The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1860, Page 4

4 THE INCO ISTRATION, i Sorts of Information from the Home of Mr. Lincoin, &, &e., Our Springfield Correspondence. Syamcrny, Dec. 7, 1860. Mr. Lincolan’s Barnesiness of Punpose—His Desre for nfor- omation—The Removal to Washinghn Odty— Departure from Springfield— Approaching Meeting of the State Legis- Lature—Imminent Deluge of pice See Howovor prejudiced by partisan bias the d i ys might be, he could of Mr, Lincoln's doings ™'8! , impression tbat al! he doc# and thinks bears the stamp of ‘ous earnesiness and solicitons dutifulness, It cose oto ‘aitivatinn, indeed, to deny that he en: tertains a sincere anxiety, bot so much as to the special intoresta of the party that elected him and the further. ance of his own political fortunes, as with regard to his dutios to the country at large and the means of discharg- ing thom to the best of his power and ability. 1b is evident, beyond all refutation, that he draws a dis- tinct line between his private opinions and convictions ‘and the public obligations he will be ealléd upon to ful fil, no matter whether they are consonant with his ine ward impulses or not. All his utterances, since and before hia election, go to confirm this fact. Were not guch his settled purpose and firm resolution, it would have been absolutely impossible for him, with his habitual frankness of expression, not to reveal secret intentions to the contrary in his replies to the invamerable pointed and searching interrogatories put to him daily by visiters representing every section and political persuasion of the Jand, on the issues of the day, of these paased out of his reception room without being firmly convineed that he hon in the public officer, the partisan in the patriot, the re publican in the fait socutor and protector of the federal laws in every Stat nib lie &e f the ‘This being tbe it only remains to be geen whether umstances will not prove too strong for whether he will simply float on the cui ents or prove able to di rect their cour «his oficial power goes. Giv ing him credit for honesty of purpose, we only kuow Mr Lincoln in addition to be a strong debater, a good dialec tician, a well informed politician and a sound lawyer What his executive abilities are we still have to learn ‘These are great and perilous times, and great must be the man for them, ‘The stuff of which he is made must be as stern as the aspect of our days. Mediocrity will no longer | ‘The innermost resources of the highest statesman Tinsion will be ne more in place, to bel Doltly and squarely in 88 will be dangerous. Incompe aut with mischief. Both together then, as I do, that Mr. Lincoln ing in these several respects, a certainly no mean source of gratification. Having close Iy vbsorved him since the election, and well noted the impressions made upon him by the secession phases of do. ship will be required Difficulties will hav: the face. Irreseli tence will prove f muat be fatal. To believe: will be found but little wa the present imbroglio, I dare say that there are dormant | qualities in “Old Abe” which occasion will draw forth, develope and remind people to a certain degree of the characteristics of “Old Hickory.” Whether the sequence bear out my ment or not, fan earnest of bis high sense of the requirements of his position at least will be found pe fact that he is inde fatiable in his efforts to arrive at the fullest comprehen. sion of the present situation of public affairs and the most proper conclusions as to its probable consequences. He never contents himself with a superficial opinion based on newspaper accounts and arguments, but always fortifics his position by faithful researches for precedents, analogies, authorities, &e. He is at all tuncs surrounded by piles of standard works, to which constant reference is made. His sirong desire for full and reliable information on ail current topics renders it especially regretful to him that Circumstances debar him from obtaining anything but ox. parte statements as to the progress of events in the South As the 4thof March is drawing nearer, the impend ing removal to the federal capital becomes tore and more the subject of discussion and preparation with the President elect and his family. It is true his worldly goods are so few that their disposition will hard ly cause him any great embarrassment with which bis life has been identitied for over a quarter of a century should produce some mental tribulation. Mr. Lincoln himself as yet devotes only thonghts to this matter, but the lady metubers of his family are said to de already busily engaged in preparing for a becoming entrance into the White Hoare. That present haunt of a lonely bachelor promises to be greatly enlivened after the inauguration of the new administration. Mr. Lin coly's youthfulness alone will bring about a revolution, It us stated that the President elect intends to muke his departure from Springtield about the middie of February: He will travel slowly, and probably visit some of the At- Lantie citios before dirveting his course toward Washing- ton city On the frst Moaday of the coming month the Logislo- | ture of this State will meet here for 4 session of forty days. Their biennial advent inaugurates the harvest home of botel keepers, rumsollers, &e., &¢.; hence great preparations are already made for the reception and de- pletion of the members and their enormous tail of lobby: ists and other hangers on, they always drag along simul tancously the way of board and lodging will doubtless be greatly increased by the voluminous infd& of applicants for office under Mr. Lincola, who will improve the presence | of legtlative friends for pressimg Uheir claims The follpwing ‘Lincoln’ item appeared in the local column of this morning's Journal: — Coat por Tux Prawweer Eixct—We yesterday were shown, at the clothing store of Messrs. Wood & Henkle, a very bandswine aad clegantly made dress coat, gotten up at (oat eatabliabmen( as @ present to Lhe President elect. ‘The stitehing upon it is very elaborate, aud orpamented with a great deal of extra work. Srmivarmn, Ill, Dec 8, 1800 The Record of the Prexident Blet—A Congressional Relic— Replies Made by Mr. Lincoln at Freeport and Charleston— ‘His Portion on the Slavery Question. Something Abowt the Loaves and Fithe—Candidates for the New Cotinet— A New Kind of Nepotism—Old Abe and Senator Baker, Of Oregon—A Sensation Story—The Douglas Demeracy of the Prairie State—Past and Present, dv A few days ago an intimate frieud of Mr. Liagoln, while animadverting upon @ certain reference in Mr. Bu Chanan's Message to the antecodeuts of the President Cicet, took occasion to speak of @ Dill bearing upon the abolition of the slave trade between the Distriet of C: lumpia and the slave States, unsuccessfully urged upon Congress by Mr. Lineoln in the course of the single term be served in that body. He remarked, at the tune it was a striking illustration of the conserve! em wud ti doep sense of justice aud equity tbat pervades (he Prosi dent elect. My curiosity being excited, | hunted ay file of one of the dailies of this place, ama alter @iligout search succeeded in finding the Dill alinded to ia full. Thi Congressional relic having never bveeu pub Lshed cntire, within my knowledge, in either the numer ous campaign liars or any of the astern \« thought it well enough, in view of the present complice tions, to transmit « cupy to you for publication. Seetion five of the bill deserves eapecial attention. from the fact that i¢ was intended to provide & sort of limited Fugitiv® Slave law several years before the govers) act to the aan effect, for the country at large, Was passed by Congooae The history of the bili in question i: —Ou ihe yist o December, 1548, Mr. Gott, of New York, ofered « vesoiu Jion in the House, instructing the Committee ou the Die thet ot Conall to report a bill for the abolition of Wwe slave trade in the Instrict. As soon as the resolution was Fead, a motion was made to lay it on the table, but Jost by B vote of BL toa}. A hot struggle ensued, but after a 00d deal of parliamentary skirmishing the resolution was adopted. Au immediate attempt to reconsider was made, but proved ineMectual The action upon the mo tion to resonaider was postponed from day to day until the 10th of January following, whew Mr. Lincoln ‘i ‘pa ameodment in sea hat Following bill. — mY Ro person not of DoW owned by rj be hereart or now within it, nor ey within it, shall in slavery within said cuatro . . That no Bow within said district, of now (Derned by any Persons Bow resident within the Ser onmes mnt Seat para ‘othoers of the Of the United ‘ance yaa & “pans vanes ih rotons Lt a ick Om oni 4 may be necessary fended into gud out of said district and while thers, by tbe nevessary servants of themselves aad heir Camiin without their right to hold such servants ia Servier Being Lhereby impaired seo. 9. Tuat all childroe borm of sieve mothers withia | vers An Odd Pre. | I venture tosay that not cue | eatly means to sink the man | It ts, however, | Dut natural that the prospective exodus from the town | The usual scantiness of accommodations ia thar faid district on or after the Ist ‘1850, shall be free, but shall be educated by the respective owners of their \ their heirs or r iver, shall owe | services a8 apprentices to such owners, heirs and repre- sentatives, till they sagen arrive at the age of —— years, when they shall be entirely freo, and the manicipal authorities of Washington and Georgetown, within their respective jurisdictional limite, are hereby empowered and required to make all suitable and necessary provi- | Stons for enforeing obedience to this section on the part of both master and appremtices. See. 4. That all persons now within said district law- fully held as slaves, or mow owned by any or persons now resident within said — district, shall remain such at the will of their respective owners, their heirs and legal representatives, provided that any sueb owner or their legal representatives may at any time receive from the treasury of the United States the full value of bis or bor slave of the class in the section mentioned, upon which said such slave shall be forthwith and for- | ever free. And provided further, that the President of | the United States, the Secretary of State and the Secre- tary of the Treasury shall be a Board for determining tho value of such slaves as their owners may deaire toeman- | cipate under this section, and whose duty it shall be to hold a session for the purpose on the first Monday of cach calendar month to receive all applications, and on satis- factory evidence in each case that the person presented for uation is a slave, and of the class in this section mentioned, and is owned by the applicant, shall value | such slave at his or her full cash value, and give to the epplicant an order on the treasury for the amount, and alvo tosuch slave a certificate of freedom. Sec. 6.—That the municiy authorities of Washington | and Georgetown, within their jive jurisdictional limite, are hereby empowered uired to provide active and efficient means to arrest and deliver up to their owners all slaves escaping into said distriet. _ Sec. 6.—That the elective officers within said District of | Columbia, are hereby empowered and requested to open polls at all the nsual places of holding elections on the } first Monday of April next, and receive the vote of every white male citizen above the age of twenty one, having re- sided within said distriet for the period of one yoar or more next preceding the timo of auch voting for or against this net; to proceed in taking said votes, in ali respects not herein specified, as at elections under the municipal laws, and with as little delay as possible (o transmit correot statements of the votes 50 Cast to the President of the 11 ates, and it shall be the duty of the President to | canvoss said votes immediately, and if a majority of them be found to be for this act, to forthwith tssue his procla- | mation giving notice of the fact, and this act shall onl be in fult aud: effect on and after the day of suc! of Js VAD, day fAnuary A} or give an opportunity to compare the views of ect on one and the sume subject at diffor series of replios vt is, (40 and °68,) 1 subjoin al Lim in“68at Freeport and Charleston t stand pled; ato Che Uuien with sich a ev that State may see fit to mak stand pledged to the abolition of slavery im of Columbia. xt stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave ween the different States, ata HOL in favor of negro citigenship. Litution as che | The assurance with which some Westgra papers pre- sume to speak of Mr. Lincoln's iutentions 43 to appoint- ments is truly refreshing. The idea that the President elect takes all visiting seribblers of mo ess obseurity into his heart, and makes them the repositories of the innermost resolves of bis mind, is 86 preposterous that none but the greenest of their readers should be taken in with it. Yet every mail brings dailies and weeklies from various sectious of the West containing leaded leaders, in Which the imaginative theories of the several “able edi- tors,’ with regard to the distribution of patronage by the new administration, are elaborately set forth with an im. | Pudeut air of authority, The anxiety of some of this gentry to have their respective sheets looked upon as “organs’” is especially ludicrous. ‘The price of that glory being low impudeuce, mendacity and strong faith } in the credulity of their readers—all that is wanted to constitute a modern organ grinder—and the occu- pation beiwg comparatively harmless, they might well be allowed its undisturbed enjoyment, were it not for the Wrong impressions their fabriestions sometimes produce upon the public ‘The truth is that Mr. Lincoln has vot talked, aad will ot talk for some time to ovme, with any one ou the sub- | Ject of oppointments. In fact, bis most intimate friends | ‘give us to understand that beyond the composition of his | Cabinet be bas not given the matter « thought, not to | speak of signalizing his preferences of certain persons | for certain offices of minor importance. Even as to his | immediate constitutions! advisers no definite selection has as yet been made. The course, indeed, events in the South have taken, and the uncertainty of the ultimate fruits of the present agitation in that section, render delay desirable, as the character of the Cabinet will | have to be made up, under the present circumstances, to wait the political condition of the country, The ex amination only of the merits of the different persons upon whom a portefeuille might be filly bestowed occupies, there. fore, the mind of the President elect, and a choice is not | thought of at the present time. Hence I wish the reader tounderstand that in mentioning prominent political characters, in connection with oflices under Mr. Lincoln's | administration, | merely vetlect the current of outside in- | Huences heresbouis, ‘The friends of several parties are | busily at work i creating a public opinion of more or less strength for the benefit of their favorites, and may alti- | mately save producing ap itapression on the Presi- | dent, Bur Uius far they have not been able to elicit | either prom.-es or even an encouraging word. | Among many republicans of this city that have culti- vated close relations with Mr. Lincoln for years, the pro- priety of presenting their townsman, Judge Logan, as a | proper oecupeat for # seat in the Cabinet is very strongly | urged. The department he is recommended for is the | Attorney ¢ ralship. The onerous duties of that office would, however, be almost too mach for # person so far advanced in age es Mr. Lagan. A quiet federal judgeship would be much more adapted to that venerable geatie- man, and | think bis own predilections go that way. | Should Mr, Logan desire an appoimtment, Mr. Lincoln would hardly refuse it. The old Judge and the President cleet have been on the most intimate verms for nearly « quarter of » century. The later ia, indeed, indebted to the former \o a large exteut for what he is. He pursued his law studies under Mr. Logan's tutorship, and he al- ways found him an ardent friend and active promoter of his politica! fortunes. When he was « candidate for United States senatorsbip, in 1855, Mr. Logan worked for bim day and night, and when Senator Trumbull secoesded in Outmancuvring him, the Judge shed tears of anguish over the defeat of bis friend, aud gave vent to his feet ings i a public apeech which caused quile a sensation at the time In view of all this it may be presumed that Mr. Logan can have what he wants for the mere asking. It eoems that the West is pretty neerly unanimous in ‘the advocacy of the claus of Mr. Scbayler Colfax to the Postmaster Generaiship. That Mr, Colfax would make « faithful, intelligent and efficient officer, even his political opponents will ackuowledge. Jike Mr. Logan, be has ren- dered some personal services to Mr. Lincoln. In the me- Morabie campaign of '$5, for the Senatorial succession, be came over from indiana and stomped the central portion of this Staie for Mr. Lincolm. His voluntary efforts in those hours of need are not forgotten by the latter, and render a compliance with the wishes of Mr C's friewds more than probable Im the Jast few days Mr. Lincvin was sanoyed by | Dints ot » new kind of nepotiam. Several partios from | different sections of this State, who claimed to bave dose some service in the canvass, called upon him and intima. ted their readiness to relinquish their own tite to sab. stantial rewards in favor of their brothers, who reside in California, and would like to share the spoils in the Gold en State; with a singular uniformity of wishes they all | had the United States Marsbalsbip in view | It is, probably, not universally known that Gol. Baker | the newly elected United States Senator from Oregon. ‘once proved, like Trumbull, a stambiing block im We po litical career of Mr. Lincoln by dint of superior tactics They were both mombers of the wing perty. and riva’ aspirants to the nomination for Congr The county ia ‘which they both resided having Been accorded the privi lege to name the candidate tor the ditriet, and no one clse dispating their claims to the vomuaation, they agreed to let & meeting of delegates from the various precinct: Pass upon their merits, and abide by their decision. Lin By his contidence im being the choice of thy coanty— bich be really wae—thonght any extra exertions to secure a Majority in the convention superfinous, Biker however, Worked lke a beaver at the preliminary moet ings throughout the county, and played hia geme 40 wel that bis friends were i (he ascendency in the county convention, and that, to the utter astonishment of the unsnspecting Lincoln, he succreded in getting the aomi pation, whic 8 CQUIVAIFRL LO AD ole tion The awful revelations of your Washington correspond cat, in relation team alleged grand land spoouiating echome of republican leaders, caused more morrimont than terror in the State House, Any one who, like the writer, knows (he utter flatness of the real estate mar Ket in the States west of the Missiasippr, and the ates jute worthiossness af aM speculative town property in distant Territories, cannot help joiniag ia the laagh ‘The partisan war waged during the past semmor an! fall a the Uniow at large, raged hh extragrtinary | TOPY (0 Oe State He wae a renewal, with doubled vigor 0” Doth widow Of He hot fight Of 1959 The opposite forces being arrayed agains! cach other under the same Jeaders, since chosen national siandard bearers, the ancient foud broke oul with « fury unequalled in any former encounters. ‘The prospect of a prevailing iuiu- ence in national atairs, iu case of the triumph of their champion, yuimated the republican host with aousual ardor and determination. The democratic ranks, on Uae | other hand, entered upon the struggle from the yory start ‘With feelings of diffidenoe, in view of the disruption of their party into several factions im every State of the Union. Thoy were discouraged by the belief that thoy would have to fight for principles only, the spoile being altogether beyond their reach, owing to the diseif ction among themselves, They perceived an ill omen ia the forced sale in the very outset of the cafhpaign of their Chicago organ, and the involuntary withdrawal from tho field of its editor, James Sheahan, the most deveted friend of their choice for the Presidency, Thoir move monts were furthermore embarrassed to a considerable degree by the lately discovered tampering with State funds, traced to former democratic State offivers. In short, they began the strife without the hope of victory, and hence defeat could bot be well averted. ‘The rout entailed upon them on the 6:h of November was complete. The State gave the volt shoulder to the Presidential aspirations of the ‘Little Giant” in a rathor signal manner. Their every candidate on the State ticket was overwhelmingly defeated. They lost their former majority in both houses of the Legislature—the most dreaded stab yet, from its securing the re-election of their mortal foe, Trumbult. Many local disappoint- ments wore also added to these general disasters. Among these, the. most painful in this particular section of the State is (he unexpected defeat in a race for a county office of Charles Lanphear, the editor of the Daily Register, the central organ of the Douglas democracy. Alas for the vanquished! Scorn, derision, humiliation “gtabs while down,”’ and, what is still more bitter, obti- vion is their lot, Feelings of merey and compassion sel- dom move the victors in the political contests of this country, Unlike those that fight with swords and bul lets, they recognise no virtues in their enemies. They have no commendation of their valor, but live by triumph” ant exultations and tangible demonstrations of their loss of power to increase the pangs of prostrate adversaries. Such is the disposition of the successful republicans in this State towards the overpowered Donglas party. ‘They feel not content with the glory of victory and the sole possession of the spoils. They are determined to crush their oppenents ont, and render another dispute of the politica! ascendengy in the Prairie State all but impossi ble. For their antagonism does not flow from mere varia tions of opinion only, They are spurred on to attempts at annihilation by more relentless motives. They not only do not love, but hate, the adherents of Douglas with a more than ordinary fervor. [1 would be dilloult to find a State in whieh the party animosity is more acri monions than in Iinois, and that principally from the fact that the respective leaders have always been rival aspirants to office. The republicans, indeed, will give themselves vo rest until they have tied their uow heip- Jess foes ina manver that will prevent them from doing any further harm for all time to come: To bring this about, the frst thing their majority ia the Legislature is likely to do will be to repoul the law under which the present apportionment of t into legislative districts was effected. They ¢ the unfair preponderance it gave to the democratic South- ern portion of the State alone enabled their opponents to re-elect Douglas. They contend that the republican North, being much more populous than democratic “Epypt,”” an equal representation of the two sections in the upper and lower houses will place the recurrence of a like emergency beyond all possibility. Their next step is expected to revive the investigation into the notorious canal scrip operations. with which the late democratic Governor, Joel A. Matteson, is somewhat mysteriously connected. They hope t succeed in making revelations that will fix a fatal odium on the shattered re- mains of the popular sovereignty democracy. In addition to all this, they flatter themselves that the new allotinent of members of Congress umder the recent census will change the present demecratic majority of the delegation from this State into a republican one, a0 that the last vestige of democratic preponderance will be wiped out, This change of the political fortunes is @ most glaring illustration of the fickloness of popular favor. But two years ago the followers of Douglas hadi it all their own way. The “Little Giant” was able to ride back to hia seat in the Senate on a legislative majority, in bold defi- ance of the ‘powers that be,”’ that had thrown all their infinence in the scale against him. The prestige of that triumph made him the foremost candidate for the Presi- dency, and be was tniversally looked upon as the succes. ‘sor to James Buchanan. But what of him now? Of the successful leader, eminent Senator, foremost Presidential candidate, there remains but a ruined politician, with only the prospect of being forced into retirement by bis own State im the course of afew years. Whether he died of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, of anti-Lecomptonism, bis Froe- port speech of jealons politicians, does not matior—unless a mighty reaction should take place it is certain that there is no more hope for Stephen A. Douglas. Several prominent politicians from this state have at various times tried a “change of locality”’ as a means of regaining their lost political eminence. Colonel Baker, the new Senator from Oregon, and General Shields are the best known among these wanderers in search of office. Douglas will perhaps follow their example Sruncrixt, Doc. 10, 1860. The Cabinat—Division of the Members—Congressional Rela- tions—The Commitiee of Thirty-three—An Absurd Story Comiradictel—A Caim—Ofice Seekers Wanting, de., de. Since the adjournment of the Electoral College, rumors, speculations and theories #8 (© the composition of Mr. Lincoln's cabinet hove cirenleted more frecly in and about the State House, and assumed more positive and relia- ble character. The President elect himself i even more reserved and cautious in bis allusions to that delicate sub- ject then before, which fact has been construed by some into evidence of his earnest occupation with the weighty maiter in question. But his friends are now much more talk- ative and given to Cabinet making, as they no longer run the risk of compromising Mr. Lincolm by premature expres- sto of their hopes, wishes and idews with regard to the selection of his constitutional advisers previous to his actual elect ion. Thix morning a gentleman connected with tho State government. and known to be in Mr. Lincoln's contidence, stated bis views im reference to the complexion of the Cabinet, with @ good deal of assurance, in one of the offices om the lower floor of the State House. He claimed that the seven members would be divided as follows among the <everal sections of the country:—The North- ‘west, two, Pennsylvania (as the banner State), one; New England, one; the South, three. It was hinted on the same occasion that although Mr. Lincoin bad booked a number of gentlemen representing the above divisions of the country, be bad as yet failed to determine dednitely upon any one. Among the nominees from the North. ‘west and South the following names were alleged to be:—€, C. Smith, of Indiana; Tom Corwia or Tom Ewing, Sr., of Ohio; Edward Bates, of Missouri; C. M. Clay, of Kentucky; Robert E. Scott, of Virginia, and Mr. Ethe ridge, of Tenneseee, On some of these names bets were offered by members of the same party 1 think oue of your Washington correspondents re fiected Mir, Lincoln's sentiments correctly when stating that he would not, in any emergency, endeavor to defeat the will of the people by offering office to members of Congress or State governments. He is said to have stated, but « few days ago, that he considered the post tion of a United States Senator more honorable and use fol thap say office within bis gi ‘There is @ unanimous opinion and general acquiescence apparent among the politicians of this vicinity thet Illi hols will bot be represented iv the Cabinet. ‘The selection of the member from New England js ox- pected to give the most trouble. Mr. Hamlin'y jadg: ment will probably decile that vexed question, New York will be overlooked, iuasmuch aa Mr Seward would be placed in an awkward position, if any other representative of (he Empire State should be apparendy proferred to bim, who would be giadly appointed, were it ‘not for the fear of throwing thereby a firebrand inte the Southorn States. Congress is stil all but monopolizing (he attention ot the President elect. His apprebensions of « aplit be tween the ultra and conservative republicans are said to have increased since the vote on the Boteler reso- jution. I understand, however, tbat letters were re- ceived to-day from Senator Trumbull and other contidents representing the republican members to be a unit as to the attitude to be maintained towards the secession movement; that the Chicago programme of ‘+ masterly mrt rig carried out by the members from Middle and Western States, and that indisere- tious are apprebended from a few explosive New Kng landers only. The Committee of Thirty-three ts wot looked upon very favorably in the Stete Hose Th be thought altogether impossible that an understanding will be arrived at as to the proper remedy for the present condition of the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. country by 40 numerous and heterogencous a body. The unacceptabie ultimatum of the cotton States, it ia beliov- bo insisted upon, ali possible conciliatory action smittee to the contrary notwithstanding. rho Chicago Daily Times published a ridiculous canard on Saturday last about a Seeret visit of John Boll to Mr. Lincoln in the course of last week. The sensation story prodvecd quite an outburst of laughter on being read in ibe President # room, The distinguished but wnsuccess- ful rival Las not and will not be geen in Springfield, as his chances for a.seat in the Cabinet have grown beautl- His claims seem to be altogether overlooked fully lens of jate. During the last three days a truly extraordinary oalm- nose has prevailed about the State House. With the ex- ception of the gossiping conferences around the stoves ia the first story, not the slightest aymptom Of the daily pre- sco of the next President of the United States in the same building was noticeable, A Quaker meotinghouse can be no quieter than its halls since Saturday last. Not even the ghost of a solitary place seeker haunted Mr, Lincoln to-day—a relief which is quite weloome to it’ pas now been raining, anowing, sleeting, blowing and freezing these eight days in this latitude. Springfield has got to be one grand mud hole, the daily navigation of which creates 4 good many melancholy feelings, from th Presfdeut eleet down to your humble correspondent. Srrivenxip, Dec. LU, 1360. Mr. Lincoin’s Powers of Mustration—His Present Posi- tion—Another Bxploded Sensation Iiem—The Secession Tsste—European Endorsements—The Weather—The Po- Uiticians, de., de. If the perception of similitudes and identities—the description of oue thing by another—the power of illus- tration by comparison—be among the characteristics of trne poetry, Mr. Lincoin may lay no mean claims to dis- tinction as a minion of the Muses, A striking event, a happy thought, an opportune saying, nover comes under his notice without eliciting an echo from among his own stores of Observations and recollections. Comparatively unruftied by any extraordinary fluctua- tions, as tho current of his life has been up to the present year, the unusual clearness of his impressions and the tenacity of his memory enabled him, nevertheless, to gather an abundant crop of ideas and facts while pur- suing the even grade of his way, and to uso thom as a standard wherewith to judge the present by the past. * With its aid he will render abstractions intolligible by pointing out their practical revelations in public aud pri- vate life. He will facilitate Che comprehension of com- plicated political situations by a reference to simple pre- cedents. Nature and the material life of man are like- wise often drawn upon by him for analogies and parallels. But his forte is the proper application he knows how te inake of historical incidents, personal adventures, stories and anecdotes, in the course of conversations and set speeches. The rhetorical force of antithesis is unkaow- ingly employed by him with happy frequency. The sublime and the humorous are nearly always cou- pled in bis efforts, They uniformly contain & mixture of Attic salt and logic, and henoe are greatly relished. This is especially the case in bis intercourse with the numerous callers that daily attend his receptions. Wit and simile then hold the balance to argument and parrative. He would consult his own in- terest, indeed, by checking his love of fun, as its con- Stant manifestation always tempts visiters to protract their stay. It is true his drastic tales at times are rather crude, both as (o form and substance. Bat they are regularly to the point, and heucs never come short of effect. . While the confusion, commotion and danger wax greater from day to day in the political arena, the Prosi- dent elect maintains his equanimity undisturbed. Quietly, fulfilling what he considers his present duties, he faces ‘events with a philosophic calmucss. Not that he does not feel intense ‘anxiety as to what the future has in store {or the people of this country; on the contrary, not a move on the public stage escapes his attention por fails to be duly appreciated. But he evidently entertains the conviction that he can do nothing that is likely to stem the tide of the times. What js asked of him, in the way of public defimitions of his policy, he would probably give, if he could persuade himself that it would do aught towards (he adjustment of the present troubles. But he considers all such demon- ‘Strations futile, as the South, to use his own language, has “eyes but does not see, and cars but dags not hear.’ As to the announcement of the composition of his Cabi- net, it has been rendered impossible by the attitude of the South. How can he select three or whatever number of its members may be determined upon from that sec- tion, when the same men may be made foreigners by the progress of disunion even before the inauguration of his administration? How can he for this reason, op the other hand, choose but Northern men, without adding (uel to the secession dames: Again, would it be becoming ou bis part to attempt to influence Congress by direct or indirect expressions of his desires as to its action in refereace to the disunion movement, while such is yet Mr. Buchanan's privilege? Many and absurd as the attempts have been to mis- impress the public a8 to the intentions and doings of the President elect, the following despatch seut over the country by the agent of the Associated Press, in Wash- ington, yesterday, outshines them all:— ‘There is a rumor this evening that Jefferson Davis has despatch Mr. Lincoln, the President elect, the received a from > ing that he (Mr. Lincoln) was ‘a letter for ablation his tion OD questions now ing it sections of the country, which will, it is said, give entire satisfaction to the South, Wasa more stupid and transparent hoax ever perpe- trated upon the newspaper reading public? I will not in- sult your readers by assuming that they gave credence to it even for a moment, Out here its effect was wonder- ful 7 a certain way. As soon as Mr. Lincoln had entered his room in the tate House # crowd of friends made a rush at him with the morning papers containing the startling news. It being read to bin, the Presidential sides shook forthwith with violomt laughter, and it was a Jong time before the Ot was over. The statement was con- sidered so preposterous, that the insult its implied imputa- {ging from the drift of conversation in the State jowse, secession is now looked upon as a certainty. The President elect is prepared for the inevitable calamity, and bis plans of action, it is said, are being adapted to it. A belief seems likewise to gain ground that the border slave States will be, nolens volens, engwfed, and that the end will be a strict division of the country between the free labor and slave. holding interests. ‘The New York dailies that arrived here this morning ought copious extracts from English journals expati- ating upon the result of the November election. The wnanimous gratification therein expressed at the republi can victory was received with a great deal of satisfaction im the State House. It was always claimed here that the hostile unanimity of European sentiment on the slavery question would do much towards impairing the prospects: of a Southern confederacy, and that a collision between England and the cotton States was even more probable than a bloody conflict between the North and South. ‘The movements of piace seckers appear to be controiled. by the weather at present. While during the lust eight Clearing up nthe couree of Feeterday afversoa brought bere this morning. They mwowtiy bell from the part of this State. K. Peck, Bsq., the well known lawyer and leader, made his adveut yesterday afternoon. the entire evening with the President elvet ican apent Court of General Sessions, Before Recorder Barnard Doe, 12.—There was not much business transacted in pleading guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, was sent to the State prison for two and six months. Jobn Cornell, alias Wm. Pitt, charged with , pleaded guilty to an attempt at 28th of November i MATTERS IN EUROPE. Our London, Paris and Naples Correspondence. The Knowledge in England on American Affairs. Miss Shedden Beaten in the Legitimacy Case. DEATH OF CHEVALIER BUNSEN, ke, Kee, ke, ‘The mails by the steamship North Briton, which arrived at Portland at a late hour on Wednesday, reached here at tweive o'clock Thursday night, bringing details to the ‘20th ult. We have intelligence of the death of Chevalier Baugun, whose serious illness we announced a few weeks since. We learn that a communication received by the Freach Consul at Shanghse from a priest im the district of Haijimer, near the mouth of the river Yangtsze, states hat so American bark had been chased by pirates, was supposed to have been captured, and ali the crew mur- dered excepting one man, who was lying at the above }lace badly wounded; five bodies had beea found and burned, The mame of the bark is not given. Oar London Correspondence. Lonpow, Nov. 24, 1360. No Ovedit Given to the Secession Movement—The Cost of War—Keelesiastical Revolution in France--Will Napo- leon Become Pope of France?—Lhe Cession of Venetia Siege of Gacta—A Champion Oarsman Coming Over—An Execution at Newgate—China—The Galway Steam Line Company in Treaty with France~Mr. J. Lyster O' Beirne. ‘This week we have two ‘sensations’ here. Tho Ameri- can Presidential election has given the editors a pog on hang Various political dissertations oa Yankee in stitutions. Their tone at the result is usually that of re- joicing. ‘Hit him again! he’s got no friends,’’ is the only ‘salvo the poor democrats get. They've long had power, | they've grossly abused it, and they desorve to lose it, is the curt sentence passed ou the condemacd. The er disunion and secession gets very little credit—is set down as bluster and buncombe. The idea that South Carolina | could get an ambassador recognized at any European court looks like the youthfal anticipations of Mr. Verdant Green. Until the Ambassador and Minister | Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America | gets his passports the envoy from Pocotalige will scarcely ‘obtain an audience. And pray let those cotton States who generally anticipate and eat up each crop before it | is grown, remember that wars, or even warlike prepara tions, constitute about the most expensive and least pro ductive employment that any nation or State ever en gaged in, and that three-fourths of the nations of Europe could not possibly go to war at all, for want of the sinews, unless it could be called going to war the fur- nishing of a few battalions of troops to be paid and fed by an interested and solvent State, like it Britain a State that recognizes peace as the normal con dition, and war the anomaly; study and learning, the main object, and flogging the exception, in every promising schoolboy’s career. Great Britain pays in clean cash the trifle of thirty millions sterling ($150, 000,000) annually to sustain the army and navy in time of peace, and the first speck of war, like the last one in In- dia, or the presenit one in China, costs at least a hundred toa hundred and fifty million dollars at the first start; and the Crimean affair, with the coadjutor in France, over $500,000,000, besides the death of one hundyed thousand men, aud the private expenses and incidental distress that do not come into the budget of the tax gatherer. Ob, yes, “war,” “revolution,”’ “qecession,”’ “rebellion” and “independence,” are very good “cries,” and “Shibboleths,"” and sound very brave and heroic to uniledged ‘‘patriots,”’ but, like the chivalric ideas of duclling or shooting for certain fancied or real wrongs, all very well before they are done, but certain to be followed by disgrace, loss of position, neglect and Positive ruin of prospects, and the same with discontent ripening to war. But this is treating seriously a most absurd ebullition of political feeling. Europe has been startled this week by what appears to be a really serious design entertain ed by Framer, of throwing off the ecclesicsti cal and degrading yoke of Rome. It com menced by a pamphlet published on suflerance, propos. ng the Emperor to be his own Pope, and citing the au thorities and precedents of Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Turkey. But then these are not Catholic States. But does that remarkable man want exact precedents for anything that he does! The power of the bishops of Rome bas grown up from small beginnings to be a gigantic tyranny, imposition and swindle. Kings and empe- rors have bowed their necks, literally, and bad them trodden on by the heavy ecclesiastical impostor, who wastes the substance, grinds the bones aud ‘sucks the blood of the Roman people. The wiole prin.‘ ciple and practice is 90 absurd, 90 unreasonable, 80 prepos- terous and undignified, that no wonder that Louis Napo- Jeon, asa man of the world, has seen its folly and the wse- Jesaness of submitting to it any longer. It is entirely in- compatible with good government, whether a State has ‘an absolute bead like France, or is governed by a consti- tutional monarch as in England, to have any class of per- sons in authority depend on a Power outside the govern- ment—a foreign Prince—for their appointment, position and dignity. And who are persone of authority if eccie- siastics are not? In England—anore Shame to her—they have seats and votes in the upper house of Parliament, and are not forbidden an election to tue Commons, and in & Catbolic country their power over the minds, the and obedience is tremendous. The fact is, it won't bewr an argument. The moment it is looked stem and practice appesrs in all 18 maked terly absurd, puerile ond contemptible. The next question is: can he carry out the short of making the state Protestant? This # a world of the Roma Catholic church, with ali its absurdities, mum- meries and al But why shou cena str pata le he will go down to posterity as the greatest mo- of the age, and the most e1 ao pone this generation has produced. Like Ar- i the world, be wants a certain mechani. or leverage, and that leverage ix a long y the sceptre of France till bis son of age, and if he proves to be a man of ‘= “ bility, be ' “by telegraph that enetia have just been seer France was to be that the ces. by Austria is @ deect ‘pr probability; but what form it will asume, is i u if 3 is | i i i # ie f #F, z F 2 & a l | i ii 3 : : i g. i ig muel F i if : i 3 es s y than the inst FI 23 1s 2 H 0g Caan ss a pien, to try powers on American wotors. Tt will not be a contast of very groat \utercet, for your people are just waking up to tho utility of athio- tio porformanags, and this is one thal al Claasos and creeds @Ba patronize. Won't there be a flut- tor of ribbons and Ag expansion of crinolive on the ooca- sion, provided the race gomes of at a fashionable season and in a favorable Tbespeak for the British than your man Heenan got om lot it pass; they are well ashamed Was otfectually beaten, but hlessly swindled in frout of Newgate—noe fDi ref Spcten ae Mt dame, Mrs. cirournstau) ia ial evidence. made ue confession, but hspenenig J : on he declared the other man, ing— whom he had formerly accuse1—innocent, and omitted pretensions of innocence from his written statement; #0 we may at once assume that he was guilty. Later news from China tolis us the British army have taken a stand before Pekin, and that the long queuod Orientals have asked (o troat, but not in humble terms. Punch pictures Lord Elgin as commanding the Emporor of China to kneel down and swallow the cannon he holds like a large pill before him, whilo the Emperor makes awful wry faces. He will have to swallow it. A negotiation of some commerrial importance has just been under consideration at . J. Lyster O’Beirne, in company with one of tho directors Galway Steam Company, has laid a proposition before pom weg for the carriage of the repch transatlantic to and from America, via Galway, connecting there with a line of steamers direct to Havre. If accom it will give new importance to the Galway line, and new commercial transactions between France America. Tho line being government contract packots, the negotiation, of course, is by the approval of her Majesty's government, and Mr. O’Boirne was selocted by the authorities here for the mission on account of his large acquaintance with commerce and navigation, he having been the secretary and manager for several years of the European and American Steam Company, aud tho statesmaniike views be takes oF internattonel'comn: meres. Our Paris Correspondence, Paris, Nov. 23, 1860. Events on the Continent—The Last Sensation Pamphit— The Clergy and the Emperor—The Italian Question in France—The Late Financial Movement—The Income ff Paris, de., be. We live in eventful times. Ali men in all ages are apt to say the samo; but with such ample writ of the past as we have before us, and wide scan of the present, wo oan- not be mistaken in believing that we, in 1860, have more than ordinary reason for saying 80. T sent you by the last mail the famous pamphiet “ Empereur et Pape,’ whose words are riuging like « too- sin from end to end of France. Tho Constitutionnel, after the book slates had been exhausted by porpetual de- mands for it, came out with an affected pooh! pooh { bat for ali that the brochure solls with almost unprecedented rapidity, and its subject is discussed in every house. As far as I cau judge, the first impression on the publie mind was @ sort of stunning surprise—I won't say a shook, for France has been long since superior to any auch vulgar emotion; but certainly people did seem somewhat ‘‘atruok of a heap,” and cried out, with some emphasis, “What now thing is this?’ 1t was in this state of semi-paraly- sis that the government journal thought it safe to inter- pose with, “This thing is none of our doing, and it ia even unnecessary to say we wash our hands of it.” The public mind, thus freed from any notion of foul play, of being blown up by a conccaled petard, became at onoe not only tranquilized, but greatly disposed to turn over the unclean thing and see if there were really any bright spots about it. The sale went on increasing, people be- gan to talk about it with less of bated breath, and mang at last were heard to say, aftor all the thing is no neyel- ty; France has always been disposed to get rid of the Pope; Fronce’s Premier wouki have doue so but for po litical temptations which were toe much for him, and which, recent events in Italy have now forever removed; and extreme susceptibility of Papal association and inter. ference, however temporarily allayed, has been tho oon- tinually recurring key note of our policy ever since. ‘The Parisian clergy to a mass are opposed to it, as toa monstrosity too awful to be dreamed of, much more talked of. But there are whispers of voices from the pro- vinees which are already poisoning the atmosphere of this capital. Some of the propositions of this famous £80 4 year. They, too, under a socialistic Pope, would be eligible to the episcopal people. The democratic Empe- ror, in whose person the Revolution of 1789 is incarnate, who has never ceased to boast that his best friends are they of the humble chaumiere, would not loss extead the hand of fellowship to the washerwoman’s son con- verted into a cure; and what bounds could, be put to the promised land contained in that idea? Besides, was it net iscopacy would, under the new Papal regime, bo the result of universal soffrage! ‘The subject has sprung up at a period when the minda of men were craving for new pabulum in connection: the much vexed Italian question. People cannot themselves at once to transfer to Victor sorbing interest they have devoted to his ner, the glorious Garibaldi, and when of a Prince ! i Haid i a i i LH 3 & H i i ! Ls i ui A : Priest. hood as a body is still great in its reverence for its spirit- sen eins Surthy eat’ Gos weenen testy ava tonebed no men ; role in the #t = ion hae AD Alts— one looming the loon the utter made of the 5 E Ht things benide, are all the result of ripate men’s minds, the “Buy ferent articles amounts to nearly 4 Sipe the opening of the trade February, 1858, the increase has been great, the differ ence deiug as between 43 thousand ki and 6 thousand. The standings in the new have