The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-26

collected that at the moment even Of embarkation,
Captain Wyse threw up his command sooner than
proceed in the latter vessel, "a he considered her
unseaworthy and likely to renew his previous bitter
experience of the results OF the forethought and
vigilance exercised by our Naval Department. The
presentiments Of this officer have been unhappily
fulfilled. If means cannot be adopted to obvate all
this risk and danger in convey ng our troops by sea-
they must for the future b. stnt over hand.
Filesof the Antigua Weekly Reg ster, dated to
the 4th Of the esent month, have reached us.
They do not contain anything Of political i'm
portance. A public meeting Yves held in the court
house in the city Of ST. John, the Goth Of March,
in order to devise the best Of carrying into
effect an Industrial Exhibition in the island the
1st Of August next The Lord Bishop, President
Byam, the Chief Justice, cpd other leading men,
were present, when an Executive Committee was
appointed, and an extended plan Of operations
adopted On Sunday March 81, fire occurred on
Otto'scstate by which about twenty five or thirty
| acres Of cane were burned
| We have received our files from 81 Domingo City
to the 25th ut. Nothing Of interest or Importance
has .ranspred since the date Of previous advices.
| tdvces from Havana to the 22G inst.have reached
us by way of Charleston, but contain nothing Of in
| terest.
We received yesterday by the steamships Illinois
end Northern Light, our papers from San Francis
co to the lst instant, enabling us to give complete
summary of the news announced yesterday morn
| ing by telegraph from New Orleans. We have only
room to call the attention of the reader 10 the de-
tails of the intelligence in another part OF the pa
per, and particularly to that portion OF it which re-
| lates to the arrest of the Mexican Consul in San
| Francisco. 1t is both important and interesting.
| Intelligence from the South Pacific, Panama, and
Jamaica is also given.
The modified Gadsden treaty was yesterday rati-
fed by the Senate by vote of thirty to thirteen
We have commented on this subject in another col
umn. The United States Supreme Court has
reversed the decree Of the Circuit Court of Ohio
against giving the Methodist Episcopal Church South
part OF the assets of the Cincinnati Book Concern,
and e1nanded the cause to the District Court for
| further action.
In the Senate yesterday the only matter of gene
raj importance that transpired was the reception
| and reference of message from the President, cov
e1ing suggestions to the method of transacting
the Judicial business of the country, and recon-
mendng that the Attorney Generals Office be erect
ed into department Of the government, and all
judicial power vested therein. The Senate after
wards held an executive session and ratified the
Gadsden treaty.
resolution was introduced in the House yester-
day, and referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs requesting information as to the steps taken
by this government to secure the acknow edgment
of the tights of neutrals by Great Britain and
France; also whether the former has assumed to act
for Spain in the negotiations relative to the Black
Warrior difficulty, and the extent of and pretext
for such assumption. With regard to the first
branch of the inquiry, it is probable the steamer
from Liverpool will bring definite information from
Mr.. Buchanan as to the convention with Great Br-
tain and we may likewise receive intelligence from
Mr. Mason, at Paris, of similar arrangement with
| the Emperor of the French. The news from Madrid
states that the Spanish government has made ample
| reparation for the Black Warrior outrage. The
House, in Committee of the Whole, nomnally on the
Deficiency bill, proceeded to discuss the Nebraska
question, when Col Benton delivered very effec-
tive speech.
A regular meeting of the Democratic Republican
Society was held last evening, at which Professor
Foresti presided. The most interesting feature of
the proceedings the reading of original letter
from General Lafayette, dated at Paris, April s,
1880, in which the General expressed his opinions
the subject of free labor employment and regret
ted that European emgrans should cultivate by the
hands of slaves. The Secretaries of the society re-
ported the result Of their conference with the dele
gates of the German societies at Pyti,agoras Hall.
We have translation of the most important points
of the paper, with report of the business transact
ed, but cann,t find space for either this morning.
John Wilson, indicted for the murder of Henry
Dejkmeyer, was found guilty Of mansaughter in the
second degree yesterday, in the Court Of Oyer and
Terminer. The prisoner was sentenced TO seven
years imprisonment in the State prison.
The special election for Alderman in the Fifth
ward Brooklyn, yesterday resulted in the choice
Of John J. White, democrat, by eighty-two majority
over both Of his competitors.
Ninety,nine of the bodies from the ship Powhatan
b We been recovered and buried. he Underwater
arrived at this port yesterday. She is not seriously
mayed in her hull.
Santa Anna Mt Washington and Santa Anna
Mt Gan Francisco-very Curious.
BY most extraordinary coincidence, we are
enabled t. lay before our readers this morning,
the news of the ratification, so call ID, of the
Gadsoen treaty at Washington, and the facts
and documents concerning filibusterng
scheme of Santa Anna to muster body of
troops in San Francisco. In other words we
are informed of the passage of a bill to furnish
Santa Anna with the snews of war; simulta-
neously with the information that he is collect
ing an amy of foreign soldiers in one of our
principal cities, in fragrant disregard of our
neutrality laws and the very friendly and
generous inclinations of our administration.
Now, had the original Gadsden treaty been
promptly ratified, the funds thus accruing to
The Mexican Dictator would have enabled him
to raise his three thousand foreign recruits in
San Francisco to be off with them, and without
any trouble This will probably account, in part,
ior the intense anxiety of the Mexican lobby
agents at Washington to hurry through the
treaty as fast as possible. Even as it is, if the
modified treaty of the Senate is finally agreed