The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-04

poreing weeks in 1856 and 1867, was a. follows:-
Wees e-s'-s Ar- & ,see ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as
W~tl eating arrt 4.iscs Observation-Disclosures AZ,
Week scsiSg March - 1853. ....... ara
The nativity report gives Sa2 natives Of the United
States 81 OF Ireland. % of Germany IL Of Eagsand.
Of France. Of Scotland. of Sweden. . of Wales.
/ each OF British America and Belgium. and 8 un
known.
The discrimination of Comptroller Flagg in
relation to the alleged conspiracy TO defraud the
city treasury out Of 10000 was finished yesterday
Counsel for the defendant propounded a number of
questions to Mr.. Flsgg. by which he expected TO
show that the object of the prosecution was to pro-
cure the assistance Of the Mayor in removing Chas
Deviin from the Street CommissioneYship, all OF
which were ruled out The case WAS adjourned till
Wednesday next
The market for cotton continued be buoyed up by
the advces from the South, and the sAlos ysstesa,
reached about 900 bales based upon mddng uplands
ll>sc. Flour was in fair TO good demand both from
the local aud Eastern trade with saos 70 extent Tor
export while prices without change Of importance
Wheat was more active. and prices for prime los
firm, while other and lower grades were irregular.
Kentucky white sold At 81 IS; choice Southern do ct
co. and common to fair do. II 81 &c. Corn was armer
with sales of white and yellow &C. zoe and choice
yellow at ike. one lot reported sold ~ high q
&c Pork was hrmer, with more doing, including
At SIG 20 81. and prime at $40 rs SIS go Lard was
drm, With sales ~ loo. 103.c sugsrs were steady,
with eaies Of Cuba and New Orleans chiefly within the
range Of &C. and 7Ac. Coffee quiet: salcs limited
10 aoout 700 bags Rio and 70 40 Lguayra ge prices
given in another place. Freight engagements were
moderate, and rates without change OF importance.
Cotton freehs were heavy while about COO bbls nour
were taken FOR Liverpool at Is. sd.
The Dead Lock IN Congress--The Tricks ann
Schemes Of the Opposition.
The Senate has voted, by decisive majority,
to adhere to the Lecompton bill, pure and SIM
pie and the question is now thrown back upoa
the House. Should that body adhere to the
Criitepden bill, and refuse committee of con-
ference, the whole thing will fall through. and
the two houses will have to commence again at
the beginning.
Now, although practically it will make no diff
ference regarding the institutions and destiny
of Kansas whether the Lecompton bill be pass
ed, or the Crittenden bill, or no bill at all this
session, yet there is an object in this Crittenden
dodge which must not be overlooked. This OBJ
ject, too, must be something more tangible than
this Territorial myth Of popular sovereignty"
when we find that to compass their purpose
Joshua r. Giddings and the whole black repub-
lican phalanx can stoOp to stultify themselves
10y voting for a slave State constitution for Kan.
sas, even with condition precedent" What.
then, are the black republicans, the Douglas
rcnegades, and the Southern Know Nothing
doughheads driving at in this act of thimble-
rigging and qualification I. The answer
stands out as prominently as the
nose upon the face OF any old
clo' dealer Of Chatham street IL is the
political capital of renewed agitation of
bleeding Kansas" For the last four years
bleeding Kansas has been the stock in trade
of the agitating anti-slavery factions of the
North 1t has served their purposes admirably,
and it is painful to part with so good custo-
mer. If they can keep Kansas bleeding, there
fore, till after the ensuing Congressional cleo
tons they will achieve great thing; but IL,
by hook or by crook, they can prolong this de-
moralizing squabble till 1860 so much the
better.
In this connection, supposing that the Lee
compton bill and the Crittenden bill will both
fall through between the two houses, a new
difficulty has arisen among the popular sove-
reignty" operators in Kansas. which. with q
little tanning and feeding from Washington, may
be raised into very respectable conHagration.
The late Kansas Territorial Legislature passed
an act calling a new Constitutional Convention
The act was not signed by the Governor; but
il would still have been valid had the full
legislative term Of three days occurred 10
the interval between the delivery of the
bill to the Governor and the final
adjournment Of the Legislature. Upon
this point, however, question has been raised;
and the matter having been referred TO the At
torney General of the United States, he has
decided, upon the law and the testimony, that
the full three days required in this case to give
validity to the bill which was not signed by the
Governor, did not intervene to the day of the
adjournment, and that, consequently, the act
under which the present sitting Constitutional
Convention Of Kansas was elected is imperfect,
null and void
Thus. by this decision of the Attorney Cen
eral. the present free State Constitutional Con
vention of Kansas goes for nothing. II has no
legal vitality, and can have no legal effect,
But, we have said il is case in which the black
republicans may discover splendid pretext for
the re-opening Of all the old wounds Of bleed
ing Kansas, and for glorious Northern agita-
ton in our approaching Congressional elections
should Congress fail to admit the embryo State
nj /.
the Lecompton bin the job is done at once, but
under the Crittcndcn bill there will have
to be, first, an election upon the Lecompton
constitution secondly, taking il for granted
that that constitution will be rejected, there
will have TO be an election called for new con-
vention; thirdly, when this new convention shall
have finished it, labors its work must be sub
- r Ar