The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1859, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, OvFICE N. ———eeeeeeooo> AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSLO, Foureents street —irau4n Ore | ders wus very | rge, and the bids made wore W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS | | reulized over $: 5,000, pa—La Boemamnvia NIBLO® GABDEN, Broséway.—Camuis, BOWERY THKATKS, BSewery.—Lacis—Eesest Mat- ruavens. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Barupe Kxciteo~ Dor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, brosdway.—Wup Oars—Movs- tapes Mame LAURA KERNE'S THKATEE, 6M Brosdway.— Ware's ‘Sacest—Nouns. NEW BOWRRY THRATRE, Rewery.—Consicax Bue- quae _vesusant Naionson~Basan OLIAN. ‘THE. ANCAIS, 506 Beoadway.—Ux Carnie ena Wins aus Prue Vor RNOM’R AMEBRIOAN mUBEUM, Broadway.—Afer- soe sous ‘Touna—Lost Box. Eveaing—Doom or Davu.s WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Brmiorian 80xG8, ‘Dances, £0.—Mreno Sreii. MIKSTRELA, Mechas toa’ Hall, 472 Rroadway.— pensssavas Sonas, Dances, @0.—Locuiana Low Guuunps. NIBLO’S BALOON, wray.—Geo. Cunwty’s Mrn- oresia ws Soncs, Dances, Breresqces, £0.—Sousause- woas's Bor, ; NEW OPER HOUSE 12) Broadway.—Dearron's Paz- on Orenss ano Lreic Puovsnas. OHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Eqvesraum Penrous- amoes, Como Panrowrats £0. TEMPLE HALL, Ninth sirect —King Sovomon’s Tamris. HOPE CHAPEL, 729 Broudway.—Wacoa’s Iratis. TRIPLE SHEET. - Now York, Thursday, December 1, 1859. The News. ‘The excitement in Virgina in regard to the Har. per’s Ferry trouble, seems to increase as the day of Old Brown's execution draws near. It is stated in our de+patches to-day that the cars on the Balti more and Ohio Railroad are searched by the Vir. gia militia, and that ai] suspected persons are de- tained and examined. The Hon. Mr. Edgerton’ member of Congress from Ohio, yesterday went to Charlestowo in order to obtain Brown’s body after his execution, but was not permitted to see the prisoner. A full account of the present posi- tion of affairs, with more of the secret correspon" dence, will be found in our columns this morning. ‘The intelligence ef the decease of Washington Irving has been received through the country with feelings of the protoundest regret. The Com- mon Couxcil of this city held a special session yes- terday afternoon, and apeeches highly eulogistic of the deceased were made and resolutions expressing great regret for his death were passed. The mem- bers of both Boards are to meet this morning in the Chamber of the Board of Councilmen, to proceed to Tarrytown to attend the funeral. The friends end neighbors of Mr. Irving assembled in Tarry- town lect evening, to make arrangements for the funeral and to express their feelings in regard to the deceased. The steamship Europa, from Liverpool 19th inst., ‘arrived at Halifax yesterday. The ratifications of the treaties of peace were expected to be exchanged On the 2ist at Zurich, aad the French government had isgued invitations to be present to the Powers that signed the treaty of Vienna in 1815, and to the Italian rulers ot Piedmont, Rome and Sapica. The tone of the English and French press was daily be- coming more warlike, and the Times called upon the Emperor Napoleon to put an end to the Garibaldi is reported to have resigned the command of the army of Central Italy, and to have entered the Sardinian army. Our state of suspense. European correspondents writing on the 11th and 80th of November, furnish an interesting résumé of the latest events transpiring in England, witha graphic account of the late passage of the steam- ship Circassian from Galway to New York. An ac- count of the financial position and trade prospects of the Galway line is also given. The steamship Northern Light, Captain Tinkle- peogh, arrived at this port yesterday from Aspin- wall and Havana, with a large number of passen- gers. We have received by her several letters from our correspondents at the South, giving a few ad- Gitional items of interest. Our Aspinwall correspondent, writing on the 20th of Navember, states that two of the “ pros- pooting” gold party from New York to Boces del Toro had retuned, and were on their way to New York. Nothing new had transpired. Oar files from the Sandwich Islands are dated on the Ist of October, but the papers do not contain any additional news, The Commercial Advertiser of that day, speaking of the late attack made by the King ou his Secretary, says that his Majesty was excited atthe moment by faise reports regard. ing the conduct of the latter, which involved his own personal honor and that of his family and throne. From the Society Islands we have news dated at Tahiti on the 3d of September. The Railleur, a French brig-of-war,and the Joshua Bragdon, an American whaler, with 700 barrels of sperm oil on board, were the only foreign vessels then in harbor, the Dart, an English pleasure yacht, having sailed for Valparaiso a few days before. We have files from tho West Indies dated a; Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10th of November. The Standard of that day contains the following news items:—The weather since the date of our last summary, has continued wet and uncomfortable. In many districts there are complaints that the tains have been excessive, and that unless fair weather speedily returns there will be serious damages to the canea from excessive damp. The continued damp has been very unfavorable to the Public health. A large amount of fever has pre- Vailed in and about Kingston. Our correspondent at Rosario, South America, under date of the 2lst of September, gives the official papers connected with the efforts at media- tion made by Mr. Yancey, United States Minister, between Buenos Ayren and the Argentine Confede- ration. The address of our Minister to President Urquiza, when taking leave of him on the banks of the Parana, is given, with the reply of that func- tionary. 5 The United States steamship Mobiwk, Capt. Craven, has towed into Key West the slave brig Cygnet, suppored to have been commanded by Capt. Gunnison, an Englishman. She was taken by Captain Craven on the 18th of November, a few miles from Sagua. She had got rid of her Slaves within a few hours of her seizure, as the fire, still burning in her galley, indicated a hasty end recent abandonment. She hes been taken in charge by the authorities, and will be condemned and sold. ‘The average quality of beef offered at the cattle market this week was better than has been oifer- ed doring the fall months, and gales were readily eMected at from 6c. to 10c. a 10}c., with selections st higher rates; first quality cattle yesterday brought $10 0 $10 25 per cwt., and inferior quality 06 500$%7. At Albany, Baltimore and the Western Cities, rates are said to be improving, and higher prices are being paid for all desirable offerings. ‘The demand for milch cows continned moderato, @nd prices ranged from $20 to 965. Veal calves wore in more animated demand, and fall rates wera realised on all grades except inferior; prices were from 346. to 6}c. Sheep and lamba continued in re- . or quest at full prices, and are so'd aa fast as they ar rive. The dem d for swine was fair, at prices ranging from 4}. to 5je. A very heavy’ »vetion sale of woo! comm nced Jesterday at Pa \delph'a, The attendance of bid- a Miost sa! sfact.y character, The sale yester ly ‘The Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in Bo-ion has been compelled by the Pu" d+ tal Comurttee of that body to resign his pos’ tom, or reasons deeply implicating -his moral character. The Doctor, it is stated, has made « conte gion of bis fault, which appears to have been & disposition to make the acquuintance of strange women, and to be fleeced by their mal» assuciau. Yesterday morning between nine acd tev o'clock afie broke out in the extensive carpet manufactory of A. and E. 8S. Higgius & Co., situ- ate in Forty-third street, near the North river. The three upper stories were burnt out of the building used for the first preparation of the wool. The loss is estimated at between $10,000 and %50,000—fully covered by insurance. Some five bundred workmen are thrown out of employment. The fire is supposed to have been accidental. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yester- day «fternoon, but po business of iaterest engaged their attention... The weekly statement showed the number of emigrants who divembarked here.during the past week to be 359, which makes the nambor for the year up to the present 74,608. The com- mutation balance is now $16,996 19. The annexed table ahows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the week ending November 26, the raoge of the barometer and ther- moweter, tbe variation of wind carreats and the state of the weather, at three periods daring each day, viz: at 9A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— ‘REMAR! Saturday—Morning, overcast, with rain; afternoon, rain; night, clear. 14 —Clear and cod all day. Monday—Morning, clear; afternoon, overcast and cold; rain during night. Tuesday—Morning, overcast, with light raia; a:teraoon, clear; night, clear Wednesday—Morning, cloudy; nizht, overcast, ‘Thusday—Cloudy and cold all day. Friday—Overcast and cold all day; rain and snow all night. Saturday—Cloudy. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,700 bales, including part in transitu. The market closed on the basis of about 1c. per Ib. for middling uplands: Flour was again firmer, especially for common and me dium grades of State and Western. The firmness of hold ers tended to check transactions, though sales wore made to @ fatrextent, Southern flour was in active demand, and prices were quite firm. Whoat was less buoyant and a tive, th expor: demand being checked by the advance int crates of ‘rewht. Corn was plenty and prices wero ea*er, with moderate sales, Pork was firmer, with sales of megs at $16 1234 a $16 25, and prime at $11 25, Sugars were firm, with sales of 1,100 hhda. and 1,400 boxesat full prices, chiefly for refining; and 3,700 bags Brazilon private terms ‘Coffee was steady; 1,600 bags of Rio were sold at 12¢., and 2,400 do. by auction, at an average price of 11.63°. Freghts to Liverpool were firmor, with en- gagements of flour to Liverpool at 28. Sd. Wheat was at 634d. a 7d. in bulk and bags; lard and bacon at 228. 6a.; cotton at 7-32d.a 44d. Flour was taken for Glasgow at 2s. 6d. and rosin at 28. 9d. Yhe Triangular Manictpal Fight. There is great fuss made about the municipal election, and personal attacks are made upon the candidates for the Mayoralty to cover the real designs of those who want to elect a Common Council which will help them to plunder the city treasury. To the citizens at large, in a municipal point of view, it does not matter one iota who is elected Mayor, for it is already arranged, cut and dried, that the taxes, now approaching eleven millions, will be in- creased three or four millions per annum, and the citizens will have to pay the fiddler, no matter to what tune their representatives in the Common Council may dance. No Mayor can prevent this result. His arm is rendered powerless by the law to prevent the wholesale robbery of the people planned by the candi- dates for the Common Council, who are the worst and most degraded set of scoundrels who have ever dared to ask for the votes of citizens. These will be allowed to slip into power, while the jobbers and wirepullers and their organs divert attention to the contest about the Mayoralty, which is of no conse- quence whatever in a municipal aspect. It is only in a political sense that it becomes im- portant; and in that respect its importance can hardly be overestimated. The battle munici- pally isa farce, but nationally it is of serious import. It is nominally a quedrilateral fight, but really triangular—Ogden, the. representative of old fogy respectability, not having the slightest chance of success, and being set up apparently for the purpose of being knocked down. Indeed, from recent proceedings of the Americans, it is now hard to tell who is their candidate, or whether they will have any can- didate at all for the Mayoralty. The battle is, therefore, between the two republican candidates on the one side, and the representative of national democracy on the other. Opdyke is a genuine whig republican of a dye as red as the blood which flowed at Harper's Ferry, and Havemeyer is a democratic republican, with alternate stripes of black and whity-brown, or dirt color. The men of the red stripe are brave and bold, say what they mean, and do what they say. The men of the black stripe ona dirty ground only preach what the others prac- tise, but still are on the same road to the disin- tegration of the Union and civil war. The supporters of these two candidates—Op- dyke and Havemeyer—comprise the wholeabo- lition and republican party, which consists of two elements—one of them of the John Brown type, which seeks its objects by blows; the other, of that cautious type who only use agi- tation as a means to public plunder, and who foment insurrection by their writings and Speeches, but take good care to keep out of harm’s way themselves, Between these two elements of the same anti-slavery party the battle rages. The one is represented by the Tribune, backing up Opdyke—the other by the Times, supporting Havemeyer. The manner in which they pitch into each other is comical in the extreme. Tammany Hall is thrown into the scale of Havemeyer asa makeweight, in order to turn the beam in favor of abolition and revolution; but it is doubtful whether that offensive con- cern, whose corruption and rowdy violence send ferth a foul stench in the nostrils of all honest, order-loving and law-abiding citizens, will not do him more harm than good. Two years age Tammany Hall put forward Wood for Mayor, snd gave him a certificate of character. Then there was‘ none like bim, according to the Sachems, He was, however, defeated, owing to the misfortune of » Tam- many endorsement. He has not become auy worse since; he has not been in office aince, but bas been attend ng to hia own affa ‘s, \ cludin» morality and religion. He has ber! studying municipal reform and public and private virtue, and is now @ wiser and better map than he ever was. And yet the old bel- dame turns round now and opposes him, ussail- ing hi: character through her orators and press, selecting for her organs the black republican beets of the city. What is the cause of the change ip the corrupt harlot? She has become abolitionized, and now takes to her arms a politi- cian of anti-slavery antecedents, and who still avows the same principles. This is the man of the old hug’s present choice. In a municipal peint of view, as we have already said, the election of Mayor is of no importance; but on national grounds, and as between the candidate who, at this crisis, bears aloft the flag of the Union on one aide, and him who carries the red flag of revolution and blood, and him who unfurls the black flag of pirncy on the other, it is a contest highly inte- resting and important. The eyesof the South, the eyes of the nation, are fixed upon New York. The question is, will the EmpireCity do its duty? We shall soon see, The Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. The anticipated inquiry by Congress into the working of the so-called reciprocity treaty between this country and Great Britain has excited a good deal of uneasiness in Canada, if we may judge bythe large space which the subject occupies in the provincial newspapers. The Western Canada papers see in the coming nquiry the natural result of the recent alleged hostile legislation on the part of Canada to- wards the commercial interests of the United States which are affected by it. In a few weeks full statistics of the trade between the United States and the British provinces will be laid before Congress, and t.is country will then be enabled to judge un- derstandingly as to whether or not the treaty has fulfilled the expectations of its friends; and if not, how far the falling off may have been the result of hostile legislation on the part of Canada, since the ratification of the conven- tien. The Montres] papers assert, in reply to our intimation that the present Canadian tariff was drawn up in the interest of the Grand Trunk Railroad, that, so far as that corporation is concerned, it would be to their interest to have the treaty abrogated, as they would thus secure all the carrying trade of Western Canada. This is doubtless true, and it is for this reason that the newspapers throughout Western Canada eo generatly complain of their new tariff as a measure likely to lead to an abrogation of the treaty, because of its being £0 framed as now to compel, in violation of the spirit of the treaty, a large portion of the trade to go down the St. Lawrence which formerly found its way to New York and Boston, We ‘seem, also, to have offended the provincial dignity of our contemporaries by stating that the illiheral restrictions of the new Canadian tariff were toe small a matter to have any par- ticular effect upon public feeling in the United States. Yet the fact is, nevertheless, true, and it is fortunate for the Canadians that it is so. The Canadian trade is participated in by a very few of the Northern States, and only in particular localities of those States. Were ita matter of general importance, no reciprocity treaty could stand for @ day which did not in- clude an interchange of all articles grown in either country. But the reciprocity treaty involves other questions, and hence the im- portance of fully investigating the subject. Our previous article on this subject was written simply to correct the impression that the treaty must remain intact for ten years, and that, whilst the Canadians claimed they could annul it, our hands were tied. We stated, first, that Congress can abrogate any treaty, no matter what its limitations. Thatis simply a question of power. And secondly, that the re- ciprocity feature of the treaty being dependent upon an act of Congress, Congress had an un- doubted right, if it saw fit, to repeal that act, without going to the extent of abrogating the treaty. The idea of the Canadian papers, that the Supreme Court could intervene and prevent this, is simply an absurd piece of ignorance. As to the question of “honor” which they al- lnde to, we do not for a moment anticipate that our government will adopt any steps not con- sistent with that chivalrous spirit which has al- ways characterized our national conduct. rt can be shown that the letter not only, but the spirit, of the reciprocity treaty has been carried out by the Canadian government, we do not believe Congress will interfere with it. But if an investigation of the matter dis- closes the fact that the Canadian tariff recently adopted has been drawn up so as carefully to divert from the United States a class of goods or certain articles which at the time the treaty was effected found their way to the ocean through our channels; and if it is also made apparent that the Canadian tariff now makes a discrimination, in fact, against our markets which did not formerly exist, then indeed a serious question is presented to Con- gress, whether the honor of the country and its interest will permit the continuance of a treaty the essential spirit of which has been grossly violated. When the question assumes this shape, Congress, as we have already demon- strated, has the constitutional power to act and protect the honor of the country. Many stringent States rights statesmen of the South find serious objection to the treaty, in that clause by which the federal government hasassumed tocede to the subjects of the British crown the right of piscary, not only in the terri- torial seas of the respective States, north of 36 30, but in the rivers and even creeks of those States. We are aware that Lord Elgin insisted npon the word creeks being inserted, and held that it sig- nified merely arms of the sea, to which Mr. Mar- cy yielded; though the popular use of the term, in this country, appliesit to rivulets and brooks also. The Senaters from North Carolina and Virginia voféd for this treaty. The States rights doctrine, however, advanced by Gover- nor Wise, in his celebrated oyster fundum mes- sages, maintains the constitutional right of the respective States to the exclusive control and regulation of the entire right of piscary within @ marine league of the shores of each State, as Possessed by all independent nations. We should not be surprised if this feature of the treaty, violative as it is contended by many to be of the constitutional Tights of the States, should form an important typic in the discus- sion at the approaching session, American Art and Artists, During the past few weeks thore has bean are- markable stimulation of artistic taste in the ine- tropolis, a circumstance due in a great measure to the recent distinguished successes achieved by our own sculptors, painters and musiciana, Among the paintings which bave attracted the greatest attention are Church’s “Andes,” Page’s “Venus,” Roesiter’s and Mignot’s “Washing- ton.” All these works have been visited by greater numbers of people within a month than have been seen in the city galleries ina whole year before. The most remarkable and most beautiful chef d’auvre, Palmer's “White Captive,” has created a profound sensation, and the gallery where it is exhibited is daily thronged by admiring crowds. Then, at the Opera, the remarkable talent of a very young prima donna—Miss Patti—who makes her début in the city where she has been reared, has been recognized with genuine and hear'y enthusiasm. Such evidences of the refinement and culture of our people cannot but be especially grati- fying to all who have the future of the repub- lic at heart, for it has long since been ac- knowledged as a social and political fact that the steady encouragement and developement of the artistic resources of a nation are the surest sign of its power and its material pro- gress. It is for this reason that we see the governing classes in Europe constantly stimu- lating competition between artists, and award- ing the highest honors to the Landseers, the Bonheurs, the Turners, Stanfields, Vernets and Troyons of the day. In the United States art has been left almost alone by the govern- ment, until within the past few years, wheu American painters and sculptors have received a few orders from the federal and State govern- ments, but not enough for the latter to claim credit for the special encouragement of home artista. American art, then, has been left free—free from the necessity of humbling itself before royal or noble patronage; free from the in fluences of cluss privileges, which often crush the germ of humble genius; free to make its own appeal to the masses of the people, and to be judged by its works as they are. And, as the young republic has grown in wealth, in population, and in material re- sources, so its people have progressed in taste, in refinement, in artistic culture, and in all things which spring from a true and just sense of the beautiful. Of course we are in our infancy; but what a splendid beginning we have made of it! Look at the pictures of Allston and Cole, and Church and Rossiter and Powell; the sculptures of Crawford and Palmer and Barbee. The Central Park, also, is a fine work of art, and will sur- pass any of the great public grounds of Europe. And the artists are all new people. Palmer, a mechanic, who began by cutting cameos, was never heard of here until a very short time ago, and now his name stands high on the roll of the world’s art-heroes. His latest work is equal to the finest things in Europe, not except- ing the Venus de Medicis at Florence. Hissuc- cess illustrates, more forcibly than any argu- ment we can bring to bear, the untrammelled state of public opinion here upon art mattera. Letan artist do a good thing, exhibit it, and he is famous at once. No matter if he sawed wood yesterday, if he can cut marble to-day. ‘There can be no doubt that this rapid deve- lJopement and ever ready recognition of art in the United States are due ina great degree to our free institutions. If we read the history of art we shall find that it rose to its highest pitch of refinement in Greece, then ruled by a popular government which held moderate sway over a loose federation of small States. It was a government of mind rather than of matter. A nation physically weak was made morally strong by the superior culture and re- fined taste of its people. There were many schools and cliques and sectsin Athens, but they all agreed in their devotions to the shrine of art. Those were the days of Phidias, with his statue of the Olympian Jove; of Alcamenes, and Praxiteles, and Apelles. Rome borrowed the arts at cecond hand from Greece; but in- stead of retaining the fre classic types of which the Apollo Belvidere and the Medician Venus are examples, the Romans prostituted painting and sculpture to subserve the basest and most sensual appetites. Rome fell. Art seemed dead. But nations and systems are of men, and are mortal. Art is divine, and never dies. ‘The next period of art developement was in Italy, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth cen- tury, which may be truly called the golden age of painting. Then flourished Titian, Teniers, Michael Angelo, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Guido, Tintoretti, Leonardo da Vinci, and others, who made fair Italia the repository of the choicest gems that the hand of man has yet produced. Then were resuscitated the great works of the ancient sculptors, such as the Farnese Hercules, the Laocoon group, the Cleo- patra Belvidere, the Antinous, and the Apollo Belvidere, all of which had been buried in the ruins of the tempJes which the Romans, in the golden age of the republic, had erected to the heathen deities. Rome and Florence became the repositories of the restored chefs d’cuvres, and the living artists were stimulated to com- pete with them. But so soon.as Greece, Rome and Italy lost their nationalities—so soon as the peo- ple bowed their necks to the usurper’s yoke— the arts languished, and finally fled to some freer atmosphere. What was true two thousand, a thousand, or five hundred years ago, is true to-day. History tells us that art only flourishes among free, independent, united, prosperous democracies. In this fact we may find the chief cause of the wonderful progress of our paint- ers, sculptors and musicians. And looking at what they have done within the last quarter of @ century, as well as at the more practical tri- umphs of our mechanics, the energy and activi- ty of our people, and the rapid growth of the country, the great increase in its wealth, and the liberal way in which the commercial classes encourage art, we may be justified in predict ing that the works of American artists, in every department, will rival the best works of ancient Greece and Rome, or medimval Italy. In one statue we have already rivalled their greatest works. Let our merchant princes en- courage the Palmers and Churches as the com- mercial kings of Rome and Athens and Flo- rence stimulated the ancient artists, and the work will be as well done. There is only one thing to fear with regard to our fature, and that danger is foreshadowed in the fate of Greece, Rome and the Italian States. Internal dissensions left those coun- tries to the tender mercies of foreign meroena- ries and priests. The once grent States fell by W YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1859.-TRIPLE SHERXT. their own bands, That fu'e may come to us, Already there is @ certain fuction which labors openly to bring about the dissolution of the Union, and others are endeavoring secretly to promote the same end by inciting the North against the South, and vice versa. In the opinion of these agitators, there is no question 60 vital as that of slavery—notbing worth thinking of or talk- ing about except niggers. Niggers, niggers, niggere—the same eternal change is rung from one year’s end to. the other, and nothing is gained for the slave. On the contrary, his bonds are more securely fixed, his chains more firmly riveted. It is well for the people of the United States to ponder upon these things. It Will be for them to say, and perhaps at no very distant day, whether or not this country shall go on and work out its future, and attain a more glorious position than Greece and Rome, | mediwval Italy or modern Europe ever achiev- ed, in population, wealth and the fine arts, or whether the fair fabric shall be torn to pieces by a few fanatios and demagogues, and the na- tion strangled almost in its cradle. A Word to the Cnevalier Webb. Our military and diplomatic cotemporary is | again in hot water—troubled exceedingly in | bis mind about the Hxnatn’s statement that | “the first choice of the Chevalier Webb for the Presidency is W. H. Seward, whose programme is perpetual war upon slavery until it shall bave been abolished in every State of the Union.” The Chevalier. Webb proceeds further to say that the sentiments of Senator “Seward’s “much abused” Rochester speech did him bovor; and that it isa great shame that the arch agitator should for that speech be “branded by the Hzratpas a traitor;” and, still more distressing, that “men of wealth and character, composing the Fifth avenue organi- zation, deliberately endorsed the libellous charge.” Having relieved his mind of this pathetic outburst, more sorrowful than in- dignant, the Chevalier assumes the dignified and patronizing dodge, desiring to “have a word with us” about another matter. The other matter is the little affair between the Heraxp and Mr. Thurlow Weed, which the Che- valier Webb, with his proverbial and almost painful modesty, flatters himself that he ar- ranged; and he takes eo much credit to himself for it, that we are fain to believe that he wishes to share the benefits and immunities of the am- nesty extended to Weed. The Chevalier Webb, however, is too old a sinner to hope for pardon. He is a duck of another and entirely different dolor from Weed. Webb has abused us perso- nally more in one day than we could reply to in five years; and we must still stand sentry over his bluster and rigmarote. In the present case the Chevalier Webb la- bors very hard, and useaa great many capital and italic letters, to attempt to prove that we bave charged Mr. Seward with being engaged in the slave trade; and, having man- ufactured the charge, the Chevalier struts and blusters about like an enraged turkey cock, and “wishes to know if we in- tend to retract a statement that we have never made. Mr. Seward, being in Europe, comfortably away from the Harper’s Ferry af- fair and its annoyances, the Chevalier Webb the sole charge over his public and private character, which he guards witha de- gree of jealousy that is extremely refreshing. Now, let the Chevalier Webb keep cool, and pay very strict attention to what we say. Like Paul before Festus, we are not mad, as he (the Chevalier) is, but speak the words of truth and soberness. We have never charged Mr. Sew- ard with having been engaged in the slave trade. j The only trade that he has ever been engaged in, to our knowledge, was the rum trade, at a time when his party denounced it as an unholy traffic, a murderous, business—almost as bad as the negro trade. While the republican party was shouting temperance hymns and sing- ing tee-total anthems, their leader, Seward, was driving a brisk trade in rum at Auburn. This, we presume, the Chevalier Webb will not deny. As for the rest, we have no personal quarrel with Mr. Seward. We think the tendency of his writings and speeches is towards treason, disunion and civil sirife—that if his doctrines, expressed in the Rochester speech, were carried out the confederacy would fall te pieces. That. is all. Mr. Seward never attacked us that we know of. We never met him but once. That was at Albany, twenty-five years ago, and then he was very polite. Mr. Seward, as an indi- vidual, is, so far as we know, quite irreproach- able. Our criticisms refer to kis works, not to him, and we adhere, rigidly adhere, to all that we have said. And as the Chevalier Webb pleads for Seward on the ground that he is in Europe, and incapable of defending himself, we offer to the Chevalier, as the representative of a gentleman, a resort to his favorite remedy, and we are perfectly willing to accede to him the eaticfaction usual among gentlemen. We will fight him, and we give the Cheva- lier due notice, beforehand, that our second will be General Duff Green, of Texas, and that we shall request him to bring along those “mahogany stock and percussion lock” pistols, which gave the Chevalier such a tremendous scare in Washington twenty-five years ago. Oye or THE Issves or THE Mayoratty Exxc- tion.—A few hundred merchants in the sugar and cotton trade have come out with a card in favor of Mr. Havemeyer as Chief Magistrate of this city, a gentleman who was one of the fathers of the anti-slavery sentiment which has abolitionized a great portion of the State, and has been identified with it since 1847 and 48. He was one of the founders of the Buffalo plat- form, and in those years ran on the second anti-slavery ticket which was ever nominated in this country—the first being the ticket made by Birney. The anti-slavery sentiment first abolitionized and then killed off the old whig party; and itis now abolitionising ond killing off the old democratic party. Tammany Hall has taken up and endorsed Mr. Havemoyer, and it is supported in that movement by newspapers always known as anti-slavery organs; and Tammany Hall may, there fore, be said to have become an anti-slavery institution itself. Yet, in the teeth of these facta, a few hundred merchants appeal, over their own names, in behalf of Havemeyer as Mayor of this city, two-thirds of whose wealth and commerce depend upon the South, where slavery exists as a social institution. It is just as if they seid, in plain words, “We admire the nigger and the nigger worshipper more than stocks, or bonds, or trade, or profit, and we do not care a jot whether the commer- cial prosperity of New York shall be destroy- ed, its storehouses become desolate, and its streets overgrown with grass, so the niggor anal “ a the nigger worshipper be served.’ The | couse of these gentlemen, and the tendency being given to tbe Mayoralty election geueral- ly, ave raising the question whether this great metropolis is to be considered the stronghold of ubolitiogisin or not. And that question will be decided in a few days, Servile Insurreetions, Past and Present— ‘The Projected Massacre at Charicston. On another page we publish a highly inter- esting account of the projected midnight mas- secre at Charleston, 8. C.,in the year 1822, ! abridged from the official records of the city. According to the confessions of the actors ia thedrama, a most extensive conspiracy was or- | ganized by the blacks to murder every white man, woman and obild in Charleston, and “net ; to spare a white skin alive.” The plothad bees in existence at least for four years, and yet was not discovered by the authorities till within eighteen days of the intended carnage, at the bare idea of which humanity shudders, The arrests numbered 131. The ringleaders were tried, convicted and hanged. In all, thirty-five expiated their offence on the gallows. The de- sign was, after capturing the arsenals and mar- dering all the white inhabitants, to take all the transportable property, to burn the oity, and, seizing all the ships in the harbor, to em- bark for St. Domingo, where an unexampled massacre of whites had taken place thirty years before. The conspirators calculated on assiat- ance from St. Domingo and the English. Juat as at the present time, two agencies were em- ployed to bring about this revolt—the one was American party politics, and the other religious fanaticiem. The deluded wretches, perverting the sacred volume, said God was with them, and they must be victorivuus. The prinoipal conspirators were preachers and zealous re- ligionists. At that time no white leader appeared, though they expected one. A black man, Den- mark Vesey, was the chief organizer of the re- volution, and no white men were implicated in the trials as actively engaged in the revolt. But if no Northern John Brown was there, it is equally certain that the same political agi- tation in the North which instigated the late insurrection at Harper’s Ferry led to the dia- bolical conspiracy at Charleston. It is ia evi- dence that a speech of Rufus King, Senator from New York, was the incendiary material which kindled up the insurrectionary flames; and now, after the lapse of forty years, the in- flammatory speech of another Senator from New York bas acted as another revolutionary firebrand, and resulted in the same catastro- phe; but this time not merely in a conspiracy to massacre, but in massacre itself. In the case of Charleston no life was taken unless upon the gallows. In the case of Harper's Ferry, the overt acts of treason were committed; blood was shed and a massacre was commenced, which, had the strength of the traitors been only equal to their will, would have spread all over the South, and every State would have be come an aceldema—a field of blood. And now a third massacre, most fearful to contemplate, is in preparation at the North. Of this we pub- lished the evidence yesterday. Hinton Rowan Helper’s book is endorsed by sixty-eight mem- bers of Congress; and by such men as the re- publican Governor of this State, byex-Judge Peabody, by Police Commissioner Stranahan, by James Kelly, Chairman of the New York Re- publican State Committee, by Edgar Ketchum, Chairman of the Opdyke or Republican Mayoralty Convention, by Horace Greeley, who plays the revolutionary organ of these men to the music required, from a slow march to the charge of battle. We published the secret circular with (he names attached, which accom- panies the book as its endorsement to the aboli- tion fanatics, but which is omitted from that portion of the impression intended for the general public. In this book the mask is thrown off, and it is declared that no man can be a patriot who is not an abolitionist, that “slavery must he throttled,” and “whether peaceably or by violence, and, whatever conse- quences may follow, the ubotitionists are deter- mined to have it one way or another.” Here, then, is “ the irrepressible conflict” of Mr. Seward fully developed; and after the publi- cation of a work under euch sanction, what could be expected other than the events at Harper’s, Ferry? Mr. Seward, who, as appears from the yellow covers, has “read it with great attention,” gives this incendiary book a especial endorse- ment, pronouncing it “a work of great merit, and logical in analysis.” Rev. Theodore Parker calls it an “admirable work.” Hon. Cassius M. Clay says, “It is just such a work as is needed in the present array of political antagonisms.”* Joshua R. Giddings tells us, “It is a manual for the times, calculated to meet the populardemand fer information upon the great question of the age.” The New York Tribune rightly under- stands the design of the book, when it says, “Fortunate indeed are the nonslaveholding whites that they have found such a spokes- man, one who utters no stammering, hesitating nor uncertain sound.” It is indeed but too plain. There ig no uncertainty about it. The follow- ing motto on its title page truly indicates the letter and spirit of the book:— cs "poh, Gall from my bones my flesh be Nobody believes Greeley or men like hins would thus fight; but they know how to drive other men to slaughter. They are like the Quaker, who said to a dog against which he had a mortal antipathy, “I will not kill thee, but I will give thee a bad name.” He called the dog “bad dog” at first, and afterwards “mad dog,” which of course resulted in his summary execution. The Northern leaders of abolition and revolution will not themselves undertake to kill off the Southern slaveholders, but they will say enough to instigate John Brovn and other men of his stamp to embark in the bloody crusade. At the time of the Charleston conspiracy, forty years ago, the Missouri question was used as the firebrand to kindle insurrection. The Kansas question, a kindred one, has been used at the present time to bring about the same result, Brown ond his asso- ciates will meet with the penalty due to their crimes, but justice is robbed of half her due, while the more guilty leaders in the North are not only not brought to her bar, but are actually plotting and fomenting another instir- rection on a wider scale and with far more ter- rible resulta. Morr Corresronpunce or THE Harper's Ferry Covsrmators—Tan Brrmsa Awti-Sta- very Socrery—In another page we publish some further correspondence of the conspira- tors in the Harper's Ferry insurrection, trom