The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1861, Page 4

4 On aie eee NEW YORK HERALD, Jap en CORDON BUNTETY, HOH AND PROPRIETOR orrua 8 © COR ¥ FULTON AND WASSAU 578. gk detince Money sant by mos) Mone Tie Bank lla cere! ¢ Wainesday, at Ned, comtawning tmpertuns fhe world; if weedy sill he | FoumGn CORRKSPC BMck Aud Taare A) Uerally pend for AaTIGULARLY Pe oS mR Oop ammynuous crrenvomence, We donee | eotern rejected Ps ad No. 1283 | ant SUMEN.S THI EVENING, adway, opposite Sond street.— | Lethe KSKAP'R THEATRE, No 624 Broadway— H favex Sintens WaLLACK’S TERALFRE, Broadway.—Simrson & Com dross Baown. Ne® BOWSBY FUBATRS, Bowery —Afternoon—4 Day nh Fs 81S —tytaun ANT ATRIPYS—DODGING FOR TMaKesk— STARS ABD STLES~ JACK B: ng MUSEUM, Srosdway.—Day ans, Bg, Ln0N axp OTmxa Cu- BRYANTS WINNTKFLS, Mechsnice’ Sail, 72 Browde iy —Boecaseues, Cones, Daxczs, &e.—Ruaien Pare \¢ ue government forces ia a bate which lasted three Guys. The supposition is that Ospina would be compelled to secept the armistice Offered some ogo by his Opponent; that Geaeral Herran woulo be appointed provisional President, and that through him a coavention weuld be called whirh would settle the differences between the conterding parties. A portion of the Madrid press is, or preteuds to be, cpposed to Spain taking papsessiou of St. Dowingo. A mere protectorate is proposed as | less troublesome and fully as beneficial to both parties, Filca of Rio Janeiro papers to March have come to hand. They contain no news of imp 23 ance. The colfee market continued dull, witha elight decline in prices, Exchange on Lon- dou 2674, Munitions of war, including five millions of per Cussion Caps, Were ed yerterday by the United States Marsha!—all directed fo Savannan and vention of ministers from various Congre- churches, called by the minority of the arch ofthe Puritans (yr. Cheever's), commenced gati its siuiugs ia Clinton Hall on Thursday. A aom- | ber of specifigations of alleged grievances were presented and discussid. Bee out report else wuere, We have received authentic information of the total deetruction, on March 20, by earthquake, of | One, if not three, populous cities of the Argentine repuvlic, wamely, Mendoza, Sun Juan and San ims, The former has certainly been destroyed, and very few of its population of 15,000 souls have 8 BALOON, Rrodvay —luoyp's Minerasts 0 BB, SONGS, DANCES, &0,—BiLiy Parrxason. MELUDBON CONCERT HALL, No, 839 Brosdwar — Bones, Danoas, Kusiasqune, 40, OANTEXBORY MUSIC Hall, 885 Brosdway.—Soxer, Dances, Rovi‘sores, &€ BO! 1h PANTHEON, No, 689 Broadway.—Ma. Saw Ve Drawinc Boow Concerns. New Vork, Saturnay, May 4, 1861. TAE SITCATION OF AFFAIRS. Intelligence from Washington last night was to the effect that the war will be vigorously opeucd in a few days by demonstrations upon Alexandria and Norfoik. A movement upon Bavyre de Grace was also ordered to take place yesterday from Perryville. Three or four companies of Colonel Dare’s command will cross the Susquehanna, with a battery of artillery, and occupy Havre de Grace. Troops wil! then be sent forward ten wiles, to Bush river. The last movement may not be made til! Sunday, On Monday a strong force of carpenters and builders will be sent forward to Bush river with timber and tools, and the bridge ther? will The bridges over the Big and Little Gunpowder rivers will be re- built ae soen ose sufficient military force is sent forward to protect the workmen, The three bridges will be completed by Thursday next, and this road to Baltimore will then be open. Troops will be sent forward from Philadelphia to reinforce those at Perryville. The position of the New York troops in and about WasLington yesterday was as follows:—The Seventh were in tents at Meridian Hill, George- town; Colonel Corcoran, with a detachment of the ington at two o'clock be rebuilt. Six y-ninth arrived in W in the worning. and were quartered in the rear of House: the Lighth were the ‘Kirkwood escaped to tell the fearful tale. The news was sent by tllegraph to Valparaiso, acd was con- firmed by the subsequent arrival of a mail courier trom ined city. Our correspondent’s letter, which is in another column, gives a most thrilling cer n of this catastrophe, which has filled the minds of all the people living in those regions with terror and consternation. ‘The sulcs of cotton yesterday embraced 2,900 3,000 bates, 2,500 of which were gold late in the afternoon, Prices cloged within the range of 13%{c. a Ide, for mid- ‘ing uplacds: the latter Sgure, however, was an outside prce, and cnly ob ainable for aslected lots rather above average graces ef middling. Flour wag leas active, and prices irregular, and for some descriptions rather easier Why ot was in fair demend, while common qualitics were heavy and choice milling lots searce and firm, Corn was Jers animated, nnd gales moderate, at prices given else- where Sugars were steady, with sales of 750 hhda., 100 boxc# and 11,600 bags of Manija,on terms given in an- other piece. Coffee was quiet: sales 500 bags Laguayra wee made the previous afteruoon at Lic. a 14'(3. Freights were fi inor to Liverpool and Londou, while en- gegements were moderato. frenson in the Maryland Legislature— The Daty of the Government, The presence of imposing and resolute bodies of loyal Northern troops at different pqints in Maryland and along the northern border of the State has produced a very sud- den ‘and a very remarkable Union reaction among that people. The gecessionists are hum- bled in Baltimore, the United States fing and its authorities are reinstated in that city, and the loyalty of the people throughout the Com- monwealih is manifesting itself in various ways. But the Siate Legislature, in extraordi- nary session at Frederick City, is evidently, in each house, controlled by a body of malignant secessionists, recklessly intent upon mischief. A loyal Legislature, devoted to the Union, in- stead of abandoning Annapolis, the State capi- tal, on account of the presence of our federal troops, and secking refuge in a place con- venient to the rebel forces at Harper’s Ferry, NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1851. mond, snd gent toelyparté of Virginia, for the meeting op the 16th of April, in said city, of a booy of trusty men, as in @ muss convention. Next we are informed of a myst-ricus move- ment of all the cars and rolling st ck on certain Virgonia railroads towards Harper's Verry; and next, that Lieutenant Jones, in charge of the United States Arsenal there, including fifteen thousand stand of first class rifles and muskets, har destroyed it by fire, to save it from the hends of an army of secessionists. Their object was to secure those arms, and with them to equip their unarmed followers, apd then, in a sudéen dash by railroad, to descend upon Washington in the res, expel tbe aGminisrration, and open the Waite House tor Jefferson Davis. Suca are the plots and wovements for a revolutionary s izare of Wa-tungton and the overthrow of our govern- meat, which, since December la: hove been detected in geason to be defeated. And y | we are told that treason never seri ourly contemplated this thing; and Governor ; Lech r promisrs that no hostile foress sgaiost | Washingien shall cices th ot! of Vir | ginfa, It fe @ promise worth ay litle at the | demazd of Governor Hicka tha so more troops for the @efence of Wa-bioytcu shall cros the coil of Maryland. The ure of Washington wae the pet proj-ct of Governor Wire and other disuntonists as fur back 4s 1856; oe 1 Joh run nN gubseqnenutly, at Taryer’s Ferry, indicated th» poist from which to strike The secessionists of Mu: jland and Virzinia are, in truth, the guiltiest of all the leagne, and ‘bey huve worked in the dark ovly bec suse a large majority of the substantial aud re sponsible peopte of both these States wer) utterly opposed to their schemes. From this review of late events, bearing upon the overthrow of our governm»nt, root acd branch, the importance of holding a strong hand over Maryland, and of a prompt movement upon Virginia from Washington, will b appreciated. _ Virginia is all ablaze with the fires of a spuri- ous secession, and they are still smouldering and flickering in Maryland. She cinnot ge- cede without taking Washington along with her; but she still, in conjunction with Vir- ginia, is to be dragged into the gulf of anar- chy, if not held fast by a powerful army. But this can be done. Within a week our government may dis- tribute a force of fifty thousand men a‘ such points in Virginia as Harper’s Ferry, Alexan- dria, Richmond and Norfolk, and still retain | twenty-five thousand men to guard Washing- | ton and suffocate secession in Maryland, and within a week we trust that some such plan of operations will be made manifest. Maxrsa Money Ov or Tug Sourn. We find \ in one of the Southern papers the following:— The New Yous Heratp has subscribed three thousand doilars towards the war which Lincoln is now making upon the Sovth. Bennett has made forty times that much out of the South, and now boastsof his meanness. The statement thai we ever made any money out of the South is simply false. Our entire circulation in all the elave States has at no time equalled that in one ward of this city, or in the single State of Connecticut. Moreover, it is not by the circulation, but by the adver- tisements, which come from the city of New | York, that our money is made. Instead of making money by the South, we have given still at Annapolis, and the Fifth (German | Would have considered Annapolis all the safer | the South a gratuity every time we sent a copy regiment) were occuping the Naval Academy. Major Anderson passed passed through Perry- ville yesterday, and proceeded to Annapolis en efor Washington. At both places he was re- under the sure protection of a Union army. In this flight to Frederick we have strong circumstantial evidence of the rebellious pro- clivities and apprehensions of both houses of seld Legislature. But in their proceedings the | ceived with marked respect, and passed through | other day we have positive proofs of premedi- the lines of troops with head uncovered. Affairs remain quiet in Baltimore. Fort Madi- son, an eamhwork fortification commanding the city and harbor, is in possession of government troops. The steamer Maryland landed a force of the Massachusetts troops from Annapolis, and large quautities of stores at Fort McHenry yesterday, and afterwards steamed up to the city with the Store and Stripes flying. ‘The intelligence from Richmond is important. Considerable alarm is said to exist there in conse- quence of the activity of the United States govern- ment, and the unexpected unity of the North in supporting the constitution and the flag dishonored at ort Sumter. It was believed in Riclumond that Mr. avis has just notified the governors of the ting in hostility to the govern- border States now ac ment, to assemble at Montgomery, there to confer with the rebel government upon the momentous issues before them. The conservative portion of the people in Richmond are in favor of an armistice in ordcr that some peaceful settlement of the difli- culty may be arrived at, and several leading men 1, Moryland, Kentucky and Tennessee, from Virgi are actively exerting themselves to The Virginia Legislature adjourned 12th of June, by whieh the returns of the popu- bring it about. on the Ist inst atil the time it was exp a the ordinance of secession would be re The gi ne Leg lar vot ceived. ment, meantime, is authorized together at any time during ted upon reliable authority in Wash- np yesterday that there are only 1,500 Vir ginians at Harper's Feiry, and that they are not half armed, and very short of provisions. A deputation of Keatucky gentlemen waited on the President yesterday, offering two volunteer regiments to the government from the western part of that State, in despite of Governor Magof- fin’s refusal to furnish any troops. Some gentle men from Baltimore are also in Washington, for the purpose of tendering the service of one regi ment from that city to the United States govorn- ment Gen. Harney las prepared an address to the people of Missouri, urging them to remain in the Union, and pointing out to them that to join the secession movement would be to bring destruction upon their State. Tt has been decided by the War Departmen that no more troops, except voluateer regiments, are to be concentrated at Washington for the present. The News. The steamship Northern Light arrived at this port yesterday from Aspinwall, with the Pacific malls and passengers and $868,619 in treasure. Her alvices from California have been anticipated by the overland expresses. Our correspondent al i racciseo, writing on the Sth ult., states that eral ¢ rs of the United States Army eer vi hed*resigned their commis were boing made to break @ petitions had been put in MP rrt yoked. sere, Northera ightia do the wtteg. uy tated treason. lor example—both houses adopting the report—a committee was appoint- ed to wait upon the President “to ascertain and report to the General Assembly forthwith, for its consideration, whether any becoming arrangements with the general government are practicable in regard to the present and any proposed military use or occupation of the toil and property of the State by the general government,” consistent with the “peace and honor of the State, and the security of its in- habitants.” The gravamen of this movement is more clearly expressed in the report, which complains that, in the cccupation of her soil, her capital, her highways and her property by the federal government, Maryland has been “treated as a conquered province.” In the rext place her Legislature has appointed a rabid secession Board of Public Safety, con- sisting of seven members, with dictatorial powers over the militia and militury policy of the State. Th preceedings mean secession, revolu- tion and the destruction of Maryland. [tis to be hoped that Mr. Lircoln or his Premier will, in thie instance, give this inquiriag committee a defisite answer, without any humiliating apologies, and will give them, too, a fair warn- ing of the eonseqnences of any overt act of rebellion in their State at the end of the twenty days’ grace of the President’s proclamation, which will expire tomorrow The day has gone by for so't and honied phrases wilh im- pudent conspirators, demanding thiog, that thing and the other in the way of coneos+tons to armed rebellion We can now nuderstand | bow narrowly, in several instances, the capital of the United States since Decemvur last has | eseaped a Mexican revolutionsry occupation, and how wise and engactcus were the warn- ings, the requisitions and prepira‘iovs of Gen. | Scoit for its protection, Governor Hicks, in this conne tion (notwith standing bis la'er weakcezses), is entitled to great credit. Ie gave the fict warnings to Mr. Buchanan’s administration, in |ecember last, of a grand plot, which compreheuded the sudden descent upon Washington of a body of Virginia and Maryland secessionists; and in refusing for weeks and months to call the Ma- ryland Legislature together, he did inuch to deteat the scheme. In December, too, Mr. Iverson, of Georgia, in a fiery secession speech in the United States Senate, foreshadowing the programme of an impending Soutbern confede- racy, very broadly suggested that Washington, by a vatural course of events, would most likely become its capital. He spoke by the card. The course pursued by Governor Hicks and Gen, Seott’s mustering of troops into Washington defeated the original scheme of the | feizure of the city by a revolutionary mob. The next plan of a coup d'élal, we can believe now, was to cut off at or near Baltimore, by as- sassination, the President elect, on his w ay to Washington, or on the day of his inauguration. We are no longer dizpored to lang) at the mid- night ride incog. of “Ifonest Old Abe” from Harrisburg, nor at the comprehensive and mi- nute arrangements of the military and police for his safety on the 4th of Mate’. What next? A mysterious oiveular is issued v peta Lad beatea | fom ex-Governor Wise aud others at Rick. \ of the Heraip there; for all tha! the South | bas paid us would not equal the cost of the | mere printing and paper. So much Mor the | boast that we have made fuoney by theSouth. Neither did we ever profess or pledge our- eclves to support the slave States. We support the rights of all States and every State uader the coxstitution, and for the last twenty-five years we have defended the South, notwith- | standing its follies and the abuse we have re- | ceived; for nowhere and by no one else has | the Teravp been so much assailed as by South- | ern politicians and Southern newspapers. And | we did not change towards the South till the | South broke out into open rebellion, and not | only forfeited the sympathy of all patriots, but called for that retribution which the people of | the great North have, as one man, arisen to inflict. Tie Cnevarer Were tw Srarcn or A Trarroxr.—The Chevalier Webb still continues his patriotic work of casting about for a traitor. | Notwithstanding bis humiliating assault upon Major Anderson, as “the vilest traitor the world ever saw,” the Chevalier will persist in making ' a ninny of himself. He is now in hot pursuit of the editor of this journal, and after running over his usual catalogue of hard names and vulgar denunciations, he tells us that we are | “inviting a riot.” But bow: simply by applaud- | ing the patriotism of our volunteer democracy in the cause of the Union, and by exposing the | folly of some of our republican jo s which | are urging against the Sou'h a war of devas- | tation, confiscation and extermination? We stick to that distinction between patriotism and vandalism: and let the Chevalier Web) offer a reward of $52. » for a riot against this oftice, and he will fail. The editor of the Hrraty bas given some proof of his patriotism hy his deeds; but the Chevalier Web» limits his good works to a search for traitors where there are none. If he has no money for the good cause, if he has wasted bis resources in living beyond them, he can still serve his country in the field. He has had some traininy as a mili- tary MAN, and, though a little gouty, perhaps, is still atout enough to head a forlorn hope against Jeff. Davis, or Gen. Beauregard, or Gen, Qnatilebum. Why does he not volnateer? We will give him on on'fit, and the government wants some additional old soldiers. It isa pity, in the case of the Chevalier Web), that so much military science and ardor should re- main idle when the country expects every man to do his duty. Finally, at the end of all his ridiculous abuse, what should the Chevalior Webb have said? What said Dogberry? “Oh that some one would write mo down an ass,” Joux Miyorn Bovrs.—This redoubtable Vir ginian, lately a terrible Union man in the Old Dominion, fiercely menacing all eecessioniata, now comes out in a letter in favor of secession or peaceable separation. As he has only done 80 since he was threatened by the secessionists with a rope, it is easy to estimate the value of his opinion, which is about equal to that of George Sanders or Stephen IL. traneh—indi- viduals who mingle in all the great political events of the age. Nothing of moment can happen unless they have a band in it. In like manner fussy Botts must play some part, what- ever be the nature of the political drama, If he was afraid of suspension why did he not come to the North, where they have not begun to hang people as yot, though the Chevalier Weob is tsboriog bard tu briag wi out that de: | Ughtlal conpemmation. | (ehtchdbiows! Ratiats SHOR Tora, Orr cexs.—Ever since the opening of the war ai kinds of reports have been circaLMed from Washington, trom the South, aad prinefpaily from secession circles, reflecting upon the fidelity of the loyal officers of the army and pavy. Toone of such we have received the following answer:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Fort MoHxsry, Ma , Aprii 30, 1861. In {our ever of the 28th inst! you publien'a letter from Washington containiog the followiog paragraph:— ‘There is @ general, wiseepread belief in secession ci that the gunsot Fort Mebenry will moras be vuroet sgaiant Kelsie oommanter ant ceria treabennad toe cadena tog atte betrayal Lato te hande of the tralwors, have reached The abovo is & base attempt to cast suspicion upon the loyeity of the officers of this post, every one of whom is tuve W the fieg, and pronounce the writer an unprin- wand contemptible pappy Very re JNO, G. ROBINSON, A , Commanding Fort te teary. We publish this note just as it reached us, in justice to Capt Robinson and his brother officers at Fort McHeory But we have not the least doubt that many reports like this are conti ually circulated by the secessionist lead ers, for tbe purpose of producivg defection among the officers of Sonthern birth in both arms of the service; aud it must be remembered that (his is a part of the tactics of the revoln- tionisty. nthe rumor reached the South that Gea Seott bud resigned, in was sent hike lightaiog trom post to post. Gen Bragg, tue revolu fionary commander at Pensucola, at once cespatched ihe news, together with the intelli- gence thet Virginia had eecefed, to Fort Pickens, and to the flect lying in the bay, and the result was that several officers resigneo their commissions. Reports of this character. like all the otber delusions as to the division of sentiment in the North, the @ecimation of the Seventh regiment by the Baltimoreaus, and so forth, are but apart of the game which the secessionists are playing, to keep up the courage of their own troops and weaken the arm of the government, by causing the resigna- tion of its officers. Rumoraappesred io several of the papers not long since, and probably in our own, too, that Lieut, Slemmer, who so gal Jantly held Fort Pickens until it was reinforced, was about to betray his trust and surrender the fort to the rebels; and yet, according to all accounts, there is not a more loyal officer in thearmy than Lieut.Slemmer. Correspondents of newspapers, then, ought to be very cautious how they give currency to these stories, and the public should exercise a good deal of dis- cretion in placing any reliance upon them. 1 Exorisn Anxtery anour AMERICAN APrAatRs— Errecr ABROAD OF THE Frem ArtirvpE oF THE Noxrrn.—But few people on this side have any idea of the intensity of the apprehension created in England by the near prospect of civil war in this country. The feeling has been very much aggravated by the un- certainty whether public opinion at the North was not so divided as to be likely to ren- der the conflict one of long duration. The moderation and conciliatory spirit exhibited by us were mistaken for a doubt of the loyalty and patriotic feeling of some portions of our population. This assumption, if correct, would of course have contributed to prolong the struggle and to render the situation of England exceedingly perilous. A lengthened inter- ruption of the cotton supply, and of com- mercial relations generally with this country, would produce general bankruptcy, and prob- ably a political revolution, there. lt will be some little time before we can learn the effect of the President’s proclamation, and of the formidable efforts which are being made by the North in response to it, on the public mind abroad. We can anticipate with certainty, however, the powerful reaction which they will produce in England. In theunanimity, the devotion and the self-sacrificing spirit mani- fested by the North, the English people will at once find a solution of all their fears and anxie- ties. They will see that although the conflict may be desperate, it can neither be prolonged nor doubtful. No elements of resistance that the South can muster can hold out for any time against the overwhelming odds which the Northern and Western States are accumulating against it on every side, This will restore confidence to the commercial and manufactur ing interests of England, and will react favor: ably upon our own, by preventing her from taking any steps that might tend to give coun- tenance or support to the rebel States, Prete Econowy—There never was a time in our history when it was more necessary to practise economy than now. War enor- monsly enbances the price of provisions and other necessaries, while it diminishes tbe means of purchasing them. In some kinds of basi- ness fortunes are being realized. But such is the general prostration of business that the failures in New York since the 22d of April number over two hundred; and sach is the quantity of protested paper thrown on the banks that they now refuse to accommodate. One of these, ihe day before yesterday, had $30,000 worth of paper protested. Real estate is unsaleable, and rents are gone down, be- cause people have not money to pay. The holders of breadstuffs will keep them up, be- cause they know that the war and the demand in England will enable them to command high prices, It is negessary, therefore, for all classes of citizens to practise economy; even for some who used to purchase three or four coate in twelve months to wear 6ne now for a whole year. [economy in these, the hard- +t of hard times, is a virme of the first order, and no person ought to buy anything he can dispense with till the war is over. A Greer Carraty ay Acctoeny —Conrrapic- tony Estivares or Minitary Gestes.—When the falee report of General Scott's resignation reached the South it gave rise to the utmost rejoicing; bells were rung, guns fired, and for two days a carriage and four were kept in readi- ness at Richmond to bear bim in triumph through that city. The press throughout the entire country was loud in his praise as a great military chieftain. They declared that no such soldier ever led armies to the field, conquering and to conquer Hannibal was nobody beside General Scott, Napoleon a very pefi/ eaporal indeed, compared with him, and Wellington not to bé talked of in the same breath, But next day the news was contradicted, and the loyalty of the old hero to the flag of his conn- try was proclaimed. And then what a change there was In the tone and spirit of the Sonth- ern papers. They declared that General Scott was a miserably poor eoldier, that his carcer in Mexico was marked by terrible blunders, and tbat he got out of the country at all more by ee luck than good generalsbip. A rathor sudden change of opinion and a new inter. Prelatca of uislery actived al la io days, certainly. ABRIVAL OF THE NORTHERN L'GHT. News from (central and south America. IMPORTANT FROM CHILE. The Cities of Mendoza and Sau Juan Destroyed by av Earthquake, FIFTEEN TROUSAND LIVES LOST. ARRIVAL OF $868,000 IN TREASURE, &e., key ke. The steamship Northern Light, Captain Tinklepengb from Aspinwall et noon of the 26th ult., arrived at this port yeetorduy She brings California advices to the Uth ult., 361 paseengers and $£68 600 in epecie, Toc ‘llowing is—~ LIST OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT. $27 G74 J Strauss, tro & $10 500 ae +. RO6M Wan dels" & ¢ 10) & Sanders £00 Am Exch Bas £5 000 er Bios... 30.600 2. Naylir.. “T0008 ¥ppinyer & C O80 Baker & Morrill...) 16.000 J Heiier & Bros (00 A Rosen 10 $ 400 ‘el Sa ftO Kirby. Byr o.. 6 500 2 enetock —7 000 Be tanet & Co. 96 000 Frapk Boker 42,500 Jos Patrick & Fo. "00 Richard Patrick. ‘000 Bit 1.000 000 680 TERRIBLE NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA, Total Destruction by Earthquake of the City of Mendoza, tm tne Argentine Re- public=N Ay 15,000 Lives Lo-t—Re- ported Destruction of Two Other Popa- lous Cities—frightfal Scenes, &., &. OUR VALPARAISO CORRESPONDENCE Vauraramso April 5, 1861. With feelivgs of ceep regret I have to avaounce to you the utter destruction of the city of Sencoza, in the Ar gentine Republic, by an earthquake, on the cvening of the 20th of March last. Atthat date, at half past eight P.M.,aslight but prolonged vibration of the earth was felt in this city and in Suntiego simultaneously. Most of the churches were densely filiea, it being near the cloee of Lent, and some alarm and confusion was created, but no serious accidents occurred, and tranquillity was soon restored. On Sunday, the 24h, however, a general gloom was cast over this city by the announcement by telegraph from the capital that Bonigno Bruro, the mali rider, had arrived from Mencozn that morning without a mail, bringing the distressing nows that there remained but a heap of ruins to poiut the spot where, a fow days before, had stood a thriving and populous city of 15 000 souls, Bruno stated thet he arrived at Mendeza cn the mora. ing of the 20th; that at half-past eight P. M a brief but excersively violent chock of earthquake, lasting but six or cight seconcs, destroyed every baildirg, public and private, in the city, sud that the number who were enabled to escape was very limited. The streets being narrow, tho buildings high, and the inhabitants totally unused to such phenomena, were paralyzed with terror, and uegieeted to seek refnuge in the open courts of their dwellings until too lute The Postmaster was buried beneath the rutns of the Post Oilice, the Governor was missing, and when asked why he brought no certificate that the mails were lost the meseenger replied, “there was no one left to write it, nor materials to write with” The aspect presented by the city after the Srst shock was terrific. Hoaree subterrsnean thunders deafened the air, animais of all kinds rushed frantically through tho open epaces howling, the earth opened ant vomited forth {loocs 0” water, while, to crown the scene of horror, flames buret from the ruins and coosumed nearly the on- tire busines portion of the city, with its dead, its dying ‘und its wounedd, On the 28th a number of letters were reccived here and at Santiago by relauives and friends of Chileans re siding in Mondoza, but the hope, until thea entertained, that the earlier accounts wore exeggeraied, soon gave way to tLe dreadful cortaiaty that the cxtsmity had not yet been painted in colors eufticienty vivid. The earth ett!) ocudpned to tremble, tho few walls that bad resistet the first shock one by one fell, until now no vestige of a boildipg remai The mountaw roads are in @ most Cangerous couditicn, not only on account of the hage masees of rock that bave already fulien aod obdevracied the road, but becanse the vibration of the carth 6 still ou pg them down from the heights avove into the valeye. The gavches, or natives of the surrounding country, hastenea to the spot, not to assist the needy or aid in rescuing the wounded from a lingering death, but to seek for plunder among the smoking ruios, and to fnatch the littie saved from the wretched survivors. One gentleman writing from thence, alter describiog these horrors, gayr:—-"'{ believe that ina few days we shall have no other law here than that of the poigoard.’’ ‘The priscn was destroyed: out of one huudred inmates ninety-two perighea. The remaining eight, who were already hardened viilairs, formed themselves ato a band of frcetooters, ard had gone, it was supposed, to tho Mountain pisees. to intercept and rob the parties sent from Chite ‘or the reli fet the cuflerers ae woman was fovnd robbed and rcered by tho roadside, She wos recognized as one Who was on her way to Mendoza tosce her family. Thoy too bad all perehed oa the 20th, In the Jesuit church ‘there was prese that night, The services bad congregation wat bout dirpers The tow who had reached the oz were saved, but the walisand roof of the building fell Inward with a crash, aud priest aud penitent tegether were hurried into ow nity. The latest advices fr ndona represent the suffer- ing to be extreme, thare bing nor shelter for the sii yivers riet be neath the ruins, Shey n Jaan a San Inis, two other populous citics of the Con federation, bave sbared a hike fate, the san river having, after the slick, loft its bed, and swop! over tho town, utterly ing what the earthqn had gered. This new: boon fally contirmed, 1 do Eot. however, vouch for itr corrcetness As soon as this divastre iendered beyond question, the goverement and pr ndividuals vied With ore mother ip energetic eflurts ty sont immediate relief to their suffering brethren Without waiting for the compiction cf the work, on the 20l a party of phs- 8 and others left for the scone of tho dieaster, ear. edicines, food and clothing, and accompanied by a moll body ef troops. The gloom and terro1 of Chile by this awful 4 thronghont the,republis ty may bo imagine Sita- vie region, we have con viderce of the insecurity of our touure of exist Separated bat by a chain of mountains from the ne of destrnetion, and taught by sad experiones the frichtful and irresistible foree of the anhereided earth storm, wer cach night with a foe f terrible ta reourity. ‘8 coast bas been freqcon sited, in past years, bY *t;thquakee Chil'am has been twice destroyed; Concepotn cree while Valparaiso, Santiago and Coptaps have sutored severely, No smoont of human foresight, gution arailé Mgainat tho mysterious visiter, who comer at dawn, et nocnday or at midnight, ams, ina few seconds, levels to the groun’ the proudest mon iments of humon ekill, News from € By the steame ef the 24th wit, aland South America, thorn Light We have Patan papsrg QAPTRAL JMERICA. The Henduras Legisiatme has authorized wie Pxeon ve to make cortaincharges im the Inter-Ocewnic Bail road Company's contract, and ihe British debt is made Peyable out of the government revo!" aseagsmations and robber'es have taken the last few months every thing remains quiet, but tie present government far from popular, and the ministers Want a teader to put down the present party in prwer. ‘the coilee ercp thi# year hes not exceeded 87,000 quia- tals,and the price jn Panta Arenas was at last quote tons $13 £0 per qaintal Seuth American datcs from Valparaiso are of April 2 and Callao 14th ‘The town of Mendozn, situated on the eastern siops of the Andes, containing about 12 000 inhabitanta, was de stroyed by an earthquake on the 20th of March’ About forty five minutes aiter elzht on that evening a shock was experienced from north to south, and at the same time another from south to north, which lasted about tive eoconds, leaving in rain eyery dwelling 1 public edifice in the _ placa, acd cestroping upwards of eight thonsand of the popula: Hon. The accounts of this dreadful affair are terrible, Whole fam were ewept away into oterrity in an in. stont, and the fow thet esceped are loft housclese, naked ond starving. The catastrophe has thrown a gloom over tho whole of Chile, as many of the leating Tamilies of Santiogo, who har gone to reside at Mendoza on account Of their polities, hat periehed, The commercial cornu. nity of Valparaigo, algo, are likely to suffer heavy loases, ag 4 large trade was carried on between the two places. it was reported that San Juan, a town of considerable importance, about thirty loagner from Mendoza, was algo royed, om that the river, loay Lad completely inundated the place; this, the reported cestrnetion of two other towne, rc firmation be commerce of ¥: hock of the recent h Still far from yestored aiko ja rocovering from th fai ures: Hut confdenee ie Tho Australion packet shit sare ol pot inte Valparaiso on fhe ad of April tna dae Maged stato, She wee from Avstralie to Fogiend, with cou hundred pPaeveugers and ok thoteand ounces of coin, 2 per cent premium. ‘ bare, doutoons, $1) Exchanges tin, in arica, $30; eliver bare, $10 ayn, 44 Freight to Engian@, £8 Ig, 6d, to £8 15; dor to Ha burg, £3 Te 6d; do Unwed states, $16 to $17 From Boltvia the news a6 discouraging. the count being very unsettled since the ¢eparture Of Linares. PEAU, Peru is in ap exceedingly ursettied and disorgeni: stete, with ‘hh hourly proepeet of anothor’ )- volution breskxg out. Echeuique ia still a clore era at the isiand of } renzo, without any epparent a it be, and the trestiner? be has met whist boise vorues tial bas created & very 1 ment. lrescent sti la spones the greater pat of us. vue gambling st Choreiias, and \t 8 rarety a chance oa be had to bee bom except at the card table Arecent propceltion bLrougbt forward ta Congress wy clore the coasting trade to All foreign veavels, has ben negatived, by @ vote oF 52 agaist 28 Odjace was throw the Pacific Steem Navigutioe Company out of he coast Carrying trade in Peru, and gudsidize a Peruvan ine of ateateurs. At Liciag e compeny is being formed of workicg the eelevrated goa nig, Sbip Joby Sate, of Buin, arrived at Callao, dba Api frem Melbourne ym for the prt ‘Torre is petlong further eoneeruiw the weeck stean Salp United Stwter, Two eteacers @aco weft to re der assixtarce The inst aecoun's sive Ubat ene ws on Bird Recks, Lad dey | over, her flux of distress at b.'f mast, ber bigh wails lose no person ti be eeeu Oa Doach aud the ship epparenily going to p eves iv phe e ) tynie Dawson is @ total wrecks, and one m. wos bine] ehip Spartan is aehore on Sandy Beech. Cre: save The abip Marton is ashoro, is kngged and thumpit badly ou the reeks, Wer crew have te't her. The rio Powertul 18 among the rocks at Cook Poiat She is at apcoor, aud bir pumps have to be kep: ging The ship Saluc # te bard on whe reeks twelve wiles low Father Powt, ano th iumping basiy. Tho roads ia al dire.ticna are blocked up with snow, which bas Gifted "adiy The bodies of three men bave been recovered Moxtaea., May 3, 1861 The parsergera by steamthip Untied States have ar rived #: Queacc. Oniy one plveragg passenger is miss ing Another ship is ashore at Sand, thirty-six mi below Father Port ae sale News from Havana. Sew Omikans, May 2, 1861 ‘The steamer General Miramon has arrived from fa- vana, 28)b uit Sugars were drooping: Nos. 12 to 14, Biko. a 634. Sterit exchange 8 a 6% premium, Fight exchange on New Yok 243 premina Political news unimpor tact, Fire at Bostop—Tne Body of Corporal Necdham Rosrox, May 3 186). ‘The largo brick building No 489 Commercial street, used for storing cetvwn and paper stock, was destroved by five last night [fs ws o*ned by the Gray's Whacf Corporation, f.o8s $20,000; moatly insured. ‘ihe body of Corpcral Neeabam, who oied of his wounds in Beltimore, was to-das aolivered up to the Masor of Lawrence for interment there. Retoayke were rade by Governor Anérew and responded to by the Mayor. Insurrection in Yucatan, &c. New Ontkass, May 2, 1861 ‘The schooner Aramenata, from Ruaten, reports an ia- surrection brokea cut among the Indians in Yucatan. Fifteen British officers had been killod by the Ladians. Captain Durn’s West India regiment had left Ruatan for the scene of ection ‘Tho English government wi'l give up the tsiend of Rua- tan hy =) or June positively, whether Honduras ac- cepts itor AD peas war steamer arrived in the harbor on the 22d, and left the same day for Belize, Rallrond Accident. Cawaco, May 2, 1361. The locomotive of a train from To edo on the Michigan Southern rosd exploded its boiler nine miles from here this evening. killing the freman and a section foreman named Anderson, and injuring the engineer. Fatiures and Sup; sions. Bosrow. a y 3, 1861. The Boston Commercial Bull-tin's list ot business changes in toe United States gives thirty-two failures and suspensions in New York, teerve ia Boston, five ta Cincinnati, three in Balttmore and seventeen in eli other places, a total of sixty nine for tho week. Death of Captain Fivk, U.S. A. Derxore, May 8, 1351. Captain Theodore Fink, United Staves Army, died of apoplexy thir morning. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pruvavgurria, May 3. 1861. Stecks firm. Penne;lvania sate Fives, 76: Reading Railroad, 60; Morris Cau), 42; Long Ieland Rs il-oaa, 84; Pennsylvania Railroad, 2635. “ght exchange ou New York at par a 110 per cent diteount, New Onueans, Ma: 1861 Cotton—Sales to-day 6£0 bates, at 10140. a llc. for mid- dling. Other articles unchanges Par.apeurnta, May 3, 1861. Flour firm, but quiet. Wheat advancing: sa‘es 6,000 bushels red ut $1 38 a $1 36, » $140.0 $1.50, Com wanted: yellow at 63c. a 6dc. Whiskey slow of sale at 17M. 0 18c. The Sleve Trade. ARREST AND COMMITTAL OF ALLEGED SLAVE DEAL- ERS. United States Marshal Murray seoms to bo following up those engsged inthe slave trade with « determication that may result in the breaking up of the nefarious traf.’ fic, 80 far as citizens of New York are conoccted with it. About aweek ago he received iaformation from an un- krown source that certain residents of this State wore implicated in the fittirg outof a slave vessel, and the seizure and gale of some eight hundred negroes, Nepa- ties Sheeban and Lee were selected tq yorrot out the truth, if there was any in ind story, and bring the offenders to justi¢’, The two officers, af pat'ent investigation, accumulated sufficient cv iden ‘toplicate Mr, H. ©. Crawford, of Gloksvillo, Lf, and Albert Horm, of No. 45 Beaver atrect, for whose arrest warrants were drawn. On Thurtday both were arrested. Crawford was gent to prigon for a capital offence, and Horn wos held to bail in the som of §5.000. From all the infcrmation that conld be obtatned the followiog interest. ing fete coustitatc the fmportant creo now under examinat! Tast June Marshal Nynders placed the known = steamer = City Norfolk uncer surveillance, be suspecting that ebe wee prepared for a trip to tne Afriem coast The vessel was afterwards permitted to leave for St. Thomas, whither she was seid to be boand for a car- gO. Sho resebed St. Thomes, and there a bogus Mile was made the price for @hich abe was sold beiag tea shillings; and the buyer—the mete—Mr. Crawford, placed under ar: rest. It fs alleged that after the sale the monoy was re- turned, ond that Mr, Crawford tco¥ command of the ehip, precerdirg to the Wostern coast of Africa, and securin; 800 slaves These were takev to the itlaud of Cuba, ACO rvn into the intertor before theanthorities wore aware of the illegal preceeding The captain, after landing his cargo, determined to costroy the v the crew all went ashore, steam was raired, and the ongines ted, not a soul rema‘ning on bowed. A few miler owl encountered by @ Apa-h man of-war, which cnug @otaned her. The officors, upon éx amit ing > hold of the vessel, discovered the use th: Lad ven made of her, and sent out rome boats’ crews to discover the offenders. All were arrosted with the ex. Coption of Crawford, who steceedod fa roach: , Whi sng devant, Pee an wk Steamer for Now Vork, The cow Wet ‘ “. sa@ United States ganboat Crusader, isken to Key West, and discha : wy then eaine to their pay of Mr. New York, and it 's satd de Hern, who denied knowing of ang indebtouz’’® to them It is likety eome ef them gave the information whieu bas led ‘0 the proceedings, UNITBD STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Before George W. Morton, Beq. May 2—Anton'o Ose, Joee Sat chez and J. Courier, three foreigners, were brovgb! beture Commissioner Morton, Charged with voluntarily servieg on board the slaver Bonita and admitied 1 bail in the sum of $500 each, Ono N, Downes was niso bronaht before Commissione + Morton on of conspiracy. with others, to cast away the «i » Kinsman, and was admitted to bail nthe eum 0 Oe Obituary, r Aytiony Purtrr Hetwmen died at his residence, No $3 Bayard street, Thureday morning, in tho elgbty-first year of lis ago, after an illness of four or five mouths. His ‘ureral will toke place from his resideveo this morning. ‘The ceceaved was well known to the American communi ty as acomporer and a musician. AS a composer, be commenced bis carrer in a logeabin in Kentacky over ity yeare roy afver having met with some reverses in Karepe in earlior period of his life, where he had been a merchant of some distinction. The New York Povharmonic Society bave been notified of nis death by the committee of his friends, who postponed action on the subject of bis burial ti they became aware of what co-operation may be expected. the Phitner. mop'c Society, a8 & tribute to the momory of a distin- guished musician. eens The Watton Mathews Marder, Ref fe Tanai counr. fore Hon, Judy A Was im the Malter of Ohare de Depart Mr, A. Oakey Ball applied to the @ writ of habeas corpus to bring up Charies barged with che double tinder or Wel ewe. The ap Dication is made om the } Court of Oyer and ef te wy 9 nef ve eg to bail, Tha ntt"lod to hie ge OF ND, ' Socge granted tho order, wurday morning, it ten o'olcok, ’ .