The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1859, Page 4

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BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechantes’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Bourixsques, Sonas, Dances, éc.—Jomnny Bosca. NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gzo. Oxewry’s Mux- erauis x SonGs, Dances, Buniesat ons, &c.—Tux Fucirives. NBW OPERA HOUSE, Broad .—Dearton’s P, OMATHAM AMPHITHEATRE—Equestaun Perrons- avons, Como Pantomruss, &c.—Bvox Bisox. be: COOPER INSTITUTE.—Exarmition or Monsren Puoro- ouaras, TEMPLE HALL, Ninth strect—Kina Sovomon’s Teuriz. HOPS OHAPEL, 120 Broadway.—Waveu's rau New Yerk, Thursday, Becember §, 1959. n The News. The debates in Congress on the “irrepressible conflict” were continued yesterday. The discus- gion in the Senate was very animated and some- what extended, and evinced a calmer and deeper feeling than prevailed on the day previous. Sena- tors ‘of both the democratic and republican parties defined their positions without reserve. Mr. Trum- bull declined to withdraw his amendment to Mr. Ma- son’s resolution providing for an investigation of the Harper’s Ferry invasion, and pending his remarks on the subject the Senate adjourned. In the House the discussion of Mr. Clark’s resolation, declaring the unfitness of any member to be Speaker who has endorsed Helper's incendiary pamphlet, was re- fumed and continued with considerable spirit. Finally, by common consent, the debate was sus- pended, and the House ballotted for a Speaker, with the following result:—Sherman, republican, @#amp from Ohio, received at his office. The letter was referred to the Attorney General of Virginia, ‘who decided that the incendiary publications should be destroyed. The Postmaster General has en- dorsed this view. He says that the people af Vir- ginis may not only forbid the introduction and dis- semifiation of such documents within their borders, but, if they are brought there in the mails, they may, by appropriate legal proceedings, have them destroyed. They have the same right to extinguish firebrands thus impiously hurled in the midst of their homes and altars that a man has to pluck the burning fuse from a bombshell which is about to explode at his feet. The National Democratic Executive Committee met at Washington yesterday, and selected the 234 day of April next as the time for holding the Na- tional Convention at Charleston for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. Resolutions providing for making the necessary ar. rangemen's for the meeting, and for setting the party machinery in motion, were adopted. The movement of the conservative masses in op- Position to the abolitian fanatics is rapidly gather- ing strength. An enthusiastic meeting of citizens, irrespective of party, was held in Philadelphia last might. We give a report of the proceedings in an- other column. A meeting of like character will be held in Boston this evening. A preliminary meet- ing was held at the Lafarge House last evening, at which patriotic speeches were delivered by several gentlemen, and a committee was appointed to make arrangements for a demonstration in this city in favor of the Union and the constitution. The steamships Edinburg from Liverpool and Queenstown, and Ocean Queen from Southamp- ton, arrived at this port yesterday evening with news to the 24th ult., four days later than that brought hy the City of Manchester. Our latest market reports say cotton was dull in Liverpool, while breadstaffs were generally lower. Consols rated in London on the 24that 964 964 for money, and 964 a 96% for account. ‘The Italian question had entered a new phase, owing to the near approach of the meeting of the European Congress. England was endeavoring to arrange a basis of common action with France on the subject of the affairs of Central Italy. Lord Palmerston is satisfied that Napoleon will not, under any circumstances, appeal to arms in order to effect the restoration of the Grand Dukes. Eng- land will support the idea of annexation to Piedmont, and thus erect @ powerful independent kingdom, and it waa hoped the Emperor of France would eventually agree to this plan. Garibaldi says that he resigned his post in the ‘army in consequence of underhand machinations. England was arming for 3 home defence to an immense extent and at great cost; but hopes were expressed by the leading journals that she would not be required to put forth her strength—at least by France. Orders had been given for the forma, tion of rifle corps, composed of the Irishmen re siding in London. They are to be called the “Trish Volunteers.” Spain continued her war preparations against Mogocco actively. The fortification of Ceuta con- tinued, and transports were being hired in England for the conveyance of troops. By the arrival of the overland mail, which left San Francisco on the 14th ult., we have interesting tews from California, Oregon, Washington Terri- tory, Beitish Columbia and the Sandwich Islands. It ‘ws stated that up to the latest dates General Scott had received no reply from Governor Douglass to beparen the readiness of the General to confer with the British authorities respecting the ‘occupation of San Juan; also that all the United States troops, with the exception of one Company have been withdrawn from. the island. Gen, Scott would return to Ren Francisco and await Carther orders from the government, Business at San Francisco hed im; Ng regions is repre- “ large number of Awich Talands ports, sented as highly favorable. Pralers had arrived at the San The catch of the Ochotsk Sea fleet would not ¢! oeed an average of five hundred barrels, aad that of the Arctic fleet hardly as muoh. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes terday, a communication was received from thr Comptroller, giving a detailed estimate of the rr ceipts and expenditures of tae Corporation for the year commencing on the Ist of Janusty next, wth an eatimate of the probabie amouat of tax regair, ed to be levied for said year, and other matters re- lating to the financial affairs of the city. We print this dooument in today's paper. The subjeined figures show the estimated expenditures for 1860 Compared with the appropriations for 1859»— Eu: imated expenses for 1860. . - $8,807,000 00 Tux levy for 1869. 9,860,926 09 Docroage .........-:s00ec0 ere 063,926 09 According to the Comptrolier's method of figar. ing, the decrease in the estimated expenditures amounts to 14 per cent as compared with the ex- penditures of 1659. The amount required to be raised by taxation for 1860 is $6,587,640. The re- Port aiso contains several important recommenda- tions respecting the finances of the city. ‘The Board of Counoijmen transacted considera- Ry wlhenar! “> , a8 will be seen by our report elsewhere. Now York and Yonkers Railroad Company wep granted permission to lay rails through certain streets of the city; but it is questionable whether, according to the charter, ‘the Council ean grant this privilege. The regular meeting ef the Board of Education troller, expressing his unwillingness to approve the estimate of expenses for 1860 unless $60,000 was deducted from it, was returned to him. A regular weekly meeting of the Board of Ten Governors was held yesterday afternoon. The weekly statement showed that the number of in mates in the various institutions was 7,797, and that there was an increase of seventy-three since the last statement was made. A communication was received from the Warden of Randall’s Island, trans- mitting from Hibernian Engine Company No. 1, of Philadelphia, a copy of a work describing their visit to New York and other places, to the Board. The book was accepted and a vote of thanks tendered to the donors. Several unimportant communica- tions were received and some routine business transacted, when the Board adjourned. The Court of General Seasions adjourned at noon yesterday, no witnesses having been summoned on Tuesday. James Brown was placed on trial charged with attempting to discharge a pistol at officer Barry, of the Twenty-sixth precinct, on the 3d ult., and convicted of assault and battery. The Recor- der sent him to the penitentiary for one year and fined him $250. There prevailed during the past week a good demand for all ‘descriptions of beef cattle, at fully previous prices. At Bergen Hill there were sold 963 head. Milch cows were in fair request at from $20 to $65,asto quality. Veals were moderately active at fall prices. Sheep and lambs were also active at from $2 to $6 per head, as to quality. Swine were in good request at prices ranging from Se. to 53c. per pound. The total receipts at the city yards were 2,836 beef cattle, 129 cows, 462 veals, 10,612 sheep and lambs, and 6,441 swine. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 800 » 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of llc, for middling uplands. ‘The receipts at the ports since the Ist of September last have reached 1,398,000 bales, against 1,223,000 in 1858, 614,000 in 1857, 947,000 in 1866, and 964,000 in 1855. The exports in the same timo have reached 697,000, against {642,000 in 1868, 817,000 in 1887, 304,000 in 1856, and 517,- 000th 1855. The stock on hand was 695,000, against 604,- 000 in 1858, 828,000 in 1857, 570,000 in 1856, and 482,000 in 1855. Flour opened with someapparent heaviness in the morning, but became more animated as the day advanced, with @ good export demand, and sales were freely made, losing firmer for com- mon State and Western brands, while medium to good extra qualities were rather easier. Southern flour was in good demand and prices firm. Wheat was com- paratively dull, while prices were unchanged. Corn was dull and sales limited. Pork was firmer and in good de- mand, with sales of mess at $16 60 a $16 60, and prime at $11 50a $11.75. Lard was firm end boof steady, with fair sales. Freights were more active, with mere doing for English ports at firmer rates. The Crisis—The Great Conservative Ele. ments of the North Beginning to Move. Our conservative readers of all sections and parties will receive with pleasure the proceed- ings of the great Union meeting held in Phila- delphia last night, the news that a similar demonstration in behalf of national law and order will be made in Boston to-day, and that acorresponding movement, on a scale com- mensurate with our interests in the Union, is afoot in this continental metropolis. Thus we perceive that the great conservative popular elements of the North are beginning to move—that they are beginning to realize the critical condition of the country, and the necessity of immediate and active intervention to arrest the present reckless and dangerous crusade against the South ‘by our Northern Holy Anti-Slavery Alliance. The doctrines promulgated by W. H. Seward at Rochester, as practically interpreted by John Brown, and as systematized into a Southern servile. and agrarian plan of insurrection by the notorious Helper, can no longer be disregarded. The “irrepressible conflict between free white labor and black slave labor” can no longer be ex- plained away as a mere figure of speech. It has assumed the palpable form of a wide- spread conspiracy for the abolition of Southern slavery by terrorism or by fire and sword. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that the solid, practical, law-abiding and conserva- tive classes of the North have taken the alarm. We have been rather disappointed on account of their inactivity and incredulity heretofore. For weeks and months we have admonished, advised and exhorted them, regardless of the corrupt parties and party leaders of the day, to be up and doing. From time to time we have called upon such patriotic thinkers as Everett, Winthrop, Washington Hunt, and Rives of Virginia—Northern and Southern conservative leaders—to come forward and confer together, in view of a general move- ment to sink this pestilent slavery agitation under the practical interests of the country. Recent events and developements have con- firmed our views of the tendencies of the pre- sent republican party as an anti-slavery sec- tional camp. This party have canonized Old Brown; they have endorsed the treasonable teachings of Helper, who says that “slavery must be throttled” if it cannot otherwise be suppressed. No wonder, then, that the Union- loving classes and interests of the North should at length be aroused into action. It would be criminal to remain idle any longer. Action is demanded. Our independent national men must now come forward. We have had enough of their master- ly inactivity. They allowed all the late North- ern State elections to go by default. Thus the republican party has been emboldened to con- sort with abolition traitors and incendiaries, in active revolutionary schemes against the South- ern States; and thus the direct issue of Southern security within the Union, or the separation of the South from the Union, stares us in the face. We dare say that our late Northern elections, all told. if carefally in- of votes. This powerful reserved force mey now be brought into goodeervice. But howt Popular meetings, expressive of the at- tachment of tbe North to the South and the constitution, are good. The more the better. Let ue have them, from Portland to St, Paul. But something more is wanted to render these movements effective, It is political organization. We waut a powerful national party, aside from the slavery agitation, and in opposition to all the slavery agitating dis- organizers of the day. The nucleus for this party already exists in Congress, It has made a good beginning. Let it stand forth. It may save the country. It may control the Presi- dential contest. It may rise Inte power. The materials for ite uses are abundant, North and South, Organization is the word. On the 22d of February the opposition conservatives of Virginia hold a State convention in reference to 1860, They will probably take good ground for a ua- of the Union to stand aloof from the Charles- ton Convention and the Republican National then, say in July, let there be an independent national convention in the city of New York, upon their ticket and their platform, as the ba- lance of power. We approve of these Northern Union ratification meetings, They will serve to quiet the apprehensions of the South. But ; political action, under a political organization, i is the thing. Thusa balance of power repre- senting a body of a million and a half of vo- ters can be brought to bear upon the two exist- ing political parties, or between them. Let these popular Union meetings, then, be pursued to the point of organization and ac- tion. Give the solid masses of the people a lever and a fulcrum, and they will overturn the sectional parties ef the day. The crisis is upon us, and when bad men are leagued together, good men should combine. Our New Corporation—Wut, Woop Keer Tis Promses?—The voters of this metropolis succeeded on Tuesday in electing the vilest and most rascally Corporation we have ever had, prominent among its members being three in- dicted criminals—one under indictment for murder, another for plundering the treasury, and the third actually under sentence of im- prisonment in the Penitentiary for felonious assault. We may be prepared, then, to see every kind of corrupt job flourishing in the new Common Council—opening of streets here, widening streets there, making railroads in another direction, and a universal scene of plunder and robbery all round. It depends upon the Mayor alone to check this fearful tide. Mr. Wood has promised, and we pre- sume intends, to carry out a thorough reform in our city government. We will hold him strictly to his pledges, and we believe that he is the only man able, firm and efficient enough to insure us a good government. We will look to him now to put a stop to all infamous frauds and corruptions in the Corporation. All the old patched-up charges against officials and contractors should be ventilated, indictments legislation radically altered. p Ne We supported Wood because we believed him to be the only man who was equal to the emergency—the only statesman who is able to meet the crisis boldly, and because we did not see a single one of tf many charges of mal- feasance against him substantiated. There was much talk about some business transaction between him and his partner; but such trans- actions occur every day in Wall street, and no one ever hears a word about them. Fernando Wood now occupies & most pro- minent position before the country. Let him faithfully adhere to the pledges he made be- fore election, to purge the municipal body of its rottenness; to reduce the ruinous expendi- ture of the public money, and keep down taxa- tion, Let him resolve to make the best Mayor New York has had since the days of De Witt Clinton; and, indeed, in many respects, his posi- tion now, and the cireumstances around him, re- semble those of Clinton. He stands now the rep- resentative of that national conservative senti- ment upon the preservation of which depend the commercial prosperity and greatness of this splendid metropolis, and of the entire North. Sustained, as he has been, by the national par- ty, arrayed against fanaticism and abolitionism in their different degrees—and in this critical moment of time, when the practical results of their teachings occupy theattention of Congress and the country—his position becomes some- thing more important than that of chief ma- gistrate,and his success assumes more than a local significancy, as will be seen by the effect of his action in the Charleston Convention—the delegates to which body should be elected at once. Wood is able enough, if he chooses, to grapple with the monster of corruption which disgraces our municipal governmeut, and is crushing down the people with a load of taxation. From the Common Council just elected there is nothing to hope, except greater rascality than before; for it iscomposed mainly of the very debris of the lowest Tammany degradation. We shall look to Mr. Wood, then, for a remedy, and we shall keep him to his pledges to insure us a wholesome government. TerreLe Reversion AMoxc tHe NIGGER- Wonrstirrinc NewsParers.—There is great ex- citement’ among the staunch and straight repub- licans in reference to the course of Jefferson Brick in the late election. They accuse him of treachery to the cause in lending his col- umns to the free soil candidate of Tammany Hall, instead of supporting the thorough going republican candidate of his own party. The loss of the election to Tammany Hall has been a Solferino to Brick, and in the elbows of its Mincios he has lost the sympathiesof youth—at least of allrepublican youth—while he has failed to gain the confidenge of any other party, In fact, he bos fallen to the ground between two stools. In ashort time he may be expected to be seen in full flight before the Austrians of Tammany Hall, as he fled last summer be- fore the Austrian hussar on the road to Brescia. A number of his subscribers are going over to the. Tribune, whose increas- ing circulation is breaking down that of the Times. The Sun is in the same predicament; it has grown dim, and will soon cease to shine. A few wecks ago the Sin offered to sell itself body and breeches for $100,000. We doubt if it would now bring 100,000 cents, Its chief readers were among the Irish, Germans and Jaboring and mechnuic classes generally; but Convention, and await thelr movements; and’ goue for the’ Union and the constitation, the demooracy and Femardo Wood, whom the Sun abused; and they will, therefore, soon leave the Sun in a fog. Every democratic reader is deserting it, as rate desert a sinking ship. Such is the revulsion in the nigger-worshipping preas. ; Zhe Opening of Congress—-The Vital Question of the Day. Not long since we called attention to the present Congress as being likely to be the most exciting one since the formation of the govern- ment under which we live, Thatwe were right in this prediction is made apparent by the ex- coedingly stormy debate which has sprung up in tho House, even before its organization, and the. discussion in the Senate upon a different branch of the same subject which the House has taken up, The House debate is apropos to an incendiary publication, “The Impending Crisis,” which bears the name of H. R. Helper as author, and which has heretofore been mado known to the country by means of copious ex- tracts. in this journal. The Helper book ad- vocates insurrection, murder and treason, in the following words :— a Bo tt that the total number of actual slave: over sixty members of Congress, by the repub- lican leaders, Seward, Weed, Greeley, Sherman, Grow and others, and for the circulation of which they have subscribed large sums of money. The question is brought before the House by a representative (Mr. Clark) from Missouri, who moves a resolution to the effect that any mem- ber whose name appears as the endorser of the Helper doctrine should not be chosen Speaker of the House, the third office in the gift of the republic. In the other branch of Congress, a motion to raise a special committee to investi- gate the Harper's Ferry affair gives rise to a most important debate upon the general merits of the question at issue. That question—and it may as well be stated plainly—is one which can only arise in a republic like ours. It is whethe? or not one section of the Union, being dissatisfied with the action of the other, is jus- tified in withdrawing altogether from the fede- ration. We are not aware that the question of dissolution of, or secession from, the Union has ever been met so plainly before, except in the ‘simple instance of South Carolina. Certainly, it has never been so boldly and squarely put by any number of States, or any considerable number of persons outside of the fire-eaters and negro-worshippers. Now, the question is dis- tinetly stated by Seward and his coadjutors, thus:—“ Either slavery must be abolished, or the Union must be dissolved.” That is the argument of the bloody and brutal Rochester manifesto; that is the plain English of Helper’s insurrectionary and treasonable book. The question, then, is brought quite home to or tw; years ago it was out on the bi of ico. No. more slave States, cry. Then we had it in ruffianly behaviour of the politicians, on tides, would have disgraced sepoys or Sor Islanders, But the Territorial issue is dead; the Kansas question is settled, and the managers of the republican party have to look about them, like the directors of the theatres, for a@ ngwtensation. Helper and John Brown bring them what they want. Helper advocates general throat-cutting as a gentle method of phlebotomizing the slaveholder, and, as far as his means will carry him, John Brown puts Helper’s doctrine into execution. Thus the black republican party appears as the direct foe of the Union. The question is presented distinctly and directly. It is seces- sion or abolition, in plain English. This may frighten some old ladies, but the conservative masees of the American people will not be afraid to meet it. The fact that the matter is discussed and mentioned does not prove that it is settled, or that the country is going to ruiny as some of the effete governments of Europe would fain believe, Our form of government is one which can stand debate, discussion, even abuse from its own friends, even rebellion, in- surrection, or treason, without going to pieces. Our strength is in the hearts of the people, not the bayonets of astatding army. History is not without a case parallel to ours. For more than six centuries Rome was ruled by her Senate and people. As with us, the proudest boast of millions of men, high and low, rich and poor, was, “I am a Roman citizen.” That legend, Sum civis Romanus, was a passport all over the world, from the time of Tarquin to that of Augustus Cesar. In all this while the Roman republic was far from being in a state of profound domestic peace. There were cer- tain distracting questions—such as that of ser- vile labor, agrarianism, and so on—not dis- similar to those which now agitate our country. And they talked then of disunion and seces- sion and civil war, and not only talked about it, but absolutely did it. In the end, however, all parties were happy to seek shelter under the eagles which so often led the armies of the republic to victory. Asin those days, so will it be in these. Secession and disunion and treason will not pay in the end. The heart of the nation is right in this matter, no doubt, and the insurrectionists will finally meet with a Waterloo defeat. The battle has already begun. The artillery of Quatre-Bras was opened before the Speaker of the House had been chosen. The guns of the black republicans were turned upon them, and used with deadly effect. That the war will be carried into Africa is quite certain. That is well; but the conservative members should remember one thing. They should never de- scend to personal attacks upon the black re- publicans or fishy democra's of the Helper school; perfect order and @°« ram should be ; there shou!d be :.. ‘ights, squabbles or broils of any kind. Eve ember of Con- gress who loves his cov..'., 1 who desires to conserve the Union and the ». stitutions of the republic should be elevated above partisan quarrels or personal piques. Let the world see that the Congress of the republic can still display as much dignity as an assemblage of nobles. And, above all, Jet there be a deter- mined effort to prevent the election of any one as Speaker who has sanctioned or endorsed and loaned the influence of his name in re- commendation of Helper’s treasonable publi- cation. So, out of that nettle danger, we may YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1859, aes guired woaid exidbit a deficiency of a: iced ate the very men who have tions of the republic, Tam Yratsan Qunsrion Aprroscamng 4 S°%0- tion.—By the Edinbarg and Ocean Queen w’ have received important intelligence relating to the Italian question, which promises a speedy solution of the Gordian knot which it has hitherto puzzled the statesmen of Europe to loose, simply because they tried to do so without regard to the wishes and interests of the Italians themselves. It appears by this news, as indicated in Lord Palmerston’s organ, that France and England have agreed on one grand point in dispute, and that is that the exiled princes should not be permitted to re- turn by force. This was the greatest diffloulty in the way, and that being removed the regene- ration of Italy depends mainly on herself, and she will goon work it out. ‘The fact of Eng- land and France having agreed upon this point seems tantamount to ita being carried, for: Aus- tris has nothing left but to submit to their united will. There is litde-doubt that Eng- land and. France will control « majority. in, the Congress on any point in which they agree. A second point submitted by England and agreed to by France is that Buoncompagni, the rogent appointed over the duchies by the Prince of Carignano, will he permitted to hold his role till there isa futt settlement of' the, f.9f the. question. A third point has been urged upon France by England, and will probably be agreed to, and that is to permit the Italians of the duchies and of Central Italy to form a confederation with the House of Savoy or submit to the rule of the King of Sardinia if they think proper. Should France agree to this it will be in vain for Austria to resist. It appears that formal invitations have been sent to the Powers to assemble in Congress, to decide upon the details of the question whose basis is thus fixed by France and England. It is hoped, therefore, that the day of Italian free- dom is not far distant, that Louis Napoleon will have eventually carried out for his neigh- bor all that he promised, and that his diplo- macy will be as successful as his arms in making the beautiful Peningula “free from the Alps to the Adriatic.” Tue Errger or Our Mayoratty Exection In Wasutneton.—The result of the election in this city on Tuesday has astonished all the poli- ticians in Washington. They are taken as much by surprise as by a clap of thunder in a clear sky. One thing as a sequence to this election the administration will be called on to do, and that is to purify the headquarters of the party in this city, and throughout the State, by removing all the federal officeholders, from Sandy Hook to Buffalo. They are, almost without exception, the enemies of the Union, and for the last three years, in this city espe- cially, they have been the greatest traitors to the constitutional priaciples of the government, doing everything in their power to under- mine its legitimate influence and bring it into contempt. They have abolitionised Tammany Hall, and compelled the silly sachems to go for the free soil Buffalo platform of 1848, and openly fraternise with the republicans of the first degree, their organ being Jefferson Brick. We trust that Mr. Buchanan and his ad- ministration will see the necessity of at once cleaning out the dirty ken- nel of Tammany Hall, and appointing a new set of federal officers in the Custom House, the Post Office, the Navy Yard, and every other branch of the federal government in this city and throughout the State. Nothing else can save the administration now, or save the party itself tn 1860, but prompt, resolute ac- tion in this matter. Forbearance has been practised by the President towards office- holders who are enemies of his policy, and the enemies of the Union, till they have grown bold by impunity, and speak and act in open defiance. It is high time, therefore, for the government to strike a blow in its own de- fence. The election of Tuesday makes it per- fectly plain that Tammany Hall and the office- holders no longer represéht the democracy; and on grounds of expediency, therefore, as well as of principle, it is highly improper to continue them any longer in office. If they have any sense of honor they will resign at Kerth and save the trouble of cutting off their A Coxvenrent Sknatoriat Memory.—Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, when brought to the point in the hall of the national Senate, doesnot remember ever having entertained any other view of John Brown than that he was a mis- guided fanatic. This shows that Senator Wilson has a very convenient memory. Yet others re- member of his having expressed a very much more sympathetic view of John Brown’s revo- lutionary raid. When that affair occurred Senator Wilson was engaged in making election speeches in this State and vicinity, and there are plenty of his harangues on record in the country papers that saw fit to print them, in which he holds John Brown up as a martyr and a Puritan saint. He does not recollect much about the Natick meeting and resolutions on this subject, though he thinks it was a general sort of meeting “attended by democrats and others,” probably others, to which the mass of the audience went from a motive of curiosity, and that only a few abolitionists voted for the resolutions. We should like to know if Mr. Wilson is in the habit of lending his Senatorial countenance to incendiary and revolutionary meetings, and if it is usual with him to remain ailentin such when the yeas and nays are called on treasonable and revolutionary motions. Will Senator Wil¢on find it convenient to re- member? Conrinence Casstoy & Co. wx Tears—What do Confidence Cassidy and the rest of the ras- cally Albany Regency now think of Fernando Wood and the New York democracy? For nearly twelve months past they have been contriving and plotting how to manage the democracy of this great metropolis. But they now find that, though they could manage a State Convention at Syracuse by means of shoulder-hitters and prize fighters, they are not able to pli same game here. It is true they got into Tammany Hall by the treason of afew federal officeholders. But the indepen- dent democracy set up for themselves, and took the management of their political affairs into their own hands. The resi is now seen in the municipal election. Both Tammany Hall and the Regency have been squelched together, and we shall soon hear of the democracy pass- ing resolutions cutting off from its communion all niggers of the first degree, whether white or black, and purifying the party of every taint of sbolition, What then becomes of the * and of appearance at the South, will be sent home with floa in their ear. The days of the Albany Regency and the Tammany Coal Hole ere numbered together, ing knives, all of them cide and asaaults on the o Grand Jury retired, and the Judge took up an on @ patuot case. - a ar | yet pluck the Hower of safety ,{r the instita- barnburners and free sollerst Nothing cau eave thom but an open confession, a hearty repentance and a new life. In the meaatiae the result of this election is that the inde- rendent democracy will send their delegates to fhe Charleston Convention, and that there is not the slightest doubt of their being re- ceived, while those of the Albany Regenoy y Hall, showd they make thelr ——$___ Tammany Hatt ar Posto Aggriov—loas DiATR ANR PaReMProry Site.—Take notice, Tammany Hall is to be sold immedinielg, bg and baggage, at public auction, for the Lemelit of its creditors. Everything is to be disposed to the highest bitider for cash, the articles to be removed immediately after the sale, as’ the Old Wigwam Is to be levelled, and the site to be used for the erection of @ new building, to be. devoted to other purposes, This isthe < law of progress, the march of improvement, ‘Tommany was 4 nuisance, and it must be pulled. . down, in order to.give place to a nobler edifice. «.- ‘Fhe following is the list of articles to be sol:— Three hundred tomaha with the bleed palefaces, “a quantity of paint and putty, o number of feathers, five hundred old blankets, not very clean nor much improved by wear; twenty-four calumets, several banners, with aa- tiquated mottoes; Captain Rynders’ gun, and the Captain himself for sale; twenty good speeches of Prince John Van Buren, not yet — sold and delivered; any amount of Brady’s blarney, with a great variety of articles . suitable for ® museum or a curiosity shop. As the sale ig positive and peremptory, bargains may be expected. Chee- ver, Beecher, Phillips, Greeley, and other re- publicans of the second dregree, are respectful- ly requested to attend. Thus before. the ad- vancing steps of the civilization of white mea does the savagery of the reds disappear; and henceforth Tammany Hall and its counolfl fires and its sachems, and all that appertains to the ancient wigwam, will be known only in the page of history, and as relics of the past. Tae Inna Vore.—Never in the history of Trish American citizens have they given se in- dependent, unanimous and hearty a vote as on Tuesday. Heretofore they have beer led too much like flocks of sheep, by leaders who sold _ them as if they were for slaughter. For the first time in their annals in city they have vindicated their complete independence of mercenary demagogues of their own race, and voted entirely from their conviction of right. That vote, too, has been on the national side, and is very creditable to them. There is an- other fact in this election which does honor to the Irish. At former elections too many of them permitted themselves to be intoxicated by bullies and vagabonds, and disgraced them- selves by fighting. At the election age 4 last scarcely an Irishman was geen drank any ward. The vote of the sons of the Emerald Isle against Tammany Hall is its death blow. Tae German Vore.—The Sabbatarians have been killed off in the late municipal election by the German vote. Lager beer has been toe strong for them. For the last few years the tendency among the Germans had been rather? towards abolition. But the late municipal eleo- tion has brought them baok to the fold. They are now in their hatural position as adopted oi- tizens, with those who dlways stood up for their rights. Havemeyer’s bey has been the death of him among — nial Teutons; and Opdyke’s party, adopting the intolerance of Sundy laws and other tyrannical restrictions upon human liberty, have effectual- ly killed him off. The sons of Fatherland are now all right—they can smoke in their “gar- dens” and drink lager beer, none daring to make them afraid. ‘Watson's Tmarne.—'* Evorybody’s Friend,” » comedy in three acts, was played here last evening, for the first time in the United States. It is a Haymarket piece, done for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, by Mr. Stirling Coyne, ono of the most industrious, if not the moat brilliant, of British dramatiats. The play which Mr. Wallack has pro- duced is a picture of everyday life. Its hero, Mr. Folix Featherly, (Mr. Lester Wallack,) is continually getting himself into all sorts of scrapes by interfering with other people's affairs. By being everybody’s friend he succeods in being nobody ’s—a paradox which is often realized. The plot of the play is very slight, but some of the characters are exceedingly well drawn, and the dialogue is crisp and very amusing. Mr. Walcot was very successful in a ca- ricature of the stereotyped English military man, Mr. Brovgbam capital as a beshful lover, and Mr. Lester clever, though a little too slow, in Featherly, Miss Gam- non was exceedingly good as a piquant young widow, and Mrs. Hoey played Mrs. Feathorly in her usual graceful and agreeable way. The piece was well recoiyed. Concert at Patace Garvey Hats.—The Mendelssohn Choir will give the first concert of their sixth season at the Palace Garden to-night. Mrs. Mozart, Miss Hawley, Mr. Guilmette and other artists assist. The receipts will be given to St. Ann’s Church for Deaf Mutes. Rejoicing Over the Election of Fernando ‘Wood. Atnany, Doc. 7, 1859. ‘The Hardshell Committee discharged one hundred six pounder cartridges this afternoon, rejoicing over the elea- tion of Fernando Wood to the‘Mayoralty of New York. ‘The hards of this city met this evening, and celebrated the New York olection of Fernando Wood, This even- ing the Standard building is brilliantly filuminated, tar barrels are burning, and a hundred guns wero fired. Atan entertainment at the Standard office exultant speeches were inade by Messrs. McMahon, Blanchard, Courtney, Griffen, and others. The page enthusiasm prevailed, which is not damped in least by a raging snow storm. Arumor to-night is, that tho leading hards—Mesera. Wasson, McMahon, Perry, and others—have arranged to prete the clalma of’ Fernando Wood for the Presidency at ‘ Syracuse, Dec. 6, 1859, ‘The district delegate and the hard democrats aro having a grand jubilee to-night. More than two hundred working, live democrats are seated at suppor in honor of eee ea people’s seventy del ar 4 . John A. Green, Jr., Chairman of the State Committee, presided, supported by twenty Vice Presidents, of first citizens. The Virginia Legislature and the Hare per’s Ferry Affair. Rico, Dec. 7, 1869, A joint resolution was adopted by the Legislature to- day, endorsing the justice of the sentence passed upon the convicts now imprisoned at Chariestown, and refusing to interpose its authority to stay the execution of that sen- tence. Governor Wise having in hts M ‘declined to interpose, the execution of the prisoners is inevitable. ‘The resolutions in regard to the more’ perfect ye tion of the militia, the manufacture of arms, and a full inquiry into all the facts connected with the Harper's wei, oo were referred to a Committe of the House of gates. United States Circuit Court, Before Hon, sg Ingersoll. Dec. 7.—The panel of grand jurors was called, and = == being - misty naan J. foreman. The Judge ol the Grand Jury on the state of the calendar, which itolnded onape of Homa th seas, robberies in the Post passing of counterfeit cola, The and the making or Court of Oyer and inex. Bolore Hon. Judge Suthefland. The murder trials wero not rondy, and the urned to the 19th ingt ‘Court a two hundred soalp- °