The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1860, Page 4

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COOrRR T TUTE nav J.C. frsqouss’s Leoroes > be a Y, Fan LACTERIS Awroew WASDINGTON HALL, Atteria —Woov's Mores ov Brow as DaNcks, tuenRSqu, mw ) ean The News. es of ( ress yesterday were im. n the Senate Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, 2 resolution providing for the appoint ct committee of thirteen on eo much 3 Message as relates tothe te of the country, and that said committee be ted to inquire whet! ready within the sphere of federal ity will be necessary for the pro- curity of the property of the United if so to rep be also ins sether it is doemox acat or amendments to dd toc xpedient to propose an the constitution of ‘¢ & prompt and fall perty of citizens of ure the equality the equal rights under the federal the Speaker an- oc of one from each resolution introduced e apon the existing con- L mes is given proceedings, 6 Committee. at of names was concla- representative from used from serving on the urane, in an cloquent » Mr. Hawkins to on. Before action was Mr. Hawkins the House e¢ United St. protection to the every State and Territ © States, and tnoure t zens afuresatd In the House he special com provided for by Mi. Hawhin ida, aeked to b exe’ Mr. John ¢ the House excusing wld break up the nether he will secede from of the a tion of the Honse, , b Southern members held " rt te decide whether thay should of the inau om. ttee, but comm i their rf columns will be found a graphic ac- the nes ronad about the ¢ tyyesterday, nee of the bursting or breaking of the tv 4 Croton water pipes, wlich ogcurred on the Fifth avenue, near Sixty-fifth street. The ac- t is the moat serious that has overtaken place * the first introduction of Croton water into New York Lost evening, white several workmen were en Spanieh frigate Barengucla, the Brooklyn Nary Yard ander- sholl bursted, serionsly injuring seven men, one, it is thought, fatally. Their ott, on trial for heile, the jury night rendered a ex in the first de veu o'cloes | ty of mansla: At te meeting of the Board of Supervi+ots yes- ay, & communicetion was received from the ice Comeisioners cal! attention to the ne- seesity for an increase of the police force, The Somptroller sent in a comr tion showing the ropdition of the finauces of the county. The un- <i. balance of the appropriation for 1840, amoauted to $551,706. or Court, delivered an 0; on ge murrer to fone bud Bucs Wils current tm Wow Kor! | special term, yesterday, | inion on the de- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1860. | conpang 8 lation was con ts ng th laries of five clorks in the S'reet rtent $500 each per anni The sum of ack was appropriated to the Pres’ s of oth branckes of the Common Coancil for services as Health Cominissioners daring the year. The R concurred te confirm the award of contract | sce t for regulating and grading Kighth avenue, from Pighty-second atreat te 102d street, to George A, | Buckingham & Co., for $24,201 77, that being the | lowest bid. i | | The regular meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction took place yosterday afierncon, The report of the Committee of the | Whole on the Constitution and Munageinent of the Tustitutions since last meeting was formally adopt | ed. It contained no features of special interest, | The number of persons under the care of the Board bow is 7,809—an increase of nine since the last re- turn, The number admitted was 1,052, while those who died, were discharged or transferred numbered 1 1,643, The will of Moses 8. Lyon, which disposes of property to the amountof some $50,000, was admit- | ed to probate yesterday. It contains no bequests | of a nature to interest the public, | The cotton market yesterday wes without aulmation, while gales, in lots, were confined to 190 » 600 bales. Iu | the presont state of the market It is dilicult o give relia bie qaota MII thore was no established deoliae from | tho pre day’s prices, Much orrcr provatle regard | tog the possibility of Kogiaud beteg able to obtain sup- plicg rom other souroes to an extent to materially fearon her dependoae upon this country, The cotton plant which ytelde our crops is ga anoual, requiring altoran Hove of euretine ard rain, with tufficloot heat to mature | it. Too evaporation of weter in tae Gulf of Mexico and of the oceaa nosr the coast of the Southern States, warmed by the Gulf Stream, causes ‘he vapor | to Le carried by southerly winds towards the Southern ravgre of the Alepbasy Mountains, where, mecting with it # condensed in showers which water the rd velleys of she whole cottua region. The Eas» ia Company, between the years of 1840 and 1845, spon’ 6 0€0.000 in attempts to grow cotton in India under the direction Of seven Americans, enrried thither from the cotton States, supplied with the best sods, machinery and Smplements, Tbe experiment roeulted in a complete failure—on account o! the climate, of six months drough, acd etx months rain. A cropo 1.000 acres, planted in the rainy season, crew well; but during the ensuing ninety dayaof parching ¢ry weather the plan's withered, shed their blooro# and balls, and did not yiele 50 pounds to the “se The rame placter ip Mirsieeipp , bofore going to tr@in, bad made from 450 a 507 prunes of good clean cot | 0 the gore, and on five acres to the band had made foo Belem, or 2,000 a 2,6C0 pourds cotron to each laborer. he project or hope of succeeding in Afrioa, or in other ‘ropical regions of six won be rain and six months sun tise is wholly delnsive. We possees a monopoly of the ony really valuable cotton “ patch” in the world. The ottoa rggion of the Southern States, if brought oily under cultivation, is sufficient tn extent to yield 000 0.0.x ®.C00,000 bales of cotton. But It so happeas oh tracts of wild cotton lands, cbieGy in Arkansas oud Texas, remato wholly idle ard urcultivated from tho want of lavor Whtte people cavnot, or will not, enter ‘hem to produee cotton, avd African labor ts too Iimited for the purpose The most this region bas ever pro- Gucei wae 4,600.000 bales, mado Inet year—reduced to 4 C00.006 oF lees the pre@ent year; and should the present troubles continae the crop mus be further reduced, four, toatcad of augmenting the crop, and adding oon- steptly to the great wealth of the country, we may wit sets tbe ced folly of fenaticiem leading to the destruction of the present yield, accompanied wily untold losses, misery and ruin to the whites of {ne ctvilized world, There was ® gorfous depression in flour yos- terday, which fell «® 6e ow 10c. per barrel, and in some ensos of forced sales of 100. a 159 por barrel. Wheat participated iu the general depregeiow, *nd fell off 20 @ 83. per bushel. Corn war sino lower. Pork was eteady, and prime rather firm er; move told at $10 76 for old, and now at $17 75, and Bt $10 75. Sugare wore quiet; sales of 200 Lhds. New Orleans were mate at 42c by auction, with some other small lots of other kind: tes given elsewhere Coffee war quiet and nominal Freights held up, though only in farr oetivity, Wheat, In balk, to Liverpool was cogaged at Lid; Scar was taken at Os 61. 04s. axked. To Loudon wheat, fo bulk and sbip’s bags, was taken at MN 6 ISA and 4s, $4. asket for flour. The Revolution in pect Our hopes of the preservation of this confe- deracy, through the mediatorial interveution of Congress, bave vanished. Impossible as we of the North have been heretofore acctisioned to regard the ful€iment of this Southern Last re- sort of secession, we can no longer entert iia this delusion. The patriotic endeavors of the Presiden’ to expose the causes of, and to reach the remedy for, the sectional discords of the day, bave not only failed to stay the Southern current of revolution, but appear to have wi- dened the breach between the diswurbiag forces, The special compromise committee of thirty: three-—one from each State--ordered by the Houre of Representatives, it wili aot be withlo the power of the Speaker to appoint; e0 that ia the very proclamation of this committee in be half of the Union the startling fact will ap- pear that one, if no! several States, have alrea- dy virtmally withdrawn from the Union. Scill more significant of the impendiag event of dissolution is our record of Wednesday's de bate in the Senate. In that debate Mr. Bate, of New Bampebirc, 6 representative repabiican | of the antielavery school which coatrols the | porty, thus frankly expressed his views:—“( think,” said be, “that the state of thinge fa this | country looks to one of two things, It looks |} to abeolute submission, not on the part of the Southern States, but om the part of the North to an abandooment of their position {f looks fo a surrender.of that popular | sentiment which has been utlered through Ue con- | stituted forms of the ballot box, or it looks to open | wor” “And if wor is the alternative, let it come in any form or in any shape. The Uaton fe disvotved, and it cannot be held togetber as | a Union, if thot is the alternative (Northern submission or war) upon whivh we go into an election.” ‘The cnuntlet thns thrown down to the Sonth | war promptly taken np, and In the reeponses to | the deflant Hale, a# the republican champton ot the North, from Browo, of Mississippi; Wigfatt, South—The Pros. the complaint in the case of the propric- | tors of the Stadt theatre, convicted of violating | the so called Sanday law by giving thea'rical per- formanc¢s ou Sabbath. The fucts in the case have heret been publi , and are doubt- tess fo t toour readers, Judge Hoffman pro- nounced tate valid and a lawful exercise of lomistat’ve ority. The Board of Aldermen held a epecial meeting | fost evening. Alderman Farley presented a reso- lution directing the Croton Dopartment to repair the Corporation wells, and place pumps in them; and also cuthorizing the Chief Engincer of the Fire Department to cause suctions to be pliced pon the engines in the lower part of the city, and to tion engines, located above Fifty-ninth sireet, in the possession of the companies in tho lower part of the city. Referred to the Committee on Croton Aquedact Department, The joint special committee on the reception of the leviathan steamer Grest Eastern reported in faror of paying the expenses incurred in dredging the slip for her ac- commodation, amounting to $6,559 82, The report was laid over. A resolution from the Board of Conneilmen giving the Hydrogeneted Fuel Com- pany of this city the right to lay pipor for condact- ing hydrogenated frel and other heating agents for domestic and other parposes through tho streets, for @ period of thirty years, was concurred in. ‘The Board adjourned to Monday next. ‘The Board of Councilmen were in ression Wet evening, and adopted o large nmnmber of general orders, the majority of which related to routine magters, The Street Commissioner wae directed to ndtertine for proposal for a location for Hose j of Texas, and Iverson, of Georgia, we see | Clearly that the argument fs ended, and that disunion ie before us. Mr. Iverson leaves no loophole of escape. He say “Gentlemen speak of concession of the repeal of Personal Liberty bit!s. Repeal them all tomorrow, and you cannot stop this reveluticn. It ie not che liberty laws, but the mob law, which the South fears. They do not dread these overt acts; for. without the power of the fedcral government by force, under the republican rule, thetr {nstt- tution (slavery) would not Isst ten years, and they (the South) know it.” This, then, is the {dea: the Northern anti-slavery alllance having crossed the Rubicon, the South will at once set up the wall of an independent power agains’ fts onward march, inctead of waiting for a mo ral anti slavery invasion. which, fostered by the it, threatens the speedy de stradtion of the rital inetitution of the South ‘There ie no argument against this defeasive polley, Under the moviag impulee thus pre tented by the Senator from Georgia, concessions and compromises to the people he represent: bave bad their day. Accordingly, we are fally Prepared to balteve him, when he tells us tha’, “vetore the 4h of March five States wil! have declared thelr in¢ependence (Bouth Garo- line, Georgia. Florida, Alabama and Misstesippi, we gutss), avd that three other Siates (Louisis na, Arkansas apd Texas) will follow “as soon as the action of the people can be had.” Bat we ore further assured, from the game respons! ble euthority, “that there will be no war;” that ‘the North, governed by auch farseeing states men as the Senator from New York (Mr. S ard). will see the futility of this,” and tna! less than twelve months a Southern confede racy will be formed,” ond tbat “it will be the most successtul governmest on earth.” These anticipations may be too high)y color ed; yet itis enough tbat they are entertained by our Southern brethren. But who can under take to define or to number the details of revo lutionary demolition and reconstruction, politi cal, commercia!, social and moral, North and South, comprebended in this tremendous pro gramme of disunion! The “cotton States” are ripe for revolution—secession {3 revoludioa Mr. Buchanan can diecover neither the constitu tioral authority nor the political expediency for the resort to federa! coercion against a eece ting State. He is right in this; but Mec. Lincota nas procleimed the opposite dostrine. Taking at vantage, therefore, of the intermediate time, aod in order to avoid war, the “cotton States” will withdraw from the Union before the 4:h 0! Merch. The incoming President. on the day of bis inauguration, will fiod them in the at- titude of foreign States. [His views of his con etivutional duty will compel him, we dare say, to attempt coercion. In this eveut, the border slave States will join the seceders, and thus, be tore the end of welve monthe, there will in reality be a Southern confederacy established competent to command peace. Through our private advices from Washiag ton we are admonished that the conservatives in Congress despair of saving the Union. They tell us that the revolutionary movement fn the South Has become too strong to be arrested— that nothing can stop it, and that the politicians in this matier are far belind the people, even in the hitherto etaunch conservative States of Virginia. North Carolina, Kentucky snd Ten neesee. The fulfilment, then, of our worst ap prebensions ie close at hand. Before Caristmus @ay the break with South Curoliaa will have commenced, which is to split up this great republic into two, three or more (who can say bow many) independent nations. But then the bope is advanced that, althongh uoihing can be done that will save the Union, wuch, between the North and the South, may be Gone atter the dissolution of the Union, io the work of a wholesome reconstruction, This is a distant aud uncertaic honse of refuge. We giance over the records of repubiics and revo- ‘ntions, and we find no examples of the recon. struction of a broken country of the fashion here contemplated. The world furnishes no precedent for these United States in their rapid expansion and developement in population, wealth, power and prosperity, and in the gene- ral bappinecs of their people; nor is there any example to be found from which we can mea sure the consequences of the dissolution of this confederacy. We know, however, thats great and comprebensive political eystem like that of this Uaiou of States cannot be abruptly broken without bringing upon all concerned its train of inevitable disasters. In our present monetary and commercial dis- turbances we are warned of a fearful time be- fore.ue—of such @ financial revulsion, and of such an amount of individual distress aud des- utution as we shall have never experienced before. But our Northern negro philanthropy, which bas pushed us to this ordeal of revolu- tion and chaos, is still iocredalous or defiant. From that monstrous fanaticiom which devoure its own children there fs po escape. Senator Tole bea spoken for the republican party— Senator Iverson bas spoken for the South. Dis union is our destiny, and onr only hope now is that disunion may not involve us in a civil war. Beastie or Tur Cxotos Mans —Tae Crrr ts Pruit.—The city is at present put upon short commons as regards Crotoa water, a serious ia convenience, arising from the breakiog of the two main pipes on Vifth avenue which supply the reservoirs with water, The accident is sup posed to bave ocenrred from the earth soften ing from leakage, and the pipes falling by their own wosustatned weight It is hardly poseinte to conceive the amount of danger to which the property of the city may be exposed by this accident in case of fre. There would be no resource except the fire engines, which migh* obtain water from the rivere: and this would avery emall protection in the central portions of the city. Nearly all the pumps were destroy- ed long ago, and the millions of house pro- perty and merchandise in the metropolis are absolutely dependent upon the Croton pipes for protection against copflegration. We do not know how far the Croton Aque- duct Board are responsible for this mishap; bat it occurs to ws that a similar thing took piace before, or was threatened, from the same cause; and ft so the Board should have nsed some pre- caution to avert ite recurrence. At all eveats, the city ebould not be left dependent upon one con- veyance for Its eupply of water, Why not have two main pipes entering the city by different lines of route? Thie would cbviate the danger in which we now etand. From the serious nv tute of the damage it seems that it cannot be re pelred within two or three days, and if in that iuterval a fire should break out the couse quences may be fearful. Meantime, let every oue be aa sparing of the Croton a —— Axotarr Jaravese Ost ernation.—We are (oformed that the Japancre Aldermen are so much delighted with their success in the Char ter election that (bey porpose to celebrate the event in grond style. It is Intended that this ‘estival shall be n reunion of all the great bo cles who #) mpathize with the partioutar line of volicy which the majority of the Common Coun oil Bove adopted, ang which bas been snetained by the vores of thelr cons‘ituente, Not lee+ toga four of our inatinutions will be represented wt ibe fesst, These are the State prisons a} Sing Sing and Auboro, the Legislature of the Swe, the penitentiary on Blackwell's (sland and the Common Counol! of this ofty, The idea of uniting these berevolent institutions in one celebration isa very happy one. Their repre sentative men are quite unanimous upon the great question of the day—the question of mo- vey— nod thelr moral tendeacy is the eame. ft is tnten@ed that the projected /é/c shal! quite outebine the eplendore of the Japanese ball or the feativisies io bonor of the Price of Wales Invitations will be confined etrictly to gradu tion of the above named Lastitutions, No itee ist yee eens of the Setullionowese nel from Comgress? The commercial revulsion progresses steadily, Congress has met, but it bas ao fur extended no help in the present trouble, nor is there any sign that it will or can do to, Meantime things* look gloomy in the pre- sent, aod presage still more gloomy times for the future. Commerce everywhere is suffering, trade is diminishing, manufacture ceasing, and people are being thrown out of employment every day in numbers. It appears to be no better at the other side of the Atlantic: The firet news has reached them there—the election of Lincoln—and the politicians are rejoicing ex- ceedingly over the event-—~ promising themselves eti!] further cause for exultation in a grand re- volution and the breaking up of this confede- racy. Bunt the news seems to have already pro duced an effect upon the financial affairs, for we see that the banks of England and France bave been obtiged to come to the relief of each other. What will the effect be when still farther intelligence of Southern secession and its present covsequenses to the trade and commerce of this country shall arrive there, which it will ina week or so? Possibly the politicians of Eag- jand may rejoice more, but they do not see blind guides as they are—that the political dis ruption of this country must divert the material prorperity of their own. Meantime, as we said, the revulsion pro- gresses; the banks of this city are trying every mears to stem the torrent, but with what avail’ The bank directors held a meeting even on Suaa- day last—and it is only in times of revolution that tbere is no Suncay—to consider the pro position ot relieving the banks of Boston, and the consultation ended in the conviction that no ald could be extended to the Boston banks The New York banks have enough to do to keep themeelyes straight; so we suppose the Boston bavks must soon euspend, when the revolutionary movement in the South culmi nates, like those in other places. This contederacy of our city banks, however, bas developed one element, and that is piuck— pluck to make war upon the Chemical Bank, which ia the only specie pay- tog Institution in the country, or which at least eoon will be. The combined bauks have been denouncivg the Chemical, and trying to force panic upon it because it refused to enter into their confederacy; but they overlook the fact that the people may carry out the very game againet themselves which they are playing against the Cremical Bank, What is to prevent the wealthy depositors, who lodge their money in these Giflerent banks only for safe keeping, from withérawing their deposite and lodging them in the Chemical Bank! And in this event what becomes of them? The trath is, that this bank combination is only putting off the day of final settlement for three months or so; for if the Union is broken up they must all suspend. Everywhere one turns for a hopeful assurance of relief from our present difficulties in these times he meets with gloomy symp‘oms. Many clung to the assembling Congress for a helping hand out of our perplexities; but from present indications there is little assistance to be ex- pected in that quarter. Things look dark, very dark, and eeem to foreshadow a mors serious re- vulrion than any we bave had since the founda- tion of ihe government, and arising from a more serious and quite different cause. Tho panics of 1617, 1820, 1837 and 1857 resulted from commercial causes, and were, afier all, but wansitory. The present revulsion is entirely political in its character, and as far as we can see, cannot last for @ sborter time than two or three years at the best, and, in that time every commercial interest in the country will be shekeo; for the effect is not iecal, as in former times, affecting only this special interest or hat, but is general, universal, Every branch of trade aud manufacture must suffer; opera tives must be deprived of bread, property of every kind must depreciate in value. Meantime the whole people appear to be pa- rolyzed, as it were, with apathy—standing +ti!!—waiting with terrible immobility for the thunderbolt to fall and crueh them. A Hann Wiyter Arrroacunse.—We caanot advert to one branch of the result of the recent Presi¢ential election without a feeling of ex- treme sadness. Still it is necessary that we ebovld look at such things squarely, and be pre pered for thelr consequences. And therefore we are compelied to repeat the advice of Ran- dolph, of Roanoke, who once found a lady hard wt work making clothes for the suffering Greeks, while there were four or fire half starved mendicants loitering near her house, ~Medam,” exclaimed Randolph, “the Greeks sre at your doors.” And now we find that while Hyatt and other black republican phi loeophere are collecting subscriptions for Kan- us, an upbeppy locality where the people are always bieeding or starving to death, we have & prospect, Indeed we may say the actuality, of distress smorg our own working classes. Truly the Greeks are at our doors. It is now only a month since the Presi- dential election, and we find that its evil effects nave begun to tell severely upon the poor in wll the large cities, The fact is that the mncrease in the price of provisions and in house rent hae been much greater than the rise in the woges of mechanics aud laborers, so that in the best of times they bave very bard work to make both ends meet. Very few of them Iny by any- thing, ond those who have o small balance in oapk are forced to withdraw it when their em ploy ment ceases, Thus, when bard times come, as mony e¢ Gifiy thousand men, womeu and cbidren are thrown upon public or private charity for eupport. We fear that this wiater will be even woree for the poor than those of Le54.and 1857. The pronpect Is a most gloomy ove. The business of the country has come to acstand still. The cotton States have assumed an attitude from which they cannot at present withdraw. Mr. Seward’ frrepressible conflict between free and slave labor hae commenced, acd free lebor is so far the rufferor, Our me- chanics bave heretofore relied npon the South- erp cities for theie winter's work, and have thns bridged over the dul! times. Now, however, they are sent baek, and find therore!ves withont work, or ony Immediate hope of getting any. It le eotimated that there are “In thir city as many ne ten of twelve thourand men watkiog about the streets seeking employment No, ‘hoe men have an average of four persons de- vending upon thetr Iabors = Bo ee reap, as the ret fruits of Lincoln's election, an army of fitty thouzand paupers. Before the let of Morch that number will be doubled. And we may lock tor the rame atate of thinge in all the large cfttee— Potiadelpdia, Boston, Newark, Providence, Hartford, New Haven, te. “The | pacte more © deeply seated and wide'y opread than any that the country has ever be- yore eufflered, and the winter will be made moo"dfully memorable by the most terrible suffering” smonget the poor of the North. The merchants, Manufacturers and master me- cbanics are reducing their expenditures to the lowest possible point, and, to make matters still worse, the federal treasury is empty, and the government creditors, even down tothe wife of poor Jack, who tepends upon her pit- tance of five or six dollars per month, are com- pelled to wait for their money until Congress sees fit to relieve them. We wish that some one could show that this picture has been too highly colored. The truth ia, however, that it has been toned down. The free laborers of the North who voted for Lin- coln are now being punished for the acts of their blind leaders, who are exulting over the gullibility of their dupes, who have been made to play the part of the monkey and to draw the chestouts from the fire for the spoilsmen. And whatever may be the result of the movements pow goiag on at the South, there is ao doubt about one thing, and that is that the tri- umph of the republican party has given North- eru interests a blow from the effects of which they will not recover ia many years. Garibaidi's Projected Attack Upon Ve- Bice=-Kzplanations Demanded by France. In the newa from Italy received by the Cana- dian there is an announcement ot some im portance. The I'rench Emperor had demanded exp)apations of the Turin Cabinet as to how far it was committed to Garibaldi’s project of a descent upon Venice in the spring. At the rome time it is stated that the ocoupation of Terracina by the Piedmontese bad been met by sn intimation from General Guyon that they must at once evacuate it. Now this town is nearly claty miles from Rome, and is be- yond the emali circle of territory which Louis Napoleon, ia hia scheme of Papal settlement, bad considered it proper to reserve for the Pontiff. The fact of its port being accessible merely to small coasting vessels precludes the ides that he deems It of importance for any present purposes of bisowo. We must there fore conclude that his interference in this ia- stance, ae in that of Gaeta, forms part of the future plan of policy which he has decided upon in connection with Italy. It hes been long evident that the Hnperor would willingly have oppored limite to the acquisitions of Piedmont in Sonthern Italy if he could decently have done so. The voluntary action of its people in favor of onnexation deprived him, however, of avy pretext for resistance te them. He has coneequently been obliged, in epite of himself, to conourin the aggrandizement of the new Ttallan kingdom to a point which promises to bea formidable obstacle to schemes of older date than his campaign against Austria. The principle of Italian unity which Garibaldi is bent on realizing by ihe anpexation of Rome and Venice will, if fully accomplished, cir- cumscrive stil} fartber his projecis in the Me- diterranean. Hence we find him preparing to make a stand agatnat the extension of the [tal- ian kingdom beyond its present limits. This will, of course, bring him into confict with the revolution, and expose him sgain to the dan- gers to escape which he origiuaily set it in mo- tion. His inability to contro! it has been de- monetrated hy the recent events in the Marches and in Southern Italy, and it is a question whe ther, in pereisting in tbe effort to do so, he may not himself succumb to the influence of the new principles to which he bas helped to give the ascendant. Although be owes the contirmation of bis usurped power to the ballot box, be is in no sense of the word o constitutional sovereign, and it remains to be seen whethe,, after the sacrifices they have made for the emancipation of lialy, the French people witt either permit the contraction of its nataral boundaries or consent that they themscives shall continue to occupy an infesior politival position to the new constituionsl Kiugdom which they have aesisted to crenie. It is stated in reosut otters from Vienna that there is a probabltity of the German Contede ration guarantecing Venice to Austria wich the support of Russia. There may be some truth in this announcement; but the German govern- ments should recollect that they stand tn rela tion to Itaty pretty much in the position of the French Emperor. They may resolve and de termine, but there is a great doubt whether they will be able to carry out their decisions The events of 1844 should Lave couriaced them that the ground they occupy Is u tivktish one, and that it would require but slight causes to bring revolution again home to their doors, The unity of their race and the con solidation of their nationality are as dear to the German as they are to the Italian populstions, and they would gladiy seize upon any oppor tunity of realizing them. A league of their go veroments against Italy would afford them this chance, and therefore the German soverelgas bad better reflect well before taey commit themselves to a war oguinet the new Power, which forms the cradie and bulwark of repre eentative institutions on the Furopean conti- nent, and which, consequently, will command the assistance, as it possesses the sympathies, of all the friends of popular freedom. Tom Great May or tar Crry—The Mayor cf New York must be a terrible fellow. Not any event of any kind oceure but some of our journals discover bim io it, in some capacity or another; and, curious enough, they always find owt that be bas been killed out, squelcbed, and ts never to be beard of more, That is the Inst of Wood, is always the cry. When he went out of Tammany Wood was defeated- that wes the end of him. If s thunder storm swept over the city these silly journals pro claimed that Wood was demolisbed. If nor’ easter devastated the country, Woed was aunt- bilated. Now ft appears that the charter elec- tion bas absolutely emusbed him up; at Inst he is defeated, they esy, and con never rise agato. But somebow we perceive that Mayor Wood does not appear vers prominently fa the char. ter elect on at all He does not seem to have bad mach todo with it; for we observe that the Mozart Hall party got pretty well routed ond acati od in the fight, and we bare also beerved heretofore thut whenever he ted them to battle the eagle of victory alwase perohed upon thelr standard Mayor Wood must bave more tives than o ont, for though ey are perpetually killing him, wo always Gud bimturnioe up eguin as bright and fresh as ever. Whee he te moing te do next it ie bard tony, Sume people may that ko. | he ie gcing to enter erate Ir tn the holy banda of matrimony; otbers that he ls gulag to Europe— what to do there we baow uoi—perhaps he is going to Italy to confer with Garibaldi and settle the Papal question; or it may be that he ‘s going to Jerusalem to arrange matters for the Pope there, create a Pontifical See im the Esst, or something of that kind, for he was always friendly to the Pope. But wherever he goes, we have a kind of an idea that he will male Ye @ppearancé right side up, some Ww 5 The Crisis and the Republican L adersta Congress and out of Congress. There is, no doubt, a considerable change produced among the rank and file of the republican party, end if they had to vote cover sgain thousands of them would long hesitate before they voted for Lincola and the iesues his election involves. Not being politicians, they are beginning to appre- ciate the train of evils which is coming on the country, But this is far from being the case with the republican leaders, either in or out of Congrees. The only man among them who ap- pears to have escaped the general infatuation nd to exbibit apy common sense is Thurlow Weed. The rest are allalike, Blinded by par- tisan feeling, or corrupted by a thirst tor spoils and power, they are not only doing nothing te arrest the progress of disunion, but every- thing to precipitate the catastrophe. The sbip of State, whose keel was laid by the great master builders of the Revolution, whose ribs of steel were fashioned by its most skilful artirans, whose masts and sails aud ropes were made by patriot hands, baptised in blood, and whose anchors, glowlog trom the fiery fur- nace of suffering, were shaped by faith and hope—this Union has drifted from ber moor inge, aud isin the position of a ship nearing alee shore, with wind and tide driving her upon the rocks, or of a doomed boat borne down the ra- pids above Niagara Falis, over which she must be swept unless Providence works a miracle in her bebsulf. In futi view of this dire calami- ty, the republican leaders, consdtutiug a por- tion of the crew, are either steeped in stolid in- sensibility like druuken men, or they are sing- ing, and scoffing, and bluspheming. Among those who may be classed in the tat- ter category is Mr. Flale. of New Hampshire, whore exhibition ia the Unived States Senate on Wednesday ehows how littie he agpreciates the condition of the country, or Low reckless be is of the fearful consequences. Lis refassl of concession snd bis threats of war are like ” the policy of the British goverument towards the colonies previous to 1776. A slight com- ceesion would have healed the breach if offered in time. Nothing but independence coala satiefy the colonies at ast. It is the same now. A short time ago nothing was easi- er then to conciliate tae South and to restore harmony to the country. Now it is exiremely Gifficult, if not impossibie. That @ificalty Mr. Hale has materia!!y increased by 9 speech as rash ond {il timed as the counsels of those who advised George ILL to wage war against his revolted proviuces. Whatever chance there might have been of saving the Union by North- ern copcilistion in Congress, there certainly could be none from menaces of coercion. The _tflect of Hale's challenge to the South. there- fore, can only add fuel to the flame, and hasten the dismemberment of the Union. His heart- jess levity op snob an occasion is characteristic of the degenerate statesmanship of the times. Wita Webster, Clay and Calhoun bave passed away 6 geveration of statesmen whose leas the country may well deplore, Buffoons, Grebrands, ambitious and corsupt demagogues, have taken theie piace, and there is no men to whom, at this awtnl moment, the country can lock up witb confidence, as to u pilot that can weather the etorm. When, after long debate ond anxious delihe- ration, the Convention which drew up the com stitution had concluded their labors, George Washington, as President of ft, in presenting the report to Congress, well expressed the sea- time nt and spirit of the fathers of the republic iw these memorable worus: “The constitntion which we Bow present is the result of a spirit of smity and of tbat mutual deference and con- ceeeion which tbe peculiarity of our political sliuation rendered indiepenseble.’ How dif- ferent is the spirit that prevails now. How different from that spirit wrich triumphed mm 1820, ip 1852 sod in 1850, when Henry Clay proposed those compromise measures which were carried Ly the patriotism of Coa- grees, The ship of State is as good and as valuable now as theu, and the came reasons eriet for compromise, for omity and concession, now 05 well ve then, & Uninw, 1 And Grestt it the femre, 1 the hopes of fatare years, ioe Dreetilose op thy fate But we have now no mariners to mon hee, oo etatermen to eteer, and shipwreck seems inevitable. Warren, a New Crrv Cuanrea——The Gest duty of the Legixtature which is to meet st Albany ip about three weeks is to give to thie long eufferiog metropolis & new city charter, unéer which the members of the Commom Council shall be elected on a* general ticket, ipsiend of by districts ae ut preeent Under the present aystem we have beguo badly enough, but the worst is yet to cme, as we have every reason to belive that the newly elected Aldermen aud Coucclimen will be worse than thelr predecersors—If euch a thing ie possible. It is not torpossibie, however, to legislate them cnt of offive; and we look te Albany for s new oberter and a thorough re- yolution In our city government. If (ne Legia- lature does not act promptly, the people may take the matter into their own bands. We live in troublous times, aod no maa oan teil what a day may being Se foes Crmare Maem —Teo pew rraron at the Academy Will be commenced thir evening, coder the joint maoage- ment of Macame Fabbri, Meesra. Stigoll! aad Formas, Maseap elo’ will be cung 6 oigdt 2 | alan, asd for ie crday, “Sivadolia’ in German, Fabor!, Formos aad Bu fing tn both operne. The Marlo troupe we having & very provpercus emeam At Philadelphia. Mercacanio's “Otoramemte” wae ame Boonced for last ovenitg. ‘The Viecteral College, Corcace, Dee. 4, 1960 The coctora of Minnesnta god Wweonstn met at the capitals of their respeotive States yeetorday, and oak thelr vevem for Linooin aed Hamlin. C.evacann, Deo. 6, 1860, The clecters of Ohio met peoterday at Colamous, aad Com, tar votes for Livcyin aad Bscitin ‘Tanwrom, Deo 5, 1860, ‘Toe clectore met today. JC Horneyeer wer made oe Geerotary. Vout voies wore oetin, and Wave fer | vegies aad stot meq cant for Tincotn 6m dovnree, Benge f. Mis, of Nera war ao eonete