The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1860, Page 4

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The News Our reports from the South are bighly important, Never probably since the 11th of December, I the day on which the British army evacuated Charleston, and thus virtually closed the war of American independ has such a scene beea yoste arated Pa flag. The ped in our columns witnessed iu that city there a revolution under spectacle is grapbica this morning, b short of the tion was com- menced by h g the State flag upon a liberty pole, erec by the merchants in a central part of the city salvos of artillery, martial music and the enthusiastic cheers of the populace, while the ladies added their plaudits from the windows and balconies of the surrounding houses. As the {1 floated in the breeze the blessing of Heaven on the new republic was invoked by one of Charleston's most eminent divines. & es tollowed from men whose names are perhaps miliar to our readers in connection with ppblic events; but this ciream stance proves that tle crisis has brought out those unused to active participation in ordinary politica, movements. Throughoutthe city and on the masts of the shipping the Palmetto flag was displayed, and nowhere was the ensign of the Union to be seen fave floating over the fortress in the harbor. All day the enthusiasm was kept up, and in the eve- ning another demonstration took place, at which addresses in favor of secession were delivered by several speakers. A rumor prevailed inthe city yesterday to the effect that the United States mail steamship Colum- bia, Captaia Berry, which sailed at twelve o'clock, departed flying the Palmetto flag, instead of the American standard. This rumor was untrue, though not altogether unfounded, for the Columbia left the pier with the ‘‘star spangled banner” flying et her peak, while the Palmetto flag was hoisted on her mainmast, in place of the private signal of the company usually earriedthere. Captain Berry owns considerable real estate in Charleston, and it is alleged that for certain politic motives he was induced to fly the disunion flag while at Charleston Jast. The steamship herself hails from Charleston, but is the property of a joint stock company in va- rious cities of the Union. There was said to have beena meeting of so ne of- ficersof the leading banks of this city yesterday, with the view of considering the propriety of adoptiag some measures for the relief of the exchange mar ket, and thereby promoting the shipment of pro- dace. Among other propositions, it was stated that there was one which contemplated endorsing Brown, Brothers & Co.'s bills drawn against pro- dace, with bills of lading attached, to the amount of three to five millions of dollars, provided the proceeds were returned from England in specie. So far as we could learn no definite action waa reached by the conference, which adjourned with- out doing anything, but whether to meet again we could not learn. We publish in to-day's paper details of Mexican news to the 7th inst. The accounts of the move- ments of the belligerent forces are involved in considerable uncertainty, no mails having been re- ceived from the capital for some time prior to the sailing of the mail steamer Tenenssee. The only thing that seems to be certain is, that the city fof Guadalajara had not fallen, notwithstanding the repeated ‘‘confirmations” of its capture published by the New Orleans papers. In the Supreme Co yesterday, Judge Ingra- ham granted an order for an injunction requiring Commodore Vanderbilt to show canse why he should not be restrained from erecting » pier or bulkhead at the Battery. The order is returnable on the 32d inst. The steamship Atlantic sailed from thia port yea- terday for Southampton and Havre, with forty- eight passengers and $75,000 in specte, The Edin- burg also sailed yesterday for Queenstowa and Liverpool, with 192 passengers. The newly appointed Ju James W. White has commenced a suit against the Leader for libel The mystery connected with the Kolyer mar. der, at Bast New York, has not yet been solved, At the adjourned inquest yesterday medical evi- dence was heard which only confirmed what was known before—that the untortunate man met his death by the breaking his he id. of seventy years of age, and grandfather of Joseph Lambert, who was suspected ea the perpetrator of the murder, was examined, but nothing was elicited from him to fix the guilt on his gran$aon, The in quest has been further adjourned to Wednes- day next; but the case bids fair to be one added to those inexplicable mysteries of blood and crime which any time this twenty years have startled this community. A meeting was held last evening in the lecture room of Dr. Cheever's church, in ce of ne sequ six months postponement of the que relating to the British Aid Mission havin me expired As some doubts existed sof the pastor's visit to England, a motion to postp one the consideration of the matter y Was adopt ed, and the meeting adjourned, after being sion but a few minutes. Affer the ad eucnment, weveral members of the congregation arr.yod ond appeared much disappointed at the hasty couclu sion of the meeting. A special and private meeting of the American Zoological and Botanical Society was held last evening at the Athenaeum in Fifth avenue. No Dasiness of public importance was transacted, pri- vate matters alone being attended to. It is stated that the sum of $23,000 has been already collected for the purpose of establishing the society. The game cauaes which influence! the movements tm Produce, previously noticed continued without abate mt yesterday. The stringency ia money and the depression in sterling bills tended to cheek the export demand for Doth cotton and breadstai™s, ant to render prices irraga. lar, The sales of the former emdraced abot 2,000 bales, ‘which closed at quotations given by dif rent brokers for middlisg uplands, from IL. 8 115g), the majority fa. woring 11440. 8 11)6% Flour was beary, ani clowed ats decline of 100. ® Ibo. per boi. t, and in the absence of purchases of momwot for shipment prices were in a measure nocinal. Therm.) e. cs made ‘and the prices obtained wore not reiiable as sandard quotations, Gorn, with a fa'r domestic demacd, t'ood ite ‘| in of his skull in the back of | Henry Lambert, an old man, upwards | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1860. | gccnd better, with w fair amount of svle*, tucluding | Weeterp mixed at 69; @ 707, a0@ 12+, fur round yellow. | Snes s wire uncharged, while the Bales embraced about | 0 bbs ; about 1,060 bbds. with 8,000 bags, tt wasenit, wire re-exported to London aud other Europesa ports, on owners’ eccount. Coffe was quiet, and sles Mamited to 644 begx Ris, inferior to gud quality, at OSC, a 13%: Frojgbte continued firm, with « fair amouas of eagage mets The Approaching Seas! of Comgrese ana the Sew Epoch im Oar Polltical Affairs. Apprebexsions are widely entertained among our prophetic politicians that the comiog ses- tion of Congress will be signalized by ecenes | of eectional excitement, vilent collisions, and |“ noire and confusion” unperalleled in the | apple of American politics. But we can- | Dot regard thee thinga a8 inevitable, al- | though we fully adopt the idea that the reas- | sembling of this Congress will mark a uew ‘epoch in our political history—an epooh of | peaceable recorstruction, or of a pacific or vio- | lent dissolution, of the existing league of the | United Srates. | | | Considering the deep and general excitement in the Southern States, reeulting from the ad- | vancement of the anti-slavery republican party | of the North to the occupation of the federal | government, it would be folly to suppose that | this short session of Congress will have the | time, or that the Senate will have the temper, to do anything on the tariff question, or for the Pacific Railroad, or upon free homesteads, or | upon the biil for the admiesion of Kan- | eae into the Union, while the absorbing | question of the Union itself ia at stake. It will | be well if the ordinary bills for the necessary | wants of the government are passed, pending this greater issue of the continuance or dissolu- tion of the government. The people of the | Southern States have been brought to the exact | point of demanding additional gafeguards with | in the Union, as the price of their continued | allegiance ; and this, we expect, will be the | main question before this three months’ session | of Congress. The proposition, as we anticipate, from the | movements afoot in the Soath, will come before Congress in the form of an appeal from the | Southern States for a convention of all the States for tbe purpore of eo revising the federal con- | stitution ae to render the institution of slavery alike secure against abolition emissaries and conapiracies, underground railroads, and North- ern anti-slavery State Legislatures and Northern | majorities in Congress. The inquiring reader may ask, wherefore thia demand for the rejec- tion of tbe constitution of our fathers, and for this new charter for the benefit of the slave States’ We may avawer that it is because the checks and balances of the constitution of our fathers are insufficient to secure the institution of slavery from the hostile aggressions of the overwhelming and still increasing representa- tive majorities of the anti-slavery North. But what will Congress do with this demand for the adoption of a new system of government for the United States? We cannot tell. The two houses will probably reject the proposition. Bat if they are wise they will give the subject a careful consideration, and if they cannot imme- diately accept it, they will leave it an open question, as a safety valve for the otherwise dangerous disunion excitement in the South. ‘The programme involved in this proposition in- cludes the alternative of the secession of at least the extreme Southern States in s body from the Union. Their idea is that the junction of the South for a convention of all the States to re- model the constitution will secure the desired Southern coalition for the alternative of dis- union should a new constitutional convention for their protection within the Union be denied them. It is aleo believed that against the move- ment even of the cotton States in a body from the Union no measures of coercion will be at- tempted. The alternative, then, which Congress will have to consider, will be a convention for the revision of the federal constitution for the se- curity of the South, or an independent South- ern confederacy. Give the South a little mar- gin of indulgence and of time, give them this idea of a new federal constitutional conven- tion to work upon, and withia a year or two the North and the South may be brought into a “bappy accord.”’ Reject contemptuously this proposition for a federal convention, and be- fore the end of the second year of Mr. Lin- coln’s administration the New Yorker travel: ling to Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans or Galveston may have to cross the boundary of « foreign government. All the parties of this late Presidential oan- vass, excepting the republican party, have been broken to pieces and dispersed with the elec- tion of Lincoln. The reassembling of Congress will give us an exhibition of the confusion of | topgues at Babel. The republican party, though @ compact body, is in the minority in the Hove and in the Senate. Of itself it can do nothing; but with a large and generous de- votion to the Union it may secure allies which will enable it to do everything essential to the | public safety. We do not apprehend that Southern men will come up to Washington to wrangle and fight, as heretofore, over paltry intrigues for spoils and plunder. They have gone beyond that emall business. K was thrown up at the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions. Nor will Southern men come up to Congress to pre- cipitate a dissolution of the government in scenes of personal or factions violence. Whether acting to remain in the Union or to leave it, the trae policy of the South is calmness, delibe- ration ard order. Thus, failing to accomplish « new federal conetitution, they believe they may quietly pave the way for a Southern confederacy In any event, if the republican party in Con- gress would derive any benefit from Mr. Lin- cola’s administration, they will endeavor, by all possible means of conciliation, te restore the Southern States to the Union, instead of widening the breach between them and the North into a dividing line between two inde- ' pendent republics. Aw Ivrortaxt Rerorw in mie Ernction or New Berorsos.— Persons who have been fami- lar with the progress of New York cannot fall | cotave noticed the very important fact that | there has been as great an improvement in tne | foundations of the buildings lately erected in | Broadway and other principal thoroughfares as in their superstructures. Notable examples of this fact—such as Stuart's new building, be- tween Ninth and Tenth streets; W. B. Astor's, corner of White street and Broadway, and Mr. Wallack’s new theatre, on Broad way, Thirteenth street and Fourth avenue—ocour tons. Ten or fifteen years ago it was @ common remark, , and too frequently true, that New York me- cbauics put up the flimaiest structures, with the ehakie et foundations, that could be found in the world. All this bas been changed by tbe mer- chante, and we are glad to see that Mc. Wallack bas fullowed their example, and bas laid down for bis rew theatre the beat possible tounda- tion-—a@ most important though oftea neglected requirite in place of public amusement. Tur Reconv or New York on rae Fuuinive Scave Law.—Lo the statements going the round of the papers as to the States which have puss- ed Pereonal Liberty bills, nullifying the Fug'- tive Slave law, New York, Iudisna and New Jereey bave been erroneonsly included in tbe list, whereas neither of these States has ever enacted a Personal Liberty bil. The state ment with regard to New Jersey has already been explained ; we give a correction in re- gard to Indiana in another columo; and ia order to put New York right upon the record we publish a complete index to all the acts passed in this State upon the slavery question since 1786. We Grd, first, that in 1786 @ law was passed providing that all slaves who shall become the property of the State in the attainder or con viction of their tasters ehall be set free and their support provided for by the Escheat Com- missioners. Second—In 1788 several general Jawa were posted respecting the relations of masters and elaves such as then were and are now usual to slave codes at the South. Third—In 1798 a Jaw was passed confirming manumirsions made by Quakers. Fourth—In 1799 an act was passed for the gradual abolition of slavery. Fifth—-In 1811 an act probibiting slaves trom voting. Sixth— From 1813 to 1819 come speotal pro- visions were made nearly every year respect ing the practical difficulties arising fcom the manumiseion act. Sevenib—In 1854 an act passed in aid of the owner of a fugitive slave. Kighth—In 1840 an act providing that the Governor sball take measures to have return- ed all free persons taken out of the State by bidnapping and not by process of law. Ninth—Also, in the same year, an act to ex- tend trial by jury to a writ, de homine replegi ando, which writ was passed ia 1554. Tenth—In 1847 and 1849 periodical resolu- tions were passed respecting the non-admission of elavery in the Mexican acquired territory, and asking Congress to act upon them. Eleventh—In 1852 @ joint resolution of the Legislature was passed against the African slave trade. Twelfth—In 1857 a Personal Liberty bill was reported in the Assembly by Judge Samuel A. Foote, and was voted down. Thirteenth—In 1858 the same subject was re- newed, and strangled while in the hands of the committee. Fourteenth--Ia 1859 C. S. Spencer, against the remonsirances of the leaders, put through the Assembly, by sid of democratic votes, for parliamentary stratagem, a Personal Liberty bill; but in the Senate Mr. Diven, now member of Congreas elect for Chemung county, de- nounced it as a piece of wicked and unconsti- tutional legislation, and it was lost. 5 Fifteenth—In 1860 the Personal Liberty bill was voted down. Sixteenth—In the same year, on the 6th inst, the question of negro suffrage was put toa vote of the people, and defeated by a majority larger than Lincoln's. Such is the record of legislation upon slavery in this State since before the adoption of the constitution down to the present year, and think it makes a pretty fair show. I¢ will be perceived that every attempt to nullify the Fu- gitive Slave law was crushed out. Eight Northern States only have passed laws imposing penalties upon those who shall aid ia preserving the constitution intact by enforcing the Fugitive Slave law, and these are Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Peansyl. yania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. In addition to these New Hampshire and Rhode Island have passed Personal Liberty bills, making eleven States in all which nullify a constitutional law. Now, in the present crisis, what the South should demand, and what the North should comply with, is, that the constitution be pre- served in its integrity whole and entire, and that these eleven States should be called upon to repeal their nullification Personal Liberty bills. Tue Prooness oF THE Pantc.—Wall street felt the panic very severely yesterday. United States fives went down to ninety- seven, a decline of two and a quarter. All the State stocks declined: Tennessees fell two per cent, Virgioias five, Missouris four, Central Railroad four, Erie five, Pacific Mail seven, Chicago and Rock Island four, and so on. Nota stock on the list escaped this terri- ble slaughter, and there bas not been such a blue day in the etreet since 1857. It is the opinion of the best jadges—calm, cool, calculating, conservative men—that we bave not yet reached the turning point of the panic. The news from the South is not calculated to reagsure us. The secession movement seens to hold its own. We only hope that it bas aot gained ground. Upon that point we are rot in ® position just now to give a definije opinion. We do know, however, that private advices from the beat informed sources in the South agree in stating that the cotton States ore really in earnest, and that the excitement there has only just begun. It {s a most signif- cant fact that the panic of yesterday we heaviest in what bave been considered the safeat recurities—State and United States stocks So it is not & mere flurry gotten up by the brokers for speculative purposes, but downright exposition of the state of public feeling consequent upon the antagoniem be tween the North and the South, created by Seward, Helper & Co, and intensified by the election of Lincoln. We may say, in addition to this, that the course of the black republican organs, here and elsewhere, is calculated to increase rather than to allay the panic. Greeley, Raymond, Webb, Weed and their followers can find nothing bet ter to do than to ridicule and taunt those South- erners who have aseumed an attitude which may be wrong, but In which they are most cer- tainly tincere. The proper way to convince them of their error is certainly not the one taken by our contemporaries. As for ourselves, we do not desire to oreate unnecessary alarm, but can eee nothing but gloom in the future. A terrible storm is about to burst upon out heads. Let everybody take in sail and be pre- pared for the worst. Ove RapicaL Avottion Organs on THe Sovrnern Secession Exctrement.—We transter to this paper an editorial extract each from the New York National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Boston Liberator, on the secession move ments set On foot in the Southern States ‘fo consequence of Lincoln's election.” From theee extracts it will be seen that, although our radical abolitionists repudiated Lincoln as too much of a eubmissionist to the Fugitive Slave law, they are in o state of delightful ecstacy in contemplation of the revolutionary excitements which agitate the Southern States because of Lincolo’s success. The ecstacy of Lloyd Garrison is indescriba- ble; buteo far as be can express his exuberant joy be defines it. He exults that Lincolu’s elec- tion “bas operated upon the whole elavehold- ing South in manner indicative of the tor- ments of the damned;” that “the brutal das- tarde and bleody-minded tyrants who have so long ruled the country with impunity are now furiourly foaming at the mouth, gnawing their tovgues for pain, indulging the most horrid biasphemies, uttering the wildest threats, and avowing the most treasonable de signs,’ and that “their passions, set ou fire of bell, are leading them into every kind of excess.” “But,” says Garrison, “there is method in their madness; in their wildest pa- roxysws they know exactly how far to proceed. Will they secede from the Union’ Will they jomp into the Atlantic! Will they conflagrate their own dwellings—cut their owa throate— and enable their elaves to rise in sucessful in- surrection’” Garrison evidently thinks this is too much of his long desired revolution of blood and fire to hope for upon so short a n9 tice. The Anti-Slavery Standard editor takes & cooler view of the subject He says that the recersionists “understand that republicanism Is the offepring of the anti-slavery agitation set on foot thirty years ago by Garrison, and they see Jooming up in the Northern eky the dark cloud of abolition, rifved now and then with lightning flushes that portend the doom of slavery.” They eee that the elevation of the republican party to the control of the federal administra- tion “will develope in the South a strong party opposed to slavery extension and fa- vorable to gradual, if not immediate, eman- cipation.” They fear “the emancipation of Southern consciences from the terrorism that has #0 long prevailed—the inavguration of the anti slavery movement among themselves. Hence they are not disposed to wait for Mr. Lincoln to enter the White House, with his policy of conciliation and compromise, but are deter- mined, if possible, to precipitate the cotton States into a revolution.” There is some philosophy in these views, but the “terrorism” referred to is nothing more than that rigid vigilance against abolition emis. aries which the Southern people have found ab- solutely necessary for the public safety. The emancipation from this terrorism means the pro- tection of these abolition emissaries in the free- dom of speech and of the press throughout the Southern States. W. H. Seward, Francis P. Blair, Jr., and other shining lights of the republican party, have broadly foreshadowed this thing to be a part of the republican programme. It is not surprising. then, that the people of the South should be putting their house in order in advance of Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration. ‘We cannot read these radical abolition glori- fications over this fearful Southern disunion ex- citement without sensations of increased alarm. We can only hope that, South and North, pru- and mutual acts of forbearance will prevail, and that the Union, unbroken, will weather the storm. Murtary Visrrs to Forstox Cocwrriss.— Some time since we publisbed some cor- respondence between the Adjutant of Company E. Ninth regiment, City Guard, New York State Militia, and the Seoretary of Lord Palmerston, in relation to « visit which the company above mentioned purpered to make to our British cousins. The letter of Lord Palmerston’s se- oretary was not over and above cordial in its tone, and stated that her Majesty's government would beeitate to permit the landing of foreign troops, with arms in their hands, but suggested that the American militiamen might appear as competitors in s great shooting match, in which the beet ehots of the British rifle volunteers will contend for prizes Asan offset to this reluctant attempt at a compromise, we notice that the Emperor of the French has responded in the most cordial man ner to proposition made by Mr. J. K Row- sell that the British Volunteers should make an excurtion to Paris The Emperor's letter is as follows:— Patace or em Terraces, Oct 20, 1660. Prr—The Emperor will always witress with ec inmgy forse can contribute to the friendly land and France. The proposal for Seduwe tes to Forts yo you bave sub is Mjeaty bag acoording!y bern appreciated it deserved to be, and "the reception ye patriota will, you may be assured, y ceeding in whose accomplishment you wish to assist. to the time, the piace of and Mr. J. K. Rowern: It may be possible, and indeed we have been informed, that there was a slight mistake on the part of Lord Palmerston in the matter of Com- pony E. The Sixty ninth (Iriab) regiment was refused permission to visit Ireland, and, it is said, the letter to Company E was written to keep up an eppearance of consistency. We are assured that Lord Lyons bas stated that there will be no difficulty in getting permission for our sol- diers to land, and that they will positively make the voyage in Augnst next. We are quite confident that they will sustain the very excellent reputation which the uniformed mili- tia of the United States bas already attained abroad. Tae Rervetacans avy Orn Mewictrat. Eure tiox.—As might have been expected, some of our republican pdiiticinns, anxious perhaps for 8 dip into the pickings and perquisites of an Alderman or Coutstiman atoutly oppose the plan of an independent ticket for Aldermen and Councilmen, resting principally upon our tax- payers for its suppor. We apprehetid, too, that the governing eletmat of the republican party, and of every other party and faction, the roughe or ruffians of the city. wil! make a hard fight for their rights in this busines If the taxpayers, however, deire to do anythite, now is their time, for they can certainly cut in &nong four or five contesting factions, and carry uf the victory with anything like systematic action, And ench a victory will be worth winning, if it is only to get at the items of the Japanese ball. AccoMmopation FoR THE Sursnion Cover — The Judges of the above court have sent in a commun: aton 10 the Board of Councilmen, calling attention to the inswfficiency and un- bealthiness of the accommodation provided for their a-tings, and suggesting a means by which they may be relieved from their present con- fined quarters. It will be recollected that when the court was first constituted, by an act of the Legislature, the two rooms now occupied by the Councilmen and Supervisors were set apart for iw use, The court continued to hoid its sittings there until the passage of the act of Apiil, 1853, creating a Board of Counoilmen, consisting of sixty members. The two rooms were ‘ben converted into one for the use of the Boar¢é, a d the court held its trial terms in the chambers of the Aldermen and assistant Alder- men, until it was compelled to transact its busi- pegs in the building at the corner of Centre and Chambers streets. ‘The result of this experiment is notorious. The complaints of Judges, jurors, witnesses and suitors, as to the unhealthiness of the building, have been a constant theme of comment in the public journals. To persevere in holding jury trials there would be to kill off or compel the resignation of the Judges, one efter the other, and the Justices of the Superior Court think it but reasonable that they should not be exposed to either of theee awkward contingencies. The arrangement they propose is a simple one, and can, we think, be carried out with due regard to the comfort and convenience of the profession and the public. It is recom- mended that the two large rooms on the second floor of the brown stone building in the Park be ateigned to the Superior Court for jury trials, and that room in the third story be appropri- ated to the Supreme Court for its General Terni--‘he firat story being also retained by the latter for the trial of causes. Of course these changes will necessitate the transfer of the Court of Sessions backto the place where it was formerly held—a measure which has its ad- vantages. It is to be hoped that the Board of Council- men will comply with these suggestions. They would concentrate all the jury terms of the Supreme and Superior courts within the same building, and promote the convenience of the members of the legal profession by enabling them the more easily to watch the progress of the calendars in the two courts, An arrange- ment of come kind or other will have to be ar- rived at at once, or we shall have the Justices of the Superior Court following the example of Judge Pierrepoint. As there appear to be legal difficulties in the way of the Board of Su- pervisors purchasing a site for additional court accommodation, the remedy suggested seems the readiest and most practicable of any that bas been as yet recommended. Doveas on Lrycoux.—Mr. Douglas is reported as baving recently said, in a speech at New Or- leans, that Mr. Lincoln, from what would be his helpless position as President, was rather to be pitied than feared. We are inclined to think so too, and that Mr. Douglas has occasion to con- gratulate himself that the late election has at least relieved him of the cares and burthens of the White House, against all contingencies of the future, to the end of bis natural life. When man is done with this While House infatua- tion he becomes a philosopher, and Mr. Douglas begins to talk in that way. We next expect to hear that he is writing for the New York Ledger. Mr. Yancxy on Massacavsetts—We make room to-day fora letter from Mr. Yancey on the question of who wished to put down the slave trade, and who to keep it up, ia the early days of the republic. He cites chapter and verse of the Madison papers to show how the men who founded and welded the constitution stood, and be makes outapretty strong case against our New England slavetraders. His letter is worth reading. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, ‘Waantyatom, Nov. 17, 1860. RESIGNATION OF MINSTER MCLANE, AND APPOINTMENT OF iS BUCORWOR The Hon. Mr. McLane, our Minister to Mexico, has re- signed his mission. Gov, Weller has received the ap- potntment fo his stead. - OCR RELATIONS WiTH BCCADOR. Advices received {rom Ecuador announce the re estab- luebmeat of peace in that repablic by the triumph of Gea. Flores. The new governmect bas appointed as Minister (o this country Don Antonio Flores, a son of Gen. Flores, who bas alrea‘y arrived ia your city, aad ts soon expect- ed here. In the present state of our relations on the Pa cific coast of South America, the appointment of @ Mialster frem Ecuador is & good eign, as Mt Indicates a desire to cultivate friendly relations. There is plenty of room for these, as oar present relations with Pern amd Chil! are not on the best of footing, and the new ‘Minister from E mador will find a geod disposition towards him. It is stated that be is also instructed to endeavor to callst American enterprise in several {mportant works in that republic, such as steam navigation, and ges and water works for several important cities. CHARGES AGAINGT THE MASTER WORKMEN OF THR BROOKLTS NAVY YARD Additional charges bave been preferred against several taster workmen in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for using their positions in defeating the regular democratic nom)- neea for Congress in the Fifth ant Sixth districts of Now York. The probabiites are that sereral removals will shortly be made. General regret is manifested here by all partics at the defeat of John Cochrane, who ts regarded ‘as the adlest and most effio'ent member of the preseat Congress, as would bave undoubtedly have succeeded Mr Pennington as Speaker of the Thirty seventh Congress. ‘THE CASH OF THE GAMNLERA, ‘The lower court to day confirmed the decision {a the case of Marcus, the gambler, who was convicted sad tentenced for three years to the Penitentiary by the ‘District Court fcr keeping a gambling bouse Tt ts understood that a raid will shortly be made upon thege establishments, with « view of breaking them up. Tt ts meserted that ihereare upwards of fifty ready to open at the assembling of Congress ARMY COURT MARTIAL By order of the Secretary of War a Corrt Martial has been ordered to mect at Fort Colum us on the 16th inst, or ae soon thereafter as practicabie, for the trial of such Persons as may bo brought before |i. Lieut, Webb will act as Judge Advocate. APPOUTCUNT The President has appointed Revel W. English Deputy Postmaster at Alton, Iilinote. BXBQUsTER ITED: ‘The President bas recognized Nissias G Ports, as Vice Consular Agent of France a! Mobile. THR OVERLAND FORT BXPREB, ‘The pony express, which ts indispensable to the cooptry, will reeume ite present echedule on the Ist of May next, unless sooner ordered to do so by the action of Congress. MOVEMENTS OF SENATOR DOCCLAS. Bevator Dougias left New Orleans afew days since, in good health, on a visit to his plantation on the Minsissippt. Hie will make no more public addreesea, but wili rotarn to Washington In about ten days. EPPECT OF PENAT RDAVIN PTAY Law ‘The Secretary of War is desirous of testing the utility of army wagons with patent (ron wheels, specimens of which bare been exhibiled to bi, bat ts debarred from AheT essen by senator Davis’ Otay te of last reed’ riDg epee r- dros aaa OUR DESPATCHES FROM SP THE CABINET OF MR. LINCOLN. WHO ARE TO COMPOSE IT &., &e., &o. — Sruxcrmup, IN , Nov. 17, 1860. John Covede, of Peansytvania, arrived here this morn- ing and had « private interview with Mr. Linsole, and loft tm the return train, There is evidently trouble about who shall represeat Pennsylvania in the Cabinet, Tom Corwin, of Obio, will make @ strong effort for the ‘Treasury Department, but will be terribly assailed, as unfit to manage the Gnanoes of the nation. The Beore- tary of the Treasury will be more likely to come from New York, and Moses Grinneli’s chances will be good. Tlearn from high authority that Mr. Seward will net accept apy p'ace in the Cabinet, end in that event be ‘will be tendered the mission to Eog'and, which he will also decline, with the intention, at the close of next session of Congress, to resume bis travels abroad. ‘Michigan will urge Senator Chandler, an Indiana preas Sebuyler Colfax, for Postmaster General. Toere is a strong public sentiment all over the West, and represented bere, tm favor of Cassius M. Olay, of Kentucky, or Frank P. Blair, Jr., of Missourt, for Seore- tary of War, and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, for Secretary of the Interior. Candidates accumulate for the Attorney Generaiship, and Wo. L. Dayton, of New Jersey, tx quite strong. Edward Bates, of Missouri, may be tendered « piace in ‘Vhe Cabinet, and if'so he will decline it. His friends ay authoritatively that he does not wish to exchange, at his age, bis present domeati: quiet for severe Cabinet duties. The gossip about calling Joba Bell, of Tennessee, to the Cabinet, is received here as absurd. Tho Stale Register (Douglas? organ), of to-day, votun- teers @ Cabinet for Lincola too nonsensical for comment. Srrinceretp, Nov. 17, 1860. Mr. Lincoln remarked to day to a visiter, in regard to an expected public definition of bis policy in advance of his tnavgural, as follows:—“During the last six years I have placed my views on all pubic questions $0 fully and Frequently on record, (hat all those desiring can learn them by simply referring to If my past assertions obtain no credit, present ones will be treated no better. Spaiwcrrep, Nov. 17, 1980. Benator Dougias’ letter to the New Orlcans merchants, received in St Louis papers this morning, produces quite sensation in republican circles. Mr. Lincoln smiles, and bis friends are indigaant at ite bitter and insulting reference to the Presideat clect They think It a graceless performance on tho part of a defeated rival. John Covode, of the Covode Committee, arrived carly this morning, but stayed oaly a few hours. He was alo: soted with the President elect for an hour, supposedly as to the attitude of the republicans in Congress towarde seceesion, and suppoeediy, also, in reference to the Cabi- net and other epoils—the two great troubles of the in- coming chief magistrate, Meeting of the Kansas Territorial Relief Convention. MEASURES FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERING PRO- PLE OF KANSAS, BTC, Laavanworti, Nov. 16, 1860, The Territorial Relief Convention assembied at Law- rence on Wednesday, and, after a harmonious session, ad- ovrped the same day. Hon. R B Mitchall, of Linn coan- ty, was made President, and Joha A. Martin, of Atchison, and R. G. Hllioit, of Dougias county, Secretaries. A Tor- ritorial Central Committee, composed of thirteen mom- ‘bors, one from each Oounoil district, with Gea. 8. Pome- roy for Chairman, was appointed. A committee of Sve, Marcus J. Parrots for Chairman, was sppointed to draft fan address to the people of the States, setting forth the condition of Kansas and asking their aid. The Central Committee appointed an Executive Committes of five, with Gea. Pomeroy, of this city, as Chairman. Contracte have been made with the differeat railroad companies by ‘which goods and provisions for the relief of Kansas are shipped at merely nominal rates of freight if consigned to the Chairman of the committee, Gen. Pomeroy, Atsht- on, and marked “Kansas Relief Goods.” By him they ‘will be distributed throughout the Territory or sent to any particular county, town or association, if eo di- rested. Arresolution warning the peopte of the East against giving money to any who are not endorsed by th» Terri- toria! Central Committee was adopted. John A. Martin, ef Atchison, introduced » resolution returning the thanks of Kansas to Thaddeus Hyatt for his efforts in behalf of the people of Kaoses, which was adopted. The Cor vention also passed @ resolution, iatroduced by Col. Holiday, requesting the Preeident of the Ualted ‘States to postpone the land sales. ‘The Territorial Executive Commitice hold a meeting t= Anis city on Wednesday next. ‘There is unquestionably the greatest destitation \brovgbout the Territory, and there will be muoh eaffer- log unless speedy relief is alforded to the (ababitants. The Great Southern Commercial Comven- tion. Artasta, Ga., Nov. 13, 1968. The ‘:reat Southern Commorcial Convention, which ad- journed at Vicksburg, Miss , on the 18th of May, 1859, meet in this city on Monday, November 12, has @eally tiven up the ghost. Not adelegete was in attendance Jestercay. The Presidential Election, VIRGINIA. Ruonmown, Va, Nov 17, 1860. The election returns are still incompie'e, out show ‘tbat the contest bas been very close The Bell mon are more confident to day. FLORIDA. Savawwan Nov. 1T, 1860. OMeial retarne from sixteen counties in Fiorida indi- cate that the majority for Breckinridge in the State wit! be about 3,000. Fresh Oat im Kameas. Luavenworta, K. T., Nov. 17, 1860. The fimes, of this city, publishes a letter from Linn county, Kansas, giviog an account of a new outbreak im that region. At the date of the letter one man named Russell Hinds, afvor a trial by Lench law bad been hung, and others ordered to leave the territory immediately, The cause of tho outbreak Js alleged to be attempts at kid- bapping end threatoning towards free state mon by Hinds and bis atociates: The Great Western Ratiway. Tonowto, ©. W., Nov. 17, 1840. The Grea’ Wertern Ratlway traffic for the week ending yesterday, is $48 860, being am inorevse of over $1,000 over the corresponding week of last yerr News from Pike's Peak, Fort Kaanser, Nov. 17, 1860, ‘The Western stage coach, which left Denver om the 12th inet, with @ fall complement of passengers, the mail, the monsenger of Hinckley & Co.'s expres and $11,000 in treasure, passed here at an early hour-yester- day, bound for Omaha, but by some mistake phe tele- graph package for this office was not banded in until (his — By {t we bave the following Denver City The Denver Mountaineer extra of the 11th Inst. eays:— “The Western stage coach reached here at balf past two o'olock om the morning ot the 10th iast., bringing Hinckley & Co.'s messenger, with a single despatch con- taining all the Preaidential election retarne received at Fort Kearney by telegraph up to the evening of the Tih inet.’ By private correspondence we lewn that this news reached Denver and was published and started tix hours abead of that taken out by tho pony express, It i thonght nere that the travel will jist fy tho Weat era Stage Company in running a som! weekly (coach be