The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1859, Page 4

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BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mech: Bun.esqurs, tuxGs, Dances, & les’ Tall, 472 Broadway— Ly'r Gor Timz to Tagey, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Gxo. Onersty’s Mrx- presis ux SoNcs, Dances, Buxcesqoxs, Ac—Biack Starve. J NEW OPERA HOUSF, Tok Uresas ano Lrnio Pu roadway.—Dravron’s Par- —OUViERA, THE VIOLINIST, CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Fquesraux Peeroru- apors, dc— Dick Lugrix—lex Bour. . MOZART HALL, No. 603 Montez. HOPE CHAPEL, 722 Broadway.—Wavan's Tear. way.—Lectugr py Lows New York, Thursday, December 15, 1859, The News. The debate in the Senate on the relations be- tween the North and the South was continued | yesterday, Mr. Wade, of Ohio, being the principal | Speaker. Finally the Senate came to a vote upon the proposition to investigate the Harper's Ferry invasion. Mr. Trumbull’s amendment, providing for an inquiry with reference to the border ruffian burglary upon the arsenal at Liberty, Missouri, | uring the Kansas troubles, was voted down by a vote of 32 to 22, and Mr. Mason's resolution was adopted unanimously. So we shall in due time have a searching investigation into all the facts and circumstances connected with Old Brown's foray into Virginia, including an overhauling of all the Kansas Aid ‘Societies and other associations and individual aiders and abettors of the Harper's Ferry plot. In the House the discussion of the slavery ques- tion was resumed. In the course of the discussion it was stated that one Wyllis had been arrested in South Carolina with incendiary documents in his possession. He had been following out the direc- tions of Helper’s iniquitous book, and had distri- ‘buted his documents among the non-slaveholders and negroes, but one of the non-slaveholders had | caused his arrest. This emissary of the abolition- ists will probably be hanged for his temerity. The House ballotted, for the fourth time, for a Speaker, with the following result:— Mr. Sherman, republican Mr. Bocock, Seentorei cts Mr. Sherman lacked six votes of the requisite number to elect. He will in all probability be choeen on the next ballot. Judge Amasa J. Parker was yesterday appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate as United States District Attorney for this district, in place of Mr. Sedgwick, deceased. ‘We publish in today’s paper an address and call of the Mozart Hall Democratic State Committee for NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1859. during the past week to be 1,350, making a total since December last of 76,419. The balance of the commutation fund is now $4,987 27. The demand for beef cattle daring the past week was moderately active at all the yaras, and prices were sustained. The offerings wore of a good ave- rage quality, with very few inferior in the yards, Prices were unchanged. Milch cows were steady at previous rates. Veals were in request at from She. to Ge, a G}c. Sheep and lambs were in good demand at last week's prices. Swine were in de mand at at 5jc. a Gjc., as to quality. There were on sale at all the yards, including Borgen Hill, 5,140 cattle, 93 cows, 550 calves, 13,701 sheep and lambs, and about 17,000 swine. ‘The rales of cotton yesterday embraced 1,000 bales, the market closing steady, on the basis of quotations given in another columa. Flour was less active and buoyant, especially for medinm and higher grades of State and ‘Western. Southern flour was heavy, and sales moderato. In wheat, prices were wilhout change of importance, while sales were moderato; good spring was in fair re. quest, and prices were firm. Corn was more active, with sales at 88c. & 90c. for new and gid white and yellow Jer- sey and Southern. Barley was in fair demand, with sales of 8,000 bushels State at 76c. Pork was dull, with sates of mess at $16 25, and prime at $11 50. Sugars were firm, with sales of 400 a 00 hhds., on terms given else- where. Coffee was firm, with sales of 3,500 ex-Courier, at p.t. Abark arrived at this port yesterday from Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a load of barley, consigned toS. R. Ford. Freights were so firm as in some cases to check shipments, while engagements, however, were made to a fair extent. The Great servative Uprisi: The sudden arrival of General Scott in New York in the midst of the terrible political excitement of the country, coupled with the success of his mission to the Pacific, has created quite a furore in the city; and what we have already said about him in connection with the Presidency has awakened a feeling of enthusiasm among all classes of men who are not under the trammels of the miserable fac- [ tions of the day, which are utterly reckless of the interests of the country and indifferent to the dangers which threaten the integrity of the Union. It seems as if the Pacificator is to deserve the name in a higher sense than any in which he has yet earned it, and as if he had just come at the right moment to loose the Gordian knot, which so many, both at the Nerth and South, are impatient to sever with the sword. Terrible to domestic traitors, as he is to the foreign foe, he is just the man to make peace among us. Every man who has a stake in the communi- ty feels that if General Scott were at the helm in the coming tempest, the republic would be in safe hands; and to nominate him, therefore, for the Presidency, is the spontaneous sentiment of thousands in this commercial metropolis, and of millions throughout the land. To elect him it is only necessary to put that sentiment into a practical form, and to afford an opportunity to the nation to make known what is in its heart. All that is wanted is a beginning. The nomi- nation of General Scott as a conservative Union candidate for the Presidency, without regard to party names or organizations, would have more effect in stilling the troubled waters which menace the security of the country than a thou- sand Union meetings like that which is about to be held in the Academy of Music. Such Buncombe gatherings are of no prac- tical value, and without any beneficial results. The only way in which the forth- coming demonstration can be turned to good account is to take the opportunity which it affords of proposing the right man for the Presidency, in disregard alike of the demo- cratic and republican factions. And perhaps this may be done, and good be brought out of evil; for “there is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.” The meeting on Monday is designed as a sub- terfuge, and has been got up under the direc- tions of the Albany Regency, in order to help that junta in its local elections, and Seymour is =: an election in the several Congressional districts of delegates to the Charleston Convention, for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. An arrival at New Orleans, with advices from ‘Vera Cruz to the 10th instant, announces that the sloop-of-war Brooklyn was soon to leave, with the sent to make a flourish with that view, and to put Tammany Hall on its legs again. Tam- many stood on the Buffalo platform in the late municipal election, and had for its allies the congenial black republicans. That -rotten platform broke down, and Tammany was hurt and crippled by the ruins. To bind up the treaty between the United States and Mexico daly | wounds of the old sinner, and put her upon a ratified. There are four Exropean steamers now fally due at American ports, the latest of which will bring a, week's later news shonid she arrive during the day. These vessels sailed for the undernamed des- tinations in the order annexed, viz:— send, Destination. -Nov. 29.New York. Nov. 30. Portland. ov. 30.New York. Dec. 3.Halifax & Boston, which has lately pre- vailed on both sides of the Atlantic, and, as re- ‘ports say, all over the ocean, accounts for the de- Union and national platform, and thus give her another chance of playing the harlot, and carrying on once more her filthy intrigues and schemes of curruption, is a principal object of the managers; to give Seymour, the creature of the Regency, a chance of worming himeelf into public favor, so as to reach the Charleston nomination, is another object in view. This is the political aspect. But there is a commercial motive in organizing this move- ment. Those merchants who signed the calls Jay of the steamers, any one of which may arrive ’| for the Opdyke and Havemeyer meetings have sat avy moment from daybreak this morning. Our correspondent in St. Domingo City, writing on the 19th ult., reports a great improvement in trade, in consequence of the subsidence of the revolu- ‘tionary mania all, ever thé country. Foreigners swere looked on with more become alarmed by the debates in Congress, and they fear that their names, published here in an obscure journal, may, by some possibility, be republished in the Southern papers; and in favor, and American | Order to mystify the South and place them- rettlers.much appreciated. General Cazneau and selves on a good footing for a continuance of olone} Fabens were in the city. The copper and | the Southern trade, they sign the call for the gilver mines promised a good yield. The rainy | sham Union meeting at the Academy of Music. Beason ‘ras about ended; American produce was | If My. Seward should be set up for President, dn fall supply. Poe Wthd . There was a meeting of the New York __ held ‘yesterday, in the United States District Courttoom, for tHe purpose of giving expression to the sympa- thigd of the profession at the loss theyand society had pastained by the death of the Hon. Theodore Sedg- .witk, late United States Attorney for the Southern “District of New York. Eloquent addresses wei ‘delivered by Mr. David D. Field and the Hon. Judge ninety-nine out of every hundred of these men would vote for him next November. This, therefore, is a false and deceptive move- ment; and what else could be expected from such elements? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? The repub- re | lican party is abolitionized and revolution- ary—its creed is Helper’s book, and it sym- Pierrepont. The remarks of the latter gentleman | pathizes with John Brown’s rebellion. It ‘will be read at this particular time with much im | believes not in Union, but in an “irrepressible terest, as they refer to the most exciting political topic of the day, and may be called » ““Union-saving ppeech.” He spoke at the same time in eulogistic terms of Mr. Sedgwick, and cited his parting words at their last interview—“You and men of your age ‘will be compelled to take part in public affairs, pave this land from bloody anarchy.” Judge Pierre- | ciple, pont made this remark of the deceased the theme ‘of his oration. About half-past four o'clock yesterday morning, the steamship Vanderbilt, of the Stonington line, ‘when abreast of pier No. 1 East river, came in col- } this State, for instance, Usion with the Hamiltor, avenue ferry boat Mon- tank, cutting her dewn to within eighti nches of the waterline, ‘The Vanderbilt is badly injured, having ton stauncheons broken astern, and & por Hon of hex pulwarks carried away. conflict” between the antagonistic forces of the North and South. This party has vitality and great power for evil. The democratic party is effete’ and corrupt, demoralized and split to | into factions, Northand South. It has no prin- and no purpose, but spoils. It isin a state of rapid disintegration. In the Southa large eection of it consists of fire-eating seces- stonists, who want to see the Union dissolved— in the North it is tainted with abolition—in & majority of the demo- cracy is anti-slavery; and as for Tammany Hall, it smells more strongly of the nigger than a colored church in the dog days. How, there- fore, could conservative principles and acts -A vey werious charge of fraud in the late elec: | emanate from such @ source? The democratic tion, in the Eighth Aldermanic district, was brought | party is powerless against the republicans, and wp yesterday in the Board of City Canvassers, as will be seen by our report in another column. Affida- ‘vite were Date, Sed if the allegations should prove to be ‘true, itis certain that all the parties concerned de- perve to be indicted by the Grand Jury. At the meeting of the Emigration Commissioners yesterday, the resignation of Dr, Selden, Surgeon of Ward's Island Hospital, was received and ac: cepted. No other business came up. The weekly | Just look at it in Congress, able to elect as } vit to the Postmaster, who is now taking proofs acved Speaker aman who endorsed Helper’s book, “ of the circulation of the various city journals Patemons slows the wumber of exigran's appended to substantiate the charges ' if it enters the fleld against it in the Presiden- tial campaign it will be defeated. The only ev isting issue is that of slavery, and the repub- livan party will put that in such @ shape that if the democracy meet it squarely it will lode half its rank and file at the North—if it do not meet it squarely, it will lose the whole South. Republicanism is rampant. and elect him, too, while the bloody busitess ot Harper's Ferry ia yet fresh in the public mind, and before all the men taken at that raid are executed, What is wanted, then, isa new and vigorous party, epringing from the times and equal to the emergency—homogeneous, and with a sia- gle principle and a single Purpose, Its ranks would soon be filled with the best men from all existing parties—even the moderate repub- licans would take shelter under its wing—-men who are only republicans in name, be- cause they do not know any better party to unite with, and who loathe the democratic party for its corruptions, and violence, and degradation. The new conser- vative party, with General Scott at its head, would sweep the country like a tornado, and drive back the revolutionary myrmidons of Seward at the North, and the disunion legions of Hotapurs at the South. Let the old historic hero, therefore, be nominated by some honest man at the meeting on Monday evening; and as a sequel to that. let Scott meetings be held all over the State and over the whole country, and let them send delegates to a Convention in this city, to meet on the 22d of February—the birth- day of Washington—in order to tender the no- mination to the man who, in our day, most resembles “ the Father of his Country”—a man who, like Bayard, is “without fear and without reproach.” This is the political chief for the nation, demanded by the pressure of the times; and well will it be for the country if it places him in that position. Corroration Swinpitsa.—Our readers may remember that the Commissioners of Record have been for a long time besetting the Board of Supervisors for an extravagantly large sum of money for the printing and binding ¢f the records of the County Clerk’s office. The in. vestigation by a committee of that Board into the claims of the Commissioners has revealed one of the most stupendous Corporation swin- dies yet brought to light. It appears that $400,000 was paid for the printing of these records, and that the exorbi- tant price of two dolfars and ninety cents a volume was paid to some contractors for the mere binding alone. The usual process of car- rying out Corporation jobs was then resorted to by the contractors, who relet the contract to another party for sixty-seven and a half cents a volume, thus netting the handsome sum of two dollars and twenty-two cents on every bound volume. It appears, further, that the work would have been done by other parties for fifty cents a volume; so that five times the actual value of the work has been paid for it. Tn addition, it has been shown that thousands of these printed volumes have been wilfully thrown away; and upon the whole, this case demonstrates a clear swindle of some three hundred thousand dollars upon the County Treasury. Such is the way our Corporate affairs arecon- ducted now; and this is but a trifle inthe ag gregate of fraudulent contracts made and con- summated in other departments. Who can wonder that our taxes amount to ten millions? and who will doubt that under the régime of the recently elected Corporation they will be fourteen or fifteen millions next year? MEETING OF SYMPATHIZERS WITH JOHN Brown. This evening, at the Cooper Institute. a symipn- thy meeting, like that in Boston, is to be hela, for the purpose of raising a fund for the fa-uily of John Brown—whether it is his mysticul fa- mily, or his family according to the flesh, we are not informed. Perhaps the fund is intended for both, and that while some of it will be given to Mrs. Brown and her children, the balance will be expended in the purchase of pikes and Sharp’s rifles to carry out the second American revolution, which Wendell Phillips says John Brown began. At the Boston meeting it was explained that the family of John Brown num- bered a million, and Waldo Emerson endorsed that interpretation; so that when a million of abolitionists of the John Brown stamp are sup- plied with arms and ammunition they will make short work of slavery at the South. To give effect to the meeting, and to propagate the anti-slavery sentiment, portraits of the horse thief and the murderer of Ossawatemie are to be sold at the door, and dirges and solemn marches are to be performed on the occasion— funeral obsequies to the shade of the idol of the republican party. The following is the ad- vertisement, as it appears in the columns of the New York Tribune, the leading organ of the re- volutioniste:— THE JOHN BROWN FUND. DR. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, WENDELL PHILLIPS AND PROF. HIRAM MATTISON Will speak at the Cooper Institute, in aid of the fund for the benefit of John Brown’s family, on Thursday evening, 15th inst. Admission 25 cents, or $1; the $1 tickets entitling the purchaser to a John Brown photograph. Doors open at 634; exercises to commence at 734 o'clock. Tickets to be had at the door. “BLOW YE THE TRUMPET, BLOW!” The favorite hymn of JOHN BROWN, which was sung at his grave to his favorite tune, « Lennox,” will be played on Thureday night, 16th inst, af the COOPER INSTITUTE, By Shelton’s celobrated Band, assisted by the VOICES OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION. DIRGES AND SOLEMN MARCHES will also be performed during the intervals between the speeches. WENDELL PHILLIPS, THE REV. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, REV. HIRAM MATTISON REY. J. B SLOANE Will address the meeting. Other eminent speakers will also be present. ‘The meeting will be opened by prayer. Doors open at 5} o'clock. Exercises to commence at 7 precisely. Tickets 26 cents; to be had at the deor. Also, Dollar Tickets, entitling the purchaser to am elegant pho- tograph of John Brown. As the purpose of this meeting is to raise moncy for John Brown’s destitute family, it is to be hoped that the Dollar Tickets will be liberally purchased. Here the reader will perceive that three clergymen are to take part in the posthumous rites in honor of Brown—the robber, the assas- sin, the insurgent and traitor—whose avowed intention was to subvert this great republic. Thus do the republican leaders at the North identify themselves with the Harper’s Ferry insurrection, and encourage a renewal of the bloody struggle on a larger scale. ‘Tue Honorapte Jerrenson Brick & Co. can- not bear misfortune. Since they took up the cause of Tammany and got so dreadfully beaten, they have been as nervous and restless as they were after the celebrated retreat from Solferino, when they got mixed up among the geographical elbows of the Mincio. This will not do. Mr. Brick and his coadjutors should learn to bear misfortune and defeat with equa- nimity, and above all to keep their tempers. “ Let dogs delight,” &. But if Mr. Brick de- sires really to ascertain how far the circulation of the New York Hmracp exceeds that of any other daily journal, let him hand in an affida- pending the award of the advertisement of the list of uncalied for letters during the ensuing year. As for Mr. Brick’s criticisms upon our views of the new era in the history of art, now just commenced in this city, we advise him to pay strict attention to his own affairs and mend his broken breeches, which got so badly torn in the late municipal election that it will take at least six months to put them in a present- able condition again, The Republican Party and its Princi- ples—Abolitionism at the North and Spolls at Washington. The searching cross-examination upon the slavery question to which the leaders of the republican party have been subjected in both houses of the present Congress has disclosed the important fact that this party is a party of two sets of principles—that while in the North it is an aggressive, rampant abolition party, it is at Washington nothing more nor less than a poils party, limited to the seven principles of the mere spoilaman, as described by John Ran- dolph—“the five loaves and two fishes.” This general indictment is supported bya host of testimony. Ever since the virtual set- tlement of jhe Kansas Territorial question against the South and the institution of slavery, the republican party, in its Northern election- eering operations, has been drifting into an organized crusade against slavery in the slave States. The Rochester manifesto of Mr. Sew- ard, of 1858, in this connection, may be said to mark the official inauguration of this crusade. Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry;*Helper's in- cendiary programme ef a servile and agrarian conspiracy in the South against the “monster” of slavery; and all the Northern Joha Browa sympathy meetings, and all those republican certificates and subscriptions in behalf of Helper and his handbook of treason, are only so many developements of the practical advances ot Mr. Seward’s comprehensive programme for the extinction of slavery and the “slave power.” Mr. Clay, of Alabama, in the Senate, the other day, reproduced some interesting exam- ples of the sweeping dentmnciations uttered by the republican leaders in their Northern clec- tioneering speeches. Thus, Mr. Senator Wilson was reminded that in the North he had de- nounced the slaveholders of the South as rob- bers; while Senator Wade, of Ohio, had de- nounced them as Vandals, and while Seward had declared them to be a perfidious privi- leged class, guilty before the world ot perfidy, fraud and dishonor. And when these evi- dences are brought against these republican leaders in the Senate and in the House, and when they are called to account for their-mani- festations of sympathy for John Brown, and for their endorsements of, and subscriptions to, Helper’s incendiary book, what do we see? We find these republican preachers and teach- ers of abolition treason resorting to lame apologies, explanations and denials, and really affecting in their professions of love for the Union, the constitution and the constitutional rights of the slave States. And why this skulking and shirking away from their responsibilities at Washington? Why do these valiant men among their anti- slavery constituents at the North shrink, in the face of Southern Senators and representatives at Washington, from the task of facing the music?, Why do they eat their own words, and show themselves the most pliable of dough- faces? How are we to account for this remark- able softening of the principles and purposes of the republican party? The explanation is very easy. This party is hungering and thirst- ing for the spoils involved in the organization of the House, equal to two millions of dollars in the gross amount, including pickings and stealings. But the republicans in the House require some half dozen recruits to make up a majority. These recruits they cannot obtain upon the abolition platform of Seward, Brown and Helper. Andso Seward’s “ conflict” is re- duced to a mere figure of speech, Brown to a vagabond fanatic, and the republican endorse- ments of Helper’s book are either flatly denied or put upon the plea of ignorance or other miti- gating circumstances. Thus we find the republican party at Wash- ington, in its official capacity, dropping its real character of an aggressive sectional anti- slavery camp, and assuming the comparatively innocent, but pitiful and treacherous, form of a mere spoils party—a party with no other ob- ject and no other purpose in view than the spoils and plunder—first of this Congress, and secondly of the next Presidency. Is this ele- venth hour repentance, and are these eleventh hour protestations of devotion to the constitution and love for the South, to be trusted? Perhaps they are, in the exact degree to which the game for the spoils may compel a backing down from the “irrepressible conflict.” The question is a critical one to the republican camp, however; and with the organization of the House we suspect their war will be renewed, even at Washington, against the “slave oligarchy” and the “slave power.” Their first object is the spoils of this Congress, and their immediate necessity is the half dozen anti-Lecomptonites who cannot yet subscribe to Seward, Brown and Helper. But the paramount necessity to the republican party is that one idea of hostility to slavery, and their professions of an armistice will end with the organization of the House. Let us await the issue. Tar Beavttes or tHe Law’s Detay.—One of the most extraordinary instances of the law's delay in a capital case isy perhaps, that of Ste- phens, the wife poisoner, upon which 2 final de- cision was had in the Supreme Court, General Term, before Judges Roosevelt, Sutherland, Strong and Igraham, on Tuesday. Stephens was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, by poison, as far back as the fall of 1858, upon a strong array of cir- cumstantial evidence, chiefly of a medical cha- racter, which. Jeft no doubt of his guilt upon the minds of &#fury, the Court or the public. He appealed for a new trial to the Court of Oyer and Terminer; but the application was denied. He again appealed from this decision to the Supreme Court, where his motion was also denied. The case was then taken to the Court of Appeals, where the sentence of the Court below was confirmed. Failing thus inthe court of last resort, his counsel appealed a second time to the General Term of the Supreme Court on Tuesday to have the case remitted to tho Court of Oyer and Terminer, in order thatan applica- tion for another trial might be made there, on the ground that new evidence favorable to the prisoner had been just discovered. Judge Roosevelt, however, decided that the Supreme Court had no power to interfere with the judg- ment of the Court of Appeals; and had no alter nStive but to execute its mandate, ‘Thus the unfo,tunate convict was compelled, after a Dto- longed “Uepense of more than a year, to lista to the sentouce consigning him to an ignomini- ous death, pronounced for the third time. No appeal is left him now except to the cle- mency of the Executive, and, that failing him, he must expiate his crime on the 3d of Febru- ary next. This extraordinary case demon- strates the great difficulty which exists in our courts of bringing criminals to justice, and illustrates the necessity of more certainty in the execution of our criminal law. © Affairs in Mexico—What is Required There, as Well as Here. The robbery of the treasure from the con- ducta at Guadalajara, by the chiefs of the Church party in Mexico, has given new ele- ments of life to its forces, and enabled them to obtain several important victories. Coronado has been defeated and slain in the West; De- gollado has experienced a reverse at Apaceo, and abandoned San Lyis Potosi; Cobos has gained some advantages at Tehuantepec, and seized a large quantity of arms and munitions of war there; and Robles is said to be again preparing for an attack on Vera Cruz, In the midst of these events, which threaten the very existence of the constitutional govern- ment, inefficiency and imbecility preside in the Cabinet of President Juarez at VeraCruz. The dilapidation of the public revenues of Mexico precludes the hope of any possibility of finding the means necessary for an energetic campaign from any domestic resources; and the demorali- zation, through successive defeats, of the mili- tary leaders who act with the constitutiondlists has deprived that party of nearly all the support it has hitherto received from its ill organized bands of troope. The necessity of providing the means for an energetic campaign during the proximate dry season was foreseen months since by the more energetic members of the Juarez Cabinet, and the utter impossibility of finding them at home le‘ to the formation of a treaty with the United states, which, while it left the territory and ili¢ pational honor of Mexico intact, secured the much desired re- sources for the campaign. The final conclusion of the treaty in August last was prevented by the inefficiency or the hostility of Senor Ocampo, the Minister of Foreign Relations in Vera Cruz. The consequence of his conduct is that the danger is now close upon the government of which he is a portion, and, liké the foolish vir- gins, they are found with no oil to trim their lamps. The condition of Mexico in the present mo- ment is very much like that of political parties in this country. The fanatical alarmists of society, banded together by demagogues, and excited and encouraged by the priests, are car- rying on a determined aggressive war against the order-loving, peace-preserving and right- respecting classes of the community. While these are desirous of preserving the true ele- ments of government, social developement and true prosperity, they have been misled, di- vided, deceived and betrayed by incompetent leaders; and while Mexico is passing through the terrible sacrifices that may lead her toa temporary endurement of the order that reigned in Warsaw, we are rapidly approach- ing a conflict similar to that which is now going on in the neighboring republic, and which may carry us to still more bitter resulta. For both countries the course of action is equally plain. Mexico must regenerate herself by throwing overboard the leaders who have so long wasted her strength. For nearly two years President Juarez has continually demon- strated his incapacity te command. His flight from the capital to the Northwest, his retreat to Colima, his wandering to New Orleans, and since then a year andahalf of frequent mis- takes and continual weakness, demonstrate to the satisfaction of every man out of Mexico— if not of every one in it—that he is not the man for the emergency. His honesty is beyond a doubt, his soundness in political theory is ad- mitted, and the purity of his public and private life no man questions; but these are not the elements of statesmanship, nor the qualities that fit a man to guide the patriotic efforts of a people when the ship of State is beset with pirates. What Mexico requires now is a clear head and a stout arm—a heart to resolve and a hand to execute; and President Juarez not pos- sessing these, the longer he insists upon re- taining power as constitutional President, the greater injury he does to the cause’ he has at heart. His government has taken some steps that indicate both wisdom and energy, and had they been followed up with efficient action, the state of affairs would have been very different to what it now is, Of this character was the decree nationalizing the property of the church; and had the treaty with the United States been made at once, and the means fora rapid cam- paign provided, the constitutional government would not have been placed in the quandary it now finds itself in. Itis clear that-if the libe- ral party in Mexico still continue to consent that Juarez shall continue in the Presidency, it must give up all present hopes of reorganizing the country, and even of holding possession of any great portion it. The best hopes of Mexico now lie in aid from this country. But here, too, the hands of the President are weakened for efficiency in both domestic and foreign affairs. If the conserva- tive classes of the community do not come-for- ward and supersede the demagogues and. fac- tious leaders, putting statesmen. in their places, the whole country will soon. find itself in the condition of Mexico, and its government pow- erless to maintain the rule of order. Nortuern Dovenraces ar Wasnixerox.— The following is one of those peculiar explana- tions resorted to in order to exonerate Mr. John Sherman from the respoasibility of his signa- ture to the republican Congressional Helper circular of the tast Congress:— EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF HON. 2..B MORGAN. Acnois, Doc, 8,1869. My Dxar Sik~-I have, within the last faw moments, ob- served in the New York papers remarks in tho House to thig effect:— That you find no recollection of ever having signed the recommendation of Helper’s book.’’ The facts are these, and you may rocolloet them. Lealled at your seat during the seasion, wile you was ranch engaged, and requested your signature. Your re- ply was, “That yor hi the work—lnew nothing of it. If yow gave your name it would be to oblige me, and entirely upon tho confidence you reposed in mo that it was alk right” * * * Very truly yours, EDWIN H. MORUAN, Tios. Joy Samuwan. This Mr. Morgan, we believe, was a member of the last Congress; and as such, what are we to think of his endorsing Helper’s infamous book to his friend Sherman as “all right?” And what is the value of such a defence as this to the confiding Mr. Sherman? Is he not #cul- pable confidence man? Andare not his friends, Who are ready thug to belp him into the Ne Leelee i A fire in this place at four o'clock this rsorning dostroy~ Speaker’s chair, the most sneaking of Northern doughfaces? Indeed, the Congresdlons? de- bates of the last few days, in both houses, have reduced the late blustering abolition republt- cu'8 leaders to a pack of cringing dougkafaces, and wu for the spoits. Pourmcnsss ar THE ConvesstonaL.—There bas been a great deal of noise lately about one Helper, or Helfer, whose name ap- pears as the writer or the compiler of an aboli- tion book—the « Impending Crisis.” The author was denounced as a thief in Congress, last year; by a Senator from North Carolina. It was there stated that he had robbed his master’s till, and run away from the State. This is not so remarkable an occurrence as to surprise anybody; but we own to being as- tonished when Missouri Clark, apropos to the Helper book, denounced Greeley as a thief. We are afraid that Mr. Clark was wrong. It is true that Greeley has been robbed very often, and that he is surrounded by thieves among his political associates; but we have always believed that Greeley him- self was thoroughly honest, and we believe 80 now. The philosopher's protégé, Helper, or Helfer, has had his skirts duly cleansed by the Tribune, which states, with characteristic niiveté, that the young man did take some three hundred dollars of his employer’s money, under the impresssion that it was the usual thing for shopmen to do. In this benighted state of mind he made tracks for Cali- fornia, where a miracle was worked upon him more surprising than the conversion of Paul on his way to Damas- cus. California is a great country—a wonder- ful country—celebrated for big lumps of gold, high mountains, great rivers, immense trees, and strawberries all the year round; but never till the case of Helper came up has it been con- sidered as so remarkable for its crop of morals as of bullion. But Helper not only got the bullion, but, mirabile dictu! he found a con- science as well, and paid back to his employer the money stolen from the North Carolina shop. We congratulate the philosophers of the 7ri- bune upbil thelr discovery of a new article of California produce. It beats any of the wonderful things of which we have heard as peculiar to the Golden State, and was worth a journey overland to see. ————— Ratification of Our Treaty with Mexico. New Oxtxans, Dec. 14, 1859, Vera Cruz dates of the 10th baye been'recoived. Tho steam corvette Brooklyn was expected to sail for New Orleans shortly, bearing the ratifled treaty. This stato- ment is entirely reliable. The Expected News from Europe. NON-ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. Sackvinix, N. B., Dec, 14—8 P, M. ‘There are as yet no signs§at Halifax of the steamship America, now about due with Liverpool dates of the 4th and Queenstown 6th inst. ‘NON-ARRIVAL OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN. Portianp, Dec. 14, 1859. ‘The weather is very inclement, and there is # driving suow storm, so that there is little chance of the Nova Sce- tian’s coming in to-night, even if she is off the harbor. ‘The Anglo Saxon left St. Johns at noon to-day for this port. She will sail for Liverpool on Saturday. The Convicted Harper’s Ferry Conspi- rators. AFFECTING INTERVINW BETWEEN COOK AND HIS RELATIVES—PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION. Crariastown, Va., Dec. 14, 1859. ‘The town is filling up with strangers to witness the exe. _ cutions which are to take place on Friday. The syutem: _ of excluding citizens adopted at John Brown’s execation || is not to be repeated. Governor Willard, of Indiana, accompanied by Mrs. Crowley, of New York, sister of Cook, and Hon. D. H. Voorhees, Attorney General of Indiana, arrived yester- day and visited Cook. The intervtew with his sister was | most affecting. Tater in the day Dr. Staunton and wife, of Indiana, and Miss Hughes arrived. Mrs. Staunton isa sister of Cook, and Miss Hughes a cousin, They also _ visited the prisoner, presenting a scene of grief and = | anguish scarcely to be described. They promised to see | him again, but through the advice of Governor Willard |] each wrote him a few farewell lines, and all the ladies 7 then left for their homes, the male relatives designing to remain with him to the last. 9 Arrangements have been made to have the body of Cook taken to New York for interment. Some of the relatives of Coppie are expected to arrive — to-day. ‘His body will be taken to his mother, at Spring- The bodies of Green and Copeland, it is thought, wilt | not be claimed. If they are not they will be decently in- |) terred near the gallows. i ‘The prisoners were quite cheerful this morning,and are now making religious preparations for death. Cook was much cast down after parting with his sisters, but is now perfectly calm and collected, awuiting his doom. —_______. The Central Railroad. Ammany, Dee. 14,1869. An election for Directors of the Central Railroad was held to-day. The old Board were re-elected by a uuani- mous vote. The proceedings of the stockholders passed. off entirely harmoniously. Two reports aro out—one from the Direetors, and one from the committee of steck- holders—both showing the prosperous condition of the company. The Board of Directors of the New York Central Rait- road Company, at their meeting this afternoon declaroé a dividend of three per cent for six months, ending 31st of January next, payable the 20th of February. The Sehooner Alice Lee Ashore, Sqvan Bracn, Deo, 24, 1859: ‘The schooner Alice Lee, Captain Foster, from Boston for Philadelphia, in ballast, is ashore two miles. south of Squan. She is on the top of the bedch, and tight. Eleetion ef United States Senator by the Texas Legislature. New Orrxans, Dec: 14, 1858, Tho State Legislature of Texas have elected Mr. WigfaH, regular demeerat, United States Senator by two majority. Meeting of the State Canvassers. Ausany, Dec, 14, 1869. The Board of State Canyassers assembled this morning ‘and adjourned till the afternoon. Sailing of the Europa for Liverpool. Boston, Dec. 14, 1859. ‘The steamship Europa sailedat noon, with sixty pas- sengers for Liverpog! and ten for Halifax, but no. specie. —_—_——— The Weather in Boston. Bostox, Bec. 14, 1869. A severe snow storm, With strong aorthoasa wind, com- moneed here this afternoon. Fire in Seneca Falls. Skyroa Fairs, Bec. 14, 1880. ed the old Mechanics’ Hull aad twelve buildings, Loe not less than $50,000, but mostly covered by insurance. Italian Opera in Philadelphia. Pairapgreaia, Dec. 14, 1960 A brilliant and crowded audience assembled ah the Academy of Music this evening to hear Patti in‘‘.a Son- nambula.”” She was greeted with loud applause on ber ‘appearance, aad her singing and created the; Greatest enthusiasm. She will appear in in the opera on Fri Li ‘The threatened close of the here at the end of the week causes much disappointment i Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Sieh ree Doo, 14) 180%, Stooks quiet. Pennsylvania State 5's, Toad, 20%; Morris Canal, 60; Long Island Railroad, 11 Pennsy!vania Railroad, 37. earlaccil Corn firm at Cotton—Sales to-day 4 middling. Sales of three same time, 26,000 bales. Liverpool. ’ Kxchange on New exchange $ a 8; per cent. \ © today 1,760. bd paren, Doo, V3, 18 Cottop—3s » al sufthr but changed pri