The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW NEW YORK ,4ERALD. eee : JAMES GoRDON pp T | tion directing the Strect Commissioner to purchase EDITOR AND PROPRIRTOR, asieam fire engine for Company No. 2, at 2 cost of senna a ‘sav srs, | $4,500, was laid over. A repor OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON anD Nia TERMS, on: ri f take WF DAILY HERALD ¢ 1 per copy. ¥ oe LE WEEKLY HERALD in PY. oF Bp C ery day: adeartisemente tm wiLy Hekaup, and a tie neatness, cheapness and de d Buropaim Editions. LNTING executed with - No, 384 EVENING. AMUSEMENTS THIS NIBLOS G. ¥ Onze Paar Bansaes Baa MeOH Waren Rows WINTEE Gai or 4 Lovaa, BOWERY Sesmean TeRBATRR, Bowery.—Sratping & Rogers RDEN, Broadway.—Guy Manwexixe—Loaw Ww. Fr ALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Pusrixc Wira LAURA KEENWS THEA’ 0a Faxcr—Toopuns 1 Faves: No. 624 Broadway.—Pay. 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News + * that sort r may ber found nearer home, in the ge *ral depre- ciation of public securities at the Stock, Exchange, and in the general fall in the price of Lireadstuffy in this city and at all the principal grail: depots at the West. Our readers are referred to the money 1 article, city trade and telegraphic reports for par- | en ytn of the metrapolis have come forward to the relief of the merchants. At @ meeting of bank officers held yesterday afternoon at the Bank of Commerce, at which were represented the fol- — — of New York, Manhattan Bank, Merchants’ Bank, Mechanics’ Beak, Union Bank, Phenix Bank, City Bank, National Bank, Bank of the State of New York, American Exchange Bank, Bank of the Republic, Metropolitan Bank, Shoe and Leather Bank, Continental Bank, Park Bank, Bank of Commerce, it was unanimously «+ pesolved, that the ba an jot resented will unite in the purchase, oe he phe of sterling bills to the — it two millions five hundred thousand dollars, and pa rfor the per in proportion to their capital oe rata, pon the call of the committee.” Messrs. Jo! mA. ens, Moses Taylor and Thos. Tileston wer e ap- peter each committee. The —— | wans- misaio be conducted! ay the n of the bills, &c., is to 2 Bank of Commerce for the Joint account of the yanks interested. : ' gofere from reliable sources thata ver pgreat tet ent prevails among the officers ofth e@ navy ia aa ence of the present state of af irs at | and that so adverse are they *° How citizens in that que’ te a eir fel ye an almost universal rest missions as soon 8s hostilities }» ; cir hands in the of eak out. +hiood of | | delivered @ lect cre in the | ning, on the CO" talus ion of 4 the audience to an @x posit ion of a the present state of the { inion. 5 subject will we found in an their They will not imbrue th their brethren. Henry Ward Beecher Cooper Institute last eve which he treate his sentiments upon His remarks on thi The despatches which we publish this ramen from Springfield, Iilinois, are interesting. be re a great deal of specalation jast m ow « “ - = ition of the Cabinet of the President elect. al which were given in the Henarp of the 10 test. and which are reproduced in to the mar! are assured, nearet nm po boty Mr. Lincoln will visit Chicago on Wo yen 7 here he will meet Mr. Hamlis, tewihge Presi- | appealing to the moral sentiment in the North, dent elect. The republicans <a erty sgrat- | and placing a political party in power in every latory jubilee at Bpringteld tov iomtege Senator | Northern State, without one single exception, ‘Tramball will, ft iS expects Ton, ‘MF Lin- | and rousing the conscience of the people with coln's views on the peony have nO# from san | the uncompromising aséertion that “slavery is By the pony express pew | an evil anda crime.” In this the South feels Francisco to the Sth, dis} lace the Sapreme Court and ¢t\\e (Vemeral Besa ‘ons, are was adopted directing the Corporatia. Attor- ney to furnish to the Board a list of ali nie suits Day and | proseci ted for a violation of Ccrporatia. ordi- nanees since last May. increase the salary of the Assistant Auditor yof the Fin: fig met y esterday afternoon, and recei cor widera ble attention. ter Cay morning, Joseph Lambert was arrested in t he s woods, near the residence of his grandfather, evening the Croton Aquednct De.artrent was directed to extend their mains from Seventy-se- veuth street to Ninety-second street. A resolu purchasing the brown stone statue in front of the City { all, for the sum of $2,000, was adopted. A ) repo in favor of purchasing a steam fire engine | for Hose Company No. 57, ate Cost of $3.40 =~ adopted, Uhere was: fees of the Supreme Court, trati respectful) ‘rating against the resolutiot cps Ae men, a m of the Board Wednesday, at four cente per | whieh Sometred them of the rooms in the brown ining oswortant | stone ba ut” = appropriated them to the Sx a 4 + The remonstrants sj vm nD erfor C a 8 Say that the, MaguestTED ro REAL ati LETTERS AND PACKe pa ee ‘2 now sufficient room v Po vemadinia Wnt Tudges. The paper was referred to date all their, “yee t the Committee on, re Supplies, The report in favor of approp "“4UR® the sure of $500 to pur chase a portrait o¢ °*Chief Engineer Howard was adopted. The Bea @ teen adjourned to Thurs day next. The Board cf Councitmes ' bd @ short seasion Inst evening, aad, after reccty ing’ & number of re. ports from the various commiy ‘ee ¥» adjourned till Thursday. A romonstrazce, ah"%‘d by al! the Judges of the Supreme Court, ag, ai: ¥t giving the rooms now occupied by that Comt for the use of the Superior Court, was referee’ t 9 the Com- mittee on Law. ‘The clerks’ of ythe Saperior Court have been making strencoug exei‘tions to but the majority of the committee opposed to any change A, resolution The Board concer red to ce Department to $1,500. ‘The +p ecial Aldermanic committee appoint >d to ny! ae the amount of interest paid on the city eposits : ind the security given for their safe ke ep- i a ecam- iueteatie n from the City Chamberlain declining: to ppear b efore them, whereupon they passed a sclation: to subpana him to attend a meeting hie the y propose holding tc-day, at three-e’clock 7 be 1 ‘he murder at New Lotts continues to attract About four o'clock yes- o Westchester county, on suspicion of being the arderer of Mr. Kolyer. Young Lambert was wveyed to Brooklyn, and lodged in tho Fifth ard station house of that city. He will be taken fore the Coroner's inquest to-morrow. ‘The case of Alderman Russell against ex-Alder- ‘an Wilson, for an assault committed some months nee in the City Hall, was tried yesterday before sheriff's jury, who gave the plaintiff $5,000 @ amages. T The Tammany Hall Democratic General Com- tittee met last evening, and apppointed to-morrow ight as the time for holding elections for delegates » the various conventions for the nomination of indidates for city officers. A committee was ap- »inted to prepare an address on the present crisis & communication from the the consideration of tite necessities of the South. We have Lived fifty years-of political existence and experience in the last six weeks. The old democratic party no longer exists, ani the elements that once cor astituted it are rapid-- ly ranging themselves on new lines of party policy. nant of the Lincofin part)y left. It is already broken, and personal facti »ns are beginning to be formed ont of its compo: ents; but the divi- sion of parties which no’ w seems to be ap- proaching is of an entirely: new character. We lave cleared away’ the-old lumbering and em- barrasaing political ergani izations, and have wickedness of /.fricam slewvery. On this the which retain it as a wiee wad necessary part of their social ‘system must receive, through amendments ‘to the corstitution, guarantees against host? e attacks from the fanaticism or misled conse ience of the: Northera States, or the Union m ust be dissolrved. results 0! ; the voluntary commereial mission of the Ho 5, Wm. S. Lindeay, M. P., to the United banks. The Legislature of Georgia bas thus far merely passed the act calling e State Conven tion. The Governor of Alabama, who was authorized some months eince, in view in favor of | Of the present contingency, to do the same thing, has announced that he will call the State Convention as soon as’ the electoral col- leges shall have cast the — s« vowed for President. fo other State has yet taken public action, though it is believed that Florida, Mississippi, end perhaps Arkansas and Louisiana, will seon follow in the movement. Texas, itis supposed, will not do 80, as the Legislature is not in ses- sion, and Governor Houston is opposed to calling it together, These axe all secession States. Virginia will also probably cal) a State Convention for the purpcse of harmonizing, if possible, the views of the far Sooth, with whiolr she sympathizos, with the preservation of the Umion. The action which these Southern State Conventions may take wil] probably be the follewing:—Appoiat ment of Commissioners to Congress asking for 8 call of a Conventioa of all the States, to con- elder existing evils and propose remedial mea- sures; appointmemt of Commissioners or de- legates for @ Gonforence of Southern States; parsage of resolutions foreshadowing the remedies and constitutional guaramtees de- sired by the South; and probable action of the South in case of failure of these expectations. The present oonditaon of the country is ra- pidly tending to a ctate of thingsgavorable to In six months the re will not be a rem- ome down to the real issue of the wisdom or ‘reat conflict har to be fou ght, and the States ‘ne Hom Mr. Lindsay, M.P,, and His Volunte cr Commercias Mission te the United states. it is ~ pot improbable that the practical YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1860, i oon vanquished by the honest simplicity of the | tion as that of bullying fallen foe. If wise American philosopher. At this day, however, Louis Napoleon, from bis bluntness aad frank. ness in his intemational affairs, is as much a mystery to the old echool diplomacy of Europe as was Dr. Franklin, Hare we wedowten4 sh.-- se os ee owe uungs better, and hence the flattering receptions of Mr. Liadsay in every contact with our commercial or poli- tical representatives and officials. He will re- turn to England astisfied with the results of bis visit, and better qualified, perhaps, to give a correct report of the United States, their re- sources, their institutions and their people, than any other Europetn traveller from two months’ observations, not even excepting the Duke of Newcastle, the clwely observing Mentor of the Prince of Wales. Northern Journalism upoe Seuthern Agitation. It is eomewhat interesting to note the fact that just at this perilous juncture, when the cotton States areripe for secession, and when the conservative men of the South need all the aid that the North can possibly give them, the tone of the black republican press continues to be deftant in the extreme. The Tribune warm- ly opposes any sttempts to conciliate the people of Sonth Carolisa, Alabama and Georgia, and says, in effect, # they desire to go out of the Union, let them go. The Times is pot quite eo candid, but ite conclusions are similar to those of the Tribune. The heroes of the Mincio have been all slong very brave, evidently antici- pating that there would not be any very great trouble in the South; but latterly the deliberate way in which the fire-eaters have gone to work has frightened our quadrilateral contemporary, ang he shows signs of weakness in the knees, and softening of the backbone, falling back upon the old idea that a State cannet secede without procuring the passage ofan amendment to tbe federal constitution suthoricing the breaking of the compact. The Chevelier Webb says, in one coinma of his paper, that it bas been his great object to do everything in his power to allay excitement, and to induce our Southern brethren te look at the truth as itis. This statomentis remarkably cool, when we consider thatnot very long ago the doughty Chevalier deciared that the South sbould be “whipped into submission,” and that on azother occasion he informed an astonished world that he would shoulder a musket and march, like another Bayard, against the seces- sioniats, On one pojat—and it is a most important one—we find the black republican press united. It bas been suggested in various quarters, North and South, that there was. more feeling in the cotton States with regard to the hostile legisla tion of the North than upon the mere fact of Linooln’s election. With a bleck re- public affairs. Captain M. C. Meigs, corps of United States En- neers, having been ordered by the Secretary of ‘ar to relieve Captain D. P, Woodbury of the mmand of Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, arrived ere in the steamer Magnolia, Captain Crowell, on e‘thinst. The transfer of the charge of the for- leations from Captain Woodbury to Captain States’ il] teach o valuable lesson to the offi- cial g7 aduates of the European circumlocution | publican administration, federal officers office jn the trae scienca of diplomacy. Since | of the same etripe, and all other per- hist rival on our shoves, sometwo months ago, | fons in many of the free States peevented he’ as traversed the country to the extent of | by local law from carrying out the provi- SV thousand miles, has more or Jess elaborated | sions of the Fugitive Slave act, the South, it is & , our commercial classes, at public or social | alleged, would have no longer any rights in ’ meetings, in thirty different places, the pur- | the North, and might be better off out of the ‘with a moderate amount of engagements. ment and Pr stigment rightly comprehended the public * opinion of the thirteen colonies and the pri? ciples which underlaid it, But in- stead of seeking to examine these, and initiating + omedies for existing evils, the policy of comely was adopted, and the bloody war and prey ant consequences which followed are weil ka ante all. From +a in the Sonth tidings come to we ole wing state of excitement in the pub- Nem 4a. all parties, of whatever political com- a | saw it rousing the conscience of Eagland, and an: ines- | and now they contemplate the same fallacies andfrom Ores? to the Ist eigs took place on the 10th inst. Captain Wood- ary returns to Washington. ‘bere was a panic in the market for grain and flour wterday. To effect sales at all heavy concessions had w > made, and not much was accomplished at that. Flor seline? 100. 8 20c. per barrel. Extra State sold down 5S per barrel. Wheat was in the same predicament, ales could only be effected at a decline of 40. 8 $0 usbel. Red Wostern sold down to $1 22a $1 25, M’ ee club to $115.0 $118, and Chirseo apring to 114. Corn fell off from 1c. to 2c. per buabel, was irregular, with sales of 900 @ 1,000 bale @bich was in travait. Provisions were dull Sugare were dull and sales limited. Freights w per —<<—<—<—$<$_——. Progress of the Revolution—Pu men a Public Action ag Developed. In contemplating the movemen' at the South: care should be taken to discri: inate between that which really constitutes f ae public action of a State and those indict tions of existing public opinion which do 7 4¢ constitute pub- lic action, although they’ 449 eventually con- trol it. The excited movemen’ place in Charleston in tt nating in the raising « and saluting it with tb amid the acclamationr with the once popv bear the same relat’ in the Southern St tea overboard ip spirit of that er did not begin never have bee blic Senti- Thus Far which have taken .@ last few days, culmi- of an independent flag, @ “Marseillaise Hymn,” sof the people, instead of Jar air “ Hail Columbia,” on to the spirit of the times ates that the throwing of the Boston harbor bore to the s The War of Independence dl some time after, and would n at all had the British govern on hitberto, are uniting in the universal ng of defence for the social organization of ir own section. Seward and the black re- blican party have proclaimed the bloody od brutal doctrine of an “irrepressible con- dict ” ogainst the institution of Atrican slavery, which is vital to Southern society. The men of the South have seen the same doctrine pro- claimed years ago in France, and how it ewept | with inexorable ruin over St. Domingo; they plea’ pe a | remorselessly ea rificing the material and social y | interests of the British West India colonies; that honor, as well as its dearest interesta, poses and propositions of his mission, and, after a flattering official reception at Washing- ton, he has returned to this city, whence he will depart in to-morrow’s steamer for England. His propositions of commercial reciprocities, submitted to the President and the Secretary of State, were, we understand, most kindly en- tertained; and we are led to anticipate there- from certain practical benefits to the merchant, the shipowner, the ship captain, and the sea- man engaged in the vast commercial exchanges between the two countries, of a highly gratify- ing character to all concerned. What they are likely to be Mr. Lindsay will most probably indicate to the Chamber of Commerce to day. In copjunctio: with Lord Lyons, his familiar conferences with Mr. Buchanan, Gen. Cass and Mr. Cobb, as we are informed, resulted ina full and cordial understanding upon the seve- ral propositions discussed; and we learn, fur- ther, that this successful volunteer ambassador received, before leaving Washington, the full consent of the President and Cabinet publicly to make known the nature of his conferences and the views and purposes of the administra- tion touching the several treaty stipulations suggested. We will not undertake to anticipate further the contemplated expositions of Mr. Lindssy befere the Chamber of Commerce. We may venture the opinion, however, that his intelli- gent audience, after hearing his statement of what he came to do, and of what he has virtu- ally achieved, will find it becoming the occa- sion to recognise the valuable services of Mr. Lindsay in the work of removing the numerous stupid restrictions and obstructions, in the way of petty taxes, criminal prosecutions, Xc., which embarrass the operations of trade be- tween the ports of England and those of the United States. Of course we cannot undertake to pro- mise any immediate treaty compreherding the reciprocal concessions embraced in the programme of Mr. Lindssy, but we doubt not that he bas rown the seed which be- fore long will produce the ripened fruit of inter- national law. In no event, however, do we presume that the objections of our government and people to a free participation of England in our coasting trade will be removed. That re- ciprocity, which wonld be all on one side, must necessarily be indefinitely postponed. But the varions other reciprocal regulations proposed by Mr. Lindray are eo manifestly the deductions of common sense, good will and liberality, that there cannot be much difficulty in reducing them to practice. M> Lindsay has bad an interesting tour of observation in the United States. As a volon- teer commercial ambassador from Jobn Ball to Brother Jonathan bis enterprise was a novel one. We dare say, nevertheless, that next to the tour of observation amongst us of the Prince of Wales, thie amateur diplomatic visit of the distinguished member of Parliament under review will prove to be more valuable to the ende of peace and good will between the {we great commercial nations concerned than old ond formal red tape reciprocities ve Jast forty years, ‘Thie mission of Mr. Lindsay—an Americana al eir Union than in it, The repeal of the Personal Liberty laws id, it is believed, do a great deal towards calming the South, because under those circumstances the incoming adminis- tration Gould not say that the federal officers were unable to execute the law in certain States on aecount of the opposition of local enactments. In other words, the South believes that we State aud fede: al eushoritics could aud would combine to render the Fugitive Slave act null and vold. The idea of sending a black republican marshal to catch a fugitive slave, where there was any loophole through which the officer could escape from the performance of his duty, according to his oath, is extremely tich. Under these circumstances the conservative prees of the North has called for the repeal of the Personal Liberty bills, and this call has been met with scorn and contempt. The Tribune states, in the first place, that the Per- sonal Liberty laws are practically of no account; that all the clamor about them is hollow and delu- sive, and that the States will modify, repeal or retain them as and when they see fit. The Zribune has more about the arrogance of the South, and declares that no halfway measures should be adopted with euch people. The Post takes the *ame ground as the Trilune. The Times, doing the Blondin business, in its usual style, proposes that the general government shall reimburse the owners of the slaves who may escape. If the people of the State into which the slave flees could be taxed for bis valne, more of the fugitives, we opine, would be returned to ser- vice or labor. Tt remains, as uenal, for the Covrier to cap the climax of all this absurdity. The Chevalier Webb gives an elaborate abstract of the Persons! Liberty laws in order to prove, first, that they do not nullify the Fugitive Slave law; secondly, that if they did the States had a right to enact them; thirdly, that it is the intent of the laws to make it difficnlt for the claimant to obtain the retarn of his slaves; fourthly, that it would be as well to modify the laws somewhat, but that there can be no hope “for such repeal until the Fugi- tive Slave law itaelf shall first be shorn of its offensive features;”’ sixthly, that the law is now executed as fairly as can be asked, and if the ‘ United States officers do their duty quietly and peaceably the law can be executed in every Northern State, and we believe that under a republican administration it will be thus exe- cuted,” We have little to say in regard to the Courier's false logic, and only a word as to its misstatementa of fact. Everybody knows that the Personal Liberty bills do practically nullity a federal law which is founded upon the consti. tution; everybody knows that in some dis- tricta the execution of the Fugitive Slave law is a physical impossibility. What chance would the United States officers have for doing their duty “quietly and peaceably” in Ashtabiila county, Ohio, or Worcester county, Massachusetts, or Onondaga or St. Lawrence, in this State? What chance hed they in the city of Chicago last week? The Personal Liberty laws ought to be repealed, for various reasons other than the conciliation of the South. They raise a conflict of juriediction between Presidential pi ver eetelnadh from, ind! tats is involved; and it presents to-day the specta. anaad we ‘of the State will ¥ 9 cast for Lin | Cle of 9 community of twelve millions of people cin A despatch from Washit gton, however, | turming almost with unanimity against the gaid to be reliable, gives Dowd a5 3,000 plurality | people of the North, who foster the hydra of over Uineoln and 11,000 ot Breckinriige, In | anti-slavery fanaticism, that would crush out Oregon the republicans were vf ry confident of car- | thelr social existence. tying the Btate, as many of ‘che Douglas men had Unanimous as thie sentiment isin the public arty. Itis said that there. | me over to their pi P ‘at the re- | mind of the South, it necesewily takes slowly the preparations for secession in the | fi eo be rr Bia 4 produced brut | and deliberately the form of public action. South Carolina, which is the most advanced tn in Sas r,cisco. They bad, “owever, re- poe 0 i from this si9 Of the mountaing | Movement, has, through her Legislatare, called totor them the 6th inst, Trade was rather dull, } ® State Convention for the 17th of December, political affairs having diverted attention from ba authorized its executive to raise by loan one pines. million of dollars, and removed the restrictions idea oviginating on the other aide of the water— | the State and United States courts, and place has been carried out in the true American | the citizen who wishes to discharge all his stylé, Dr. Franklin, at the Court of Louls XVL, | duties and obligations between two fires. If was the founder of this American school of | the laws are practically of no account, as the diplomacy, which simply consists in a plain, | 7rilune says, why not erase them from the honest, straightforward system of dealing be- | statute books? Certainly the republican party tween two governments, as between two honest | can afford to be magnanimous to the South— men. The Bourbon Conrt of France, trained to | not that the South, as we understand it, claims the arte of deception, overreaching, equivooa- | any grace at the hands of the party which is counsels prevail the journals in the interest of Lincoln will modify their tone towards the South, which is daily becoming more and more exasperated by the taunts heaped upon its head. If sh- maline af the bleak manublican ne WMO puntey Ve MeN Meme ong journals is to help the secessionist, why not prociaim it boldly? If not, why do the Greeleye, Raymonds and Webbs, to say nothing of the smali fry in the rural districts, persist in bullying the South? Mr. Lincoln may as well begin to pray that he may be eaved from bis friends, Tar Vanrry or Potrmoat AsPmATIONS— ParatcEL BeTwEen [rain aNyp AMERICAN Arrairs,—It has been remarked by one of the most brilliant and forcible of English writers that history is but a cycle of events in which nations are brought sgain round to the point from whence they have started. The observa- tion, although somewhat arbitrary in its terms, is just now receiving 9 singular illustration in the respective aspects of political affairs in this country and in Italy. Here, after seventy years of a progress un- exampled in the histery of nations, we are again drifting on revolution, and the dissolution of the glorious confederacy built up by. the patriotism and sacrifices of our forefathers. | The experiment of the ballot and representa- tive institutions would seem not to be capable of sustaining itself against the efforts of the miserable demagogues and incendiaries who seek to elevate themeelves on the rains of our national prosperity. To what their wicked schemes will bring cs it Is impossible to foretell. Who can say that out of the chaos into which they are dragging us we can again resolve the debris of our in- atitutions into their original framework? Whilst events of such melancholy gravity are oceurring here, what spectacle do we behold in Italy? There, in the country which gave birth to the doctrine of the divine right of kings, and which enthroned in its bosom the worst ecclesiastical despotism that the world has ever witnessed, its people, after centuries of enslavement and suffering, are returning to that point of their history when their institu- tions were most favorable to the developement of their intellectual and material greatness. They have learned, as in the fable of the bun- dle of rods, that union is necessary to strength, and that the force of a people lies in the con- centration of the national energies. Hence, notwithetanding local prejudices, which at one time amounted almost to the intensity of hatred, we find Southern Italy voting with one acclaim its annexation to the Northern States, under the rule of constitutional King. Whilst here we weary of the fraternal bonds under which we have become prospereus and happy, the people of Italy are content to make any sacrifices so that all thé membors of the great Italian family can be brought within the eame circle of influences. But a more impressive fact still than this as- sertion on the part of the Italians of the right of expelling rulers distasteful to them, and of choosing their own institutions, is the emphatic approval given to their course by the English government, in the recent despatch of Lord Jobn Ruseell. That England should thus die- tinctly admit a priaciple which strikes at the doctrine of hereditary right, shows that she is prepared to make those further concessions to the popular demands in coanection with her own domestic policy, the resistance to which bas bitherw wivided her the vuly real cuuse of anxiety. That which Louls Napoieon demonstzated in regard to France, Great Britain now fully re- cognizes in regard to bereelf and all other governments—that sovereigns for the future can only reign by the favor of the masses. And it is significant that, notwithstanding the practical Wlustration of this doctrine by the people of Italy, and its endorsement by Eng- land and France, the despotic governments of the Continent dare take no steps to nullify it. The fact is that they find their action paralyzed between two dangers. If they assume the of. fensive, revolution weakens them from within, whilst at the same time they will be assailed from without. If they yield a passive assent to to the new political theories which are being formulated by the constitutional governments, they will themselves be ultimately subjected to their application. Thus, whilst Western Europe is advancing in the path of political reform and regeneration, our government, which was looked upon as the grandest political experiment that the world had ever witnessed, is disappointing the expecta” tions that it bad inspired. We had hoped to teach other nations that republican institutions were compatible with stability and cohesion. We are now, alas! taking steps to convince them that they are the frailest and most uncertain of hu- wan ties. ‘ Mr. Lixcorn Rervses To Sreax tN Favor or Pract —Mr. Lincoln, it appears, obstinately refuses to say anything or do anything to allay the excited feelings now prevalent in the Soutb, but coolly refers to the sentiments expressed by him eix years ago, when he wasa petty local politician in Illinois. This course of Mr. Lincoln very plainly ehows that he does not comprehend the nature of the crisis’ through which the country is passing. He does not perceive that we are at this moment in almost the same revo- lutionary condition as we were when the confe- deracy was formed. Here are fifteen Southern States actually moving in a revolutionary direc- tion, under the coercion of eighteen Northern States, with grievances to complain of just aa heavy as thore under which the colonies suffered from a foreign government; and yet the President elect declines to take any mea- suree calculated to moderate the excitement which is driving the South to extremes, and already producing at the North the most disas- trons rerults to trade and commerce. Nero fiddling while Rome was burning is not an inapt illustration of Mr. Lincoln smoking his segar, drinking bis lager bier and cracking his familiar jokes up in Springfield, while the coun- try is on the verge of ruin. He is probably occupied over hie lager and eegar with the question as to how many of the endorsers of Helper’s book he will put into his Cabinet—a course which will tend to increase the exasperation tenfold— unconscious, we pre- sume, that at this very moment we are in the midst of a revolution, that all parties are broken up, all old political systems shaken, and that within the past few months the country has un- dergone more extraordinary change of ideas than it has experienced during the whole of its previous existenos as an independent na. At a meeting of the Beard of Aldergen Jagt | on the euepenston of epecie paymenta by the ton end ruspiclon, ot Gret embarrassed, wag ' now taking co impolitic and dangerous @ post: ° ton, Crom mv New Yors.—We eee it stated that Jobn Horrigan, the young man who was eea- tenced to forty years’ imprisonment by Judge Rareel a few years since, on the charge of gat- roting, bas beem pardoned by Governor Mor- gan. The pardon, we are told, was brought abeut through letters from both Judge Russel and District Attorney Waterbury. The cause of this request for pardon on the part of Judge Roseel arose from his ascertaining that the tes- timony of Travers, upon which he was con- victed, was false, leaving the youth guilty only of assault and battery. This sentence, at the time that it was made, was the means of break- ing up the garroting in this city, which was at that time quite prevalent, and, therefore, proved & blessing to the community. This mode of highway robbery is agaia breaking out in our mMist, with every prospest of increasing, through the hard times that are now knocking at the doors of the metropolis. Several gentlemen have already fallen victims to these prowling bands; yet our police are per- fectly ailent upon it. They make no arrests, but, on the other hand, look on with perfect in- difference, and seem to have no special busi- ness but to protect the gambling hells aad bouses of prostitution from all intrusion. Bots of those institutions flourish under their protee- tion—in fact, a part of their principal ocoupe- tion appears to be to escort their rural friends to see the lions exhibited in those houses om their arrival in this city. This may be one ef the modes that they bave for returning the favor of the rural politicians for legislating them into office; but it is not what the publie, who pay liberally to support the police in thie city, expect in return for their money. GEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. An American Slave Set Free by « British Chief Justice. Wasminorton, Nov. 19, 1960. It Is understood that information bas been reccived from the Governor of Waabipgton Territory, that » slave on board an American vessel, which entered the harber of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, has been taken from the veasel and set free by the Chicf Justice of the Island. A pretty bigh banded measure this, THE MISSION TO MEXICO. It fs not known by the administration that Governer Weiler will acoopt the mission to Mexico. Tho steamer which leaves New) York on the 21st inst. will carry the information to him. If he accepts, his instructions are te proceed to Mexico without delay and relieve Mr. MoLane, Te appears from the despatches of Mr. McLane that Mexican affairs are tn & wretched condition, and he hea given up all hope of accomplishing anything for our ge- vernment. They absolutely refused to make a treaty that would be acceptable to the United States. INSPECTION OF ARSENAIS AND ARMORIBS. During the absence of the Inspector of Arsenals end Armories, these important duties will be performed by Colonel Craig, chief of the Ordinance Bureau. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT. Jobn N. Merriam, Collector of the Customs at George- town, £. C., compensation $400. James McFetridge, Collector of tho Oustoms for Miaae- sota, at Pembina, compensation $1 209. Alfred Palmer, Surveyor of tho Customs for the port ef Urbina, Virginia, ‘Wiliam B. Morgan, Surveyor of the Customs for tee port of Havre do Grace, Maryland, compensation $176: Jacob C, Hewlett, Surveyor of the Customs at Cold ‘Spring, N. Y.—oompensaticn, foes. All the above have been re-appointed. Willtam Priebard, Surveyor of the Onstoms for Newbe- ryport, Mass., in place of Nathaniel Jackson, whose com- ‘misgion bas expired, and who declined a reappointment— compensation four bundred and seventeen dollars. ‘THE PRESDENT’s WERSAGE. ‘The President has completed writing his anneal mas- sania ‘MATL AGENT ON THE PactriC CoasT.§ Martin T. McMahon, of the Post Office Department, has been appointed special agent of that department for tee Vractnic coast, and commissioned to visit and report open the Indiaa tribes in Texas and Arizona. He leaves to- morrow morning for St. Louis, and will go thence to San Francisco by the Butterfield overiand route. The Presidential Klection. THE VOTE OF CALIFORNIA. Wasmrxctox, Nov. 10, 1860, Reliable private California deepatches say that Dougiaa bas 3,000 over Lincoln, and 11,000 over Breckinridge. THE VOTE OF ILLINOIS. Cmcaco, Ol., Nov. 19, 1860. The official vote of Dlinois is as follows:—Lincola, 173,645; Dougias, 160,549; Bell, 4.846; Breot inridge, 2,272. ‘The increase in the vote since 1856 is 103,181. ‘The Illinots Banks. Cmcaco, Nov. 19, *860: Our bankers to-morrow, will throw out the notes of the following banks:—American Exchange Bant, Siate Bank (Shawneetown), Bank of the Commonwealth, Bank of Raleigh, Corn Exchange Bank, Nat:onal Bank and Bank of Aurore. Sruncrimp, Dl., Nov. 19, 1860. ‘The Bank Commisstoners have been in session severed days, and bave issued « call upon twentytwo banks of tbe State fer additional security, in amounts varying from three to eight per cent of their circulation, to be paid within thirty-five days, The deficit is lees than three hundred thousand dollare. No doubt is entertained bat that the banks embraced in the call will promptly re- spond. The ciroulation of the other banks of the State, numbering nearly one bundred, is amply secured. i i gulch minive bee avo searty eonend ‘net quantities of quartz for spring operations are being raimed from deep leads wii The Provisional Legisiature arsembied om Mooday aad organ ized tem iy, And on the following day perma. peptly, The Governor then delivered bis message, and both boures ed joarred ent!! Monday, the 19tb inst op the 12th, by the Peak Expreee 8£0,000; alo this morning, by the Intter company $8 660 Two trains of Gfy four wagons. for Jones & and one team of thirty ty Co came in yesterday—in all, 170 tone of He is quite confident thet the new «iseoveries im that range will prove very rich Twenty mille bare nearly all stopped for the winter, mostly om account of the failure of water by the freesing wear. 5