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Markets.

NEW YoRK, March 30-Cotton market unchanged
since mornings 500 bales quotations nominally
before the market not being yet established on the steam
Flour quiet-saes 6, 500 bbls. State 81 20
80; Ohio, "a 10 $5; southern - SO a 81 80
Wheat lowcrsales 22 900 bushels; southern white 81
20 a 81 so /; western white, 81 1G. Corn frm-sales
30 600 bushels; yellow 6s SO cents white, GA 6S
cents Beef 25 cents lowerChcago repacked $l2 81
rs. Pork heayy-prime, ID rs. Whiskey declined
cent, quoted 2l4 22 cents Coffee firm sales $500
bags, sold on private terms. Sugar firm Turpentne
heavy 4s3 40 cents. Rosin steady at so cents. Rice
firm at 81 a cents Rio coffee, los cents. Freighs
dull
The Washington union., 1858-03-31
AsIAT1c FREE coLoNIs1s IN CUBA.

Information from Havana announces the recent ari-
val there Of four vessels with Asintc free colonts
On the 18th the American ship Tconderoga from Ma
Gao, with 8ls Of these passenger shs had thirtytwo
deaths on uc passage On the 18th the American ship
Kitty Simpson arrived from Bwatou with 3379S having
died on the passage Same day the British ship Edwin
Fox, from Hong Kong, with 2Gs--40 having died On
the 20h the British ship Admiral with $3.50 having
died on the passage.
The following table, derived from reliable ex-
hbits the total number Of vessels that have arrived at
Havana since ls47 with Asiatis. their flags tonnage
number OF Asatics shipped and landed number and per
contage OF deaths
The Washington union., 1858-03-31

DISTRICT ApPoINTMENTs---It is rumored that the
Senate yesterday confirmed tho several nominations
made to fiji appointments in the District of Column
bia--Dr. William JONES' to be postmaster Colonel
Seldcn, to be marshall p B. Key, esq, District at
torney and William Finn, esq, to be navy agent
The Washington union., 1858-03-31

Hon. David s. Reid, of the United States Senate who
has been detained here for two or three months by sick
ness left on Saturday for his home in North Carolina.
We gratfed to loarn that his health is improving,
and that he hopes 10 his duties in Congress short
ly-- Richmond Dispatch
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The first escort for this year very low The
quantities from all the gold fields greatly below the
respective weekly and fortnightly averages in many in
stances not amounting to than ono-half This
traordnary falling off in the returns is undoubtedly
owing In great to the recent reductions made
by gold buyers in their buying prices
Melbourne Argus January 49,
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GOLD EXPORTS OF AUSTRALIA.

The amount of gold dust received by escort from
several gold fields during the year 1857 has been 4s 25
ounces AS compared with 1885, during which year
about $500 in favor of 1857. The yield from
southern gold fields has steadily increased during the
past year. while for the northern fields there is rather
falling off.
The following the amounts received by each escort
The Washington union., 1858-03-31

From the foregoing 1t will be that the loss Of life
on the total number shipped actually amounts to l per
cent and whilst the number Of deaths Of those brought
in Portuguese ships amount 10 only ~ per cent, the
numbers broughYi in American ships amount TO IL per
cent in British ships to IA per cent and In French
ships to 133 per cent whilst in Peruvian ships the mum
ber of deaths amount TO 3s4 per cent
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WASHINGTON CITY.
MORNING. MARCH 81. 1855.
Business Notice.

An the buDess Of tho establishment IN OF the proposed
change IN is terms conducted strictly cash basis ali
agencies for subscriptions for te Union discon
touod No should be made after this date
ITO Mr. Iipscomb, who authorized make collections
Dsls~are, Mary hand, and Virginia
wAsluSssos March - ls5s,1
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but the impersonal organ of many. II is assailed
by dwarfs and struts, who often affect to treat it
with dsdain to the infinite amusement Of its labor-
GUS conductors.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The SPEAKER laid before The House communication
from the War Department, in answer TO resolution
which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed
Also a communication from the Treasury Department,
In answer to resolution of the 25th instant calling for
information In relation to the alleged robbery of John
Hastings late collector of customs at Pittsbg Penn
svlvania which was referred to the Committee of Claims
and ordered to be printed.
Also, communication from the Post Office Depart
ment: which was laid the table and ordered TO be
printed.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Mr. LANE, of Oregon desired to make correction in
his speech and said that the fault not with the
porter but grew out of the haste in which he spoke He
said In 10 inquiries that nine tenths of the
people of Kansas who voted for the Lecompon consttu
ton in favor of slavery and that he had doubt
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Rio plata.

NEW York, March 80 News from the River Plata,
received via England reports that the troops
of Montevileo had beaten their opponents in battle
eight miles from the city. The commander-in chief and
principal officers of the opposition had been taken prison
ers and shot
The Washington union., 1858-03-31

New YORK. March 30.--The Tribune contradicts tina
Yidauris agents negotiating loans here enlisn!
volunteers for revolutionary purposes in Mexico.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-07

WHAT Is LIBERTY or THE PREss!-JuDaE
RUSSELL AND HIS AssAnASTs.--Judge Russell's
charge to the Grand Jury has elected n good
deal Of comment, owing TO the significant refe-
renee made in it to the pres. Those journals
which have been most active In assailing his
judicial, as well as private character, are of
course exceedingly indignant that he should
express a determination to resort to the pro-
lection Of the law against the falsehoods and
Misrepresentation by which il has been sought
to tarnsh II. They seem 10 be Of opinion that
what is called the liberty Of the press Is only a
convenien. term for literary hccntiousness. If
their theory be admitted, the reputation Of a
Judge or public officer becomes the property of
every scurrilous and ill-conditioned scoundrel
who has access to the columns of a newspaper.
This Is not onr idea Of the liberty Of the
press We hold that its basis is truth, and its
duty the protection Of the public interests. No
publication should be made amenable 10 the law
of libel that complies fairly with these condi-
tons. Unfortunately, the principles, or
rather the practice Of the law and the
requirements of public policy are no
conflicting that the honest and the I'M
principlcd are alike confouhded in its penal
ties Hence II II that libellers like those Of
whom Judge Russell complains are afforded q
chance Of sheltering themselves under cover Of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-07

THE DESTRUCTION or NEw YoRK HARBoR.-
II seems that the Pilot Commissioners find that
the filing up of the Battery is interfering with
and seriously injuring the channel in the East
river. This was TO be expected. You cannot
violate natures laws or natures arrangements
with impunity. When nature laid out New
York harbor, so much space was allotted to
land and so much to water; If men now dis
turb that arrangement and steal from the
water the space nature allotted to II, some cor
responding disturbance must be expected to fol
low somewhere else. Nature is sure 10 avenge
the injury done TO her
The worst Of these violations Of natural ar
rangemeDts is, that il is impossible to foresee
the shape in which natures vindication of her
self will come. The drying up of the East river
channel was perhaps the last effect that might
have been anticipated from the filling in of the
Battery; though the latter was certain to have
some evil consequence.
When this scheme was first proposed, il was
opposed by all eminent scientific men, who fore
saw that mischief would follow. But II was
persevered in and became job, and we sup
pose that all the powers Of heaven could not
prevail against II now.
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are less extended to-day than ever they were,
and are hourly growing more contracted. We
need not 60 back to early times, when Boston Yves
fourteen days journey distant from New York,
whereas now ii is only eight hours distant.
Within the present generation New Orleans ives
twenty five days distant from us; now it is q
little over FIVE, and within year or two win
have shrunk to three days journey. The time
is still fresh in the memory of youth when the
Pacific was synonymous with the antpodes;
now its shore is only ten days journey from u.
and before ten years have elapsed we mean 10
ride from New York to San Diego in fifty hours.
Fifty miles an hour will do it in that time; but
we wish to be modest in our claim for the future.
1t will be seen, therefore, whatever European
philosophers may think about it, that the Anne
rican Union, instead Of expanding, isconstantiv
undergoing process Of contraction; and it y
from this that our danger lies. We are toe
much compressed-we must expand faster, and
then we shall have no difficulty. We hope the
European philosophers will ponder on these
facts And we advise them to come among US
and study US, and they will soon see that for all
social, political and practical purposes We ore
decreasing instead of increasing in bulk; and
that this Union, bound by the iron bands that
annihilate space, and the golden chains of con-
merce that link millions of hearts to hearts. y
destined to o perpetuiJ and power that
cannot be comprehended by the miopic views.
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The LATEST NEWS.

Sh1pWrecks on tho Coast.
TOTAL LOSS OF THE SHIP sERAMPORE AT COHAsSRf-
OTHER VESSELS SUPPOSED TO BE LOST.
BOSTON, Jan. 6, 1853.
The ship Serampore, Captain Stone, from New Orleans
December 20 tor Boston, with cargo of TAO bales Gotten.
26 hhds tobacco, 1850 barrels -four o2O do moasses,
100 herces taow 1000 pigs lead, 800 staves 100 bsn
dies and 222 hides and 10 packages merchandise went
ashore during the storm this morning Black
Ledge, Cohasset The captain and saved, bot
they badly frostbtten.
At the latest account the vessel fast going to
pieces The r. b Forbes, Captain Norris VIII
go down in the morning to render assistance.
THE S. WAS built in 1916, 4s4 tons burthen and
was owned in Boston.
lot of wreck stuff picked up Nantucket beach
this afternoon probably belongs to vessel that
has foundered Cohasset rocks during the night
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In question. III Will DE rendering service 10
the cause of truth and the interests of the press
to enforce against these hireling defamers the
full penalties of the law.
European Fallacies In American Anairs-
Are we Expanding OF Contractings
Several of the English and French journals
are much exercised at the events which are
passing on this side of the ocean. Some of
them see an imminent necessity for q standing
army in New York to keep down by the bayo-
net thousands Of starving men; others find In
Kansas the germ of a terrible civil war; others,
again, look upon Utah and Brigham Young as
the forerunner of grand social cataclysm that
is to enguf US; another set hold that the flibus-
ter spirit prevalent among us is growing de-
fance Of all law and order; while the whole of
them see but one possible result from all these
things, which is an early breaking up of the
Union.
Now, the deduction that these Old World phi
losophers draw from all these indications is
precisely the reverse Of the true one. We are
not going to break up so soon as they suppose;
on the contrary, the Union is growing stronger
and stronger every hour, and as our centripe-
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a doctrine which, though unrecognized by law
has conventional value with the public. Such
persons have in reality no more claim to its
privileges than the guerrilla or maurauder to
those Of the regular soldier, and, like the for
mer, they must he content to submit to the
penalties of an unfair and illegitimste warfare.
II is not, we repeat, the liberty of the press
which is involved in the punishment of malice
and vndictiveness-it is the security of the
public against the abuse and perversion of
powerful instrument.
The truth of these remarks was never more
strongly exemplifed than in the case of Judge
Russell. When he entered upon his judicial
career he found the city in frightful condi-
ton. Murders, burglaries and garroting were
of nightly occurrence, and it was as much as a
mans life was worth to be out after
dark. Not only were the police inef-
fcient, the public prosecutor lax, and juries
fected by the prevailing apathy The law and
its instruments seemed to be completely para
lyzed, and crime literally ran riot through the
city. "A conscientious Judge entering Office at
such time could not help being appalled, by
the prospect before him. A. weak man would
have sunk listlessly into the track of his prede
cessors; but man of energetic mind and just
impulses, like Judge Russell, could not resign
himself to such course. He resolved by his
individual example to show what frmness of
purpose and rigid administration of the law
could do to stem the torrent of crime. All
must recollect the effect produced by the severi-
ty of his first sentences. 1t was marked and
immediate; and Notwithstanding the outcry
raised against it by few, it met with the cor
dial appreciation of all order loving citizens.
Political partizans and some of the small
journals hostile to the Judge-more especially
the Sunday newspapers finding that he
was rapidly gaining in popularity by his
course, sought to damage him in public
estimation by series of personal attacks
the most unfair, malicious and calumnious that
were ever directed against public officer.
After submitting to them in silence for time,
in the hope that the services that he was render
ing the community would shame his detractors,
the Judge now expresses his determination to
avail himself of the protection afforded by the
law against unmerited abuse and persecution.
None but his assailants will be disposed to deny
his title to this. Even amongst the news
papers the most violently opposed to him in a
political sense, the purity of his motives and
his judicial talent are freely conceded. 1t is
only the lowest and most disreputabe Of the
party organs that have ventured to call these
in question. 1t will be rendering service to
the cause of truth and the interests of the press
to enforce against these hireling defamers the
full penalties of the law.
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IMP ORTANT TESTIMONY
woRCEsTERs DICTIONARIES IN PHILADELPHIA.

OFFICE OF lnE cosIsG n,:. o. o. pgsaG semOOl}
Al meeting of the Controller. Of Pubic s6o.ls Fir't D.
i,s Cn.mter Tuesday, Nay II, lass Ae following Re'o
luton adopted;
WoRGEsTERs COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY
Dc 'n''04"''N ROBERT J BEMPHiLI, s-sIYtsiy.,
Upon the announcement Of the es@os ;os che P,ncps;
testimony; . =, ., ,oso
We the uDdesned, Principal. Of the Public School. q tn,
City Psdtbs have learned with pleasure that the Boad
hss:lss 'Dto !. he School: q ri;
youth throughout the UDIed states II. eslnOn. are es
Po;. , EEEE%siss pasp.l School
JANIS IL MCBRIDE, Principal Of the Hanson Boys Gr.s
WIN IL HUNTER, Prneip. Of the Morris Boys Gr.ssuI
C. HUTCHINSON. Principal OF the Harrison oris euumas
Mills prir psl of the Morris Gi.ls Grammar School
JOHN sICKEL, Principal of the Jefferson BOSs' Grammar
A. CUMMINs Principal OF the Jerersoa Girls Grammar
RICHARD GLAssEN, Principal Of the South Es' Grammar
JAMES n. BIRD Principal OF the Lumb,rd-'t. Grammar
GEO " EErIER Principal Of the Noun. Vernon Boys
JOHN JOYCE P1iOcps of tue wece,e.o Boys Grammar
A. C. GIAssEN Principal " re GsswoOd Grammar School
chAkLEs 4: KASDAIL, Fiacipsl Of Tie Rnilsdse Boys
Fs Of f. Is Be D M.a.ss. boys s s
School -
Grammar School -.
A. e BUNTER Principal Of the RXldoph Grtnu.AI School
H. Y. LOSDERBACK Principal Of the North wes' Boys
WIN. a. BATT Principal Of the zsae-s; Boys Grammar
GEO W scHOcK, PRINCIPAL of the Harmony Gr'm'n.f
School - g.,
O. X sABoLD Principal Of the Msnstswpa Grsnn,r srh'oL
H. j. WATERMAN, PIincpA :! ~ C0inmea 0taamS
ASA JOHFs Principal Of tbs JscA.on Grammar schOol.
WM. ROBERTS Principal Of the Riusg'.d Grammar s'b"L
NARfAH ASH, Principal Of the MODEL School -
ANNE C. WEBB, PIDcip Of the Zane o. GIaniIn:' seb9o.
RICHARD 3. JAMES Principal u the NORM Ead hoy' UTAH.
C. MILLER, Principal of the Livingston Boys Grammar
NJ A CLAYTON, Principal q the Livingston eide G.srm.-
}. Ii SIDES Principal Of tie Sewtown Boys Grammar
We consider testimony IN favor Of W9resreI' peon.,y
AZ the nos: important have Published and
py,e the attention Of Teachers &c eA,tre the vo'sS Ihe
fcs. s7p,or:y AZ o:heT Dstobales WI issI- 1leH
The Royal QaAtO Dictionary . rpay srp,ossh,as compile
ton. MY My :" AZ "a, p1..or
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