The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1861. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. OORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. dvance. Money sent by mail will be at the TTS Senet” Sie Sun Bonk Bite current in New York on. f DAILY HERALD, tio cents , $T per annum, THE WHERLY HERALD, coery Saturday, at rie cents copy, oF 88 per annum; the Buropean Edition évery Wedi , Gi six cents per copy, $4 per annum tovany part af Great Britain, Or $5 to any part of the Continent, bot Teiinclude {the Caltfornia Paition on the Ist, th and 21st of each month, a six i . oF 81 80 per Gum. Cn ee oe OAL D' on’ Wedneeday, at fotir ome per or 82 per annum. MPUNTIRT CORRESPONDENCE, containing important owotenht from any quarter of the world; if used, will be liberally paid for. §@f- OUR FORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE ParticotagLy Requestep TO S#AL aLL Lerreas amp Pack- SENT US. A (0 NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We donot return communications. pe PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des- Volame XXVI No. #8 it, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Enguisa Orsrs—Linps pi CHaMount. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Merrcuant or Venice—Two Bonnycasties. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tows anv Coun- TRY. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 62% Broadway.— Buven Sisters. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tavine Ir Ox— HaRiequin Jack—WALLACE. THEATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.—Lzs Canotiers De LA Beuve. UM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day aud Eveuig—Tus Laby oF St. Tuort—Living CURIOSt- mas, &c. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, way.—Buuirsavxs, Sones, PHALON's. HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, Niblo's Saloon, Broadway.—Enuioriax SoxGs, Dances, BuRLESQuES, &C.— RRTORNED CALIYORNIANS. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 663 Broadway.—Ticut Ror, Sonus, Dances, BuRLESQUES, &c. MELODEON, No. 539 Broadway.—Soncs, Dances, Bur- Lesquxs, &c. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Dances, &¢.—ScENES aT New York, Tuesday, February 12, 1861. MAILS FOR EUROPE Whe New York Herald—Hdition Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, will leave thia port to morrow for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city at eight o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The'Kurorgay Epmoy or tm Herarp will be published at seven o’clock in the morning. Single copies in Wrap pers, 8:x cents. The contents of the Evrorzan Epmon ov 11m Heratp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up tothe hour of publication. . for ws. The President elect and suite left Springfield, Illinois, at half-past seven o’clock yesterday morn- ing, en route for the White House. Mr. Lincoln made a farewell address to his neighbors just be- fore the train started, which so affected both him- self and his hearers that tears were copiously shed. Our despatches in another column furnish arecord of the progress of the party. Lieutenant Putnam, of the army, arrived at Washington yesterday, direct from Pensacola, which place he left on the 7th inst. He reports everything tranquil there, but that the Alabama troops were exceedingly restive and desirous of a collision with the government forces at Fort Pickens. Five vessels of war, including the Brooklyn, were at anchor off the port. The secessionist forces were quartered in the Navy Yard, and were subsisting upon the provisions of the federal government. The proceedings of Congress yesterday are of unusual interest. Inthe Senate no less than se- venty memorials, containing the names of thou- sands of citizens, urging a settlement of the trou- bles of the nation, were presented. A resolution, calling for the correspondence between Great Bri- tain and the United States respecting the case of the fugitive slave Anderson, was offered and laid over. Another Conference Committee on the De- ficiency bill was ordered. The Naval Appro- priation bill was then taken up, and the appro- priations for the Pensacola Navy Yard strick- en out. So much of the act of last year as applies to the purchase of patented fire- arms was repealed. An amendment authorizing the construction of seven steam sloops-of-war was adopted by a vote of thirty to eighteen. The bill was then reported, and on the question of concur- ring inthe amendment an important debate en- sued. Mr. Mason said by no vote of his should there be any addition to the military force of the government which was to be used to coerce seced- ed States. Mr. Fessenden said if the time ever comes when it is necessary to use force to execute the laws of the United States, then he was quite ready to do it. measure heretofore, but now treason was abroad in the land, and he believed there was a necessity to increase the power of the country. He would vote now to put the country in a position to de- fend itself against domestic or foreign enemies. This government could not be peaceably destroyed or divided. The people of the country will never consent to a peaceable destruction or dissolution. In his judgment, treason must come to an end, peaceably he hoped, but never peacefully if by the submission of the honor of the people to traitors—never. In the House Mr. Craige, of North Carolina, of- fered a resolution that the President be required to acknowledge the independence of the Southern confederacy as soon as official information of its establishment shall be received; and that he re. ceive such commissioners as may be appointed by that government for an amicable adjustment of all matters in dispute. It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A resolu. tion was offered calling for information rela- tive to the seizure of the public property at New Orleans, and what steps have been taken, or are contemplated, to recover possession of the same. A resolution, declaring that neither Con- gress, nor the people nor governments of non-slave- holding States, have a constitutional right to legis late upon or interfere with slavery in any slave- holding State of the Union, was adopted unani- mously, one hundred and sixty-one members voting. The Pacific Railroad bill was made the special order for to-day and to-morrow. A resolution recommending that the people of the United States celebrate the birthday of Wash- ington as a national holiday was adopted. A resolution was offered instructing the Select Committee of Five to inquire whether, by the con- sent of the people of the slave States, or by com- pensating the slaveholders, it be practicable for the general government to procure the emancipa- tion of the slaves in some or all of the border slave States, and ifso to report a bill for that purpose. Laid over for debate. A resolution was adopted callipg on the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the House whether there had been any obstruction to the revenue laws in South Carolina, Georgia, Aldbama or Louisiana; also what measures had been taken to recover the revenue cutters which have been selaed, together with other property The Peace Convention at Washington met yes terday, but without transacting any business ad journed till Wednesday, in order to give the com- mittee on the subject time to perfect a plan of ad justment of the pending troubles. The committee were busy yesterday preparing their report, and it is stated that they will be ready to report on Wednesday. In the Senate at Albany yesterday, the bill pro- viding for the endorsement by the State of United States bonds to the amount of the deposit moved that the people be permitted at the next general election to vote on amending the State constitution so as to prohibit the sale of in- toxicating liquors. The Senate also concurred in the joint resolutions from the Assembly, ap- pointing a committee on behalf of the Legislature to receive President Lincoln on his arrival in Al- bany, which resolutions originated in the Assem- bly on the receipt of a message from the Gover- nor, covering a letter from the Presideut elect in acceptance of the proffered hospitalities of the State. sembly, among them one making it a penal offence to throw salt on the snow in the streets of this city. A resolution was offered petitioning Con- gress to call a national constitutional convention for the adjustment of the present difficulties. Among the bills reported favorably was the Half Mill Tax bill to pay the canal debt. The Hon. Frank Granger was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Washington Peace Conference Commission caused by the resignation of Thurlow Weed. pool on the 26th, via Queenstown on the 27th ult:, which arrived at Boston on Sunday afternoon, reached this city yesterday morning. The main points of the news by this arrival have already been given, and the details are not important. tinues unabated. France is making extensive mili- tary preparations, and our Paris correspendent, whose letter will be found in another column, writes that Napoleon III. is preparing for any emergency that may arise, whether growing out of the adjustment of European affairs or the settle- ment of American difficulties. The siege of Gaeta was progressing with unabated vigor. ary movements of some magnitude had broken out Mr. King said he had opposed the + of national funds made with the State in 1837 was passed to a third reading in Committee of the Whole. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad bill received similar action. A resolution was Several bills were introduced in the As- ‘The mails by the steamship Canada, from Liver- The warlike feeling throughout Europe con- Reaction- in the Italian States, but were promptly sup- pressed. The Schleswig-Holstein question has added somewhat to the war sentiment now pervading Continental Europe. The idea of a Congress is again revived. It is founded upon a report that Denmark has offered to submit the question of the Duchies to European arbitration, and to have in- duced Russia to be the medium of communication of the proposition; and Russia is believed to be favorable to this method of settling the dispute. The Patrie announces that the ‘ European Commission on Syrian Affairs’? will shortly assem- ble in Paris, and adds that the “ prolongation of the Freach occupation, which is earnestly de- manded by the populations, is looked upon as certain.” The cotton supply question continues to form the chief topic of discussion for the English press and people. A new cotton association has been formed in London, supported by some of the lead- ing capitalists of the metropolis, for the purpose of encouraging the cultivation of cotton in India. It is predicted that in five years England will be independent of America for her supply of cotton, and that the value of that important staple will be materially reduced, and the American trade seriously affected by extensive cultivation in the British colonies and elsewhere. It is reported that the French government have initiated mea- sures for the growth of cotton in Algeria, The Galway line of steamers is to be resumed. The next vessel will be despatched from Galway to Boston, calling at St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the 26th March next; and thenceforward on every alternate Tuesday a vessel will be de- spatched from Galway, proceeding alternately to New York and Boston. We publish to-day another instalment of highly interesting letters from our special correspondents in Japan. They recount ina graphic manner the ceremonies attendant on the return of the Em- bassy, and the courtesies extended to the Ameri- cans who accompanied them by the Tycoon and other high authorities. The progress of the people in the useful arts, their aptitude in the use of arms, and their general advance in civilization, are all fully set forth. The correspondence will, on the whole, be found highly instructive. We have received advices from Rio Janciro to Dec. 25. The crisis in te United States was affect- ing commercial matters considerably; exchange had fallen to 2744. The elections, which would be held on the 30th of December, were causing greater excitement in the empire than had ever been felt there before. There left, yesterday afternoon at six o'clock P. M., by the New Jersey Railroad, from the Brook- lyn Marine Barracks, a detachment of United States marines, consisting of two sergeants, one corporal and twenty-seven privates, for Washing- ton. They are a portion of the garrison lately sta- tioned at Warrington, Florida, and left by special orders from the department, under the command of orderly sergeant Samucl I’. Reynolds, for the reinforcement of the forces at the navy yard there. The steamship Nashville, which was to have sailed from Charleston on the 9th instant for New York, was detained till seven o'clock yesterday morning, owing to a heavy sea on the bar and thick fog. The changes in the weather during the last few days have been very remarkable, At noon on the 7th inst. the thermometer marked 44 de- grees; next day at the same time it stood at 8 degrees, and yesterday it was 51 degrees. On Friday morning early the mercury sank to 10 degrees below zero, being 58 degrees lower than it was the day before, and 61 degrees below that of noon yesterday. Up town residents having down town offices were doubtful yesterday morning whether to carry their overcoats or not. Those who did so in many cases regretted it, while those who did not on Thursday last also regretted it. All day Friday we were appa- rently in the frigid zone; yesterday we seemed half way to the teopics—and so we move along. The tax levy for 1861 was finally adopted in the Board of Aldermen last evening. The whole amount of the increase on amendments was Board of Councilmen met last evening, when a large amount of routine business was transacted. The contractors for the removal of Diamond reef petitioned for extra compensation, having met with serious obstructions, and inas- much as the Legislature have passed a law requir- ing them to remove all materials excavated to the shores. A resolution was adopted directing the Street Commissioner to present to the Board a de- tailed statement of requisitions made on his de- partment by the members and committees of the Common Couneil for 1860, with the amount paid and the names of the parties receiving the money. Mr. Lent suggested that the matter should be in- vestigated by a special committee; for, on @ pera- sal of the Street Commissioner's report, the Com- mittee on Law (of which he was a member last year) are charged with $187 12 for stationery, while the fact was that that committee held only one meeting during the year, and the report pre- sented was written on one sheet of foolscap. Mr. Lent stated that all the committees were furnished with tin boxes at @ cost of $5 each, and some of the committees had thermometers given them. He fucetiously suggested that the Committee on Assessments might have used the barometer to as- certain how high or how low the assessments should be made, These trifling items are simple iustrations of the mode in which the taxpayers fre robbed. Besides, it must be remembered that the small sum of $260 each was given to a horde of youthful politicians for “extra services to these committees,’ amounting in the aggre- gate to several thousand dollars, not a dime of which was honestly earned. A report of the Committee on Streets, to which was appended a resolution awarding the contract for cleaning the treets of the city to Andrew J. Huckley for $279,000 per year, gave rise to a long debate. An amendment in favor of giving the contract to A. Archmuty and James Smith for $255,000 was voted down; also motions to furnish the Board with the mames of tho various contractors, and to lay the subject over. The original resolution was finally adopted by a vote of 13 to 11, an opposi- tion member remarking that the whole thing was “made up." The suit of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, against the North Atlantic Steamship Company, for the value of goods lost om his return from Rus- sia, was called on in the Marine Court, before Judge Maynard, yesterday, but adjourned in con- sequence of the absence of witnesses. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 366 deaths in this city during the past week— a decrease of 1 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 89 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 1 death of disease of the bones, joints, &c.; 59 of the brain and nerves, 5 of the generative organs, 12 of the heart and blood vessels, 155 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 4 of old age, 38 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 4 premature births, 47 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 39 of general fevers, and 2 of diseases of the urinary organs—of which 19 were from violent causes. The nativity table gives 256 natives of the United States, 73 of Ireland, 6 of England, 17 of Germany, 1 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. tion to the very large decrease of mortality in the month of January just ended; the total number of deaths was 1,775, being 421 less than in the same period of 1860, and a less number than has been in the corresponding month in any year since The report calls atten- 1853, excepting one. A large number of the deaths reported are from chronic diseases, accidents, &c., no epidemic whatever prevailing. ‘The low rates of aterling exchange, whioh ruled yestor- day at 105 for good bankers’ bills, tended to depress the cotton market and to render prices dull. The sales embraced about 2,000 balés, closing on the basis of about 11%c. a11%c. for middling uplands. The transaetious were mostly confined to lots in store. Flour, from the same cause, combined with the firmness in freights, was heavy and dull, while sales were moderate. Wheat was affected from the same causes, and sales were light, with the turn of prices in favor of buyers. Corn was heavy» and sales moderate, closing dull at Saturday's prices. Pork was steady for new mess, with salea at $17 50, while prime was nominal at $13. Sugars were in fair demand, but prices were heavy, with sales of 500 a 600 bhds. Cuba, chiefly refining goods. The proposed taritf of duties on sugars meets with much opposition from im_ porters and refiners. The proposed duty of one cent per 1b. for melado sugars, a sort of molasses sugary containing some sixty per cent of pure sugar, is cou sidered an oppressive tax and calculated to inflict great injury on our importers and refiners, These low grades of sugars cost at present, duty paid, about 3c. adc. hence the duty of one cent per pound on such inferior sugars is considered extremely oppressive. The sugar refining business of New York is conducted on an im. mense scale, in which large sums of money are invested. It gives employment to great numbers of our population, including laborers, carmen and dealers. Such a heavy duty on this low grade of raw material would inflict serious injury, without imparting any corresponding benefit to the government or to any other interest. Coffee was steady, with sales of 2,000 bags Rio at 11. a 1344¢., and 50 do. Maracaibo at 12c. Freights to English ports wero firmer; ship room was less plenty and ship~ owners asked 12d. for wheat in bulk to Liverpool, and 123¢d. in ships’ bags. Bacon and lard were engaged at better rates, while flour was 3s. 6d. Rates were also firm to London, while engagements were moderate. The President Elect on His Travels—His Inauguration and Inaugural. The President elect left Springfield, Illinois, yestetday morning, en route for the White House at Washington, via Buffalo, Albany and New York. He will reach this city, according to the published programme of “the pilgrim’s progress,” on Tuesday, the 19th instant. His journey is divided into easy stages, and all the arrangements thereof have been adapted to the contingencies of a triumphal march. Holding over several days in this metropolis, and a day or two, perhaps, at Philadelphia and Baltimore, Mr. Lincoln may not reach Washington till the end of the month. It is understood, however, that he desires to be there in season to appro- priate several days and evenings to consulta- tions with the republican members of Congress upen the important subject of his Cabinet, which does not as yet appear to be half made up. But, dismissing all these incidentals, the question still recurs, what will be the line of policy marked out in Mr. Lincoln’s inaugural touching the revolutionary troubles and sec- tional difficulties which his election has precipi- tated upon the country? For many weeks past his reputed home organ at Springfield, and our special correspondent there, and the Hon. Massa Greeley, and everybody else supposed to speak by authority, have had only one report to make—to wit: that the President elect stands firm upon the Chi- cago platform, that he has no compromises to make with rebels and traitors, but that his fixed and unalterable purpose is “the enforce- ment of the laws.” We are at length, however, possessed of in- formation from which we feel authorized to de- clare that the President elect, in his inaugural address, will submit a proposition of pacifica- tion to the country, in the form of a National Convention for the reconstruction of the Union. Mr. Seward, in his first speech in the Senate after his appointment as Mr. Lincoln’s Premier, pretty broadly suggested that he would be ready to go for something of that sort “after these eccentric secession and disunion move- ments shall have subsided, and when calmness shall have resumed its wonted sway over the public mind.” In this suggestion, we now perceive, our cautious Senator foreshadowed the intended peace offering from the incoming administration—a National Convention for the revision of the federal constitution, whereby the States contemplating secession and the se- ceded States may be restored to the Union. A National Convention—a good thing; but how is it to be reached? The fifth article of our federal constitution decrees that “the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the con- stitution, or, on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call acon- vention (a National Convention) for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents aud purposes, as part of the constitution, when ratified by the Legisla- tures of three-fourths of the severa’ States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress.” Here are two modes of amendment provided— a short anda long one. The short one is the adoption of amendments by a two-thirds yute of each house of Congress, and their eubmis- sion to the several States for ratification. If the republican party in Congress and in the States were willing to accept it, and ready, the Crittenden proposition in this way could be submitted to the States to-day, and before the 4th of March it could be ratified by the re quired three-fourths of the States. At all events, the acceptance by the republicans in SEY (ine. geen ne Congress of the Crittenden proposition would be at once accepted by the border slave States as a compromise, and they would cordiathy as- sist in its ratification, and in winning over to it the seceded States. But this short method of settling the eontro- versy does not satisfy the republicans in Con- gress, and they will not accept it. Why? Be- cause it involves concessions to slavery, and because, as it now appears, their President elect is opposed to it, and prefers the long and roundabout method of a National Convention. Let us look for 9 moment at the modus ope- randi of this plan. The new President, in his inaugural address, recommends a National Convention as a Union saving measure. It must be called by an act of Congress; but Con- gress cannot act until “the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States” shall have ap- plied for sucha Convention. How can they apply? There will hardly be a State Legis- lature in session on the 4th of March; so that to secure decisive action from the States on the President’s recommendation before next winter, most of them will have to call not only an extra session, but a special election of their Legislatures. Nor could . anything by the conserva tive majority of the people of the Northern States be done now in behalf of a Conven- tion, even if they should at once proceed to act upon this hint of Mr, Lincoln. Our Northern Legislatures are republican, and they would say, let us wait to hear officially the views of our President elect. Thus the game of a compromise is blocked at both ends. The short method is offensive to the republican party, because the Union compromise of the border slave States is offensive; and the long method of a convention cannot possibly be reached inside of twelve or fifteen months, or, to use the words of Mr. Seward, till “one, two, or three years hence, when these eccentric se- cession and disunion movements shall have ended.” Briefly, then, Mr. Lincoln’s plan of suggest- ing on the 4th of March a Union saving Na- tional Convention isa humbug. It means no- thing but “masterly inactivity.” Meantime, this Congress will have expired, and the diffi- culty of enforcing our federal laws in the new Southern confederacy will be very apt to com- pel Mr. Lincoln, at short notice, to call an extra session of Congress to consider, not the question of a National Convention, but the policy of recognizing as an independent nation the confederated States of the South. Between this alternative and a wasting civil war let him prepare to make his election. Tur Fravps IN THE Inrerton DEPARTMENT.— It is stated to be the intention of Governor Floyd to repair to Washington to meet the in- dictments pending against him. This looks like pluck. But if it be true that his counsel are preparing to avail themselves of every legal technicality to defeat the prosecution, it will admit of another inference. Of one thing Mr. Floyd may rest assured: that no mere technical acquittal will whitewash him in the eyes of the country. The evidence will be on record, and therefore unless he goes into a full and thorough refutation of the charges pre- ferred against him, avoiding all quibbles by which he can evade inquiry, he will stand as fully incriminated as if a legal sentence had been passed upon him. A man occupying the high position which he recently held cannot shelter himself behind any of the pleas by which an ordinary culprit might seek to pro- tect himself. He is bound to court the fullest and most searching inquiry into his official acts; otherwise he can never again expect to hold up bis head amongst honorable men. There is only one thing connected with thege prosecutions that we have to find fault with, and that is, that they do not go far enough. Itis not sufficient to place Floyd, Russell and Bailey on trial for the offences charged against them. In the other depart- ments of the government frauds and defalca- tions have been committed which call as loudly for inquiry. There never was a Cabinet, in fact, under which the country has been more extensively and barefacedly plundered. Let not the Grand Jury arrest their investigations at the present point. They have a field of ex- ploration before them that will richly reward the zeal with which they have thus far prose- cuted their labor: Stvevrar Revowurion iy Merroronrran Turarricats —Amidst the general upsetting and overturning of political parties and politicians, and the financial and social revolutions which flow naturally from the disturbed condition of our national affairs, the art circles of the me- tropolis have been profoundly agitated by two revolutions—one operatic, the other dramatic. The operatic demonstration—the removal of Apollo, Euterpe, Erato & Co. to Brooklyn, the secession of at least three of the tuneful Nine to the city of Brooklyn—is a subject to which we have before alluded in such terms as the deep solemnity of the subject seemed to demand. Distressing as the fact may be, it is nevertheless a fact that Brooklyn is now the metropolis of the Western art world, so far as the Italian Opera is concerned. In Brooklyn they have taste. In Brooklyn they go to the opera in full dress (Prince of Wales’ ball style). In Brooklyn they fill the theatre on every Opera night, and, like the cele- brated Oliver Twist, ask for more. Brooklyn is the paradise of managers, the elysium of ar- tists. New York, onthe contrary, is a desert, operatically speaking. In the vast expanse of Irving place one may see a few miserable wan- deters, overcoated, booted to the thigh, and looking like the boy in the circus, who was compelled to come every night because ina moment of rashness he had accepted a season ticket. If the public is aroused from its lethar- gy, #8 on last night, by the production ofa new opera, it sinks back to sleep again after its mo- mentary curiosity has been gratified. So we find that New York has lost its place among the operatic capitals, and that the sceptre has departed to Brooklyn. Broadway is nothing; the Fifth avenue a humbug; the Central Park a delusion, and Broadway not to be mentioned in the same breath with the Boulevards they will have some day or other in Brooklyn. In this very melancholy state of affairs, what are we to do? Is there no ray of light? Can- not a beam or two be discovered with a power- ful lorgnette? Will all the muses secede? As we have before remarked, Erato and Eu- terpe have gone to Brooklyn, where the rents are lower and the air purer than in the city proper, and it is probable that they will never return. Is it not possible, however, to arrange some compromise with the other sisters? Can we not arrange matters with Melpomene? Cer. tainly she cannot have cause for complaint. Ever since the theatrical season commenced Tragedy has reigned supreme at Niblo’s and the Winter Garden. At the latter house a new star has arisen in the person of young Booth, who promises to be the finest tragedian of the age. He has revived the old classic style of Kean and Cooke, and adds all the modern improvements. Youthful, graceful and with every natural requisite for his profession, Booth will eelipse bis father’s fame, extended as it was. Melpomene will be proud to have 60 efficient ‘a worshipper at her shrine. And while we keep Booth in the metropolis the Muse of Tragedy will never secede. Booth is after the manner of a new sensation. He has more fire, intensity and grace than Forrest, whose light is somewhat obscured by the | meteor at the other house. So the whole town runs after Booth, and Forrest is in the same position as the effete parties and broken down politicians. Forrest may as well retire grace- fully in favor of his youthful rival, who is just now at the beginning of a resplendent career Sour Carortsa’s Nose Ovr or Jomwt.—A New York gentleman, while en rowe from Charleston, stopped for a short time at Wilming- ton, N. C., and at one of the hotels the conver- sation turned upon the secession of South Caro- lina, The village orator said he had an effec- tual remedy for the present difficulties, and that was, by an amendment of the constitution, to let South Carolina go out of the Union and come into it as often as she pleased. We fear she will not be indulged with that privilege now. The new Southern confedergcy has already used her up. She has lost her Mdependence. It has been swallowed up in the superior power and authority of the United States South. She cannot now make war or peace, or send ambas- sadors, or attack forts. She must do as she is ordered, or be squelched; and this time she cannot get out of the Union. She is surround- ed on every side, and Fort Moultrie or Fort Pinckney, or the batteries on Morris Island, or even Fort Sumter, if she had it, will avail her little against a land attack from the confede- rate army, should she attempt to nullify the laws of the Union or proclaim her indepen- dence. The statesmanlike manner in which the Southern confederacy at Montgomery have formed the new government presents a striking contrast to the mad proceedings of the Pal- metto State. It commands the respect of the whole country North and South, and will com- mand the respect of Europe, and the indepen- dence of the confederacy will be acknowledged by all; while South Carolina and her gas- conade will be heard of no more. The glimmer of her little flickering candle will be lost in the effulgence of the sunlight of the Southern Union. We pity her sorrows. What will become of her now? In avoiding imaginary evils, she has fallen upon evils she knew not of. It is out of the frying pan into the fire. She can no longer strut about with a little petty, brief authority, and she must be ex- ceedingly civil to the new federal power. If she should again kick up her heels, and send a commissioner to Jeff. Davis to arrange about the forts, the Southern President would arrest him for treason as quick as lightning, and have him hanged, instead of parleying with him like poor Buchanan. For Jeff. Davis is a man of pluck and a man of power, a man of talent and a statesman. We perceive, from her great organ, that she is already grumbling. Things at Montgomery were not going sufficiently fast for the mercu- rial population of Charleston. In a leader headed ‘The Danger,” the Mercury of Friday last, says:— It is evident to those who have watched events that the future of the cotton States is now in the balance, aud will go up or down according to the course pursued by the members of the Cotton States Convention, now as- sembled at Montgomery. A Southern corfederacy, or a reconstruction of the old Union, are the alternatives. And, as the policy of that body ten'ts to one or other of these results, £0 good or evil remains in store for our people. For ourselves, we look upon a reconstruction of the Union as inevitable destruction—in the language of Seward, the *‘downfull of slavery.” Pray do not be in such a hurry, little game- cock. You will get one of your wings clipped and your two spurs cut, and a log tied to your leg, time enough, and if you should flutter about in your new condition you will hurt nobody but yourself. The Southern confederacy is an accomplished, a fixed fact, and henceforth South Carolina is a cipher. “The people of the cotton States,” quoth our contemporary, “are fully prepared for a Southern confederacy, and expect nothing else. * * We warn the public in time that their eyes may be open to the danger. We trust that if such an effort is made at Mont- gomery, as there is reason to believe will be made, there will yet be sufficient sincerity, manhood and statesmanship in that body to put down. the insidious proposition, under whatever plausible pretext it is professedly proposed.” The Congress only met on the 4th, and at the end of four days, because they did not precipitate their work, but took sufficient time for deliberation, unlike the blundering politicians at Charleston, the Mercury breaks out into a strain of invective. But they have done their work well, and finished it off in a week, as the impatient Mercury would have seen had it waited for another day or two. South Carolina is now fast, and cannot fly off atatangent. She is put upon her good be- havior, and must beware of treason against the Southern confederacy. She can neither get out of that Union nor into the Northern con- federacy, nor stand as a lone star with her palmetto flag in the wind. The stars and stripes must be obeyed this time. Alas! for poor little South Carolina, Coxprtton oF THE METROPOLIS IN THE Po- LrttcaL. Crists.—The trade of this great metro- polis is suffering a sad revulsion in the present political crisis. Merchants are breaking every day; several branches of manufactures are be- ing suspended; mechanics are thrown out of employment; the Southern trade is reduced down to nothing, and everything seems to be going to the dogs. It is true there is plenty of money in the banks; but that belongs for the most part to English capitalists, lodged there to purchase breadstuffs and cotton, and they will get them. Meanwhile, what are we doing, and what should we do to make things better? What are the politicians of Tammany and Mo- zart doing? Scrambling for the spoils. What are the merchants and importers and me- chanics doing? Mourning over a future so dark and terrible that it seems to appal them, or awaiting in hopeless immobility for the bolt to strike. This is not the way to avert the fearful calamity which impends over this great metropolis; a calamity that involves the total ruin of our prosperity, and the extinction of our trade, with the pros- pect of a devastating civil War before us, if the coercion policy of the new administration, as intimated by its leaders, should be attempted. There is only one mode of action for us to pursue, and that is for the mer¢hants, the me- chanics, and all classes of the people, to assem- ble in public meeting, and demand that Con gress shall recognise the new Southern con federacy as a de facto government, and recon- struct the commercial relations with the South which have been broken up by the political strife which is hurrying the whole country to destruction, New Roaps ro Weaurn—Manvracrorine Wu1s.—Of late years the Surrogates’ Courts hereabouts, and similar tribunals else where have had a great deal of trouble in the matter of probating wills. The public, every now and then, is treated to a “startling revelation,” a “thrilling romance in real life,” or some “wonderful developements” with regard to the testaments of persons whose lives have been chequered and whose deaths sudden. In the flesh, some of these individuals have accumu- lated wealth, either by nefarious callings, or through the mere accident of dropping down upon a country where fortunes were made in an hour and wasted in a week. During their lives these lucky persons were presumed ‘o be without kith or kin. No poor relations pestered them. They found congenial society, however, and, dying, devised their estates to their cronies, generally as notorious as them- selves. *Wills drawn by unprofessional persons are offered for probate, and no sooner is this done than an army of “blood relations” start up from the bowels of the earth, as it were, and Contest the validity of the instruments on the ground of forgery. Both parties then ap- pear in court, and the amount of hard swearing on both sides is something too dreadful for contemplation. The lawyers take a geod round slice of the estate, however the suit turns out, and we notice that wills are never contested unless the amount at issue is a pretty snug sum. On the other hard, there are certain elaborate testaments of people who die poor, and these give the Surrogate no trouble what- ever, We recollect the case of a very eminent statesman who died not long since, leaving a carefully executed will, and making magnifi- cent bequests to all his relatives and intimate friends. It turned out, however, that he waa pretty nearly in the condition of Sheridan, who, having threatened to cut his son off with a shil- ling, was somewhat bothered to find the coin when the reprobate asked for his inheritance in advance. Nothing, however, can be more melancholy than these struggles for ill-gotten gold, and decency demands that they should be decided as quickly as possible. MR. LINCOLN OFF FOR WASHINGTON. The Start from Home—Speech to His Neigh: bors—The Presidential Cortege—Speed of the Train—Cheers for Lincoln and the Constitution, key &e. ke. THE LAST DAY AT THOME. ° Srrincrreto, I, Feb. 10, 1861 The President is spending this last day of his atay in Springfield quietly in a select circle of friends. Edward Bates was invited to accompany Mr. Lincoln to Washing- ton, but telegraphed last night tliat he would not be en- abled to go. Carl Schurz arrived last evening. Mr. Lincoln showed him marked courtesy, and introduced him personally to a number of prominent men as the great German orator. Major Hunter and Colcuel Sumner have not yet arrived. Invitations to accompany Mr. Lincoln to Washington haye been extended to the following parties. The liat comprises prominent republicans and Douglas and Breckinridge democrats :—Governor Yates, Fx-Governor Moore, Honorables 0. M. Hatch, William Butler, N. Bale- man and FE. Peck, J. Grimshaw, William R. Morrison. L. M. Ross, M. H. Cassel, William 8, Underwood, Willian H. Carlin, J. A. Hough, D. H. Gilman and Colonel Burgess. Cari Schurz was invited, but is obliged to decline. TAKING LEAVE OF BIS NEIGHBORS. Srrincrimrp, Ill, Feb. 11, 1861. The President elect, accompanied by If lady anda number of friends, left his hotel at half-past seven A. M., and rode up tothe Great Western depot. Over a thou- sand persons of all classes were assembled in the depot building and on each side of the festivity decorated special train to bid farewell to their honored townsman. The President elect took his station in the waiting room, and allowed bis friends to pass by him and take his hand for the last time. His face was pale, and quivered with emotion so deep as to render him almost unable to utter a single word. At eight o'clock precisely he was conducted to the cars by Mr. Wood and Mr. Baker, of the Journal, After exchanging a parting salutation with his lady, he took his stand on the platform, removed his hat, and, asking silence, spoke as follows to the multitude tha stood in respectful silence and with their heads un- covered :-— MR. LINCON’S PARTING WORDS. My Frrenpe—No one not in my situation can appreciate my feelings of sadness at this parting. To this piace and to the kindoess of these people I owe everything; hero L have been a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young man to an old man. ‘Hie my childrea have béen born and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether I ever may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested’ upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him I cannot succeed. With this assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me and remain with you ‘and be ‘everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. in that same Almighty Reing I place my reliance for sup: port, and I hope you, my friends, wiil all pray that [ may receive that Divine assistance without which | cannot succeed, but with which success is certain: To Hi commending you, as I hope in your prayers y commend me, I bid you an adfectionate farewell. Towards the conclusion of his remarks himeelf and audience were moved to tears. His exhortation to pray Clicited choked exclamations of “We will do it; we will do it.” THE START FOR THE WHITE noUsE. As he turned to enter the cars three cheers were given, and a few seconds afterwards the train moved slowly out of the sight of the silent gathering. The train lett at precisely half-past eight o'clock. THE PRESIDENTIAL CORTEGE. The following gentlemen compose the party:—A. Lin- coln,R. T. Lincoln, John G. Nicolay, John Hay, Secretary; N. B. Judd, 0, H. Browning, J. H. Dubois, E. Peck, J. Grim. shaw, R. Irwin, J. Hough, Martin Cassel, L. W. Ross, Goo, Latham, Hall Wilson, E. T. Leonard, W. Jameson, Wm, Carlin, D. H. Gilman, Major Hunter , United States Army; Gol. Ward H. Lamer, aid to Gov. Yates, and Col. Elsworth, L, Tilton Hall, W. R. Morrison, Wm. H. Cassell, G. A, Hough, F. V. Sumner, Jr. and @. W. Gilpin, constitute the military portion of the cortoge. Dr. W. H. Wallace accompanies the party as the physi cian of the President. Col, Sumner did not reach Spring. field in time, but will join the party at Indianapotia, Curious crowds are stationed all along the Wno, endeayor- ing to catch a gkmpese of the President as the train rushes past them. J. J. 8, Wilson, Superintendent of the Caton Telegraph Company, is on tho train, with 1m assistantand an apparatus ready to form a connection at any point. ARRIVAL AT DECATUR, Decatur, Feb. 11~9.30 A. M. An immense multitude awaited tho arrival of the train at the depot, and burst out in enthusiastic cheors aa it moved up. The President left his car and moved rapidly through the crowd, shaking hands to the right and left, After @ stoppage of a few minutes the train proceeded. ANOTHER SPEECH. Totoro, Fob, 11—11 A. M. Cheers from a thousand voices, and the booming 6f cannon and waving of handkerchiefs, greeted the atrival of the special train at this station, fn response to the cheers, the President appeared upon the platform and aid — Tam leaving you on an errand of national importance, rn