The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. \8 GaN KE PROPRIETOR FAUmMS BOK wDOR 4 PON AND Nanval OFYICE b, W. SORNEK OF FITL) TERMS, cach rik af Ne sender Non uf D kathen. THE DALE Masud ¢ THE XL? di AMUREMENTS THIS EVENING, WISLO' GARDEN, Siosaway.— Omen, WINTER GARDEN. Broadway opposite Bond acon Macantu wits BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Srauoiwa & Roakes Bocmsrsian Tuovrs. | WALLACK'S THEATRE, Sroatway.—Puarina Weew vee LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Nu G4 Broadway.—tur- 0 AND Faxct—Yoooixs 4 Parise. NEW BOWERY THEATAR, Gowery,—Jewnts—C unex Axe Mr Wire's Cows, tts BARNUY'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Eventug~axvso OupkEx—Living Gyuiositias, £0.— Rose Bixee BRYANTH MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ Ball, 72 Brosawny — Bouimsques, Honos, Dasoms, d0.—Usxo Ur. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Hooury & Caxrnriz's Minetusts ws Brmorias Soxas, Daxous, Uuuiasqurs, &0.— Love's Duco CANTERBURY CONCERT KALOON, 663 Broadway Bowes, Dances, Sowimsques to Sew York Fo tday, Bovember U6, tbH6, The News Acepatches from Chicago and Spring- ner column. They re- y of tho President elect with re- gard to the existing troubles the South. Mr, Lincoln, it appears, does not design to give to the country any fresh exposition of his views and s upon the important questions which now ise the couutry. His sentiments, as declared in his speech at the Cooper Institute, in his de- bates with Judge Douglas, andin the acceptance of the nomination for President on the Chicago platform, are referred to as e ng the prin- ciples and policy of his administration. There ia no perceptible abatement of the seces- sion excitement at the South, Its manifestations appear to be equallyas strong in Virginia and Georgia as in South Carolina. Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, 0-day issue his proclamation calling mn of the Legislature to deliberate state of affair: In Georgia yesterday passed unanimously the House bill ap- illion dollars for the public de- A col tee of the Legislature has pre- pared a bili calling a State Convention, with a recommendation fn favor of immediate resistance, This recommendation of the committee has received the eadorsement of many of the leadiog men of the State, and will, it is believed, receive the unani- mous concurrence of the Legislature. In Savannah the & n feeling is partioularly active. The Ge rot Alabama has also called a Btate Con- vention. Thronghout South Carolina the seces- tion excitement is at fever heat. Gen. Bonham has resigned his seat in Congress, and the federal OMcers continue to send in their resignations by every mai The ERuropean mails to the 3d inst., bronght by the Canada, reached this city early last evening from Boston, thus enabling us to present to our Teaders thie morning a graphic account of the bat- tle between the Allies and the Tartarsin China, and the capture of the Taku forts by fk gether with other interesting extracts files. The German republicans of the city of New York celebrated their recent victory last evening by a cold collation at a Teutonic ‘‘garten” in Essex street, There were about four hundred persons present, all of whom sat down at table and ear- uestly discussed the frigid baked meats of the re- pab eetival. Some speeches were made and enthusiastic cheers given for the President and Vice President elect. An exceYent band dis- coursed very fine mueic during the evening; other- wise the gathering presented no featores of public interest. A meeting to promote the construction of a rail- road to the Pacific was held last evening at the Cooper Institute. A report of the proceedings may be found in another column. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a resolu- tion was offered and laid over directing the Comp- troller to advertise for sale the ferry privilege at the foot of Battery place for aterm of ten years. A resolution was adopted directing the Street Commissioner to advertise for proposals for repair- ing and regulating the public lamps for one year. The report to increase the salary of the Second Assistant Anditor of the Finance Department from $1,000 to $1,500 per annum was adopted. There was a long communication received from the Judges of the Superior Court complaining of the want of accommodation for that tribnnal. In enn. pection with this subject Alderman Owens offered 4 resolution to the effect that the rooms now occu- pied by the Court of Sessions and the General Term of the Supreme Court, on the second floor in {the brown stone building on the Park and Chambers street, be appropriated for the use of the Superior Court. The resolation was adopted unanimously. Some onimportant routine business was transacted, and the Board adjourned ti) Monday next. The Board of Councilmen held their asual meet- ing last evening, when a large amount of routine business was transacted. The report of the Com mittee on Roads, concurring to regulate and grade Beventy eighth street, between Third avenue and Fast river, was adopted, andthe contract for per- forming the work was awarded to Hugh Humes, be being the lowest bidder. The lowest bid was $14,319.35, and the total amount to beappropriated is $15,210 68, A communication was received from the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, in which he states that no appropriation haa been made for defraying the expenses of keeping the fire telegraph in order, so that there have been nu- merous false alarms of fire owing to a want of commanication with many of the bell towers. Mr. Decker requested the Common Council to remedy this evil as soon as possible. The paper was re- ferred to the Committee on Fire Department. The Poard concurred with the Aldermen in confirming a large mumber of reports in favor of constracting sewers and flagging silewalke. The Board con- curred to award the contract for removing the L on the south side of pier 29 North river to Thomas Morgan, for $4,700, he being the Jowest bidder; also to confirm as document sent to the Common Council by the Fire Commisioners, granting the petition of Hose Company No. 5 to be organized as Engine Company No, 47. They concurred to ndvertiae for proposals to build a house for Engine Company No. 92. The sum of $10,000 was appro- priated for removing obstructions from Harlem river. The sixty-third anniversary meeting of the So- ciety for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children was held yesterday, in the charch corner of Tenth street and University place, and was at. tended by # namber of the wives and daughters of our most influential citizens. The annual report of the secretary stated that there are 458 widows and 1,165 children at the present time recipients of the bounty of the society. Owing to the death of many of the old inhabitants of thé city, Who have been regular contributors to the fands of the so. clety, its efforta are now restricted to that part of he town lying below Thirty-second street. The mer, to- from our 1 wid ( cnable them % extend their beuevoleot er part of the city. The re the pest year bave na to the © ciate of the wt TY, and the ey 1— leaving bat mart ot Over end Terminer yesterday ut—brother of James Earigat, who Was CONVIOFE tuoket swindling oa Wedaesday— | was puton ial upon the charge of killing Daniel Horn cen, in & barroom feacas corner of Cedar aud | Weatsuvot, om the 20th of August, There waa evidence to show that Enright, and also another | pereoa «ho is uader indictment for the homicide | of @orrigan, beat the deceased with tumblers and bottles about the Lead; but it was not proven that "| the accused inflicted the murderous blow, and the jury therefore returned a verdict of ‘Not guilty.” | he depreesion to foreign exobange, with the Srmnces ; Of frelghte and in the mouey market, tonded to obeok | operations tm @otion yesterday. The sales embraced | about 1,200 # 1,600 beles, closing on the basis of figures (tven 'n another column. The flour markot opened with | nuoyancy, but the business tm exchange aad improve- ment iv fretghte depremed the market, which closed bes ry end duil, aad at easter rates for some desorip- | tioos Wheat, from the game oauses, was less activo, | ard chewed Gull, without any change of moment ia qrotations, Corn algo was lees active and firm, and the ‘veleee moderate. Pork was heavy and chesper: sales | of com mess were made at $1875, and cew prime was reported @t $18.0 $1395 Sugars were doll, with sales 1 280 bhda end 60 boxes, Coffeo was quict: 6CO bags © were eold as 18c 4149 Froights were firmor, with 1 tour to Liverpa Oden 8s. 10d. @ 45.; whoat, im wok aod ship's begs, at 14d,a 14594; and to London twas takeo at 16d, tn bulk,aud at 1654. in ship's Union and the Incoming Admiais- ‘etion— What Wili Mr, Lincoln's Cabi- Bot All accounts from Springfield, Illinois, coa cur in representing “honest Abe Lincoln” as an oracle which gives no sound or sign touch- ing the policy and purposes of the incomiag edwivistration. La reply to all the suggestions that have been thrown out by the conservative | journals of the North in behalf of some public ' declaration, at this crisis, from the power that is to be, of what this power will be, we are | told tbat Br. Lincola’y linois speeches are | before the country, and that they embody the | views and principles that will govern his course at Washington. We take up, then, the volume of Mr. Lia- coln’s speeches, delivered in his [inois cam- peign of 1858, ae the competitor of Mr. Douglas for his seat in the Senate; but what do we find? In one speech we find Mr. Lincoln, in advazce of the Ro- chester menifesto, proclaiming the identical “irrepressible conflict” of W. H. Seward, that “a houce divided against iteelf cannot stand;” that “this government cannot endure perma- neatly balf slave and half free,” but that “it will become all one thing or all the other.” In an- other speech we find Mr. Lincoln declaring frankly his submission to the Fugitive Slave law; that if the people of a free Territory should adopt a proslavery State constitution he could “see no alternative but to admit them into the Union; and that he thought that the abolition of slavery in the Disirict of Columbia could only be accomplished properly by gradual steps, and under the vote of the people con- cerned, and with full compensation to unwill- ing slaveowners. In the same speech he ex- pressed the same reserve and caution against Congressional tampering with the slave trade between the slave States. -| Here, then, we have upon the record of Mr. Lincoln the “irrepressible conflict” of Mr. Sew- ard, and the conservative anti-slavery views of Henry Clay—opintions in unison with those of the abolition radicals, and next, in bold re- lief, the sentiments of the conservative wing of the republican party. We can say, too, that the radicals and the moderate men of his party supported Mr. Lincoln in thia lata canvass with the same confidence and entbusi- asm; but the question remains unanswered as to which wing of the camp his administration will attach iteelf to. We are admonished, too, that in advance of bis Investinent with the robes of executive authority, Mr. Lincoln intends to leave his speeches delivered as a candidate for the United States Senate in 1858 to define his porition as the successor of ir. Buchanan in the Presidential office. In the selection of his Cabiaet, however, Mr. Lincoln must necessarily, in advance of his in- @ugural address, pretty distinctly foreshadow his Presidential policy and purposes. Thus far, it appears, that in reference to every new Ca- binet made up for him in the newspapers, his unvarying remark is, “ Yes, a very respectable Cabinet,” or, “ A much worse Cabinet than this might be selected for me,” or some equivalent observation. He will take his time, and tho- roughly consider his men before adopting them; and this is the proper course to pursue; but stil], the general complexion of his Cabinet must necessarily be known before the expira- tion of Mr. Buchanan’s term of office. The anthslavery radicals and the moderate republicans are equally confident of a satisfac- tory Cabinet ; and here the important question recurs, will Mr. Lincoln, in this important mat. ter, make it his paramount object to harmonize | his party or to harmonize the country? The harmony of the country should be his first object; but honest men as well as dishonest demagogues are apt to be led astray and | chained to the wall by the shackles of party. Let us hope that “honest Abe Lincola” will be strong enough for the crisis. Among the names of the conspicuous republican leaders circu. lated in the newspaper lista of his Cabinet we | | find those of W. H. Seward, Senators Wilson | and Sumner, John Sherman, of Ohio; John Hick- | man, of Pennsylvania; Schayler Uolfax of In- | diana, and others of the same anti-slavery ‘ir- | Tepressible conflict” school, the endorsers of | the infamous Helper book, or the preachers of | Seward’s crusade of extermination against slavery and the “slave power.” Now, we belleve that we are not guilty of any unwarrantable presumption in warning | Mr. Lincoln, first, that the appointment of Mr. | Seward ss his Secretary of State will | net only be fatal to his administration, | but will, from the outset, be fatal to all our hopes of a restoration of the peace of the country. “Men may cry peace, peace ; but there will be no peace,” with Seward as the premier of the incoming administration. His appointment will be the endorsement of hie late abolition pilgrimage from Boston to Kansas, including bis declaration that “ Lin- coln’s administration will be the downfall of slavery.” And the same mischief, more of leea, will follow the promotion of any endorser of Heiper's handbook of treason to ® seat in the Cabinet. In this view, it becomes the policy of Mr } Lincoln aaa party man, a« well as hie duty in the character of a patriot, to avoid al! cavse of { offence and sectoual bitterness in the ssalection | 0 iety therefore appenl to the churitably disposed | | ra have smoonted | forthe focacoming year, | of Lis Oobinet, Lookiug the oriticsl condition ot the Unioo fairly in the face, he should set omevevery man whose appointment could be soncly considered an insult and an act of dell- wnos to the South, or to what Mr. Seward is pleased to devomipate the “slave oligarchy.” We bave bigher authority than that of Mr. Lin- coln or Mr, Seward for this deolaration, thst “@ house divided against itself oacuot | stand.” Our house, our noble house, our glorious house~the Union~we know is | #o far divided against itself as to be in great peril, We know, too, that this peril hus suddenly aasumed the eymptoms of a sec tional revolt, from the election of a President on a hostile sectional idea, by a hostile eection- el perty. Mr. Lincoln cannot fail to comprehend thie fact, bis position, the difficulties before him, and his responsibilities to the American people. Let bim act, then, accordingly; and let him, in the selection of his Cabinet, manifest a gene- rous disposition towards the South, and a para- mount deaire for peace and good will between the two sections of the Union, and he may wea ther the storm in safety, On the oppoeite tuck, bis administration and bis party will be wrecked and broken to pieces, whatever may be te fate of the Union. Secession is Revolation—Iie Rainous Ef- fect om Commerce and Wages Every- where. No man should close his eyes to the mighty questions that are before us, the intimate con- nection that exists between our political and commercial rela\ions, and the beariag upon them of the widerpread agitation now going on. Secession is revointion, and what the South is Dow considering is the policy of using the sacred right of revolution in self-defence, It is not from the evecess or fullare of revolation that the evil to all our material interests is to flow. Neither is it necessary that revolution shonlé be installed for disaster to follow. The very agitation of the question strikes at the root of commercial confidence, and when this tails the whole edifice of oredit, finance and trade falls with it, Lord Brougham, himself one of the master agitators of the antlslavery question, has confessed that the dissolution of the American Union would be the severest blow to liberty, civilization and material and intellectual de velopement that conld possibly be given, and the whole world would feel the the disastrous results. A revolutionary movement with such an object in view would be almost equal in danger to its consummation. Yet what is the speotacle the country pre- sents today? Inthe North we have an aull- slavery oligarchy, founded on a claim to direct the consciences of men, proclaiming from & thousand presses, pulpits and platforms, that “slavery is an evil anda crime.” The North ern people, feeling that the question is an ab- stract one for them, admit its righteousness as a part of their moral code, and elevate to power @ party that makes it the foundation of their political philosophy. The masses, having no personal interest in the question, do not care to examine what must be the effect of a policy in government growing out of such a philosophy. The leaders, greedy for the spoils which they see within their reach, steadily refuse to re- cognise the resulta which they are producing, and vauotingly claim that the “irrepressible conflict” is now begun, and that it is time to bring it to a head. In the South a similar feeling has come to prevail, but through a practical and not an ab stract view of the subject. Claiming that for a mixed community of whites and blacks, the in- stitution of domestic servitude for the inferior race is the wisest that can be adopted in social and political organization, and, consequently, is productive of moral and material good to both races and to society at large, the declara- tion that “ slavery is an evil and a crime” comes home to every man’s interest and to every man’s hearthstone. They feel that its philosophy is at war with the wisdom of their institutions, and, consequently, with the moral and material good of both racer. Nay, more: that any at- tempt to establish political eqnality between the two races would be the initiation of a social war that could only be carried on through the moet terrible and bloody practices, to the inevi- table annihilation of the weaker of the two races. With this conviction in their hearts the Southern people cannot believe that the inauguration in the federal government of a political philosophy #0 hostile to their anclety cam pascihly he atnpped in ite developement by the simple declaration that it is intended to apply only to the Territories and not to the States. They feel that it will insugu- rate an agitation of the question in their midst which will lead to the most fearful state of things among their slaves, and hence they ap- peal to revolution as the means of self defence. ‘What effect will revolution, even a bloodless ene, in politics, have upon the commercial world? Politics are bound to commerce by the sympathetic and vital ties of confidence. If political relations are hostile, confidence is destroyed, and commerce is the first to fall. In order to show bow the destruction of politi- cal harmony between the Northern and South- ern States of our Union will affect the whole world, we need take only the single instance of one article—cotton. That is the chief sta. ple of Southern industry and trade, and with its prosperity or adversity all the other branches sympathize, The sale of cotton is neaded to enable the South to meet its own exigencies, Its transportation gives em- ployment to the vast fleet of our mercantile morine. Ite arrival is required to give life to the manufacturing industry of Mas- sachusetts, England and France. After giving employment, in ite manufacture, to millions of operatives in thore countries, it enters to a pre ponderating extent into their commerce with all the reat of the world. The moving of this vast mass through all there intricate and life-giving channels of trade is the labor that is performed by commercial confidence throagh the medium of bills of ex- change. Now @e agitation of the question of revolution im the South destroys or dilapidates this confidence. Taking only the lesser event of dilapidation, ihe result is delay in its re moval from point © Point This delay strikes st the root of wages everywhere, A delay of tixty days in the moving of one-half of the eotten étop wonld throw four millions of people in Engla:.d alone out of employment for that time, and these four milifons are known to live only by their daily wages. Such a result would throw England off her soola! balance; and would be proportionate to every otber civilized conntiy. The ¢ arimilar reenit be that every effort would be made to rep)we _NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860. confidence, ws the moving power for cotton, with some other means, This can only be found in specie, aad the withdrawal of the im nenee amount becertary to move two hundred nitions of dollars worth of cotton, from its vicinary chennels, would derouge the epeois | Dosis of cireulation and trade in every com- mercial country. This is what “ the stoppage of cotton bills,” to use « commercial phrase, means, and why the event curries algra into every commercial circle, Its practical effect is to establish in Europe and in these Northern States the real conflist between the black republican axiom, that “slavery ie an evil and a crime,” and the wis com of the inetitution of Afrioan slavery ia the social organization of our Southern States, containing eight millions of free whites aod four millions of negro slaves. This battle bas to be fought here, as the ad- dress of the Breckinridge New York Commit- tee, which we published yesterday, truly stated, and in Europe. It is the question of commerce, industry and wages in the free white communities of the earth, and even the delay which its discussion involves carries witb it starvation to millions, and immense, perbaps ruinous, sacrifices to all. Tax Carter Execriox—Bostix ww tik Po. uivicaL Camrs.—As the charter election ap- proaches there is bustle in the different camps of the political factions. Some of them, we believe, are sending scouts out in search of candidates for the offices to be filied; but from all we can learn there are about a thonsand people in the field who are auxious (o become candidates for the thirty or forty places to be given away— Aldermen and the rast of them. tp this state of aflsirs we shall have a vice mixing up of things; for it is pretty evideut that there are vo regular parties ia ex slence, they are all divided iate Little personal cliquas, each striving after its share of the ten millious of spoils involved in tue coming election. The last election left us with three distinvt tac- tions; but now thes seem to have been entirely disintegrated in view of the plunder, aud we may look out for a grand revolution among all the political parties of the metropolis. There is some intimation that the Commitiee of Fifteen, who took charge of the fusion movement, intend to nominate a set of candidates for Aldermen aud other corporation offi whom probably the taxpayers in a body would vote for, und iet aii the grogshop uominees go their own way. They mizht possibly be able to do this; or the taxpayers themeelves might call a meeting and form a ticket composed of respectable men. But the difficulty would be to manage the votes at the polls. The grogshop politiciaas would be potent there, and those who had the largest share of the spoils to promise would be most potent with the grogshop politicians of all par- ties. Now it happens that after the 4th of March the republicans wili have the Castom House avd Post Office appolatments in their hands, and they will be therefore more than 6 match for all their opponents. These appointments will be promised lavishly to hundreds of the governing classes, and we fear that the respect- able portion of the republican party, who might give us a few decent officials, will not outweigh the grogshop republicans—for this class exists in that party, too, though of a different brand from thet of the democratic factions—their moral, or rather immoral, standing being the same. Everything indicates just now that the ‘charter election will be an exciting affair,a very curlous and complicated affair, and will be attended with more turmoil and fuss than the Presidential election; for what is the eleo- tion of s President, to our grogshop politicians, compared in importance with the spoils of the corporation, which they are ali hangering aftert Tax Ticket Swixptisa Bostvess—Ar oF THE Catrrorsta Leaistatore Requinep.—The sys- tem of ticket swindling on the California lines of steamships, which so repeatedly furnishes sub- ject for comment in the newspapers and cases for our courts, has grown to be one of the greatest grievances with which the metropolis fs infested. There is hardly day that some poor stranger is not made the victim of these sharks, who hang around the railroad depots and piers, known as ticket agents for the dif- ferent lines of steamships to California. They are the objects of frequent complaint before the magistrates, and yet in very few instances are they brought to justice. The case is either obliged to be dismiseed through some legal weakness, statutory indefiniteness or lawyer's adroitness, or else it is compromised by re- funding the money fraudulently extorted. At all events the system appears to fourish as well as ever. The victims continue to be as nu merous, and the ticket swindlers as bold as they ever were. A case of particular hardship recently oo- curred, in which, we are happy to say, the per- petrators were convicted. In June last a gen- tleman of Bedford, Mase., arrived in this city by the steamer Plymouth Rock, and was met on the wharf by a ticketagent whose name has been more than once brought into question in connection with ticket seliiog, who took him to the office of a certain friend, and there sold him what purported to be second cabia tickets for California by the North Star for bis sister aod her infant. He paid $187 for the tickets; bnt they proved to be steerage tickets, wort) only $125, The unfortunate woman was thus compelled to endure the discomforts of « ater age passage with her little infant, and was cheated out of $62 besides, The two parties concerned in this swindle were arrested, tried and convicted s few daye ago. This is*only one case out of many. The truth is, every new enterprise or new braach of commerce is made the subject of swindling ‘and cheating by 8 class of adventurers who take advantage of the oppor'anities offerad by the necessities or eathusivem of the public to make money out of them. There is only one way by which this ticket swindling business can be effectually put & stop to, aud that is by the Legislature of Osliornia appointing « commissioner or commissioners to reside io New York and supervise the emigration ant sale of tickete bere—some parties who may ob» applied to with confidence, and who would be responsible for their sotions. It appears im posible for onr courts to reach the ougerous band of fellows who represent themselves as agents for the different lines, and olerks of agen*s, and eo forth, and in this guise succeed in evading the law and swindling the public. Bol if there was some commissioner duly ac credited by the State of Catifornia to look after thie buefpem «ll such ewiadliag would goon becume imporsidle. {rhe Approaching Rash f~ *° Spotle— Hord Thinee for Poor Ort AB* Does anybody envy the incoming s resident? Is anybody anxious for « crown of thorns ad & bed of thisties t Hus anybody noticed that thé republican oratore who have been incessantly spouting and blowing about their patriotism end devotion to the constitution and the Union have euddenly become dumb? True, the re- publican organs, the conductors of which are not over and above distinguished for common sense, are publishing flaming articles against the Soutb; but ao word of cencitistion or attack comes Jrom the mouths of the republican lead- ers-—they have other fishes to fry. They are plotting and intriguing and echemiog as to how they shall best cheat each other, and get the inside of the track with poor “Olid Abe.” For eight years the republicans have been in outer darkness, weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth, while the intensified democracy sat by the bright fire, in the cosey kitcben, eating and drinking of the bevi, and licking their chops in mockery of the hungry fellows outside, whose appetites were only sbarpened by the fumes of the fleshpots. Now tbat they have got a chance at the kitchen, how furiously they will fight each otber for the eteaming viande. How the sevs. ral cliques will quarrel over every single mor eel, and bite and snarl over each several and particular bone. The soothing line of the pious Watis, “Let dogs delight to bark and bite,” will be quoted to these Goths in vain, The cry will be va viclis! The democrisy having been vanquished, the victors will pro- eed to divide the epoile aad in eo doing wil eat each other up. In less than a year afler the ipavguration of ancient Abraham, there will not be left as much as a fragment of Massa Greeley’s old white coat to poiat the moral of this epitaph—Here lies the republican party. Whom the Gods wish to destroy, saith the proverb, they fist make mad; sad the republi- oana ere a)) orazy for office, al! victims of that peculiar phase of inganity which bas broken up every political organization ia this country. We remember, as far back az 1829, when the policy of filling the federal offives upon the maxim of Mr. Marcy, “to the victors belong the spoils of the vanquished,” was first distinct- ly recognired, there was a terrible rush of office bepgare, holding their hats in their handa, and praying for anything, from a Cabinet effice down to a porter’s place. The anecdote of the man who applied to Jackson for a foreign mis- sion, and gradually came down fo far as to ask the President for some of his old clothes, gives the best illustration of the state of things at the time. The next grand rush was in 1840, when Harrison came in on # hard cider barrel, Harrison had such an immense number of friends that he was absolutely killed by their attentions. Captain Tyler had no party, but he still managed to fill the federal offices. In 1844 there was a tremendous outside preasure upon Mr. Polk, and in 1848 the office seekers managed to kill off Taylor. Those were hard times in Washington, when old Rough and Ready was pulled and hauled this way by the Chevalier Webb, and that way by the prime mendicant of another clique, until the brave veteran, who had met the Semi- noles with ashrog and the Mexicans with a smile, surrendered for the first time in his life, and, like another Cwsar, bored to death, cover- ed his face and gave up the ghost. There was rather a severe run upon Pierce, who, however, was too tough to be killed. He promised everybody everything, and then al- lowed the people of his kitchen Cabinet to dis- tribute the spoils. In 1856 the office beggars were comparatively few in number, as the suc- cession made no change In the partisan polloy of the executive. But now that there has been grand overthrow in political affairs, the in- coming President will do well to prepare him- self fora grand assault, such an one as was never before known. All the republicans, rich and poor, expect office of some kind or other. There will be at least @ million of candidates for fifty thousand offices. Think of # million letters of application and recommendation to be read! Reflect upon the spectacle of a million of individuals rushing about sak- ing people in a frantic way to “signa their papers.” Behold Washington city in the morth of March next, invaded by a horde of hungry and seedy patriots, with very large yellow envelopes sticking out of their pockets. Imagine, if you can, the lying, the treachery, ral filth and despair, which this shameful busi- ness of place bunting will bring about. Think of the hope deferred thst maketh the heart sick and the pocket empty; the weary waiting, as the spring glides away and the summer months steal on, while long bills accumulate, and friends have loaned so mach money that they don’t really see how they can continue to in- dulge in that charming though somewhat ex- pensive tusury. Though everybody knows that the above pic- ture is correctly drawn, nobody will heed the lessons it teaches. Office beggars are like lot- tery ticket buyers—every one says to himself it is not I ybo will get the blank. When the wheel ix turned things have somewhat changed. Let Mr Lincoln, then, be prepared for s ter- rible onslanght He will need all his nerve. There are four hundred thousand Wide Awakes already at his heels. They are after the man- cert of the wise virgins in the Soripture, and Will keep their lamps trimmed and burniag, until they shall be bidden to enter in and pos- sere the kingdom. Well will it be if the Presi- dent elect does not feel impelled to cry out, in the langnage of his favorite poet — —— Nougat’s bad, all's spout, Where our desire i@ gut without content Ato vor THe Eravian Cavse.—The appeal for a@eistance made by the Italian patriots to the American public is one that even our own po litical troubles should not induce us to over- look. The cause of Italy is the cause of free dom all over the world, and has the strongest claim on our sympathies. Let efforts therefore be atonce made to show this gallant people tbat we are not indifferent to the priaciples for which they are contending. It only requires their appeal to be property placed before our public for it to meet with a prompt and gene- Tour response. In these matters organization is everything, and if a few of our leading merchants ‘were to take it ia band we have no doubt that a large amouat could be raised In a very short time. In the meanwhile, in order that the op- portnaity may not be wauting to those Who are disposed to contribute, we wish it to be under. stood that subscriptions will be taken at the office of this paper, and handed over to ihe parties authorized to receive them. > New Yor Nor Deap Yer.—We beg that our friends in the rural districts aud the interior towne, such as Boston, Phiiade\phia and Provi- dewce— places which have voted in euch @ mam ‘Der 46 to endanger the future of the country— will ubdefetand that the commercial metropohis still lives, and is rather cboerful than other wine We do not sit down and weep over the pree peot that we may bave to auffer from the (oly and fanaticiem of others. Our people have been very much excited, and somewhat atarmnd, atthe late news from the South. Tne people of that section are bound to us by many ties bevides thope of businees. We have exchanged bospitalities, received and returne@ courtesies with them. Weare counect«d, come of us by blood and others by marriage, with Southera families. All this makes us iook apon the pre- sent state of things in the cotton States with deep regrets, and at the same time to hope for the best reeults from the conservatiam of Vis ginis, Kentucky and Tennesee. So we do not give up yet, and are preparing for our winter’s work and winter’s play as if the country was to fast some time longer Broadway bas not lost an iota of its glory. Om such bright and beautiful days as yesterday, the grand promenade glisteus wite the beauty and fashion of the metropolis, and presents the most curious and wonderful picture of human nature in ail ite various forms. The picture dealers are getting ready for the exhibition aa@ sale of chefs d'ouvres by native and foreign artisie; the paloiers ace displaying in their studios the fruits of their summer vacations; the ladies make the great Broadway bazasre re sound with the music of their voices, as they discuss the new styles, or “do up their winter shopping;” the theatrical managers ate busy with their holiday novelties, and the ateliers of Irving place resound with the Babel of many tongues as the preparations for the new Opera season go forward. So New York is not dead yet. The Empire City will stick to the Union till the last, and, ia the meantime, will pay that remarkably strict attention to ita own affairs for which it has always been distinguished. Let the small towns go and do likewise. If a great panic, which bas arisen in the South, ex- tends North, we ehall not probably see any very palpable indications of its progress on the surface of society. People dance and sing, marry and ere given in marriage, on the brink of ruin, striving to forget, if possible, the daa- ger in which they stand, Paopaste Termination of The CuivEsR War.—The last advices from China render it probable that by this time articles of peace have been signed between the repreeentatives of the Allies and the Imperial commissioners, The main conditions on which a treaty will be rati- fied will be permission for the residence in Pekin of the Ministers of the two governments and an indemnity for the expenses of the war. If the firat of these be obtained, a complete revolution will take place in the policy of this hitherto exclusive empire. Its internal com- merce will be opened to the trade of the world, the restrictions impozed on the exportation of various products and on emigration will be re- moved, the importation of machinery will be allowed, and religious propsgandism will pave the way for the introduction of Western civill- vation. The effect of all this on Western inte- rests themrelves will be Incaloulable. New markets will be opened to thelr enterprise, sources of wealth hitherto unexplored will be turned to their beuefit, thelr manufactures will find 8 demand which will tax their utmost powers of production, and the problema in connection with slave labor, which are at Present causing so much disturbance, may be destined to receive their solution from the flood of emigration which will be let loose from this deneely populated empire. There is no doubt that whatever advantages will be extorted by the Allies from the impe- rial government will be equally participated in by this country. It would be curious if, when threatened by the disruption of the com- mercial ties which bind the two great sections of the Union together, others should present themeelvee, offering a new and vaster field for the agricultural and Industrial productions of both A Forthcoming Book. Rovatry is tax New Wox.v; on, Tax Pacrce ov one of the pecial Corteapondente ofthe New one Yona Haracp. The graphic and faithful sccounte which we published day by day during the progress of the Prince of Wales were admitted, both here and tn England, to be the best written upon that important Listorical event, The subject was not one of merely ephemeral interest, for it will occupy s prominent position in the history af the two nations, end be looked back upon with pleagure by both peoples. We are, therefore, glad that Mr. Corm- wallia, oar epecial correspondent, who accompanied the royal party throughoct their tour, from thetr first lasd- {pg om the continent till their Gna ceparture from Port- land, i about to supply & popniar want by the publication, Of @ complete narrative of the royal progress from be_ sipping to end. feo! aveured that no one te more capabie, b tb from literary talent and persona! observation, of doing eatire Justics to the scbjeot as « matter of history, and of pre- dveiw, vely, agreeable sad entertaining book witnal, Wan the grvtieman to whom we refer. And there ie so Coebt Ube * ork will prove @ pleasant souvenir of the New World travels of the eideet son of Queen Victoria, and bave a lorge ciroulation, not only in this country, bat om the other side of the Atlantic, where {t i announced te ‘*ppear simuliaceousiy with the Americas editioe. Our cove Ds will thus Dave a volume of good, reliable matter, Dich is more than cow be sald of the accounts of the oor respondent cf the London Times. Amerionm outatripped Regivh jourvalimo from the outsct in recording the Prinee’® progress, sod this both tm acoursey aad @e spatch. Twaarun Frascats—On leet Saturday night week Mr. ‘The ploce is ilustrative of a battle, commencing #¥ nh the formation of tbe troops, thety disposition against" o¢ one. my, the charge, feint, rally and victory. Br sacs the Above brilliant feature there is a host of 8910 ' yerformens and orale, who have commento ly W sdored thete tervicee Harvey Dodworth, George F. ow and Dires- tor Graifaia, the istter of the Netional O vard Rend, will cowdork Uae aflalr