The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1859, Page 4

4 N&W YORK HERALD. —eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Qeriow N. W. OORNEE OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ME Sele “Posigs wampe net 1 aaa wl Do ot Se bee 3/4 HERALD. to conta , 81 per annum. Fh WEEELY HERALD, scory Saturday, Peseen wibseas bo ony i por anaes to-any part of Great Brisas, Fadiisenia tation’ on the Buh amd fervopyor $1 00 per annum. FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four conta par annum. raeY CORRESPONDENOB, te ate and prices have slightly declined. There have ewe, collevied any fray r For Comuzsromi ans prin Ero Boouseap 5 Saar ait ‘Larrens amp Pagu- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1859. home to Germany. The weekly statement showed | question. Such is uot the fact. The heads of the number of emigrants arrived at this port | the plot are gentlemen whe occupy high places during the week to be 2,458, which makes tho | in (he metropolis, and some of them are men number for the present year 74,149. The balance who have been supposed to be quite conserva- of the commutation fund is now $17,164 35. tive in their opinions. The affair is in ‘The demand for beef. cattle at the different sales yards during the week ending yostorday was the bands of a committee having its headquar- very fair, with some improvement in prices, which ters near Wall street, and among its members ranged from six to ten and @ halt oents per pound. | are several prominent lawyers, editors and Cows have been dull of sale, and their value re- | merchants of this city. They have agonts and mains unchanged. Veal has been in fuir request, | correspondents in all the Northern and West- Be ne coats at old rates, while sheep and lambs were actively | ern cities; in Baltimore; Wilmington, Dela. sought for at an advance of twenty-five cents on all ware; Weshington; Whitehall, Kentucky, and kinds, The market is well supplied with swine, St. Louis, Their documents are endorsed by been on sale during the week 3,200 beeves, 122 | SMe sixty or seventy members of Congress, cows, 602 veals, 13,483 sheep aud lambs, and and their list of subscribers contains the x, 11,500 swine. names of all the leaders of the Seward faction, ‘apyseruuauTs rencwed mvory dag; advertisements ta- The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 | a8 well as those of some persons who, we fear, ported te Ue Waxes Hanus, Fame and @ % | valcs, including a'portion in transit. ‘The market closed | have not read the incendiary publications “Shas PRINTING asanaed with seatness, cheapness and de- | tamely on the basis of about 11}¢0. a Ne. Tho mail | which thoy have paid for. accounts give the receipts at the ports, gince the Ist of |- Wodamee KXTVsccscscsesssssssessseseseseMOe B96 | September last, at 1,089,000 bales, against 962,000 for tuo | This movement is an exceedingly important nae eRe sorserseoriserases same period last year. If'we add the receipts reported | one, and needs a complote and thorough venti- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, AOQADEMY OF MUSTO, Fourteenth street ei—Matunen at 1—Nonai—Li Taovarons—T, fog—Lvois Dr Lawacznwoon, GARDEN, Broadway. 1—O'FLANNIGAN Groom. | Ev ‘AnzLanp a8 it Was—Lat ‘Harry Man. THEATRE, Bowery.—Afternoon—Tnnem Haas ue Lape Or 4 flaexan VOU G0-ViestAborte Cus Kventog—Tnnee Beas i tox Live or 4 FinsmaN—LEOLi— ‘Tom Ousno.n's Loe. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Dor—Burcx. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Rowance ann Re- Autr—To Pants axp Back. =i Orn. aan Ore excess of those for the same time during any othor year 'W FOR LADIES | The 1,200,000 bales already received, valued at $50 per by telegraph we shall find that the receipts since the Ist | lation. When men of high position deliberate- of September will amount to 1,200,000 bales, which isin | 1y proceed to foment a sectional strife which t one end, namely, the dissolu- in the history ofthe country, At this rate tho crop of | Cannot have but 1860, estimated at 4,000,000 to 4,250,000 bales, will befully | tion of the Union, anarchy, bloodshed, and all half in the market by the first or second week in January. | the horrors of civil war, to be succeeded, per- - wa bee vec ae haps, by the overthrow of our institutions and of 450 Ibs., amounts to tho sum 000, pe Macrae arasiectencoeeuns- the substitution of a military despotism, or por ch, cal ‘exibadds so0e bales, which, by the | Dalfa dozen of them, it is time that the true same valuation, amounts to the sum of $25,600,000. friends of the Union, the constitution and the Kstimating the freight at one cont per Ib,, or | laws, North and South, should take some de- $4 60 por bale, It would give the sum of $2,804, | cided steps for preservation. 000 received for freights, By allowing 1,600 bales to the cargo, it would require 340 vessels to transport the LAURA EEENE'S THEATRE, 621 Broadway.—Wire’s | 512,000 bales aircady shipped, or 256 of the capacity of Becrat—Nonma. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Afterncon—Yours wuat Neves Saw 4 Woman—Pappr Carer—Fast WouEN oF ur Mopexw Time—Foux Lovens. Evet Martgo Fa. coxn—Brrax O'LYNN—Fast WOMEN Of THE MODERN TutE— Gowen Axe. THEATRE FRANCAIS, 59 Vroadway.—Le Det Monpr. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Morn- fog, st 10—Loer Som. Afternoon, at 13; and 35—Pxor.e's Liwrex, Evening, at 7}¢—Kustacue Baupin. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Afternoon and Eveung—Etutortax Soncs, Dances, &.—Mystio Sre.i. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechapies’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Afternoon and Evening—WiDE AWAKE. 2,000 bales each. The vessols thus employed are chiefly owned in the Northern States. The exports made, by mail accounts, Jeft a stock on hand in the ports of 88,000 bales, against 580,000 last year. Flour was firm, and in fair request, but without change of moment in quotations. Wheat was firmly held, while sales were limited. Corn was firmer, especially old, while new was in fair request ‘and unchanged. Pork was more active and firmer, with sales of mess at $16 a $16 25, clear at $17 25, and prime at $1125. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 700 hhds. and 1,500 boxes, on terms given in another place. Coffee was active, including the auction sales of Rio. Tho transactions footed up in the aggregate 11,600 bags, at The Lendon Times and the American Press. The leading journal of Great Britain has never been especially in love with any of the institutions of the United States, and has devoted itself during the last twenty years to acrimonious attacks upon everything Ameri- can. More especially has the Times assailed the New York Heratp. Therefore we are not surprised to see that our view of the San Juan difficulty docs not meet with the approbation of the “Thunderer,” which rarely lightens. NIBLO'S BALOON, Broadway.—Afernoon and Eyening— | prises given in another place. Freights were firmer, es- | This hostility of our transatlantic cotemporary, Gko. Cunisry’s Minstegis 1x Soncs, Dances, BURLESQUES, (&0.—Biace Starvx. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 72) Broadway.—Drarron’s Par- 108 Oreeas anp Lyxic Paovenss. UBATE MrHitane. = TRE.—Morning, After 4 Rveoing forme rOuMaNCES, Comte Panrourens, £0, a. SSS Now York, Thursday, November 24, 1850, The Nows. The screw steamship Indian, belonging to the Liverpool and Canadian Steamship Company, which sailed from Liverpool on the 9th instant, for Port- land, Maine, got on the rocks of Mary Joseph, off Guysbero, Nova Scotia, at five o'clock on the morn- ing of Monday, the 2st instant, and is a total wreck. She parted amidships and had lost three men and two boats at the date of our last reports from Portland, and Sackville, N.B. The remainder of the passengers and crew were saved; but as the Nova Scotia Telegraph line refused to keep open beyond the usual working hour last evening, we do not know as yet where they were taken to, or how they fared. From the same cause our reports of the disaster are very meagre. The Indian was a first class iron propeller of one “sand seven hundred and sixty-four tons bur- rita ne was built in Dumbarton, Scotland, in the year 1856, anu enjoyed @ very good reputation for speed and safety, Pi was two hundred and eigh- ty-three feet long, and fittea ith five water-tight bulkhead compartments. Her ongu.é Was 4 verti- ‘oul direct one, with two cylinders Of sixty-tw? incncs @ ‘diameter and a three and 4 half feet pecially for Liverpool, with engagements of 700 bales of cotton at 816d, a 7-324. per Ib. Another Abolition Plot—Fanaticism in High Places. It bas long been a matter of juat re- proach to the conservative and order- loving citizens of the North that they have paid but little or no attention to certain vital political interests, the importance of which is Rochester by Seward, although condemned by all right feeling men, failed to receive the full ed. Our people are so busily engaged in get- ting rich, and they are accustomed to treat the go on by itself, but to resist the efforts of the conspirators who are endeavoring to break it Ferry affair was leoked upon as the insane wort ou the fuss that has been made about it. stroke. As our reade?s are aware, the first steamship that crossed the Atlantic was the Sitids, in 1838. The regular line of Kuropean steamships was started by Mr. Cunard in 1840, and since that time there Lave been lost on the Atlantic twelve steain | vessels, making an average in nineteen years of But recent v.28 would seem to show that sotne of the leaders o. the Seward faction were more or Jess implicated with old Brown. They hoped, by sending the old man and his follow- ets to a Virginian gibbet, they could influence the North against the South, and make capital in every eighteen months. The disasters | for a purely sectional contest for the Presiden- ; e may be summed up as oy ia 1860. ‘This is the game of the republican | t bring the con" tution and laws into con- may be summed up as follows:— 1. 2. 4. 6. . A few only saved. | 8 Never heard of. v. A few only saved. 10. wever Neard Of Burned, with ‘Three lives low- | ane ea . is a town situate at the — «dian was wrecked, the main land of * utmost eastern extremity of thousand Sr” ~ova Scotia. Ithad about eleven acpo’ —-suabitants when the last census of its bs .ation was taken. No news of the steamship Circassian, which was to have left Glasgew on the 12th, had been re- ceived at St. Johns last evening. We have news from the West Coast of Africa dated at Monrovia, Liberia, on the 5th of October. rade was dull, with the exception of a traffic in rice. The United States vessels Sumpter and Mys- tic had left Monrovia for Cape Palmas. Coffee was sold at from sixteen to eighteen cents a pound. Hon. J. F. Smith, Colonial Secretary, died at Sierra Leone. Advices from Turks Islands of the 6th of Novem- ber state that W. H. Bontekoe, master of the stranded Dutch brig Adrian Georg, expressed grati- tude to the American Consul,Gen. J. B. Hayne, for his great kindness to himself and crew under cir- cumstances of deep distress. Recent advices from New Mexico state that Kit Carson, the celebrated mountaineer, had died at ‘Taos, in that State, where he had been acting as Indian agent. Accounts from the Plains seem to indicate a somewhat hostile feeling of the Indian tribes, the Upper Missouri Sioux having declared vengeance against all whites found in their territory. Mr. Schoonover, the agent to the Uppor Sioux Indians, reports that the Yellow Stone river is navigable for steamers nine hundred miles from its confluence with the Missouri, and that goods can be landed within four hundred miles of Salt Lake City. Governor Wise left Harper's Ferry yesterday morning for Richmond. The Governor received a despatch from Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania, tendering him the services of ten thousand men, and offering to station guards along the Pennsylva- nia and Maryland boundary. The people of Charles- town are in a state of great nervous excitability, and quite a panic was got up among them on Tues- day night by a ridiculous mistake of a sentinel. Yesterday morning they were again startled by the report of guns, anda sentinel rushing in, who de- clared he had been fired at by three men whom he had hailed. The firing is thought to have been a prank of some soldiers. Such difficulties as have grown out of the Clayton- Bulwer treaty with Great Britain are reported as being in ® fair way of adjustment through the agency of Mr. Wyke, English Minister to Central This day having been appointed by the Governor anaday of thanksgiving, will be appropriately observed throughout the State. The law courts fhave adjourned over to Friday, and business gene- rally will be suspended throughout the city. It will be seen, by @ communication in to-day's Hignaup, thatthe telegraphic despatch from Wash. ington,, which we published yesterday, as to a defalcation of $20,000 in ex-Postmaster Westcott’s accounts, is contradicted. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emi gration yesterday no business was done except the passing of a resolution to send an invalid emigrant oat 38 of life, les,ers, but the questio! still a doubtful one. Thore is still another scheme on foot, started by the politicians, and looking forward to ne less a result we the eruption of si ae The plan of < perations i8 felly detailed in let. ters, secre. i which have come in. 2 which will shortly be pubi:shed. Ths latest abolition scheme isto be carried Sato effect with Northern money, and this city is expected to furnish the larger amount of the disunion capital. Bitter incendiary and treasonable attacks upon the institutions and people of the South are to be printed and distributed as clec- tioneering documents to affect the result of the next Presidential election. One of these docu- ments puts the South in a terrible crisis, and proceeds to mark out a way of escape from the dilemma. That way is for the North te demand the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery, whether the slaveholders like it or not. The North is to say to the South, we are richer, cleverer, and altogether better than you; there- fore you will please liberate all your slaves; and assume all our habits of thought, labor, &c., &c. In one document before us the most rabid howlings of Seward and his imitators are gathered together into the choicest of treasona- ble bouquets. The Southern people are called “the stupid and sequacious masses—the white itis “weltering in the cesspool of ignorance and degradation.” The reader is continually reminded of the “demagogical manceuvrings of the Sonthern oligarchy,” of the “contempti- ble insignificance” of the Southern States, their “humiliating dependence upon the free States,” their “infamy and degra- dation,’ the brutality and tyranny prac- tised by slaveholders, not alone upon negroes, but upon poor white men; the impo- verishment and degradation of the South, and much more to the same purpose. The remedy for all this, according to this brochure, must be applied by the North. “Slavery and slayve- holders, as a natural consequence, must be victims of slavery;’’ and the South is told that | which we take quite as a matter of course, has seriously exercised the finer feelings of the Tribune philosophers, who get very melancholy while considering the fact that the Zimeg per aistently quowe we HARALD AB the oe tive and model of American, journalism,” and consequently #8 the fairest exponent of the views of the people or thc United States. The Tribune proceeds to say that “the New Yorx daily becoming more and more apparent, Thus Heratp is scarcely American in anything but the brutal and bloody manifesto put forth at | the locality of its issue,” and that “novody ever heard one of its editorials read and int- agined that he was listening to the utterances measure of obloqny to which it was richly en- of any other American journal.” Further, the titled. This proclamation was followed, asa | 7tmes is informed by the Tribune that the logical sequence, by the attack upon Harper's | Henatn does not in any way represent Ameri- Ferry, which, though it took the country by | C22 journalism, and that the British public surprise, might and ought to have been expect- | Ought to know it by this time. Now, as to the particular question at issue the claim of the United States to what the 7ri- operations of politicians so contemptuously, bune calls the “insignificant island,” we believe that they quietly abstain from participation in | that the Hrraxp represents the opinion of the Political affairs. They seem to think that the | ™asses of the American people, as it always government has sufficient vitality, not only to | bas done heretofore. The second charge, that the Herarp is not an American journal, is too absurd to be entertained fora moment. The down. Holding to these views, the Harper's | Course of this journal has always been uni- formly and consistently national. We have ‘freak of a few fanatics—an attempt hardly always, and to the best of our ability, defended and supported the Union of the States, the con- stitution, and the great principles of common law upon which the foundations of eivilized society rest. From this high conservative posi- tion we have never wavered or, yaried in the slightest degree. What is the ‘g-ihune’s record? For many years Greeley ‘and his coadjutors have labored earnestl~, to dissolve the Union; as to its success ig | tempt; to subv- it the existing order of things by the intr auction of Fourier' Spiritualse- “sm, Socialist, all an, Free Love-ism, Agrarianism, ghd we don’t really know how many more “ isnts,” Never able to master more than a few hundred crazy fanatics to the support of any of its new -+ circulars and printed documents | fangled notions, imitated chiefly from bad ta our poszession, and | foreign models, the Tribune has aban- doned them one by one, and now devotes itself entirely to niggerism. With one eye gonstantly upon Exeter Hall, and the other on Canada, ignoring altogether the rights of fifteen of the States, the Zribune’s claims to be considered an American journal are certainly of the very slightest character. Like the pro- vincials whom it admires so much, the Tribune is often more English than the English them- selves. We are quite willing to agree with the Zribune in its statement that the Heraxp is “utterly unlike any other American journal.” We es- tablished this newspaper upon a definite plan; it was quite original, and we have never diverted from it. The Tribune and some other papers have attempted to imitate us, but with so small a degree of success that no one could be deceived for a moment with the bad coun- terfeits they have presented. Itis refreshing to see the Tribune acknowledge this fact so can- didly; and we have some hopes now that Greeley will, while at the confessional, give the publjc some further light upon the various s@imes in which he has been interested. It is idle to say that the European journalists are not fully acquainted with the position of the New York Heratp as a mirror of the American mind. They are obliged to accept it and quote it as such; and, notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts to the contrary, no journal, other than the Henao, is recognized abroad, either by statesmen or journalists, or Religion and Literature Covers. A good many people have had and ex- pressed serious doubts as to whether the invention of printing has really been a benefit to mankind; and, when we consider the man- ner in which the “art preservative of all arts” has been prostituted by bad book makers, the dubitation of the old fogies who believe in the days of illuminated missals and monkish manu- scripts does not seem so absurd as it may ap- pear to the first view. If we examine the literature of Hoagland at the time of the Restoration, we shall find the most brilliant talents prostituted for the grati- fication of a most corrupt and lascivious court. But with the progress of civilization in England came @ new and purer order of literature. Richardson and Scott, and Marla Edgeworth and Marryatt, and in our own country Cooper and Irving, have proved that there is no reason why the romancist should pander to the baser passions of humanity, uriess it may be found in his poverty of invention or sterility of ideas. Still there has grown up in this country within the past twenty years a morbid appetite for what is oalled yellow covered or sensation literature. Sueh stuff as Ainsworth’s “Jack Sheppard,” “Rookwood” and “Old St. Paul’s;” the works of Reynolds, and the still more dangerous novels of the French writers of the school of Paul de Kock, George Sand and Ernest Feydeau, have been freely re- printed, translated and imitated in the United States, and have worked more mischief than any ono can imagine. In England a class of sensation writers, chiefly of the softer sox, has lately appeared. They are generally forlorn spinsters, hard baked in the furnace of afflic- tion, and acidulated by the various trials and tribulations which they have experienced in their researches after husbands. These are the “powerful writers,” the “aoute analysts of the human heart,” the panegyrists of agonized go- vernesses and servant girls who love not wisely but too well. Imitators of the Jane Eyre school are numerous in this country, but their books are so terribly and metaphysical dull as to do very little harm, in Yellow : The Yellow coverea literature, pure and sim- ple, such as the works of Reynolds and the Sunday newspaper novellettes, have a very large- circulation among the working classes here, and occupy the time which might more profitably be given to wholesome reading. A little higher in the social scale we find a considerable circulation for the light French literature of the day, which instils into the mind the most dangerous moral poison. The natural effect of this sensation literature on the minds of people so mercurial, imagina- tive and excitable as we are, is of course ex- ceedingly injurious. A powerful corrective for its evil tendencies might be found in the pulpit; but the parsons are afflicted with the money getting mania of the day; and so far from rebuking the prostitution of litera- ture for filthy lucre, they absolutely imitate and copy the sin which they should rebuke. In point of fact, the manufac- turers of sensation sermons are far more in- dustrious, and much better paid, than the makers of sensation novels. In former times it was supposed to be the mission of the clergy to preach the Gospel of fruth and righteousness, peace and good will to menu. Iu those days the pulpit was a school of morals and religion—the type of all that was good, pure, elegant and refined in literature. Now-a- days your popular preacher sacrifices every- thing to make a sensation. He aims to stir up sectional strife, to embitter partisan feclings, to foment social animosities, and he does not hesi- tate ata broad anecdote, an indelicate double entendre, or even an oath, in order to raisc ay iia on. Fem Tt sange ef erente anne ~ sat often degrades himself below the intellectual level of his more ignorant auditor. This class of clergymen is found chiefly in the Northern States, although the South has its Brownlows as well the North its Beechers, Cheevers and Wheelocks. The latter, how- ever, are examples, par ewcellence, of the tribe. The gospel they preach is a gos- pel of rifles, of revolvers, of fire, murder, insurrection, and all the horrors of civil war. According to Beecher and Whee- lock, John Brown, who caused the death of several unoffending persons, is a hero, a martyr and a saint. Mr. Harrison Ainsworth induces his vulgar readers to take a similar view of Jack Sheppard, and Turpin the highwayman. Rey- nolds ennoblesthe character of a housebreaker, and draws tears from sympathetic chamber- maids, by his description of a magnificent mur- derer. What Ainsworthand Reynoldsand Cobb are to literature, Beecher and Cheever and Wheelock are tothe pulpit. The yellow covered religion of the latter draws the tears from the eyes and the dollars from the pockets of all the old maids and crazy abolitionists in the land. The yellow covered preachers turn many a penny by their trade. They are adver- tised and puffed, and posted about the street corners, exactly in the same way that a new actor, orafresh prima donna, or a big ele- phant, is introduced to public notice. They drag their sacerdotal robes through the muddiest and filthiest pools, provided there isa dollar embedded in the slime. They dis. grace their holy calling and betray the Master they profess to serve. They are far worse, these yellow covered preachers, than the yel- low covered litterateurs, because the latter make no pretensions to sanctity, while the for- mer are always praying at the street corners, public men of any grade. To obtain this posi- tion we have never, like the Greeleys and Jefferson Bricks of the New York press, truckled to or fawned upon or toadied distin- guished European trayellers; and when we have an opinion upon our foreign affairs which throttled.” This is to be done by a “great revolutionary movement,” by which every vic- tim of the vile institutions of the South is to be freed from the tyranny of an “inhuman oligarchy.” In the meantime, slaveholders are to be deprived of all political, social and re- ligious privileges. They are to be strictly and thoroughly tabooed, out-voted, bullied, cut and insulted by non-tlaveholders, North and South. And finally, whatever the South may say or do, its institutions are to be at once abolished, and its social system arranged upon Northern models. Such is the general tenor of these documents, which are spiced with elegant extracts from the abolition harangues of Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Beecher and other abolition orators. Of course it will be the natural supposition of our readers that the persons engaged in cir- culating such stuff are those who are known to be fanatical in their opinions upon the slavery may be unpalatable on the other side of the water, we do not hesitate to express it. Furthermore, we are not desirous of. being classed with the local press. With a few ex- ceptions, the newspapers in this country are governed by broken down politicians and dilapidated stock gamblers. They all labor to subserve the interests of the particular clique that keeps the breath of life in their poor, weak, attenuated bodies. What few ideas they may express, and nearly all their news, are stolen bodily from us. As we are engaged in printing a free and independent journal—one which progresses steadily with the develope- ment of the country, and the increase of popu- lation and material wealth in the metrepolis— we do not wish to be mixed up with any of the scurvy fellows who live on the proceeds of official plunder, bogus banks or dead men’s bones. The Heraty has always been sui generis; and so it will be hereafter. and crying “Get thee behind me, for I am holier than thou,” in the market places. They are false shepherds, swindlers in borrowed robes, who steal the livery of Heaven to serve the devil and pocket the almighty dollar in. And this brings us to the conclusion that there will not probably be any lack of a supply, either of yellow covered religion or literature, while the demand continues to be as brisk as it is now. Let us hope, however, that, like all other morbid appetites, these will have their day, and that purer and better taste will grow up among our people. Tuk New Conaress—A Canoe ty THe Sovra- ERN Oprosirion Procramme.—Down to the late Harper’s Ferry affair, some of the most conspi- cuous of the Southern opposition leaders and journals earnestly advocated thé policy of a coalition of the Southern opposition members with the republicans in the organization of the new Congress. Butsince the late bloody “strike” of Old Brown, this scheme of a coalition has been abandoned; and the Richmond Whig, in giving it up, says:—“In our opinion, then, in view of the altered condition of affairs, they (the Southern opposition party in Congress for EE ne ee a Te ee ma ee ee the Speakersbip) should nominate one of their | no doubt, be made far more interesting and in- own number and support him through thick and structive than any of these partisan or personal thin, opposing, too, the adoption of the plurality | subjects, rule, and throwing the whole responsibility of In point of original thought, Ssuggestivences, the organization upon the republican and de- | and the application of faots to theory, we will mocratio parties.” venture to say that the Heratp does more in This course,"we have no doubt, will be | the way of useful lecturing than the whole of adopted and adhered to by the Southern op- | these itinerant instructors put together. Ne position men; so that the whole responsibility | subject turns up which demands investigation of the House organization will be thrown upon | or elucidation that does not receive immediate the Northern balance of power held by the anti- | attention at our hands. Our histories, reviews Lecompton democrats, or any half dozen of their | and analyses of the different questions, social, faction. These half dozen recruits, demanded by | religious and political, which have a direet the republicans, will, we think, be found. Cer- tainly, with this new line of independent action marked out for the Southern opposition mem- bers, the chances of a republican organization, elther under the majority or plurality rule, are diminished. not in the least degree bearing on our condition, have, we are justified in saying, done more for the education of the American mind than the labors of half a century of lecturers. The difference between us is that we do all our own thinking, and apply ourselves. conscientiously to further the social and intel- leotual progress of the community. The general tun of public leoturers are, on the contrary, mere hawkers of other peeples’ wares, the arti. cle suffering wofully in their hands by the processes of dilution and adulteration: ‘Tae New Congress—Pians ror Orcanmina Tam Hovss,—It is well understood by our readers that, as no party will have a majority in the popular branch of the new Congress, there must be a combination of some sort to elect under the majority rule, ora combination to set that rule aside, in order to elect by a plurelity, as in the case of Mr. Speaker Banks, What, then, wil be the plan adopted in the organization ot the House? It has been said:— 1, That the republicans, lacking only half a dozen or so of an absolute majority, will find no difficulty in picking them up from the anti- Lecompton democratic faction of ten or twelve Tux Cuanrer E:zcrion.—We have said that the election of Mayor in December is a mere farce, because the Mayor has no power to de anything; but the silly newspapers will have it otherwise, and contend that it isof vast impoe- tance, though their own arguments and state- meats disprove the assumption. They ony that during the term of Fernando Wood's of- fice—who is, of course, a rogue—the city ex- men. 2. That the republicans may also succeed in some satisfactory coalition with the Southern opposition members, upon the basis of the division of the spoils of the House, involved in the three important offices of Speaker, Clerk and Printer. 3. That the democrats (regular), who will be minus twenty-seven members of a majority, may still contrive to overreach the republicans in a coaliti¢n upon a Southern oppesition man for Speaker, a Douglas man for Clerk, and an administration man for Printer. 4. That the several parties and factions will pla fant and | Teag soow ana 20080 Unt] exbauste? ond thai then a reselution will be slipped through (as in 185%) adopting the plurality rule, un- der which the republica”$ Will organize upon some such plan of compensation as that wasc? comprehended the election of Mr. Speaker Banks. Now, of all these different ways of doing the same work—the organization ofthe House—the first appears the most practicable; for between the three important offices involved, and the head place on this or that important standing committee, one would think that the republicans would have capital enough with which to se- cure the half dozen members, more or less, re- quired to make up a majority, either from the Northern anti-Lecompton faction, or the South- ern opposition faction, or from both. The democratic plan of a fusion with the Southern opposition men and the Northern anti-Lecompton faction, beginning with the adoption of a Southern opposition man for Speaker, is suggestive of great difficulties. Will the reckless Southern fire-eaters, who have so fiercely repudiated Douglas, listen to any such association as this with him ond his followers? Secondly, will the Southern opposition men consent thus to be used?’ We apprehend that they will take their ground upon their own man for Speaker, and that the domocrats, in combining upon him, will have to do it at their ownrisk, because the Southern opposition party are not yet prepared, yy merging themselves with the democracy, to surrender their chances of wielding th. palance of power in 1860 as an indepen“ ent organization. ~# ny shape or form, however, this question “House organization is an exceedine!~ of the res - mmpy interesting one; and if thé vroblem {s not solved on the first or second day of the session, it may hang fire and keep all parties concerned at the boiling-over point for several months, with not a few incidental “cracked crowns and bloody noses.” Lectures axp Lecture The lecture sea- son has fairly set in, and peripatetic philoso- phers are on the tramp, gathering, if not sowing, throughout the country. On the small capital on which they trade, these gentry make better returns than can be obtained in any other business that we know of. Itisa common idea that preachers have a monopoly of the retailing of other people’s ideas and com- positions; but it is questionable whether they do as much in that way as those who make a live- lihood by lecturing. Generally speaking, the latter are persons who, not having wit or in- dustry enough to succeed in any other calling, take to this pursuit as the last resource of in- capacity and laziness. Its labor consists merely in picking and stealing; for, not satis- fied with borrowing the conceptions of cleverer minds, they appropriate even theiy very lan- guage. Out of the numerous lectures that will be delivered this winter in all the towns and villages of the Union, it is certain that not one- tenth of them will have cost those who deliver them the least trouble of composition. They will be for the greater part compiled from encyclopedias, elementary scientific treatises and books of travel, and put together, piece by piece, like a mosaic, but without reference to general harmony of construction, And all this is swallowed by rural audiences as a marvellous effort of intel- lectual labor, and they cry up the merits of the lecturer, and pass him on, with their endorse- ment, to the next craving locality. How these literary chiffoniers must chuckle as they pocket their money, and reflect on the ease with which they humbug the dear, good natured public. There is a class of lecturers who mast, how- ever, be excepted from the category of mere literary peddlers. These are politicians, specu- lators, and other schemers, who desire to adver- tise themselves, and who resort to lecturing as a cheap way of getting into the newspapers, Their number is limited, for it requires some cleverness to push purely personal objects un- der cover of a discourse which professes to be semi-educational in its nature. What they lack in ingenuity, however, they make up for in im- pudence; and thus it happens that out of every course of lectures given during the win public institutions, at least one-half are m the vehicles of rabid political phillippics, visionary projects, or of what is equally to be deprecated—self-gloriflcation on the part of some worthy whore merits have jfuiled to receive their due share of appreciation in the ordinary way. If the lecture system is to be devoted to mere advertising purposos, we see no reason why the principle should not ve. ceive its full extension. A lecture on sewing machines or on rotary pumps could, we have | penditures were inoreased to seven millions, Well, what if they were? They are ten, or per- haps ten and a half millions now, when wo have an honest man in office. But Wood was a rogue, and the people rose up in their might and turned him out, and put an honest Mayor, Mr. Tiemann, in his place. Now, we have twe honest candidates for Mayor, it appears, and the logical deduction is, that the expenditures will be increased to fourteen millions, If thie is not a farce'we don’t know what is, The excitement about the eleotion of Mayor Afd Corpuiation Counsel fs a trick of the shoul- Ger bitters of all the factions, the vagabond of all the factions, and the thieves of all the fac- tions, to lead the people astray from the elee- tion of Aldermen and Councilmen—the most vital issue in the conflict. These fellows know what they are about. While the public are in- tent upon the Mayoralty and the Corpora- tion Couneel, they will elect a set of men to the Common (Council with whom they have a perfect understanding as to the dfepon.tion of the plunder—with whom all the jobs Aim schemes for robbery are probably already arranged—and who will outvote all the vetoes ofthe most honest and efficient Mayor we can elect. This is the plan the governing class of pugilists, grogshop keepers and loafers are following out, and we hope the publio will not fall into the trap, or be deceived into the idea that the whole importance of the charter elec- tion centres in the Mayoralty or the Corpora- tion Counsel. Watch the candidates for Alder- men and Councilmen. These are the men who have actual control of the city government, the treasury, and the pockets of the taxpayers. If the old class of men be elected to the Com- mon Council, they will snap their fingers at the most honest Mayor that ever governed a city. despise and outyote his vetoes upon the most iniquitous measures, and laugh at the legal opinions of your most astute Corporation Counsel. Look well to the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen, and take the best Mayor you can get for what he is worth, is our advice to the electors of this city. Tae Cuxvauer Were Warsinc Up Aqatn,—- The Chevalier Webb, in the gourse of an t=. minanie Mgmarole on the political parties of the day, in connection with the slavery ques- tion, says:— ‘Who might havo been the candidate of the republican party to." the Presidency in 1860, no prudent man could. pretend to Predict six months ago. But not so now. ‘The Southern Press, speaking in the name of thoso Southern leador» who hadityally misiead and deceive their constituents, has ma‘e proc! tion that if the free. men of the North dare {0 disegard their impudent dicta. tion, and constitutionally and leyvally elect to tho Presidon- cy William H. Seward, they will 2ocede from and destroy the Union of the States! This settles she quostion. ‘Thus threatened and bullied, men who never preferred Seward to other well known and long tried repablicans for the Presidency have now but ono fixed and unalterable do- termination in regard to who shall be their standard bear- er in 1800, And so it appears that the question is settled in favor of W. H. Seward, and that he is to be nominated and elected by the republican party in answer to the “bullying threats” of the South. But the Chevalier Webb rushes to his conclusion with too much impetuosity; he fires up too soon, and is, we fear, counting upon a game chicken from an addled'egg. It is by no means certain, in the first place, that Seward will be nominated by the republicans. The chances are against him; and the practical in- terpretation of the Rochester manifesto by Old John Brown will be very apt to prove in the Republican Convention the finishing touch to the first high priest and prophet of the aboli- tion crusaders. Secondly, if nominated by said Convention, Mr. Seward will in all probability suffer a crushing defeat. If his unpopular name and principles were sufficient to swamp General Scott, to destroy the whig party and to arrest and reverse the popular Fremont move- ment, what possible hope can there be for Sew- ard himeelf as a Presidential candidate? Let the Chevalier Webb endeavor to keep cool for a month or twe longer. Tux Royan Interview at Brestav.—The meeting between the Emperor Alexander and the Prince Regent of Prussia has, as was to be expected, given rise to a good deal of anxious speculation. The correspondents of the Eng- lish journals attribute to it an important bearing on the settlement of Italy. They as- sert that an understanding has been arrived at by which the policy of the two Courts is to be regulated in the approaching Congress. This is to be in unison with the course determined upon by the English Cabinet, as explained im the recent declaration of Lord John Russell. The three great Powers are to support the nexation of the Duchies to Piedmont, regara- Jess of the obligations under which France feel herself placed by the treaty of peace. It is possible that some such agreement been entered into, but it is questionable wl er, assuming the fact to be as stated, it been contracted in a spirit unfrien France. It would be carious if, on this tion, as on soveral others, the ungener picions manifested by the English jou! wards Napoleon should be falsified by Althongh bound to keep faith with far as the moral support of the sti tho treaty of peace is concerned, it likely that the policy determined w three other Powers has received his