The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1861, Page 4

ee * (OE DAILY HERALD, tec NEW 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON KENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPIEETOR. OFVICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAT STS, TERMS, cash im advance. Money seat Vy mah wil he othe tisk of the sender. Nowe hut Bank bills curvent in Now rue WEEKLY HERAL comaininy wnportant torts 7 tse hy will Ie or Commksronpeyty aie Kequvarep to Src sit Lerrees ann Pace. ken of anonymous correspondence. We da not ications. TS renewe! every day; advertiaem: eeriad in the Waenty Upuatn, Maxtuy ieeaupy und ta the California and European Editi JOB PRINTING executed wii ith neutnens, cheapness ard de-~ watch, vi oluane XXv1.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Ricartizg. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond streei.— Ricusuey. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Lapy or Sr. Trorsz, LAURA KEENB'S THEATRE, No. 62% Broadway.— Brven Ststens, NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Toovtxs—Vauix- Tr—Six Decraks oF Caine, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—Sviins ano Teans—Tax Lavy or Br, Taorez— Loving Cuntosirins, &0, RRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Way. —Buxceseuss, Songs, Davcns, &¢.—M asque Bac. HOOLEY & CAMPBBLL’S MINSTRELS, Niblo’s Saloon, Broadway.—Frmoriax SONGS, Dances, BuRLxsquas, &o.— BetuRNED CALIvORNIANS. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 663 Broadway,—Ticur Rork, Soncs, DaNcks, BURLEXQUES, 40. | MELODEON, No, 689 Broadway.—Soncs, Dances, Bur- cusaves, &c, CONCERT HALL, Newark.—Bupwortn & Oampsent’s Wooo's MixstuLs—Bouuesace on Raggy. ‘rades as * parades, by division outside of the first two parades in each your, and on occasions of public interest, were vo- luntery, and not comprlsory on the part of the militia. The witmess regarded all pa- parades for exercise, and was aware of the fuct that the Major Gene- ral had, at the meeting of the Division Board, informed the commandants of regiments that their music bills for certain parades would be paid by the Common Council. (This latter ‘fact was elicited by the defence to show that some of the division parades were voluntary and not com- pulsory.) The witmess had received division orders for the Prince of Wales! reception parade, and ac- quiesced in them. General G. B. Norris was also ; examined, but his testimony was unimportant, except as showing custom in regard to military The court martial was adjourned to Monday.next, at five P.M. Ata meeting of the Board of Supervisors held yesterday the late presentment of the Grand Jury endorsing the action of the Board of Supervisors, in relation to giving the city courts proper accom- modation, was read and referred to a committee. The bill of Edmund Jones & Co., for stationery furnished the Court of Common Pleas, was taken from the table, and after some debate was re- ferred back to the original committee. An order was received from the Supreme Court that the Board should show cause why a mandamns should not be issued commanding them to pay the Dill of Hasbrook & Co. for stationcry furnished the county officers, amounting to $1,37773, Referred. The Clerk was ordered to send to the members of the State Legislature all papers relating to the Commissioner of Records, and to request the repeal of the act creating such Commissioner. The veto of the Mayor in relation to the cleaning of tenement houses was taken up, the Board adhering to its former actien, The Committee on Annual Taxes reported in favor of adopting the tax as sub- mitted by the Comptroller, with the addition of an item increasing the remuneration of the heads of the Finance Department. It was made the special order for to-day at twelve o'clock. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music yesterday afternoon Mr. Rarey delivered his last illustrated lecture on horse taming, before a large and re- spectable audience. He succeeded in curing a nervous horse of a deep-rooted aversion to an umbrella. eS New York, Wednesday, January 30, 1861, MAILS FOR BUROPE. The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard malt steamship Asia, Capt. Lott, will leave thie port to-day for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city at eight o'clock this morning. The Evnornan Epox or tim Herat will be published ft seven o'clock in the morning. Single copies in Wrap- pers, six cents. The contents of the Evrorraw Eproy ov mim Hrratp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up tothe hour of pubdlication. Me a The News. The annoancement of the peaceful mission of the steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn to Florida is confirmed by late advices from Washington, The “prov isions on board the Brooklyn are to be de- Jivered at Fort Pickens, but she is not to enter the harbor of Pensacola, nor to land troops at the fort, unless the fort should be attacked. Her com- mander is ordered to act strictly on the defensive, and to give no pretext for hostilities. Companies D and K of the artillery went for- ward yesterday from Governor's Island to Wash- ington city. They numbered 112 men. The proceedings of Congress yesterday are in- resting. In the Senate Mr. King introduced a ijauthorizing the employment of volunteers to idin enforcing the laws and protecting public ‘operty, It was referred to the Military Com- suittee. A bill, introduced by Mr. Wilson, for the better orgauization of the militia of the District of Columbia, was referred to the same committee. The Pacitic Railroad bill was taken up and dis- cussed. Various amendments were agreed to. An amendment providing for the Central route only was negatived—22 to 25. The bill was reported to the Senate, and the discussion was continued till the adjournment. In the House the debate on the report of the Committee of Thirty-three was resumed, and Mesers. Stevens, of Pennsylva Harris, of Maryland; Winslow, of North Carolina, and VanWyck, of New York, made speeches on the troubles of the nation now pending. The first duel which has resulted from the pre- sent political complications tock place yesterday morning, on the Pennsylvania border, between Dr. Jones, a partisan of Senator Douglas, and Mr. Wilson, « Breckinridge democrat, both residents of Washington. Wilson was wounded in the hip. The constabulary are said to be in pursuit of the parties. There was quite a lively discussion in Com- mittee of the Whole in the State Senate yesterday over the bill making an appropriation for the bet- ter arming and equipping of the militia, After considerable debate on both sides progress was reported, and the bill laid over for future conside- ration. A bill was also reported in reference to our Central Park, relative to the appointment of the Commissioners. The Senate, by a vote of twenty-four to one, adopted the Assembly resolu fions tendering the hospitalities of the State to the Pre-ident elect on his way to Washington, and imviting bim to visit Albany en route. The pro- seedings in the Assembly were rather tame, A great part of the day was passed in Committee of the Whole. The new Capital Punishment bill, heretofore referred to, came up, was discussed pro and con., and progress reported. The remain- der of the proceedings related principally to mat- ters of local interest only. The radical abolitionists yesterday exhibited another example of the reaction on the slavery question that is going on atthe North. These in- cendiaries arranged for # Convention at Syracuse, & place whore they have had the largest liberty for years past. But the citizens, determined to tolerate them no longer, assembled at the hall, organized a meeting, and compelled the abolition ints to beat a retreat. Files from Turk’s Island to the 5th inat. have come to hand. Balt is quoted at 9c. to 10c. ‘The steamship Quaker City, from Havana the 25th, arrived here yesterday afternoon. The house of Stetmer & Co., of Havana, had failed for two million two hundred thousand dollars. Con- siderable anxiety is felt in regard to the sugar crop, Which it is supposed will be short. The United States officers at Key Wost, the Tortugas and in the Gulf were quite active in their prepara- tions for the defence of the federal property. The people at Key West were leaving, as were also the inhabitants of the Bahamas, who have got an idea that the Southern volunteers are sheer fili- busters and contemplate a descent on their islands, By the brig Princess Royal we have Bermuda papers to the 15th. A brilliant meteor passed over Bermada on the 5th, exploding some distance yom land with a terrific report. The steamship Bobemian, which left Liverpool ‘on the 17th and Londonderry on the 18th inst., is now due at Portland. She will bring one days's later European news, The court martial of Colonel Corcoran was con- tinned yesterday afternoon and evening. The ex- amination of Colonel Vosburgh was resumed. He was not aware of any custom |} rmitting the Ma- gor General to order out the First division more than twice « year, aud .oneidered that all parades An action for $100,000 dantages has been commenced in the Supreme Court by Den- ton Offutt, of New Orleans, against John S. Rarey, the famous horse tamer, for an alleged violation of a contract. Mr. Offutt claims that he is the originator of this system of horse taming, and that in the year 1850 he taught it to Rarey, who bound himself in the penalty of $50 for each case in which he shoukd impart the secret to any other person; that he gave Rarey a book of the system, which he (Rarey) has since republighed, and has farther violated the contract by imparting the secret of the system to divers persons in Eu- rope and in the United States. The anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Paine was last evening celebrated in due form at the City Assembly Rooms by a highly successful ball and supper. Mr. W. Rose was the leader of the affair, and, in accordance with the custom of a number of years past, the eloquent Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose delivered the great speech of the evening. The demonstration, as an infidel movement, was very interesting, and if no one went away con- verted, all, at least, appeared to have been satis- fied with the result of the entertainment. A determined attempt was made last evening torevive the New York County Medical Society to something like its former position. A meeting was held at the Twenty-third street Medical College; av address was delivered by President Dr. Bulkley, a paper on tetanus read by Dr. Thompson, and several committees appointed to further the object of the meeting. The ice in the Central Park was yesterday in too soft a condition to induce any large number of persons to indulge in skating, and the snow on the drives was likewise in the same state as re- garded sleighing. The returns of the number of visiters, &c., will be found in another column, A case of considerable importance to liquor dealers came up in the Marine Court, before Judge Maynard, yesterday. It was the suit of Nicholas White, a liquor dealer, against Captain Squires and @ policeman of the Eleventh ward, to re- cover $500 damages for false imprisonment, said members of the police foree having, on the evening of Sunday, the Ith inst., arrested White and kept him in custody until the following morning, upon @ charge of violat- ing the Sunday Liquor law. When the defend- ant was brought before the Police Court Justice Steers dismissed the complaint, on the ground that no offence had been committed. Subsequently an action for damages was brought against the cap- tain and policeman. Judge Maynard has not yet rendered his decision in the case. The failure of the dry goods house of Pierce, Brothers & Flanders, of Roston, is announced. Their liabilities are said to be $780,000. The cotton market yesterday was tolerably active. The private advices by the Etna were some levs favorable than the published accounts, while the advance reported had in a measure been anticipated. The sales embraced about 4,000 bales, including in the neighborhood of 2,000 sold in transit, We quote middling uplands at 12\c. Flour closed with less buoyancy, and with the turn of the market for some descriptions in favor of purchasors. Wheat was heavy and ‘regular for common and medium qualities. Good to choice white was firm and not plenty. Corn closed with increased firmness, while sales were tolerably active. Pork closed dull and in favor of purchasers, with sales of about 450 including new meas at $17 75 a $17 8714, new prime nd uninspected mess at $18. Sugars were more active, and gales embraced about 1,600 his. Coffee was steady, with sales of 1,200 bags Jamaica for export, part at 12}¢., at 4 months, with « small lot of prime Rio at 15\jc. Freights were quite steady, with « fair amount of engagements of breadstufls and provisions to Baglish ports. Wenn as a Loareray.—Colonel Webb has been recently making remarkable displays of his fighting propensices in the columns of the Courier, which be has filled with “sound and tury” against the Southern States. He has cannonaded them, like Beecher, at long range. and bas as little notion of coming to close quar- ters as the*doughty divine. Yesterday he ex- hibited himself, not as General, but as logician. Tie devoted a long leader to prove that Missis- sippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida, in se- ceding from the United States, become the property of France and Spain, because those governments sold to us the territory out of which the seceding States are carved. With about as much propriety might a man who sold a horse to Colonel Webb, and was paid for it, claim a right to the animal after it had thrown the heavy purchaser off its back and scampered over the plains, neighing and rejoicing in its new-born liberty. The seller of the horse would have no more right to it than any other man. The only lawfal owner would be Webb himeelf, if he could only catch it. But it seems he has no idea of the right of revolution, and be completely ignores the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Now that the Union is broken up, do the original thirteen colonies rightfully be long to Great Britain, to whom we have never paid anything for them except blows? Or, after the Revolution, did the British colonies legally revert to the original owners—the In dians? We fear the General's logic, like the troops in buckram with which he proposes to conquer the South, “will not stand muster,” YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY 30, 1861. Who Are the True Disorgantzers in the Present Federal Crisis? There is not a rigot-minded, sensible indi- vidual, or a single conservative journal, in the city of New York, which does not desire the preservation of the Union, a maintenance of amicable relations between the North and the South, and the perpetuation of a republic, whose liberties are the pride and example of the world. Tbe overwhelming majority of the people of this metropolis, condemn the policy of slavebolding ultraists who would reopen the slave trade; annex, by filibustering aggression, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, the Central American States, and New Granada to the confederacy; and establish that Southern empire, which is the Utopia of disunionists in South Carolina, Alabema and Louisiana. They equally repre- bate the anti-slavery propagandism, which has assumed such monstrous proportiona, since craft and fanaticism inaugurated it, twenty-five years ago, and loathe the monstrous and wana- tural alliance between ambition and priestcraft, which has reduced the country to its present sad condition. They have urged upon their representatives in Congress to grant concessions to the South which should restore the land to its pristine integrity. A full recognition of the rights of citizens everywhere; certuin needful stipulations which republican intolerance has, hitherto, denied; full liberty to carry slaves into the common territory; the privilege of transit with bondsmen through the free States; and the universal toleration of opinion respecting slavery as a social institution that is granted to religious sects, are all that the South de- mand, and they are sustained by the public opinion of the masses in this city in their just requirements. If, then, a dissolution of the Union shall be the result of the present crisis; if two confederacies shall take the place of the one that has raised us to the high place we oc- cupy in the scale of nations, the blame will rest upon others but not upon us. Mainly to the Massachusetts school of politics, of which Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Sumner and Gree- ley are the chiefs, and to which Seward, Wil- son, Lincoln and others are affiliated, is attri- butable every cloud that obscures our great- ness, and every disaster with which we are threatened. Twenty years after the constitution was enacted, certain Northern States insisted upon putting Southern institutions under the ban of the Union, by excluding them from the com- mon federal territory; then the right was arro- gated of confiscating the property of citizens of the South sojourning, or in transit, at the North. Later, acts were passed to impede the right of reclamation of fugitives from service, which the constitution had expressly guaran- teed; next, an active system of propa- gandism was inaugurated for the purpose of preaching a crusade against the social institutions of the Southern States. The pulpit was desecrated, and the press prosti- tuted, to incite to insurrection, murder, aod rapine. Last of all a sectional party was created, on the basis of an “irrepressible con- flict,” in opposition to those who entertained freedom of opinion with respect to slavery, and a President and Vice President have been elected, with a view to consummate the acts of aggression which have been carried so far, and of “finishing the battle’ which shall fill up the measure of tribulation to the country. All this has been done by the Massachusetis school of politicians, to which the leading republicans of the day belong, and it is to their persevering and steadfast violation of the constitntional privileges of the South, that evils are owing which are rapidly becoming incurable. Senator Wilson has not hesitated to avow his adhesion to the sentiments of Garrison. Seward declared that, however he might prevaricate otberwise, he could “play no part and affect ho disguise,” when called on to acknowledge that he had “studied in the school of Massachusetts.” “If I have ever,” be said, “conceived a resolu- tion to maintain the interests of these free States, I learned it from Massachusetts.” And the future intentions of himself and his aboli- tion friends in the Bay State, were most clearly laid down and defined by him, when he was requested to do so. As the disciple of John Quincy Adame, who prophesied, in 1845, that the Union would be dissolved in twenty years, he exclaimed, at St. Paul: “ The institutions which you desire to conserve are almost as ephemeral as yourselves. I look far off into the Northwest, and say to the Russian, ‘go on build up your outposts to the Arctic ocean, they will yet become the outposts of my own country, to extend the civilization of the United States in the Northwest.’ And Great Britain, he apostrophized, respecting St. Rupert’s Land and Canada: “ It is very well; you are build- ing excellent States to be hereafter admitted into the American Union.’ Wendell Phillips declared on Thursday last, in Boston, that “the slave States must be shovelled out of the con- federation.” His pupil Seward had preceded him, by several mouths, in finding a “seat of power for North America within a radius not far from the head of navigation on the Missis- sippi river,” to counterbalance that which he had previously discovered for a slaveholding confederation “in the valley of Mexico.” “Let South Carolina, let Alabama, let Louisiana, let any other State go out,” he said, “and, while they ore rushing eut, you will sce Canada and all the Mexican States rushing in to fill the vacuum.” It is not to be wondered at, under such cir- cumstances, that our brethren at the South have seized with avidity upon the idea which has been so widely preached by Massachusetis see- tarians and their disciples ; nor that, at a mo- ment when the Boanerges of disunion is about to become the premier of a President elected upon an abolition platform, they should cast around for suitable means of aggrandizement of their own section, ina manner similar to that intended by those who hold power at the North, Between Mason and Dixon's line and the Orinoco, they see in prodigions variety, the materials out of which to found an empire, which they believe will emulate in grandeur any that the sun has evér shone upon. They count upon becoming the cotton growers and sugar planters of the whole world. With Cuba for an outpost, they look upon the Gulf of Mexico as an inland luke; nor do they envy the prosperity of the North, but avow their readiness to live with us upon terms of amity, convinced that there are no discordant inte- rests which should involve enmity between those who have 80 many common rccollections, and to whom commercial treaties, and an al- liance offensive and defensive would be so ad- vantageous. All that is not fraternal in their reactionary programme bas been caused by superficial elements which ever float apon the surface of society, and for which the heart of the Southern commonwealth cannot fairly be held responsible. Such is the position of the American re- public now. With the close of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, legislative and administrative Union must cease, unless prompt and ener- getic measures are taken by those’who have created the mischief to undo it. If Mr. Seward will emulate the example of the Duke of Wel- lington and Sir Robert Peel when England was threatened with danger; if they will re verse dicta that have produced a result which all good citizens of the United Stutes and especially of New York deplore; if they will boldly, fearlestly and openly advocate each amendments ot the constitution as the exi- gencies of the time demand; if, casting off party shackles, they will look to the require- ments of the nation alone, they may yet stay the progress of disorder, and restore unity to the nation. But no time is to be lost. The effects of delay will soon be fatal; and, in- fatuated by the will-o’-the-wisp mania which has become contagious, both the North and the South will plunge so deeply into the dis- union vortex, prepared for them by persist- ence in Massachusetts agitation, that extrica- tion from it will become impossible. ‘The Fourth of Febru ry—A Compromise Convention and a Southern Confederacy Congress. Monday, the 4th of February, is destined to be a memorable day in the political history of these disunited States. For the purpose of framing a provisional government for their projected Southern confederacy, the seceded States, on the day designated, are to meet in a general Congress at Montgomery, Alabama; and on the same day a Union Compromise Con- vention of Commissioners from the border slave States and free States, and from such other States as may choose to come in, will as- semble in the city of Washington. The list of delegates appointed to the Mont- gomery Congress and the Commissioners from the several States already chosen to the Wash- ington Convention we publish this morning. The schedule in both cases comprehends a large proportion of our most conspicuous public men of the present day. The Mont- gomery Congress was nominated by the io- tractable disunion State of South Caroli- na; and the Washington Convention, asa peace offering, comes from the General Assembly of tbat great conservative Commonwealth, the Old Dominion. Its purposes have been stated in the resolutions on the subject. If the Convention, after a “full and free conference, ehall agree upon any plan of adjustment (for the restoration of the Union) requiring amendments of the federal constitution, for the further security of therights of the people of the slave States,” such adjustment is to be submitted to Con- gress, for the purpose of having the same voted upon by both houses, with a view to its submission to the several States, according to the federal constitution. On the other hand, ifthe Convention shall fafl in this enterprise, tbe Virginia Commissioners are to report the facts to their Governor, so that the State may shape her course according to the exigencies of the crisis. In this connection, the meeting on the same day of this Southern Confederacy Congress, and of this Washington Border State Compromise Con- vention, is not an accidental coincidence. The Legislature of Virginia, standing as a mediator between the seceded States of the South and the republican party of the North, has deli- berately chosen the day of the Montgomery Congress for this compromise Convention, and so that Virginia may be able to join in season the cause of the South, should she fail in this last resort for the Union. The object is to arrest, if possible, the organization of a Southern confederacy, through this border State diversion of a compromise Convention, Failing in this, it is still hoped that this Con- vention may initiate a compromise which will arrest the secession of the border slave States, and put them in a position whereby the cotton States may be reclaimed. To this end the Virginia Legislature has submitted the Crit- tenden resolutions as the basis of a satisfactory adjustment. What, then, is the prospect? New York will be represented in this Union Conference of the border States, and Mr. Seward will, or should be, among our Commissioners. Illinois, a bor- der free State, and the State of the President elect, will be represented, and, we are glad to hear, with his consent and co-operation. Nay, better still, it is given out from sources entitled to credit that Mr. Lincoln bimself is at last in- clined to try the saving virtues of a compro- mise. All this is encouraging; and when it is known, too, that the alternative to the incoming administration must be an intermediate com- promise, or the speedy secession of Virginia and the border slave States, and their union with a Southern confederacy, one would naturally conclude that we are sure to lmve a compro- mise. But still we are not sanguine of any such thing. The Washington Union Conference may adopt a treaty of peace on the basis of the Crit- tenden amendments to the constitution ; but then, before it can be submitted to the several States for their ratification, it must be endorsed by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress. And what are the chances in those two houses? The present House of Representatives, in full, would stand 114 republicans against 123 of all other parties; and yet the republicans, by a majority vote of 117 at the last session, elected their Speaker. Now, the secession of six Southern States has carried out of the Howe thirty members who voted against the Speaker; so that, giving the republican side only their 114 members proper, they have a clear majo- rity in the House of twenty-one. What chance is there, then, for the Crittenden compromise, or anything like it, to pass the House by a two- hirds vote, when only a republican member, here and there, has indicated the slightest dis- position to abate one jot or tittle of the Chicago platform? We leave the hopeful reader to his own conclusion. Next, a full Senate consists of sixty-six members, excluding Kansas, just admitted into the Union. Of this number there were forty- one opposition Senators against twenty-five re- publicans ; but ten Southern Senators have se- ceded, and four more will most likely be miss ing on the submission to the Senate of the pro- posed compromise from this Washington Con- vention. How, then, is this compromise to be carried by « two-thirds vote of the Senate? According to the speeches on tho subject of Senators Hale, Clark, Trumbull, Wade, Wilson and others, and according to the votes already taken in the Senate, the republicans of that body look upon the Crittenden compromise with diegust and abhorrence, and we fear they will never adopt it, They “have no compro- mises to make,” and they have declared by their votes that the true remedies for the crisis are the observance of the constitution as it is and the enforcement of the laws. When we consider, however, that upon the issue of this Washington Convention will de- pend the retention in the Union or the with- drawal therefrom of the border slave States, this dogged obstinacy of the republicans in Congress may be overcome, and to save them- selves and their incoming administration it is possible they may co-operate with the border States to save the Union. At all events we cor- dially approve this last expedient of Virginia for a compromise. Let it be tried; and should it fail, the conservative ‘people of the North will know where to fix the responsibility, and they will see to it that there shall be no civil war to restore the Union by a party which has refused all offers of reconoiliation. The English Press om the American Crisis—Their Fears and Speculations, The English are now thoroughly alarmed at the revolutionary aspect of our affairs. The articles which we published yesterday prove tbe intensity of their apprehensions. ‘They have not as yet realized even in prospect tbe full extent of the financial embarrassments which it is about to cause them. Since the election of Lincoln $15,000,000 of specie have been exported to this country from England. But as yet there has been, comparatively speak- ing, but little monetary distress here. Our merchants, trusting to the chances of a peacea- ble adjustment of the difficulties with the South before the 4th of March, have been able Yo extend or to get extensions of their dis- counts. Let the inauguration of Liacoln take place without a compromise being effected, and general bankruptcy will ensue. What will be the condition of the European money markets then, with the additional drain caused by a Continental war superadded to their embar- rassments ? But it is not this prospect, gloomy as it is, which has so much excited the alarm of our English contemporaries. It is the groater and more permanent danger arising from the sus- pension of the agricultural staple of the South, in the event of a protracted civil war being waged between the two greateections of the con- federacy. Onthe cotton supply from this country depends the support directly or indirectly of some five millions of the British people, and it furnishes a full third of their export trade. What is to become of the hundreds of thousands of persons who derive a livelihood from cotton manufactures, in one shape or other, until fresh sources of supply @re created? This is a ques- tion which touches as nearly the statesman as the economist; for as surely as the apprehended result is brought about so surely wi Great Britain become once more the theatre of violent political disorders. Tho republicans continue obstinate in their resistance to the just demands of the Southern States, because they imagine that if the latter should carry out their threats and secede en masse from the confederacy, they would still possess a means of coercing them back again by blockading the Gulf ports and stopping the export of cotton. This is a foolish and short- sighted calculation. The language used by the London Morning Post, Lord Palmers ton’s organ, is too significant on the point not to be understood by all who are not blinded by political infatuation. It states in plain terms that a maritime war, which would destroy the cotton trade and paralyze our great staple of British industry, would be equally unpopular in England and the United States, and that the British govern ment would only refrain from troating with the ambassadors from South Carolina until the new President had an opportunity of explain- ing and acting on his policy. In other words, we are given to understand that England will not permit a blockade of the Southern ports, in case a Southern confederacy is established. In the articles which we recently copied from the Pays, Louis Napoleon’s organ, a similar conclusion may be arrived at on the part of France. It is not to be expected, in fact, that these governments should abandon, in regard to this country, a now well established princi ple of European policy, the more particularly when their interests engage them to pursue an opporite course. Thus the republicans, in counting upon their being able to convert the United States navy into an instrument of coercion, have left one important element out of its feasibility, and that is the consent of the maritime governments of Europe. The latter will not tolerate the interruption of their commorce by blockades, for which no justification can be found in the publio law of nations. The secession of six or more sovereign States from the Union is sepa- ration, and not rebellion; and a priori their right to be considered a de facto government is greater than that o1 a revolted Italian Duchy or Roman Legation. In enlightening us as to the course which it means to adopt in view of the blockade of the Southern ports by the United States navy, the British government falls into as great an error in its calculations as the republicans have done. It states that, in the event of a secession epreading, the balance of power will be trans- terred to Canada. On the contrary, Canada will itself be absorbed by the Northern con- tederacy; and this result is being already facili- tated by the action of the Court of Queen’s Bench in claiming, in the case of the fu- gitive slave Anderson, the right of reviewing the decisions of the colonial tribunals, If Canadian loyalty, never at any time very steadfast, stands this, we ere much mistaken. Jadging by their past con- duet, this reassertion of an appellate jurisdic- tion by the English courts will awaken such a feeling of discontent and indignation amongst the people of the provinces that they will be ready to meet any overtures that may be made them for a junction with the Northern States. Tue New Brooriyn Park.—In aother column will be found the report of Mr. Egbert L. Viele, the engineer appointed to survey the proposed park on Prospect hill, and which was presented to the Brooklyn Common Coun- cil last night. When this project first came up fer discussion, we stated it as our opinion that no finer site in the world could be found for such a purpoee than that included within the boundaries fixed upon. From the new dis. tributing reservoir, which forms its central und highest point, the eye commands a magnificent panoramic view of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, the inner and outer harbors, « large expanee of the New Jersey and Staten Island ——$ $$$ ee +Forea, and Long Island and the Atlantic Ocean stretching far away in the opposite di- rection. A large proportion of the nearly one-half, is wooded with trees of old growth, and diversified by hills and meadows, interrupted here and there by ponds of natu- ral water. Mr. Viele proposes to preserve and improve all these fine natural advantages, with- out inany way changing their character by obtrusively introducing artificial features, He lays down the following rules as those which should govern the ornamentation of this magni- ficent site:—-First, studiously to conceal every appearance of art, however expensive, by which the scenery is improved; secondly, care- fully to disguise the real boundary, however large or small the area; thirdly, to hide the natural defects and to display the natural beauties to the utmost advantage; fourthly, to obtain from the most favorable points the great- est possible extent of view, and to conceal all objects which limit or obstruct it, so blending all the parts that while the beauties of each are distinctly visible, there are no abrupt con- rasts painful to the eye or destroying the sym- metry of the whole, thus securing that unity and harmony so essential to the perfection of he design. * In these few rales is summed up the whole art of landscape gardening—the only system which, in our opinion, should be adopted in the laying out of our parks. A return to the old artificial styles, as practised by Le Notre and others, and, we are sorry to say, partially introduced in the Centra) Park, would be the abandonment of a progress which modern taste has conquered over the prejudices of a school which was always at war with nature. The entiré cost of the improvements Mr. Viele estimates at $300,000, which, with the price of the ground—say in round numbers $1,000,000, though it will probably not reach that sum—will make the total cost less than a third of the amount which the Central Park has stood us in up te the present time. Ten years hence it would be impossible to obtain the Prospect hill site for five times its present price. The people of Brooklyn should there- fore strain every effort to secure at once the inestimable advantages afforded by park of this kind, and which are so casential to a crowded and overworked community. The Sublimity of Political Imp Ola Tammany Saving the The first requisite for a successful politioal career is impudence, and it is upon this capital alone that the Tammany managers have wield- ed political power in this city for many years past. When the effrontery of the sachoms was accompanied with a certain degree of clever- ness, things went on well enough; but the time came when the small politicians of the Coal Hole thought they could dispense with their, leaders and keep the spoils for themselves, Then arose the rival organization known as the Mozart Hall clique, and a very considerable number of the theretofore faithful democracy seceded from Tammany to follow the new lights up town. As the fortunes of the Tam- many clique declined they became desperate, reckless and more despotic than ever. They split the party, both in the city and State, into half a dozen different cliques, and realized the old aphorism of the bundle of sticks, by delivering themselves, bound hand and foot, into the power of their enemies. Thus the prestige of Tammany departed long ago, never to return. Latterly the Tammany managers have re- sorted to the usual oourse of broken down politicians, and have put themselves forward as a sect of pure and incorrapti- ble patriots, whose only aim is the preserva- tion of the federal Union, which has already ceased to exist. The Democratic State Com- mittee having called a Convention, nominally to take into consideration the distracted condi- tion of the country, but really with a view to the galvanizing of the party, which has been dead and buried ever since the Charleston Convention dissolved. Tammany assumes to act for the city of New York, and orders a pri- mary eleetion for a County Conventioa, the members of which altogether unauthorized aad irresponsible body proceed to nominate, through a committee, the delegates to the State Convention. Having made up their slate (which contains the names of a few able men inserted here and there in a crowd of nobodies), the Tummany folks proceed to adopt a preamble and reso- lation which reach the sublimity of impudence. The preamble sets forth that “we,” (the Coal Hole philosophers,) “having learned that an at- tempt will be made by an irregular political association of this city to take advantage of the approaching State Convention to obtain some recognition as an organization, in violatiou of the rights of Tammany Hall,” “we” instruct our delegates to save the Union if poasible, but in any event to put down, kick out and alto- gether suppress the delegates of the “irregular association” aforesaid. The delegates are in- structed that in case the Convention should fail to recognise fully the despotism of Tammany, they are to “withdraw entirely from said Con- vention, and take such action in regard to the questions before the country as may scum expedient.” Phew! That's cool. Tammany first, and the country afterwards. Wilson Small & Co. will look out for themselves in any event, and subsequently attend to the purposes for which the Convention is osteasibiy called. They area pretty set of pavifigators, indeed. They are exactly the sort of persons to tender the clive branch to the South with one hand, while in the other they hold a knife to the throats of their former confrares. These very politicians have brought the several States to the verge of civil war, and now they go to Albany under the false pretence that they desire to restore the peace of the country, when the fact is that they only intend to get up the pro- gramme for the restoration of the spoils to the sachems and hangers on of that old, worn out, broken down political harlot, Tamsaany Hall. We warn the democracy of the city and State to beware of these Tammany managers, They are working to arrauge their slate for the next eiection, when several very tu- erative county offices are to be filled, and they are in hopes to shut out the Mozarters from the State Convention, 80 that the Tammany organization will alone be recognized as the runner of the democratic party machine. If the tate Convention was hot altogether a sham, gotten up by the po- liticians to humbug the people, we should have a full and fair representation of all the voters who supported the fusion ticket last November; but as it is only 8 meeting of some defeated apoilamen to shed a few tears over what they have lost, nnd devise means hy