The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, i jury, of which there & no prospect; consequeutly NEW j YORK HERALD. | we may look for a repetition of the trial in all ite JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIKIOR oprice 4. W- conven oF FULTON ax NAKSAU STE TERMS, cash Gn advance. Money ror by mast silt be at the = (the wonder, Wone but Bank ourret in New Fork rie DAILY HERALD tee conte por copy. I per annum THE FAMILY HERALD om Wetnosday, af four comix por me or $2 ad * ae WeeKL? “i e aw “Bion ery Rennes : er PRINTING, arecwtad sith meatneas,’¢hewpnens and de "AMUSEMENTS THIS BYANLNG NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pnonte st 8on—A Baoo- wan Fix WINTER GARDEN, Sromdway.—Twe Arcstare—Bany Baxcn—2y Yousa Wire asp Oup Umeaniia, SUWERY TURATKE Rowery ~ Mor Rventug—Sraioine & Kooea’s GBarwstaan . ANernoos and ROUTERS WauLsvk’® FHRATRE, Broadway. Krenricor's FainsD—Rick ron 4 Witew LACBA KEENP'S THRATRE So @4 Brvetway,— Afternoon and Bvecing.—Seves Sustans NEW BOWERY, Bowers bow is Tar Wan Bae’ Teare—Semsy Geamae TINE AND ORSOO ANereroe — Por srr Breotx wimuere Past Vaes Puurres— CSRUM. Rrowtway —Day and Wa sass Bae Ormnnertens, a. BARNUNS Bvnce—* arte Cao BRY ARTS NINSTSGLS Meemamee Hel 67) Broatway — Afternom sat Boeoang —sreuasgrae Sones Dances, ao.— Usse Or Baieon, Boxcs, CANTERBURY MUIC BALL, 6 Sroadway.—Soros Dances, BUKLE ac a NATIONAL ME TAL New York Thursday, Nove The News. & left Hwiifax for and will w ton at ten o'clock there at an early on Tues bour t The Nova Scotian arrived at r morning ber advices are not #0 late as those by the Arabia, which are given gine w here ‘The Canada sa neat eleven o'clock A.M, yesterday She took ont no specie Advices from Tan © to the 16th are to the tenor that Miramon's declared inability to defend the cnpital bad caused much sensation. It is re- ported that Tacu and an eflort at defence. alas been taken by the con- Guadalajara would sarren ‘The courts have Gtitutionalixts der withou decided on a pro rata distribution of the $100,000 Of the seized conducta. Files of Venezacla papers to Oct. 25 are to hand, ce, All is quiet at Puerto Cabelle, the disturbances reported there having Cumana was occupied on the 15th by the government forces, after a very spirited attack the preceding day on the federatist entrenchments, in which Commander Moreno, who The fede- being five days later than previous intellig: There is very iittle news: been much exaggerated. led the attacking column, was killed FAl@ are suid to have been completely routed and | orig were in excess of our exports, and ad = vig very hoary — The i ; 1008 | bank expansion and speculation were unguard. conduct © b 2 government, however, aud Ut ed end almost reck} In such a etate of Becessary cruelty with which prisoners are treated, Bs are said to be creating the federals, and to ranks {rom persons otherwise well disposed. The pony express, with advices from the Pacific reached Fort Kearney early yea- terday morning, aud reports three feet of snow on to the 17th inet, include postage; the | » at wae ber 4V, 860. | a good deal of sympathy for canse accessions to their filthy details, The interest was anabated to the lawt. |. This day being set apart as @ day of thankxgiv. [ing in nearly every State of the Unio, business in this city will be generally suspended. The law courts will transact no business, and Wali | street will be deserted by the aaxious multitude whousually throng that busy mart, Our report of the market for heef cattle aud other live stock this morning shows po material ; change in prices from those ourrent last week, | The total receipts were 5,202 beef cattle, 93 cows, | $83 calves, 12,771 sheep and lambs, aud 12,532 swine, The foreign uews tended to cheok rales of cotton jeatar- day, and to render prices momewbat trrogular, * Tae } transactions embraced about 800 bales, including 660 ta transit. Some broxers oalied middting uplands st 10/9 is 1Oige. There was oo pressure, however, noticmbie on the part of holders to sell, The exports of this articie to Europe, compared with the same period last yoar, show } & falling off equa) 40 115,000 bales, and the reosivis at the | Fore abow aout @ deGclescy of 168000 do It | t@ tmmaierial whet the future prices of cotton may | St BY OF Low ; no efforts of cotton oF Other associations | im England can ever succeed, to any mater al extent, in | Competing with the Caited States to tis growth sot up pty. 1 Dae Deem demoostraie! again aad again thst ao | imtertropica! region, subject to six months drought and OM mMOTS raln—even admitting that reiiabie labor is obtatnadlem ap ever be made to prodace cotton to com pete wiih this country. Our cotton S'stes bordering tho Pail o Mexico ant tbe Southern Atiantic Gosaa possess w warmth of climate, attended by alternations of showers | and sussdine and « 60il whieh designate them as the only available cottoo region to the world adequate to yield enough (0 meet the wan's of manufacturers aud con orn of the world. If this region fails by any political coptmgency to yield ite average amount of eappties, or sboud in & measure be destroyed, the civilized world woul | ‘cel tte counequences, [i8 destruction would no ovly involve our own couotry tn ruin, but go far to cor ‘yulte aad revolu\ioutze the leading governments of Eu rope Pious, onder (he news, was heavy sud casior, with rather more doing at the concession. Wheat was also ‘asior but active, closing mt rates gi io another column, Gorn was sico dull aud | lower, but sales were w & fair extent Pork Was lower again. Sales of mess wero reported at $17 and prime at $12 Sogars were unchanged, but salor were copdned to 260 bhds, Cubs, A good many | boguheada, boxes and bags are being exported to Eurvoe on owner accoun\, We hear of ono house *ho had oc gxged freight for 1000 bhds, We may remark, ia on clogion, that @ sort of general beaviness pervaiod every branch of (rade, a# thoogh oppressed by some rort of Ww cubum, Freigbts wore steady. Among the engagements, wheat, in ebip’s bags, to Liverpool, st 133¢4 , aad flour a) 8¢, 8d. Coffee was quipt and prices in & measure no m'nal. The Crisis of Commerce and ledustry. ‘The question bas often been asked dariog the present monetary panic, “What bas cause it?” At a period when the country is pros perons almost beyoud precedent, and with no commercial disruption, and the banks in a state of complete eoundness, the eurprise is natural and intense. Let us review briefly both its causes and effects, When the devastating crisis of 1857 swept over this land the country was not ip the prosperous state it now is, The har- vest was but en inferior one, and our im- things the then panic seized us and swept oo ward with relentless force, and with a power beyond control. This year, thanks to a kind Providence, the harvest has been very abun dant—unusnally so—and we have food not onty for eur own inhabitants, at a cheap rate, the South Pass and Rocky Ridge. The election | out an enormous excess to export, which com pe ee ae rayon mm the cost | manda fair prices in the Curepean markata of Lincoln ip rnia and ‘on, Party ani: institutions and meaity had greatly subsided in California, all par. | Toe Presence cf our banking institutions an ties being feart serious political roubles, The people were anxiously awaiting news from the South on the secession question. The Sacramento Standard, assuming dissolution as inevitable, was opriety of torming @ separate re- The proposition met with Some details are given respecting of the Oregon emigrant train at- tacked by the Indians 4 short time since, who urging the pr public on the Litue twelve persous Pacfic. favor. were rescoed from starvation by the troops sent to their assistance. They were entirely naked, having been compietely stripped by the savages, They had subsiste fleeh body of her husband Rich discov for several days on human one woman having partaken of the dead ies of silver he operations of our merchants, induced by the severe lessons of 1507—and which bave not yet had time to be uprooted by successive years of great prosperity and speoulation— have since then been tempered by caution, Our imports since the Ist of January have been less than during the corresponding term last year by about twelve mitiions, while our exports during the same period are about twenty eight millions in excess ot those of 1859 The present, therefore, is not a commercial crisis—tbat is, it is pot induced by commercial causes, It is a derangement, a panic, a con- sternation whoee source is strictly a political Guiiew? And on poe lawe would be no wore then the Personal Liberty lawe of the Borth The South cease to feel any confidence in the integrity of the North; and while these Per sopal Liberty enuctments remain in force, defiant ae |hey are of the authority of the gene ral govervment, it were vaia—it were simost ap insult to the mianly independence of the Soutbera characier—to hope for any advance whatever oa their part towards a reconciliation That slavery is, in itseif, an evil, few, either South or North, wili deny; but that evil has existed and does exist, It existed when this contivent was under Brilish ruie—it existed wheo the glorious Declaration of Independence wae signed—-and it has been recognized ever since, Slaves are the property of their owners, and their right to such property is recognizad by the constitution, by Congress and by the highest judicial authority. ‘This right bas been tmpered with by the Northern abolitioniats with rancorous taunts and insult, and incendi- ary aitempte to induce insurrection and murder, nou they ean be tolerated oo longer. In vain are they told that the cotton States require tlave lsbor—that the property they hold should be as racred to them as other property is to shy Citizen in the United States. We bave thus, at some length, gone over this gronnd, 60 often reiterated tn the columas of this jowrnal, fo place the matter once more clearly before the pnblic. It is the attitade aecumed by the South, and the sober earnest nese of their sieady and onward proceedings, which bave consed this panic ; for men ot ordi- ery intellect at once foresaw the derangement sed loss which wonld How from ite natural wad bly poerible result—-want of coufidence. Already has the losshere been felt—in* the vreat fall in United States stocks, which the panic of the depreciation of ali public stosks, m 1857 scarcely affected; to and the banks aad the consternation of the brokers. It is supposed that the gros vaiue of the railroad, Siate, corporation and other! etocke, whicb form the matériel of the Stock Exchange, is not Jess than two thousand willions; and if we estimate the decline which took place immediately after the eventiul 6th of November at ap average of ten per ceut (and it is a low average), we have a losa of two pundred millions of dolisra, But “the end is vot yet”’ When we begin to feel the depre ciation in ships, trom Northern vessels being rejected and English ships employed to couvey to Europe cotton and other products of the South—the direct importation inte Southern porte of the manafactnres of Evrope—the withbolding, for a Jong time at least, of all pay- ments of existing debts to the Northern mer chante by their customers in the South, and that custom withdrawn forever—and the bankrupt cy which will extend through these Northern States in conrequence—then at least the most skeptical will see the foliy of having created, and the greater folly of having disregarded, this dreadful feud provoked by Northern faaatica towards the chivalrons Southerners. Nor will its evils end- bere; for if the black republican journals goad on these fery spirits to a point to provoke a civil war, God only knows the misery, | horror and destitution which will sweep over bad been mode in Harrison county, end a nnmber | one, inducing want of confidence and its at- of re specimens of ore taken from a jake in the | tendant evils. Its low murmurings, like those Vicinity of Port Douglas. There was a brisk export | heard from the bowels of the earth on the eve demand for wheat to Europe, bat trade geucrally | o¢ q mighty earthquake, were first beard soon extbited symptoms of depression, The sbips after the October elections, and it burst forth Bouthern Cross ant Winged Arrow, fr pghar: "1 in ite fory so soon as the Electoral College anclsco on the L5th, and the I Andre, trom Bordeaux, on the Lith inet, was chosen, and when no longer aay doubt The secession feeling at he South seems wn. | Could exist as to the triumph of the repubii- absted. A Union meeting was hetd a* Columbus | can party. on Tuesday evening. Few person nded, aad no Nor was it merely because a Mr. Lin- enthusiasm was mavifested. Four of the banks of | cola was chosen to the highest office in others un of havo Cha m suspended yesterday, and the will probably do so to-day, with the except the Bank of Charleston. The St. Louis banks also suspended. The woollen manufacturers of Philadelphia helda meeting yesterday to consider the depressed condi- tion of trade in that locality. The geueral senti- ment of the meeting was that there should be less production, without a general stoppage of business, The United States steamer Brooklyn, having on board the members of the Chiriqui Commission, arrived at Norfolk yesterday. The Commission has been successfal in its researches, having dis- the nation, or that republicans tustead of demo- crate would henceforth fill offices of power, and trust, and emolument; not for these reasons wlone, but from a deep and well founded dread felt by that part of the Union known as the slave holding States~-warranted and forced upon them by the antecedents of the past—that they, these Southern States, found themselves now mor powerless than ever to achieve that honest recognition of their just righte—menaced and trampled upon by the rabid republicans and | abolitionists of the North—which they had ever covered excellent harbors Shae: — been willing to concede to them. The Soutb | quantities of superior coal. A practicable re i cognise the obedience due to the eae through the Cordilleras was also | supreme suthority of th federal laws, The rear wall of the extensive flour warehouse | 0d reasonably ask that the - North yield to the enactments of Congress | the same obedience; but now they despair of accomplishing it, and in their de-pair they have, ( with a suddenness, a compactness and unankni- ty most striking, rallied under the secesion Noa. 36 and 38 Whitehall street, forming an L on Pearl, fell to the ground yesterday moraing. That portion of the building fronting on Pear! street was filled wit ur, the pressare of which was so great onthe inseourely bailt, that the structure gare way. Twelve thousand bartels of flour were on Storage at the time of the accident son, 00 & Warren’ of erecting an unsafe brilding. The Commissioners of Emigration failed to master & quornm yesterday, bat proceeded with the by neas before them toformally. A rather comica communication was received from Dr. Jerome, lately, and his farniture forcibly removed there- from. This furniture was what the Commisstoners | claim aa theirs, and which they have recently or- Gered to be removed to Ward's Island. The com Mmapicatiog and the action of the Board in refer- ence to it are published with our report in another The number of emigrants arrived at this column. port during the week was 1,529. The commuta tion balance is now $9,174 25, The Galway Steamship Company have deter- mined to meke their new steamship Leiner proof against every accident before sending her to sea, For this purpose she is now being more thorongh’ y aided acd strengthened than any other ‘Vessel, perhaps, that ever kissed the water, and hence the ¢ did not safl on the appointed day. The vt 8 severe and profitable reseon comwany here The loss of Property is estimated at $30,000. Mr. R. T. John. | the owner of the building, was arrested, wed by Justice Kelly, on the charge | in. forming the Board that bis house was broken into banner, and have since been daily marching | opward in the majesty of their strength. Can order and justice loving citizens of the North | tbe natural consequence of past events! Not | Tess chan elght of the nonslaveholding States } bove virtually placed on record on their statute books local laws which virtually annul | the Pogilive Slawe law passed by the federal | Sovernment, They have made the act of off | clad obedience to (his law restoring a fugitive slave to bis lawial owner a penal act, and ub jected even federal officers in the execution of thet law to both fine and {mprisonment—the former varying from one to five thonsand dol- lars, and the latter from three months to fifteen yearn, Who, then, firet sei on foot disloyalty to the Union but those atstes which, by enactments, rendered nugatory ‘Le laws o! the Union? The eame bigh authoriiy requires citizens of the Southern States to pay ¢i!fos on certain im- ports for the general treasury of the Union look on and not feel that this state of thiags is the whole land. Nor will its range be limited to the Tnited States. The commercial tuterests of Europe are so Completely interwoven with those of the Ugited States that a card of sympathy will be at once touched when this revulsion ex- ‘ends across the Atlantic. What are the thou sands npon thousands employed ia the factories of England todo wheo deprived, even for a time, of their needed supply of the raw mate- rial—the.cotton of the South? They must be diecharged and thrown out of employment. If the North is impoverished— as it is sare to be- come by the wisbdrawa! of the South from being purchasers of ber manufactures aud the employment of ber ships aud of the payment of debts due to her—where will the merchauts of Europe seek for the recovery of the enormous indebredness existing on the part of this coun- try to them? Will not bankruptcy fasten upon the merchants of Europe aa fearfully as it will destroy thore on this side the Atisatict This is a fearful picture, bat it ie not an exag- gerated one; and we bave only to reler to past commercial papics bere to prove the sympathy existing between America and Europe when the moving cautes were less deep and leas ia- tricate than those which have given birth to that we are now treating of. Let the North awoke, ere it be too late, toa sense of their madness and folly; and, by retracing their steps and rendering to (he South what are their Just rights, they may yet oreate that measure of ovnfidence which will induce them t desire to remain a part of that glorious Union which Washington founded, and which for over eighty years has been our beast and the envy of the Ola World. Postrion or Tar Cuxwicat Bank.—We have given in our money article some account of the action of the associated banks in the case of the Chemical Bank, and deem it proper to ada afew words of explanation. It will be seen that the managers of the Chemical Dank de. cline to place their specie reserve at the dis. posal of the General Banking Association. Otherwise, as we understand the matter, the | directors of the Chemical Bank are quite wil | Ning to jotn tn QDy Measures to which the other | beake may agree for the relief of the merchants. | The Chemica! Bank is round aa 8 rook, aod can not be shaken by any crisis or reculsion. It has upon its books the names of a very large number of special depositors who pever ask for any sccommodation. They simply piace their money in the bank for safe keeping, and the managers consider themselves as responsi ble to each and every one of their depositors as if they conducted a bank of deposit only. The government of the Coemical Bank, an institution which has never *urpended paymen', and which bas tg un soatbed throngh the tough times of ‘7 and "67, believe that their first duty is to secure the safety of their depositors; and we think they are right The associated banks have attempt ed to coerce the directors of the Chemical by refusing (after the Ist of December) checks upon that bank, and denying to it other privi- legee at the Clearing House. The Chemical Bavk will, bewever, continue to receive the bills and certified checks of the other d@y banks ae uenal, The Chemical Bank, as it ap- pears to us, is made all the stronger by this ad- What would these Northern brethfn think of | verse action of ite former amoctates. Certainly them--what would be the ditty of the genera! | government in such a cate~if they ooal laws rendering it penal for an ‘ Re~ten' & the fret duty of ab and the " ker fs to bie ovstomers e the woree of the ecognized that Yio wt! thi racers fr orligt oe ae | he government to enforce the payment of sach @uty fo the mort thorough ph ‘Tue pefe Arsival of the Prince of Waies at Home. Tt te 00 lees & source of pleasure and relie? to ourselves than it must have beea to the peo- ple of Fingtand, who fodividnaliy regard hiu almost “at one of the family,” to hear of the ante arcival, after & voyage of unusual length aod severity, of the Prince of Wales at home. We leern that the royal squadron expe rienced head winds aud bad weather during the entire passage from Portiand, aud that although it did not anchor at Piymoute tll the 15th innt., it wax within @ day’s sail of Kngiand on the tith, when # heavy gale prevented any fur ther progress, At this time there re mained only one week's provisions on board the fieet, so that during the lust few days ateea the royal party were com polled to Live solely om saltand preserved food. However, on landing none of them appeared the worse for the chauge; and what has oecowe a proverb tells us that “All’s well that ends well.” We hear with satisfaction that the Dake of Newcostle, the able Mentor of the Prince, fs to receive the Order of the Garter, which baa just become vacant by the death of the Duke of Richmond. No one, we should judge, is more worthy of this new honor than his Grace, whose visit to this country will be always pleasantly associated with that of his Roya! Highness. The effect of the brilliant snd hearty re ceptions which the Prince met with in the United States is making itwelf felt from one ex- trem!ty of Great Britain to the other, and there is DO more conrpicnous evidence of this than in the altered and extremely congratalatory tone ot the English press towards this couutry loetead of remainiog studiously silent about as, or regaling us with ap occasional sarcasm or display of hostility, the leadiag English jour- nals Dow Come forward with lengthy articles io ~bicb the praises of the great repudlic are sounded in the most friendly manner possible. ‘This is all the more gratifying when we kaow it to be opty @ faint expression of the poputar eeling ip Rugiand. Almost every true Hagtish man feels himeeif just now, with regard to our: selves in the position of one who had seat hi- best friend, bis grandson or bis brother, a4 the case might be, with a very warm letter of ia troduction to @ distant cousin, who had enter tained him well beyond expectation; while, wo add to this feeling, there is the graod and ab- vorbing influence of an exchapze of interaa tional courtesies between two of the greatest nations of the earth, whose people are bouud together by the ties engendered by an affinity of race, an affinity of language, aud the most intimate commercial reistions. We cap hardly overestimate the good results, vot only direct, but indirect, which will accrae to both countries —for have they not a common interest !—from the bappy auspices under which the eldest son of Queen Victoria eo- journed smong us. There ie no know- ing how soon—although for his mother’s sake we wish it may be long—tbat young man may be called apon to ascend the thrope which, by the accideut of birth, he in- herlis; apd there is hardly a limit to the power of kings, be it for good or evil. His visit to this covniry will bave enlarged his ideas apd enlisted his sympathies in our behalf. He will be lees influenced by prejudices thao aré mavy of bis countrymen, and be a far wiser man than was bis great-grandtather, George the Third, bet for whose tyrannical policy with regard to this country, what arelnow the Unived States might still bave been British colonies. It was that very tyranny that defeaied itself and gave birth to our independence; and wha; was England's lose was America’s gain. Mark the difference between the reign of the third George and now. Then we were pro. claimed redela; now we have just occupied the friendly position of hosts in entertaining his great-grandson. The corresponding change of feeling involved in thie is no lees remarkabie. When the Prince of Wales was among us be viewed us with no envious, no ungenerous emotions. He simp!y saw a great people, having institutions in common with bis own, and all trying to give him as hearty a welcome a they could, and to’ wake bis short stay in this country as agreeable at possible, eparing either purse nor labor to do him bonor—and ali this without the slight eet toadyiem or in the least overdoing the thing. How, therefore, can bis impressions of his visi! be other than of the most lively sod endearing character? The same feelings prevail among ourselves, and will endure. A compliment to the Prince of Wales such a that paid by the people of the United States is a compliment to (be Queen and the whole British nation, which will not easily be forgotten, and will have more effect in softening whatever asperities may in the future arise on either side than all the diplomacy in the world. When many of us are dead and gone, the visit of the Prince of Wales will be re ] called fn the midst of pleasant associations by those who are now children, aud whose pre sent boost is tbet they have seen bim; aod when } bey. too have gota vig way of oli flesh, their children end their children’s children will read in the history of our time the chronicle of thie royal visit, and it will be equally remembered in England and America, and tend fot ages to preserve and strengthen that friend-bip which ought alwaye to subsist between the two nations. This jast is A sentiment which would meet with a hearty reeponse in every Asglo- Saxon breast on both sides of the Atlantic, It is highly probeble (hat, sooner or iater, the Prince will visit the British dominions in India, where, when he goes, he is certsin to be re- ceived with the greatest eclat. There fr aloo | Aittle doubt that he will pay us another vi before ascendirg the throne, upon which orca- sion onr Southern friends will have aa oppor- ‘unity of seeing more of him than they have yat done. As he diepisys ench a liking for travel, it is not impossible, provided his mother lives long enongh, thet he may undertake a voyage to the Britieh Anstralian possessions, where, if he ar- rived at the antipodes in eammer, the genuine warmth of his reception by the people would be only surpassed by the warmth of the climate; for all who have felt the hot winds there would, compared with them, cali Calcutta cool. Meanwhile the glorious welcome be met with here has only been exceeded by his welcome home, and the inhabitants of every town and villege in the British provinces ho bas vivited witl feel themse!ves bonnd closer to the parent land than before his coming, and similar wit\ ve the eToct ug the popular and individual sind wherever else te may wander theor rh nee Aaminicne fe the glory of } Pogiand to esy, the enn never cots. Wren which, fe NOVEMBER 23, 1860 | agcordincty. In all prob sbiirt> her 1 Stat ‘The Soild Thanks We Have Had—Shal! eet Have Another Thankegtving Day? ‘To-day will be devoted to thankagiving for all the mercies which have been vouchsafed to us in this State and in twenty-three other States and Territories threughout the Union. A‘ ths season the beart inclines to charity, and is moved with eympsthy for the poor and friend- tees, fn giving thanks to Heaven for the bless- ings which have been showered upon us—the bountiful harvests, the commercial proegerity, the exemption from devasMating disease—it is imporsibie to forget those who may have shared them in a lesser degree. It is something to re fivct npon with satisfaction that, amid all our prosperity and progress, charity, which “covereth 4 multitude of sins,” has not been ignored or disregarded in this country, and more es)ecially in this great, thriving, bustling We publish in another colamn a very interest- ing list ot the amount of mouey received and ox- pended by the different Charitable societies and institations which have their headquarters in this city for the year 1859-60, which eXemp!i- fies the bounty with which the wants of the poor and friendless are relieved in this me- tropolis, Many of thoee societies, it is known, hold their anniversaries here in May, but there are many which meet at other periods through out the year. It will be seen that the total sum contributed from private and public sources was very close on four millions of do!- lars. Supposing this income to be uniform from year to year, as we presume it will be, we would have the enormous amount of forty mil lions of dollars contribated for charitable pur- poser in a single decade. I; would be curious to know bow much of this is expended for the specific purposes for which it is raised. A good deal of it, no doubt goes for the remuneration of the officers of the various tocieties acd institutions, and not a lit- tle for costly buildings; but it would be very uratifying to the public to learn how much ie +xpended in the actual relief of tha poor, the destitute and the sick. It will be seen that nearly every society puta down ita expenses atasum greater than its receipts, making in the agzregate an excess of expenditure to the amount of over $100,000; but this, we find, is quite common on their balance sheets. A good deal of the tunds contributed to theze institu. tions of course comes from the country, from parties who are aware of the fact that their headquarters are located here; but the great bulk of the amount, we believe, is raised in the city itself. {n addition to the charitable contributions here referred to, it must not be forgotten that every other city, town and vil- iage throughout the entire country has its own institutions to support; and it would not be too much to say that the sum total appropria!-d ‘rom private and public sources in the United States for charitable purposes amounts to between fifteen and twenty millions of dollars annually. It cannot be denied that much cood is accom- plished with this money, bu! we fear that it is hardly commensurate with the cnermous amount contributed. We know exactly, from the records of our State prisons, how much ii takes to feed a human being per diem—contractors agree ing (o find them at specific sums, varying from twenty-five to fifty cents a head—and it ought not to be very difficult to estimate the number of individuals relieved by the funds of these societies. Many of them are the recipients of money from the State and city treasuries, but the greater number are maiatained solely by private contributions, and whea we take tbesum total into account this fact speaks volumes for the charitable disposition of our citizens. Nor is their liberality confined to institutious of thie character. There is never a call unresponded to, come from what quarter it may. It is but a few weeks ago that one religious denomination alone—the Roman Catholice—raised $60,000 for the Pope by merely handing round the plate in their churcher, and his Holiness has seit a medal of the first class in reiurn to Arch- bisbop Hughes; and at the present time a fand, which no doubt will be swelled still high- er, ie being raised for Garibaldi, the list opea- ing with $1,000 from one individual—Mr. John Andereon. ‘The Jargest amount of charity of course finds ite way into the coffers of the charitable socie- ties, because they are managed by a set of men who make a regular busivess of it, and leave no etone unturned to raise funds from every source. Many of these societies are therefore rich, their funds having accumulated from year to year. We remember an instance of one in- stitution in this city which receives an appro- priation from the Legislature: on applying for $20,000 from that body two years ago, some opposition was offered bya Senator from the metropolis, on the ground that it owned a vala- able piece of property in the very heart of the business part of the city which would bring at anoction at least a million of dollars, while another location could be had for $100,000 fartber up tow, and in a more healthy spot But the opposition availed nothing, and the ap- propriation was made, and doubtless will con- tinue to be made every session, Without charg ing that any portion of thie four milliour a year is deliberately misapplied, we cannot help thinking that if it was oil disbursed judiciously iL would be ample to relieve the neoeesities of all tb? poor and sick in the city for years, Iv view of this bountiful distribution of alma, it cannot be said that we misappropriate the wealth with which our peopl¢ have been blessed, and for which we gtve thanks to-day fo twenty-three out of the thirty-three States which comprise the Uaion, nor that we are mnmindfal of the “ little ones’ whom the Saviour gave Ia charge to Nis more favored clildren. Let ua Lope and pray that the po- likesi troublee which now obscure the ‘nture will be removed before another Thanks wiving Day comes round, eo that we may hare something more to be thankful for—in a united confederacy and a still more glorious, happy and prosperous country. Let us troet that our stateemen—if we have any statesmen lef: amongst us—will #0 harmonize the now dis severed elements that we may have, in 1861," great National Thankegiving. called by procia- mation of the President of an undivided Caion. No Cowrnovise—No Coxrrnescr.— Governor Gist, of South Carelina, indignantly repudiates in his message to the Legislature all ideas of a compromise with the North and of a conference with any Southern State, before taking thot leap in the dark—the leap out of the Union. He says that ceoemion Is the cnly alternative. nad | thet South Carling, apesking for herve!’ with out 9 conference and w lay, rust le j elare hotest” an inten antor vention, y"bich meets on the 18th of December, will pase tin’ #0t of secession, Un!oas something shall be dene %y Congress in the interval prevent if But (ougress wey do somethiag to arrest even Souk’ Carolina, on the very threshold of secession, @ud we cali nyon the conservative men of bovh houses to prepare ta wot, with the mevting of Congress, for anon & conference as may secure the acquiescence even of South Carolina. The Peete Upon Seceeston, The bards and bardlings of South Caroline, Alabama Georgia and Texas have comme.oed to attnne their harps to secession aire. We have already a large number of songs, baliads* and other lyrical productions which smeth strongly of gunpowder, and suggest saltpetre in every line. On the whole, the secession poeis—we have printed their effusions in ow impression of to day—-are far in advance of the bards who sang the praises of the Presidential candidates, and much better than the sons ead daugtters of Apollo who swept the lyre ia praise of the Prince of Walesa Our collection embraces thirteen fugitive pieces, the larger proportion of them takes from our highly excited but still amiable cotem- porary, the Charleston Mercury. We etart olf with 8 “patriotic eong,” to a French air, pre- pared by an Englishman, and to be sung by a daughter of Albion, That must be a singaiar sort of “pstriotiem,” and we presume that the Frenob and English flagu blended their folds lovingly with the Palmetto standard. An enthusiastic Gaul contributes a ferocious chant to the air of the “Parisienne,” the red re- publican song par excellence. We have an im- distinct recollection ot having read something like the ‘‘Bailad of the South” somewhere be fore; bat that's no matter. The “ballad,” al- thongh not a ballad by acy means, is very fear. The Gigure in the last stanza; where the South is compared to 4 lamb fa the clutches of a Nort’ ern lion, is neat, but not flattering to our Sonth- ero brethren, woo do not plume themselves, as a rule, upon the meekness of their dispositions. The “‘free, the Serpent and the Star” hese good, swinging rbychm, and was done, evident ty, by a practiced hand. Next wa have a Tex- an lady who is extremely aoxious that the Lone Star shall be given to the breeze, and that the “brave Texans” shall again muster under it to muke new conquests, exceeding deeds of song or story. This geutle bardiing works herself into a terrible state of mind, calls the Union a “hated chain,” defies the “haughty North,” and isn’t @ bit afraid to die under the Lone Star fiag, which hae been in its day a very pretty thing, although somewhat too dear for commos folks. In the next poem, Carolinians are called, upon to arise and throw their pure Palmetto banner proudly upward to the skies, The ma‘dens and matrons of South Carolina are eaid to have become terribly truculent, and everybody eeems spoiling fora dght of some kind or another. In a “Secession Ballad” the men of Alabamaare appealed to and requested to awake and smash the Union. This poet is more sapguinary than any of hia illustrious predecessors, and expresses bis extreme joy at the sigbt of a “keen and polished Bowie knife, made of tempered State rights steel.” It is very evident in this screed that the writer’s feelings elevated him far above all minor oon- si¢erations, such as govern ordinary poets. “A Lady” stire up the “Wavering” with a sharp stick, and the “Marion Light Troop” are pase ing round the “cheery cup,” and drinking bumpers to the Secession Banner, which ts im- mortatized in five heroic verses. We have like- wite ® t serenade ‘for the fncoming President, and @ cheerfal poem, “Oh, What the Prospect be Clouded?” from Mr. Gilmore Simwe, who is not quite so bloodthirsty as his confreres. We recommend this collection to the particn lar attention of our readers. It takes some sort of a difficulty to bring ont the poets ia their best light. Had there been no Trojao war we never should have been entranced with the Howerio fiire of the Iiliad; without blood rapine aud impending civil war, Roget de I’lile would have lacked tospiration for the “ Mar. reillsise.” Key wrote “ The Star Spangled Bun. ner” on board of a vessel where be was detained a8 a priconerof war. “ Partant Pour la Syria,” “Britieh Grenadiers,” and “ Yankee Doodia,” are souvenire of many glopiov’ actions by blood and Held. We opiae, however, that the real song of the South is Yet to be written. The Promethean fire will yet be kindled in some of ber writers, and we aball then have a lay whiok will truly express the excitement which bas tained the biood of our gallant fellow citizens. - let us hope that they will always be our fellow citizene— to fever heat. A Wonn or Avvice To Memnens or Gow- oness.—It is apprebended in many quarters bat between the domineering of the repun!! cans, avd the intense disunion excitement ameng Southern meo, in couseqnence of Lin- coln’s election. it will not be long after the re- assembiing of Congress before its progeadiags will be marked with scenes of disgracefal ais order and brutal violeace, Doubtiess Southera men and Northern men, instead of uniformiy meeting to Rdodctie v2tit sectional ditteren gas and individual equabbies of the jas: sessiod, will meet tn soma inatanoas mora exnditiered, secilonaily and personally, against eact other than at any time during their desperate etruggie tor the Speaker. In this aspect of the matter, a word of timely advice may not be out of place. Forbearanne on all sides 10 provoke offence ahould be exer cised, and eepectally should al! sncb violent Northern disturbers of Congressional decorum as Sumner of the Senate, and Lovejoy of the House, be kept by their frieols within proper bounds. A rabid speech from Sumner ta the Senate, at the coming cession would hardly be treated from the Southern ide of the Chamber with that silent indigna‘ion a:.1 conveinpt which they manifested on thy occasion of his molig- nant outpourings agaiost “the barbarisas of slavery” at the last session. Nor ia it pro- bable that the bloodless gathering of hostile clans im froat of the Speaker's chair, which marked the raving abolition apeach of Lovejoy ia the House Inst summer, would be oli that would follow « similir harangue fro the same fanatic this coming winter. Let the prudent and temperate chie’s of the republican party fn Cougress, see to It that the polley of their party asso states chall be the course of modorstion, magnanimity | and forbearance, and there efit be no scenes Cf ruflianly Cisorder, personal acer otea, or nook terole affaire of horor We dare cay that many 2 ' Southern mon will come vp to Wasbineton ag