The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. GORDON BENNETT, | AND PROPRIETOR JAMES EDITOR OFVICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAL THE DAILY. THE WEEK am, oF $3 pe Imax cents j +7 Dr $blo ay pt Calfornia baie conta per ep y, 0° THE EANiL? Volume XXV .No. 357 E jm | | | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brontway.—Rieuarp ILL WINTER GARDEN iway, opposite Bond sireet.— Tir Va s + Mab, FOWEPRY THEATRE, y.—Sranoixa & Roger's | an Trourk— Mo»: St. Micwant Fast Mex ov 1H WALLACK'S THEATRE, Brosdway Ocors Ta LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 62 Beoadway.— Bevan 5: NEW BOWERY THEATER, Bowery.—Rooewoon— | Auvoau e's Datourex—Wuinticia Hate BARNUM'S AMELIC AN MUSEUM Broadway, ——Day and Jivening— Tu oF Agred CHILD —LIVING Cyniosinies, & MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad yANIS' Bey Sones, DANcRS, &¢.—Ricuanp TLL. way. —Bunireques, HOOLEY & CAMYBELL'S MINSTRELS, Niblo’s Saloon, Rrosdway.—Eriioriay Soxos, Dances, BuRtasques, &c.— Dixves’ Laso. CANTERBURY MUSIC Davos, Buniesaues, ac HALL, 663 Broatway.—Sonas, oadway.—Sones, Daxcrs, Bun MAILS FOR EUROPE | | public will be duly notified. NEW (, but there is no lack cither of moisture or Crops good, Water works nearly comple- | ted, and the supply will be inexhaustible. A correspondent at Turk’s Island, December 12, writes:—The season for salt making is very favor- able, and the turtle catch is immense, which is all aged for the British market. The brig Marcia is loading for Boston, and the bark Cordelia for \phia. The schooner Menonah, Nickerson, on, has just arrived Dr. Vinton delivered a serme vism and the secessionists in Tri morning. The discourse was one of power and eloquence, and the ostensible twas “The Christian idea of civil govern- on the occasion of the late pastoral letter of Bishop Potter.” The Doctor took the ground that sevessiouism is sinful and incompatible with the orgwnic character of the nation, He took a fling at the statement made by Rey. Henry Ward r afew days ago in Phi phia, in which hat man requires ‘no government,” and affirmed this state of things to be the working ont of Puritan theology, ethics and pol but which Dr. Vinten holds to be the very spirit of anare by ye nto ite Sivine idea of the again-t y church In op pont rend pase hurriedly aisle nits The discourse will istory, principles and effects. occasion, of which the future ab hi De repeated on a od RW. Sloane, of the Third roed b, in West Twenty-third strect, sermon to his congr The Rev Presbyterian chur last evening, in whieh he reviewed at recent discourse of Mr. Van Dyke, of upon th ragter aud influence of abolitionism, Our rep f bis sermon is crowded out of this morning's ix ‘The cotton market was firmer on Saturday. The stock being reduced pr ere highor, and closed at an ad vance of about Si. per Ib, We now quote average lots of muddling uplands at Le., whieh is near about the highest figure of the Keason, The lowest point it reached, ex cept for forced cash sales, was 92. for middling upiands, which shows that the recovery has reached 1',¢. per Ib. or equal to $5 624 porbale, ‘Mere are proba 3,000,000 bales in the Southern States unsold, th advauce on which would b {$16,875,000 in value ‘This advance about evunterbalanecs the whole depression prodwced by the panic, ‘The flour market was firmer, and closed at an advance of Sc, 8 10°., and in soine cases as much as 15c., induced mainly by the favorable ne from Furope. Wheat was held at an advance of 8c. a 5e , Which checked sales for export, Corn was | firmer but less active, with sales of Western mixed at The New York Herald—-Edition for Europe. The Cunard mail stewnship Europa, Capt, Mc Jeave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool The mails for Europe will close in this city to morrow at 12 o'clock M Tur Ecrorgay Epmoy oF Tux Henin will be published ‘at eleven o’ckck in the morning. Single copies, tn wrap: pers, six cents. ‘The contents of the Frroveay Eomow or nim Hera will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the oMice turing theprevigus week, and np tothe yur of publication, ele, will Washington City was yesterday thrown into a high state of excitement by the ment that the Department of the Jaterior had been robbed of a very Iu and stocks held in trast fur the benefit of different Indian tribes inounce ge amount of bond ander owe treatics with them. Scoretary Thomp- © arrived in Washington late on Saturday nig mincdiately instituted an investigation, and finally, it is «wid, w clerk who had charge of the bonds confessed to having appro- printed them to bis own use. A report was current ia Wa broker i yesterday that a New York nd a member of the Cabinet were impli- cuted with him, but with what truth remains to be Our’ ches this morning farnish all the rmati teould be obtained in regard to bbe he time of our going to press. Our despatches from Washington this morning in regard to the secession feeling are important. ral Southern Senators had received despatches dating that unless the revenue cutter recently ord » Charleston was immediately removed, conflict between the federal government and South Carolina was vitable General Cushing ad returved from his mission to Charles. ton, and reports the condition of things there ss “fearful and #larming.’* The Commission- om South Carolina appointed to nego- general government arte expected to hington to-morrow, and if they fail tiate with the arrive in W 1 their juission, it was anticipated there would be an attempt made ize the forts and arsenals in south Carolina, Letters received in Washington e of the heaviest commercial houses in state that the South need expect no sym m that country, but that the Northern pf the confederacy may rely upon them daring the preseut crisis for pecuniary aid, aud that the lar vount of gold already shipped will be increased if necessary. We publish this morning a full report of the speeches made at the anuiversary of the aud Society, at the Astor House, on evening last. The speech of the He Seward, giving his views on the qu wa t the ntry d which we give in | y the brig T Watson, Captain Ward, we é rom Laguayra aud Puerto Cabello, ‘ saber 6. The revolution is said ’ ‘ sed, which means, probs is setting im there is not n + strength that the f vill be amicably adjusted try is scarce and high, © An 1 Rico, are to Novem The Vig’ hisinore, from New York, ar- | rived on the 18th, and was the only vessel in port. | The weather continued tue, with showers, and the } crop will be | Our advices from +t. Peul de Loando, west const of Afriea, to Octobe state that a disease had broken owt among the troops recently arrived there from Lisbon, which bad proved fatal in xy cases. The complaint had not devel: wolf sufficiently to be known as the yellow fever, although of much the same natare. A like mali said to prevail at Ambriz, to the north. ” to which point large bodies of troops had been ordered for the purpose of chostising the na- tives for certain offences, and to promote the Por- (oguese ioterest in that quarter. A new Governor bad oe appointed.the second within six w to the province of Angola; also various | other officials, to take the places of those now In sthority—all of whom were expected to arrive during October. Oar Utoh correspondent, writing under the date of November %, states that a fearfal hurricane had swept over the northern portion of that Terti- tory, destroying # large amount of property, un. roofing houses and carrying before it everything moveable, The hurricane lasted forty-eight hours. Nearly alt of the principal buildings in the villages of Farmington and Ogden were blown down, and in the farming districts in that locality a largo number of sheep, mules and other live «tock were killed. Frery fence thet faced the wind was pros- trated, hay stacks ewept »way, and in many places the ground left cleaner than it could be swept with a broom. It aleo extended to the southern portion of the Territory, but the damage done in that locality was light compared with the geueral devastation in the northera setlements. A letter from Bridgetown, Barbadoes, dated De- comber 2, says:—The weather continues favor. pioler the roy on eo heawy or ie »ped Ware ecerenty b 650, a 66c., in store and afloat, The enhanced vir holders tended to check operations. Tork was he aud nominal, at $15 50 for old and $16 for new mes prime at $10 25, and mew do. at $11 75 a $12 were firm, and the whole advance on the week’s sales has ¢. @ 2ye. per tb. The sales on Saturday Lhds. Cuba, chiefly for refining, at full Sugars reached 600 prices, and 7,000 bags were sold on private terms. Cof. fee Was steady, but quiet. Freights exhibited more buoyancy, while engagements were to a fair extent, ——— Coercion or Conciliation t The republican journals of the North are daily becoming more and more bitter in the tone of their belligerent manifestos, and in their vimperative advocacy of the extremest measures, to reduce the slave States to submis- sion to the doctrines down in the Chicago platform. Appeal to the inexorable logic of grooved cannon, Sharpe's rifles and the bayo- net takes the place of reflection and argument now, just a3 rant, ebuse, calumny and dia- tribe did that of truth and facts while they were aronsing their readers to that pitch of anti- slavery excitement which bas produced the present crisis. They demand that Mr. Lincoln shall inaugurate his administration with bloek- ades, bombardments and invasion, as flippant- ly and impudently as though the welfare of the country could be promoted by conformity to such diabolical funcics, They decree that the South shall be “put down,” as glibly as if’ fif- teon States were a vagrant to be arrested by the first policeman. With quasi-anthoritative languagy, they pretend to foreshadow the po- liey of the incoming administration, as substi- tuting the blood red flog of civil war for the stars and stripes wh fioat over the Capitol, and confidently pr that the “irrepressible conflict” will carried out with a rathless barbarity which John Brown himself would have hesitated to sanction. The transparent motive of so much furious clamor on the part of the republican press is to drive Mr. Buchanan into initiating aggres- sive measures againt South Carolina, and any other States that may secede, in order that he and his government y hereafter be charge- able with a responsibi which they are afraid Mr. Lincoln may have sense enough to shrink from ineurring. One day the President is called an another we are as- sured that he i * and, again, that he is 9 “traitor,” Id out to the South,” be- cause he will neither send mere troops to Fort Moultrie nor encircle Charleston harbor with a naval cordon of steamships and revenue cut- ters. The choicest billingsgate is resorted to, with most refreshing disregard of truth, know- and propriety, in denouncing bis re- pugnance to bloodshed and endeavoring to hound him on to aets of violence. It would harmonize with abolitionist plans to the letter were Mr. Buchanan to suffer himself to be moved or intimidated by such scurrilous boister- ing. Were he to yield one jot to the sugges- tions of his adversaries, they would be the first lodge | to turn upon bim the full vials of popular indig- nation, and to represent the calamities which would thenceforth befal the country as an unwelcome legacy bequeathed by him to a sue- cessor, willing but unable to evade or avert them. The forbearance which marks the course of the odministration in the peculiar and trying | emergency to which abolitionist fanaticism has reduced it is eminently wive and pradent. Its pacific ettitude has Involved the sacrifice of no principle, and its patriotism has been equally displayed in what it has done and in what it has left undone, It has refused to recognise the right of a State to secede, though it has not de- nied its revolutionary power todo so. While maintaining, what is undeniable, that no power to coerce a State ix delegated by the constitu- tion to either the President or to Congress, it has as strenuously asserted that individual de- Iinquents may, if expedient, be reached and punished by the strong arm of the central government, through its federal courts. The attempt to coerce a State by military force would, as declared by Mr. Madison, be an act of war—a virtual recognition of its separate in- dependence, and tantamount to a dissolution of the Union. Such an act of folly will never be committed by Mr. Buchanan. The States be- long together, Their reserved rights, indivi. dual constitutions, nd differen: social insti- tions, are, each and oll, a part of a common bond, sheltered by the constitation, entitled, in their divergencies, to mntan! re- spect and protection, and he will not complet« the work of destruction which fanaticism and sectionalism have begun. With the treason of individuals, if it shonld ever come to any overt act, he might be strictly entitled, perhaps, to porene 9 more rigarens bet even maatheds YORK HERALD, MON then it will be his duty (o consider the cireum- stances of the ease, and to weigh, in the mer- ciful side of the scale, the injuries and provo- cations which have wrought up the Southern masses into their present state of frenzy. Goaded to insanity by the persevering ag- gressions of over a quarter of a century, which have culminated in the election of a chief ma- istrate of the confederation upon the avowed hostile, sectional principle of an » irrepressible confict between opposing aad enduring forces through which the United States must becom: entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free labor nation,” the insane effervescences of feeling which are beheld in the slave States should be regarded with paternal and aff tionate concern, and not with the stern and se~ vere front of inexorable justice. The skill of the physician and the kindness of the nurse ‘are the appliances through which the South must be redeemed from its present extravagunces The administration is acting faithfully to its duty, faithfully to the law, in accordance with the soundest principles of policy and the wishes of the vast majority of conservative tainds in the country, in holding in abhorrence the harsh and outrageous recommendations of the or of republican opinion in the North. Ten weeks will bring us to the time when Mr. Buchanan will resign his incumbency of the Presidential chair to fis successor, In the meanwhile, «ll that can be accomplished by peaceful, persuasive and constitutional means will be done (o rescue the country from im- pending evil, and pilot the ship of State from the midst of the breakers that surround it. After that period the re- sponsibility of the future will pws into the hands of Mr. Lincoln. It isto be hoped that he, too, will comprehend the siguification of the portentous events which are hurrying the nation with headlong speed towards a precipice, and employ the influence which timely concession may have in staying the pro- gress of destruction. We have frequently had occasion to show of late that the position he occupies is more enviably free from ties and embarrassments than that of any President who has ever preceded him. The sentiment of three-fourths of the people is conservative, and but a small minority at the North are in favor of those violent measures for checking excite- ment and disorder at the South which most of the republican organs demand. It will be a day of sorrow and misery for America if he should te guided by the counsels of these ‘atter. Civil war, marshalled by fire, famine and slaughter, will thereafter take possession of the land; property will lose its value; com- merce and trade be ent off, and agriculture abandoned; “the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetis and New York,” and “the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Lonisiana,” will be trampled under foot by armed men, and the future of the Union, which we have been aceustomed to con- template so proudly, be dimmed by a terrible vista of anarchy and blood. We cannot believe that Mr. Lincoln will be willing to inaugurate a period of disaster before which the imagina- tion quails in dismay. The policy which true wisdom would point out to him is unmistake- ably clear. He has but to plant himself upon the rock which afforded a sure and safe foot- hold for his illustrious predecessors of the early days of the republic; to soar above party weak- nesses, and emulate the greatness of statesmen like Washington, Jefferson and Madison, in times of difficulty for the republie; with a firm hand to guide the country back to its pristine condition, recommending for both South and North such amendments to the constitation as shall define and maintain forever hereafter the rights of each; to repudiate every tendeney opposed to conciliation, forbearance and the largest amount of toleration of their respective social institutions by different sections of the country: and he will carve out for himself a name which shall stand among the highest in the history of great and patriotic bencfactors of the human race. A Voice rrom Srwanp ar Lasr—Tue Revo- LUTIONARY Bayqve? ar 91 srorn House.—At last the sage of Auburn has opened his mouth, and given utterance to his views on the great question which now distracts the country and threatens the destruction of the confederacy. Unexpectedly he made his appearance at the New England dinner at the Astor House, about midnight on Saturday night, and there he made a speech, in which he laid down bis views of public affairs. He treated the secession move- ment in a variety of moods, now humorously, now philosophically, now seriously, and again in a statesmanlike manner; so that his speech, while eminently conciliatory throughout, pre- sents all the bues of the chameleon, He showed, to his own satisfaction, and perhaps that of his hearers, that no republican State can stand alone on this continent; that it must be confederated with other States; and he ascribed the discovery of that system of government to the Puritans of New England. The deduction from this was that South Carolina, or any other State that might follow ber example, would soon discover the impracticability of their plan, and return into the confederacy. Buteven if this should not be so, he found some consolation in the reflec- tion that for every slave State that would go out there were two free States ready to come in, and intimated that Canada and Mexico would more than compensate for the loss of the Gulf States. One thing stands out palpably in this speech of Senator Seward’s, and that is that while it breathes nothing but kindness and gentleness and conciliation towards the South, it nowhere squints at the idea of making any concession on the slavery question. He does, indeed, say that there would be a debate on the question — that this debate would be carried on in a spirit of kindness, and that if it shonld prove that the North had done any injustice to the South, that injustice would be repaired; while, if the complaints were shown to be unreasonable, he was confident they would be withdrawn. As to the question of coercion; he skilfully parried it by a quotation from Sir Thomas More, that there were @ great many school maaters in the World, and that while very few knew how to instruct children, they all knew how to whip them. The proceedings, of which this speceh of Senator Seward was the closing part, are in themselves, and apart from this, quite interest- ing and important, as showing the drift of the public mind in the matter of disunion. We give a full report of the speeches made on that oceasion, and commend the whole to [> wed at tention. No more an meeting than this Engl “de —— city for a ficm the vanyett which te mae there ofa fengeea, a revolutionary Dangnet. DAY, DECEM BER 24, Drifting Rapiaay to Civil War, No intelligent observer of passing events, knowing the corrupt and depraved materials of which the House of Representatives ix com- posed, expected from its action any solution of the erisis which threatens the country with the cahunity of civil war; and if any credulous per- son had ever been deluded with such an idea, he has been long since undeceived, both by the proceedings in the open chamber and by those of the Committee of Thirty-three. But there was some vague expectation that the Senate, the conservative branch of Congress, would adopt a satisfactory plan of compromise to \oore the Gordian knot, instead of cutting it with the sword. The action, however, of the Committee of Thirteen on Saturday, of whose proceedings @ report will be found in another column, leaves no room for a ray of hope from that quarter, in the face of the fact that Southern State has just led the way out of the Union, to be followed in rapid succession by several others. The republican members of he committee utterly refused to make any com- promise or concession upon any point, on the ground that “the people in the late clection i? ad decided the question of slavery.” This is only in keeping with the intelligence that seven Governors of Easteru and Northern including Governor Morgan, of New York, and Governor Andrew, of Massachu- setts at a cent seeret meeting in this city, “unanimously determined that the re- publicans should not offer a compromise, but that on Mr. Lincoln's assumption of the reins of government they should push their anti-slavery doctrines to the uttermost, even to the extent of a war upon the South.” In confirmation of this news, as far as regards at least one of the Governors, Wendell Phillips declared, at the Town Hall of Watertown, on Friday evening last, that he spoke by autho- rity for Mr. Andrew, who would not sign a bill repealing the Personal Liberty law of Massa- chusetts—-one of the most infamous of the nul- lifying revolutionary acts of the Northern states, All the republican leaders and journalists speak in the same strain, At the Now England dinner in this city, on Satur evening, the republican orators, including Mr. Seward, re- jected the idea of any compromise. Lastly, ihe New York Tribune, of the same morning, proclaimed that it is “enabled to state, in the most positive terms, that Mr. Lincoln is utterly opposed to any concession or compromise that shall yield one iota of the position occupied by the republican party on the subject of slay ery in the Territories, and that he stands now, as he stood in May last, when he accepted the nomination for the Presidency—square upon the Chicago platform.” Thurlow Weed alone holds out the olive branch to the South. The other journals ure in favor of maintaining the irrepressible conflict to the bitter end, most of them denouncing Mr. Buchanan because he does not commence civil war at once, and promising that as soon as Lincoln is inaugurated President of the eight- cen free States, he and his Wide Awakes will devastate the fifteen slave States with fire and on tates sword. 8 is the aspect of the North. If we tarn to the Sonih, what do we find? South Carolina out of the Union, with Florida, Alabama and Mississippi to follow her within three weeks, Georgia and Louisiana, and probably Texas, before the expiration of January. In all of these States severcignty conventions have been called; and it is expected that similar con- ventions will be called immediately in Arkan- sas and North Carolina. In the latter the Legislature is in session, and has ordered the arming of the State, which will undoubtedly go, sooner or later, with the cotton States. The Legistatures of Tennessee and Virginia meet in special session on January 7, when it is pro- bable they too will call conventions. It is stated that even in Maryland the Legislature will meet and call a convention, in opposition to the will of the Governor, as has been done in Texas. The arming of the whole South, the demon- strations of joy in every slave State on re- ceiving the news of the secession of South Carolina, and all other signs of the times, plainly show that before the 4th of March the whole fifteen Southern States will be banded together in revolution. Thus the Union, the “ship of State,” which has been steered safely through fogs and darkness and various dangers for upwards of three score years and ten—which has hitherto weathered every storm—is now being driven swiftly before wind and tide to the rocks and shoals of civil war; and it is of no avail that the foaming breakers abead are pointed out to the officers and crew to whom has been entrusted the ma- nagement of the noble vessel with her precious freight of historic glory, present prosperity and power, and all the glowing hopes of future years, Every man scems drunk or mad, and shipwreck appears inevitable. Reason and moderation are banished from both sections, The organs of opinion North and South are equally violent. There is no disposition to compromise on either side. By the elevation of an abstraction into the position of a vital question, the reckless politicians have preci- pitated the United States into the most rerolu- tionary condition ever witnessed in any coun- try in the world, and from present appearances there is every probability that we shall soon be in the same predicament as the people of Mexico. But what is so strange in the present conflict is that it has been commenced, and will be carried on, in spite of the wishes of the vast majority of the people. Three millions and a half of those who voted at the I’re- sidential election voted for Union and peace, Out of four millions and three- quarters of suffrages, less than a million, probably not more than seven or eight landred thousand, were cast with the Intention of voting for abolition ; and yet by this small fraction of the people is the whole country to be com- mitted to a deadly struggle. The time is rapidly passing--nearly half the period between the cleetion and the invugura- tion has already elapsed without any step bo- ing taken to arrest the progress of revolution. Congress will do nothing «the party loaders, North or South, will do nothing. It is high time for the people thomselves to act and tehe the matter inte their own hands before it is too late, be the bloody strife actually begins, and places the peacefal settloment of the qnar- rel beyond their control, Unless the people immediately meet in every city and town, and appoint vigilance committees aad comunitiers of public safety, and insist upon peace and harmony between the two sections, there will he @ar—the end of which it would be folly to dict, The polftictans and a portion of the 1860, people on both sides are committed to host ties. There is only one man in the country who, with the aid of the conservative millions, who abhor war, can now save the country from ita horrors, and that man is Mr. Lincoln, the President eleet, who has been elected for four years from the 4th of March, ani will have the control of the patronage and be Commander-in- Chief of the army and navy. Let him go back to first principles—go back to the compromises of the constitution—and firmly plant his foot where Washington, the first President, stood when the Union was established, under which for more than seventy yeurs we have enjoyed do- mestic peace and an amount of prosperity with- out a precedent in the annals of mankind. Let him at ence promulgate his intention to do this, and he will save a grateful country trom anar- chy and bloodshed, and at the same time place his name as a patriot and a statesman in a high niche in the temple of fame, But let him con- inue silent, or let the republican journals speak in bis name in the tone in which they have hitherto done, and revolution, civil war and bloody carnage will inaugurate bis Presi- dency, and probably flourish long after any good he has ever done shall be interred with his bones, Mx. Lincoin’s Postrios.--The Tribe is very positive that Mr. Lincoln will stick to the Chicago platform, come what may, Our Springfield correspondent, upon whose infor- mation we place great reliance, says with equal emphasis that “the President elect repudiates Thurlow Weed’s attempt to destroy the doc- trines of the Chicago platform, and to exchange the policy of Congressional intervention against slavery in the Territories for the Douglas doc- trine of squatier sovereignty.” We have no doubt that such are the latest declarations of Mr. Lineoln; but what do they signify? They show that be is at last seriously thinking on the subject of a compromise, and that be will stand firm until convineed that it will be bet- ter to vield a little or a good deal for the sake of peace. During the last twenty years or more in Congress, upon every great measure requiring a vote or two to pass it, the vote or two or three votes wanting have been found, and generally from men last expected to back down. Take the cases of Senators Benton and Bagby for examples, on the Texas annexation resolutions; the case of Senator Jarnagin on the tariff of 1846, and the cases of Foote, Cle mens and Downs on the compromises of 1850. Benton and Bagby were particularly hostile to the Texas annexation resolutions, and spoke against them on the night of their passage; but with a little additional resolution, which practically amounted to nothing at all, they voted for the whole batch, and passed them: for without the votes of these two men those resolutions would have been defeated. And so of the other cases enumerated, aud so of nuinerous individuals concerned in the Kansas- Nebra-ka bill. They would never sapport it; but they did. And so of Hon, Thaddeus Stevens, and others, in the contest for Speaker of the present Congress. They would “stick to John Sherman till the crack of doom ;" but for all that, when they found it was their policy to drop him, they dropped him. And so with Mr. Lincoln in regard to the Chicago platform. He will never abandon it. Of course not. He finds it necessary to say so. Tle is whistling to keep his courage up; for he feels that he is standing on slippery ground While fiery billows roll below We regard these very positive ¢.\.cations of firmness a good sign. They show diat Mr. Lincoln is beginning to deliberaic upon the remedies for the crisis; and when a politic deliberates he is open to conviction. Tk Trneenarn ANo THe Press. The im portance of the telegraph as a medium of news transmission has never been more forcibly demonstrated than during the last eight weeks. It has placed the people of both sections of the Union in hourly pe sion of all the facts and occurrences bear- ing on the present unhappy controversy be- tween them; but the telegraph, convenient and admirable as it is in’ its arrange- ments, is, however, still but an experi- ment so far as the press is concerned. Although it has been thirteen years in exist- ence, much remains to be done in this con tion. What is wanting to perfect the system isa corps of newspaper correspo deals, tho- roughly educated and trained te its use. At present a vast amount of superfluous matter is sent over the lines, owing to the difficulty of finding persons qualified for the duty, Ir is exceedingly bard to impress upon telegraph correspondents that what is required from therm is, not their own opinions and views, but facts. These they can at once obtain within the cir. cenit of district allotted to them, by having themselves recourse to the telegraph. Thoy have no need to accept flying rumors as « rect, which they have the immediate » verifying, and, consequently, it only re a sufficient number of persons, io be the- roughly trained into the systein, to reader te graphic news the most reliable of all, It is never necessary, excepting for malicious pur- poses, to send such lying statements as lave lately been published; such, for instances, as the reports of the quarrel of General Scott and the President, the resignation of the former, the insanity of the President, of his instpuctions to Major Anderson to surrender Port Moultrie, of the taking of the Charleston foris by the mob, and of the shooting down of Senator Wade by Pryor, of Virginia. It is true these rumors were not long despatched on their inflainmatory errand before they were met by an instant de- nial. But unfortunately a denial does not have the same publicity as is given to a false statement. We have done much, within the sphere of our own operations, towards bringing about a reformation in this departinent of jour- nalism. It is our constant aim and labor to perfect the arrangements of our journal, in connection with the telegraph. When the system comes to be generally understood, per- tected and extended, instead of sending their communications through the Post Office, we shall instroet ont @orrespondenta to drop them in the receiving box of the telegraph office. Then the metropolitan newspapers will be eqnally the journals of every remote lo- cality, Witorksow, Reapise ror Cumtstwas, —To- morrow will be Christmas Day, @ time of general rejoicing over the advent of the Christian re- ligion and the civilization which followed in its train. It will be the olghteen hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the birth of Christ, who brought peace into the world and good will to mos. We terrremen dd ce a wheteec me monty i exercise for the fanatics, fire-eaters, abolitionists and disunionists, who are endeavoring to de- stroy the greatest and most prosperous nation which Christian civilization bas created, {0 read aloud for their families to-morrow the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by the founder of Christianity eighteen centuries ago. They will find in it more pure philosophy than they are likely to hear from any of the pulpits of their sensation preachers. It is unnecessary for us to point out any particu ar portion of that sublime discourse, or suggest to them the applicability of any of its teachings at the present time. \MPCRTANT FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Robbery of Indian Trast Bonds to the Amount of 9870,000—A Clerk in the Interlor De- partment Confewes the RobberyA New York Broker and a Member of the Cabinet Supposed to be Implicated—The Position of Mr, Bates im Lincoln’s Cabinet, &e., &e., &e. Wasinvetox, Doc. 23, 1860, ‘The excitement consequent upon the present state of affairs in the nation is entirely absorbed by an astounding raport of a robbery of Indian trust fund bonds in the In- terior Department, committed during Secretary Thomp- son's recent mission to north Carolina. There are re- ports upon the street that the robbery amounts to about eight hundred thousand dollars; but 1 have sufficient im- formation on the subjret to believe that the exact amount is not positively known, but that the budget embraced in the robbery—the whole of which is stolen—will axcoad three millions of dollars. ‘The following are the facts of the affuir as near as it is possible to obtain them in the present uncertais state of the case — Secretary Thompson arrived frow North Carolina last evening. At half-past cight o'clock he caed upon the President and had an interview. Scerotary Thompson, dur- ing his absene , received a letter informing him of a ral bery im his department. Upon going to his de- partment he attempted to examine the safe in his efflce, where tne Indian bonds were kept, but discovered that the key was missing. He made soveral attempts to find it, but failed. Different state ments were made by different subordinates as to the whereabouts of Mr. Goddard Bailey, disbursing clerk, a native of South Carolina, to whom the bonds were spe- cially entrusted, and who held the koy of the safe, he was found and asked for the key, but could not find it. Secretary Thompson, at once suspect- ing that something was wrong, proceeded at eleven o’clock last evening to the office of Mayor Berret, com- Municated to him his suspicions, and solicited a special police force, and returned with the Mayor aud police tothe Interior Departmont, and put a guard at every avenue lead ing to st. The clerks of that departineat were then sum- moned, and orders given to the police not to allow any one of them to pass out. The safe was then broken open with an axe, and the bonds were missing. The register of the bonds was found to-day when Bailey was missing. Mr. Black, Secretary of State, and late Attorney Gene- ral; District Attorney Ould and others having knowledge of the pature of the bonds, were called in by Secretary Thompson, The clerks were severally examined as to their knowledge of the dis- appearance of the bonds. The details of the examina- tion are not known. Several of the clerks in the department, who, it is said» did what they could to delay the examination of the safe, are suspected of being parties to the robbery. Severat outsiders are also suspected, and the police are after them. ‘The moment that the robbery was discovered the heads of other bureaus in the department were notified to keep strict watch upon the property of the government im their charge. Another report is that Secretary Black first learned the fact of the robbery, and telegraphed to Secretary ‘Thompson to return immediately to Washington. When Dailey wes appointed disbursing clerk he was a citigen of Alabama ‘The funds supposed to have been stolen are known as he Indian Trust Fund, which has accumulated for the evefit of various Indian tribes under our treaties with hem. According to the provision of many of these reaties a certain sum is stipulated to be paid to the fn dinns for their land, the aum to be paid in annual pay ments, equ: im amount the interest that would be due yon the principal In order to avoid the necessity of being compelled pay these annual sums out of the current reevipts of the enue, the government bas been in the habit of invest ug the principal in State stocks, and making the interest mn these stocks meet the annual payment due the Indians, hus reaily reafizing tue money ultimately for the several It was these bonds or stocks thus acquired, ting to over three millions, that are missing lowing tables will show the Indian tribes for The wily in the money was held in trust, and in what stock it was invested:— 1102 OF INDIAN SRAEN FOR WHOM STOCE 18 NELD IN TREE SY C0) OF THE TREATY O8 LAW UNDER WHICH THE 1) MENTS WPM Tribe. « herokee tobvol vor uy Chickasaw incompetent i Crk orphans az Cvprewas of Swan Creek Eee iaw general fund 27 taw school fund. SAS ane 1,694 nerai fund’: tvie Filan are Shoot art “ was. Ian i tue Kaskaak, 19,260 Perry Las aos ist ie, a 7980 Pottawatomies, ecbocia am senceae 20 seneeas and shawnees sm Stcokbrtdees and Monsees. | i mM Wynndois Mien}, iso shiny 2080 449,241 310,008 SHULD BY THE ARCRETAMY OF THE INTERI TRUST FOR INPLAN TRIBKS. Sar. Per cont. Amount. foes: 7.00 Kentucky 1.000 Ninrsinnd> iti Missourd... i Missouri, ghee Foi — sytaniat o8O south Carcitaa, 12,00, Tennessee eg Tennesser 1A Catted States 21,0 Virginia, T9580 Totad 849,201 "Taxed by the State. These securities yielded au anneal income of two hondred and twenty thousand dollars, and wore ordinarily deposited in the vaults of the Treasury for safe keeping, but were probably temporarily transferred to the Interior Department for the pur pose of detaching the coupota for the collection of the Janvary interest to moet the next annual Indian payment It will bo Goon that they consisted cuietiy of United States, Virginia, South Carcina, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Cerolins, Florida, Ohio aud Missouri five and six per cents. ‘Tho greatest excitement prevaila concerning the rob ery, and of course Secretary Thompson and other metm- bers of the administration are very much embarryeand by this new complication im the nation’s affairs. While it is undoubtedly true that it would be gratity ing to Mr. Lincoln @ have Mr. Tetes of Missourt in tin Cabinet, the St. Louis Yemeerad is mistakon in assigning him the post Of Secretary of the Intvrior! Mir. Rates? wo known legal uttainments epecioly qualify him for the place of Attoruey Gencrai, and he will occupy that lave ery This not coly Known to be Mr. Lincoln's but the only cencitions upon whieh Mr. weep ’ Chandler, our Minister to Naples, was, at Inst orconnte, abort to ri turn to Paris, where he awaits one (rom our government. oon just received state that Jtaling adairs are wm settiod, although Naples now may be aid to form part of the Sardinian empire, The question of a general Ruropean war is not yet settled. Garibaldi, says the writer, is for the moment suffered or forced to withdraw from the wrest theatre on which be haa tately figured a@ the principat aetor. ‘ stonypt may the made te glee this tebbery a pole }