The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1861, Page 6

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BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechgnios’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Bonursqoxs, 5oxus, Dances, &c,—Sotrxk D’Ermors, HOOLFY & CAMPBRLL’S MINSTRELS, Niblo’s Saloon, ay.—Enmortax BoxGs, Dancxs, Bukixsyous, &¢.— New Yean CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 663 Broudway.—Soxcs, anos, BUMLEsQuas, &c. ‘ WASHINGTON HALL, Wiliamsbarg.—Woov's Mix eraacs. ——————— New York, Thursday, January 17, 1861. The News. The news from Washington this morning is of Col. Hayne, the Com- mer from South Carolina, was informed by the President on Tuesday that any communication he had to make must be made in writing. Col. Hayne thereupon withdrew, in order to prepare his propositions, but up to last evening had not sent his communication to the Executive. It is known, however, that Col. Hayne’s mission is to demand the prompt and unconditional surren- der of Fort Sumter to the South Carolina authorities; and it is also known that the President will unequivoéally and emphatically re- fuse to comply. Furthermore, it is known that the President has despatched orders to Major An- derson to act entirely on the defensive, but to de- tend Fort Sumter against any attack to the last extremity. Colonel Hayne asserts that if the fort is sot given up oceans of blood will flow. That the South Carolinians will attempt its capture is beyond question. Their chances of success may be judged of upon perusal of a description of the fortification and its means of defence, given in another part of to-day’s paper. We have reports of a terrible state of affe the Mississippi river. It is stated that the Missis- sippi secessionists have planted cannon at various point» along the banks of the river, that one steamboat has been denied passage, while others have been overhauled, and that several respecta- ble persons have been compelled to return to the places from whence they started. Although these reports are partially verified by a member of Con- gress, yet we must have them confirmed before placing implicit faith in them. . In Congress yesterday Messrs. Simmons and Authoay, of Rhode Island, addressed the Senate on the crisis, and on motion of Mr. Clark, of New Hempshire, the Crittenden adjustment was laid on the table by a vote of twenty-five to twenty- three. Subsequently a motion was made to re- consider the vote, pending which the Seuate adjoarued. In executive session, the appointment of Mr. Taylor, chief Clerk of the New York Post Office, to"the Postmastership, w: firmed. In the House the debate on the crisis was repewed. Messrs. Garnet, of Virginia, and Gurley, of Ohio, were the chief speakers. The public will doubtless be surprised to learn that Major General Sandford has tendered the whole of the First Division of New York militia to Governor Morgan, and that the offer has been ac- cepted provisionally. Nevertheless, such is the fact, as the correspondence between these officials, which we publish in another column, will show. ‘Tae Georgia State Convention met at Milledge- ville yesterday, and organized by choosing George W. Crawford chairman, and A. 2. Lamar secre- tary. A committee was appointed to wait on the South Carolina and Alabama Commissioners, and request them to communicate with the Convention. ‘The Coavention then adjourned. A full report of the speech of Gov. Floyd, ex- Secretary of War, at Riclmond recently, at « ban. quet to which he was invited, by his admirers, is given on the second page of to-day’s Henao This speech will attract considerable attention from the fact that Gov. Floyd unreservedly reveal< the secrets of the Cabinet, of whieh he was « mem- ber, with respeet to the designs of the admini tion relative to the se on movements of the Soutl There are but few instances on record of a Cabinet minister out of place reveal- ‘ing Stote secrets, and the conduct of Gov. Floyd in this regard has been severely snimadverted upon by all parti We publish in another colum» a circular letter from prominent bishops and clergymen of the North, addressed to the clergy and laity of the South, ia which they counsel « cadm, discriminating investigation of the causes of the perils impending over the country, ond a manly, Christian effert, onder God, to avert them. ‘There was arumor about town yesterday that James ©. Kerrigan, member. of Congress clect from Cais city, is to be arrosted ona charge of treason, under the recent charge of Judge Smalley. ‘The cireumstances which led f 0 this rumor are de tailed eleewhere in our colamas. ‘The first drill meeting of Uae Union Volunteers was held last evening at the ‘Mercer House. Sub sequent to the drill resolutic ns were passed dis claiming any political or sect ional objec In the State Senate yestertlay the Committee on Federal Relations made an elaborate report on the various resolutions having r new to the dix turbed condition of the country. (4 ayooyeis of the report, together, with the res r mended by the committee, are given in oy despatches from Albany. A resolution appointing the 5th of Fe)yruary ax the time for electing a United States ‘Genatag, in place of Mr. Seward was offered, on¢, laid over. Benjamin F. Bruce, of Madison, ¥ sas chosen (Canal Commissi There‘ was not a quoram of Emigration Comm rioners prevent at the meeting of thet Board y terd®’y, The routine business was all that they disp oved of in consequence, The weekly state me nt shows only 148 emigrant arrivals at the port during last week, which makes the whole number, ‘i , 742, This doops pot indicate 0 eave January 1 1» ae Ler pe $- the highest importance. mii mer . ~\ brisk em: gration for the present year, aa it ia far behind the numbers in tie wame period of the years immediately preceding the present one. Doubtless the political condition of the country produces an unfavorable effect on the European immigration. The commutation balance # present is $5,490 60, The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, for thre purpose of organizing for the year 1861, On the first ballot, Wm. R. Stewart, the President of the old Board, was unanimously re-elected. The veto of the Mayor on the resolution to imercase the police force was taken up, and after some debate the original resolution we unanimously passed, over the yeto of the Me or, Some other im- portant business was transacted, which will be found in another portion of the paper. ‘The Board of Education held a special meeting last evening, but it was merely to transact routine business, An appropriation of $6,000 was made to furnish the new schoolhouse in the Twenty-first ward, and several smaller appropriations to pur- chase heating apparatus for different schoothouses throughout the city were likewise made. The committees appointed by the President were then announced, and the Board adjourned. The market for beef cattle yesterday was dull, and prices fell off about %4c. a 4c. per pound. Milch cows and veal calves were without material change. Sheep and lambs were more plenty and dull, at a reduction in prices of 50c. @ Téc. per head. Swine were active and firmer. The total receipts were 3,877 beeves, 103 cows, 359 veals, 9,711 sheep and lambs and 11,352 swine. ‘The extreme inclemency of the weather yesterday tended to oheck transactions in most descriptions of pro- duce. The cotton market was taine, while sales em braced about 900 bales, closing heavy at about 12% for middling uplands. The receipts at the ports since the Ist of September last have reached about 1,835,000 bales, against 2,452,000 in 1860, and 2,070,000 in 1859. ‘The exports in the same time have reached 1,141,000 Dales, againat 100,000 in 1860, and 1,040,000 in 1: ‘The stock on hand embraced 615,000 bales, against 1,003,000 in 180), and 837,000 in 1859. Flour was heavy, and for Western and Btate grades prices wore Se. poe bar- rei lower, Waeat was heavy, and closed at about 1c. per bushel lower. Gorn was also dull, with a fair de- mand. Sales were active at the concession, Pork was firmer, with sales of new mess at $17 25 a $17 50, and of new prime at $13 a $15 25. Sugars were quiet, and in the absence of sales of moment quotations were nomi ual, Cofloe was quiet, with moderate sales at ateady Freights (or English ports were rather firmer, iy for gram, while engagements were light. Important News from Springfield—The President Elect on the Crisis. The very interesting and important intelli- gence from our Springfield correspondent, which we publish to-day, corroborates the gene- ral impression that Mr. Seward, in his late speech in the Senate, upon the present crisis, its dangers and its remedies, fully and authori- tatively reflected the views, inclinations and purpozes of the President ele First, we are informed that the news of the firing upon the Star of the West had thrown the Legislature and the citizens at Springfield into great excitement, from the belief that this act was the beginning of civil war; and that, though the President elect had very little io say in refe- rence io these startling revolutionary events in South Carolina, “it is obvious that he is most deeply concerned and exercised about the pro- bable consequences.” This is but a common place scrap of intelligence, and yet we dertve some satisfaction from it, because it shows that the imperturbable indifference hitherto mani- fested by Mr. Lincoln in regard to these “ revo- lutionary events” has at length given way to serious reflection upon the responsible position in which he stands before the American people But it appears that not only has Mr. Lincoln been brought to a thoughtful frame of mind upon the dangers which beset the Union, ‘but that from his meditations he has been almost persuaded, for the sake of the Union, to come down from the Chicago platform. Thus, it ap- pears, that while he sticks to the republican docirine of the Congressional prohibition of slavery in the Territories, and while he is de- cidedly opposed to the Crittenden resolutions, and equally so to the scheme of admitting New Mexico as a State, with its Territorial slave code unchanged, still, “should he be called upon, after assuming his place at the helm of the ship of State, to subordinate, for the sake of the harmony and peace of the country, his private opinions to public measures, he will not fail to make a patriotic response.” To be more explicit, sinking his individual opinions in the general welfare, Mr. Lincoln would sign a law of Congress, “embodying the propositions of Mr. Robinson, or even the resto- ration and extension to _the Pacific coast of the Missouri compromise line, provided he could be satisfied it was demanded by the bulk of the nation, and the only means of saving the Union.” This indicates a patriotic disposition on the part of the President elect to compose these existing and alarming sectional disturbances through the offices of peace and reconciliation. This is good, but it is neutralized by what follows; for we are admonished from Springfield that neither Mr. Lincoln nor Ns nds have any longer any faith in the ability of any Union saving compromise, apprebending, as he and they do. that “not only will all the cot- ton States follow in the wake of South Caro- lina, but that no peace offering of any desc: tion will ever induce them to retrace their steps.” Thus, it appears, Mr. Lincoln infers that the question with his administration “will to forestall secession, but how to s an accomplished, ir not be how deal with it stubborn fe He the great difficulty in the way of a compromise, ihe belief, or the plea, that it is too late or too soon for compromises of ony sort. Senator Iverson, of Georgia, tells ue it is too that the Union is irrevocably dis- solved, and tbat an independent Southern confederacy will soon be established, which will prove “the most successful government on earth.” Senator Seward says it is too soon, and that he will not be ready to ocable, then, i in the work of a constitutional until these “eecentric seces- sion ant disunion movements shall have ended. antime, he considers a Southern confederacy as only a glittering mirage of the desert of Utoy vl ihe Union so sirong and indispensable to all concerned that it will re- co ‘tself, and that these “eecentric secession movements” are mere nullities, calculated only to tead foolish men astray. From Washington and from Springfield, from | the Premier and from the President of the in- \ coming republican administration, the same | conclusion is proclaimed—that the first ques- | tion before it will not be how to save the Union, | but how to deal with the seceded States. From | Mr. Lincoln, too, and from Mr. Seward, the same answer has been given, substantially, that the Union and the constitution will be main- tained in the seceded States by the enforcement of the laws. The case, then, appears to be made up. There will be no compromise withia the brief interval to the 4th of March, and thea, engo compromi-” \ erhaps, begins (the deluge. If Mr. Seward, however, rejecting this misappregnsion that it ia too late or (00 4000 for compromises, would only come bravely up to the full measure of 4 compromise securing the South for the future within the Union, and if Mr. Lincoln would assist in this movement, if passed or not passed by Congress, good results would be sure to fol- low. If passed, the door of reconciliation would be thrown wide open; if Lost, the incom- ing administration would enter upon its duties with the approbation and support of every Union man within the boundaries of the United States. We call, therefore, upon Mr. Seward, in be- half of the Union, the peace of the country and the incoming administration, to try at once the experiment of a great practical compromise It is not too soon and it is not too late to try it The Decision of the Pre: it—Fort Sum- ter to be Retained. Our Washington despatches on Tuesday in- formed us of the arrival at the federal capital of Colonel Hayne—a special messenger from the Governor of South Carolina to the Presi- deat of the United States. Colonel Hayne’s errand was to demand the surrender of Mort Sumter to the authorities of South Carolina. The decision of the President, announced this morning, is that under no circumstances will the government resign possession of J'ort Sumter; and it is understood that Major An- derson will be instructed to defend the post at all hazards. It is very unfortunate that the question as to this comparatively unimportant point should have been raised just at this mo- ment, when there is an opening for com- promise. Except Sumter and some obscure works in Florida and Texas, the entire line of Southern seacoast defences are in the haads of the disunionists. Now, the Charleston peo- ple hold that, to be consistent, they must re- move the federal flag’ from Sumter, even if they are compelled to accomplish the act by force. As a matter of course, they would be sustained by all the Gulf States wherein fede- ral property has been seized. Sumter might be taken by exhausting the garrison, or a general naval fight ensue, in which the city of Charles- ton would suffer severely and the best blood of Carolina flow in torrents. The cotton States would then come to the rescue, and the result would be a frightful civil war. Now, the so- ber, earnest, thinking men of all parties regard with aversion any movements that look to the arbitrament of the sword. At the same time it is a point of honor with all of us who still adhere to the Union that Fort Sumter should not be taken, and we believe that the forbear- ance of Major Anderson in the matter of the Star of the West should lead to equal conside- ration on the part of the Charleston authori- ties. They, however, seem to think that the presence of the federal fiag on Sumter is a tacit defiance of the government which they have set up, and they feel the matter more deeply than any of us at the North can possibly imagine. Sumter has been ewlled the key to tha de. fences of Charleston harbor. It is something more just now. It is the turning point in the crisis of the Union. There can be-no doubt that the action of the President upon Hayne’s rather cool proposition will be received with approbation in ihe border slave States, and that the Union party in the South will secretly approve it. At the same time that we receive this news from Washington we have important intelli- gence from Springfield, to the effect that Mr. Seward’s speech receives the endorsement of the President elect; and it is by no means im- probable that if affairs could be kept in statu quo ante bellum for a short time longer the re- publicans would offer some plan of compro- mise, based upon the Crittenden amendments. The radical wing of the party is already get- ting frightened at the weakness, as they term it, of the republican members of Congress. Greeley & Co. how] vigorously over Seward’s speech—the very best possible proof that it has hit the right spot. So we find the extreme re- publicans and the thorough going fire-eaters, as usual, united in the endeavor to break up the Union. Between these two fires the con- servatives North and South are unable to stir hand or foot. They are as effectively shut up as Anderson in Fort Sumter. Suppose the worst comes to the worst (for we must look at these things squarely) and Sumter is atiacked, what then’ Then the North will be aroused as one man, and, until reason regains its sway, we shall be compelled to sufier all the horrors of a fratricidal conflict, which will destroy the industrial interests of all sections ahd put us back at least a hundred years in the estimation.of the civilized world. We will assume, for the sake of argument, that in the event of war the border States would cast their lot in with the North, although the tenor of all our advices from Virginia, Ker tucky, Tennessee, Maryland and Vir- ginia are inflexibly the other way; and thea itis not so clear that the army of the North could subjugate the cotton States. And if they did succumb, of what value would their forced submission be? Then, again, where are the troops to come from? Where will the general government find volunteers to fight against men who take up arms on their own soil to defend their own rights’ Can we depend upoa officers of the army and navy when they are commanded to turn their guns against their own relatives, or their comrades, with whom they have shared the bivouac or joined in the assault upon a foreign foe? Are we to take a hundred thousand men from the workshops, the plough or the counting house, and send them to attack our brethren of the South in their own homes’ 1s there no danger that in the event of civil war and the withdrawal of a large number of law-abiding citizens from the Northern cities, that the dangerous classes will prove too much for the local authorities! is the commerce of the country to be suspended without overthrowing all other interests inter- woven with and dependant upon it’ These are questions which the cocrcionists will do well to ponder upon earnestly, and if they are not as crazy as the advocates of im- mediate secession in the South, they will agree that, in case no settlement of the difficulty can be arranged, it will be better that we should part in peace. There is nothing so dreadful ia the idea of two great confederacies, managed upon the same general plan as the present Union, with trade, commerce, manufactures, friendly intercourse going on the same as in the most peaceable times. If onr Southern brethren think they can better themselves by going out, and are resolved to try the expe ment, in Heaven's name let them go in peace. We cannot keep them by force. People ia their ovilioa, defiading their own firesides, may be overthrown many (imes, but history tesehes us that the work of subjugation is, besides, ex- coodingly diffeult, as unprofitable to the con- querors 4a to the conquered. We have hopes that the Charleston people will think over the matéer of ort Sumter, and that the new administration will offer terms that will meet the approbation of the Union party in the border States, where they demand a lever to begin with. Farther South the Union seatiment lies dormant, but is not dead, aud may yet rise superior to the secession lunacy. Bui coercion is not to be theught of for a mo- ment, Wso Anke van Troe Owners or Oun Feoera Forroicartons?—The argument is continually brought forward by that por- tion of the people of the Southern States who would justify the seizure of federal property by State governments, that our coast defences were erected exclu- eively for local defence. They say that Fort Pulaski belongs to Georgia, from the very ne- cessity of the case, as much as Dover does to Eagland, or Cherbourg and Toulon to France. They maintain that the authorities of South Tarolina have an absolute, inherent right to hold forts Pinckney, Moultrie and Sumter; that the approaches to New Orleans belong to Louisiana; and that forts McHenry and Mon- roe are appendages of Virginia and Maryland, just so soon as those States have cut themselves off from the Union. This is an entire fallacy. It waa not alone for the protection of any par- ticular point, or line of coast, that ofr fortifi- cations were built with so much care and at such vast expense; but for the seeurity of the common country, and to prevent the possibility of invasion, which would give a lodgment any- where on the continent to a common enemy. The inhabitants of Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore-are no less interested that troops should not be landed in Georgia and South Carolina, than are those of Savannah, Columbus and Charleston. An attack upon any one point of our coast is an invasion of the whole United States, and would be resisted as much in the present dislocated state of our national and administrative machinery as it would have been under the Presidency of Monroe, Madison or Jackson. Were Louisiana menaced by a foreign foe, would the people of that State cry out hands off ; let us fight out this battle singly and alone? They would justly demand the assistance of the whole sea and land force of the Union to aid them, and they would receive succor alike from Missouri, Ohio, New York and even Connecticut and Massachusetts. The blood still flows from one common heart, and the pulsations of every artery are dictated from one common national centre. An injury inflicted is felt from one extremity to the other of the body politic, no matter what member may suffer the immediate injury. It is idle, therefore, to attempt a defence of the conduct of those State governments that have seized upon national property, on the ground that it is essentially of local derivation and for the proservation of local integrity. Our fortifications belong to the federal government alone ; can be legally held and defended only by federal troops, or under federal jurisdiction, and the acts that have dictated the movements of our Southern brethren must be unequivocal- ly condemned by every right minded citizen. It would doubtless be inexpedient to attempt any reversal of the mad acts of extremists at the South, at the present moment; but the principle remains fast which Mr. Buchanan laid down in his annual message with regard to the matter. Views ov ane Evrorkay Joursars ox tHe Sremssion Movewenr.—The controversy which is being carried on between the Paris Siecle and Le Pays on the slavery question in this country has a pecaliar significance, from the fact that M. de Cassagnac, the editor of the latter, is known to receive Mi inspirations on most political questions from the Emperor Na- poleon. It will be recollected that, shortly be- fore South Carolina declared in Convention its formal secession from the Union, it was stated that she had eniered into: negotiations with the French government, and had received from it positive assurances of recognition and support. The same thing was asserted in regard to Kag- land. These statements were subsequently contradicted by the republican journals, and it was averred that, so far were they from being the fact, the representatives of both go- vernmenis at Washington: had positively inti- mated that the secession movement would re- ceive neither countenance nor etreouragement from them. There was, no doubt, ue little foundation for the one as for the other of these assertions, It is not the habit of the European governments to commit themselves imanticipation ef events. But there is no difficulty in judging, from past precedents, of what their course will be should the Southern States resolve themselves into a separate confederacy. Since the revolution of 1850 in France it ius been the established policy of England to re- cognise de facto governments, and her example has since been followed by neavty all the En- vopean cabinets. Lt is to the expedicacy of this principle that most of the political changes that have been since eflected in Europe owe their peaceful consummation. But if any doubt existed on the subject, in connection with the South, it would be dispelled by the recent de- claration of Ux London Times, that the South had vights, and of those rights that of free trade was ome; as well as by the energetic arguments of Le Lays -Lonis Napoleon’s organ—in support of slavery. ‘The views put forth by the latter are, besides, only the natural corollary of the policy which songht to revive the slave trade in order to supply the tropical colonies of France with African labor. The disposition of both govern- ments to recognise the independence of the South being thus clearly established, it be- hooves those who do not want to sce foreign clemends imported into the present conflict be- tween the two great sections of the confedera- ey, to make some practical advances towards conciliation. Let European interference be once admitted in the affairs of these States, and the remotest generations of our descendants will have reason to curse the memory of the men who have built ap the republican party merely tor their own political advancement Mosvnm Concent vex Dever oy Maoewk Awwa Pumor.—This popular favorite with the musical | putbiic takes @ henefit ot Irving Mallito morrow (Vriday) night, on which occasion she will be os#ieted by several plished a including, among others, Sicnora Fre lini, Mada on erkle, Mime Kate Oo ack, Signore T, Biecacciante and fe Abelian; Mowers, hte 00k, Howler, Mille, Mattwon, Oarl Au Aber eminent proferwwpale, The pro sUALY OOd, eMPracing Iweaty-one choice ections, vocal and inetrumvental, from the mart omin osere, which, when it ts umderstood that Madar Hishop ktanda in need of assistance will, we Are COMdoDt, ersure ber « growugd hous oninte, Mu! v DEPOBTANT FROM The President Elect and His Views on the Crisis. He Would be Disposed to Support a Liberal Compromise, but he Fears it is Too Late. The Question is Not How to Forestall Secession, bat How to Deal With It, &e., de, ke. Our Spriagticid Correspondence. Srunuraao, Jan, 12, 1801. Mr. Secani Gasetted as Secraary of State—Cameren Off cially Sheived—Probavility of Chase's Acceptance of the Secreargship of the Treasury—N. B. Judd Pressed for the Interior Department —Ihe Rubicon Believed to be Croised—Legiilatinve Doings, de., de. ‘The Daily Mineis State Journal of this morzing con- tains the following official announcement of Mr. Seward’s acceptance of the Secretary ship of State: ‘MR. TINCOLN’R CUBE The Albany Zvening Jowmnal having aunounced that Mr. Sewart! ‘has accepted the pxsition of Secretury of State under the President cicet, it may not be out of piace to stats that’ official advices ‘o that effect have been received by Mr. Lim coin. ‘The portfolio of the State Department was tendered to Mr. Seward several week» ayo, and the selec tion caunot fail to receive a cordial respouse from all who love and are determined to stand by the Unien. Mr. Se- ward's Wisdom as @ sf of ability, a8 a diplomat- ist, will directly tend to strengthen coufidence in the in coming administration at home and abroad. The Jowrnad proper'y remarks, “that on no former oecasion has « President offered, or a Secretary accepted, that depart- went in a manner more delicate and respectful to each, or more independent and henorable to both;"" and it pute on record the prediction “that President and Premier wil so discharge their duties amid all the dilliculties Chat surround them as to preserve the blessings of Union, and to deserve and receive the homage of their countrymen.’ We Dave confidence that the sequel will verify the pro pheey, Ibis known that Mr. Lincoin received Mr. Seward’s formal acceptance only by this morning's mail, and thal the paragraph in Thurlow Weed’s payer was inserted simultaneously with the mailing of the letter. Mr, Lin- coln immediately acknowledged its receipt by special telegraphic despatch to Waehington, Candor compels me to state that the construction put upon Mr. Seward’s appointment in a late editorial of the Herat ig not endersed by the friends of the President elect. They leok upon it as an earnest of the firm ad herence of the new regime to the dogmas of their party, as laid down in the Chicago platform, rather than as a symptom of readiness to compromise and renounce. The radical republicans of this section, at all events, augur from Mr. Seward’s premiership the strict fidelity of the incoming aiministration to the principles to the triumph of which it owes its existence. It may be safely sumed, nevertheless, that Mr. Seward’s profound statcs- mauship and catholicity of views will enable him to un derstand the exigencies of the times, and prevent any clashing act of the administration of which he will, doubtlessly, be the most prominent aud influential member. ‘The last twenty-four hours have developed the proba- bility that Mr. Chase may, after all, uot ucsept the Treasury Department, offered to him by the !’resideat elect during his recent stay in this city. The ex-Gover- nor himself would greatly prefer the Senatorial toga to a ministerial portfolio. But & seems that an acceptance is urged upon him by many of his moet intimate and faithful friends, and that he is not unlikely to yield to their counsel. Advices to that effect reached here last night. ‘The partisans of N. B. Judd, of this State, who are now assembled around their leader at this point, are working with might and main to secure the place iuformally ten- dered to Caleb B. Smith, of Indiana, for him. The jeal- ousy of rival republican chieftains from (his State para- lizes, however, their efforts to some extent. But it is very possible that their represeutations will prevail in theend Me. Judd is am old and tried friend of the President elect, and Mr. Lincoln's personal profi ces will not conflict with the wishes of the advocates of the former's cause. Nor is the country likely to suffer by the sub- tution of the shaltow-brained Hoosier for so uble a man as Mr. Judd. ‘The news of the tiring upon the Star of the West threw both Legislatare und citizens generally inte intense excitement. The tug of war is believed to be come—the Rubicon croesed—civil war inevitable, Legi«! e ness was all but suspended. ‘The “overt act of treason and rebellion’ occupied the minds ond month of all ‘The President elect looks very gravely. He says little in reference to the startling events in South Carolina, but it is obvious that he is nevertheless most deeply concerned and exercised about their probable conse- quences. ‘The Legivlature has thus far contined itself to the forma- tion of committees and introduction of petitions and bills. ai Sruncreen, Jan, 12, U6) The President Etect and the Compromise Propositions —The Southern Members of the Cabinet— Wilmet’s Connertion with the Cameron Intriquas—Legisiative—-Persemal, ite. Frequent allusions have been made by mo in preceding letters to the position occupied by the Presideut elect in reference to the various modes aud means, proposed by patriots in Congress and elsewhere, for the pacification of the country, Itook occasion to state at different times that he had distinctly and emphatically expressed his firm adhesion to the Chicago platform in general, and the republican doctrine of the Congressional right to legislate prohibitively on the subject of slavery in the Territories; that he was decidedly opposed to the Crittenden resolu tions and equally so to the «cheme of admitting New Mexi coasa State with its Territorial slave code unchanged—in in, that ho was as resolute and outspoken aa anti-slave ry extensionistas ever. That such are really iis views no one that has ever enjoyed tho privilege of his frank, un- reserved conversation on public matters will deny; but Thave reason to think—in fuet, 1 know—that shonld he be called upon, after assuming his place at the helm of the ship of State, to subordinate, for the sake of the har mony and peace of the country, lis private opinions to publie measures, he will not fail to make # patriotic re. spouse. 1 believe, to illnstrate the meaning of this assertion, that although entirely loath to see slavery spread over another inch of ground, be would yet attix his signature to a Congressional enactment embodying the propositions of Mr. Robinsoa, or even the resto. ration and extension to the Pucifie const of the Missouri compromise line, provided he could be satisfied that it was demanded by the bulk of the nation, and the only meuns of saving the Union. On the other hand, it will be but simple justice to state that neither he not friends have any longer faith in the availability a of the suggested compromise measures incline to the conviction that not enly Will follow im the wake of South Carolina; tut no peace offering of any desaription will ever imduee (hem to re. trace their steps, and that the quertiou with the republican administration will not be, how to forestall ecession, but how to deal with i¢.as an accomplished, stubborn, irrevo: cable fact Tt is now considered certoin in Presidential circles that at let one, and perhaps two places, will be left a in the Cabinet with a view to the repre. ation of the South, and that Us 1 net be filed until after the arrival of the eut ia the federal capital. ‘The statement of the New York Tribune that Robert E. Scott, of Virginia, and William A. Graham would be taken from the ekvy ts totally ntfiunded. No sueh selections have bean made; nor is it at all likely that Mr. Scott wil) be one of Mr. Li ministers, His last epistolary offorl, in which be ph himself determinedly and bitterte on roMvrd agwinst the party that elevated MP. Lincoln ts powor, Is rendered Lim altogether fmpossible It would be vain to cou ricate and delicate queation previous to hi au They appear to he cotton States: the fuck Gust the most in dived by Me. Lincoln very representa tion of the Southern tion of te et ry in 18 Ministerial council, The an bsolute want of Southern plavks likely to fit into the already constructed portion of the Cabinet. ‘That this diifeutty has proved. vory vexatious to Mr. Hincoln is certain, a ho will pat of his ultimate Acetsion in the promives ontil a potut Of eulmination will be further app: J, either one way er the other, is more than probable, m ie nov § Audying from pregent appearances, (he sessing of the Vogisiawnre State will be a pre ntly working one. ‘The Jogitimats bawiness for whieh it has been con Of; polities will onty be dab hall nt adsoety the oly comtinedt by will be first disp Dled th in cage the begistst orty daye within whied th the eenstitntion, ‘The most inypo ad ary Yills at meoeurea thos far jutro Tor Lig ameudtmogs of tag bray wwe [awe and the reorganization of the mmijitia of bi ‘tate. Gharies Butler, the well koe@e financier of your cry. was bore during ycaterday Bevery, Jan, 15, 2964 The Cameron Pother Revivel—Arvivel of Senator Crvon and J. P. Sanderson, of Pennaylvavia—The Otject f Their Mission—Cameron’s Ultimatum, de. ‘There is avother excked flutter among our politirat quid muncs, All the pangs of curiosity—wil the cneer talnties of rumors, conjectures, implications and deduce tions, that deprived taem of their peace of mind and rest of body only a fortnight ago, are being ronewed. The Cameron cabal is revived. The more {cared than fearful Peunsylvania chieftain has ouce wm entered the lists in the person of his most devoted henchman—J. P. Sanderson, ‘That faithful squire, who had followed his Lege lord hither but a few days ago, landed a second time in this republican Mecea at 4 late hour last evening. The news of the bombardment of Charleston would have produced no more amazemewt than that of his sudden apparition. Ina mere whiff i¢ had penetrated the remotest biding place of politicians. “What does it mean!’ escaped the lips of all, “ls he come as a harbinger of peace or wart’? “Hus the yehe- ment opposition to bis master’s appointment stirred up his mettio and excited his ire, or induced him to forego his Cabinet aspirations!” These were the questious— more easily acked than answered. Not @ little was added to the irritation by the fact that Fdgar Cowan, the newiy elected United States Sena tor of Pennsylvania, had not only arrived om the same train, but also engaged apartments in common with Sanderson. There was another pozrie. It had been universally believed that Cowan's triumph was tantamount toa defeat of Cameron, as Wil mot had received the sapport of the Cameron men in consideration of services rendered during his late visit to this place, and hence tae apparent harmony and ce- operation of supposedly hostie eleinents proved a pre found mystery and no mean source of discoucert aad confusion, ‘Thos it was not to be woudered at that this holy Sabbath was desecrated by genoral and persistent at tempts to solve this seeming!y inexplicable eoiguu So many experienced noses being on dhe acent, it could not be @ matter of surprise that, ere the distinguished visiters had dwelled twenty-four hours in our midst, the mist of discordact circumstances that first shrouded heir imtents and purposes bus cleared uway aud the case ail but fully understood. It appears that Mr. Sandersou came bere in a direct rush from Washington City, a> the envey picnipoteutiary of the great Pennsylvania cabalist. Frightened, beyoud aii doubt, by the intensely hostile, demonstrations that have been brought to Lear upon the President etect during the lust ten days, the latter instructed his fdus Achetes to vadertake the journey to Springfield noe more, aad bring matters to @ head either one way or the other. And thus the confidential messenger hied hither, and giving himself hardly time for a hasty Juvation and repast, sought the Presidential presence ut the earlicat possible moment. He found Mr. Lincoin at his private residence, and was closeted with him from eight to eleven o'clock P.M. The interview was renewed this forenoon, amd likewise lasted several hours. As tothe tenor of the alternative presented by the deputy, it was ffamed with Mr. Cameron's habitual pru- dence and cunning. It neither asserted nor demanded any Using in offensive or imperious terms. Jt was couched, on the contrary, in the most respectful aud conciliatory language. It left everything to the pleasure of the party to whom it was addressed, and expressed a willingmess te- abide by his uitimate decision. While a readiness te serve was intimated, no anxiety for office was mané- fested. In fine, the document was #0 held 4s to enable the author to come well out of the affair, no maatier what its upshot would be. ‘The President received Mr. Cameron's representative with his usual kindnees, and listened to all he had to say with attention and respect. But it is well understood that he fated to respond directly or definitely, but ex pressed his intention to take the matter under further ad- visement, It is not improbable that the question whetber or not. Mr. Cameron will oceupy a seat in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet will be ultimately decided betore Mr. Sanderson re- embarks for the Fast. Jn the meantime the President cleet finds himself in a disagreeable predicament. On the one Land, the disregard of the numerous emphatie remon strances agaunst the appointment of the Senator from Pennsylvania threatens to become a means of serious offence to their prominent and influential originators; while, on (he other, the knowledge of Cameron's secret desires and easily wounded pride and grent power opens the unpleasant prospect of equally grave consequences in case of hig disappointment, Nevertheless, I venture to say that—Mr. Sanderson's visit to the contrary uotwith- standing—the failure of the Cabinet aspirations of his prineipal ie greatest, and that a plaster in the shape of « first clvss foreign mission will be offered. As to the import of Mr. Cowan's visit, it is known taat he mot Mr. Sanderson by accident at Pittsburg, while oa his way here, and being an intimate scquaintance, came om with him; but, although the main object of his trip is to become personally acquainted with the resident elect, Unat he intended, with a generosity truly creditable to the victor, to urge Cameren’s claims in order to secure for his defeated rigal a place at his «ile in the United States Senate. Mr. Cowan did not attend tat night's interview be. tween the President and Mr. Saacerson, but was formally introduced to the former ia the course of the morning. Srruvcrmp, Jan. 16, 1861. Senator Cowan and Mr. Sanderson left this morning dis appointed, after laying close siege to Mr. Lincoln for three days. It ismow understood that Mr. Cameron's offer to withdraw was not absolute. He merely expressed his willingness to forego his claims should they prove a source of embarrassment to the President elect. Both Cowan and Sanderson worked like beavers in Cameron's interest, but Mr. Lincoln thought beet not to commit himself ded. nitely while they were here. The pressure exerted by them now beiug removed, there is no great probability of an ultimate decision in Cameron's fayor, as stroug counter efforts are constantly being made. It is believed here that Cowan's support of Cameron's claims wae exerted in return of obligations to Cameron members by the Pennsylvania Legislature, ‘The probability of Mr. Judd’s appointment is inereas- A test vote was tuken in the Legislature this morning on Mr. Crittenden’s compromise proposition. The re- publican majority voted down resolutions embodying them. ‘The Democratic Convention to-morrow will be very largely attended. ‘There ie « prospect of « hard struggie as to which of the compromise measures now before Con- gress should be endorsed. ‘Three mysterious gentlemen arrived early this morn lng, and registered themselves at the St. Nicholns Hotel, ae Mr. Barney and friends. They were apparentiy very anxious to preserve an Incognito, but were soon re cognized as Messrs. George Opdykg, Hiram Barney, aud Judge Hogeboom, of New York city. The distinguished trio hat 4@ protracted interview with the President elect both this morning and after noon, ‘The object of their mission Is to protest against Cameron's appointment, and express the decided opposi tion of the republican masses of the Empire State to any compromise involving an abandowment of the Chicago platform. That the distribution of federal patronage in New York city also received their attention may be wel supposed. Mr. Edward's speceh is an exact redection of Mr. Lincoln's views. Police Intelligence. Cevat Roan ov Vierms.—The arrest of Gilbert Morris, alias Sheffield, for swindling, moticed in yesterday's newspapers, brought a great crowd of victims to the Second District Police Court Arnokl, Constable & Co. complained that they had lost $22 40; Jackson & Go, of Proadway, $24; String, Adrionce & Co., $43.20; Ubadell, Pierson & Lake, $6; and Joceph Datten, $#% 60. It is expected that’ a namber of other firma have bews swindled, which will swell thé amount togeveral b sudred dollars. Morris is a genteel looking fellow, very plaus bic 1 his manner, and woll calculated every way to.euy- coed in his nefarious trade, Jnstice Connolly has de term ised to keep him at the Jefferson Market Vo40e Cone prison for a few days longer. Coontmnren Money.—Within the past forty cight Hours a number of persons have been engaged in cireulgting counterfeit “threes” on the North River Bank of this city. The police made several arresty, among which are the following —Henzy Wilvon, Geo. Couper, Thas, Me Connell, John McGuire and Frank Wallace petroners wore brought hefore Jnation Steare, at thy towed Market Police Court, and committed for cxamination. The emu terfeits are tolorably well executed, but good judges of money can detect their epurions character at a tance. —— Wren An We Cosano To!—Hemry Ward Resch: Lat New Maven, and sworn at in Mhiladelphia; W dell Phillips cannot speak unprotected in Bostan, 11, Ford Jmglas. agent of the Massachusetts Anti Slavery Soniety is hooted ot as Lancaster, Mass.; and Stsea B. Anthony } mobbed at Rochester, aud can't (ge any consideration obiain & bal ia Alay