The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1861, Page 4

ee ee ae ee _NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FeBRYTARY yesterday | The Sowshern Confederacy and its Provi- j (one VY raf 8 GORDON BENNETT, SAMS pprror AND PROPRIETOR. ORNBR OF FULTON AND Nassau arg, | * Sccept the ultimatum which the border States OFFIUE BW wi eee TERMS co®, in &% — ne but Bank bills current in Now York desta Dy eo cent 87 per annum, 4 “Dy too. p $7 per an PAKLY HERA, “th D every Saturday, at ie conte THE WHENLY Bite, ip Edition Welnestny, chrsvpe. ee oe Mra. Ith and 2a of each month, ut vice Cahfornéa Edition om the Lat, eohy, oF 8180 per an Ce EMILY HERALD, on ‘annian ORY PUNTARY. COLRESPOR the wortd; if weds ‘er IGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE AL abt Lartexs anp Paox. correspondence. We do not | reture, communtcations. aia ri ENTS renciced every |. Wg adverticomente sete oe the Werner Haein, Fats ALD, and on the fornia. and Buropean Editions, Obs PRINTING executed with neatne he Volume XXVI. 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Much excitement was created in this city on Saturday by the receipt of a despatch from Sa- yannab, Georgia, stating that five New York ves- sels had been seized in that port by order of the Governor, in retaliation for the recent seizure in this city by our Metropolitan police of arms about to be shipped to Georgia. The news of the seizure of these vessels also caused quite a sensation in Washington, and in the Hours uf Representatives Hon. John Cochrane, of this city, offered a reso- lution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for any information he may have receiyed on the subject, which resolution being objected to, Mr. Cochrane gave notice he would present it again to-day. The Georgla Cornms eee) palace were on Saturday given sed ~ “\uthories here to Mr. G. B. Lamar, the agent in this city of the Savannah consignees, and intelligence of the fact immediately telegraphed to the Collector of the port of Savannah. By a de- spatch which we give in another column, it will be seen that, immediately on the fact of the rea- toration of the arms to their rightful Qwntts 1 being made know? to Governor Brown ; iso wraened the release of the reprs#4¥ wets, ang they were acoordingly given up on Salurday, We publish to-day an interesting account of the proceedings of the Southern Congress, the election of Hon. Je® ‘,ayis, of Mississippt, and Hon, AHL *onhens, of Georgia, %s President and Vie, procident of the Sonthern confederacy, till cher with their personal history and the new *onstitution adopted. Also statistics in reference to the seceding States and a brief account of the new capital, Montgomery, Alabama. It was stated in Washington last night that information had been received of the appointment by the new govern- mem of ministers to represent it at the various European courts, The War Department at Washington has advices from Major Anderson, at Fort Sumter up to the 7th inst. He is in good spirits, and prepared for whatever may come. He seems to anticipate an early attack from the Carolinians, but thinks, how- ever formidable it may be, he can maintain his position for an indefinite period. Me has been informed by government that should an attack on him be commenced he will be immediately reinforced. It is said that leading secessionists in Wavhington advise the South Carolinians still to postpone the attack on the It is also reported that the South Carolina authorities themselves are diapesed to piss over the whole business connected with the possession of Sumter to the Congress of tue new Southern fort. contederacy. Indeed, itis even stated that tho whole subject of the possession of the Southern forts will be passed over to this body for its action. Colonel Judge, of Alabama, has valied on Presi- dent Buchanan, with a view of entering into rego- tiatiofis for the transfer of the United States torts and other government property in Alabama to the government of that State. The President, how- ever, deolines to recognise him in an official capacity. Our readers will remember that the telegraph several days ago reported the scizure of the United States Arsenal at Littie Rock, Arkansas, by the State authorities. That despatch, however, seems to have anticipated the event, as the Arsenal was not taken possession of until Friday last. On that day, #8 we learned by telegraph from Memphis yesterday, it was surrendered to the State. It con- taimed nine thousand stand of arms, a large amount of ammunition and forty cannon, among which Jatter wae included the famous battery of Captain Bregg, of ‘a little more grape" notoriety io the Mexican war. The Peace Conference at Washington did no business on Saturday except Gilling up the vom. mittee appointed to devise some plan of adjust. ment between the North and South. Tho Gon. ORK HERALD. | sont by mait witt be at the | this bevy, before their departure, that they were ane woany pa ny Great ‘eal Ey Twenty-five Million Loan bill of Congress mem. on Wednesday, at four cents per DENCE, containing importan siderable extent unless the republican members of w, cheapness and des | > | Sovernment does not contemplate calling thither li, 1861 Thurlow Weed left the Astor House afternoon for the Peace Conference at Washing- ton, as an outside delegate. He was accompanied by apumber of prominent republicans, who will join him in urging the republican commissioners «tonal Govermment, shall present. It was stated by mombors of fortified by recent instructions from Mr. Lincoln advising their proposed course. 80 far as ascertained, are before our readers. ‘98 signed by the Presidenton Saturday. It ia | tinue in force one yoar from and after the in said, however, that the capitalists of New York and Boston will not take the loan to any con- Congress evince more disposition than they do at present to bring about an adjustment of the national troubles. General Soott has written to the Scott Life i services for the protection of the capital, that the j “ny troops except the District of Columbia militia and a few detachments of regulars, volunteers, therefore, for that service are declined. Lieutenants Rogers and Schumaker, late of the revenue cutter Lewis Cass, recently seized at Mobile, arrived in this city yesterday morning, per steamship Mount Vernon, from Savannah. The former captain had been reinstated by the State authorities. “ of the United States, in relation to the public property and the public debt” of the late Union, at the time of the separation respective- ly of the former States from the latter. These are important and vory suggestive constitutional stipulations. The probibition The federative Convention, or Congress of the seceded States of South Carolina, Georgia Florids, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, in sesston at Montgomery, Alabama, has ac- complished the task of organizing » Provisional National Government, aud the details thervof, First. A constitution has been adopted to con- auguration of the Provisional President elected under it, said constitution being substantially | The Seizure of New York Vessels in the that of our United States. It embraces, how- ever, a section expressly forbidding the Atri- can slave trade, a provision giving to its Con- greas the power to prohibit the introduction of juard, of this city, who had tendered to him their | *!@V¢8 from any State not ® member of the con- federacy, a rigid provision for the reclamation of fugitive slaves, and # provision for the set- tlement of all matters between the States of the All offers of | new confederacy, “and their late confederates The Danger Imminent—The Duty of the City of New York. Near and more near the dark thunder cloud tensively used im the South du wereconeyi permanent disruption the South woun pe compelled to respect the rights of pate or persons to whom those rights may have b>" leased or assigned. The consequense would be great pesualary losses to invenfors, and the ruin of many of them. Therefore the pstent interest may be accounted as am accession to ihe conservative ranks, and the lobby will be compelled to be patriotic for tae sake of its bread and butter. elections in the tobacco growing States, Those States must have a compromise now, or Mr. Spproaches, and if we do not take prompt ac- a © — — Hoan, wil tion it will soon burst over our heads, when it nd “ a wil be too Into to avert the tempest of war, | usin im China ozs the Tae-Ping Event, ¢ following each other ia such rapid mene pe uostlittle time is left for calm re; We published yesterday, with our gor. flection, or to prep.**¢ for the inevitable change reepondence from Chins and Japan, « in our political condi*%2 We warned our | COPY of the treaty concluded at Pekin fellow citizens loag since °f their present | °° tho 14th of November last, between peril; but fow were willing to be1,*V@ thero was | Russa and Ching, and which was ratified any need for alarm, or any necessity” to take at St. Petersburg on the Ist of January Port of Savannsh—Defeat of Repubii- | measures to guard against the calamity Which Tt is interesting to compare the policy of ere, Aksression by the Goverament of | now threatens all classes with instant ruin. | One Ration with that of another, and to note ‘The flagrant invasion of the rigitts and pro- Apeihy avd indiforenes, smiagies , with inore- the — ot —— pothwola . yr perty of citizens of Georgia, three weeks ago, GAUN, 100k te place of: energy: sae: aolan, riteflally or commercially. Whit " land by our Metropolitan police, has recetved the ee ip Upon we GRE aLRRE Re and Oceee have been pea — (fed, under aggravating reumstanccy, wi |, Minded BY fale security, many even now | Hons of money i pein othe pola of the he direct sanetion of the Governor of this Go, nat renlis the. crieig, or comprcbend its shared their ~ phan ther 9 cate Stare, and it met with the response which sueh leopen. ‘They talk of saving tho Union when ad inexpensivel, sovuring fi bonne an unwerrantable, highbanded act of aggree- there is no longer any Usign to save; the day sot a Alivs. pmo: | sion might .be expected to receive, from an in- of its salvation ix gone by. The opportunity has ph es of the Czar is directed te the dependent, incense’ Commonwealth, Tho his- been lest which cannot'sew be recalled, and the uisition of erritory;: thet of th i tory of the facts whish culmiauted in the repri- sooner that wo all’ recognise the fact that » | 074 ge ye t suls that were witnessed, on Friduy last, in the | 37° Tevolution) has bees: epoompltibed, Aged aera omen yng 5 idbicty the betier will we know how to deal { te East by opening the ports of China to Brt- 5 , port of Savannah, was published’ in our yester- Our advices state that on the day for counting the votes for President and Vice President in Con- Bress (Wednesday next) the United States troops 4n Washington and the militia of the District of C lumbia will be placed on a war footing. General Sea rth it appears, has made full preparations for gua rding the city against any attacks on the day of ti\e inaugutation of the new President. The reguk 3r troops will be placed at all available -points , and will take no part im the procession. The dh strict militia, however, will join in the pro- cersiom. It is stated that the President has had offers of. nearly five hundred thousand volunteers; but botle he and General Scots declare that there is at present no authority to accept any such offers. The steamship Canada, from Liverpool on the 26th ult., via Halifax 7th inst., arrived at Boston yesterday afternoon. We gave a telegraphic sun- mary of her news, received from Halifax, in Fri- day morning's Hewaup. Her mails will arrive in this city this morzing. We publish to-day a full and interesting account of the extraordinary legitimacy case involved in the marriage of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte” with Miss Patterson, of Baltimore. The affair is now attracting the attention of the Kuropean pub- lic, inasmuch as a suit is in progress before the French tribunals, instituted by Madame Bonaparto and her son, to recover the rights and titles and a portion of the personal property of the deceased Prince. The facts are succinotly stated in the ar- ticle we translate, and will be found highly inte- resting. The result of the present trialis being looked for with much anxiety, as it is well known that, although the marriage was annulled by the Archbishop of Paris and the civil decrees of the Emperor, the Pope of Rome had always refused to issue @ bull of nullification. The ninth anniversary of the Church Charity Foundation was held in the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Clinton and Montague streets, Brooklyn, last evening. After the usual evening service the Rey. Mr. Jessup read the annual report, from which we glean the following facts:—The so- ciety is in a prosperous condition, and all they wantis to be able to pay off the mortgage of $10,000 which is on their building. This they hope soon to be able to accomplish. The receipts for the last year amounted to $7,043 98, the payments to $3,775—leaving a balance of $352, after deducting over $1,100, which has been trans- serred to the building fund. Inthe home for the aged there are twenty-four inmates, and in the orphan house forty-six, making a total of seventy depending upon the society for support. The ser- mon was preached by the Rey. Dr, Vinton, of Pennsylvania, and the following persons ted in the service:—Bishop Potter, Rey. Dr. F. Vinton, of New York; Rev. Dr. Littlejohn.and the Rev. Messrs. Canfleld, Adams, Guin, Diller, Haskin apd Davis. The church was densely crowded, and the collection that was taken up showed the deap interest felt im the prosperity of the society. In consequence of the failure of the Board of Supervisors te pass the tax levy the Comptroller, was unable to furnish funds * the Jst inst. * -v pay the police io .. au this emergency Mr. Devlin ad- yanced the amount, $120,000, without interest; and he will place in the hands of the Commissioners of Education a sufficient sum to pay the school teachers. The Central Park was visited yesterday by nearly as many persons as on Saturday, but the ice was in a very bad condition, owing to the thaw. ‘The majority of the visiters roamed about the Park, aud by half-past six they had nearly all disappeared, of the African slave trade, for example, dissi- pates that industrieusly circulated’ Northern anthelavery idea, thet the great incentive, ob- ject and purpose of these seceded States has been and is the revival of the African slave | traf. Now it is to be hoped that our repub- liean agitators of this dreadful scheme:will be relieved of their apprehensions. If these radi- cal cotton. States, in which alone the policy of re-establishing this African traffic has been ad- vocated, seize the first opportunity unanimously to repudiate it, surely we need fear no-dan- wer of the repeal of this organic law, with the absorption into the new confederacy of the border slave States or any of them. But the power with which the Provisional Congress of this Southern confederacy is in- vested, “to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of the confede- racy,” involves a very significant stroke otf policy. Itis simply @ warning to the berder slave States, and to North Carolina and Tex nesece, that in making their election between the general government at Washington. aud that at Montgomery, they must act upea. the alternative of losing or retaiaing the profita- ble market for their sarplus slaves which they have thus far possessed in the cotton States Al! the Southern States still remaining in the Union, excepting Arkansas, are producers of slaves for sale. We believe that the proceeds of the annual sales of slaves in Virginia alone to planters in the ootton States exceed: twenty millions of dollars. Maryland, in the same way, disposes of a still larger number in pro- portion to her slave population, as is indicated in the diminution of her slave aggregate ac- cording to the late census. Missouri has, also, become a large exporter southward of slaves, nowitbstanding the increase in this class of her population during the last ten years. North |) Cerolina, Tennessee and Kentucky derive also annually a considerable margin of solid profits. from their sales of slaves to the cotton and sugar planters of the seceded States. Our slave producing States, therefore, are. now reduced to this nice alternative of a» mar- ket or no market for their surplus nogroes We apprehend, too, that the result will be the accession to the Southern contederacy of suid States, in order to resain all the advantages thus offered them, and to secure the mutaally pro- tective benefits of homogeneous institutions, Be- tween the suggested exactions of this Southern coufederacy and the anti-slavery power of the North, what other course, for instance, can Vir- ginia take in default of new securities from the North, broad and full, than the bleadi+ fortunes with those of ‘* ~ws of her -- wo couthern confede- rane? avg! fe But, again: The provisional constitution in question provides that the Congress thereof “shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, for revenue neces sary to pay the debts and carry on the govern- ment of the confederacy.” The Coagress thus empowered to agt js that which is now in ses- sion at Montgomery. ‘To rendor .” lovislative powers complete and effective, it has elected Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, the Provisional Presi- The vottou market on Saturday was without change of | dent and Vice Prosident of the confederation meut in prices, while the sales embraced about 800 a 000 bales, closing within tho range of 110. 9 1140. Flour was inactive, the market closing at a docline of about 60. per barrel, while sales were moderate. ‘heat was inective and prices heavy, owing to the firmness in freights and the heaviness in sterling exchange Corn war lower, but in fair demand, with sales of old Western mixed, in store, at 65c. a 650., and delivered at 660, & 67c.; new white Southera at 68c. a T4c. Pork was quiet, while prices were steady. Sales of meas were made at $17 50 and new prime at $13. Sugars were dull, with sales of 400 « 600 hdds. Cubs, in- cluded in which were rofining goods, at 47sc. a Sisco. Coffee was more freely dealt in, and the eales embraced about 4,000 bags of Rio atp. t.,and $00do. at Ilo, a 13\e. The Grmness of ebipowners tended to check any sogagements, The sbipments made wero at full rates, Resionations or Army AND Navy Orricens,— Since the secession movement commenced re- signations in the army and navy have been plentiful. In the army two lieutenant colonels, two majors, eight captains, ten lieu- tenante and four cadets have resigned. In the navy three captains, three commanders, three pursers, two surgeons and two assistants, six- wen lieutenants, three masters, four midship- | men and twenty acting midshipmen, have re- tired from the service, believing that their firs: allegiance is due to the soil upon which they | were born, and that they cannot under any circumstances draw the sword against the South The resignation of these gentlemen, many of whom are dependent upon their pay for support, is another proof, if any more were needed, that the South is willing to give up everything for the sake of the principle at stake in this conflict. Ov» Ave on His Tr ivers.—Tho President elect leaves Springfield this morning en route for the White House. He travels in special trains, accompanied by numerous suite, The arrangements are all completed; no ouisiders are to be admitted to the Presidential presence, and office beggars are particularly requested to clear the track. Sundry offers of a military escort have been very sensibly declined, but receptions by the local militia will not be ob- jected to. Among tho military gentlemen ac- companying the Presidential party is Colonel Ellaworth, of the famous Chidago Zouaves, So the soldiers who turn ont to do honor to Oid ference meets again to-day, Twonty States were represented on Saturday, and the representative from another State is expected to take part in to-day’s deliberations. The committee of one from enoh State, to preparo propositions of adjastmont is expected to be ready to report to-morrow. A synopsis of the propositions which itis thought the committee will lay before the Conference is goren in pur Washington despatches this morning after the manner of @ triumphal marchfand al- Fen @es, Iu lieu of a Cabinet the President has been authorized to appoint Congressional coaunit- tees on foreign, financial, military, naval and postal affairs; so that from this live ele- mentary Congress we find that all the depart- ments and officials of a compact republican government have been extracted, and the whole system bas been put into practical working order, There it is: The systematic initiative gov- ernment of an independent Southern confede- racy, organized, located and in practical ope- ration within filty days from what was consi- dered the ridiculous secession ordinance of Sonth Carolina. In this government six States are embodied. Two others—Texas and Arkan- eas—will shorily join it; but if this enterprise threatened to go no further, we might feel comparatively sure of some satisfactory re construction of the Union, Southern con- federacy and all, in good season. But Virginia and the other border slave States, excepting Delaware, may be lost to the North. They are on'y awaiting the issue of a compromise or no compromise from the present Congress. What will be the result? We apprehend it will be decisive to Virginia in favor of secession. In « word, with an independent Southera confede racy in full blest, inviting the jeneture with it of the border slave States on the one side, and with an impracticable anti-slavery party coming into possession of the general govern- ment on the other side, we can hardly hope for the retention in our Union of Virginia to tho day, or beyond the day of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration. The events of the present week at Washing ton will probably settle the question either in favor of a compromise for the recoustruction of ihe Union, resting upon the mediation of Vir- ginia, or in favor of a powerful aad permanent Southern confederacy. Tho issue is with the republican party in Congress, We consider the case foreclosed, and that the paramoant qnostion now to be considered is peace or war with this organized Southern confederacy. Tux Lopsy ron Tue Ustos.—The great pa- tent interest of this country—estimated to be Abe must pnt their best foot forward. Without | worth no less than two hundred mtltions of dol- | elapse before this ones glorious land will be doubt the journey of the now President will be | lars—will bo almost ruined in case the pend- ing troubles with the South remain unsettled, together the most agreeable of hig official expe- | Nearly all the most important inventions of | it to a lower condition than that of Mexico will © the day are owned in the North and yory ox- with passing eveuts and discharge the duties an@ obligations of the hour. We must recognise the fact tlt a Soutbern confederacy of six States irnow an accom plished fact; that they have adopted the com stitution of the late United Stetes, with some amendiments; have fornsed a provisional gov- ernmens, by the election of the ablest military chieftaix of the South as President, ana, there- fore, Commander‘in-Chief of the Southern army; that “a strong and vigorous government will go imto immodiate operation, with full powers and ample funds, aud ‘that no proposi- tion for compromise-or. reconstrustion will be entertained.” Texas is aboat to join this con- federacy, and also Arkansas; whose State au- thorities have seized the United States Arsenal at Little Rock, contuiming ninethousand stand of arms, a lasge amoent of ammunition and forty cannon; including Oaptain Bragg’s eele- brated battery... One of the amendments to the | constitution adopted by the new confederacy, giving its Congress pewer to- proaibit the in- troduction of slaves from-any State vot a mem- i day’s iveme. Under psetext that wares, pur- chased im New York, a short time since, were “contraband of war,” vessels lying-in:owr har- bor were invaded, and rerchandise'they con- tained was anscrupulously stolen. Peaceful efforts were made by Governor Brovwt-of Geor- gia, to secure: its recovery, int withont'sucecss. The decided measure of retadiation torwhick he bas had recourse, has, however, broughtthe xe publican conspivators if not to their senses, at leastto their knees. Neither the Governor of this State, nor bis police suberdinates, have dared to face the just indignation of animeensed comraunity, and they have restored, uacondi- tionelly, upon. the first notification of repri- aals, the goods- they had sequestrated uader fulse pretences, The retaliatory act of the State of Georgia was @ virtual decree of non-intercourse, which | would-bave inevitably led to hostilities between. sections ot the eouatry, if the injury that elicited it nad: not been promptly repaired. The. re- lations of the oountry are still peaceful. No: competent authority bas recognized the ex- |... of the confederacy, will fe irgi . j woe Virginiv.and isteuoe of a breach, outside of the-competoncy } ing other bosder aes States- ENED new of Congress and the President: to heal. But Southern Union. These are- stabborn facts how long will it be before acts, similar acts. to which must be recognized; and also tha fact that which our local republican eathorities have } inet the so-called “Poeee” Congres promises committed, will result in the herrors of. civil to break upin chaos. LSet cringe Llbisensgehadibapsiuale Thus we-are now teo late-to reunite the ypotism? We see pre orery- ; whee which app eS ocr ee init Ss g fragments of a broken confederacy, andif we tary of the Treasury Dix, onders bis. suk are not vigilant andactive and resolute we dinates te: “aboot down’ pe the spot” s. i will goon be too late to prevent civid: war. class of seceders. Governor Morgan tandors to There is en atrocious. conspiracy to force the the.Prosident of the United States the militia of atechecsn a agen Aaa map set i seve eppeann tha ermine vedios abetting the design. He has played: into the enesal Sandford publishes to the world his 4 z thinst for bloodshed. Tho Massachusetts Legis- pe) Poe caiae cg isda been - lature has ordered a bill to be eagrossed, with hia legislative seed hs Mee " 28 el a clause that the forces of ceeds . eepatbie ge tg Td Mal read wandives te dated bong peetgond if he did not. direct, the seizure cf the private side of the State at no.distant day;” and we ey Be Rana mbps hg prea hear of enroiments in the West and Northwest, vernor of Georgia ie a Sy selabes: ie with the avowed object of promoting interne- 2 cine strife, General Wool wants the aid of a a saicauatanecmeniae te A a pete hundred thousand war hounds to tear the vitals. - drill the police ‘ashington; and the heavy ‘ tread of artillery and the bristling of the bayonet pra ve Paricipad _ ene hacia bey daily segecee on Pennsylvania avonne, of authority of Gov aeix 4 sinless nish nh ri @ scene to be witnessed theze, on the 4th bal - , of March next. “, yincoln shadows forth the party distinctly understand that they will not ewe be permitted to trample on the constitution views (we himself entertains of an approaching | 114 the laws—that they cannot make the in- military rule, by a programme for his journey | yy itants of this metropolis the instruments to the capital which would have better become of their nofarious plot, or drag them inte a Trajan or an Antoninus. collision with their Southern brothers. This Meanwhile the progress of the Southern con- city has a greater stake at issue than all the federacy ig sure and steady, in an onward di- | yest of the State. Its trade and commerce are rection. The dignified manner in which the } already seriously injured, several of its com- progeedings of the Congress at Montgomery | mercial houses are bankrupt, others are about have been conducted, is a striking refutation of | t¢ become so, and many thousands of the slanders that have been promulgated by re- | the population are thrown out of employ- publicans, against the slavebolding States. Tho | ment, Mr, Seward, in his place in the Senate Executive chosen to preside over the new con- 1s few days ago, declared that in England, or “tederacy is a military man; but 4he tone adopt- | France, or Russia, such a petition as that which ed in framing its constitution is eminently con- | he was requested to present from the merchants svrvative, and the reopening of the slave trade | of New York in favor of compromise mea- bas been formally foryidden. Every word that | sures would be decisive, but not so in the savors of aggression or of hostile feeling to- } United States, And has it come to this that wards the Morth is carefully eschewed. Arre- | under the goverpment reputed the most free cently secediag Senator seems to have spokeu | on earth, in the most commercial country in with authority, apon the occasion of his last | the world, the commercial capital of that coun- address to bis colleagues in the halls of the | try has no voice; and are the igaorant fanatics Capitol, when he said:— = of the western part of this State to rule and Wo will recognise the obligations of all existing trea | control the enlightened intelligence of the im- Shall te areered pecan tng bony eerie oF the ~ perial city and to force it into a suicidal con- fs eat at to acount f4 rine cost fal famed ind = pelted flict to carry out an anti-slavery theory, and to sustain the abstractions of a platform at vari- ance with the constitution of the United States— ‘o setae in wlf-defence, if it it should appear that our share of such expenditure tas been greater ‘han io other seo ‘vous; and We shall recoguise the right of the tahabit- en, has una Ae and its | that constitution which Garrison and Phillips, (ribulares wo ile free navigatin We will guar. antee to them a free interchange of all ag the great founders of the anti-slavery party, , without import tax duty, or toll of any transit from foreign couatries of every igo, Budject only to such reguiations B Day be y uvcessary for the protection of any revenue system we Inay establisa, aad for purposes of ice, as for such States Of the Umer as may ot choose ile thet? destinies with ours, we shall consuter them as wher forergn nations— Enemies it war—in peace, tenas.”” ” We wish @ad we hope to part with them amica tl, and so tar as depends om us, they shall have no provocd boon to pursue a hostide course. it will be fur the people of the yroe states to decide this momentirus quetion We uvust be prepared to resist coercion, whether attempted by avowet vem ies or by a band heretofore supposed frienjly-—by pen war or under the more insidious, and thorefore the dangerous, prevext of enferoing toe laws, protect public property or collectivg the revenue, » shail cayil abowt words or disenas legal and techuical dis finctiona. We aball conaiter tho one as equivalent to the (ber, and #hall be prepared to act accordingly—sbroque cartairo parati, yer will fad us ready to meet you with che ont tre’oned Ivinul of fellowship or i the mailed punoply of war, aa you may will ue Elect between those alternatives, This position is dignified, and isa direct iu- vitation to the North to maintain terms of amity. tt is in the face of auch overtures, that Senator pronounce to be “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell?” We hope not. We trust that New York city will make itself be heard and felt in this controversy, and that the fanatical dogma that negro servitude is “the sum of all villanies” will be scouted by as- sembled thousands. The time is come for prompt action, and the people must now arise in their might, if thoy would save themeclyes and the country from the borrors of civil war. Armed preparations are everywhere being mado at the North. In this State a dill appropriating half a million of dollars for war has passed the Senate by a strictly republican vote. The whole South is arming and preparing for tho struggle. Not a moment, therefor, ix to be lost by the commer- Seward issues the flat that “batile” shall be the | cial classes 6 New York in holding a great resort to which republicans will appeal to car- | public meeting to denounce all appeals to “the ry out the “irrepressible conflict,” and to God of battles;” and as a separation of the “sweep away as moths bofore a whirlwind,” ; States is beyond human control, to pronounce averybody who shall resist, oppose, or stand in | in favor of the recognition of their indepen- he way of the fuil fruition, by abolitioaism, of | dence, a fair division of the territory and other the results, of its labors duriag the last tairty | public property, a just apportfonment of the years. If sober minded citizens do not cease | public debt, and a treaty of peace and amity to ponder, merely, over the events that are | between the two confederacies, regulating passing before them; if they do not rise in their | their commerce, and a treaty offensive and de- might, and repudiate the coorcion sentiments | fensive against all the world. This is the great which are burrying the republic, with constant- | question of the hour. ly accelerating rapidity, towards ruin; if the pereeveringly Wicked stendfustuess wit which abolitionist leaders reizs upon every opportu nity of outraging and iusultiog the South, as has been dono by Governor Morgan and his satellites with regard to the State of Georgia, is permitted to continue; not many weeks will Tur Taxxesser Convention Excorton.—The election of delegates in Tennessee to a State Convention on the seceasion qaestion came off on Saturday last. The result, we expect, will be in favor of Union compromise; but, as in Virginia, the action $f the Convention will be shaped to suit 6 action of this expiring Con- grees. Wi", Southern confederacy in work- ing OM yer, the peacemakers at Washington st not depond upon sny appearances of de- : votion to our Union from these conditional involved in the horrors of civil war, and the rule of a military despotiem, which will redace have been already initiated. tish and French ships, and ee’ obtzining a mar- ket for English and French goods: By the pre- sent treaty Kussia has guimed an extessive strip of territory. Henceforth the eastern frentier between the two empires will commence trom the jnnction of the rivero Chilka and Argoun, ‘and follow the ceurse of the river Amoor to ' the junetion of the river Ouseouri with the lat- |, ter—the country to the left, or northy belonging to Russia, and. thet to the right, or sonth; to China. On the wiele frontier line trade’ is established, free of all duty or: restrictions between the two mations, ond the local eathorities are bound to give special protection to the samo-and all whe are engaged in it. A large number of minor privileges have been seeured, among which we may mention the Rassian right of keeping a consuliand suite,ae Ourga. There is wisdom in the course adopt eG by the Czar, and we leok forward ‘to Rus- sia exercising am immerse influence over the history of China The mere fact of her having’ negotiated a treaty so favorable with the pre- sent ruler of the Flowery Rand will strengthen his dynasty, by causing Russia to @iscounte- nance, if not topunish, the Tae-Ping insurgents, who are plotting its overthrow. By a letter from one of our correspondents, an: Ateri- cam Baptist missionary at Nankin, we have just been favored with another glimpse of these rebols, who eppear to combine Christianity with idolatry im a manner singularly unique. They mingle catiously heavenly and mundane afthirs in whatever they have to say te-foreign- } ers, and offer the best indweements in the one }, sentence for the consignment of goods and the seconversion of souls, Profit and principle with ,them go hand in hand, and the amalgamation ;reads funny enough sometimes. The lotter :which we published a few wecks ago from the ‘same correspondent, in which he described an interview with the chiof of the Tae-Ping army, and included) an address from the latter to : Lord Elgin, has been extensively copied and. } remarked upon by the English press, The ten~ dency of tha. British is, as we anticipated, to. avail themselyes of whatever commercial adr vantages the insurgents may offer them, but at the same timo to reject all part in their reli- gion which they consider anything but ortito- dox or sound. The military rebel chief presented the mis- sionary with a sum of moncy, a crown of gold, a yellow crape robe, and satin shoes ef the same color, to which he added an intimation that the Tae-Ping spiritual “Emperor,” Teen- Wang, had bestowed npon him an offce that would afford him the privilege of fee access to his palace. He then formally requested him to kneel down to receive these presents; but the missionary demurred to this till he was finally told, in answer to his questions, that it was to worship God, when he actually yielded. He appears to have treated the foreign disciple of Christianity rather cavalierly in cansequence of his objection to knecling to him, and to have felt quite indignant when the missionary told him that he preferred de- olining the appointment tendered to him, on account of the interference with bis religions opinions and duties to which it might subject him. The rebel chief seemed to object to the mirsionary’s proposition for the establishment of schools by which to disseminate the true faith, lest the Scriptures should contradict the religion already prevailing among them. He, however, offered to compromise matters. He would promote schools and chapels if the mis- sionary would adopt certain articles of the Tae-Ping belief. “Perhaps,” said he, “nine- tenths of your preaching from the Scriptures would do if you were to mix in one-tenth of our stuff to please the people, who be- lieve in the visions of the Eastern and Western kings.” Of course, the missionary declined to conform to any such arrangement, and the matter of svhools was left pending. He conciudes his letter by remarking that “the harvest is great, but the laborers are few,” and urges upor the members ef his church at home the advantege of sending out more mission- aries. As to the insurgents, we think that although their religious beliefs differ widely from professed Christianity, to which they are ead to aspire, they may eventually be led into a more clear conception of its basis, and so to adopt its tenets wholly or in part. The pre- disposition they have shown in favor of fo- reignere, and their willingness to open what- ever ports they hold to foreign commerce, augurs well for the [nterests of the Western Powers in China, and is atthe samo time a salutary check upon the, narrow exclusivencss sought to ke maintained by the representative of the Mantchoo gfe oa sic Nonmeny Acanesetoxs ano Sovrumey Re- prisats.—The seizure of New York vessels at Savannah creates naturally a very deep feeling of resentment in this city, but no one seems to take into account the provocation given to the citizens of Georgia by the authorities of this State, In the first place came the offer of mon ‘and money for the coercion of the South, when everybody knows very well that the men cua- not bo raised to fight in such a quarrel—-that public opinion is almost nnanimously in favor of peace Following up this absurd action on the part of the Assembly, our gifted Gene- ral Superintendent of Police was movod to give tho country an unparalleled example of official stupidity by seizing the property of Southerm- citizens lawfully shipped for its destination , Now, after the harm is done, the potion aa ori- ties are compelled to admit that thes; goods were Megally detained, and that they mast he given up. 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