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A resolution directing the payment of extra compensation to clerks of committees was discussed. and rejected. Mr. resolution calling for information as t3 the designed the administration with reference to the Sjuthern forts was then taken up, and Mr. Bayard concluded his remarks in favor of recognizing the independence of the Confederate States.

He was lollowed by Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, in opposition to the resolution. Before Mr. Howe had concluded the Senate went into executive session, and confirmed several The Committee on Foreign Relation? of the Senate have recommended the reference of the dispute between Great Britain and the United States, respecting the occupation of the island of San to Switzerland, for arbitration. The Montgomery Ala.) A'ketilttr of the 19th in.Ht.

has the follow ing respecting the Tariff bill of the repuMi' As tl o'e is general in rejfnd to the Tar fl Hit passe the C'ongrofs of the onfoJerato Bute-, we take thlsooasiou to tnform the public that the id net pu6S. 1 bo ttce drafted tho Turin" i. was ordered to published, in orJcr tbit it might bo examined and dUcusfed, anil its merits or thoroughly uiuleistocd before the final of a on this important object. Uut by some moans 'be impression got that the bill had been alopted by tiie Conjtrezs, ai.d it wa-. at ouce telegraphed and sent ver the i "ULti as a law of the confederacy.

Tbis, er, as we have stated, proves to be an error. T'ie steamship Arago. from Southampton Cth arrived at tLis port yesterday forenoon, Itritjginp three days later European advice-. Tho news is interesting. The London Timet discusses the Morrill Tariff il at some length, and pronounces it in extravafj'int ami btU, ichich, if CVwgreff, trotiM arnovnt to (flu al prohibition an'l rfl'trUn'V the imputation the Ki-i'inh Jtetgian fyi'ifactures.

Tie Paris Monitor of the 6th inst. publishes a report from the Minister of Justice, addressed to the Kmperor, on the subject of M. arrest, the purpose of which is to repudiate in the strongest manner the common rumors that scandal was to be avoided by ing the prosecution to drop. The Minister declares that, in full accordance with the early injunctions of the Emperor himself, justice shall pur-ne the inquiry with a care and patience which shall be baffled bv no obstacle. According to the Patrk and the J'a-jf, the Emperor of Russia has made up his mind to prepare a project of constitution for that country as soon as ti quest ion of the emancipation of the ehall have been settled.

If this be true, the ad dress of the people of Warsaw to the Kmperor, praying for a restoration of th? constitution of Poland. has been made under peculiarly appropriate. The funeral rites of fliose who fell during t'ie recent disturbances in Warsaw were conducted with great reuu'arity. The whole population bcc tmc mourners on the occasion. Meanwhile order ap.

pears to have been completely restored, in the main owing to the exertions of the The Polish officials are sail to have reigned their places in a body. The streets, after the conclusion of the funeral ceremonies, were completely crowded with spectators, but neither police nor military were to be seen. The citizens themselves took care of the preservation of public peace. A despatch front Berlin states that a note had been de-patched to Copenhagen, on the part of the (tcrmaa Confederation, demanding that Pan mark -hould lay before the Estates of HoMeln the budget for 180 1, and announcing that, should the request not be complied with, federal execution would take place in Holsteln. An Imperial autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria, addressed to the Ban of Croatia sanctions the re establishment of the electoral law of IMH in that province, excepting, however the military frontiers.

The Met will decide on the question of the annexation of Dalmatia to Croatia The rcmaikablc trial of the Yelverton marriage has terminated In before the Court of Common Pleas. It A cause brought to establish the validity of a secret marriage, celebrated by a Catholic priest in Ireland, between the Hon. Major William ha rles Yelverton. of the British army, heir to the Avonmore peerage, and Miss Teresa th who was one 0f the French of Charity the Crimea. In consequence of a dis graceful law.

making It a penal offence in Ireland for a Catholic priest to perform a marriage ceremony between a uthollc and Protectant unless first celebrated by a Protectant minister, the husband, family are Protestant, and whose own religious convictions loose upon him. treated the marriage 8 deserUd his wife, and contra- ted another marriage wWfc a wealthy widow. The trial now bad has resulted in a verdict that his flr-t marriage was valid. Miss Longworth Is, therefore the Hon Mra. Yelverton.

aad her husband stmfc In the power of the criminal law as a blgami.t. The advices per Arago report a better market for com. and in n.Moffs. rather increased qniry for money, con-oli and American ks slightly lower The people of this city, to a limited extent took Vantage of the recent tall of to have a few fi.ore hones' sleighing be for, the winter pajseth I by. Over hundred sleighs the Cen.

Turk yesterday, and nearly two thousand along the Bloomingdale road. In the State Senate yesterday the Belle vue Hnepiial College bill was passed. Among the bills reported favorably wert- in relation to the public health of this city, to -amend the Revi ed Statutes, and enabling the Supervisors of this county to purchai-e a Court Huuse site. A gnat portion of the Senate's time wax up in the ust-ion of the Harlem Railroad Milk Freight bill, wit brut coming to final action on which an adjournment took place. In the Assembly the bill 'ng Hie consent of the St ite to the purchase by the federal government of a Post Office site in this ity parsed.

Thi? bill liah now parsed in both 1. oases. The Albany and Bnsquehanna Railroad again occupied the Assembly, and an excited discussion over it took place. A good portion of the day taken up in the third reading of bills. A rehearing wan had yesterday morning in the of Police Williamson.

Superintondi nt Kennedy, being placed open the stand, testified in substance to abont the same that was heretofore published. The report of the two detectives who were sent to Washington', regarding the intended assassination of the President, was called for by the counsel for Mr. Williamson, but it was withheld by Mr. Rowen, on thegronnd that it had no bearing on the caae. Thomas T.

Everett was I called as a witness, and testified as to the sobriety of Mr. Williamson at the time he was charged with intoxication, and as to his deportment while in Mr. Kennedy's presence. The European se by the Arago, inert with intelligence oJ declining receipts at the South, had the effect or imparting Increased activity and 2'mcsas to the est ton market yesterday. The sales tootel about 5 bklee, includitg 1,100 sold late in the afternoon.

A pfirt of the sales were made In transit. Prices in the afternoon closed at for middling up ands, an advtcce of about xc. per lb. Flour was steady and ia mcderate demand, ith fair sato to the trade acd for export, losing without impcrtant ctunge in prioes. Wheat was iiim and in fair export demand, closing without chatge of moment in prices.

Com was -less active, but prices were Eteady. Pert was heavy, while sales of mere were made at $4 60 and of prime at $12 SO a $12 76. Sugars wero in good request, with sales of (K0 a 1 C( 0 Cuba and Porto Rico and boxes, at rates givtn In another column. Coffee was steady bat quiet In freights shipowners wore firmer in their views. This tended to check engagements, which were moderate.

The Collodion of Rn cnue la th? Scce. 8laiei-rht Great ttueatlon of the Dujr Becoming a. Commercial One. In our special despatches from Washington yesterday it was announced that the Attorney General had given an opinion that the Fresi (lent had 110 power to collect the revenue in any of the scceded States, the 80th section cf the law of 1789 depriving him of that au'ho rity. It has been denied by some of the republican papers that such is the fact; but it is evident that whether Attorney General Bates ha? yet delivered this opinion or not, it is his duty to declare what the law Is upon point, and it is equally clear that if called upon to do so he will be compelled to promftnce that no an thority to collcct the revenue outside of the districts appointed by Congress for that purpose is vented in the hands of the Executive, and that as there are no United States Courts.

Judges or Marshals in any of the porta of the seceded States, there are no means under evisting laws of enforcing any penalties for vio lation of the revenue laws, even if it practicable to appoint a collector to reside on shipboard within four miles of the port. Such being the law, should Mr. Lincoln call in the aid of an extra session of Congress to giant him additional powers by which to enforce the collection of the revenue in the I seceded States, he mny Ond himself involved in a foreign war: for the operation of the two renders the freedom of the Southern ports under the Montgomery tariff almost a necessity to Kngland and France The vital before the country now has Womc a commercial a- well as a political one. The enactment of the two tariffr by the Northern and Southern Congresses has altered its aspect entirely, and the question as it stands at this moment is one which appeals directly to the poAet of every man who hxs any interest in the trade and commerce of the country. Meantime the policy of the administration ap pears to be balancing between war and peace- war if sufficient powfcr be granted by Congress to collect the revenue and take pojtcicion of the in the Southern Sta'es: the government be not strong enough to carry out coercive measures.

a- the case now stands, the commercial which the h.i< assumed will I the people to settle it in their own way. desj.ite the mischievous machinations of the politician'. JJut whether the country it to be visited with the horrors of internecine strife or not. or it is going to be involved in a maritime war foreign nations or not, one thing is certain to occur, and that is terrible commercial light, arising out of the two tariffs, with a thorough revolution in all the localities of Hade. For seventy years thus country, which was built Up by Washington and his hus flourished as no na'ion ever did before, acquiring a commercial navy equol to lhat of Kngland, and second to none of anv country on the globe.

Meantime its internal commerce, its manufactures, agriculture, mineral wealth, all the elements which combine to make a nation prosperous and great, were developing them'elves with equal footsteps, and each in its particular locality? the Now States 1 cherishing the manufacturing induHry of the country; the central States of Pennsylvania and producing its iron ami coal deposits: the vast West raising its gruin and cattle; the South, its cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar. But there was one branch of commerce in which i New York took the lead and held the supre macy, and thai was tho foreign imports. All this will be changed now by the disasters which a fanatical party Imve brought upon the country. The lost Congre- a spirit mingled vengeanceHrd fanaticism, enacted a tariff doubling the duties on many articles of foreign manufac ture, and advancing them to a prohibitory point on others: and this wa? don- to protect the manufacturing interests of the Northern at the expense of the South. Ft doubtful.

however, if this blundering instrument can ever be intelligibly interpreted by nnv Collector of Custom, or enforced at all in its present shape. Hut at the same time the Congress of the Southern confederacy has adopted a tariff reducing the duties on imports, the consequence of which will be that the Importations will abandon the ports of the North and enter of the South, and will then find way into tho Interior the Mississippi rive- and the railroads of th? border Slates. The result of this proceeding will Of course be to de troy tho trade of the an(j tPry first portions of It to suffer be Ncf Vor'v, New Jersey and New England. The imports lure will be cut down to an insignificant figure; the manufactures in the New England States will be seriously damaged, both business houses and factories will be transferred to the South; and, in fact, the Northern tariff adopted to protect the manufacturing interests of the North will have no interests left to protect. The actual effect of this tai iff, then, will be to reduce the revenues of the govertmert at Washington and increase the revenues of the Southern government.

The Congress at Washington may attempt to aveit this course of affairs, even to the extent of inaugurating a blockade of all the Southern ports; vessels of war have been ordered home from all the foreign stations to enable the admin Utration to be prepared for this policy; but in such an event France and England would act as they did with regurd to Texas: they would acknowledge the independence of the Southern confederacy, and send their fleets across the Atlantic to open every poit in the South. Thus we find the country involved in a fearful commercial revolution through the policy of a fanatical party, which, for thirty years, has been endeavoiing to overthrow all the best interests of the republic for the sake of an abstraction. We see the whole current of commercial prosperity turned out of its channel, the wealth and importance of the Northern cities struck down at a blow. We have experienced many commercial revulsions before now from time to time In 1817, 1825, 1837 and 1857 buit these were the results of overtrading, of excessive speculation and other financial causes which may produce like consequences in any country. The present revulsion, on the contrary, arises from purely political causes, and will be as disastrous in its effects as it is novel in its origin.

Tue Rkcent Popci.au Manifestations at Warsaw? Poland Again Givtno Signs or Life Prom the accounts published elsewhere, it appears that the recent popular tumults in Warsaw were of a much more serious character than at first represented. The Russian soldiery, who, since the affair of the had occupied all the principal squares and streets of the city, attempted, on the 27th, to drive back a funeral procession which was leaving the Church of the Bei nardins, and in the con. tiict that ensued six leading citizens, who hap pened to be crossing the street, were shot dead. The excitement created by thia event became intense, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the populace were restrained from a general rising. A deputation, headed by Count Zamoyski.

immediately waited upon Prince Gortchakoff to complain against the military, and to demand that the safety of the inhabitants should be assured. On the 28th the bodies of the victims were paraded throngh the streets and taken to the house of the French Consul, who, however, refused to appear or to take any part in the manifestation. On the 1st of March the troops, in accordance with an assurance previously given by the Governor, were confined to their barracks, and the funeral of the persons killed, followed by a cortege of more than 100,000 people, passed quietly through the streets, the Russian pickets presenting arms. Thus terminated the disturbances arising out of this affair. Its after consequences, however, are likely to more trouble and uneasiaess to the government than a mere physical demonstration.

No sooner had the funeral ceremonies taken place than a petition to the Emperor was immediately circulated, representing that this tragical occurrence wa9 one of the inevitable results of a system which deprived the people of all legal power to bring before the throue of ihe sovereign their complaints and wants, and demanding the restoration of the constitution of ThU document, which we give in another column, was signed by an immense number of citizens, headed by their Marshals of the nobility. is rendered still more impressive by the that most of the Polish officials hadgiwn in their resignations. Thus, like the Kmperon of Aus'iia. the Russian aulociat is about to acquire the conviction that no system of centralized despotism can unite into a homogeneous empire a number of distinct nationalities, each having a separate language, traditions and customs. It is only constitutional Institutions that can give cohesion to elements so different and frequently sa antagonistic.

Russia has made a great stride towards these in the emancipation of her serfs I ntil tlwy were rendered independent of the nobility no real advance conld ba mile towards their attainment. It is to be hoped tbnt this wise and benefleent measure will soon bo followed by concessions which, in giving the Poles what they seek for, will assure to Russia generally the blessings of a representative system of government. Thk Post Om? Sine? The Assembly yesterday passed the bill permitting the general government to purchase a site for the new Post Office in any location they may select, and we shall see whether the present site in Nassau street will be chosen or a more uptown one. Wherever the government may select a place for this purpose, however, they ought tj pny for it out and out. and not accept one flfth of its price lrom the merchants in the vicinity.

It is undignified for th" government to purchase property in ibis fashion: and, moreover, if it was not an advantage to the property of the merchants to have the Poet Office located in their neighborhood, tfiey would not offer to contribute a portion of the purchase money; and what may prove advantageous to one locality, and to a certain of interests, would be a damage to others. We hope, therefore, if the administration is fortunate enough to make a suitable bargain for a Post Office location, that they will pay ihe whole price for it Thk Papat. DrFKKTi.TT.? Count Cavour says, in a diplomatic circular, that the Roman tfon must be at once settled. The French Emperor, through his organs, says the samo thing. If I-' ranee and Italy are agreed on the subject we do not see that there is any occasion for diplomacy.

Let the French troops be withdrawn from Rome, and the whol difficulty will be disposed of in a few hours. It Is clear that in no other way can the Holy Father be brought to terms. When lie finds himself at the mercy of hLj loving subject he will be glad to call the aid of Victor Kmanuel, and to accept the liberrl that have been offered to him. Half a loar is better tlun no bread, even to a churchman, and pension, with the Vatican for a residence, will contrast favorably in his eyes with the dingy Havnrlpn chateau and uncertain revenues of his friend, the King of Naples. Rkport of tuk Ni Yor.K Pt-ACt In another we publish an abstract.

the majority report of the Ciiuiuissioners eent by Governor Morgau to represent this State iu the Old Women's Ccnrtntiou at Washington. Tbe document was very blow in coming to the ligkt, and now that we have it there ap to be nothing in it nothing, certaiuly, to cause ho uch delay to those gentlemen in giving an account of their The two principal points in it Bet rn to be a personal vindication of Mr. l'ield from the faintest suspicion of swerving, in word or deed or thought, from radical republicanism; secondly, the plainest proof that the majority of the Commissioners wtie against all concession and compromise; that their chairman was directed by the delegation, by a majority of one, to cast the vote of New York against a general Convention of the States to amend the constitution; that the vote was so cast when the question was first presented, and the proposition was accordingly lost, but that next day, upon a vote of reconsideration, in the absence of Mr. Field, the vote of New York was declared to be divided, and the proposition was thus carried. Mr.

Field claims that this was a breach of faith and of the understanding in the delegation, who decided that the vote should be cast as a unit in the negative. The majority of the Commissioners, including Mr. Field, say that the vote in favor of a Convention has no moral weight under such circumstances; and this is a position in which we are disposed to agree with them. So rampantly radical are the majority of the Commissioners appointed by Governor Morgan to represent the Empire State that they repudiate all idea of compromise, and teem greatly distressed that by an accident they deprived of the opportunity of voting against a general Convention of the States to amend the constitution. It is clear, therefore, from their own showing, that tbeir object was both to prevent the possibility of the seceded States ever returning to the Union, and to forcc the border slave States to join them, that thus there might be two distinct confederations, one with slave labor and the other with free.

It is well known that they conspired against the restoration cf the Union, and that before tbey left New York they pledged thempelves to die rather than vote for any compromise, and Governor Morgan was privy to this conspiracy. It was not -to make peace, therefore, they went to Washington, bnt to lay a train tor war. The report fully bears out the testimony of "blood-letting'' Chandler, and blood is what they desire. But their appearing in the Peace Convention under the false pretence of friendship, when they meant hostility to its objects, was an act of mean treachery without a parallel, and a gross insult to the Commissioners from the border States. In his letter to the State Legislature, submitting the joint resolution of Congress to amend the constitution so as to prevent the federal power fiom ever inteifering wi'h slavery in the States, Governor Morgan professes to believe that the adoption of this measure will be quite sufficient to satisfy the border slave Stales.

But those States cannot regard it otherwise than as a mockery, and Governor Morgan know- it. Congress has now no power by the constitution to interfere with the domestic institutions of any State, and no amendment of the constitution could give CongTess such power, for it would be subversive of the whole spirit and design of the constitution, and would be a revolution. The slave States have never asked for such a proviso as this, nor did the Southern conftderacy insert it in their new constitution. To do so would but weaken the inalienable rights of these States by calling them in question. What Governor Morgan ought to have sent for adoption to the Legislature was the constitution adopted by the ConfetU rale States? which is their ultimatum, and will probably be the ultimatum of the border slave States.

Anything short of this is only logs of time and lo-s of opportunity, which can never be recalled. The Northern Slave Tiuok. In another place wo print a letter from Captain Rynders, United States Marshal, in reply to certain charges which bavo been made against his official character. As Captain Rynders shown several occasions within our recollection lhat he can take care of himself, we leave him to the tender mercies of (Jreeley A Co. As a matter of public interest, however, wo refer cur readers to the fact that within the last few months more than twenty vesseta have born seized by the United States authorities at this port, and held on the suspicion that they were about to engage in the slave trade.

All vrsfetls have been released for want of evidence as to tin ir real destination, and several have since been captured off the coasts of Africa and Cuba with cargoes of on board. One of these vessels is an old sinner, having been three times arrested. Probably the slave trade, from Northern ports in the United States, never been more active than at the present moment not even in the good old times when the merchants of Newport and Salem and Hoston supplied the uegro pens of Richmond and Charleston. Wheee toe Shok Pinched the Chkv.m.ibh Were, It seems that the Chevalier Webb, having been rejected almost unanimously by the Senate for the Austrian mission some twelve years ago, expected Austria and the confirmation of the Senate this time, in order to heal his offended dignity and his wounded honor. Turkey he considers only a decent sort of trick to get him into exile.

But as Austria has been disposed of, the Chevalier might accept St. Petersburg, where they have the blessings of modern fashionable society. Sei fusion in Arkansas. There appears to be some difficulty in understanding the telegraphic despatches from Arkansas in relation to the secession ordinance before the Convention of that State. The true solution is The ordinance came up for final action on the 18th and was defeated by a vote of thirtyfive in favor to thirty- nine against.

The next day a resolution was introduced into the Convention referring the question to the people for their decision, which was adopted. The ordinance of secession, therefore, has not parsed the Convention, as has been stated. Forney on the Forney, it appears, is on the trail to the White House kitchen. He thinks Honest Abe Lincoln is doing wonders in tbe way of wisdom and patriotism. Let the Rev.

Thurlow Weed look out for Forney. "Too many cooki spoil the broth," you know. A Tkruils Iti.vou.Tio* a Comkni ion. The polite world wan eurtc on Tuurtday when Qaeen Faebton gave oat a vermilion edict to the effect that, by and with the advice mod consent of her ctort. mi entire change in the form und trlmnjiug of laditrf" dresses bad been resolved upon.

For more than a ear, we are told, this crinoline revolution has been in progress. The concervatives resitted stcutlyvbut were compelled to give way at iaeL Tte secessionists have carried tbe day. The gored skirt party as tiiuiupbed. And what, we may be asked, is the gored skirt? It is the form of robe worn by cur grandmothers in the time of the Revolution. The difference between the dress of to-day and that of eighty years ago is very flight.

The waiotis longer and the skirt is fuller in the new dress. The material, we opine, is somewhat more costly now than then? an important matter in these hard times. It is very odd that this crinoline revolution should have been consummated at precisely the same moment that our political institutions are undergoing a radical change, and that while we have bt en invoking the spirits of our Revolutionary fathers to save the Union, the ladies hare gone back to the timet of their Revolutionary mothers for the shape of their dress a matter of the very first importance to the most of them. The question too, whether or not the ladies who are brief of stature and somewhat inclined to tmbonpoint will peacefully submit to an innovation which is clearly for the exclusive benefit of tall and slender divinities. Will not the rebels call a convention, secede and set up a ashion of their own? And, in such case, will the party in power resort to coercion? Aa the government of the fashionable world is an absolute despotism, any attempt at rebellion will speedily be put down by force of arms, we presume.

The Southern ladies, however, may take courage from the firmness displayed by the lords of creation in their section, and refuse to agTee to the sweeping change which has been resolved upon. At any rate the excitement is tremendous, and there will be an amount of talk altogether beyond computation by any known rule of mathematics. The debates in the Peace Congress will be nothing to the discussions among the friends and opponents of the gored skirts. Why not have a National Crinoline Convention to settle the whole question upon a basis satisfactory to all parties, long and short, fat and lean? Impatibxt The Richmond (Va.) Whig seems to be very anxious to know how Honest Abe Lincoln is going to evade the constitutional duty of dividing the federal spoils in the Southern States including Virginia, of course. We suppose that Old Abe is in no hurry upon this subject, but that when the Bell-Everett men of the South begin to come over to the republican hide, thejr will be invited to sit down at the republican table and eat somethirg.

The Net i ok a Union Partv. We aae it elated in the papers that the United Slates troops in Texas are to be detained there as the nucleus for a Union party. Jlieir retention in Texas ill serve rather A the nucleus for a fight and a gcreral war. They can do no good in Texas. They had better be removed.

Govkrkor Governor Hicks, of Maryland. supposed to a sort of republican of the tertiary formation, says he is not, nnd does not intend to be, an office seeker from this administration. Good for the Governor. Ferhaps Old Abe ill think that declaration aire oft worth a good fat office in the way of gratitude. Waij-mVx Tinum of this house are re onim'rd tluit two favorite pieces, "Everybody's Friend'' nod "Torn Nodd) Secret," ate to be given this evening.

Mr. liar Jon one of Mr. Wallack's veteran has an iatertft in tho receipt! or the house on this oc caiion. City Intelligence. A Festival Sv'mdav.

Kcv. J. Hatch will deliver a Tree "iccturc in the Stadt theatre, ST and 39 Uowcry, to morrow (Sunday), nt 3 P. In which he will complete' ly refute the recent statements an 1 arguments of Hon. Jas.

W. Bei kman. Feoretary ot the Comruittee." at Irving Hall, in oppMition to a festival Sunday. Go and hear him. Finn a Naskai- Striti.t About seven o'clock on Thursday evening a tire occurred In the gentlemen's unching goods store No.

104 NVsau street, kept by Perrin. It originated in tho window, and tru caused by the gaslight. lhe Humes wcro extinguished by Mr. Reeves. aMxtcd by the police.

The damage a noun to insured for $3,000 in the Home Insurance Company Brooklyn City News. Eqrwcnat Storm. Strange to say, the very severe storm of snow, rain and hail of the last couple of days has done no particular damagd id Brooklyn. In Fulton street and avenue it was very It wa8 ia and other transverse streets. The shipping has singular' eacaix and tliero are no accounts of -igcx blown the city.

In fact the gale, severe as It was, segms to have er Brooklyn with singular nlkmeaa. iKSSiw of Among Import Information connected with tho recent census of Brooklyn, the fact must not be forgotten that between the 1st of 1800. and the lht of January. 1801, no fewer than 3,052 buildings have been erected In that city. Tnr, Mayoralty.

Thlit morning, at ten and twolve o'clock respectively, tho national an 1 the regular demo crate will meet at the Capitol and Montague Hall, for the nomination of Mayor. Mr. it v. Ill bo remembered, was nominated on Saturcay evening by tbe Unionists. Tbe contest this morning will be between that gentlemnn and Alderman Knibtloisch.

The latter gentleman, it is supposed, will be the futuro Mayor. Mr. Powell, the present Mayor, pcsitlvolv refuses to run for the office. The republicans hold their oonventlon for Mayor on Tuesday next. The Ouanoc Strut Coroner Horton on Thursday resumed the inquest into tbe death of Susannah Wilson, who wan killed by Jumping out of a third story in low, at the Are in Orange street, on Friday last, and after hearing considerable evidence, ho adjournod the court to Monday nest.

A PnoiuHia Rival or Mori hy interesting match is now in progress between Mr. Perrin. tbe President of the Brooklyn Chess Club, and Mr. W. J.

A. I-eonard, a youth of nineteen years of age who lias for some time been erentlng a sensation in New Vork by his conquests of veterans in Cfcicsar's lists. 8o far three ga-nee have been played of which Mr. Ieouard hns won two, and judges or the game anticipate that if this young gentleman goes on at the rate at which he has commenced, tbe redoubtable Paul Morphy will have to surrender bis laurels to bis Brooklyn rival. Dkatr from S.vowR*unfo.? An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon on the body of Stephen H.

Panne, a clerk In the Office, and nephew of Mayor Rowell, who died suddenly from intertal hemorrhage, superinduced the exertion of snowballing with a companion, while on his way home to dinner. Gironer llorton held the Inqunet, and a verdict in aocordance with the above facts was rendered. Military nre. RKOIMKNTAL ARMORIES. The Common Council are certainly entitled to the credit for not overlooklrg the claims of our volunteer soldiery by making provisions for regimental armories for several of our active corps, lu the Common Council proceedings tbe 11th wo And the following items Included in the tax levy: 14, 00? to pay for improving quarters of Sixty, ninth regiment at Essex market, to provide an armory for the Twelfth regiment.

Also the snm of fin, M0 to grade Hamilton square, and render tbe same suitable for a city parade ground. The Fifth regiment, Col. PchwarxwiieWiT, the seooad large st the 1 it St division, without Mitable quartern; hut we are happy to stole that the Itonrd of Aldermen have the initiatory steps to give them an armory by enlarging Ess? market on the street side. The Fifth regiment Intend to tbe sea coast drill as soon as tftey fthall have aasensjoe of their new quarters. KEFOKT OF IEW YOU PEACE MHUVWIUI MR.

FIELD DEFINING HIS nMttoX 1W bjtrkr of the (HnlttM IplHt And Mm to ImM the ConstliBltoB, Mi) to 11a Tew York Commissioners, or at least a majorlty them, bare at last report-a their doings to the Lsgialature. The report signed by Messrs. Fieid, Noyes, Wiita worth, Smith, James and King, and is a rsry long document. We hare no room at present for more thaa tne note In which Mr. Field replica tv Mr.

King and others This note we publish entire. The majority report of the New York Peace Couunta sioners begins by stating that fbea they srrlred at Washington, on the 8th of February, the Convention already been organized, had adopted rules of order aoa appointed a committee of one from each State to prepare a report for the action of the Convention; that Mr. Field was then appointed upon this committee from York that the committee sat till the llth of February, when hey reported to the Convention? the members from Mew York, Massachusetts and several other States dis. eating; that a proposition for a general convention Vj amend the constitution was ollertf and voted down; taat the following two propositions were offered by Mr. Fieid.

with the sanction of the majority of the First, "Each State has the sole and exclusive right to order and control Its domestic institutions aeoordiog to its own judg ment, and to determine for itself what shall bo the relation to each other of all persons residing or being within its limits." And the other is ths "The Union of the States under this constitution Is indissoluble, no State can secede from the Union, or nullify an act o( Cou grcts, or absolve its citizens from theln paramount obligation of obedience to the constitution and laws of the United States;" but both wero rejected by the Convention. The committee's report was gone through with, and various amendments made, and tho flr.t motion finally brought to a vote on the 20th or February when it was rejected by eleven to eight, Ne York voting no by direction of a majority of her A reconsideration was moved and carried, and the Convention adjourned, first to the evening and then to the next day and on the next day the first section was again put to the vote and carried by nino to eight four States, including New York, not voting. Why the vote of New York was not given is left by the Commissioners to be stated by Mr. Field, on his own responsibility, which he proceeds to do in a note to the report. The other sections of the report wero gone through with and carried by majorities varying from two to eleven; MM was ever taken on the article as a whole, as the think it ought to havo boen.

If that oad been done the vote of New York would liave been cast against the whole article. Ihe report then proceeds with a argument, Or the purpose of showing that the minority of the delegation were right in the views they took of the various propositions beiore the Convention. Then follows the note Of Mr. Field, which jre here subjoin: NOIK HY Mil. The following statement shows why the vote of New Yoik was not given upon the first question taken to tho Pease eution on tho 27th of February.

Tho journal represents the vote as divided. It was not divided. The vote was ordered to be cast, and should have been cast, in the negative These are the facts: On Tuesday, the day preceding a message came to me from the Cletk or the Supreme Court of the United States that the Ceil) was waiting fcrme in case which had stood upen tho dccket sirce December, I860, and was now for the II rs time i cached in its order. The case was of great importance, for upon its result depended the closing or reopening of a litigation which 1 hid conducted for nineteen ars, which had embraced in its different forms more than eighty suits, and in the course of which the couits of the Mate and of the I'nited States bad come into direct millet All the tribunals of the State of New Yoik, where the question had been raised, had dtcltied ugaifibt my clientH The Supreme Court of the United by a majority of two, had once decided in their favor, lhc present rase was to determine whether thin Court would adhere to its former decision. The stake of my clients wax.

therefore, immense, and 1 was their only counsel. Ir.e cose being called after my arrival in Court, the Chief Just.eo observed that as was too late to begin that day tho argument would proceed first the next morning at "eleven o'clock, unices the Attorney General should claim precedence In uiiothcr cause. Then, thinking that the Convention would close its business during the day, I Ivistoncd back, and the question being aeon taken, I tfce vote of the St ile ugalnst the proItoeition before the Convention, and it was rejected by eleven to eight. A reconsideration was moved and car and an taken to half jiaM seven in tho evening. At that hdur I returnci to the Convention, but to my point iw -m and in spito of my ellorta, it adourncd to tho next morning at ten o'clock? a nujority of my associates voting tor the adjournment.

The ext moriiir.g?l endoavored to procure a meeting of the del' Ration Wore ten o'clock, taat I might obtain foimai instruction to ihe halrman In my absence to aft the vote of tho State against the amendmcits. Not being able, however, to obtain the earlier attendee of all the I waited till thev appeared in the hall of the Convention, an I there, shortly before leven o'clock 1 called them togethor, and all being prctent, a resolution, in of my ab(( nee, was moved and carrlcd, that "tho Chairman declare that New York voted on each section requesting Mr. King to as temporary chairman In my absence, and when New York was oallod to cast thereto in the negative, pursuant to the resolution, 1 left the hall and diove to the Capitol as rapllly ible, that I might be present at the opening or the court. Was It reasonable, nay, was it that should do otherwise? It is known to be a rule of the Supreme Couit net to ne un argument for other engagements of counsel. Ii neither eounscl is present, tho cape goes to the foot of the dccket, to be reached again only after two' or three yetrs; if one of the csunscl only appears, ho makes an oral argument, and a printed brtof Is submitted on the other siuc.

In my view it would have been trl ft teg with the rlchtR of my clients either to submit their ease on a printed brief or to postpone it for two years. I bad no ote to send to the Court in my place. To despatch letter with an xouse was a llbefty I did not foel justified in tpkincr, and if taken it might fail of Its object, as tho Court, when informed of tlie circumstances, must have believed that no motnber of the delegation would take advantage of my absence if he could, oad that ho not if be would, the vote had been already determined In a meeting or the delegation, and that initial ion could not be reconsidered or changed wi.hout the desertion to the minority of ooc of the majority. But whatever might be the opinion of others, my duty appear ed to Kivttlf oxtreraely plain. There was nothing to be done in I bo Convention the merely ministerial of declaring what had already been determined, which duty could r.

rtalnly be performed by another as well as myself, while, on lhc othor hand, no one but myself i ecuid act in ouit for my clients. It is true that some of my assei lates to me their apprehension that the minority might appeal to the Convention, and t'uU the might bitrarily overrule the delegation; but I uitrmd thm as I repeat now, that nellhor the minority of the delegation nor ihe Convention Itself had any right to inteiposc. We were oot asking a favor, but exercising a right. Whether a person uot present could vote was ni the question persons did not rote except on unimportant questions, and by general consent. States voted: the te of State was delivered by its bail nun, who collected the voices of delegation and xisotinced the res'ilt.

lhere was nothing in the reasoa of the thing, uothirg in any rule or usage of tbe voatloo, which rcquirea the voices of tho gallon to be collected at the Instant of announcing the result. They might collected one miuuto beforetand, or, an in the preset tnstanoe. ten minutes or twioo ten minutes. All ttial mid required was ttat each meiultcr should give his own Judgment upnn the partieular proposition, and the sum of these judgments it was the sole province of tho chairman to make known. There could bo no occasion for tteir standing by his side while he performed this doty, unless he needed their support or they feared his weakness.

I bave said that there was no rule of the Convention which the matter otherwise. On the contrary the rule as to the mode of voting? the eighteenth? waa as follows: "18. Mode of voting: All votes shall be taken by States, and each State to give eno vote The ysas tad nays of the ir.embi rs rot be taken or published? only the decision by Whites. the 21st of February Mr. Dent, of Maryland, moved the adept of the lollowing rule 1 hen' the vote any Is taken by Jtatrs, aiiy commissioner die sooting from the vote of his Stat may havo his d.sssat entered on the Mr.

Chase, of Ohio, iHiere the following as a substitute for Mr. lint's yeas and nays of the Commissioners of each State, upon any question, shall 1m: entered upon the Journal when It Is deti.rrd by any commissioner, and tbe vote of each Statu shall determined Irv the majority of Commissioners prt sentfrom each State." Mr. sutstltute was rejected, and Mr Deut's rule adopted. Ihe usage of the Convention may be understood by a slrgle example. The Maine delegation consisted of ber wo Senators and the House of Hepre sentatlves.

t)nc member only attended for th? greater part of the Cobveiitlin, and cast Hie vote of the state Indeed, It was a frequent practice for raeralieri to absewi themselves and leave their to act for tbem. The State ef New had moreover decided for her self in what manner ber Com loner i for ber, by doclarlng, in tbe Joint resolution of the Senate and Assembly, tnat cast their "votes, to bs determined by a majority trf thel' numbers," not the ma Jority of those whosboucl hnvfen to be at a partienilar instant on 'he (l o' tbe t'en, bit a majority of tbs whe-'e rcimbrr. Suppose npom a question put, the fleletation met jot coaiultation, and by a formal (itlsitwiued that the of the Ptati be no. then Inilrur.tiiig ualrtuan to cast the accordingly bad ni all hut U.e clialrxnan tired from The ba'i. com'u he tnereupnn havechtngM the vote to he disdgrecd with majority an i alone rsmaine 1 on tha or could ihe kave refused this or th', II rot, lioer that queatloo dittoretA her'" It was, tie it "ore, mi it witbgrnw' 1 hall, if if- i.