, 1859-06-03

] great prom'ltuue, ana irregularities IN INT
mails are not tolerated, from month tc
month, as has been often the case formerly
No difficulty is found in sustaining the mai
service upon credit The banks aud cap
talists at the Sonth and West, as well as
the North aud East, are ready TO cash the
certified accounts Of contractors and other
creditors of the Department.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS,
The prospect now is That the next House
Of Representatives will lembruce a majority
Of members opposed to the Administration
but, in regard to the next Presidential
election, there was never better show for
the Democracy. .....-..t .'..
The fifteen Southern States ore united,
and will give their undivided support to the
nominee Of the Charleston Convention "a
California and Oregon are also to be con-
nected with them. A few Northern Slater
will fail in with the Democratic column IN
proper time. 1t is not certain TINT New
York will not take the lend as the banner
State Of Democracy at the next election
II Senator Seward he the nominee of the
Republican party, New York will 20 for
the Democratic ticket; and il lie should Ge
cast aside by the Republican party, his
numerous friends will defeat any other Re-
publican candidate. ' d. r'atss
Leading Democrats Of the Northern and
Western States are looking about for an
available Democratic candidate, one whose
election they can make certain, by giving
him number Of Northern States Many
Of them do not hesitate to avow their pref.
erence for General JOS Lane, of Oregon.
The Southern States present SO many can
didates, two or three in every State. that
it will be difficult to reconcile their conflict
ing claims But they might unite on Gen
eral Lane, ithey cannot in the convention
rally upon Senator Il. N. I. Hunter, moi
yrm ad ilai sFoKrNe. 10 glt4l u
Notwithstanding the passage Of another
act by the New York Legislature, prohib-
iting prize lighting, the fancy are alive With
the excitement Of q promised match be-
tween Heenan and the champion Of the
world, Whomsoever lie may be- There 10
some talk Of another billiard match be-
tween Phelan and Seereiter, but ! guess
Phelal is glad enough 10 come OF as be
has, and prefers resting on Lis IadreIs, ''' =
EurOpe.-We end the following IN the
N. o. Delta Of April 9th, containing Eve
days latter news from Europe:
The report that France and Sardinia had
consented TO discontinue and reduce their
armamehts, IN compliance with the demand
Of Austria, that hll tho belllgeFent powers
should simultaneously disarID, Is not con.
hrmed. rasns,lo5 sdi. moiH 7ai ,Gl1sl
10 The advices from the Continent continue
TO be Of threatening character. iisa q
Negotiations for the purpose Of arrnng,
ing q basis and place for the meeting or
Peace Congress are progressing slowly,
Austria positively. refuses 70 take any
part in the proposed Congress Of the ave
Powers except Oh the conditions Before re-
ported, the Simultaneous disarmihS 6f the
belligerent poFers.h Be ashs1i ldi iHdi 81
Tie Paris Pays announce tlidf all diIii1
culies in the way of the assembling Of the
proposed Congress Of the great powers are
definitely removed, and especially that Aus
lria is willing that Sardinia should take a
part in the Congress without insisting, US
she had heretofore done, that the Sardlhian
army should be reduced TO its ordinary
peace standard
These negotiations for the Congress are
not yet terminated, and the Congress isnot
yet reached, by a good deal. 5f--e
The city Of Washington reports that at
the latest advices from the continent the
military armament continued as actively
and on as vast q scale as ever.
Orders had been issued by the French
Naval Department for the immediate prep
aration Of large number Of vessels Of
war ia the Mediterranean
Mexico The recent news from Mexico
is Of the most startling character Mira
mon having fought bis way through to the
city Of Mexico, and the liberal forces Iiav-
ing been routed in bloody engagement,
the most unhearl OF excesseS have been
committed. Americans aud Englishmen
all indeed who did not give in their ad-
herence to the Church-SIiIitary party, or
who were marked in their opposition to it,
have been massacred Even attendants on
the wounded in the hospitals have been
murdered in cold blood. We take the fol.
lowing details from special correspondence
in the Neo Orleans PieayuRr Of April
2lst:
The express dispatched by the British
Legation to the British Consul, arrived
last night, bringing the following important
news:- r -4..
Gen. Marquez arrived from Gundalajara
on the 10th inst, with about one thousand
men, and attacked the next day the Liber
ais at Tacubaya aud ChapultePec. The
latter retired at once, in good order, To-
wards Morella, losing only about 400 men
On enterin' Tacubaya the forces Of the