The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1861, Page 4

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The reply of the government to the communica- tion of Colonel Hayne, the South Caroliua envoy, ‘was sent to that gentleman last evening, and a re- ply was requested, which will close the corres- pondence. The administration refuse decidedly to comply with the demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter. It now remains to be seen what course the authorities of South Carolina will pur- sne. Wil] they order an immediate attack upon the fort, and thus inaugurate at once @ war? Or will they await the organization of a provisional government by the Southern Congress, now in session at Montgomery, before commencing hos- tilities?. A very few days will solve the question. Accounts from the Indian Territory state that the Texans have threatened to seize upon Forts Washita, Cobb and Arbuckle. The garrisons at those forts are believed to be strong enough for their protection. The arsenal at Little Rock was seized by tho Arkansas State troops on Saturday night last. The report of tho secession of Texas from the Union is confirmed. The ordinance was adopted by the State Convention on the Ist inst., by a vote of 166 to 7. The ordinance is to be voted on by the people on the 25d inst., and ff ratified will go into effect on the 2d of March. The Peace Convention at Washington yesterday unanimously adopted a res»lution providing for the appointment of @ committee of one from each State represented to draw apa plan of adjust- ment. In the Southern Congress at Montgomery yor- terday, the committee on the subject reported that they would probably report to-day a plan fora provisional government. The military authorities continue the concentra- tion of troops at Washington. The company of artillery which arrived at this port on Tuesday from Augusta, Ga., has been ordered to the capital. A detachment of thirty soldiers has been sent from this city to garrison Fort Delaware. Tho order for their transfer reached Fort Columbus at quarter past four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and in one hour after the detachment, fully armed, and under the command of Lieutenant Wood, left Governor's Island, en route for their destination. In Congress yesterday a large number of memo- rials in favor of.an amicable and speedy settle- ment of the pending troubles of the nation were presented in both houses. In the Sgnate a Com- mittee of Conference on the House amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill was appointed. A motion to reconsider the vote whereby the bill to organize the government of the Territory of Colorado was passed was rejected. A conference committee on the $25,000,000 loan bill was order- ed. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, then resumed and concluded his remarks on the perilous condi- tion of the country. The House took up the $25,000,000 loan bill, and a Committee of Conference with the Senate on the disagreeing amendments thereto was ordered. Mr. Colfax, from the Post Office Com- mittee, withdrew the bill relative to the suspen- sion of the postal service in seceded States, and introduced a new one, more general in its pro- visions. It gives the Postmaster General authority to discontinue the mail routes whenever and wherever in his opinion the exigency arises that the fanctions of the postal service cannot be strictly performed. The bill was passed, 151 to 26. Some of the Southern members regard this bill as equivalent to a recognition of the indepen- dence of the seceded States, The remainder of the session was devoted to speeches on the crisis of the country. Thirty-five guns were fired on the Battery yos- terday morning in honor of the ‘Old Dominion,” which has gone for the Union. The firing created some little excitement, the cause being mistaken, just as about a month ago the parting salute of the Portuguese corvette was believed to bein some- how connected with a collision between the United States and South Carolina forces. The salute was conducted under the auspices of the Union General Committee. . ‘The Star of the South sailed from pier No. 36 North river, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, bound for Savannah. No goods ‘‘contraband of war" having been discovered, the Metropolitana allowed the vessel to depart without heing search- ed or interposing any opposition. In the Legislatare yesterday the Senate dis- cussed the bill appropriating half a million dol- lars to arm the State, and made it the special order for to-day. No businesa of public interest was transacted in the Assembly. By the arrival of the Anglo Saxon at Portland last evening, we have news from Europe to the ‘26th ult., three days later than previous accounts, ‘The attack upon Gaeta was renewed by the Sar- diniens with great vigor on the 224 ult. A block- ade of the port has been officially declared. . " has issued « letter calling upon the friends of Italy to extend all the aid in their power to Vietor Emanuel, towards the accomplishment of complete Italian independence in the spring. Th tho Board of Eduoetion last evening a commu. nication was received from the school officers of the Second ward, asking an appropriation of $26,000 to purchase the promises No. 307 Peart street for the Primary school now established in the basement of the John street Methodist church. The paper was referred. The Twentieth ward school officers sent in a similar communication, asking for authority to advertise for proposals for erection of ® now school house in Thirty- street. This communication was also ro- to the Commi.co om Bites and Belovi The routine business of the evening en- Be NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. gaged the attention of the Board during tho remainder of their seasion. The amount of the ap- propriations required for the building of school houces this year is estimated at $300,000, while there remains a balance for this purpose of only some $116,000, No subject of public intrest camo before tho Commissioners of Emigration at their meeting yes- terday. Fhe Board, however, had a quorum pre- sent for the first time this year. The weekly state- ment showed the number of emigrants landed here since the 1st of January to be 2,369, and the num- ber for last week to be 396. The balance of the commutation fund to the credit of the Board is ex- hausted, and there is now an overdraft of $100 36. In obedience to the mandamus issued by the Su- preme Court, all the city funds in the possession of Mr. Platt, ox-Chamberlain—over two millions in amount—have been handed over to the charge of Mr. Devlin. Carts’ were employed in transfer- | ing the money to the Broadway Bank. The Supreme Grand Council of the United States of America of the Independent Order of , the Sons of Malta were to have held their annual convocation yesterday at’ their ‘tiadquartera, in this city, but were unable to organize, owing to the absence of a number of the delegates from other States who should have been in attendance, It is supposed that they will not attempt to meet again this year. The case against Gordon Hires for the murder of Tuttle, a colored man, on board the bark Anna, was continued in the Unees States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Smalley. MF. Ridgeway opened for the defence, and the matter was ad- journed to Thursday morning. The case of the Post Office defalcation was con- tinued in the United States District Court, before Judge Betts. Messrs. Conover and Law, the obligers, were examined, as was also an account- ant, who showed that about the time the bonds were signed Mr. Fowler was actually a defaulter, The case of Eugeno A. Kozlay, the young man implicated in the fraud on the Custom House, was set down for examination before Justice Osborn yesterday. Kozlay was a clerk in the Ware- housing Department of the Custom House, end had charge of tho books of the ware- honse where Goodrich & Walker had stored their invoice of silks. Suspicion was directed towards him from the fact that the permit was evidently filled out in his handwriting, slightly disguised, and was written with the exact shade of blue ink that he ordinarily used. There was also a slight mistake in the warchousing book copied into the permit. There are five other clerks in Mr. Kozlay’s department who have ac- cess to the books, and certainly the reasons for suspicion are not very strong. The prisoner denies the charge, and says that the filling outts a forgery. Mr. Kozlay is @ Hungarian, and came here in Kossuth's suite. He once held a place in Mr. Belmont’s banking house, and afterwards studied law with General Sandford. He was ap- pointed to the Custom House by Mr. Schell. . The sun yesterday had so much power on the already softened ice of the Central Park as to make it not only unpleasant but somewhat danger- ous, and the ball was therefore taken down, although skating was allowed till half-past ten o'clock P. M. The number of visiters was con- sequently considerably smaller than on the pre- vious two days. The match between George McComb, alias Darby, and Rodgers Gorman, at sheepdressing, for $50 side, was decided at Kerrigan Hall last evening. Gorman won easily by over ten minutes. Butchers generally were deeply in- terested in this match, which is the first ever de- cided in public. A graphic report will be found in our columns. ‘The market for beef cattle was yesterday buoy- aut, under moderate receipts and a good demand, and prices of the better grades experienced a slight appreciation. Milch cows were quiet and unchanged. Veal calves were in demand at full prices for good stock. Sheep and lambs were steady. Swine sold at 6%c. a 634¢., according to quality. The receipts foot up 4,091 cattle, 112 cows, 370 veals, 5 sheep and lainbs, and 8,672 swine, The cotton market was again heavy yestorday, while there was a fair export and spinning demand. The heavi nees of sterling bills had a depressing influence. Tho tales embraced about 1,100 bales, closing dull,on the basis of 120 per 1d. for middling uplatds. Dealers secmed dispored also to await later foroign intelligence before doing much. Flour opencd heavy and dull, bat closed with more spl: and activity, within the range of tho previous day's quotations, Wheat was unchanged, and in fair export and milling demand. Corn was ogain heavier and lowor, with a fair amount of salee. Tork was quiet and saleg limited. Sugars were quiet, while the gales embraced about 200 bhds, and 140 boxes on terms given elsewhere. Of the 4.00 bags Rio coffee offered at auction to-day only 1,100 were sold, at Le. @ 135¢., average 11 63e., and 200 do. were wold at 12%%¢. Freights wore steaty and room moderate, while rates Were sustained both to Liverpool and London. The Virginia Convention Election—The Dapger and the Responsibility Before the Republican Party, Our republican cotemporaries are in ecsta- sies over the late Virginia election. They tell us that it has overthrown this Southern revolu- tionary programme; that the immediate seces- siopisis are overwhelmingly defeated; that in the approaching State Convention, according- ly, they will stand in a feeble ‘minority; that Virginia and the other border slave States are thus secured to the Union, and that, hence- forth, masterly inactivity, in the matter of com- promising, will, in the words of Mr. Seward, “re-establish all that is in danger, and recover all that is lost.” This rose colored view of the subject is beau- tiful to the eye, and would be very encouraging if it were not utterly fictitious and delusive. Granted that the immediate secessionists have | been sighally defeated in Virginia, it does not follow that the people of that State have voted to surrender at discretion to the incoming re- publican administration. On the contrary, tho conservative delegates to this approaching State Convention have been elected upon “the condition precedent” of the Crittenden com- | promise, or something equivalent to it, as the price of their adhesion to the Union. The Con- vention will mect on the 13th of this month. Several days will be ocoupied In the business of its organization, and then, should there beany en- couraging indications of a compromise at Wash- ington, the vote upon the question of secession may be deferred, in order to act upon the fixed and positive issue of the success or failure of a compromise, not in the Border State Peace Conferenco, but in the two houses of the pro- sent Congress. We attach very little importance, indeod, to this Peace Conference at Washington. Com- posed, as it is, on tho sido of tho border slave States, of ancient polltical fossils, of the old rod eandatone formation, and of outside politicians gathered up from’the driftwood thrown ashore by the changing tides of party during tho last thirty yoars, and made up on the free State side chiefly of impracticable republicans, we think that, for all ueoful purposes, this Confo- rence may be placed on a par with the late Democratic Stato Convention at Albany. At beet wo oan regard it ae serving only the pur- poves of & mutual admiration society; and the most thatwe can concede tn its Lehalf is tho saving virtae of tome iavuf-nasive quack medi- con cine, which, if it does no good, will do no harm to the peor patient. The compromise demand- ed by Virginia is @ revision of the federal constitution upon the basis of the Crittenden Propositions of amendment; and the first prac- tical step towards such a compromise is its submission to the several States for ratifica- tion, by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. This is the test question upon which Virginia, in behalf of the Union, has de- cided to wait a little longer. Here, then, we begin to appreciate the true state of the case. We see that, in- stead of passive submission, there is serious danger in the general resalts of this Virginia election; and that it only de- lays the act of secession to await an answer from the republican party in Congress upon the test question of the Crittenden compromise. The remnant of the term allotted to this Con- gress is reduced to twenty-five days; and if _witbin this interval the Crittenden adjustment, ‘or something of that sort, shall not be endoraed by the required two-thirds vote of the House and the Senate, we fare say that the Virginia State Convention will unanimously declare in favor of the Southern confederacy. The re- publican party demand the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln frst, and suggest a compromise by- and-by, say “one, two or three years hence,” if convenient; but Vitghila d@mahds a compro- mise in advance, asa pledge and measure of security againet an incoming anti-slavery ad- ministration, The responsibility rests upon the republican party in the two houses of Congress. They have only by a two-thirds vote in each house to pass the Crittenden compromise, or somo equi- valent, and submit it to the several States for ratification, and Virginia and all the border slave States will be secured to the Union, and gained over as active mediators for the re- covery of the seceded States. On the other band, the flat rejection of Virginia’s ultimatum will be the signal to Virginia for secession, and as she leads the other border slave States will follow. She holds them in the palm of her hand, and, as the republicans decree, she will move them to the right or to the left. She is simply awaiting the decision of thc republican party upon the alternative of the Union or the Chi- cago platform, Mr Seward, should the exigency require it, has signified his willingness to abandon the | Chicago platform, and to disband the republi- can organization as an anti slavery party, in order to save the Union. Let him, then, pro- ceed to make good his promise. The exigency has arisen for the sacrifices suggested, and the canger admits of no delay. Let him consult the necessities, not only of the Union, but of Mr. Lincoln’s adwinistration, and he will com- prehend the necessity now for a compromise. The federal government is bankrupt; its loans go off heavily at twelve per cent interest; yet still to relieve it new loans are demanded. (hus, in addition to the balance of fourteen millions of a late loan undisposed of, Mr. sherman, of the House Committee of Ways und Means, is pushing through a new loan of twenty-five millions to meet the wants of the necming adwinistration. In addition to this expedient the Morrill high tariff bill is resort- ed to, including the abolition of the warehous- ing system. in order to rais® at once some needful resources of actual cash. But Mr. Seward and Mr. Sherman must know tbat their loans aud tariffs will fail, if the republicans, rejecting the terms of peace proposed, fail to hold the border slave States in the Union. The iseue, then, to the republican party in Congress is between the Crittenden compro- mise, the Union, peaco and abundant re- sources end credit to the new administration on the one band, and the Chicago platform, the secession of the border slave States, gene- ral confusion and ruin, involving a treasury without resources and without credit, on the other hand. This is our interpretation of this late Virginia election. It does not mean un- conditional submission; but it means a little delay, in order, if necessary, to make the work of Southern revolution complete and decisive against submission to the incoming admiuistra- tion. Let not the republican party in Congress be deluded by any rose colored views of this late Virginia election. The result calls fora compromise before the 4th of March, or for the secession of Virginia from the Union. Tue Inrerressipie Conriict In THR Buack Rerveuican Parry has commenced before the leaders of its several factions have had the slightest taste of the spoils. Webb, Weed, Greeley and Company refuse to give Old Abo a chance to finish his little job of Cabinet waking, but proceed at once to the agreeable task of breaking down their own party in order to gratify their personal spite. So we Gnd Webb abusing Greeley, and declaring that the Spruce street philosopher is so angry at his defeat for the Senatorship that he has made up his mind to “devote his paper to the amiable purpose of breaking up the republican party or of turning it into an abolition party.” Far- ther, he says that Greeley is co-operating with ‘Garrison and other traitors and rebels in the North and the South,” and classes the Liberator with the Tribune. Again, wo find Greeley reading Seward out of the party and pitching ito Weed, who returns the eompliment with interest. Of course these squabbles are re- terred directly to Old Abe, who, between the rows among bia friends and the machinations of his enemies, is about the most unfortunate tadividual out of jail on the face of the earth. Doras or THe Crry Poxrricians—Tho city politicians are all up and doing these times, with a view to tho spoils ahead. Tammany and Mozart are both in the field, throwing up redoubta and constructing all kinds of offen- sive and defensive works against each othor at the coming battle of the charter election. Stupid Old Tammany stood upon its dignity the other day atthe Albany Convention, and refused to come in and take seats beside the Mozart delegates; but she was very giad to come in afterwerds, when dinner was ovor, and take share of the dessert and the remnante of 4 few broken bottles of wine. We are afraid that the Moasrt folks aro too smart for tho Sachems. They have strengthened themselves recently by placing at their hoad the smartest man in the city~—John Cochrano, There is no doubt that both Tammany and Mozart will have candidate out for Mayor. As for Mr. Wood, people hardly know whore to place him just now. Mr. Sickles seems to think that he is doad and gone, and that he can mount over his shoulders by his course jn Con- gress; but we are disporcd to think that Mr. Wood will turn np again—as ho baa often do-0 before—where be Is least expected. Progress of the Revolutionary Epidemic im Comada. As our readers have seen by a telegraphic despatch which we published yesterday from Toronto, the Canadians gave precedence to the writ of their own Court of Common Pleas over the writ of the Englieh Court of Queea’e Beach, in the case of the slave and murderer Ander- son, When the English writ arrived the Ca- nadian judge issued his writ, and the latter prevailed over the imperial tribunal. The case will come up for a hearing to-morrow, and if the prisoner should be discherged that will be giving deflance to the British writ, for it is very evident neither the Governor nor the jailor will obey it. It is highly probable that Anderson will not be surrendered to the State of Missouri, but be set at large by the Canadian Court, as, by that means, Canada will best oxpress its sym- pathy with the freo States of the North, and prepare the way for its annexa- tion. If the British government will sub- mit to be snubbed in this case, and to bave the imperial writ of the Queen’s Bench trampled under foot, it may be regarded asa teat, and then Canada may safely conclude that she will not be interfered with in throwing off all that remains of the British yoke, and that sbe is at liberty to annex herself to the North- ern confederacy without delay. If, on the other hand, the English government should attempt to punish the disobedience to the im- perial writ, Canada will be all in a blaze, con- fident in her reliance upon the support of the free States of the North, and it will be a very | good ground for cutting her connection with the mother country. She is no longer a child in kading strings. She is able to decide and act for herself in all matters legislative, judi- cial and executive; and it is insulting despotism on the part of the home government to attempt to control the decisions of her courts after conceding to her the right of self-government. Meantime sho is disposing of the Queen’s writ very much as the colonies in the Revolutionary struggle disposed of the stamps of George the Third. The Toronto Globe of the 5th inst., in a long leading article on “the Northern confederacy,” says “tbe revolution bas become epidemic south of the lakes;” but, from all appearances, it is now or soon will be equally epidemic north of the lakes. “Canada,” says our cotemporary, “bas been humiliated by the intermeddling of English judges,” and her press, with one voice, ‘leclares that she will not submit to it. True it is that with the exception of some perturbations, both in the upper and lowor pro- vinees, the Canadians six months ago received the Prince of Wales with welcome. But so did New York with still greater demonstrations; yet none will infer that the empire city of the free North in- tended to be loyal to his Royal Highness. But if the Canadians at that time were as loyal as the dial to the sun, a period of six months is ample time for them to have changed. Six months ago who dreamt of six or seven States being now severed from this confederacy, with perhaps some six or seven more soon to follow? Yet the fact is so. In 1848 the revolution in Paris was not the work of even six weeks. Revolutions are often very rapid, and they are always conta- gious, In 1848 they spread more rapidly than the cholera over all Europe. It is impossible tor Canada to be in such intimate contact with the homogeneous race on their southern fron- tier, and not be influenced by the rovolu- tionary fever which is now raging in their midst. That the Canadians have caught the contagion is evident from the im- portance which their excited journals attach to he proposition of Mr. Seward by discussing it day aiter day at great length, and transferring our articles to their columns. Hence it is that the issue of the Queen’s writ in the case of Anderson is producing such extraordinary effects. Were Canada not ripe for annexation we should hear of no resistance to the writs of the imperial government. Axe We to Have 4 Mmurary Desrotism?—A shrewd French traveller predicted, half a cen- tury ago, that the United States would be dis- solved on account of the slavery question, and that the existing government would be re- placed, as in the latter days of the Roman re- public, by a military despotism, under which the boldest and most unprincipled of generals would hold the sceptre, until some one still more desperate should arise ond .over- throw his dynasty. We fear, from the indications about us, that the Northern States are drifting into the falfilment of the Frenchman’s prophecy. Troops are concentrated at Washington and other points, unusual activity prevails in the recruiting ser- vice, the new President is to be inaugurated with the streets of the capital menaced by ar- tillery, and tho matches of the gunners will be lighted while he is taking the oath of office. The republican press urge the occupation of Washington by a very strong force of regulars and volunteers, and even Mr. Seward hints at fighting for the Union. Tho Chevalier Webb, who evidently believes that he is the mouth- piece of Seward, declares that he (Webb) is in favor of drawing the sword and throwing away the scabbard. The Chevalier believes that a resort to civil war is preferable toa peacefal diseolution of the Union, and that the conser- vatives of the North and the South will agree in that view. Not exactly. We are not quite prepared for a civil war, with the Chevalier Webb os a military dictator. Prooress or Tur Stave Porviarioy.—Tho returns of the national census, upon which we commented yesterday, show # very material growth of the slave population during the laat decade—a growth, indeed, which may surprise many who supposed that slavery was de- clining under the pressure of abolition propa- gandism, virulent denunciation and fanatical raids. Inevery Southern State, except Dela- ware, Maryland and Missouri, the increase of the slave population has been nearly in the samo fatio as that of the free population, white and colored; and in the aggrogate the growth of the slave population in the fifteen Southern States has kept pace with that of the whole population of the United States—that is to eny, it shows an increase of about thirty per centin ten years. And very curiously even in Missouri—surrounded on threo sides by free Statee~-where we were told that slavery was rapidly dying out, the number of slaves has increased from 87,422 in 1860, to 115,619 n tho year 1860, and this, too, with abundant opportunity of running them off, aud @ very great lone from this ence, So much for the } decadence of slavery. 1861, ieee LCE LC LE CT CES tei tactician Corrcton ap 178 ConoLLary, Foumiay Ivten- VeNtIoN.—The republican organs are endeavor- ing to create an impression that the overtures said to have been made by South Carolina to England and France have met with a rebuff. There can be no stronger refutation-of this as- sumption than the language of the London Post, Lord Palmerston’s organ, and of the Pays, which, though not official in the strict sense of the term, is known to receive its inspi- rations directly from the Emperor. Both jour- nals indicate plainly what the policy of the two governments will be in the event of repub- lican obstinacy driving the Southern States into the formation of a separate confederacy, - Admitting, however, that there were any doubt as to what their disposition might be, there are other considerations which would control their action, The English and French publics are becoming so panic stricken at the prospects which the interruption or failure of the cotton supply from this country holds out ‘o them, that they would soon compel their rulers to take active steps to remove the ob- structions to it, Whon the news of the se- cession of South Carolina firat reached them, the English journals, taking their cue from the republican journals at the North, and believing in the efficacy of coercion, discredited and ridi- culed the movement, The withdrawal from he Union of the other cotton States has alter- ed altogether their tone. They have become nervously anxious that the separation, now. that separation is inevitable, shall be as amica- ble as possible. They see in violont measures only the paralyzation for an indefinite period of their own industry. What sense is there in assuming that the English and French governments are less alive to this fact than the commercial classes? They must percoive, on the contrary, that in addition to the commer- cial distrees and embarrassmert which the in- terruption of the cotton supply will occasion their people, they will have to provide against the political disturbances which periods of long protracted business stagnation are sure to give rise to. To us, then, the course that will-be pursued by the European governments, in the event of any attempt at coercion by the North, is plain. Their interests demand that the outlets through which they receive their cotton supply shall not be obstructed by a blockade. If they had no justification for enforcing this, they would endeavor to find one from the fact that whilst Northern tariffs will be as unfavorable as pos- sible to their commerce, those of the South will ‘be as much the reverse. But they require the aid of no political casuistry to enable them to make out a case for interference. It has be- come of late years the established policy of the European Cabinets to recognise de facto governments—that is, governments springing outof successful revolutions and in a condition to maintain their independence. No one will assert that a Southern confederacy will not be in this position; and, therefore, we can pre- dicate with certainty the steps that will be taken by England and France, in the event of arepublican administration carrying out its threats of coercion and blockading Southern ports. Thirty days will not have elapsed after that measure is resolved upon before we shall have the English and French ficets off our coasts. Thus the obstinacy of the republicans promises not only to lose us half the confedera- tion, but to embroil us in hostilities with the maritime Powers of Europe; and this with the consciousness of crippled resources and a di- vided allegiance towards the government on the part of our Northern people. If with such prospects the dominant party persists in its resistance to the reasonable concessions de- manded of it, it can only be said that it is visited with the insanity that precedes self- destruction. Crriovs Soctat, REVOLUTION Ix THR Mgrroro- Lis—It would really appear that the sceptre of fashon has departed from New York and becn transferred to Brooklyn. That city, always distinguished for its piety, has now become re- markable for its devotion to what the parsons term an elegant species of heathenism—name- ly, the Italian Opera. For the nonce, Brignoli is elevated abeve Beecher, Madame Colson is more run after than Mrs. Stowe, Misa Hinkley’s Jioritures have quite upset the gravity of the prayer mectings, and the scores of Verdi, Flo- tow, Rossini and Mercadante have replaced the hymn books on the tables of the Brooklyn fair. Then the pecuniary suecess of the Opera in Brooklyn is wonderful. The Irving place house is almost deserted, while across the water the new theatre is crowded every night. Under the combined influence of the Hinkley Surore, and a patriotic outbreak for the flag of the Union, the audience on Tuc day evening was greater, in proportion to the dimensions of the house, than any which has been assembled at the New York Academy since the departure of Piccolomini. Naturally the people in Brooklyn are highly delighted with this state of things. They declare, and with reason, that Brooklyn is now the metro- polis, and New York the suburb; that there is no creme de la creme here, it is all skimmed milk, and very blue at that. Japonicadom, the Faubourg Saint Germaine, the home of the élite classes, is on the other side of the river, New York is the Foubourg Saint Antoine, and if Miss F. McFlimsey has any new clothes to show to a really discriminating public sho must take them over to Brooklyn. All this revolution has been caused by the improve- ment in the musical taste of our sister city. While we have been retrograding, as far a4 this branch of art is concerned, Brook- lyn bas been going ahead, and has not only built an Opera House, but has succeeded in cultivating an audience wil- ling to pay the singers. Here, everybody wishes to go to the Opera for nothing. Thore everybody is anxious topay. That's the diffe rence, and a very serious difference it is, Fer- haps next week, when the new Opera is pro- duced, the public of New York will rally, pnt at present Brooklyn Js paramonnt So three cheers for Brooklyn, and sackcloth and ashes in unlimited quantities for New York. “Snoot Him Dows on ta Seov.—This is the closing phrase of the late insteuctions of the new Secretary of the Treasury to the Col- lector of the port at New Orleans. It is the firet command to sbed blood that has boen isaued in the present orisis. It is but a prepa- ration for a coercion policy on the pact of tho incoming administration, as might have been expected from an abolitionist ringleader, in the great barnburner conspiracy of 1848 Tho poople of the North reprobate the ides of civil Necord shadowed forth in Mr. Dix’s official despatch. Tus New Exo.saxn Etzcrioms—There are certain periods in the history of every govera- ment when the coustituted authorities are call- ed upon to deal with complications altogether novel and unexpected. That appears to be the case with us at the present moment. The President and his constitutional advisers hope for nothing more than that they may be per- mitted to deliver over the federal property now in their hands to the new administration. Con- gress is engaged in an interminable debate upon the report of the Committee of Thirty- three, and as the republicans, who have the Senate and House in their bands, do not pur- pose to do anything but talk, we cannot expect anything practical from that quarter. Then we come to the professional Univn-savers, who have been getting up conventions at Albany and Washington. There is not the slightest possibility that these good natured, though somewhat egotistical people, will be able to do any good. They are political aatiques of the very first water, fossils which have been violently brought upon the sur- face of the earth after having been led for centuries. The Washington . ners” have no power to do auy- thing but talk; and are us irresponsible as the same number of men selected from the crowd of promenaders in Broadway. They come to. gether to make speeches and pass resolutions when the South is in a revolutionary condition, and when the North is menaced by military despotism; for the concentration of large bodies of regular troops in Washington means nothing more nor less thau the proclamation of martial law. It is proposed to put down insurrection in the District with grape and canister, the favorite arguments of Louis Napoleon and Francis Joseph. The fact is, however, that here, as elsewhere, or even in a greater degree than elsewhere, the seat of power is in the people, and if the rump Congress, the expiring administration and the broken down fossil po- liticlans can do nothing, the final resort must be to the popular vote. And it seems, in a great degree, a vindication of the eternal laws of poetic justice that this appeal is to be made first in New England, where the seeds of the abolition harvest were sown thirty years ago. The anti-slavery lead- ers have received aid and comfort from New England, and through that aid and comfort have succeeded in bringing the country into its present difficultiee—namely, a reign of ter- ror for the South, martial law and military des- potiem for the North. It is for the people of New England—people who claim to be expe- cially jealous of any infringement upon popu- lar rights—to decide whether they will uphold the war policy of the republicans, or whether they will, by sending national men to Congress, show a disposition to keep the border States in the confederacy and pave the way fora new and “more perfect union” of all the States. That is the issue which is now presented to the people of New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. It bebooves them to recognise its vast importance, and govern themselves accordingly. Tue Fossm, Convestion at Wasninaton.— Nothing can better illustrate the stupidity and unfitness of politicians in a great orisis like the present than the Convention of old fossils now sitting at Washington with closed doors, like » Venetian Senate, excluding all their proceedings from the public apd the press, who are most vitally interest in the object of their aseemblage. Nearly all of them, like old John C. Wright, of Ohio, and many others, have been dead for years past, and grass is luxuriant on their graves. In fact, the Con- vention is little better than a revival of spirit- ualism—a ghostly and cbapfallen gathering. In conducting their proceedings with sealed doors, they are doing what they were used to do in their life time. They do not underatand what is going on in tbe world now, nor do they know that the country bas advanced a whole century since they were alive. Want. Street anv THe Coxsrcton PLAns op Mr. Sewarv—Mr. Seward affected to endorse before the Senate, last Thursday, the petition of Northern merchants in favor of conciliation. He has written letters to capitalists here in @ similarly peaceful strain. Yet the trae signifi- cation of his speech was proved by Senator Mason of Virginia to be a latent declaration of war, in behalf of Northern aggression, against Southern rights. “Battle” was the resort he declared he would appeal to, as the premier of Mr. Lincoln, to keep the Union together. The difference between himself and Secretary of the Treasury Dix only consist in the wish, on the part of the latter, that some poor secessionist should be “shot on the spot,” while Mr, Seward would wait until Wall street has supplied him with the means of wholesale slaughter. Will our bankers subscribe forty-five millions to new loans, for the purpose of scouring the mur- der of their Southern brethren? Rurverican Stwwews or Wan—The twenty- five million loan bill of Mr, Sherman, with the twonty millions included in Morrill’s tariff meazure, will supply the new administra- tion with abundant means to carry out any policy it may choose to adopt, during the com- ing year. Is this amount to be expended in at- Wmpting to array in battle the North and Northwest against their Southern brethren. Let Mr. Lincoln and his advisers take heed. Nine- tenths of the people of the free States repudiate the horrible idea of an unnatural civil war, and will not permit the countcy to be dragged into it. Miitary Desrorism.—Three months ago, scarcely a cloud obscured the horizon of our national prosperity. What a change within the short period of twelve weeks! Every effort is being made to concentrate troops at Washing- ton to prevent an invasion, and it is believed that tho futuro President can only occupy his teat, and that Congress can only deliberate, ‘under thé protection of batteries of artillery, How long, progressing as events are with ‘whirlwind rapidity, will it require to plunge the country into s worse than Mexicen anar- chy, and to make the only rule in the land that of military despotism. Aacovs mv Howon or tan “Ot Dowurtos."’—A galute of thirty-four guns waa fired at moon yesterday on tho Rat- tery, im honor of the result of the recent ciection in the State of Virginia. Conaldcrable excitement was caused nA gun after gun boomed out ita heavy report over tho bay, and tnany peopte burried to the epot, anxiously im- quiring the cause of the firing, supposing at firat that Fort Sumter had been reinforced, or that the President bad tranepired. Their ty carounnty allayed when the cause of the tumult was aa certamed. red by order of the Uniom General Comraiticn on the receipt ota etch corto ‘borating the reports already giewn. They wre rai Me cite db beoukayn Loot ag, aad ae Bing Sig and lartytown to mocrow,