The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1861, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, AMITOR AND PROPRIETOR. —_——e OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, - TERMS, advance. Money sent by matt will beat the | FE ey vie one but anh Billa current in New York HERALD, too canta por copy, $1 per annus HERALD, every Saturday, al ve conte por im Eaditiom coery Welnesh yy, per danuir. LD, om Wednenday, at four eonte per PRESPONDENCE, containing me | meses, ‘Grom any quarter of Ue world; if wsed, will be | Therally palit “for, Dem “ORSON CORRRSPONPENTS Ade Papricci axty ReQuxsrep To SkaL ALL ES AND PAC K- | mous correspondence, We do not | every day: advertisements ine Mr D, and inthe reatness, choupness and de- executed Volame XXVI AMUSEMENTS TITS BYENLING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street. —Irattan Ove. Ra—Lyerezta BORutA. LO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tiara Tamen—Pay pe Pee eis Thee baoe Ventas Ganons, " WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Ricuacisv. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz Lavy or Sr. Tuorre, LAVRA KRENE’S THEATRE, BxvKN SistERS, No. 62% Broadway.— NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—O'FrANIcAn ann vax Fairs—Vannery—MysteRixs or Panis. TUKATES FRANCAIS, 585 Broadway,—Les Canorinas Dw LA SEINE. RARNUM'S ANERIOAN MUSWUM, Broadway.—Day and Bvoning—Suitks ano Txaws--tun LADY oF St. Teorxs— Lavine Ouicosrtnes, £0. Mechantos’ Wall, 472 Broud- aNous, &0,—-MAsguie Batt HALL, 68% Brondway.—Traur Este, &O MELODEON, No. Browtway.—Sonaa, Daxcrs, Bua Exsgums, Ac. Fupson's Torun ap oI N HALL. oe Ricuany 1 ANaLysis ON THe PLAY CONCERT HALL, Newark.—Bupwoura & Oawrancs's Woop's MixsTax~s—Bowtesque® oN Raney. New York, Thursday, January 31, 1861. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. Now York Herald—California Rditton, ail steamship Ariel, Captain Miner, will leave this at noon, for Aspinwall. 1 California and other parts of the Pacitic will cigse ut ten o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘We ew Yous Wray Heratn—California edition— tity of local and miscellaneous matier, will be published at nine o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in Wrappers, ready for mailiig, six cents. Azents will please sond in their orders as ely as pos sible The News. The reports from Washington are again warlike. Tt is stated that the President has declared that he had no doubt Fort Sumter would be attacked in less than a week, and he also gave it as his opinion that, owing to the number of the batteries erected by the South Carolina forces, it is impossible to relieve the fort. Among our telegraphic despatches ington may be fo rogramme of the Soath- ern Congress, meet in Montgomery Alexaader B. | thasen provisional f r staat Jofier- son Davie wil be Communder-n-Clief of the | army Our New Orleans correspomient telegrapas that the rerecae cutter Lewis Cass has been surreader- ed he I Pactic Tunaae bill by a vote of thirty-four to fourteen. It goes back tothe House for concur- rence in the Senate's amendments. The remain- der of the session was devoted to the presentation of papers relative to the ‘crisis and a discussion on the bill to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Jefferson, which includes the Pike's Peak gold region. In the House Mr. Cobb. of Georgia, having been officially sppriseed © of the secession of his State from the Umm, withdrew from Congress. A message was receir- ed from the President, stating that he had signed the bill forthe admission of Kansss: whereupon Mr. Conway, the representative from that State, was qualifiea and took his seat. The Commitiee on Elections reportea < Tesolution unanimously, that no teatimony has been preseu‘ed Impeaching the right of Mr. Sickles to his seat, and asked 50 be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. The report was accepted. The de- bate on the report of the Committee of Thirty- three was then resumed, and speeches were made by some half dozen members, A rather formidable looking squad of policemen were detailed at pier 4 Nort® river yesterday af- ternoon, to prevent the shipment of any arms or ammnuonition on board the Ch: ~leston steamer Nash- ville, There proved to be little need of the force, however, as ne freight of a “contraband” nature was offered. The Brave Metropolitans were not permitted to distinguish themselves, and the Nash- ville proceeded quietly to sea, much to the satis- faction of some Southerners who had assembled on the wharf. A duplicate of the wild scenes in Tremont Temple, Boston, last week, was prodyoed yester- day in Convention Hall, Syracuse. On the pre- yious day Miss Susan B. Anthony made an at- tempt to deliver @ speech, but was prevented. Yesterday again, however, the abolitionists | assombled in force, determined to have their | say out. Various attempts were made by | excited abolitionists to harangue the crowd; Dat the crowd preferred not to be | harangued by them, and kept up a scene of wild excitement, till finally the John Brown wor- shippers were completely routed, and their oppo- nents took possession of the hall, when Union speeches were made, and the poople finally formed in procession and marched through the streets of the Balt City, bearing transparencies with efligies of Rev. Mr. May, Miss Anthony and other noted abolition agitators. Altogether it was quite a Spirited affair, and no doubt the Syracusans feel Much indebted to the abolitionists for the enter- tainment they afforded them. ‘The proceedings in the Albany Legislature yes- terday were of no great importance. The pro- ©eedings were principally confined to local bills. An unsuccessful effort was made in the Senate to make tho bill submitting the Crittenden amend ment to the poople the special order for Pr! ‘The bill was referred to the Committee of Fede- ral Relations. The bill relative to increasing the efficiency of the militia was under considera. | BRS sec etehoniets. yesterday, the Senate passed the |__| NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1861, cotton market at Liverpool was very active, aud I (HAUMAL YACASU ! the bank on tho 17th for the United States, The | The President Mlect and the Orisis—War- like News from 8; prices on all qualities had advanced, while bread- | Our tate cheering advices from Washington, stuffs were steady, but quiet. The London press continue their comments on the Southern seceasion movement. The Times says “ the Southern confederation would become the real United States, as far as territory present and prospective is concerned. It is doubtful whether connection between New York and New England on one hand, and Illinois and the neigh- boring States on the other, would long survive a total separation of the South.”’ It was reported that the Sardinians would re- sume the attack upon Gaeta on the 2lst, both by lond and sea. , Files of Rio Janciro papers to December 1 | have come to hand. They contain no news of any moment, Mruey quotations remain unchanged. In some places the election had produced riots in which lives were lost. . The annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Telegraph Company was held yester- day at the office of the company, No. 4 Wall street. From the statements made in the report, the affairs of the company would appear to be in a most flourishing condition, the net profits for the last year being over twenty-five per cent. It is the opinion of the directors that the working expenses of the lines can be reduced aftor. a little to sixty per cent, being a saving of fifteen per cont on the present expenditures. A congratulatory allusion was made to the settlement of the difficulties with the press, and the conclusion of @ contract with it for five years, The report was adopted without discus- sion, and @ ballot for directors for the ensuing year proceeded with. The following were the gen- Uemen elected, the name of Dr. W. 8. Morris, of Virginia, being added to the former number of twelve directors:—S, F. B. Morse, Amos Kendall, Zenus Barnum, Francis Morris, William M. Swain, Joln McKesson, Wilson G. Hunt, Hiram 0. Alden, John H. Purdy, Edwards 8. Sanford, Cambridge Livingston, William 8, Morris, Caleb A. Burgess. Sabsegnently the new Buard met and elected Wd- wards 8. Sanford President, Cambridge Livingston Secretary, and Francis Morris Treasurer. The office of Vice President and the Executive Com- mittee were abolished. A special meeting of the Board of Supervisors was hold yesterday, for the purpose of considering the tax levy, as submitted by the Comptroller, and amended by the Committee on Annnual Taxes. After a very animated debate the report was adopted, with the exception of the item to increase the salaries of the heads of the Finance Depart- ment, and the sum appropriated to pay the sala- ries of certain officers of the Supreme Court, who were appointed without the consent of the Board of Supervisors. The Board adjourned until next Tuesday. For the fourth time this year the Emigration Commissioners failed to muster a quorum for their meeting yesterday. The weekly statement showed the number of emigrants who arrived here during the week to be 484, which makes the total num- ber since January 1, 2,369, The commutation ba- lance has now fallen to $1,086 07. in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Smalley denied a motion to quash the in- dictments against the crews of the alleged slavers Cora and Bonita. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Jacob Miller wits tried for arson, tu sctting fro ta his lager bier saloon, at No. 460 Canal street, in September last. The jury, after an absence of half an hour, rendered a verdict of gwilty of arson in the second degree, as indicted. Judge McCunn remanded the prisoner for sentence. The eigthteenth day (yesterday) of skating in the Central Park opened with @ “stiff breeze cold and biting, which lasted the whole day, and whieh, if it affected the ears and nones of the -kacers, aise hardened che tee, maiking it vary good, except in a fw places where the troxen | snow cinsert oo to be rather congh. Sieating «ibs | ave daily argamiving. amang which ave the “Lane | Sar,” “Tangzey Gliders,” “Taion.” &e. A dine | aa Exquimaax dros created quite an ax. | itement yesterday. The calciums last sight were very brilliant, completely illuminating the whole upper pond. The official returns of visiters yesterday were:—Pedestrians, 25,000; equestrians, 35; wheel vehicles, 250; sleighs, . The ball is expected to be up to-day. The amusement of curling has been woll patronized in the Central Park during this season, and to-day the members of the Thistle Club intend playing a match for the club medal. On Saturday, weather permitting, Caledonian, S:. Andrew's and Hodson & pelt of ornamented few extras 31 Fi, cents. Other stock were in % at about last week's prices. The total suppl the week was €,993 beeves, 97 cows, 38 veals, 7,874 sheep and lamb-, and 9,596 swine. The cotton market was active yesterday, and under the usSuence of the Bohemia's news prices were quite rm on the basis of 128. 44. for middling uplands. Yhe receipis at the ports since the Ist September last have reached 2.151 ,000 bales against 2,767,000 in 1860, and 2,520,000 in 1889. The exports in the same time have reached 1,407,000 against 1,699,000 in 1860, and 1,809,000 in 1859. Stock on hand 640,000 bales, against 1,040,000 in 1860, and 900,000 in 1860, showing that the receipts have fallen off 616,000 bales compared with those of last year, and that the exports have decreased 192,000 bales. The stock on band amounts to 400 bales leas than last year. Flour opened heavy, with a moderate demand, but as the day advanced a better Inquiry sprang up and prices closed with firmness for somo dezeriptions, while sales were fair. Wheat was dull for common grades, while good red and white wore steady and sales fair, Corn was heavy, while sales were fair at rates given in another column. Pork was quiet, with sales of 200 2 300 bbls. at $17 76.0 $17 875 for mess, and $13 for prime. Sugars were tolerably activo, with | roles of 1,160 hhds., at rates given in another place. Cottee wos steady with moderate sales. Freighte wore rather easier for grain and flour. Other articles wore unchanged, and epgagementa moderate. A Great Prot Discovenen sy me Graxp Jeny—The Grand Jury of the United States Court, it seems, have discovered a plot of immense magnitude to subvert the government and destroy the republic. In ferreting out the facts of this direful conspiracy they have summoned a num- ber of witnesses before them, and among others Mr. Kerrigan, a member elect of Congress, who ‘was supposed to know all about it—in fact, we believe, to be the very head and front of it. Mr. Kerrigan, upon being questioned, stated that he did not belong to any treasonable or- ganization, but admitted that he knew of cer- tain meetings being held whose proceedings had a tendency to break up the Union. At this information the Grand Jury was startled, bristled up and pressed for further informa- tion. The witness asked if he was compelled | to state what he knew of these meetings, and the foreman assured him that such was his ab- tion, but no vote was taken. The resolution to elect United States Senator on the Sth of Febru ary was adopted. The Joint Committee agreed oa the plan of electing Commissioners to the ‘Washington Convention of Monday next, The steamship Bohemian, with Buropewn advic ft» the 18th inst., one day later than those pre vieuely received, arrived at Portland yesterday The London money market remained without change, £12,000 in sovereigns were taken from solute duty underoath. “Well, then,” said Mr. \ Kerrigan, “the only body in this city that I know | of which is taking any active measures to break up the government is the black republi- can committee which meets in Broadway.” On the receipt of this intelligence from the sup- posed chief conspirator we presume that the Grand Jury breathed freer; and we are inclined to think that Mr. Kerrigan was about right, indicating the seasonable co-operation of the President elect in some compromise arrange- ment in bebalf of the Union and the peace of the country, were too good, it appears, to be true. With the receipt of these advices at Springfield, the republican newspaper there accredited as the home organ of Mr. Lincoln, indignantly denies the soft impeachment as to his conservative inclinations. We are thus told that “in Abraham Lincoln the country will have a republican President—one who will give them a republican administration,” and that in. stead of being committed to the border State compromise er any other, “ Mr. Lincoln stands immovably on the Chicago platform, and will neither acquiesce in, nor advise his friends to acquiesce in, any compromise that surrenders one fota of it.” In confirmation of this unwelcome intelli- gence, our Springfield correspondent, in the same emphatic tone, assures us that Mr. Lin- coln will adhere to the doctrine of the reatric- tion of slavery upon which he was cleoted, “until he becomes convinced of ita fallacy not by threats, treason and rebellion, but by his own sense of justice ;” and that “he will hold himself altogether aloof from attempts to inter- meddle with the strife of Congressional factions, and the troubles of the present administration, until he shall have assumed the reins of gov- ernment.” Following up this ultimatum, our correspondent next, alluding to the Cameron Cabinet imbroglio, says that “the anti-Cameron feeling has been greatly strengthened bere- abouts (Springfield) by his late somowhat wys- tical acceptance of the compromise ideas of his democratic colleague ;” that “his Cabinet pros- pects aro not improved by this unexpected exhibition of backsliding, and that it is abso- lutely certain that the President elect most decidedly disapproves of Bigler’s plan” of pacification. We are thus relieved of all doubt concerning the views and position of Mr. Lincoln on the subject of a Union saving compromise. He was clected on the Chicago platform, not by the democrats and their allies, but by their ad- versaries, the republicans, and he will bea republican President. In the interval to his inauguration he will not interfere in the pro- ceedings of Congress or of Mr. Buchanan's administration; and when invested with the duties of the Presidency, if moved to a compro- mise at all, it will not be “by threats, treason and rebellion, but by his own sense of duty.” On the other hand, we have been over and over again assured that the first duty and the first object of the incoming administration will be to enforce the laws and restore the au- thority and integrity of the general govern- ment, before stooping to compound with the traitors who have conspired to overthrow it. In theory this line of policy is consistent and correct; but in practice we must deal with the stubborn facts which surround us. Let us look at these facts. Six States have withdrawn trom the Union, and they stand before us to-day each in the attitude of an independent repub- lic. During the present month, however, they will have organized themselves under the gene- ral government of a Southern confederacy, aad at least two additional States will have joined them in this orgaaization. Meanwhile, w a lust resort for Catom aad peace, the Legislature of Virginia, in behulf of the border siave staies wid (ae Staves of North Caroiina and Tennessee, aext adjoining, bas appointed a CniowComprs- f mise Border State Convention, w meet ia Washington next Monday, in view of the sub- mizaion to Congress of some adjustment calew lated to retain in the Union the border slave States and to reclaim the seceded States. We believe, too, that if a compromise emanating from said Convention shall be contemptuously rejected by this Congress, the alférnative of a border slave State alliance, offensive and di fensive, with the seceded States will so speedily follow that on the day of Mr. Lincoln’s inau- guration he will find it in existence. Thus the enforcement of the federal laws in South Carolina, for example, will be met with the armed resistance of the united South; and thus, in the very outset, the new. admini+ tration will be called to choose between a ruin- ous civil war and the recognition of « Gouthera confederacy. We fear that the President elect has not sufficiently considered the pressure and power of this Southern revolution—that he has been too much controlled by the rabid anti- slavery elements immediately around him, and has given too little attention to the sagacious suggestions of such wide awake republicans as Gen. Cameron. The issue is simply between the Union and the Chicago platform. The one or the other must be abandoned. To re- tain even the border slave States in the Union there must be a compromise made, in their be- half, and before the 4th of March, for after that day it will be too late. Let Mr. Lincoln consuit the history of the Roman republic, and in the frequent eonces- sions from the patricians to the plebeians, for the sake of peace, he will discover the ex- amples which should guide him in this crisis. Let him beware, on the other hand, of adopting the coercive policy of the French Bourbons, a policy which, even with the rest of Europe combined in arms against France, resulted in the final expulsion of the Bourbons. Above all, let Mr. Lincoln’ remember that the re- bellious people of the South are not our ene” mies, but our brethren, and that they can only be brought back to the common family altar through conciliation and promises of good treatment for the tuture. Finally, if the Presi- dent elect is beyond the reach of compromises, and if he believes, as we believe, that half the loaf is better than no bread at all, he will pur- sue the part of wisdom in preparing his mind for the peaceable recognition of a Southern confederacy. AF.) New York Dxmocearto Stars Conven- rion—A gathering of dirty, corrupt and in- triguing politicians, under the style and title of Democratic State Convention, meets at Albany to-day. The ostensible objeot of this assemblage of some of the odds and ends of the broken up and dispersed democracy is the salvation of the Wnion; but their real object is the spoils of the State and the city. The Tam- many Hall clique have a special object of their own— the exclusion of the Mozart Hall clique from the Convention; and upon this point Tam- many will have no compromise. A preciots lot of patriots these to patch up a compromise for the Union. James Brooks, of the 8, we presume, will be the moderator of the con- cern, We wish the forlorn democracy much joy from this State Convention of the sordid party hucksters and tricksters, and cheats and rogues, and old fossils, that have destroyed the party and the hopes of the country HT GJANAH ‘The New Republican Tariff Scheme. Although the modifications to the tariff measure, submitted to Congress, one year ago, by Mr. Morrill of Vermont, are not yet com- pleted, sufficient has already transpired to make it evident that a more absurdly prepos- terous mode of increasing the national revenue, never was laid before our representatives at Washington. {n the present aspect of political affairs, it is a direot insult to the South; it would be ruinous to the intereats of a large portion of our merebants in New York; and it is, in itself such a compound of contradictions and anomalies, as to deserve the contempt of all thinking men, Under the cloak of affected zeal for the welfare of the country at large, it caters to the covetousness of certain jobbers, speculators, manufacturers and capitalists; and, if it passes into a law, its effects will be in the extreme disastrous. It appears incre- diblo that, at & moment when every effort at conciliation should be exhausted to avert tho storm with which the confederation is threatened, there should be mischiefmakers base epough to accelerate its progress, and augment the bitterness created by past ag- gressions. Under the present system of col- lecting the revenue, there are features of a sufficiently odious description; but Morrill’s bill, which the Senate commitice, ruled by Simmons, a manufacturer of Rhode Island, Bigler, identified with tho iron interests of Pennsylvania, and Collamer, a wool growing representative from Vermont, are pushing through the Senate, is a conglomeration of in- congruities of the worst description that can be imagined. It is sincerely to be hoped that it may be defeated, or that, if successful in Congtess, it may receive the veto of the Pre- sident. ‘The bill is tiresomely long, and crowded with unnecessary verbiage. It abolishes, ata blow, the warchousing system, which has proved, hitherto, so convenient to all importers, and, instead’ of permitting goods to be retained in store for three years, compels merchants to withdraw them, by payment of duty, on the ist day of July next. Subsequently to that time, it provides that merchandise shall not remain in store over thirty days. This is a di- rect blow at the interests of small capitalists, for the bencfit of those who ean command large sums of money. Its practical operation will be to annihilate ihe business of traders of mode- rate means and to give a premium to the rich. It aims a blow at energy and enterprise, and tends to give a monopoly of mercantile power to those who least of all deserve or require it. It is not only a wanton trifling with the welfare of the industrial classes; but it perpetuates in- justice ia the most glaring manner, by the ig- norance and stupidity with which its details have been framed. In order to increase the patronage of the incoming administration, it so complicates the administration of the revenue laws, as to demand a great increase of the force to be employed in collecting the customs. It is understood that both Messrs. Hunter and Gwin, who are in the minority upon the Senate Committee, are prevented, on some futile pre- text, from offering any amendments to the Morrill bill. They now absent themselves from its sessions, and leave the responsibility where it belongs with the Senators from Vermont, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. They, of courte; endeavor to take abundant care of their own constituents: bat even im this they have been far trom skilful in their proceedings. The maaner fm which fron is hereafter to be taxed, ix so Intricate, that we doubt whether any future appraiser or collector will be able to understand it. The seventh section of the bill is devoted to this article. Will it be be- lieved that there are nearly fifty different items of duty upon iron and iron manufactures alone? Fifteen dollars per ton on bar iron, rounds and squares; twelve dollars per ton on railroad iron, and “slabs, booms, loops or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron;” twenty dollars per ton on boiler plate iron; on nails, tacks, hammers, &c. the duty has every conceivable variation, from twenty-five per cent ad valorem, up to three and a half cents per pound. The manner of taxing woollen fabrics is equally nonsensical. On Wilton, Saxony, Aubusson velvet and Tournay velvet carpetings, the duty is fifty cents per square yard; on Brussels and tapestry Rrnssels, thirty-five cents; on ingrains and the like twenty-five cents; and, on all other kinds of carpets thirty per cent ad valo- rem Cassimeres worth twenty-five cents a yard, are to pay sixteen cents per pound, and twenty per cent ad valorem, while on those of a higher value there is ghe same tax per pound and twenty-five per cent ad valorem. As the coarser goods weigh more, the object of the difference is defeated by our sapient legislator from Vermont, having forgotten that the finer article will necessarily come in cheapest. Sugars and wines are subjected to discrimina- tions that set common sense completely at naught. Details respecting them will be found in another column. ‘ It is seriously proposed to make this mass of abeurdities a part of the legislation of the country. A very distinguished Senator re- cently declared that Mr. Morrill’s tariff would become a law ere the lapse of another week. It clearly can neither be made to work, nor could business operations be carried on under it for a single week, A republican majority may manage to foist it upon the country, but it will be an outrage to decency, and the effect of the inattention to it of those who are bound to bestow upon it the gravest consideration. Greuier’s Coances ror tim Unrrep Sratus Senxate.—As the day approaches for the elec- tion of United States Senator to, fill Mr. Seward’s place, the politicians at Albany are considerably exercised upon the matter. It appears now that Greeley’s chances of the suc- cession are reviving, and it is said that the old barnburner element inolines in his favor. It is very curious that this party, who go in so strong for saving the Union, should sustain Greeley, who is the staunchest, abolitionist in the republican party, and the strongest non- compromiser of them all. Tre Democratic Union Savina Convenrton. The Democratic State Convention, which has been called together to save the Union in the present terrible crisis, meets to-day at Albany. We perceive that among the delegates are quite a number of the constructors of the Buf- falo platform, the men who first introduced the anti-slavery element into the democratic party The first question which this Convention ought to decide is the difference between the BuSalo platform of 1848 and the Chicago platforin of 1860, We think that the Buffalo rather the blacker of the two situtiare is AHOY Wav Jerebonm and Jeff. Davis. Ten of the Israclitish States became disgusted with the administration of Re- hoboam, the King of Juda, because he refused to make certain compromises which were needed, in consequence of injudi- cious legislation in the latter years of his father Solomon. Hadad and Rezan, who were the Calhoun and Hayne of Solomon's reign, were put down in their nullification movement, just as General Jackson suppressd the South Carolina movement a quarter of a century ago, and @ lull took place of several years. At last, however, under the new administration, several gentlemen of the Hadad school openly threat- ened to seoede, unless there was an amepdment of the constitution. The Sewards, Sumners and Wilsons of the duy had carried it for a long pe- riod with too high a hand. Rehoboam declined giving an answer to the Commissioners who had been appointed to wait upon him, until he had constructed his Cabinet. The leaders of his party were divided into the two schools of concessionists and coer- cionists. The former who were men of the Madison-Jefferson stamp, advised that “he should speak good words” to the people, and grant them what they asked for. “But he for- sook the counsel’ they tendered, and “consulted with young men who had grown up with him,” of his own party, wheiher he should make the yoke of the complaining States any lighter to bear. These latter were Greeleys, Garrisons and Wen- dell Phillipses. They replied:—“Thus shalt thou speak unto this people;—thou shalt say unto them, my litile finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins. I will add to your yoke. He chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” The coercionists gained the day. ‘The new government acted just as republican members of Congress have done during the present session, and the consequence was a final dissolution of the Union, and the election of a gentleman named Jeroboam as President of the withdrawing States. This is exactly the etate of the question, at present, between North and South. As the Israelites eaid “What portion have we in David?” so the slaveholding members of the confederacy, declare that they have no longer any common interest with the free States that oppress them, and violate the provisions of the constitution. The cry has gone out over the whole South: “To your tents oh Israel: now see to thine house David.” And, as the Israel- ites nominated and elected Jeroboam, it seems to be the general belief that Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, will obtain the supremacy over our own seceding tribes. Like Jeroboam, he has always been a great agitator, and has kept himself prominently identified with the inte- rests of his own section. He quarrelled, too, with General Scott, just as Jeroboam did with the commander-in-chief of Solomon. The consequence of the secession of the Israclitish States was, fortunately, prevented by Providence from becoming civil war, for acon- siderable period, although all parties were ripe for a fight. If Mr. Lincoln treads in Re- hoboam’s footsteps, and follows the foolish counsel of those who would dissuade Irim from making the concessions which the exigencies of the time demand, we hope the future of the United States may be equally fortunate. RervetscaN Strocx-Jopstxc.—During the whole of the present session of Congress; it has been manifest that the republican mem- bers of both the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, have opposed themselves, with the vis inertia: of a dead wall, to everything like a settlement of the difficulties that agitate the country. The people have beheld with amaze- ment an absence of statesmanlike appreciation of the exigencies of the times, without a’paral- Jel in the history of the country. In the midst of a revolutionary period, when the wisest and moet far-sighted find it impossible to foretell what any hour may bring forth, the republi- can leaders, who hold weal and woe, good and evil, the perpetuation of the integrity of the Union or its destruction, in the hollow of their hands, have closed ears, eyes, and heart, against the remonstrances by which they have been beget, and have refused to do anything. They might decide, this very day, that the States, united together, shall remain the ex-, ample and pride of the universe; but, instead they absolutely refuse to take a step towards dissipating the dangers by which the confede- ration is menaced. It begins to be believed that the source of this apparent apathy lies in intrigues, having their centre in Wall street, with no better object than to fill the pockets of those who are engaged in them. It will be remembered that no inconsiderable number of republican speculators and finan- ciers, made large purchases of stocks and State and other securities, previous to the election of Mr. Lincoln, on the strength of the prophecies that were freely made by some of their jour- nals, and in public meetings, that a victory of the cause of abolitionism, would be the signal for immediate increase in value of their invest- ments. Instead of rising, however, they went rapidly down, and great losses accrued to th8se who had entertained such sanguine expecta- tions. It has become an imperative necessity to recover from the embarrassed position into which they have fallen. Their friends at Wash- ington are, therefore, urged to aggravate rather than retard the secession movement, and to ab- stain, for three weeks, at least, from showing any disposition to compromise matters, or ac- cede to the just demands of the Mlaveholding- States. This will afford abundant leisure for republican speculators to buy in stocks and securities, at suoh prices as the troubled state of affairs dictates. hey will receive an up- ward boand, upon the first manifestation, by the incoming administration, of an amicable, compromising spirit, and a readiness to aid in securing satisfactory amendments to the con- stitution, and the fortunes lost six weeks since, will be more than recevered. Congress is filled with venal and corrupt men, but their course at the presant moment, is a renewal of the fiddling of Nero-while Rome burns. No prospective gain can palliate the wrong of keeping alive the existing crisis one instant beyond the period when it may, by prompt legislation, be ended. A Correton Corrs roa me Sovrm—Who will voluateer to go to the South and coerce the people of the catton States back into the Uniont Who should be called upon to lead the invading: hosts? According to our idea, thoee wha are so earnestly engaged in advo cating opercion should be tho first to take the field, By all means the Chevalier Webb should hays the command; Grecley might go along as autler; Deechor, with one of Sharpe's tifes, a4 Cosr oy rae Canapa Exrraprmioy Casz— Propasiz RevOLTION IN THE Brrrise Pro- vixces.—We have already acquainted our readers with the proceedings in the case of the fugitive slave Anderson, who, while escaping from Missouri, killed a tarmer who attempted his arrest. In the first place agents were sent from Missouri to claiim the negro under the provisions of the Ashburton treaty. After several hearings in the lower courta, the magis- trates referred the whole matter to the Attorney General, who declined, on the part of the gov- ernment, to take any action. Next, the prisoner was temporarily released on a writ of habeas corpus, and brought before the Court of Queen’s Bench, sitting at Toronto, A majority of the Judges decided in favor of remanding the negro into custody, and he was so remanded. A motion bythe prisoner’s counsel to take the matter into the Court of Errors. and Appeals was denied, and there the case, so fat a3 the Canadian Judges were concerned, rested. When the accounts of these proceedings reached Loa don the old ladies of Exeter Hall were violently agitated, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Sooiety took the matter up, and employed the eminent Queen’s Counsel, Mr. Edwin James, who moved for and obtained a writ of habeas corpus, commanding the authorities of Canada to brivg their prisoner before the Court of Queen’s Bench, sitting in London, and show cause as to why he is detained in custody. Thus the case takes an entirely new form, and the claimants of the slave will be compelled to begin their work all over again, without the slightest prospect of ultimate success. Already the expense has been very largely in excess above the value of the negro, leaving the crimi- nel aspect of the case out of the matter. Alto- gether, the cost of travel and lawyers’ and court fees in Canada and England must ainount to over four thousand dollars, and if the case should be carried before the fall bench, and afterwards to the House of Lords, the expense will be quadrupled—all of which shows the value of treaties when a nation places itself in a position to be safely bullied and defled. As for the Canadians, we have yet to see how they will relish this action on the part of the home government. Although they may sympa- thize with the negro, and rejoice, as opponents of slavery, over the fact that he is not to be given up, yet they will undoubtedly view the action of the British Court as establishing a dangerous precedent, and bringing them too directly under the control of the Crown. If the case of this negro is permitted to go upon the books as a precedent, the Canadian Judges have really no more power than a county magistrate. Every one of their decisions may be reviewed and set aside in London, and they will be prac- tically informed that they are not fit to manage their own affairs, The Canadians have too much of the old spirit which overthrew Jeffreys and taught Mansfield several valuable lessons to agree to this proceeding; and further, they will steadily oppose the pet plan of the Duke of Newcastle to consolidate the Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the islands of Prince Edward and Cape Breton into one viceroyalty. Therefore the result of all this imbroglio, this time and money wasted upon the .almighty nigger, may be a revolution in Canada, and a tender of the British possessions in Northern America to the new confederacy of the free States. Stranger things than that are happening every day. Wess as Histortan.—We have dately ad- verted to the exploits of Webb, of the Courier, as a logician and a General—on paper. It re- mains to notice his feats as historian of the territory of Louisiana. In a very long leading editorial article about the Louisiana purchase from France, Webb includes Mississippi agd Alabama in that territory. He says:— On the Ist of October, 1800, Spain reconveyed to France by secret treaty, at St. Iidephonso, the whole of the provinee of Louisiana, “with tho same extent that it now has im the hands France porsessed it,” which inclided Alabama and Mis- siasippt. in 1803 Mr. Jefferson succeeded ia jing from France her title to Louisiana. * * © in time, and in compliance with the treaty we edmitsed Louisiana’ inte tho Union aa’ & beats ot’ ue Misvissipps confederacy; and subscquently Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. Ata later we pu the Floridas from Spain, * * # historical facts biog rt ae aired Seniated ~ of tanned ine ter were represented in the Congress of the United States by twelve Senators, &e. “These historical facts will not be disputed.” So says the General of the Wide Awakes. Now we should like to ask him on whaé histo- rical authority he has made Mississippi and Alabama part of the Louisiana purchase. It is news to us, and no doubt will be to all our readers. We had always supposed that these States, when territory, originally belonged to South Carolina and Georgia, and were ceded by them to the United States before the Loui- siana purchase, and consequently could not have been any part of it. The Mississippi terri- tory is totally distinct from the Louisiana ter- titory. The records of Congress show that the Mississippi territory was formed out of a part of the territory ceded to the United States by the Commissioners ot South Carolina, August 9, 1787, and by those of Georgia, April 24, 1802. On the 17th of June, 1812, a joint reso- lution of Congress was adopted “requesting the State of Georgia to assent to the formation of two States of the Mississippi territogy.” In 1817 the western part of the territory,was admitted asa State into the confederacy and called Mississippi, and at the same tire the eastern part of tho territory was made a sepa- - rate Territory, and called Alabama, by aot of Congress. For which historical faote tie Geno- ral had better consult the Journals of. Congress and Bioren and Duano’s edition of laws. So much for Webb in the character of, historian, What will be his noxt réle? Tue Curvanier Wikovr in mn American Revo.vtion—Whenever and wherever theze is any difficulty going on itis vary safe to. pre- dict that the Ohevalicr Wikoff will be ogivast a spectator, if not actively imterested. When- the French revolution of 848 broke out the Chevalier was in Paris, and undoabpedly as- sisted Louis Napoleon. la tho work of recon struction. He was afterwards employed by Lord Palmerstar to. cultivate the entente cor diale between Englwad and’ Feance, and was very busy at that delicate task about the time of the coup d’flth “Since then, it is aaid that Wiko has heea employed in various Hplo- matic capacivies by the French and English governmenis, und hea latterly beea flying about heiweeo Washington and Now York like the dew ina of wind, What he (Wikoff, out no one seems to kno pected that Lord Palme »poleon have aval him over hero ou of Spain, and that * hadwhea .