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4 , NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1860. bondsmen in North Carolina, who are bound for his appearance in the sum of $3,000. A report of the sermon, with a description of the reverend geatle- man’s appearance, will be found in our columns this morning. We have in type reports of the anniversary pro- ceedings of the Woman's Rights Association, the Female Guardian Society, and several other asso- ciations, but are compelled from want of space to defer their publication. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 813: TERMS, cash tn advance, Money sent by malt wilt bs at the risk of the sender, Postage sampe not received as sulecription DAILY HERALD too cents per copy, $1 per annum. IB WEEKLY HERALD. very Savurday, at iz cons copy, oF $3 per annum; the Buropean ‘ed vs Saturday the cotton market continued firm, with sales a - ann rt reat Britain, orf ana pare Si per annum to any rart of & ; the | Of about 1,100 a 1,200 bales, closing within the range of California ‘on the th and 30th of each at ote conta | 113/06. 911340. for middling uplands. The flour market PTGE'PAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per | oF 98 per annum MoLuNtakY CORRESPONDENCE, contsining important pews, wlicited any quarter of the worll; if weed, will be Rherally paid for gar Ou FORMIGN CoxREsroNDENTS ane Fanrcvamy Ruquasrap 0 Baal 4. Lavras 4x0 PAGK™ (AGRS SENT OS HO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not fons ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day: advertsemente in- 4B, and tn the ferted Oe eae Hekato, Pamiiy ba) ‘PRINTING, nercutad with neatness, cheapness and de ‘was less buoyant for State and Western brands, and the lower grades were rather easier, while the demand was ‘abiefly for the home trade, the purchases for export being moderate. Southern flour was held with firmness, while the demand was good, chiefly for shipment to the tropical ports, Wheat was leas active and buoyant, while prices were unchanged. Corn was in good request, with sales ‘at steady prices. Mess pork was firmer, while prime was irregular. Now mées sold at $18 123, a $18 25, and new prime at $13 90 © $13 95. Sugars were in good demand, with sales of about 1,600 hhds., chiefly Cuba refining goods, at steady prices. Cotloe was sieady. The cargo of the Sarah Haxall, consisting of 4,000 bags Rio, ‘was gold on private terms; 400 do. Maracaibo, at 13%c., and 50 do. Government Java, at 16340. Freights were firmer, Among the engagements were about 35,000 bush- els of wheat and corn, chiefly the former, to Liverpool, in bulk and ebips’ bags, at 7c., a 7c ; and 600 bbis. flour at 126.; and 1,000 bbis. flourjwere taken to London mt 28. 3d, ‘The Galway steamer, to eail next week, has about com- pleted her cargo, included in which she has over 30,000 bushels of grain on board. Volume XXV...... cece ccee cece ne cence MGs ISE AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING, ACADEMY OF MOBIC, Fourteenth sireet—Irautan Ore- Bal un Rover. NIBLA'S GARDEN, Byroadway.—Equestaias Praronu Ances—BLus Buagp, BOWERY THBATRE. Bowery.—Bisce Kxicut—Jack iM AND Fis MoNkeY—CaasixstTon UConveNTiON— BIXTREN BrEING Jace. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— ‘In Teov store. WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway.—Oven:anp Rovrs. NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Biack Cat of Covanrnr~ Buonze Voneer—Two Pours. BARNUWS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Day and Kveumg—Hor fickrxs—Dor. Feeling. If the politicians and public men who are to- Gay at their wits’ end to solve the puzzle of the political revolution that is now going on every- where in the country would take a philosophic view of the past, they would have no difficulty in comprehending its import and the positions into which they will be carried, whether they consent or not, For thirty years the fanatical abolitionists have been agitating their insane theories. Heedless of the ruin which the supremacy of their ideas, in the old French Assembly, and more recently in the British Parliament, has brought upon the French and British West In- dia colonies, their aim from the beginning was to make the slavery question an element of po- litical discussion and action. With this purpose in view they flooded Congress with anti-slavery petitions, mostly signed hy women and Sunday echool children, which first alarmed the South, and brought up the question of the right of pe- tition. But notwithstanding all their efforts, they could not make the alavery question a political one. Parties were divided on the practical is- sues of currency, tariff and internal improve- ments, and men would net trouble themselves with abstract ideas. The first step of the abolitionists on the po- litical platform was in the celebrated Wilmot y MINSTRELA, Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broad way.— ipatuoen Boxes, Dances, £0,—Tnz Sraancer, FIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Onnistr's Mur- grasia 1x BONGS, DANCES, A0,—8LAck Buvwpens, MOZART HALL, No. 603 Broadway.—Gueraves Guanr's Enrentanueyt- Moone 's [nish Mazovins, &c, COOPRE INSTITUTR.—Exnrorrion Of Peate’s Onigtxat Painting oF Tux Count or Dsari—Day and Kyening. COBSES OF THIRTEENTH STREET AND FOCR'(H AVENUK.—Cauivonsts MENAGEnin. New Work, Monday, May 14, 1860. MAILS FOR EUROPE. fte New York Herald—Edition fer Europe. ‘The Cunard mat! steamship Canada, Captain Lang, will Jeave Boston on Wednesday for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city to morrow af- terpoon at half-past one o'clock, t@ go by railroad, and at half past Ove o’elock, to go by steamboat. ‘The Evaoraay formow oy tow Henatp will be published at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, m wrap- pers, alx cent. Pubwripbons and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Yorn Henan will be received at the following places In Rarope. —~ Sve. tema Seep else Baldwin & Oo., 6 piace de is Bourse, : ‘Tome ure & Co., No. @ proviso, introduced in Congress in the winter - of 1846-7, Other issues had died out or been APR. Laneing, win & Oo., Sl rue Corneille. , ° — De settled. The Sub-Treasury was in successful ‘The contents of the Borormax Enenow ov raz Humatp ‘will combine the Dews received by mati aud telegraph at bbe office during the previews week aad up te the hoer of pabilcation. practice; the tariff was settled on the revenue principle, to the manifest advantage of all, and the internal improvement question had trans- fused all parties. Under the guise of the Wil- mot proviso, abolitionism obtained a political existence, and the first fruit of it was the Buffa- lo platform in 1548. From that time it raged in the political world until 1850, when the dan- gers to which the constitution and the Union were subjected by it roused the giants of the race of expounders—Calboun, Clay and Web- ster—to the last effort of their expiring career. The compromise of that year was accepted with public joy everywhere, and the first great con- servative wave against the fanatics rolled over the ocean of public sentiment from Passama- quoddy to the Rio Grande, and across to the shores of the Pacific. The Presidential election of 1852 was the practical demonstration of the triumph of this conservative revolution. Party lines were ina great measure broken up. Jackson and Cal- houn were dead. Clay expired in Jane, when the political campaign was just opening. Web- ster, withdrawn from public life, had sought rest in the shades of Marshfield. The arena of active politics was abandoned to the minor politicians who still occupy it, and these ar- ranged the plan of the campaign. Wearied with countless intrigues, the democrats at Bal- timore, after a long struggle, united on an un- known man from New Hampshire. The want of prestige which attended the name of Pierce controlled the policy of the political abolition- ists, and led them to endeavor to counteract the weakness of their cause by the personal strength of their candidate. They put in nomi- nation General Scott, whose illustrious name contrasted strongly before the people with that of his unknown antagonist. The veriest tyro in politics knows how that campaign was con- ducted. Everywhere the impression was felt that if General Scott was elected he would be compelled to submit to the influ- ence of the political abolitionists of the , school of Seward; and it told with immense effect at the polls. The election of Pierce by a majority in the Electoral College which has rarely been equalled was the second great conrervative wave that rolled over the ocean of public opinion. With the compromise measures of 1850, and the election of General Pierce, which was their emphatic endorsement, the country gladly be- lieved that the slavery question was excluded from politics, and confiaed to the field of moral and abstract discussion, which is ite appropri- ate sphere. Put the Pierce administration was falee to the trast confided to it, and, combining with Douglas, the whole subject was restored to the political field by the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The first result of thie great political mistake was the violent reaction in the popular mind against Pierce and the democratic party, which exhibited itself in the Know Nothing and opposition triumphs in the local elections everywhere, and the powerfal combination ia the Northern States in favor of Fremont in 1856, The nomination of Fremont wae due to this conservative reaction, and not to the infla ence of the political abolitionists of the Seward school, who proclaimed that it was made bya mob, and their leader opemly declined to sup port it. Since the campaign of 1856, the political abolitionists have endeavored by every posai- ble means to make it appear that they are aup- ported by the popular sentiment. But nome. rous events plainly indicate that such is not the case, Seward’s brutal and bloody epeech at Rochester in 1858, at once alarmed the con- seryative spirit of the country, and his threat on the floor of the Senate that he would reor- The News. The United States steamship Roanoke, with the Japanese Embassy on board, arrived in Hampton Roads on Saturday night. Yesterday morning Capt. Dupont, who is to have charge of the Rm- basay while in the United States, went on board the Roanoke, and was formally presented to the visiters. Itis expected that the Embassy will ar- rive at Washington by noon today. Their recep- tion by the government will take place on Wednuea- Gay, but the precise programme has not yet been decided on. Our special Washington despatch this morning states that great excitement existed in government circles in relation to @ heavy defalcation in the New York Post office. The amount of the defalca- tion is said to be about $155,000, We publish in another column @ letter from our Key West correspondent, giving the whole particu- lars of the capture of the slave bark Wildfire, by the United States steamer Mohawk, Lieut. Craven. The tlaver had 530 slaves on board, seventy having died ‘on the trip from Africa, The Wildfire is a neat clipper of 537 tons, and was formerly a packet employed between this port and Vera Cruz, and was owned by Hargous Brothers, The last trip she made to that port was in August last. We give elsewhere additional details of the news from Purope, brought by the Fulton, at this port, and the Canadian at Farther Point. The French government were preparing measures for the im- provement of trade, agricultare and manafactures jn the recently annexed provinces of Nice and Sa voy. Itwas thought that the conference on the wise question would be held in Paris about the end of May. Tom Sayers, the prize fighter, visited Liverpool on the 30th ult., and was received with immense enthusiasm, the multitade removing the horees from his cab and dragging him in triamph through the streets. Rarey, the horsetamer, had arrived at Constantinople, and had had an inter. view with the Sultan. In Liverpool the demand for cotton continued good, and prices were firmly maintained. ; The news from Mexico, given in our paper to day, is of an important character. Miramon was at the capital, and there were rumors of @ change in the Cabinet. The new forced loan caused mach excitement among the foreign population, though efforts had been made to quell it by conciliatory Propositions. A conducta had left the capital for Vera Craz with some foar millions in specie. The yellow fever still prevailed at Acapulco, and several Americans had fallen victims to it. By the arrival of the steamship Moses Taytor at this port yesterday morning, we have news from Havana to the Sth inst. The news is unimportant ‘The British war steamer Racer arrived at Havana on the 4th inst. The Spanish Bank of Havans had lecreased its line of discounts daring the week ending Sth inst. $295,969. The steam ferry boat Ge- neral Tacon was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of the 7th inst. Our correspondent in Buenos Ayres, writing, March 19,informs us that a new revolution had yeen attempted on the Sth of March, bat was promptly suppreseed. President Derqui, the enc- cessor to General Urquiza, was regarded as hostile to the Province, and there were romors that Baenos Ayres intended to declare its independence. The elections in Uruguay paseed off without bloodshed, and the new President seemed determined to carry vat the policy of his predecessor. The Confedera- tion, it is stated, wae pever so disanited as at the present time. Our correspondent at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 28, says the recent heavy rains, which drowned the growing crops, lave ceased, and the weather now and for the last week or ten days is everything that conld be desired. The rosds in have dried up, which causes coffee to to market in larger supplies than usual at i aud, the ‘of the | handbook of revolution was published, but ex- Sa ee canon netan ©, a Renee cited no wntil It was read by the orblcd, it wae pale, were to ald ia rolmbaring bis ' dames of Joba AMtempt to incite » eervile war in the South, and a civil war in the Union. Spooner’s abolition. —»unding of the constitution, brought forward ith Seward’s endorsement om the title page, and detailing the whole revolutionary plan of operations of the political abolitionists, has opened the eyes of the community to the destructive tendency of their theories. The tide of popular reaction bas been swelling against them, and is now exhibited in numerous torms and many places. The recent elections in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, the decline of the annual receipts of the abolition societies, and the lit tle public interest taken in the anniversary gatherings from the rural districts, recently held in this city, are all conclusive evidences in point. These, and numerous minor indications of daily occurrence, prove the character and tendency of the political revolution that is now going on all over the country. In the South, as in the North, there is a reaction against the foolish agitators who insist on making the slavery question an element in politica! action. This reaction is penetrating and disintegrating all parties. The conservative feeling is aroused among the masees, and the people, everywhere, look for the statesmen and the party that shall comprehend the popular instinct, and present its platform and its candidate in consonance therewith. There is no other issue for them to- day than the driving of abolition fanaticism from the field of politics and government, and nothing will prevent an overwhelming popular vote to that effect but the quarrels of ambi- tious candidates and cliques, and their tying up of all the old political organizations with ab- stract distinctions, to advance their personal in- terest. As the experienced mariner knows that of the great roliers which sweep across the ocean, the third is the greatest, and most to be feared, 80 the experienced politician may know that the now rising wave of conservatism, which is soon to sweep over the ocean of popu- lar sentiment in this country, will far exceed and surpass the two which have preceded it since the introduction of abolitionism in the field of political agitation. Tue New Inisu Exopvs.—The English papers are puzzled to account for the fresh impulse which Irish emigration to this country has re- ceived The London Times says that it the exodus continues at the present rate, Ireland will soon be left entirely to the English. This is a consummation which the English ought to feel no surprise at, seeing how hard they have worked to accomplish it by proscriptive laws, the maintenance of a State church, and whole- sale evictions of Catholic tenantry. Here speculation is equally busy as to the causes of this movement. Some ascribe it to apprehensions of another famine, others to the general reduction of laborers’ wages, after a period of temporary prosperity, and others again to the prospect of the Pope transferring the Holy See to this side of the Atlantic. Now, as faras we cap ascertain, there is but little foundation for the first*two of these conjec- tures; and as regards the last, the project, if it exists, is rather remote for a present result of this kind, There is some partial distress at the pre- sent time in Ireland, but it exists in places in which there is but little em- ployment st any period of the year, and it is natural that during the winter and early spring we should hear some complaints in regard to it. As far as the crops are con- cerned, no indications as yet have manifested themeelves which would justify any fears of their failure. We do not believe that as a general thing the Irish laborer will earn less this year than last. The country is in a pro- gressive state, under the influence of the En- cumbered Estates act, and there will be full employment for field hands in every district in which agriculture constitutes the main support of the peasantry. There are other influences at work which, we think, will account more for the increaged movement of Irish population in this direction. It is notorious that there are few men in Ireland who enjoy such universal and well merited influence over its people as the Rev. Dr. Cahill. Since his arrival in the United States he has been writing letters, the tendency of which has been to immigration. by the attractive pictures that he has drawn of the condition of his country- men here. He has had the good sense to see that when they have failed to make a position for themselves, it has been entirely through their own fault, whilst for the really industrious and persevering the chances are infinitely greater than any they can find at home. The testimony of the reverend gentle man bas done more to dispel the prejudices which had been raised against this country by the Know Nothing agitation, and the misrepre- sentations of some of the Irish papers here, than any other effort that has been made to counteract them. The people of Ireland feel fall confidence in his assurances, and it is rea- sonable to believe that his letters have given this fresh impulse to the movement of emigra- tion in this direction, Another thing that has contributed to aid it is the establishment of the Galway line on a basis that inspires conf- Gence in the seaworthiness and safety of its vessels. When it first started, the incomplete- ness of its arrangements, and the accidents that occurred to one or two of its steamers, pre- vented the faciiities which it held out from ex- ercising their full inducements. Now, the addition of several magnificent vessels to the line, the support afforded by « government subsidy, and the completion of a system by which the emigrant is conveyed from his home in Ireland to sny part ef the United States, without trouble or risk of being cheated, are having their natural effect. Add to these ad- vantages the fact of the large eums which are constantly being transmitted from our Irish fellow citizens to their relatives at home, as in- ducemente to them to come out, and we have explanation enongh ef the extension which emigration from that quarter is taking. Movers Prooness.—The metropolis is rapid- ly extending up town. Tailors, grocers and fancy goods dealers are opening stores in Four- teenth “street and Fifth avenue. The order of extension in New York seems to be: first, farms ; second, country seats; third, private city residences; fourth, club-houses; fifth, boarding houses and hotels; sixth, barrooms and billiard saloons; seventh, retail stores; eighth, wholesale stores; Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street will soon be filled with boarding houses, saloons and fancy retail stores. The great wholesale establishments are rapidly driving them out of Broadway. . Crose oy THE ANNIVERSARIES—DECLINE OF THE Sprair AND THE Funps.—The great religious term is now fairly over, and the anniversary business closed up for the present year. One or two societies, probably, yet remain to wind up their affairs; but the great majority of them have departed from us in the odor of sanctity, and New York is abandoned to its iniquity until next May. Meantime we may hope for bright skies and vernal weather, which rarely greet us during the annjversary term, that period being proverbially dull, wet and dreary. The anniversaries this year were character- ized by peculiar dulness and stupidity; the in- terest which in former years attached to them seems to have,died out. Even the Garrisonians, whose meetings always attracted large gather- ings, lacked their wonted spirit, and have fallen off in everything but profanity; and the strong minded women’s meetings, where people usual- ly went for amusement, as to a theatre, were weak and watery this year, in all respects, save that nice tincture of obscenity which the stropg-minded of both sexes are accustomed to mix with their preambles and resolutions. But in no particular is the decline of the an- niversary spirit more observable than in the the woful falling off in the receipts; the golden props and pillars of many of the societies are shaken almost to their foundation; and if the fands _ontinue to fall off in this way, their occu- pation will very soon be gone. It is alike remarkable and significant, that the greatest falling off in the treasury is to be found in those societies which deal most largely in the anti-slavery agitation; the Almighty Nigger has been almost the death of them—they have taken him in such copious, doses. We have prepared a table which shows that the receipts of eighf societies with whose pro- ceedings the nigger question is more or less mixed up have declined over $73,000 from 1858 to 1859, while those of seven societies which at- tend to their specific business and let the nig- ger alone show amincrease of $117,000 in the same period. This fact speaks for itself, and needs no comment. The following is the table of receipts of the leading societies which have just closed their annual labors:— SOCIETIES WHOSE RECEIPTS HAVE PALLEN OFT. 1890-60, Decr'e. Young Men’s Christian Assoc’n $5,600 2,600 2.900 American Anti-Slavery Society 35.967 14,237 21.730 ‘Am. Home Society. 187,409 185,216 2/923 Am. and Foreign Chrie’n Union 73,000 67,000 16,000 American Tract Society....... 883,000 377,318 6,818 ‘American Congregational Union 10,619 9,872 547 N. Y, State Colonization Society 67,000 54,409 22,591 Am. and Foreign Bivle Union.. 45,000 85,860 10,860 TotMlS ss eeserecsesseeses S8TTAV6 798612 78,809 SOCIETIES WHOSE RECEIPTS HAVE INCREASED, if Foreign Missions ser ot deere nah Am. of f. Prateek Bociety........ 415,011 438,956 20/045 Aw. Sunday Schoo! Union. 26: 60,752 N. ¥. Unios 5,200 72,640 20,961 7,900 12,783 3,783 1,184,620 1,901,907 117,306 evil tendency of introducing theslavery agita- tion into religious societies and churches than these figures furnish, The merchants and other conservative men who contributed to the funds of these societies have discovered that the very question which is destroying their interesta, ruining their trade, anddrawing the country to the very verge of disunion, is fostered and promulgated with the sid of their money by these societies, and they will no longer support them. The community is will- ing to pay for religion, and to assist philan- thropic movements of all kinds; but the con- servative portion of it will not support aoy church or any society, religious or philauthro- pic, which devetes itself to the mischievous agitation of slavery; so that these societies must either abandon the Almighty Nigger, or go without the Almighty Dollar. And very few ef them, we opine, are willing to sacrifice the latter for the former. Ove States axp Tenrrronies—Growm or Tar Uxiox,—The Committee on Territories of the House has reported bills organizing five new Territories, namely: Idaho—whose Indian name signified “a gem of the mountain,” now known as Pike’s Peak—Nevada, Arizona, Chip- pewa and Dacotab. Thus the republic grows apace. There are now thirty-three States and five Territories in the Union; but wherever the American citizen goes into the Western wilder. ness, he takes the spirit of politics along with him; and as its resources, either in mineral or agricultural wealth, begin to be developed, he desires a government .for the location in which he lives, and seeks organization as a Territory. When these five new Territories are organized, and Texas is divided into four States, as was provided for at her admission, and s new State is formed out of portions of Tennessee, Mississippi and Ken- tucky, which the Tennessee Legislature decided upon at its last session, we shall have thirty- eight States and ten Territories in the Union- In the course of five or ten years these Ter- Titories will have also become States, and then the national flag will display no less than forty- eight stars in the corner. When we remember that during the contest between Jackson and John Quincy Adams, in 1824, there were only twenty-four States in the Union, we can form some idea of the rapid growth of the country. Tt will have doubled the number of States in a little more than # quarter of a century. Tie Ixsorrrction mx Sicr.y.—Although it is dificult to get at the precise facts of the insur- rectionary war in Sicily, owing to the jealous precautions of the government, there are rea- sons for believing that the insurgents are gain- ing rather than losing ground. A revolt in which the royal troops lose two battles out of three, aod which necessitates the removal of the capitol, does not look as if it would be as easily qhelled as the Neapolitan journals would have us believe. At all events, efforts made by the authorities to prevent information leaving the country show that the facts of the straggle do not tally very closely with the versions they give of them. They assert, for instance, that the trouble is nearly at an end, and that only a few hundred insurgenta remain to be pursued. And yet we have from another source the state- ment that the garrison at Palermo, though numbering twenty thousand men, are afraid to proceed into the interior. Unless the government commanders exhibit more energy than has as yet been displayed, the days of the Bourbon dynasty are numbered. Let the insurrection last another month, and the flames of revolt will spread to Naples, and render it impoesible for the mercenaries in the royal pay to subdue it. The Neapolitan jour. nals may lie as they choose, but they chano! Gieguise the fact that Bomba jantor is ins bad Wey, He lent the galy change that remaized to him of preserving his throne when he refused to listen to the wise counsels of his uncle, the Prince of Syracuse. ‘Tue OveRanp Pony Exrress.—The arrival of the first pony express was made the occasion of great rejoicings in San Francisco, the last of the little animals that performed the journey receiving almost as great honors as the Roman Consul paid his horse. The whole city turned out as if for a grand pageant, and en the arri- val of the steamer Antelope from Sacramento with the pony on board, the enthusiasm of the scene baffled description. One lady became 80 excited that she tore the ribbons from her bon- net and decorated the mane of the equine hero with them, Thus accoutred, the little fellow marched proudly through the streets of San Francisco, bonfires blazing, bands playing, and crowds shouting at his heels. He no doubt stretched himself on his litter that night, proud- er than ever steed did before. If the Califor- nia people are not content with empty mani- festations of gratitude, they will lay that pony up in clover for the rest of his days. Aorrvrry or THE Arricay SLave Trapg.—The slave trade seems to be particularly active at present. We give an account to-day of the capture of a slaver by one of our cruisers off the coast of Cuba, with about five hundred Afri- cans on board. The captured vessel is the Wild- fire, which sailed from this port on the 16th of December last, for St. Thomas “and a mar- ket”—the market, it appears, being the const of Africa—where she took in the valuable freight now in the hands of the United States authorities. By-and-by we shall hear of the Storm King, which escaped from the hands of our Deputy Marshals the other day in such a mysterious fashion, turning up somewhere with another cargo of men and brothers, and, may- hap, running them safely into some port. We learn every day that the seas are swarming with elavers, plying a busy trade, all of which were fitted out in our Northern ports, and not one of them in the South—a very remarkable fact. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. The Japanese Embassy—Their Reception by the Government—The Relation: Between the United States and Peru—Seward and the NomWoation at Chicago—The Defaica- tion in the New Yerk Post Office—The Cen- tral American and Mexiean Treaties—The Charleston Convention and its Adjourn- ment, a. &o., Oar Special Washington Despatch. ‘Wasumctox, May 13, 1860. ARRIVAL OF THR JAPANKAR EMBASSY IN HAMPTON ROADS—PEE- SENTATION OF CAPTAIN DUPONT. About twelve o’clock last night the steamer Anacostia, sentinel in the Roads, arrived at Norfolk, announciag that the Roanoke had arrived in Hampton Roads. ‘The Philadelphia left Portamouth at a quarter past eight thie morning, for the Roanoke, with the Naval Com mision and the invited guests. The weather is magniii- cent, Ataquarter past nine it arrived at the Roanoke, ‘whose sails were furled and tops manned. Oar band played a national air. Captain Dupont, of the navy; Capt. ‘Taylor, of the marines; Mr. Ledyard, son inlaw of Secre_ tary Cass, and Mr. Portman, interpreter, went aboard the Roanoke in the first quarter boat. The second boat con- veyed Commander Lee, Lieutenant Porter, Secretary of the Commission; Mr. McDonald and the invit- ed guesta, The third boat took the reporters aboard. In the cabin of the Roanoke, Captain Dapoat was formally presented to the Ambassadors. The former showed his commission from the Prerident to take charge of the Embassy while in the United States. Captain Da- pont introduced Commander ee an Lieutenant Porter as his associates—also the President’s interpreter. Mr. Led- yard was also introduced as the representative of the State Department. He’ welcomed them to the country. The interpreter briefly but tntelligibly responded. The ceremo- nies being concluded, and the treaty being uncovered and exposed to view, friendly intercourse took place, and preparations for going aboard the Philadsiphia are now progressing. The interview between the Oom- missioners and Ambaszadors, although evidently much more republican than the latter expected, was conducted with great dignity on both sides, and marked by appa- Tent reciprocal confidence in each oter. A feeling of deep interest pervaded among the spectators. The inter preters of the Embassy mixed freely among the visiters, and respondéd to their congratulations in tolerably good English. The Philadelphia will be in Washington about noon on Monday. ‘There will, to-morrow, be no formal reveption of the Japanese on their landing, by the government, further than {the extension of the appropriate courtesies of weloome, under the direction of the offloers of the Navy Yard. The grounds bave been placed iz the best poesible condition, and ng means will be neglected to make a favorablc im pression upon the minds of the visitera, who will be con veyed to their quarters in carriages under the escort of the marines and district military. Tho precis) programme for Wednesday bas not been perfected, as there are points of diplomatic etiquette first to be determined. The oilloers of the army apd navy have been notiied by circular that it i@ the desire of the President that they be present at the reception. The former will accompany the Genera) in- biel to the Executive mansion on that occasion. DEPALCATION IN THE NEW YORK Poet OFFICE. The developements which have just come to light in regard to the New York Post Office, is the universal theme of conversation, The assembled world at Wash. ington is stricken with the catastrophe The ammunt of defalcation, a8 I learn at the department, ts one hun- dred and fiMy-fve thousand dollars. Astonishment Prevades all circles. One trenchant biow has iaid open the insatiable maw of New York politics, and the public eye gazes with a rtrango fascination on its carrion corrup- on. It is known that tae principal actor in this painfa) tragedy, was some little while since ommoned before the Covode Investigauing Committoa. The questions put to him and the answers were published at the time in the Hieratp. It mast then bave been perceived with what gingerly care the questions were selected, and & may now be determined that one downright honest thrast from Covode would hare developed the astounding resuite Why Oovode’s strange pru- donee? Whence hie restraint? What iniieences cloned bis lips? Who stood bebind the scence and Prompted what question to ask and what repress. Theee inquiries load every tongue; ani now the public is search: Ing for an honest Covode to investigate the Ponnsyivania Oovede. Let us have light. Messiears, the Committee, come, purge yourselves of suspected complicity with the Now York deialcation. The coantry awaits your expia- pation ‘THE CHARLESTON CONTEENON AND IT ADOT RENT To éo. regard the adjournment of the Charleston Oooyestion to Baltimore, as egal in @ politioal sense, and bo.i that the transcended ite powers—that |! was commis sloned by the prople to doa specific ac), at a epe ecified time and plact, and at no other time amd) = place; and thai, failing to do it» funetions neceeserily consed, and no le convention now exists, or can oxish, til! je begin de now and elect now delegates. if it Clections to = new Convention, throwing both more and Richmond Couveations overboard as! ‘and contrary to democratic usage. There is no ext Of & Convention adjourning to another piace ‘ominating a candidate. ‘THE AROEDERS AND THK BALTIMORS CONVENTION. ‘The address which has been circulating for ‘among Southern men inviting the seceding d Join the June Convention at Baltimore does not get| vory well, amd unless some new life is immediately fused into it, will certainly fail, The Douglas men positively that they will reject them by » majority should they attempt admittance into the Baltimore o SEWARD AND THE NOMINATION A? CHICAGO. ‘The more moderate and conservative republicans to deapair of defeating Seward’s nomination at 0 Information has been received here within the last ty-tour hours by leading republican Senators and bers, to the eflect that unless some of their strong in both Houses repair at once to Chicage, Seward will tainly be nominated. Thurlow Weed says the writer, stocked the cards, and be is bound to win unless i THR CRNTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN TRRATTRS. It is understood that a portion of republican enough to give the requisite two-thirds, have resolves! ratify the pending Central American and Mexijen ties, provided the Senate will accept certain ends which will put all the treaties on ah eq footing as regards intoroceanic transite. In other wo! they are ready to in every treaty, and terms the same, an article which shall secure free throagh all the Isthmus States for the mails, the and the property and merchandise of the g and citizens of the United States, in return for the tive and efficient guarantee om the part of the Ui right of such forcible or other intervention ay may necessary to effect the only object which the United Stat} desires, viz.: a free right of transit. Of course any it vention woald require to be made tn accordance with 00 stitational provisions, and the treaties therefore could be construed as investing the Executive with new or ext ordinary powers. On the other hand, the terms of tee could not be offensive to the Isthmus States, rally object to @ direct pro: °sition to land armed their territories for any purpose whatever. The ments proposed are aleo aimed against the vicious p Ple of money purchase of a right of way, th through Mexico or any other State. It is conceived the guarantee of the United States of the security whic these States themselves are unable to give is a suilici compensation for the privileges which they concede, sides putting the various enterprises of jateroceanic oo munication, tn all of which American citizens are rested, on an equal footing, leaving their success to 4 pend upon their merits, and not on adventitious er p tial government aid. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITRD STATES AND PERU. . ‘The indecent neglect and impudent and insulting ner in whish the Peruvian government have treated United States in regard to the pending queations in di pute, growing out of claims held by our citizens, b caused the administration to take steps which will pro! bly bring matters to a crieis, unlees she responds an} without delay, to the demands of our government. Jt understood already that s small naval force has been in the neighborhood of those waters, and so soon as a ply is received to tue despatches transmitted a short ti since to Minister Clay, in which the ultimatum of our ‘Vernment was communicated in clear and c English, and if she still persists in her insulting ts there may be work for = pretty large naval force im t ‘It ia known here that the French squadron is either or near Callao now to demand satisfaction for their POSTAGE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND p The German rate of postage on letters betwoon United States and the Thurn and Taxis postal dist conveyed via Hamburg, has been recently reduced to untform rate of fifteen cents, the same as when conve) ‘via Bremen; #0 that in the future the single rate of per half ousce or under, between this country and th: Our Washington Correspondence. Waaninctos, May 11, 1860. The Old Whig Party Rediviows, and ts Ticket of Bal Brerdt— Disappointment of the Progressive © tives—A Fine Opening for Bonner, of the New York ton inte Congress against all contingencies, and with Eorenewnae wy ee Oe But there was too much of innovation upon the order of things, too much of enterprise and popular ‘thusiasm in the name of Houston for these Bourbons the old line whig and old line Know Nothings, the roast at Baltimore, Houston was too much of an o lime democrat for them—he was not sount upon 0 “ | i i es i Lf # gz°3 2 f ii i ri ! i r Li i i af | i ‘ i s rH { iE i i ti well uf, can afford to stand for princi fia adherents, ss email powre of camp are of Spoils and plander, pabing the paltry salaries of cabinet foreign missions, in a mere epoila view, of @ couiert. Theve ol§ line whige, “devilieh wily.” They a Fame, efter all. They eo c . upoe the permanen| diesotution of the democratic p drmooratic woket in st Baltimore ; opou w North on squatter Mocratic Hoket in the South. Sonthern tieket i A Hine phd i Z F 3s g é i tine Work Agathe Mr. Grow's Catalogue of Bitte for Onpntcotion of Nos Tervivorict KM Thayer the Brevitiomer, fo Boe Wh tack acy daze te i; bows LTE been