The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK AKRALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1861 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, DITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND WAS840 BTS. eee eee eed edeance, Money sont by mat soill be as the oe Seah to sileanet, Bank Sala clrvend tn Naw York DAILY HERALD, two conte per copy, $1 por annum. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tiawe Tawen—Taxina on MaLaxorr. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Macexra. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Scnoo. ror Scan- Dal. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 62% Brosdway.— BuvEN Birth us NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Coot 4s 4 Cucum- Bee—Haniequin Jack—Tuxnese. THEATRE FERANCAIS, 585 Broadway.—Miix. ve LA BxIGLIEAK. 'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- py ta ‘Tax Lapy or 8. Thoree Lavina Cunt. Osrrums, 40.. at ail hours. ‘way.—BuaLesqves, paving omer, —Scenes at Gor war's. HOOLEY 4 CAMPBELL'S MINSTREBS, Nibio’s Saloon, Broadway.—Ermoriax Songs, Dances, Buruaques, &0.— Brack Stucce Henoxs. CANTERURY MUSIO HALL, 663 Broadway.—Tiour Rorx, Sones, Danoxs, Burixsaues, 4c. MELODEON, No. 599 Broadway.—Sonas, Danoxs, Bua- Lmsquxs, Ao. ART UNION, No. 497 Broadway.—Boruesqurs, Boxas, Dancus, &c. New York, Tuesday, February 5, 1861. MAILS FOR HUROPE, Whe New York Herald—Edition for Eurvupe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Niagara, Capt. Moodie, will Jeave Boston on Wednesday for Liverpool. ‘The mails for Kurope will close in this city this afternoon, at a quarter past one and at half-past five e’olock, to go by railroad. "Tax Evrorean Enron or Tar Haxatp will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrap- Pers, six cents. ‘The contents of the Fcxorgan Epmow ov ras Herarp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the bour of publication. The News. The Peace Conference met at Washington yes- terday, aud organized temporarily by appointing Mr. Wright, of Ohio, Chairman, and A. E. Ward, of Maryland, Secretary. A committee to select permanent officers was appointed, and it is sup- posed ex-President Tyler will be chosen to pre- side. Without transacting any other business, at half-past one o'clock the Convention adjourned. All the States that have appointed Commissioners were represented, excepting New York, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois. Eleven States were fully represented. No reporters were admitted to the Convention. There was considerable excitement throughout the city yesterday, caused by a report that Fort Sumter had been reinforced. There was, however, not the least foundation for the rumor. ‘The United States storeship Supply, from Pen- sacola, arrived at this port yesterday, bringing quite a number of officers of the navy and their families, and among them Mrs. Slemmer, the wife of the commander of Fort Pickens. A letter from a correspondent, describing the seizure of the public property at Pensacola by the secessionists, may be found in another column. ‘The latest accounts from Pensacola make no mention of the arrival of the sloop-of-war Brook- lyn off that port. The election of delegates to the Virginia State Convention took place yesterday. The reports that have reached us “indicate that the people have declared against secession. Gov. Brown, of Georgia, bas demanded of Gov. Morgan the immediate surrender of the arms re- cently seized in the city by the Metropolitan police, by order of Superintendent Kennedy, and in his communication expresses the hope that a like outrage will not again be committed. Gov. Morgan has not yet replied to the demand. The illegal action of the police in this matter, if not speedily repudiated, will doubtless lead to reprisals on the part of Georgia. The United States Senate yesterday presented yther scene of painful interest. Messrs. Slidell Benjamin, the Senators from Louisiana, withdrew from Congress, their State , seceded from the Union, and both ered eloquent valedictory addresses. The bers of the House from Louisiana, with exception of Mr. Bouligny, will probably thdraw to-day. Mr. Wilson offered a resolution alling on the President to communicate to the Senate whether any arsenals, forte, arms or muni- tions of war belonging to the United States have been seized by any persons in the State of Louisi- ana, and eepecially whether the mint of the United States at New Orleans has been taken possession of unlawfully by any persons; and if any money of the United States, and, if so, how much, has been uniawfally appropriated by any persons, and by whom. Laid over. The debate on the crisis was resumed, and Messrs. Clingman and Hale made speeches on the subject. The bill providing a go- vernment for the Pike's Peak region was taken up. ‘Bhe name of the Territory was changed from Idaho to Colorado, and the bill was passed. The $25,000,000 loan bill was reported by the Finance Committee, and made the special order for to-day. In the Houve Mr. McClernand, of Mlinois, asked leave to oiler a preamble setting forth the reports relative to ‘he seizure of the mint and money at New Orlewne, and the refusal to pay drafts drawn by the United States on their own money, and concluding with a resolution calling on the Presi- dent to communicate to the House at an early day, if in bis judgment not incompatible with the public interests, all the facts on the subject, and what steps, ifany, have been taken to restore the government possession of said property and trea- dure. Objection was made, and the subject was passed over. A resolution to admit the delegates to the Peace Convention to the floor of the House was also objected to. In Committee of the Whole the Deficiency Appropriation bill was discussed, The Senate's amendment, appropriating $300,000 for the Chiriqui Isthmus purchase, was rejected. The Senate's amendment, appropriating $135,000 for the purchase of a government printing office, was agreed to. During the present week the House will hold evening sessions for discussion on the crisis. About fifty speeches have already been made on this subject in the House, and should all who desire to speak on it obtain en op- portanity the debate will probably last to the up of the present Congress. A mass meeting of workingmen took place last evening at the Steubon House, Bowery, about two handred persons being present. The chair was taken by Charles McCarty, and @ serion of rosolu- tions in favor of Union and conciliation, combined with the adininistration of the laws according to the constitution, and also calling upon Congress peaceably to settle the present difficulty by di- rectly appealing to the votes of the people, were read. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. EF. J, Sullivan, Ira B. Davis, Major Hennesy, Cullen fad others, arguing that the ase of arbitrer; Mee + ares was not necessary, calling upon the tepub. | lieans to offer the olive branch of peace, and peaking in favor of the Crittendon compromise ag * Most likely to moet the views of tho Southern ] States, a# it came from a Southern man. Marshal | Kynders was present, put did not speak till after the close of the meeting, when he entered into a rather stormy discussion with Mr. Beauy, a well known land reformer. The democratic members of the Albany Legisla- ture, in cauous yesterday, after two formal bal- lots, on motion of a member, unanimously nomi- nated ex-Governor Seymour as their candidate for United tates Senator in the election which takes place to-day. The caucus also nominated as can- didates for Regents of the New York University, Rev. Jeremiah W. Cummings, of this city, and Hop. John D, Willard, of Rensselaer. The repuo- licans also held a caucus for Regents of the Uni- versity, and nominated Hon. Elias W. Leaven- worth, of Onondaga, and J. Carson Brevoort, of Kings. Judge Harris, of Albany, was nominated by the republican caucus on Saturday as their candidate for United States Senator. Tn the State Senate at Albany yesterday various reports were made, some bills introduced, and a few paased, but all of local importance only. The only matter of general interest was the discussion onthe report of the joint committee of the two houses in reference to sending delegates to the Washington Conference. A substitute for the original report was offered, recommending Con- grees to call @ convention of the States, to meet in Washington on the 4th of March, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to de- vise some measures of reconciliation. This and the original report were discussed, but the Senate ad- journed without coming to a vote on either. In the Assembly a petition was presented praying for the abolition of the office of City Judge in this city; also a bill providing for the preservation of freedom of speech in the State, inflicting penalties of fine and imprisonment on persons who shall wilfully disturb the proceedings of any meeting convened and acting ina lawful manner. Other bills were introduced, but nothing further of par- ticular importance transpired. The steamship Kedar arrived at this port last night from Liverpool, with advices to the 22d ult., two days later than those brought by the Arabia. The political news is unimportant. The London money market continued depressed, while at Liver- pool cotton was in active demand, at improved prices. Breadstuffs were dull. The Kedar brought $45,000 in specie. We publish this morning additional news from Central and South Americay brought by the Northern Light, which arrived at her wharf here on Sunday morning. President Barrios, of Salvador, had paid his promised visit to President Carrera, of Guatemala, and was expected to return to his own capital by the 18th or 20th ult. It is said the government of Costa Rica intends annulling the Chiriqui-Thompson grant, in con- sequence of the failure on the part of the New York company to pay into the State treasury on the day agreed on a certain stipulated amount. Mr. Dimitry, United States Minister, was urging the government of Nicaragua to ratify the treaty with the United States. On December 31 took place the formal surrender to Nicaragua, by Great Britain, of the Mosquito Coast and port of San Juan del Norte, Mr. Saenz, the Nicaraguan Com- missioner, was treated to @ series of balls and din- ners; a governing committee for the port was ap- pointed, and, in short, the new regime was inau- gurated in the most friendly manner and under the most favorable auspices. Peru is quiet, though there is still talk of war with Bolivia. Mr. Bartlett, mate of the American ship Kino, while at the Chincha Islands, was mur- dered on board his own vessel by a sailor belong- ing to the Hippogriff. Congress had voted the necessary fun@& to supply the port of Paita with fresh water. Garcia Morena, Governor of Guayaquil, is said to have been elected President of Ecuador. Trade at Guayaquil had revived, and that city is now lighted with gas. The United States Consulate there has been closed, in consequence of the United States Minister at Quito refusing to recog: nise the agent who was left in charge by the Con- sul during the absence of the latter, who is on a visit to the United States. Apublic meeting was held last evening in the large hall of the Cooper Institute for the purpose of aiding Mr. Orville Gardner and the committee to carry on the charitable institution located in the new Bowery, and known as the Fourth Ward Reading Room—an institution intended to reclaim drunkards and to prevent others from becoming such. Addresses were made by Mr. Wm. C. Noyes, Rev. Dr. Chapin and Mr. Gardner, and the sum of 0 was collected from the audience. Chile, which has latterly been prospering quict- ly, appears to be threatened with one of those re- volutions which seem to be the normal condition of the Spanish-American people. The trouble grows out of the Presidential election, which is soon to take place. The extradition treaty with France has been published as @ law of the land, The Indians were still troublesome. The con- tinued absence of the Archbishop of Chile was the general source of dissatisfaction, and the govern- ment had refused to pay him his rents. In Val- paraiso South Carolina rice is scarce and in de- mand. Exchange on the United States, 13 per cent premium, The Supreme Court of Rhode Island on Satur- day set aside the verdict in the case of Mary Han- nity against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hart- ford, on the ground that the former verdict for the plaintiff was procured by wilful and corrupt per- jury. ‘The Court Martial of Colonel Coreoran was re- sumed yesterday evening at the Arsenal. Colonel Vosburgh's testimony was concluded, and the pro- secution closed with examining Brigadicr General Yates. Nothing new was elicited. The defence opened with the examination of Colonel Halsey, whose testimony was similar to that of Colonel Vosburgh, so far as the expression of opinion was concerned regarding the illegality of ordering out more than two division parades per annum. The Court Martial adjourned to Monday next, at seven P.M. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday, the resolution inviting the President elect to visit New York when on his way to Washing- ton, and appointing a committee to do the honors, was called up and made the special order for Thursday next. A resolution was edopted that the Corporation Counsel give his opinion as to whether or not the Common Council is obliged to award the street cleaning contract to the lowest bidder. The report in favor of granting an addi- tional quarter of a million dollars was taken up, strongly opposed by several members, and finally laid over. The tax levy was reported back by the Finance Committec, with additions amounting to $262,000, but without taking action on the sub- ject the Board adjourned. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, when Mr. Stevenson offered a preamble and resolutions tendering the hospitalities of the city to Abraham Lincotn, the President elect, on hia way to Wash- The resolutions were unanimously adopt- ed, and were immediately sent to the Aldermen for concurrence, Resolutions directing the Strect Commissioner to procure steam fire engines for Engine Company No, 33 and Hose Company No. 52 were referred to the Fire Department Commit- tee. A number of resolntiqns in favor of appoint- ing commissioners of deeds were also referred. A resolution was adopted directing the Chief of Po- lice to report to the Corporation Attorney all vio- lations of corporation ordinances by all the city railroad companies, or by persons transacting business with Wiese COMPANIES. Aneries of reso lutions were presented directi th i dso ing the Hudson =" Railroad Company to remove the turnout switches betrreon Reaue snd Dose etrects; also to not al tow their cars to be loaded or unloaded or stand inthe public thoroughfare between Church and Canal streets; and that if the company fail to com- ply with the resolutions, the Street Commissioner shall take steps to carry them into effect. Tho pa- per was referred to the Committee on Railroads, with the request to report at the next meeting of the Board. | After receiving communications from- the heads of departments and acting upon a num ber of papers from the Aldermen, the Board ad- journed till Thursday. The will of Catherine R. Goodhue was admitted to probate yesterday. The testatrix possessed about $100,000 in real and personal cstate, which she divides into fourteen shares and distributes among her relatives, after leaving $500 to her physician. The wills of John Martin and Charles W. Dayton have also been admitted. The February term of the Court of Gencral Sessions commenced yesterday, when Recorder Hoffman entered upon the discharge of his official duties. A Grand Jury wasempannelled, and ® brief charge was given to them by the Recorder, who in his introductory remarks expressed the pregnant truth that the business of grand jurors was to indict the persons charged with crime in- stead of discussing general evilags that if an intelligent and independent: preda was unable to arouse good citizens to reform abuses, Grand Jurors need not expect to be able to do so. The ice in Central Park was never ia better con- dition than yesterday, the frost which set in about five o'clock P. M. on Sunday having congealed the rain which had recently fallen. The surface was very “keen,” and suited both “curlers” and skaters. The only accident yesterday happened to a police officer trying to find the bottom of the pond by going in up to his neck through theice. A very small boy caused some excitement by turning skilful somersaults while skating. The official returns to seven P. M. yesterday we Pedes- trians, 58,000; equestrians, 80; vehicles, 3,000; and to the close of skating, pedestrians, 65,000; vehi- cles, 3,500. Nearly nineteen thousand females were counted as having entered the Park during the hours of skating. To show the attraction of the skating pond, we give the returns of the two previous days, on one of which there was no skating:—Saturday—Pedestrians, 250; equestrians, 4; vehicles, 25. Sunday—Pedestrians, 7,000; equestrians, 45; vehicles, 1,200. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 367 deaths in this city during the past weeck— @ decrease of 36 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 103 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 3 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 65 of the brain and nerves, 9 of the generative organs, 13 of the heart and blood vessels, 149 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 9 of old age, 42 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 46 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive or- gans; 25 of general fevers, and 3 unknown— of which 8 were from violent causes. The nativity table gives 243 natives of the United States, 76 of Ireland, 5 of England, 30 of Ger- many, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. Owing to the decline in sterling exchange, which closed at about 1065; for good bankers’ bills, combined with firmness in freights, the cotton market was heavy yes- terday, and closed at about 3c. lower. Tho sales em- braced 1,700 bales, on the basis of about 12%/c. for mid- dling uplands. Sugars wore in fair demand, with sales of about 500 hhds. Cuba and 850 hhds. molado, for ex- port, on terms given in another column. The number of bhds. of sugar grown in Louisiana tast year was 221,- 840. Estimating the average weight of the hhd. at 1,200 Ibs., and the price at 6c. per Ib., gives $72 per bhd. This makes a total value of $16,971,490, against $18,190,880 in 1858-50, and $24,998,424 in 1857-58, thus showing that there has been a decided falling off in the yield within the past three years. The crop of 1858-50 amounted to 362,296 bhds., against 221,840 in 1859-60, thus showing a falling off in the crop equal to 140,450 hhds, in the last year’s production. The growth io Texas also exhibited a decrease. Tho yield in 1860-60 was 3,799 hhds., againstg6,000 hhds. in 1858-59. Its principal cultivation in Texas is confined to the three counties of Brazoria, Fort Pend and Matagorda. Flour was heavy yesterday, especially shipping brands of State and Western, while extra State was in fair request at Saturday's prices. Wheat was inactive and dull, aud quotations nominal at the close. Corn was dull and lower, with moderate sales. Pork was steady, and sales light at $17 76 a $17 87 for mess and $13 for prime. Coffee was steady and sales limited. Freights were steady at Saturday's rates, while engagements wore moderate. ‘Will the People of the North Permit Coercion? It was clearly evolved from the discussion between Senators Seward and Mason, on Thurs- day last, that the future premier under Mr. Li- coln, has calculated civil war as ameng the pro- babilities of the future, and as an inevitable consequence of persistence on the part of the South in its resistance of, Northern aggression. The arguments of the tyrant—force, compul- sion and power, as a last resort—were employ- ed by him without stint, and he declared his readiness to “stand or perish,” with arms in his hands, if upon that condition alone the Union may be preserved. “Everybody,” he said, “who shall resist, oppose or stand in the way of the preservation of this Union, will appear as moths upon a summer’s eve,” when the whirl- wind arises which shall sweep them away. Vaunting that the issues between North and South were founded upon a mere abstraction, in behalf of “twenty-four African slaves, one slave for each forty-four thousand square miles of territory;” acknowledging that “slavery has ceased to be a practical question,” he could yet declare that “battle was the measure to. be resorted to last, for the salvation of the con- federacy.” Mr. Mason, in reply, deprecated “measuring swords” to settle such a controver- sy. “I trust,” he exclaimed, “that we may avoid the ultima ratio of the Senator from New York. I trust the good sense, the wisdom, the civilization, the humanity of the age, will rescue the country from the effect of any such counsels. I trust that in the free States there is a body of good sense, an enlightened basis of patriotism, sufficiently free from the shackles of party obligations, to see the folly of such advice. What! war to restore this Union or preserve it? And that men of sense shall be deluded into war under the pretence of only enforcing the laws of the nation? I appeal to the free States to repudiate the coun- sels of the Senator from New York, and disown them; and if, in the Providence of God, it is to result that we are to separate in two confede- racies, then let the counsels of peace prevail, and not the counsels of the Senator from New York. Let the counsels of peace prevail, as the only counsels which can avert that greatest of all calamities—war between brother and brother—a war between races, which conld conquer peace only through oceans of blood ‘and countless millions of treasure.” Nine ont of ten of the people of the North- ern States are prepared to re-echo the patriotic sentiments of Mr. Mason. The citizens of the free States are not prepared for civil war, nor will they consent to imbrue their hands in the blood of their brethren at the South. The views promulgated by Mr.Seward have excited the deepest feeling of distrust and alarm, and it is the common utterance of men’s mouths, that any attemnt on the part of the incoming . ot portly ba gee “tas . {i thet », wonld have to be eft 1 administration 40 garry oni Ms coorston theory, | Boat Frorlow Weed tg the pian for thelr | pore, would have to he en ac uundnat te. slaveholding tham in the slaveholding States. It is true that the bitter end so long foreseen is approaching, and that the period has arrived for the country to pay for the treat of elevating anti-slavery republicanism to power; yet the catastrophe has not come upon us so suddenly, or without such premonitory signs, that citizens of the States north of Mason and Dixon’s line, can be hurried into a course so suicidal, atrocious and wicked asa portion of our republican lead- ers would mark out for them. We have drifted to a point where the problem has ceased to be, whether the Union can be saved; and, in answ to the still more important question, shal! South be permitted to go out peaceably ° ry conservative, right minded man at the North has already given, in his heart, an affir- mative response. “ Irrepressible conflict” has succeeded in developing the outlines of a fear- ful shadow over the land; but sober minded, patriotic citizens will never permit it to acquire a bloody substance. In the annals of history, there would be no parallel of a nation, from a similar height of prosperity ; surrounded by every external and rejoicing in every internal essential of happiness ; having plunged its fu- ture destiny, its wealth, fair fame, and the hopes resting upon it, into such an abyss of rain, desolation and irrecoverable hopelessness of misery, as would be the consequence, if suc- cessful, of Mr. Seward’s appeal to “battle.” Far better that the Union should be dismem- bered forever, than that fraternal hands should be turned against one another to deluge the land in blood. The masses of our population, in all of the States, are unquestionably peace loving and conservative. Five-sixths of those who are en- titled to vote, in the North, deplore the agita- tion which is kept alive by the demagogueism of their representatives. They see the gigantic footsteps with which anarchy has been lately progressing; but they have found it impossible, us yet, to make their voices heard. They have witnessed the culpable inactivity of Congress, and have seen discretion, judgment and patriot- ism sacrificed before ambition and venality, without having it in their power to remedy the evil. But if in addition to what is past, they see civil discord about to be inaugurated, they will arise as one man and cry out—No! They loathe the thought of internecine strife upon a paltry issue, created by despotism and fanati- cism, and they have already issued the fiat that, if the States of the Union must separate they shall do so in amity, and they will Mold Mr. Seward and the administration of which he is to form a part responsible, if he exerts his influ- ence to force them into it. Oxp Abe Lincorn AND THE New York Heratp.— Ever since the 6th of last November Old Abe Lincoln has been a historical personage, and we have fully recognized the fact by giving to the public the fullest and most accurate intelli- gence as to his movements. This information has been received from our correspondents at Springfield and elsewhere, and has been suffi- ciently accurate to be appropriated by the 7ri- bune and other republican journals. As we have had important exclusive news from Springfield, our cotemporaries who stand on the Chicago platform (which is, very decided- ly, not our platform) have begun to grow very uneasy, and seem to fear that we intend to mo- nopolize the ancient rail-splitter, and that we are ambitious to reign in the kitchen and par- lor of the President's house. You need have no fears, gentlemen; our tastes do not tend in that direction. We are only endeavoring to give accurate news about Lincoln, no matter how far we may disagree with him politically, as part of our duty to the public as a journalist. The spoils, so dear to Greeley, Webb, Ray- mond and the rest, have no temptation for us, and the public may be assured that we will goon as before, giving all the information as to pass- ing events that labor can obtain. Our duty is to the people, who expect to find the news in the Herat every morning; and we intend now, as ever before, to attend to our own affairs, and to let the politicians go to the devil (their as- sured destination) in their own way. Greetzy Friatrenep Ovt.—The defeat of the Spruce street ticket at Albany on Saturday, and the smashing of Weed’s slate at the same time, appear to be highly satisfactory to Gree- ley and his collaborateurs. They claim that be cause Evarts was defeated Weed is smashed; or, to ute theirown words, “The one man ppwer at the State eapital is overthrown. Thesceptre has departed from Judah, and a lawgiver from between his feet.” This is all bosh, and Gree- ley knows it. In the course of ten ballots he never came within ten votes of the number required for his nomination, and when the Weed men found that the only thing they could do was to slay the Tribune philosopher outright, they withdrew their blind—for Evarts was nothing more than a straw candidate—and put in their real man. Greeley has been flat- tened out ala Forney. In 1856 Forney se- cured the vote of Pennsylvania for Mr. Bu- chanan, and hankered after the Senatorship. In his career as an editor Forney had made many bitter enemies and powerfal rivals. They managed to kill him off, although he came much nearer to an election than Greeley. Forney’s enemies, rather than permit his triumph, absolutely connived at the election of Came- ron, their political opponent. Forney was then turned out of Buchanan’s kitchen, and, after howling with hunger and cold for a couple of years, managed to = quarter himself, a political mendicant, upon the re- publican party. Without doubt Gree. ley will meet the same fate. He is no match for Weed in political strategy, and has been outwitted at every battle between them: Harris will be Weed’s man, Greeley will be kicked’ ignominiously from the kitchen, and Weed will dole out the federal pap to the faith ful in this State. Already there are indications that the claims of the Tribune philosophers are to be ignored by the incoming administration. ‘The Tribune claims to speak semi-officially for the President elect, which is the most trans parent humbug. William H. Seward is really the mouthpiece of Old Abe, and Seward is not the man to trust Greeley with the programme of the administration. The Chevalier Webb would he quite as safe a as Hon. Massa Greeley, and Webb always blurta out everything he hears. This fact accounts for the wonderful summersaults which the Tribune has lately made—one day favoring peace and the other a war policy. Greeley will always have a great influence with the masses cof his party, and will, if he lives long enough, break down the leaders who oppose him. The poll- ticians, however, pooh-pooh at the old white will meet with no les raeingo a fn tho non- | money, or rathor they are the men for his. Arrangements for the Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln at Washington, We publish in another column a strong and significant address from Senators Slidell and Benjamin, and other Congressional representa- tives of Louisiana to the Convention of that State which decreed ite secession from the United States, strongly urging an immediate co-operation with South Carolina, and approv- ing of the seizure of the forts and arsenals at New Orleans, which they had urged. The nisiana representatives were previously in favor of submitting to the authority of the itederal government until the 3d of March; but we learn from their address to the Convention that they were led to counsel immediate seces- sion in consequence of the military movements at Washington, which have been set on foot by the rumors of an intended attack on the na- tional capital to prevent the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. They say that Gen. Scott is well known to have submitted to the President “a plan of a campaign on a gigantic scale for the subjugation of the seceding States, the initia- tion of movements for garrisoning all the Southern forts and arsenals, with a view of employing them, not for the beneficent pur- poses for which they were intended—our de- fence against a foreign foe—but for intimida- tion and coercion.” It is true that serious fears have been enter- tained of an attempt to prevent the inaugura- tion of Mr. Lincoln, and perhaps to seize upon the federal capital, by armed bands from the border slave States of Virginia and Maryland, aided by volunteers from the neighboring slave States, and that in consequence of these reports Gen. Scott has been concentrating troops, artillery and munitions of war at Wash- ington. . We learn also that the United States troops in the Northern States are being rapidly put upon a war footing. At the laboratories destructive pyrotechnics, with balls and cartridges, are being prepared. Large contracts for ambu- lances and field litters have been given out by the War Department. Within the past week five hundred additional troops have arrived in Washington, forming an aggregate of aboutone thousand men, with five batteries of light ar- tillery—a quota sufficient for an army of five thousand men. General Scott has also ordered large supplies of ammunition to be sent to Fort McHenry. In the Northern navy yards no less activity prevails. The equipment of vessels of light draught is being pushed with energy, so as to have ready ina short time a coast guard to cruise in the Southern waters. The steamer Water Witch is already under orders to be fitted out at Philadelphia; the steam gunboat Pawnee, also at the same place; the Harriet Lane, at this port; the brig Perry is now being speedily prepared at Brooklyn; the brigs Dolphin and Bainbridge are approach- ing readiness at Norfolk and Boston, and the steam gunboats Crusader, Wyandot and Mo- hawk, now in the Gulf, can all be concentrated in a few days. These preparations, and especially those so actively and quietly prosecuted under General Scott’s orders, aided in this city by his son-in- law, Col. Scottplook warlike. The latter is ac- tively superintending operations here. Re- cruiting is in active progress. There are on Governor’s and Bedloe’s Islands at this time 600 troops, chiefly recruits, who are being ac- tively drilled. These movements have not passed unobserved by people in Virginia and Maryland, some of whom.have charged that the concentration of the warlike arrangements at Washington is to form the basis of a coercive army, with the view of overawcing those two States, and thus prevent their withdrawal and keep them in the Union. Military men consider that the present force of regular troops now in Washington is quite am- ple to repel 10,000 irgegular troops, had such a number designed to prevent Lincoln’s inau- guration. Gen. Scott continues to order troops and munitions of war to Washington, and to concentrate others at New York and other con- venient places. The Corps of Engineers have been removed from West Point to Washington, a measure not resorted to except in case the country is engaged in war. The garrison at that place has been left without a regular sol- dier, a thing which, it is said, has not previously occurred since its establishment. Now, it is manifest that if the two sections of the country separate peaceably, and form two distinct confederacies, there will be no neces- sity for coercion, and no need of an increased military organization; but if there be any good grounds for the news relative to a conspiracy to seize upon the national capital by an armed force, on or previous to the 4th of March, it is quite proper that precautionary measures should be taken to preventit. Mr. Lincoln has been constitutionally elected President of the United States, and he should be constitutional- ly inaugurated at Washington, the capital of the republic. The President, the Secretary of War, and General Scott, the acting Commander- in-Chief of the army, are perfectly right, of course, in resolving that he shall be so inaugu- rated. Any attempt to prevent it by an armed mob, or any other body, we have no doubt would be frowned down by the conservative people of the South and the North alike: but if there be any fears that such an outrage may be committed, it is clearly the duty of the Hxecu- tive, the War Department and General Scott tg be prepared to resist it, by the addition of any number of men that may be deemed necessary, and if five thousand men are not sufficient, by all means let them have ten thousand. If, however, the intimations of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward that a coercive policy is to be pursued by the new administration should be accepted as a fact, and if the idea so forcibly embodied in this manifesto of Mesers. Slidell and Benjamin—that these military movements are the precursors of a gigantic plan to subju- gate the seceding States—should gain ground in the border slave States and the South gene- rally, then the worst fate predicted for the country will have befallen us—a devastating civil war. I¢ is unnecessary to say that the inauguration of such a polioy would be stub- bornly resisted in the North as well as in the South; for there would be two parties in the North, widely divided upon that qnestion. As to the propriety of insuring the peacefal in- auguration of the new President in the federal capital, there may be but one sentiment; but a “gigantic plan to subjugate the South” isa very different question. Ia the event of an amicable separation be- twecu the North and South, sad the conatruc- tion of two gonfederacies, Washington, wo sup n up to tho F vut whore it properly belong lumbia having been ceded by Marylaud. The Northern confederacy would want a capital nearer to the Arctic circle, towards which sr. Seward has predicted it is deatined to extend. It may be that its location would be fixed where Mr. Seward intimated—at the head wa- ters of the Mississippi; but it may be that its more fitting site would be found to be at the mouth of the Hudson. Tue Vmornta Convention ELECTION AND THE Unrmatom Invoiven.—The election of delo- gates to the State Convention which is soon to meet in Virginia on the secession question came off in all the numerous counties of the State yesterday. We shall not be able for some days yet to report the classification of the dele- gates elected; but, considering the ultimatum involved, we entertain very little hope of the retention of Virginia in the Union, whether the immediate or the conditional secessionists have carried this election. . The election turns upon immediate,secession, or upon secession in default of a satisfactory compromise ffom the Border State Convention at Washington. Upon this issue, we think, the result may be set down as a foregone conclu- sion, The ultimatum to which the Virginia conservatives have been driven is the rein statement of the Missouri Compromise line, and its extension to the Pacific Ocean, including the surrender to the South and its institution of slavery of all the territories which we now possess, and all which we may hereafter acquire, on the south side of said line. Of course this proposition looks to the acquisition of Cuba, Mexico and Central America, for the recovery, on the part of the South, of that balance of power which it has lost in the general govern- ment. The question then recurs, will this Bor- der State Convention be able to patch up a compromise that will arrest the secession movement in Virginia and the other border slave States? The Virginia Commissioners will require a compromise which shall apply to Ter- ritories to be acquired. So it is also with Ken- tucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri. But we have no hope of any satisfactory agreement in this Washing- ton Convention upon this proposition. The border slave States may agree to it; but the border free States, so faras the republican party may be concerned, will reject it; and so we conjecture that the labors of this Conven- tion, like the labors of the House Committee of Thirty-three and of the Senate Committee of Thirteen, will end in smoke. We are not aware that a single prominent member of the republican party has indicated the slightest disposition, in view of any extre- mity, to relinquish to the South in advance, for the sake of the Union, any territo- ry below Texas, or in the Qulf of Mexico, which we may hereafter acquire. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, in his late conservative speech in the House of Representatives, very emphati- cally argued not only the absurdity, but the criminality, of any Southern demand of this nature. It is morally certain, then, that no such concession will be reached by this Border State Convention; and we shall be agreeably surprised if any such proposition shall receive the vote of even a solitary republican Commis- sioner. We think it most probable thatthis Washing- ton Convention, like the House. Committee of Thirty-three, will dissolve into two or three detachments and two or three reports, and that they will all be hung up to dry in Congress. The Virginia Convention, thus reduced to the chances of Mr. Seward’s plan of waiting one, two or three years for a new constitutional covention, will be very apt to swing over into the Southern confederacy, preferring the union of the South, at all hazards, to a division of the South, subject to the discretion of the republi- can party, with a republican administration in possession of the government. We conclude, therefore, that the adjourn- ment of this Washington Border State Conven- tion will be the signal, not for a general reac- tion in favor of the Union, but for the seces- sion of the border slave States, beginning with the Old Dominion. The republican party ap- pears to be shaping its policy to the contingen- cy of a Southern confederacy, and to the only remaining alternative of peace or war. Fail- ing to accomplish anything, then, for the Union, let us still hope that this Washington Convention may do much for the cause of peace. Tae Morena. Tarirr Brs.—Amid the dia and smoke of this Southern revolution, the republican party in Congress, as a precious sop to the manufacturing interesta of Pennsyl- vania and New England, are pushing along the Morrill protective tariff bill, a measure which seems to be especially levelled at the commercial ascendancy of New York. The bill, with its advanced scale of duties on iron, woollen and cotton manufactures, and with its specific assessments, &c., gives an increased protection, or bounty, ranging from fifteen to twenty per cent, for the benefit of our home manufacturing companies; and it is not surprising, therefore, that Pennsylvania and the New England States should be working like beavers to carry this measure, Iineluding all the résources of a pow- erful and unscrupulous lobby. But how the delegation in Congress from New York have been brought to support this bill, which practically abolishes the warehous- ing system, we cannot imagine. The idea is immediate relief to the trea-nry, by enforcing the immediate payment of duties; but the effect of this expedient will be the suspension, to an immense extent, of importation: which would otherwise be made. There is no market in this country now for the sale of imported goods; but, under the warehousing system, im- portaiions may be made, and held in readi- ness for the first opening of a mar- ket. Importations, however, will oot now to any extent be made, when heavily in- creased duties are to be paid iponshem witi- in (bree months from the day of their delivery upon our wharves. The warehousing system encourages tinportations and atimnlates cur’ merchanta in the work of finding a market for thelr goods, giving them, meantime. the benefit of a oredit system which largety increases their capacities to import more. We can only look, therafore, upon this new tariff expedient, reduefoy the warehousing privilege to three months, aa a republican meagnere of pun- ishment against the anti-repybliown city of New York. The bill, at this time, in every other essential, is a direct slap in the face vo the Southern States, aad is calculated to give an immense :ofus to the Southern confederacy move- nent and its poliey of free trade. The sous