The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1860, Page 4

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Rn na nares Taam Hew York, Saturday, Jaunary 31, 1860, The Circassian ariived day, from Galway, with ne two days inter. rndecided if the Enro- pean Copgress won!d asscinple. England, it was thought, wished {o settle the Itelian quesfion with: out one. Marshal McMahon is to command the French army in Italy. Consols rated at 95} a 953 for movay, an the 7th inatans, in Tendon Gettan was steady and breadstoffs quiet. ‘The mails of the Anglo-Saxon reached this city last evening from Boston. We publish a very significant article from the London Post, the gov- ernment organ, on England’s hopes of regaining her power on the American continent by means of the “irrepressible conflict,” with other interesting extracts, and a very important letter from our cor” respondent in St. Petersburg, relative to the new system of rule likely to be inaugurated in Italy by the Congress of Paris. The Pope's letter on his present position is aleo given. Advices from Venezuela, dated at Laguayra on the 24th ult., state that in the provinces of Carac- cas and Cuvialobu there remained some parties who had committed varions assassinations and set several houses on fire. All the valleys of Barli- vento were in a state of pacification. The elections continued ingll the provinces, and it was thought the new Congress would be installed in February or March. By the bark Venus, Capt. Atkinson, arrived at this port yesterday morning from Curacoa, we learn that the yellow fever was prevailing among the troops. at that place. The Venus lost one man by the dis- ease, and left in the hospital there three others sick. Our Havana correspondent, writing on the 15th inst, states that there was a good deal of bad feel- {Dx existing in official circles relative to the conclu- sion of the McLane-Ocampo treaty in Mexico. The United States steamer Mohawk left Havana fora cruize on the 14th inst. Silas Dailey, an American, had been stabbed and robbed in the streets of Havana. By the brig Alma, Capt. Brown, we have dates from Nassau, N. P., to the 11th inst. A general elec” tion for members of the House of Assembly took place on the several islands between the 20th and 25th December, which resulted ina majority against the government. Our reports from Washington are interosting, The Senate was not in session yesterday. The House wis engaged in a protracted discussion upon political matters, amid unusual confusion and up- roar, bothon the floor of the House and among the spectators in the galleries. In the course of the debate Mr. Sherman, the republican nominee for Speaker, delivered a speech explapatory of his po- sition, in which he said he would never explain at length his views with reference to the Helper book antil the resolution declaring the endorsers of that volume unfit to be Speaker was withdrawn. Mc. Clark, the mover of the resolution, asserted his intention to persist in pressing the resolution alluded to. There was much bad feeling manitested through- out the session, and the House finally adjourned till Monday. Realf, Oid Brown's Secretary of State, has ar- rived in Washington, and will be examined before the Senate Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee to-day. Some important revelations are looked for, as it is understood he will unreservedly confess all he knows respecting the foray of Brown. Sub- poonas have been issued for Giddings, Lawrence, Sapborn and others, and it is said that probably Senator Wilson will be called on to testify before the committee, Despatches from our Minister in Mexico have been received at the State Department. He re- ports no change of importance in the aspeet of affairs. Several subjects of importance were acted on by the Legislature yesterday. In the Senate bills were reported relative to division fences, to the satisfaction of judgments, to cutting ice in the Hudson river,aad various local object Among the bills Introduced was one enlarging the powers of Courts of Oyer and Terwiner, and establishing a Board on Pardons; .also one relative to unclaimed deposits in savings’ banks. The dill to compel at- tendance of wituesses hefore municipal committees was passed. The bill relative to legal holidays, after detiate, was ordered to a third reading. The remainder of the session was devoted to debate on the Govervor’s meseage. In the Assembly, a re- consideration of the vote refusing 8 Special Com- mittee on Prohibition was moved and debated. It was finally decided, instead, to add two more members, Meoare Cook and Maxson, to the Excise Committee. Bills were reported to amend the Navi gation act and to authorize the purchase of land at Sing Sing, prison. Billa were passed to close a street ‘im’ Brooklyn, and to amend the New York City Railroad act. Numerous local bills were in- troduced. We refer-to our reports aud special despatches for particulars. ceo a teres the expenses of the city and county of New York for the current year, as agreed upon by the Common Oouncil,are as ful- lows:— © t Johns, N.F., yester- to the 7th instant, We publish eleewhere an interesting réport of the proceedings before the committee of the Legis. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY lature on the bill introduced in the Senate making it a misdemeanor to charge more than one cont ferriage for crossing the East river, between Bridge treet aad Red Hook point, Brooktyn. It will be ceen thatthe fiaancial affairs of the Union Ferry Compeny ere pretty thoroughly overhauled. The cotton market was ‘excited yesterday, whito the wales embraced 7,100 bales, including about 4,500 ia traneit Prices closed at a furthor advance of 3/0. per ib., making the whole improvementthis week equal to %o. por db., or $1 68% per bale, We now quote miidling upiands ‘tll c., in store, whilo middling New Orleaas sold at 11Ko., in transit, with freight at 9-164. Flour was heavy, and eales moderate, while the lower grades, iacluding Southern, were rather easier, Wheat was drmiy hold, while salos wore light, the ebief sale being Chicago spring at$l 20. Corn was lower, with salos of yellow Jorary and Southern at 8Co. a Sic., and Southern new white at 80. a 820,; old white do. was held at 850. a 90c. Pork was Ormer, ‘with gales of mess at $16 373¢ a $16 50 for old, aud new do. at $17 3734, with prime at $11 623;, and $1170 for 014, and $13 for now. Sugars were loss active, but stoady, with pales of 300.2 400 hhds. at rates given elsewhere. Coffee was firm; the sales embraced 1,600 bage Rio, 60 do. St. Domingo, and 600 bags Java, at rates given in another place. Freight engagemonts were fair, cepocially for Liverpool and London, at steady rates. The Struggle for the Spoakership—The Real Question Before the Country. The recent developements made by the diecussion in the House of Representatives, and more especially those which appeared in the debate of last Thursday, present the strug- gle for the Speakership in 9 more important light than that in which it has previously been viewed by the country at large. By that de bate it appears that a number of the national and conservative members have mutually pledged each other, in writing, to resist the adoption of the plurality rule to the bitter end. That is, these forty and odd members, repre- senting one-fifth of the whole number of Repre- sentatives, mutually promise and vow to each other, and to the country, that if Congress should remain unorganized until next Novem- ber, or even up to the time when it is dissolved by law—the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one—they will never agree to the adoption of the plurality rule, whereby John Sherman, or any other candidate for Speaker of the same stripe, may be forced upon the majo- rity. That this determined opposition to the adoption of the plurality rule will be intensi- fied as the session proceeds is a matter of cer- tainty, for it is only now that the country is beginning to be aroused as to the real merits of the contest going on at the federal capital. Let us examine the case. On one side stand the black republicans, absolutely in a minority vf tha Houxe Thay hava nnt forward as a candidate for Speaker a man who holds, and endorses under his own signature, theories and doctrines which, if carried out, can have only one result—the dissolution of the Union and the dismemberment of the’ confederacy. On the opposite hand there are the conservative members of all parties, having in themselves the control of the House. These members re- cognise to the fullest extent their responsibili- ties. They know that this election is a matter of more consequence than the mere question of who shall sit in the Speaker's chair, and what clique shall control the spoils of the House, ‘The question is. not so much who shall be Speaker of the House, but who shall be the next President of the United States, and, indeed, whether or not there shall be another Presi- dent—whether or not the States of this Union shall continue to be united. Knowing all these things, and being fally aware that the country looks to them to restore peace and harmony between the States, to revive trade and to sup- press the present agitation, the conservative members have bound themselves by an agree” ment, which is perfectly fair, legal, parliamen- tary, and eminently patriotic. It is one in which they will be sustained by patriotic men of all parties. The only argument thatcan be brought to bear against this noble and determined stand taken by the opponents of the plurality rule is that the precedents of the House are against them. But the cases of Messrs. Cobb and Banks are not at all like that of Sherman: When the two gentlemen beforementioned were elevated to the Speaker’s chair there was no vital question, no all-important issue before the country. The election of Speaker was then merely a ques tion of the spoils. Now the case is quite different. The black republican leaders, from Seward down to Colfax, have endorsed the bloody, brutal and revolutionary doctrines ad- vocated in the odious and infamous Helper book. The sentiments expressed in that vo- lume form their real platform. The deolara- tion of principles upon which they conducted the last Presidential campaign, the platforms put forward at Saratoga, Pittsburg and Phila- delphia were, after the manner of honey, used to catch political flies. Their real sentiments are expreseed in the Helper book, the philoso- phy of which is that the non-slaveholding whites of the South should assist the negroes in obtaining their freedom, by any means, fair or foul. Mr. Seward’s Rochester manifesto was a philosophical echo of the theories of Helper’s book. It received a practical exem- plification in the recent raid of John Brown into Virginia. And it appears now, by the tes timony of the Chevalier Webb, that the leaders of the republican party wre more deeply ia- volved in the publication of the Helper book than was previously imagined. It is now stated that the work was absolutely prepared under the superintendence of Galusha A. Grow, who appended the names of several members of Congress to a certificate endorsing it. Some of the republican members are now endeavoring, in a round-sbout way, to shuffle out of the responsibility they have incurred by this endorsement; but the beat and most conclusive proof that can be offered agajnst them is af- forded by their own course. Not one of them has the pluck to rise in ‘his place in Congress and disavow the treasonable sentiments em- bodied in the book under consideration. Under all these circumstances we must ap- prove fully, and commend highly. the course pursued by the organized opponents of the plurality rule. The question is not merely whether Mr. Sherman or some other member shall be Speaker of the House. So far as Mr Sherman's private character is coacerned, it may be that he ie as reputadle a candidate as his’ party can find ia Uivic ranks. The question is one purely impersonal. It is the begiaaiog of @ great struggle, which involves the pre servetion of the Uuton of these States under the constitution, It 1 an incident ia and te commencement of the Presidential elec Won.. The House of Representatives is avw absolutely and. positively decidtug that con test, nominally to be eetiled by the people next November. Tu the result of that election is Involved the futé of the republic. It isa contest of principles, not of men, It is a matter of small consequence who are: the “candidutes’ for Speaker or for President; and this fact makes the issue one of the most im- portant that baa ever been presented to any nation. That question and that issue is whe- ther or not the Union, cemented with the blood of our fathers, shall stand—whe- ther or not the rights of the sove- reign States, guaranteed to them by solema compacts, shall be respected—-whether peace, prosperity and happiness, or anarchy, blood- shed, insurrection and civi] wat shall reign within our bordere—whether the North Ameri- can republic shall maintain its proud position among the vations—no star obscured, no stripe obliterated from its flag—or whether the fair edifice, now just assuming” its full grandeur and glowing in the first freahness of ite youth, eball be destroyed by a handfull of traitors and fanatics. These are the questions involved in the struggle for the Speakership. And, considering their vital importance to the nation, and view- ing the attitude of Shermanand other endorsers of Helper and John Brown in Congress, we are quite satisfied that every gocd citizen will join with us in applauding the action of the conservative members, and in urging them to resist the plurality rule to the end, and in wishing them God-speed in their efforts to stsy the tide of treason and fanaticism which the odious teachings of Seward and his associates have rolled over the land. Rapid and Extraordinary Increase in the Circalatton of the Herald All Over the Country. Py For the last few weeks the circulation of the Herarp has been increasing in the South with s rapidity as singular as it is unprecedented. In the progress of this journal, great as has been its success, nothing has before been wit- neesed like it. We know of no way of account- ing for the fact other than by the gratuitous advertising recently given to it by Congress and the abolitionists. Both seem to have taken our interests into their especial safe keoping, and to have promoted them with a zeal and an energy which are making themselves sensibly felt. In the great West the increase in the ciroula- tion of our paper has been equally rapid and extraordinary. The orders that have been pouring in upon us for some weeks past show that there are fresh influences at work there besides the usual ones which create the de- mand for a leeatng political journal. The fact 18, wae «ue black republican organs are doing all our advertising for us in that region. By accusing us of furnishing brains to the democratic party, of preventiog the organization of the House by opposing the election of Sherman, of breaking down ad- toinistrations and setting up administrations, of disposing of the city of New York at our indi-. vidual will and pleasure, and of doing fifty other things which imply more than sovereign power, they have stimulated a curiosity, the effects of which are telling upon our business returns in the most agreeable and satisfactory way! Not content with puffing us in this indirect manner, the party seem bent in their conventions (a8 at Rochester and Auburn), ‘upon giving increased currency to our journal by eulogising the superior accuracy of its.re- ports, and thus rendering its perusal a matter of indispensable necessity in the present ex- cited and agitated state of the public mind. We are not vain enough to suppose that these results have been calculated on the part of their authors. Neither, it may be: have the further consequences to they must lead occurred t6‘them, They hate merely acted from those wild instincts which of late seem to have governed all their proceedings, and which have led them into so many singular and fatal blunders. If they had any sense they ‘would have seen that the large addition which they are making to our circulation in the West must change the current of abolitionand black republican feeling in that region, for by having presented to them sound and forcible views of the issues upon which the fate of the Union now hangs, its people will soon be convinced of the madness of giving their support toa faction which is avowedly bent on its destruc- tion. The fruits of the opportunities of cor rect information which are thus opened to them will, we confidently predict, make themselves manifest in the extinguishment of the hopes of the republican leaders throughout that section of the country in the Presidential election. Corporation Corrvurtion anv CoRPoRATIoN Exoquenxce.—The streets of New York at this moment are the dirtiest in the world; but there are some things in this city still dirtier than the streets; and those are the tongues of the members of the Common Council. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Thars- day night, the public were treated to a speci- men of vulgar language and opprobrious epi- thets rarely to be heard outside of the vilest dens in this city. The subject of this language was the Editor of the Heratp, who was de- nounced as a “murderer,” a “black-mailer,” “monster,” and such other things, This is a specimen of the flowery eloquence of the Cor- poration of this great imperial city—the metro- polis of the republic—the wonder and admira- tion of the Old World—which hes been des- cribed as a more marvellous work than the py- ramide of Egypt, or than Babylon inthe days Of its glory, as deacribed by Daniel. From the past words and deeds of the New York Corpo- ration, it is not to be wondered at that their tongues are dirtier than the streets. :? . Touching the statements we made.relative to the corruption of the last Commom Counoil, we only repeated what had been said before the election by the Evening Post, the Tribune and the Times, about some of its members, whose names these journals gave; and yet with these allegations before the public, several of these men were elected to the present: Common Council. The affidavits and statements pouring in upon us now every day we shall reserve and hand over to the Investigating Committee of the Board of Aldermen, whenever they are ready to receive them, and let. them take what action they please. But we undefstand that information is being coileciéd and. pre- paration made in avother quater to lay’ the management of the late Pourporatiod be- fore the Grand Jury, andvit is very jikely that the eloqnent individual who made euch a’ choice display of language on Thursduy night will have an opporiaoity of veatila ing hi- oratorical powers ia wnother place Desidee the Aldermanic chamber. We understand that one of the @ify paper- hea deen brow-beaten by the Corporation into dismissing one of its editorial costributors, whose writings, it appears, did not suit the taste of) the Common Council} The Corgiora- tion are mistaken, however, if they fancy thas they can frighten or buily us into employing any assistants to please their views, or dismiss apy at their will, as long as they faithfully per- form their duty. We believe that the Investi- gating Committee intend to commence opera- tions next week. Let us again remind them that the most important witness they oan summon is the Distriot Attorney, and let him be care- fully enjoined to bring all his papers before them. The Agitation im the South and the Dis- organisation of the House—Phoir Sad Fruits te Northorm Interests. We give in another column an important letter from Senator Clay, of Alabama, on the pending question of the day, and the rights and duties of the Southern States in relation to it. The journals and leaders of the abolition- ized republican party are endeavoring to hood- wink the people of the North as to the real importance of the question which is agitating the country, from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexi- co, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and to the inevitable result which its decision must bring to every interest in the North as well as in the South. That reeult will be the restoration of peace and confidence, if the policy of equal protection to the rights of all is established as the policy of the federal go- vernment; but if the aggressive tendencies of the blackrepublican party prevail, then will come to the industrial, commercial and material interests of the Union that division into North- ern and Southern sectionalism which has al- ready divided the churches and the political parties of the land. When this is accomplished civil war will not only be at hand, but it will be irrepressible in its coming. It is this oon- viction that is at this moment preventing the organization of the House of Representatives, by banding together the members of the South in sufficient numbers to prevent by all proper and parliamentary means the passage of the plurality rule, which would be equivateat io the election of Sherman fer Speaker. And they are right, perfectly righi, in so doivg. The question for them is a question of life or death for Uaemsel¥ts, their wives, sisiera and children, and for the entire social fabric oi the Southern States. For five and tweaty years & few fanaties in the North have been advocat- ing the adoption of their abstract and ill-con- sidered notions, as the guiding policy of go- tweety im defianca af avary nrincinla of logical right and existing ties and interests in society. They have preached a crusade of the most bigotted, violent and destructive kind, against Southern men aad the institution of slavery in the South. They have characterized the social organization in those States as “the sum of ell villanies.” Every crime in the decalogue has been justified if committed by a slave. Theft, arson, murder, rebellion and massacre have been counselled and abetted and glorified when the perpetrator was a negro. These theories have now been takea up by Seward, endorsed by Sherman and sixty seven of his companions in Congress, and endeavored. to be put in practice by John Brown. It may be and it may not be true that the practical operations at Harper’s Ferry came a little sooner than the black republican party and its leaders desired. Some of thom, but not all, and not even the majority, hesitate to claim John Brown as their apostle, martyr and saint, and aseert that they desire to destroy the South and its institutions only through and by the law. It matters little whether they attain their end by wresting the law to their purposes, or by defying the law, as several of the black re- publican State Legislatures have done in the case of the Fugitive Slave law. The results will in either case be the same. The South must defend its rights, its interests, its pro- perty and the lives and homes of its people. It must resist the efforts of the abolitionists to obtain control of the law making power; and the first step in this resistance is to prevent the election of Sherman as Speaker, who has piaced bis hand and seal to the bloody counsels of Helper, and now refuses to withdraw them upon a simulated point of honor, and only as part of a bargain by which he hopes to obtain office and power. In times of great public danger there is no point of honor, nor any bargain thirst with the true patriot. The love of the common weal overwhelms all scruples and all desire for compensatfon. But the election of Sherman, by whatever means obtained, can only increase the popular agitation in the South, and augment the danger to every Northern interest. The industrial and commercial separation between the North and the South will receive from it a mighty impulse, It will begin by the cessation of the use of Northern luxuries, to be followed by the stimulus of home production and direct impor- tation of necessaries, and the demand of specie for the cotton, sugar and tobacco which North- erm industry and Northern needs must obtain from the South. Such action as this, even though only partial in the South, if carried on for twelve or eighteen months, will break down the entire edifice of Northern credit and labor. Our banks will be drained of their specie, and their loans and discounts be neces- sarily contracted to panic point; our manufac- turers will be preseed by the twofold difficulty of obtaining their customary peduniary facili- ties on one side, and the evils of a diminished market on the other. The tide of trade that now pours along our canals, railways and rivers would Jessen greatly in extent, and the reward of labor and of capital would be diminished in every home. These are the practical and truthful results that must attend a long continuwnce of the present abolitionized black republican agitation and effort. Let the honest men of the Norih reflect that the war which Seward, Helper, Sherman, and the ex- ample cf John Brown, are preaching, is a war against the lives, homes and dearest interests of the men of the South, and then ask them: elves the question as to what would be their couree in cage a similar vituperative, aggressive and destructive war were anywhere preached against them. Tre Coxviict iy Wasuincron.—The pra- ceedings in Congress yesterday were interest- ing, particularly as they related to the colto- quy between Mr. Sherman, the black repubti- van cundidate for Speaker, and Mr. Clark, of Missouri, the mover of the Helper resolntions. Tr appears by the proceedings that Mr, Sher- man is now anxious, in view of the new tara »affairs bave taken in the House, to make an ex planation of his views on the Helper book; 21, 1860. a ee | but he will not do #0 unless Mr, Clark with | connteion Betweom the Albany Regemey @tawe\bis resolutions, which Mr. C. has de- olared be.will never do. The asia point of the proceedings is, however, & very curious ene, inasmuch as Mr. Sherman says that when he dis- covers that his name stands as a barrier to an organization be will retire from the field. Con- grees has now been in session eight weeks, and up to this time Mr. Sherman has been the only republican candidate for Speaker, and despite of the pumerous votes which have been taken, there has been io one elected to that office. Can he longer doubt that he is an obstacle in the way of an organization, and that he ought to retiret We shall see. The Republicans in Comgress Cornered by Thurlow Weed’s Tactics. The programme which the republican mi- nority in Congress are so persistently aud factioualy following out is one which was laid down in this city inst August. It was con- cocted by Thurlow Weed, Haskin, Forney, and Sherman himself, and the agreement entered ‘into was that Sherman should be Speaker, Forney Clerk of the House, and Sam Bowles, or some such person, Printer. The republicans not only anticipated a mejority, but even hoped te secure, substantially, a coalition of all of the opposition elements in the House of This was, however, before the raid of John Browh into Virginia, and be- fore the signification of the Helper pamphlet had become generally understood. If Brown's invasion bad not taken place, or had been deferred a few months, there is little doubt that the immediate ends of Messrs. Weed, Forney and their friends would have been gained, and Congress have been at once organized, under their auspices. A solid groundwork would thus have been laid for Mr. William H. Seward’s nomination to the Presi- dency. Helper’s pamphlet would have pro- bably escaped notice for the time, or have been regarded as the mere abstractions of a fanatic. The logical as well as chrono- logical order, however, in which the “irrepres- sible conflict” speech at Rochester; the wide dissemination of the “Impending Crisis,” ander the auspices of eix'y-eight members of Con gress, and the niurderous foray at Harper's Ferry, succeeded each other, made it evident that they were ull alike parts of the some prac- tical scheme of treason. The eyes of the coun- try were opened, and the success of Weed’s combinations of last summer rendered an im- possibility. Nevertheless, the republican mombera of the Eruuse ur Kepresentatives, mindless of changed circumstances, have been instructed not to abate from their iostructions one jot, not even to adopt any new plan of battle, but to adhere to the very crudest stupidities in political en- gineering. By this course they have more and more deepty each day identified the entire re- publican party with the John Brown slaughters, and their more moderate friends in the North are becoming terrified at being justly held re- sponsible for such acts, The democrats see this; so do all of the conservative, national men in Congress; and they have, therefore, with Great foresight and wiedom, nailed their own colors to themast. At the same time they com- pel their adversaries to remain in an unfortu- mate, disgracefal attitude, where they are be- coming the scorn and laughing stock of all who despise bad and inefficient generalship. Had the republican leaders comprebended their position they would have instantly changed front, after the outrage upon Virginia and the South had been committed, Sherman and all of the endorsers of Helper’s book would have been dropped, and, with the tact that the occasion required, Gilmer or Hick- man, or some such man, would have been put into the Speaker's chair by an overwhelmiug majority. They would then have had controi of all of thecommittees, and could have forti- fied themselves impregnably by searching work through investigating committees into the endless series of frauds, peculations and robberies which have disgraced the various de- partments of the federal government under de- mocratic administrations. The issues before the country would have been changed, and they would bave attained a field of action where they conld have combatted with nearly a certainty of victory. . Such miserable leadership would be inexpli- cable, excepting on the supposition that Weed and Seward will allow no rivalry with their in- teresta in the republican party. It is,in fact, manifest that, divided as the republicans are with reepect to the relative claims of indi- viduals for the Presidency, the factions existing in their ranks would more than overthrow Mr. Seward if they were permitted to become united. And this Mr. Seward’s friends are fully cetermined to prevent, by adhering to the rule or ruin policy with which his name is identical. They are resolved that either Mr. Seward sball be the next President of the Uni- ted States, or that the party to which they be- long eball be broken into fragments. This is the true explanation of the false position of the re- publicans ia Congress, and of the moral as- cendency, becoming daily more invincible, of their national opponenta. = Iwportast From Evrorz.—The Circassian which arrived at St. Johns yesterday, has bronght us two daya later intelligence from Enrope. The news thus received is suggestive and sigzificant in three points of view. First, we have the confirmation of the retirement of Count Walewski from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs; next, the appointment of Mar- shal McMahon as the Commander-in-Chief of the army of Italy; and, though last, not least, the threat of the Sardinian government to send troops into the Legations if the Pope in- sists on enlisting German recruits into his service. These facts, taken in connection with the speech of the Emperor on New Year’s day— aepeech very much like that made a few days after his famous remark to Baron Hubner on the same day twelve months ago—together with the sudden retirement of Count Walewski, after having made a declaration to the foreigu Ministers that the pamphlet entitled “The Pope and the Congress” should not form 4 portion of the foreign policy of the French government while he was at the head of the Ministry, iadi- cate the settled purpose of the Emperor to carry out the plans shadowed forth in ‘that pamphlet, which, in fact, he now virtuwNy endorses. ‘ There three points, with the sudden visit of Lord Cowley to London, seem to indicate that Nopoleon ia not going to back out of the posi- tion be has _areumed ia regard to the Pope dad Italian uffairs. The facts are highly signifewnt, and should be carefully watched. and the Almighty Nigger. We congratulate Confidence Cassidy, Cagger awd Company, who sold Governor Wise's pate vate letter for twenty pleces of silvet—we” congratolate the Iscariots of the. that they have found a valuable alliance fa thelr assaults on the positions of Ciraries 0’ touching the question of slavery. It te tree they had already worthy allies in the 7hidues, the Times, the Post, the Courier and Bngwire;, and the whole republican party; but they Rage now astill more congenial and powerful ally in the niggerdom of New York. The Africans. here, from the blackest jet to the faintest amd most sickly whity-brown, have endorsed the Regency, and are brought up in force by thelr leaders to sustain its attack on Mr. O’Conor. The niggers are the reserve corps of the Re- gency, and no doubt by their tremendous ea- set the strong positions of the national deme- cracy will be carried by storm, and their leader, Charlies O’Conor, be put hors de combat, This alliance is a natural one. The Regeney, in 1846 and 1847, were the first to introduce the nigger into the democratic party in this State—the first to put forth Presidential ticket containing the Wilmot Proviso, by which Gene ral Case, the regular demoeratic candidate, was defeated. Thesplit thus created inthe party has never been thoroughly healed, and its comse- quences, in disunion, division and disorganisa- tion, are painfully felt at this moment. It was only in keeping with its antecedents for the Regency to support for Mayor of New Yerk Mr. Havemeyer, in opposition to the candidate of the national democracy. For Mr. Have~:’ meyer was one of the free soil bolters of the Buffalo Convention, and his name stood high om the ticket of Presidential electors for the anti-slavery candidate in 1848. Charles O’Conor was one of the most prominent mea on the national side at that time, and it is bes consistent in the Regency to assail him now when he occupies again the same ground he did in the former struggle for ascendancy between the worshippers of ghe almighty nig- ger and those who have some respect for white men’s rights and liberties. On Thursday evening a mass meeting of the colored men of New York came to the resoae of the Regency, and, to do them justice, theie logic was more cogent and their language Mr. O’Conor is an Irishman. It was unfortunate he belonged to any race at all. If Charles O'Conor stood up in the wil of Ireland the He would take learned men, our clergy- a myer our accomplished mechanics, ear y % Dr. McCune Smith followed up the attack, but in a milder form than the clerical great gun. Then Stephen D. Douglass, who gave the Supreme Court of the United States a taste of his quality, pronounced Mr. O’Conor, im charity, “insane.” Next, ome Titus. said “Charles O’Conor was a snake, and had gone on his belly and licked the dust; the ungrate- ful wretch had come to this country, and had country; he knew they had found the man who had struck Billy Patterson.” Another gemman of color declared Mr. O'Comor “a skunk.” But the greatest onslaught of all was by Jere- miah Powers, an ebony fugitive from the same Southern State as Hinton Rowan Helper. He eaid:— Be did not think the game was worth the shot, Charles O'Conor did not express the views of us American citi- wens at the Academy of Music. H» was a professioval bar, and if be had not lied more successfu'ly than whom he followed bricklaying, be would probably have beca laying bricks now If Mr. O'Conor coiid only see the beautiful Irish women, with their black hosbands aad Carling litte babies, sir—(great Inughter)—it he coula throughout the country, aud flad the nice, beautiful Insh women, with some cf the biackest’ kind of busbsnds you ever saw, and their pics Intle carling babies, as dear to them as O'Conor's baby is to tim, Charles O'Conor might argue until the Academy of Muse fer to vpon him before he would make thise noble, beaa- tiful Irish women believe it. Ope speech of any oue of the principa} colored speakers would be sufficient to drive the damnable lies of Charles O’Conor like dew before the sun. The doilar was the moving power of this country. Tet @ nigger murcer a msn to-night, and take ten thoa- sand dollars to Charles O’Couor, he would take him to heaven by telegraph. Could the organ of the Regency say more, or say it better? But after this cutting to pieces of Mr. O’Conor’s arguments, together with a number of political quotations about Ireland, it turned out, as everybody in New York knows, that the unhappy victim of the Diack fusilade is not an Irishman at all, but was born in this city. An Irish abolitionist, a rara avis, named Walker, on the part of Ire- land, disclaimed him, whereupon it was pro. posed by one to send him to Virginia, and by another to purgatory. Mr. Downing, tho oys. terman, deprecated the idea of ‘‘castiog odiuas on the Irish adopted citizens,” who will feel highly complimented; but the president matn- tained that Mr. O’Conor was of Irish birth, aad Irishmen must face the music. We pity the Irish, and pity O’Conor, after this raking fire from the cannon of niggerdom. We fear he will never get to the National Democratic Convestion next April. But if, notwithetand. ing the numerous terrible wounds he has re ceived—every one of them almost mortdl—he should so far recover as to be sent’ as a dele- gate of the national democracy to Charlestoe, we have no doubt that the nigger-endorsed delegation of the Regency, should they make their appearance in that city, will be taken care of—every man of them safely lodged in the calnboose. ‘Taw Hevaox Riven Rangoap Accipsnt.—Wm. J. Goey, who waa badly injured, fs reported to be in a mach more. dangerous condition than was expected. He ig still at the Revere House, Tarrytown, and his physician from this city bas been telegraphed for to attend him. It is thought that be has received internal iajuries. Bishop MoCiosty remains at tho residelice of Father Hackett, Tarrytown, ‘but is £0 far recovered as to be able to leave for home to- dsy. The funeral of Mrs. Frelds takes piace at twolve o'clock to-day, from the reetdenos of her father, Blovming Grove, Washingtonville, Orange county, where Mer re- mains were conveyed on Tharsday afternoon. A large number of hor friends and these of ber bueband, left in the morning train to be present at the burial. ————_—_- 'The Voleano Mountain on the Banks of the Hudson, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. { noticed in your issue of to-My an wtrempt st an ‘egregious humbug in the shape of # deecr ition of & “vob ‘eapic croption” in Breakneck Mountain, in Pacuam coun: yh ¥. Ubave for the last twenty Years resided within a, shert distance ard ip sieht of the ovlebesied Broakneck Mountain, and bave never b:fore ‘yoard of @ yoiwano Ox isting within ‘ta granite bosom The “our? gor respoa- dent of = Troy sree fee De tor take more a sons iD marve ns Lat] atlom, to compare papaage of the care of the “sfudeon River brimnyiote 4 the Breakveck (unvel Win go grand a netusa ‘nom 68 8 volcanic Crap’ion, at one a ara