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

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Singic copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six venta, Agente wil! ploase send in their orders as carly at pow adie ‘The News. Over accounts from the South this morning pre seat the same unfavorable aspect of affairs, with oo abatement of the fecling for secession. A mect- ing was held at Charleston last evening, which w: addreased by Mr. Memminger and others. Charleston banks increased their discounts to seme extent yesterday, which aforded considerable re- lief to the mercantile community. Elsewhere will be found full telegraphic and newspaper reports of the sece-sion movement. Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, deliver- eda lecture on the life and character of Lafayette last evening at the Cooper Institute. given elsewhere of the addre to by a very respectable a ience, among whom © Hon. Heury Wilson The oue handred and fourth anniversary of the St Andrew's Society was held at the St. Nicholas Hotel last evening. The representatives of Great Britain at this port and of several sister soci were present, as was also the Hon. John J. Crit- tenden, of Kentucky. Andrew Norrie, Esq., pre- aided at the festive board, supported on either side by Dr. Beals, President of the St. George's Society, and Heary Hoguet, of the Patrick's. The funds of the society were in a favorable con- dition, and their prosperity seemed certain. A report of the proceedings is unavoidably omitte). A despatch received by the State Department from ovr Minister in China states that the treaty ies had n signed by the Emperor. The allied force ached to within twelve miles of Pekin before he was prevailed upon to attach the impe- rial sea! to the document. Mr. Harris writes that acconnts of the reception of the Japanese Embassy in this coantry had Jeddo, and wiven great satisfaction to the The steamship Kar Havana and Nassan, N. P. early hour yesterday morning. ladies are to the 24th ult. arrived here at an Dates from the Ther® is no news other than will be found in th ) news column. Yellow fever has been making sad havoc among the shipping at Jamaica. Ter annic Majesty's warsteamer Icarus, which captared Walker's party, had 100 cases out of crew of 130. Additional news Mexico confirms be) ont say dow't the capture of Gaadalajara and th plete rout of Marqu Havana advices to th th ¢ Oniean th t i turbed iti¢ © from the United States. ‘The sugary loll, Freights in active Fron aw have infor © stent mation t November. T bee : Rara of the & 5 ture, allegin appeared at y fr A sty's steamer ere landed at to sea ona r convale etecn deaths hip Imaam (74 mach sickn for the J inswed the meeting 1¢ of the Legislat imo, for the despetch of bt mn was onet into the hands anticipated on the subject of amending the tution so as to throw more power of the Aseembly. The island defences wo exercising the public mind. The voluot militia was voted a failure, and a was being made for more regular troops, which however, would involve the additional ex penditure of some $100,000 per annum. A new Judge of the Supreme Court—Ron. Allan Ker, of Dominica—had heen sworn in, but the mouth Post thonght his conduct undignified in having given the Ki on papers testimonials as to his character. Trouble was anticipated in Pal moath, in reference to Presbyterian place of worship in litigation between the National church of Seattle ** 4 the United Preshytertan (dis. ments have been made in the A post mottem examination » Tevealing the fact that the through the lower part The inquest wil! be | County Cow t room, | ement in yqstetday's| thofmaa of the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, | Stute Preon, some three years ago, for being con der of Hagh Kelly, is a mistake. cer a the mux The maa wh person The for the We. uited States waa killed isan entirely difereat sloop-of-war Cumberliuad Gulf squadroa, auchored at Qua. esterday. 2 market was quiet yesterday, whils prices in were steady, The asics embraced about 600 , Some brokers caile1 middling aplands at 10Xc. « Flour wna heavy, and lower for common brands, while extra grades were unchanged, but cloted with somo lems reguiarity. Whoat was beavy | and cull, with the turn of the market of purchasers, Corn was about the exme, with teady demand from the focal and Eastern trade, and with some parchases for export Pork was heav7 and lower, mess sold at $16 75 6 $16 $7\;, and prime at $11 608 $11 75. Sagars were quiet ani sales moderato; 180 hhds, Cubs | and 808 boxes were disposed of, at rates givea in another ; Columm; ‘the stock will be found under another hesd. | Coftee waa comparatively quiet and dali; the stock will jo. 335 | be found eisowbere. Freighte were Steady, while en- | gegements were moderate. The Meeting of Congress—The Kevolu- onary Dangers of the Times. We stand upon the threshold of the most | momentous eventa in the history of modern civilization. Our Thirty-sixth Congress reas- | sembles on Mouday next; and as Its constitu. tional limitation is the 1th of March, it will have oaly three months for the consideration of the weighty concerns that will come before the two houses. This is a brief interval for work, considering the exigencies of the day; bat, | under the extraordinary condition of things at this crisis, between the North and the South, we fear, not so much that the session will be too short for its needful measures of legislation, as that it will be too long for the credit of our popular institations, In no instance since the day of the Deciara- tion of Independence, trom which this Uaion started into life, have we had the meeting of avy Congress marked by the dangers of disso- | lution and revolutionary acts of violence which will confront the two houses with their meeting on Monday next. Our readers will remember the fearful ecenes of sectional ex- citement in the Houee at the last session, pend- ing the desperate and proctacted struggle for the Speaker, and how narrowly, on seve- ral a occasions, the government revolutionary explosion frem a bloody fight of the factions. is for California and other parts of the Pacifie | pro slavery Hotapurs of the South and the abo- Then, however, escaped the Bs SEES hs ke es Fae ! Hemazo that the Patrick Kelly who waa killed was same name who was sent t \ Pro: | the Capitol of the existing government of the | ‘tion of what it is probable all the other North- ' lition fanatics of the North were restrained, to | @ great extent, by considerations of policy bearing upon the Presidential canvass. Now the Presidential election has been decided, it has driven tbe South to the wall, the Southern States are at the fever heat of revolution, and | their repreeentatives, in many cases, will return to Washington no longer impressed with the virtue of submission, but ready to seize the first provocation for a bloody reckoning. We are not, therefore, disposed to be very hopeful of good results from any compromise The movements in this Congress. Various proposi- tions for a sectional reconcilia'ion will doubt- less be submitted, including one or more for amendments of the constitution, or for anew | constitutional convention of all the States, or for the restoration of the Missouri compromise. | But within the last few days the manifestations A report ia | of the dieunion spirit in “the cotton States” , Which wa: listened | have almost convinced us that the day of com- promiees is fosever gone, that nothing now can prevent a dissolution of this Union, and that © ce dissolved, the only alternative of peace willy be the organization, with tbe consent of both sections and of all parties con- cerned, of the slaveholding eection and the non-slavehclding section, each under a govern- ment of its own. In this arrangement of a peaceable separa- tion the residuary effects of the present general government might be equitably divided, after the fashion of the division of the property of the great Methodist Episcopal church, with its teparation upon the slavery issue into the church North and the church South. This separaiion of this church, which Mr. Calhoun considered, in his dying speech in the Senate, the snapping of one of the strongest cords of the Union, suggests the peaceable mode of ac- quiescing in a dissolution of the government itself. In the event, therefore, of this dissolu- tion, which now seems to be inevitable, it is to ak, Captain Brownless, ‘rom be hoped that the example of the Methodist church will be adopted by the statesmen and people of the North and the Sonth in their or- ganization of a Northern and a Southern confederacy. Meantime, in an editorial article which we transfer to thie paper from the /niepenten!, republican politico-religious journal of this city, our readers will perceive bow emall is the mere incident of Lincoln's election in the great chapter of this Sontbern disunion agitation. In this timents and publican party, | says that although Lincoln ir elected, gantic in‘quity (slavery) still stands: frank programme the exposition of journal of the the sen- re- question “che gi hostile to the epirit of the conetitution and the knowa policy «f its framers; hostile to the whole genius of our free institutions; bostile to every priaciple and precept of Christianity: an organized, no mitigated system of wickedness,” while that system stands we Nex! we are told what Congress can do towards the suppression of this aud that meantime “it i* our duty alone.” wickedness,” and that cannot let it system of to labor for its extermination by all the moral means that God hae put in our power, by argu ment, by testimony, by the pulpit and the prees, by business and social (the Helper book) influences Thie orrec definition of the “irrepres proclaimed by Mr. Lincola and Mr. Seward, sod in virtue of which the repub- lican party of the North bas reached the Presi devey. We can cannot recognise it wit bout t deny this conflict, but we admittiog that to res‘ore the South to the Union In the desirable elatio of peace, the deep seated and widely diffused moral and religious hostility of the North sgainst slavery must be reversed—that the stopendous and incessant labors on the side of the Northern anti-slavery agitation of thirty years must all be uodone, and that the Nortb- ern mind must be re-educated to the recog: nition of elavery ae a necessity to the Union | and to Southern society. In this gloomy aspect of the question, the as- pect in which it is general), South, can we hope that Southern disanion men Will took upon any offers of compromive in auy other light than as cunning artifices to betray curity? hitherto strong. of a dissolution. | their victim, “the slave power, Onr hopes in bebal are now weal ‘The two sect regarded in the ‘into a fa) re se siready siienated from each other. The Union a2 it exists is only a techaical and commercial Union, snd, commercially, the South regard it a6 draining their resources to enrich the hostile | North. Under these circumstances, aud in view of this “irrepressible conflict,” we cannot contem- plate the reassembling of Congress without some apprehensions that the irreconcilable ele ments of that body, instead of listening to com- sea for saving the Union, will be apt to selze the first occasion to “precipitate a revolu- tioa”’ in the Capitol iwelf. We must therefore repeat our admonitians of forbearance to the more prudent members of the republican par- ty, and warn them against permitting their Sumners and Lovejoyt, in either house, to re- joice over the downfall of “the slave oligarchy” with Lincoln's election. The Union may be past all remedies, but forbearance and concilia- tion on the republicaa side may, at all events, prevent an abrupt sud bloody termination in United States. Wau tae Personal. Linegrty Bus se Re- reakot—It is with the greatest reluctance that we are constrained te answer this ques tion in the negative. The action of the Legis lature of Vermont msy be taken as an indica- ern States, with the exception of Pennsylvania aud Rhode Island, are likely to do in the pre- mises. A bill to repeal the Personal Liberty law in Vermont was introduced into the Legis- lature of that State, and was rejected, though twenty-five of the more moderate republicans voted for it. There is no reason io suppose that the result will be different in any other “Northern States, excepting Pennsylvania, Con- necticut aud Rhode Island, whose commercial connection with New York city and the South will probably render an appeal to the sober second thought of the people effective to the extent of removing from the statute Look: the obnoxious nullification of a law of Congress and the compact of the cosatitution. It is evident, from the tone and temper of the republican journals and orators io the Northern States, that (hey do not want to | heal the breach between the North and the | | South, but to keep the wound open till the final ; separation takes place. The violent sermon of Beecher on Sunday mst is an evidence of this. | There is one grand motive which operates on the republican politicians aud demagogues-— | they calculate that in a Northern confederacy | they would bave a monopoly of the spoils and | of power for the term of their natural lives; | whereas that would not on)y be impossible, if | the Union continued, but their lease of the | | public plunder would very soon expire, and | their party would become more demoralized | and disorganized than even the democratic party. | These prospects may seem very fine for the republican office seekers; but the rank aud file of the republican party, who have fullowed their leaders as sheep foilow bell wethers, may find out when it is too late the value of that Union which their folly has lost forever to | them and to their posterity. It seems as if the old proverb, “that those whom the gods | would destroy they first infutuate,”” was des- tined to receive another verification in the his tory of the republican party. But the most melancholy consideration is not that they vom- mit political suicide, but that at the same time they cut the throats of their own children and of their innecent neighbors, who bave beeu ever oppored to their revolutionary and destructive measures. Sarsts wy Cocke» Hars—Tie Moor Sra Cartatx.—The superstition of sailors as to the ill luck attending the company of a parson dur- ing squally weather is familiar to all who have been much atsea. The prejudice, unreasonable as it is, has a common sense origin. When danger threatens a vessel the terror iospired by it often gives to the priest a greater in- finence than to the captain, and in taking care of their salvation in the other world both crew and passengers are apt to neglect securing the means of safety in this. Hence the presence of a clergyman in a storm at sea has come to be associated with disaster in the sailor's mind, and is always looked upon with a foreboding eye. We believe that it was Nelson who had the same prejudice against psalm singing sea cap- tains that the common eallor has against « par son. Rightly or erroneously, he had conceived the idea that they were the wrong sort of stuff | to make good officers out of. The experience of our own navy unhappily tends to confirm | this opinion. Such men are but too often | found to be martinets, dictatorial and ar. bitrary im their bearing, and odious, to their subordinates. As a matter of | course, the discipline on board their ships is | bad, and court martials are frequent Their over-righteousness is no more euccessful with | the sailor than are blue laws and Sabbath or dinances with the landsman. But the folly of these naval fanatics. unfortn- ' nately, does not stop here. It is sometimes pushed to the point of violating the laws of horpitality. and of infringing upon the rights of conscience. Take. for instance, the treatment of the Jv panese on board the Niagara on their voyage home. If ever there was an occasion when delicacy in regard to religious interference was called for it was this, The Japanese are a highly ctvilized and intelligent people, and have a keen sense of social proprieties. To forcibly obtrude upon them the observances of ® creed opposed to their sympathies was not only in excessively bad taste. but it was the worst possible means that could be adopted to convert them. Notwithstanding facts #0 obvious, we learn from our correspondent on board the Niagara that during the royage out Captain MoKean has never = relared for ® moment his giforta at proselyt- ism Morning. noon and night his guests have been surfeited with the prayers and ceremonies of the iscopal charch. Reserved and self-possesemi though they are, the Ambassadors conld not help mani festing their displeasure at this treatment; but their complainta do not seem to hare produced any abatement of the annoyance The ‘captain of the Niagara is evidently in fitted for his position. A man of #0 contracted a mind is not proper person to entrust the command of others to: still leas is he adapted for #0 delicate a duty as that which was dele gated to him on thie oceasion. The proper field for a man of his temperamen’ is 4 Brook lyn congregation, with Henry Ward Bee har as a coadjutor. There are no witdle epheres of exertion for eich unqrenchable bitots as Ca tain MoKean. | | growth; ' univereal enffrage. DECEMBER 1, 1860, 0,—TRIPLE SHEET. Disanion tn the Calited Btates—Dusacter im EKarope. When, in 1776, the American Declaration of Independence was promulgated throughout the world, all Europe looked on with amazement and surprise. The idea of self-government in eo vast @ country, and so remote from “civilized” Earope, seemed to them both bold and visionary. Greece and Rome had been republics, and long since crumbled to dust. The problem waa considered to have been solved, and a republic in perpetuity proved ap impossibility. Since that memorable date, through a period of over eighty years, has this thriving and glorious republic been watched by etatesmen of all nations, and wonder at ite complete, success been expressed by the most enlightened and the most monarchal ‘The influence of this great beacon light of the world has, year after year, spread its bright rays over the political darkness of Europe, and England was the first trophy of its mighty power and influence. The government of England is, in its practi- cal working, essentially democratic. Its un- written constitution is moulded by the succes- sive enlightenment of public opinion. The sovereign has but little political power, personally, but is the “fountain of honor;” and in the case of the virtuous snd beloved Queen of that nation, her influence on domestic morals is felt throughout all circles of society. It is the {ministry who, if they err, are subject to popular censure. The people, through their representatives io Parliament, by a vote of want of confidence. compel their resignation, and the sovereign is forced to appoint others to govern who have the confidence of the people’s representatives Government is thus plastic, and is moulded by the people at their will. There can never be a revolution, in the ordinary meaning of the word—viz, popular violence—from political causes in England. In vain the aristocracy re- sisted the frequent appeals of the people for the passage of the famed “Reform bill;’’ yet the force of public opinion obtained it. Catho- lic emancipation and the removal of Jewish Gisabilities were accomplished by the same potent, peaceful and yet irresistible force. Now, we ask. how has this great lever—public opinion—iu England been created? It is—it canuot be denied—the direct and indirect re- sult of the freedom and success of the great _ American republic, through its free press, and the interchange of personal observation and intelligence between these two enlightened nations. Great Britain's North American colo- nies have shared largely in these advantages. | Compare, for a moment, the tyranny and op pression and the palpable ignorance by which they were governed by the imperial authority of the mother country at the time of the Ame rican Revolution, and long afterwards, with the freedom and self-government they now enjoy. ‘Then, when England became inoculated with the liberal principles of government, of Ameri- can germ, and their influence began to be felt and acknowledged, she joined her sanctified in- fluence to that of America, and shed light and liberty broadcast throughout monarchal and despotic Europe, from their mighty Bude light, whose blaze was resistless. Admit that its fruits have been of slow for #0 delicate a plant as liberty is difficult to make thrive amid tne rocks and briers of « despotism which bas ensoiled itself for centuries. Witness this influence in modern days. France passed through the phases of a republio, only in uame, to an empire which Na- poleon III was called by the free votes of the people to govern, and whose aim is now to ex- tend the bieseings of commerce and manufac tures for the huppiners of his people. Russia now moots ihe qnestion of the abolition of serf- dom. Pruzsia is little behind England in the desire that her throne may be sustained by the love and attachment founded on the happiness of ber subjects. Austria—so barah, so tyranni cal and arbitrary—is now promulgating laws for the freedom and welfare of her people; and at this moment a new era of the blessing of a wise government is springing up in that hitherto crnelly oppressed nation. Italy has nearly achieved her freedom, and no power can dow arrest the flat which Heaven has sent forth tor liberty and happiness to that enslaved race. A King has been chosen by The tyrannical Francis IL bas been driven forth as aa exile anda wan . dever. We might trace this influence over a wider field. and point to distant lands yet “wrapped in the gloom of night,” which will come into thie bappy family of Christian and political liberty: but thug much may eiflice. Now having traced the benign effec's which have flowed from the success of this Union of American States, let us reflect deeply—aye, let every Christian and every true Aimerican citizen within the length and breadth of this vast republic measure bis responsibility at this crisis-that the happiness of the world depends on the perpetuity of this Union. We cannot bring ont minds to believed that the Unign will be dissolved, and the glory of an American repu prove anempty boast and a mockery, and that euch thriving States will settle down in fuiwe to separate, petty and insigniscan: natfons, foreiga tv each other and liable to internecine wars, rendering each entirely imbecile and powerless—tbe scorn of every civilized nation in Europe Yet—such may unbappily prove to be the ultimate result of the present secession move- * ment, if not soon arrested by the powerful will and earnest co-operation of all conservative men. both North aod South. and such conces sions made to the South ae they have a clear right to demand Let the work co en to the fearfal length we bave gianced at, and soon will the progress of liberal views in Durope be checked, and the current turned backwards. Despotiem will be exbumed from i's slimy crave. and once more breathe the breath of life, and, clothed in all the majesty of a thrice armed power. deal forth its Nero like tyranny, to econrge and curse the human race. Diseatisractios or Ganimatot witn Victor Ewanret.—It will be seen by the letters from Naples, publiehed elsewhere, that the parting of Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel was marked by some unpleasant incidents. A slight had been put upon Mordini, the Sicilian pro-Dictator, sosentionintieenaiiialieibtomitibnintiamastiiiellsiginatnntinagiiasiaiticintintmachn, nS AA eS ae a2 EE ie a ee a eS SNE editiaiintn ts sauna ae aent ‘his Majesty an ultimatum fixing as conditions that be should be created Lieutenant General, with extensive civil and military powers; that the acts of his dictatorial] government should be respected, and that Fanti and Farini-should be dismissed. The King refused these concessions, and the consequence was that Garibaldi resolved upon immediately retiring to Caprera. We shall feel sorry if theee statements are confirmed. We would fain believe that the ex- Dictator withdrew without any stipulations and out of a desire to spare the King’s government any embarrassment. What he is stated to have demanded could not have been conceded by Victor Emanuel as a constitutional sovereign bound to act by the advice and consent of his Parliament. Garibaldi should have proceeded to such lengths, even in a moment of pique. Admit- not anticipate any mischievous results from it. ‘The quarrel is merely a personal one, and in- volves no question of principle on Garibaldi’s side. He is too patriotic and disinterested to visit upon the cause of Italy his private resentments. The Revaision, Past and to Come. the city, the republican journals were systema- tically and maliciously circulating reports about the instability of this house and thai en- geged in the Southern trade, and throwing out dark reports of their solvency and so forth. This system was adopted for the purpose ot counterbalancing the general revulsion which was eure to come after the election, in the event of the success of the republican abolition party At that time we predicted that this resalt could not fail to bring on some trouble sooner or later: but the republican papers insisted that there was no danger. and they attempted to show that the revulsion was all over. But now the men and the journals who could not or would not then see the danger ahead of us are com- pelled to admit that it has come, and many of them shrink back appalled at the position In which the country stands. The object of thus stigmatiziug some of the Southern houses who were opposed to the re- publicans in politics was to create the idea that, months before the election was decided. we were actually going through a revulsion little or nothing to do with it. Thus false and malicious reports were put in circulation, and one of our most respectable firma in the gro cery trade, the head of which took a somewhat active part in public affaire, was attacked seve- ral times in this way, althowgh it is well knewn that this house bas a surplus of over a million of dollars, and that for twenty years of its existence it has never asked for an extersion or indulgence for a single day, even in time of panics. And what couree are the republican journals purtuing now in the face of the alarming cir- cxmatances surrounding us’ They are talking flippantly of the serious movement in the Southern States, and they say, “Let the South go if it wants to; wecan get slong without it.” It is all very fine for a set of politicians, after obtaining a victory and getting all they wanted—tbe spoils of the federal offices, which | they suppose will amount to some eighty mil- lions of dollare—it is very fine for them to say let the South go; but when this secession revo- lution begins to move, as it will in March next, and the terrible denouement comes, every commercial interest in the whole coun- try will tumble down, and its effects will be felt nowhere so much as in this great city of New York. Real estate will be depreciated fifty per cent in leas than a month; a house on Fifth avenue will not bring a third of its pre- sent value; it will be impossible to collect rents; operatives will be thrown out of em- ployment by thousands; the shipping trade will receive a shock from which it cannot re- cover for years to come; church establishments will be sbaken to their centre, and even the daily newepapers will suffer, for probably one- third of them will be driven into bankruptey, and will vanish out of sight altogether. Such are the events before us when the seces: sion movement reaches a climax, and it is fast approaching it. Already its effects are felt bere, as we have demonstrated, in the alarming diminution of trade and manufactures within a few weeks past, the counter manding of orders from the South, and the discharze of some fifteen or eighteen thousand working people from the tactories and stores in and around the city. In view of these facts, how idle it is to eny, “Let the South go; we can get along by our own industry; “the North is not to be bullied,” and such like braggadocio. We can- not afford to let the South go, and it is madness to contend that an empire, broken up into fragments, can majotain the prosperity which bas characterized this united republic for the last eighty years. A terrible commercial dis- aster is imminent if the Southern States secede. We are at thie momént enveloped in the dark- nese that too surely precedes a tempest; yet these republican journalists and politicians do -not seem to know anything more about the po- by Farini, becanse bis despatches to Bertani | bed been found, revealing the fact that he had intrigned to have the annexation delayed. To | Garibaldi himself some disrespect (aninten- tional, no donb!) had also been offered, which. however, seems to bave had lees effect upon bim than that shown towards bis colleague The resalt wae that, in reply to the King's sition in which we are placed now than they did six months before the eiection, whea they scoffed at the ides of ning vev “a and told us that it wae a! Moreover, the city of New York is going to ve the greatest sufferer wheo the crash comes, and the confede racy of the banks, upon which so much relisace is placed, will prove of but very «mall socount in the hour of trial. They will havet eventually, like the banks of Charleston and Baltimore, and St. Louis, and the rest. This may be a gloomy and dieagreeable picture; but who can look upon the outlines and not see the | terrible colors with which it is about to be | filled up Protestant Proracaxotsa ts [taty..-No sooner Wve the polftical prospects of Italy be- gun to assume a satisfactory aspect than the Protestant missionaries step in to bring about further complications. Tolerant a* the Tarin Cabinet bas shown itself, they are now pressing | demande upon it which cannot but place it in serious embarrasements, Al! thie in the face of the fact that there fs not and never can be aoy sympathy between Protestantiem and the Larin races. Protestantiom bears the stamp of the intellectual peculiarities and materiatiam of the northern nations. It cam have no attraction for an imaginative and highly impressionable people itke the Italians in whow eyes art is closely identified with retigion. If the Protest ant mirstonsriee will only leave the people of Italy alone, they wil! soon work ont the ref that ore needed in their charcd. It seems to us improbable that | ting, bowever, the statement to be true, we do | Some months before the election, when the | commercial pressure began first to be felt in | apd by inference argue that the election had . ad | Th aa stz Brasov my New Yora—A Gar Mux Aazio.—There are in this worlds great mary people who would pox gayly ou the edge of a precipice, partake of denier ala fourchelle im the crater of a volcano, or make preparations fo,’ @ ball on theeva of the deluge. And then there ia’ still another class mora au- merous than the @areless philosophers abovs | mentioned. We have prenty of historical proofs | to show that people are always the most extra- vagant, reckless and addicted to all kinds of emusement when their aMaira, political and financial, are in the worst possible conditioe. We all remember the story of the Assyrian mo- narch, whose empire was overthrown while he was at a grand feast, and know that just at the momert when the Sybarite and his guests ware ready for their pipes—if they had any im those days—the palace resounded with tbe victorious shouts of the foe. So it waa with the Court of Louis XV. Paris was never eo elegantly wicked as in the eighteenth century, and this geyety culminated just before the reign of the guillotine com- menced and Fraace was deluged with the blo«d of her own sons. We might multiply these examples; but that | is not required. Haough is as good as a feast, and we have only to apply the historical parallel t» | the social aspect of the metropolis at the pre- sent moment. We ape told, and indeed we can see for ourselves, that notwithstanding the financial crisis, the threatened revolution ia the South, the terrible winter that is before ua, te ‘say nothing of the gloomy prospect beyoud that, New York is as gay as ever. The fashioa- able season has commenced magnificentiy. Young New York congratulates itself upon the | fact that there are to be more parties than ever. Miss Flora McFlimsey has issued her cards foc receptions, and that amounts to a party once a | week, Old Mr. Coupon groans in Wail street | all day, but gives splendid dinners in the eve™ ning. Several grand weddings are on the tapis, private theatricals and ba! invsqivs are pro- jected, slow people are getting fast, and faat people are getting faster than ever. This state of things is very agreeable to the directors of public entertainments. The Opera and the theatres (as in Paris during the Reign of Ter- | ror) are full every night. Of course the maa- | agers fail to accredit this to the proper causa, and. with proverbial egotism, say “we did it” The miniature Napoleon of Irving place haa opened bis operatic campaign so brilliantly | that he is quite astonished at his own success. He claims it all. He says the public is charm- | ed with my generalship, astonished by my proclamations, ravished by my mise en scene, | captivated with my singers and conquered by ‘my armors. And all his con/rcres im the thea- tres are of UMman’s opinion. They say it is my piece, or the brilliancy of my stars, or the beauty of my scenery, which fills my house every bight. They are all wrong. It is the general feeling in the community that we have very tough times ahead, and people have resolved to shut their eyes to the calamity which New York city has done ite best to avert, and to forget in light and agreeable entertainments the dangers whioa menace tbe country. We are told also that the black repubiicaa members of Congrees intend to entertain libe- rally at Washington this winter, and to heai the breach with champagne and pa!é de foie gras. We are of the opinion, however, that before a great while their wine will be of a very sanguinary color; that their balls will be | sixty-foar pound shot, tbeir dinners disturbed by invitations to the field of Mars, and their breakfasts not quite as agreeable as they might be under more favorable circumstances. How- ever, things must take their natural course. If the ship is to go down while the officers and crew are fiddling, danciog, singing, eating, drinking and flirting, no human power can pre- vent it. Perhaps it is as well to take things as easily as possible. So let the dance go oa. Only let us understand the true state of the case as we go along. Sovecran Fverrrve Stave Case ts Cawapa — The Court of Queen's Bench, sitting at Toron- to, ©. W., has now under its consideration the case of a black man formerly heid to slavery in Missouri, but now residing in Canada, and claimed ynder the Ashburton treaty. While endeavoring to escape from Missouri the fugi- tive was met by a planter named Digges, who attempted to arrest him. The slave killed Digges by stabbing him twice or thrice with a bowie knife. The State of Missouri now de- mands the murderer from the Canadian go- vernment. The case was first brought before a Toronto magistrate, who advised with the At- torney General for the Crown, and this official referred the matter to the Judges. Eminent counsel appeared on both sides, and the argu- ments bave attracted a great deal of attention. The counsel for the negro set up a defence generally thought entirely untenable. He argued that as the act of the black man wonld not have been a crime in Canada, it did not come within the class of offences to which the treaty ex- tends. It was generally believed that the Jndges, notwithstanding their sympathy with | the slave, would send him back, in view of which fact. a correspondent of the Tyilnme eug- geste that he ought to be rescued immediately after be crosses the Canada line. We trust that the people of Northern New York and | a an are not eo thoroughly blind to all senee of justice as to pay any heed to this most | infamous enggestion. ‘The murder was a deliberate one, and after he slave bad inflicted the firat wound, sod while the planter was lying upon the ground, | the black mau stabbed him again. When such deeds go unpunished, who will say that the of the South have no cause of com- people plaint* Fime Arts. Therpe's pletare of “Niagara” arrived from London io \he Inet steamer, where it bas been for some months oo- pyig im chromo-litbographie tint. We understand that be painting will be shortly exhibited in this city. | We reeent'y bad cooasion to speak in terme of warm | admiration of the “Cinderella” of Van Leriua, now exhi- biting at Mr. Schana’ yellery, €29 Broadway. We are Jad to Gnd that our judgment of it 1 borne out by the enera! verdiet of the public. The gailery ie ¢aily crowd. | ed by vinitere atiracted by the merite of the plotare. Mr. Harding bas issued carts for his fret seirée ar tra'vqus on Monday evening next, in bis sew roome tn the University, which have been slegnatly @tted up for the —., oe Atiraction of @ fie eoliestion of m res, eS & choles programms, ote cuted by Mi sdure Clare Brinkerbak end Memmre, Milter Coatemeri and nd wae, the iat. There sutertain mens, th ogh newal eooogh in are a nowelyy In Onr erey, snd ae Invitations to them Are aot porchasesdl> ines reckerehé, Dears oF 4 Veay Lance Man — 109 Onciane'! (Ot) Papers record the ¢esth of Tacktoe DAdi7 ver tod ates wright at hres peers paay lar oo one Lime 419 pounds, and as 80 ponds.