The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1859, Page 4

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Pork was heavy aud easior, with sales of mess at $10 40 4 $16 45; peitne was unchanged, Sugars were steady, but sales were moderate, which comprised 400 a 500 hhds. and 100 boxes, at rates given in another place. Colfve was steady ard sales limited, Freights were firm, while en- gagement were moderate, Tho Slavery Agitation—Tac Issue Before Congress and the Country. What isthe meaning of these exciting de- bates at Washington, of this alarm in the South, and of those recent conservative move- ments in Philadelphia and Boston for pouring oil upon the troubled waters? “What has caused this great commotion?’ What is the issue before Congress and the country? What is the danger? In a brief sentence, the issue is the overthrow of slavery in the slave States, and the danger is disunion. Three years ago the slavery agitation be- tween the North and the South, in Congress and in our political elections, was confined to the Territories, upon the still unsettled test question of Kansas, But in 1858, the law of “popular sovereignty” having substantially determined the Kansas struggle against slavery, our modern republican party, founded in 1856 upon that “ one idea,” was in danger of being left high and dry. So, in our State election of last year, Gerrit Smith having set himself up THEATRE FRANCAIS, 6% Brosdway.—Lx Ccosexie ves | as an independent radical abolition candidate Gunats. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broudway.—After- nocn and Eevning—Doom or Devitus. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Brovdway.—Closed 1 Tues. $ day in consequence of a dea hin Mr. Wocd’s family. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanies’ Hall, 472 Broadway— ack. URLESQUES, SoNGS, Dances, c.—Jounny Ke NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Cmersty’s Mrx- errs IN Soncs, Daxces, Buavesaues, &c.—Afternoon and Evening—Tue Fuaisves. CHATHAM SMPHITHEATRE.—Fousstmiue Peron. axcrs, Couro Fanrouiaes, 4c—Afternoun and Eveaing— vox Bisow. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Wavan’s Trait. New York, Saturday, December 10, 1859. lS The News. The Senate was not in session yesterday, having adjourned over till Monday. A caucus of the de- mocratic Senators was held yesterday, and pre- liminary steps taken towards the appointment of the standing committees. It is supposed that in their composition the committees will be pretty much the same as those of last year. The House yesterday was engaged in a virulent discussion of party questions. Messrs. Logan, democrat, of Dlinois,and Kellogg, republican, of the same State, were the principal disputants, and at one stage of the proceedings they became so heated that a serions collision appeared inevitable. A fall report of the debate is given in to-day's paper. Another ballot was had for Speaker, which resulted as follow3:— Sherman, of Ohio, republican. , of Virginia, sain Gitmer,’ of North Carolina, on EE 13 There being no choice, Mr. Hickman, anti-Le- comptonite, offered a resolution for the adoption of the plurality rule, but it was ruled out of order. Without any further proceedings of importance the House adjourned. The Canal Commissioners met at Albany yester- day, and decided to cloe the canals on the 12th inst. Most of the boats have, it is said, already ar- | rived at tide water. We publish in another column a call for a public meeting of citizens of New York, to rebuke the rampant fanatical disunion spirit that has recently arisen in the Northern States. No day hasas yet been fixed for the meeting, but it will take place within the next fortnight. r The death of the wife of Fernando Wood is an- nounced in this morning’s j\aper. Some partic- ulars ot this melancholy domestic bereavement of the Mayor elect are given vlsewhere. Intelligence was received ye:iterday at the United States District Attorney’s office that Theodore Sedgwick, United States District Attorney for the Southern district of New York, died at his country residence, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on Thurs. lio 83 20 for Governor, our republican managers be- came alarmed, for there was danger that Smith would carry off a sufficient fragment of the radical anti-slavery republican vote to give the State to the democratic party. This would never do. Mr. Seward was called to the rescue; and to reclaim the deserters, and to prevent any further desertions to Gerrit Smith, he issued that Rochester manifesto, proclaim- ing the new republican programme of an “irrepressible conflict” with slavery, not in the Territories, but in the slave States. Thus, by taking the ground from under the feet of Gerrit Smith, he was reduced to the pitiful vote of some five thousand, and Mor- gan, the republican candidate, was triumph- antly elected our Governor. Such was the direct object, and such was the effect of the Rochester speech of Seward. It kept the abo- lition elements of the republican party in the camp, upon the broad and comprehensive issue of a perpetual war upon slavery in the slave States. Thus the foundation was laid of the present formidable superstructure of Northern abolitionism—not defensive, as before, but aggressive, even to the employment of the in- struments of war. Next in order, and following close upon this Rochester declaration of aggressive war against slavery, we find a Southern renegade, of the appropriate name of Helper, and his incendiary “Impending Crisis,” brought into play. We find said incendiary and treasonable book en- dorsed, approved and recommended by some fifty odd republican members of the last Con- gress, including Sherman, their present candi- date for Speaker ; and we find that an organ- ized republican movement for the general cir- culation of said book has been seconded by a | subscription of one hundred dollars from Go- | vernor Morgan, and a similar subscription each | from Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley, the two principal trumpeters of the republican party. This party thus became clearly implicat- ed in and pledged and committed to the “irre- pressible conflict,” as put into shape and form in Helper’s plan of a Southern servile and agra- rian insurrection. The theory of the “irrepressible conflict’’ being thus reduced to a scheme of offensive operations, nothing was wanting to put it into practice but some Puritanical and bold and fearless fanatic, ready to sacrifice himself to inaugurate this revolutionary movement. day night at about twelve o'clock. Mr. Sedgwick, who had been for several months past declining in health, was, at the time of his demise, in the 48th year of his age. When Mr. Sedgwick was a little over 22 years of age he was attached to the Lega- tion of Hon. Edward Livingston, at Paris. He sub- sequently practised law at the New York bar up to about 1860, when he substantially retired on ac- count of ill health, until he was appointed, by Pre. sident Buchanan, in January, 1858, as the successor of Mr. John McKeon in the office of United States Attorney for this district. His health, however, ‘was se impaired that he has been unable to attend to business, and the affairs of the office have been conducted by his assistants, Messrs. Hunt and Dwight. The courts adjourned yesterday in re- spect to the memory of the deceased, and a forma) meeting of members of the bar will shortly be held. The letter of our correspondent in Gibraltar, dated on the 7th ult., is very interesting, containing as it does an able exposé of the interests which actu- ate the three Christian Powers—Spain, France and England—most deeply interested in the issue of the war between Spain and Morocco. At that date Spain hesitated in striking the first blow, waiting, as was evident, for France to be fully prepared to aid herafter the explosion. Indeed, it is shown that Spain is, after all, only a powerful agent in the hands of Napoleon, to be used in forwarding the long checked efforts of France to obtain an offset to Gibraltar on the opposite shore. This the writer anticipates will be effected, and the Mediterranean rendered free, which would be very beneficial to American traders with the Barbary States. A Buenos Ayres letter of the 15th October puts us in possession of the political and executive movements which preceded thé engagement, of later date, announced in the Henatp yesterday. Mrs. Caroline Augusta Hudson, of Berwick, Maine, an excellent American lady, died in Buenos Ayres on the 24 of that month. The son of President Lopez was received with great pomp. 3 The Police Commissioners did not hold any meeting yesterday afternoon. It is reported that after the lst of Janusry the meetings of the Com. missioners will be open to the public. Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday moyn- ing, disastrous fire occurred in the pianoforte manufactory of Lighte & Bradbury, Nos. 120 and 122 Wooster street, by which upwards of one hun- dred workmen are thrown out of employment and about $125,000 worth of property destroyed. A full and accurate account will be found in another Part of to-day's paper. There will be no mail for Europe to-day. The ‘next mail will be despatched by the Cunard steam- r from Boston, on Wednesday next. The Galway steamship Circassian, which left this port yesterday morning for St. Johns, N. F., and Galway, took out the largest Irish freight that ever ieft New York. She had articles on board com, Prising 17,000 bushels of wheat, 200 barrels of flour, 20 casks of rice and 40 casks of cheese, with a great variety of other articles, ‘The cotton market yesterday was firm, with salos of 3,600 bales, including 2,000 in transit, closing at 113¢c. for middling uplands, and brokers quoted them at 11%. Flour was steady, with fair sales—chiefly to the local trade—with some lots for export. Wheat was heavy and rather easier, but more active at the slight concession made by sellers. Corn was in (fair demand and stendy. ‘The Canal Commissioners have given notice that the canals From the camp of the disbanded Kansas free State border ruffians the most fitting volun- teers for this service came forward under “Old Brown;” and of all men Brown, from his re- ligious principles as an abolition cutthroat, from his indomitable pluck, his consistency and constancy in his “Kansas work,” was the man for this horrible experiment of martyrdom. He and his band of desperate followers have titus been sacrificed. Our Northern republican politicians are using “Brown” as they made use of the dead body of a counterfeit Morgan some twenty-five years ago; but this time they have been overdoing their work. Seward’s ‘drrepressible conflict,” Helper’s “Impending Crisis,” and Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raid, taken all together, have very naturally driven the South to the question of safety, either within or without the Union. The issue before Congress and the country is the abolition of slavery in the slave States. We know that Mr. Seward pleads the plea of a constitutional crusade; but we know that con- stitutions and laws can be twisted into any shape by designing and reckless men. Helper and Brown are the true interpreters of the “ir- repressible conflict.” It means an aggressive conflict against slavery, a conflict of abolition forays from the free States, of servile revolts, of agrarian conspiracies, and the subjugation and suppression of slavery and the “slave power” by terrorism, and by fire and sword. Such are the results and tendencies compre- hended in the new programme of the republi- can party, adopted since the practical settle- ment of the slavery question in the Territories. The war is transferred to the slave States, and “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” With this dark and terrific picture, drawn from the events, movements and developements of the day, we can appreciate the critical posi- tion of the Southern States. We can under- stand this alarm among our Southern people. We have the key to these exciting debates in Congress. We can perceive that, as self-pre- servation is the paramount law, the preserva- tion of the Union has become a secondary ques- tion in the South. We can no longer shut our eyes to the fact that the Union is in danger. And so, upon this test question of the Speaker, and against the republican candidate, whose name is among the endorsers of Helper’s hand- book of treason, we approve the stand taken by the democrats and by the conservative op- position members of the House. If our voice could decide it, we would say to them, continue to resist the election of Sherman, or any other endorser of Helper, to the Speaker's chair, even if this resistance shall consume the session without the election of a Speaker. Let us have a distinct understanding and set- tlement with the republican party upon this “irrepressible conflict,” as the first, and last and paramount question of the day. ‘The New Phase of Social Agttation-—In- @ications of an Impending Commer- ciel and Industrial Crisis, The black republican party has inscribed upon its banner the motto, “abolition of slavery by force,” and sixty-eight members of Con- gress have set their hands to its teachings. This is a new phase of the eonflict going on between the fanatics of the North and the insti- tutions of the South. Never before had the idea of force and an agrarian revolutiou b inculeated by the Northern opponents of sia- very, and its announcement has already begun to produce an industrial effect at the South which portends great evils to the Northern hives of industry. It is not now in the plati- tudes of Southern conventions that these are to be found, but in the earnest spirit with which Southern legislatures and Southern corporations are considering the means of stimulating vari- eties of local industry for the purpose of bring- ing about a diminished trade, if not » complete commercial non-intercourse with the North. “We know that trade with the North jeopar- dizes our property and our lives,” say the Southern people, ‘and they who condemn us ag man-stealing sinners should be glad to be rid of our trade and our company. Therefore let us build up State wealth and strength by unassisted private enterprise. Let each State make discrimination in’ granting licenses for the sale of merchandise, as some of the Northern States have made in relation to the sale of liquors. In many places pedlars, show- men, clock venders, &c., have been put down by an excessive license tax. Let us establish ‘ partial non-intercourse aud stimulate direct trade, domestic commerce and manufactures, home education, and abundant internal im- provements.” Now this isa practical as well as a practi- cable policy. It chimesin with a seductive system of political economy that has been long advocated by a party in the North, and which will be doubly effective when supported by a sense of social antagonism. Its working has already begun in many places. We published a few days since the fact that a plan to increase the number of steamships composing the New York and Charleston line had been dropped because of the renewal of this sectional agita- tion. Another step in this direction is ex- hibited in the following resolution, adopted on the 30th of November last by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. We give the preamble and resolution, because they show the feeling and its practical working :— Whereas, under existing circumstances, we consider it tobe our duty, as managers of a Southern enterprise and institution, as far as is consistent with the rights and in- terests of the owners and stockholuers in the same, to en- courage and promote the commercial and industrial inde- pendence of our section and State; and, whereas, it is, in many and most instances, in our power to purchase or manufacture articles as cheap and valuable ot Southernor fe make or manufacture as those for the supply of which we bave heretofore relied upon the people of the Northern or free States; therefore, Resolved, That the Board of Directors of the Richmond and Dapvillo Railroad Company will hereafter abstain from procuring supplies for the use of the railroad com- pany from the North or non-slaveholaing States, in all cases where they can be procured elsewhere of a suitable character and at reasonable rates of charge. A similar spirit is manifested in the following paragraph, which we cut from a recent Rich- mond paper:— Mr. 8. 8. Cottrell, saddle and harness maker. of this city, received this week from Augusta, Ga. an order for $1,000 worth of military equipments. Ti says, isthe first order received by him from any place so far South, aud itshows that the people down there don't mean any longer to patronise the North while the South cas. trnish goods. The discussion which is now going o: in both houses of Congress will be echoed » ick from every Seutbern State Legislature, i «ae shape of a practical seeking to en age Southern industry, and the result wil! « vu be felt. As soon as the Southern State-*.uull be- gin to impose discriminating license iaws upon trade, supported as they will be by the public feeling there, an abundance of Northern manu- facturers, of all kinds, will be found ready to remove south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and set up their mills, looms, forges, anvils and workshops on sites of Southern water power, to supply the Southern market. The effect of such a social movement must act prejudicially in two ways upon Northern trade and the value of Northern property of every description. First, by taking away a portion of our own productive industry and the domestic trade which belongs to it; and second, by depriving that which remains of one of its best mar- kets. Now, if we look at the commercial cur- rents of the country, we shall see how the whole trade and industry of the North will be broken up by _ this new Southern movement. In the synopsis of trade for the last fiscal year, which we pub- lished yesterday, it is shown that the imports are $338,000,000, of which fully three-fourths, or $255,000,000, come into our Northern ports. The export trade, on the other hand, largely preponderates in the Southern ports—the ex- ports of domestic products showing the follow- ing figures:— Free States exclusively .. Free and slave States in 001 84,417,498 Slave States exclusively. 698,498 —the balance of our exports being made up of specie and foreign productions re-exported. The equilibrium of this trade is kept up by the constant current of Northern productions flow- hg southward. As soon as this equilibrium is disturbed, a reaction in the trade and value of property in the North will commence, which will far exceed in its widespread effects anything that has ever before been witnessed in the shape of a commercial or financial revulsion. The entire scheme of production and trade will be disarranged, while private and public work- shops will be thrown into complete disorder; the value of property, railroads, ships and me- chanical skill will be greatly reduced, and even capital faint for want of employment—for all these have their foundations laid deep in the existing system of production, manipula- tion and exchange. $5,281,001 Jonsine IN THE CorPoRATION.—There ate DOW before the Common Council, still unconsum- mated, a large number of wicked, corrupt and rascally jobs, such as opening streets, widening streets, and so forth, and it is very probable that the present body wiM endeavor to rush them through before its term of office expires. We hope that Mr. Tiemann will be firm enough to defeat these infamous schemes, and veto every one of them. Let his last official act prove his condemnation of the corrupt action of the Common Council, and his desine, while there is yet time, to save the city from at least 4 portion of its disastrous consequences. The new Common Council will of course enter upon their duties with a fresh batch of jobs, and we have no doubt that many of them ore, even now, arranged and planned out. Like hungry muequitoes, they are preparing to fasten upon this unfortunate body corporate and suck from it whatever blood the retiring who compose the Corporation for next year we expect to see corruption and fraud multiplied tenfold, and it will require all the energy of Mr. Wood, assisted by an amended. charter, to keep it in check. Meantime, we call upon Mr. Tiemann to do his part before he goes out by vetoing any measures which may be adopted by the retiring boards to inflict more corrupt jobs upon the city. Tus Lave Musiorpa, Exxction axp tue Iy- FLUENCE OF THE Press.—Perhaps the most re- markable instance on record of the influence of the press on the right side in a warmly con- tested election is the late struggle for the Mayoralty. The names of the papers which sup- ported the respective candidates were publish- ed by the Journal of Commerce in parallel columns, in an editorial article in its issue of the 2d of December, as follows:— wonlth, charteter and range meranees ea sents aus paletaee een a ee ae neni aad Topetsd hiss nb ts te taken by the city press. The moet nico of the latter are divided between the se- ‘he Havemcyer: For g Wo ‘Times. Cour. & Eaquirer. News. Com. Advertiser, Sun. Staats-Zcitung. Post. elist. Chrevicle. y Book. Leader. Mentor. Freeman’s Journal. Mr. Havemeyer’s succesa is only hazarded by the in- fluence of the ‘Dead Rabbits,” “Blood Tabs,” -Short Boys,” &c., covjoinec with the efforts of Opdyke’s friends. The Express remains neutral, We will now supply a defect in the article of our sleek cotemporary, and annex the circula- tion to the several journals :— FOR HAVEMRYER, 4,500 22/000 28,000 13,060 Evan weekly, 1,500 Observe weekly 17,000 Examiner, weekly 1,000 Chronicle, weekly. '500 Day Book, dail: 1 i $388 FOR woop. Total. To the journals against Wood we might add the whole Sunday press, with a single excep- tion. With beautiful consistency, it advocated the election of Sabbatarians, who, if their power were only equal to their will, would suppress all Sunday papers, and wage a war of exter- mination against the little newsboye. With the circulation of these journals we might swell the array of figures against Wood; but it is un- necessary. We take the list as it appears in the Journal of Commerce, and to that we add Havemeyer’s hireling army of “Dead Rabbits,” “Blood Tubs,” “Short Boys,” shoulder hitters and needy Irish orators, together with the in- fluence of the Fifth avenue aristocracy, given gratuitously—and not only their influence, but their money, to the amount of $15,000. In ad- dition to this the Custom House levy was $10,000 (the poor inspectors having to pay as much as $15 each); the Post Office, United States Marshal’s office, Assay office, &c., $10,000. The balance of some $25,000 spent for the Tammany candidate was made up from miscel- laneous sources. The whole amounted to sixty thousand dollars. Lastly, there was the official influence of the principal federal officers, con- trolling their subordinates, and compelling them to vote and work for the man of the Buffalo Platform. Yet against this array of journals and money and influence, and aristocrats and mobocrats, and religious fanaticism, the Heranp and one other journal, unaided by money or influence, or organized fighting men, carried the day by magic—the magic of being in the right. We merely touched the right chord in the national heart, and it responded in emphatic tones of patriotism which cannot be mistaken. “Truth is mighty and will prevail.” Important Discovery IN THE Five Arts.— Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, in the course of a speech delivered the other day, stated that the New York Heratp furnished the brains for the democratic party and its organs at Wash- ington. The Senator mgy have been correct in his statement. It would be a very small part of our daily labor to furnish brains for the democratic or any other party. As a rule, party organizations in this country have very little todo with brains. They depend chiefly upon muscle. When Washington editors, or Congressmen, or Cabinet Ministers, do need any brains, it is quite natural that they should get them from New York, where they order their coats and breeches. It sometimes hap- pens that the former cannot be so accurately guaged and measured as the latter, and that the supply exceeds the demand. Senator Wil- son and the other republicans may remember the first case wherein we attempted to furnish mental artillery for a political campaign. That was in the canvass of 1856, when the New York Heratp contributed the brains to conduct the canvass on the republican side. But the quantity supplied was very much be- yond the calibre of the heads to be filled, and so the republicans failed, simply from being altogether too clever. They had a sort of brain fever, in fact. Now, according to the Senator from Massachusetts, we have gone into the same line again for the demo- cratic party, which ought to be espe- cially grateful, for in no other organization is there a more plentiful lack of intel- ligence. Senator Wilson is right when he says that the commercial metropolis governs Wash- ington. New York is the intellectual seat of government forthe country. Washington is a country village, where we send our servants to do our work and keep themselves out of harm’s way. Washington obeys New York, as Man- chester and Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield, follow London, or Lyons and Bordeaux bow down to Paris. New York furnishes the coun- try with boots, breeches, brains, newspapers, light literature, plays, operas, fashions, and al- most everything else. The only trouble about the whole matter is that sometimes the mem- bers of Congress, puffed up by inordinate vani- ty, attempt to go on without the usual supply of New York brains; and, as a natural conse- quence, they get into all sorts of scrapes, which we are obliged to get them out of in oue way or another. ‘Traps Rerorrs axp Tue Tneasvny Dzrant- uent.— We published in the money article yes- terday the general results of the trade of the United States for the fiscal year 1858-9. These are, in one point of view, very satisfactory. The exports of the year, including specie, amounted to $355,894,385, and the imports to $338,000,000; showing a balance of $18,000,000 in favor of the country. But the manner in which these statistics have been compiled and produced, and garbled in publication, calls for the severest comment. In the first place, the time which the Treasury De- partment requires to make them up is utterly disproportionate to the labor performed. Yes- terday was the 8th of December; the tables were closed on the 30th of June; so that Mr. Cobb’s clerks have consumed five months and a quarter in footing up the trade of the coun- try for a single year. We will undertake, in the Heraxp office, to publish every year, if the proper returns are made to us, the general re- sults of the trade of the Atlantic States within fifteen days after the closing of the fiscal year— say on the 15th of July; and within a month afterward—say by the 15th of August—we will undertake to publish the tables complete, in- cluding the trade of California and Oregon. We will also guarantee to publish the tables with an accuracy which is unknown in the Treasury Department. In the secend place, the publication in the Warhington Constitution of the garbled figures from which we made up our table is utterly unjustifiable. We found the figures hidden away in one corner of a long, rambling ridicu- lous political article in the government organ at Washington. The writer of the article evi- dently had no idea of their importance, as is shown, indeed, by the blundering manner in which he uses them. In the behalf of the com- merce of the United States, we protest against the monopoly of these important statistics by a petty party political paper, printed in an in- land town without trade enough to support a merchant of eminence. These statistics are not made up for party political purposes. They are compiled at great expense, and with the aid of a vast machinery, for the use and benefit of the trade of the country. A knowledge of them is indispensable to merchants, and he who sees and studies them first enjoys an advantage over his rivals. From the hour that the footings were made it was a fraud upon the merchants of the country fo keep them secret. Mr. Cobb had no more right to lock up those vitally im- portant figures in his desk fora single hour than he has to etop the telegraph or arrest the transmission of the mails. It was his duty as Secretary of the Treasury, and as an honest man, to transmit them at.once, and by the swift- est channel, to the public, for whom they are destined. But we regret to say that the Treasury De- partment, as at present administered, is one of the most obstructive and old fogy institutions in the country. We find it impossible to obtain from the department information which it has no interest in secreting, and which it is the interest and the right of the public to know. Mr. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and his subordi- nates, seem to fancy that the commercial and financial statistics which pass through their hands are their private property, and when asked to part with them they stand aghast, like Tite Barnacle when accosted by the man who “wanted to know.” For instance, they have in their desks at this moment the details of the imports of 1858-9. (They must have them, or they could not have obtained the general re- sult published in the Constitution on the 7th.) What business have they to keep them secret? Merchants have a right to the figures. They are not anxious about Mr. Cobb’s comments or estimates, as they have so often proved wide of the mark, but the figures Mr. Cobb has no right to conceal in his circum- locution office. Dw Joux Brown Comm Toe Massacre at Ossawatomiz?—This question has been an- swered in the negative by some of the follow- ers and partisans of Brown, among them the notorious English abolitionist Redpath, who pretends Brown wassixteen miles distant when the bloody and barbarous deed was done. In another page we publish an extract from the Congressional “reports of the special commit- tee on the troubles in Kansas,” bringing home those murders to Captain Johh Brown, and proving that he was present at Sherman’s mur- der, and took him out of his house at dead of night, and the next morning Sherman’s body was found in the creek, with his “skull split open in two places, and some of his brains washed out by the water; a large hole cut in his breast, and his left hand cut off, except a ‘little piece of skin on one side.” Mr. Harris testifies that Brown was engaged in this atrocious and cold-blooded assassination of Sherman, and the committee conclude, with good reason, that “they who murdered Sher- man also killed the rest, all being murdered on the same night and in the same neighborhood.” And this is the man held up for canonization, pe as a hero superior to Washington—as, in fact, a demi-god. Among those journals which so exalt the murderer John Brown is the Tribune, the leading organ of the repub- licans of New York. This is only consistentin a journal which so strongly recommends Help- er’s book, and offers to sell it over the count- er—a book which advocates the overthrow of slavery by general massacre. Woon’s Erection a Trivmpu Over Sanpara- mianisM.—Hand in hand with the anti-slavery fanaticism in the late election went the Sabba- tarian fanaticism, and the defeat of one in the election of Fernando Wood was the defeat of both. Those pious despots, who esteem them- selves not as other men, and who would cut off every privilege and enjoyment from the poor man on bis only day of rest—would shut him and his ¢hildren up in filthy tenement houses, while their Puritag masters were rolling in car- riages—all this cld’s were among the bitterest opponents of Wood. Fanatical in all things, as well as on theSunday question, they natural- ly went with the abolition candidates; and had either of them been elected, the probability is that the odious despotism of the Sabbatarians would have been inflicted upon the city. Rail- road travel on Sunday would have been pro- hibited; all places of innocent recreation ; would have been clored on that day, the only one in the week upon which the workingmen and their families can participate in those ‘pleasures which the Maker of all men has pro- vided for all men alike, poor as well as rich, but which 8 bigotted class in this city would deny to at not blessed with wealth. The success of Fernando Wood was a rebuke ¥ i j to that fanatical and hypocritical spirit, and | must be regarded in the light of a decided triumph over the insolent dictation of the Sabbatarians. FASHIONABLE AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WivTER Season.—This metropolis has, like allthe other , great cities in the world, a very large class of © very nice persons who are often bored to.death | to know how to get through with the day. In Europe this class embraces a great many men of fortune, but here its members are chiefly of | the better sex. An American, however rich he may be, rarely permits himself to be | annoyed by want of occupation. He gambles in stocks, or dabbles in politics, or re- tains an interest in trade, or writes a book, or publishes a newspaper, or does something or other to fill up his time and make or lose money. But ladies who are left to themselves while pater familias is in Wall street, and the Jeunesse dorde are writing away in great ledg- ers, have an awful void to fill up between breakfast and dinner, to say nothing about the evenings, when the Opera has gone away to the provinces, and the theatres only give highly colored harrowing melo-dramas. A few years ago, when the fashionable people of New York were classed asthe “ upper ten thousand,” they were split into small coteries and used td’ occupy their time in abusing each other; but, as | the city has increased in wealth and popula- tion, this “upper ten thousand” has been so far multiplied as to be called the upper hundred thousand, with views enlarged and tastes cul- tivated’ in proportion to the increase of their numbers. They patronize the fine arts, en- courage native painters and sculptors, drive splendid equipages, and altogether cut a good figure in the gay world. During eight or nine months in the year they make New York as lively as any European capital. Just now, however, is a dull time in public amusements—the weather is not suitable to Park driving, and the ladies have to find a new excitement. They go a good deal to the picture galleries, and they are perfectly delighted with Palmer’s “White Captive” and Barbee’s “Fisher Girl.” The first we have alluded to frequently as a very fine work, and Mr. Barbee’s statues also deserve especial praise. Our fashionable belles scrutinize these representations of the highest type of female beauty with much interest, and mentally com- pare the beautiful figures with their own. How far the reality approaches the marble ideal, in these days of crinoline, patent corsets and other “aids of nature,” is an awful mys- tery, more than Eleusinian, to anybody but the modiste and the lady’s maid. After the pictures and statuary the great Broadway bazaars, with their bijouterie and dry goods, and knick knacks of all kinds, afford a lounge for an hour or two, and the re- mainder of the morning may be filled up with chocolate, or patisserie, or bon bons, or all three, with a dish of discourse, at Maillard’s or some of the other fashionable restaurants. These occupations, with a few visits, will bring Madame or Mademoiselle close to the dinner hour. Thus it will be seen that we are getting along well in art matters, and that we are cultivating ataste for the beautiful which will yet place our artists, their patrons and critics, on a level with the refined classes of ancient Greece and Rome, medimval Italy, or modern Europe. We have art in all varieties,and at all prices. Next week there will be an excitement about the cheap Opera at Niblo’s Garden by some artists who have been tried at high prices and classed among the antiques. Still they will have a good chance for success, on the same principle that the ladies rush to dry goods stores which advertise shop-worn or damaged goods at low prices. People often pay more for old traps at auction than new ones will bring at private sale, and thisrule may work with passé singers. We should not be at all surprised to see a great rush for the cheap Opera next week—such a four shilling furore as will necessitate the sale of tickets at auction. —_——__ THE LATEST NEWS. Close of Canal Navigation. Atnany, Dec, 9, 1850. ‘The Canal Commissioners met to-day and resolved to close the State canals on the 12th inst. Very little pro- perty is out at this time, most of the boats having arrived at tide water. The Kansas Election. Lxavenwortm, Dec. 8, 1850. The entire republican State ticket is undoubtedly elected ‘by majorities averaging over three thousand. Every county yet heard from, excepting Leavenworth, gives a republican majority. Halderman, democrat, for Congress, runs ahead of his ticket thus far. —________ News from Pike’s Peak. Sr. Louis, Deo. 9, 1859. ‘The Pike’s Peak express of the 2d instant has reached Leavenworth with eight thousand dollars worth of gold dust and a large mail. Severe weather had set in. Mining had generally been abandoned for the scason. Heavy snow storms had occurred on the Plains. PCR Erne aa Loss of the Steamboat Rochester. Cincinnati, Dec. 8, 1859. ‘The steamer Rochester struck a snag two miles above Madison yesterday, sinking almost immediately. Sixty pasaengers who were on board were saved. The boat, ‘with her cargo, was valued at about: $25,000, and is almost 8 total loss. —____ The Funeral of the Late District Attorney of Ohio. ‘Totxpo, Dec. 9, 1859. ‘The funeral of the Hon. Daniel 0. Morton, late United States District Attorney for Ohio, was largely attended to- day by members of the profession as a body, and the citizens generally. Judges Potter, Mason, Myers, Fitch, Dunlap, and General Hill officiated as pall bearers, The courts here and in Cleveland passed resolutions expres” sive of the general grief and adjourned. —$$__ Murder of a Child in Norfolk, Va. Noxrotx, Dec. 9, 1859. ‘Virginius Leonard, aged eleven years, son of Mr. Leo- nard, editor of the Argus, of this city, was found murdered to-night in a room at fe National Hotel. He had received deep stab in the neck. The excitement caused by this event is very great. No ar: have yet been made. ——$ Burglaries in Bangor, Me. Banaor, Dec. 9, 1859. Several burglaries were committed in this city last night in various stdres and houses, and property valued at $700, including four gold watches, was stolon. ‘Two young men have been arrested on suspicion of baving Perpetratad these robberies, Damages for action. Bostow, Dec. 9, 1859. ‘Wm. A. Cochrane, who sued Geo. L. Perry for seducing his wifo, claiming damages in forty thousand dollars, was this morning awarded three thousand dollars by the jury, which gum Mr. Cochrane gives to the Home for the Fallen. Failure of a Boston Publishing House. Bostex, Dec. 9, 1859. Messrs. Shepard, Clark & Brown, book publishors, of this city, have failed. Their linbilities are about $100,000. ance RnR Fire at Cincinnati. Cincrxnatt, Dec. 9, 1859. The retort, house and machinery of Hiatt and Wood & aa AS ee 3S RRS. a ' j ‘ | i