The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. the Board intend appointing inspectors and captaing to fill vicasc'es oa or before the lst of June. Captains Walling, Leonard, Weed and JAMES a nen O% BEES eriaied } Squires are spoken of for inspectorships, and s a - | Sergeants Brooks, Petty, Sander and others for OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 678. the captaincies, | The usual msjority of the industrious Board of TERMS, cash in adoance, Money sont by mad willbe aithe Excise Commissioners held one of their very busi- Lt Aeon — age oteertenen | ons like meetiogs yesterdey, at which pd re- gue DAILY BETA UD ceory oneiog et sho conta} ceived four applications for licenses, which they ‘ Fh fgg Con rampant Weinenloy. | eraciously agreed to grant on the usual pecuniary is any part Contin Sots & tasted terme. They then adjourned till this morning, bo rr) te per annem. peng after a session of one minute’s duration. LUNTARY COR: 1, containing ™ alias Wm. Jol iD, Ww) trial for assault upon Fase raat Son Foon Gountatonoests ax | and robbery of Capt. Burr, of the oyster sloop B. axriouLanLy Buquasren vo BmAL st Larreas xD PACK) 4 J 1660 has heen going on in the United States Cireuit Court for some days past, was concluded *eFO NOTICE taken of anonymous correrpondence, We do not rewrn ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day: advertisements im | yesterday, and the case will be given to the ji EKA and én the * jury 7 Nyy “dl vipat, Faxict Bakatn to day. A report is published in another celumn, re ae on JOB PRINTING, executed with nestness, cheapness and de ms and Plat- yorm=Thetr True Reading. The black republican candidates and plat- form are before the people. Lincoln and Hamlin are the nominees for President and Vice President, and Wm. H. Seward, the real organizer of the party and its principles, is brown aside as a worn-out and useless poll- | tician. He has exhausted his availability in bringing up the organization to its present condition, and now ite control is passed into other bands. * The platform exhibits a manifest evidence of the fears entertained by the black republican leaders of the rising tide of conservative feel- ing among the masses of the people, in the attempt which is made to ‘cover up the real aims of the party with a mass of verbiage—of pliable interpretation by local expounders. It sets forth that the causes which called the party into existence “are permanent in their nature,” but refrains from stating what they are; the generatities of the Declaration of Indepen- dence are lugged {o, and it is announced that “the federal constitution, the rights of the States and the Union” must be preserved; disunion speeches are denounced; the lawless invasion of the States is denounced, protection by the fede- ral government to the right of property in slaves is refused; extravagance in the govern- ment is condemned; the constitution is de- | clared to be an anti-tlavery instrument in the Territories; the normal condition of all the ter- Volume XXV. Ne, 139 AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING, pitas AVADEMY OF MURIC. Fourtegath strat—Matinee « One—Lon Giovanni, Evening~Oaatomio or Sau, —_—— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bavesrauw Psrronw avoxs—Bivn Brake.’ Afternoon and Kvening. BOWEKY THBATRE, Bowery.—Ouvex Twist~Biice Esiours—Cur Gat. WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway. opposite Bond «treet — Melinee at Ore—Nanvcusprazzan. svealng—La Cans— Hanniatre an Cuancer. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Oven.anp Rovrs, LAURS KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Inviscoce Prince—Ax Arrain or Howon. NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Wowrcixa~Baoxze Dox, war~llanceomm Jace. BABKOMS AMEKICAN MUSEUM. Brosdway.—Day png Mreniag—Inniaxy a3 I Was—Dor—Living Uvatost Ties, BRY ANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanicy’ Hull, 473 Broad way.— Buecesques, Bonus, Oances, Ac.— Tur Staangen. —Guo. Canisry's Mux- FIBLO'S BALOON, Broadway STAKES OF A NiGiIT, Brana x Bowes, Dances, 20. MOZART HALL, No, 669 Browdway.—Gurrarcs Guany's Eprextarysent— Moowr’s Leis MeLoviss, do COBNEA OF THIKATERNTS STREET 24ND FOURTH AVENUE. —Caurounts Man acunin. ay TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, May 19, 1860, The News. The Republican National Coavention at Chicago ritory of the United States is declared to be yesterday nominated Abram Lincoln, of Hino, for | that of freedom, and the right of Congroas, Ter- Rreient, and Basnibe Hanlin, ” Maine, for V fe | ritorial Legislatures and individuals to give it Preeident. Lincoln was nominated on the third legal existence iu any Territory is denied; the and Hamlin on the second baliot. The details 7 of the proceedirgs are spread before our read- reopening of the African slave trade is braud- ers in our columns this morning, together with | ¢4 48 & burning shame; the vetoes by the fede- ra} Governors of the acts of the Territorial Le- gislatures of Kansas and Nebraska against tlavery are condemned; Kansas declared entitled to admission as a State; a pro- tective tariff is cautiously advocated ; the House Homestead bill is endorsed; Know Nothing legislation against naturalized, citi- zens is abjured, and river and harbor im- provements, the Pacific Railroad, and a daily overland mail, are pronounced to be ob- jects worthy of patronage by the federal go- verpment. Here we have a platform in which any dema- gogue north of Mason and Dixon’s line may find a text to suit his audience, expressed ia language pliable and elastic enough for any sketches of the personal and political history of the candida'es. The nomination of Lincola created an intense furore in Chicago; and the republicans of this city, Albany, Rochester and other points ex- hibited their enthusiasm by extraordinary exp!o- tions of gunpowder, and other noisy demonstra- tions. There are now two Presideutial tickets ia the field, namely: IN TICKET, Boil, of Tennersee. ward Everett, of Massacuuse ts, THE RAPURLICAN TICKET. For Preident Abram Linoo!n, of Iliools, Por Vice Preident,... .Aannibsl Hamlia, of Maino. In Congress yesterday the Senate ordered to be printed a bill carrying into effect treaties with Japan, Siam, Chive and Persia; also a message from the President relative to the Mountain Mea, dows massacre. A bill was introduced providing for the examination and payment of claims of the citizens of Texas for Indian spoliations. The bill for the relief of Mr. Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, was postponed. Mr, Davia’ resolutions relative to the protection of slavery in the Territories were taken up, and Mr, Mason, of Virginia, delivered a speech on the snb- ject. Mr. Toombs obtained the floor, but post- poned bis remarks till Monday. The Senate, after ap executive session, adjourned. The Honse passed the bill providing for the better protection of life on board steam vessels. A bill abolishing the Court of Claims, and providing for the adjudi- cation of claims by the District Courts, was re- ported. The Nebraska contested clection case was decided by the ousting of Mr. Eastabrooke, and the installation of Mr. Daily, the contestant. ‘The steamship Ariel, from Aspinwall 10th inst, arrived yesterday morning, bringing later dates from South and Central America. Valparaiso dates are to the 15th; Callao to the 27th ult. Chile continues to increase in wealth and prospe- rity. More discoveries of mines are said to have been made. There are now in operation ter gold, twelve silver, and bout three hundred copper mines in that repuliic. The Castom House receipts for the quarter ending March 31 are threefold those of the corresponding period last year. Peru had been visited by @ succession of violent earthquakes, which had done considerable damage fn Lima, Callao and other places. The town of Chorillo was almost completely destroyed, and se- veral lives lost. The loss of property in Lima is estimated at a million of dollars, and several per. Sons were injured. Callao did not suffer so much. Considerable excitement and alarm had been caused at Callao by the appearance of a French ship-of-war with a formidable force on board, which bad come with the view of enforcing the French claims against Peru. The alternatives of. fered were submission to the terms proposed or bombardment of the port. ‘There is nothing from Bolivia or Ecuador. From Costa Rica, the election of Montealegrete to the Presidency is confirmed. ‘The steamship Philadelphis, from Havana, ar- rived yesterday morning, with two dayw’ later in- telligence than that received by the Isabel. There is no news of any consequence. There were afew cases of yellow fever, from the shipping, in the mew hospital. A French vessel had arrived from Macao with a large number of coolies on board, amd notwithstanding the length of the voyage, only three deaths bad occurred. Following clove upon the defalcation in the New York Post Office, Wall street is now agitated with Por President... tor Vice Prewde litioniem on a legal and constitutional ground. Lawlees invasions of the States are denounced, the worshippers of Joba Brown are flouted and the necessity of preserving the Union for the purpose of abolishing slavery in the Southern States is clearly proclaimed. How this is to be accomplished under the color of law and con stitutional right we already know—thanks to Mr. Spooner and Mr. Seward. The former has set forth the whole echeme, with all its logical deductions, and the process of liberating the slaves by writs of habeas corpus issued by abo- lition judges; and the latter has announced, on the floor of the Senate, the determination of the black republican party to reorganize the federal courts. The “irrepressible conflict” isto be continued under the shadow of the Jaw, if a black republican President can be elected. In adopting this theory, the black republi- cans place ves in direct antagonism to the interpr of the constitution which has been accepted from the time of its adop™ tion to within a very short period, and which the abolitionists of the Garrison and Wendell Phillips school admit to this day. The attempt is revolutionary, but it is revolution in disguise, and not openbanded and honest, like that of the radical abolitionists. It is the policy of a set of political hucksters, adopted for the purpose of making a desperate effort to ob- tain power. All its professions of a love of peace, of respect for State rights, of rejection of Jobn Brownism, are hollow and false; for the use of power under the guise of the constl- tution, and for the purposes proclaimed, would involve fifteen States in an armed resistance to federal invasion, and place federal troops in the stead of John Brown and his followers. The following extract from a speech of Abram Lincoln, the black republican candidate for the Presidency, delivered at Springfield, Illinois, on the 17th of June, 1858, gives us the true interpretation of the platform, and the personal rentiments of the black republican candidate :— I believe (hig government cannot endare permanently page i a bow financial affairs of the Pa- ps ave “ow 1 ome axpect gh to be c jail Steamship Sompany. These rumors are weoived. pot expect house to 5 dati do > it will to be diviied. It will Deon: based upon an alleged frandalent overissne of the Sheer a the other, ‘Diner the eppunents of Govert stock of the company to an amount, it is said, rang. | Will arrest the further spread of t aad it the Ing from $300,000 to $400,000, and the develope. | Frc migd shall rest i the bell that win the course ments have not only seriously depreciated the mar | ward Wl! itehall become alike lawfal in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South Mr. Lincoln knows that the latter alterna. tive, which he puts forward with so much apparent ho-esty, is as imposible as that the sun thould rise to morrow in the West. The clanse of the platform treating of the tariff is a lamgattempt to seoure the support of the old w protectionists, and the free soil and free trade democrats, who are to-day enrolled in the part; It isa compromire between the Zridune and the Bre ning Post, which either can interpret to its satisfaction, but which pledges neither party leaders nor the party iteelf to any marked line of policy. The antl-Kaow Nothing clause isa fling at the Know Nothing republicans of Mas sachusetta, thrown out to gratify the German settlers in the North and West. In part it is practical, ae, for instance, in opposing » change in the nataralization laws, and impractical so far an it aseorts a policy to be maintained abroad. On the other points of public policy which are treated, the platform is pliable ket value of the shares of the Steamship Company, but stocks generally have been seriously afected for the past fow days. The secretary of the Company, whose duty it was to prepare a Vist of the stock a week ago, has been missing wince Tuesday last. An investigation is now being made, and further revelations will probably trans pire in a day or two. Meaptime the statement Which we publish elsewhere in our cokimas throws Some light upon the matter. A telegraphic despatch from St Louis reporta the Grrest in that city on Wednesday of Raphael E Bamilth, confidential clerk of Kenneth Mackensie, ‘wholesale liquor desler, charged with em- beraling $27,000 from his employer. An investl- gation bas led to the belief that the prisoner's Peculations have been carried on for a number of years, and to the amount of probab'y $100,000, The Police held a meeting yes. ferday afternoon. The only business transacted ‘was the appointment of Charles Missing as door. mam, A report from the Sanitary Police, tarnish. fog @m additional number of tenement honses found in @ filthy condition, was received, after which the Board adjourned. It is reported that NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, purpore. The chief characteristic of itis the adoption of the Spooner and Seward theory, that the constitution is an abolition instru- ment, and the attempt to place political abo- MAY 19, 1860.—TRIPLE the Repubiices Nomiass!oA for the Pre~ aifency. The Republican Convention at ."'°* omy pomingted Abram Lincoln, of Iilim. " .,, President of the United States—a third 1. Weetern lawyer, poorer than even poor Pierce. » This is a complete defeat of S ward, who was | fairly entitled to the nomination from the party which is of his own creation, The result was brought about by the intrigues of Horace Greo- Jey and old Blair, of Silver Springs, who, though they could not obtain the nomination for Madame Bates, their first love, yet prevent- ed the success of the apostle of the higher law, and got # man whom they can mould to their personal purposes more readily than Mr. Sew- ard. A few years ago, at Washington, the New York Senator gave offence to Greeley, ani he has never been forgiven, though it was he who first raised the editor of the Zribune to impor- tance. Mr. Seward’s defeat is a heavy blow to Thurlow Weed, who built upon his nomination high hopes of preferment, which now turn out to be only castles in the air. What Raymond and Webb will do remains to be seen. The conduct of the republican party in this nomination is a remarkable indication of small intellect, growing smaller. They pass over Seward, Chase and Banks, who are statesmen and able men, and they take up @ fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar, and who, to raise the wind, delivers his hackneyed, illiterate compositions at $200 apiece. Our readers will recollect that this peripatetic poli- tician visited New York two or three months ego on bis financial tour, when, in return for the most unmitigated trash, interlarded with coaree and clumsy jokes, he filled his empty pockets with dollars coined out of republican fanaticism. If, after he becomes President of the United States, the public financgs should fall, he can set out upon a lecturing mission through the country, taking Horace Greeley along with him. He may thus replenish a col- Japeed treasury. If people will not exchange their loose dimes for the instraction or the pleasure derived from his eloquence, they may be induced to part with some of their cath in the cause of patriotism, and to save the nation from bankruptcy—an evént which is very likely to happen if the republicans get hold of the nation’s puree, The only other thing for which Lincoln has been distinguished besides his itincrant lec- turing is his defeat by Douglas in his own State, at a time when the ticket of the republi- can party had five thousand majority over the democracy in Illinois. In his anti-slavery opinions he is the most ultra and revolutionary of all the candidates whose names were intro- duced at Chicago; and fo the campaiga in which he was beaten he gave utterance to the most viclent sentiments, and went into the irrepressible conflict before Seward himeelf. At euch a nomination the democrats have good reason to rejoice. They have a clear road now before them, and nothing can arrest their onward march to victory if they are only true to themselves. Their stars are luckier to them than they deserve. They have the game in their hands, if they will suppress their in- sane quarrels and unite upon single candi. date, be he Douglas or Dickinson or Lane, but not Guthrie, Hunter or Breckinridge, or any Southern man. The candidate must bea man who will ron well in the Middle States, and he must be taken without any platform on his former record in regard to the South. There is no need of any platform. The republicans have made the issue, and that must be met, not by sidewinds or abstractions, but by a direct ne- gative. Their prinviples involve the dissolu- tion of the Union. Their policy is to over- throw the institutions of the South, by force or fraud, by legislation in violation of the con- stitution, or, if necessary, by fre and sword, In the face of this formidable position, to split hairs about squatter or popular sovereigaty in distant Territories is like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning, or the mariaers in a gal- lant ship disputing about hes measurement or what onght to be the form of her rig, while the veseel fast drifts on a lee shore, to the immi- nent peril of all on board. If those who un dertake to navigate the democratic party will abandon from this moment theic senseless jar- gon, and set about working the ship as practi- cal men, t)-y will weather the storm and make their de port in safety. By the diseom- fiture of -«ward at Chicago, and the nomina- tion of such a man as Lincoln, even the State of New York, with its thirty five votes, is lost to republicanism, and with it the hopes which the party cherished, if the democracy know how to take advantage of the blunder that has been made, and rally around single banner, in- scribed with theee words—‘United we stand, divided we fall.” Movements or THE Potitica, Cow-Bors.—It is generally reported that the nomination of Dell and Everett at Baltimore was got up for the purpoee of damaging the chances of tha re- publican candidate to be nominated at Chica- go, and now it appears that another set of po- litical cow-boys are going to nominate Sam Honston, with a view to damage the nominee of the democratic party. Thas, while the leading politicians of the republicans and de. mocrats will each have a candidate in the field, the cow-boys who hang on the skirts of both parties will have their candidates, too, and the contest will be a very fanny and curious affair. The remarkable silence of the Express thay be thus accounted for. It is waiting for the straw- berry to be ripe, or perhaps until the deposits in some bawk or other increase sufficiently in order to effect a good sale. It represents the cow boys, and therefore finds it expedient to wait, and see what will tara up. enough to suit any purpose, and will obtaiv an abundance’ of conflicting interpretations to suit local interests, In a word, it is an artful attempt to express and to hide the true aim of the party—the abolition of slavery—so as not to alarm the conservative vote, and to com: bine as many vote-catching generalities as the absence of material issues will afford. This policy on the part of the black republi- can revolutionists should make the conserva tive element more watchful, and put it doubly on its guard. The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty asa Guarantee of Peace. It will be ecen by our Berlin letter that Louie Napoleon has proposed to Prussia the negotiation of a commercial treaty similar to that concluded with England. The Emperor is evidently desirous of impressing the world with the pacific character of his future policy. We cannot forget, however, the resulta of his famous manifesto, “L’Empire c’est le paix.” It bas brought ‘as its sequence nothing but wars and diplomatic troubles. The English have made some heavy commer- cial sacrifices in connection with the recent commercial treaty with France, in the belief that it will constitute a guarantee for peace between the two countries. We are afraid, however, that the desire which they feel to re- main on good terms with their powerful neigh- bor bas Jed them to over-estimate the value of the new tie tbat they have contracted. Treaties have no firm basis except in an equality of ad- vantages between nations coequally situated. When a deepotism allies itself with a constitutional monarchy for particular ob- jects, the latter must take the chances of the instability which in the nature of things at. taches to a system in which a single will pre- dominates. The history of political alliances ehows no instance in which treaties have out- lived for any length of time the circumstances under which they have been contracted. It is impossible to bind posterity by compacts which the ever-changing interests of commu- nities may render impolitic and burdensome. Commercial treaties form no exception to this uncertainty. The same principles that rule the political life of nations regulate their commerciat existence. They are equally sub- ject to the ebb and flow of liberal ideas, and 20 permanence can be imparted to the arrange- ments to which they give birth. Of the num- berless conventions of a commercial character which the last half century has produced, how few remain in force? And yet they bave all been prefaced by glowing panegyrics on the bene- fits that they would confer in promoting inter- vational good feeling, and in permanently averting the evils of war. . When we read the sapguine anticipations ia which the ministerial press of Eogland indulges in reference to the future reenlis of the new treaty, we cannot but feel surprised at its obli- vieusness of these truths. No nation has enter- ed into eo many formal commercial compacts as England—no nation has done more toprove their utter worthleseness as obligations, Wit ness its treatics with the Continental govern- mente previous to the wars of the first Napo- leon; witness its conduct in India and China since. And yet there has never been a com- mercial convention executed by Great Britain which bas not been seized upon as an occasion for sounding her praises as the great propa gandist of peace. There is a siogular appositeness in the cir- cumstances connected with the ratification of the commercial treaty between Eogland and Frepce in the year 1786 to those of the con- vention recently concluded between the same countries. Then, as now, high hopes were en- tertained of the lasting benefits which were to result from this closer linking of their inte- rests. Ina letter attributed to the pen of Ju nius— but exbibiting more faith ia men and mea- eures than usually characterized his writings— we find language employed which presents a remarkable coincidence with the expectations at present indulged in by the English ministe- rial journals. “To extinguish,” says the writer, “or to diminish, those illiberal prejudices and those inveterate wars which, from the reign of Edward the Third, have devastated the two monarchies and alternately convulsed them; to substitute the mild interchange of commercial advantages and reciprocal benefits; to open new and untried channels for activity, enter- prise and industry—these objects, if attained, if they can be attained, will do equal honor to the genius of the minister who planned and to the epirit of the ge which adopted them. Whe ther they are 80 obtained or not, am not so presumptuous as to pretend or determine. Det when I see the public prints teeming with ite vective against the present treaty, because it bears so intimate a resemblance to the treaty of commerce signed in 1713, and which was re- jected in the subsequent triumph of a rival fac- tion, I cannot help commiserating the igao- vance and credality of a people who can be made the dupes of so wretched an imposi tion.” In lees than three years from the date at which this was penned the Revolution wae hurrying the French people into sanguinary excesses, and ina couple more war was de- clared between the countries whose close fra- ternization had been thus warmly anticipated. Does the treaty recently concluded promise a more permanent result? The experience of Botory and the restless character of Louis Na- poleon forbid the indulgence of any such hope Movements m& Democratio Powtrics.~The developement of Mr. Fowler's defaloation is creating a great deal of excitement among the democratic politicians all through the State, and the appointment of John A. Dix as Post- master, it is thought, will lead to a revolution in our city politics. The treacherous conduct of Ricbmond, Cagger, Cassidy and the Albany Regency, as developed at the Charleston Con vention, bas lost them all confidence in the party in this State, and has induced the leading democrats of thie city to settle up the little differences and troubles hitherto existing be- tween them, which were fostered by the Alba- ny politicians. We understand that a move ment is about to be made by the leaders of the party here, ench as Fernando Wood, Augustus Sobel], John Cochrane, Mr. Dix, Judge Russell and others, to heal up all old sores and con- centrate the whole strength of the party for the fall election. If the Convention which meets at Baltimore on the 18th of next month acts in » harmo- nious and combined manner, and nominates the right kind ef » man—such s one as either Domglas, Dickinson or Lane—the democratic party may carry this State in November next, against Mr. Lincoln, the Chicago candidate. - Tre Sax Jcax Boosdany Dirricviutry.—Ac- cording to Lord Jobn Russell's statement fn the British House of Commons recently, the go- vernment of her Majesty were waiting the reply of General Cass to their last despatch before taking @ny further steps towards a settlement of the San Jaan boundary question. It is ad- mitted, however, that orders have been sent to the Governor of Vancouver's Island to station a bundred troops on the disputed island of San Juan, that being the number of our men which General Scott left there pending the decision of the question of jurisdiction between the two countries. It is evident that our go- vernment cannot ard will not surrender our right to the pottession of the island. The fair interpretation of the treaty of 1846 leaves no doubt upon the point as to which channel was intended to designate the boundary line, and that interpretation throws the island of San Juan into American territory. As Eogiand never gives up anything which she can help, it is quite probable SHEET. ° , that this aifficulty is yet far from a settle- | ment, Earl Grey said, in his famous speech upon American affairs the other day, that | the United States made many uureasona- ble claims, which England soceded to the | oung republic for peace sake; but the fact is "pgland cedes nothing, while we have re- ‘ly awne 20. Even in this very questi up @ portion of Vancouver's i... we gave “she ie ee oul which fell at because it would ."¢ Mconvenient to England to divide that portion o.* her territory. In the Aroostook relat difficn.'tY, also, we ceded a great deal more of our domaix: than could be fairly expected; and we all know wiist conces- sions we made in the case of the Oregon boundary dispute. On the contrary, England never gives up a foot of territory until she is » NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Oar Special Washington Despatch. _ Wasitwaron, May 18, 1860, THE OVERLAND AND ISTHMUS POSTAL SER VIO | Tbe Benate Poet Office Committee met this morning, ant bad under cans ae Tethmue fervice, ‘Toey tuned eet of the Overland s_. gree upon a geucra! bill, the various propositions which ferent members of the com- brought before the Senate, to take such action ee they may thick proper. There are #0 many conflicting interests in regerd (5 this importaat braach of the serviod, that unless something !4 doue to harmovize them the whole service may fall to the ground. TUR ARMY APPROPRIATION DILL. ‘The Senate Military Committee have now under cove!- deration the Military Appropriation bill, ana are loading ft down with amendments, They have added to it appro- priations for all the fortifications throughout the United States. They have also sovoral other important amead- made to do so, and even in the pugilistic art | she will not now give up the belt. ANOTHER FINANCIAL SENSATION. Trouble in the Affairs of the Pacific | Mail Steamship Company. THE RUMORS AND EXCITEMENT IN WALL STREET. Statement of Mr. Davidge, the President, &a., &., The ‘Charge and tho street were agitated yesterday with rumore ia regard to @ difficulty ia the aifsirs of the Pecific Mail Steamship Company, and the stock of the compsauy, in consequence of these reports, fell from 107, with dividend, on Saturday, and par ex-dividend on Wed- nesday, to 87, affecting the whole market. The extent of the alleged fraud couid not be sscortalned. Wall street expantion set it dowa at $300,000 to $400,000. In all main points these rumors agreed. Frederick Hofnaa, the Secretary of the company, who had charge of the stock ledger, bas been mitsing since Tacsday last, and (be etock list, which it was bis duty to beve prepared a week ago, bas not been fortheoming. This fact, and the recent de velop ments ia regard to the Lost Uilice defalcs- tions, gave rise to the rumors of heavy overissues of stock, apd preeeed the ctock down to the quotation given above. ho. AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, Our reporter immediately visited the office of the cod . pery, ard found the President closeted with the directors Sta special mocting, aad neither President nor directors were acceeeible. One of the clerks, in answer to our ta “quirier, sald that the dividents were payable today, and that tbe trapsfer books had been closed a week ago. All employed in the office seomed very much excited, and thtir aaswers were curt aod often evasive. Oar reporter was turned over to the transfer clerk for further information, and the con. vergation was constantly interrupted by persons who would eter, inquire for Mr. Hoffman, be shortly taformed iaat be @ad “not in,” and then retire apparently satisfied that the reports of diffloulties were true. STATEMENTS OP THE TRANSFER CLERK. ‘The trenefer clerk said that he bad heard the rumom, but didn’s know anything about the defalcations; a clerk pamed Hoffman had becn employed there upon the stock ‘book, and he bad not deen in the offce for two or three days; he did not know what bad become of Hoffman; no- thing wrong bat deca discovered in the stock book, but yet an imvertigation was going on; it was « bard thing to prejudice any one’s character. ‘To Mr. Langdon, one of the largest stockholders, the clerk became much more communicative. In addition to the information given above, he said that tne dividends ‘would pot probably be paid to.day, as the stock books were Bot written up, and it was impossible to finish them last night; the stock books were now undergoing an jovestiga- tion; they had been partly written up, and so far nothiag at all wrong had been discovered; the only suspictous cir- cumstance was that his books had vet been written up by Mr. Hoffman; Hoffman hai not deen ordered to have the books ready, it was part of his business to have the books ready; it was part of his business to have them ready without special orders; there bad been no dividend paid since last May; he couldn't say whether the defalcatioas, Mf there were apy, must not have happened since that Ume; the Wansfer books were under his control, and ho bad made out the cortificates for 1860, and could identify them; he could conceive of no provable, no porsibie way, to which such defalcations might bave been commitiet, Hoffman had eatire charge of the stock lista. AN APPARENT OVERISSUE OF STOCK. Just at this time one of the directors came from the private room, the meeting having adjourned, and reoog- izing several large stockholdere, told them that nothing wroog bad been discovered so far; the only thing for the Pablic to do was to bring in the certificates of stock to day, ‘and have them © camined and stamped. |: appeared by the lists copied (rom the books that thero bed been an overierve of some four hundred shares of stock, bat this tesue might be proven genuine when the certifi. cates were examined. The only advice he could give the stockholders was to await the result of the iuvestiga- tion, and to bring ta their certificates, HOPPMAN, TUR MISSING CLERK. Hoffman bas not beon at the office since Tusrday last: but was seen on Tuesday night, at the New York Hotel ‘Since thee nothing has beea known of bis wheres) >a2ta. Hie brother, who is employed as clerk in the office of the Panama Railroad Company, in the seme baildiog, says that he does not know what bas become of him. Hw habits, like the majority of young men, were neither very extravagant nor very coonomical. This seoms to be all that is known of his pertonal habit, and it has litte ‘weight oither for or against the trath of the rumors. THE COMPANY AND ITS BUSINESS. ‘The Pacific Mail Steamabip Company has been in ex {atence about nine years. It ia the only company running steamers upon the Pacific const, and runs its boats from Pazama to San Francisco, connecting with the Params Railroad, and from San Francisco to Vancouver's Isiand and Oregon. Tie earnings, as might be expested, are very large, and the dividend, to be paid to- day, was announced st ten per cent. The stock of the company is secured by no bonds, but by ite property ia tteamers and ip real cetate ia San Francisco, Panama and Washington Territory. The company owns snd his it* works at Benicia, where Heenan was cmployed, and from ‘whence be takes his well known title, ‘the Benicia Roy.’ Ww. ‘was for a jong time the agent and pre- Bident of the , and ie atill @ leading director. ‘The fali in the quotations on ‘Change Thursday was Generally attributed, at first, to @ broker's movement or ‘the starting of an opposition company; bat the stock fel) Stl lower when the rumor took @ definite shape. The brokers aod merchants were much excited after the meeting of the Second Bord yesterday, and the rumors ecewmed generally believed to be tras. The stock of the | Panama Railroad Company was sympathetically alfoctal, ‘end fell from 146, the price ten days ago, and 140 on | Thureday, to 125 at the second board yesterday. ‘The statement of the President of the company will be | found to our financial column. Extevaive Fra: of a Confidential Clerk in St. Loate, St. Lovm, May 18, 1860. Rephac) E Smith, for many years confifential clerk of Kenneth Mackenzie, wholesale liquor dealer, was arrested ‘Wedseeday ons charge of embersling $27,000 from his emplyer. Investigations since his arrest indicate that the frauds extend through ® namber of years, and wil reach @ mach larger sum than mentioned in the indict grand opera of “Webachadnexzar"’ will be given for the test time ot Winter Garden to day, commencing at one @elock, with Fabbri, Mirandoia, Ariavann\, and the whole strength of the company. The opera is on the atege in unexceptionadie style, the so aery, ehoreeee, ke., being excesdingly fine. ‘The rile of gall te oe of Fabbri's bert and ‘aost dramatic The performance tw day clerea ihe preseat season ‘Wipter Gerdea. THE i i & ments under consideration. ‘THE SOUTHRRN AND WHBTSRN RAILROAD LINES, * The difficulties which have existed between the sevora railroad companies constituting through Iines South end West of New York bave been mostly ad- justed, s0 that there will be no bdroaking up ot through tickets South and West of Now York end Philadelphia, and it is altogether probable that the thme Al be shortened and the connections mete more certain and reliable than heretofore. The delegstes repre- acntiog various roads North and South are anxious that the connection at Washington should bo sanctioned and completed at the e@riiest porsible moment. It is of im- mense importance to the travelling public, and Congress should adopt it without delay; and is so considered by government; and yet this monopoly is constantly askiag the interposition of the United States to protect them ia ert ‘THR NEW YORK OFFICE HOLDERS. Since Mr. Sanders’ removal bas been made knowa, the Feports about the probable removai of Marshsl Ryudere have been rovived. The grounds are deciered by the President not to be political. I! appears that some tine since ene o! Mr. Rynders’ Deputies, or employes, by a >g- ligenoe permitted a prisoner to escape, for which he was removed, Mr. Rynders afterwards, at the urgent solici- tation of friends, re-appointed him. This is the charge against Mr. Rynders, which wil! perhaps cost him hs office ‘THE POST OFFICE DEFICIENOY BILL. The Post Oflice Defisiency bill, which passed the House to-day, although apparently appropriativg @ much largor amount, really appropriates but little over three millions out of the Treasury over and above the postages now on band. A SHIRTY-GIXTH CONGRESS. Senate, Wasuinoros, May 18, 1860. Mr. Grxxx, (dem.) of Me., offered « resolution that on and after Monday next the Seuste moct at eleven o'clock. Laid aside. Mr.,Masow, (dem) of Va., from the Committee oa Foreign Relations, reportea a bill carrying into effext the treatics with Chia, Japan, Siam, Persia, &o. Ordered to be printed. ‘The message from the President relative to the Moun- tain Meadows maesacre, was taken up and ordered to be printed. Reports of a private nature wore received, Mr. Hxwrnni, (dem.) of Toxas, introduced « bill to provide for the examination and payment of claims of citizens of Texas for apoliations by Iadiaus. Referred. ~ The biil to authorize the payment of certain contracts made by the government agents was taken up and po.t- ot any ection oa the specal order, Me. Davia’ were taken Pi Tavotred ibe degpestinereate of doe a charge that they wero ‘i it ; Ey E F 1 ij ii a . ; b 5g Ee : fe i 7 3 2 5 | : i 3 i 5 ut i Fre i H 3 5 i ! HF a ms i ie Fi 4 te : il 1 i Bi j 3 é i i z if i ii Hl i : i f i 38 PH 225 25 = i z i i i i z a I House of Representatives. ‘Wasnmotoy, May 18, 1860. Mr. Revwouns, (A. L. dom) of N. ¥., from the Jadi- clary Committee, reported « bill to repeal the act estab- Nahing the Court of Claims, and to provide for the adjadi- cation of claims by the District Circuit Oourteo! the United Mr. ReaGas, (dem.) of Texas, made an ineffectual at- tempt to get up the Texas Regiment amendment to the Military Academy bill. ‘The Steamboat bill came up. Mr. Tarrax, (rep) of N. Hi, moved to postpone tl) Tuesday to take up private bills. Lost by 18 majority Mr. Wasuicass, (rep.) of Ill, gave netioe of a sabstl- Tho bill was discussed by Messrs Wasasonwx, Coow- rane, Crane (N. ¥.) and othera on the motion ore ‘The Howse peeved some private tii sed Gee of journea. feet tot, Tarvom, (dom) ot Nenloas of tho Vill better to. se: care the lives of passengers on bourd veesels propelled im “hole or part by Shall be complied with, and pre. ba Tf recklessness acci ients occurred tf, ? = if ifs i { il ts | = z f