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

4 NEW NEW YORK HERALD. OFSION W. W. CORNER OP FULTON AND NASsAU BT, TERMS, cash in adwance, st dy madi sett! be at the rid of the sender” Moma bal Bonk Wills currant ta New Fork taken TAB DAILY HERALD two conis vor copy, ¥1 per annie. THE WEERLY HERALD. coery Ssturday. ot wie conle copy. oF $8 per annum, the Buropean Biition ory A h 21 sk cents per eon, 4 per annumn to any part of Great Britain, Or $5 to any part a) dia Continent. boi’ to include postage; ts California Rditin om the let LCA and 2st of each month, at ota meen ¢ SPONDENCB, dmportant OR RU nrter of the world, Y toed will be kg~ Ove FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS Ane Kmouesrep 0 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, w(8LO's GARDEN, tar fix NYER GARDEN, SOWEAY YERATRE, Bavestaian Taoura. Brondway.—Provtcat 8ox—Reau- Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Bowery.—Srawving & Bogre's WALLACK’S THEATRE, arta, Broadway.—Mope, Mirro- LAURA KEENES THEATRE, No. 4 Broadway.— Bayen Suteus. Bowery.—Pornau—Waninit a BABNUM'S AMBRICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.— sy and | Zreping—Kooe MinRk—Agre) CulroREN—Living (vas wins, 0, SRVYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mi Bouimsqum soves, [ s'8 MIKSTRELS, Niblo's Saloon, Songs, Varces, Buatesguas, &o— HALL 663 Broadway.—Sonoe, ow York Tnaraday, D amber 6, 860, The News . Powell, 0° Ken- of the President's Mes- | stic troubles of the ect committee. The | at so mur! to the dot 1 toa & r nder the rule, Mr. Green of Missouri, introduced a re nm for the es sblishment of an armed police in the border ance of of one State by | t execution | e the spe: and free peace, th Slave law Monday. Mr. ned debate on the impe: lw shire rs of the country, a followed by Meas, | verson, of Georgia; Wigfall, of Texas; Saulsbury, of Delaware, and others. In the House the Homestead bill, and the Mili cademy and nvalid Vension Ay priation bills, were passed, vithout ¢ . This prompt action of the House, d to the two last mentioned bills, is with- lent inthe history of Congress. After re- e various branches of the President's to appropriate standing committees, the rned. Canadian, from Liverpool on the onderry onthe 234 ult., arrived at Port- yes ay afternoon, with five days later news. The telegraphic synopsis of her advices, which We learn e of Wales had resumed his strdies rd. where he we publish this morning, is very brief. that at Oxf was received with appropri ate demonatrations, The news of Lincoln's election had reached Eng- J, and the result would seem to have been high- tisfactory tothe English press. It is not un- that the news of the Southern secession ment and our financial embarrassments joally agreeable to the English politi her it will prove correspondin mmercial classes of Great E The Hank of Ragland made an important moye -, in loaning to the Bank of France upon security of a like amount ct of this movement was highly aused an advance in consols and | eral activity in the money mark:t. Breads | and ton were alike inactive. ' Empress Eugenie had arrived at Endinbarg. news from the Continent is important. It is that France has addressed a note to Count ing if Garibaldi undertakes his Venetian the approval of Picdmont. We by way of Vienna, that the German backed by Russia, have guaranteed Venetia to Austria. ree and England have each agreed to formal- e the new kingdom of Italy. The siege ogressing successfully. of the overland pony express at esterday morning, we have advices 0 to the afternoon of the 2th ral ne vs from California is devoid of 1 affairs continued dull. The cott, of the army, at San , isreported. The death of Delaron Smith, formerly United States Senator is also reported. The mining reports and Wesbington Territory continue 1 aw Con ration er from Oregon, the negroes and whites at Victoria, in the British } possessions. The negroes claimed equa'ity with | the whites at the theatre, and proceeded to enforce their demand by violence. A conflict ensued, and | at iast accounts che war was still going on. | * The Board of Aldermen did not organize last | evening ‘or want of a qnorum. wT ‘card of Councilmen met last evening and ! a communication from the Comptroller m whic cleaning the streets was exhausted early last nouth, and suggests the propriety of trinsforriag 25,000 from the appropriation for “Russ pave- ment, grooving Broadway,”’ to the credit of the appropria‘ion for “ cleaning streets.” The paper 4 to the Committee on Finance, with in- © report at the next meeting, The ler also submitted a statement of the the treasury, the receipts and payments, he balance on November 30: The balance on Nov. 22 was $2,532,244 09 Receipts e 5,144,564 $5,077,108 48 409,14 Balance November 30 $5,267,963 21 A large batch of reports from the Aldermen rere laid over for future action. The Board con carred with the Aldermen in passing an ordinance authorizing the City Inspector to appoint “ A aot H Wardens” at the rato of $3 per dicm | for doing absolutely nothing. By the adoption of this ordinance $20,000 of the taxpayers’ money is given reward for services rendered to political | aspirants, The names of thése men who voted for this outrageous measure are given in our report. ‘The Board of Edacation were in session last evening. They adopted the report of the special committee appointed to report a by-law for trans- ferring the management of the evening schools to the local boards from the Executive Committee on Evening Schools. The by-law also recommended sundry minor measures in reference to the regula. tion of teachers’ salaries in the evening schools, | &c., which were also adopted with slight amend. ments. There was not a quornm of the Commissioners of Fmigration present at their meeting yesterday, and the routine business only was informally trans. acted. The weekly statement presented showed the number of emigrants arrived daring the past week to have heen 1,898, which makes the number poce the Dist of December last 100,009, or 24,951 h he states that the appropriation for | More than were landed here during the correspon? ing period of the previous year. The balance of the commutation fund at present emounts to $10,142 92. The inquisition into the death of Patrick Kelly, who was stabbed on Thanksgiving night, in Front street, Brooklyn, by Charles McCauley, was con- claded yesterday, before Coroner Horton, when the jury returned a verdict that Kelly met his death at the hand of McCauley. The accused denied the charge. He was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. The prize Hight between John Woods and George King, so long discussed in pugilistic circles, and so frequently interrupted or postponed, took place yesterday morning in the neighborhood of Ball's Ferry. Woods was the victor, by a ‘foul’ fall on the part of King, after a contestof fifty-five onnds, lasting one hour and fifteen m nutes. Woods, though receiving considerable bruising, concladed almost every round by knocking down or throwing his adversary. he police did not get wind of the affkir, and it was, in consequence. not interfered with. William O'Neil, of Worcester, Mass., and Michacl Fritz, of Providence, fought a prize fight for $1,000, near Portland, Me., on Monday. After a plucky contest of four hours and twenty minotes, Fritz received a foul blow from his adversary, and was declared the winner. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday an application was made for a writ of habeas corpus with a view to compel the District Attorney to bring to trial or admit to bail Edwin Jefferds, who is in prison charged with the murder of Mossra, Walton and Mathews. The writ was granted, re- turnable this morning. The Court then proceeded with the trial of Charles D, Morrissett, indicted for murder in the first degree in causing the death of Jean Baptiste La Rochelle. The wills of Joseph M. O'Connor and Annie Tucker were admitied t . probate yesterday. They contain no bequests of any interest to the public, nor do they distribute much property. The general fea‘ures of the cattle market remain in the same unsatisfactory condition as last week, and prices continne to rale low for all kinds except strictly prime, which were firm at previons rates. Milch cows were plenty and dull. Veals were steady. *! cop and lambs were not so plenty, and firmer. wine were a shade lower, with tolerably vy receipts.’ The total receipts were:—5,172 #, 113 cows, calves, 8,985 sheep and lambs, and 10,910 swine. The cotton marke! was comparatively quiet yesterday tho sales embraced shout €00 *,1u lots, to apin nore and foexporters, closivg on the basis of about 10 cents per Ib, fer middiing oplands. Tce receipts at the porte since the Ist of September last bay» reached ebout 1,200,000 bales, against 1,400,000 in 1880, aad 1,223,000 fa 1858 The total exports within the g2me period have reach ed 550,000 baics, agatnet 698 (00 in 1859 and 542 000 In 18£8 Phoetock on ban’ comprize 676,000 bales, against €95,000 in 1589 and 604 000 In 1858. Tho receipts at the porte, compared with lust year, have fallen off 200,000 bales, The «xporis ire 148,000 bales lees than they wer las year, while b> toe on band fe only abcot 20,000 ‘ales below that of last yeer, Unter the most favorable ciroumstances the eupp!y of cotton {s likely to fall materially below that of last yeor. And, should political troubles be carried out to dissolution, as apprehended by many well informed pertons, the future supply for eeveral years to como may be seriously affec'ed, while the commercial and manufac turing industry of the world would feel a shock unkuown before In the preren centrry. Owing to the unsett!ed state of + fairs, combined with tho advance |u froigbts aad low range of sterling bills, foa, fell of abo. be per Dbl. Wheat, from the same causes was also heavy and -beaper. Corn was in fair demand, chiefly from the local and Eastern trade, with salee of Weetern ‘mixed at 62. 623¢°.,and a 63c. for prime do. Pork wae steady, with sales of mess at $16 75, and of prime at $106) Cotleo was quict, and in the absence of aloe of moment quoiations were nominal. Freights were firmer. Whoat, in ship's bage, for Liverpool, touched 141., and to Lon:ton at 16d., with four at 4s. The Crisis ‘or the Kt pablic—Attitude of the Republican Leadess—Danger to the North, The Presidential Electors of this State have discharged their duty to their party, and have cast thelr votes for Abraham Lincoln, who will, therefore, be President over so many of the States as will remain in the confederacy after be ith of March next. There may have veep some lingering hore in the breasts of sim- ple persons, who are not aware of the superior- ity of party considerations over all othera— even with men who are far above the common run of politislans—that the republican electors would hesitate for a moment before they as- sumed this awful responsibility, and took the tisk of breaking up the confederasy. But they not only cast their votes formally for Lincoln, but, according to the correspondent of the lesser black republican organ in this city, they and otber lead strong grow nolliatory policy | suggest has been } roundly ab , excepting Raymond. J! may be sald that the electors were pledged in honor to their constituents, al- though left free by the constitution; but we believe that if it were possible to take the sense of the Northern people today, Lincoln would be ina minority. Mis majority in the Northern States {s little orer a quarter of a million in three millions of votes, and as many a# @ half a million of his supporters have deserted him since the election. In this num ber we account the mechanics and manufactur ere, who see now that rain stares them in the face, and the very large number of respectable voters who threw their infuence upon the op- position side in order that the corrupt demo- oratic party might receive ite death blow. All these persone were misled for the moment; they are now sincerely sorry for what they have done, and exceedingly anxious to recede from the extreme’ position into which the black republican leaders enticed them. And now that the work has been finished, now that the laet straw has escaped from the clutch of the drowning man, the general in- | quiry ie, what of the future? We can see but little hope in the signs of the times. The black republicams do not purpose to act until after Lincoln bae been inangurated. This is evident from the facts that the President elest has failed to indicate ia any official way his probable policy; that the general tone of the presses in his interest is deflant rather than con- cillatory; that the leaders of the party, almost withont exception, condemn the course of | Weed; that Grow, at the outset of the session, lagged in his Homestead bill, in order to stave Off discussion npon the topic which was upper- in the mind of every member, and that eight republicans voted against Boteler's tion. We do not envy such men as Burlingame, Sherman, Hickman, How- ardand Lovejoy their ; \ace in the history of the country. They have now taken the second step in a career of political infamy most aptly In this state of things—the South preparing to go out of the Union—the friends of the new admiuistration sitting with folded hande the material interesis of the country paraly <ed—it behooves every good citizen to look the dan- ger In the face. If there is a doubt ae to the imminence of the crisls it may be resolved by the letiere and speeches of calm, conservative itt eof the party took men, like Mr Stepbene, of Georgia, aad Seaator Hvater, of Virgicia. The former lately gave to the country a speech which will live forever with the best effurta of the patriots and sages of everyepoch He now writes a short private letter, by which it is evident that he has the most serious apprehensions. Senator Hunter reviews the whole question, and sbows that coercion is out of the question. The Senator's letter is long, but it will be attentively read notwithstanding. As to what is before u: no man cen tell, Much depends upon the ac:ion of the Congrersional Cemmittee of Thirty three. No body of men since the world began has had 4 greater, a more so'emn and a more important Tesponsibility in its charge than this committee. If the cotton States can be induced wo keep quiet until an amendment to the consti- tution bas been acted upon, all may yet be well, But the cotton States cepnot be expected to do this while the domi nant party in the North is obstinate, indifferent, sullen, or defiant. We call upon our black republican friends to give their special atten tion to a most important point in Mc. Stephens’ letter, He takes the only tenable ground, i. ¢., that eecession is revolution, and that revolu- tion would be even more disastrous to the North than to the South. Mr. Stephens is quite right. In the event of secession, the real bat- tle of the South would be feught in the North, where there are fifteen hundred thousand voters arrayed in opposition to the doctrines of the republican party. The government would have its hands full in endeavoring to suppress an archy apd treason at the North, and therefore could not carry out Webb's idea and whip the South into submission. We bave also, fo all our large cities, what are called the dangerous classes—thieves, rowdies and vagabonds—na- tive and foreign, who would seize upon the disorders of the State as a pre text for wholesale plunder, and would receive large reinforcements of laborers made reckless and desperate by hunger. Thus we should find both the federal and the lecal governments altogether inadequate to protect the life and property of the people, who would proceed to resume the powers delegated to them; committees of safety aud vigilaave would be establisbed, military dictators would arise, and the free States be separated into bait a dozen petty sovereigaties, The South would suffer in a less degree, ae the people in that section are united upoo ‘he principal point in the controversy. There isa difference of opinion as to the ques‘ion of se- cession; but, once outside of the Union, the South would be even more firmly united than were theold Thirteen after the Declaration ot Independence. Compared to ours, their task is an easy one. Men and brethren, ponder well upon these things. We live in times when no step should be taken without the most serious, almost reli- gious, consideration. iiss"aanstalasdeaiewes Tetmasan tine in New Yors—Tne Mulligan Case, The case of William Mulligan, who was con- victed the other day of obstructing an officer in the discharge of his duty and of attemptiag to kill him, is rather a singular one in maoy respects, As Mulligan’s counsel have brougot the whole matter before the Supreme Court on review, it may be as well to refresh the public memory with the facts in the case. Muiligan, the accused, belongs to that peou- liar class of the community known as fancy men, although the general public has no great fancy for them. He stated in court that be was ‘a cooper by trade, but had not worked at it for many years,” leaving us to conclude that be joined that noble army—ibe soldiers of which toil not, neither do they spin, and yet outshine Solomon in the bravery of their appa- rel. They are often to be seen in Broadway on a fine afiernoon; they never miss a horse race or @ prize fight; they are habituds of gambling houses and other disreputable places; they always have on hand a very large stock of political influence, which they are ready to dispose of at the lowest cash price. They have, once in a while, a fight or two among themselves, aud occasion- ally get into the hands of the police. The lat- ter gentry, however, are either very thick with ihe “sports” or very much afraid of them, as the number of times they sre arrested bears avery small proportion to the sum of occasions when they deserve it. One of these gentlemen, John Morrissey—he has achieved a certain sort of reputation— keeps a common gambling houee, and is there fore liable at any moment to be sent to Sing Sing for two years. Mulligan comes to the bower of Morrissey, and inflicts various and sundry wounds upon the delicate feelings of that perton. Morrissey sends for the police, and directa the officer to put Mulligan out when the latter draw: a pistol and threatens the officer's life. Mulligan thinks better of the matter, however, and does not resist the law any farther. On this state of facts, it is alleged, he has been convicted under an indictment which charges that the pistol was actually dis- charged at the officer, and the counsel for the accused asks for a new trial, on the ground that | the conviction was against evidence. There is a curious underplot to this drama. | Mulligan has been, in his haloyon days, the in- timate friend of many distinguished people— | Senators, lawyers, journalists and politicians of | wll degrees. Ile inourred the wrath of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, and was kind- ly presented to the city of New York by our fellow citizens on the Pacific coast. Iie is sup- poeed to be well acquainted with all the inside operations of the strikers, both in New York and California, and when brought up for sentence be declared to the Court that he desired to make an affidavit to prove that the will of the late Senator Broderick, just admitted to pro- bate in San Francisco, is a forgery. The will was contested on this ground, but the Probate Judge did not deem the evidence sufficient to set it aside. The late Senator by this will de vieed the whole of his property, valued at something like $100,000, to the editor of a sporting paper in this city—a warm friend, it is said, of Mulligan. The will case goes to the Supreme Court of California on appeal, and Mulligan declared that he wished his affidavit to go before that fribunal. Judge Gould de pied the request of the accused, and proceeded to sentence bim. We are of the opinion that the facts above recited need no commentary at out hands. The public will, however, note the circum- stance that Morrissey had no hesitation in calling for the aid of the police, although, if tbey bed dove their duty, he would have been meroded off to prison. They will percetre, too, that Muiligac, who hasoften been in the hands YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1860. of the police on serious charges, has come to grief for a comparatively slight offeuce. This is on the old principle, give a dog s bad bame, &c., and it should serve as a Warning to youpg men who think ita fine thing to follow in the wake of the fancy men like Mulligan. It will give the “governing classes’’ a hint, to the effect that they cannot have everything their own way, and will teach them to walk straighter than before. As to Malligan’s very extraordinary state- ment with regard to the Broderick will, we presume the contestants will take measures to ascertain how much truth, if any, there is in it. If the will was forged—it bears date the day before the Senator left New York for San Francis: the last time—there must be other witnesses than Mulligan; if not, there yet re- mains a way to secure bis evidence through a perdon, which might be made out a day or two before the time for him to pay his legal adieux to Sing Sng comes around. Of course the matter will be properly investigated, and the public will expect eome rich developements. In the meantime, Mulligav, though senteaced to the State Prison, remains in the Tombs. Why? Tae Present on Our Foreran ReLations — In remarkable contrast with the discordant and revolutionary condition of our domestic affairs, our relations with foreign governments, from England and France to China and Japan, are cheeringly represented in the President's Meesage as of “the most friendly character.” There is much to console us in this, that at ‘east in the midet of our present overshadowing domestic troublea and dangers we have no ap- parent cause to fear, should disunion be preci pitated upon us, it will involve a hostile descent upon our seaboard of European fleets of bombarding gunboats, But bow, at this crisis of dieunion, are we to account for the reiteration by Mr. Buchanan of bis recommendation of 1558 and 1859 “in favor of the acquisition of Cuba from Spain by fair purchase.” Be believes that the acquisition would result to the advantage of both countries “tor all future time,” and that it would “prove the certain means of immediately abolishing the African slave trade throughout the world.’: But upon what hope does Mr. Buchanan reiterate this recommendation at this time? Manifestiy upon the hope, which he has substantially expressed, that this fearful storm of dissolution will blow over, and that the Union will emerge from it oot only unbroken, but stronger than ever. Perbaps, too, this proposition to buy Cuba is thrown out asa contingent makeweight in the work of restoring peace between the North and the South. We fear, however, that the day for the con- sideration of this item of acquisition in the re- construction of the balances of sectional pow- er within this Union is gone, and tbat the pro- position in our Congress for the purchase of Cuba will never be heard of again. But, as upon no other basis than the perpetuity of the Union could the President make up bis annual Mereage to Congress, he consistently reproduces our domestic and foreign relations as those of an established and enduring -goverament. Hence this recommendation concerning Cuba, and hence bis renewed appeal to the Senate for the ratification of certain treaties, comprehend- ing important commercial concessions to us from the liberal government of Mexico, In the event of disunion, however, the North may relinquish all hopes of Mexico, for its “ ma- nifeat destiny” will be absorption into the Southern confederacy. Mr. Buchanan congratulates the two bousea on the fact that, since last De- cember, “not a single slave has been im ported into the United States, in vio- lation of the laws prohibiting the African slave trade,” and that filibustering has been suppressed. Under ordinary circumstances, these things would command the public atten- tion, but at this extraordinary crisis, in speak- ing of them, Mr. Buchanaao’s voice is Jost in the roaring storm which is around us. So, too, touching his suggestions in reference to a Pacific Railroad, and to a naval force for the protection of American interests in Central America. Everything is swallowed up in this awful. question of dieunion; nor, “henceforth until this question is settled, one way or the other, can we expect anything else for the country’s government to command the atten- tion of Congress or the American people. Ovn Rervntican Coremronantes on Tie Presivent’s Messace.—It was not to be ex- pected that Mr. Buchanan's views upoa the slavery question, and the causes which he might assign, and the remedies which he might propose, for this disunion agitation in the South, would be satisfactory to our republican news paper cotemporaries. But some of them are even more violent than we had anticipated they would be in their denunciations agatost the President and his Message on this occasion. Our impetuous philosopher of the Tridune opens his commentary upon the Message with this refreshing rentence:—“Let us devoutly thank God that, for the ensuing four years, the people of the United States are relieved from the annual visitqtion of a long Presidential lec ture wherein reason is fosulted, humanity out- raged, history travestied and common sense defied, ia the interest of human slavery and for the gratification of ite upholders.” This be- trays the amiable temper of Massa Greeley; but the “little villain” of the quadrilateral is quite as refractory, for be flatly says that “the Message, in our judgment, is an inceadiary document, and will tend still further to exaspe- rate the sectional dissensions of the day.” But Thurlow Weed is open to conviction. The scales have fallen from his eyes, and he can see that the Union is in danger, and that only conciliation can save it. He rather likes the Message. He says:—“There is evidence in its structure and upon its face that it was con- ceived and written in a patriotic spirit, and with a lofty purpose,” but that “to argaments eo strong and clear, to conceptions #0 elevated, conclusions so illogical and lame have no fit nese or affinity.” But still, eaye the thinking Thurlow, “of good taken separately, there is enough in the Message to brighten the darkened skies, enough to butld sanguine hopes upon, enough even to avert the threatened danger.” Thurlow Weed has some comprehension of this crisis He {s, therefore, inclined to drop Sambo to eave the Union and Lincoln's admi istration. Greeley continues intractable; but be will in dne season discover that over a Soathern agitation which {s staking the Union to its foundations, this Northern republican party must abandon its anti slavery platform, or that it will ap cedtly fall to pieces Seouthberm Preperations for Going Out of the Union, and Northern Measares to Prevent It. It is with great pleasure we refer to the ac- tion of leading Union. men in New Jersey, who bave iseued a call for a mass convention to be held on the 11th of this month, to take inte conei- deration the present alarming condition of the political affairs of the country. This is the first move at the North to meet the crisis, and we hope to see it followed up immediately by sim!- lar calls in other States, The danger is imminent and pressing, and there is not a moment to be lost. Six Southern States are to hold their conventions all within a month, to decide upon going out of the Union. South Carolina leads the way on the 18th inst., while she is making active armed preparations to maintain her independence, and the same is true of Georgia and other Southern States. The fact of Soutb Carolina alone going out would be comparatively of small consequence; but when it is taken into consideration that she is merely in the van of secession, and that the other States have stipulated to follow her lead, then the act of revolution on her part assumes an importance the magnitude of which cannot be over estimated. It is like the first devoted regiment that assaults a fortress -—it has despe- rate courage because it knows that other brave battalions are advancing at its back. The South Carolina Convention, as we have said, meets in twelve days; the Florida Con- vention in a fortnight after, on the 3d of Janu- ary. In four days more two State Conventions meet on the same day—Alabama and Missis. eippi—on the 7th of January; onthe the next day a Convention is to be held in Texas, on the 8th of January; and on the next day atter a Convention in Georgia, on the 9th of January. Now, all these are sovereign conventions of the people, regularly called by the Legisla- tures, with one exception, and possessing high- er powers than the Legisiatures themselves. There is au idea prevalent at the North that because they are conventions they are of little consequence, while the Legislatures do not act. But this is a grave error. These meet- ings ere formidable just because they are meet- ings of conventions and not of Legislatares; for in our system of government the sovereignty resides ultimately in the people, solemaly as- sembied in convention, and in the constitation that sovereignty is expressly reserved to the people. It was by convention that the citizens of each State, one after another, ratified the Union, and it is now by the same forms that the people of the Southern States are proceeding, one by one, to annul the acts by which they adopted the constitution. Nor is the movement confined to the six States we have named. The other slave States are preparing to follow their example. On the 10th of December the Legislature of Louistana is summoned to meet for the purpose of calling @ convention; on the 7th of January the Legis- lature of Virginia will assemble for the same purpore; and the people of Maryland desired to have the Legislature called, but the Gover- nor refused to respond. What they may do in this contingency is no‘ yet determined. In Texas the Governor, Sam Houston—who isa stropg Union man, and whose term of office has a year yet to run—declined to act in compliance with the wishes of the people; but they took the power into their own hands, and called a Convention, as we have already stated, for the Sth of January. It is probable that the Governor will yield in the end to the popular preseure. But whether he doee or not, his action cannot affect the result. The revolution will go on with or without him. From the fast that in that State Breckinridge—who received the nomination of the secessionists—obtained a mojority of 32,000, it is very evident what the people of Texas will do. And what all the other Southern States, who are about to hold Conventions, will resolve upon was distinctly intimated by their representatives in Congress, after the reading of the President’s Message, with the addition of North Carolina, on whose bebalf Mr. Clingmap, hitherto a Union man, endorsed the course of South Carolina, and de- clared that in bis own State there were really only two partiese—those who were in favor of immediate secession and those who desired to wait for a short time to see whether any new guarantees would be presented for safety. He added that, in his opinion, if something of this kind was not immediately done, Congress would see not only North Carolina, but most of the other Southern States “in motion at an early day.” And wherever there is any appearance of the Union sentiment at the South it is of the same conditional character as that described by Mr. Clingman as existing in North Carolina. There could not probably be found throughout the whole extent of the Southern States five bun- dred men who are in favor of remaining ia the Union at all hazards. Wherever any resolu- tions bave been passed, or speeches uttered, or articles or letters written, at the South in favor of the Union, they have been invariably cha- racterized by a demand for new guarantees and securities for Southern protection, ia de- fault of which the Unionists declare they are with the secessionists, come weal, come woe. ‘The only difference of opinion, therefore, at the South is whetber the States will go out now, or wait for a very brief time to see what Congrees and the North will do. The people of six of the States appear determined not to wait any longer, and the chances are that if six slave States “secede the other nine will immediately follow. Jadg ing from the tone and temper exhibited on the part of the republican members of Congress, and from the benighted politicians and preases of the party, there is but little prospect of any- thing being done in time to arrest the deep and rapid current of secession, which, from all hu- man appearances, seems as irresistibie as the onward march of the mighty Mississippi, King of Floods. Meantime it is gratifying to see the move- ment in New Jersey to which we have adverted above. It is « symptom of returoing reason; and though to hope for its success is almost to hope sgainst hope, yet let us hope on and never deepatr. Recent events in Boston show that there is a revolution already commenced in the Northern mind against abolitionism and black republicanism; but the great misfortune is that there is scarcely time for the developement of the public sentiment, so as to present it ina tangible, legalized shape to the Southern peo- ple before the act of revolution is consummated and a Southern confederation is an sccomplish ed fact. We fear the Northera o mounitis @ill have repented of their foliy ‘co tate, aad that the future fs pregnant with «giamity and Gistrese and suffering snch as thoy havo never ooo ainne the foundation ws the goverg we ee Curtous Req lts of the Charter Election. Lest the puitic should not be aware of the fact, we take this opportunity to inform them that we had a charter election in this city _ «n the day before yesterday, (On this occasion the voters of the metropolis were a:ummoned to elect the men to govern it for the con:ing year, to disburse its finances, to make its maccipal laws, to educate its yonth and to attend to all ite interests in as far as they fall within the pro- vince of the thing called government. Tixs duty was mechanically performed, according to Jaw, bya comparatively small number of voters who are not politicians, and a pretty large number of those who are; but the citizens at Jarge, the merchants, bankers, property owners, and taxpaying portion of the publie generally, neither participated in the election nor took any interest in it, This fact will strike any one as very extraor- dinary, when we consider the position which the city of New York occupies in the Union, and, indeed, we may say, in the vivilized world— its immense wealth, its overshadowing influence, its large population, the intelligence of its people, its national character, and the vastness of the interests which hinge upon all these. New York, in the present political orisis, is looked upon with anxiety from every quarter of the country, from the known national and conservative character of her people, and ehould the difficulties which surround us termi- nate in a division of the two sections of the country, ehe will have a prominent part to play and a Jarge share of suffering to endure, The asceseed property within the city in real avd pereonsl estate amounts to six hundred millions; the commerce can be counted by bendreds of millione annually; the taxes amount to ten millions a year; the youth to be edncated do not fall far short of a quarter of a million, at an annual expenditure of nearly-s million of dollars, and the populatiop, com- diving resident citizens and atrangers, is never fese than a million of souls at any one time. Looking at all these facts, one would suppose that the election of persons to fill the places in the government of so great a city would bea matter of momentous importance to every one who had a voice in it, and that the selection of proper and efficient men would be a duty of the first consequence to every citizen within its limits. Yet, sirange to eay, out of the hundred and twenty thousand registered voters on the poll books, of whom some ninety-six or ninety- eight thousand voted at the Presidential elec- tion on the 6th of November, not more than thirty or forty thousand voted on Tuesday at the charter election. Thoueands of people, we will venture to say, never thought of the event at all, and many were ignorant that any election was taking place in the city; and, for the benefit of ¢uoh, we will state that an election did take place, snd that, with very few exceptions, not the best men in the community were chosen to fill the offices vacant under the charter—to disburse the ten millions of taxes for the en- suing year, to make the ordinances, to appoint or confirm officials in a)l the departments and bureaus, to control in a great measnre the eduj cation of the rising generation, and, as an addi- tional duty, to pilfer a large amount from the city treasury. Many of our merchanta and other prominent citizens who have a siake in the city, when asked on Tuesday if they had voted, inquired ip astonishment if there was an election going on; they bad voted on the 6th of November, they koew, but they were quite unconscious that they bad a similar duty to perform on that day. In fact there was no evidence throughout the entire city,except at the voting places, and but little even there, that we were electing a large portion of the city government for the next year. And what is the result of this unac- countable apathy to their own jnterests on the pert of our merchants and property owners? The very same class of men, and in many In- stances the identical men, whose coarse haa been heretofore so scandalous and flogitious, have been reelected as Aldermen, Councilmen, School Commissioners, Inspectors and Trustees. Four of the Aldermen most notorious in the Ja- panere affair have been re elected; and from the list of Councilmen it is impossible to select more than three or four individuals of any oa- pacity or fitness for the position. The same is true also of the members of the Schoo! Board. Now what are to be the consequences of this, and what does it indicate’ The result, of couree, must be that the city will be worse governed than hitherto; that the taxes will be higher and the plander larger than before, for these men will be more bold than ever; and it indicates very strongly either that our citizens | are satisfied to be heavily taxed and scanda- louely plundered, or that they despair of mend- iog matters in the least, as far as the m government is concerned. Viewing it in avy Night, the result of the charter election is very curious. Tue Ervsor or Livcoi.s’s Exrerroy.—It is estimated that the depreciation throughout the country in the values of flour, wheat, oot- top, wool, corn, State securities, railroad and bank stocks, negroes, real estate and other pro- perty, tince the election of Lincoln, is not less than fio hundred millions of dollars. Wilh the Bank Presidents sod their friends who signed the call for the Wall etreet meeting to urge the election take this fact into considera- tion? Feer Lavon ror Frey Mex—Tue Freres or Rercericanis.— With the election of Lincola the republican party have given practical effect to at least one of the cardinal points in their creed. Not content with having free forme, they murt have free labor, and they have at last evcceeded in obtaining it, for since the election of Lincoln the supply of labor has so far exceeded the demand, that in this city it can be obtained at euch slight remuneration as to render it almost literally free, Mr. Hacxsrt is abot to publish an edition of Shake. pere’s “ Hamiet,”” (rom the text of the folie of 1638, called “ The Pisyers’ Edittoa,’’ noting therein the varions alterations and mendations of the tevoral oditore aad epnotators since that period, and comocatiog himectt upon euch partages as have ecemed obsoure or bare been mooted by critics. Mr. Hackett also proposes to give hin Profers'on, together wih its amateurs and admirers, tm ‘the form of an appendix to each an odition, the beneiie® Asa profession, and embracing w period of more thas forty rears, with glimprer tt ioucreale of tbe Tonto. boards when at: corner in Goglend Bow far Mr. Eeckett Wo qvelifoo for seoh a work May fa Rome MeRrEe ue gleaned from rclected porsions of hie Jparmatins’ cnr. Torpon cece with certain eminent [iganaeurs of tho pase and the preventage, 0)! Bae ary Bere Pepe ttt rune ara to extract for our readers It et eacce of Tip own fortatoming fublication