The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1860, Page 4

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De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of the Evrorxax Eprnow or mmm Hmritp ‘will combine the news veceived by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour ef | Publication. The News. Despatches from Mexico, received at the State Department at Washington, confirm the reports of the recent victories of the Liberals in that country The advices received from England favorable to’ the Juarez government, brightened the hopes of the Liberals, and they anticipated a complete suc- cess. The protest of Mr. McLane against the mas- sacre at Tacubaya had met with no response from Miramon. We have news from the West Coast of Mexico dated at Guaymas on the 17th of December, and a copy of the letter of Captain Porter, of the United States Navy, to Governor Pesquiera, on the subject of the late outrages committed both on our Con- sular flag and citizen residents in the town. The manly language of Captain Porter brought the Governor to his senses, and he subsequently visited the St. Marys in a very friendly manner. Pesquie- Ta meditated some extensive commercial and finan- cial reforms. The claim of Juan A. Robinson to American citizenship had been denied by Vice Consat Alden. The Edinburg, from Queenstown on January 5, arrived here yesterday morning. Although her news report had been anticipated by the Anglo- Saxon and Circassian, our files contain- some inte- resting extracts relative to the chances of the non- assemblage of the European Congress, with a sketch of the work to be done by the diplomats, ir they do meet, and other matters not heretofore published. Reports the Sandwich Islands are dated to the 6th of bi wwber. Mr. Neilson, Secretary to the King, was still in a critical condition, owing to his wound. Another guano island, named Williams Island, had been discovered, and the traffic of the new American company was very brisk. The ag- gregate of oil and whalebone bound for the United States would show a large falling offin the take of last season. A correspondent in St. Thomas, dating on the ‘31st of December, says:—The past month has been an unusually dull one in all branches of trade. We are fairly supplied with almost every article of import, there being no demand for export. Flour— Stock light. Meal—In barrels, wanted. Beef and pork—Good, wanted. Fish—Market overstocked with all kinds. The market is entirely bare of white and pitch pine. Freights—Very dull. The health of the island is good. Late accounts from Porto Rico are very en- couraging as regards the crops, which promise to be fair. There will be sugar ready for shipment early in February. We have advices from Puerto Cabello, Vene- guela,to January 10. The country still remains in & distracted condition, and fights between the con- stitutional troops and gangs of maranders were fre- quent. The crops in that section were indifferent, markets dull and produce scarce. Our special despatch from Albany informs us that the republicans are bestirring themselves in that city, busily preparing for the Chicago Conven. tion and arranging the State canvass for the Guber- patorial election next summer. The latter is found to be no ensy task, as the reaction caused by the John Brown affair has destroyed the harmony for- merly existing among the party. An interesting sketch of the life of Richard Realf farnished by our New Orleans correspondent, wil be found in our paper this morning. Realf, it wil be recollected, was old Brown's Secretary of State, and was last week under examination by the Senate Investigating Committee at Washington. The Rev. Dr. Cahill delivered an instructive lec tore at St. Mary’s Catholic church, last evening, on the “Word of God.” The church was densely crowded, and much interest manifested in the ser- vices by the audience. A report of the lectare is giren elsewhere. The cotton market on Saturday continued quite firm, with Bales of 3.500 bales, included in which were about 2,600 in transit. Prices for lots in store closed stiff, on the basis of 11 sc. for middling uplands. The foreign news depressed the market for flour, while it declined generally about 5c Per barrel for nearly all descriptions. There was a pause in Wheat, and sales were eo limited as to render quotations nominal, while hoiders demanded previous rates. Corn ‘was benvy, and gold at 80e. for Jersey and Southern rel ow, which wae deotine, but with rather more doing at ' | the concession. Pork wa higher, but got activa, with rales of old mest at $16 50 & $16 53, new do, at SLT 25 A $17 60, old prime at $i! 6256 & $LL 70, wad at $15 for new, Sugars were caster, and closed at Ye. per Ib, do- oltine tho week's sales for some doscriptioas. The transactions embraced 400 a 600bkds, Freights were steady, and engagements fair to Liverpool and London. The Presidential Eleetion—Who is to Decide Itt One of the most important points in the struggle which is now goiog on in Congress—~ nominally for the Speakership, but really for the Presidency—is the bold and determived attitude taken by the leadiog politicians of the South upon the question of secession, It has been adopted as 4 finality by the Southern ora- vors, that in the event of the election of a black republican candidate for President, endorsing the Helper book, which advocates interference with slavery as it existe in the States, disunion would be inevitable, and the South would con- sider itself forced to take steps to secede peace- ably from the confederacy. This doctrine has been promulgated in the House by several speakers representing all sections of the South. Mr. Clingman and other Senators have pro- claimed it in the upper branch of Congress, The Legislature of Louisiana holds to it, and all the popular meetings in the South endorse it. So far as can be ascertained from the Southern presses and politicians, the facts all go to show that the Southern people are, almost to a man, united upon this subject. The effect of this Southern sentiment has already been felt by the traders of the North; and as yet the whole matter is in its initiatory stages. Such, then, are the facts. The South pro- claims secession as its inevitable resort in the event of the election of Seward or any other candidate representing the doctrines of the Helper book and the Rochester manifesto. The black republican journals seize upon each new avowal made by the Southern representatives, and argue from it that it is the democratic, not the republican, or- ganization which is the party of disunion. And they attempt further to bully the South and to force the conservative citizens of the North into assisting them in their work. The South is to be whipped into submission. That is the plat- torm expressed in so many words by the Tribune, Albany Evening Journal and other abolition prints. Now let us see how this game will work. In New England, and some of the thoroughly abo- litionized Western States, it may answer; but they, unfortunately for Greeley, Seward, Weed & Co., who are now in a tremendous hurry to clutch the federal spoils, do not hold the ba- lance of power in their hands. That balance is in the hands of the people of the great Central States, where all the commercial, manufacturing and financial interests of the country centre. In these States there is a vast and busy popula- tion engaged in buying and selling all over the world. Their business transactions with the South are far more important to them than any political question whatever. In fact, they are too busy to pay any special attention to politics, and very rarely take the trouble to | vote. They are beginning, however, to loek at these matters a little more closely than before, and we believe that there is a gradual but steady reaction in favor of the South among our most influential business men. The effects of that reaction will not be felt until the Presi- dential election, when the democrats and black republicans will come into the field with their | full strength. That strength does not include | the floating or reserved’ vote, which may be es- timated at a million of electors. They take no active part in politics, are attached to no or- | ganization, and are not partisans, even in the | mildest sense of the term. But when the ques- tion is put to them as it is now presented by the South—no Union with a black republican President—they will come to the polls en masse, and vote for the preservation of the Union and against the Seward agitators. The question has been presented indirectly already, and the result has been against the republicans. In the present aspect of things they would be as badly whipped as the French at Waterloo. The floating vote would be given for any candidate to keep the Union together. In this state of the case we warn our republi> can cotemporaries against the very stupid course they aré pursuing in hammering away at this disunion idea) They are advertising and assisting their opponents’ plan of opera- tions, and helping to roll the stone against the door of their own political sepulchre. This cry of disunion and secession, forced upon the North by the black republicans, will most surely place the next Presidential election in the hands of the Southern democracy; and if the republican leaders cannot see it they aro greater fools than we take them to be. Ovr Desparcoes From Lawrmxcr — Aw Wantep For tHE Reuier Foxv.—We print to- day several interesting commanications from our correspondents at Lawrence and Boston, apropos to the recent calamity at the first named city. Our letters of to-day will be found especially valuable on account of the great mass of facts which they contain with regard to the mills at Lawrence, other than the Pem- berton, the wages, discipline, nativity, moral and religious condition of the operatives, and numerous other interesting facts collected on the spot. One of our special reporters has made a thorough examination of the milis which remain standing at. Lawrence; and with the exception-of one, which has been deserted by its operatives, and which, it seems, is like a reed shaken by the wind, the general im- pression seems to be that they are sound. Our correspondent prudently refrains from giving his own impressions, and we sub- mit his facts to the public. There are some significant facts in relation to the retirement of the Yankee girls from the mills, and the influx of foreigners, which change, it appears, is owing to the sew- ing machines, against which a great cry was raised at first on the ground that they would reduce the price of female labor. The Tesult has been exactly the reverse of what Was presumed by the old fogies. Our Boston correspondent shows up the fine old Boston gentlemen who control the corporations in no very enviable light. It appears from his secount that nothing adequate ‘to the emer- gency has been done by the Pemberton mill. From other sources it seems that the relief fund must depend chiefty upon persons who are in no way connected’ with the manufacturing interest. Twenty-five thousand dollars have already been sub: scribed, and as much more is wanted. In this ‘city about four thousand dollars have been re- ceived by the agent of the Mayor of Lawrence, NEW YORK HERALD, MON and considerable bund have beea remitted di rectly to-him., And now, a8 the rich manufac- turers of New England are not willing to bury their dead and take care of their wounded, we call on the metropolis—never backward in any good or charitable work—to contribute freely, Let every one contribute according to his meuns, sending donations, large or small, to Mr. John H. Watson, No. 106 Broadway. The Conservative Masses of the Country— The Irrepressibie Conflict Means Civil War in tho North, Mr. Hickman, in the zeal of his new conver- sion to the abolitionized black republicua party, undertook to handle a few statistics, and, be- sides bungling the figures, he drew from his pe. culiar arithmetic the deduction that, as the Northern States greatly exceeded the Southern States in their total population, if the latter undertook to find peace out of the Union the former would easily whip them into submis sion. This is one of the impudent declarations of the black republicans, who assume to be in possession of the eatire North, andable to carry it intact and united into the brutal and bloody conflict with the South promulgated by Seward’ preached by Helper, philosophically postulated by Theodore Parker, and practically inaugu- rated by John Brown. A few figures drawn from the census returns of 1850 and the Presi- dential vote of 1856 will demonstrate the utter fallacy of this assertion, and demonstrate that if the bloody conflict which the black repub- licans aim to excite should really occur, it will come in the shape of a civil war inthe Northern States, and not as a conflict between the North- ern end Southern sections of the Union. The republican party obtained in 1856 proba- bly as large an aggregate vote as it will ever obtain as a party. In that year the entire vote cast for Fremont was 1,341,514. Against Fre- mont two candidates were run, by parties neither of which will assimilate with the black republicans, and which together demonstrate the strength of the conservative feeling. Tho following table of the vote of the free States in that year shows the true condition of parties in the North :— CONSERVATIVE VOT! Buchanan. Fillmore... Total Northern conservative vote 1,621,027 Excess over Fremont’s vote. 279,518 In the Southern States the republicans had no ticket in 1856; and as the leaders of the par- ty have completely abolitionized it since then, the South has become united against it. The total conservative vote, therefore, stands as fol- lows :— TOTAL CONSERVATIVE VOTE IN 1856, Conservative vote in the free States. 1,621,027 Buchanan in the slave States, 611,880 1856—PREE STATES. 226, 226,852 394,675 Fillmore in the slave States. . 480,032 ‘Total conservative vote. 939 Fremont vote in 1856... {341,614 Majority of conservative vote. 1,871,425 These figures demonstrate the utter impossi- bility of the abolitionized black republican party becoming the controlling party in the Union; and we therefore need only to con- sider what would be their chances if, by their violent and incendiary course, they compelled the South to secede. Mr. Hickman, and not a few of his fellow disorganizers, brag that the North would whip the South back into the Union. To do this it would be necessary, not on)y that the black republicans should possess alarge majority in the North, where, as we have already shown, the majority. is now largely against them, but it will be imperative that the North shall be as united in pursuit of abolitionism as the South is united against it. The instinct of self-preservation, the domestic affections, the love of property, the” lessons of history, and a life-long practical knowledge of the capacity and impulses of the inferior race, form the Southern white people into a compact and firm union in defence of the existing social institutions there; and this union would find astrong support from the slaves themselves. Apart from the fear which all communities en- tertain of sudden and violent changes in mat- ters that affect the social relations and condi- tions of the people, there exist between the stave and his master in the South great and strong ties which those who contemplate slavery only through Northern spectacles know nothing about. There are the ties of mutual dependence which each feels in the daily incidents of life, the feelings of affection incident to a contiued intercourse from the cradle, and on the part of the slave a perfect relief from the fear of future want. The ope- ration of these ties was strikingly exemplified when Lord Cornwallis, during the Revolution- ary war, marched with a triumphant British army through the States of South and North Carolina and into Virginia, proclaiming free- dom to the negroes who would join his stan- dard. When the patriot forces were scattered or destroyed, the number of slaves that he was able to seduce was incomparably small in pro- portion to those who preferred to remain in slavery with their masters. What chance has the braggart Hickman to unite the North to imitate the British example of Cornwallis? None whatever. We have demonstrated that the Northern majority is opposed to bis ideas, and those of Seward, Helper, Sherman, Theodore Parker and John Brown. If the black republicans insist upon creating the irrepressible conflict they talk about, that conflict will come, not be- tween the North and the South, but in a civil war within the Northern States themselves. The true division between the parties lies here, and not in the South. The conservative majority in the Northern States must first be whipped into abolitionism by Hickman and his associates, before they will be permitted to deprive the Southern States of the rights of self government. We need not cite the many elements of interest and opinion they will have to overcome; but there is one element which ramifies through every Northern State which they have entirely for- gotten. The censns of 1850 shows us that there are now settled in the slave States more than two bundred thousand natives of the free States, whose interests are bound up in those of the South. These have their family ties still in the North; and the affections of parents, brothers, sisters and friends who stil] reside in the North- ern homes will form a powerful bulwark against the incendiarism of Seward, Helper, Sherman and Hickman. The subjection of the North to the destructive policy of the black republican party cannot be achieved by peaceful means. Before the North can march against the South, seceding under the instinct of self preservation, blood will flow in its own cities and fields; . the “irrepressible conflict” will break out here be- tween the conservative masses and the fanatical | sion of all the Southern States if the North pur- 1 em authoritatively informed that the statement of the * ‘followers of the! abollianists, | (Mr) Bickriaie bad better sce if bis own district is ready to fight, and Jobn Sherman would do well to learn the sentiments of the Thirteenth Congressional district of Ohio. The Politicians and Parsons and the NegrocsLo! the Poor African! Confidence Cassidy, Cagger & Co. undertake to assail Mr. O’Conor’s speech. This only proves that the barnburner of the Atlas has butchered, as might have been foretold, the hunker lamb of the Arqus. The politicians of the Buffalo Platform school only comprehend the word union in one sense, and that is, to kill or rule. Dividing nearly equally between the republican aud democratic parties, they con- trol the officers of State at Albany in one par- ty, and the sachems at Tammany in the other. When a straight-out barnhurner ticket, like that of Havemeyer and Tilden, is nominated, they raise a hue and ery, as if no two other honest men were to be found in Gotham. When, from motives of policy, they place in the field of their own volition a national Cass democrat, they do—as it is charged, without denial, Mr. Havemeyer did—vote secretly for a black re- publican. Whether in the republican or demo- cratic party, the game is the same and played with equal success—that is, to keep the old anti-slavery barnburner element in the ascen- dency, the old line whigs being served in the one like the hunkers in the other. This can, of course, only be kept up by either secretly or openly, as the case may be, pandering to the anti-slavery sentiment. This long continued course has resulted in effecting, to a certain degree, a timidity even on the part of the hunkers and old line whigs themselves, and as @ consequence the seeming perversion of public sentiment at the North—a consequence rather due to the silence and the cowardice of politicians than to the lack of sound judgment in the masses of the people. The truth is that not only abolitionists, but politicians of all parties, more or less openly, have assailed negro slavery as a sin per se—not only against the natural rights of man, but against the laws of God. Instead of meeting this false dogma as Mr. O’Conor has done, with a bold and manly denial, men professing to be patriots, statesmen, and even Union democrats, have admitted a proposition which, if true, should have closed their mouths forever, and consented to appear as humble apologists for a governmental sin against God’s laws and hu- man rights. What wonder, then, that after nearly a generation of this poltroonery we are reaping the fruits of the planting? Political abolitionism was firsttaken up by small dealers to catch a few scattering votes; it had after- wards prominence given it by being used asa rod of personal vengeance in a Presidential contest? It was set up by atheists and infidels, who, discarding God’s revelation, mist needs have some image—the more brazen the bet- ter—to worship. “Humanity” has proved good enough for several elections. Thereby certain weak brethren and sisters of the churches, wiser in their own opinion than their Master and St. Paul, after having broken up every religious denomination, ex- cept the Catholic, Episcopal and Dutch Re- formed, would rend asunder the bonds of our national Union. It has distracted and demo- ralized the democratic party, sent out of being the old whig party, brought into being and then dissevered the American, and given birth toa party now contesting for ascendency in the House of Representatives, and declaring “higher law” for ita guidance, and “irrepressi- ble conflict” for its action. It has resulted in the shedding of human blood and the swinging of deluded agents on the gibbet, while the principals kept out of harm’s way, and all be- cause cowardly politicians have allowed to run uncontradicted for years a dogma as false as it is opposed to all teaching and history, sacred as well as profane. No wonder that Confidence Cassidy & Co. quail. Mr. O’Conor has touched abolitionisnr in the raw. As to the 7ribune and the Evening Post, they are avowed abolitionists, and their raving is natural. s to the public at large, they will find out, if they have not already, that the whole of this anti-slavery crasade is merely policy with the scheming, a business affair with those who trade in it, a football for the politicians, an affectation for the brute who wishes to assume a virtue he has not, a religion tor the atheist, and pew rent for the parson who secks, like Beecher, Cheever and the ilk, revenues from politicians as well as from saints. Tae State or THe Ustoy—Pcptic Ortsrox Nort axp Sovrc.—In this day’s HeraLp we publish several letters from our special correspondents, describing the state of the Union, in consequence of the anti-slavery agitation, and public opinion and ita -ef- fects, both North and South. Every sign of the times forebodes approaching revyo- lution—either a bloody revolution of the most fearful nature, or a salutary revolution of public opinion—a revolution at the polls, which, like the thunder storm purifying asultry and uphealthy-atmosphere, will bring political serenity, health and repose to the country. One or other of these two revolutions must hap- pen. The indications from the South render it certain that unless a moral revolution take place at the North, a physical revolution will take place at the South, and the States at the other side of Mason and Dixon’s line will secede ia body. What our Richmond correspondent says of the Virginia Legislature is true of the South generally—that the lines of party are obliterated, and all are united in the common cause of State rights, defence of the South and retaliation upon the North. Already war is declared against Northern* commerce, and the manufacturers of New Eng- land are taking the alarm and recanting their republican opinions. But the question is, can they change the mass of the people? That is the knotty point to be solved. Will the self- interest of the manufacturers prevail over the fanaticiem of the rank and file of the republi- can party? We hope that in the Middle States a great reaction will set in like a flowing tide, and sweep the republican party high and dry en the beach, a stranded wreck. But whether the same result will follow in the New England States is very doubtful. ‘Thus the fate of the Union trembles in the balance between two revolutions—a revolution of force, and a revolution at the ballot box. . All depends on the action of the North. The South has already made up its mind, and there is no doubt or uncertainty about its intentions. As sure as to-morrow’s enn will rise and set, so sure wil] be the seces- DAY, JANUARY 23, 1860. bie its present course, and if there is not 4 com- plete political revulsion, at the North, Tiap de- termination df the South. is fixed, and it is xo longer a sééret of the future hat it will do. All we can say is what the doctors some- times say of a patient when alarmingly ill: there appears to be a slight change for the bet- ter, but not out of danger. If there be any Teal improvement, any convalescence in this case of political insanity, it is not of such a nature as to warrant us to rely upon a final re- covery, unless some more decided symptoms become manifest. But while there is life there is hope. , Secretary Reauy on rae Joun Brown Rarp.— Our special despatches from Washington yes- terday informed us that Realf, who was Brown’s Secretary of State, was examined before the Senate Committee on Saturday. Realf was Brown’s “ Secretary of State,” and, as a matter of course, is acquainted with minute details of his plans, and can say how far they were known to the leaders of the republican party. One fact he has already related, and that is that Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, wrote to Dr. Howe that he (the Senator) had learned from Forbes that Brown intended to use the Kansas money for a raid into some of the Southern States; that Wilson denounced the attempt as an insane one—whereupon it was temporarily abandoned. Then it would seem that Brown, stirred up by the New England abolitionists, made his incursion into Missouri, carrying offsome fifteen or twenty slaves. The Harper’s Ferry affair occurred some months afterward. We allude particularly to this testimony of Realf, because it corroborates the Forbes’ cor- respondence, which was denounced by the republican presses as false and malicious. The Tribune and other journals of the same school declared repeatedly that none of the black republican leaders knew anything of the Brown raid. Since the Senate committee was raised the 7ribune has been more quiet, and we apprehend that the testimony of Realf, Sanborn and Howe will put a different com- plexion upon the inception of the Harper’s Ferry affair. When the testimony is all in it should be ‘Promulgated to the country with- out delay. We want the facts, and the Inves- tigating Committee offers the only method of getting at them. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. The Treaty of Commerce Between the United States and France—The Speak- ership—Dinner to William H. Seward— Affairs in Mexico—Troubles of the Mail Contractors—Postal Reforms—Arms to be Stationed South, dc., &c, OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. ‘Wasuincton, Jan. 22, 1860. ‘THE TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND YRANCE. ‘The instructions of Mr. Faulkner, Minister to France, having been completed, he left here to-day for his home in Virgivia; thence he will proceed to New York, with his family, and sail for Europe in a few days. Judge Mason, atthe time of his death, was carnestly endeavoring to Procure certain changes and modifications in the treaty of commerce negotiated between our government and France in 1822, and which it is well known operates un- justly and unequally towards our citizens, and which could, without doing injustice to either, be made to work more reciprocally. The duty on tobacco is not only heavy, but burdensome, and ought to be reduced. Frequent ef- forts to this end bave heretofore been made, and they will undoubtedly again be renewed and strongly urged by our Minister. ‘THE APRAKERSEIP, Various propositions have been talked over and discussed within the last forty-eight hoars, with a view of concentrating the elements opposed to Sherman, but, like all the former éfforts, they have failed. The Americans have been canvassing tho entire democratic side to see whether they could unite their forces upon such an one.* Gov. Winslow seems to be least objectionable, and it is very probable the ae- mocrats will give them an opportunity totry him. Larra- dee, of Wisconsin, is also mentioned. A majority of the Americans will gofor him. There is considorable talk of bringing John Cochrane forward. He is perfectiy accept- able to the South generally, and would receive a vote larger than apy name that has beon suggested. The republicans are determined to adhere to Shefman. ‘They have decided to change one part of their programme. They have heretofore remained silent, and refused to be drawn into debate. They will hereafter take part in de- Dates, and discuss issues before the country. Every effert has been made to-day to effect a union upon Larrabee, of Wisconsin. He is counted the only man who would carry all the Northwestern Lecompton and anti-Lecompton democrats, Most of the South Ame- ricans, it is enid, have agrecd to vote for him, because he announced to the House a few days since that he would vote for an American if it would prevent the republicans from electing. According to his own declaration, Larrivee represents more foreigners than any other member. This fact prevents some of the Americans, whose con stituents are bitterly hostile to foreign influence, from voting for him. . Kt is reported that all the Anti-Lecompton Democrats not voting for Sherman, expect Reynolds will vote tor Lar- rabee, but I have reason to doubt it. ‘There ie a report that if the Americans cannot make a coalition with the democrats upon Larrabee, that they Will then make an attempt to coalesce with the ropubli- cans upon Pennington or Corwin. Neither attempt seoms likely to succeed, but I think a movementis on foot which will produce a Speaker this week. 4 ‘On account of the refusal of the Clerk of the House to decide questions, a suggestion has been made by some of ‘the members to appoint a temporary Chairman until a Speaker is elected. Such an office would have uo other power above that exercised by the Clerk, excep! to decide questions, and thereby facilitate the election of a Speaker. DINNER TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD. A dinner was given to Mr. Seward at the National Hotel last evening, and was participated in by ex-Governors Pennington, Corwin, Bingham, Crittenden and Authony, and Senator Doolittle, and Representatives Colfax, Conk- lin and eight others. ‘THE TROUBLES OF THE MAL CONTRACTORS. Acontractor on one of the mail routes in Now York writes to the Post Office Department in a very touching and pitifel strain, saying thet for more than six months he has not received a cent of pay for ger- vices rendered the United States, although be has travelled within that time about twenty eight hundred miles. He says that his credit is xbausted, and he cannot get a dollar on the strength of his prospect frem the go- vernment, the people having lost all condense in pay from the department, and they advises him to abandon the route and go at something that will pay. Ho admits that Congrese may have failed to make appropriation, but that there is an abundance of money in the Post offices on bis route, which, by aa order trom the department, has hitherto been applied to the payment of contractors, and he fees no reagon why it should not still be the case. He Prays and supplicates for money to keep bim and his family from starving, and to procure clothmg to pro. tect them from cold, and ends by declarivg that unless help comes shortly, he must resign. This letter is only a fair spectmen of many which are daily crowded upon the Post Office Department. MOVEMENTS OF TROOF?, By special orders from the headquarters of the army at St. Louis, a detachment of sixty recruits has been ordered to leave Jeffereon barracks for Texas. The detachment of mounted rifics at Fort Albuquerque has been ordered to Fort Staunton, and adetachment of Third Jofantry, at the same poet, will proceed to Fort Maury. By special orders from headquarters of the army at San- ta Fe, New Mexico, in consequence of the great scarcity of corn, and high price of forage of every kind, rations for horees and mules have been reduced temporarily to ten pounds per day for horses and nine for males, and for the tame reaton Company K, of Mounted Rites, has been ordered from Fort Union to Fort Bisa. BRLPER'S NOOK. action. | Cyer and Chevalier Webb, quoted into Saturday's Henao, that the Helper’s pamphlet was prepared ander yb superintes denice of Mr: Grow, W thoorrect, fis Only farniared bie-ows Dame.’ ‘Mr’ Blalt, Sediée, "give ‘some’ direction’ Inthe Publication of the'work, whieh it i# aaid;were not stricNy” carried ont, and Edward D. Morgaa, ‘member'of the’) ‘Thirty -fifth Congress, procured some names to the rocoma- menéation. 4s . APPAIRG I MELIOD. : Official despatches have been received from Vera Cres confirming the newspaper accounts of victories fer the liberals. ‘The advices received there from England, favorable tp the recognition of the Juarez government, which is ex- pected soon to take place, have, together with Presidems Buchanan's recommendation relative to Mexican affhirs, heightened the hopes of the liberals of complete it will become sevessary to call for the aid of American troops in the contingency suggested by Mr. Buchanaa. A number of military men have written to Washiagten as to the truth of the report that the Juares government has invited volunteers from the United States, but there ia ‘DO official or any other authority to sustain it, nor woul they be accepted without the coneurrence of our goverm- ment. . The armed men who have gone, and others whe are preparing to go South, may have other schemes tm view, or be in expectation of a call for their services im Mexico, As the protest of Mr. MoLane against the Tacubays mas- eacre met with no response from Miramon, 80 the pretest Of the latter against the recognition of the Juares goverm- » - ment will receive no official notice from our own. ‘The official advices from Vera Cruz mention nothing about the coming of the French and Spanish fests. Looking to the present unsettled condition of Rarope, ae interference from that quarter is apprehended. As the report emanated from the French Legation, as did the former one, it is looked upon here as a part of the poliey of Gabriac (the French minister) to encourage the re- actionists at the expense of the tiberals. A curious state of affairs in the City of Mexico is me- ticed. Formerly only prominent Mberals wore im prison ‘THE TRANSMIASION OF MONEY BY MAtL. ‘The Senate Post Office Committeo have under considera- tion a plan or system of greater security for the trangunis- sion of money and valuable packets by mail. The cem- mittee have also under consideration other postal reforms of great importance, with a view of making the depart.“ ment self-sustaining. ‘ARMS ORDERED SOUTH. ‘The President bas ordered from the National Armory at Springfield, Mass.,one handred and fifteen thousaaa muskets for Southern use, to bo stationed at Chariestem, 8. C., Augusta, Ga., and Baton Rouge, La., and nine thea- sand rifles from the Watertown and Watervlict Arseasis for Southern use. LETTERS BY THE OVERLAND MAIL TO CALIFORNIA. ‘The Postmaster General has issued an order to Post- masters in California to transmit overland all letters net marked with the words ‘*by steamer.” To or from St. Louis and Memphis, the semi-weekly lines, and New Or- leans by way of San Antonio, which is weekly, the post- age is three cents on a single letter—the distance between these points being under three thousand miles. NEWS FROM ALBANY. Movement of Politicians—Weed, and Regency—Buffalo Editor on His . Before Weed—Mrs. Hartung—An€> Remtism Before the Legislature—Re- solutions Inquiring into the Deposits of the Buffalo Savings Bank, &c. OUR SPECIAL ALBANY DESPATOR. . 7 for the coming campaign. There has been a large at- tendance of the faithful bere during the last few days; especially is this true with the republican politicians, whe are preparing for the Chicago Convention and the Guber- natorial contest for next summer. The arrangement of the siate for the canvass is found to be no casy task; there are disturbing elements caused by the reaction from the John Brown raid, that have destroyed the former harmony. ‘Weed bas returned from Washington, and is again cut- ling and trimming things around the A!bany lobby, ang whitewashing the wigwam of the Regemcy. He is finding Plenty to de to keep matters straight. The election of the delegates to the Chicago Convention is just now claiming hia attention, There has been quite a rush of politicians from the country to this city, who came here to meet Father Weed on his return from the troublesome camp at Washington, {o console the old gentleman in his fruitless abors at the rational capital. Wadsworth, Opdyke, and several others, have been in consultation with him as te ‘be plan for electing the delegates. Weed declares that the Convention shall appoint a committee and give them full authority to select the delegates. This is the plan that best suits the Albany Regency, for the reason that ft centres in them more power and puts the uneasy men of the party under their control. Weed, there- fore, insists that this order shall be obeyed by all of his subordinates, and every corporal that dares disobey will bave his commission cancelied at once. The power of Regency is co great that there is no doubt but this and undemocratic mode of appointing the delegates to the Chicago Convention will be adopted. As far as the listo delegates that will be selected is concerned, there is no need for a Convent'on; the Regency have made up their slate and all that the Convention will have to do will be formally ratify the selection already made. The idea the people elect delegates to the Chicago Convention is perfectly preposterous—they bave no more to do with it than a map in Hindoostan. Weed and Schoolcraft have al-| ready cone that long before the delegates are elected tothe County Conventions. A set of men have been selected thas} wil go to Chicago as tools of Weed; men who will not} dare blow their nose until they have obtained the of their master. In thus making up the slate particular] care baa been taken to keep the democratic portion in background, for fear that they may desire to deo their independence upon their arrival at the field eff Enovgh, however, bave been placed on the sl to sbow this faction that they havo ot been entirely for- otten, Somme breach between Weed and Opdyke has been he ed; part grievances have been forgotten, and they both sleeping under the game political bianket, quietly iahing over their future plans. It is seldom that makc§ up with an enemy, but in this cag he nag found necessary; the influence wielded by Opdyke and frienca in the repablicay party in New York has induq him to fake different courge than usual, for fear of crowacd out bimseif. This course has ‘been pleasing Cpdyke, who has aspiration for the Gubernatorial chair and was, therefore, willing to make friends with th Regency. : Mr. Clapp, of the Buffalo Zepress, has been here for th last two cays on a miesion of peace. There has been open warfare between him and the Regency since 1867] ¥hen it was said that Weed turned sgainst the i ticket and Cefeated Mr. Clapp, the nominee for Sec of State. Mr. Clapp was sent for by-his friends here, ght tbat they eaw a chance here for Mr. C. to get insice view of the Old Wigwam, and once more sit aro the table with the faithfal. He obtained an interview J. L. Scbooleraft, the financial agent of the Regency, amq treasurer of the State Central ittee, who forgs ll bis past offences, and decided hoal din full communion with them, ency’s bread and 5 Weed, the latter refused to see him, be that if he attempted powers that ‘be would show jt ipod This Buffalo editor is crumble iftbey adjourned; the session was a short o A large number of petitions, however, wore of imenget them was one from twenty-four sextons ches in New York, asking to be exempted from jus chu commute tl »ment of Mary Hartung, which provites that t of death pronounced upon her by the Court Terminer of the county of Albany is b to 'mprigonment for life in the State mutauen frem the Governor. eve averse feeling to the bill, and it is looked ty oot n as an attempt by the Governor to shirk all Fibility on tbat question. What the result will be after Geliberste ciscussion no one at can tell. Mr. Cooper introdneed to County Muk Association, for the purpose of co Jemes M. Horton, Henry C. Baleey, James seven others a body politie, by County Milk Asseciation, of the city and York, for the pui f babitante of the city of 3 and wholesome milk—the capital stock to be one thousand dollars, A number of bills are being introduced by those bers in the interest of the anti-rent faction, to repeal tain por ions of the Revised Statutes. These bills are duced by different parties, and each bill only at secticarof the Revised Statutes, and at those in recent decisions of the Court of Appeais have been 8g the tenants, In this way they hope to remove all thad Jectionable festares of the present laws. ‘The bill i Mr. Bingham to-day is one of that class. Nock was made at Judge Hall, of Buffalo, to-dt t 1ics Of resolutions cffered by Mr. Fliswort © toga, but really emanating from another ‘gouree. , ‘ -