The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EMTOR AND | PRUE IOR, OPN OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU Volume XXVI.. 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Advices from there by way of New Orleans *represent that on Friday State troops were con- centrating in the neighborhood of Pensacola from all parts of the State. The steamer Wyandot was lying at the entrance of the harbor, communicat- ing with Fort Pickens, but was not allowed to en- ter the harbor. The families of the officers were on board the Wyaudot. The general tone of the advices from Washing- ton which we publish this morning indicates a somewhat less belligerent aspect of affairs. It is stated that Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, has, yielding to the solicitations of his friends in Washington, addressed Col, Hayne, the South Carolina Commissioner, instracting him to change his policy. Col. Hayne will remain in Washing- ton for some time. The letter which he trans- mitted to the President on Saturday is said to have been very temperate in tone. The attack on Fort Sumter is considered to be abandoned for the pre- gent. In the meantime, it is hoped some plan of conciliation may be adopted. The Virginia Legis- lature propositions of adjustment, a synopsis of which will be found in our despatches, were much discussed in Washington political circles yesterday. A brief vesvmé of the minority report of the Repres¢htatives Committee of Thirty-three will be found among our ,Washington despatches. The minority recommend the adoption of the Critten- den compromise, and say that unless these or simi- lar conciliatory measures meet with the support of Congress, then dissolution is inevitable, We learn from Springfield, Illinois, that Mr. Kel- logg, member of Congress from that State, has ar- rived there on a mission to the President elect, to obtain a definite and authoritative announcement from Mr. Lincoin with regard to the compromise propositions in Congress. On the result of this mission, i of the republicans in Congress. From Washi: ton, too, we are advised that Mr. Swe left the latter city on @ visit of similar pury the President elect, and to urge him, at |! tation of leading republican members, io visit Washington immediately. The Alabama State Convention on Saturday elected delegates to the proposed Southern Con- vention of Seceding States. The Convention is to meet in Montgomery, Ala., om the 4th of February. The State Convention also passed au ordinance approprinting three million dollars | for the arming aud defence of the State. The lower house of the Tennessee Legislature has agrecd to the Senate's amendments to the bill for the election of delegates to a State Convea tion. The election is to take place on the 9th of February, and the Convention to assemble on the 25th, A company of sappers and miners, numbering sixty-three, rank and file, arrived in Washington from the West yestorday. A dragoon corps from Weat Point, with a battery of four field pieces and two howitzers, ure cxpected to arrive in Washing ton in a few days. The select committee of the House, engaged in investigating the fraud coromitted hy the abstrac- tion from the Interior Department of the bonds belonging to the Indian ‘Trust Fund, are busily at work, and will probably be ready to report arly this week. The Grand Jury of the District of Go- lumbia will to-day commence the examin tion of Bailey and Buseell. The pony express passed Fort Koarn-» yoeter day morning, bringing advices from the \'acific to the Sth inst. In San Franciseo busine 5 stilt extremely dull, owing to a continuation of bad weather and an apparent absence of speculative feeling on the part of dealers. Large surplus stocks of goods remain on the market. The ar- rival of the President's fast day proclamation in California was so delayed as to preclade much ob- servance of it in that State. The politicians wero beginning to congregate in great numbers in Sa- cramento, in anticipation of the assembliug of tho « stated, will depend the future course | pe eee v2 pnt eRe Legislature on the 7th inst. Governor Denver's prospects for the United States Senatorship were considered the brightest. | ‘The thirty-seventh anniversary of the New York Bible Society was celebrated at Dr. Spring's church last evening. Rev. Dr. Hoge presided, and addresses were delivered by Rev. Messrs. Van Dyke and Eeles. The anaual report set forth the encouraging prospects of the society, so far as ita objects were concerned, but regretted that in a financial point of view it was not equal to what it had been in previous years. ‘The total number of volumes distributed during the past Year was 62,284, of which 18,000 were Bibles. The cash reeeipts and contributions during the same period amounted to $15,366. The document, which was @ very elaborate one, ascribed our present onal troubles to the separation of church and State in the character of our constitutional govern- went, and urged that the present difficulties were | but the interposition of Diviue Providence to bring | the nation to a better appreciation of God's Word. | About fifty thousand people visited the Central Paik yesterday, the majority of whom were on the ice. A large number of females were enjoying the cool breeze both on and off the pond. The pros- pect last evening for good skating to-day was very fair, and the ball is expected to be in its place on the pole. Owiog to some telegraph reports afloat from the Gulf ports, regarding real or apparehended diffeulties about clearing.cargoes of cotton to foreign countries, combin- ed with the 4sia’s news, the market on Saturday a/ivanced about % to Ag cent per pound, while the sulos reached about 4,000 bales. Flour was firm and tolerably active, and closed about Go. better for some grades, while the demand for export and froma the trade was good: Wheat was held above the views*of purchasers, which tended to check sales, while the market closed at about the quotations of the previous day. Corn was held with more show of firmness, while prices wore without chafige of importance. The sales included Western mixed, in store and delivered, at 70c. a Tle Pork was firmer, and cloced at higher prices. The sales embraced new mess at $17 60 at the opening, and d at $17 624; a $17 75, and new prime at $13 250 0. Sugars were steady and tolerably active, with 1,100 hhds. Cubas and a small lot of boxes. Cof- feo was steady; the alos comprised a carge of 2,500 bags Rio at 12',0., and 1,100 do. at Le. a 180. Freights were firmer, with eugagements of wheat to Liverpool, in ship’s bags, at 114d., with fiour at 3s. Gd.; and to London w was taken at 124d, in ship's bags; and flow at 98. 734d. a 38. 9d., and 600 bbis. do. at 4s, The Crittenden Resolutions and Bigler Substitute--Will Republicans in Con. gress Prevent an Appeal to the People? The question transcending all others in im- portance to the country, at the present mo- ment whether the republican party in Con- gress will continne to interpose the screen of its authority between the popular voice throughout the Union, and a peaceful seitle- ment of the difficulties by which the nation is conyulsed, or whether it will aid in dissipating the dangers by which it is menaced? Will the Senate and House of Representatives rise to the dignity of their position as the faithful stewards of the people ; will they clothe them- selves with the discretion, judgment and pa- triotivm of statesmen, or must they still show themselves to be utterly lost to every sense of uprightness and independence? We are in the midst of a revolutionary period, when the wisest and most sagacious find it impossible to foretell what new disasters any hour may bring forth. Imagination cannot picture a more dreary, desolate future than awaits us, if the vis inertier of ignorant, malicious stupefaction, which has thus far, during this session of Con- grees, characterized its proceedings, any longer prevails, The republican party hold weal and woe, good and eyil, the perpetuation of he integrity of the confederation or its dis- memberment, in their own hands. They may decide, this very day, whether the States, united together, shall remain the example and pride of the universe, or whether the brightest light that the sun of liberty ever cast upon the earth shall be extinguished in darkness. On Friday last every republican member of the United States Senate voted against the recon- sideration of Mr. Crittenden’s resolutions. If they adhere to the same policy to-day, when his bill shall become the subject of debate ; if they treat, with like contempt, the proposition of Mr. Bigler, to submit to the peo- ple the issues that sunder the coun- try in twain, upon them alone will rest the re- sponsibility of every evil that may grow out of their repudiation of the last pacific solu- tion of our sectional troubles, that will per- haps be attempted, between now and the 4th of March next. If civil war comes, they will have brought it upon us. Ifa death blow is given to our national prosperity, theirs will be the blame. The guilt will lic at their door of the most stupendous act of national suicide that the world’s history has ever known. Tt has become evident that no remedy what- ever can be applied to the political disease under which the Union is now laboring, ex- cepting by the people of the United States themselves. The decay of partics has thrown leadership and actual power, as well in the different States as at Washington, into the hands of pecniators, speculators, and the most venal corrmpt class of individuals that ever held rule vay land. Incumbents of office at Wiel m live in mortal fear of the displea- re ¢ own paliry local constitueacies, and we Jare to act rightly, even should they ve the afflatus of genuine statesman- like inspiration. A desolate blank of every noble impulse is beheld at the very source whence sound and healthy legislation should proceed. Representatives from the North and South want, respectively, the moral courage to cast off the shackles of a clergy-beridden and of a mobocrat fire-eating dominion, or else they | are actuated by the treasonable motive of has- tening the country into bloodshed, in order to | complete the anarchy towards which it has progressed with gigantic footsteps. Yet the vast masses of our population, in all of the States, are unquestionably conservative. Five-sixths of those who are entitled } to vote deplore the agitation by which the popular surface is tossed to and fro, and condemn the demagogues who have brought us to the present stage of a deplorable national crisis. The voice of the intelligence, worth, in- tegrity and wealth in all of the States of the Union, excepting probably South Carolina and Masiachusetts, is stroggling to make itseM hoard. Public feeling demands precisely such an op- portunity as the adoption of the Bigler substi- tute to Mr. Crittenden’s bill would afford, to stamp sectional tyranny with condemnation, | from whatever quarter itmay be arrogated. Its | option would be the sigaal for an universal | ery to re echo from New \ \:k to Louisiana, and j from the Atlantle is ihe #» le coast, Im favor of the provervation of the Union, at whatever sacrifice. Will be ihe exclusive act of the republican members of Congress if such an outburst of feeling is stifled. The imperious necessity upon which the Big- ler bill is framed is to be found in the dimited qaierval between now and the 4ih day of March, eee NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1861 which shall terminate the present adininistru- tion, und in the immense advantages whit? would derive from a settlement of the questions before the country before the insugiratioa of Mr. Lincolu, Amendments to the constitution cannot be adopted, excepting by a vote of two- thirds of both houses of Congress, or on app!i- cation of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, to be valid only when ratified by three-fourths of the whole number of States, in either their Legislatures or in conventions. These conditions for amending the constitution cupnot be complied with as Congress is now composed. As “legislative enactments are,” therefore, “ insufficient to meet and remove the cause of impending disaster,” and as “ the Union is in imminent danger of final dissolu- tion, in consequence of protracted strife aud agitation about the institution of African slave- ry,” Mr. Bigler has wisely called upon Congress to “ask for the opinion and will of the people of the several States, on such proposed amend- ments to the eonstitution,” as shall bring back harmony to the republic, dispel the clouds which darken the borizon, ané “restore our distracted country to its accustomed peace and prosperity.” The first section of his substitute provides, “that the citizens of the several Staica qualified to vote for members of Congress, be requested to hold an election on Tuesday, the 12th day of February next, for the purpose of deciding for or against” the amendments enu- merated in his bill. It is simply an attempt to obtain in an informal manner an expression of the will of the people, which shall guarantee future constitutional action, either on the part of the State Legislatures or of Congress, that shall be satisfactory to the South, and turn away attention from the alternative of civil war or a disruption of the confederacy. It is a proposition fair to all parties; and, if the pro- fession of Mr. Seward, that “whatever sacrifices, private or public, shall be needful for the pre- servation of the Union shall be made,” is con- sistenily adhered to by himself and his friends, it will be supported by them. They can only oppose it from a fixed determination that the popular voice shall not be reached, and to per- 1 @ ascendancy of those “tempes f ” which they pretend to depr » greater number of republicans in the North are divisible into two classes—those who would reduce the South to submission by force of arms, and those who would coerce it by means of « “masterly inactivity.” These latter witness with rejoicing the daily increasing storm at the South, They chuckle over ex- ce which are the natural consequence of civil strife—p: ‘out of the hands of thinking, sober men who seek for the recovery of their pristine rights, into the power of a rude, ua- controllable mob—as though they were an abolition triumph. They desire an internecine war, as 2 means of stereotyping anti-slavery fanaticism in the Northern States. The events of the next day or two will demonstrate, be- yond cavil, whether the republican ranks in Congress are completely filled with such men; whether there still exists any desire among them to restore order out of the chaos which their own sectionalism has created. If, as a sequel to their voting against the reconsideration of the Crittenden amendments to the constitution, they shall persevere in rejecting them, and maintain a firm stand against permission being given to the people to express “their judgment and opinion” in the present crisis, two things will be evident—that they are treasonable to the interests of their constituents, and that they know that their policy is reprobated by the popular heart. Nothing will then remain but to wait until the issue can be made at the State elections which are approaching; but the spec- tacle will be none the less mournful and sad, of representatives, elected under a bygone con- dition of things, refusing to allow those who voted for them to rescue @ country from ruin, which they have determined to destroy. nou Camiset Maxine Usoxx Dirricurus.—It would seem that “Old Abe” Lincoln finds Ca- binet making a much more difficult business than rail splitting; for, notwithstanding that he has plenty of timber at hand, and any quantity of journoymen to help him, in the shape of ad- visers and counsellors from every part of the country, yet be has made but sorry progress in the construction of his Cabinet. For weeks past the railroad and telegraph lines of Mlinois have been doing a thriving business on the strength of the Cabinet making trade—the for- mer by the transmission of office seekers and the agents of office ecokers, and the latter by the continual stream of despatches from the North, the South, the East and the West, flying, like the dove of Noah, to the ark of black re- publican safety in the little village of Spring- field. But all to no purpose; for up to this time there are only two members of the new Cabinet selected—Mr. Seward and Mr. Bates--and only one of these is a live statesman, for Bates has been dead and gone this many a day. Curious enough, too, they were both competitors of Lin- coln in the race for the Presidency—Mr. Seward as the strong candidate of a strong wing of the party, and Bates as the candidate of the Blair family and the Greeley family, two very influential families in the republican par- ty, it must be admitted. There has been some talk of embodying in the new Cabinet one Gideon Welles, an old Connecticut fossil, who has been dead these twenty years—dead and buried, with the grass upon his grave grown so long that it almost hid his tombstone—but some Old Mortality, in his researches among the relics of past ages, appears to have dug him up, and, we believe, had considerable trouble in getting affi- davits to prove that he is really alive, In his palmiest days the fossil Welles was not much to boast of. We remember him in Jack- son's time as a small editor down in Connecti- cut—great only in getting little offices for little people; and the wonder is how Mr. Lincola could have dug up this fossil almost from the Silurian period——this very, very small politician of the hickory age~-for the purpose of locating him in his Cabinet, except it is intended to be a cabinet of antique enriosities. There are plenty of living statesmen around him. ‘There is Ranks, of Massachusetts; Chase, of Ohio, «nd Cameron, of Pennsylvanta, who it secms was on the slate, but has been rubbed off again, but who will not be rubbed off, for he insisis upon his right to a place among Lin- coln’s constitutional advisers. This vacillation in the choice of a Cabinet, all this backing aad filling, looks badly for Mr. Lincoln’s backbone, It appears that he cannot complete the list ua- til he goes to Washington, Mr. Lincoln has length and height enough; he can dig &8 dvep and reach as far towards the sky as any m: but we are afraid that he is rather weak about (he haunghes and stiff jn the joints. However, we will wait to see what will be done, and we | hope that he may yet secure a conservative Cubinet composed of live men. The President who is about to retire from office has evideatly played out bis réle, and can do no more towards pacificating the country, It remains now for the new l’resident and his friends to decide whether the republic shall be planged into civil war, or rescued from the present terrible calumity which threatens it, to continue its course of peace, prosperity and greatness. The Chicago Platform or Civil War. Such is the alternative now presented to the country. The republican leadors and republi- can journals, with one or two exceptions, in- sist upon upholding the Chicago platform—the whole platform, and notbing but the platform— no matter what may be the consequeaces to the party, to the country or to the human race. ‘They seem to regard the Chicago platform with a sort of religious adoratiuw bordering on idolatry, as if it were something more sacred than the constitution or the existence of the government established by the sages and pu- triots of the firet Revolution—more inviolate than even the Decalogue and the holy evangelists. ‘they declare they will maintain it to the bitter end, though civil war sbould be the conse- quence, a8 it undoubtedly will be, and though this fair land of plenty and all its inhabitants should be reduced to “ carcasses and ashes,” which was once the fate of Ireland, as described by the British historian, after a long and bloody civil war in that unhappy country. But it becomes a grave question for both the leaders and the rank and file of the republican party, as well as for the rest of the Northern population, whether the Chicago platform is worth such a sacrifice, and whether they will instigate or even permit the perpetration of such a folly as might make the angels weep. What is the Chicao platiorm? Its essential principle is the assertion of a “higher law” —a law before and above the constitution. It is, in fact, an impudent and outrageous attempt by a sec- tional party, bounded by a geographical line, to abolish the constitution, which was not made for tae Nortf@hor for the South, but for the whole country, embracing and protecting alike the sand the interests of both sections. ‘The constitution guarantees equal rights to all the States. The Chicago platform goes be- hind that instrument and denies its right, or the right of any constitution, to protect the South- ern States in the exercise of their guaranteed right of property in negro slaves. The equality of all the States in the Union is one of its fundamental principles. The Chicago platform proclaims inequality as the basis of the republican creed. It proclaims that Northern men have a right to take their horses, their mules and other property into the common ter- ritory, and settle there, under the wgis of the constitution, but that Southern men have not the same right to migrate to the Territories with their property, consisting of negro slaves, and enjoy equal protection, though the constitution has recognized property in the service of slaves as on the same basis with any other kind of property. Upon this issue in the Presidential election, by an accidental technical majority of the votes of the electoral colleges, the republi- can party, though in a small minority of the whole population, have been elevated to the control of the federal government, the posses- sion of the public purse, the army and navy and the federal courts; and their chiefs, in the very face of the fearful consequences staring them in the face, declare their intention of carrying out every tittle of the Chicago platform. If they have thus pro- claimed their resolve to overthrow the consti- tution in its great essential features, can it be wondered that the South, the section to be as- sailed, is preparing for resistance? The Chicago platform is a declaration of war against the social institutions of fifteen States of the Union, and naturally rouses those States into an attitude of defence. Secession is as unconstitutional as the Chicago platform or the nullification Liberty bills of the North, and the designs of the seceding States cannot be carried out under the constitution any more than the designs of the republican leaders; but those States have, outside of the constitution, the right of revolution, the last reserved right of every oppressed people. It is upon this great right the Declaration of Independence is based, and it lies, therefore, at the very founda- tion of our government. Contrary to the letter and spirit of the political compact between the States, the Chicago plat- form interferes with the slave institu- tion. To interfere with and denounce as a sin the social institutions of any State is a just cause for hostilities, and to the aggrieved State it is only a question of prudence and ex- pediency how far it may exercise its right of war. That the people of the Southern States are preparing to exercise that right there is only too much reason to apprehend. If, therefore, the Chicago platform is not abandoned there is every probability that there will be civil war, and that not merely at the South, but also at the North. It is high time, therefore, for Mr. Lincoln and the other repub- lican leaders to pause at the edge of the abyss into which they have proposed to plunge them- selves and the country, and consider whether it is not better for them to retrace their steps before it is too late. There is not a moment to be lost if they desire to rescue the government feom utter wreck and ruin. The whole issue resolves itself into the question whether the Union or the Chicago platform is to be devoted to destruction? To save both is impossible. A Lesson vor tue Anoirrronists.The anti- slavery fanatics of Massachnectts are in the habit of quoting largely from the writings and speeches of the leading English abolitionists in support of their pestiferous doctrines. Will their organg have the honesty to give insertion to the recent letter of Lord Brougham in reply to the invitation to attend the Joha Brown anniversary in Boston? We apprehend not. Some of the sentimente in this letter are too strongly condemnatory of their course for it to prove palatable to them. The writer rays: “No one will doubt my carnest desire to see slavery extinguished ; but that desire can only be gratified by lawful means—a strict re- gard to the rights of property—of what the jaw declares to be property-and a con- stant repugnauce to the shedding of blood.” Here is the whole difficulty between the re- publicane and the secessionists resolved ina single sentence. And yet, in spite of such strong expressions of opinion from one of their fuvovite authorities, the former are determined to plunge the country into all the horrors of civil war rather than conoede the protection Which the South demands for its property, | ‘Tux Poumeat Jounnars sme THB State Exzcrions.—While the political piers of the North are becoming more strongly di Yided on paity lines in their opinions in regard ¢° the proper mode of setiling the difficulties an ler which the country is now laboring, those at the South have thrown away their partisan ani- mosities and are united on the one prevailing sentiment, that that section of the country must secure and maintain the rights which were gua- ranteed to them when they became parties to the confederation. The democratic journals of the North have wisely obliterated, at least for the present, the party division which was es- tablished by the Charleston Convention, and are now laboring to convince the people that if they would save the country some earnest measures must be adopted, or some well defined aseurance given, to convince the South that their rights in the Union and their privileges under the constitution will not be ruthlessly trampled upon. On the other hand the repub- lican papers are fomenting the excitement by ridiculous jests and more ridiculous false state- meots relating to the position of the Southern Stuies. They cry out “No concessions,” and urge upon their leaders and representatives in Congress to stand firm upoa whe Chic»go platform, even though it becomes necessary to maintain its doctrines by the in- auguration of intestine war ond by the blood of thousands of our fellow countrymen. There is no hope to be found in party leaders, the country must look elsewhere for its sal- vation. We must leave the wrangling politi- cians in Washington to finish their fights in ac- cordance with their ta: nd inclinations, and direct our attention to the voice of the people, as it will soon be heard through the ballot box in three of the Eastern States, at elections which will be more important to the whole country than any that have been held since the govern- ment was formed. All that partisan traders and demagogues have at stake are the fat offices, present and prospective, while the great body of the people are the real stockholders of the country, and hold the peace, the prosperity and the salvation of the Union at a price far above the estimation of the men who are now, occupying the halls of Congress. In these elections the issues which are to be decided are more momentous than any that have ever before been submitted to the judg- ment of the people. They are, on the one side conciliation and peace, and on the other black republicanism, the Chicago platform and civil war. If the latter succeed, then indeed is the country lost, because coercion would be sure to follow, and when that commences the border slave States, which are now hesitating, and evincing such strong attachment for the Union, will be forced to take one side or the other. They can then no longer occupy 2 neutral po- sition, but must throw their sympathies, and their power for or against their sister States of the South, The position they will tuke in the event of republican doctrines being pushed to extremes does not even admit of a question. Their strength will be added to the cause of the South, and then will commence the war, with sixteen States and two Territories, leay- ing out those bordering on the Pacific, on the one side, and fifteen States, with an equal num- ber of Territories, on the other. We will ask the people of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, in which States elections are near at hand, whether they are prepared for an event like that?—whether they are ready to as- sist in bringing upon their country the disastrous train of circfimstances which is sure to follow civil war, or whether they will not at once tell the partisan jugglers who have brought about this trouble, that they have gone far enough? If the Union i to be saved, it must be done now by the people themselves in their sove- reign capacity. And if those patriotic citizens in New York and other places who are talk- ing Union so loudly and laboring to get up monster petitions, which, when they reach the halls of legislation are tumbled into the dark vaults beneath the Capitols, would turn their attention to these popular elections, the ship of State may yet pass the rocks which now threaten her and proceed on her prosperous course before the close of the year. Tur Demoorartc Stare Cowmarrre Saving ‘mk Unton.—The Democratic State Committee have issued a call for a convention of delegates from the party, to assemble at Albany on the Sist inst., for the purpose of saving the Union; and in their circular they prate about “the alarming condition of our country,” “the exi- gencies of public affairs,” about “saving the country from the evils of domestic wars,” and eo forth. What a humbug it is for men like the Democratic State Committee to talk in this way, just as if it was not po’ ns of their stamp on the one side, and fanatics like the auti-sla- parsons on the other, who reduced the country to its present calamitous condition. ‘The object of this convention, it is plain to be seen, is simply to endeavor to reconstruct the broken down party, and take advantage of the exigencies of the times for mere political and personal motives. The democratic party is dead and rotten; it has failon by its own cor- ruption, and the republican party will soon fol- low it, the seeds of the same disease being sown in its system #o deep that no art or skill can save it. No party nor any set of politicians can save the country at the present crisis, and it is an impudent scheme on the part of the Demo- cratic State Committee to call 2 convention for any such pretended purpose. The committee say in their circular that “conservative men of all classes call upon our time honored party io co-operate with patriotic citizens elsewhere,” &c., &c. This is not so. Conservative men know perfectly well that it is not in the putrid debris of a corrupt faction they are to look for safety in a crisis like this a faction too “time honored” rather for the breach than the obecrvance of honesty, deconey and good faith—but to the sense of the people, to which Senator Bigler proposes to refer the question. It is the people, and not the politi- cians, who are to settle the difficulty, gnd we opine that this farce of » democratic convention for the purpose of soving the country will be repudiated by the people of this State. Tar Sroues Eyorey Boxys. — When the Indian Trust Fund bonds were stolen from the In- terior Department the government advertised that the interest would not be paid on the bonds thus abstracted. From all appearances it is not likely that this intention can be car- ried out. The Attorney General of North Oaro- lina hae given it as his opinion that if the coupons are presented to the State Treasury they must be paid. Thus the amount of these stolen bonds, $800,000, promiges to be « total loss (0 the government, ' ee Sener earn nnd Awe Wu to Have Peace ox Wan?—Accord- ing to our Washington advices, the war party in the South will not proceed further in their operations until the expiratien of Mr. Buchan- an’s term of office. This is a sign that the more sensible of the secessionists are getting the apper hand, and that the ardor of ihe mob ia begicxting to cool. For the next thirty days, then, we have an armistice and guaranty that the federal property will not be molested. Notwithstanding this action on the part of the authorities of South Carolina, it is still evident that we are on the verge of civil war, the most fearful calamity that can befall a nation. The South is already in arms. In the North Gov- ernors of States and militia generals are tea- dering the services of large bodies of troops “for any emergency;” the Legislature of this State is asked for an appro- priation of half a million dollars, to be expended in munitions of war, and the new Governor of Massachusetts has ordered the militia to be put upon a war footing. People seem to have made up their minds that a col- lision is inevitable, and the country is rushing into deadly peril without stopping to count the cost. All this is doue tbrongh the recklessness and stupidity of the politicians. We are, altogether, thirty-four millions of peo- ple, and we desire, more than anything else, to live together in peace and unity, if the latter is possible, but in peace at all events. There are a few thousands of crazy people in the North and the South who are seeking to pull down the government, with the hope that they may profit by the ruin of others, But if, at the bidding of this handful of maniacs, the several sections of the coua- try are to take up arms against each other, no one can tell where the thing will stop. Feuds will be engendered, and they will rankle in the breasts of our children’s children, long after the present generation shall have passed awa We have vo right to entail such a heritage upon posterity, nor should we,. as sensible men, permit the arbitrament of the sword to be brought into this quarrel. What- ever the final result may be, neither party will gain anything, and the distress, suffering and poverty which intestine war will create in the meantime should not be risked if they can pos- sibly be avoided. Business men, merchtnts, master mechanics and others should unite in an appeal to the President elect and his Premier, Mr. Seward, and induce them if possible to counteract the effect of the mili- tary spirit which has been displayed both in the North and the South, by the publication of a pacific programme. We do not believe that Abraham Lincoln is anxious to open his ad- ministration with a civil war on his hands, and certainly Mr. Seward’s late speech was a pacific one. Let them, then, restrain their over zealous partisans at the North, and all may yet be well. Insensu Inricx or Srecu.—The Asia brought out a million and a half of specie, making up about ten millions received from Europe since the panic set in. The consequence of this drain has been that the Bank of England has been obliged ta raise its rate of discount to six per cent, and the Bank of France to five and a half. ‘These rates are far from) havifg reached the maximum. Notwithstanding that the con- clusion of peace with Chiua has stopped the drain eastward, i will be more than counter- balanced in the spring by the commencement of hostilities against Austria and a general arming of the European governments, As regards its flow in this direction, there do not appear to be any probabilities of its proximate cessa- tion. Altogether the position of the European governments and populations is no more re- assuring than cur own. The infatuation of political theorists and anarchists promises to plunge both the Old and New Worlds into a state of distress and confusion which it will take years to remedy. Tuk New Loax.—When the new Treasury loan was emitted it was with the greatest diffi- culty that bids could be obtained for the first five millions at twelve per cent. This want of confidence was occasioned by the fact that vio- lent secessionists, such as Cobb and Thomas, were in possession of the department, By a judicious change of men a revolution of public sentiment has taken place in regard to the loan, and upwards of twelve millions have been bid for the remainder of it, at prices averaging from nine to cleven per cent, thus effecting a large saving to the country, Tue Crry Pourrrorans iv TH Crisis, —Ln the present alarming condition of the country, while almost all classes of the community are casting about for hope and guidance, the city politicians appear to be nearly in a comatose state. They do not seem to take any interest in the revolutionary crisis through which we are passing. The republican politicians are absorbed in making out the slate for all the offices to be filled after the 4th of March in the Custom House and Post Office, while the democrats, who have no slate to fill up, are hanging around the City Hall—like vultures over a battle field—watching for the droppings of Corporation plunder. Intermenxe Leerer: ox Poran Exrnanexcr. Tho fot lowing correspondence has passed between Capt, Whiting fad several prominent merebants in this city — New Yours, dau. 20, 1868, Cart, Sax Wire > Dear Sin—-in commoi with friends, the undersigned woul Polar experienoe in the which rescued Dr. of your New York Y ORD SPOFFORD, JNO. 8 TAPPAN, RUSSELL, STURGIS K. COUILLARD, How. Teway ¢ Gert rane will address designated. Yours trv Captain Whiting commanded the Marton wh seized by tho Stote authorities of South Cw experience in the Volar regions i# of the prac sign, anda relation of |t will be very entertaining aud in- structive. Tee: Survosmn Hosiery in Woer Dwreey-S evn cheer, The suppored murder of « woman uamed Mary Ana Love, at No, 171 Weet Twenty minth strect, proves nothing more nor leas thea a case of intemperines. A pomt mortem oxamination of tire bolly, made under dircetion Of Coroner Jackman, by Dr. Joba Bench, alowed that the few scratches and other injuries on the pereon of deceased Wore ineniicient to canes death. fa th of the ysician death was produced by inte . jury, however, took an entirely diferent view of th» case, threw the medical testimouy to the winds, and in direct opposition to the charge of the Coroner, rendered a vord: of “Death trom inceumperaneey hastened by violence at the hands of Peter Brad ‘The Coroner was compolied, much agatnat his will, to com- mit the accused to the Tombe; but it te ie that the Will bo relonsed on a writ, of, hatveas COrpUA Sany Roars. Vecensod warm 3 temperate habits. The night previ was grosel; Heated, + cor tonne ¢ ot the ca tire neigh! by her pony jour and quarrel. fome Mauner.