills - were passed, among them ‘hat relative to the removal of insane convicts from Utica to Auburn. The bill to extend the term of Supervisors was of the population, calculated from the statis- tics of the census and former elections, there ought to be a reserve vote of some twelve or fourteen thousand, and as a reserve vote is al- ways conservative, the fair inference ts that when the complete vote of the State is brought out by the still hotter and more decisive battle of the Presidential election, the scale of victory was allowed to exist in the community. In this same spirit, a crusade against the in- stitution of domestic slavery in the South- ern States was begun twenty-five years ago, and recently the political demagogues and disappointed politicians have taken it up a8 a promising political specula- i be rea Tea oe will be turned to the other side. Thousands aan 5 ‘4 'g4 | who are now perplexed, and could not make eRe tn ste iearoreabed \oBjode |: Lhe ret ot up their minds in what way to vote, will decide theta oclainis tie _Congtitution to be “a for the Union and the constitution next fall. reported, and that to amend the Excise law or- covenant with hell.” Wm.Lloyd Garrison and It is worthy of remark that the democratic dered toa third reading. Atdoon the Senate, in} Wendell Phillips are the apostles and John gain is in the large and manufacturing towns, joint convention with the Assembly, re-elected | Brown is the martyr of their cause. The poli- where enlightenment prevails, where the New H. H. Van Dyck Superintendent of Public Instrac: | ticians advance a different belief. Lysander | +-, tion. Some debate arose as to the right of the Spooner, who is the St. Paul of sinm ack York press is most read, and the progress of Senate Committee of Conference on Railroad Tolls tHitnti to report. The report of the Assembly part of the babes ay phe i ze sree ue Pe aad remote rural districts, where ignorance and committee was received from the Assembly. The | 00? ‘metrument, and thal under it the Federal | fanaticism abound; the republicans have ob- Metropolitan Police bill was passed, 18 to 12. In | COUrts can free every slave by habeas corpus, | tained accessions to their strength. The John the Assembly the bill relative to West Wash- | Of the right kind of interpreters of the law are | Brown excitement has made converts where the ington market lands was debated at’ length | ppointed judges and sheriffs, and William H. | \ignt of truth could not penetrate. In the and passed, 75 to 18. The Dill relative to | Seward is their candidate for the political populous towns, where there is much discussion railroad stockholders voting by proxy wi papacy or martyrdom. Both of them preach | gna interchange of thought, the violence of the lost, 45 to 46. The Conference Committee on the | the same object—the abolition of negro slavery republican leadershas driven many out of their Railroad Toll bill reported that the Senate commit | in the South—and, for the coming campaign, | ranks, In these towns, 600, the partial loss of tee had proposed that the railroads pay, in lieu of | the fanatics have united with the demagogues, tolls, $1,301,000, (of which the Central is to pay rag SBS, | the Southern trade is more directly felt, and $1,000,000, and be entitled to all the privileges of | 12 °%4e% if possible, to elect a President and a | its total loss would be ruinous, and therefore i A an vi 's N, . i other roads,) which the Heuse committee declined, Congress that will give abolitionism a trial for they voted on the side of common sense and the attainment of its ends through the process | their own interests. Greater conservative gain public opinion is most rapid; whereas, in the ; proposing as a substitute to repeal the act of 1951 abolishing tolls. Hereupon the committee disagreed and adjourned. After debate, a mot by Mr. Flagler that the Assembly insist on its amendments was adopted by 96 to 4. A bill was introduced by unanimous consent, to repeal the act of 1851 abolishing railroad tolls. It was im- mediately reported. considered in committec, and ordered to third reading. The South and West Street Railroad bill was passed. Also the Ninth Avenue Railroad bill. A number of bills were act- ed on, but we must refer to our reports of the proceedings for details. The examination in the case of the Chinaman Jackalow, who is charged with the murder of € Leete and brother, of the sloop Spray, was con- cluded yesterday at Jersey City, before United States Cammissioner Vroom, and the prisoner was committed to answer for the crimes of murder and robbery. Copious details of news from Mexico down to the 22d ult. ure published in to-day’ accounts embrace interesting particula e fects of Miramon’s bombardment of Vera Craz and the unsuccessful assanlts of his troops upon the city. The cannonading lasted six days, and the de- struction of property was very great. The Quarantine season has just commenced by the issue of an order by Dr. Gunn, the Health OM- cer of the Port, the object of fhe order being to guard in advance against the importation of infec- tious diseases by vessels arriving from foreign ports. The order just issued requires captains of vessels trading between New York andthe West Indies, and other tropical ports, to provide them. selves with bills of health signed by the health au- thorities of the port from which they respectively sailed, for presentation on their arrival in New York, under penalty of detention at quarantine. The same requisition extends to coastwise vessels arriving from ports south of Henlopen. To insure certain compliances with the injunction referred to, all United States Consuls at the ports alluded to are notified in advance by the State Department at Washington, to instruct captains of yessels leaving their ports after the first of April, of the necessity of supplying themselves with clean bills of health. Complete returns of the State election in Con- necticut show that Mr. Buckingham, the republican Paar gt pi been re-elected Governor by a ma- jority of 571 votes. The Legislature is largely re- a : gisla' ely The weekly return of statistics made to the Alms- house Governors shows the number of inmates at present in our public institutions to be 7,826, which is a decrease of 177 forthe past week. The nam- ber‘admitted during the week was 1,387, and those discharged, transferred, or who died, numbering 1,564. 3 _. Weare informed that am in stating the tariff on me fornia by the overland express frow S) sph. The rate for ten words was correctly given, but that for ke has been made | Structien + of law. The abolition of slavery and the pre- servation of the Union by force are the professed objects of the black republi- can party. These ideas can only have the local support of the Northern States, where little is practically known of the nature of the negro, or of the institution of negro slavery. In these, end particularly in the rn- ral districts, it bas taken possession: of the minds of many people with all the power of a mania. If defeated in the coming contest, the union between the fanatics and the demagogues will be dissolved, and the mania will die from its own excess. Against this jntolerant and destructive mad. ness the conservative spirit of the country is beinw roused, and will rouse, to combat it. Blindes by.an indiscreet and unwise zeal, it medaces cvery interest, even its own, with de- { ‘he crisis of its fever must be met by the union of all upon the one common ground | of. self-defence. The result in Connecticut | shows that the third party scheme is out of the question. There the issue has been fairly made between destructives and conservatives, | and the latter, fighting squarely the battle for the institution of slavery, have cut down the anterior majority of their antagonists to a | merely nominal existence. This result shows | us how and where the coming battle must be | fought. The personal claims of men must be set aside and principles only inscribed upon the banners. These must be carrjed and de- | fended through the commercial and industrial | States in the centre of ‘the Union. There lies | the heart and beat the pulses that mark the flow of the life currents of the confederacy. There they can be soonest and most directly touched. The Connecticut election has shown to the whole conservative interest that it must rouse its members and unite its forces, and that by so doing it can subdue the mania and save the country in the coming crisis. Warne ts THE Tur Party?—In the exciting Connecticut election which has just come off, there is no trace of the third party, which has hitherto shown itself in similar contests. What has become of it? It is completely ab- sorbed by the two belligerent parties who con- tended for the mastery. There is now but one issue and two parties in Connecticut, or any- where in the country-—the issue, the irrepressi- ble conflict, and the parties, the black republi cans and the democrats. One party has swal- lowed up all the anti-slavery elements of the country, from the black aud blood red stripe of the Jobn Brown and Helper echool, to the faint may be expected in the manufacturing towns in the struggle of November next, when it is also to be hoped that the rays of political light will reach the most distant and benighted corners of the “nutmeg State.” Certainly in the result of this election the republicans have no reason to exult, and the conservatives none to despair. RepvsiicaN NULLIFICATION OF THE ConsTI. of open and flagrant nullification of the con" stitution of the United States by the Legisla” tures or Governors of some one or other of the Northern States. Wisconsin has obtained an unenviable distinction among the disloyal States. The act passed by her Legislature, nullifying the Fugitive Slavelaw of Congress carrying out'the plain provision of the consti- tution, with Senator Doolittle’s justification of the treasonable proceedings by a speech in Congress, have been recently adverted to in these columns: And now it devolves upon us to denounce the conduct of the republican Governor of Wisconsin in calling for power from the Legislature to authorize him to nullify the constitution and the laws of Congress in reference to the power of the President to call out the militia, the constitution giving to Con- gress, in express terms, the authority to “provide | for calling forth the militia to execute the laws | of the Union,” and designating the ‘President as “Commander-in-Chief of the militia of the se- veral States when called into the actual service of the United States.” We regret to say that a | majority of the Committee on Militia of the Senate have responded faverably to Governor Randall’s messsge, and that the probability therefore, is, that an unconstitutional bill, at- tempting to subvert the legitimate authority of the federal government, will be paseed. It is gratifying, however, amidst this folly, fanati- cism and disaffection, to see that’ there isa remnant true #0 the constitution and the Union. In another page we publish a minority report by Senator Egan, which does him credit. He exposes the conduct of the Governor, who cashiered an officer of the militia and disband- ed his company because he said it would not be his duty to turn the arms of his company against the authorities of the United States— in other words, to commit treason, for which he and every member of hiscompany would be hanged, and the Governor who gave them the order. Such are the lengths to which Northern fanaticism is proceeding; and if the people tolerate this infamy any longer, bow is it possible, we ssk, thatthe Union cau be saved TuTIoN.—Every day brings forth some new act’ from dissolution and the country from a reign of lawless anarchy which it is fearful to con- template? Tue Parpontnc Power—Case ov Cesmmins.— Governor Morgan has been very unfairly as sailed by a portion of the press for refusing to commute the sentence of the murderer Crim- mins. People who are governed more by rea son than sentiment think that the Executive acted perfectly right. If the grounds on which the jury recommended the criminal to mercy were clear to their minds, they had no business to find him guilty. Thatthey were not so is proved by their verdfct, and the consideration given to the case by the Governor may fairly be supposed to havo outweighed the doubts suggested by the recommendation. On a candid review of the circumstances of the case, we believe that most people will con- cur in the opinion of the Executive, that this man deserved his fate. If he did not exactly kill his victim in cold blood, he yet had,ample time to weigh the consequences of his crime. Ii the law is called upon to allow such an in- terval of reflection to elapse before premedi- tation can be charged, as the murderer had in t s case, Do man would be safe from private vengeance. The theory of the law is, on the contrary, that a second may suffice for preme- ditation. It is by circumstances that the inten- tion must be judged, and not by time. In the present instance both time and circumstances went to show a deliberate purpose on the part of the murderer. After an altercation, in which we admit great verbal provocation had been offered by the deceased, Crimmins retired to aroom off hisstore, procured a bayonet, and, rushing out after him, stabbed him to death. There is no pretence that the killing of Mc- Hevry was done in self-defence. No life’ was jeopardized and no justifiable excuse could be urged for so desperate an act. It was, there- fore, murder, in the most unqualified sense, ac- cording to the legal definition of the term; and there is nothing in the circumstances urged by the friends of the criminal which can at all vary its complexion. This is no doubt the view which Governor Morgan took of the case. But there wagan- other consideration that pressed upon his mind, which it may be presumed never occurred to the jury. The policy of our crimigal laws is prevention rather than punishment; and with an honest Executive .it was a matter of conscience not to add another to the many precedents established by his predecessors to the utter defeat of that policy. It is precisely because the prerogative of pardon has been so much abused that murder is so frequent amongst us. If punishment followed prompt- ly and with certainty the commission of the offence, we should have fewer crimes of this nature to record. When, however, it is made evident that between the crime and the pun- ishment there are innumerable chances of es- cape through the complicity of public prose- cutors, the ignorance of judges, the stupidity of jurors, and the pliancy of an Executive acted upon by party influences, it is not to be wondered at that offences of every kind should be continually on the increase. Capital pun- ishment of course ceases to hold out any ter- rors to evil doers as soon as @ purchasable leniency interferes with the certainty of its in- fliction. If any one doubts these facts let -+him exa- mine the calendars of our criminal courts. There will be found upon those that have just opened no less than eight or ten capital of- fences, and scarcely a day passes that the num- ber is not added to. We live in a state of so- ciety which demands at the hands of all who are entrusted with authority the most rigorous and conscientious exercise of it, unless they would see us degenerate into the barbarism which follows the reign of brute force. If they were to listen to the sentimental theories of humanitarian philosophers, there would soon be an end to all restraints on the wicked inclinations and passions of men. Governor Morgan has, we think, taken a proper view of his responsibilities in refusing to yield to argu- ments which run so counter to the public inte- rests and safety. Autecep DeFALcaTION IN THE New Yorke Post Orrice.—We have published a despatch from one of our Washington correspondents, to the effect that a defalcation had been disco- vered in the accounts of the New York City Post Office. Another correspondent denies that there has been any such thing discovered, while the author of the original statement ad- heres to it. It is probable that the truth about the mattes lies between the two stories, The New York Post Office is a very large concern, does a great deal of business, and employs a considerable number of clerks—nearly all of whom handle more or less money. Of course they sometimes make clerical errors, and their cash accounts are found to be incorrect. Technically that amounts to defalcation; but the accounts are usually straightened in the end. Such things happen in all large ‘estab- lisbments, and are looked for and provided against. Washington correspondents should be careful about their facts; and while engaged in a laudable rivalry in the collection.of news, they should avoid to touch subjects upon which they are not thoroughly informed. In the matter of the Post Office, we presume that our correspondents trusted altogether to Ma- dame Rumor, who is the most deceitful of her sex, and no journalist who is acquainted with his business will ever have the smallest shadow of a flirtation with her. Tue Surveyor of THe Port on H1s Tra- vELS.—There seems to be a good deal of vague speculation and contradictory surmises in rela- tion to the real motives. which induced Sur- veyor Hart to make a voyage to Enrope just at thie moment. Some people have circulated a romantic story that he has inherited a large fortune from a lady of the Israelitish persua- sion, whom he met in Paris some years ago, and that he is going to realize on it; others; that he means really to resign his post, and that he will not return for several years; and again, itis hinted that the Surveyor went off by the Fulton in order to avoid an examination by the Congressional Committee now investi- gating the question of official corruption at Washington. We have not the slightest shade of an idea upon the real dacts of the case. The subject is only important in its official bear- ings, and we euppose that the Committee can get along wifhout the Surveyor. As the ques- tion has been raised, there should be a very stringent inquiry into the modus operandi of the Surveyor’s Office. Let us have all the facts. 1860.—TRIPLE SHERT. Ameer ‘Tae. Investigations o¥ Tm ConGuesstonat ' to have been written in San Franctsoo, bat Commrrrees ar Wasmiwaros.—It has been as | amellings.rongly of the bevtcer’s oflive bonnets sumed by some of the abolition journals that | That the Washoe and Geyrer mines will sury beoause the real purposes of the party engl- | ont very well there is not much doubt, , A tow neers, in raising the corruption committees, | of the sharp op'rators will get all the profit have been exposed, there is an attempt to out of them, however, and the honest miners, stifle the investigation. Thisis an error of so who, to the numer of twenty thousand, are gross a nature as to deserve to be character | waiting for fine weather. in order to make a ' ized a8 an intentional misstatement, Every | rush into-Utab, wil! fare ng better than if they one desires that official corruption, wherever had remained in @alifornia. How the Mormons it existe, whether in the Federal, State, or Mu- | will like this incursion of Geatiles into their nicipal governments, may be ferreted ont, ven- | Territory remains to be seen. Tt will be likey tilated and properly punished. The only | to trouble some of their peculiar instisutiou question is, how is it to be done? What are the | mightily, . * best measures to be pursued, and how shail the inquisitors begin their work? As to the primary point of the matter, there can be no doubt that there is more or less cor- ruption in nearly all the departmeats of the government. Nations are constituted of indi- viduals with the passions and the weaknesses common to buman nature. Therefore, ofivials will succumb to temptation as easily us pri- vate persons; and as governments are con- stituted with vast routine machinery, op- portunities for plunder are never want- ing. That has been the case in every organized government in the world, and it will be so till the end of time .or the: milleniam, when the pickers and stealers of all the lobby- men are to be duly extracted. The evil ad- mitted, the remedy comes to be considered. Congrees has power to investigate in its own way. The House bas made the incorruptible | m: mber for Westchester Chairman of the Com- | mittee on Public Expenditures, with a general | license to overhaul all the departments.’ if | this was done thoroughly it would be a great thing. The machinery of the departmente, and | of public executive offices generally, is in the | hands of subordinates, who, from long ac- quaintance with their duties, are able to mystify the head of the department, who is | changed quadrensially or oftener, asd to manage the business of the office gs they please. The head of the department enters upon his duties without the slightest kuow- ledge of its details, aud at about the time tbat he negins to have a faint glimmering of light on the subject he goes out of office. i From these facts it will be readily seen thas | Lary nope Apis coceiey fio whan fetlasen al the Congressional Committees have gone to | ment by ae manlority last ee: ‘sod who wore to : A ‘ covsiter bis ease eguin yesterday. He said he advised work rather to make a little political capital, | Hanson and his asenciates to leave; thet bo bas dts- by abusing the President and his Cabicet | eee ee ae eee a narnecieee Eeomucane than to ascertain any facts as to the plundering aletter signed by Fravk Bland and Georeg “ which they eay the troubles did not of the Treasury by dishonest public servants. | about lanson, but because George Wert, wo was sick of It is not supposed by any man, in his sober | Covsumption, was maltreated and bis daughter insulted } senses, that either Mr. Buchanan (who has a public record of more than forty years without asuspicion of a stain), or either of his consti- tutional advisers, knows anythiog about the al- | leged peculations or corrupt practices of their | subordinates. No one knows this fact better than the members of the House themselves, And notwithstanding all this, they go delibe- Se ee Tuk Wasuixcron Heiorrs Jos ww me Leais- | Latore.—-We perceive that the Washington Heights street opening job has been committed to the Grinding Committee of the House at | Albany. We hope tuis' committee will grind it out of existence, fora more worthless or mis- chievovs piece of legislation was never un- dertaken, There is not the slightest necessity for avy legislative action with regard to this grant to the city for yeara to come—until the Central Park is finished. and we se@ what is golog i¢ be done with the surplus population in the lower part of the island When the vi. * cinity of the Park is becoming populated iv will be quife time enough to determine how the streers and avennes shall be laid out. The | apathy with which this scheme has ‘beea re- ceived by many of the residents and propefty owners of the neighborbood of Washington Heighte is somewhat remarkable, considering the nature of the job, and the manifest mis- chief which must acerue from its consumma- tion. In that vicinity there are two noble charitable institutions —the Deaf and Damb , Asylum and the Asylum for the Blind—the no- blest and most useful charities on the whole island. The property of both will be immense- ly deteriorated, if not destrosed, if this mos- sure succeeds, besides the great damage done to private property, and the eadless litigation ta which the action of the Comniiesioners witi inevitably lead. : Clay ana the People of Madt. son, Ky. Cassius M. #, April 8, 1860. Hon. Cassius M. Clay publianes to day ao agveai to Ub witb grose Ispguage. Mr. Ciay conciudes-as follows:— “You may be strong evough to overpower me, but you cannot drive me from the duty Lowe to myself, to my friends and to my couvtry If I fa'l, 1 shal! not fall ia vain; and it will be enoveh for all long cherished essocia- tione, if perchance my biood shal! atooe for the wrongs of My race, end these States sha'i at least be free.” rab) advices intimate apprehensions of further ‘ouble. < Sr. Lovrs, April 3, 1840, ‘The Arizona correspondent of the Republican says that the people in the Western part of the Territory are averse rately to work and attempt to blacken the repn- tation of pure and good men, who have given the whole of their mature years and conte- crated their lives to the public service. We should applaud any action which would really tend to purify the public offices; but we de- dspair of ever eeeing any such thing. The com- mittees are nearly all humbugs, and so under- stood and intended by their originators. The last affair of this kind is engineered by the Forney-Haskin clique, which, with a degree of effrontery altogether unparalleled in the an- nals of impudence, is endeavoring to fasten upon the Administration the odium of all the jobs fixed up in poor’ Pierce’s kitchen, when Forney was one of the chief cooks. This clique reduced the business of gpolia- tion to a science, and kept a hot fire going in the White House kitchen night and day. Now Forney has gone over to the republicans, and with them is charging upon the President and his Cabinet the peccadilloes of the lobby- men, of whom the Chevalier is the chief. Even now the republicans are supplying Forney with money wherewith to abolitionize Penn- sylvania in time for the Presidential election. These are facts, and they prove conclusively that the corruption committees are the traps of tricky politicians, set to catch simple minded fools. : to the formation of a provisional government. Pennsylvania Legislature. / Hannisnoa, April 3, 1860. ‘This morning the Senate and House recousiderst tho vote on the general appropriation bill, and recommitted it it to a Conference committee. The committee reported the bill, which the Housé adopted. The bill to incorpe- rate the South Pittsburgh Coal company was passe1 over the Governor’s veto. Mr. Palmer, opposition, of Schuyl- kill county, was elected Speaker of the Senate for the Spot houses ba jouses have adjourned sine die The appropria- tion bill was previously signed by the coe The St. Louis Mecha: and Agricaltu- ral Om. L . Lovis—April 3, 1860, ‘The St. Touis Agricultural and Mochartaal Association offer $20,000 te gy) at the next fair, ani it is pro- bable that $4, or $5,000 more in private awards will be adaed by the citizens. A ven for the best stallion. from parts of Europe are ‘be spared to make this fair excel mium of $1,500 will be The Canad ba te as ON, April 3, 1860. ‘The mails per steamship Cacade will close at balf-past seven o’clock to morrow morning, but she will not leave her dock till about ten A M. Despatches filod in tue telegraph office, No. 21 Wall street, 80 a8 to reach her by nine o’clock on that morning, will be forwarded. ‘Weather Report. Haurax, April 8, 1860, Weather fair and clear to noon; thermometer thirty- four degrees. Depth of snow lasynight four inches; four P. M., wind light northwest, sky eaza; thermomety »- forty-one degrees, thawing rapidly. aes eS The Knights of the Golden Circle. New Ortuans, April 3, 1860. Two of the subordinate oflicers ot the Knights of the Golden Circle publish a card denouncing General Bricx- ley, the Commander-in Chief, as au imposter. About 1,500 men are enroiled here under the representation that plenty of money will be furnishes to assist Juarez in Mex- joo, where for such wid Jand grauts, &3., are prom sed, This induced mary to join, but there is no evidence yet of any bona fide movements. How Democratic Leavers wave Damacep THE Conyecticut Democracy.—One of the causes which prevented the democracy from carrying. Connecticut was the personal feeling of demo- cratic leaders inthis State. These feelings have lost even Presidential elections in other days, and now their tendency is in the same direction agein. Very much depended on Connecticut. It was nearly gained, under every disadvantage; but had it been completely won, the effect in this State and throughout the country would have been instantaneous and immense. Had proper assistance been rendered by the united democracy of New York to their neighbor de- mocrats in Connecticut, the result might have been different. But mean, paltry personal con- siderations prevailed over patriotism and the great national cause which was at stake. Only one section of the democracy—namely, that which is represented by Mozart Hall—rendered the slightest assistance. Mayor Wood was indefatigable, and did ‘his utmost to secure a democratic victory ; and pro- bably the large gains in some of the towns is owing in a great measure to his exer- tions, The democratic leaders of the other wing were also invited—Jobn Vee Buren, Ho- ratio Seymour, Dickinson, John A. Dix and othera—but not one of them would go, be- cause the invitation was extended to Wood, who promptly accepted it and went to work. None of the clique,of Confidence Cassidy, Cagger.. & Co. made their appearance or contributed anything to the cause? On the contrary, the organ of ihe Albany Regency continued to abuse Wood while he was engaged in the Con- necticut canvass, thus doing its worst to neu- tralize his efforts. This will not be forgotten to ihem at Charleston. Had they rendered the same service as he did, the election might have been carried for the democracy. The vondact of these leaders shows how dangerous are the personal resentments and jealousies of party leaders, who sacrifice everything to their own selfish views, and would prefer to reign in bell rather than serve in Heaven. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Paitapetpata, April 3, 1860. Stocks steady. Pennsylvauia State fives, 9334; Read- ing Railroad, “11{; Morris Canal, 5134; Long Isiaud Ratl- road, 113;; Pennsylvania Railroad, 3937. Siglit excbaage on New York at par. New Orurays, Aoril 3, 1860. Cotton—Sales to-day, 6,500 bales, at 10%¢ alic. for middling; eales of three days, 26,500 bales; receipts of three days, 15,000 against 14,250 bales game time last year; receipts abead of last year, 456,000 bales; receipts atall Soutbern ports abead of last year, 767,000 bales. Sugar steady at 65;3. a 7c. Moinsses, 3c. @ 40c. Whiskey dull at 2c. a 2c. Freig! Cotton to Liver- pool, 916d. ear ie on London, 7% 8 844 per cent pre- mium, and with bills of loving 7 a 734 per cent pre- minw; sight exchange on New York, 3, discount a +; per cent premium. Monike, Marchy31, 1860. Cotton—Salee to day 2,500 bales at unchanged rates. Monn, April 2, 1880 Cofton—Sales to-day 2,000 bales at 100. a [0\4c. for middling. Savannan, April 2, 1860 Cotton sales to-day 650 bales, at unchanged rats, Cuaxtzstox, April 2, 1860. Cotton—Sales to-day 3,200 baies; prices easier, bi quotations unchanged. ong, April 3, 1850. Bari 8 Flour qniet at $5 75 a $5 873¢ for Howard street’ Wheat steady. Corn irregular: sales of white at 67c. a 6c ; yel- low declined 2c, Wheat unchanged: sales at $1 70 a. $1 72. Provisions steady and unchanged. Whiskey— Sales of Ohio at 22; Sight exchange on New York at oi * Pur.apeirnia, April 3, 1840. Flour unchanged: superfine, $5 75. Whoxt—Salea! 2,000 bushels at $1 40 for red, and $1 58a $1 60 for white. Corn steady at 72c. Mess pork, $18 a $18 50; prime, $14a $15. Whiskey dul! at 213c. a 22460. at cbanged. Sight Exchange on New York for gold at 34 3g per cent prem. Cmcaco, April 3, 1860. Sight exchange on New York rates reduced to 2 per cent for currency and 14 per cent for gold. Does Lord Palmerston Bet on “Benicia?” (From the London Herald, March 16) Lord Shattesbury should look to his venerable relative: Tt may beall very well opening Sadier’s Wells and Victorinon Sundays for the spread of the Gospel; but! surely another Sabbath take place Cambridge Howse, of more well plot. We on! Avyorner Caxirornian Sraurepe.—We print elsewhere some account of the recent disco- veries of silver in California and Western Utah. The greatest excitement has been created im San Francisco by the Washoe mines, which are said to yield astonishing quantities of both gold and silver. Every effort has been made, both in San Francisco and Wall street, to bull up Washoe, and one of the city dailies, well known for its operations in the fancies, has printed glowing accounts of the new mines, purporting jn the colnmns of—for the nonce—the Prime Minister's | journal, Let Lord Shaftesbury look to it. It is a family adair, But rumor is rife about Cambridge House agd the