The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. sAmums GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DeFICE N. W. CORNER OP NASSAU AND FULTON STS. >. edsSde Wokaume XXIV... ceseseessene ress Me BOD ——— == AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUBIO, Fourteenth street.—Iravian Orz- RA—StOUAN VRSPRES. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Roxr 0’/Mous—An flour as Bayne, BOWERY saearer, Bo —Tares Bras is tae tare or 4 Fineman—! ncos—Mu. AxD Mus, Paras Wure. WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway, opposite Bond street.— WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Fast Mum ov ram Oupan Traz—Gome rz Bunn. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Danais W BOWERY THEATRE, Bowew.—Uxccz Tom's Clue-VatasTixe AxD Onaom. Brosdway.—ANner- one uae Pg Rg tus Best Pou- OY—MARRIED AND Buns. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. Kentucky were sold at $1 60, and amber colored Jereey at $1 26, Corn was quict and easier, with emall sales of round and Southorafigellow at 98c. a $1. Pork was heavy and easier, with mess at $16 20a $15 25 and of Prime at $10 60.8 $10 6234. Sugars were firm, withsales of 1,200 4 1,800 hhds. and 900 bores at full prices. Cof- fee was firm and in fair demand, with sales of 1,200. | 1,500 bags Rio, in lota, at steady prices, Freight engage” | ments were quite light and rates unchanged. Vessels Were scurce, and those of the smaller class were in good. demand. . The “Irrepressible Conflict” in the New Congress—The House Organization. A few weeks ago many of the leaders and newspaper organs of the Southern opposition party wore actively advocating the co-opera- | tion of the Southern opposition members of the new Congress with the Northern republican party in the organization of the House, In support of this fusion, the paramount consider- ation advanced was the control of the House by the United opposition, in order that the manifold corruptions of the democratio party, in their expenditures and wastages of the pub- lio money, might be theroughly investigated and exposed to the American people. To se- cure this object, the Richmond Whig flatly WOOD'S MINSTREL'S, 444 Broadway.—Krarortan Sones, Danows, £c.—Btonaxp tux Turep. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall. 472 Broaiway.— Gounes at Puasons. SALOON, Broadway.—Gno. Cunurr’s Min- aremis ww Somos. Dances, Buxiesques, £0.—Misroatunes or Dowormmn Swipes. COOPER INSTITUTR—Rev. Dx. Scuppsn's Lacrunx ox ‘Humposrast ane tas Hixpoos. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, November 7, 1559. The News. The steamer North American, which left Liver- pool on the forencen of the 26th ult., arrived off Vather Point yesterday afternoon. The news is four days later, and is important. Spain ‘has formally declared war against Morocco. Nothing new had transpired with regard to the peace treaties. The cntente cordiale between France and Eng- land, if the journals of the respective countries are to be credited; is rapidly weakening. It is reported that certain administrative re- forms for the Papal States have already been agreed upon. The reported popular outbreaks at Palermo are confirmed. It is seported that Count Cavour is again a mem- ber of the Sardinian Cabinet, as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Changes are also reported in the Austrian Minis- try, Messrs. Hubner and Von Bruck having retired from the Police and Finance Departments. The retiracy of Von Bruck had had an unfavorable effect upon Austrian securities. The London money market was somewhat more stringent, and consols are quoted at 953 a 95]. At Liverpool the cotton market was firm, with an advancing tendency in prices. Provisions were un- changed. In the breadstuffs market flour was steady and unchanged, corn quiet, while wheat had advanced one shilling. Our European files by the America, which reach- ed this city from Boston early yesterday morning, contain little news in addition to that telegraphed from Sackville, N. B., and published in the HERALD on Saturday. We give to-day, however, highly in- teresting letters from our correspondents in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Rome, which truly reflect the , political excitements, and current news Pr 6-ny and on the Continent, to the latest moment. A perusal of the synopais of the heads of * contents of the different papers given in our intro- duction to the matter, will show that they are well worthy of attentive perusal. Rey. Dr. Cheever preached a sermon last evening in the Church of the Puritans on the “ Irrepresai- bie Conflict and John Brown's Rebellion,” ot which we present a full report. While he does not approve of the acts of Brown, he palliates his of- fence, and even denies that he has committed any treason. He hurls the wildest anathemas at the slaveholder and the government which protects * him, and declares plainly that the laws ought to be disobeyed. He intimates that Brown belongs in the category of those whom oppression has made mad, attributes his acts to the cowardice and treachery of a church and ministry which have failed to denounce slavery as they should have done, and closes with the declaration that “ if the men of peace will not apply God’s law against the sin of slavéholding, in the shape of argument and earnest truth, and the maledictions of God against it, the men of war will put it in the shape of bul- lets, and fight it out ; and God willlet them do it as his own scourge of awful wrath, terror and desola- tion to an insensate and hardened conntry.” Rey. Hugh Henry Blair delivered a discourse last evening in the Associated Presbyterian church, in Charles street, on the Harper's Ferry outbreak, in which he drew a parallel between Moses and Old Brown. He did not, however. endorse the ultra aboli- tion and revolutionary sentiments of Phillips and his coadjutors, but regarded Brown’s attempt as rash and unjustifiable. We give a report of Mr. Blair's address in another column. Archbishop Hughes yesterday afternoon per- formed the interesting ceremony of blessing the bells of the German Catholic church of St. Francis Seraph, in Thirty-first street, between Sixth and Beventh avenues. A brief account of the ceremony is given in another column. The First Freewill Baptist church, located in ‘Twenty eighth street, near Broadway, was dedi- cated with appropriate services yesterday. Rey. Mr. Ball, of Buffalo, preached in the afternoon, and Rev. Mr. Day in the evening. For the past two or three days we have been en- joying the most delightful weather, Usually the warm periods in the fall of the year are termed “Indian Sammer;” if this name be proper, then we have had a great many of them this season. They have been much enjoyed in the metropolis. Our theatres, opera honses and fashionable concert sa- loons have been well patronized; our dry goods palaces have been crowded with gay and nimble customers; our maisons de modes have been reap. ing rich pecuniary harvests, and our small shop keepers have had cause to be content. In our mercantile affairs for the past two months there ‘has been a constant stream of trade. Hotel keep- ers, manufacturers and mechauies have had their share of prosperity. The city is quite healthy. A promenade on Broadway or in our avenues will well repay the pedestrian, and a ride on Blooming- Gale and the other roads converging from the city will weil Fepay the Jeha who may make the expe- riment. From the French West Indies we have news dated at Martinique and Guadaloupe on the 27th of September. The disease which had been raging for some time at the former island had entirely dis- Appeared. The Governor of Martinique had autho- rized the re-publication of the journal Les Antilles, ‘which had been suppressed since December, 1857. The Stella had arrived at Martinique with 580 free laborers from the East on board, aa event which was hailed with great delight by the planters, ‘who Were much inconvenienced by the want of Aaborers. ‘The cotton market on Saturday was moro active, The Bales embraced about 6,800 a 6,000 bales, including 4,200 fn transitu. Among the latter was New Orleans middting bt 113¢6., with freight at 9.16d. The market closed firm, ‘but without quotable change in prices. Flour was heavy, ‘with modorate sales, while the market closed at about 60. a, 15c. decline, chiefly on the common and medium grades, ‘Wheatwas inactive, and quotations for most descriptions vere nominal, Small lote of choice white Plichigan and declared that it would sooner vote for “the blackest of the black republicans for Speaker than for any democrat whatever.” But “Old John Brown” hassuddenly changed all this. The slavery agitation, which,a month ago, was sensibly cooling down, is now all alive again, and roaring and orackling like a consum- ing fire, especially throughout the South. There is no longer any talk among Southern opposition politicians or journals of a coalition on their part with the black republicans in this matter of the organization of the new Con- gress. The “irrepressible conflict” of Seward, as practically interpreted by “Old Brown,” has. apparently created an\ impassable gulf between the two sectional wings of the opposition army. There is now no visible prospect of their fusion in the House organization; but, on the contrary, a coalition between the democratic and the Southern op- position members has ceased to be an impossi- bility. We do not suppose that the Southern opposition members will vote for a democrat for Speaker; but it is possible that the demo- erats will consent to support a conservative Southern opposition candidate, if by doing so they can secure his election, as against the republican party. . As our readers well understand, no party will have a majority in the popular branch of this approaching Congress; but the republicans will be within six votes of it, while the demo- erats will require some twenty-seven recruits to make up a majority. Thus, should they get all of the twenty-one Southern opposition mem- bers, they will still want a half dozen of the Northern anti-Lecompton faction to help them through. But,in drawing the line upon the main issue of slavery, as it now stands, can these anti-Lecompton men go over into a coali- tion between the regular democracy and the Southern opposition in the election of the Speaker? The question is a very nice one, and cannot be positively answered, short of some definite negotiations at Washington in reference to the Charleston Convention. We apprehend, however, that “Old Brown” has given the finishing touch to Mr. Douglas in the South, and that, consequently, the republicans may be able to secure the half dozen anti-Lecompton- ites necessary to make up a majority of the House, Mr. Douglas, with his Illinois delegation, will, it is generally understood, go into the democratic caucus; but we fear he will come out of it with his Charleston calculations upon his Northern balance of power cut out by the roots. Upon this hint the other anti-Lecomp- tonites, who have been sitting astride the fence with Forney, may jump down with him on the republican side, organize the House, and enter at once into the “irrepressible conflict” for the Presidency. At all events, and in view of any possible coalition, we fear that the organization of this new Congress will only be effected after a quad- rangular struggle between republicans, demo- crats, Southern opposition men and Northern anti-Lecompton anti-administration democrats, of many weeks duration. The contest, too, we fear, will be marked by more embittered sec- tional and party excitement, and personal ri- valries, antipathies and quarrels, than we have ever known heretofore on any such occasion. Indeed, should the State of New York pro- nounce for W. H. Seward to-morrow, we may pretty safely predict that the meeting of Con- gress will be the formal commencement of a fierce sectional struggle, the end of which looms up in the shape of a sepatgte Southern confederacy. Is New York ready for this con- tingency? Let her people answer to-morrow. The State Election To-morrow. To-morrow will come off the general election for this State, and,in one respect, it is an event of far greater importance than at first sight ap- pears. It hasa double aspect and double bear- ing—the one regards the State, the other the nation at large. As far as the State issues are concerned, it is of no importance whatever. The men on both tickets—the republican and democratic—are as like each other as eggs from the same nest. An attempt has been made to render the canals the party watchword under which to rally the interests of the State. But it isa mockery, a delusion, and asnare. Both par- ties have equally mismanaged the canals, and the leaders of both have grown fat upon the Spoils and plunder thereof, Millions on mil- lions of dollars have been already called for and raiged by loan for the enlargement and completion of the canals, and the payment of the interest of vast sums alleged to have been expended on them before. These millions have been eaten up by the greedy cormorants ot office, and still their cry is for more. They now want two anda half milions for the big ditch, which, of course, would soon be absorb- ed by an army of officials and contrac- tors, leaving the canals stil) unfinished, in order to furnish a pretext for Taising further loans. Under these circumstances, the safest and most constitutional way for the voters, without distinction of party, to act, is to reject theloan, and compel the Legislature to levy a direct tax, that every man may thus know and feel what comes out of his pocket ‘for public plunder. The bearing of the election on State interests has little or no significance ; but when we view it in a national light, it assumes a very different aspect. The platform of one party Consists, every plank, of Sewardism. The ticket; therefore, represents the ideas and senti- ments of the distinguished Senator of New York. “The irrepressible conflict” proclaimed in his sanguinary ultimatum at Rochester is endorsed by the resolutions of the State Con- vention which selected the names on the ticket. At Harper's Ferry the conflict began, and “ Har- per’s Ferry and revolution” ia the battle cry of the party. They go into the fight under the auspices of their god, John Brown, and they depend on his aid for victory. The other party, whatever may be their faults in other respeots, have taken conservative ground on this question, and they regard John Brown just as he is—an assassin and a brigand, who has committed a cold-blooded massacre, and would set this whole continent in one wild blaze of civil war if his power were only equal to his will. Harper’s Ferry as the battle ground of the commencement of “the irrepressible con- flict,” and John Brown as the hero of the drama, are inseparably mixed up with this election. They are part and parcel of the issue. The democracy, to give the devil his due, take the right side, and, therefore, the conserva- tive classes ought to vote for it. But those classes appear to be indifferent and apathetic toa degree that is painful to every patriotic mind. They do not appear to realize the dan- ger which is all around them and beneath their feet. They sleepon a volcano, whose mighty throes and torrents of burning lava may soon rouse them from their slumbers. That section- al strife and animosity which Washington fore- saw through the dim vista of futurity, and in his Farewell Address predicted as the pre- cursor of the downfall of the republic, have go far realized his gloomy forebodings, and, if not speedily suppressed and crushed bythe wisdom and high resolve of the conservative element, willsoon complete the catastrophe of which the Eather of his Country warned the people. Tf the ticket so intimately identified with William H. Seward and John Brown, the ban- dit, should be elected to-morrow, that will be regarded, both North and South, and through- out the land, as a triumph of the revolutionary principle, which will result in the elevation of the “higher law” prophet to the Presidential chair—the signal for the collision and decisive battle of “the antagonistic forces.” When that day ccmes, then farewell to the Union of States, and farewell to the glory and pros- perity of the American people. Like another Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the “higher law’’ in the other, Seward, in order to maintain himself, will have to march at the head of a fanatical propagandist army to wage a war of conquest or extermination against the South. The end of that conflict who can foresee? Such are the vast national interests which are imperilled and tremble in the balance at this election. If the conservative classes rally even at the eleventh hour, and throw their weight into the right scale, the country may yet be saved from the calamity which hangs over it. But if the startling events at Harper’s Ferry, and the tone and temper of the public mind North and South, are not sufficient to awake them from their apathy, there is nothing we are able to say that can have any effect. We hope it will not turn out that they have grown wise when it is too late. ‘Tue Tracers or Joun Brown—Cavse anv Errect.—From the statement of the Herald of Freedom, and from other testimony, it appears that Brown, when in Kansas, was in constant intercourse with men in the East who declared on the stump and in all their published corres- pondence, that their “only hope of abolishing slavery in the United States lay through reve- lution,” and from them he received funds and arms from time to time in prosecution of his war schemes. Now, when it is recollected that at a meeting held in Rev. Mr. Dutton’s church, at New Haven, in 1856, such men as Professor Silliman, of Yale College, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, called upon the students to sub- scribe for the purchase of Sharpe’s rifles for Brown and his followers, and that Beecher pledged himself on the part of his church in Brooklyn to raise twenty-five rifles, if twenty- five were raised then and there, what else could be expected than bloody results from such bloody instructions? Rev. Mr. Dutton on that occasion desired to present one of the fighting men who was going out with a Bible and a Sharpe's rifle; at the same time Mr. Beecher applauded the spirit of Robinson, who, when Governor Shannon went over to Lawrence and demanded his rifles, told him he would com- promise the matter by giving the Governor the contents and keeping the rifles him- self. “This is the sort of compromise,” said Beecher, “that will work.” In the same con- nection, he denounced the constitution of the United £'atesas the cause of slavery. Is it, then, to be wondered at thatBrown and his fol- lowers used the rifles sent out, to slay and mur- der, and that they attempted to overthrow the constitution and the general government by force of arms? As Beecher & Co. have sown, so they have reaped. They must abide by the consequences of their own acts. It will not do to call John Brown crazy now for doing that which their teach- ings prompted and which the means that they supplied enabled him to do. If he is mad, there is “method in his madness” which is dangerous to the peace of the country. If he is mad, Beecher and Greeley are equally mad, and ought to be taken care of by the proper authorities. They are responsible to God and man for what has been done at Harper's Ferry, and they ought to be deprived of the power of doing further mischief. Latest Paasr or THe Marve Liquor Law.— In Massachusetts they still have a prohibitory liquor law. Under its operation the Governor appoints a State agent, who furnishes to sub- agents, in the three hundred and odd towns, liquors to be sold for manufacturing, medicinal or mechanical purposes. Said liquors are to be pure and of the best quality. The office of State agent was considered to be a “very fat thing” in any point of view; but it is charged that the appointee of Governor Banks made it fatter by oausing the liquors to be adulterated, or “extended,” as the slang term is. Pending an investigation by a Legislative committee, the agent resigned, said resignation to take effect when the Governor could “make it convenient” to appoint a successor competent to take charge of the State grog. The Governor made it con- venient in, it is said, less than half a minute’s time, and appointed one Sleeper, who would not awake to the responsibility of the office, and declined. What is to become of the village topers now no one can tell. The country edi- tors are naturally excited on the subject; but they may keep cool, the Governor and Council, to say nothing of the Legislature, which seems to sit en permanence, will undoubtedly be equal t° the crisis. Muhicipal Polities—Uprising of Fernan- | Our Dispute with England—The Merits do Wood, The Albany Regency thought by their ma- neouvres at the Syracuse Convention, and the publication of the Wise-Donnelly letter, that they had quite killed off both Fernando Wood and Governor Wise ata blow. But they are mistaken, At this moment the demooratic com- pact existing between Wood and Wise is stronger than it ever was, and is more firmly cemented by the affair of Harper’s Ferry. The part which fell to the lot of Wise to playin Vir- ginia in this abolitionist insurrection, and the adroit fashion in which Wood is playing his cards in New York, will, itis probable, enable both to appear at the Charleston Convention brighter, and with better prospects, than was anticipated before the terrific onslaught of the Regenoy at Syracuse. Fernando Wood is, without peradventure, in the field for the Mayoralty at the charter elec- tion in December, and he is laying his plans skilfully for the contest, He has succeded in nominating, through his stronghold, Mozart Hall, such candidates for Judges, Corporation Counsel, Aldermen, and other officials to be elected, that he has left nothing for Tammany Hall to do but to take them up and endorse them. Thus, while there appears to be two democratic forces in the field, there is really, through Wood’s ‘management, only one; and that one is his own—for Tammany swallows the bait which Mozart has selected. Woe learn that he has set undercurrents to work also in the whig committees and American commit- tees, in such a fashion that before the charter election he will have so far acqnired an influ- ence in these two factions, and so completely got round Old Tammany, as to combine the whole into one party. After the State election there is no doubt that. Mozart Hall will nominate Wood for Mayor, and judging the probabilities of the fu- ture by what has been already so cleverly ac- complished, it is very likely that Tammany Hall may follow suit and nominate him too. Thus sustained by the now united fragments of these parties, and with the influence of his nomi- nees for Judges, Corporation Counsel and the members of the Common Council at his back, he will enter with flying bannersupon a regular Napoleon campaign—the most daring he has yet attempted. And to oppose him what have we? There is no combined opposition now, as there was two years ago, when Tiemann was elected by a combination of all kinds of forces, linked by the bond of common hostility to Fernando Wood. In chort, the election of Tiemann was a regu- lar fiasco, an experiment whose results are un- equivocal, and which will hardly be tried again. Success in thatcase brought no fruits to the victors, except dissatisfaction almost universal. The elements of a combined opposition do not exist te-day, and if they did there are few in- deed who would be rash enough to employ them after the lesson of 1857. Each clique and faction will probably have its own candidate to present, and thus, with a disjointed opposition against him, und a well organized force at his back, Wood calculates to ride triumphantly into power. The charter election being won, we doubt not that Wood's next step will be to procure the election of a delegation from this State, by districts; to the Charleston Convention, ac- cording to the programme of the Mozart men at Syracuse. When arrived in Charleston, Wood and Wise will undoubtedly combine all their influences to have the Regency delegation of Richmond, Wassidy & Co., rejected by the Convention, on the ground of free-soilism and hostility to the South. Itisa bold programme, but one we think plainly foreshadowed, and, perhaps, with the cunning brain of Fernando Wood to conduct it, not so very difficult of accomplishment. What do the Albany Regency men think now of the position of Wood and Governor Wise, whose prospects they fancied were wholly de- molished at Syracuse by treachery and breach of faith? ‘Our Candidates for Legislative Honors. To-morrow the worthy burghers of this an- cient city will have the immense privilege of declaring by their votes whom they will have to rule over them, or rather who among their number are most worthy to be entrusted with the high and responsible duties of participating in making laws for the State and city of New York. The election for municipal officers pro- per does not come off for another month or 80; butof late years the legislation for the city has been done, not in the City Hall of New York, but in the Capitol of Albany. The elec- tion to-morrow is therefore a matter of equal importance to usin a municipal as in a State point of view; for the most important measures that are to come before the next Legislature will refer to this city. The theory of a republican government is that the people will choose for public office the men best fitted and most trustworthy—men of respectable standing in the community, and who deserve and enjoy the confidence of all good citizens. That, we say, is the theory. The practice, however, differs somewhat; and it happens, inconsistently enough, that sometimes, nay, most frequently, men are chosen to sit in our legislative cham- bers, and to make laws to govern us, for no other reason than because they have distin- guished themselves as loafers, thieves, bullies, shoulder hitters, emigrant runners, swindlers, barkeepers, pettifogging lawyers, and in other cognate walks of life. At the election to- morrow our citizens will have to make selec- tions from among eighty or a hundred candi- dates, of whom a large proportion come within the foregoing general definitions. It may be that such aniecedents are most desirable for legislators, but it has not always been thought so. Some half of the candidates have a local habitation in our city and a name in the Di- rectory, and probably as many as one-fourth of them contribute to the support of the go- vernment by paying taxes. It may be, also, that even as many as one-tenth of the number are not entirely ineligible, but might, in any respectable community, appeal to the suffrages of their fellow citizens. These proportional estimates are, however, very liberal. With such a batch to choose from, voters can hardly do better than—to use a vulgar but ex- pressive phrase—“to go it blind.” Perhaps some wise politician may in time discover a mode of getting respectable candidates put forward; but till that good time comes, we must only putas good a face as possible on the matter, and gulp down the nauseous doses supplied in equal quantities by Mozart Hall, Tammany Hall, and the other political conventicles. of the tan Juan Question, Our Washington correspondence gives this morning a clear and thorough review of the San Juan question, now pending between our government and that of England, and which threatens to involve the good relations between the two countries. The despatch of Lord John Ruseeil, to which General Cass has already replied in an able manner, was not such as to awaken any good fecling or amicable disposition on this side of the water, and strenuous efforts were made in Lon- don at the time it was written to excite the public mind there on the question. Palmer- ston’s organ, the London Post, was excessively belligerent, and the London Times and other English journals followed in nearly the same strain. By the last steamer we have advices from London which assert that the English people took little interest in the subject, and that the course of Palmerston and Russell in the matter was little more than an effort to raise an excitement in order to divert the attention of the British public from other questions. The English press has also calmed down, and become quite silent upon it. Palmerston and Russell are deserving of severe reprobation for the course they have pursued, for nothing can be more criminal than their attempt to endanger the good relations between the two countries, in order to hide their own errors in administration. In addition to the facts and arguments pre- sented by our Washington correspondence, we ean add the following, which we have received from an authentic source. Mr. McLane, while Minister at London, writing on the 18th of May» 1846, to the State Department, detailing a con- versation he had held with Lord Aberdeen on the 15th of the same month, in which the British Minister laid down certain propositions of his government on which they were willing to set- tle the Oregon difficulty, says :— Thave now to state that instructions will be transmitted to Mr. Pakenham, by the steamer of to-morrow, to sub- mit a new and further proposition on the part’ of this government for a partition of the territory in dispute. ‘The proposition most probably will offer substantially, First—To divide the territory by the extension of the lino on the parallel of forty-nine to the sea; that is to say, the afm of the sea called Birch’s Bay; thence by the ul de Haro and Straits of Fuca to the ocean; and con- firming to the United States what indced they would pos- sess without any special confirmation, the right freely to use and navigate the Strait throughout its extent. The second and third paragraphs of the above extract from Mr. McLane’s despatch have been incorporated in a note from Lord John Russell to Lord Lyons, of recent date, with a declaration that Lord Aberdeen does not re- member about it; but Lord John has pur- posely omitted the first paragraph. These instructions to Mr. Pakenham, no doubt, may be still found in the archives of her Britannic Majesty's Legation at Washington, and perhaps it would be‘well for General Cass to ask Lord Lyons for a copy of them. The facts we publish to-day show conclusive- ly that we are entirely right in our claim to the San Juan island, and that even the British government knows that we are; and yet the British Cabinet, for ulterior purposes of their own, set up an unfounded claim and write in- solent despatches to Washington in support of it. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Buchanan has made up his mind to treat the subject seriously in his message, and to call upon Con- gress to provide at once the ‘means for defend- ing our rights. Viramta ArminGc—A Lanpwkar Yor THE Oxp Domrxton.—Our Richmond correspondence represents the existence of a most warlike state of things there. The militia throughout the State is being armed ; rifles are being distribut- ed even to the patriotic ladies who apply for them; the commander-in-chief is deep in the study of Scott's tactics and Forbes’ guerilla pamphlets ; tailors are all hard at work stitch- ing up military unforms; the ear-piercing fife and spirit-stirring drum are awakening the echoes among the Blue Mountains; the peaks of Otter seem to raise their tops higher into the sky, as if proud of the return of the days of chivalry; mountain howitzers are being sent in all haste to the border counties; a Napoleonic censorship over the press is exercised by the Charlestown colonels ; and finally a projet is being matured for presentation to the next Legislature, for the organization of all the able bodied men of Virginia, on the principle of the Prussian and Hanoverian Landwehr, Piedmont made no more active preparations when the Austrians were threatening to cross the Ticino last year than Virginia is making now to resist an abo- lition invasion over the banks of the Potomac. In fact, judging from the despatches of our correspondent, Virginia is mentally exclaim- ing, in the words of Richard before the battle of Bosworth ‘Field, “My soul’s in arms and eager for the fray.” We will not dispute the wisdom of the re- commendation to prepare for war in time of peace, but yet we cannot perceive the pressing necessity that exists for these warlike prepara- tions in Virginia. To be sure, Old John Brown made a foray on Harper's Ferry; but he is not very likely to repeat the experiment, and the Black Douglass, in his natural aversion to being “ bagged,” has taken flight northwardly into Canada. The enemy’s campis broken up ; their leader is ina Virginian prison ; their arms and munitions of war have fallen into the hands of the victors; and the three or four survivors of the army of the provisional gov- ernment have fled promiscuously, with prices set upon their heads. To be sure, it is supposed that Seward may soon arrive from England; but, traitor as he is, he will hardly bring a French or English fleet with him ; and Greeley, notwithstanding his professed anxiety to be present if there was any fighting to be done, has shown the white feather, or—which amounts to the same thing—has turned his back, with the old white coat thereon, upon Brown, and is exceedingly anxious that this modern specimen of a Praise God Bare- bones fanatic shall be jerked out of the world with aM speed. As for Forbes, the Dugald Dal- getty of the enterprise, ho has disappeared of late, lest a subpcena might find him and compel his attendance before the Federal Court in the Harper’s Ferry district, In a word, the insur- rectionary movement against Virginia is tho- rougly squelched out. It seems, therefore, that the organization of | the Virginia Landwehr is a most useless piece of extravagance. As to the idea of defraying the expense through the means of a commutation tax to be imposed on those who will not don the uniform and shoulder the musket on parade days, we know from the experience we have had in this State how foolish such an expecta- tion is. The commutation taxes here go to paying for target excursions and such like, or are divided up among the officials; surely not five per cent goes to the legitimate purpose of Nee a SS EEE SS the imposition. It would be better for Gover- nor Wise, if be will have a Virginian Landwehr, to saddle its expense upon the Virginian oystera, If that will not do, he had better forego the Pleasure of training equadrons in the field, par- ticularly as that isa pleasure which he cam only hope te indulge in for a few wee) longer. (ri itiecisatinatinimmsinnes Sensation Journalism—The Frankem= stein of Abolition, Under the head of “sensation papers,” the Journal of Commerce deprecates the idea of ox- panera ta sanepitsnes of the events which ave recently taken place at Hanper’s Fi and of magnifying the danger of the dense one section of the, Union interfering with the domestic institutions of another by violence and bloodshed and attempted revolution, We agree with our sage cotemporary. The danger ought not to be magnified; it is great as itis; and the Harper’s Ferry outbreak is sufficiently important without exaggeration, There is no need of the papers trying to make a sensation; the facts themselves are only tee formidable. " In this we think our sedate and pious com. temporary is right. But he does not go far enough. He ought to go back one step, amd seek and find the source of all the danger and sensation, Like a skilful surgeon, he ought te probe the ulcer to the bottom. Let us holp him to a thorough diagnosis of the disease. We hold in our hand the prospectus of the first sensation daily paper ever published in this city. It is printed on a sheet of letter paper, with a'circular attached on the fly-leaf. It ia as follows: PROSPECTUS OF A NEW DAILY PAPER, TO BE CALLED 1a proposing ing o nda natnee aay paver hei P to ay ly to the number already published in this city, ‘the projectors deem it proper to state, that the measure has been neither hastily ner unadvisedly undertaken. of wisiom, intelligence and character have been with one velee have recommended its establishment. Believing, a8 we do, that the theatre is an institution which all experience proves to be4uimical to and consequently tenthing to the destruction of our lican form of government, it is a part of our design to ox- clude from the columns of the Journal all theatrical ad- Tithe per aiclowsinfizence of letscies being ¢ pernic uence ri the majority of intelligent men, and this opinion colaane ing Roy our own, all lottery advertisements will alse be excluded. In order to avoid a violation of the Sabbath by the, set- ting of types, collecting of ship-news, &c., om that day, the paper, on Monday morning, will be issued at a lates hour than usual, but as early as possible after the arrival of the mails, In this way the Journal will an by several hours, a considerable part of the news contained in the evening papers of Monday, and the morning of Tuesday, and will also give the ship-news co! after the publication of the other moi papers. Like other daily commercial papers, it is the dosign ef the Journal of Commerce i exhibit rovoments im tt erature, science apd the arts, such as shall be acceptable to the statesman, the gcholar, and especially the mer- chant. Every etlort shall be made, by the employment of competent agents, to secure the earliest and most authentis news, and the projectors of the Journal are pledged that it shall in norespect suffer by a comparison with other papers. With these views, we ask the co-operation of who are friendly to the cause of morality, in our undertaking. ‘New York, March 24, 1827. EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF A MEETING OF MERCHANTS AND OTHERS, AT THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIXTY’S HOUSE, MAROW 24, 1827. Resolved, That the of a new daily commer- cial paper, to be called the svew York Journal of Gom- ‘merce, ba been laid before this meeting, we approve of the plan upon which it is to be conducted, and cor- dially recommend it to the of all friends te good morals and to the stability of our Dy gs instita- tions. UR TAPPAN, Chairmaa. Ror Locxwoon, Secretary. Deak Sin—The enclosed Rhy taney of a new commercial paper is respectfully otfored for your 5 eration, with accompanying documents, shot the cause of a measure in which some of the most = War obec Laphieged of our city are united. o Proposed paper meet a tion, your subscription is Peepecttully sulicked, an year exertions in procuring other names. To avoid the necessity of a further call, Please leave the prospectus, with the name or names appended, se that it can be obtained in case of your absence. Here, then, is the first sensation daily paper ever published in this city—the first abolition journal which sowed the seeds of revolution, which have taken root in the land, sprung up in luxuriant growth, and are now ripened inte an abundant crop of treason. Under the ans- pices of Arthur Tappan, the notorious leader of the abolitionists of New York, this anti-slavery journal, whose fanatical spirit may be seen im the paragraphs of its prospectus about the theatre and the “violation of the Sabbath,” is launched on the community for the propaga- tion of revolutionary ideas. This is the foun- tain of the mischief—the source of the dark, bloody stream which, running under ground, emerged to the light at Harper's Ferry. In process of time changes were made in the ownership of the Journal. Hallock and Hale were the original proprietors and editors, and one of them is still the senior editor. Its con- temporaries say that it discovered at last that cotton was more profitable than niggers, and that therefore it abandoned out-spoken red- mouthed abolition, and only exercised its phi- lantbropy occasionally in the shape of raising a subscription of a few hundred dollars to pur- chase the freedom of some unhappy negro, or to send out free Africans to Africa. In these mbdes, or in some similar way, the Journal now and then betrays its original proclivities, and returns periodicaMy to its first love. Whenthe fit is upon it, it waxes so wonderfully philan- thropic that it might easily be mistaken for an organ of abolition in disguise. Of one thing, however, there can be no mis- take, and that is that the Journal of Commerce was the first anti-slavery daily paper ever is- sued in New York, and that the revolutionary sentiment it generated and spread has takem hold to a dangerous extent on the public mind, producing its natural results in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry. For the violent speeches and lectures of the anti-slavery leaders, for the, se- dition of the revolutionary journals, and, what is more dangerous still, for the fanaticism with which so large a portion of our Northern popu- lation is imbued, rendering it as combustible as gunpowder on the application of the match, the Journal of Commerce is in a high degroe re- sponsible. For the recent actual treason and outbreak in Virginia it is morally, if not legally, answerable. It planted the tree of abolition in our midst, and though it has taken many years to bear its mortal fruit, the connection between the cause and the effect is plain. We do not wonder that the Journal seeks to make light of the perilous condition of society which is its own work. The wish is father te the thought, and it would now gladly get rid of the consequences of its own teachings. But, like the hero of Mrs. Shelly’s wild romance, it has raised o horrid monster which it cannot quell. Its silly attempt to dépre- ciate a danger of whose existence it is perfectly conscious resembles the effort of a boy who, in passing a ghost-infested grave- yard by night, whistles to keep his courage up, while his hair stands on end, his cheeks are blanched, his heart is in his throat, and his fears, in big drops of perspiration, eoze from every pore. Like Macbeth, who saw the shades of eight kings, with the murdered Banquo, passing in review before him, and exclaimed, “I'll see no more!” the Journal is appalled at the appa- ritions of the men murdered at Harper's Ferry,” and the long line of those who are to fall vic- tims to the game fanaticism ; it wishes te Gee