The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1860, Page 4

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WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Gov Manwening—PLeisant NEIGHBOR. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—'prot Witxrss—Mrera- Bins anv Misknies of New Youk—Wizako or tux Wars. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Piariva Wir Fine, LAUBA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. AlLZEN AROON, NBW BOWERY THEATRE Bowery.—Ilicuwavman or sux Beas—Motuxe Goose—My Wirr's Come 624 Broadway.— M.tBroadway WKEN LIVING Day and CvKiosi BARNUM'S AVERICAN MU as Bveving—Josera ax mes, ac BRYA*TS’ MINST: way —Boxixsques, Sons, ii , Mechaniss’ Hi ances, 0.— We 472 Broad. rRom THR NIBLO'S SALOON, Broatway —Hooury & Qawrnnuc's Theis IN RTHiortAN Sonus, BuRLESQUES, Dances, &0.— or Waies’ Baus ™ Paince CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 665 Brosdway.—Sonos, Dascus, BuRLESG “ New York, Monday, October 2%, 1860, _— ace Rew Work Heraid—California Edition, The mail stearnship North Star, Capt. Jones, will leave Bis port to-day, at noon, for Aspinwall The mails for California and other parta of the Pacifie Will close at ten o’clook this morning. Toe New Yorx Warxir Hexatp—California edition Bontaining the latest intelligence from all parts wf the world, with a large quantity of local and miscellaneous matter, will be publighed at nine o'clock fm the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Acenta will please send in their erders as carly as pos Bibie. The steamship Quaker City, Capt. Shafeldt, from New Orleans and Havana, with dates to the Mth , arrived at this port yesterday morning, having n detained about a day and anda half beyond the usual time by beavy weather at sea. The local news of Havana is devoid of interest. The state ment of the crew of the captared slave steamer City of Norfolk, will be found interesting. We have advices from Rio Janeiro to Septem- ber 7. The Senate and House of Deputies were abo their labors. An act to prevent the sale of slaves at auction, and forbidding the sepa- ration of slave man and wife, had been introduced and discussed, but was not likely to pass. Prince Alfred, a son of Queen Victoria, had arrived at Rio, and been visited on board his vessel by the Empe- ror. The port was generally healthy and free from fever. A letter from Sierra Leone, W. C. A., dated Sep. tember 7, says:—This port is very healthy, and so is the republic of Liberia. The English . and nean vessels are vigilant in suppressing the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1860. The Bids for the Tem Misltoa Loan To- morrow—Uar Political Barometer Held Up t View. Today the Secretary of the Treasury will hold up to the world, ia the bids for ten | millions of five per cent United States stock, | the barometer of our national life, and we shall know whether it stands, ia the midat of the pre- seat politica! revolution, at change, stormy, or set fair. There is something sublime in the speotacle | of the federal government coming unhesitating- ly forward at the present moment, when an in- tense political excitement is raging through the country, in which fanatics in the North, fire- eaters in the South, and demagogues every- where, are proclaiming theories which, if car- ried out, would cause an immediate collision between the federal and the State authorities, and involve the confederation in civil war and ruin. There is something sublime, we repeat, in the spectacle of the federal government ap- pealing at such a moment to the most sensi- tive of all the classes of society—the capital ista—for an unequivecal testimony of their confidence and faith in the future of the country. There is in the act a seeming axomaly, when viewed in connection with the fears which many prudent and sagacious men among us en- tertain of the results of the present rage of fa- naticism, and with the forebodings of inevitable disunion, which foreign statesmen and philoso- phers admit. This seeming anomaly will be in- creased when it shall be found that the pro posed loan has found abund.... takers among ourselves, and at a premium, too, showing that “set fair’ is the range of the true barometer of our political existence. The explanation of this apparent contradic- tion, is simple and should be instructive. That which constitutes the national life of the coun- try is something far deeper and more abiding in the popular heart than the corruption of public men, the teachings of demagogues, or the ravings of fanatical advocates of any one idea, whether in the North or South. It cannot be affected by the pilferings of place hunters and offize holders, as is evident from the antecedents of our own city. New York, with a municipal government un- equalled in corruption and rascality, has never asked for a loan on the credit of its plighted faith without the most convincing evidences of public reliance thereon. Its obligations have ever commanded a premium even among its own citizens, who are cognizant of the constant malpractices of its elected administrators ; and if we analyze the fact, we shall find it based on a perfect confidence in the good sense and good faith of the people, who possess the power at any moment to cast forth the plunderers from the public halls. There is a conviction every- where that this power will be used whenever the courses of the municipal rulers shall go beyond the pilferings that a prosperous com- munity can endure. So it is with the whole country at large. Be- neath the surface ripplings of party passion there is a strong current of good sense and na- tive patriotism, which constitutes a large por- tion of our national life. This feeling is stimu- lated to action by the electric ties of interest which pervade the masses everywhere. |’oli- tics are the playthings of the American people, nothing more. They consti tute no real part of our national vitality. That exists in our common language and literature; our common remem- brance of the heroic deeds of our fathers; our ade, and the works of the missionaries are y saccessful in converting thousands of | common pride in the past glories of our na- to Christianity. The colonists are retiring | tional career; our common hope in a future of he coast into the interior, spreading the glai | great deeds, and, above all, in our common love 8 of Gospel reformation, and reclaiming lands | of justice, which isthe foundation of self-go- nuw produce cotton, sugar, coffee, tobacco | vernment. When the fire-eater Yancey spoke promise to become staple products in a few | some days since toa New York audience, he — ‘ . was ostonished to find that whenever he spoke ce pod agsanosioy Bee ghee aio oe fois | of the sentiment of honor and of self-defence vera over money matters, | 2 the right as belonging equally to the South, ed them on to the stool of repent. | be was most loudly cheered; but his astonish- » there to a grand revival. Pall of | ment was increased when told that many of the ind geal, we ave informed of the ap- | men before bim, and even of those who cheered o host of Miders “ without purse and | bim most heartily, were black republicans ia Pp Our despatch from Portland this morning gives me further interesting details of the journey of » of Wales to that place, on Saturday last, and of his depart the Prin t emonstrations on the route ure from the United States. Among our political news this morning will be found a letter from Daniel 8. Dickinsor alling, in Stirring terms, upon every national democrat to give his vote and influence for the Union electoral ticket, On Saturday a fire occurred in a stable fin the rear of No. 170 Hast Eleventh street, and be- e it could be extinguished five horses, valued at #655, were burned to death. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 4,000 a 5.000 bates, closing firm on the basis of 11):¢. for mid. diiog oplands. The four market was heavy, and opened at casier rates for State and Western shipping brands, Which caused more activity in sales Wheat was lone ac- tive and buoyant, and from le. a 2c. per bushe| lower and spring. Cora was lower, with sales 60,000 a 70,000 bushels at We. a c. a Tle. for West- ere mixed, afoas and in store, am «0. a 740. for Gat yolow Pork was in moderate demand, with sales of new mess at $10 20 a $19 OT, and $14 60 for new prime. Sugars were quite firm, with milat of 800 bhds, Cubs at fair prices, and 20,000 bags Manilla at 67%. Coffee was in fair demand, A public gale of 4,006 bags of Rio were made at $10 12 a $15 86—average $15 56. Considering ality, the sale was spirited and at good prices. Freights were some less active, but Orm. Wheat was en- gaged to Liverpool, in ship's bage, at 124. a 12s¢d., and Cour at Sa. Sd., and cotton at \d. To London wheat, in bulk, was taken at 12)¢4. 9 19d., and Gour at Se. Od. Tae Proce or Wares anv rae Posts. —Great sensations, like the visit of a royal prince, which stir up the enthusiasm of the masses, are gene- rally productive of volumes of poetry or versifi- cation in some shape; but somehow the tour of the Prince of Wales was, in this regard, a very practical affair; the song birds were nearly all silent on the occasion, and perhaps the most poetic and beautiful sentiment evoked by his visit. was that of the Scotchman in Detroit, who spread upon & banner the words—“Laddie, we welcome thee for thy mither’s sake. This after all, was the secret of the cordial re- ception extended to the Prince everywhere. Had Victoria been a Catherine or an Isabella, her son would not have got such @ welcome in the United States. The principal reason, we opine, why so few poetic effusions were called out by the Prince's visit was that all the rhymstersin the country were engaged on campaign poetry, of which we have already given a very large specimen. As it was, only about half a dozm poems in honor of the Prince were published, and these wore mostly the inepirations of young ladies in whom the graceful manners and pleasant emile of the royal visiter prodaced the divine atiatas Had not Doughs and Breckiaridge, Lincoln and Bell, monopolized all the genius of the poet asters, we should no doubt be able to give our readers a whole page of poetry on i RM politics, and working steadily in the ranks of that political party. The fact is, our national existence lives in the hearts of the people, and our capitalixte know the fact. It willat any moment over- whelm the leaders of any political party, the advocates of any extreme or fanatical ides, who should strike a vital blow at the nationali ty in which all take pride. We cam stand mach nonsense from politicians, we cau look without alarm at the follies of demagogues, but the immense majority of the people will sanction nothing that would sap the foundations of eeif- government among us, by violating the rights even of a minority. The black republican party, who are to-day proclaiming ideas cf the most ultra kind, are already recoiling from the dangers their prospective triumph is openiog to their view. Their theories are impossible in practical government, and if the divisions of their antagonists permit them to grasp the federal power in November next, they will from that moment commence the process of their own dissolution. The national life is far stronger than party creeds, and hence the pub- lic confidence that the barometer of our na- tional existence will show iteelf to-day to range at “set fair.” Nowrationss ror Stare Assevery.—The members of the last remarkable Legisla ture whose names are recorded in favor of the peculating measures of that session, are still turning up in various parts of the State. The last that have been brought forward are the representatives from Saratoga county. The democratic party have brought forward two gentlemen whose record is not what it should be. Jobo Fulton, the member from the Firat Assembly district of that county, voted to override the Governor's veto on the city railroads and the West Washington Market bill, and voted in accordance with the wishes of the lobby on all of those bills, from the first to the last. His course seems to have pleased bis commtituenta, who now purpose to give him another opportunity to try hie hand at similar operations. The Second Assembly district of that county waa represented in the last Legislature by Ju- diah Ellsworth, a republican, whose name is found recorded in favor of the city rallroads, Weet Washington Market, and Commissioners ef Record acheme. He, however, took an active part against the negro suffeage and other rabid republican schemes, for which his own party he: repudiated bim. The democracy, the party which he formerly acted with, learning that he contemplated returning to bis dret love and severing all connection with Jo&n Browa- iam and free niggeriam. nomineted him for the Sta Amembiy, acd now purpose to cetera him to bis old field of labors as an aseociste aud coworker with the nominee of the Firat district, in bebalf of the interests of the lobby. When movements of this kind are witnessed in several parts of the State, it is not to be won- dered at that the professional lobby operators are rejoicing over the prospects of a thriving business during the next seasion. The Sixth of November—The State of New York. The (th of November. The near approach of that important day reduces this Presidential contest to a very narrow margin of possibilities All the probabilities are in favor of the conclu- sion that on the morning of the 7th of November the readers of the Heraup will be apprised of the triumph of the republican party. Outaide of New York, in all the North- ern States, the battle has already been substan- tially decided in their behalf in the late State elections, from Maine to Iadiana. If Lincoln is to be defeated, it must be by the vote of New York; but here, too, the probabilities are all in his favor. In a word, the late overwhelming resources of the anti-republican elements of this State have been frittered away, and it would surprise neither the Douglas engineers, nor the Breckinridge leaders, nor the Bell-Everett mana gers, if Lincoln's majority in New York should prove the sagacity of Mr. Seward’s calculation: From all appearances, the campaign in this State, on the part of the forces opposed to Lincoln, has been reduced to a miserable gue- rills warfare, in which the baggage and ammu- nition wagons of the allies are more the objects of conflicting leaders and cliques than the defeat of their common enemy. Tous, while there is a show of nnion upon a com- mon electoral ticket between the Douglas and Breckinridge democracy, their separate State tickets, Congressional tickets and county tick- eta, and the bitter feuds which these conflicting tickets have created in the general camp, pro- mise anything but harmony and good faith upon the Presidential issue. The organs of Mr. Douglas charge that the Breckinridge fac- tion have fused upon the union electoral ticket only that their weakness may not be exposed. A similar spirit of distrust exists on the other side, and it is easy to conjecture, from the manifestations of this sort of brotherly love in Pennsylvania, what will be the sequel in New York. From our inquiring correspondents in the in- terior we gather the opinion that notwithstand- ing these intestine feuds and divisions among the democracy. the State is still adrift, and will swing round in November to that side which, in the interval, shall bring the heaviest weight of metal to bear in “material and financial aid.” Upon this point, however, from a glance at the two leading organs at Albany of the contesting parties on the Presidential question, we can detect the overwhelming drift of the tide. We take the test of the campaigning work in progress’ on both sides. Looking first to the column of the Arjus-Allas, October 20, headed “Douglas Fires! The Flames Blazing in the Interior? Light from All Parts of the State! New York Good for the Union !"—we find a beggarly account of a few scattering anti-Lincoln meetings reported, and no orators from abroad at any of them, and none of a higher order than Horatio Sey- mour and Lyman Tremain. In the eolumn of appointments, however, we find a schedule em- bracing Gen. Ewing, Gov. Brewn, F. K. Zolli- coffer, Bell men, all of Tennessee; and D, B. Gaffney, Amasa J. Parker, of New York; E. C. Marshall, of Kentucky; J. M. Harrington, Her- schel V. Johnson, Douglas candidate for Vice President; James S. Thayer and Fernando Wood. This is the whole list of appointments given on the conservative side. Now let us look at the republican catalogue. The Albany Journal of October 20 publishes a list of campaign meetings to be held at different times and places in this State down to election day, which comprehends the following speakera:— Ex Governor Stanton, of Kansas; Lieutenant Governor Noble, of Wisconsin; Hon. Daniel Ull- mann, former American candidate for Governor of New York; Hon. J. E. Vinton, of Wisconsin; General B. F. Bruce, Hon. Theodore M. Pome- roy, H. B. Stanton, Hon. F. W. Kellogg, of Michigan; Senator Wade, of Ohio; Hon. Ansel Bascom, Hon. John Covode, of lennsylvania; Judge Jessup, Pennsylvania; Hon Arthur Hones, Hon. B. Van hiorn, Hon. Charles L. Beale, George Bisbee, General Gustavus Adol- phus Scroggs, Hon James R. Doolittle, Gene ral James W. Nye. L. IL. Van Schaick, G. M Depew, Car! Schurz, and S. L. Woodford, with singing at divers times and places by Cook's New York Glee Club. And then there is hardly a hole or corner from which aome re port does not come of a flaming procession of Wile Awakes. This exhibit on the republican side is per- fectly conclusive, contrasted with the meagre company of workers on the other side. It looks as if the battle was given up, and as if Herschel V. Johnson, Fernando Wood. and their assistants, were merely employed to cover the retreat of the conservative forces. We eee, too, from this compariscn of the strength of the campaigning orators on each side, that the rapublicans are believers in the old maxim, that Providence helps those who belp themselves, and that they are not waiting, like Micawber, for “some- thing to turn up.” In a word, the repub- licans are an organized, drilled, disciplined and enthusiastic army, aware of their numbers and confident of their strength, while their adversa. ries are little better than an irregular collection of undisciplined militia, more divided among themselves than united against the common amemy. But why this formidable array of republican stumpers if they are so very sure of an over- whelming triumph in New York* We think there isan easy answer to this question. They are working to save as many Congreseman as poesible. Their object is to bring Lincoln within reach of s working majority in the House. With that object attained, Lincoln may do some- thing with hie “irrepressible conflict,” or they may compe! him to do scmething. The special labors, therefore, of the conservative forces of New York shoukl be directed to the next Con- grees; but, judging from the numerous demo- cratic candidates set ap tm thie city, we should conclude that the game of the demooracy is to tarn over the next Congress to the republicans by éefult. Upon thie subject we shall soon hare some thing more to say. We conclude, for the pre eeot, that through the intrigues and manipula- tions of the Albany Regency at Albany, at Sy- racase, at Charleston and at Baltimore, the way hae been opened so imvitingly in New York, on the Presidential issue, that Lincoln wit walk corer the gouree, sad secqndiy, that Tammany Hal! has done everything within her power t» give at least half the Congresemen from this island to the republican party. The Prince's Progress—Its Valae Finan- cially amd Poltsicaily. The Prince of Wales has come and gone again. In every respect his visit to the United States was a pleasant, and we hope will prove to be a profitable one. The young gentleman himself, who, in the natural course of events, is to be the sovereign of that nation with which we have the closeat ties by origin, by language, by religion, by trade and commerce, and by identity of national characteristics, was highly gratified. It is to be presumed that the mem- bers of his suite shared the same feeling. We certainly can answer for the people of those cities that he visited. There was something re- markable in the manifestations of cordial re- aspect evinced towards him by the people of the United States of all ranks, from the President downward. It contrasted favorably with his experience in Canada, where pestilent Orange- men so marred the pleasantness of his recep- tion. But once on the south side of the St. Lawrence, bis progress from Detroit to Portland was one uninterrupted scene of pleasure and gratification. He leaves our shores bearing with him none but pleasant souvenirs of the country, and with the conviction forced upon him that a republican form of government is not, after all, 0 objectionable as court tutors may represent and young princes might sup- ore. Some narrow minded philosophers of the utilitarian school may think, however, that both prince and people paid rather dear for their whistle, and that the game was not worth the candle. They may point to the supposed cost of the demonstratioss, and ask to be shown any correspouding benefits. A million or two of dollars, they may say, is too vast a sum to be so lightly squandered. A million or two is a low estimate of the amount of money put in circulation by the Prince’s visit. Six or eight millions would be much nearer the mark. The Prince's own expenses were very considerable. Special trains cost rather dear, and so do extensive suits of apartments in fashionable hotels. The Prince was magnificent, too, in his largesses to hotel servants and other persons in subordinate positions. Checks for various sums, from $500 to $1,000, for distribution among servants, tes- tified to his liberality and his credit at his banker’s. Presents of costly jewelry to part- ners in the dance and to persona who had done him service or afforded him gratification helped to swell largely his expenses. His stay in the United States was exactly a month; but he could not have managed to expend in that time less than a hundred thousand dollars—a mere baga- telle, to be sure, to one who has the British treasury at his back. Close fisted economists need not grumble at that, nor exclaim against such wasteful extra- vagance. Our republican fellow citizens out- bid the Prince himself in liberality. Where he spent hundreds we spent tens of thousands. Take the ball at the Academy of Music for example. Think of the glittering diamonds, the exquisite laces and the costliness of millinery displayed on that occasion. It would be a ridiculously low estimate if we were to place the average outlay of each person present at $200; and yet at that figure the aggregate expenditure of the three thousand would amount to $600,000. If we were to set it down ata million of dollars, that figure would not be extravagant. The half a million of people who filled up Broad- way on the day of his entry into New York—many of them coming from distant points—must have paid for their holiday not less than half a million of dollars. On the whole, between the military display, the ball, the firemen’s procession and the general junketings during the few days be remained here. the occasion must bave put in circulation near- ly a million of dollars. All this was so much gained to the wealth of the commanity, for the money came chiefly from the classes that can well afford to be extravagant. The demonstra- tions at Boston. including the splendidly suc- cessful ball, must have been the means of cir- culating a eum equal, at least, to half of that. Taking these figures as a basis, we might esti mate the general expenses, or, we might more properly say, the profit, of the Prince's visit as tollows:— De wort $20 000 Chicag 20 000 %. Lous, 5 20,000 Omneinnatt, includ ing bi 190 000 Piteberg 10 000 Harrisburg 10,000 Washington, taclad Mount Vernon. . eaesee 60 000 Richmond, includiog bal) 50 000 Baltimore . . ‘ 20 000 Poilagetphia, inc'uding opera. 100 000 New York eeveeee 759 000 Weat Point, 5 000 albany. 10 000 Heston. .... . + 409,000 Portiand, including ball t { the Geet... 30,000 Especres ip Canada . 000 000 Expenses of the Pri 4 suite, and of the General aggregate * +6 189 695 000 We do not suppose that we are very far astray in these calculations; and if aot, the money value of the l’rince of Wales’ visit to North America may be set down at between four and five miilions of dollars. fw moral and political value is inestimable. Toe demon- strations, ia this country at least, were due, ia & great part, to the public estimation of the womanly virtues of the Qaeen of England. They were a tribute to virtue, and therefore could ouly be, ic their moral effect, good. The rentiment whioh greeted him in Detroit— “You're welcome, laddie, for your mither's sake’—was that which predominated every- where. As to the political consequences of the visk, they are more easily comprehended. The Prince carries back with him favorable impres sions of our country, our government and our people. which may prove tobe of the highest importance in the future. He hopes to see us once more before he ascends the throne adorned by hia royal mother. He so informed the cadets at West Point. They wanted him to join their mess. He would willingly do so, he said, were it mot for the old fogies—making use of an American expression and referring to the Duke of Newcastle and the other noblemen who had him in charge. But he told them that after he attained bis majority he would pay another visit to this country—a visit in which here work be less formality observed, aud perhaps more information acquired. We hope the Prince will not forget his promise; and we trust that m acquaintance 80 suspiciously oom- menced will ripen into a bond of amity between the two nations which mo politioal disagree. ments will ever be able to burst ainder. So- etally, morally, foanctaliy and politically, the Prince's viait’ wee therefore beuniolel Who is tc be oar next coral visiter’ The Ctty Electtoms—The List of Can, didates. We pubbiah today a list of the candi- dates in this city for Congress, for the State Legislature, for the judiciary and for county offices. It will be eeen that they belong to the various factions which now divide the people— some to Tammany Hall, some to Mozart Halt, some to the Breckinridge party, some to the Dougtas, some to the Bell and Everett, some to 4 coalition, eome to independent cliques and some to the republicans. Of the last, in no instance do two candidates run for the same office. Not so with the demo- ralized democracy; they are split into the fac- tions we have named, and two or three of their candidates are contending for almost every office. What the result of this insane policy must be needs no ghost to tell. In view of the probable election of Lincoln, it was highly im- portant that, at least in the Congressional dis- tricts, there should be only single candidates on the coneervative eide, in order to insure a ma- jority in the House of Representatives, which would checkmate the black republican execu- tive and arrest the progress of its revolutionary measures. But instead of that, the leaders of the factions, some of them probably bribed by black republican gold, or the promise of federal offices, have split up the conserva- tive interest, and eo played into the hands of the enemy that his victory is almost certain, and the chances are that he will have the con- trol of the House of Representatives, as well as of the administration. As to the other offices, it is of very little consequence which faction eucceeds, for, with a few exceptions, the candidates are all pretty much alike. How could it be otherwise, when the source whence they derive their nomina- tions is so foul and corrupt! The nominations are as much matters of bargain and eale as so many sheep and oxen in the cattle market. And those who sell them are the shoulder hitters and Short Boys, and Dead Rabbits and criminals, and stool pigeons and gamblers, and the scum and dregs of the community— some of the scoundrels so ignorant that they could not write their own names to save their lives. These are the real ruling classes, and it is a farce to say that the people in this city bave anything to do with the choice of their public officers. Practically the voters are as much enslaved in this respect as the citizens of Constantinople, or of St. Petersburg, or of Vi- enna. The only difference is that in those Eu- ropean cities the people would have it very different if they could. Here the people have it all in their own power, but they will not take the trouble of asserting their rights and fran- chises; or they are so intimidated by the local bullies (protected by the men they have placedin power) that they fear to come into collision with them, and allow the primary elections, which are practically the real elections, to go by de- fault, and content themselves by giving a silent vote at the legal elections for the worthless or poeitively vicious and degraded candidates set up for them by the organized rowdies. It is “ Hobson's choice ” with them ; they must vote for one or other of three or four rascals, or throw away their ballots on some respectable name that nobody has heard of, or, in disgust, abstain from voting at all. Will the people submit to this any longer’ Will they not make a small sacrifice and a slight effort to free themselves from the yoke of the dictators’ If they combine they are irresistible, and if they want good government they have the matter in their own hands. In another column is a list of the names of can- didates, and we ask them what necessity is there that they should vote for these men indiscriminately, merely because they are re- presented as belonging to the same factions with themselves? Let them inquire into the charac ter and capacity of these candidates before they vote to place them in positions of trust, honor and emolument. + Let them select the good and reject the bad, but let this be done by concert, eo as to secure success. They ought to hold public meetings and overthrow all that has been done by fellows calling themselves nominating conventions in grog. shope snd disreputable dens, and put forward aticket of their own, with names beyond re- proach. To aid them in this work we will pub- lish the antecedents and status of the candi- dates now in the field, and we will nomiaate a ticket of our own, which they can adopt whole orin part, as they think proper. One thing we will venture to say of it is, that it will be found incomparably better than any ticket pre sented by the nominating committees of any of the factions, and that if the candidates it indi cates are elected they will not be the reproach and the scorn of our civilization, as have been the majority of our public officers for the last few years Tux Testimontat to Cartams Wirsox.—We are glad to perceive that the subscriptions for a testimonial to Captain Wilson, of the brig Min- nie Schiffer, who rescued the passengers of the steamship Connaught, are pouring in very hand- somely. Some of our merchants have subscribed to the amount of nearly five thousand dollars already, and we are sure thatif the public wore to reflect upon the character of Captain Wil- son's services there would be no limit to the amount tendered to purchase a warthy recogni- tion of them. Capt. Wilson was in command of a little brig of about two hundred tons burden: sbe was ladea fruit, and there could hardly wave been standing room on board for the im mense crowd of sufferers be so gallantly deter- mined to save from the combined horrors of a sinking and a burning ship. His crew were for the most part Spaniards, who spoke no Eaglish, and, therefore, a greater amount of duty de volved on himself. Nevertheless, he was ao; devoted, and although night fell before he bad rescued more than balf the passengers, and his @ew rafused to risk the danger ef returning to the ship in the darkness, he went himself, at tached a bawser te the burnizg vessel to enable bim to bring off the passengers in safety, and never left ter until he bad the entre um ber—five hundred and ninety-one—safely on board his little craft. This was certainly one of the greatest instances of hammmity ever re corded in like circumstances, and should not fail to be acknowledged as it deserves. The merchants are to meet on Wedmesday to decide upon the character of the testimonial to be pre sented to this gallant sailor, and we would sag- eat to them aa the most fitting thing to do to raise all the money they can, buy or build 4 fine ship, and present her to Capt. Wilson. This would be the most suitable and most practical reward Let them call the ship ‘The Hamaaity,” s0 that whithersoover ehe sailed upon the seas her com meander and her origin Fond be racogeired Ornion anp Senrimenr my Tux Socra— Dury or New Yons.--Whoever has the Opportunity and will take the pains to look into those journals which represeat the opinion and sentiment of the most influential classes in the leading States of the South and Southwest must perceive that, since the result of the election in Pennsylvania, there is a remarkable accordance of tone emong the organs of different parties as to the neces- sity of presenting a united front againat Lin- coln. Uncompromising hostility to a President purely sectional is the uppermost feeling of even the mest moderate and sober minded citi- zens throughout the whole of that region. But the manner and the occasions of demonstrating that hostility are subjects of great diversity of judgment. The doctrine of secession has been 80 completely riddled in days of old by moat honored democrats of the South, aa well aa the North, that those who disapprove of that particular mods and measure of redress need not go to any other armory, in order to furnish themselves with weapons of the best temper and strength, than to the epeechee of those who stood around the administration of General Jackson in 1833. The question of the constitutional right of a State to withdraw from the Union, therefore, is undoubtedly set- tled among all well informed persons, even ia those communities where the discontent at Lincoln’s probable euccess is deepest and moat pervading. Such a right, however plausible it may be made to appear to hot and hasty mul- titudes or to honest but uninformed patriots, cannot be maintained as other than revolu- tionary, without rejecting the letter and spirit of the constitution, and also the teachings of every constitutional lawyer from the slaveholding States that took a leading part in the Congres- sional discussions of the subject, excepting only Mr. Calhoun and a few disciples of the Carolina school. There can be no middle ground between admitting the obligatory force of the government of the Union and rebellion or revolution. It is well kaown to the really influential minds of the South and Southwest that there can be no other alternative; and hence the solicitude with which the present ex- asperated state of popular feeling in those quarters is regarded by them. For the North to precipitate the South or Southwest into secession is to precipitate either or both into revolution, and that, also, against the wishes, the remonstrances, the earnest sup- plications, of our brethren. New York can pre- vent even the chance of this catastrophe. New York ought, New York must, or prepare for the hazards of revolution, beginning in one or two States, where hot heads are apt to lead in these hot times, but terminating, Providence only knows where or how, with what disasters to all the great interests of every quarter of the country, and with what ruin to the fairest fa- bric of constitutional government ever yet es- tablished in the history of our race. It New York isso torn by contending factions as to be incapable of rendering a verdict against Lincoln in the electoral college, at least some of her Congressional districts may send accessions of sound, conservative, Union and constitutional members to the next House of Representatives to fight the battle of the coun- try against sectionalism. Possessed of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court; backed by strong, enlightened and patri- otic minorities, even in the republican States; confident that no true South- ron will become the recipient of black republi- can patronage, and, above all, relying on the inviolability of principle and the goodness of the cause, what has any opponent of Lincoln to expect out of the Union which cannot be far more effectively obtained by keeping in the Union! Let the people of New York, therefore, aa they deprecate and would avoid the mischiefs and horrors of revolution, first aim to cust the Presidential electoral vote aguiast Lincoln, and , secondly, imcrease the number of anti- republican representatives in the house of the people. Procress or Crvmuzation at Bautiwore—A New Park ror Tae Moxcwentat Ciry.—The Baltimore papers of Saturday give extended accounts of the opening of a new public park, which was formally handed over to the people of Baltimore for their use and beboof forever, on Saturday. The new park is called Druid Hill, and was formerly the paternal estate of Mr. Lioyd LL. Rogers. The Commissioners, after examining various sites, pronounced in favor of Druid Hill. Their decision has been approved by every person of experience who has seen the grounds. The property, comprising five hundred and fifty acres, bas been for more than a century and a half in the possession of Mr. Rogers’ family. His father, a colonel of artillery in the Revolu- tionary army, turned his sword into a pruning book, and, abandoning the tracing out of camps and entrenchments. devoted himself to planting and embellishing his paternal acres. The re- sult has been moat satisfactory. While vision- ary dreamers were producing works which are now the laughing stocks of the profession, Col. Rogers was actually desiguing improvements in what is now known as the English style, now universally acknowledged as the only style founded on real esthetical principles, combia- ing all the best qualities of every style, to wit: fitness. ‘The great advantage of Druid Hill park is its «plendid growth of trees, many of them more than a century old, white oaks and tulips as large as thirteen feet girt at five feet frem the cround; magnificent chestnut oaks and hickories of enormous size, while it is positively encum- bered by sassafras, maples, gum trees and osage orange trees, The foliage already there is invaluable to the landseape gardener. and com- bined with the broad lawns and rolling ground, tmd great weigbt with the Commissioners in the selection of the site The park hae within ite limite the highest point of land for many miles around, and, aait ia aituated 366 feet above tide level, commands magnificent view of the city and bay. In short. it bas been pronounced by the best judges to be in many respects the most beautiful site for « perk which bas hitherto bean found. The mnltitude of ravines, prominent emi- cenoes, broad lawnmsand fine groups of park-like tree, make it look like # meglected park, rather ean one whose formation is about to be com manced. As a whole, the grounds are cba. tacterived by besadth, distinctness anf to grandewr rather than easy tranai- tions and detloscy of lines. From the om. ' ber of hickecies, gum, mavafcaa aad ms