The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1860, Page 4

4 NLW YORK HERALD, 4G be OUD CHAAETBS, euros aND PROPRIETOR. Pepe 4%. commas OF NASMAD AND FULTON Orb ERE caoh t actoance, Maney sent by wraki wis be us the Pina ” Pome Gompe wet recewwed as mabe ripen aon. Tie Dsils BARALD Woo veme per py 8 ver sane TRE WEFRLY HERALD, woery Scterday, af the conte sin & pt saan, the Borogran” Ktiion tary Wetaon tay ole “outs poe anpy 9A pet annum bo op yrort of Brain Re Sing part or the Contimens, both’ be tncducde the t Ins 6a) amd MOD” wane ‘ot ole “ants mute ERALD om Wakneatay, at fowr cone vo RRS PONDENCI tmporvim om cony quarter Of the world, Y usd wil be Sr OUR FOREN SOM «EsrONDRN TS ane Reovwseme TO Gas ois Lacemas amp Pam Aor SEB Of NOTICE taken uf umomymous orreepondence, We at na EO, Faced comemmmteations sanenten “Ob PRINTING cemrated with nentnass, chaspmens amt de OCD VERTISEMEN TS renewed every stay; advertisements bo ens y Saaaio, Fawtuy D, and tn the reper 23 AMUSEBENTS TO MORR IW BYBNING, AOADEVY OF MOBIC, Fourweath sreet—Itauiax Ors- Ba—Mosms ut Borer. MiBLO'* GAEDE, Brosdway.—Rqvmsrgun Pearore AxcEs—BL0B BRano, BOWERY THEATRE Bowery —Bisce Keiant—Jact Bowmsox ano Eis Mowesy—Caamisstox Conyantion— intense Being Jace. WINTERS GABDEN, Grosdway, epposite Bond suect— Ua Trovatons. WALLACK’® TEEATRE, Broatway.—Oven.and outs, KEW BOWEKS, Howery.—Busck Cat of Covextay— Bavree Yorksr—iwo Poirs. BARNUWS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day nd Evening Hor Pickeut—Dor, BRYANTS MINSTRELS Mochsuton’ Mall, 472 Brosdway.— Busissquas, Soves, VANCES, 40.~108 STRANGER BIALO'S 84008 Breede Breas Ly bones, Lancers 40. —Cro, Ounsrr's Mix ox BuunpEns. MOZART HALL, No, 663 Bro way.—Gorravos Gmany’s Bxoekrainmest Moone’s 1 Mh MELODIES, Ac. COUPER ISS TUTR—Rxminrrion oF Praue’s Onginat PAuting oF THE UovRt oF Daava—Day aud wveniag, CORNER OF THIKTCENTH STREST AND FOUBTE SVBSUB.—Cauvouss Mexacenn New Vork, Sanday, May 13, 1860, ec News, By the arrival of the Puiton at this port aod the Canadien in the river St. Lawrence yeaterday, we have European advices to the 3d inst., four days later than the accounts received by the Asia. Tue news is uvimportant. Consols and cottou had im proved, while bresdstufls and provisions were muuch the same as previoatly repo: ted The steanship North Star arrived at this port yesterday forenoon trom Aspinwall, with the sem'- montbly mails from California, a fall complement of passengers, $1,242,491 in treasure, and news from the we: of Mexico and New Granada. The advices from California, and the South Pacide republics Lave been anticipated by the overland pony express and the arrival of the United Sites gleam frigate Roanoke. Yellow tever was raging at Acapulco, and several American citizens bad died—amongst the namber, Col. MeMicken, United States Consul. Aspinwall has also been uohealthy, owing probably to the setting in of the rainy season, and a good many Geaths had occurred. The political news from New Granada is interest- ing. Our correspoodent states that the Congress of that republic had refused to repeal the objec- tionablé glectoral law, and that consequently a re- volation was jvevitable. Both parties were mus- Hering their forces PTeparatoy to hostilities. The President and bis cac'@et were charged by Gen. Mosquera with etirring ap Pevolution aud violating same long intervals of working out in quiet, that mark the developement of general history by slow and gradual process, but it was the work of a comparatively short period of time, when taken in connection with the slow methods of disseminating ideas in that day. From the Dectaration of Independence to the close of Washivgton’s administration, the revolution gradually worked out its results. Svon after bis retirement men found themselves sud- denly arrauged in new parties, consummating with the triumph of the Jeffersonian ideas. Gradual developement without change con- tinued till the retirement of Mr. Monroe, wheo the year 1824 exbibited the same sudden ac- tivity of men aod ideas that marked the year 1800, Those who had long stood side by side on questions of policy in trade, government and social organizatien, suddenly fouad them. telves ranged in antagonistic position, while old antegonisms fell with equal rapidity into new affiliations. A few short years were requir- ed to enable the new ideas to transfuse the mass of mind, because intercourse was still elow between men, and thought travelled by good demand, with rales of abort 1,509 bhts , chiefly Cubs refiping goods,at steady prices. Coffee was siessy, The cargo of the Saran Haxall, ¢ neieting of 4,000 bags Rio, wae sold op privats terme; 400 do, Maracaiho, at 18\40., ano $0do. Government Java, wt 10. Freights were timer, Amoog the cagegements were about 35,000 burn ipa? bags, ub 7c., @ 7160 ; #ud 600 ddis. four at fHourjwere taken to. lomdon at 2s 34. , to tall aext week, has sdout com. ‘go, included ia which she has over 30,00 buebeis of graia on board. Past Changes and Present Times—Tac New ra of Poltttwal activity. Ove of the most remarkable characteristios of bistory is the singular rapidity with which, at certain periods of time, life developes itself, avd ideas, men and nstious undergo a change. Wherever we look back upon the past we see long #tretches of time through which mea plodded on in the paths of their fathers, and the developement of things exhibits little pro- grees. Suddenly everything wakes into activi- ty. Menand nations seem awakened to new ive, almost in a moment, and in afew years changes, which it was believed cou!d be aohlev- ed only by the lapse of generations, find them- selves realized. These periods of activity are usually denominated by some name, as the cra of Napoleon, of'Frederick the Great, of Peter the Great, of Charlemagne, derived from one of their chief spirits, Who 4s been more properly the creature of the time than the author of the changes which the new life wrought. If we look back upon our own national his- tory we ehball find that our political developement is marked by the same short periods of active avd rapid change, with the Our-fathers did not become revolutionary stage coach and private correspondence. I is precisely one of these new awakenings and changes that we are now passing through, and it will beso much the more rapid in its operations as the new instruments are supe- rior to the old ones. The electric telegraph, the lightping press and the railroad locomo- tive, material as they are, are wheeling the public mind into new positions, that old lead. ers can neither recognise nor comprehead, The political managers that went down to Charleston a few weeks since, believing that they were merely to go through a strugg'e for the constitation; but the propo. item, which may be | the control of a strong party organization, are considered an attempt at impeachn.°@t, Wag voted | aslonfebea ic fod themselves with only a few down in Congress. We have received files of Caraccas, Venezuela, papers to April 24. The election of Mr. Tovar to the Presidevcy is confirmed, and the names of the pew cabinet have bven published. The portfolio of War and Marine has been given to Gen. Paez, who is still residiog in New York. There were rumors of another revolutionary outbreak, but to what extent was not known. The country was not exactly tranquil, for the revolutionists were still formidable in point of numbers, but they are without s head, aud disorganized. By the scho.ner Emily Keith, which arrived at New Orleans from Vera Craz, we have later news from Mexico. The English and French attempts fat mediation had failed with both parties—the English totally, and the French partially. Miramon had arrived at the capital with, it is said, only two hundred men. Gen. Woll's force is reported to be entirely dispersed. So mach are both parties ia want of money, it is difficult to say which has any fdvantage over the other. Late sccounts trom the Sandwich Islands state that the Russian whaling brig Constantioe sailed from Honolulu on 28th March for Japan, taking the official despatches left at Honolula by,the Ambasas- dors to be forwarded to the Emperor of Japan. ‘Thus, io the course of a month, and within eighty @ays of the Embaesy's leaving Jeddo, the Emperor will have bad despatches from them, ‘The Senate was not in seasion yesterday. In the House another effort was made to have action taken on the bill organizing the Territory of Idaho, but the subject was again laid on the table. Toe House adjourned till Monday afternoon, in order to par- ticipate in the reception of the Japanese Commis. sioners. It is not likely, however, that the Embassy will reach Washington before Tuesday next. A despatch from New Orleans states that the United States steamer Mohawk had arrived below that port, having in charge as a prize the bark Wildfire, which she captured off the coast of Cuba with five hundred Africans on board. The steamship City of Manchester sailed from this port yesterday for Queenstown aad Liverpool, with 227 passengers and $217,551 inepecie. The New York also sailed from this port yesterday, for Bre- ‘Ten, with 342 passengers and $301,720 in specie. The second of the new mail steamships of the Galway and New York line was to have been launched yesterdoy. Her name is the Leinster ‘The Connaught, which was launched about a fort Hight ago, is expected to leave Galway for New York on the ist of Jone, after which « steamer Will leave either port every week. In the mean" Gime the next arrival from Barope may bring us @n account of the performance of the Connaaght on her trial trip, from which much is expected. We understand that the Brazil, of the same line, has her full cargo made up, though she does not gail for ten days. In another colamn we give an article taken from the Chinese Overland Trade Keport, acknowledg- Ing the superiority of American built steamers in the Chinese waters over. those constructed in Eng- land. The Confucins was the first steamer sent ont from this city, and gave so moch satisfaction that the Yaug-taze was ordered, and then the Peiho and White Clond. Mr. Thomas Collyer, the builder of the above vessels, has now a contract for another Stesmer Of about 700 tons for China, and is engaged in getting out the materials for her. The cotton market continned firm yesterday, with asles Bf about 1,100 8 1,290 bales, closing within the range T1Me. @ 11 de. for middling uplands. The flour market “wae leas buoyant for State and Western brands, and the Jower grades were rather casier, while the demand was whiefly for the home trade, the purchases for export being moderate. Southern flour was held with firmness, while a ‘Bi ttendy prices. Mese pork was firmer, while ‘wee irregular, Now mem oold at $18 124 0 Qnd new prime at $19 90 0 $19 06. Sugars wore ia personal adbereits, while the masses of the people are entirely free from their control. Those who met a few days since at Baltimore, believing that the masses would listen to old cries that had once stirred the heart of every man, are surprised at the popular listlessness to their call. Politicians wait anxiously for the new gatherings at Chicago, Richmond and Baltimore; but no observing mind can be ig- norant of the fact that the people look more with a feeling of curiosity to see the antics the would-be leaders will cut than with any long- ing to bear the fiat that may be given out. The fact is, old parties and old conventions bave had their days. These disturbing influences, this sudden spirit of change, these seen but ili compre- hended causes, await the action of the con- ventions to come, jast as they awaited those that have passed. It matters little whether the leaders at Chicago quarrel or agree: the same results will attend their action that attended tbat of those at Charleston and Baltimore. The spirit of change is rife in their ranks. Radi- calism~and conservatism, whiggery and de- mocracy, free traders and protectionists, fana- tics and the indifferent, are all alive, and are rapidly wheeling into changes. If the conservative leaders among the biack republicans agree to support a radi- cal pominee at Chicago, or the radicals a con- servative one, the result will be the same. They cannot keep the masses within the old ranks, and the party will obey the ruliog spirit of the time, and disintegrate, no matter what course the leaders take. Impelied by this new and philosophically correct state of things, the great mass of the people will wait until all the leaders, old and new, have brought forward their programmes and proclaimed their theories, before they will gather strongly to the rupport of any. Of one thing every politician may be assured: the direction of the new and rising tide ia the populer mind is toward conservatism, and im- bued with the spirit of preservation of the constitution and the Union. The more radical the position that any leader or party takes, the sooner will bis or its fall come. No man saw this more clearly than Williem Ii. Seward, when, returning, after several months’ absence in Europe, he was astonished to find how vast the change that bad grown up in thet short time. Ambition prompted him to the effort to change his position too, and hence the wide difference between his brutal and bloody speech at Rochester and his recent one on the floor of the Senate. The politicians must all make up their minds to undergo changes simi- lar to that of Seward, and in accordance with the new ers, if they hope to realize the prompt ings of their ambition. Tie Paractay Treaty axo OLarws.—After months of delay, Congress has at last passed the bill authorizing the appointment of a com- missioner to cit with Senor Berges, the Pare guayan Commissioner, who has been patiently waiting In Warhington since the beginning of the year, for the examination and adjudication of the claim of the Rhode Island Company egainst Paraguay. The dilatory action of Con- gress in this matter contrasts strongly with that of President Loper, and the more so that it is the claims of American citizens only that are to be acted upon. When Judge Bowlin in 1859 amounted to £3.448,074 (or $17,240,- 370), and the expenses'to £2,312,114, leaving a net revenue of £1,135,960 ($5,679,800.) The increase of postage last year over the year year 1858 waa $1,106,595; in London alone the increase wes $231,910, and in Manchester $44,- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1860. strived at Acuneion, Presideat Lope# entered } St onve npon the arrangemeut of the treaty and convection, and steadily proceeded to carry them out after the American Comuis- sioner Jeft. At an early day he appoiated the Parsgueyan Commissioner, and this geatien 12 bes been twirling bis thumbs for more than three mouths in Washington, waitiog for the movemen's of the Congressional Committees on Foreign Affairs, Perbaps these committees will now find time to remember that there are some other treaty matters waiting their tardy action, The Postal Systems of Great Britain and tne United States, . The inefficiency of our postal system, as oom pared with those of other couutries, bas loug attracted the attention of the mercantile com- munity. Effurta have been made. to reform it, from time to time, but obstacles, such as the franking privilege and the conveyance of news- papers by mail, have hitherto interfered to pre- vent any effectual improvement, As long as such an immense amount of heavy matter had to be thus conveyed there eeemed but little chance of the service being rendered self sus taining. The vast extent of our couatry, and the necessity of making the thickly populated phy for the more uninhabited portions of it, afforded in themselves apparently suilicieat reasons why, for many years to come, the ex- penditure of the department must largely ex- ceed its receipts. Latterly a different conviction seems to have impressed itwelf upon the public miad. There is in consequence a growing feeling in favor of che abclition of the franking privilege, as one of the great clogs of the machinery of the ser- vice, and Congress will not be able to realist the influence of this feeling much longer. This will relieve the department of one great burden, aod the arrangements that are being carried out for the general conveyance of newspapers by special trains, independent of the mails, will ligbten it of another. Post Office will only have letters to carry, and this dimioution of freight will enable it mag only to meet its expenditure without aid from government, but to extend indefinitely the ta- eilities of the service. To rhow that there is aothing problematical in this calculation, we have taken the trouble to analyze the last an- nual report of the British Postmaster General, which, making all due allowance for the dif- ferent circumstances of the two countries, will, we think, prove clearly to every mizd that a vast economy can be effected in our postal service, even in bringing it up to the standard of that of Great Brita.n. By-and-by ‘the The gross revenue of the British Post Office 430. The average postage on letters of diffe- rent weight, not foreign, was one and one- eighth of a penny, and the average net profit one-third of a penny, or two-thirds of a cent. One result seems very startling, and that is, nue ever since the first day of the uniform rate. All this is due to the enormous increase in the number of letters accruing from the single uniform rate of a penny. The following state- ment gives the number of letters passing through the British Post Office in different years. It will be remembered that 1839 was the last year of the old postage scheme, and 1840 the first year of penny postage:— Year. emcrtctmmene se ee 900 Quarterly Reviews, and it stated with great complacency that for the Post Office to give as great a revenue with a penny rate as it did then under the high rates, the number of let- ters would have to increase to the enormous and incredible number of over five hundred mil- lions—a number that has been circulated for several years, and that itis increasing annually in an accelerated ratio. The Money Order Office, in ite enormous traffic, is quite as much of a marvel as the busi- nees of carrying letters. The number of money orders sent last year amounted to 6,969,108, and the money remitted to $66,254,650, being an increase over the year previous of $2,944,125. The amount of money orders paid in Liverpool in 1859 was $2,004,555; in Man- chester, $1,987,080; in’ Birmingham, $1,688,- 100, and in Glasgow, $1,121,140. The gross profits of the Money Order Office amounted to $145,575 in 1859, against $129,680 in 1858. The whole machinery for sending money by these orders has been so perfectly safe and satisfac- tory that not one instance is recorded of a robbery of the orders; and the strict rules as to the very full information to be recorded and given—as to Christian and surname, and occu- pation, &c.—have been considerably relaxed, thereby saving trouble and time in the de sending the orders. When the person to whom 8 letter is addressed cannot be found, it is at once returned, and only in consequence of a removal, or the total absence of date, place, or signatare, will the Post Office fail to get » mis- carried letter into the hands of the writer. ‘The returned letter arrangements of Great Britain constitute one of the most valuable fea- the total indifference of our officials, they fiad dropped ip one centra! Post Office ia a city— which is frequently far from being central— to trapeport them to other Post Offices, nearest the residences of the persons addressed, and if those persons happen to call for them, and the Post Office officials can read, and they bappen to find the letters wanted, they are delivered over. Butnot only is there no sort of obligation to return the letters if they miscarry, but the people do not seem to look on the Post Office and its employ és as their servants at all. They are allowed to consult their convenience, to shelter themeelves behind official routiae and the antiquated rules of a former century, in- stead of doing business according to the prin- ciples of modern commerotal activity, prompt- ness and intelligence. In Eqgland, all letters, except those that have no signature or ad- dress, and which, in consequence, cannot be traced to the sender, are returned to the writer usually within three days of the date at which they were written. Last year the number so returned was 1,900,000, being about one in 280 of all that are posted. Letters are returned whether they have any enclosure or not. About 11,000 were poated without any address at all. Henceforward orders up to the value of $50 can be transmitted (formerly $25 was the maxi- mum), and all distinction between major and minor money order offices is to cease. There is @ money order office business carried on with Canada, and during the six or seven months it has been in operation over $60,000 has been remitted. It works so well that the plan is to be extended to the other British colonies. postal system is its operation in cities, by means of the one low uniform rate, the free delivery, and the frequent and numerous collections, as well as deliveries. In London there are over 500 places for posting letters, and ten deliveries @ day: exceptions every resident in London is now within a furlong of a Post Office or a road quarter of a mile of a money order office. The entire number of Post Offices is 11,412, and of pillar or road letter boxes 1,795, and last year free deliveries were established at 1,516 places, where none existed before, and ia the improvements and extensions in the deliveries the sum of £11,000 was expended by the de- partment; but the Postmaster General says with reference to this, ‘I trust that in time all this expense will be repaid, and will be found, in addition, to yield a fair profit.” Next year there is to be one more free delivery in London, making one every hour from nine in the morn- ing till eight at night. All letters posted now and put into the correct receptacles before six P.M. are delivered that night to a distance of six miles of the General Post Office. And see a Tesult and scope of the free delivery sys- newspapers, and other postal packets delivered in the United Kingdom, are now conveyed age, by letter carriers and rural messengers, to the houses of the persons to whom they are addressed. And this proportion, great as it is, is always on the increase.” In large numbers all don district letters—that is, of letters posted in the London diStrict for delivery within the same—is now equal to the total number of let- ters, both general and local, posted twenty years ago in the whole of England and Wales, or one to 400 of all that were posted. Of these all but fifteen these being lost or purl opm 1s cowpletences depends its successful working~-"e are persuaded that, instead of tures of that marvellous system, bat owing to SEWS FROM *ASHINGTON. .} vo place in our department. Our goverameat | our postal ea Vice putting us to an expense of Our Special Washingto® Nes veered | undertakes to pick up letters, whea they are | four or five miitiozs annually, it would not ‘Wasuscrow, M87 4, um BOW Tan DION woMEEATIONS Wres Rov. ET ABORT. Tt has transpired here iat the Baitime’? tots of Bell end Everett was the result of & Par gain between the Now York delegation and Ped SE Gemocrats, It's to be run in Feunsylvanis and {7 Jorsey, where it will draw only from the people’s prty, and thus give the democrats those Stat. by a pluriity, bat will not be ran in New York, where the whole meri cam strength Is necessary to ald the demovracy in efeal” img the republicans. Some few old line whigs or mort- cans will be puton the demooratio electoral tcltasa bait for thet class of voters. This plax ii laid {0 prevent Seward earrying New York by a pluredy, im case be is the nominee. After the consummation ¢ this bargain the New York delegation came on here au fra- ternized with Dougiss, They cheated ‘Houston , they could have momineted, cheated Bell, whom Bominate, and sold themselves to Douglas, who them in turn when be is eieoted. ACTIVITY OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADS. Despatches bave been received at the Navy ment from the Africen squadron. There was no abatement in the slave traffic, but it wae the imoresse, Notwhhetanding the vigilance < various equadrons op the coast, the persoas ‘bis inhuman work manage in some way to vigilacce of our ships and crows, who are she alert, and oftet escape with fall cargoes « live Africans. cost the country @ cenfé, We recommend the facts above noticed to the attention of Con- gress, for in no department of tie goverament are retrenchment and improvement more im- peratively called for. Toe Quarantine Question anD THE AP PRoacHING Summer.—During the last session of the Legislature the Quarantine question was a constant source of lobby jobbing and machi- nations of all kinds,in which almost every interest found some representative except that of public health and public safety. Between the conflicting desires of the different parties who undertook to manage the business for their own private advantage, the Legislature wae permitted to adjourn without making any ap- propriation for quarantine purposes. The re- sult is that the Floating Hospital—the only tefuge for contagious cases—has been aban- doped; its physician has resigned and its staff has been disbanded for want of funds, and we now find oureelves, at the commencement of the summer season, when the quarantine sya- tem is most needed, without any sccommoda- tion whatever for yellow fever patients, who may at any time arrive from infected ports. Sheuld the present summer prove an unusual- ly healthy one in South American and West Ia- dian ports, the absence of quarantine hospitals may not be of much importance; but should it be otherwise, the consequences to the health of the city may be disastrous in the extreme. The only measures to adopt in this dilemma will be either for the other public departments of the city to advance tunds for quarantiae purposes and rely upon the next Legisiature to reimburse them, or for the merchants to es- tablish some kiod of temporary quarantine at their own expense. Heretofore the quarantine system has been agrievous abuse, from the complicated and expensive machinery which grew out of it; but now it appears that we have run into the opposite extreme, and are left wihout the simplest form of protection agatast contagious disease and pestilence from abroad—a hospital for the reception of infected persons. This is only another evidence of the infamous course which the Albany Legislature has pur- sued with regard to this city. Everything of which they could rob us they have bartered away, but not a single interest affecting the health, welfare or good government of the metropolis has received the slightest conside- ration at their hands. Ovr Sarena Trape.—The shipping inte- rests of New York have been for sometime past in a very depressed condition. Like all other branches of business in which an interchange of commerce between the North and the South formed a staple part, the unsettled condition of political affairs materially affected the shipping trade of this port; but for the past week there has been a remarkably temporary reaction, which, although not sufficient to base any hope of permanent improvement upon, must at least effect trade and commerce gene- rally in the city for a time. The arrivals of vessels at this port during the past six days have been very numerous, and the number of vessels of all classes lying at the piers and io our harbor yesterday was quitelarge. We put them in tabular form:— SQUARE RIGGED VRSSELS ARRIVED FROM MAY 6 TO 11 mnciusivs. ‘THE COVODE INVESTIGATION. In looking over the Journal of the House, the ¢vode Commitice bave made the important discovery that averal members of Covgrens, during the pendency of the hgtish bill, changed teir votes about the time that the becks are dated whic Wendell gave to certain lobbyren al- ready mentioned The committee intend to prove the wmatter still furtht, and fasten upon them the qount which each men reelved, aud which they will beable to do unless certain pirties perjure themselves. THE \LaND POSTAL SEAVIOR. ‘The Post Office bi restoring the inland service will Probably come up ine Houseon Monday of Tocetay . next, The propos.tiot.which was adopted unanimously by the commiitee, resiong the service of steamer plying between OCnarlesta vie Savannah to Key West, is commended on all sides.\The Sonate committee have | adopted It, and the service W shortly be resumed, to the great satisfaction Of not oB)\the South, but nearly the entire North. | MIUTARY COUR\WaRTIAL, | By order of the Secretary Of ‘gr general Court Mar- tial bas been ordered to conven®: Baton Rougs, Loul- Sian, on the 26th inet , OF 88 8000 \ereafter as practioa- bie, for the trial of such prisoners Atay be brought be- fore it, The detail of the court is a8 fogws:—Majors Has | Kips and McConsll, Captains Whitalleq Sarton, Liou tenante Fry, Todd and Cooper; Captain ones, Jucge Ad- To return to the subject of money orders: The great feature, however, of the British The consequence is that with few letter box, and within a vooate, TMH NEW YORK PUBLIC STORE OONTy ot, Mr. Barr's Inveetigating Commities met vig morning, and be called the attebtion of the committee \ the laws of 18.9 and 1830, under which public stores Wve ostab- lished, and it was the general opiaton of the Ommittee tbat the present contract was ia direct violation © gaid Jaws, and they will so report. APPOINTMEBT OF UTAN JUDGES. R. P. Flouken, of Pennsylvania, ana E Randolph Har- dip, of Georgia, have been appointed and confirmed as ~ Associate Justices of Utab, in place of two Judges recent- ly removed. TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS. ‘The House again refused to give Pike's Peak a Terri- torial government to-day, by laying ® second bill on the “About 93 per cent of the letters, . J Wasuaros, May 12, 1668, if without any charge beyond the ordinary post- to that boar. can appreciate figures, and the knowledge con- tained in statistics. This report tells us that “{t is a striking fact that the number of Lon- ‘Total ‘This is the largest number of arrivals which has been recorded in one week for a long time, and is perbaps mainly attributable to the coa- tinuance of an easterly wind for several days in succession. There were in port yesterday not lees than 488 vessels, classified as follows:— London inclusive.” . Of registered letters there were 1,400,000, safely, and six of by fault of off- cers of the department, the loss was made good to the owners, although there was no le- gal obligation to do so. The system of compulsory prepayment, hav- ing been found to create inconvenience and dissatisfaction, in consequence of the occasional delay of very important letters, was discon- tinued after a trial of several months, the Post Office Department being guided in this, as in all other matters, by publio opinion. About 70,500,000 newspapers were sent by post during the year. A new machine bas been invented, and is coming into use, which can be worked by steam, for stamping ang counting letters and obliterating stamps. The total number of miles run daily by the post, omitting the letter carriers, is 140,000. Of the £1,770,554 of expenditure properly per- taining to the year, £141,000 ($2,205,000) was for railway conveyance, and £170,210 ($851,- 050) for other transportation, not reckoning conveyance in the colonies. The sum of £983,830 (or $4,919,150) was expended for salaries and pensions, the payments being made in all cases by salary and not by commis- sion. The total number of persons employed is 24,872, OUR SPE. 1aL CHICAGO DESPATOR. Cmreago, May 12, 1860. Large numbers of delegstes have arrived to might, New postal conventions have been concluded New April 12, 1800. | didate, in case of a dead lock. He stande well with all. betwewn Great Beinin and several foreign | wi diae CA. wavs yas (nies mane | woes ine, wroctermesoaiong countries, including Portugal, Nicaragua, New | Pay) ! bapesinass hadhws later q Granada, Uruguay, Pera and the German postal |" sogar ee ee union, but unfortanately all attempts to get the postage reduced between Great Britain and the United States, and to simplify the rates on printed matter, have failed, owing to constant as toterms. The correspondence between the two Post Offices is given ia the appendix to the report. A new British Post Office has been erected at Constantinople, the old one proving ineuf- ficient to meet the requiremente; and one has now been established at Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Row- land Hill—now Sir Rowland Hill, K. C. B,— still retains the place at the head of the de- partment that he has so long and honorably filled, and the Queen, in the exercise of her royal prerogative, has made him a Kaight Com. Persowal Intelligence. lon. Anson Burlingame, of Cambridge, Mase.; Hoo ; Gen. Leslie Coombes, of Ken , Of Boston, are siopping at rook, Capt. Blethen, Crot ling, ail of the Caitet Of Vermont, and 0! Hickman, of Deousylvania, is much talked of for Vice Presicent. The Wigwam was dedisted to right, in presence of 10,00 people. Lane, of Inv iene, Morrill, of Meine, Jones and Geodrich, of Towa, and Giddings, of spoke, and wore reosived with the greatest eathusiasm Gov. Morgan arrived to night with some of thd New York ok gates ‘Texas bas sent elx Jeiegties to the Oonrention. ‘The German Convention will be fully attended o Mon. day. It ina Seward movo Immenee Excitement in Worcester, Maer, ‘We received the following telegraphic eepath ate Inte hoor laet night — ‘Woncmeran, May 12,1860. Fothusiastic reception of the How. Tease Date, de. legate at largo from Mags —=-@ve thoasnaad pereds pre tcot—bande of masio—military companies out—Crworks, mander of the Bath, giving him a position among the nobility of the monarchy in Christendom. He has richly earned and fally deserves all the honors he has received, and we trust that he may long live to preside over the department that he has brought to such a wonderful state of perfection and efficiency. ‘These facts are, we think, conclusive as to the vast and beneficial revolution that can be effected in our Post Office service by the cat ting off of all unnecessary burdens, compre- hensive views of the requirements of the com- munity, economical management, fair remu- neration to employés, and the enforcement of rigid discipline. If Sir Rowland Hill's system were carried out here, in all ite features —for York, have green in Paris @ second musioal wiré-, followed by a ball the fla of whieh has Ceased quite a sensation in the Feubourg St. ‘The Philadelphia reached hore at five o'slock Us mn. ing, Bot Gading the Roanoke, Os expected, inlamvion Roads with the Japanese Embasey. Captain A. Tayiur, with the marines, arrived here at about the eeartine on the Loutaians, and expreeres the opiaion that thfoanoxe would not have left New York during such wther, ay ber shaft was cracked, Und may not be Rere bere Myo. day or Tuseday. The steamer Asacceuwe in walling 60 transport the baggage of the Embiy. To» goverament party are much disapyrin'ed, ay 6 Phi. otphia waa chartered for only three daya, andrnishss with eupplice for that time; moreover, the bouquets of flowers with whic tne stoamer