The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1859, Page 4

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BR Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East The contents of the Evrorgaw Eprmon or tas Herat ‘Will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of be pudlication. The News. Both houses of Congress assembled at noon yes- | terday,and proceeded to business. The weather ‘was inclement, but notwithstanding the galleries | were filled with spectators, inpluding a large | proportion of ladies. The Senate was opened with | the usual formalities, and at the first opportunity Mr. Mason, of Virginia, offered a resolution provid- ing for the appointment of a select committee io mate a full and searching investigation into all the circumstances connected with the Harper's Ferry outbreak, and also to report what legislation is necessary for the future preservation of the peace of the country and the safety of the public pro- perty. This resolution will probably be taken up to-day. Mr. Trambull gave notice that he should move to extend the inquiry so as to include an in- vestigation of the circumstances connected with the seizure of the arsenal at Franklin, Mc., during the Kansas border ruffian war. Mr. Gwin gave Notice of a bill for the construction of a railroad to {atmosphere in this city during the week ending ‘3 Mix. prnass 1X SONGS, Dances, Eusursaues, &c.—Tue Fuairives. i | the Pacific, and the Senate adjourned. ‘The House was the grand point of attraction, and every part of it was occupied, a0 intense was the anxiety to witness the proceedings. Of the 237 members of the House only seven were absent at roll call. As soon as the calling of the roll was concluded, the House agreed to proceed to the elec- tion of a Speaker. A ballot was taken, and the re- sult showed that sixteen candidates, embracing all the various shades of party politics, had been voted for, without effecting a choice. Bocock, the democratic caucus nominee, re- ceived 86 votes; Sherman, republican, 66; Grow, republican, 48; Boteler, a Virginia American demo- crat,. 14; Gilmer, South American, 5; while the balance were distributed almost equaily among the remaining candidates. After the ballot Mr. Grow withdrew his name, and the democrats and repub- licans will for a time, no doubt, concentrate upon Bocock and Sherman, while the Southern opposi- tion members will retain the power to decide the election, When the result was announced a mo- tien was made to adjourn; but Mr. Clark, of Missouri, offered a resolution declaring in effect that no member who had endorsed Helper'’s ety spending Crisis,” or recommended it, was fit to be Speaker. As three-fourths of the Tepublican members have recommended this hhandhook of insurrection, the resolution caused quite a fluttering among the endorsers of this incendiary publication, and several of them hastened to disavow all knowledge of the book and to repudiate its teachings. No action was taken on the resolution. Thus it will be seen that the Harper's Ferry outbreak is fairly before Congress at the very outset of the session. The screw steamship City of Manchester, Cap- tain Cummings, which left Glasgow on the 17th, and Queenstown on the 20th of November, reached this port yesterday forenoon. Garibaldi’s resig- nation of his command is confirmed. He will not return to Central Italy. The appointment of M. Buoncampagni as Regent had been formally pro- tested against by the National Assembly of Tus- Cany. ‘The Cahawba arrived here from Havana yester- sy morning, with advices to the 30th ult. Captain General Serrano had made a good many new ap- Pointments in the government offices, but it was thought that his policy would, in the main, agree With that of Concha. Sugars remained firm in price, while the decline in freights continued. Exchange on New York was at from three and a half to Percent premium. The Cahawba brought $462,000, ostly in Mexican dollars, on freight from New Orleans and Havana, A grand opera war was in Progress between Max Maretzek and the newspa- Per “free ticket” critic men. Some of the latter hod, in some manner, offended Maretzek, and were retused admission, pay or no pay, to the house, Whereat a great mang newspaper employés were highly offend, and a general imbroglio, which had Dot terminated, ensued. We have news from British Guiana dated at De- tersra onthe 9th ult. The Governor had return- ed from Berbice. The Coolie emigration and local ay prenticeship questions were much discussed. Biome persons proposed to import destitute labor. 1. fiom Barbadoes, instead of Coolies. It was said that the former could gather in the harvest in De. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1850. mierara, and then return to work at bome, there being six months’ difference in the crop time bo- tween both places, A little railroad line in Deme- rara was consumed with debt and likely to be sold or discontinued; if so, the British West Indies would not have a mile of railway, except those in Jamaica. Our Port au Prince lotter of the 15th altimo states that the sectional complaints of the North agoinst the South, and vice versa, were moder under Geffrard’s rule. Free discussion on every subject, anda more oper quotation of American newspapers, were aiding the progreas. A number of negro emigrants from the United States had ar- rived, and were well treated. Encouraging reports had beea received from the native children seat to Prence for education. Trade was paralyzed at Jeremie. Our correspondents state that the American steamtug Decatur, designed for towage in the port of Uavena, not finding a ready sale, was taken ont on her return to New Orleans, but was muca in- juced by a collision with a Spanish war vessel, which took her in tow from an American schvoner then guiding her. Great preparations were made for » renewed activity in the African slavo trade, and the late negro landings were open and taken quite es matters of ordinary traffic. The report of the City Inspector of the morta- lity in this city for the weck ending last Saturday shows a decrease in the number ofdeaths compared with those of the previous week, Ofthe entire num- ber of deaths during the past week 352 were from abgolute diseases and 29 from external ¢auses. Scar- let fever continues to prevail among children, of which disease 18 died during the week. Of diseases of the lungs, throat, &c., there were 144 deaths, of the brain and nerves &, skin and eruptive fevers 32, and stomach and bowels 22. Of the whole number of deaths in the city—381—220 were chil- ; dren ten years of age and under. The annexed table shows the temperature of the | December 3, the range of the barometer and ther- } mometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, viz: at 94. M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— P.M. } i 4. M. 5px | { “ares on Jo hog Seturday—Ciear all day. yMorning cloudy; afternoon and night clear. Mon‘sy—Clear all day. Tuescay—Clear ail day. Wedzesday—Morning clear; afternoon cloudy; night “Thursday—Hazy and warm all day. Fricay—Mornmg cloudy and warm; afternoon clear; night moonlight, ‘Sctarday— Morning and afternoon overcast; night hail and snow. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 bales, chiefly on the spot, closing with rather more stiff- ness, on the basis of 1lc. for middting uplands. Flour was firm, but less active, at Saturday’: quotations, while the demand both from the home trade and for export was fair. Southern flour was firm, while sale; were moderate. ‘Wheat was quiet and sales light; at unchanged prices. Corn was in fair request, with moderato sales, closing without change of moment in quotations. Pork was less active, and sales light, at $16 1234 for mess, and at $11 50 for prime. Coffee was quiet and sales light. The specu- lative feeling in raisins continued, and sales of 4,000 boxes were made, to arrive, at prices given in another column. Sugars were firm, but sales were light, within the range of Saturday’s prices. Freighta were firm, with rather more offering for English ports. The Farce of the Municipal Elcction Today. It is one of the greatest farces we have ever witnessed. The scene-shifting and mancu- | vring and sharp tactics of the respective parties, their leaders and understrappers—the drilling and marshalling of their forces—their marching and countermarching—the general excitement that prevails—all render the contest farcical in the extreme. There will probably be a dozen of fights about it in the course of this day and to-night, and at least a score of heads broken which haveno brains in them. While we write we perceive that the Seventh regiment is order- ed out—not a man to be absent. This is pain- fully significant of what is expected. The most ludicrous part of the farce is, that the parties who have most interest in the result take least concern in the election. The tax- payeas, who will have to pay the bill, whether it amounts to eleven, or thirteen, or fifteen mil- lions, seem to regard the struggle with indiffer- ence. But not so the candidates for the Common Council and their backers. They are more deeply interested in the event than even the taxpayers, who, being numerous, have less to lose and gain than the plundering few, whose losses and gains depending on the result amount to thousands upon thousands of dollars to every man of them. The candidates for mil- lions of plunder—the aspirants to seats in the Common Council—are the greatest set of scoun- drels and cutthroats that ever dared to put for- ward their namesin a muzicipal election. They are indicted thieves, convicted felons and al- leged murderers—men who ought either to dangle from the gallows or be sent to Sing Sing, where there are far better nen, instead of a great intelligent city like this--the commer- cial metropolis of the United States—sending them to the City Hall to represent it, and en- trusting them with the absolute control of the public money. Surely there never was such a farce ag this before. Yet these rogues and ruf- fians, nominated on the Tammany Hall ticket, will be elected, while the silly taxpayers are diverted from the game of plunder to the elec- tion of Mayér, which does not concern them at The election of Mayor is of no importance whatever in a municipal point of view. For, if Wood, who is the ablest administrative man among the candidates, should be elected, which is very doubtful, he would be immediately stripped by the republican Legislature of even the paltry power which still belongs to the office. If Opdyke should be elected, the Com- mon Council, which will be democratic, will be shorn of its strength, and power added to the republican Mayor. If Havemeyer, the half- and-half republican and Tammany candidate, should be elected, the anti-slavery party in the Legislature will have the matter all their own way; for he is already with them in principle, and is prepared to go all lengths in their cause. Should he be successful the republicans will be well provided for as far as his power extends. St. Tammany, turned Judas, will get one-half the spoils, and Havemeyer’s republican sup- porters the other half; and, between the two sets of thieves and spoilsmen, the city will be fleeced more conipletely than it ever has been under any former régime. The chances are that one or other of the two republican candidates will be elected, and Wood, the national democratic candidate, de- feated. There is every prospect, therefore, of the State being numbered, after this day, among the anti-slavery Statea of the North. Judging from the November election, we had supposed that this State was ut least doubtfal, and that its destiny still vibrated in the balance. But the events of the last few days force upon us the couclusion that it is probably lost to the cause of the Union and the constitution, and will be susrendered into the hands of William HB. Seward. New York was the Urbs intacla, the unconquered city, the great fortress of the State, where its conservative strength lay. If it should fail to-day before the assaults of enemies without and treachery within, a new era will mark its history, and, indeed, from the 6th of December, 1859, will date a new epoch in the history of the country. Great events often spring from the most trivial causes. Rome was once saved by the cackling of geese, and from a farcical municipal election may spring events which will control the destiny of this great confederation of States, and the fate of untold, unborn millioas of the human race. The country is nowin suoh a perilous condition, and the power of the North on one side, and the power of the South and its friends on the otber, are so nicely balanced, that the slightest movement may incline the beam to either hand, and precipitate the finale of “the irrepressible conflict.” Not only the republican papers of this city, but throughout the country, jook upon the contest as national. The Ohio State Journal, the official paper of the republi- can administration in Ohio, so regards it. and says that “this election, for the first time in seve: ral years, becomes interesting to the republi- cans of the country.” The Evening Post en- dorses the remarks of the Ohio paper, and pro- nounces “the Mayoralty election to be a na- tional question.” The New York Tribune of yesterday declares that the election of Opdyke as Mayor is tantamount to the election of W. H. Seward as President of the United States in 1860—and the Zribune is right. The republican victory in this city, which is highly probable, would be but “the beginning of the end,” the foregone conclusion of the triumph of Seward and revolution, aud the inauguration of a fierce and bloody civil war, the results of which to this great commercial metropolis, and to every city and State in the North, may well startle the dullest imagination and appal the stoutest heart. This municipal election farce, therefore, may give birth to the greatest tragedy ever performed on the stage of this world. Pouce Reevtations.—Every care will be taken, we are told, to preserve order at the polls. Will the police enforce the law compell- ing the rum shops to close? It has never yet been attended to. Tae Crevatrer Wes Somewnat Axirriors.— The Chevalier Webb, in his day, has heen, from time to time, ambitious to distinguish himself in something calculated to make a sensation. Thus, many years ago, he was ambitious, with his mahogany stocked pistols, to give General Duff Green a terrible punishment; but he failed to doit. We next hear of the belligerent Che- valier‘as a rejected party in the Graves and Cilley duel; next, as having taken the field with Thomas F. Marshall, of Kentucky; next, as a prisoner for a criminal violation of the law; and next, as having escaped the State prison through the merciful interposition of p«.don by Gov. Seward. In all these affairstheChe: . ir Webb's ambition was something of the — or which is supposed to attach to the blood; of honor. But now his greatest sition seems to be the pleasure of hanging sue un- fortunate abolitionist. Cannot Gover::or Wise gratify him? Old Brown has been disposed of; but of his four condemned abolition associates, whoare to be hung on the 16th, one might be turned over to the Chevalier Webb. Will not Governor Wise, as 2 special favor, allow the Chevalier to act the hangman to Cook, Coppie, Copeland, or Green? Having joined the church, the Chevalier cannot very conveniently indulge his old passion for shooting at somebody; and so he desires to hang an abolitionist or two. Can he not be gratified by Governor Wise? Ose Hunprep Douiars Rewarp for every illegal voter detected and convicted. There’s a chance for some enterprising young man. Tammany Turned Antr-Stavery at Last.— Who would have supposed that after struggling for so many years against the anti-slavery ele- ment in this city and State, that Tammany would succumb and fall into the embraces of the nig- ger worshipper and the nigger at last? Thetwo principal agitators in 1848 who were conspicu- ous in denouncing the “slave oligarchy” are now up for office as the nominees of Tammany Hall. Havemeyer was a candidate on the Buf- falo anti-slavery platform for Presidential elec- tion in 1848, and Tilden drew up the resolu- tions denouncing the “slave oligarchy” which areenow the war cry of the abolitionists and black republicans. Can the commercial men and those interested in the commercial pros- perity of New York go for these men who raised aclamor against the “oligarchy?” Can they present themselves in such a dezpicable light in the eyes of their compatriots and customers of the Southern States? Ose Vore may decide the election of to-day, and save the Union. Let no duly qualified voter forget his duty. A Foss 1x THe Wrox Directiox.—The great fuss among the contractors and jobbers, and others, about the election, is got up to hide the bad characters of the candidatés for otfice, 25 Aldermen, Councilmen and School Commis- sioners, the list of which is headed by two or three indicted criminals, one of whom is under indictment for stealing from the public trea- sury; another has been just indicted for murder, and another has been tried and convicted for a felonious assault in a house of prostitution, and sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, but had judgment suspended in order that he might be elected an Alderman of New York. It seems to be an even question with the politicians of Tammany whether to send a man for four months to the penitentiary or for a year to the Common Council; in both instances like quali- fications being required. A Nationat. Exxotion.—Every citizen of New York will remember that the election to-day is something more than a local affair. The com- mercial metropolis of the Union, the centre of art, trade, literature and financial affairs, is called upon to choose between conservatism, union, law and order on one side, and black republicanism, disunion, sedition, treason and insurrection on the other, Next to the Presi- dential election the contest of to-day is of the most vital importance to the woll-being and prosperity of the country. {Important from Washingten—The Har. per’s Ferry Treason Upin Both Houses of Congress. Congress met at noon yesterday, and pro- ceeded to business. In the House 231 mem- bers took their seats—seven being absent—and @ vote was at once taken tor Speaker, but with- out any result, The votes cast were as fol- lows :— Sherman, of Ohio, Bocock, of Virgins, q Roteler, of Virginia, At Davis, of Indians, Anti-Leoom Phelpg, of Missouri, democrat, Giimef, of North Carolina, Sout Neison, of Tennessee, Southern opposition Corwin, of Obio, republican......-...+.. Adrain, of New Jersey, Auti-Lecompton demoorat, Hill, of Georgia, Southern oppositi Grow, of Penosylvania, republican. Hickman, of Peunsylvania, Anti- Pennington, of New Jersey, republican Haskin, of New York, Anti-Lecompton demoorat,... McQueen, of South Carolina, democrat........... Ne | AK. F. Clark, of New York, Anti-Lecompten democrat. Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, withdrew his mame after the firet ballot was declared, pro- bably because Sherman got tho highest number of republican votes. The House, therefore, remained unorganized up to the hour of ad- journment. It is a significant fact, asa preliminary to the Southern movement already foreshadowed in our columns, that the Harper’s Ferry trea- son of Old John Brown was made a subject of discussion in both houses on the very first day Congress assembled. In the Senate, Mr. Mason, of Virginia, gave notice of a motion, to be called up to-day, asking for a committee to in- quire into the late invasion and seizure of the armory and arsenal at Harper’s Ferry bya band of armed men, to report whether such invasion was under color of any organization intended to subvert the government of any of the States of the Union; the character of such organization, and whether any citizens not pre- sent were implicated or accessory thereto by contributions of money, arms, ammunition or otherwise, and to report further what legisla- tion, if any, is necessary for the future pre- servation of the peace of the country and the safety of public property; the committee to have power to cend for persons and papers. This resolution will at once bring before Congress and the country the positions occu- pied by Seward, Hale, Wilson, Gerrit Smith and the other parties said to be implicated with or cognizant of Old Brown’s desperate at- tempt to commence the “irrepressible conflict” in the South, with reference to that treasonable design, and will also inaugurate the move- ment in contemplation by the Southern delega- tions to demand such constitutional laws as may guarantee the safety of their property, and insure protection against future abolition raids of the John Brown stamp. An attempt was also made in the House, by Mr. Clark, of Missouri, to introduce the Har- per’s Ferry subject; but there appeared to be a determined disposition on the part of the re- publican members to cry it down. The opening meeting of Congress, it will thus be seen, gives promise of a most exciting and interesting session, probably the most im- portant of any the country has ever witnessed. ee rom Ber comnoe Tae Curvatier Were in THE Foorsters or Srernen H. Branco.—The Chevalier Webb is clearly beside himself with rage, and is making a most disgraceful exhibition of his spleen ia the bargain. What is the matter with him? Where is he hurt? What have we done, that he should continue to rail and scold at us like an enraged fishwoman? Of all things, why should the Chevalier Webb follow in the foot- steps of that wretched vagabond, Branch, in his malignant and loathsome abuse of individuals who know him not, and whose particular desire is to have nothing to do with him? 15 not the world large enough for him and them? If not, we advise him to take himself out of the way, and to mind, meantime, what he is about, and remember the pains and penalties and sorrows and sufferings of poor Branch. Vorers! Taxe Notice.-The polls will be open only nine hours and twenty minutes. In this short space of timeseventy thousand votes are to be polled. There is, therefore, not a mo- ment to lose, Agt ann Artist3—Tuem Socrat, Posrrron.— ‘The interregnum between the Opera seasons at this period of the year is usually a hard time to kill amongst people of taste. It is not merely the direct enjoyment afforded by music, but the opportunities for sub- sequent discussion and criticism which it furnishes, that enable them to dispose agree- ably of their leisure hours, The Opera depart- ed, what remains to them in the form of lyrical or dramatic amusements? Nigger minstrelsy, or nigger five-act melodramas—pleasant diver- sifications of the dismal abolition chant which is being keened over the remains of old John Brown. And yet the classes to whom music isasource of such inexhaustible pleasure, and who feel so much the deprivation of the Opera, have with- in their reach other sources of enjoyment, which, if they would only seek them, would afford them quite as much amusement and satis- faction. In the kindred arts of painting and sculpture they can find, we have no doubt, as ample a field for the employment of their sensi- bilities, and certainly of their intellectual faculties. In the galleries, exhibition rooms and studios of the metropolis there are at pre- sent more works of merit in both departments of art to be seen than have ever before been assembled here. Days can be pleasantly and profitably employed in visiting them, for the subjects of inquiry and reflection which they suggestare perhaps the most improving, refining and elevating that the mind canembrace. But it is not merely with these works—the fruits of the highest order of intellectual cultivation— that our people of fashion and means should make themselves familiar. They should also seek to become acquainted with their authors, and thus benefit by the advantages which such associations must confer. Our leading painters and sculptors, although men of fine gifts, are in general modest, unaffected and unobtrusive in their deportment, and too proud even to court the patronage that is essential to their progress. This reserve is one of the marked character- istics of genius, and amongst no class is it more discernible than amongst our New York artists, Sueh men constitute the real aristocracy of a community in which hereditary pretensionsare ignored. Let not people of wealth imagine that they confer « compliment on an artist by distin- guishing him by their attentions, It is the artist that in reality confers, by his society, an honor upon such persons. Wealth may be lost in a generation; the traditions of art can never be wiped out. In early Greece and Rome the successful artist was not only esteemed as highly as the orator and statesman, but was also admitted to the highest publicemployments, In the Middle Ages we find him similarly honored. Michael Angelo and Raphael received the visits of monarchs, popes, cardinals and statesmen, Rubens fulfilled several important diplomatic missions, and was knighted by Charles the Firat of England. Titian was the intimate friend of the Duke of Ferrara, and was created Count Palatine of the Empire by Charles the Fifth. People who lay claims to aristocratic position merely because they inhabit fine houses and sport splendid equipages, have as we have shown, nothing to lose by courting the society of artists. On the contrary, the fuct of their association with them will elevate them several steps higher in the social scale, for men are apt to be judged by the company they keep. Let, therefore, our moneyed idlers cultivate not merely art, but artists. The one will im- prove their minds by its lessons, the other their manners by the modest and unaffected bearing which is ever the concomitant of merit. There is no class in the world that stands more in need of the operation of these influences than does our purse-proud, self-sufficient aristo- eracy of trade, and more particularly the junicr branches of it. If Young New York could be taught to understand a picture or appreciate a statue, there would be some chance of making a gentleman of him. Scxoon Orricers.—Many people do not think it worth while to vote for school officers, and a large number of rogues and ignoramuses have, therefore, managed to slip into the Board of Education. The matter is more important than most people think. The Board has the charge of the education of our youth, and spends a million and a quarter of dollars every year. Scbool officers should be the most upright and intelligent men in their wards, Instead of that, they are often small beer politicians, who can bardly read, and in many instances cannot write. Look over yourschool tickets carefully, and pick out the best men, without regard to purty affiliations. Skyrocket Szicxs.—The poets of the Post come out very strongly against the use of fire- works at political meetings. Some of the Post's candidates may be hit to-day by the falling sticks. Stand from under, The Impending Industrial and Commets, cial Crisis Througheat the Union. Our Washington despatches reveal the ex- istence of a state of feeling among the South- ern representative men who have gathered in Washington for the annual opening of Con- gress that is little dreamed of by the mer- chants, menufacturers and other industrial producers in the North, and the danger which it overs is the more imminent from the fact that it is not the movement of the fire-eating section of Southern politicians, but the calm, sileut aud deliberate preparation of the con- servative men of the South, in view of the ne- cessity of preparing for self-protection and self-preservation. The preliminary struggle will be made upon the organization of the House. This theSouth- ern members foresee will be lost to the demo- crate, which is the only party that now occu- pies a conservative national ground. In view of such a result, the Southern representative men propose to bring forward, as a test ques- tion, a measure for the protection of the in- stitution of slavery in the States where it now exists from the aggressive war which the abolitionized republican party of the North has declared against it, and a continuance of such raids as that of John Brown by Northern fanatics whose policy is to rule or ruin the Union, Such a measure may pass the Senate, but it cannot possibly pass the House of Represetitatives which is about to meet; and knowing this, the Southern members are pre- pared to secede in a body from Congress, and, congregating at Richmond or some other South- ern city, to take measures to prepare the South for a permanent secession from the Union, and the establishment of a tariff or a non-inter- course act, as a protection against Northern fa- naticism. Following this will come negotia- tion with the commercial Powers of Europe, andthe regular organization of the Southern Confederacy. We are not going to discuss the political bearing of these plans on the part of the re- solved South; but it behooves us, deeply inte- | rested as we are in the industrial and commer- cial prosperity of this city, and of all the North- ern States, to contemplate for a moment the feasibility of the proposed movement, and its practical bearing on ourselves. Such a seces- sion of the Southern members from Congress, if confined exclusively to themselves, would leave each House with a bare constitutional quorum, if all the Northern members remained together, without distinction of party. There can be little doubt, however, that a sufficient num- ber of Northern members would refuse to attend the sittings of a purely sectional Con- gress, to deprive it of the majority of members necessary for the transaction of business, In such an event Congress would be at once dis- solved, and the administration left to carry on the government without the assistance of the legislative branch. This would effectually de- prive the President of all power to coerce the Southern States, for he would have neither the authority nor the means to use the army and navy for that purpose. But conceding that the requisite majority of members should hold together as a Congress, and pass the acts ne- cessary to empower the President, under the present circumstances Mr. Buchanan would not act upon them, and every sentiment of putriot- ism and policy would sustain him in such a refusal. Thus, in any and every event, if the Southern members pursue the course which our corres- pondent informs us they contemplate pursuing, then they would be left at liberty to initiate and carry out the plan of a Southern confede- racy. The first step towards such a result would produce a commercial and financial cri- sis in this country, and in the manufacturing and commercial countries of Europe, that would surpass everything in the shape of a revulsion of values that the world has ever known. Money crises have hitherto been produced by a temporary panic resulting from excessive specula- tion and overtrading. In the contem plated event it would be a complete destruc tion of the edifice of credit and values. The perspective that would stand at the point of every view that could be taken of our proba- ble future would be a civil war, in which one million of Americans, fighting in self defence, would be ranged against a million anda half of other Americans, aggressively dictating the ‘ acceptance of a fanatical idea that would be utterly destructive to the material interests of both. But long before we should come to suck ® conflict the necessary precedents would in- volve us in a commercial ruin that would give every mana practical taste of the effects of disunion; and produce a reaction in Northern sentiment that would drive its fanaticism baok to the uncharitable homes of New England puritanism which have produced it. The first effect which would follow the step contemplated by the Southern men in Congreas would be the immediate countermanding of all orders for Northern goods. This would be soon followed by a cessation of all payments from the South, and the practical if not the open repudiation of all Southern debts te Northern creditors. The active preparation which would at once be put on footin the slave States to meet a hostile invasion would seriously interrupt all industrial enter- prises there, and if the cotton,sugar and tobac- co crops should not be entirely lost, they would be diminished to such an extent as seriously te shake the commercial fabric of the world. The loss of a million of bales of cotton, which is only about one-fourth of the coming crop, would immediately close one half of the manu- factories in England and Amorica. Not only would the cotton mills be shut, but thousands of other industrial establishments whose ex- istence is vitally linked in with the great oxisting scheme of manufacture and exchange. This would bring bankruptcy upon every merchaat and trader, North and South, in America and im Europe. These efforts would be far more widely felt at the North than at the South. The social edi- fice in the Northern States is based upon maa- ufacturing industry and trade. It has ceased to be a great exporter of the products of the earth. Take away or diminish to any great ex- tent its commerce and manufactures, and the whole social fabric would be shaken to its cen- tre, or fall in one universal ruin. In the South this is not the case. There society is built upon an agricultural basis and the patriarchal institution of family servitude. Its chief em- ployment is tillage, and the surplus of its pro- duct, exported to foreign markets, brings it in re- turn not the necessaries but the luxuries of life and the means for its own further advancement. In the event which we are told is contemplated in Washington, these logical results will be evi- dent to every mind not heated with fanaticism, and their effect can be foretold without any gift of prophecy, The Middle and a portion of the Western States would go with the secediug South. Pennsylvania and New Jersey would never cling to the ruined social edifice of the North. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would find safer industrial and social relations with the Southwest than with the Northeast. New York city, the commercial metropolis of America, - would fling the puritanical fanatics out of its borders, and look to that industrial fellowship with the South which is the feeder of its great- ness and its glory. New England would be left alone to brood over her silent marta, to burn her ships, and to nurse that fanaticism which would send every man to hell who does not walk in the paths which her self-righteous pharisees have marked out as the only road to future bliss. From these few observations the reader wilt see that we are at this moment on the verge of @ political rupture which will produce a com- mercial and industrial crisis more widespread and more permanent in its results than any that has hitherto swept its thousands of mer- chants to bankruptcy, and its hundreds of thousands of artisans and laborers to hunger and the brink of pauperism. We shall watch the coming political movements in Washington with an anxious eye, for the aggressions of fanaticism in the North, and the deliberate resolutions of self-defence in the South, are sweeping this Union rapidly into the vortex of dissolution and ruin. ALDERMEN AND Covunct.MEN.—Pick out the best men. They can do much to diminish taxa- tion. Some of the nominations for Aldermen are “unfit to be made.” Cut them off, root and branch. And as for the Councilmen, we are told, that after strict examination into the cha- racters of one hundred candidates presented to the people, only six can be produced worthy to hold office. To find these six we fear that the lantern of Diogenes would not be strong enough. It would take a Drummond light, at least. ‘OVE IN THE MonnixG.-—-Remember that the polls close to-day at half-past four o'clock, and vote as you go down town in the morning. If you wait till four o'clock you may be shut out altogether. So vote early. Wuo 1s THe Best Man ror Mayor?—Have- meyer was Mayor of this city twice, and he never gave any evidences of efficiency for that office. He is now nearly seventy years old, and for many years of his life has been at the head of a note shaving institution, and knows more about shaving notes than anything else. Fernando Wood was also Mayor twice, and though they abused him with violence in every possible shape. they cannot put their finger upon any specific act which is not cor- rect. He is in the prime of life, and is an effi- cient administrative man. Mr. Opdyke is a speculative political economist, who makes ex- cellent reports on the question of currency. Ciry Taxation.—Last year the tax levy for this city amounted to ten millions. The ques- tion to be decided to-day is whether or not they shall be increased next year to fifteen mil- lions. Taxpayers will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. Tux Taree Decrers or Niccer Worsuir.— The first degree of nigger worship was taken by Havemeyer, John Van Buren and Tilden, at the great gathering in Buffalo in 1848. This first degree consists of being very noisy against the slave oligarchy— creating that the devil of their religion, and the nigger the almighty nigger of their piety. The second degree is that taken by Seward at Rochester. The third and last degree is that put forth and practised by Garrison, Phillips, Fred. Douglass, and John Brown, lately deceased ina hurry. Tammany is now in the first degree, and ina short time she will be ready to go into the Seward shop for the second, and after that into the Garrison shop for the third degree. Mercuants oF New York—You have an im- portant duty to perform to-day. The coneer- vative commercial classes of the country are looking for the result of your votes to-day with the greatest interest, They may decide the fate of this metropolis, now one of the proudest