The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1861, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. men ought to have remembered that Mr. Lia- coln has been cooped up for several months in the little out of the way village of Springfield, Tilinois, with only a few thousand inhabitants, devoting all his energies solely to cabinet mak- ing. Supplied with » few old planks from Chicago, he has been vainly engaged on a Piece of cabinet work in that small village, which no one ever heard of until a few politicians converted it into a kind of Mecca, and knows nothing at all about the state of the. country or the sentiments of the people he is going to rule over. It wasvery thoughtless of the Aldermen not to remember this, and give Mr. Lincoln an opportunity of learning something about the condition of the country and public opinion upon the merits of the Chicago platform, before he goes to Wash- ington, which he could do nowhere else half 50 well as in the superb metropolis of New York. Impending Revolution im the Canadas Nothing can be more instructive in the chronicles of history, than the frequency with which eminent popularity in personages of ex- ‘alted station, has been the harbinger of their downfall, and unusual demonstrations of alle- giance and loyalty, the signal of impending discontent, rebellion, and revolution. From Saul to Pio Nono; from Mary Queen of Scots to Marie Antoinette, the cypress wreath has ‘ver been successor to the laurel crown, and the hosannas of a fickle multitude a prepara- tion for agonies like those of Calvary. “When I saw the Queen of France, thon the Dau- phiness,” exclaimed Edmund Burke, “surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in—glittering like the morning star—full of life, splendor, and joy. Oh what a revola- tion!” And who could have believed that Mary, Queen of Scots, the brilliant being, who landed at Leith, in 1561, and with a light and gladsome heart received the homage, which, amidst plaudits and re- joicings, the nobles, clergy and people of Scotland poured forth to offer her, would linger out a life of misery, and perish upon an ignominious scaffold. Six months ago, the cannon of Monnt Abra- ham, announced the arrival in Canatia of the Prince of Wales. There never was a prince more calculated to win the love and respect of wealth of England, than any event of the past century. Her trade with the United States, since the peace of 1782, has received an exten- sion, whieh would have been deemed the wildest hallucination of a crazed brain, had it been then foretold. Bankruptcy would be the result of the loss to her of this republic as a market, and the withdrawal of an alliance the signal for her political as well as commercial ruin. What injures us, reacts unhealthily upon her, and every step taken by us in advance, is for her advantage. Equally beneficial to her would be the loss of Canada. The population of three millions in Canada, will have be- come, like ours, thirty millions ‘in half a century, and her imports from Great Britain, which, in 1860, amounted to but a fraction over eighteen millions, will be nearly two hundred millions, in the same period. It is therefore for the interest of Great Britain that her American provinces shall become free, and part of the vast republic which nature decrees shall rule this continent. ‘The remembrance of the recent visit of the Prince of Wales to this country, and the man- ner in which he was received here, should teach the lesson to England, that no cause can possibly dissever the bonds of peace that unite her to her colonies and to the United States, short of the absolute dictates of duty. The highest obligation of every people, however, is to guard its own rights and to seoure the fruition of its own freedom. The Canadians are already beginning a work of preparation to- wards this great end, which will lead to the de- claration of their independence, and the an- nexation of their territory to the United States. ‘The British government should aid in the ac- complishment of what it cannot possibly pre- vent. A war, similar to that of the last cen- tury, would inevitably terminate as inglorious- ly as did that which preceded the peace of 1783. Let the advisers of Queen Victoria re- cognise, then, that the period has arrived for an amicable severance of the ties that bind the British provinces of North America to the crown; yield gracefully to the exigencies of the age; and permit the people of Canada to launch, unmolested, into the new sea of enterprise towards which destiny calls them. Tux NeGroin THR Metroronts.—The atatiatics of the colored population in New York, which we published the other day, must suggest to every thinking mind the inferiority of condition whach eharacterizes the negro race in the free his future subjects. His transit through the North American dominions of his mother, was one of unexampled splendor. With the excep- tion of slightly grave manifestations of popular displeasure at Toronto, the ovation received by him was in the highest degree gra- tifying, and excited almost a wonder- ing satisfaction in his native land. His greeting in the United States was still more enthusiastic. A shout of joyful and heart- felt welcome, accompanied him from one end to the other of his journey, and, as the son of a royal and virtuous mother; heir to a monarchy with which it is for our highest interest to re- main at peace; and the descendant of a line of kings, to whom our ancestors owed fealty, a spontaneous tribute of deference was bestowed upon him, calculated to draw closer than ever together the bonds of alliance between nations of a common race. There were but small appearances, that the clouds, slowly. | gathering around our political horizon, would , ever affect him. Probably but few persons on | the continent imagined that a storm was brew ing, which, ere half a year had passed away, would threaten to tear from the British crown the last remnants of its possessions in this quar- ter of the globe. Yet it is undeniable that the contagion of change, which has so rapidly ex- tended from the South to the North, since No- vember last, has reached the Canadas, and that arrangements are already being made there, to sunder the connection between the British | American colonies and England—amicably if | possible, but, if needs must be by force of | arms. | ‘Ph speeches delivered by Senator Seward, | the premier of the incoming administration, | during the course of the recent Presidential camphigii, show that it has, for years, been a part of the plan of agitators in the Northern | States, that not only the whole of the British possessions in America, but also the northwest- ern portion of the continent, owned by Russia, ghould soon be included in the great non- | slaveholding republic, which ti” dissolution of the Union would be a signal fo inaugurate. The grandeut of the empire which Sputhern enterprise and energy hope to carve out be- | tween Mason and Dixon’s line and the Orinoco, renders, in fact, the annexation of Canada, | Nova Scotia, and New Branswick, an impera- tive necessity; and the change is clearly for | the interests of the people on both shores of | the great likes, and on the other side as well | as this of the St, Lawrence. Such an altera- | tion of the map of the continent, will give to | the Northern confederacy a large number of new States, while it will make Canada, which has no navy, but a limited commercial fleet, | and which is restrained in its developement by want of independence, the centre of one of the greatest marine and commercial Powers on earth, Instead of revolving with a dimmed lustre around a distant centre, Canadians will, horeafter, derive glory and renown from them- selves alone, while contributing to extend the influence of the mighty Power, in which they will have a controlling voice, to the remotest bounds of the globe. The recent invasion of the rights of the Ca- nadian judiciary by the Court of Queen’s Bench, has excited just and fervid indignation | in the hearts of the intelligent masses of the | population. Itis a repetition of the interfe- | rence with Jocal privileges to which colonies are always subjected from arrogance, fanaticism, i and tyranny, if public sentiment in the mother | country happens to be adverse to their con- duct. In the present case, such intermeddling qill prove to have been “worse than a politi } cal crime—it was a blunder.” It will supply new fuel to the flame of secession feeling, al- ready burning up brightly in view of events in the United States, and will hasten the hour, predicted by Senator Seward, when “out of | the provinces beyond the great lakes, by the | St. Lawrence and the shores of Hudson bay, excellent States will be built, to be hereafter admitted to the American Union.” It is sincerely to be hoped that Groat Bgitain, with the teachings of her own greatest states- men before her; with the precepts to guide her which she has given to other nations; and the increased wiedom and enlightenment of the century in which we live, will rejoice in por- mitting her North American colonies to secede States, as compared with the African living un der the Southern system of servitude. Since 1850 the total population of the city has in- creased some three hundred thougand, while iz tho same time the negro population, black and mulatto, has decreased from 13,815 in 1850 to 10,831 in the present year—a falling off of nearly three thousand inasingle decade. At this rate of decrease the whole free negro popu- lation of the country will have vanished in half a century from now, unless preserved by some unusual migration from the Southern States. Outof the ten thousand negroes now in the metropolis, only eighty-five own any real estate, and not quite eight hundred own per- sonal estate. They have completely aban- doned all employments requiring active manual labor, and are to be found for the most part in the position of waiters and domestic servants, and the females in the capacity of washerwo- men and laundresses. A negro mechanic is a | rarity—the whole number in the city not reach- ing eighty; and in any higher pursuit there are none to be found, excepting fourteen clergy- men of different persuasions, eight physicians, cight musical professors and seventeen school teachers. In the wards where they are the most numer- ous they form the very lowest stratum of socie- ty; in the Fifth ward especially prostitution and indiscriminate intercourse between the sexes is the common rule of life. The number of mulattoes among the co- lored population shows the immorality of the female portion in a very marked manner, considering that only thirty-two cases of intermarriages with whiie women are re- turned by the ceps3 marshals, and not one case of intertiarriage between a white man and a black woman. Of the thirteen thousand col- Sta people in the metropolis, nevertheless, no leas than three thousand are the offspring of black and white parents, and the census shows that more than five-sixths of them were born in free States, and most of them in this city. These facts prove that the negroes in the much lauded condition of freemen are descend- ing in the scale of civilization and diminish- iag in numbers. No such results can be de- duced from the statistics of the negro in South- ern servitude. The very converse of the pic- iure is presented there. The negro of the South is physically strong and sound, healthy and fruitful, bappy, contented, and, in many cases, moral and religious; increasing in num- bers year by year, and never exposed to the vicissitudes of poverty. There is something in this to induce philosophical reflection. It is the best answer that can be made to the fanati- cal outery about the equal right of the black man and the white to pertect liberty and a joint civilization. Sroxe Prens.—We are glad to perceive that the Board of Aldermen have taken the sugges- tion of the City Inspector with reference to the construction of stone piers at our wharves in place of the present dilapidated wooden struc- tures, which are a disgrace to the city. With the finest water front of any port in the world, the wharfage accommodation of New York has been always miserable and unsuited to the wants of a great commercial city like this. Moreover, the timber piers have really cost more to keep them in repair than would cover the expense of building good stone piers, which would be permanent, easily kept in order, and might be sometimes clean, as the present ones never are. The Aldermen resolved to apply to the Legislature for authority to construct stone piers, and we trust that their application will be attended to. Tux Partisan Parers axv tH Crists-—The political journals of the country have become 80 absorbed In the practice of abusing each other of opposite politics that it seems impos- sible for them to understand the true position in which the Union has been brought by the political leaders. They do not seem to know that the nation is drifting into certain and irre- trievable rain, and that while they are splitting hairs over some question of minor importance, or quarreling about political abstractions which can be of no possible advantage to either side, the Union Is going to pieces. Their eyes seom closed to these facts, while, on the score of in peace. The loss of the thirteen colonies to the crown, did more to augment the national abuse, they are alive ond active. They are teady enough to speak for the politicians, but for the people and their great cause of human progress and prosperity they cannot find a word. The community at large—those whose interests are direotly at stake—have no organs through which their sentiments may be known, except the ballot boxes, and those, for the pre- sent, unfortunately, are olosed against them. If the papers and politicians of all stripes and complexions would forego for a time the dis- cussion of the ridiculous and nonsensical doc- trines contained in the various party platforms, and turn their attention to advocating the polioy of bringing the questions which now agitate the country before the people for their decision, the whole matter could be settled satisfactorily to all sections in thirty days. Let the people be permitted to speak, and the trou- ble will vanish. —_— THR DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. The Resolutions Adopted—The Commis- Conferemoe—Afiecting Scones—The Quar- rels of Mozart and Tammany, &c., &c. A Aunany, Fob. 1, 1861. Tho Tammany and Mozart quarrel has been a bone of contention with the Union-savers in Convention assem- ied, and bas proven a serious question, The Regency have become somewhat frightened at losing the Tammany delegation and the money bags which a portion of them Tepresent, and aro doing all within their powor to get them back. But secession is the order of the day, and, like South Carolina, Tammany has got a notion in her bead to set up for herself, and if the Regeucy won't coerce ‘Tammany then Tammany is bound to seize all tho forts, arsenals and fortifications of the Regency, and run the machine themselves. We had, therefore, two demo- cratic Conventions yesterday; the Regency Convention, in which none but the shining lights of the confidence con cern were ailowed to figure, aud in which Sanford EK. Church took the tragedy part, Seymour the sontimental, Cagger and Richmond the gcene shifters. Thus duly arranged, the play went on, amidat the cheers of Mozart, the groans of Tammany and the rejoicings of the old people generally. But whilst Seymour was doing up the sentimental another, and not by any means unimportant, Cofivention was aseembied at the Delevan, in which tho Warriors and sachems of ancient and antiquated Tammany were holding secret council and preparing for war For eight lung hours those warriors seriousiy dolibe- rated over thew grievances, aud deeply pondered over & mode of attacking the enemy—the Regency In this they were assisted by their new recruits, Geo, Law, the pa- triot, and G. W. Smith, the former counsoling peace— probably arising from the triondiy associations in times of railroad speculation—but the latter giving the conti- dence party no quarter. After fairly cousidering the question pro and con, the Chairman of the Convention of warriors and sachems was ordered to forward to the Regency Convention a declaration of war, and informing them that, like South Carolina, they had &t up for themecives. Tue tollowiug message wus Sout With a special agent to them:— Dekvas Housk, Jan. 31, 1861. To mm CHAIRMAN OF TH Demockarc Statk ConvENTION:— Deak Sie—It becomes my duty to notify you cf the decision of the nations! democratic delegates from the city of New York, accredited from Tammany Hall, in view of the action of the State Convention this day.’ As the Convention are Joubtlesa aware, the delegates from the city of New York were instructed to uphold the regu: larity of the orgauization 0 Tammany Hail, existing for forty years—indecd, since the formation of the party. The Convection was called by the regular stato Committee, ans each delegute froni the several counties of the State takes his seat in virtue of a right derived from the democratic —_ organization from each county. We were instructed to ask from the Conyeution the sane recognition which is awarded to (be representatives of every other country, This right has, in the judgment of our delegates, beon denied tous. I have thereture but to submit for your considera. Lich our resolutions of instruction avd tho resolution of the deiegatee, adopted since the adjournment of the Conven- tica.” By'order of the delegates. AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman, Joay McKxon, Tuomas 0, Ereips, J S¢retaries. E The Regency, after weighing carefully the contents of the letter, began to grow pale. The thought of losing the | financial part of their force was too serious a matter. The Chairman of the Convention was ordered to send taem reply, imploring their return to their first loveand agree ing to pardon all their sins, and receive them in full com munion once more, as follows: — Arnaxy, Jan, 31, 1861. Avaust Briwont, Esq., Chairman, &.— Dear Sin—I have read with great regret your letter of this evening, apprising we of tho action taken by the Tammary cclegation in withdrawing from the Conven- tion, [t’seems to me very plain, and your delegation en. tirely misapprebend the eflect of the resolution adopted by the Couvention. So far from making any decision as to the regularity of any delegations from your city, it es pecially refuses to meddie at ali with the question ‘of re. gularity, or to call in question in any manner the decision of previous Conventions, 1 beg you will remind your del vention is not called to set! larity. On tho contrary, tional! men of different politi¢al organizations to participate in its deliborations. It agentes, therefore, noright, and it is unwilling to express any opinion on any question of party organization of the democratic party, It looks only to the great question now agitating the country, in regard to which patriotiam is not, I trust, to be confined to any one party. May I pot ak your delegation to consider further this matter before taking @ step that cannot fail to inflict a wound upon the body we represent. It will detract much from the moral effect of our deliberations, if Tam. many, renowned for its antiquity and its patriotism, shall, i. a crigig like thie iv shoulder: i aE ty Ae ew question of organization which in another Convention mighi be properly urged. 1 caanot doubt bat you will consent to consider this subject again before taki action, and am yery truly yours, AMASA J. PARKER, Chairman. ‘This lotter was not received until a late hour, and the warriors agreed to meet again this morning and consider the subject, many of them deeming it a sufficiont back down on the part of the Regency for them to return and participate im tho drama to be performed in the Conven- tion to-day. During the deliberations of the Convention this morn. ing, the Secretary read both of the above communications, A resolution was carried without a dissenting voice invit- ing Tammany back into the Conventfon, and if the dele- gation now refuse it will placs them in an awkward posi- tion, and destroy the issue which they intended to make ‘on the action of the Convention yesterday. It seems that Samuel J. Tilden bad been in the Convention ail the morn- ing, and, upon jond calls for him, took the stand imme- diately after the passage of the resolution inviting tho delegation back into the Convention, but gaye way for the Committee on Resolutions to report. ‘Two important speeches were made this morning, one by Lyman Treemain and the other by James S. Thayer, @ resident of both Renselacr county and New York city. Both of these gentlemen eulogized Thurlow Weed and Robinson for taking a bold stand and rising above the partisan to the present crisis. Mr. Thayer spoke in high terms of Simon Cameron for leading off in favor of con- ciliatory measures. The remarks of both were received with great applause by the Convention, and whenever they alluded to the breaking up of the confederacy of States tears could be ecen coming from tho cyes of many of the delegates, especialiy the old men of the Convention. There was a great deal of feeling maui- fested by all present. The Convention, up to the adjsurnment this noon, has been pretty effectually run by the Regency, and there is a moving train on hand of no small numbers, Tho Stato Committee declare that Cagger and Richmond have not consulted the balance of the mombors, but done just aa thoy please, and allowed none but those they liked to figure on the stage. Other members of the Convention state that, whilet Church was in the chair, no person was allowed to say a word unless known to be sound. The Convention has assembled to save the Union, but if they save thomsclves from a permanent rapture they will be fortunate; and there aro strong indications hereaboute that there will be a new deal of all partice—a general smash up on all sidoe—with Weed and the conservative portion of the republicans breaking loose, uniting with one of the democratic splits ‘and forming & Unien party, and you need not be sur. prised to see@ developement tending to that on the Senatorial conteat. Whilst the Convention was passing resolutions inviting Tammany to return, the latter were holding a protracted meeting at the Delavan House, Meters. Seymour, Redfield and Judgo Gray wero ap- pointed ambassadors to uc for peace with Tammany. These distinguished gentiomen severally made rpeeches to the Tammany warriors, tn which they deciared that they, aa well ag & great majority of the Convention, recognized Tammany as the reguiar organization of the city of New York; yet tn the peculiar character of the Convention, constituted of members of organizations without refe- rence to questions of regularity, they admitted all and urged the grieved party to sacrifice all personal feelings and (ako part im the Convention, receiving aeauraace, ba- from the ambassadors that Tammany would be recog: ‘ized in the regular State Convention. It was finally decided to return and present a formal communication stating the representations that had been made to them, and that, under such circumstances, thoy believed that they could consisteutly with their instruc. tions take seats in the Convention. The delegation formed into line, and marched, in solemn and mournful Procession, to the Convention, headed by Belmont and Kennedy. Prominent in the liae loomed up the towering forms of Law and Judge Conneily. They wore woll re- ceived, and their address read and laid on the table. ‘Thus Tammany has managed to bo a great feature of the Convention—first in, then out; then in again. ‘The labors of the convention have been brought to a close, Mozart and Tammany have each by turn denounced the Regency. The oki men have geno home, but no one is able to ascertain anything that they have done of a positive character. The mountain has labored and Drought forth a mouze. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION. Aunany, Fed. 1, 1861. The Democratic State Convention re-assembled at ten o'clock this morning. The attendance was largor than on the first day, the entire ball and galleries being densely crowded. ‘The Committee on Credentials or Resolutions not being prepared to report, a motion was made that Mr. Seward’s speech in the United States Senate be read in the Con- vention. Some objetions were made to this on the ground that all the papers had published it and all the delegates had read it Loud cries now arose for Mr. Tremaine, who, respond- ing to the call, addressed the Convention at lergth with much eloquence, taking strong and earnest ground against coercion and civil war, and appealing to tho State to let the voice of the people be heard. James 8S. TraveR noxt addressed the Convention ina very oloquent strain, taking the bold ground that Northern men will not allow the coercion of the sovereign States of the South. He declared that the dangerous stream into which the republicans seek jo plunge the people by the cry of Union, the constitution and tho en- forcement of the laws, leads to the ocean of coercion, and has no other outlet, and tbat the people of the North will demand that the revolution shall begin at home if it is to come at all. He instanced the case of William Tell, who, bavirg dropped an arrow after a trial of skitl on an apple placed on the head of his son, had replied to the question of Geater, “It was for thy heart, tyrant, iC Thad harmed my boy,” making the application to those who sought to array Uhe North ogaimst their brethren of the South, and declaring the first arrow driven to the heart of an American citizen would be the signal for a cloud of arrows to darken the heavens in the North. ‘The Presipent of the Convention submitted a letter from a portion of the Tammany Hall delegation, announc- ing their withdrawal from the Convention, and bis reply, in which he states that the Convention was not calied to decide, and did not decide, upoo any question of regulari- ty, and asking the delegation to reconsider their action and return to eeats in the Convention, A rcgolution was adopted approving of the reply of the Presicent, and asking the Tammany Hall delegation te re- turn to seats in the Convention. Mr. Luptow, from the Committee on Resolutions, re- ported 4 unanimous series, as follows:— 1.—Risolved, That the crisis into which the country has been thrown by the contlict of sectional passions, and which has already resulted in the declared secession of six tick, and the threatened co-operation of nearly all the oher States of the South with them; the seizure of government property and of tho federal defences—the confronting of the digaffected States and of the federal goverpment in the attitude and with the armament of civil war—is of such a nature as, raising all patriotic citi- zeus above the considerations of party, should impel them to the sacrifices by which alone these calamities may be averted or their further progress arrested. 2—Resolved, That in the opinioa of this Convention tho worst and ‘the most ineffective argument that can be addri@ed by the confederacy or its adhering members to the seceding States, 18 civil war. Civil war will not restore the Union, but will defeat forever its reconstruc. tion. 3. Resolved, That we can look for the restoration of the Union and the re-invigoration of the constitution ouly to the continuance of that spirit of conciliation and con- cession in which they were founded, and that there 1s Lothing in the nature of pending difiiculties which does not render it proper to adjust them by compromises, such as, by the practice of our goverument, have been rosort- ed tom tke settlement of disputed claims even with foreign nations; that while our government, believing its title to the Territories+in the Northeastern and North- ‘western portions of the Union, which were given up to Great Britain, was clear and unquestionable, yet for the purpose of saving the people from the evils of war, it surrendered @ portion oi our original territory, and also a part of the Louisiana purchase, exoceding in value al! the domain which the South demands, in joint occupation; that having conceded thus much to a foreign nation in the interest of peace, it would be monstrous to refuse to settle cliims between the people of our owa land, and avert destruction frem our common country by a similar compromise. . 4. Resolved, That whereas it is obvious that the dis solution of this Union can ouly be prevented by the adop tion of a policy which shail be satisfactory to the border States, its our duty to support them w their patriotic efforts’ to adjust these controversies: and inasmuch as these queetions grow oat of the acquisition of territories not provided for by the constitution, and in regard to which the people of the South believe that they are en- titled to a jomt occu, y, in person and property, under the constitution and by the decision of the courts, while, on the otber hand, the dominant party at tho North, claim that they should be excluded therefrom, it is eii- nently fit that we should listen to the appeals of joyal men in the border States to dispoap of this qvstion by one of thove measures of compromise in tho spirit which the constitution was founded, an, hy which all Territorial questions have, from time “to timo, been settled. 6. Resolved, That inasmuch ag ° i which threaten the destruction cS re be ep contemplated at sho time of the last election, and thoir nce will be mo», disastrous to the interests of our ‘volving te ruin of our commercial and labor- ing classes, and Dose ibhy oaryy : war into tha howe ~/ " ea of our & We hoid it is their right to be heard in regard to the adjustment of these Gillieulties which, our opinion, can at present best be Settled by the adoption of the Crittenden proposition or some other measure acceptable to the border States, and that a committee of five be appointed to prepare, in be- half of this Convention, # suitable memorial to the Legia- lature, urging them to submit the Crittenden co miso to # vote of the electors of the State at the ear practicable day. 6. Kesoivec, that this Convention earnestly but re- epect(ully urge upon Congress immediate action for the adoption of #uch timely and adequate measures of con- Cihwtion ae are in ite present power to enact, and to sub- mit at this session amendments of the conatitution, for ratification by the conventions of the several States, and that, in the failure of Congress to act, the. Legislature of this State be requested to take the initiatory stops, un- der the constitution, for summoning a general conven- tion for proposing amendments to that instrument. 7. Resolved, That ia the opinion of this Convention, a compliance with the request of the Legislature of Vir- ginia, that Commissioners from the reveral States bo sont fo Washington, to cenfer upon tho present crisis in the affairs of the nation is erainently proper and expedi- ent; and we trust that the Legislature this State will immediately respond to such request by the appointment of such Commissioners. But further resolved, That should our Legislature not appeint suid Commissioners, in view of importance of that measure, this Convention appoint Millard Fillmore, Addison Gardner, Groene eon, Krastus Corning, Horatio Seymour, Washington Hunt, Amasa J. Parker, Charles ©'Uonor and Samuel J. Tilden as such Commirsioners, on the part of the friends of conciliation in the State of New York. 8 Resolved. Pending these remedial meagures, we im- plore the States in the attitude of secession to tho sword and save the gation from civil war, until tho “gober second thought” of the people of all the States can be rendered efficient in perfecting the work of com- promise and in the restoration of To the South. ern States which have not seceded we also earnestly appeal to join bands with us in staying the progress of dissolution, aud in proparing the minds of our country- men to meet on some common ground, where they may preserve to themselves and their y that copatitu. tien and Union which haa been fraught with so much happiness to this peopto, On the second resolution being read, Chancellor Wat. wortn appeared on the platform, and his venerable looks claimed instant attention from the Convention, and he waa received with an outburst of enthusiastic applauso, He said: — GENTLEMEN OF THE ConverTiox—I am far advanced ia ears and not inthe habit of attending oeade of his character, but I could not Shanan ine enter ° Ing tho Teeolation of olvil | rf enforcing she best No, he went to resist laws that were oppressive against a Pople, and egainst the injustice of which they rebelled. Did Lord Chatham for entorcing the laws? No, be glorted in defeace of the liberties of America. Le made that memorable declara- tion in the British Parliament—“If I were an American, citizen, instead of as I am, an Englishman, | never would submit to such lawé—never, never, Bever!"” Such is the ®pirit that animates our Southern brethren, and shall wo | war upon them for it. No; we must avert civil war if Possible, and T close b 0 exhorting my brethren to do all their power to avert civil war. Concession, concilia- tion—anj thing But that—and no man us in his dying hour will regret that his conscience is clear, and j that he can Iny his hand upon his heart and say, “f did all in my power to turn from the bosom of my country the horrible blow of a civil war.’” Immense sensation followed the remarks of the venera ble Chancellor, and the deep silence that had attended his Taare Was followed by an enthusiastic outburst of ap- wen’ crm ot Pring, and Mr. Socrer, of Queens, reinia, responded in touching terms to the remarks of Chancellor Walworth, and a por- tion of the Convention gave vent to’ thoir feolings in tears. The scone was rendered yet more impressive and affecting when Mr, W. H. Carroll tcok the floor, and with all the eloquence of feeling appealedto the North to stay its hand ere it did any act to plunge the countr in civil war. Tho venerable appearance of Mr. Carroll, and his allusion to his ancestors, one of whom rignod the Declaration of Indepecdence, while his grandfather jel Carroll) ceded to the United States his manor, on which now stands the federal Capitol, touched tho hoart, of the Conventiob, and when he had closed & unanimou3 call was made for ‘the adoption of the second resolution against civil war, by acclamation, and it was carried with a burst of applause that made the rafters of the building ring. This scene was the great feature of the morning session. ‘Tho resolutions gaye rise to some debate, in conse- quence of a motion by Mr. Welzaffer to amend. that one exhorting the seceding States to stay their hands by ulso imploring the general govornment to abstain from using apy force likely to to a otvil war, under the spe- cious protext of enforcirg the laws. Mr. TaayeR, in the course of the debate, declared wo should not hesitate to say, that even if the government had to aggume the defensive its hand should be stayed. (Loud ebiters and cries of ‘‘No,”’ “No.’) He did not de- fire that the hand of the government id be stricken down, but stayed, pending the attempts to win back ‘and fraternal regard. Mr. Eoucyn Driccs spoke against an: foree. He would prefer rather to sce all the guns with- drawn from the forts in all the seceding States. Jvpar CrxtoN, of Buffalo, spoke against the legal right of a State to secede and declared it revolution. Wo had stil a government despite the unbapp) celusion of our Southern brethren, and no secession could destroy it, His remarks elicited some dissent from the Convention. ‘The resolutions were then adopted wiihout amend- ment. Recess. employment of AFTERNOON SESSION. ‘The Convention reassembled at four o'clock P. M. The President presented a communication from tho Tammany Hall delegation. ‘Tho communication above referred to was read, and the Tammany Hall delegation returned to their seats in the Convention, Mr. Tuoaas J. Freups, of N. ¥., then, by consent, read tho reeolutions which had been adopted Ly the Tammany delegates, and moved their adoption. A Dr1RGATR moved to lay them on the tablo. Governor SkyMouR seconded the motion not out of dis- reapect, he said, to the Tammany delegation but as tne best way of disposing of the resolutions, since other re- sointions had been adopted by the Convention. Mr. Freps then withdrew ‘his motion for the adoption cf the Tammany resolutions, and moved that they be received as a part of the proceedings of this Convention, and entered on the minutes. Governor Seymour said that by Ge the resolutions on the table they became a part of the proceedings. ‘The resolutions were then laid on the table. A regolution was adopted to print 5,000 copies of the Proceedings. Mr. Cook , of New York, moved that the thanks of this Convention be texdered to Hon. Simon Cameron, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, for the noble stand he har taken for the Union. “Adopted. Ex-Chancellor WaLwortu moved a similar vote to Hon. John J. Crittenden, United States Senator from Kentucky. Adopted with acclamation ‘On motion of Samuel J. Tilden, a committee was ap- poinced to correspond with democrats of other States on the Subject of a General Convention to amen’ the oonsti- tution of the United States. The following is the com mittee:—Wm. Kelly, Wm. Cassidy, J. B. Viumb, Lyman ‘Tremain and Kaward Coopor. besy Hart moved that in default of the national and State Legislatures to adopt the measures suggested by the resolutions of the Convention, this body may again assemble at the call of the President ‘The motion was adopted. ‘The following committeo was appointed bod goa? the resolutions of the Convention to Congress and the State Legislature :—Hon. Horatio Seymour, ex-Chancellor Wal worth, General Ledyard, Bishop Perkins and H. D. Barto, The following commitice was appoint & to memorialise the State Legirlature:—JudgogW Ulard, Judge Page, J. H. Prentiss, Darius A. Ogden and George B. Grunnces. ‘A vote of thanks was ‘then passed unanimously to Judge Parker and the other officers of the Convention. Judge Parksx briefly returned his thanks for the honor done him, when the Convention adjourned sine dic, but subject to the call of the President. The Nova Scotts Legislature, Hautrax, Feb. 1, 1861. The Legielature convened yesterday. Tho Governor's speech was wholly local. There was a slight surplus of | revenue, and the Governor proposes the extension of rail Nay and nteamerfoommunication along the coast. “Mr. Me! was elected Speaker, Shocking Accident. Bostox, Feb. 1, 1861. An accident of a shocking character occurred at Brook ine, N. H., on Wednesday night, by tho roof of tho dwelling of a Mr. Gibson being crushed in by the wight of saow, killing Mr. Gibson, bis wife and two daughters, Destructive Fire at Jamestown, N. Y. Jammrown, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1861. A terrible fire occurred here last night, burning over thirty places of business, including the Allan House, Chautauqua County and Jamestown bank, and Hawley’s block. The papers, books and funds of the bank were all saved. Loss from $160,000 to $200,000. Tho fire broke out at about haif-past eleven, in Bishop & Lou's storo, and ie supposed to have been the act of an ingens diary. Southern Ocean Steamer Movements. Cuanieeron, Feb. 1, 1861. Thé United States mail steamship Columbia, Captain Berry, loft here at ten o'clock this morving for New York. Markets. FHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pwtapeuema, Feb. 1, 1861 Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State 6's, 91; ' Reading Railroad, 22), ; Morria Canal, 60);: Long Railroad, 10; Peonsyivania Ratiroad, 38. ‘York at par a }, per cent premium. Baxrmmone, Feb. 1, 1861 Flour active, with largo sales of Howard streot at $5 25, a decline of 6c, Wheat du'l: red $1 25a $1 33; white $140 0 $1.65. Corn stendy: yellow 600. a 620. Provisions firm. Coffee steady. Whiskey nominal at 180. # 1830. Pintapesrma, Feb. 1, 1961. Flour dull at $526 for superfine. Wheat firm: sales 5,000 bushels, red $1 260% 130; whito $135 a $145. Corn quiet: sales 4,000 bushels new yellow at 60c. Mess pork at $18 a $18 60. Safety of the Levant, The Trenton |.) Gazette podiiahes the annexed ex tract from a lotter juat received by Mra, Hunt, wifo of Pao Hunt, commander of the Levant, froma friend in Washington City i, Lieutenant A, W. Johnaon has just brought Mra. Tor- ret (the third Lieutenant's wife) the following informs tion, which she desires me to send yon. The Levant has been spoken by a whaler from the Sandwich" Islands. Captain Hunt desired him to report that he was com said whaler, and came on to Washington to give the in- formation to the family of Purser Wateon. Drawings of KR. France & Co.'s Dela-~ ware Lotteries :— Sussex County, Sige Fee 1, 1861. 74, 40, 67, 32, 16, 63, 36, 31, 19, 78, 60, 10, MIDATED ‘Crass 10, Feb. 44, 76, 28, 19, 14, 69, 26, 60, 8, 25, 73, 23, 42. Otroulsirn arnt free of change By add a of vce eee acti tame 1, 70, 60, 70,40, 16, Of 14,3, ‘at rm ABS 24, 62, 48, 21, 68, 33, 63, schemes, with full 4 netente Hair Dye—Reliable, Harm- New Euvemted Wigs and Tew also Waseteccarea by Wi R'iaciheton is ™ Cristadore’s Hair Dye, and Peacrania Seen mas Campbell, Chemist and A; ary, southwest corner of a a ‘fend Ty ty eighth street. Truscses—Marsh & Co.’s Radical Cure Truss, No, 2 Vesey street (Astor House), oppovite the church Tt THE NEW YORK WEESLY GERALD, The Revolation—Important from Wash< ington—The Latest Intelligence from tha Seceding States—The Ultimatumof south Carolina—Doi In Congress—Imper- tant Speeches of Messrs, Soward and Chas. F. Adams—The Latest News—Mar- kets, &e, The Waexir Tknaiv for the present week will be ready this morning at eleven o'clock. In its columne will be found:—The latest despatches from Washington City, giviog full reports of the progress of tho Revolution, The Secession of Jouisiana from the Union, with tho Latest ntelligence from the other Secedod States; The Ultima- tum of South Carciina; The Latest Reports from Forte Sumter and Pickens; Reports of the Proceedings of Com- gress—the Special Message of the President—Importame Speeches of Messrs. Seward and Charles Francis Adams, and other prominent members; The Proceedings of the New York Legislature; Important Intelligence from Springfield, showing the Position of the President Btvck; The Latest News received by mail or telegraph; Editoriale on Leading Events; Reports of the Cattle, Provision and Money Markets, and all interesting news of the pre- coding week, received by telegraph or otherwise. Single copies, in wrappers, tobe had at the counter of the office, corner of Fulton aud Nassau streets. Price Six cents, Superior Custom Made Shirts All Sizes, ready made or to” onder, ly reduced pricos, @ McLAUGBLIN'S, 200 Grecawich mreet. aes 16,000 Ladies Wanted, Each to Ba Pair of white Satin Slippers or Gaiters, or a pair of jubber Boots and Shoes at MILLER & CO.'s, 337 Canal at. Wheeler & Wilson’s Improvea 3. Machines at reduced prices, Ortice 406 Broadway, —— eEe—e=~>—>E~E>~—~—~_»—=z—z~k~_—_—sE>EeaeEE— MISCELLANEOU; Sener oie od ATO OTTO T _BVERD ‘3 OLD STORE, 302 BROADWAY. Wedding Curds, These elegant cards sold only at thht T WM. RVERDELL'S SONS—WEDDING CARDS AMD my ‘of the ti Fulton street, ort. Established Wain, baba baad T GIMBREDE'S—THE GRAY CAKD AND O1HBR novelties; @ satin Ue for wedding cards in perfection, A i oEDOUBLE SOLE NAPOLEON TAP BOOTS at JONES’, 10 and 12 Ann sireet, a new style, Bsr. AND SHOES SELLING OFF AT HALF PRI i pecinan Sheted ale id Bata at Frfneats side luced and Conj re ond Bus kina. Now i vpporti Giitend see) ins. Now is your « ty. Cal see for you! AL CAHILL & WOOD'S, 627 Broadway, between duston 88 Bleecker streeis. Om BENIONS, INVERTED NAILS, ENLARGED Joints and all Diseases of the Feet cured, without palm or inconvenience to the pation! Dr. ZACHARIB, Surgeon Chiropodint, 760 Broadway. physicians ‘and one- geous ot thia city. PF SEES, HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN CURED IN THE MOST OBSTINATE CASES ‘OF DEAFNESS, By Dr. VON MOSUHZISKE: 107 Clinton place, between Fifth and Sixta avenues. ROSTED FEKT AND @HILBLAINS.—DON'T FOS get to use BUSH'S Magio Cream Liniment. [t pa iain remedy." Sold by all tx Depot 136 Oreonwids Ho™ Ri 1 Tam GARDEN STATE OF THE WEST. ‘Tho Ilinols Central Raliroad Company WAVE FOR SALK ACRES or RICH FARMING LANDS, 1X Tiraste of forty acres and upward, ‘oN LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW PRIOES. MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING MEN. The attention of’ the enterprising and industrious of the comunity fs direoted to the following stalemenus borat inducemerits offered them by the.” ® ILLINOIS CENTRAL. RAILROAD COMPANY, Which, as they will perceive, will enable them, by an industry, 0 Bas ef fustry, to Brovide ‘comnts No State in the valley of the 80 great inducement to the settler as the State of Iilinoix. There is aw portion of the world where all of the conditions of climate and soil so admiribly combine to produce those two great alae ples, corn and wheat, as the prairies of Illinois, RICH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS, ‘The deep rich loam of the prairies is cultivated with gud& wonderful hfpeliity that the farmers of the Eastern and Mid- ie States Af@ moving to Tilinols in grpat, numbers. | The area of Illinois i# about equal to that of Fngland, and the gall ts 0 rioh tha 4 will eupport twenty millions o 4 EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MAK ‘These lands are contiguous toa railroad seven hundrea alles in length, which pnaete with otber roads and nat je lakes and rivera, thus an unl tion with the Hastern and Southern markets, A CAPITAL. PPLICATION OF ‘Thus far capital and labor have been aj the soll; the great resources of the State in coal and fron imost untouched. The invari s ra lief that at least five hundred peop! gage. in the Btate of lilinois in (be various manuf! employments, RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS. Over $100,00,000 of private capital have been e1 the 4 pnp a aa y Aa come from several of these works, wit! acs public. poy em Cs diminish the State expenses, the tazem fare light, and inust, eo a The Btate debt ae ay os le and, within the last oul i- , has been poh $2,950,74 three 7 a been wonably expect that in ten phi RESEN' The tural products of Lilinots than thoes OK te. The products oept ont di ‘the past Pune wai Cor bys 0k (eA rita or som, Nowbere ean the industrious farmer secure such immediate ite for bis labor the solla, they soma aed of : deep. rh faa, the fortiiny of with is asap any on the Fae ee ACTUAL CULTIVATORS. Rance 1854 the com only to actual onl tw culti ny have sold 3,300,000 acres, ‘Thay seid vators, and every Contract con! The trond’ on throng was only $5,503; making the w wet aie cen ae tree & 0 ton nc! 24,00 ‘of four, rain and barrels ‘ine last year. DUCATION, EDU Mecbavios and workiogmen encouraged by the State and for the say the church and school of the leading sate PRICES AND TB. The of these lands v1 Cording to location, quailty, sell for about $10 or $12 per acres; and the relative OLpeoae fms ay I . sis at as com| with “=< lead, is t= mab, rue hui, compared wits wed at sale for the bulk of the ~ 4 will a - ONE ¥ . at - per Pd per siean atgte pe cent yea six years {yom ante ofa ar. in four, contract #tipuimtin shal be ened and alata, cach, and ever peer Jne-hait shail be femoed and under cultivation. — TWENTY PKR CENT WILL BE DEDOCTRD from the valuation for cash, croept the same ld be at ste Per, wi the cash price will be five dollara. ¢ Pamp! lets Sorin x he lands, soil, Stes tion Tor the names of the towns, vil! and uated om the Tilincts Central Mallrond, see Pages 186, 190, 190 Ape Plein OPA RAND, SQUARR AND PICCOLO. ‘The best manufactured. : Warerooms. 606 Broadway SECESSION AND ITS CAUS! ND. LUAK REVELATIONS ina to the BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, ¥ ENTE ase TOUSEY, Agents, a ai Nassau ovreet, (TAXES ON WAKEFIELD, MOUNT. VERNON, UNION, Port Peibamvilie, Olinvilie, Washingtonville, &e., rang be paid through me at the Fourteenth Ward Hotel, Grand ruary 4,6 aud 6. ‘ap ime iate a oe a! JOHN & TORKE, General Collector, CONSUMPTIVE'S FRIEND. COUGHS, COLDS, RAISING BLOOD, PAIN IN THE SIDE AND BREAST, &o, sof cinta, capi ret cal ou ee irevk. He ts'now in ike enjopmoat ot po HYA’ AND RCONOMTOAT, HBGEMAN & CO fh eter ae Plc eo fi Rold 4 FOO am the gent: