The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIESOR. OFFICE M. W. COMNER OF FULTON AND NAS6AU 3TH. nent by mail coil! ba at the FT bacon gems tanh lie curred tn Bow Yo FERALD tw00 comis vor copy, | $1 per annum. THE F, LY HERALD on Welnordag, ‘Sour cents por oF $8 por annum. copy. or AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pxonwat Sox ~Bvosx ‘Taovgars. | abatement WINTER, GARDEE, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— BOWERY HRATES, Bowery.—Srivoixa & Socan's Bqowrnias Taours. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Groadway.—Moorux Hrro onite. LAURA KEENE'S THEATER, No. €2 Broadway.— ‘Suvax Sisteus. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Purxau—War- | Lock OF Tum GiEx, BABNUM’! RICAN MUSEUM, Brondway.—ay and oes uusn—Auvay Guitoaanla¥ine ObaiOSt ims, 0, payee | BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanioa’ tall, 672 Brosdway.— Bumascues, foxes, Daxces, 40.—Usen Ur, OAMPBELIVS MINSTRELS, Biblo’s Haloon, el Daxoms, Boucesaces, bo MALLS FOR EUROPR. é The Sew York Herald--- Edition Europe. "Te Conard mail steamehip Afrion, Captain Shannon, will leave this port to morrow for Liverpool. The European mails will close tm this city to morrow morning at s quarter to ten o'clock, ‘The Eceoraas Lormox ov tae Gezico will be pedlished At nive o'clock im the morning. Stagic copies, in wrap: pers, six conte. ‘The contents of the Bueoraam Epron ov rea fe24lp gill combine tho news received by mail and telograp’ ab ihe offine during the previous week, apd up to iho mour at pebiication for ahe News. The second se'sion of the Thirty-sixth Coagress met yoster There was a very fair att e of members both heuses, and a not A number of spe . Beyond the apy of the usual ¢ es to waiton the little business was transacted in eitl The pro gi were not charact In the Honse, on the call « of the extra excitement. roll, about two hundred members responded to their names, among them all of the representatives from South Carolina exe one (Mr. Miles). Both houses adjourned at a little after one o'clock, The President's message will be sent in to Yesterday beio John Brown, his parations for a their “marty proved a failnre. At the op: ings the Union men—being a large majority of the | persons present—cloctd Richard 8. Fay, @ Uasion man, President, thus completely super- | seding Sanborn, Redpath, Fred. Douglass and | other abolitionists, who vainly endea- | ed to be heard, The excitement and confasion Meshes so great that the police were sent for, and cleared the hall, which, by order of the Mayor, where, thongh consi- they managed to one of the negro churches, derable excitement prevatle carry through their pro J lent demonstrations on the part of the populace. The steamship Northern Light, Capt. Tinkle- paugh, arrived at this port yesterday morning from Aspinwall, with dates to the 2ith ult. Sho brought $882,419 in treasure on freight. Among the pas- sengers were the Hon. J. Randolph Clay, United S:ates Minister to Peru, and family, Mr. Clay left Lima in the carly part of last month, having sus- pended diplomatic relations with the republic of Peru in consequence of 3 from our government at W: ington ted on the immediate settlement, with er discussion, of the difficulty arising out of the capture of the American vessels Lizzie Thompson and Georgiana, in the month of Janaary, 1858, in the southern part of Peru, by a Peruvian war steamer, for alleged violation of the laws of that republic in shipping guano for foreign ' exportation, at ports ‘where it is insisted such shipment was expressly prohibited. The Peruvian government having refused to | arrange the matter in the manner desired by the | United States, Mr. Clay had no alternative left but to demand his passports and retarn home. We | presume the aflair will be laid before Congress at an early day; and since it s a case of considorable | in the Dred Scott decision. interest, which may even result in a war with Peru, we give elsewhere a history of it, with the arguments for and against the claim on the part of one and the other government. In amount tho @ claim is trifing encugh, not exceeding $150,000. The news from Central and h America is not very important. We lav it few details from the seat of war in New Grenada, but those we have confirm the reported defeat of the govern- ment forces under Arboleda. The seat of government of Nicaragua has agaia | wen changed to Managua. The Mosquito coast tad not yet been taken possession of by that re- yblic, as was provided by the Wyke treaty. Extraordinary powers had been con’erred on President Castilla by the Peruvian Congre view of the approaching war with Bolivia. ders and robberies were becoming quite fre: in tho former country, and the state of society there generally is decribed as most wretched Chile continues prospering. Extraordinary pow ers had been granted by Congress to the President during the present Presid Loamps A very severe law ogainst riots had beer i. The | Araucanian Indians were again giving the government some trouble, no lees than from two to three thousand having taken the ficld. Trade and exports were remarkably good. The steamship Cahawba, Cap\. Smith, from New Orleans and Havana, arrived here yesterday alter noon, with dates from the latter porto the 2h ult. } Affairs in the United States wore creatiog the most ' intense excitement at Havana. There cal news from there of any interes’ The Salradoreans arc very indignant at the ¢ cution of Mora, Canas and companions, in Costa Ries, aod grond funeral services were held on the ‘2d alt. in the Cathedral church of San Balvador, in honor of Gen, Canas, who was a Salyadorean by bieth. The Committee of the Supervisors succeeded in eliciting from the City Chamborlsin yesterday, efter much difficulty, the simple trath thatno inte rest is paid on the count neys In his hands, There was a good dea! of Muster and lively prac tice between the chairman of the commilice and Mr. Platt, which is given in oar report. The next | meeting of the committee to consider the eewond | part of the subject before thom takes place on | Monday next. According to the City Inspector's report, there | were 409 deaths in the city during the pest week, on increase of 40 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, amid 2° more thor Buble Le COL ses wading Week bed goa. b is oe | old age, 28 of diseases of the skin and eruptive | ment it was difficult to gtve reliable quotations. Flour | Was engaged at 142 s without any vio- | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1360. —TRIPLE SHEET. capitulation table gives ® deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 87 of the brain and nerves, 5 of the generative organs, 16 of the heart and blood vessels, 47 of the lungs, throat, &c., $ of fevers, 3 prematare birtha, 54 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 63 of general fevers, 1 of disease of the arina- H ry organs, and 29 from violent causes. The | nativity table gives 269 natives of the United Btates, 100 of Ireland, 27 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, | countries. ‘The gon eral heaviness ne he notieed last week | in produce and merch snd! tivued yestorday without | Cotton was dull, and pales confined to a few hundred bales. 1 the absence of transactions of mo- was sleo ull aod heavy, especially common grades of State and Western brands Wheat was heavy and lower, witb rather more doing at the concession. Corn was | dull and lower, with fair sales at the reduction, Pork war heavy, avd closed pomival at $16 76 for mess, and and $10 6@0 $11 ‘or prime. Sugars were heavy, and | sales confined to about 283 hhds., @ good part consisting of reticing goods,aud a small lot of boxes, on"vermestated elrewhere. Coffee was quiet and inactive, and to the ab- rence of wakes of moment quotations were nominal. | Freighte were firmer and more active, with froe engage mente for Liverpool of corn a\ 121. 8 123¢4 ,"Ia bulk and Dags,.and of wheat at 12344. 0 13d., and dour at 3s Sd. « 88 6d., chiefly at he latter Ogure. Wheat, tu shin's bags, Our Present Re Are We to Save the Unton? We are truly “in the midst of a revolution.” The very leaders of “the irrepressible conflict,” . including Mr. Seward himself, are at length convinced of it He and they are ready now for terms of compromise with the South, which every republican a month sgo would have scouted sa degrading to the moet servile Northern deughface. Whence this sudden | change? How happens it that Mr Seward, who but yesterday declared that “Lincoln's election will be the downfall of slavery,” is now re- ported as ready to offer the most Jiberal con: cessions for the security of slavery and the pacification of ‘the slave power?” It all re- sults from the discovery of a single serious mis- take In the caculations of our over confident Senator and the party sustaining his one idea | terror Into the heart of the republican camp; | but the worst is yet to come, We may close | | 14 of England, and the balance of various foreign | will be left undisturbed and unsupported ia | her experiment of secession, for a sufficient sev | States, And this is our hope of the Union. | in the philcsopby now so prevalent at the City | of the abolition of slavery. That mistake has been their absolute disbelief of any substance, or danger, or sincerity in theee Southern wara- Ings of disunion. At length, however, the leaders and organs of the republican party being convinced of , thelr fatal mistake in this matter, we see them taking a porition on the slavery question the effect of which will probably be to dis- band and disperse the party before the inaugu- ration of the President they have just elected. under the pressure of a revolution strikiog | that is worth something. | This extraordinary event could only occur | | unmistakeably at the fouadations of the govern- | ment itself. The simple truth is that the exi- gencles of this oritis call for a comprehensive revision of the organic law of the Union. The workings of the general government, under | eectional party issues and Northern anti slavery majorities, bave outgrown the adhesive powers tof the federal constitution of 1789. The su- premacy, the vital supremacy of the institution of slavery in the South, and the overshadowing and threatening hostile political anti-slavery power of the North, have reached a point of collision under which the Southern States may reasonably Cemand a reconstruction of the constitution es the condition of their continu- was closed. At night the Brownites assembled in | ance in the Union. This, then, fs the issue:—A new constitution of the United States for the better protection of the institution of slavery within the Union, or the withdrawal of the slave States, or the bulk of them, into an independent Southern confede- racy. What next are the guarantees which will eatisfy the South ia the revision of the terms of their copartnership wi a the North! A writer to the Richmond Liquirer, whose “Plan which may save the Untor we have transferred to these columna, suggests the fl. ; lowing items of a compromise under the consti- tution as it stande:— 1. The equality of the rights of the people of the South with thoee of the North, includiag | in the rights of property Southern property in | slaves 2. Good faith on the part of the North in the matter of the Fugitive Slave law. 3. The concession to the people of the South of the common right to enter and settle in the common Territories of the Union with their | property, including slaves. 4. A recogvition, on this subject, by the North of the constitutional doctrines ewbodied 5. The right of transit to slaveholders with | their property through the non slaveholding | States. These requisitions are to be met and accept- | ed by the repoblican party in Congress, and by | the Northern States; but it is certain that no | euch proposilions cf compromise can be alopt- | ed except throngh the forms of a regular revi- sion of the constitution itself. But to save the Union the constitution mast be revised. The processes of State action, tbrongh Legisla- ; tures or conventions, and the votes of Congress, * required to do this work, will occupy two or ; three years of time at least. This interval of our transition from the o!d to s new conustita- tion will Inevitably be an interval of terrible agitation North and South, ruinous to banks, railway corporations, stecks and stockjobbers, merchants and manufacturers: disastrous, in brief, to Northern capital, enterprise, adven- turers, real estate and labor in every form. But this comprehensive financial revulsion will be the convincing argument to Northera anti-slavery fanaticism, and will cool it down to a recognition of the value of the Union, ia- cluding Southern slavery. This is the best that we can hope for now. This Northern anti elavery agitation bas reached its culminatiog point. It must now fall back, back, back to where it was forty years ago, or the Union falls to pieces, We think this anti-slavery alliance may be driven back, and rendered powerless for the future, but only through the fiery ordeal we hare indicated. Our choloe is be- tween that and the very probable contiogencies | of an endless civil war in the event of dis- union. A political revolu'lon, which is but the na- | tural developement of forty years of sectional agitations of the elavery question, cannot at once be reduced to a treaty of peace. A crisis, which demeads a new organic law for the Union, cannot be disposed of by a faotious Corgress, nor by friendly promises in bebalf of Mr. Lincoln's administration. The public | mind of every Northern State must be probed to the bottom. All that bas been done during | | | way of repentance for some of their past sins— | of our charter providing for the mode of elect pe oe ree wee | any bowels of compassion upon us they will—by to eave the Union, only the terrible preseure of a searching fissncial revulsion will bave the power. This pressure is coming. Ite premonitery symptoms have already struck | | | our eyes againet it, but still it will come. South Carolina will go out of the Union. It: may prove a difficult task to restrain other States | | from joining ber. We hope, however, that she son to convince her of the folly of disregardiog the examples avd wishes of the other slave But we have no hope of meeting the demands of this long threatened revolution. short of two or three years of a political azitation and gene | ral chaos in lusiness offaire, upprecedented even during any of the wars of the United States since that of the Revelation of ‘76. The Charter Elcct To-Day—A New City Charter Needed. The recut of to-day’s labors at the ballot box will decide which of the numerous philosophers that have been placed in nomination will be chosen custodians of the six hundred million | doliars of property in this city, and we confess | that we have no hope of a reform or a change | Hall. The very wort set of candidates that could be selected have been brought forward | in a majority of the dietricts, and a choice io | mest instances is that of two evils, The contest | reema to be a squabble between the wird | cliques and barroom drummers to see which shall bave the control of the fat jobs to be act ed upon by our mfpiclpal legislature, and it | matters but little to the public which are successful. The only difference, looking at | it from an impartial standpoint, is the simple question which party shall be al- | lowed to fatten ont of the city treasnry, and it is no sort of consequence whether this or that | band of conspirators are successful; the proper ty holders will be alike inflicted. | There is no hope of cleaning ont the nest at the City Hall as long as the present | mode of electing candidates is kept up. | There is little or no use of voting, and if the people do vote they had better select the worst candidates in the field, and let us reach the bottom at once, if there is any bottom | to the raacality of the office holders. Give us | the dregs, eo that the public will be thoroughly sroused and unite in one voice for 2 modifier tion in our charter, and bring about a reform All attempts to cleanse the Augean stables | will be a fruitless task under the present dis- | trict system of electing Aldermen end Connoil- | men; and if the next republican Legislature have as soon as they assemble, wipe out that portion | ing city legislators, and give us one general ticket of Aldermen and Assistants, to be run throughout the city. The present system only encourages the thieves and pickpockets, who | mansgg to control wards and small districts, | and thus keep themselves in power and hold the | people in abeyance. The district system, as far | es New York is concerned, has proved a curse; in fact, decentralization in the election of legis | lative candidates, both State and municipal, is simply de moralization, and the sooner the char- ter is wiped out of existence and a new order established the better it will be for the proper- ty holders of Manhattan island. The machinery of the several political parties, especially where the districts ars emall, fs always sure to fall into the bands of those men who are to be found about barrooms and emigrant houses—those who make polftios a profession; and the greater the rowdy the more succersful he is in getting into power. But with one general ticket run in all parts of the city, the property holders and order loving citi- zens generally oan concentrate their efforts and counteract the movements of these philosophers apd will, asa general thing, give usa better class of officials—an article that we stand very much in need of in this city just now. We are | in revolutionary times; let the ball be pushed | forward by the election of the very worst men that are in nomination to the Common Council, the revolution brought to a focus at once, and | the next republican Legislature forced to do one good deed for the city which they have been plundering ever since they obtained con- | weeping for the negro. What is wanted in this respect is an amend. | | ment to the city charter abolishing the present mode of electing by districts; the present Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen wiped out of existence; a provision for the selection of members of the Boards of Aldermen and Coun cilmen upon one general ticket, and the elec- tion to take place on the Ist of March instesd of in December. At that time our citizens will tarn out, which will insure the selection of worthy men to the municipal legislature Here ie an opportunity for the raral republi- cans to atone for some of their past sins. Will | they avail themselves of this opening to do this legislaiive cursed city a real benetet Prorosiriox To Restore THR Miseornt Cow rromisn — Several of the republican politicians: and amongst them Master Thurlow Weed, are suggesting asa remedy for the political disturb ances which threaten to dissolve the Union the | restoration of the Missouri Compromise, which shows (hat they do not comprehend the condition of the country at all. It isnot any enactment by * Congress we want to restore harmony between the States, butan amendment of the constitu: tion. Extending the line to the Pacific, and confining the existence of slavery south of that line, wou!d be of no avail whatever in the pre cent criis. Moreover, no measure of Congress is necessary to regulate that question; the phy- sical laws of nature settle that; slave labor is essential to the tropical regions, and it is neither | necessary nor possible in the Northern States and Territories; for it would not pay there, The proposition to reetore the Missouri Com. | promise, then, asa measure of conciliation, | absurd. What is really required to avert secession | and harmopire the country is such amendments — to ihe constitution as will give new guarantees | | to the South, and put a stop to the rade whlch the anti-slavery societies are making | upon Its institutions, its interests and its rights, by sending Incendiary documents throughout the country, and firebrands, like John Brown, into the housebolds of ita citizens, to atlr up in- the last forty years in the North to alienate and | surrection. This is the remedy for the present Ittve the Sonth fo the wall must be nn- + our, lh alkre bs reaction, ered any one. evils, and Thurlow Weed knows it as well as- i | ing of Congrees, The Amti-siavery Press om the impend- tag Cricts. We Publish to-dsy several articles from the antislavery jourggis on “the {moentiag | crisis,” which, to say the least, are exceed: ing)y curious, and which sbow that the leaders of the republican party are thoroughly fright ened, and that they feel thet they have gained a victory like that which Pyrrbus gained over the Romans—a victory which will prove their ruin. Already they feel that the tide bas turned sgainst them at the North, and that the commercial, manufacturing, mechanic and la- boring classes will eoon visit them with the disastrous consequences of their revolutionary crusade against the Southern States. They see their approaching doom, and they are trying to break the fall which awaits them. Senator Seward’s organ, the Albany Evening Journal, after the election of Lincoln is se cured, sees the storm approaching, and pro- poses to shorten sail, and to take the opposite tack from alee shore. The terrible effects in New York city will extend throughout the Btate, and operate to the overthrow of the re- publican party. Weed anticipates the result, apd te offers compromise measures, upon which, though be knows they will not be adopted by his party, he can fall back and try to clear bis skiria of the guilt of dissolving the Union. Like a sinner, whore deathbed repentance is always suspicious, he propoeee that the following concessions should be made:—Tiret—The enforcement of the Fogitive Slave law. Second—Compeneatioa to owners of fugitives by the counties which permit them to escape. Third—The re establishment of the Missouri compromise line, and its extension to the Pacific Ocean, taus | recognizing the right of the Southern States to extend their institutions to the Territories lying to the west of them; and, finally, that a conven- ‘lon shou'd be called to amend the constitution It is said that Mr. Seward adopts these proporitious of his organ, and that he will make, immediately upon the open & strong conservative speech, which will asonish his friends as well as bis enemies, But the Rochester Democrat and the Syracuse Journal ecout the | idea of any compromise, remembering thas Mc. | Seward bas tavght them that the conflict be tween slave labor and free is irrepreesiple and eternal, thet he and they mast abolish slavery wherever it exists, and that the election of Lia- coln is virtually the Gowntall of the institution; whilst the Boston Liberatorpeists upon amend | ing the Personal Liberty law of Massachusetts by | making it far more stringent thun it is agata-t the Fugitive Stave law; and the New York An/i Slavery Standard is in favor of jetting the South- ern States «nietly secede, and of formiag two Gistinct republics, one Northern and the other Southern, because the polizy of coercion is im practicable, the probably seceding States—the two Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis- | sieelpp!, Loulsiaua and Texas— baving as great ite population as the thirteen colonies had in 1776. "phat the Personal Liberty bills will not be repesied, nor any other conseseion made in time, is but too probable, from the general tone of the republican and abolition journals, and from the short period which must elapse before the revolution is precipitated. The action of the State Legislature of Vermont, in which the republicans stood 125 to 25 against the repeal, is significant of what may be expected fn the majority of Northern States. The coarae of Vermont is peculiarly reprehensible. Be fore its admission into the Union it had a statute to prohipit the restoration of fugitive slaves. It repealed the law in order to gaia admission into the Union; but, that accom- plished, it passed an act, not only declafing fu- gitives free in the face of the express provision of the constitution, but inflicting on the claimant a fine of $1,000 and five years imprisonment in the State prison. In eleven States of the Nortb, or twothirds of the whole num | ber acts have been passed with the express Gerign of completely nullifying the fagitive tlave provision In the constitution, aud tne Fogitive Slave law of Congress ena:ted to | carry it out, or to eo impair and impede its operation as to cheat the Southern States out of their lawful property. These Northero States have parsed laws imposing pains of from three months to fifteen years imprison ment, and penalties of from $1,000 to $5,000, againrt all who attempt to carry out the com pact of the constitution in reatoring “fugitives | bound to service.” It fs these States, there fore, who bave really dissolved the Union. by violating the conditiors of the confederation. | They are the aggressors, and the Southern se ceding or nullifying States are merely adopt Ing measures of redress or retaliation. It is not certain that at this late period, even if all the Personal Liberty bills, as they are misnamed, should be repealed, the effect would be to arrest the progress of revolution at the South. Bat at all events it is the duty of those Btates to repent and do justice even at the eleventh hour. A dreadful responsibility resis upon them. By thefr unfaithfulness to the fede tal constitutlon, which they bave al} undertaken end sworn to maintain, they have brought this glorious Union to the verge of disrolution, and nothing can prevent the completion of the catastrophe if they do not at once repeal their infamous and perfidious enactments, and thus remove the causes which now jeopardize not only the liberties, the happiness and the pros- perity of @ great nation, but the hopes of free- | dom throughout the world, and the destiny of | unborn millions of the human race. Tur Cir Cmamentaiy Axo mae Orr Fexps.—There has been 9 curious tournament going on for some time between the City Chamberlain, Mr. Piatt, and the Board of Alder- | | men and Supervisors, relative to the city de- porite in the bands of Mr. Platt, about which a good deal of mystery appears to exist. Mr. | Platt, standing upon his alleged rights, refused to appear before a committee of either Board | and give an account of the condition of the public funds; but be appeared yesterday be | fore the Supervisors’ Committee on a subpoena | 8 a witness, but for all the information elicited _ he might as well bave remained at home. Between the objections of counsel and the apparent indefiniteness as to the authority of the committee to make certain investigations, the affair looked very like a mere farce; but Inasmuch ae there is an apprehension abroad that some $50,000 of the public money are somehow unaccounted for, and that some trregularity exists with regard to ihe deposits, pak Ty blic bave a right to fall information from Platt upon ganjor, and we hope that ot the adjourned ‘ol Say Meeting on next all dodging witl be vrotded, and etal We Gaakly giro The Metropusttam Police and the Gam- blers. ‘A few days ogo a map, whose character is 80 notorious that we Dave Bo occasion to discuss it, was tried in the Court of Oyer and Termioer, sitting in this district, on an indictment which charged him with the bigh crime of resisting an ofticer in the discbarge of his duty. The evi- cence showed that the accused had frequented 8 common geming house, which was kept by a man well known to the police and the fanoy. The accueed made a row in the house, and the police were called in. First came oge police- man, whom the accused menaced with a pistol; but eubrequently, when the posse arrived, he gave bimself up, and was carried off to tie sta- tion. The obnoxious individual having been dis- poeed of, the business of the house was resumed, All these facta were proved on the trial of the accused, who was sentenced to penal servitude for the term of four years and six months. Now we think that this case affords a curious insight into the way in which the police are managed. It was the bounden duty of the police to have arrested ail the persons in the gambling house, and to have broken up the eame. The statute under which the Metropolitan Police force was organized provides expressly for euch cases. In the matter at present under review there was very little difference as to persons. The keeper of the houee and his cus- tomer were both notorious as deflers of the law and breakers of the public peace. Both deeerve punishment, but only one receives it How is this? Do the police mark their men? Are they entrusted with discretionary powers to bind Peter while Paul is set free? Do we psy them to protect gambling hells and houses of bad repute? It really appears that such is the case. Not long ago a Wall street broker was accused of defrauding a banking house to be tune of eight thousand dollars, and was arrested by the police. He declared that the molety of his money had been lost at faro, and complained against three or four well known “ profeseors” They were held in merely nomt- nal bail, and have never yet been brought to trial. More than that, they never will be. The police are efficient elsewhere, however, The police bave caused the Sunday laws to be executed, so far as the German theatres and | concert 100ms are concerned. The police have | descended, like hungry tigers, upon the de- voted head of Licdenmuller, end have brought | Hoym ond Hamann to sudden grief. It is a great pity for them tbat the above named per- rope ave reepectable people, engaged in a law- ful calling. Were they outcasts, persons who | follow disreputable pursuits, who, not to put too Bane a point upon it, kept gambling houses or brothels, they might carry on their business unmolested every day of the week, and po one would molest them or mske them afraid. That may seem strange, but it is, nevertheless, painfully true. We do not object to the verdict or the sen- tence in the cate above noted. We be- tieve in exemplary puniehbments, but we bo'd also that they shon'd be impar tially distributed. The Legislature has given the government of the Society for the Reform of Juvenile Delinquents the power to enforce compliance with the statutes relating to theatres, concert halls, &e., ke. Now, if we are to have an era of moral reform, if the city | is really to be purified and the dangerous claeses are to be put down, let us begin at the beginning. The Legislature should at once su borize the appointment of Commissioners to enter complaiuts sgainst all the disreputable houses in the city, aud bring up the keepers without respect to persons. H the thing is to be dore at all, it must be done thoroughly. The police and the District Attorney must not make fi-h of Mr William Malligan and flesh of Mr. Jobn Morriesey. Verhaps these distin- guished gentlemen have been belied; it may be that they are imbued with ail the moral and manly virtues which go to make up the near- est approach to perfection that human nature can afford. We do not say that this is or is not the case; but we do eay that, | #0 far as public opinion is concerned, they are on the same platform; and if Mulligan goes into sackcloth and ashes, is it just to permit Morrissey to parade in purple, patent leather, | fine linen and kid gloves? And further, we re- peat that we bave bad quite enough of this mal- administration of the law, and if the police and the District Attorney refuse or neglect to do their plain duty, it is quite time that the Legis- lature authorized some one to do it for them. | In the especial case to which we have referred, | the police were guilty of a most flagrant breach of duty. That the Commizsioners approved of their conduct we are loth to conclude. The | fact is, however, that the officer in commanéof the force which went to Morrissey’s house has since been promoted, and holds a very high place in the department. These facts are preg- nant with meaning, and no New Yorker can afford to shut his eyes to them. Tne Innernessinie Coxriict ry Bostox.—Al- ready in the hotbed of abolition the ble conflict has begun among the anti-slavery party themselves, as it did thirty years ago when Garrison was mobbed. By a despatch from Boston, published in another column, it will be teen that the abolitionists intended to bave a grand celebration at Tremont Temple of the onziversary of the execution of their mar tyr, Jobn Brown, whom a year ago they apotheosied with an extraordinary demon- stration. But euch fs the change of sen- timent since the election of Lincoln that the. | republican Mayor of the city sbut up Tremoat Temple against them, and would not permit them to ure it, They then declared they would ocoupy a church instead, last evening, when the people sesured them that if they did they would burn the building, and the military were placed under arms to be prepared for an out- break. The fanatics were, however, permitted to indulge in their insane ravings without | hindrance. | Sach is the marvellous change wrought in the very focus of the anti-slavery agitation in one ; Short month. And this is but the beginning of the end. When commercial failures, the break- ing of banks, the stoppage of manufactories, and the throwing of thousands upon thousands of the people out of employment, take place, and when all the other disastrous results of the present political crisis follow, then may we | look out for social revolution at the North, and & war of labor against capital, and a condition of anarchy which it is fearful to contemplate. | There has been much talk of servile insurrec- tion at the South as @ conrequence of the eleo- | tion of Lincoln; but unlese there ia speedy | adjustment of the anti-slavery frsnes and har- Mon, be reared, ere is fas gtoales likellhood of inrurrection at the North than at the South, and nowhere would the irrepreasible conflict Tun such riot as in the city of Boston. The Present Aspect of Italian Affairs and the Future of Gartbaidi ama the New — The King of Sardinia is in Neples. Garibal- Gi has gone back to his farm on the island of Caprera. In these few words history is in- volved, and that hietory proclaims the dowa- fall of one nation and the rise of another—the death of tyranny and the life of freedom—tha victory of right over might. We see, too, in the retirement of the noble patriota grand simplicity of sotion which will endear him for- ever to the hearts of the Italign people and elicit the admiration of the world. Such deeds as bis can never perish, and fame will trumpet to posterity the name of Garibaldi. During Mfe he can never hide himself, and after death his memory will be affectionately revered by all who value the liberty given them by their God. What reward than this can mag obtain on earth? What grander tribute oan the world pay? By Victor Emanuel’s formal acceptance of the sovereignty of the Two Sicilies, and Gari- baldi’s resignation of the Dictatorship, the eyes of nations will be turned from Garibaldi to the King; and it is no easy task that the latter has before him. Indeed, it is one calculated to daunt men less habitusted to triumph over difficulties that at first seem im- possibilities than himself and the in- comparable Cavour. In a campaign like the present nothing is done till everything is done, although the union of two-thirds of the peninsula iato one kingdom was a greater achievement than the organization of a new State, or than the acquisition of Venetia aad Rome will be. Victor Emanuel will bencefor- ward hold all his dominions by an acknowledged title, baeed on universal suffrage, and so be on- abled to dispense with that code of interna- tional Jaw which he was obliged to extemporize ia practice. The historical ground that Sia! 7 never had been united was the great arg of ciplomats and politicians against f fof Italy. That the objection waa merely one of prejudice is clearly visible. The most hope- i lees of the Italian people have been warmed into an enthusiastic desire for the establishment of a national kingdom, and the prudent policy which Victor Emanuel wiil doubtless adopt will make permanent the effect produced, Under his liberal sway they will be educated in the school of freedom, and will witness the good resulta of patrictism in the developement of their national resources—the material wealia of their neglected country. The pertinacity with which Francia If. and the tweoty thousand men composing the small residue of his army cling to Gaeta is one of, but by.no means one of the greatest, obstacles with which the King of Italy will have to coa- tend, as it is highly probable the Neapolitaa army will soon be finally defeated. Is is even now matter for surprise that the Bourboa King bas 80 long resisted where the chances of success were sosmall. It can only be accounted for by the supposition that he hoped some fo- reign Power—Austria or France, for instance— ‘would come between his enemies and himself. The Wersaw Conference, however, must have dispelled his hopes of relief from Austria, and the participation of the Sardinian squadron in the last battle showed him that Louis Nspoleoa was not disposed for absolute interference, al- though it is evident that he allows those who administer the details of his government—Ad- miral De Tinon among the number—to at least show the disrelish they, alike with the entire aristocracy of France, entertaia for the cause of Italian freedom. We have now seen how a Duke of Grammont may assure the Roman go- vernment that the Piedmontese invasion would be opposed with force withont meaning it, and that opposition to an army is quite another thing to the issue of a protest, or the removal of an ambassador, or verbal demonstratioas on the part of subordinate officials. The Italian government has no external interference to ap- prebend till its collisions with Pio Nono and Austria, which are inevitable. Although Garibaldi has returned to his home at Caprera, eo displaying a noble indifference to selfish ends or personal ambition, there is reason to believe that he has no intention of subsiding at present into the rank of an ordinary subject; and he still considers himself an indepeadent representative and leader of the Ita!ian people. He bas announced, with a confidence worthy of one assuming dictatorial power rather thaa re- linquishing it, new enterprises which Victor Emanuel may be drawn into, just as he has already found himself forced to adopt the pledges given by the great liberator, whose personal prestige and determination te see the struggle followed up to the complete denous- ment promise to severely test the skill of the veteran statesman and diplomat Cavour. He unheeitatingly announced, in distributing colors to his Hangarian troops—who, although they bave taken the oath of allegiance to Victor Emanuel, regard him as their political as we!! as military chief—-an alliance involving 4 war of extirpation sgainst Austria; and not satisfied with the prospect of hereafter securing Venetia, the hero of the red shirt—the emancipator of Sicily, Naples, Umbria, Peragia and the Marches—is looking forward to the establish. ment of an independent State in Hungary. We shall therefore see the single mind- ed enthusiasm of the man again dis- played on the battle field. Indeed, he, in all probability, feels satisfied that his personal services in the rettlement of the Austrian ques- tion will be indispensable. It is uncertain how soon these projects may be carried into exeou- tion; but if immediately, it will excite some surprise that s kingdom so new should attempt a war of conquest aad revolution among ® people with whom it has no affinity in either race or lan- guage. Many would say that it was making war for war's sake, Garibaldi, of course, with characteristic hopefulness, overlooks the possl- bility of ruptures with Germany or the great Power of the North, and fixes directly upon hisaim. With to Hungary, he seems to have omitted to take into his calculation the | fact that she is able to maintain her own rights | | independently of help from any foreign source, lit an insurrection is preferred to a conatitution- ‘al obligation. The Magyare would, under any circumstances, decline the leadership of Gari- baldi, or any other not a Hungarian. The judi- | cloneness, therefore, of his having spoken about Hungary se a personal matter, and of his | pledging the government of Tarin to take part ln foreign etrife, may be queationsd. Uls ae Glasasion cf iweililty bo Pine Lk. id open w he