The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STR, erie as TERMS, cash in advance. M flak of the sender, Powta ps not money, THE DAILY HERALD, RALD. sacription We do not expomilence, tod On PRIN d wlth neatness, cheapness and de- | apaich Wolmme AXV.. ec cceceece seeeeeees NOs BUD AMUSEMRNTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'R GAKDEN, Brondway.—Tue Dean Heart. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Hexay ViI—To OviiGe Bayson. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaiway.—Pusrixg Witu Fina, LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE. No, 624 Broadway.— Pursio axp Fanct—Beccaxs Orana, Bowery.—Rose Euwea— MUSEUM, Mroadway.—Day and BARNUM'S AMER +, Laving Comiosirizs, &c.—Joseru Evening—Stamese ano Hus Bawtanes BRYANTS! MINSTRELS, Mechantos’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Buwrasques, Soncs, Dances, Ac.—Uiciee Lana. 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Wotton, from Havre | and Southampton, arrived at this port last evening. | The points of the additional news she brings are:— | In England, the return of the Queen from the Conti- | nent, and the death of Sheridan Knowles, the well known dramatic writer. The C of Paris, grandson of King Louis P pe, met with a severe accident, while hunting, near Claremont. He was thrown from his horse, and broke one of the bones of his right leg. Fortunately a doctor was on the spot, who in tely took charge of his limb. distinguished and set the In France, the ening of Cherbourg and other points, the increase of the navy and other warlike preparations. There is considerable bad feeling between France and Switzerland. The latter suspects the former of ulterior unfriendly designs. In Italy the Neapolitans had not yet given the game up. Generals Lamoriciere and Schmidt were expected to be in Rome on the 17th, The Pro-Dictator of Naple allavicini, had ten- dered his resignation, which | equently with- drew. Mazzini was still there, but his presence was displeasing to the people. In Spain a young man attempted to assassinate the Queen, but his pistol missed fire. He is supposed to insane, Our German democratic fellow citizens held an enthusiastic Union meeting at the Cooper Institute last evening. The proceedings were highly inte- resting, animated and patriotic, Speeches were | delivered by many leading German democrats of New York and other places. The hall was crowd ed to excess, and a supplementary meeting was | held outside of the building, at which the support- ers of the Union cause showed their appreciatioa | of this important movement for the welfare of the | whole country. | James T. Brady addressed a very enthusiastic meeting opposite the Brooklyn City Hall, last | night, in the interest of the Breckinridge and Lane party. He said that while he advocated the Union, this sentiment was subordinate to the advocacy of | the mational democratic party in the State of New York, as opposed to corruption in the manage- | ment of the canals and other matters, The meeting of German tailors in Williamsburg last evening, who were in favor of the fusion ticket, was broken ap by the republicans, who took possession of the hall. Speeches were made in favor of the principles of the republican party, and the New York employers, under whose aus- pices the meeting was called, were denounced by the speakers. A sketch of the proceedings will be found in another column. The board of officers appointed by the Secretary | of the Navy to examine and report upon the feasi- | bility of converting our sailing vessels of war into steamers, have recommended that the Pennsyl- yanis, Columbus, Ohio, North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia and New York, all line-of-battle ships, be altered into steamers of the first class. The ex- pense will, it is estimated, amount to $5,064,000. A meeting was held at George's chapel last svening to celebrate the anniversary of the Refor- mation, and to invite contributions to the monu- ment to Lather in the city of Wurms. A report of the proceedings is given in another column. The examination in the case of Captain Rynders, who is charged with committing an assault upon William Barney, Jr., was yesterday postponed by Justice Welsh to the Sth inst., all parties acquiesc- ing in the suggestion to let the case lay over till after the election. The police yesterday arrested Andrew and Samuel Roberts, keepers of a saloon corner of Mercer and Spring streets, on a charge of having counterfeit money in their possession, with intent to utter the same. On searching the residence of the accused $4,000 in counterfeit bills, mostly “tens,” on Western and Southern banks, were | found, together with two presses and two plate: ‘The prisoners were committed for examination. | Atthe meeting of The Commissioners of Emi Hration yesterday a report was received on the | babject of booking passengers in Europe for rail Toad passages in the United States. The committee Fecommended the passage of a resolution de- claring the system referred to injurious to the best Interests of the emigrant and deserving of the con demastion of the Board, which resolatien was adopted, Commissioner Jellinghaus alone dissent | ing. The weekly statement shows the number 0 emigrants arrived during the past week to have | een 1,306; number of inmates in institutions, 4 amount received to October M, $5,178 Ie) @ balance of $15,502 in the hands of the banker. Beet cattle were dull yesterday, and in conse quence of @ large increase in the receipts prices declined from jc. to }e. per pound. Milch cows | were quiet and unchanged. Veal calves were plenty, and previous rates were barely supported, except for prime, which were firm. Sheep and {ambe were very plenty and slow of sale, though withoat any noticeable decline ia prices. Swine wore steady, at Sic. a jc. for still fed, 6c. ajc. Gor corn fed, and Tic. a Sc. for all kiads of dressed, | standin | Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. | knew not what to do. The total rece veals, 14,867 sh et for cotton yesterday active, the s#alee embraced ¢ cattle, 122 4 were } without quotable change ix prices. Fiour was without cl importauoe, out with a better demand aad more activity, eapecially for shipping brands of State and Weatern. Wheat was tirm and active, with froe sales at full prices, Corn was active, but without Alteration of moment in prices. Pork was rather easier, with moderate wales, at prices given in another place, | Sogars were heavy aud about Xo. lower than they were at the close of Isat week; the stock comprised 57,497 bbds,, against 37,341 bhds. at the same time lest year; $22 boxes, against 9910 last year; 120,546 bags, Sgainst 69,624 last year, and 6,567 melado, againat 1,874 last year The stock of molagses amounted to 8,184 hhds. Coffee was firm and sales limited, Freights were active to Koglish ports, with a fair demand for the Continent, while ful rates were eustained, ‘The Conservative Reacwon in New York, New Jersey, &¢.—The Smies Brighten- ing. Our advices from the interior of the Empire State, upon which the whole bruat of this Presi- | dential battle depends, are of the most en- couraging character in behalf of, the Union electoral ticket, We can say the same, too, in reference to the conservative reaction in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Conneo- ticut, in consequence of a proper under- g among the people of the said States of the demoralizations and side issues which car- ried the recent elestions in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana; and in consequence, too, of a pro- per appreciation of the great and overwhelming iseue involved in the electioa of Abraham Lin- coln as our next President. , The disruption of the democratic party at Baltimore, the bitter feuds thus created among the various cliques of the party, operated to set them to the work of devouring each other in At the same time the republicans, with their protective tariff bills and their free farms to actual settlers, and their bue and ery of free soil, free epeech and free men, diverted the public mind in said States from the main queetion—the Union or the dissolution of the Union—and the results are before us in the recent astounding republican victories. But the sensation pro- duced in the South by these unexpected repub- lican majorities, and the preparations going on in that quarter for the last extremity of seces- sion, are producing a wholesome reaction in the North. With another month of time to go upon, even Pennsylvania might be recovered; but as it is, there is a hope that the result of | the great day of November may be a saving triumph to the Union and the constitution. The coneervatfve independent metropolitan press of New York operates instantaneously within a radius comprehending this State, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. All these States, too, from their direct and intimate buriness relations, necessarily eympathize, to a great extent, with the movements of the public sentiment of this metropolis. Hence we are not surprised to learn that the censervative re- action and activity which have signalized the community of New York city since the late elections are operating in all the aforesaid States. A lively hope now animates the con- servatives of New York. They really see now that with “a long pull, a strong pall, and a pull all together,” they can carry the State upon this broad issue of the preservation or the de- struction of the Union. Very naturally, too, the States immediately around us feel and respond to the force of this conservative re- action. We claim that all this is very largely due to the enlightened, independent metropolitan presa of New York. We remember, for example, tbat shortly before the meeting of Congress last December the conservative elements opposed to the republican party were all at sea and The New York Henao | came to their aid, and, in its expositions of the infamous revolutionary Helper book and its re- | publican endorsers and subscribers, gave the anti republicans the issue upon which they very nearly eecured the organization of the House, aod would have secured it, but for the disgust ing blackguardiem and stupidity of a few fussy fire-eaters. Senator Wilson, in reference to this matter, spoke of the Henan as the source from which the ideas of the democratic party were drawn; and we may say, as & simple matter of truth, that bad the democracy followed our ideas at Charleston or at Baltimore, they would | not now, with two tickets in the field, be debat- | ing the possibility of carrying this election; but | upon a single ticket throughout the Union they | would be even now discussing the claims of this | man and that man toa place in the new demo- | cratic Cabinet. | But the democratic candidates, leaders and | managers, from their factious dissensions and contentions at Washington, went down to Charleston and broke up that convention; and next went over to Baltimore, and assisted there in the suicidal game of breaking up their party | and in scattering the hostile leaders and cliques | among the States and the people, with their contemptible squabbles upon squatter sove- reignty, intervention, a slave code for the Ter- ritories, Yancey and disnnion. Al! this time the republican were industrionsly spreading broadcast over the Northern States the Helper book and other violent and venomous elec- tioneering documents, calculated to poison the public mind concerning tte horribly pictured “barbariems of slavery” and the “revolting enormities of the slave power.” Cut up, on the other band, and divided into hostile cliques by treacherous and designing leaders and party journals, the conservative forces in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana were witbout light, in their recent elections, as to the real issue before them. But here, in New York city, from our immediate contact with the pub- lic eentiment and popular movementa of the Sonth, we comprehend clearly what we are | doing and what we are called upon todo. We see that upon New York the whole weight of this momentous conteet is thrown; we see the conservative community of this city rising en masse to save the ark of our covenant, the | constitation: ond we see the good effects in the interior of this State and in the States immedi- ately within the circle of our independent conservative metropolitan press, The popular Union reaction thus created is wonderful, and ie co encouraging a4 to lead us to hope, like Garibaldi, that the battle, which thus far has been to all appearance bet, is really s battle won. Tux Buack Rerveticaxs Gettive Farr exep.—We notice that the black republican journals and orators have lost that easy confi dence and swaggerfhg manner which charac terized their conduct # month ago. They have been terribly frightened by the recent demon- strations on the part of the South. It is now conservative than the conservatives them- law to be strictly enforced, and will practically for the last six or eight years. Seward, too, has been toned down, and is to deliver a con tervative speech in this city. That is all very well, but it looks too much like deathbed re- pentence. It is altogether too late in the day | for that sort of thing. | A Financial Crisis Approsching—Pre- monitory Symptoms. A storm never pours its derolating fury with | out some premonitory symptoms whereby the ‘ wise may be forewarned to resist or bow before | it. Such symptoms there are now on the po- litianl horizon of an approaching financial tempest, so patent that the dullest observer can- | not fail to note them. Wall street gave evi- dence last week of gathering trouble in the sudden depreciation of stocks, and the tempo- rary panic which ensued, Affairs in that quar- ter rallied for a while, it is true; the alarm was abated; but now things begin to look dark there egain. The political condition of the country, whether it tends to disunion or not, no man can deny, is even at this moment seriously affecting our monetary and commercial interesta. Since the Pennsylvania election stocks .and securities of almost all kinds have declined from two to ten per cent—Virginia sixes fell three per cent yesterday—and in that period—but a few brief weeks—the depreciation has not been less than fifteen or twenty millions of dollars. Professional men and others, who have retired from business and who hoid stocks and securi- ties, are selling out and investing their mouey in something else, 80 much incertitude is there about the future interests of the country. In addition to these manifestations of a coming storm, we have now intelligence of the failure of the old, respectable banking honse of Lee & Co., in Baltimore, and rumors of the sus- pension of enother banker, besides intimations of the breaking up of more which are to follow. But we would say to the merchants and atore- keepers, not alone of this city, but of every town and village in the State and in New Eng- land, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, that there is no immediate cause of alarm in all this. There is no necessity why panic should take posses- sion of their households or sleep cease to visit their eyes. The failure of Lee & Co. in Balti- more, or the depreciation of stocks in Wall street, may not affect them very seriously; but we would say to them, furthermore, that, as surely as Lincoln is elected by the vote of the Northern States alone, so surely will the most | terrible financial revulsion come upon us that the country ever witneseed. It will not probably fall euddenly like a thunder clap, but will grow from faint mutterings to overwhelming fury— steadily and slowly working out its way like the laws of nature—but all the more eure and disastrous that it is so slow and progressive. Not that we predict an immediate dissolution of the Union as the consequence of the success of the anti-slavery dogma, and the war upon the institutions of the South which it boldly heralds. It will take years to accomplish that fatality; but, in the meantime, two or three years to come we shall witness a financial struggle, a teries of disasters to every commercial interest in the land, that must eventuate in wholesale ruin to them all. The ligatures that bind this country together will stand # great deal of wear and tear before they snap; but in the approach- ing condition of things, foreshadowed by the present political prospect, the country will inevitably hawe to pasa throngh some terrible throes that may not leave a single interest, thronghont the length and breadth of the land, unthaken. We speak gravely, but not without founda- tion or precedent. The signs with which the times are portentous now preceded the fiaan- cial revulsion of 1837. For years before that disaster befell us the omens were prerent, in continual failures and temporary settlements, contractions and expansions, until the tension upon our commercial system be- came too much for it, and the whole fabric broke up; aod #o it was in the revulsion of 1819 and °20, and even in that exrtaordinary panic of 1857. The shock which threatens now promises to be more severe than any which preceded it. The panic of 1857, after all, affected only cer- tain local interests, Western railroads princi- pally. The panic of 1837, like the ove now threatening, was @ political one in its origin, commencing in a contest between the United States Bank and the State banks; but it culmi- nated in a commercial disaster, after nearly seven years of financial calamities; and {nas much as the country is twice as populous and four times as rich now as it was then, and has vastly larger interests to sacrifice, the couse- quences will be proportionably greater. If the nti slavery party of Mr. Lincoln should attain power, with its avowed sentiments of hostility to the South and destruction to all its institutions and interests, it must either go to perdition or it must go abead in the path it bas marked ont. It cannot stand still and live. If it goes to perdition, it will drag down with it all the commercial interests of the North, and arrest the prosperity of the whole country; if it goes ahead according to its programme, it will break up the confederacy. This is the alternative, and it is a fearful one—all the more grave, too, when we remember that the issue is to be de- cided for good or evil within a week from now. Goverson Bayks xp THe Paince oF Wains.— We have already alluded with some particularity to the attempt of the Boston com- mittee to slight the Governor of Massachusetts on the occasion of the ball given iz honor of the Prince of Wales. We did not, however, get at the root of the whole matter. It appears that the Prince took a great fancy to Governor Banks, and was not over and above astonished by the Mutual Admiration, Atlantic Monthly and F. F. M. clique, which undoubtedly bored him almost to death. Resolved to monopolize the royal guest, whether he liked it or not, Paige & Co. smuggled him off to the supper room without notifying the Governor. As soon as the Prince reached the table, as the story goes, he inquired for Governor Banks. Then ard there only did the fact that the Chief Magietrate of the Commonwealth was present dawn upon the benighted intellects of the F. F. M's. Then they sent for the Governor, and then the Governor didn’t come. After all | this an attempt is made to shift the responsi- | bility of the blunder upon the shoulders of the Prince, who cannot, for obvious reasons, re- place it where it belongs. This is one of the latest, but not one of the most creditable, Bos- tated that Lincoln, if elected, will be more ton notions. celver; that be will cause the Fugitive Slave recede from the position which he has occupied | The Impencing Confilct of the Sections— ‘The Interests of Civilization at Stake. We centinue to publish our revolutionary in- telligence from the South. One of the most important features of what we lay before our readers to-day is the part taken by Governor Wise at the Princess Anne county mass meeting. The preamble and resolutions we published on Tuesday, but did not then know that Mr. Wise attended on the occasion, much less that he drew up these revolutionary resolutions and offered them to the meeting. The organization, therefore, of committees of safety and Mioute Men bas originated with Governor Wise, and it appears from the statement of a correspondent that he is pledged to stump the State in favor of resistance in the event of Lincoln’s election. Henry A. Wise has, therefore, as fairly begun the revolution in Virginia as did Patrick Henry in the Revolutionary war with England, and the fact of his taking so lesding and prominent a part is exciting great enthusiasm at the South. The meeting at which the resolutions were adopted was not exclusively democratic, but consisted of all parties. It further appears that Breckinridge will carry the State, as in- deed he will probably carry the whole South. The Richmond Enquirer says that the election of Bell will be regarded by the revolutionary party as the signal for “inaugurating civil war from the outset in Virginia.” Such is the gene- ral conviction at the South that the shock of arms is at hand, that another Florence Nightin- gale has already volunteered her services for the battle field. . Both the interesting letters of our Richmond correspondents give a programme of what the Southern States intend to do. The writer ex poses the flippant ignorance of Northern jour- nals, who understand nothing of the real tone and temper of the Southern mind. If it were politicians who were engaged in the contest the case would be different; but it is the peo ple who are embarked in the struggle, and they are always sincere. Their social institutions, their material interests, their liberty, the sove- reign rights of the States to which they be- long, are all involved in the conflict between the rections. The John Brown raid, Helper’s book, the ma- nifestos of the republican leaders, and the ea dorsement of their revolutionary doctrines by jhe Northern States in the late elections, have roused the South into an attitude that may well alarm all prudent Northern men. They will not sub- mit to the election and inauguration of Liacola by a sectional vote, and on a sectional issue, striking at the foundation of their social fabric, and interfering with the system of labor which they deem best for their soil and climate. Tney are beginning to discuss freely the benefits and advantages of a dissolution of parinership, and the setting up on their own account in a Southern confederacy. How they would be able to maintain themselves and prosper is ehowa by an able writer of North Carolina, whose letter we publish in another column. These are alarming developements of revolu- tion at the South, and it is well that Northern men should be made aware of whaf is going on at the other end of the Union. It is asad aod disastrous condition of things, in whatever light we view it. If there should be seces sion in the event of Lincoln's election, it will be destructive to every interest at the North. If that contingency shold not result in secession, it will undoubtedly produce the most calamitous effects upon all our busi- ness operations, and reduce thousands who are pow wealthy, and millions who are making a decent Kiving, to ruin and pauperism. Now the question is, what has the North to gain by a course which is driving the South to the wall, even if the Southern States should quietly submit to epoliation? Not enriching themselves, they would make the South poor indeed. They would reduce it to barbarism, and make it a burthen on the country instead of the source of its wealth. The first evidence of civilization among a people or race is labor. No progress has ever been made in humanizing and refining a race, white or black, until manus! labor has been recognized as a necessi- ty of civilization and the great agency of hu man progress. The North American Indians, once the sule possessors of this vast continent, lost their title to it simply because they sought to sustain themselves without labor. They could not be induced to take the first step to- wards civilized life. Hence the race is fast disappearing from the con- tinent. Could the red race have been made to labor as the black race have been for the last two hundred years in this country, their numbers would now greatly ex- ceed the original number of the race inhabiting the country when first the white race appeared in it, and planted their civilization, based upon labor, along the Atlantic coast. They rejected labor, and in consequence their race is lost. Within another century their council fires will be extinguished even on the two slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The African in his native country, like the Indian in this, ignores labor. He remains a bar- barian, a heathen, a cannibal. What he was even before the dawn of history, as traced upon tGe ancient monuments of Egypt, he is to this day, and will continue to the end of time—the same savage, unless compelled to labor. Four millions of the race in the United States are being civilized by being compelled to labor. Their progress has been rapid, and they have become happy and contented. But, strange to tay, our fanatical Northern philanthropists deem this mode of civilization unchristian and “the sum of all villany.” Like the [ndians of the forest, they look upon labor as the worst pe of slavery and oppression. and they would have the negroes become savages of the desert no By they did in the British West Islands, and as the red race have been and still are on this continent. Nor is this all: it would cost mil- lions annually to keep them in subjection by force and arms, as it bas done to awe the Indians. While the philanthropists accomplished all this, they would, at the same time, reduce the country from a firet rate to a fourth rate Power, and make her so poor that none would do her reverence, and the white race would learn by sad and unavailing experience what they had lost and could never recover. To such mad experiments do Northern fanatics pro- pore to subject the interests of a country pros- perous beyond all precedent, risking the very existence of our confederacy by their chimeri- cal and impracticable attempta to reverse the laws of nature and the principles of human civilization. But if, notwithstanding Lincoln's election, the tempest should blow over without laying ia ruins the glorious political fabric erected by our ancestors, it will not pass away without leaving behind it most destructive aud disas- trous effects upon the interests of trade and commerce and manufactures, and every branch of business at the North. Already we are be- ginuing to feel these effects. It will be seen irom our news thai the Southern banks are re- fusing to transact exchanges with the North. This is only the beginning of the end, a symp- tom of the commercial disturbance and embar- rassment which are to follow, resultiog in a suspension of the Southern trade and of North ern manufactures, and in a general prostration of the industrial pureuits of the country. Seward, the Panic Maker, Cailed to New York—A Warning to the People. Mr. Seward, after a tour in the Northwest, in which he has scattered broadcast the seeds of a financial panic aud a commercial serm§gign, which will exceed in destructiveness everything of the kind the world has ever witnessed, is to address to morrow his affrighted followers in this city. It is our duty in this momentous crisis to warn the people against the artful words of the demagogue and panic maker. From Maine to the plains of Kansas and back has he made a pilgrimage during the present political cam- paign. In the rural districts he bas constantly held language and given utterance to revola tionary ideas which he has sedulously refrained from expressing on the floor of the Senate at Washington, and which he bas always with- held from the audiences of the larger cities. During the recent pilgrimage he has en- deavored to adapt his radical expressions to the prevailing tone of the commu- nity he might be addressing. At Boston he gloried in belonging to the “Massachusetts school,’’ which bad produced an Adams, a Gar- rison and a Phillips; at Detroit he intimated that it was time to throw overboard the sooth- ing processes which had characterized the labors of the founders of our political eystem, and those of the second generation of our statesmen, the expounders; at Lansing he threw off all dieguise and proclaimed bis intention to make war for “the decrease and diminution of slavery in all the States;” at St. Paul he sang pans over the triumph of abolitionism, and ap- pealed to the filibuster spirit of the people, and at Atchison he crowned his efforts with the de claration that all races and all men in this country must have both bullets and ballots, or none must have them. It is these defiant outgivings of Mr. Seward, these unblushing foreshadowings of the deadly policy that is to animate a black republican ad- ministration if Lincoln is elected, that have alarmed the South, roused it to the conviction that the time has come when it must arm inself- defence, and given to New York some fitful gushes of the tempest of ruin that will howl through the land when it shall become known that honor and life in the South can be preserved only by a seve- rance of the fraternal ties existing with the North. These foretastes of the coming storm have alarmed the black republican leaders for the steadiness of their followers, and the panic maker himself is to be brought here to endea vor to restore a sufficient degree of confidence to last until after the election. He has been told that be must make @ conservative speech, just as he was told on bis return from Europe after the John Brown raid, in order to save his party. We may therefore expect him to assume & very conservative aspect to-morrow, drawing abolitionism as mild as he possibly can. He will be afraid to utter here the sentiments that he expressed at Lansing and Atchison, and we sball therefore see a political wolf in sheep's clothing. The man who claimed to be a Hart- ford Convention traitor at Boston, a moderate anti-slavery man at Detroit, a radical aboli- tionist at Lansing, a filibuster at St. Paul, and the “Brother Seward” of John Brown in Kaneas, will not hesitate to claim to be a good conservative, Union-loving patriot in New York. Against these wiles of the demagogue we warn the people of New York. He has led them into a path which is leading them and their country to ruin. He has stimulated their passions without cause against the people of the South. He has urged the creation of par- ties on geographical lines, against which Wash. ington raised bis patriot voice in warning in his last words to his countrymen, and now he would deceive them for a little while longer as to the revolutionary and ruinous tendency of the measures he advises. Trust me but a few days, give me your sweet breath on the 6th of November, do not believe what my opponents lay to our charge, and when we have power then let the South howl. But, men of New York, it is the warning voice of prudence that comes from the South, bidding you to beware of Seward and his attempt to fasten a foreign and hostile government on a free and unwilling people. It is the premonitory mutterings of the thunder storm, which you may yet dissipate if you listen not to him, but which will over- whelm you and all of us if you give heed to his counsels. Inrivenck or tuk Neoro Vore on THR PaesipeytiaL Contest.—The Supreme Court of the United States having decided that the con- stitution does pot recognise negroes as citizens, it is clear that they cannot legally vote for President and Vice President of the United States. A State may confer the right of suf- frage on dumb animals if it chooses; but it can- not create a citizen as a voter, for the President or other federal officers, from a clase of people to whom the constitution, aa decided by the Supreme Court, has denied citizenship. It ie said that the free negroes in Obio, at the late election, cast about 15,000 votes, and that the vote of the same class in New York will probably range from 5,000 to 10.000. Should the vote in any State necessary to Lincoin’s election be so close as to deprive him of it by throwing out the negro vote, he could pot constitutionally be sworn in as Presi- dent of the United States, though nominally choren by itgplf Mr. Lincoln ie elected, he will probably depart from the practice of the government and give passports to free negroes, and claim that he hed « right to employ the army and navy to protect them in foreign countries, should they fal into any trouble, and thus violate the epirit of the constitution, aod run the risk of involving the country ina war about a free negro, whom the laws of the free States of Indians, IHinois and Iowa deny citizenabip and drive beyond their limite. Let Union men, in all the States where negro sut- frage prevails, watch the polls and ascertain the number of their votes, and if, by throwing them ont, they oan defeat the revolutionista, let them do eo. The Vote of New Yors’—The State Within the Reacm of the Ant Republicans. Onty five days intervene between this and the 6th day of November, the day on which the citizens of this: confederacy of States will be called upon te choose # chief magistrate upon whose shoulders is to be placed the Presidential mantle on the 4th of next March. The result of that day is looked’ forward to with more interest than any election that has taken place since the daye of Jackson. The people from one corner of this widespread country to the other are fully aroused, and are waiting with more than usual anxiety for the decree ef the ballot box on the evening of that eventty) day. The hopes and happiness of nearly thirty millions of people hang upon that decree, and the eyes of all are turned upon the Empire State, asking what will her six hundred thousand voters do on that important duy. The friends of the Union and the consti- tution, diswppointed and defeated by the petty intrigues of the epoils politicians in other Northern States, now turn with heavy hearts upon New York, their last and only hope, te stay the progress of the sectional army under the lead of Lincoln and Seward. This beiag the real position of affairs, how do we find the people of the State prepared to answer the question? What is being done to prevent the election of Lincoln? In the first place, the anti-republican forces, like those in all other Northern States, have spent the best portion of the campaign quarrelling with each other, and have permitted the common enemy to take possession of all of the outer fortresses without opposition. They were marching upop the citadel, when the coa- servative masses of this city took the matter in their hands, and appointed a Committee of Fif- teen, who have succeeded in bringing order out of the chaos and confusion. The opposi- tion to eectionalism is now centred upon one electoral ticket; yet we find but one organiza- tion working for its suecess. The managers of the Albany Regency are 80 absorbed over the local squabbles that they have no time to leok after Presidential matters. The wise heads of Tammany and Mozart Halls are di- recting their talents and energy upon the Congressional, city and Assembly candidates, leaving the electoral ticket to take care of it- self, whilst the Douglas and Breckinridge State Central Committees have more concern about who shall be a ward leader and who labelled regular than they have for the defeat of Lin- coln. This leaves us only the Cooper Iastitute Committee of Fifteen—composed of politicians, merchante, bankers and lawyers—to look after the most important part of the canvess, and upon their shoulders seems to rest the entire re- sponsibility of the Presidential struggle in this State. From all appearances they are at work like men determined to conquer; but we fear that they did not assume the control of the conservative army until the republicans had made such progress that the tide can- not be turned. Thus much for the leaders; how stand the rank and file? The republicans seem to be engaged at a game of brag, and their editors would have us believe that everybody has become dissatisfied with fusion, and, to better themselves, had taken refuge in the republican camp. They are count ing up fabulous majorities, and each appears to be afraid that it is not large enough. On the other band, the advices that we have received do not present so forlorn a picture, or as favor- able for the republicans, as they would have us believe. Everything in this city indicates one of the largest anti-republican majorities that has ever been given in the metropolis. The reports that we have received from the coun- ties lying between this city and Albany, both from leading republicans and democrats, go to thow that the Irish, the Germans, the Ameri- cans, the Douglas and Breckinridge followers, will all “go it blind” for the Union electoral ticket. Leading republicans from that section aseure us that they consider the Congressional districts along the Hudson, now represented by republicans, doubtful, and that the Union eléo- toral ticket is much stronger than the demo- cratic candidates for Congress. The reports from the southern tier of coun- ties—altbough bordering on the State of Penn- sylvania, which has just rolled up an overwhelm- ing majority for the “irrepressible conflict” doo- trines of Seward—are that the repubiicans will lose in many localities, and in others will no more than hold their own. A special correspond- ent from Rochester has sent us the republican figures for a portion of the counties put down as the strongholds of that party, but they do not present any material change in their favor; on the contrary, there is a failing off. We are alao told by the same correspondent that, not- withstanding we are within one week of the election, the floating vote is not yet attached to either party; in fact, we are informed from all sections of the State that the doubtful vote even at this late period is much larger than it was ever before known. It will thus be seen that there is still a hope, forlorn though it may be, for the opposition to the republicans in this State ‘The overthrow of sectionalism is in their power if the leaders will but smoke the pipe of pegce, give up their personal and local squab- bles, and for work the balance of the contest oa though they desired success. The recent change of front of the radical abolitioniste must of necessity reduce the re- publican majorities in the interior of the State, and render Lincoln's defeat much easier. With this view of the field it must be admitted that the battle on the 6th of November will be won by that party which secures the doubtful and floating vote. The recent victory of the repub- licans in the Middle States bes given them the prestige which they believe will draw to their ranks this clase of votes. They are likewise bet- ter orgainzed, their forces more thoronghly drilled, than theée opponents, which gives them the advantage io the work to be done in the next six days, With all the odds against them, the conservative party of New York, although it is the eleventh hour, bave it within their power to prevent the widespread calamity to our finan- cial and commercial interests that must by ma- ture follow the triumph of the revolutionary re- Publican candidate. Let them make « decisive and energetic effort, and the Presidential prize can yet be carried off by them. The republicans are confident, proud and defiant; but the starch can be thoroughly taken out of them if the other side will use the loose material within their reach. Tux Staxpann Prick or A Mewper or Assen. pLY.—In another column will be found an in- teresting and curious letter, which we take from a Rochester paper, from a member of the last Legislature, exposing the corruptions of that infamous body, which, at this stage of the