The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1860, Page 4

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Bix coats, nts of the Erxorsay Epmow ov Tux Hxraup ue the news received by mail and telegraph at tho office during the previous week, aud up tothe hour of Publication. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition, The mail steamship Northern Light, Captain Tinkle- paugh, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Aspinwall. The mails for Qulifornia and other parts of the Pacific Will close at ton o'clock this morning The New York Weekey Heaauo—Culifornia edition— Containing the Intest intelligence from all parts of the World, with a Largo qnantity of local and miscellaneous matter, will be published at nine o'clock in the morning Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cants, Agonte will please sead in thoir orders as early as pos- Bible. The News. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were un- Dsually important. In the Senate the standing committees of the last session were continued. The Homestead bill passed its first reading. A memorial urging relief for the suffering people of Kansas was referred to the Committee on Territo- ties. Mr. Powell's resolutions on federal affairs were then taken up, and an interesting debate en. sued, which was participated in by Messrs. Foster, Dougias, Davis and Dixon. In the House Mr. Hawkins, of Florida, entered into further explanations respecting his desire to be excused from serving on the Select Committee of Thirty-three. He said that he acted solely on hia own responsibility in the matter. Mr. Vall Gigham, of Ohio, followed in a stirring speech, in which he attacked the composition of the commit- fee, whereby the democracy of the Northwest are entirely deprived of all participation in its de- liberations and recommendations. Mr. Mec Clernand, of [itinois, and Mr. Sickles, of New York, alko spoke on the question of excusing Mr. Hawkins. The debate was interrupted in order to allow the introduction of a bill for the relief of the Treasury. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means accordingly reported a bill au- thorizing the issue of $10,000,000 of Treasury notes, in sums not exceeding $100, bearing not more thaa six per cent interest, redeemable at the expiration of ayear. An amendment pledging the public dands for the redemption of the notes was voted down, and the bill was passed. Without taking action on the request of Mr. Hawkins, the House ajourned. At a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday, Mr. Cobb, the Secretary of the Treasury, resigned his post, aud the resignation was accepted by the Pre- gident. There is considerable speculation as to Who will be appointed to succeed Mr. Cobb. Among other names that of Collector Schell, of NewYork, is mentioned. ‘A number of our influential merchants assembled in the Mayor's office yesterday afternoon aud held private meeting for the purpose of considering what action, if any, the city of New York should Juke in view of the present perilous condition of yur national affairs. Although the meeting was preliminary, and the proceedings were principally confined to suggestion and consultation, there is reason to believe that the movement contem- plated is of an important character, and when fully matared and announced may provo of invalu- able service in restoring harmouy and peace to Our distracted country. The mecting was atrictly private, so that ite proceedings cannot now be publicly made known. At the manicipal election in Boston yesterday Mr. J. M. Wightman, the democratic and Union candidate for Maye® was chosen over Moses Kim- ball, republican. We have advices from the city of Mexico to the ‘29th ult., and from Vers Cruz to the 7th inst. The Lberals were completely investing the capital, nd it is reported that the French Minister had Sdvised Miramon to capitulate. Great distress prevailed in the city from a scarcity of food and ‘Water. We have received files of Venezuela papera to November 8. The news, which will be found con- Gensed elsewhere, is of no great interest or impor- ance. A peaceful solution of the Spanish diff- culty is expected. By the arrival of the steamship Julu we have Sntelligence from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Ist inst. The Legisisture met on the Sth alt., when the new Assembly organized, with Dr. 0, MoLarty Morales as Speaker, for the third time, On the following day the Ministry announced their re- rignation, and about two wecks after a new Minis- try was appointed, A bili for taking a census of the inhabitants was before the Assembly, with every prospect of passing. The trial of the chief mate Paul for the murder of Captain Burton, of the American bark Alvarado, in Kingston harbor, Fommanced before the Chief Justice, a* the Kings. Jon District Court, on the 20th uit., end was con- oluded on the 22d, when the jury, without hearing Counsel for the defence, returned 8 verdict of not TERMS, camh én advance, Money sent ty mail wil be atthe | | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER Ul, 1860. guilty. Consequently this atrocious murder remains ‘ Conciliation amd Cocrcion—More Panic a deep mystery. The “ revivals’ continued in futl blast in Cornwall county. The yellow fever had considerably moderated. The Kingston Journal of the 29th ult. says:—By the arrival of the steamer Plantagenet, we learn that the civil war in Cartha- gena has broken out afresh and with renewed vi- gor. At the time the steamer left fighting was go- ing on, and such was the anarchy reigning that the British subjects—among them the Consal—had to take refuge on board her Majesty's steamer | Cadmus, which was lying in port at the time. The | Salt Lake City of the 16th ult. fighting was chiefly in ambush, and a great many were killed and wounded. We have received correspondence from Great A apecial session of the Legislature had been called by the Gover- nor, and for two days the “brethren” had been to- gether assigning the new Judges to districts. As , no provision for the support of the District Courts | portant. had at the same time been voted, his Excellency refused his assent to the proceedings of the Legis- lature, and the session was dissolved. The pony express which left San Francisco on the afternoon of the 28th ult, arrived at Fort Koar- ny yesterday morning. The general news is unim- The markets continued very dull. Information was received at the office of the United States District Attorney yesterday that Fredericks, the first mate of the slaver Cora, which was brought into this port a prize, as already reported in the Hxnap, had made his escape through a porthole of the vessel and swam to Wallabout, where he landed “without raiment and without food," or the means of procuring either. He bas thus for the present eluded the authorities; but some of Marshal Rynders’ vigilant deputies are in pursuit of him, and unless the fugitive is greased after the fashion of the Irieh pigs, it is not likely that he can slip through their hands. War- rants have been issued for the apprehension of the other two officers of the Cora, and they have been formally handed over to the custody of the Mar- shal. The District Attorney has libelled the ves- sel for forfeiture. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but trans- acted no business of general interest. A report of the proceedings may be found in another column. The Board of Councilmen held their usual meet- ing last evening. A communication was received from the Board of Excise Commissioners respect- ing certain defects in the Excise law. The paper was referred. The Mayor vetoed a series of reso- lutions giving the Third Avenue Railroad Compa” ny permission to lay a track in 130th street. A re- port of the Committee on Finance, recommending the transfer of $35,000 from the appropriation for Russ pavement to the appropriation for cleaning streets, and also the transfer of $8,200 to pay the members of the Common Council, were adopted. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday the District Attorney accepted a plea of murder in the second degree in the case of Franz Hoffman, indicted for the murder of Mrs, Sehumacker and ler child, at Bloomingdale, some months since. The prosecuting officer waa induced to accept this plea, partly because of some doubta respecting the existing law relative to capital punishment, and partly because of some doubts as to the san- ity of the accused. The trial of James Massey, the pugilist, charged with committing a felonious assault upon a police officer, was postponed till the 2th instant. The young man suspected of having murdered Mrs, Shancks, of No. 22 East Twelfth street, has been arrested at a station on the Erie Railroad, some three hundred miles from New York. He will probably arrive in this city to-day. The Coro- ner's investigation concerning the murder was to have been resumed yesterday, but the proceedings were postponed until to-day at two o'clock, in order that the prisoner may be present at the ex- amination. ‘The trial of the suit of Mr. Burch, of Chicago against his wife, for divorce, was concluded yes- terday at Naperville, Illinois. The jury rendered a verdict for Mrs, Burch, the defendant. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 338 deaths in thia city during the past week, a decrease of 71 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 73 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 59 deaths of diseases of the brain and nerves, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 114 of the lungs, throat, &c., 7 of old age, 26 of skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 61 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 41 of general fevers, 1 of disease of the urinary organs, and 19 from violent causes, The nativity table gives 204 natives of the United States, 12 of England, 86 of Ireland, 18 of Germany, 7 of Scotland, and the balance of va- rious foreign countries. Owing to the inclemoncy of the woathor yesterday, combined with th prevailing stagnation in trade, trans actions in most riptions of produce were extremely Fo far as We could learn, very litte if aay cotton ag uplands, in the abseace of transaetions, wor slat 10¢, Holders of flour, es pecially for the medi class to good brands, dis payed more firmness, bat with now and then an exception, prices did not vary materially from Saturday's rater, especial, for cash. Southern was in some better request for exp: .( to tropical ports. The sales of all kinds were moderat. Wheat was also held with more show of firmness, e) cially for Western red, while sales were moderate. Corn was in fair domestic demand, with sales at 690. 4 503s0. for Western mixed, in store and afloat. Pork was heavy, w ‘i small sales at $17 for new mes#, and at $16 374 a $16 60 for old do., and at $10 25 for prime. Sugars were without sales of moment. Coffee was also quiet; a stnall sale of Rio was mado at We. cash, Froights were steady, with moderate en- gcagements, ‘The News from Washington. The news from Washington is of the most striking charac ier. The Secretary of the Treasury has positively tendered his resignation to the President, and will immediately return to take part in the action of the Georgia secessionists, In the House of Representatives, Mr. Haw- kins, the single member from Florida, has peremptorily declined to act upon the extraor- dinary committee raised by the House for the purpose of conference upon the critical condi- tion of the country, and has resigned his seat. This action on the part of Messrs. Cobb and Hawkins is the most significant evidence of the deep seated Southern feeling thavwe have yct received in any official form. The black repub- lican journals have been endeavoring to con- ceal the truth from the people, and to per- suade them that the secession movement is confined chiefly to South Carolina. It cannot be supposed that either Mr. Cobb or Mr. Hawkins could have acted without consulting the opinion of the people of Georgia and Florida. Thus we see that the secession movement is not the mere outbreak of a few froeaters, but the result of the settled convictions of the solid men in the Southern States, It is the exterior developement of the swift, strong, resistless under current of public opinion, which flows steadily on to its purpose. Unless some means are speedily adopted to arrest this movement it will soon impermeate the whole South. “Thue bed begins, but worse remains behind.” light. was sold, while Making. Since the opening of this second term of the present Congress it bas been a problem, diffi- cult of solution, what course would be pur- sued, what measures, if any, be adopted, and what tone of public feeling would be ini- tiated by the representatives of the people at Washington in the present national crisis. The President’s Message, looked forward to with so much anxicty, has complicated rather than settled the question of the course most expe- dient to be adopted, That document was in- tended, from ..c highest and most patriotic point of view, to soothe the public mini and to pour oil upon the troubled waters. It exposed, practically, the folly, wickedness and dan- ger of extreme counsels and ultra measures, and appealed to each good citizen to aid in averting the perils and preventing the disasters with which passion, self-interest and Northern and Southern demagoguism menace the country. Unfortunately it has not been received with anything like unanimity of opinion by the frag- ments and cliques into which old parties, now rent asunder and united by no defined and ubiding policy, have become irreconcilably di- vided. It has not conciliated the extremists of the slave States, and the republicans of the North are loud in their clamors of indignation at what they call the lukewarmness of its re- commendations. The heated elements remain where they were; and with every desire to cor- respond to the requirements of the emergency, it is not probable that the outgoing adminis- tration will be enabled to accomplish anything effectively for the weal and safety of the con- federation. It is different with the power which has been chosen by the people to maintain their dignity and represent their interests during the four years to commence on the 4th of March, 1861. Upon Mr. Lincoln and his advisers will de- volve the responsibility of determining whether this heretofore prosperous republic shall con- tinue in its integrity, and what means they will adopt to secure sucha result. They cannot shirk from direct and energetic action in the premises, A crisis has arrived, which, if mot wisely, might possibly, notwithstanding the dark clouds which obscure the political hori- zon, prove eventually beneficial to the Union. If, on the other hand, unskilful pilotage and evil counsels prevail, no modern Cassandra can depict in gloomy enough colors the horrid future of disaster which inevitably awaits us. And it is to be feared that those who are destined to wield the patronage and power of the incoming government have but an imper- fect perception of the importance of their mis- sion. The outery of the black republican journals of the country against the peaceful tone of Mr. Buchanan’s Message began on the very day of its appearance. Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, from his place in the United States Senate, denounced it in the most scurrilous, undignified and unmeasured terms of abuse. He scouted the notion of peaceful secession on the part of the Southern States, and appealed to the “incoming admin- istration not to quail in the performance of a duty” which he compares with “the baptism of blood” Italy is now undergoing to recover its nationality and independence. “Deep answers unto deep,’ and this incendiary harangue elicited a corresponding note of defiance from Mr. Iverson, of Georgia, who loudly pro- claimed the “hatred” between North and South, welcoming the citizens of the former to “hospitable graves.” Could anything be more deplorable? Any scene more unworthy of the dignified consultations of a United States Senate? And, in the midst of it all, the Preai- dent elect silent and reserved, refraining from the utterance of a word which should signify rebuke of the sentiments of his followers, so hasty in their advocacy of coercion and blood- ehed, instead of conciliation and the exhaustion of every peaceful effort to save the Union! As the country approaches the verge of the pre- cipice over which its destinies are about to be plunged into remediless destruction, those who alone could save it hasten it on to ruin. It was to have been hoped that the panic making tendency of Senator Hale’s speech would bave caused the partisans of the domi- nant party in the North to pause and consider before they continued their clamor for the opening of the temple of Janus, for a civil, partisan war, which would reduce us to a lower level than Mexico, prostrate commerce, destroy manufactures, annihilate the value of securities, reduce the laboring classes of the country to pauperism, and render insecure the possessions of the rich. But so far is this from being the case that the leading republican journals of the country, those which are sup- posed to represent correctly the views of Mr. Lincoln are loudest in their panic making out- cry for bJoodshed and national ruin, “the fire, rape and slaughter,” which are the inevitdble attendants of civil discord, and declaim with the utmost vehemence and rancor against the friends of peace and measures of concilia- tion. So late as yesterday a prominent black republican organ of this city exclaims as fol- lows:— Tt is not in the power of this administration, nor of thie Congrese—perbaps not of this ation—to close the volume which secession opens, men have read for a peaceful separation of this Union and the harmo- nour career of the Northern anc Southern confederacies which are to take its place. If we have disunion, we shall have war. Mr. Buchanan is encouraging the one— t i# not in his power to prevent the other. ‘The prospect is dreadful enough to make the most reek- les pause, and to Ol the stoutest beart with gloomy ap- prebensions. But it must be met with firmness aad roso- lution, not with the trembling imbecility of panic stricken terror. It is not the first tune that a great people has been called to pase tareugh tee Gury ference ae has a great society ever been syed or materially injured a any of ite leading interests by euch a trial. Who can read this horrible proclamation of Sharpe's rifles and war to the knife—this fear- ful ery for war, war, at any price—and not per- ceive that the republican organs of the coun- try are resolved that panic making shall be- come a part of the very creed of their party? Brown's invasion is called for on the largest and most extensive scale—the “irrepressible conflict,” in its most furious and diabolical proportions. And if this is the language used now, it will become immeasurably worse after Mr. Lincoln shall have been inaugurated. The republican party is evidently resolved to ter- rorize the country and annihilate confidence, ‘They aim a death blow at the vital sources of commerce and trade, and seck to stagnate and paralyze international intercourse. American securities declined with the creation of the re- publican party. The Kansas troubles were made under its auspices an instrument to affect the stook market, io depreciate the value of merchandise and to diminish credit with cach step in advance towards power; it has sought anew to shatter the basis of ont national and State prosperity, ond the paralysis which hag already smitten affairs is but the harbinger of | a still more disastrous epoch, which its advent to power will inaugurate. If the statements of its leaders are to be believed, there can be no sunrise in the future of the republic. “There shall be war;” “there must be civil war;” “there will be no disunion that is not ac- companied or followed by war,” are their panic making denunciations from day to day, and they proclaim those to be traitors who ven- ture to hope for peace or prosperity. If these are the sentiments which shall rule Mr. Lin- coln’s administration, its inauguration will be the beginning of such national disasters as have been seldom witnessed in the history of nations. AxOLITIONI3M =ABLY DENOUNCED FROM THE Putrtr.—In the City of Churches, over the East river, where so many of the Wall street mor- chants have their residences, the pulpit has been turned into a political engine to overthrow the institutions of the Southern States, to dissolve the Union and to foment civil war. Among the most noted of the abolition preachers in Brooklyn is Henry Ward Beechor. But it is creditable to the sister city that she has far abler preachers of the opposite stamp—conser- vative men, who believe that it is not the mis- sion of ministers of the Gospel to employ their influence to subvert the civil government of the country and to inflame one portion of the peo- ple against another. Among these preachers is Rev. Dr. Littlejohn, of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, and Rey. Mr. Vandyke, of the First Presbyterian church, whose admirable eormon on Sunday evening last we published yesterday at full length. With rare ability he maintained and illustrated the four following positions:— I. Abolitionism has no foundation in the Scriptures. IL. Its principles have been promulgated chiefly by misrepresentation and abuse. UI. It leads, in multitudes of cases, and by a logical process, to utter infidelity. IV. It is the chief cause of the strife that agitates and the danger that threatens our country. Tn his introductory remarks Mr. Vandyke shows with great force and point that there are two classes of abolitionists—those who de- nounce slavery at a safe distance, and whose faith is without works; and those who, like John Brown, go into the very midst of the al- leged wickedness, in order to set the slaves free—and he goes on to observe:— It is not for me to decide who of these are the truest to their own principles. It is not for me to decide whether the man who preaches this doctrine in brave words, amid applauding multitudes in the city of Brooklyn, oF the one who in the stillness of the night, and in the face of the law’s terrors, goes to practise the preaching at Harper's Ferry, is the most consistent abolitionist and the most heroic man. It is not for me to decide which is the most important part of @ tree; and if the tree be poi- foncusy whieh is the i most injurious, the root, or tae wranches, or the fruit. But I am here to-night, in God's name, and by His help, to show that this tree of aboli- tionism is evil, and only evil, root and brauch, tower and leaf and fruit. It is fortunate that, whilst moral and political poison is disseminated from one pulpit, the anti- dote comes from shows from the Holy Scriptures, and even from the commentaries of learned anti-slavery writers, that the founder of Christianity and his Apostles not only did not assail slavery as a sin, though they attacked all other sins, but gave it their tacit and sometimes their express another. Mr. Vandyke sanction. One of these commentators, Dr. Wayland, undertakes to excuse Christ and his Apostles for not speaking out their opinion« against slavery “for fear of a servile war.” ‘That consideration, it seems, has but little in- fluence on many of our Northern clergy. Their aim is rather to produce a servile war. But it is very absurd to say that those,Apostles who denounced idolatry and every ferm ‘of sin by mame, and died as martyrs in consequence of the boldness of their preaching, should, from prudential motives, spare slavery alone, if it was, as modern ministers of the Gospel affirm, “the sum of all villanies.” Their practice was to go among the sinners and tell them their sins, not like some of our Brooklyn divines, who attack not the sinners who hear them, but those who are a thousand miles away. The logical deduction, therefore, is that Christ and his Apostles did not consider slavery sinful; for it is certain that the institution existed every- where they came, and that St. Paul exhorted slaves to obey and honor their masters, and, in- stead of running them off, sent fugitives back to the service to which they were bound. like that of Mr. Vandyke are cal- culated to do great good, and if the conserva- tive clergy generally had only come out in time aguinst the infidel abolition fanaticism, the country perhaps would not be reduced to the deplorable political condition in which we find it to-day. Tne Inrerresswwix Conriict at Howx.—It will be seen by the intelligence from Boston which we publish to-day that the abolition ex- citement created by the attempt to hold a John Brown glorification meeting at Tremont Tem- ple last week has not died out. The abolition fanatics, it appears, have determined to hold another meeting this week—Mr. Andrew, the Governor elect, having consented to preside at it—which the conservative and solid men of Boston are equally determined shall be put down, by force if necessary. The irrepressible conflict has thus fairly commenced at home— not between the North and South, but in the very centre of abolition fanaticism itself. The abolitionists have called upon the Mayor and the Chief of Police to protect them at the next meeting, and both these functionaries have replied that they will protect them “if possible’—thus implying a doubt that the force at the command of the authorities will prove strong enough to prevent riot and blood- shed. The capital of New England, that seo- tion which has been the souree of all the tronble which has arisen out of the anti-slave- ry agitation, it would seem, is about to renp the first fruits of the meddling and mischievons policy her agitators have been carrying out for the last twenty-five years. All the misfor- tune which has now befallen the country, and the still more terrible ewils which threaten us in the future, are due to New England, and if the secession of the Southern States should ep- sue, the best thing the rest of the country gould do would be to cut off New England and let her stand alone, to pursue what course she pleases, Her perpetual agitation of the slave- ry question has brought on all the troubles which afflict us—which have reduced our groat and prosperous confederacy to the verge of ruin—and if we were once rid of her the re- taining portion of the country would go on Larmoniously and prosperously enough. Meantime we would suggest to Garrison Menry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips and the other agitators of ultm nbolition senti- ments, who have been worshipping the al- mighty nigger for the last quarter of a century, that a trip to Europe just now would prove very beveficial to their health. It is pretty evident, from the turn affairs are taking in Bos- ton, that their ease and comfort will be any- thing but safe in this country in six months from this time. Tax Lars Darmo Murper ww TWELPTS Srreer.—c. me clue has at length been obtained to the mystery of the late horrible and daring murder of t!.e poor widow lady in Twelfth atreet, in the arrest of the carpenter whose presence arorind the dwelling of the victim bad for some \:me previous to the tragedy cre- ated some alart: in the mind of the deceased and suspicion on the part of her friends. He was captured o:: 10 emigrant train on the Erie Railroad, while cndeavoring to escape. Nothing in the criminal record of this city heretofore has equalled ia boldness this terri- ble murder. The Burdell murder, desperate as were all its feaiures, was perpetrated under the shadow of night, and was surrounded by circumstances which invested it with all the secresy and stealthineas which usually charac- terize premeditated homicide; but this crime was committed in open day, in the very midst of a buey and stirring community, within a short distance of our great fashionable high- way, Fifth avenue, and in a house occupied by numerous tenants, all awake andmoving about in the ordinary avocations of the day. What can we argue from these facts but that there is absolutely no protection for human life in this metropolis; that we have no police equal to the duty of preserving our citizens from the hand of the assassin; that, whether by cay or by night, no one is safe alone, even in his or her own domicile? It is evident that if people can be brutally murdered at their breakfast tables, in broad daylight, in the midst of a populous neighborhood, and the assassin can walk into our dwelling openly—do his work of murder, rifle the property at his lei- sure, and depart unseen and unheard, save by his unhappy victim—no man’s life is safe for an hour, and that it is imminently danger- ous for any one to venture out at night alone and unarmed. Was there no patrolman in Twelfth street on Friday morning when this mur- derer entered the store of the deceased, took her life, and coolly ransacked the pre- mises, helping himself to whatever was valu- able therein? If there was, how does it happen that the presence of a character of so suspicious an appearance as this man is described to be could have escaped his notice? And if there was not, how are the police authorities going to answer for the negligence? It is remarkable that in this case, asin so many other instances of grave crimes, of vio- lence and bloodshed, the perpetrator is a mere youth—one of that class the most dangerous and desperate which infest the city, whose early careers of crime are unchecked by 2 pro- per administration of justice in our criminal courts. And to this deficiency in our courts of law is attributable much of the existing crime in the city. The administration of criminal law has been so notoriously lax that it has emboldened the marauder. It has become so easy to escape the consequences of crime that the law has no longer any terrors for the evil doer. And lest the infliction of punishment was not difficult enough before, the last Legis- lature passed an act rendering the penalty of murder in the first degree impossible to be im- posed. That honest and pious body of legis- lators, while they were plundering this city of its rights and franchises through the medium of gridiron railroads and other nefarious mea- sures, as a kind of salve to their consciences, enacted a law to prevent the effusion of human blood upon the scaffold. We have seen the effects of that enactment in the vast increase of bold and desperate murders in this city for the past year, of which this last one is a terrible example, It is to be hoped that the Legislature which assembles in January will see the necessity of repealing the law of last session, which practically abolishes capital punish- ment. We have had victims enough to its mis- chievous tendency; and, whatever may be said in favor of the abolition of the deatb pe- nalty, it is manifest that the times are not ripe for it in the city of New York. Conmous Revetations ConcERNING THE Fo- kuin Stave Trape.—Some six months ago the black republican journals hereabouts attacked us very savagely because we insinuated that some of Mr. Seward’s supporters were inte- resied, directly or indirectly, in the foreign slave trade. At that time a number of vessels were detained at this port on suspicion that they had been fitted ont for “pleasure excur- sions” to the coast of Africa, Prominent in this spotted fleet was the bark Cora, which, to a practiced eye, bore the most unmistakeable marks of her trade. The Cora had that rakish, fast, rascallf air which distinguishes piratical craft, and denotes their calling as clearly as the dress and manner of a gambler or a wo- man of the town draw the lize between them and decent people. But as this is moral, not legal evidence, the Cora went her wicked ways, took on bvard over seven hndred slaves, and was captured after a stern chase, of course a long one, by the ocean police. It turns out now that the Cora was purchased, at a very high price, from ©. D, Morgan, the Governor of this State, chair- man of the Republican “National” Committee, and one of the endorsers of the Helper book. We do not undertake to say that the Governor knew that the Cora was purchased for the traf- fic which his party denounces as the “sum of all villanies,” and to engage in which is oné of the highest offences known to the law; but it seems just a little odd that the foreign slave trade, which has been very active during the Cy year or two, is carried on exclusively by jorthern men or foreigners; that Maine far nishes the vessels and New York the cargo and the facilities for shipping out to sea And then, too, it is still more singular that the names of leading black bgt cans should be frequently mixed such matters. Some people have ill- natured enough to say that the black republi- cane were playing a double game—making po- litical capital by charging the South with re~’ oj the foreign slave trade, and @rning a sang 0s to mane a Of course this is sheer calumny; bat still it strikes people generally that where there laso much smoke there must ho a little fire; and we call upon the United States officers to do their whole duty ia all caces like that af the Cora, The public has right to full informafion upon all such mations, preciation, good shipping flour being now s dollar and a half lower than it was at the end of October; the falling off in the value of real estate may be averaged at from twenty-five to forty per cent, with a total impossibility of effecting sales. No one will venture upon ia- vestments of this kind with the uncertainties which are staring him in the face. So great, in fact, is the prevalent distrust in the future, that it is questionable whether, if any of our finest mansions in Fifth avenue were put up at auotion, they would bring half the mo- ney they have cost. What revolution in the course of a few weeks! Then we were selling our cotton and breadstuffs at high prices, and were supplying food to Europe so freely that the British cotton market was not affected by the short harvest. For the first time in our commercial history we could boast of being the creditors instead of the debtors of Europe. All this has beem suddenly changed, as if by the wave of a magician’s wand. Everything at present wears an aspect of the greatest gloom and depression, unrelieved by a single gleam of hope. Bad as the condition of affairs is, the impression seems to weigh upon every one’s mind that it will be stil] worse. And, what is more discouraging, no limit can be fixed to its duration. It is unexampled in the history of commer- cial crises that such a sudden and widespread- ing revulsion, extending even to Europe in its effects, should be brought about by the eleve- tion to power of an obscure politician. It ia not because of his antecedents, nor of his ca- pacity for evil individually, but because of his personal and party affiliations that so much ap- prehension has seized upon men’s minds. His election is regarded as a substantial evidence of the triumph of a faction which holds its al- legiance te the constitution as less obligatory than its fidelity to an abstract principle which it is bent upon carrying out, to the destruction of all the best interests of the country. It is no wonder, then, that the mercantile community should feel impressed with the idea that a great and permanent calamity has befullen it, and that property and values of every kind should sympathize with the conviction. A few deceive themselves with the belief that the depression is merely transitory, and that a few months will see the end of it. Under the most favor- able view of things, it will be at least two or three years before the trade of the country re- covers from the shock inflicted upon it by Lin- coln’s election. Tae Curvatier Wess on Sxcesston.—Our military and diplomatic cotemporary is a good deal exercised latterly about the course of the Heraip. He declares that this journal is a pro-slavery, secession paper, and that the “un- fortunate delirium of the South” is owing te the fact that the New York Heratp has beom its principal guide and counsellor. As usual, Webb turned things upside down, and made a tatement which is directly contrary to the acts of the case. ‘The Herarp is aconservative Union organ, printed for the whole country generally, and the city of New York particularly. We have always been in favor of treating slavery as a Southern social institution, with which the North hes nothing whatever to do. And had our coun- sels been heeded the country would now have been as prosperous and happy a8 ever. We advised the Southern democracy to unite with the North in the nomi- nation of a good man at Charleston. Had that course been adopted Lincoln could never have been elected, and there would have been no panic. We pursued a similar line of policy with the old whig party; but its leaders sacrifieed their followers to gratify personal ends, and so broke down. Then we tried to hammer an idea or two into the heads of the Know Nothings; but between the slavery ques- tion and the wild hunt for the spoils, the dark lantern men became thoroughly disorganized, and went the way of all flesh. And now we are endeavoring to point out the proper path to the black republicans, who have the future of the country in their bands ; but we have very little hope that they will walk therein. If they wih to avert the perils which now menace the ship of State they must throw overboard all their weless platform lumber, their Personal Liberty trash, and the dead weight of abstractions as te slavery in the Territories. As for the Chevalier Webb, had be taken our advice offered twenty years ago, he would have been to-day a wealthy man, instead of being obliged to shin around Wall street when he has a note to pay The fact is that we represent the voice of the people, and Webb that of the politicians; and unless the latter change their tune right speedi- ly, we should not be surprised to see a terrible ontbreak of popular indignation against the abolition leaders and fanatical parsous of the Northern cities. In such case they might find it hard work to escape being hanged upon the most convenient lamp post. Only our good friend Thurlow Weed, who has been led to see the érror of his ways, and is now doing pen- ance for his sins, would escape. Ewercttos Socra—Targarensp Exopcs oF Nonrwernn Mayvpactorers.—The general stag- nation produced by the secession movement, and the indignation aroused by the suicidal proceedings of the republican party, are likely to produce more permanently disastrous effects than the suspension of business and tue loss of capital which it involves. Many of our North- ern manufacturers, deepairing of seeing trade restored to its accustomed channels, are pre- paring to transport their establishments down South. There is one firm which to our know- ledge has actually completed its arrangements, and will effect the transfer of its business in the course of the present month. It is better for them to do this than to lose the capital they have acquired in « hopeless struggle against an advegse condition of things. The superior manufacturing skill of the North has hitherto been its cheval de bataille in ail its differences with the Southern States. This su- periority will soontbe lost to us if the Northera manufacturers emigrate there to any extent. It would not be the firs: time that political causes have effected a displacement of the manufac- turing industry of o cguatry. The rfoca-