The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1861, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. eH OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON TERMS, cach in advance. Money Wisk of the sender. None but Bank sen. THN DAILY HERALD, to conte per copy, $T por ann THK WEERLY HERALD, every Saturdry, ae oe cents ‘trery Wedvesd D NASSAU BTS. Ly maid wil! be at the qurrent in New York he iinportant noed, will be ORRESPONDENTS ARK ut, LETTRKS AND PACK mann. CORRESPONDENCE, co many quarter of the . Ba Oun F hQUESTHD TO Wedono | day: advertisementsin- | sano, Pasty Yixtat, and ia the fiom. ken of anonymous correspondence, No, 11 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GARDEN, Broadway. —Ticut Rorx—Twenty Mix BLONDin CATAMACT ASCENSION. MILDREN IN THY s Wun a Trexn— | BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manraenone—Eques- Teta Pexvormances. Afternoon and Evening, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Noppy's Sxcner. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.— Bevan Sisters. Broadway.—Pavuinn—Tow NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Afternoon and Brenin HAuiy BLARE—MAGIC Tkusirst—WiZaRD Sixtee— us Se sKw, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—I'nx Sea ov Icx—Azrxc Curpren—Liying Cunt cosines, de. BRYAN IS’ MINSTRE! Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Bourusques, Sonas, Dances, &¢.—Useo Ur. HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, Niblo’s Saloon, Broadway —Evmorian Songs, Daxcxs, Bukixsuas, &¢.— KAR, CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, Broadway.—Sonas, Davcxs, Buntxsquxs, &c. ~. Rae TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Januury 12, 1561. ‘The News. Mr. Thomas yesterday resigned the post of | Becretary of the Treasury, and the nomination of General Dix, Postmaster of New York, for the va- cancy was sent to the Senate by the President, and | confirmed without the usual reference. No nomi- | nations have yet been made for the War and [nte- rior Departments. Tho resignation of Mr. Thomas | and the appointment of General Dix have been brought about, it is said, by the subscribers to the government loan, who declined lending their funds to an administration of which avowed secessionists formed a part. Florida and Alabama have seceded from the Union. An ordinance of secession was passed by the Florida Convention on Thursday, with but Seven negative votes. The Alabama Convention adopted a secession ordinance yesterday. Four States have now bolted from the Union, as fol- lows:— South Carol ‘Mississippi Our despatch abatement of the excitement, in consequence of pacific news from Charleston. The authorities ‘have relinquished possession of the steamer Mari- on, and she will resume her place in the line be- tween Charleston and New York. All the United States forts and arsenals in Louisiana were seized by the forces of the State yesterday. There was no opposition except at Baton nouaegmsre Major Haskins, in command of two compaifts of soldiers, refused at first to surrender. Six companies of State troops were displayed, and after a conference between the Major and the Governor the former gave up the arsenal. A despatch from St. Louis states that yesterday morping, by order of General Scott, the federal troops took possession of the Snb-Treasary, Cus- tom House and Post Office building of that city. The Legislature of North Carolina reassembled on Monduy last, the 7th inst., after an interval of two weeks, during which the members have had time for reflection. The result of that reflection is that the first business taken up was the bill ap- propriating $300,000 for arming the State, and there is a general desire to make the ap- | propriation at least one million, The Dill has | already passed the Senate. The peculiar atti- tude and harsh language of the republican party and leaders have operated with such won- derful rapidity on the feelings of the people that in the short space of fourteen days a complete change of sentiment has been cifected among the hitherto conservative portion, and the State is now taking a position from which she will, perhaps, | President | city several years since. | namely, 27.90. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1861~TRIPLE SHEET. by the Governor to plete certain legislation in regard to telegraphs, railroads, immigration, &c. There is also @ proposition to donate the Parana islands to the present occupants, The has issued a decree authorizing Tuenos Ayres to consider and decide upon all consular questions, An important private con- ference had taken place on the Ith be+ tween the President, Dr, Derqui, Governor Mitre, of Buenos Ayres, aud General Urquiza, now Governor of Entre Rios, at the residence of the latter, The precise result is not known, Mr, de Alvear, the popular Minister of oreign Affairs, had resigned and received the appointment of Minister to the United States. His father filled the same honorable post, and died at Washington Mr. Bravard, pupil and associate of the late Baron Cuvier, has visited the mining region of San Juan, and is said to have been surprised at its richness in gold, silver, cop- per and coal. Advices from Rio Janeiro to November 25 have been received. There is no news of any interest. Exchange remained at previous rates, There was yery little doing in coffee. By way of New Orleans we have advices from Havana to the 7th inst. There was no news of importance. Sugar was dull, with a stock of 29,- 000 boxes, against 12,500 at the corresponding pe- riod last year. ‘The overland express, with San Francisco dates to the afternoon of the 29th ult., arrived at Fort Kearney at noon yesterday. The general news is unimportant. The weather was fine, but business remained very dull. The steamer of the Ist inst. would take about a million and a half in treasure, The Southern secession movement caused much discussion. Ht is said that the remark of Senator Latham, that California will remain with the Union of the North and West, is a correct representation of the opinion of a vast majority of the people. A meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday. Very little business of importance was transacted. A resolution was offered and adopted directing the Comptroller to draw his warrant on Nathan C, Platt, late County Trea- turer, for the whole amount of moneys in his hands due the county, and to deposit the same to | the credit of the county. The quarterly bill of the four Coroners of the city was ordered to be paid. ‘The bill amounts to $5,188 88. A veto was re- ceived from the Mayor on the resolution to author- ize the Board of Police to pay out of any moneys in their possession the bills incurred fer the clean- ing of tenement houses. The Board then adjourned until Wednesday at twelve o'clock, noon, The newly elected Board of Councilmen tmet for the fifth time last evening, and on the calling of the roll the twelve democratic members answered to their names, the republicans and Mr. Repper (Mozart democrat) still refusing to appear. There not being a quorum present, the President pro tem. declared the Board adjourned till Saturday at six o'clock. Mr. Repper holds the balance of power, and unless some plan is devised by both parties, he can prevent the permanent organiza- tion of the Board. It is understood that should there be no election for President this evening, the democrats will propose to the republicans to draw for President, and should the republicans succeed in obtaining their presiding officer, the defeated party are to have the appointment of clerks and committees. Judge Hilton delivered an elaborate opinion yesterday, deciding that Mr. Platt, the late City Chamberlain, was legally removed from office, that Mr. Devlin was duly appointed thereto, and that Mr. Platt must stand committed to the county jail until he delivers up the books and property of the Chamberlain to his successor. A full report of the Judge’s opinion is given in another part of to-day’s paper. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday Judge Brady discharged the jury in consequence of there being no busimess before the Court. He wished it to be understood that the cause of adjournment was owing to the fact of counsel not being pra. pared, and not from any desire on the part of the Court to postpone the business, In the case of arson against Frederick. Freund, whose trial took place yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the jury, at half-past ten o'clock last night, rendered a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation tomercy. Judge Leonard reinarked that he had no discretion in the matter; the law made it imperative to sentence the prisoner to the State prison for life. However, the Judge said he would join with the jury to present the case to the Governor for a commutation. The prisoner will be sentenced at twelve o'clock to- day. ‘There was a meeting of our Irish fellow citizens last evening at the Astor House to consult on the propriety of a sympathetic meeting with the move- ment now on foot in Ireland for national indepen- not recede, The Crittenden resolutions are po- pular in the State, but the belief grows stronger every day that it is folly to expect anything from party who deny plain constitutional rights, and offer nothing at this tremendous crisis but coercion instead of justice and compromise. In Congress yesterday the Senate up took Mr. Crittenden’s compromise resotutions, and Mr, Hunter, of Virginia, made a speech on the condi- tion of the country. A full report of his remarks is given under the appropriate head. Mr. Seward will address the Senate to-day. The House passed the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill, and de- voted rome time to the consideration of private bills. The preceedings of the Legislature yesterday were unususlly important. Both houses—with but two dis-enting votes in the Honse and one in the Sennte— adopted resolutions approving of the recent special Message of the President to Con- ' gress, and tendering him whatever wid in men and money may be required to enable him to enforce the laws and uphold the authority of the federal government. ‘ The steamship Glasgow, from Liverpool 27th [ ult., arrived at this port yesterday al oon. Her dates are anticipated. She brings $412,210 in | specie. The steamship America, from Liverpool on the | 29th, via Queenstown on the 30th ult., arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, bringing two days later news. The America also brings $910,000 in specie. Extensive warlike preparations were being car- ried forward in France. Large purchases of | horses have been made in Prussia for France and Piedmont. Steamers are also being purchased by the government, and transformed into war ships. If reliance may be placed upon the accounts from Verona, the anti-Austrian agitation in Hun- Bury is rapidly tending to a crisis of grave im portance. “No taxes are now paid;”’ in the more remote parts of the kingdom ‘“‘the peasants are | beginning to produce their long hoarded Kossuth notes;’’ new notes bearing the signatures of the ex-Governor, Klapka, and Iusehek, as well as | French and Sardinian coins, are guid to be in active circulation. | with fair engagements, why dence. There were about forty gentlemen pre- sent, among whom we noticed the Honorable Mayor Powell, of Brooklyn, and Judges O'Connor and Connolly; Messrs. John McKeon, Hennessey, Do- heny, Roach, and Drs. Connery, Norris, Jones, &c. The meeting was very harmonious, and broke up at about ten o'clock. Skating was resumed on the Central Park yes- terday, with nearly all its former vigor. A large number of ladies were present, who threw off their former reserve and skated on the larger pond in- stead of that set apart for their special use. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 2460 bales, in- eluding 300 in it. The ‘ket closed firm, on tho bavis of 12%¢. a Le. Flour was in more active demand for export and for domestic consumption. The market closed at an advance of 50. por barrel for shipping grades of State and Western. Wheat was freely pur- chased and at full prices, mostly for export. Corn was in fair demand, with rales at 680. a 69e. for new mixed Western, 0c. a The. for old, and 0c, a T1e. for Western white. Pork was firm but quiet and new prime a $18 a $13 12. was a speculative fecling in rice. ‘The sales within two or three days hive ymounted to about 3,200 casks, closing at an advance of age. a 4c. per pound. Of the amount sold 1,000 a 1,200 were token for export, Sugars were some less buoyant and active, The sales embraced about 600 hhds.,,at rates g.von in another colama, Coffee was in fuir demand and steady prices, with sales of about 2,400 bags, closing on in another column. Freights were steady, ates wore unthanged Mn. Sewaxp’s Exrec Mr. Seward, it is expected, will speak in the Senate to-day on the crisis. What will he say? What will he propose? These are important questions, considering the new responsibilities thrown upon hisshoulders. He will stand be- fore the Senate in this speech as the organ, the representative, the authorized agent of the President elect. His speech is anticipated, not as a mere speech from Senator Seward, but as an official manifesto from the Premier of the incoming administration. From the late Astor House remarks of the Senator on the revola tionary troubles of the country, we are pre- pored for a very soothing and conciliatory Another advance in cotton has takon place. Breadstuffs were active and firm, with a str money market, consols closing at 024 for ¢ We are in receipt of our usual corr from Buenos Ayres, South America, wit November 14. The wool crop was be ed, and promised to be not only unusua but of better quality than for some years pa fs extimated that the city will export about 2 tons. Prices range from $95 to $110 the arroba for fine; Mestiza, $85 to $100, and Mediana, $ gent ount pondene ther \ » We] 980; 27,500 tons had been bought at thes Ounces were quoted at 336. Freight, er ton, The Custom House receipts for October mous. d to $000,000, American. The Legi winch jad jast adjourned, had been rea speech to-day. We should be gratified to aasire our readers that they may anticipate, in | this instance, something more than concilia- | tory professions and vague and indefinite-pro- mises of a restoration of the Union, The ease is in his hands, Asthe Premier elect’ of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward may immortalize himself this day he will at once come up bravely and ysiriotieally to the exigencies of the crisis and the responsibilities which attach to his posi- tion. In any event, his speech will be very apt to put an end to our suspense, for it will renew our confidence in the Union, or scatter our hopes to the winds, The Pressure of the Revolation—The ‘Time to Save the Union Now or Never. basa Union can be saved even now is doubtful; but if not now, never. Ita speedy issolution is at hand, or a complete recogni- tion of the guarantees of the constitution, which is its only bond. Such is the alternative which cannot longer be evaded by human ingenuity. Not only. is revolution pending, but it is actually begun, and muking such progress as no revolution ever made before. In six States the federal forts have been seized by the State authorities, In one hostile guns have been directed against the United States flag, and a ship with its troops on board driven back by cannon balls, This attitude of South Carolina bas the sympathy, and will have the support, of the vast majority of the Southern people. Two or three States have already se- ceeded. Several others will be out of the confederacy in a very few days, and the whole South will be cut off before the 4th of March, and banded together in a Southern Union, or in a position to be confederated very soon, Yet, in the face of these alarming develope- ments, what are the republican party doing to arrest the triumphant march of revolution? Nothing whatever, but, on the contrary, every- thing'to stimulate it. Mr. Lincoln and the lead- ers are too busy in dividing the spoils before- hand to pay much attention to passing events. Mr. Trumbull, in Congress, supposed to speak the sentiments of the President elect, dismisses the question of revolution with the ludicrous remark that “ The secession movement of South Carolina is, in his judgment, nothing”—an observation which elicited laughter, but which was more a cause for tears. If the ques- tion were merely one about the forts, or the property of the federal government within the limits of South Carolina it might be very easily settled. But it is of far broader dimensions, embracing the separation of fifteen States from the national confederacy; and whether they have a legal and constitu- tional right to take the step or not is imma- terial to the issue precipitated upon the coun- try. What is the cause of this calamitous condition of affairs? The adoption by the republican party of the Chicago platform, and a stern refu- sal to abandon the ground that party have taken. The man who docs not sce that the maintenance of the Chicago platform will result in the dissolution of the Union must be blind to all the signs-of the times. Whether or not it will also result in civil war depends upon whether the North, or a majority in Con- gress, will insist on coercing the seceding States. The Union is now practically dissolved, and unless the Chicago platform is aban- doned, no power on earth can reunite the severed fragments. Instead of doing this, the republican journals, including the Tribune, are urging preparations for war. And so much exercised is our philosopher lest, by any possi- bility, a satisfactory compromise should be car- ried in Congress, and the impending danger hanging over us like a black thunder cloud should be dissipated, he urges upon all the fanatics (eroughout the country to petition Congress against a peaceable settlement of the national troubles. Greeley says the Henan, in calling, on the leaders of the republicans to abandon the Chicago platform, demands from the party, “not really conciliation, but suicide.” That is strictly true, and no less a sacrifice can save the Union from being brokea up into frag- ments. The party is doomed to destruction in any event, and it might as well make a merit of necessity,and, by gracefully submitting to its fate, avert a bloody struggle, in which the Chicago platform and its architects would be scattered to the four winds of heaven. As Jonah was cast into the sea to appease the storm and save the ship in which he sailed from wreck, so is it necessary to throw overboard the republi- can party to secure the safety of the “ship of State” built by the sages and patriots of 1787. There is this difference between the two cases: whereas the prophet was miraculously preserved in a whale's maw, to be disgorged on the shore a living man, there can be no resur- rection for the republican party, no hope for it now or hereafter. And this is retributive justice. The party is founded upon principles which akolish the constitution of the United States. The sum and substance of the Chicago platform is that every man, black as well as white, ought to be and must be free in every part of the Union; that negro servitude is incompatible with the free labor of white men, and both kinds of civilization cannot exist under the same go- vernment; that every negro in the United States is entitled to freedom by a law higher than the constitution. Here, then, is a revolutionary party by its own confession. Out of its own mouth it is judged. It impudently and au- daciously avows that its object is to overthrow the constitution; and the President elect, the man of its choice, has declared that he will dis- regard the constitution, as expounded by the Supreme Court. This is what has alarmed the South and produced a counter revolution, menacing the whole country from Maine to Texas with civil war. The Chicago platform, and the party standing upon the rotten struc- ture, must, therefore, be demolished together. Better that a thousand platforms and a thou- sand parties should perish in succession than that the temple of liberty erected by Washing- ton, and Madison and Jefferson and Hamilton, and the other architects of the confederacy, should be Inid in ruins, and American citizens wage a bloody, fratricidal war against each other—the end of which no man can foresee. Time was when Greeley “spat upon the plat- form,” and supported the election of the man, though that man was « Southern slaveholder, He now spits upon the man who created the platform, while he huge the platform itself, as a drunken man does a lamp post. Greeley and his party must abandon the platform, or they will go down with it to political perdition. The whole North must go back to the princi- ples of the constitution, as they were under- stood by those who framed the instrument, and by their contemporaries, for whom it was made. The North has broken the covenant, and that is the sin of which it is guilty, and which is bringing national calamity upon us The Puritan clergy have been wonderfully zealous in denouncing negro servitude as the greatest of all sins, which is no sin at all, but a beneficent Christian institution; while they are silent about the crime of “covenant break- ing,” which is accarsed of God and man. The breach must be repaired, and the South must get what is nominated in the bond. It asks nothing more, and will not be content with less. According to the constitution, it is the duty of all the States, if there were no fugitive law of Congress, to surrender runaway slaves to their masters on demand, and the slaveholder has a right to travel every- where throughout this Union with his slaves, and even to sojourn with them unmolested in the city of Bostoh. He has a right to enter the common territory with his slaves to settle, and his property in their labor, which is plainly recognized in the constitution, according to the decision of the Supreme Court, which is the supreme law of the land, is entitled to the same protection as any other property. These righis were never questioned in the early days of the confederacy. It is only in recent years they have been denied. Their denial now1s plunging the coun- try into revolution, and it may be into a fruitiess civil war, which could have no other effect than ruining the whole country, Nerth and South. And yet all this is against the will of the people of the North. Nine-tenths of them would vote to- morrow for the propositions of Mr. Crittenden if they had an opportunity; but the politi- “cians who have the control of their political organization will not afford it to them. The republican ‘party in Congress will not do it, and all hope of reconciliation now seems lost. If before the lapse of the next week measures of compromise are not initiated by the republican members, any overtures to save the Union will be too late, and its doom, we fear, will be eternally sealed. Genera Cameron’s Nose Ocr or Jort.— Our Springfield correspondent, in his letter which we publish to-day, disposes of General Cameron. It thus appears that the General has not been appointed as a member of Honest Abe Lincoln’s Cabinet; has not been offered any such appointment ; and that the President elect has never seriously entertained the idea of making any such offer. It appears, too, that if the President elect had entertained any favo- rable inclinations touching the claims of Gene- ral Cameron, they would have been dissipated on receipt of the mail bags full of remon- strances which poured into Springfield from the republican camp in consequence of the news that the General had been select- ed for a Cabinet position. The reasons assigned are somewhat in the vein of vir- tuous indignation, too, for the cold shoulder turned upon the General may be summed up in five words—his lobby antecedents and proclivi- ties. Now it strikes us there is such a thing as straining at a gate and swallowing a sawmill. The republican counsellers of Mr. Lincoln are dreadfully shocked at General Cameron's lobby proclivities, are they? But who is considered as the most liberal of all our states- men and legislators in regard to the jobs of the lobby? Who but William H. Seward? Yet he is appointed as the head and front of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet proper, and Thurlow Weed, the field marshal of the lobby at Albany and at Washington, is made the chief of the Kitchen Cabinet, while Simon Cameron, forsooth, has been too much mixed up in political finenciering to be trusted under the new administration. That General Came- ron, as a man of business, is not the man to lose an opportunity for turning an honest penny, we are ready to admit; that his Came- ronian ancestors of the Scotch Highlands were not over nice concerning the loose cattle, sheep and poultry of the lowland Saxons, is a matter of history. The organ of acquisitive- ness runs in the breed. ‘The peculiar charac- teristics of race, clan and family are transmitted, more or less, from generation to generation. ‘Thus some philosophers trace back the passion of the Hebrews for the jewelry business to the transactions of their ancestors in Egypt under the instructions of Moses. But time, intermix- ture and civilization produce great changes, physically and mentally, in the same race. Pirates and filibusters were the ancestors of the English stock of the present day; and the industrious law and order loving Scots of our epoch are drawn from a horde of border ruf- fians. . Thus in General Cameron the original pe- culiarities of his clan have been softened and refined into the qualities of the active man of business. He would make an efficient Cabinet officer; his mind is methodical and quick in its perceptions, his political experience is large in all parties, his habits are industri- ous, he is devoted to the Union, and he never forgets his responsibilities in looking out for the main chance. He would be an excellent adviser of Honest Abe Lincoln in reference to the swarms of venal politicians that will crowd upon him at Washington. Cameron has studied the whole ship’s crew of them, from Dan to Beersheba; and we really suspect that they are the conspirators who have put the nose of Cameron out of joint at Springfield. But let them beware, for Cameron is like old Blucher, and though down to-day, his enemies will find him on his legs to-morrow. Aw Era or Porrtrcat, Ivsaxtty.—It would really appear, from the indications all about us, that the old proverb, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad,” was about to receive another endorsement from the people of this country. That the people of South Carolina are utterly daft there can be no doubt. Nor are the citizens of Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans any more sensible than*the Palmetto heroes. We are daily in the receipt of reports, letters and despatches which go to show that this insane fever is contagious; that it has affected many people in the bor- de> States, and in some isolated cases extended to New York, where, under ordinary circum- stances, people pay attention to their own busi- ness and leave that of their neighbors alone. The city is full of rumors of the most improba- ble character. The Mayor sends secession messages to the Common Council, and in gome quarters efforts are made to organize armed bands of shoulder-hitters to take ad- vantage of the anarchical condition of things which, it is presumed, the secession of the cotton States will bring about. Among other phases of this dangerous thongh absurd condition of things, we notice that a very worthy charitable institu- tion, compoeed of the sons of Virginia resident in the metropolis, has had a meeting to discuss the state of the country, and that one of the members has been se far affected with the pre- vailing malady as to insinuate that there was some danger of secession in the Henan office. We give a sketch of the orator’s remarks in another part of this paper, but must be per- mitted to any, after an experience of twenty- five years, that the proprietor of this journal will not think of conciliation for a moment; taat he will not have the slightest hesitation in resorting to coercion, and that he wilt have his own way ia any event. So far a9 the genera! subject is concerned, there can be no doubt that the great majority of the people of these United States are sound upon one point—and it is the most important of all just new—that the Union must be preserved; that this country ia too young, too strong, toe self-reliant to he broken up by a few crazy fanatics. Before the Pre- sidential election we were all getting along comfortably enough. Our exports exceeded our imports, the harvest was most plentiful, money was easy and business of all kinds was never better. Now, certain individuals ave doing their best to break down trade, to ruin our commercial in- terests, and to turn the whole country into one vast lunatic asylum. We are of the opinion that it will be much better for these crazy people to keep cool, and see how things turn out. If it should happen that the secession movement resulted disastrously to the seceders, how absurd would their Northern sympa- thizers appear. The members of the Old Do- minion Society were wise in declining to take political action at this time. The time for “resolutions,” addresses, orations, &¢., bas passed. All that we have to do now is to keep our tempers and wait the issue of events, which we can neither direct nor anticipate. ‘War Imniinont in Europe—The Conti- nental Governments Arming. There is every indication that a fearful struggle is now impending in Europe. Not- withstanding the mystery that shrouds the movements of diplomacy, it is becoming evi- dent that all hope ef a compromise on the Venetian question is despaired of. The Aus- trian absolutists hold, in regard to Europe, pretty much the same position that the black republicans occupy in relation to the slave States. They would rather deluge the earth with blood and risk the integrity of the em- pire itself than yield one iota of the abstrac- tions which they have set up as their political creed. This stiff-necked obstinacy is, as might be ex- pected, accumulating hourly fresh perils round the Austrian monarchy. From the military preparations which are being, made in Moldo- Wallachia, Bosnia and Servia, it is evident that Garibaldi’s meditated attack upon Venice is to be made the key of a grand revolutionary rising in the Danubian Principalities and Hun- gary, with the object of completely dismem- bering the Austrian empire, and of creating new governmental organizations out of her dependencies and those of the Porte. These projects are not of recent con- ception. Ever since success crowned the first Italian campaign they have been ma- turing between Garibaldi and the Hungarian revolutionists, Kossuth, Count Teleki and others. There are grounds for believing that Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel are not entirely strangers to them; otherwise it would be difficult to account for the readiness with which Garibaldi was induced to postpone his threat of attacking Venice immediately after the conquest of Naples, and to retire for a sea-" son from political affairs. Whether this conjecture be well founded or not, it is certain that France is making war preparations on a vast, scale, exceeding even those which preceded the campaign in Lom- bardy. Besides the augmentation of her already large army by the increase of the effec+ tive strength of her infantry regiments, and formation of new regiments of cavalry, for mounting which she is making extensive purchases of horses in Eastern’Prussia, she is converting all the steamers she can purchase inéo war vessels and transports. This does not look like a mere contingent support of Victor Emanuel within the limits of the conditions which France had publicly assigned to her co- operation. Notwithstanding the declaration at- tributed to the Emperor in revising M. Pereire’s pamphlet, that he did not desire to extend the present boundaries of France, the conviction cannot be excluded that their expansion con- stitutes the main object of his present increased armaments, In the complications which the stubbornness of Austrian diplomatists is foster- ing in’ regard to Venice, Hungary and the Danubian Principalities, he sees prospective advantages to France, and he means to be in readiness to avail himself of them. Sardinia’ only obtained the Duchies by the cession of Savoy and Nice; the acquisition of the Two Sicilies will have to be paid for either by some further sacrifice on her part or by her joint aid in promoting French designs on Austrian ter- ritory. Napoleon thinks, of course, with Kos- suth, that the peace of Europe can never be secured until Austria is reduced to the con- dition of a second or third rate Power, and he -has no objection to be made the instrument of stripping her of some gf her overgrown pro- portions. The recent concessions made to the people and press of France, and the consolidation of the English alliance, are additional evidences of the magnitude of the struggle which is at hand. That it is likely to be of a more serious character than any that the present generation has witnessed, is shown by the sud- den anxiety which the Emperor has manifested to enter into the path of liberal concessions. Before engaging in a conflict which may be of some years duration, and which is uncertain in its results, he feels the necessity of strengthen- ing himself at home, and the relaxation of his political system, with a closer rapprochement to England, is, he believes, the surest means of effecting that object. There is only one thing that can save Europe from the dangers that menace its tranquillity, and that is the entire abandonment by Austria of her present suicidal policy. Let her cede Venice to Italy, and grant to the Hungarians, as well as to her other subjects, the blessings of constitutional liberty, and she will be im pregnable against all attacks. Are the men at the head of her affairs likely to awake in time to this conviction? We fear not. Unston Amon THe Orera Sevonns.—We per- ecive, from a circular issued by the Directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, that the ar- tists of the Italian Opers, who are usually in favor of anarchy and secession, have resolved to unite and conquer. The circular states that Signor Muzio, the Director of the Italian Ar- tists’ Association, “ bas the honor to announce that he has concluded an engagement with the Directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for a grand Italian Opera season in the City of Churches.” The Artists’ Association have been carrying on their Union since last October—a wonderfully long time for an opers company to hold together. Can it be posalble that even the opera singers are taking ® lesson of pru- dence and common sense from the insane exam- ple of the cotton States? whe Xtnd of “the Cemtral American tm- | brog).‘o"—Sem Jaam de Nicaragua a Free OT S Engrosse' with exciting and absorbing everts at bo. me, the press aud people of tho United States bx Ve lost sight of moat of those questions of fore," policy in which they have hitherto taken a0 active interest. For ten years the affiirs of Central America—British aggressions, Sari Sua , seizures, Mosquito pro- tectorates, transit squubi& ‘ 4nd filibuster raids, not only occupied #large share of public at- tention, leading articles ia Dewspapers and diplomatic corresponderice, »b¥t actually seve- ral times brought us to Mie wa ‘Y Verge of war with Great Britain. Probably » ome ef us re- member how nearly we same’ 4° & Collision omer the island of Tigre; how Bait ‘8h cruisers O@pelled the Prometheus to pay By ‘Thor dues to the King of Mosquito, asd’ hee Captain Jolly, of her Majesty’s: steamer Bema “da, in- formed Captain Hollins, of the United States frigate Cyane, that he regretted the snaa"!nesa of his force did not enable him to’ blow the impudent Yankee out of water for perform 0g the heroic feat of burning Greytown. W’'e may venture to say that there are nt living who once heard of the Clayton-Bié« wer treaty; and it is reported that several cords of official correspondence as to tie true construction of that instrument are sYored away in the Department of State, where, we fear, they run imminent risk of being burned or otherwise destroyed by the Visigoths of Ac- comac, under the lead of Alaric Wise, whem they make their descent on the capital. Where now are Chatfield and Squier, those doughty champions of their respective nationalities, who first made Central America famous and fa- miliarized the world with the name of Nica- caragua? And where Borland, whose im- maculate node, brought in violent contact with a flying junk bottle, led to the bombardment of San Juan? Where the bibulous array of re- presentatives who followed these pioneers of diplomacy in Isthmian wilds? Even Sir Wil- liam Gore Ouseley is forgotten, and there is doubt if even Dimitry is not a historical myth. But, seriously, so rapid is the march of events, the human kaleidoscope changes so often and quickly, that the most important re- sults, in their attainment, are frequently over- looked or unappreciated. When Great Britain took possession of San Juan and the Island of Tigre, colonized Ruatan and set up the Mos- quito Protectorate, she no doubt intended thereby to seize the keys of the Isthmus and hold the toll-gate between the two oceans. Her policy in this respect was traditional, for the measure had been contemplated for more than acentury. Its developement was precipitated by the acquisition of California on the part of the United States, which first made the question of interoceanic communication a practical one to the American people. Up to 1849 the United States had taken no interest whatever in that portion of our continent. Its resources were unknown and its trade was in other hands. So profound was our,apathy, that the protests of Nicaragua against the seizure of San Juan, in 1848, and the earnest appeal of the govern- ment of that country to our own for moral aid in support of its rights, were allowed to pass without the poor courtesy of an acknow- ledgment. But, as we have said, as soon as the question.of easy commemication with Califor- nia was forced on pubie attention and became one of practical interest, then the United States woke up to the nature of British aggres- sions on Nicaragua. I[t was at once seen that our interests in the Pacific, multiplied beyond ‘all anticipation by the discovery of gold, paramountly required that every available route of communication between the oceans should be open and free. And we aroused to the fact to find their portals held by a powerful and not over scrupulous rival. To reopen these routes and break down the pretensions under which they had been seized and obstructed obviously became a leading, not to say vital, measure of American policy. General Taylor comprehended the necessities of the case, and the very first diplo- matic appointment which he made was that of Mr. Squier to Nicaragua, with strio- gent instructions to thwart British designs and secure American interests. How well the bat- tle was opened every one at all acquainted with Central American affairs must remember. Mr. Squier found the port of San Juan held by 8 British force, and measures on foot to occupy the commanding Bay of Fonseca on the Pacific side, thug securing the absolute control of the Is hmus in English hands The Mosquito king- dom and the Mosquito Protectorate were only the stalking horses of this deep design. The attempt on the Bay ef Fonseca was fortunately forestalled by the cession of the island of Ti- gre, commanding it, to the United States. And then came the analysis of British pretensions on the Mosquito shore, in which the United States and its representatives planted them- selves firmly by the side of the Central Ameri- can States in support of their territorial rights. It is not our p , however, to trace the ~ history of the diplomatic contest which ensued. It was the most protracted of any in which the country was ever engaged, and was carried on up to 1856 with extraordinary zeal on both sides, It then came to a dead lock, both Eng- land and the United States having committed themselves to perfectly irreconcileable decia- rations, from which neither could with honor recede. The only mode of resolving the issue seemed to be through the ultimate one of force. And here there was a pause, alike feverish and dangerous. Fortunately, bow- ever, a solution was suggested outside of the official parties to the controversy, which has resulted in a complete settlement. This solu- tion was the simple one of inviting the va- rious Central American States to treat directly with Great Britain for the relinquishment of her pretensions. Her statesmen, long before satisfied of their inability to carry out the policy inaugurated in 1848, in face of the direct hostilitys of the United States, were willing to yield to the solicita- tions of the feeble republics of Central America what their pride forbade then to concede to a peer. The treaties with Guate- mala, fixing definitely the boundaries and status of Belize; the conventions with Hondu- ras, surrendering the Bay Islands and relin- quishing Mosquito pretensions within the limits of that State, and finally the convention with Nicaragua, subverting the so-called Mos- quito kingdom, and reducing “his Mosquito Majesty” to the congenial rank of am ordinary savage, and, above all, restoring the long dis- puted port of San Juan, no longer the “Grey- town” of the blue books, to its rightful owner— such have been the results of the simple and rational policy originated in 1856. We have been led into these reminiscences