The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. towed te the city last evening. The damage te the ‘Vessel will amouat to $100,000. A portion of the Passonger:' baggage, with alotof heavy and ligh freight, will be brought to town to-day. In the Hoard of Education last evening there was a stormy tims, It arose out of « communica- tion submitted by the aohool officers of the Sixth ward, caliing upon the Board to pay all the teachers ee were withhold for diso- beying Ww enforcing the reading of the Seriptares. They also submitred a resolution to that effect. The question on the resolution was warmly debsted all the evening, but the Board finally adjou-ned without taking any action in the matter. The only other business done was the election of & Finance Clerk and the appropriation Of $2,500 for repairing a colored school house. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion yesterday, Commissioner Jollinghaus pre- tented a minority report on the subject of booking emigrants, of which wo give an abstract in another column. The majority report was, however, adopt- ed, and no action taken on the minority report. ‘The monthly meeting of the New York Histor! cal Society was held in tbeir building on Tuceday evening. Hon. Lather Bradish presided, and stated the substance of some interesting communications received from abroad since the last meeting. One letter, referring to the actual state of feeling ex- isting between the English and American people at the period of the revolution, excited much at- In the Surrogate’s office, Martin V. B, Watson has been appointed engrossing clerk, in place of H. 8. Decker, resigned, and H°8, Decker has replaced Cornelius Minor, resigned. ‘The Library of the American Institute was opened on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, with the cus- tomary formalitica. A good many improvements have been made, and the means of affording in- struction and information to members and visiters extended. Ia consequence of continued heavy receipts of beef cattle the market was unusually dull and heavy during the past week, and prices declined half to one cent a pound, according to description; the lower grades, of which the supply was mainly composed, were sold at a cent decline. Prices Panged from 4ic. & 100., with an average of 7}c. Miich cows were plenty, and dull and unchanged in price, Veerl calves were plenty, dull and a shade lower. Sheep and lambs were also dull and slightly lower. Swine were in large supply, and declined one cent @ pound, The receipts were, 4,357 beeves, 214 cows, 817 calves, 14,765 sheep and lambs and 8,970 swine. The sales of cotton yesterday reached aboud 2,000 bales, 1,800 of which were reported to have been made in transitu. ‘The market closed on the basis of 11 5c. for mid- dilng uplands. Flour was firmer for common.grades of ‘Western, while extra brands were dull. Southern“flour was in steady request, with a fairamount of gales. Among the transactions were some purchases for export. Wheat was in fair demand for milling, and some purchases were made for export and on speculation. Corn was steady, with moderate sales, including Jersoy yellow and Southern yellow at $1 O1, aud white Jerseyat the same figure. Pork was frm, with sales of mess at $15 25a $15 40, thin mess at $16 26, and prime at $10 6 a $10 623g. Lard was firm, and besf unchanged. Sales of sugars were confined to 300 a 400 hdds. of Cuba musoco- vaio at full prices, and 4,600 bags of Pernambuco, and oné cargo.of Manilla on private terms. The sales of coffee were confined to small lots of Rio at p.t. Freight en. gagements were moderate and rates sustained. mes he a et sentra annum. os cons renmvad ; advertisements tn Find Masti, and tn tho emeouted with neatnoss, cheapness and de Vota XKIV.....cccersesrecesceseees We. 303 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-Iamaxp As Ir le—A® Bovn ox Gavia BOWERY bi § Bowery.—A Day Arta Tae Wepoinc—Bi Bap Men. —— WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Boad street— ry THEATRE, Breadway.—Fast Maw or ras WALLACE’S ~ way. LAURA KEENE'S THEATER, 6% Broadway.—Manaus Haaut. ‘W BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Usciz Toa's cue-Rao— Tae Swiss Swans. TEKATRE FRANCAIS, 885 Broadway.—bus .Crooners ov Piss Mantuv—Jean Ls Sor, ARNUMS AMRRICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- on Jovmee A Duduauaugav, Evening Pact Par —M. DucaLemkag, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ermi0rtan Somas, Dancxs, 40.—bicaaup Tun TarED. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Brosdway.— Busixsques, Sones, Dances, &0.—Cuaw Roast Bear, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Oueury’s Mur- stRELs 3 Songs, Daxoxs, Boucesaves, (£0.—SCHERMER- noa's Bor, GOLDBECK’S MUSIO MALI, 765 exarwo Liseouvixe Views or Barren ——__ TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, November 3, 1859. Broadway.—~Psoro- Sonxeay. The News. John Brown, the leader of the band of conspira- tors whose exploits at Harper's Ferry have become historical, was yesterday sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law on Friday, the 2d of December next. The culprit heard his doom with composure. Before sentence was passed Brown mado a brief and earnost address to the Court, fa which ho stated that his intention was sim ply to run off slaves from Virginie, in the same manner as he had previously from Missouri, but that ho had no intention of shedding blood, nor of treason against the State. His counsel gave notice of appeal to the highest legal tribunal of Virginia. When the case of Brown was disposed of the jary be- fore whom Edwin Coppie was tried entered the court room, and pronounced him guilty of conspiracy, Alarming Condition of the Count: bable Triumph of Black Republican | formation cannot reach the people, and they of Colonel Forbes, being tm the mind's eye of the apostle of the “higher law” when ho iss. .d his declaration of war. The rebellion be « ed by John Brown is “the iessoa of the hou ” diligently propagated by the black repub ican leaders, and is but the sequel of the othe lessons they have so successfully taught for several years, It is thus part and parcel of the issue in the coming contest in this State, and there is every prospect of its being endorsed by 4 large majority of the peo- ple. Against this popular furore the hybrid demo- cratic ticket oannot succeed. The party is dis- organized, and the Regency at Albany, who have usurped its management, are in league withthe enemy. From information we havo received from that city we learn that they have refused to circulate documents sent to them for the purpose of enlightening the popular mind at this important crisis, Thus the necessary in- will vote in the dark, swayed by revolutionary influences. The treachery which sold Wise’s private letter has sold the democratic party, and secretly sympathises with the cause of re- volution, The result is a foregone conclusion. The revolutionary ticket will be triumphant. ‘The effect of tds will be that the South will take alarm, and, to anticipate the long medi- tated violence, will hold conventions and adopt measures to bring abouts peaceable separation from the North, and build fortresses along its frontier to protect it against the future invasion of Northern hordes. And here in the North, and particularly in thi State and city, property will be depreciated, perhaps fifty per cont. The severance of the South would utterly ruin the commercial, manufacturing and financial prosperity of the Northern States, and the price of real estate would be reduced in the same proportion. But the apprehension of coming events will cast their shadows before, and very soon we shall see property holders glad to sell their houses and lands for anything they can get for them. Such will be the first fruits of the first battle of the “irrepressible conflict.” The Election Riots in Baltimore—Row- dyism and Murder Rampant. It becomes our painful duty again to cull at- tention to the fresh scenes of violence and mur- der by which Baltimore was yesterday dis- graced. Peaceful citizens, exercising their tight of franchise, were not only driven from the polls, but many were shot down in the streets, Although the reformers resisted with arms, the roughs were everywhere triumphant, and the privilege of voting, so faras it was attempted to be exercised by the former, was complotely put astop to. The local elements of ruffian- ism not being deemed strong enough for the work, armed gangs of rowdies from Washing- ton were brought in to their assistance. The consternation and terror into which the whole city was thrown by these proceedings may readily be imagined. The houses of business were closed, and the streets presented all the aspects of a beleaguered town. Everywhere that the reformers showed themselves indi- in war, Itis very ondouraging to know, too, that there is no lank of candidates, for all the places in the people's gift, Oonsldering that It “don’t pay” to bold office, and that election expenses are proving heavier every year, the eelf sacrifice of political aspirants is refreshing, and ehows that the republio will not be ruined for the want of governors to regulate it, Harper's Ferry Affair—Who are the ei Responsible Parties? «+ It Is impossible for any rational man to be- lieve that the responsibility to the country for this late dreadful affair at Harper's Ferry stops with “Old Brown” and his invading revolu- tionary gang of fourteen white and five black ab- olition fanatica. The legal responsibility, we ap- prehend, extends to higher game, and the moral responsibility unquestionably involves every politician of every party actively concerned in the mischievous agitation of the slavery ques- tion during the last ten or fifteen years. But of all these mischievous agitatore we have de nounced Wm. H. Seward as most guilty of these bloody instructions of “treason, insurrection and murder,” as practically interpreted by “Old Brown,” while we have contended that these things and all our séotlonal discords of the last five years are directly chargeable to that reck- less Preaidential clectioncering experiment, the Kansas-Nebraska bill. We find, howover, that upon a detached edl- torial fragment from our columns, the Cheva- lier Webb, of the Courier and Enquirer, has thought proper to regale his readers with one of his peculiar rigmaroles against the admin- istration, and against the Henan, as “Mr. Bu- chanan’s principal organ.” Thus we are told that John Brown “will not be hung”’—that “peither Gov. Wise nor Mr. Buchanan dare permit any such outrage upon the feelings of the people,” and that “the Herat has been in- structed to prepare the public mind for a oom- mutation of his (Brown’s) punishment into im- prisonment for life.” Nor is this all; for it ap- pears that our recent article, urging the admin- istration to search out and prosecute as for treason W. H. Seward, and all other parties be- lieved to be guilty of instigating or aiding and comforting this late venture of “Old Brown,” or guilty of keeping his secrets, was intended, according to Webb, as “a home thrust” at the Cabinet. And wherefore? “In return for the short memories of the Cabinet upon the subject of the Paris mission.” Such are the points of this chapter of wretch- ed twaddle from the Chevalier Webb; and we shall very briefly dispose of him. First—The New York Herp is not the organ of Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration; it is not the organ of any man, of any party, but it is the organ of truth, justice and patriotism, without reference to our political parties. Secondly—The Heratp has received no instructions in reference to Brown, and does not expect any, and does not want any. Thirdly—The overstrained conclu- sions of poor Webb, touching the Paris -mis- sion, may be simply set down as the crudest nonsense. Let him be patient with regard to the Paris mission; for we dare say that, when treason and murder. Cook, Brown's second in command at Harper's Ferry, was taken before the magistrate’s court, but waived an exami- nation. It is stated that Cook's case will be re- moved to the United States District Court, and that all the parties engaged in the conspiracy, how- ever remotely, will be brought ferward to testify to their knowledge of the facts connected with the outbreak. Revolution. ‘The rebellion at Harper's Ferry ; the public preaching of rank treason, such as Wendell Phil- lips’ “Lessons for the Hour,” delivered in Hen- ry Ward Beecher’s church with tremendous applause; the more covert but not less danger- ous inculcation of the same principles and acta by Beecher himeelf in his sermon, which has Mr. Buchanan shall have filled it, the news will be published to the world. Returning to the main question of the reepon- sible parties for this abolition raid of “Old Brown,” we may go a step or two behind the repeal of the Missouri compromise. We all know that Mr. Buchanan stood by that compro- vidually, they were shot at or pursued with drawn swords. Up to the last accounts, up- wards of thirty persons were-reported killed or wounded, many of them belonging to. the roughs, for on this occasion the reform party, it appears, acted with considerable epirit. It will be asked what the authorities of Bal- Mr. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, once a prominent whig politician, and now a stump orator among the black republicans, delivered an address at the Academy of Music, Brcoklyn, last evening. It will be seen from our report of Mr. Corwin’s effort that he is opposed to the doctrine of squatter sove- teignty, and repudiates the extravagant sentiments promulgated by Wendoll Phillips with reference to Old Brown and Harper's Ferry. Rev. J. Sella Martin, otherwise strangely deno minated the “Lion of the West,” last evening de- livered an exciting and revolutionary address on the Harper's Ferry movement and the exploits of Nat Tarner and John Brown, to a mixed congrega- tion at the Shiloh church, in this city. We give a full sketch of the production elsewhere. There was an election in Maryland yesterday for members of Congress and the State Legislature, and certain local officers. Tho canvass has been spirited throughout the State, but especially so in the city of Baltimore, where the opposing parties were the reformers or respctable citizens, who - ed to free their city from the stain ofrowdyism which has become attached to it, and the clubs of blood tabs, thunderbolts and other organizations, under equally euphonious appellations, calling themselves Americans. These clubs at an early hour obtained possession of the pells by violence, kept the re- spectable citizens from voting, and obliged the candidates of the reformers, in some instances, to abandon the election. Throughout the day the city was at the mercy of the rowdies, and daring the numerous fights that took place, between twen- ty and thirty persons were killed or wounded. So far as the election is concerned we have no definite information of the result, except in Baltimore, where the rowdies have elected their candidates, gained such popularity as to be repro- duced in the Independent of this day; the open-mouthed, out-spoken endorsement of the treason and the traitors by Senator Wilson, and the course of the leading journals of the republican press which have commented on the bloody business, elther by glorying in it, like Phillips, and exalting “old Brown” to the rank of a demi-god, or by expressing regret, not for what has been done, but that it has been done so badly, and that so little suecess has attended the performance—all these ate por- tentous signs of the times, well caloulated to alarm the conservative classes of the com- munity, as clearly indicating the rapid progress of revolutionary principles in the North—the gathering and marshalling of thunder clouds from the horizon to the zenith, which threaten to explode in a fearfultempest when they meet the dark lowering masses, charged with electri- city, coming from the opposite heavens. The sanguinary and fatal riots at the Balti- more clection yesterday, subverting law and order, and overthrowing the constitutional rights of citlzens by violence and force of arms, under the very eye of the authorities, and with their evident connivance, show that revolutionary violence is making headway also in the South, and has become popular there to an alarming extent. This dangerous element seems to be gaining strength every day, and spreading like the plague or an un- conquerable fire. It thirsts for blood both timore were doing whilst the rights of one por- tion of electors, and that the most respectable, were being thus shamefully violated. There is but too much reason to believe that, if not wil- fully conniving at, they made but little exer- tion to stem the tide of rufflanism and sangui- nary violence by which the polls were invaded. This conclusion is forced upon us by the fact that, when Mr. Martin, the reform judge in the Tenth ward, was compelled by intimidation to quit his post, he was replaced by Mr. Hinsley, who had been appointed by acting Mayor Mayo and rejected by the Council. The culpable in- difference of the Sheriff is made manifest by the severe rebuke addressed to him by Judge Giles, of the United States District Court, who told him that he would be held responsible for the blood thas was shed, as he had the au- thority, and it was his duty to interfere. After the vain efforts of the reform party to relieve themselves from the intolerable despot- ism by which their rights as citizens are arbi- trarily taken from them, and their lives placed in continual jeopardy, we see no chance of sal- vation for Baltimore except in a vigilance com- mittee. The remedy is a desperate one, but so is the disease. It will be impossible to continue thus to fight the battle‘of electoral freedom at the point of the sword. The repetition of such scenes would bring world-wide disgrace, not only upon that city, but on republican institu- tions generally. To conquer the right to vote in security the Baltimore people can no longer await the slow action of the laws, or the still mise to the last; that he was in favor of extend- ing that lino of 36 30 to the Pacific ocean; that he ‘was opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and that it was because his hands were clean of any contact with that desperate Southern electioneering job that he was nomi- nated and elected President in 1856, But we say that behind that Kansas-Nebraska ‘bill there is ome responsibility on the other side. We find it among the nullifiers of the Fugitive Slave law of 1850, and among the engineers of the “underground railroad,” and their name is legion. We may also trace the responsibility of the later slavery agitation and ite conse- quences to David Wilmot, Preston King and others, with their proviso in 1846 for the prohi- bition of slavery in all the Territories, south as well as north of the Missouri line, Thus the contempt in which the anti-slavery leaders of the North in Congress regarded the Missouri compromise from 1846 to 1850 prepared the way for Pierce, Douglas, Atchison and Com- pany, with their bill for its repeal. The immediate moral, and the immediate le- gal, responsibility for the bloody affair at Har-_ per’s Ferry rests, we believe, upon W. H. ‘Seward and his teachings of incessant war upon slavery; for is not Seward the great Apollo of the republican party, and was not Brown only one of its faithful instruments in his “ Kansas work?” We say again, let the government prosecute its inquiries in this direction, and let justice be done, according to the facts which may be disclosed. Surely, while Beecher and The Hamburg steamship Bavaria, which left Southampton on the 18th ult., arrived’at this port yesterday evening. Her advices have been an- ticipated by the Nova Scotian and Arago. The Cunard screw steamship Karnak, Captain Brownless, arrived here early yesterday morning. She left Havana on the 25th, and Nassaa, N. P., on the 27th alt. On the night of Friday, 27th ult., she encountered a severe gale, accompanied by thander and lightaing and very heavy rain, the wind from N.E.; since then had strong northerly winds and clear weather. Her advices from Havana have been The British brig Alma left Nassan Oct. 26, with Col Hallorden, lady and servant on board. The Excise Commissioners were to have hold a meeting yesterday, to grant licenses, but the clerk only, was on hand at the appointed! hour. Up to nine o'clock last evening the Registrars of Voters had registered the names of 99,873 voters, and four districts in the Fourteenth ward had not reported. The steamship Champion, which left this port at three o'clock yesterday morning for New Haven, in place of the steamer Traveller (previously re- ported in collision), about half-paat five o’clock, when off Matinicock Point, came in collision with the propeller Albatross, of the Providence line, which struck her steamer trying to 0 attention to his North and South, and forebodes a reign of ter- ror. The fact of euch a sermon as Beecher’s being received with boundless éclat, and the fact of the address of Phillips being not only tolerated, but applauded to the echo, in the most popular church of “the City of Churches,’’ proclaim more forcibly than volumes of words the danger which is looming up in such for midable dimensions, In theee indications many of the wisest and best men of the country see imminent danger of @ convulsion which may shake the Union from its foundations, and light up the flames of civil war from Maine to Texas, and from New York to California, Sedition and treason, re- bellion and revolution, already becoming rapidly popularized, have received a sudden and tremendous impetus from the outbreak in Virginia and the trial which fol- lows upon its heels, creating an immense sym- pathy for the principal actor in the drama—a sympathy which will be raised to“ the boiling point if his sentence should be earried into execution, and he should die a martyr in the cause. There is nothing the black republican revolutionary leaders and journalists so much desire and are laboring #0 hard to bring about as the martyrdom of their “saint,” for the blood of the martyrs is the seed of political as well as religious sects. Hence the audacity of the Wall street organ of the conspiracy in chal- lenging Governor Wise to hang the convicted traitor. From all these symptoms and evidences of the popularity of revolution in the North, there Phillips and many other leaders and organs of the anti-slavery cause, abolition and repub- lican, are boasting of and glorying in “Old Brown,” and daring and defying the Virginia or federal authorities to hang him, surely there must be some “aid and comfort’ in the back- slower operation of political or party agencies. We deplore, in common with every respecter of authority, the necessity of having recourse to such a measure; but experience of the des- perate elements of which a portion of the popu- lation of Baltimore is composed forces upon us the conviction that in the interests of the gene- ral safety it can no longer be postponed. It is evident that, were such outrages upon public and private rights, such daring and an- scrupulous violations of the law and of public order, to be perpetrated with impunity year after year in a place eo important as Baltimore, the evil example would ultimately spread to other of our principal cities, and our boasted privileges as citizens of this republic would soon be a nullity. To prevent this any measure is justifiable—even a return to first principlea— when the urgency of the case admits of no other to judgment. Oxp Brown anp His Nortaxry Frieyps.—It is a good commentary upon the course of the abolitionists of the North that since their hero (old Brown) has been lying in bonds, the only offer that he has received of aid and comfort came from a woman, The Garrisons, Quin- ys, Phillipses, Jays, and other pharisaical ad- vocates of insurrection, have been perfectly quiet. The Suffolk bar has many abolition law- yers of note, strong on fugitive slave cases, and bitter against the South, but not one volunteers to defend old Brown. Wendell Phillips, the most violent of all of them, fires off his batte- ry at Governor Wise all the way from Brook- lyn—a very courageous proceeding, certainly. In the name of all that is consistent, why did not Mr. Phillips employ some of his forensio ability before old Brown’s jury? ‘Tue Ossawatomre Sautrixcocn.—Old Brown’s destiny is at present the shuttlecock of the poli- ticians. His friends, the abolitionists and black republicans, «vince their friendship for him in doing all they can do to insure his speedy exe- cution; for, if anything could add to the bit. terness of feeling evoked in Virginia by the LrveLy Towes Amone Tae Porricrays.—All the political loafers about town—and they num- ber probably as many as ten thousand orna- mental individuals—are up to their eyes in pipe laying and intriguing for the State and munf- cipal election. Just now the ward politician is a most important personage, and the way he| patronizes a candidate is amusing in the ex- treme. Every little grog shop has its knot of schemers, every corner is devoted to button holeing, bowing and buzzing operations. Every body is to have everything that anybody wants, after election; and all the governing ground well worth looking after and bringing { can be little doubt of the triumph of the black republican revolutionary ticket in this State in the ensuing week. It represents the ideas and principles of William H. Seward, who in his Rochester manifesto foreshadowed the “ irre- Pressible conflict,” the first blow of which was struck at Harper's Ferry, that scene of blood, according to the revelations eongers were brought to the city by th. Croton and Albatross. The A. ian-auaiined tie trifling damage. The latest news from the wreck of the steamer New World states that the hull was raised to the (evel of the main deck, and is kept afloat by the * employment and buoyancy of ompty casks, woll Secured under her guards. She was to have been classes are to be provided for in exact propor- tion to the amount of muscle they can bring to bear. Brain isa secondary consideration—mus- cle is the one thing needful. That muscle and money will carry anything through is the firm conviction of the leaders of both factions; the black republicans as well as the democracy fee the men who strike from the shoulder, proba- bly on the principle that all’s fair in politics ag raid on Harper's Ferry, it would be the violent harrangues of Phillips and Beecher, and the diatribes of the Tribune. On the other hand, there is said to be a movement on foot among the leading democrats of this State to induce Gov. Wise to remit Old Brown's sentence, or at least delay its exooution, Thus is Old Brown’s destiny made the plaything of ruthless politicians. Hale, Forbes, Gerrit Smith, and all others whe were implicated in the conspiracy, or who aro Showy, © lone baueite Oe rent eae epiratore, subponaed as witnesses and p! on the ataad to tell ali they know in the matter, ‘They are outalde the jurisdiction of the Vir- ginia State courts, but not of the federal courts, Gerrit Smith, it eoems, was anxious, after the failure of his “Kanses work,” to unburthen his mind and make a full statement to the pub- lic, confessing bis own connection with the Harper's Ferry outrage, and showing up the part taken in it by all the black republicans and abolitioniats of New York and New England) but his friends restrained him and induced him to keep quiet. If the plan intimated by our | Richmond tt be carried out, the Peterboro philanthropist will have a legitimate afforded him of telling “the truth, the whole truth, and nothiag but the truth.” ‘We do sincerely hope, therefore, that the federal and the Virginia authorities will arrive at o prompt understanding onthis matter, have Cooke put on trial before a district Judge of the United States, and process issued to compel the attendance of all porsons in this section of ‘the country whose names have been associated with the traitorous and murderous acts of Os- sawatomie Brown. We will then know to what extent Seward, Sumner, Smith, Lawrence, Greeley & Co., were aiders and abettors in this villanous conspiracy. Hurry up the indict- ments. Tar Zorich Treaty—Net ResvLtTs or THR Trauian Camparow.—The ratification of the Vil- lafranca armistice by the treaty of peace which has just been signed at Zurich has agatn fur- nished occasion to the journals hostile to the French Emperor to quarrel with the general results of the Italian campaign. Because the treaty embodies no fresh stipulations guaran- teeing the independence of the duchies, it is pretended that Napoleon has done but little— in fact, next to nothing—for Italy. The very absence of any new clauses in the treaty is, in our opinion, a proof of the sincerity and good faith of the Emperor. Were he really intent upon the restoration of the Hapeburg-Lorraine dynasties, there is no question but that the ra- tification of the peace arrangements would have contained some proviso, positive or contingent, in regard to them. Perhaps the truest indica- tion of his views on this branch of the Italian question is to be found in the satisfaction ex- pressed by the Parma and Modena delegations atthe result of their recent interviews with him. That fact, taken in conjunction with the omission from. the treaty of all mention of the exiled dukes, entitles the world to conclude that the Emperor has accepted the plebiscitum of the States of Central Italy as a total bar to their restoration, and ‘that he leaves to a gene- ral Congress the task of ratifying or rejecting the disposition which these States have made of themselves in connection with Sardinia. How, in the face of these facts, it can be argued that Napoleon has done but little for the future of Italy, it is beyond our power to understand. It is true that the Italians have materially helped their own cause; but who placed them in a position to do so with a guarantee against failure? If France had not first broken the power of Austria and driven her armies out of Lombardy, where would the question of Italian independence be now? Italy would, perhaps, at the present moment be laboring in the throes of another unsuccess- ful revolution, provoked by wild visionaries like Mazzini, to be again thrown back into a state of abject slavery and degradation. By the aid of France alone could the Italians achieve their liberties, for no other Power held the key to the difficulties which interposed be- tween them and independence. That it was Napoleon’s intention to drive the Austrians, toa man, out of Italy, there is no reasonable ground for doubt. He was prevented from doing 0 only by the action of Prussia and the certainty of a league being formed against him in Germany. Now that these dangers are re- moved and that the feeling of the German popt- lationsis drifting into an opposite current, he will leave the Italian people the fullest ixtitude to carry out themselves the programme of iis Italian campaign, Doubts are expressed as to the willingness of Austrid to go into a congress on the: ques- tion of the future settlement of Italy. We en- tertain none whatever on the subject, for the position of that Power is becoming so critical that she dare not return to her former state of isolation, vis-a-vis of the other European gov- ernments. Matters are in fact assuming so threatening an aspect in Germany in regard to her, that if she were again to attempt to offer any violence to public opinion in Europe she could not count upon being sustained by .a single member of the Confede- ration, The prosecutions which she is secretly instigating the smaller governments to undertake against those who took part in the recent great national movement are arousing such 6 spirit of indignation and resentment against her that it requires but another act of overt political imprudence on her part to call into existence a league having for its object the total extinction of Austrian influence in Germany. Austria never has been regarded as a German Power, strictly speaking, and the selfishness that she has manifested in compro- mising German interests for the advancement of her own particular views has turned against her almost every man who sided with her in her struggles for federal ascendancy against Prussia. It would be a singular, but not at all an unnatural revolution, in the present atate of political feeling in Germany, if Louis Napo- leon were to be called in to do for the German liberals what he has dono for the Italians— namely, to free them from the busy intermed- dling and intolerable despotism of Austria. Tax Reowrrarion or Vorers, under the new law which our black republican cotempora- ries invented, and about which they have been 80 severely exercised, was comipleted yester- day, and the exact result will probably be made known in a day or two. Considering that the process was entirely new, both to the regis- trars and the registered, and that the law is more elaborate than transparent, ta Hedge ~ The aj of the neha ip oe Rabel Save) aopetcing to all accounts, been entirely impartial, and afforded foe Seward and Wendell P.*Sltps State vy SidemAm Irrepressible Oo *Hiet Apatuss Hew Works Wendell Phillips has given us the Outspoken version of thé sentinients of William EH. gward. ‘The address of the abolition orator on Tuem'® evening in Heary Ward Beeoher's churok & the free expression of the brutal and bleedy ideas that were clothed with sophistry by the Tepublican demagogue at Rochester, a Little, Over ® yoar ago. We are not surprised at the greater frankness Of Phillips; he doce not want office, and he speaks pointedly—his fellow abolitionist secke Office, and 80 endeavors to trim his calls as te catch every breath. Phillips admits that “the lesson of the preseat hour is insurrection.” Seward asserts that it is “an irrepressible cem- fiict;” Phillips acknowledges that “insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of at mies;” Seward preaches moral insurrecties, omitting the point that it inevitably leads tay Phillips gives us the behestsof God ashe wa- deretands them; Seward reveals the “higher law;” Phillipe tells us that the governments & slaveholding communities are “pirate ships.” Seward proclaims that they must be over- thrown “by constitutional means;” Phillige exults that insurrection “is the re- sult of .antelavery’ toaching;” Sewned cautiously endeavors to hide the result of kis teachings; Phillips rejeloee that tho moke which once pelted him now turn the tables ; Seward exults that a hundred representatives’ and twenty-six Senators now cling to the “irre» pressible conflict,” where he once stood alone » Phillips rejoices over the self-attained freedom of Hayti, and looks forward to the time when we shall “have accomplished one-half of what has been done by a black nation ;” Seward hopes for the day when ng slave State shall exist in this broad confederacy. Such ts thd perfect union between the two orators—a unto which proclaims the self-same sentiments aa@ in nearly the same- language. The only diffe rence between them fs that one looks the re sults of his dootrines boldly in the face, and the other tries to hide them from his hearers, The great basis of our political system is the right of self-government. It is the requisite which the federal constitution imposes upon every State seeking admission to the Union ; it is the foundation of all political theories | amongst us ; it is the sentiment dearest to the American heart. Yet these teachings of Phil- lips and Seward are in direct antagonism with this truly American sentiment. They de not advocate that we should change our ows social and political forms—that we shail remove any evil among ourselves; but they urge that we shall force other communities aad other States to throw asido their own convie- tions as to what is beat for their own comme- nity, and govern themselves according to ear preconceived notions. It is in such a cause that Phillips labors to provoke insurrection, aad Seward exhorts to carry on the “irrepressible conflict.” Day after day, and night after night, they and their followers endeavor to rowse the Northern people to violate the very prinol- ple of self-government, which they esteem as their own best and dearest birthright, and te enter upon an “irrepressible conflict” of in- surrection and bloodshed; in order to‘impose upon the South social and political system imcompatible with the heterogenous elementa existing there. The men of New York are now called upoa to determine if they will abandon the cultiva- tion of their fields, the productive labors of their workshops, and the rich scenes of their peaceful commerce, and, obeying the teachings of Seward, and the exultant urgings of Wea- dell Phillips, imitate the example of Joba Brown at Harper's Ferry. Political demagogues like Seward may endeavor to hide the ends ta which such a course must lead, but fearless fa- natics, like Phillips, proclaim them; and reli- gious rafflans, like Brown, exhibit them practi- cally in their true light. This is the “irreprea- sible conflict” which they are called to carry on; and in another week their votes will be counted at the polls, which the right of self-go- vernment ereots. We ask every man in New York to reflect, what would be his own feeling if any other State or section of States were to seek to impose om us some new form of social and political organization? Let us suppose that the New England States were to adopt the so- cialistic ideas of Horace Greeley, and that Senator Wilson and Wendell Phillips were to proclaim there -that property is theft and preach an irrepressible conflict and @ crnscde against the people and the State of New York, hecause it zecognized the rights of property, would not the citizens of New York reject sucit dictation, and fight to the last against it? Ungloubtedly they would; and se- cession from # union with such tyrants would be the active sentiment of every patriotic olti- zen.of New York. Yet Seward and Phillipsare preaching @ worse war than this against the South, for they preach insurrection and massa- cre, Let the men of New York bring the case home to their own hearthstones, and decide aa houor and self-respect shall dlotate. Preacgers oF Szprrion anp Revo.urion— The speeches of the black republican leaders, such as Wendell Phillips, Tom Corwin, Sena- tor Wilson and others, at the present time, sus- taining and defending as they do the insurrec- tionary acts of John Brown, are nothing better than incentives to rebellion. If the Southern States should take it into thetr henda that this i the course whio® Wil Be pursued in the event of a republican candidate being elected to the Presidency next year, they may at once secede from the Union, They have only to call a convention in some South- ern city, refuse to send Senators or Represen- © tatives to Congress, declare themselves an in- dependent nation, organize an army for the protection of their frontiers from the ralds of the Northern abolitionists, make a treaty of re- cognition with England, and thus break up this confederation altogether. Thero is nothing to prevent them from doing this; and if they do what will become of the trade and commerce of the North—-of New York and Boston, and ‘other arge cities? This is asignificant question, which the preachers of revolution ought to answer. Frep. Dovenass ox THe Move.—Our distin- guished colored cotemporary, Fred. Douglass, has found it convenient to take the under- ground railway, of which he was one of the chief officers, and make himself scarce. He did not wait long enough in Rochester to write a leader about the Harper's Ferry affair, but left at once for Canada, as it is supposed. He pro~ mised Cook to be on hand for the fray, and te lead five hundred black men, but showed the white feather when i¢ came to the pinch. ‘The