The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1861, Page 4

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DAL. are KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 64 Broadway.— MEW BUWEKS THKEATKE, Bowery.—Nomx S0u01es— Baurxquw Jack—Drvir's Oak. BAGNUM'S AmKRIUAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day ana Grening—Tan Lapy or St, T2orez—Living Ouutost- wins, dc. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broai way.—Bunixsauxs, SoNGs, Dances, &¢.—Scxitus at Gua wEY's. HOOLEY @ VAMPBELL’3 MINSTRELS, Nibio's Saloon, Broadway.—Erniortan SonGs, Dancus, BuRLxsques, &o.— Grace StuUCK Uxross, CANTFRURY MUSIC Hall, 663 Broadway.—Ticat Bors, 80nGs, Dances, Kuntysaces, ao. MELODEON, No. 639 Broadway.—Sonas, Dances, Bua- tesques, ac. New 3 York, Friday, Febraary 8, 1861. ———————— The News. Accounts from Charleston to the 4th inst. state that Major Anderson had been permitted by the Btate authorities to obtain supplies of fresh pro- visions from that city. It would appear that the chief reason why Major Anderson has not hereto- fore obtained supplies from Charleston is, that the dealers there would not make a contract, fearing, as is alleged, personal violence from their fellow citizens. The garrison at Fort Sumter were in cheerfal spirits, and fully prepared for any emer- gency. The State troops were actively engaged in preparations for an attack upon the fort. The delegates to the Peace Convention at Wash- ington waited in a body upon the President yes- terday. No representatives of the press were ad- mitted to the interview, and we have, therefore, no account of what was said on the occasion. Both branches of Congress were engaged yes- terday in discussing the crisis. In the Senate Mr. Wigfall, of Texas, made a speech in reply to the remarks of Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee. It is re- ported that a duel is likely to take place between these two Senators. In the House speeches were made by Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, and others. Mr. Corwin stated that he should not move to close the debate uutil a week from to-day. The United States steamer Mohawk, Lieut. Com. Craven, arrived at this port yesterday from Key West. The steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn arrived at Key West on the Sist ult., and was to leave next for Tortugas and Pensacola. Governor Morgan has, it is stated, replied to the letter of Governor Brown, of Georgia, respecting the recent seizure of arms by the police of this city. It is understood that Governor Morgan as- sumes that the arms were intended to be used against the federal government, which he is bound by his official oath to sustain, and that, therefore, he could not permit arms to leave the State which might be turned against our own citizens. Con- seque t seems that the police were acting under the orders of the Governor, and not under the responsibility of thy Superintendent of Police, as has hitherto been supposed. The State Senate at Albany yesterday occupied the greater portion of a prolonged sitting over the bill making an appropriation to arm and promote 'y of the militia of the State. The bill, derable debate and propositions to amend, fir passed, the sum appropriated being halfa miliion The vote, excepting one member, was a strictly party one—the republicans in the affirmative. In the Assembly the bill relative to the proposed Metropolitan Health District was reported favorably, and ordered to be printed. A like report was made on the bill authorizing the cession of title of the site of our city Post Office to the general government. A report ona series of propositions in reference to amending the consti- tution of the State was presented and referred to the Committee ef the Whole. A communication was received from the Union Ferry (Com- pany, protesting against unfavorable legisla- tion, and transmitting a report of their busi- ness. The Governor sent in a communication received from South Carolina, returning the re- cent resolutions of our Legislature, tendering the aid of the State of New York to the general government. The Governor also sent in a commu- nication from Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury, asking of the Legislature their endorsement to the amount of the United States funds in th: keeping of the State. The weather yesterday was one of those queer conglomerations that occasionally characterize this part of the country, We had rain and hail, biowing « snowing, sunshine and warmth, an overcast +), and cold—bitter cold—all between sunrise sunset. At noon the thermometer was forty degrees: at eight o'clock P.M. it was down to teu degrees. Skaters will like the frost, for it will give them @ chance for another day's amusement, if not more. The wind played some queer pranks with pedestrians, both male and fe- male, and also did damage to household property. At Mr. P. Carroll's store, corner of Fifty-third street and Third avenue, at about four o'clock P. M., two large plate glass windows were blown to pieces. In that part of the city the wind storm was fearful. In South street a chimney was blown down into the street, and in almost all parts of the city the same mishaps occurred. Trees all round the outskirts were stripped of their limbs, thal) doubtless have to record severe work among the shipping outside the harbor. The gale was very violent at Baltimore, where ‘houses were unroofed, chimneys demolished and trees uprooted. The gale was also violent at Philade';-'is, At Montreal and Albany the gale was accompa.'°d by a heavy fall of snow. In various parts of the country telegraphic operations have been interrupted by the prostration of the wires. The Mozart Hall aud Tammany Hall General Committees assembled at their headquarters last evening, for the purpose of laying new plans and concocting fresh schemes after the battle at Albany. Nothing very remarkable in the pro. ceedings of either of the august bodies transpired. The Sammany Committee organized for the new year by electing the ‘ Old War Horse,” Purdy, Chairman, and Messrs. Hardy and Rollins Secre- taries. The regular monthly meeting of the American Geographical and Statistical Society was held last night at Clinton Hall. The principal feature of the evening was the delivery of an interesting lec- ture on the “Geography of the Grecian Archipels- go," by Prof. A. G. Alexander. Advices from Porto Cabello, Ve ila, to ' otst ult., state that much disturbance prevailed in the interior, which was very detrimental to busi- ness. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday the case of Gordon Hires, charged with the mur- der of six negroes, part of the crew of the bark Anna, was resumed and concluded, and the jury, after deliberating three-quarters of an hour, rendered a verdict of manslaughter against the ac- cused, The circumstances of the cage have al- ready been detailed. In the United States District Court yesterday the case of George Law and Gustavus A. Conover, the bondsmen of the late Postmaster Fowler, was continued, and the evidence on the part of the obligors to the bond closed. District Attorney Roovevelt commenced a statement of the case on the part of the government, and had not concluded when the Court adjourned. A full report is given in to-day’s paper. The examination of Eugene A. Kozlay, a Custom | House clerk, charged with defrauding William Jackson, of No. 71 Greenwich street, of $2,000 worth of silk goods by means of forged orders on the Warehousing Department, was continued yesterday before Justice Welch. Several witnesses were examined with regard to the handwriting of the accused, but the evidence was far from con- clusive against the prisoner, Kozlay is at large in $2,000 bail. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce took place yesterday afternoon, and adopted a remon- strance against the Tariff bill, presented reports on the coasting and lake trades, and transacted other business. The report will be found particu- larly interesting at this critical moment in com- mercial affairs. The Board of Councilmen held their usual meet- ing last evening, when a resolation was adopted directing the Comptroller to furnish the Board with acopy of the pay rolls of the Street, Croton and City Inspector’s departments, giving the names and amount paideach person for the last three months of 18€0. The Corporation Counsel was also instructed to furnish the Board with a list of all the streets and avenues directed to be opened for the last five years, and the expense attend- ing the work. A petition was presented by Dominick Sicot and other members of En- gine Company No. 5, asking for remuneration for services as “watch line’? men at the great fire in Ann street last month. The paper was referred to the Fire Department Committee. The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, in reply to a re- solution of inguiry, states that there are nine steam fire engines in use at the present time, and three more are being constructed by order of the Common Council. The Mayor submitted a com- munication received from the resident physicians and the Health Commissioners, calling attention to the unhealthy practice of throwing salt upon the streets. His Honor recommends that the ordinance prohibiting the use of salt in the streets be so amend- ed as to apply to all railroad companies. The papers were referred to the Committee on Ordinances. The Street Commissioner, in reply to a resolution, states that the expenses incurred for repairs by tie Fire Department during 1860 amounted in the aggregate to $80,035 50. It appears that the work now in progress for this department amounts to $47,650. There are now 9,064 inmates in the charitable and criminal institutions of the city—an increase of thirty-four during the past week. The number of persons admitted to them in the same time was 1,668, and those who died, were discharged or transferred, numbered 1,634, The cotton marketgwas heavy yesterday, and price irregular, while the sales embraced about 1,000 bales, closing within the range of 11. a11%c. for middling uplands, while a desirable line of any magnitude could not, it was said, be had under 12c. The heaviness of sterling bills continued to be felt in the cotton trade. Dealers were waiting further intelligence from Liver- pcol. The four market was heavy and sales moderate, while prices closed about 5c. per bbl. lower. Wheat was heavy, and the spirit of the market was in favor of pur- chasers, Corn participated in the general heaviness, and closed at easier rates, with moderate sales. Pork was dull and lower; new mess sold at $17 60, and prime at $13. Sugars were in fair demand, while the sales em- braced $00 hhds. Cuba, chiefly refining gooda, and 200 boxes brown Havana, at rates given in another columa. Coffee was inactive, but steady. Freighta were taken to a fair extent at steady rates, Is the Present Crisis in the Country to End in a Military Despotism? Who could have foreseen, one year ago, that elements would shortly develope themselves, within the United States of America, directly tending towards a division of the republic into military chieftainships, and that either anarchy, similar to that existing in Mexico, or such a ‘espotism as crushed out the life of ancient Rome, would succeed to the glories bequeathed to us by the heroes who laid the foundations of our nationality? The Northern States, at least, seem to be already drifting towards the estab- lishment of a government which can only be maintained by artillery and the bayonet, and the example of past ages ought to warn all good citizens of dangers, whieh it will require the most strenuous endeavors on their part to avert. It was clearly evolved from the discus- sion between Senators Seward and Mason, a week since, that the future premier under Mr. Lincoln, has calculated civil war as among the probabilities of the future, and as an inevitable consequence of persistence on the part of the South in its resistance of Northern aggression. Officers high in rank in the army of the con- federation, emulating the superfluous zeal of General Scott, have paraded to the world their readiness to take part in a war of sections, and a barnburner ringleader in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan has issued peremptory instructions to his subordinate at New Orleans to “shoot } down at once” any individual who should seek to carry out actively the secession programme which Louisiana has recently adhered to. “Everybody,” exclaimed Mr. Seward, “who hall resist, oppose, or stand in the way of the preservation of the Union, will appear as the moth upon a summer's eve” ere it is swept away by the whirlwind. How aw- fully disastrous would be the necessary conse- quences of such teaching. An army of Vir- ginia and Maryland; hosts pouring into the slave States from the North and Northwost, under a dozen different leaders; hostile arrays of troops wending northward from the Caro- Mnas, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and Ala- bama; the border States swollen with the im- plements of wholesale slaughter; commerce, trade, manufactures, agriculture prostrated; no national capital, no treasury, no oountry; but everywhere trained bands exhausting the resources of localities to clevate some petty leader to power, and cater to individual dema- ‘ism | The dsagon’s teeth of future destruction once sown, seldom fail, in nations, to bring forth their fatal crop of fruit, Slowly, surely and inevitably, the one dark spot of trouble Grew, in the Roman republic, until it ended in just such storms as we are menaced with, by more rapid advances, in America. Ont of the divisions between Patrons and Plebeians sprang, first, oppressions which caused the lat- ter, five hundred years before our era, to with- draw to the hill at the confluence of the Arno and the Tiber, in ofder to found no rival city. The Patricians yielded, aad the name of Mount aoupike Sacred Mountain—consecrated the patched up peace. But the scar remained. The fable of the belly and the members pro- ‘uced but an ephemeral result. Al- most immediately afterwards, the question of public lands agitated anew the hostile sec- tions, and the Agrarian law came, acting much as the compromire measure of 1850 did, creating a lull to be soon broken, followed by Volvero’s Publilian measure, which only for a while satis- fied the people. New conflicts, ending in the Reform bill‘of Terentilius; after which innova- tions, murders, and a dictatorship, drove the Plebeians to another secession to Mount Janicu- lum, which was appeased by the Canuleian law, consented to by the Patricians for the healing of grievances. Encroachments alternated with resistance, until, fnally, the Licinian ro- gations established something more than a merely nominal equality of order in the old Roman republic. Unexampied prosperity; the conquest of Ilaly and Spain; the subjugation of Carthage; and the establishment of nearly universal rule, wero the sequence of this wise basis of amity, Those wefe the palmy days of Rome. But the old leaven lingered, and gle- rious, halcyon years and generations, begat oligarchic and democratic divisions worse than bad ever existed before. ..Out of the strifes be- tween a Senatorial nobility and the “ Frenice mob” grew the rivalry of Ogtavius and Grac- chus; then the armed hostility of Scipio and Craseus; later, the more extended conflicts of Marius and Sylla; and, with the latter such catering to popular passions as prepared the way for Pompey and Cesar; for the gladiato- rial episode of Spartacus; the respective re- bellions of Cataline and Brutus; and, last of all, the triumvirate of Lepidus, Autony and Augustus, which ended in the imperial despot- ism that inaugurated the days of the decline and fall of Rome. It will require but a short period for the United States to sink into depths lower than Rome reached after a lapse of centuries. If the good sense, the wisdom, the civilization, the humanity of the age do not rescue the country from such a resort to the ultima ratio of sections, as Mr. Seward would prepare for us, it will need but & very few mouths to overthrow the prosperity which over three-quarters of a cen- tury of industry and energy have created, and to exhaust the means which it has cost so much toil and labor to accumulate. If the counsels of peace do not prevail; if the greatest of all calamities, a war between brother and brother, is to be the result of the present crisis, oceans of blood and millions of treasure will be expended in order to carry out, osten- sibly, an impracticable theory, with no other ultimate end than the uprising of as many ar- mies as there will be ambitious leaders of con- dottieri to prey upon the vitals of the country. Some Napoleon of the Western Continent may at last bind it together under one common yoke, but it is more probable that petty generals will extend throughout the United States the direful scenes that have been wit- nessed for over twenty-five years in Mexico, and that utter anarchy will be the consequence of the “irrepressible conflict” which the republi- can party have so suicidally initiated. Nine out of ten of the people of the Northern States repudiate the coercion sentiments which are hurrying the republic so rapidly towards a precipice. The views promulgated, recently, by Mr. Seward, have excited the deepest feel- ing of distrust and alarm, and itis the com- mon utterance of men’s mouths that any at- tempt to carry out his theory will meet with no less resistance in the non-slaveholding than in the slaveholding States. The assembly of troops at Washington, under the pretext of preventing an invasion of the capital; the eager- ness for action of military men; the idea of bloodshed with which the public mind is becom- ing familiarized; and the flippancy with which a portion of the press and of our national representatives discourse respecting the greatest disasters that can befal mankind, are premonitory signs of a national suicide so atrocious, so wicked, that they have caused sober minded men everywhere to shrink with dismay from the prospect which is opening be- fore them. The masses of our population, in all the States, are Union loving and conserva- tive. They see the gigantic footsteps with which anarchy is progressing, and they are prepared to ery. out with horror against those who would plunge the republic, its future destiny, its fair fame, and the hopes that hu- manity have placed upon it into an abyss of ruin, helplessness and misery. They loathe the thought of such military despotism or anarchy as fanaticism would create, through the means of an internecine strife, and they will hold those responsible who exert their influence to widen the breach which it is of so much im- portance should be healed. Tar New Tarr Bus.—Tue Voir or rue Porte Uron It.—The introduction of the Mor- rill Tariff bill at this crisis, imposing, as it docs, high and irregular duties upon many importa- tions, enuring to the profit of certain interests in the North, and working against the South, has excited considerable attention in all quar ters, and we have received a multitude of com- munications thereon—some of which we pub- lish to-day—from importers, manufacturers and merchants. We invite the attention of our readers to these communications, for the reasoa that they contain many valuable facts, and show, toa certain extent, the spirit which ant- mates the framers and supporters of the bill. It will be found that, although the idea pre- vails that a high tariff is usually intended to protect native manufactures, the manufacturers in some cases are discontented with the present bill, while, on the other hand, some of its pro- visions are so designed to shield monopotics as to provoke the indignation of merchants and importers, especially in the iron and steel trade On all hands the Tariff bill appears to meet with the strongest reprobation. Should it be- come a law it will prove a terrible blow to the commercial interests of New York, by doatroy- ing the warehousing system and compelling importers to psy duty upon their importations within ninety days. The effect of this, eays one of our correspondents, will be to ‘make half the importers in the city to fail.” At the meeting of the Chamber of Chmmeret yesterday—the proceedings of which we give in another colamo—-a memorial to Congress to postpone the pastage of the bill was presented by Mr. Opdyke, a prominent republican, which was adopted, and a committee appointed to proceed to Wasttington at once to protest against its enactinent. Thus the manifest in- justice and impolicy of such a measure are everywhere denounced, aud it le to be hoped that the voice of the people will prevail in pro curing its defeat. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1861. ‘Thaedauaiaaaaed Gabicuidasciaaaneignenees of Puritan Persceution. Two or three days ago, in the United States Senate, Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, a Puri- tan and abolitionist of the true blue type, threatened all Northern men who did not sym- pathize with the republicans in their policy of no compromise and armed coercion of the Southern Statee—tbreatened them with the first vengeance of the Praise-God-Barebones invading army. He said “their first business would be to take care of the traitors at the North’—take care of them with drumhead court martials and halters. As Danton said, in the first French revolution, there is nothing in such cases like “audacity, audacity, audacity.” The real traitors at the North are those who have violated the constitution, to which the pa- ramount loyalty of all is due, and who are now seeking to completely subvert it by a military despotism. The stigma “traiter” has about as appropriate application to those for whom it was intended as the term “witches” had for the good and virtuous women in New England who, in the palmy days of Puritan rule, fell victims to the fanaticism of Mr. Hale’s ances- tors. Not content with driving the Southern States out of the Union, the next object of the fanatical crusaders is to force all men of libe- ral ideas out of the Northern States—to subject them to persecution, even to death, if they do not ostracise themselves from their native land. As we have recently shown in two historical sketcbes—one “The History of the Puritans,” and the other “The Rise and Progress of Abo- litionism’’—such have ever been the principles and the policy of the New England Puritans, bey say they left Old England because they were persecuted there. But the truth of his- tory shows that they always persecuted when they had the power, and that this was the chicf reason why “even-handed justice commended the poisonéd chalice to their own lips.” How- ever that may be, certain it is they were the first colonists who set an example of persecu tion in this country. They had hardly landed on the American shores when they began to put their principles into practice. They per- secuted all other sects, and even their own brethren. The result was a secession to Rhode Island and Connecticut, where the persecuted founded new settlements, to the great loss and detriment of the old colony; for population is the wealth of States, and whatever dimi- nishes it in a new community is a public calamity. It was thus the Moors in Spain—the most valuable citizens of that country, who preserved the arts, the sciences and literature after the fall of the Ro- man empire, who developed the resources of the peninsula, and gave a wonderful impetus to its commercial enterprise—were persecuted and exterminated for their religious opinions by the inquisition under Ferdinand, Charles V., Philip I. and Philip ITi., the last of whom to- tally banished the Saracens from Spain—a de- population which inflicted a wound upon the nation from which it has drooned and pined for nearly three centuries. At that time it stood at the head of European Powers. Where isit now? More than one hundred and fifty thousand of the persecuted Moors took refuge in France, where they were received with great humanity by the enlightened and liberal monarch, Henry IV., and where they repaid the hospitality with interest by introducing their arts and manufac- tures: while to Spain the result was destruction to its manufacturing interest, and finally bloody civil wars to break down the tyranny of an ab- solute monarchy and the inquisition. There is a second historical parallel equally instructive. After France for a series of years had been devastated by civil wars of religion and massacres, including that of St. Bartholo- mew’s day, Henry IV, in the year 1598, issued the celebrated Edict of Nantes, which granted to the Huguenots, or French Protestants, the privileges of citizenship, the right of worship- ping God according to their own faith, and certain lands to support their churches and garrisons. For this toleration Henry was as- sassinated. But the Huguenots continued to flourish and the country to prosper under the liberal policy which he established, till Cardi- nal Richelieu controlled the royal councils and vigorously pursued his maxim, that “there could be no peace in France until the Hugue- nots were entirely suppressed.” At length, in the year 1685, Louis XIV. revoked the Edict of Nantes, and ordered the Reformed churches to return to the faith of Rome. The temples of the Huguenots were demo- lished, and the worshippers massacred. Fifty thousand escaped to the Protestant countries of Europe, and a few to the British colonics of America. They carried with them their arts and wealth and enterprise, by whieh ri- val nations were soon enabled to excel the French in their own manufactures; and the despotism established over the human mind by the French monarchy it became necessary to overthrow, by the terrors of a sanguinary revolution, which may one day be neces- sary in the Northern States of America, should Puritanism be successful in establishing its domination. Another pregnant example of the effects of persecution is to be found in the modern histo- ry of our own Anglo-Saxon race. After the Stuarts were overthrown in England, the Irish Catholics held out for them in Ireland, and in the fortified city of Limerick made their last stand. The English failed to take it, and, as the French had delayed to come to their aid, the Irizh garrison surrendered by treaty, one of the conditions being that the Catholics of Ireland should be guaranteed in their civil and reli- gious liberties, and another that those of the military who did not choose to serve in the English army might emigrate to France. Hardly was the ink dry on the parch- ment, and the defenders of the country removed, when penal laws were en- acted against Irish Cathdlics at which humanity at this day may well blush. What was the consequence? At that time the Bri- tish were behind the ‘ge in manufactures, while the Irish excelled in them, and, emi- grating, carried their arts into every Catholic country of Europe, to the serious damage of British interests. But further, the military ele- ment, which had emigrated to France at the time of the treaty, was entisted in the service of that country, and known as the [rish Bri- gade. Other Lrish emigzants afterwards joined their standard, making f all 400,000 fighting men, by whose aid Weance was saved from British conquest, and the English arms defeat. ed on many a bloody field. Their battle cry wae, “Remember Lime: and British faith.” J) woe after the battle ot Fontenoy, beer war woul. Fravee by the valor of the Irish Bri- gt de. that King George IL pth “Cue 4 ] be the hows which deprive me of such subject Yor lie is the iniquity of British laws in Ireland which bas driven so mapy of the population to America to people its States and develope its resources, to the great impoverishment of the British empire. History is ever repeating itself. England bas paid asevere penalty for her violation of the treaty of Limerick. Ferdinand and the Spanish Catholics broke faith with the Moors, on the principle held in that day, that “‘no faith is to be kept with heretics.” The Mussulmans surrendered Granada by a treaty which formally insured their religious freedom. But they were denounced aa rebels because they would not obey the laws in becoming Catho- lics, and were persecuted and put to the sword ti] their final expulsion, seventy years after the treaty. In like manner faith was brokeu with the Huguenots, who wére driven from France eighty-seven years after their charter of free- dom granted by Henry of Navarre Thus a solemn league and covenant was established three-quarters of a century ago between the Northern and tbe Southern States of North America, guaranteeing equal rights to all. In about thirty years after the persecuting Puritans, who had previously driven out the best of their own citi- zens to enrich other communities, resolved to break faith, and commenced a crusade against the Southern States and their institutions which, with some intervals of intermission, they have waged ever since, in Congress, in their State Legislatures, in public meetings, on the rostrum, on the bench, in the press, in the pulpit, in the Sunday school, by tracts and pamphlets, by caricatures, by lying novels and more lying statistics, by emissaries inciting, servile insurrections, euding with John Brown’s invasion of Virginia. Haviog at last gained possession of the federal power, the army, the uavy and the public purse, they avow their de- fermipation to carry out their design of ex- termivating negro servitude and making the black equal to the white man, or of exterminat- ing the slavebolders and all who sustain them in the Southern States. Without this institu- tion it is impossible for either the whites or the negroes ot the South to exist. The slave owner, alarmed for his safety, tells the Puritan, “You take away my lite if you take that by which I live, and hence we must part com- ‘pany.” Thus have the intolerant sect cap- ped the climax of their national crimes by fore- ing out of the confederacy seven States whose siuples have been the great sources of our national wealth, giving the United States the balance of trade against Europe, and afford- ing employment to the half starved population of the barren soil and ungenial climate of New England. Seven or eight States more will pro- bably follow the other seven from the same cause—thus taking away the largest, the most fertile and by far the most valuable portion of the soil. Nor is this all. Their grasping greed and tyranny are likely to drive to the South the skill, the enterprise and the capital of the North, aud thrs donhly impoverish the unhappy people left behind, ‘whose misfortune it is to have their lot cast among those covenant breakers and hereditary persecutors who, from the time of their disembarkation on Plymouth Rock to the present, have been the fruitful source of strife and discord to the country, which bitherto bas prospered in spite of their fanaticism, but which has now received at their hands a blow from whose effects it may never recover, Heyny A. Wise axp Hts Oroan on THE REVOLUTIONARY SkizvRE or WasnHincTos—TER- wrLe Wanerne.—We all know that ex-Gover- nor Wise, of Virginia, is a man of pluck, a man of action, and a mighty man of war. Weall re- member that, in 1856, he threatened, in the event of Fremont’s election, the march upon the city of Washington of a hostile Southern army, and the ceizure of the funds and archives of the government for the purposes of a South- ern confederacy. Hence the late frequent threats and appeals of the Richmond Enquirer, looking to a revolutionary seizure and occupa- tion of Washington, in order to expel the black re} ublicans from power, have been widely ac- cepted as the instigations of ex-Governor Wise. ‘this opinion, too, has beer pretty strongly sus- tained by the late belligerent speeches and manifestoes of the warlike ex-Governor on southern State rights. Tis faithful organ, however, the Enqufrer atoresaid, comes to bis rescue in this matter, and positively asserts “that ex-Governor Wise does not, and never has contemplated, engaged in, advised or attempted any arming or organ- ization, for the purpose or with the intent of making any assault or military demonstration whatscever against the city of Washington.” Moreover, for the past three months, Mr. Wise, we are told, has been detained at home “by severe ness in his family, and during that time has never approached withia two hundred miles of the city of Washington.” This testimony we accept as fully exonerating ex-Governor Wise from any association with the secret Southern conspiracy alleged to exist for the revolutionary usurpation of the federal govern- ment and its effects at Washington, But the terrible Bombastes Furioso of the Richmond Enquirer has something else to say on the sub- ject, and here it is, italics and all, as we find it in that paper of Tuesday last:— But we tell the people of Washington, at the samo time, (hat their lives uod property are placed in manifest joo: bardy by the intrigues of Soutt, Seward & Co. The city of Washington, unoccupied by military forces, would offer a refuge of satety, But s0 soem asthe State of Virgt- mia shail lave active measures uf renisiance ‘to tack repubtt can rule, her authorities cannot and will not brook the a sence of a fede-al army of coercion at Washington aymy shail remavn there, ii rut be driven ond and the chty cay tured, even sf an assailing force of one hundred thousand men shail be required, ana if successful assault shall first require a cannon aderchich will level cwery roof with the pare ments of the streets This is a fearful warning, but it is a very foolish one. If Virginia and the other South- ern States do not wish to alienate their North- ern friends, and combine the people of the North asa unit against the South, there will be no Southern attempt to expel by force of arms the administration about to en- ter constitutionally into the occupation of the government at Washington. When thus the official occupation of that city shall be reduced to a question of physical force between lawful right and revolution, the census returns of the North and the South too clearly indicate the inevitable result to be doubt- ed fora moment. A comparatively dense white population of some nuinetven millions in the North, against eight millieas thinly scattered over the wide expanse of the Southern States, should warn our Southern brethren of the folly of wantonly provoking a Northern invasion. While we ate doing all that we can to maintain peace and the rights and institutions of the South, Uition or no Union, we must admonish cur Southern cotemporaries of the wickedness of javiting war in @ Southern crusade for the re ot Washington. Let us hear no more Lei ua have poace, SSS a ee Tux Cusvauer Wikory on tex Revows- tion. That eminent diplomatist, experienced courtier and distinguished litterateur, the Chevalier Wikoff, has been delivered of » pamphlet upon the question of the day—the revolution now going on in these United States. Wikoff's pamphlet is a clever melange of his- tory (the history of slavery), philosophy, diplo- macy, sentiment, patriotism and poetry. The drift of bis argument is well enough, and he ar- rives at the conclusion of all sensible men, that slavery is a beneficent institution, and that the Union ought to be preserved at all hazards. The pamphlet is addressed to the Chevalier’s old friend Palmerston, and was first intended for privave perusal, It is now given to the public as a means of information upon the topic of the day. The Chevalier’s history of slavery, black and white, is very well written, and in a brief space comprehends a great many very curious facts, The pamphlet puts the “whole question in a historical and statistical nutshell, and it will be found very valuable as a book of ready reference, The best part of Wikoff’s brochure, how- ever, is the portion devoted to the description of the press in France, England and the United States. The Chevalier’s picture of the French press is very well painted, but it is not the French press of today. The Emperor now controls the journa)s with a hand of iron, and the French press is, therefore, without that in- herent power which springs from independence alone. The French press which Wikoff de- scribes is the press which existed under Louis Philippe, and which was free to discuss politi- cal matters. In speaking of the English press Wikoff ignores all the London journals except the Times, which he places on somewhat too lofty a pedestal. The truth is that the position of the London Times as leading journal is purely accidental. Other papers in London are as able, as vigorous and as well writien as the Times. But the Times is the most eager and éarnest of all the English journals in the pursuit of news, and it bas grown up with London as the Heratp has with New York. The London Times is reliable simply because the government of Great Britain is reliable. When a new ministry takes office a definite policy is marked out. The Times as- certains what this policy is in advance of any other journal, and gives it to the public imme- diately. In Paris the newspapers are not per- mitted to do this, and in this country the gov- ernment rarely bas any especial line of policy, and never adheres to one when once laid down. The position of the London Times, then, is just the eame that a leading journal in New York or Paris would hold under similar government and press regulations. There is nothing so wonderful about the London Times, per se. It is powerful in foreign countries for ithe reason we have given above, and it is the leading journal of England because its vast circulation and unlimited resources make it the lord paramount of the British press; and the steadiness of British institutions, both political and commercial, renders the task of the jour- nalist comparatively easy. Here we never know what a day, or even an hour, may bring forth. However, we do not intend to discuss this question; we have other and more interesting matters on hand, and therefore leave the Cheva- lier Wikoff to his friends in Printing House square. His pamphlet will repay perusal, and serve two purposes—the enlightenment of the public and the concealment of Wikoff’s real mission here as secret agent for the Freach and English governments, to which he will undoubt- edly transmit fuller and more reliable informa- tion than they can obtain from their immediate representatives at Washington. Decuine oF THE SHok Trap IN New Eva- Laxp.—One of the most flourishing branches of trade in the New England States has hereto- fore been the boot and shoe business, which has been enjoyed almost as a monopoly by that section of country. But we perceive by the returns that the falling off has been very considerable within the past year, in conse- quence of the political troubles in which the country is involved—a great portion of the shoe trade being done with the South, and no mall part of it comprising the supply furnish- ed for the use of the slaves. It appears that the number of cases of shoes, and the value thereof, sent from the New England States for the years 1859 and 1860, were as follows:— + TL9OL 32,309 595 653,047 a Lend gad Here we have a falling of in one year of nearly three millions of dollars ia one branch alone of Northern industry, upon which we may base some calculation of what the decrease must be in the manufacture of cotton goods, iron, machinery aud other de- partments. In the face of fucts like these it is no wonder that a reaction of sentiment has taken place in the Eastern States—that aboli- tion meetings and John Brown glorifications are broken up by the people, and Caion meet- ings and anti-coercion assemblages are enthu- siastically sustained. If such be the conse- quences to trade and manufacture resulting from the beginning of the trouble with the South, what may we not expect to see in case that open hogtilities should be resorted to? The manufacturers of New Eugland may find that the triumph of an abstract idea is but sorry return for trade lost and prosperity thrown away; and the mechanics and mill ope- ratives may unhappily realize that the success of a fanatioal party is but a poor consolation in the midst of hunger and destitution. Tae Trimvye Kansas Fexp.—If there are apy moneys remaining on hand of thisfund we call upon the Hon. Massa Greeley to send them out at once to the suffering people of Kansas, We think, too, that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who was so zealous in the business of sending out rifles to the Northern Kansas emi- grants, shovfid now come forward and aid in the work of sending them bread. Sharpe's rifles have played their part in the Kansas cause of “human freedom;” but have our fighting par- sons no bowels of compassion for human star- vation? What says Brother Beecher? Texas Goxr Ovr —Texas, too, has seceded, making the seventh State that has gone out of the Union. The only cotton State proper re- maining in it is Arkansas, and she will go next. The Southern confederacy, without going far-" ther, will thus be composed of the eight cotton States—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala- bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkan- sas, The organization of these States under an ade ses Southern jerecoment is virtually ~liehet “V1 other the revea remaining ry