The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1859, Page 6

cnet ee a ae ES Wibunvn. Alver some 6 NEW YORK HERALD. &c., they adjourned to meet at the same place next | hitherto belonged. In the same way Have- Sunday afternoon, to appoint the necessary com- | meyer does not expect to be elected now; but mittces and transact such other business as might | he hopes to succeed in defeating the democracy, be brought before them. of which he formerly professed to be an ad- This being the eve of election day, the Board of herent, and in giving a victory te the anti-sla- Aldermen have adjourned over to Wednesday at es ipl Lage. vis py ke, Are leit “ETc on Poe) vary ply leaders of Our Kingston, Jamaica, correspondent gives & copious resume of the events transpiring in that | Tammany Hall, including officers of the fede- island, legislative, executive, military, clerical and | ral government, lend themselves with all the financial, to the latest date, the 10th ult. + | facility of courtesans. If there was a spark of Bie ways 5 go mei 4 were cones Lecce’ virtue left in that rotten concern, it would rally Regen fee 024 in teanel, claiag at such a crisis as this around the principle of part alae eee alse pres. 4 nationality, and discountensnee the revolution- and > tolerab. 4 request, while good to extra grades | ary sentiment which i- 1 aking such rapid pro- frm. So \uern flour was also steady and in fair | gress at the Nort’. It would have selected as itscandidae ‘or Mayor some well known friend of ‘le Union and the constitution, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS TERNS, cash tn advance, Monoy sent by mail rill be at the vibe) iatsnders ‘Postage sngape' ook sect ne oolerigtion "Tilt DAILY HERALD. two cents h em. THE WHERLT HERALD. woory Reburkey ot obs, sons yor $8 per ommum: the Huropean Rattion comry, Wataasay, Sl itz cents per copy, Sk per annum to. any part of Great Britain, or HS to of the both to include Calvornia Han en the Bh and ith of wach month at or ‘ TH FAME HBRazD on Wednesday, at four cents per es teeta CORRESPONDENCE, contsining important Siouity pata fore sae Sun Foxes oe ee y eeeetias . i FoRmicn Pasnoviamx ‘TO Seat UL Larrens (G88 SENT US. ay ‘NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, Ve do 10k ap Pack | demand, Wheat was less buoyant and active. Holders asked price above the views of purchasers, Sales were moderate and closed at prices given in another column. 4 Sob PELN SENG el with nesta, cheapness sade Pat aa ah heen prices were with. | Whose political record was free from stain out change of moment, Pork was firmer and in fair de- | or :« proach. In what do democrats now Volame XXIV............:. ssesseeeeeesN@o B37 | mand, with sales of mess at $161234 a $16 25, (the | differ from republicans, unless it be in the latter Ogure for small lots), and prime gold at $11 50. Sugars were quict and sales limited, while prices were unchamged. Many persons engaged in the trade seemed to have been much engaged in discuss- img the Mayoralty election. This excitement, with un- faverable weather in the afternoon, seemed to have cheelsed sales. Coflee was also quiet and sales limited. ‘There was a speculative movement in Malaga fruit, and sales of 20,000 boxes of raisins wore made here and to arrive, ata slight improvement in prices. Freights were firm, with a fair amount of movements for Liverpool and maintenance of the Union and the constitution in opposition to anti-slavery and revolutionary principles? The 61d issues between democrats and their opponents are dead and gone, and with them the parties who raised them. In re- cent yeavs the only issue has been the slavery questions The democratic party have taken the conservative side. Tammany Hall did so two years ago, when Mr. Wood NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—Buatzau—Roseer Ma- ean. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Maaciz—Doom or De- vas. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Soumzr’s Davca- ‘Tan—Aunnicams In Pane. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond stree!.— Ovroncon. pe London. With the exception of some engagements for | wag her candidate. He has continued Suinat Dosey FenWires et OM Brosiwar—Wires | Gorattar, freights for the Continent were quict and rales |i the game priheipien °: She. ie’ in- KEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Faver—Hamptoux meenene tected with the virus of the times, and has be — . The Buffalo Platform a Wedge to Split | come abolitionized. Her organ is now, there- eet nare TRE: OS Brondway.—Cowm’s Nowelt | the Union—Politieal History of W. F. | foro, the organ of Seward, the republican New Havemeyer. We published yesterday the anti-slavery Presidential ticket of Van Buren and Adams in 1848, the offspring of the Buffalo Conven- tion. On that ticket the name of Mr. Have- meyer stands the sixth elector. We now pub- lish the resolutions of the Convention, which are known as the Buffalo Platform, and which were adopted as the issue to go to the people in the Presidential election of that year. They are as follows:— Whereas, we have assombled in convention as union of freemen, for the sake of freedom, forgetting all past political differences in a common resolve to maintain the rights of free labor against the aggression of the slave power, and to secure atree soil for a free people; and whereas, the political conventions recently assembied at Baltimore and Philadelphia—the one stifling the voice of @ great constituency entitled to be heard in its delibera- tions, and the other abaudoning its distinctive principles for mere availability—bave dissolved the national party organizations herctofore existing, by nominating for Chief Magistrate of the United States, under slayeholding dictation, candidates, neither of whom can be supported by s of slavery extension without a sucrifice of uty and self-respect; and whereas, these Tnade, furnish the occasion and demon- »seity of the union of the people, under the mocracy, in a solem and fiual declara- dependence of the slave power, and of their ination to rescue the federa! government from After. York Tignes. ‘Thus bas the fatal leaven of the Wilmot Pro- viso, introduced into the Buffalo Pia‘form, con- tinued to work in this State till it has nearly revolutionized the whole massof the democracy in the rural districts. Hitherto New York city has continued true to the Union; but whether that can be said of it after to-morrow remains to be seen. A considerable portion of the com- mercial classes are pursuing a suicidal course, which is nothing short of infatuation. By the policy they adopted in 1850 the New York merchants elevated the character of the cily and contributed largely to the salvation of the Union. A more dangerous crisis is now upon the country, and they either look on in stupid apatby or join the ranks of treason. It seems like the verification of the old maxim, “Whom the gods determine to destroy they first drive mad.” BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broad’ ‘noon aad Evening—Doom or Drvitus. WOOD'S MINSTREL’S, 444 Broadway.—Ertmiorian Sones, Dances, &c.—Petex Piree Perres Popo. BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Bunixsquss, Songs, Dances, &c.—Jounny Roacu. NIBLO’S. SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Cunisty's Mix- wrenis is Sones, Dances, Burixsquss, &0.—Tux Fugitives. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 720 Broadway.—Drarton’s Pas- Lor Orsuss axp Lraso Provenss. CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Equesratan Parroru- ances, Comic Pantomimss, &c. a TEMPLE HALL, Niath street.—Kina Sovomon'’s Terie. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Brosdway.—Waven’s Inari. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, December 5, 1859. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC, New York Herald—California Edition. ‘Tho mail steamship Northorn Light, Capt. Tinklepaugh, will leave this port this afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of tho Paciflo ‘will close at one o’clock this afternoon. ‘The New York Weesty Heratp—California edition— fontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six centa, Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos- ibie, Abolition On and Off the Stage. The rise and progress of the negro-worship- ping mania in the United States will afford the most important and interesting materials for fu- ture historians. Itis hardly thirty years ago since the first abolition societies were formed in this city and in Boston, on the plan of the Pritish and Foreign Association of London. The period was that immediately subsequent to the emancipation of the blacks in the British West Indian Colonies, and when all the old ladies in trowsers and all the old gentlemen in petticoats were running over with sympathy for the co- lored population of the South. The object of the early societies was nothing more than the amelioration of the condition of the slaves, and their gradual emancipation by purchase. The societies were declared to be non-political? and it was expressly stated that all their ob- jects were of the gentlest, the most humnita- therefore, Tuat we, the people here assem- bled, remembering the example of our fathers in the days of the first Declaration of Independence, putting our trust in God for the triumph of our cause, aud invoking His guidance in our endeavors to advance it, do now plant our- selves upon the national platform of freedom, in opposi tion to the sectional platform of slavery, Resolved, That it is the duty of the federal govern- ment to relieve itself from all responsibility for the exist- ence or continuance of slavery, whenever the govern- ment possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible for its existence. Resolved, That the true, and, tu the judgment of this Convention, the only safe means of preventing the exten. sion of slavery into territory now free is to prohibit its existence in all such territory by anact of ; Resolyed, That we accept the issue which the slave power has forced upon us, and to their demand for more slave States and slave Territories, our calm but final an- ewer is, no more slave States, and no slave territory; let the soil of our extensive domain be ever kept free for the hardy pioneers of our land, and the oppressed and ban- ished of other lands seeking homes of comfort and fields of enterprise in the New World. Resolved, That the bill lately reported by the Commit. toe of Eight on the State of the United States was no com- promise, but an absolute surrender of the rights of the non slaveholders of all tho States; and, while we rejoice The News. ‘The sessions of the Thirty-sixth Congreas com- mence at noon to-day. There will be no delay in the organization of the Senate, the democratic members being largely in the majority in that body. In the House, however, owing to the divi- sion of parties, considerable difficulty and delay in organizing are anticipated. The party caucuses and that the measure, which, while opening the door for the n and philanthropic character. The p!..in- weer See reports of the pro- | foduction of shuvery into Territories now free, would re p a ie ceedings are given in today’s Hematy. The | aisohaveopened the door to litigation and peace, and thropists were in close correspondence viih democrats present the name of Thomas | prosperity, was defeated in the House of go ives, | their British brethren, and stood in }i.zher Te tant its passage, in hot haste, by a majority of the Senate. ‘ 2 B. Bocock, of Virginia, for the Speaker- | embracing several Renate Who stead in open violation | favor at Exeter Hall than at home. ‘Th -y were of the known will of their constituents, shonld warn the people to gee to it that their representatives be notsuflered to betray them. There must be no more compromises with slavery; if made, they must be repealed. Resolved, That we inscribe on our banner ‘free soil, free speech, free labor and free men,” and under it will fight on and fight ever, untila triumphant victory shall reward our exertions. Here we have a distinct announcement that the object of the Convention was a combina- tion of all the anti-slavery elements, whether whig or democratic, “against the slave power,” and that the party organizations hitherto exist- ing being dissolved, it was intended this plat- form should be a new “declaration of inde- pendence,” and the commencement of a new re- yolution, after the example of that of 1776. These resolutions proclaim that there shall be “no more slave States, and no slave terri- tory’’—that “there must be ne more compro- mises with slavery, and if made they must be” repealed.” The men who drew up this revolu- tionary insirument were Joshua R. Giddings, B. F. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Fred. Douglass, and Samuel J. Tilden, the Tammany candidate for Corporation Counsel, on whose nomination Havemeyer insisted as a condition of his being candidate for the Mayoralty. Giddings, Chase and Douglass have ever since labored hard to carry out the objects of that Convention, and Havemeyer has followed in their wake. He voted for the republican Presidential candidate in 1856, and subscribed his money to help to elect him. He voted for the present republi- can Governor, and in the late State election he voted in his own district for Mr. Manierre, who is one of the committee to propagate Helper’s treasonable book, in which violence is counsel- ed as a means of overthrowing “the slave power.” He is thus identified with the revolu- tionary designs of the anti-slavery party up to the present moment. He hasnever recanted the Buffalo Platform; but, on the contrary, he now stands by it, and, therefore, claims the support of the republicans, who in no respect differ from him in principle. Their only objection to him is that he is the nominecof the old harlot, Tam- many Hall, whose corruption and rowdy vio- lence have rendered her so offensive to all decent men. We challenge Mr. Havemeyer or any of his friends to point out wherein there is a particle of difference between his Buffalo Platform and the platform of the republicans. Both lead to revolution and the irrepreasible conflict, and Hinton Rowan Helper'’s book is their exponent. Mr. Anthon, one of the com- mittee whose business it is to circulate that manual of revolution, was a principal speaker at the Havemeyer meeting of merchants in Wall street last week, and very consistently endorsed all that John Brown did. He was one of the orators also at the Cooper Inititute on Saturday night, where he was accompanied by some broken down Irish politicians, with- out influence or following. + As the avowed object of the Buffalo Conven- tion was to combine and concentrate all the elements of anti-slavery against the Sor the declared design of Havemeyer, \ on the Buffalo Platform in 1848, is now again in 1859 all the element* ti slavery in this city, whether to be fou.d under the banners of republicanism or in the ranks of the democratic party. Van Buren did not win the battle of 1848; but he sneceeded im what he expected and ardently desired-the defeat ofthe democratic party, to which he had ship, and the South Americans have nominated John A. Gilmer, of Norfh Carolina, for that office. The ‘republicans decided not to make a caucus nomination. It is stated that their votes, at the commencement of the balloting, will be divided between John Sherman, of Ohio, and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyivania. Neither party, however, being numerically strong enough to elect,a des- perate and prolonged struggle will probably en- sBue—a contest as stubborn, perhaps, as that of 1855, which resulted in the election of N. P. Banks to the Speakership, atter a scene of tarmoil of nine weeks’ duration. The President has decided not to iseue his Message until the House has organized, and the reports of the Secretaries will only be issued as accompaniments of the Message. In order that our readers may be informed as to the importance of the proceedings of this Congress, we have prepared and publish to-day an elaborate arti- cle, containing a list of the names of the members, Bome account of the duties and emoluments of the various officers of the House, together witha re- sumé of the work already cut out,and the measures that will be brought forward for action. Additional particulars respecting the execution of John Brown on Friday last, at Charlestown, Va., are given in to-day’spaper. The remains of Brown arrived in this city on Saturday evening, and were conveyed to an undertaker’s establishment in the Bowery, where they were prepared for burial. They will be forwarded to North Elba this morn- ing. Mrs. Brown also arrived in this city on Satar- day evening. The Church of the Puritans was filled last evening to hear Dr. Cheever discourse on “The Martyr’s Death and the Martyr's Triumph.” A fall report of this remarkable eulogy on John Brown, together with reports of sermons by Rev. Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Rev. Mr. Noyes, also on John Brown, are given in another part of to-day’s paper The storms of snow, hail and rain, which com- menced on Saturday, extended over a, vast region. At Albany the snow fell to the dept of several inches and quite a freshet in the river at that port is reported. The forwarders are looking for a speedy closing of the canals, and are pushing for- ward freight with great vigor. The Church of Maria Ascension, situated in For- ty-ninth street, between the Ninth and Tenth aye- nues, was yesterday solemnly dedicated by the Vi. car General, Rey. Mr. Starrs, in the absence of Bishop Hughes, assisted by the Rev. Mr. McNemy and the pastor, Rev. Mr. Strele. The church was built by and is intended for the use of the German Catholics of the vicinity. It isa very neat and un- pretending little building, constructed of brick, and is capable of seating seven or eight hundred per- ons comfortably. Notwithstanding the unpleasant condition of the weather, the building was crowded yesterday forenoon. The members of the St. Fran- ciscus, St. Peter and St. Antonius Verrius, German religious societies, were present in full regalia and added greatly to the imposing aspect of the cere mony. The congregation deserve great praise for the zeal and perseverence which they have exhi- bited in the completion of their church, the corner stone of which was laid only last May. The friends and admirers of Thomas Paine me‘ at the house of William E. Rose, 95 Prince street yeaterday at 3 P.M.,to make arrangements for the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-third anniversary of his birthday. Owing to the incle- mency of the weather the meeting was not large, but made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in num- bers. Mr. Rose, the chairman, stated that they had engaged the City Assembly Rooms, and that the next anniversary meeting would be held there on Mopday, the 30th day of January next; also, that Dodworth’s band had been engaged for the occa. wion, and that the tickets were now_ready for Ji two hours’ discussion iu re. gard to the mode of conducting the ceremonics, mild fanatics, however, when compsi.d with the anti-slavery agitators of to-day. People looked upon th@.-abolitionists of the pri- mary formation as harmless lunatics, and paid but little attention to what they did. By melting appeals to those tender hearted people who are always ready to bleed freely when a pitiful story is told them, and who are taken in continually by confidence men of all colors and ia all conditions of life, the abolition societies managed to make a re- spectable figure, as far as funds were con- cerned, by the side of the various religious and benevolent associations. No sooner had this result been attained than a number of adventurers, of the Garrison stripe, appeared upon the scene, and changed the plan of anti- slavery tactics by denouncing the South and advoeating the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery, or, as an alternative, the dissolution of the Union. Every one will re- member what a storm of indignation was raised throughout the North when this infamous and most treasonable doctrine was first promul- gated, and for several years after. Even in New England it was not safe for such men as Garrison, Philips, Pillsbury and Foster to whisper what is now proclaimed from the housetops all over the North and West. In New York the abolition orators were frequent- ly prevented from speaking at all. This state of things they turned to account, and by making themselves out martyrs to the cause, they secured increased contributions from the faithful, at home and abroad. The understanding was that they were willing to suffer provided they were paid for it, and well paid they were. So far we had only the philanthropic aboli- tionists in their tea parties and sewing circles, and the blood, fire, murder and disunion fana- tic@upon the rostrum. But the infection soon spread to the church, and the topic of slavery wasseized upon by some of the new school sen- sation preachers, whose idea of preaching Christ and Him crucified consists in making the largest possible amount of money in pew premiums. The cross they bear is stamped with the Mint mark. They are martyrs who are well known in Wall street. To prove this we have only to refer to the case of Theodore Parker, who exchanged five hundred dollars yearly salary for five thousand, or the Beech. ers, father and son, who have made fortunes out of the wees of the black man. Cheever, they say, has not done so well, but with his British remittances may yet come out hand- somely with a brown stone front and a country seat. To have divided the churches North and South, to have stirred up insurrection, to have urged on such men as Old Brown to murder and treason, to have incited rebellion and stirred np malice, hatred, envy and all un charitableness, aré small matters with these sphels compared with the filthy lucre their sensation sermons bring in ‘The next step in abolitionism was the poison- ing of the light literature of the North. The anti-slavery novels of Mrs. Beecher Stowe were exceedingly profitable pecuniarily, and nearly all the New England writers immodiately set themselves at work toimitste“Unele 7. Cabin” and “Dred.” The books are poor oreh in 9 literary point of view, but they answered the purpose of the negro worship- pers, and helped to feed the flame of dis- union. The effect of abolition doctrines upon the rostrum, in the pulpit, and in the light litera- ture of the day, is seen in the recent political events of the day, and the morbid sympathy for men whose lives were justly forfeit to the laws of a State which they had outraged. On the one hand the abolitionists excite the people of the North to interfere with the rights of the South, and on the other they stir up the hot blooded Southerners to that point where, as they believe, forbearance ceases to be a vir- tue. The result will inevitably be disunion and civil war. But this is not all. Abolition is the realize- tion of the fubled hydra, and the latest of the hundred heads appears at the theatre in the shape of a play to be presented at the Winter Garden this week, and called ‘The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana.” According to all ac- counts, this piece purports to give a view of the lights and shades of the institution of slavery. The heroine, the Octoroon, has been bern in slavery, but has seven-eighths white blood in her veins. She is tenderly reared, given all the accomplishments, airs and graces of a young lady of the best society, but through the extravagance and carelessness of her white father and owner she is compelled to descend to the condition of her quadroon mother. The slaves of the estate are sold at auction (of which scene there is to be an exact representation); the delicately bred and highly accomplished chattel is sold to a wicked over- seer, who ruined her father. In order to escape from the overseer, the Octoroon commits suicide. ‘The author of this play, Mr. Bourcicault, is undeniably a clever man, and we have no doubt that he has made the courteous, gene- rous and chivalrous traits of our Southern brethren very prominent; but that is of but little consequence. The play will carry with it the abolition aroma, and muet be classed with the sermons of Beecher and Cheever ‘and the novels of Mrs. Stowe. It will tend still further to excite the feeling which now threatens to destroy the Union of the States and ruin the republic. The theatre has had no more earnest defender from the attacks of bigots and narrow- minded fanatics than the Henaip; but when the stage is prostituted to the work of disunion and treason, it will find in us a bitter and deter- mined enemy. We say now—and we believe that all the friends of the theatre, as a place of harmless and innocent recreation, combined sometimes with instruction, will agree with us— we say that the question of slavery should not be touched by the dramatic author in any way. Neither a pro-slavery nor an anti- slavery play ought to be performed, and a half way affair is quite as bad, perhaps worse, as it would displease everybody. The effect of the new play upon the public mind, just now in such an excited state, must be irritating, and it is certainly dis- graceful that the people of this metropolis— and they are conservative and sound in their hearts—cannot even go to the theatre without having the almighty nigger thrust under their noses. Abolition doctrines on or off the stage should receive the severest denunciation from every citizen who has the good of the republic at heart. Weare now standing upona mine, which may explode and scatter the confederacy in fragments at any moment. Every abolition book, sermon or play tends to add fuel to the fire which has been increasing slowly but sure- ly these last twenty years. For these reasons we wage war against the “Octoroon,” and de- clare, in the name of the good citizens of the metropolis, that neither that nor any other play of the same character should be per- formed. The manager may take refuge in Virgil, and say that to him Trojan and Tyrian are alike, but the irrepressible conflict has now gone so far, that the motto of both sides is, “He that is not with me is against me.” Tue Mayoraizy Sroce.—The sidewalk cau- cuses are in a dilemma as to the result of the Mayoralty election, and the betting men are offering and taking wagers on every side. No one seems to know what the real chances of the three leading candidates are. One day Wood stock is up, and the next day Opdyke stock has an upward tendency. Ever since Havemeyer’s nomination, his paper appears to be depreciating, though it was endorsed last week by Wall street. The withdrawal of Mr. Ogden, the whig nominee, may make some dif- ference in the election should the vote run close; but otherwise his presence or absence from the field will not materially affect the re- sult. Meantime it is only wasting time to speculate; we must only wait patiently till Tuesday night for the issue of this triangular battle. Fixe Arr Exursrrions.—Now that the Opera has closed, and little Patti and all the other singing birds have flown away to the provinces, the fashionable people of the metropolis will be asking each other Mr. Webster's question— “Where shall I go?” We recommend to them the special study of some of the very fine works of our own artists now on exhibition here. No matter if one has already seen a picture or a statue onge or twice, or even three times, he can go again and again, and discover new beauties with each visit. Go to see Palm- er’s “White Captive,”’ Barbee’s “Coquette” and Church’s “‘Andes;” and go often, study them with a real religious art feeling, and you will come away fully recognizing the truth of the often-quoted line of Keats—“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” We leave out of the argu- ment altogether the claims which American artists have on their countrymen. We simply recommend the exhibitions as a means where- by the cultivated mind may drink in the high- est form of esthetic enjoyment, and through which the humblest and most illiterate man cannot fail to experience that thrill of admi- ration which the works of men of true genius awaken in every heart. How refining and how ennobling the influences of such works are upon the public mind—which without them would run altogether to niggers and dollars— we need hardly say. A Cnoice Seiccrion or Canpares.—Electors will please to remember that they will have the honor of voting on Tuesday for men as Alder- men and Councilmen who have been indicted for various grievous offences against the law— from felonious assault to murder—some un- tried, some convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, though for some reason not occu- TEV wraMisaie purgatory, and one in the Tombs on a charge of murder. With such o choice selection before the people it is bard if NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. we do not get a beautiful Common Council next year to make laws for this great metropo- lis and faithfully guard its finances. The Present Northern Abolition and Southern Disunion Agitation—Who are the Disorganizers? The late Washington despatches and edito- rial commentaries of this journal on the pre- sent alarming crisis in our national affairs, ia connection with the slavery agitation, have brought down upon us a raking fire from some of the batteries of the republican party. That invincible military chieftain, the Chevalier Webb, dofls his harness, mounts his charger, and dashes down upon us as upon “the chief” of the slavery and disunion agitators. ‘Thus it appears that “the real authors of this slavery excitement are those who repealed the Missouri Compromise, the few miserable abo- litionists of the North, the political leaders of the South, and the New Yorx Herat,” and that “the latter is the chief agitator, because of its power.” The Chevalier Webb also charges that the Herat “is edited by a reckless and unprincipled foreigner, who has nothing in common with our people or our country;’’ that “day after day it maligns the whole North by the most palpable falsehoods, and excites the South to acts of folly;”’ and finally, thatthe editor of this paper “is not only willing to see the great republic shattered to atoms, but, in the interest of Europe, is exceedingly desirous of producing such a result.” All this is very dreadful; but afew words will suffice in the way of an an- swer. In the first place, we have been almost as long in this country as the Chevalier Webb himself, and it is our country from choice, and not by accident. Secondly, we would refer the Chevalier to our city tax list, as affording positive evidence that we do possess something “in common with our peo- ple,” and something in no immediate danger of being gponged out by a general bankrupt law. As for the rest of the Chevalier’s accusations, they are the veriest nonsense and billingsgate of impotent malice and rage. But our unduly excited Wall street cotempo- rary has also something to say on the general issue, in order to put himself in a more favor- able position before the country. Thus he de- clares that he would, if he had the power, “hang every abolitionist in the country Who seeks to interfere with slavery where it consti- tutionally exists.” Very good. Let Mr. Seward and the republican party at once mount that platform, and publicly repudiaté the “irrepres- sible conflict” proclaimed at Rochester, and it is quite possible that with the blooming of the first flowers of spring, the editor of the Hx- raLp and the Chevalier Webb will fulfil that beautiful prophecy of the lion and the lamb lying down together. But, from the ridiculous accusation that “the Heraup has for years attempted to undermine our institutions by its assaults upon everything and everybody con- nected with morality and religion,” and that “now it is doing allin its power to array the North against the South, and the South against the North,” &c., we turn to inquire who are the disunion agitators and disorganizers of the day. We charge that the prince of these slavery agitating disorganizers is W. H. Seward, the em- bodiment, according to the Chevalier Webb, of all the virtues of the Sermon on the Mount; we charge that the Virginia raid of John Brown was only the practical fulfilment of the bloody instructions of Seward. We have also before us an incendiary abolition publication, entitled “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. By Hinton Rowan Helper;” and this book we find endorsed, approved and recom- mended by two-thirds of the republican list of members of the present Congress. Among the subscribers to aid in its circulation, we find a host of other prominent republicans, as will be seen from the following list:— In aid of the general fund for circulating one hundred thousand copies of tho work in band, subscriptions up to the 16th of June, 1859, amount to about $3,700, of which the following, as'will respectively appear, have been re- ceived in sums of from $10 to $250:— Beers, Abner, New York city.. Bonney, B. W., New, York city Brown, Nicholas, Warwick, R. Burdick, Asher B., Brooklyn, N.Y. Clarke, James Freeman, Jamaica Piains, Mass Cassius M., Whitehall, Ky..... , New York cit Dudley, E. G., Boston, Mass... Endicott, Wm., Jr., Boston, Mass Farnum, ‘Jonathan, Millville, Mass. Fieke, Edwards W., Brooklyn, N. Fosdick, Samuel, Cincinnati, Ohio French, Stiles, New Haven, Conn. Frisbie, M. J., New York city... Frothingham, 0. B., Jersey City, N. J. Goodlce, D. K., and friend, Washingto: Greeley, Horace, New York city. Greenleaf, R. C.; Boston, Mass. Harris, Kaward, Woonsocket, Tt. Hedrick, Benjamin S., New York city. Helper, Hilton R. Hurlbut, F., Brooklyn, N. Jay, Jolin, New York city. Ketchum, Edward, New York McCaullay, Wm., Wilmington, De Marble, Natban, Port Byron, N. May, Samuel. Boston, Mass. Morgan, Fawin D., Albany, Nesmith, John, Lowell Norton, John ‘f., Farmington, Conn. Pareont, J. C., New York.. Pinner, M., Kansas City, Mo phi: Randolph, Evan, Philadelphia, F Republicans of Pottsville and New ¥ Crown Point, N. Y.,$11.... -- 6 Republicans of Shawnee Mound, $20; South Bend, In- diana, $10.. “we Roberts, W. 8 10 cast Ryerson, David, Nowa, N.J jorman, 8. N., Ogdensburg Smith, Gerrit, Pete By Spring, M Degioavial 3 om pring, Marcus, Eagleswood, N. J 6 Stober, John A., Smyrna, N. Y¥ mer Stranahan, J. 8.'T., ‘Brooklyn: 100 ‘Tappan, Lewis, Brooklyn, N. ¥ . 100 ‘Thomas, Wm. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 100 Tweedy, Edmund, Newport, R’ T 10 Wadsworth, James S., New York ci 100 fakeman, Abram, New York city 100 Weed, Thurlow, Albany, N.Y. 100 White, Aaron, Thompson, Conn... 10 Wright, E. N. and Jamee A., Philadelphia. We iy, N. ‘A friond, by SE Sewell, “Boston, ‘Mass.’ $1 Brookiyn, N. ¥., $25. prpedes Total... $3,518 And what are the doctrines, teachings and purposes of the book thus endorsed, ap- proved, and subscribed for as an clectioncering document, by the leaders, managers and or- gans of the republican party? It says that “slavery must be throttled ;” and the author of this revolutionary book, a Southern renegade, thus appeals to the laboring white classes of the South:— ‘The great revolutionary movement which was set on foot in rlotte, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on the 20th day of May, 1775, has not yet boon terminated, nor will it be until every slave in the United States is freed from the tyranny of his master. Every victim of the vile institution, whether white or black, must be rein- vested with tho sacred rights and privileges of which he has been deprived by an inhuman oligarchy. What our noble sires of the Revolution left unfinished it is our duty * * * * to complete. Non-slavoholders of the South, farmors, mechanics and oni men, we take this occasion to assure you that the slaveholding politicians whom you have elected to offices of peer ha have on re you, trifled with ou, aun you a8 mere e Cons thet wicked bayer gene * be cs ReELIN be low, as one of your own number, we appeal jolt us in our earnest and timely’ effortsto paths generous soil of the South from the ursurped and desolat- ing contfol of these political vampires. Once and forever, at Icast #0 far ax this country is concertied, the infernal question of ¢ must be dispoged of ; 9 epeody and absninte abolishmént of the whole aystem is true poliey of Aho Rope. | And by ote polar whiou we Dre. pore te pursue, you ald us? wil betel you be freemen? or will you be slaves? bd ” ms Donot reserve the strength of your arms until you ball bave been rendered poworless to strike; the present is the proper time for action; under all the circumstances, apathy or indifference ig a crime. And these appeals afe followed by a regular programme of operations looking directly to @ Southern servile and agrarian war for the ex- termination of the “slave oligarchy.” We charge that all hands concerned in this couspiracy, endorsers and subscribers, are guilty of moral treason, and are among the most dangerous disorganizers of these critioat times. The Chevalier Webb would doubtless have figured with his republican colab, Weed and Greeley, for a hundred dollars in aid of said book, but for his “pecuniary diffical- ties and liabilities.” We know that “birds of @ feather flock together,” and we know that when a general conspiracy is projected against the South, like this of Helper, by the dominaat party of the North, we are doing the work of patriotism in exposing the perilous position of the Union. Wonderful Developoment of American Art—Uprising of Enthusiasm. One of the most marked of our oharac- teristics as a people is the readiness with which we give way to our impulses, Let anything strike our fancy, lay hold of our sympathy, or impress itself on our con- victions, and we at once abandon ourselves te its influence. We do not wait for the verdict of others to be guided in our judgments. Us- like the European communities, which are led by the nose by pedants, we have the indepen- dence to decide for ourselves, and to decide promptly. The consequence fs, that notwith- standing our comparative inexperience in art matters, we make fewer mistakes in the appre- ciation of works of genuine merit than we find committed by foreigners who have had larger opportunities of observation. There has never been a period in the history of the arts in this country in which this nation- al peculiarity has more strongly manifested it- self than within the last few weeks. In that brief space of time we have witnessed a series -of excitements which, springing from well founded causes, must have the effect ef giving an immense impulse and developement to the cre- ative genius of the country. They constitute, in fact, one of those historical eras which serve asa guide to the art student. When we reflect om their freedom from all the vulgar inflnences by which such movements are usually got up, we can readily comprehend the enthusiasm that marked the early triumphs of Greek and Roman art, and the later achievements ofthe same cha- racter which shed glory on the small Italian republics, and which gave them a higher place in the world’s estimation than that occupied by States of greater political influence aud im- portance. From the exhibition of Church’s great pic- ture, the “Heart of the Andes,” may be dated the inauguration of this new art epoch. That extraordinary work may be said to embody all the peculiarities and excellences which, in painting as well as insculpture, have given the stamp of originality to American art. The landscapes of our artists differ as much from the pictures of Turner, and of the modern English school generally, as they do from those of Salvator Rosa, Claude Lorraine and Nico- las Poussin. With the breadth which consti- tutes one of the chief merits of such works, they combine minuteness and elaboration of detail—qualities that are not to be found united to any extent in the productions ef the masters that we have named. They have, too, this distinctive feature, that they represent an atmosphere totally different. In English scenery there is a mistiness, and in Italian scenery a haze, which only imperfectly reveal objects. The American sky, on the contrary, is pure, bright and transparent, and brings out every- thing clearly and sharply to the eye. The rays of the sun, penetrating through a vista of forest scenery, loge none of their force through the intervention of the exhalations which, in European countries, modify their effects. For this reason American landscapes must always possess a character sui generis, part due to climatic influences and part to the independent spirit of our artists, who refuse to be bound by the conventionalities of other schools, In the works of Cole, the master under whom Mr. Church studied, are tobe found evidences of the same close study and appreciation of the peculiarities of American scenery which con- stitute the chief attraction of his pupil's pic- tures. Some ef Cole’s finest sketches were taken from the Catskill mountains; and if he did not bring the same faculties to the com- pletion of them which Mr. Church has dis- played, itiscertain that he was an equally ardent student of nature. Of the striking merit of Mr. Church’s last great work, “The Heart of the Andes,” there can be ano better evidence than the fact that, before it left the easel, it was sold for ten thousand dollars, with a reservation that if a higher sum were offered for it within two years the purchaser would relinquish ft, There is but Uttle doubt that the artist will have occasion to avail himself of the privilege, for the painting is well worth twenty thousand dollars, and there are plenty of our collectors rich enough to pay that sum for it. Following close upon the excitement caused by Mr. Church’s triumph, came that created by Page’s “Venus.” This work is said to have mainly owed its success to the peculiar charac- ter of the subject; but thisis unjust. The paint- ing was remarkable asa specimen of the artist’s powers as a colorist, its tones almost rivalling in purity and richness those of the master- pieces of the Italian school. Scarcely had the sensation created by this Picture subsided a little than “the White Cap- tive” of Mr. Palmer threw our art connois- seurs into another ebullition of enthusiasm. Of the qualities of this admirable work we have already had occasion to speak fully. The opi- nions of all competent critics have confirmed the judgment that we pronounced upon it, and the place of the artist in the foremost rank of modern sculptors may henceforth be set down as a fixed fact, Although Mr. Palmer will reap in fame a rich reward for this work, it will not be as pecuniarily proftable to him as it might have been. It was executed for the Hon. Hamilton Fish, at the price of five thousand. dollars, but its real value is more than four times that amount. As if to prove how prolific native genius is in this branch of art, two other productions as remarkable in their way have been placed on exhibition within the last few days. These are “the Coquette” and “the Fisher Girl,” by Mr. Barbee, the latter of which fs a work of exqui-