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New York, Saturday, May 14, 1839.
The NtWli
The steamship Nova Scotian is due at Quebec,
with Liverpool dates to the Ith iust. The F.uropeau
news by this arrival will be of momentous importance,
and is looked for with great anxiety.
The steamship Northern Light is due at tlife port
from Asplnwall, with treasure, passengers and
semi-monthly mails, which left San Francisco on
the 20th nit.
We have newsfrom Jflpan, dated at Nagasaki on
the 16th of February. Ty-Coon, the new civil
emperor, was crowned on the fourth of last mouth
at Jcddo. lie is only fifteen years old. A Japanese
war steamer was to accompany the embassy for
Washington, on board the Mississippi, as far as
Panama. A fire in Jeddo had destroyed fifty thousand
buildings. Very important despatches from
the Kugiish government had reached Nagasaki, and
wore at once sent on to Jeddo. Their contents
were not known. A shipwrecked Belgian sailor,
orougai 10 xvagasacifiom one of the 1'acilic islands,
ghes an interesting account of ills adventured.
Our special despatch from Washington states
that Mr. Pallas, our Minister at London, has in
formed the State Department that the British
government disapproves ol the treaty recently ne.
got in ted by Sir Wm. Core Ouseley with Nicaragua,
and that Sir William has been directed to return to
Nicaragua and conclude a treaty in accordance
with his instructions.
It is stated, on what is regarded 4is reliable
authority, that owing to the disturbed state of
affairs in Italy likely to ensue iu consequence of the
war >11 Europe, it is by no means improbable that
iho Pope will repair to the United States. The
Holy Father would no doubt receive a hearty
welcome. i
Upwards of seven hundred Mormons bmded yes I
terday at this port from the packet ship William j
Tapscott. The greuti r portion of the emigrants
leave to-day for Utah. An account of their arrival i
names, Ac., will be found iu to-day's paper.
A large number of emigrants have arrived at this
port during the part week from Europe. The following
tabular statement shows the ports from
whence they arrived, the dates of their arrival, and
the names of the vessels which brought them:?
No. of ,
Pair of At'I. Natncs of Vestelt. yVJi'efiii. Pats.
May 9..,. Bark Helvetia Bremen.... 160 j
fcfwv Ifl Khin IVptblnAnffht T.ivni?rv\n.l fcOft
May 11.... isteatoabip Kacgaroo Liverpool... 282
May 12.... Slop City of Brooklyn Liverpool... 378
May 12.... Ship William Tapecott Liverpool... 720
May 12.... Ship Manhattan Liverpool... t)46
Mar 12.... Ship Plymouth Hock Loudon 75
May 12.... .Ship Piiitarch Antwerp.... 150
May 12.... Ship Koptune Bromcu.... 91
Ma.. 13.... Ship Mercury Havre 331
May 13.... Ship iV'ebatcr Liverpool... 745
May 13.... Ship Constellation Liverpool... 757
May 13,... Ship Progress Hsvro 504
Total 5,301
Oar correspondent at A moy, China, writing on the
loth of March, says:?Trade seems to be reviving
here a little, but at Hong Kong there Is a largo
number of American v easels, with nothing to give
them employment; and it is ho in some degree at
most of the ports. The coolie trade seems to lie
dying out. I think there have been no coolies sent
from China in some time, and no vessels have left
here with them in a year or more. The Chinese
officials have interdicted the exportation of rice
from Formosa lately.
The Boaid of Health Commissioners met yesterday
afternoon for the tirst time this season. Their
session was private. Those present were Mayor
TieLiunn,I)r.-?. Gnun, Rockwell and Miller, Alderman 1
McSpc-don and Councilman Cornell. The Health
Officer reported the arrival of the aliip Constellation.
from Liverpool, with several hundred passengt
17 at yunrauiine, many of whom were sick of
smallpox. The Board ordered the passengers to !
be vaccinated, the ship thoroughly cleansed, and 1
her detention at ynarantinc for live days, other
matters were also considered,but not made public.
'Clm Booed adjourned till twelve o'clock to-day.
Tbc Police Commissioners yesterday were served
with nearly six bundled notices to show cause why
that number of the old force should not be ve- !
instated aud paid. An application to reopen the i
case of McCuue w as set down for decision at the
next meeting. The Board decided to meet every
day to consider the claims of the old police.
Thcrewros some abatement in the excitement on account
of the foreign war news yesterday, though articles a Inch
have advanced under its influence continued firm and la
good demand. The snle3 of cotton from store embraced
about 7C0 bales, closing on the basis of about 11 <tc. f r
middling uplands. Flour was sorao less active for Stat,,
and Western brands, but for tho medium and high r
grades the market was from 10c. a 25o. per barrel h-.gbcr.
and for some kinds of choice extras tho advance was still
greater. Southern d"ur was qnite active and higher.
Wheat w&3 again better, and gates, of choice Kentucky
white were made at $1 a J2 0*; Southern white at II 90
Western red at II SO a II 86, and common to fair mixed '
do. at II bo a II 70. Corn wag without further advance, j
wbiJo Sales wero made to a fair extent; round yelbw sold i
at 98c.; prime Jersey do. at $1, and white Southern at 94 t?c. I
a 95c. Pork took a decided jump,and aew megs advanced
to 118 a 118 50, with free sates; thin mess was at 117 25 a
817 60; prime mess >17 a I!7 50, and prime at >14 a 111 50. 1
Beef was active and firmer. In lia megs advanced to 8:8
a ISO, and prime mess sold freely at $23 a $28. Cut moats
and lard were also firmer and is stood daman! About $
50,0C0 Ihi. dry salted Western bacon sides were sold at ,
9>$c. Sugars were steady and firm for good to choice j
grocery goods, while redoing qualities were some less
buoyant. The s&ics embraced aboutjl,690 hhds . at ratoe *given
in another column. A public sale of Xow Orleans v
was made on an average of 7 55c. OofTee wa > firm, with
sales of 4,CCO bags Rio, and 200 do. Cape St. Oumiuge. ?
Freight engagements were moderate; but there was some 1 ~
better feeiirg, while reto~ were cacbarged and stea-'y. I
Rice continued firm, with sales of scmo (?0 a 700 Cis'-s?, ]
11 full prices. t!
The Slavery- igtdtofl of the South?Thr
Southern Ownmtrttol ConventionIt
id a remarkable fact, that simultaneously
with the anniversary gatherings here in New
Yoik of the radical abolitionists, women's rights
women, and other societies of our Northern fanatics
and reformers, there has been n session
at VIcksburg, Mississippi, a convention of South,
era fanatics, equally convinced that the world is
wrong side up, and equally resolved to set it
right by turnl"g it upside down. Of the proceedings
of this so-called Southern Commercial
Convention we have as yet heard very little;
i ut our readers may conjecture that these fireeaters
at Vicksburg have been revelling in their
favorite element from this brief telegraphic
item, to wit:?
Alter a four dajs exciting Jebato tho Ooavontioa has
buuiiivu ? reeuiuuuu iuiu vuo laws yruaivumg \a<j {nxci
cut) slave tiade ought to be abolished.
" A four days exciting debato"~four days!
Gflrriaon, Phillips, Lucretia Mott, and all that
short-winded abolition crew arc thus completely
thrown into the Bhade by these inexhaustible
Southern deolaimers. And so, "after a four
days exciting debate" a resolution is passed in
favor of the repeal of all the laws of Congrees
prohibiting the African slave trade. This is not
so bad, after all. Considoriag the late
experiments in Georgia and Flori ia in the
importation of negroes fresh from Africa
in defiance of the lawe, and considering
the various hindrances, from Charleston
to Mobile, which huvc prevented the recapture
of the slaves imported, and the punishment
of the "commercial" parties concerned,
w% were prepared for a resolution from this
Vickeburg Convention flatly declaring the laws
of Congress suppressing the African slave trade
unconstitutional, null and void, and recommending
the Southern people to proceed, accordingly,
to this profitable business of Importing negroes
from Africa, in the same way as if all restraining
laws upon the subject had been already repealed.
But, in calling for a repeal of these prohibito
ry laws, their validity is recognized; and as it
would be the height of foolishness to suppose
that those laws may be repealed by Congress
during the present generation, or the present
century, the question ames, what, then, can be
the object of this Yicksburg resolution? And
we answer, the object is political agitation. The
Qrc-eatcra and ultra pro-slayery politicians of the
South, like the anti- slavery agitators of the
North, are "hard up" for political capital. The
settlement of the Kansas question has thrown
these slavery agitators, North and South, upon
their beam ends. Thus, W. II. Seward has been
I driven to the desperate proclamation of "an irrepressible
conflict'' with slavery until all
the States shall have been made free States or
slave States; thus, Governor Wise and other
Southern political speculators have been driven
to the expedient of demanding a code of laws
from Congress for the protection of slavery in
the Territories; and thus, we find these fire-eating
Southern ultras at Vicksburg plauting themselves
upon the platform of the revival of the
African slave trade by Congress.
Of course they no more believe iu the possibility
of accomplishing this thing than does the
man in the mocn. But the trick may serve the
purposes of the politicians concerned in the
Southern agitation of the &ul>ject. It Is understood
that this Southern Commercial Convention
is, in fact, a political convention of desperate
[ Southern politicians, largely made up of the
nullification, secession and filibustering gentry,
i outside of any healthy political organization.
' Their programme comprehends a break in the J
I Southern democratic party, and the organization
of an intensely pro-slavery faction throughout
the South, competent, in holding the balance of
power over the democracy, to coerce them into
terms or to break them up. Thus, we may accept
this Vicksburg Convention resolution as n
political Southern movement for the control of
the Charleston Convention; and, in the interval
to that Convention, wo may expect some additional
efforts to create a new disturbing Southern
element which will render the reunion of
he democracy at Charleston, as a national party,
ipon a national platform, an absolute impossibility.
But these Southern, like our Northern slavery
igitators, seem to be acting under the delusion
hat the world is standing still, and the existing
li\ isione of parties, sections and factions upon
he defunct it-sues of the slavery agitation will
>e the same in 18C0 as in 1859. But meantime.
,\hilc all Europe is trembling upon the crust of
in active volcano which may change the whole
ace of KuroDean affairs?while our Southern
epublican neighbors, from Mexico to the heart
South America, are iu a state of revolutionary
thaoB?we too. as was once remarked by Henry
^lav, " are in the midst of a mighty revolution."
[ts influences, aot yet recognized, will soon be
iiscernible to the dullest and most incredulous
)f our plotting politicians.
The revulsion of 1857 has passed away. The
public Treasury, which it exhausted, is already
relieved from the general reaction of financial
md commercial prosperity which has set in upon
us. There is a prospect for a year or two before
as of such prosperous times to all our business
ind industrial pursuits as the country has never
pet experienced. At the same time only the
mbers of the late Kansas excitement remain;
ind w ith the minds of the people pro-occupied
with more sub.-tantial things, they will bo very
apt to treat with contempt all efforts, North or
?outh, to kindle up again the fires of the slavery
agitation with new combustibles. Let us await
the developments that arc foreshadowed in all
the signs of the times. Ferbaps within a year
we may thus find the administration of Mr. Buchanan
the acknowledged basis of the democratic
party among all the factions and cliques, North
and South, and his sound and statesmanlike
poliov the platform of the party, united and
powerful, from the melting away of the opposition
factions in all directions
At all events, wc are willing to leave to time
the settlement of the question whether this assemblage
at Vickeburg is to be set down as the
end of these H^calkd Southern Commercial Conventions,
or the beginning of an independent
Southern faction of fire-eaters, filibusters, nul fillers.
secessionists and other dcsp( rate politicians,
ready for any extrenuU to secure a share of the
public plunder.
Cu.nonvfA Emulation.?The lapse of years
:ec ms to make no decrease in the rush of our
>eople towards the western slope of the Rocky
[fountains. Indeed, the emigration to California
?y actual count Is greater to-day than it was
[ hen the gold fever was at its height in *49 \'?o.
teadily the tide cb1* aDd Hows across the Isthns
of Panama, or by way of Nicaragua or
'thinmtepee, or traversing the mighty desert
etweon our frontier Sta'cs and the heights of
to Sicira Nevada. With such prospects the
JfEW YORK HERALD, S.
(t i nci.ra of Wall fatrect ore tocouragtd to set '
a new routes, to compote for the golden prize,
to eot the old company iu opposition, and to
; share its business with full ships and low fares.
Before many montliB have elapsed we bhall bare
four or five sea routes open to the Golden
Gate, ai d a daily stage comniunication?the beat
pioneer for thf railway? serosa the Plains. Thus '
California emigration will )>e widely extended (
and stimulated beyond precedent; our young '
men, who are rusting for want of an opening In
the great cities, will find a reward for their indua- j
try and enterprise on the Pacific coast; California,
New Mexico, Arizona, Washington and Oregon
will be filled up with a hardy, independent
and intellectual populace, and our rivals in that
ncighltorhood?the English and Russians?will
find th <t their territory must be confined to its
present Pouts, while ours will bo extended on
every ide.
The In Europe?Its Relation to Spain
and the Cuba Question.
It "s evident from certain indications, which,
tfco -ih light in themselves, have no small
weight when taken In conjunction with similur
movement- elsewhere, that Spain will not remain
neutral in the contest now breaking oat in
Europe, though it is not so certain on which
side she will take part.
Thus, at the very time when the great empires
are in the London market seeking large
supplies of the best charts of the coasts and harbors
of England and her colonial possessions,
we strangely find Spain there on the same mission.
And when the same Powers are seeking
in even- way to increase their steam marine,
and paiticularly the light, swift and heavily
armed despatch steamers, wc find Spain, wilhont
revenue to build them, cr any real use to which
to put them, ordering the construction on the
Thames of a large number of steam gunboats,
under-the pretence of requiring them for her
Phillipine possessions.
It is well known that for a long time the
Spanish government has been under the influence
of Louis Napoleon, and thai the Peninsula
is virtually governed by him, as completely
as is France. In a recent pamphlet
attributed, with reason, to the pen of the French
Emperor, it was boasted that he had been the
great stay ot constitutional government at
Madrid. The fact is, that in Spain the Crown
and the people are guided by distinct and
opposing policy. The Queen, Isabella, belongs,
body and soul, by descent and by sympathy, to
the Bourbon family, and she clings with tenacity
to the absolute theories of her ancestors. In
direct opposition to the wishes of her people, she
fosters the temporal us well as the spiritual
power of the Pope, and admires the tyrannical
rale of her uncle, the King of Naples. For ceni
turiee, too, ever since the time of the Groat Cap1
tain, GonzUo do Cordova, Spain has claimed a
controlling influence in the affairs of Italy, and
has ever thrown it iuto the opposing scale to
liberty. In 1848 she sent a contingent force to j
Italy to assist in suppressing the republicans. |
At the present time Isabella favors, in her own (
dominions, the efforts of the absolutist party to
restore the fanatical rule of the Pope in Spain,
the confiscated convents to the monks, aud the
hearty union of church and State.
On the other hand, the Spanish people dej
splee the Pope as a temporal ruler, hate the
monks and their convents, would turn all their I
possessions into the coffers of the State, desire
to widen the breach between the Papal See
and Spain, and not a few would gladly
see the Queen herself ] tacked off to her
uncle at Naples., and a more liberal government
established by (he union of the two Crowns, on (
the head of the young King of Portugal, or un- ,
dcr some more radical form. In this contention
of parties it is not improbable that Spain may lie '
drawn into the present conflict, through some of
its changes and combinations; and during its
progress she will be subjected to many vicissitudes.
There is little doubt at the present time
that in the matters of the British charts and new
gunboats, her government is acting under instructions
from some other Power. Certainly
she herself has no intention of invading or exploring
the British coasts.
It is for such a juncture as this that we should
be provided, and for which the Thirty Million
bill of last session did provide. By conferring
upon the President the power to purchase Cuba,
and to pay thirty millions down upon the signing
of a treaty to that effect, many of the moet important
points in the question of the acquisition
of Cuba were covered. First, the passage of the
bill would have decided the main question, "Do
we want Cuba?" which has never yet been decided.
Second, the decision of that question by
the authoritative voice of Congress would have
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ccmtu iuu pouvy ui mis cuuuiry in regura ^
to Cuba, and would have exercised a vast
moral influence in its favor throughout j
Europe. Third, it would have placed the Pre- j
sldent In a position to act decisively whenever
the proper juncture should arrive. Fourth, it j
would have given any Spanish Ministry disposed
to negotiate, the assurance that a portion of the ^
equivalent would be at their disposal immediately ^
on signing the treaty. Fifth, it would remove all (
temptation to corrupt efforts and side bargain- ^
ings, such as always accompany a treaty, the con- .
elusion and payments of which are contingent and ^
doubtful. Sixth, the payment of all or any part ^
of the money lieing contingent upon the signing
of the treaty of cession, no portion of it could
ever have been u-cd by the Executive for corrupt
or party purposes. Seventh, it would have re- i
moved the Cuba quer'ion from the circle of party i
and Presidential politics, and made it a purely t
national question. Eighth, it would have dc- t
prived the filibusters of their greatest and strongest c
card, and one which they arc liable to seize upon t
and play at any time. Ninth, by confining the f
power of agitating and settling the CubaqucB' on t
within the dignified circle of governmental ac- t
tion, it would have relieved and soothed Spain, e
and conduced greatly to the peaceful settlement c
of all our ponding questions with her. and thus c
paved the way for the attainment of the very t
object desired. We might go on enumerating *
1he advantages of the measure proposed by Mr. f
Buchanan, and so sagaciously sustained by the t
wisdom of tin- Senate ; but we have said quite
enough to prove the point of our argument. Mr.
Buchanan's policy in regard to Cuba is t
the only just, proper and true one, and it must ?
be adopted. The Thirty Million bill mu9t be B
passed next session. If a factious Congress re- *
fuses to puss it, it must be carried before the
people and form the great issue of the campaign s
of 1860. Politicians may think they can over tl
slaugh it with " squatter sovereignty," " the C
nigger in the Territories,'* personal liberty" p
abstractions, or the fallacy of an " irrepressible t'
conflict.'' They are all ia error. Questions of 1<
'oreigr policy, and not of domestic stnfe, now c
ongrc-s the attention of the world. L"t them, t
mrBDAY. MAY 14. 1859
karn from the lesson cf Lord Derby la England
He dissolved Parliament and appealed to the
people on a question of domestic reform. The
people arc judging Lie cu the .conduct of his
foreign policy, which was never brought in question.
So it will be with us. While a desperate
strife reigns in Europe, no man iu this country
will care to read, discuss or vote on questions of
domestic divisions; our foreign policy will be
uppermost In every man's mind, and the politician
who seeks to divert the popular thought
from its natural channel will soon find that he is
committing political suicide.
Esn or the AKNiVETWAXfES.?The tine w eather
of yesterday, a clear ?ernlean sky and a midbummer
atmosphere, saw the anniversaries out
in the pica-ante it possible way. The stfluts and
the sinners are now all as one. To-day the
rural brethren and sisters will return by steamboat
and railway to the plough, the pulpit, t. i
village shop and the knitting needle. Y '-wo
are glad to greot them in the metropolir, nappy
to contribute In aid of the various religious, philanthropic
and reform enterprises (if they are
enterprises) which they have in hand, we cannot
say that we feel any deeply settled grief at their
exodus. Like the country inukeoper, we "welcome
the coming and speed the parting guest."
We have had the old buttle of the Tract
Society fought over again; we have suffered
a rather dull rehash of the satne
story wbioh the Garrisoniaft abolitionists
have been hari ing upon for twenty years
and more; we Lave recorded tho proceedings
of a rather stormy session oi the Woman's
Rights Convention, and we wind up very appropriately
with the colored photograph of a struggle
between the cliques of the African race who
adhere to Mn-sa Garrison and Fred. Douglass
severally.
Periiat s some ouc may )>e tempted to ask the
question as to what good all these anniversary
meetings have accomplished. We have printed
since last Sunday no less than sixty columns of
anniversary reports; and we sincerely trust that
>o much seed scattered broadcast will do a great
deal oJ' good, although our faith on the subject
is not of that lively kind that overcomes mountains.
As i art of the events of the dny, we
have placed the anniversary reports on record,
and there we leave them to the criticism of our
readers.
A Dktnk ot Water for the Peofj.k?Loxno.v
Setting Uh a Good Example.?Wc have
alluded more than once to the fact that there is
not in this whole vast city a single public convenience
for assuaging the thirst of ouv perambulating
community with a draught of pure water, an
'iwh'nln orKJolt Antra ? onnh olinreilonna IUa
fl iMVU iivif.) U BUVU WK/UiiUUUVV UUUC1 ItUU
pavements of every street in the metropolis.
Not a solitary public hydrant or public fountain
where the weary traveller on our hot and dusty
highways can cool bis lips. This is a shameful
neglect. The large cities of most other countric8
arc well supplied in this respect, and where such
is not the case, humanity ami a regard for public
ticaltli ?re rapidly prompting the benevolent to
tarni& drinking plue<? for <1 people
An association <br tUa fvyw has been recently
formed in Loud. ? > t.- '?.rve that
the first public drioWii ' .iVW(a ,u liiut metropolis
was open** I w' 4 gTiftl cetrmony a few
weeks ago at the < >?i net <?( rmpur ?vnd Skiiuier
streets, near the church) ..d of St. Sepulchre's.
A daughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury inaugurated
the opening, and drank from a silver
goblet the first draught of water, while the presence
of many distinguished persons, aud the
immense gathering of people who witnessed th
proceedings, evidenced that the Londoners appro
ciate the blessing which has fallen to their lot
i'et the climate of London is not 80 hot nor so
Irv ns nnrfl On /tAt^row Sf So Jr.1!
+- J *. ?av vvuuhi;, iv la UUU, UUU. Ullt'U
noist. Nor arc there, in proportion to the popuation,
n greater number of persons of the poor
ind laboring classes traversing the streets there
;han here. If the want of public drinking tounaius
is felt so much in London, then, that an
Msociation of philanthropists has been formed to
provide them for the people, what can we say for
tfew York"!
But it would appear, from a communication
n another column, that a narrow spirit animates
he Croton Aqueduct Department upon this
piestion, which we think is highly reprehensible.
Alien a private citizen proposed to do that
.vhich the Corporation should do, namely, erect,
i public hydrant and drinking cup at his own
?xpcnse for the benefit of his thirsty fellow citi"
'.ens, the Deportment met his application for
lerniission with a positive refusal. The tempeance
societies should take hold of this idea. A
?ood supply of pure cold water within roach of
he people would keep many a man out of the
rrogsliop. Let the temperance reformers follow
he example of the London people, aud they will
fleet more for the cause than all the auniversaies
ever celebrated or the tracts ever distributed
lave done.
Public fountains are established in other Engislt
cities?Liverpool, Hull aud Derby?and it is
neposed in Loudon to erect these public founains?which
are eiumlc and economical utrno
are?, indented into a blank wall?in the vicinity
>f churches. This Ib an excellent idea, it strikes
is. and ii we had a fountain near every church
u this city the spire would guide the thirsty
ravcllc-r to the ppot where he might be reresbed.
Let u* have lb- public hydrants by all means.
Steamship Travkl on the Atlantic?
V Semi-Dailv Link.?As an instance of the
miuense transatlantic travel by steamships at
he present time, a merchant of this city
eceived a letter the other day from his
icrrcspondent in Liverpool, complaining of
he difficulty of avoiding duplicating his inorraation,
in consequence of the frequency of
he sailings from the different English ports for
his country. No doubt it must be emncwhat
mbarrasring: but the multiplicity of steamers *
rossing the ocean Ls nevertheless an evidence
d the immense traffic and travel going on beween
the two continents. For example, there
rcrc no less than six steamers left English norts
ar America within four days, from the 16th to
he 20th of last month, as follows:?
Steamer t. Settling daj. Whence. for.
Jrica April 16.... Liverpool..., N'ew York.
'mtal Kingdom April 16.... Glasgow Qaeboi.
ImMian April IS.... Galwajr St. Johns.
invari* April 18.... Southampton New York. ,
irr.nen April 10.... Southampton Now York.
forth Briton... I April 20....; Liverpool....: yicbec. <
Notwithstanding this extraordinary number of ,
tcnmehlps storting almost at one time, it is said |
hat tho steamers of the European afcd American i
tompany, formerly Croekey's line, will soon be 1
mt on between Liverpool and New York. At
his rate wc shall Qot be surpi Isod to fee before
ong a semi-davy line of stoamships leaving this
otintry foT Europe, m that one umy select be- ,
wen thn morning the evening boat for Lit - i
\
crpool, just umdo now in going to Albany,
la all probability this will be fulfilled, unlets the
war draws off the 6tenmera, an the Crimean oon
test did, cr travel should be retarded by the
disturbed condition of the Continent. Already
one screw ship of the Cuoard line, the Alps, Los
bte% w ithdrawn for government purposes, and
should England get involved in the war. no
doubt many others will be employed as transports.
Mqvkmknth of thk Mokmons.?A short time
ago wr chronicled the departure of a large number
of Latter Day Saints, who had wintered in
this city, and who took advantage of the first open
weather to journey towards the Great Salt Lake
On yesterday we lioed tb' arrival of a Liverpool
liner w i s??ven hundred and twenty-six
Mormon p ug.rs on board. They came
i in juig id, Lteamark, wales ami other
countrr? in Northern Europe, cheerfully undertakk0
a journey of fire or six thousand
miles to a now country, a strange government?in
fact, a religious despotism?for the
sake of the faith that is in them. In a few days
they will be en route to join the oompany of the
faithful, to whom Joseph Smith was the first
prophet, and Brigham Young the successor.
The steady increase of the Mormon church
the fortitude of its adherents, the energy and
perseverance of its leaders, are circumstances
well worthy the attention of the philosopher, the
theologian and the politician. Even the hostile
proceedings taken against the Mormons fey the
general government did not crush out emigration.
It was simply suspended until matters were pacificated,
and then it set in with double force.
No amount of ridicule, abuse or persecution
could arrett it; and, as a last retort, bayonets
themselves foiled to do so.
We have quite passed by the age when men
and women were persecuted for opinion's sake,
and we arc quite satisfied that there is no desire
on the part of aDy one to crowd the Mormons in
j any way. Still, it must be acknowledged, even
| by themselves, that some of their practices, as
well as their entire theory of admixing the temporal
with the spiritual government of the
Q4?4/> /,?? 1
vaa uvivi UV iUiOittltU, I'J lilt' pi'U*
pie of thin country. While France is endeavoring
to separate the two elements in
Kome, it is not to be supposed that the United
StateB will consent to their amalgamation in
America. That the Mormon leaders are aware
of this fact is apparent from the circumstance
that they have very recently agitated the plan,
formed some time since, to eeil oat the Utah
Territory, and repair?harems and all?to some
island in the Southern Pacific, where they might
set up an independent nationality after their
own hearts, with institutions agreeing with their
owu appetites. To this result, or one still more
uncomfortable, they must come at last; and the
sooner the better for all concerned.
INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON.
The Ouselejr Treaty with Nicaragua Repudiated
by the British Government?The
Affair of the Punch Comal at K.iv Orleans?Probable
Visit of the Pope to the
United States, &c.
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH.
Washington, Hay 13, I860.
Itr. Dallas, our Minister at London, has informed the
Department of State of the disapproval by England of the
treaty recently negotiated by sir Win. Core Ouseley, and
that they had given liim peremptory orders to proceed to
Nicaragua and conclude a treaty in accordance with his
luril UUMUBB.
Some weeks sgo the French Consul at New Orleans
wms arrested on a * warrant from the Recorder for
misdemeanor in harboring a deserter, but was not
kept in confinement. The Recorder, after objection
being made to the legality or the arrest, dismissed
the case. Count Sartiges, the French minister, however,
has demand satisfaction for this violation
of the Consular Convention between France and the
United States, and our government has avowed its dlsapproval
of the arrest and its willingness to take proper
measures to vindicate the sanctity of the treaty.
Mr. Applcton, Assistant Secretary of State, left this city
to-day for his home In Maine, where he will be absent
soma days.
Letters received here from sources entitled to credit,
mention that rumors were pre> alent in var.ous portions !
of Italy that the Pope might be compelled to take refuge j
in the United States. Our Ministers at Rome and Naples 1
speak of it as highly probable, owing to the unsettled and j
precarious condition of things.
rax < esksai. mewspartnt osbi-atcu. (
Washikuton, May 10,1B50. I
In view of our unsettled affairs with Chile, the steamer J
Mississippi returning from the Fast indies, and the Laa- i
caster, Wyoming and Levant, on lbeir way out, wilt touch i
at the parts of that republic. i
There is no truth in the report that Commodore Breeze
is to be transferred from the New York to the Washington
Navy Yard. He still remains thero.
The Pn aidant tr-s recognized Cecrge Edward Kankardt
and Frarz August Hirsch?the former Consul at
New Yotk ?nd the latter at Boston, for the city or H mburg.
The Treasury receipts Inst week were $920,000. Toe
amount subject to draft is nearly $7,CCO,9CO.
The ilintoiilc CtlcbraUon.
Provitikvoe, M\y I?, IRo'.i.
The St. John's F..campment of Knight fcctplars, number
ing sixty four ruen, accompanied by Urcen's Band, left
here this evening for Richmond, Va., v'a Stonington and
New York. They wete joined at ti.e ac pet by the Ik
Mo'ay Fxcampment, of Boston, eighty strong, with till
more's Baud
Bo-io-v, May IS, 1859.
The Tie Molny Encampment of Knight Templars, nun
tiering between eighty and o tiety, left this evening on
their visit to Richmond, Va , via the Providence and
Stonington route. Arc. siooa to tha company arc <\pectcd
at Providence. Large numbers of the Masonic
brothei hood were at U e depot to see the exoureioriiats oil
Destructive Fire InBaltlmore.
B.U.UKPKK, May lb, 1 So'.i.
The new engine house of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company, oo Canton avenue, was
totally destroyed by Dro early this mourns, with five
locomotives. The fire originated frctn sparks from a
freight engine, the lire in whicl: had not been thoroughly
extinguished. The loss on Die building to about $6,009,
besides from $3,OCO to $5,000 on each locomotive, and
$4,000 on stationery machines. The engines and house
re fully insured, half each in tho Baltimore Fireman's
and Baltimore Insurance Companies.
Kirn In Pennsylvania.
Hai: WBfRC., Pa., May IS, 1859.
Two bains attached to the State Lunatic Asylum wore
destroyed by fire to-day. Loss 94,000. #
The barn attached to the Dauphin County Poor Homo '
waa also destroyed, with twenty-flvo cattle, males and ^
horses. Henry Well has been arrested as the Incendiary. I
He escaped yesterday from the Poor Homo
Fire at Marlttta, CMilo. '
llaKDRTA, Ohio, May 13, 195?. s
A fire occurred here yesterday, which destroyed I
twenty buildings in the business portion of the city. The ,
principal sufTerore are,'Nye A Huntington, iosa $5.0C0, c
insured 93,000; Boaworth, Wells A Co., 912,000, insured *
98,000; S. R. Turner, 95,000, Insured 92,500 The Ktnn *
Company of Hartford baa 915,000. lha Hartford Company t<
17,COO, and the City Company or Hartford 91,800 insu- ll
ranee on the burnt property. A large portion of the ?
roods In the buildings waa saved in a damagod condition, r
Several firemen and others were injured by falling build- ?
lag*- J
Five at Thereaa Village, If. V. ?
Watmtown, N. V., May 13,195?.
A large fire at Theresa village last sight consumed a
fiourirg mill, two saw mltis, a tub factory, a foundry,
three machine shops, three OgtU't-g Ihuses, an* two '
bipCS, low 960,o?o. t
Obituary*
DM. TOMimflOH FOOT OK GKOitfM*. AND PHOPBMOa
DShUiON OLMriTHAl) OP MIW Q1VKM.
AuaoatA, Ga., May W? 18W.
Pr. Tomlicsoa Fort, of Milkdge rttts, died to^tay. Sd
was a former mooter or Ooegross, and a distinguished
medical practitioner, and was widely known and Siteemed.
William Lucky, a citizen or Qreen County. <>*-. *?
killed by one of hi* negroes to day.
New Btvu, Kay 18,18W.
Professor Dectson Olmstead, L L D., expired at bis residence
in this city, at tour o'clock thle morning, aged 08
years. He graduated at Yale College In 1818, was eleoted
Profesaor or ObemJstry, in North Carolina, in 1810, and
served ten years. When there, he made a geologtoal
surrey ot that State, the ilrst SUte survey made ia this
country, and in 1820 he was elected Professor of Kuhe
matics and Natural Philosophy la Yale Collage, whloh
place he tUled at the time of his death.
AICCflBK Gipyono, OP NHW JKRSSY.
Nswaks, N. J., May 13,18H.
Archer Gilford, ?*(., one of the most distinguished
members of the bar of New Jersey, died to day.
the Cam of the Lottery Oculars.
SI0OND OAT.
Auuubta, May 13?P. M.
ai uie opening or court this morning, Judge W. W.
Holt gave his decision at length, overruling on betk
gronnda the motion made on yesterday (Monday) in the
Siren lottery casta. He decided, upon the first ground,
that by the definition In the penal code of the State the
oflenoefor which the defendants were Indicted was a
"crime,' being "a violation of public law, and therefore
indictable." Reviewing the argument of defendants'
oouatol, who contended that a quitam action a bo old have
been brought, and not en Indictment preferred, he tatd
down the position that such action can be brought only te
recover a specific sum, and referred to the provletoa eg
the statute of 1833, which leaves the amount of the penalty,
upon conviction, within certain limits, to the discretion
of the Court.
In noticing the second ground of objoction that there
was ao prosecutor, he held that ail indictments might be
founded upon a special presentment of a Grand Jury, that
there was no necessity for a prosecutor in this case, and
that it did not concern the defendants to whom the peaa tjr
was paid, tho sentence being that they should pay it,
which was the important matter after all.
Upon both grounds, therefore, the indictment was held
to be properly preferred, and the trial ordered to proceed.
llie defendants are defended by Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens, 0. A. Lochrane, Miller and Jackson, and Sneed
and Walker. For the State, Attorney General William K.
Laws.
The testimony given in to day was verv meaver. hue
houis and hours were consumed in discussing legal ques.
toe* a* to the admissibility of evidence, parol and written.
Mr. Thomaa M. Turner, one of the Trustees of the Sparta
Academy, was called to the stand, and testified thai the
Trustees rold and conveyed to Mr. F. C. Barber the franchise
or lottery grant which was granted by the Legislature
of Georgia to the Sparta Academy, In 1823; that al
the payments due on that sale had been punctually
met, and that the Trustees considered that they
had tho legal authority to convey the said lottery
grant, in order to realize the sum of
money which the grant authorized them to raise;
that all the Trustees were present at the sale, and the
conveyance was made in good faith. A large portion of
the money paid for the grant had been spent for educational
purposes, and the balance en hand would no appropriated
in that way.
Others of the Trustees gave In evidence, all going to
stow that tho Trustees considered the lottery grant a
valid one.
Tho speeches of the lawyers to-day were in favor of
and against allowing to go to the jury, the original pipers,
conveying tho Sparta Academy lottery grant by the Trustees
of tbat academy to F. 0. Barber, and the transfer of
F. 0. Barber to Swan, Eddy & Co. The counsel for tne
defence urged the admissibility of the evidence, while the
Attorney General opposed it.
The lawyers in this case seem well prepared, aadoau
readily ta k an hour or two on any po nt oi it.
As to the speculations about tbe retail of the case, I
will reserve them until the otse is over, and then I uaa
give them in a reliable form.
Markets.
New Oriju.ns, May 13,1859.
Cotton market unsettled; dealers are waiting fu.ther
intelligence from Europe. Sale." to day 800 bales; middling,
11c. offered. Tne sales of tbe week add up 5 Ded
bales, and the receipts 9,tC0, against 20 0C0 baits for tn
corresponding week last year. The exports for the weak
sum up 31,000 bales, and the total cxixhts to dato 1,678,
000 bales. Receipts at tbis port ahead of last year, 148,
uuiro, uu, Ki an ouiuuern pons, 700,000 Dales. tstost,
170,OtO bales, against 298,000 last year. Sugar firm at
6??c. for Tair. Mess pork excited, and advanced 50c. a
76c. . sales at $18. Bacon buoyant, and advanced Vc.
tides 9p^c. Coilee firm at 12c.: sales of the neck, 2,000
bags. Stock 16,000 bags, against 6,000 last year.
Freights?Cotton to Liverpool 7-3'ld. Sterling exchange
100>a a 110*. Drafts on New York at sixty days 1 '? per
cent discount, and at sight >? per ccat premium.
Moiuls, May 12,1859.
Cotton declined >|'c.: solos to day 3,000 bales; middling
11c. a UPa'c. ' wtua?'
Charlrttos, May 12,1859.
Cotton inactive: salei to-day 600 bales; wood middling
11c. a UXo. Kico bad advanced >,'c. ^
BacrmoitR, May 13,1369.
Flour quiet, at $7 60 for Howard street and Ohio. Wdoat
unchanged. Corn dull and declined $1; wnito, 90c. a i>2c.
yellow, 03c. a 94c. Provisions Arm. Bacon: sides, 9\i'
a 10c. Mess pork, $17 26. Whiskey quiet, at 30c. for
city, and 31c. for Ohio.
Philadelphia, May 18,1869.
The excitement. in breadatuifs continues, and holders
are now demanding a further advance, which Bomewhat
restricts operations. Superfine is held at $7 76; extra at
18 a $8 26. Wheat has advanced 6o.; sates of 8,000 buahBla
at $196 for white and $l 80 a $1 85 for red. Cora
firm; sales of 7,600 bushels at 98c. a $1 for yellow. Whiskey
advancing and seiiing at 29c. a 30c.
? Bcwalo, May 13?1 P. M.
Flour in good demand; market 26c. a37?c. better;
tales 2,800 bbls. at $6 76 a $6 for low State, $6 60 a
>7 26 lor extra Hlinols and Wisconsin, $7 S7|i a $7 ?2*g
[or extra Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, and $7 76 a $8 20
tor double extras. Wheat moderately active, and market
better; sales 16.000 bushels at $1 10 for rejected Chicago
ipring, $1 40 a $1 45 for No. 1 and extra Mtlwaukte club,
H 80 a $2 for fair to choice white Kentucky, and $187
or caoico wmic ixnaaa uora 11 rm, Bales 27,000 buabela H
Illinois river at 00c. Oats steady. Barley dull. Rre
oetter; sales 100 bushels. Wniskey advanced lc.; sales H
100 bbia. at 28c. a 29>?c., closing at the latter figure. H
3anal freights on corn, 9c., wheat, rOc , and fleur 35c. Io H
S'ew York. Lake Imports?3.0C0 bbls. flour; 28,000 H
Juahels wheat, 52,000 bushels com. Canal exports? H
3.800 bbls. flour, 10,000 bushels wheat,,6,000 bushels corw H
Osw?.o, May 13?0 P. U. H
Flour market firm, with an active demand, partly eye
rolative: sales 2,600 bbls., at $0 from Chicago spring wheat, H
rnd $0 76 a *7 from Milwaukie club; included are 1,000
ibis, for Mcntreal. Our mills sac grinding shiely to snpfly
the watts of the local, interior and Canadian trade,
ind none has been shipped for tbo New York market.
Wheat advanced 2c., but the market is less active sales
.8,000 bushels, at $1 45 for Kifwaukio club, and 81 70 for
issound white Illinois, including 2,000 bushels white
lotada at private terms. The total amount afloat for thia
jort is only 10,000 bushels, and very little is going to Bufalo.
Ccru is in demand, but tbtre is little ornonobere.
>ats firm and quiet. Canal freights unchanged. No releipts
by lake Canal exports 67,000 bushels corn. Shipred
to Mcntreal 2,700 bbla. flour.
Be halo, Hay 13?6 P. 1L
Flour 10 cents higher, but market Ices active; sales
l,7C0 bbls. at 8? 60 a $0 76 for extra Illinois; 86 75 a
37 26 Tor extra Wiscoc; m; 87 37}i a 87 62 for extra tbchgan,
Indiana and Ohit: 87 76 a 88 25 for doable extra.
Wheat in moderate dr> . ;.d: market oettcr; sales 93,COO
Dushels, in lots, at #1 in for rejected Chicago spring;
31 46 for extra Mil* a. aio club; 81 76 for choice red Ohio;
31 80 a 82 for flair to .Vice while Kentucky; 81 8734 for
iboice white Canada, 'ora In demand: market hrm;^H
tales 2,700 bushels, slightly damaged, at 90c. Oats dull
it 61c. a 69c. lor State, WVfelern and Canada. Barley dull.
itye selling in rcUfl way at 81. Wh.akey better; sales
100 bbls. at RMk Canal freights firm: i?c. on corn, 10c.
?n wheat, and 36c. on flour to New York. LaVo liuports?
I,COO bbls. Hour, 29.0C0 bushels win at, 37,000 bushels
orn. Car.su cxportf ?2,400 bbls. Hour, 23,COO bushoia^H
t teat, 12,000 bushels corn.
Cincinnati, May 13, I860.
Flour?Salf3 to day rf W0 barre.s at 57 40 a 87 60.
foldersare waiticg for further European auYictx. Whis-^H
ley, 27,1c. a 28c. Mrss pork, 818 a 813; higher rales^^fl
rere asked at the close. Bacon, 9\c. a loc. l.ird heid^H
it ll\c. a 12c. Bulk meats: 6>?c. a 8Jip. offered, but^H
leld higher. _______________
The Quarantine Mirk.
ro TOE EDITOR OF TiiK 'JftHO.
Wo are told that tbe sick Id the Quarantine rijspiUdn^^B
tc at coce to be removed; that some are t? be placed
ho lower bay on hulks, and the baUnco are to be sent to^^f
Sard's Island; bit the difficulty lu the way of tbe
iroposllicn is, that no hulks are being prepared for esr-^^^
ice, aad even none have been purchased. Anil the etpo-^^H
imeat of sending quarantine cases to Ward's Islaad ie^^H
iOt for a moment to be cntertsined. if smallpox,
ever and cholera are sent .a Ward's inland, such discusai^^H
rill spread all over the island, and through all Uw hos^^H
iltals, and finally to the tsaole uppor part of New Vork^^H
Tit is dangcrom, as npresenttd, to }?reons sick
ostiionce to remain ahOastleton, on the old t r.i?rar'.,n(^^B
outils, bow can it te safe to remove them to Ward't^^H
land, where (here arc several thousand human belng^^H
ick from disease t which ars not contagious cr infectious
be p stUentlal sick at Qttarr.ntlne cannot be sent to Ward'^^H
sir.r.d without tbe conaetAof the Comrnissiozersof F.migra^^H
ion at d tin heat'JS authorities of tbe ct j of New York^^H
or is it to be seppoeod that the Quarantine Commisslon^^H
re will propose to do any such dangerous thing.
ellef to be granted tbls see ton is relit.ve to yellow fevat^^H
uch cacee should t>e cared for bcluer the barrc'XB:
he t toe is rap.IVy passing when the Quarantine Oomm^^^H
Intent tho ti t be making preparations accordingly. Wha^^H
rtll t>o rtcne with infected vessel? an'1 cargoes th.s
on t Whets will tirey bo anchored tShere d scbarget^^^B
A ClKZJEN.
ffo Cstoi f." t.?Thh filial dift-a->c is c.?rryin^^^B
iway lsrg numbtrs of hogc in the v. Jtitj cf Pccetc^^^H
i. "u is said h : Satgaii' ru rinc bcy/.r; . > covered
h#r dead bodita.