The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1856, Page 4

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The Hexsup (printed in Engiish and French) will be publiched at.ten'o’clock in the morning. Single copies, ‘wrappers, cixpencs. ’ Sabertiptions and advertisements for any edition of the Mew Your Heastp will be received at the following places in Europe:— een, sown ern, rams Lavenroot— do, do. Bivexroo.—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hamarp ‘will embrace the news received by mai] and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of poblication. ‘The News. Several alarming riots occursed in Baltimore yesterday, growing out of the excited state of the public mind on political matters. The most serious distarbance was caused by a report that a gang of New York rowdies had been imported by the democrats to participate in the election on Wednesday. The headquarters of the Empire Club ‘was a special object of hostility. It appears, how- ever, that the assailing parties were repulsed. One man was shot in the me/ée, and several others were wounded. Our correspondent at Guayama, P. R., writing on ‘the 9th ult., states that cholera was still very preva- Jent there, carrying yellow fever and smatpox in its train. Mayaguez was ravaged by cholera, and many +f ite leading set:lers had died of the epidemic, Some of the planters had lost as many as one hundred Ia- borers, and from forty to sixty had been taken from others. Chinese coolies could be imported to supply he loss, but the Spanish government objected yory decidedly to their introduction. Ponce was free from disease. At Guayama trade was very dull. A se- vere drought prevailed there, and the canes had suffered very much, We have 8071066 from Bermuda to the 24°h ult— 7 heey later. The Bermudian says:—“We regret that we are unable to announce any abatement of the fever in those parishes where it originally ap peared at the beginning of the month of August’ Warwick parish has still a great number of cases, ut all there we believe are doing well. The fever has also taken a fresh start in Somerset. The two shipping ports, Hamilton and St.George, are quite healthy.” ‘The will of Ge°rge M. Tunison, deceased, is being contested be ore the Surrogate by his father, Heary Tanison. Nearly the entire estate of deceased was given to his wife. If he bad died, intestate two. thirds of it would have gone to his father. The will fa contested upon the plea that Mrs. Tanison exer cived an undue influence over deceased while he was sick, and at the time of his making tae will. ‘A case of considerable interest and more scandal was up before the Surrogate on Friday and Saturday dest. A Belgian, named Charles Gasthuys, who kept a house of questionable repute in Water street, died, leaving to his paramour, Mary Demenus, by a will, which it is said he was forced to sign, near ly his entire property. In August, 1855, Mary De- menus died, and some other party or parties stepped im and poseesred themselves of the property. The fisters of Gasthuys are now contesting his will, and endeavoring to recover his property. We publish elsewhere the correspondence which between the parties engaged in the recent fatal fair of honor at Charleston. It seems that both the editors of the Mercury, Messrs. Heart and Taber, were challenged by Mr. Magrath, and ac- cepted the challenge; and that after the fall of his partner, Heart signified his readiness to answer Magrath’s demand, bot was informed that he had mo further demand to make. We are informed that the Erie Railroad Com- pany’s dificulties, growing out of the strike of the engineers and firemen employed on the road, have been completely overcome, and that all the trains will leave Jersey City to-day at the proper time. ‘The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending 3d instant amounted to $776,533. ‘The sales of cotton Saturday reached about 1,200 81,500 bales, the market closing firm. Middling cottons were scarce, and were dearer in proportion than the hi grades, having been sold at 12jc. a arriving is generally above the middling grades. The lightness of the stock also tends to check operations. The chief purchases are made by «pinners. Flour was from 5c. # 10c. per barrel lower. Whest was also lower. Red sold at $l 450%1 52, and white at $1 600 $1 62. We learn of the suspension of a highly respectable firm engaged in the flour and corn trade. Corn sold at 7c. a 68c. Pork was dull, with sales of mess at $19 939 & $20. Sales of sugar were confimed to 500 ‘2 600 bhds. Cuba muscovado, at steady prives. Cof- fee was quiet, and prices unchanged. Freights were steady, and rates continued about the same. Freer or tue Dewoceacy—More Money ‘Wastmm.—The leaders of the disunion democracy who threaten to dissolve this fair republic in Blood if Fremont be elected, are in a terrible fright, and also in a great want of money. In every direction they are trying to collect funds, asecesing Custom House employés, taxing clerks at Washington and everywhere throughout the country, in order to carry on the game of despe- ration in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, all of which States are in danger of being overwhelmed by the Fremont tide. One of the Auditors of the ‘Treasury hae sent a circular to the different Cus- tom Hlouse officers, describing the necessity for “ (NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1856. immediate and large contributions. The letter is eomewhat desponding in tone. It seems to confess that their whole resource to carry the three States above mentioned on the 14th of this month de- pends on money, bragging, corruption and im- proper proceedings, “The fright in Pennsyl- vania is deplorable among the disunion democracy. In Forney’s Philadelphia organ we find a list of a hundred stump orators set down to speak, among whom are half a dozen from the South, for the purpose, we suppose, of teaching the beauties and constitutional propriety of establishing slavery in Kansas by the aid of bayonets and bloodletting, under the superinten- dence and direction of Pierce, Jeff. Davis and their associates. We have never seen anything equal to the fright of Toombs, Wise, and their friends, and no doubt there is good reason for it; for the Fremont tide in these three States—Penn- sylvania, Ohio amd Indiana—will, on Tuesday, the 14th inst., overwhelm the democracy and give them such a rout as they have not had in twenty years, The Vote of California—The Pacific Railroad —Mr. Buchanan’s Sealed Proposals. Some days ago we announced that a democra- tic letter had been brought in by the steamer Il- linois from San Francisco—that this letter was destined for Wheatland, and that its object was to secure from Mr. Buchanan a more acceptable bid for the vote of California than the paltry double dealing proceedings of the Cincinnati Convention in reference to a Pacific Railroad. It now appears that the Sage of Wheatland has swallowed the bait, for an evening cotemporary informs us, upon “good authority,” that the com- mittee of the State Democratic Convention of California, writing this aforesaid letter, “are in expectation of an answer by the steamer which sails on Monday (to-day), to be used in California during the seven or eight remaining days of the canvass; but too late for its contents to reach the Atlantic States before the election.” It is further understood that these expected sealed proposals of Mr. Buchanan on the Pacific Railroad for the California vote, have been duly posted, and will, sure enough, go out to San Francisco by this day’s steamer. Desperate, in- deed, must be the sinking cause which requires such shifts and props as this. There can be no doubt of the desperate condition of the spails de- mocracy in California. That thrifty State is em- phatically a daughter of New York, not only in @ commercial, but in a political sense. It was the preponderating influence of New York politicians, and the general New York sentiment with reference to the extension of slavery, that did as much, perhaps, as Fre- mont himself, in behalf of a free State constitu- tion for California, And here commenced those intestine feuds and troubles in the democratic camp out there, which have gone on from bad to worse, until they have resulted in the utter demoralization and debasement of the party in that State. Southern secession politicians have never for- given that outrage of the California people of appropriating the whole of our Mexican acquisi- tions on the Pacific coast, in their organization of the free State of California. These Southern fire- eating democratic party schemers, according- ly, have left no stone unturned to divide, to distract, to disorganize, and to rule or rain the State; but in all their schemes, thus far, they have most signally been defeated. Their last experiment at rule or ruin was that infamous system of ballot stuffing, of which Yankee Sulli- yan hag left us such precious confessions, The San Francisco Vigilance Committee was nothing more nor less than a popular revolation against the gamblers, ruffians, assassins, pugilists and ballot stuffers that had risen under the protec- tion, and as the machinery, of the Pierce and Jeff. Davis democracy, to the control of the elec- tions and the government of the city and the State, It is not very difficult, then, to suppose that at this crisis the demoralized and degraded demo- cracy of California are below par. A party whose shameless and savage atrocities have just been put down and punished by an armed popular revolution and a provisional govern- ment, can hardly occupy any other than a mis- erable show for the Presidential election. If, in addition to these facts against the disgraced de- mocracy, we place Fremont, “the Conqueror of California,” in the opposite scale, and his original, consistent, devoted and laborious efforts in bebalf of that great California enterprise—a railroad to the Mississippi—we shall have quite enough of circumstantial evidence to justify the opinion that these sealed proposals of Mr. Buchanan for the California vote go out by the steamer to-day. But, again, the trickery and remarkable tender-footedness of the Cincinnati Conven- tion on the subject of a Pacific Railroad, in connectim with the nomination of Mr. Buchanan, were so transparent that the Cali- fornia delegation refused to give him their support until “assured that Mr. Buchanan does not concur in the opposition to that meagure indicated by the votes of the Pennsylvania dele- gation.” That is to say, the Pennsylvania dele- gation was first used against the Pacific Railroad to secure the Southern abstraction and secession vote, and then private assurances were given by the same delegation to the Californians that Mr. Buchanan was all right. ‘The result is, most probably, those sealed pro- porals of which we bave spoken, are for exclusive California consumption. These special California vouchers are not to be seen in Virginia or South Carolina till after the election. We know very well, however, that the same malign anti-Cali- fornia, secession, nullification, border ruffian and Miihustering counsels that controlled Mr. Bu- chanan at Ostend, that controlled his nomination and shaped his platform at Cincinnati, and that are now threatening disunion if the people re- ject him, will still rule the roast should he get to the White House, even by the vote of California. Whatever, therefore, Mr. Buchanan may send out to San Francisco to-lay, in the way of sealed proposals for the California vote, let him be elected, and let a bill be passed making an appropriation of lands and money for a Pacific Railroad, and Jeff. Davis, or Governor Wise, or Mr. Brooks, or Mr. Slidell, or Mr. Toombs, will furnish him with a pair of constitutional specta- cles, through which he will see clearly enough that all such appropriations come under the exer- cise of the veto power. Let the people of California and of every other State beware of any eleventh hour assurances or sealed proposals from Mr. Buchanan, or in his behalf. He has ptiblicly and deliberately identi- fied himeelf with the Cincinnati platform, the Os tend manifesto, this Pierce administration, and ite ballot stuffing and raffian policy of making Kanens a slave State by force of arms. There he stands, there the people will hold him, and upon these issues he will be judged on election day. Cincinnati; they will perhaps be tricked by thi: Buchanan letter, when they get it; but the Cali- fornia people have a different game to play. A California Fremont majority of twenty or thirty thousand will most probably setve the problem in November. Don’t stop the steamer, Great Movement in Virgtnte—3ete Again om the Stand tn Reply wo Wer The Man for the Crisis Found. It has often been remarked that every great crisis in the history of nations—every epoch of danger to liberty or nationality—has Invariably found the man destined to meet the crisis and avert the impending calamity, When Kurope was sunk under the heel of ecclesiastical tyranny —when Rome was domineering it over Emperors and serfs—men were found fitted for the time. Luther sprang up in Germany, Calvin in France, Huss in Bohemia, and Knox in England; and by their efforts Europe was saved from the crushing power of an intolerant church. Later on in the history of the mother country, Cromwell appear- ed on the scene of action, crushed out the effemi- nate sway of the Stuarts, and directed the country in the way of constitutional liberty. In the great crisis of the old revolution in France, when so- ciety was disorganized and old systems shattered to atoms, the current of popular opinion was guided by Mirabeau, Marat, and the other promi- nent leaders who sprung up, born as it were for the exigency of the time; and when that revolu- tion was being urged beyond its proper limits— when the guillotine was drinking up the blood of the best and purest of France—then, too, did that greatest of all the soldiers of fortune, Napoleon Bonaparte, enter upon the scene, still the raging of the popular storm, and give to France a firm and enlightened government, combined though it was with the reign of glory. So, too, in our own country. When our struggle for independence began, the men peculiarly fitted for the occasion were found. Washingtoa, Jefferson and Franklin were called into being and guided the contest to a glorious issue. Later in our history, and down to the pre- sent epoch, we find evidences of the same pro- vidential interference. In every great popular contest great spirits peculiarly fitted for the oc- casion appear to rule the hour— To ride the whirlwind and direct the storm— to save the country, or to sink it in perdition. In the present political contest, which is rock- ing our society to its basis, we find that the rule holds goed. For the last few months, since it became evident to the people of the Southern States that Colonel Fremont, the republican can- didate for the Presidency, was becoming so popu- lar that his election was next to a certainty, most if not all of their rabid political leaders have been chafing and frothing, indulging in bitter denunciations of everything and everybody that was not on their side, preaching treason and dissolution, and threatening to drive out of the South every man who had courage enough, inde- pendence enough, and common sense enough, to speak in favor of free suffrage, free speech, and free press, or who ventured to support any other candidate for the Presidency than the one whom they themselves sanctioned. To such an extreme did the spirit of insolent intolerance go, that be- cause Mr. John Minor Botts, a sensible politician of Virginia, undertook, some five of six weeks ago, to make a sound, patriotic speech to the citizens of Richmond, the sentiments of which happened not to tally exactly with those enter- tained by the Governor of the State, that belli- quious official appeared some time after in a political meeting, fretted and fumed, ranted and swore, and menaced the offending Botts with arrest and indictment for treason. But everything comes in good time. The petu- Jant Wise has found his match—and more than his match—in this same John Minor Botts, whom he would have had the Mayor of Richmond seize, and the Grand Jury of Richmond indict, for treason to the Old Commonwealth. Mr. Botts proves himself to be just the man for this crisis in the South. We have always believed and stated that there is a vast majority of the Southern people— slaveholders as well as non-slayeholders—who, if they had a chance of expressing their sentiments, would dissent from, disavow and utterly repu- diate all sympathy and connection with the trea sonable and atrocious doctrines put forward by all the leaders of the Buchanan democracy in that region during the last few months, We think that Brooks and Keitt, and Floyd and Wise would find themselves in a miserable minority if the people of the South had an opportunity of expressing their real sentiments. We have al- ways thought «0; for every now and then a still small voice would make itself heard, telling us that there was a great deal more in public opi- nion in the South than made itself manifest inthe raving effusions of its spokesmen. At last, how- ever, an able and fearless man—a Virginian by birth and residence—a Southern man by educa- tion and principle~a slaveholder himself—has boldly entered the lists, hurled defiance at Wise and all the disunionists of the South, and de- nounced them, on their own ground, at their own firesides, and in their very teeth, as traitors to the Union and to the South. The speech which Mr. Botts delivered recently in the city of Petersburg, on the invitation of the Executive Committee of the American party, and which we publish to-day, is the first great and effectual blow hurled at those who have impro- perly assumed the championship of the South. Mr. Botts is a perfect Coeur de Lion in the lista. Nothing can withstand the furious impetuosity of his charge. Nought but a retreat to his oyster beds can save poor Quattlebum Wise from anni- hilation. Botts assails him with his own wea- pons, brands him with the epithets of madman and traitor, accuses him with perverting the popular sentiment, hurls scathing invective upon him, and ends by calling him a miserable cur. Poor Wise! With all his faults we cannot but have sympathy for him under the laceration in- flicted on him by that never-to-be-too-much-des- pised Botts. The onslanght was altogether too terrible. Resistance was out of the question. Governor Quattlebum Wise has succumbed. He has been snuffed out of existence by that pitiless Botts, Peace to his manest After disposing thus summarily of his princi- pal victim, Botts again places his lance in rest and thrusts most mercilessly at all Wise’s brothers in affliction. All the secessionist leaders of the South fall under his mighty blows. As to the high priest of secessionism and nullification, John C, Calhoun, he declares that all which he (Botts) blames Henry Clay for, is that he did not allow General Jackson to hang Calhounin 1833. After an epieodical history of the Missouri compromise and of its repeal, Botts turns his attention to the rival candidates for the Presidency. He characterizes Mr. Buchanan as the most ac- complished demagogne alive, with the exception of Gen, Cass; and he begs to be excused from giving his approbation to the record which Mr, Fillmore presents, He would rather, he says, in that stinging sarcasm, which is keener than a two-edged sword, “plead the statute of limita- tiou in favor of Mr. Fillmore, as that has already done for himself.” Pitiless Botts! who spareth neither enemy nor friend, He tells the South that if they expect that either Bu- cbanan or Fillmore are going to favor the exten- union, no matter who be elected President, and “no disunion” was vociferously and unani- mously voted. This meeting, speech and vote give a new and important aspect to the question that is now be- fore the American people. We have no doubt but that the effect of this movement of John Minor Botts, in Virginia, will be to bring about one of the most happy and beneficent revolu- tions in the public opinion of the South, that has taken place in this country for many years. Botts is the right man for the occasion, He has boldness, eloquence, vigor, intelligence, strength and sagacity. He has Southern pluck combined with Northern discretion. Whatever may be the result of the contest, or whether or not we believe with Botts that Fremont can be elected by the House, we perfectly concur with him, and ap- prove—as every patriot must—the course which he has been pursuing in Virginia in the present important crisis in Southern affairs. With the singular public generosity which is characteristic of an enlightened people, we in the North have been receiving, inviting and listening, with pleasure and respect, to all the disunion ora- tors who have come among us to teach us the mysteries, the beauties and the excellencies of slave institutions. We have had Cobb, the portly and mellifluous Georgian ; Orr, the frank, rapid and vehement South Carolinian ; Benjamin, the polished Louisianian ; Floyd, the courteous but impolitic Virginian ; Hunter, the conservative and eloquent Senator of the Old Commonwealth, and Preston, the brilliant and sparkling Kentuckian. To all of them have we listened with deference, attention and respect. We have published their speeches, treated them as Americans and patriots, and allowed them to expatiate on all the beauties and advantages of negro slavery. And yet, after all, Fremont will get in the North the most over- whelming vote that any Presidential candidate has ever got since Washington’s time. How about the South? Have they treated Northern gentlemen and politicians as we have treated theirs. So far from that, the people of the Southern States, under the iron, despotic and brutal regime of the present demoralizing and disorganizing democracy there, have not only refused to give a hearing to Northern men on the subject of the great issues of the day—not only have they menaced Northern men with tar and feathers and expulsion, but they have done the same with their own citizens, men Native and to the manner born, who would dare to discuss the other side of the question. A species of iron despotism, similar to that which prevails in Kansas, has held sway in Old Virginia and the South for months past—a despotism that is perfectly appalling, and that is unparalleled in the social or political history of any free country. At last the charm is broken. Wise is met on his own soil. A man is found who has the courage and the pluck To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in bis hall. The speech of Mr. Botts, which we to-day pub- lish, is the most remarkable, candid and fearless that has been uttered in the South for many years. The spirit initiated in that meeting at Peters- burg will extend over Virginia and over the whole South. We expect to see many imitators of John Minor Botts. He has now placed himself at the head of the Southern conservative phalanx. He will be supported by the South and by the rest of the Union, and may become one of the great leaders of the age. He is the man who saw the occasion and seized it. He has talent, courage and saga- city to master the situation, and we trust he will not Jay aside his armor until final victory be achieved and peace secured. Axoruer Stop rrom tue Sovrn.—We have published three or four “stops” from the South out of the half dozen we have received in all; among others one which might be designated as the “countercheck quarrelsome,”’ another the “quip,” another the “ lie direct.”’ Reversing Shak- spere’s order, we now receive a stop, which we will call the retort courteous. It runs as fol- lows:— ‘Usrrsp Staves Manne ae tion, the United States Marine Barracks at War- rington, Florida, and deserve respectful at- tention. We therefore beg to inform these gentlemen, or whichever of them is concerned in the matter, that as they have paid for the Hera to the 9th of April, 1857, to the 9th of April, 1857, shall they receive it. We cannot rob them of their money. Further, feeling a proper interest in the United States navy, of which we have no doubt that Mr. George Smith and Mr. Robert Tansill are efficient supports, we cannot consent to do these gentlemen the injury they unwittingly pro- pose. The Hera.y, between this and the 9th of April next, will contain the account of President Fremont’s inauguration, and of the selection of his Cabinet; both, especially the latter, matters of great interest to Messrs, George Smith and Ro- bert Tansill. If we stop the Henato, as they de- sire us, they will have to wait at least a week longer than is necessary for news of these impor- tant events. We have too lively an affection for the navy to put them to sucha trial. And let George Smith and Robert Tansill console them- selves, They will not lose their offices by being seen with the Herarp. All the pablic depart- ments, members of the administration, and lead- ing men at Washington read the Henan every day of their lives. It is sont after President Pierce wherever he goes. For the rest, Mesers Smith and Tansill are in error in supposing that the HeraLp “advocates | other day at Moscow, don’t you suppose that thd the the success of” or ia affiliated with any “political party.” We are opposed to all political parties, and are in favor of the independent press and the popular Fremont revolution alone. We have no more to do with the republicans than the gentle- men of the Warrington Navy Yard. And as for the “wild fanatics of the North,” whom Mr. Tan- sill fears we shall not be able to hold back, he must remember that there are wild fanatics at the South too: but he may rely upon it that when Fremont is President, neither set of fanatics will have the least control over the government, or the least power to effect “those unjust and trea- sonable measures which are so dear to their wicked hearts,” sure the Safety of the Union. The present political contest has taken the ‘phase of several we find be the exchequer” to begin with, and do it with un- washed hands, too. The old nullifiers, led by Mr. Calhoun, wished to secede on the tariff question, while the grand point at present is the threaten- ed depreciation in the price of niggers, and the loss of the spoils of the general government to the Southern patriots who have generally had a monopoly of the foreign missions, chaxgéships, fat consulates, and commissions in the army and navy. The Virginia and South Carolina politi- cians say they will secede if they cannot have all the pickings to which they faney they have a sort of hereditary right. This is one danger that threatens the republic, but this might be over- come by the conservative, right minded people of the South, who are not led by their politicians, and who see some solid advantages accruing from the preservation of the Union, even if the cadets of the old Virginia families do not monopolize all the fat places with the salaries annexed. So the great fear of the democracy for the safety of the Union is only affected, after all. Within the past few days, however, the pre- monitory symptoms of a new crisis have appear- ed. Nullification has been transplanted from the South to the North, and has broken out in the most conservative institution of this most con- servative city. The Union is again in dan- ger, and, as they say in the stump speeches, it behooves every true patriot to ruth toits rescue. The liberties bequeathed to us by our Reyolutionary sires, gained with their blood and toil, are again in jeopardy from the threatened disruption of this glorious Union. It is no longer caused by the attacks of the North upon the South, or vice versa, but it is the effect of the grand operatic war which has broken out between Max Maretzek, the nullifier, and the stockholders of the Academy of Music. The Italian Opera is prostrated—the Union is in danger. Without the Opera there can be no Union. Why? We shall see. There is at the South a moneyed aristocracy ,the membersof which find their climate uncomfortable at certain seasons of the year. They, therefore, migrate to the North to get a little fresh air, and spend a great deal of money. In all society of this kind the female element rules. The belles of the South are the belles of the Union. When they turn their attention to politics they are the most suc- cessful of diplomatists. They regulate affairs in their own way, and the most astute of statesmen is led by them without knowing it. Any one who imagines that we overrate the power of these ladies should spend a month or two at Washing- ton, and be converted to the truth. These fair politicians then have the question of disunion in their own hands. They take no great interest in the price of niggers. The great epochs in their lives are the days when the milliners open their fashions, and when the new tenor comes out atthe Opera, always in that sweet, melancholy, romantic role, Edgar of Ravenswood. The South- ern ladies always come North for these great events, but particularly for the Opera. It is barely possible that they may find something fit to wear at the South, but there is no Italian Opera fit to hear except at New York, and sometimes Philadelphia and Boston. Phe question of the election of Fremont isa matter of no consequence to them, but the recent coup d'état of that terrible nullifer, Max Maretzek, in shutting down the gates of the Academy and dissolving the union with the stockholders, is pregnant with the most vital consequences to the Union of these States. As Mr. Pierce pleasantly remarked at Concord the other day, “we are no alarmists.” We shall not imitate the President after he made this state- ment, and go on to alarm everybody as much as possible. But we do adhere to this premise— that upon the permanent establishment of the Italian Opera depends the safety of the Union. The crisis predicted by Mr. Calhoun has arrived ; but it has not been caused by the attacks of the North upon the South, but by the threatened overthrow of the Italian Opera, through the nul- lification of Maretzek. The Southern ladies control the South; they ceme North to the Opera. So long as they can hear the Opera, the Union is safe. When there is no Opera, the general government may as well put up the shutters and band over the cash in the till to Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina. The republic will positively be smashed into several thousand fragments. We bold that the Italian Opera is a conservator and preserver of the public peace; that it gives Tich, idle people something to think about, and prevents them from doing muschief. Look at Europe. Look at London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg. In the middle ages, before the Opera existed, the higher classes in these cities were continually engaged in getting up plots and heads. Now, when they have the Italian Opera to think about, they never mix themselves up in any discreditable rows, but leave them to fel- Jows of the red repablican school, who have no appreciation of music save that of the clatter of upper classes, these philosophers always and through the influence of the Opera quiet is preserved in Europe, and the Kings can sleep comfortably o’ nights, They know to what they owe their safety, and they pay great sums to sustain the Opera and patronize the artists like privece, When Alexander was crowned the diadem felt lighter on his brow after hearing splendid execution of Bosio in the Domine fag| Saloum Imperium? The first thing that he did~ in order to make things pleasant and secure him¢| self from the unpleasant fate of some of the Romanoffs—was to go in state to the Grang Opera, where between the music, the the new theatre, the Crimean heroes, and the pre- Tatic imbroglio, brought about by the archd nujlifer, Maretzek, is fraught with the direst consequences to the country. The election for the Presidency, the triumph of Colonel Fremont, and the consequent loss of the spoils to the first fami lies of old Virginia are important matters, but not so threatening as the terrific state of things at In this dilemma we repeat our former sugges tion to the ladies of New York to take the matter into their own hands, They are the persons direct« ly interested. It is supposed by some innocent People—there are a few left, even in New Yorke —that the Academy was built for the advances ment of the art of music. Our lady readers know very well this is an error—it was constructed for the especial purpose of advancing the arts of mil< linery and dressmaking. The gentlemen—wa mean the male sex—have been endeavering for the past ten years to establish the Italian Opera, in this city. They have failed. It now becomes the duty of the Indies—the true strong minde® women—to see what they can do to establish the Opera and save the country. Let them hold a grand meeting at the Academy. Let the South< ern ladies, who are now with us, be admitted ta equal rights in the organization of the meeting and in the debates. Let them carefully refrain from personalities like those which. disgraced Congress, and if any Southern lady scratches any Northern lady, let her be expelled by an indige nant majority. Let the whole question be de- liberated fairly and fully, and with equal atten. tion to the rights of each-section, Let the wos men of America imitate the women of Sparta, and rush boldly into the breach to save their oar and establish the Opera at the sama Something must be done at once, The crisig is imminent. We have done our duty in the matter. We have warned the nullifier, Max; the President, Phalen; the sagacious, diplomatic Wikoff, that the safety of the Union depends upon the establishment of the Opera. If they cannot arrange matters, let the ladies take hold, There’s no such word as fail with them, Risixo Up rrow ras Grave.—Mr. Samnel BL Ruggles, of 24 Union square, has been dug out of his hitherto quiet political tomb by Major Jack Downing and his associates, in order to confute the unanswerable commercial views and statistics displayed in the speech of Speaker Banks in Wall street. The power of summoning political de- functs from their grave almost surpasses tha boasts of Judge Edmonds, who says he speaka with the spirits of Washington and Napoleon, an® Brutus and Cesar. Mr. Samuel B. (Blunderer) Ruggles, of 24 Union square, has filled two co- lumns of an old fogy journal, with small circu- lation down town, and then retired from the field, thinking that he has demolished the argumenta of Mr. Banks, There are only two points in tha argument of Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, of 24 Uniow square, that deserve to be noticed. He says that Mr. Banks, if Col. Fremont should be elected, will countenance the doctrine of giving all tha public offices to Northern people only, and not a single Post Office even to @ native of the Southern States. This isa false and gratuitous assumption. If Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, of 24 Union equare, is very anxious for correct infor- mation on the subject of offices, we cam aseure him that when Col. Fremont becomes President Fremont, he will be as liberal of favors to South- ern and Western as to Northern and Eastern men, Another point brought up by Mr. Samuel B. Rug- gles, of 24 Union square, is rather ingenious and poetical than otherwise, He calls the Southern States the Indies of this republic, in allusion to the colonies of the British government. The Southern States occupy no such position to the North as Hindostan or any other colony to the British realm. If Hindostan sent its representa- tives to the Houses of the Lords and Commons, then there might be some resemblance. The re- ply of Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, of 24 Union squase, to the speech of Speaker Banks is no reply at all. If he hasn’t retired to the tomb of the Capulets, from which he was charmed by the power of Mn. Peanopy, THe onEaT FINANomme, AT wu itself into a paroxysm of excitement im making arrangements for the reception of its most fortunate and his early friends and schoolfellows. very right, and proper; it more the parity of the air and country, in taking silly notions out of the heads of Americans who may have contracted them by corrupt associations abroad. Mr. Peabody, witlr great generosity, has established a scholastic in- stitation in his native town, and endowed it with ! in good taste. We wish his dinners and bells and feasts at Richmond Hill, or his White collations at Greenwich had all with equal modesty and propriety. been the case he wouldn’t have been the jest of many talking people in London, and the sorrow of many thinking people in his own land. But he grows wiser ashe grows older, which is not al- ways the case in this world. /